...we were told that this was not a negotiation but a take it or leave it situation....

...HDOT recently expended hundreds of millions of dollars to install energy efficient lighting improvements at the State airports and commercial harbors....

...The State has asked the Intermediate Court of Appeals to affirm Judge Nacino’s decision to dismiss the case....

...Pasha Hawaii’s announcement is in direct response to Saltchuk Resources Inc.’s press release....

...there is, in fact, another feasible option: no tax increases at all....

...how much U.S. taxpayers deduct in home mortgage interest by county....

...According to the Center for American Progress....

...The senator also purports to somehow raise the payment rates that Medicaid doles out to hospital systems and physicians, but how he would do so remains unclear....

...buried in one of the technical reports that are referenced and made part of the FEIS so you would not be able to say they didn’t tell you....

...findings and recommendations on national monuments that were under review as a result of the April 26, 2017 executive order....

...A call for Republicans to push for a forensic audit of HART and their failed rail project!....

...expedite the return of the 10,000 acres to the State of Hawaiʻi and pursue a new lease or land tenure for the reduced acreage that will support the continued viability of astronomical research....

...UH Manoa anti-GMO prof Hector Valenzuela curiously worked hard to hide part of his emails....

...College Choice Releases 2017 Rankings of the Best Colleges in Four Western States....

...to transform the community....

...Judge Fujino dismissed the case because plaintiffs cannot file suit directly in the circuit court challenging the application of a rule....

...about 30 percent of reported transactions involve a beneficial owner or purchaser representative that was also the subject of a previous suspicious activity report....

....2017’s Best & Worst Community Colleges....

...Students in Hawaii have few options when it comes to school choice....

...How Congress abets seaway robbery....

...In a week, lawmakers will be opening a special legislative session to determine how they are going to raise our taxes....

...US Vets provided transportation to its Waianae Civic Center shelter....

...it has not been easy going for Saleem Ahmed....

...the center's "planning committee will work to develop practice spaces focused on creating new narratives and new relationships while naming and honoring the ongoing pain and trauma wrought by belief in racial hierarchy, structural racism, and white privilege."....

It’s disheartening to see intelligent individuals on the political left like yourself continue to focus your efforts on this issue despite an overwhelming scientific consensus that indicates you are simply tilting at windmills....

...Panos Prevedouros joins Jay Fidell on Community Matters to discuss developments in the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) plans on Mauna Kea....

...Survey Coincides with Fifth Annual National Employee Freedom Week (Aug 20-26) to Promote Workplace Rights....

 ...one State department that has funds with no exemption, and refuses to pay it: the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL).... 

...The recent images from Charlottesville, VA-marches by torchlight, Nazi salutes, armed militia, angry mobs engaged in violent confrontation-are scary for adults to encounter, let alone children....

....Since then, the price of bitcoin has catapulted to over $4,000 per bitcoin, up from $1,000....

...despite the fact that City Auditor Edwin Young told the committee “the red flags were there”....

...on August 21, 1959 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a proclamation making Hawaii the 50th state....

...HART Directors discussed using public-private partnerships to help fund the remaining elements of Honolulu's Rail Transit Project....

...“This week [TOTE] began conversations to secure the new deep water Kapalama Container Terminal (KCT) in Honolulu...."

...Non-profit organizations wanting to create a display on the Frank F. Fasi Civic Center grounds during the annual Honolulu City Lights exhibition must apply by September 1, 2017....

... Honolulu is the most expensive city in the USA, but in rural Hawaii $100 is worth $99.90 ....

...the 2016 edition of the “State of Hawaii Data Book.”....

....in this chess game, those in Charlottesville are just pawns....

...OHA Tricksters Are Hard At Work....

...153 employees received $1.7 million in overtime for bulky and white goods collection....

... government financial information in a concise, timely, clear, understandable, and accurate manner to the general public ....

...Please send your comments on the draft strategic plan by September 1, 2017....

...Interior, Census Launch 2018 Enumeration of Compact Migrants in Hawaii, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa To Determine Distribution of Compact Impact Funds....

...big enough to sail four ships through....

...City and HART officials were often unable to give specific answers to our questions and rarely took responsibility for their cost overruns and inflated budgets....

The essay titled “Broken Trust”, published on August 9, 1997 by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, reported widespread corruption involving Bishop Estate....

...Trump's refusal Saturday to specifically condemn by name those Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazi white supremacists was morally deficient....

...the U.S. military will shoot down North Korea’s missiles if they fire on U.S. territory....

...today's information hearing is nothing more than kabuki theater designed to make us believe they're concerned....

“What is needed is a full, independent forensic audit of the project, to identify the reason — or reasons — for its significant cost overruns and missed deadlines...."