“Medicaid fraud takes tax dollars from patients who need coverage and gives it to criminals."

...an emergency appropriation of $100 million to fund equipment and installation costs for air conditioning, heat abatement measures and related energy efficiency measures....

"...most likely symbolic, as it is apt to be uncollectable...."

Dr. Phil Eskew, founder of DPC Frontier, says the bill’s language requesting the insurance division of DCCA to conduct a survey suggests Hawaii lawmakers don’t understand what DPC is....

...A minority can't be productive participants unless it is accompanied by a majority that's willing to ignore labels and listen....

...the author goes to great lengths to ignore the spotty legislative record of these two legislators to deliver a fairy tale....

... Disagreements are inevitable ....

...Senate Bill 2659 passed with a unanimous vote in both Chambers....

...GoFarm Hawaii director Steven Chiang and host Keli`i Akina discuss how a new generation of farmers is being equipped to succeed....

...Jiva Jive of the Maui Dance Advocates speaks with Joe Kent to discuss the dancing laws on Maui....

... two vacancies – one in the District Court of the First Circuit (Island of Oahu) and one in the District Family Court of the Third Circuit (Island of Hawaii) ....

...new accounting rules require the state to report pension debt in its balance sheet....

... serious and sometimes fatal infections ... high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain, and diarrhea, Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women ....

"...this measure unreasonably intrudes upon a system of federal law in violation of the Supremacy Clause...."

Total visitor arrivals to the Hawaiian Islands in March 2016 set a new record for the month with 786,262....

Native Hawaiians continue to disagree on the future of the sovereignty movement, or even whether there should be one....

The complaints describe the actions of a number of serial pedophiles active in the 1950s through the 1970s....

Hawaii's leadership team for presidential candidate Ted Cruz announced the official selection of twelve island residents to serve as delegates and alternate delegates to the Republican National Convention.....

For decades, hippies seeking paradise have polluted the Napali Coast.  Now DLNR goes in to clean up their mess ....

Today we are looking at a bill in our Legislature that contains nothing....

Learn what Federal, State, and local agencies are doing to keep the Aloha State safe....

...the 19 members discussed innovation and empowerment as the team starts work to create the blueprint for public education in Hawai‘i....

House Democrats are here to cut off your ....

The Candidate Report is available weekly....

The Bishop Museum Board of Directors today announced that Blair Collis has resigned as president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the museum....

...the department continues to provide monthly reports to the commission that do not fully reflect the severity of loan delinquencies....

Which cronies get to sell marijuana? -- Click here to find out ....

For the second consecutive year, the Hawaiʻi State Department of Education (HIDOE) will issue a specialized assessment to Hawaiian immersion students....

Tuesday (5/3) will be the second to last floor session where many of the bills will be heard for final passage. The 2016 Legislative session officially ends Thursday (5/5)....

...three different scenarios a bill can go through after passing Second Crossover....

...From Hawai'i Family Advocates....

When it comes to hiring a home health aide, where you live matters....

This week, two anti-gun bills, House Bill 625 and Senate Bill 2954 were enrolled to the Governor for his consideration.  Additionally, final action may soon be taken on two other anti-gun bills, House Bill 2632 and Senate Bill 2647....

"As Zika continues to spread rapidly overseas, we must take precautionary measures to prevent any locally acquired cases from taking hold in our state.”

College Affordability Diagnosis shows that higher education has gone from expensive to unaffordable for most American families....

...Hawaii's aggregate scores are in the highest quartiles of both illegal and legal corruption....

Illinois has the nation’s highest median property tax rate at 2.67 percent, according to new data from CoreLogic, while Hawaii has the lowest median property tax rate at 0.31 percent....

... people who promote sexual reassignment surgery “are collaborating with and promoting a mental disorder” ....

...second in problem gambling treatment....

...legislators are allowed to simply carve up the Capitol Improvement Budget by political favoritism....

A new accounting standard is requiring Hawaii to come clean about its pension debt, but the state is still hiding billions of pension and health care debt from its financial reports....

...we have an old eminent domain code and don't have a whole lot of current decisional law applying it....

... when it makes allegations like this, there's not going to be much doubt about the outcome, is there? ....

...requesting a waiver of certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act that compromise the state’s existing Prepaid Health Care Act...

...Compared with 2004‐2005, Honolulu consumers spent more on housing in 2013‐2014, with the share of housing increasing from 31.7% to 43.2%....

"...he has quite the history of confrontations with HPD...."