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Friday, December 20, 2013
2013 Grassroot Report: Major Victory for the Aloha Spirit
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:15 PM :: 4569 Views :: Akaka Bill

Hawaii’s people successfully blocked repeated attempts to promote and create a state-sponsored, race-based nation...

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Friday, December 20, 2013
Caldwell Signs More Smoking Bans
By News Release @ 1:10 PM :: 3101 Views

...Caldwell held a signing ceremony Sunday at Kuhio Beach to enact two bills banning smoking at city parks and at TheBus stops....

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Friday, December 20, 2013
Medicaid Is No Obamacare Success Story, Mr. President
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:06 PM :: 3678 Views :: Health Care

Most of the people applying for Obamacare are being funneled into Medicaid....

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Friday, December 20, 2013
Judge Throws Out Atheist Lawsuit
By News Release @ 3:45 AM :: 9467 Views :: First Amendment, Religion

...atheists have falsely accused five Hawaii churches of defrauding the government in a lawsuit filed in state court....

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Friday, December 20, 2013
Mainland Organic Activists Launch Harassment 'Investigation' of State, County Governments
By News Release @ 12:59 AM :: 5523 Views :: Ethics, GMOs

Hitt's other organization is the "Food Ingredient and Health Research Institute", dedicated to peddling bogus claims that autism, Alzheimer's, and ADHD are caused by so-called 'food additives.'

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Thursday, December 19, 2013
Budget: UH Rewards Mitsunaga, Abercrombie Rewards UH
By News Release @ 10:16 PM :: 5349 Views :: Higher Education

News Release from University of Hawaiʻi Dec 18, 2013 (With explanatory notes added to enhance accuracy.)....

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Thursday, December 19, 2013
KOS 'Hit Job' on Schatz' Sheep Sex Incident
By Selected News Articles @ 2:53 PM :: 10441 Views :: Politicians

"...the obvious nature of the hit job and its intent does Hanabusa no good and only serves to engender ill will towards her candidacy...."

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Thursday, December 19, 2013
Hawaii Among Least Free States, Provinces of N America
By NCPA @ 1:07 PM :: 4684 Views :: Hawaii Statistics

The most-free jurisdiction in North America is in Canada, according to a study by Dean Stansel, a professor at Florida Gulf Coast University, and Fred McMahon of the Fraser Institute....

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Thursday, December 19, 2013
ObamaCare's Troubles Are Only Beginning
By NCPA @ 12:52 PM :: 3564 Views :: Health Care

ObamaCare is only going to get worse....

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Thursday, December 19, 2013
1000 Good Reasons to Label GMO Food: A Guide for Politicians
By Selected News Articles @ 12:18 PM :: 5550 Views :: GMOs

When one person tells you that the skies are filled with chemtrails, you trust them and believe them. That also explains why there is always rain predicted on your anti-GMO marches....

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Thursday, December 19, 2013
Top 10 Broken Obamacare Promises
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:41 AM :: 3390 Views :: Health Care

As Obama so ironically threatened in 2009, “If you misrepresent what’s in this plan, we will call you out.” To that end, here are 10 promises of Obamacare that have already been broken....

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Thursday, December 19, 2013
Secret Encounters: DoE Refuses to Release Homosexual Education Curriculum to Legislators
By Sen. Sam Slom @ 3:47 AM :: 8845 Views :: Education K-12, Family, First Amendment

...In the fastest "investigation" in Hawaii history, 2 weeks, the DOE announced the program will restart. The program will also be expanded to 30 more schools....

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Thursday, December 19, 2013
Succession Plan Quietly Underway for Faleomavaega Seat?
By Selected News Articles @ 3:22 AM :: 7983 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Politicians

...Tuā’au Kereti Māta’utia, Jr., the first candidate to announce for Faleomavaega's seat, is assistant senior policy adviser to the Governor....

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Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Airports Division Signs $518M Energy Contract
By News Release @ 10:04 PM :: 5667 Views :: Energy, Hawaii State Government

...to design, manage and install energy efficiency measures that will upgrade facilities, reduce energy usage by about 49 percent and with additional operational improvements save a total of $518 million at 12 state-operated airports....

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Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Hawaiian Pacific Health Survey will Sample 4,000 Households
By News Release @ 9:25 PM :: 6241 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Higher Education

U.S. government that it is taking steps to improve the collection of health data for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders....

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Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Christmas vacation: Obamas get trip to Hawaii, taxpayers get ‘jelly-of-the-month’ club
By Malia Zimmerman @ 2:00 PM :: 5832 Views :: National News

...The president and his friends pay rent for the 17-day trip, about $25,000 per week.  Taxpayers pay for most everything else, about $4 million....

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Wednesday, December 18, 2013
What the Government Got You This Year (in Pictures)
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:32 PM :: 4396 Views :: National News

Today, the Senate is set to pass the new U.S. budget deal in all its spend-tastic glory....

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Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Samoa Reporter Accidentally Admits Coverup: Missing Congressman Found "Convalescing in Utah"
By Andrew Walden @ 11:25 PM :: 11857 Views :: National News, Ethics, First Amendment, Politicians

...American Samoa Congressional Delegate Eni Fa'aua'a Hunkin Faleomavaega, Jr has been found...

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Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Deemed Denied? Hawaii Supreme Court Clarifies Appeal Rules
By Robert Thomas @ 10:37 PM :: 5337 Views :: Judiciary

Under the majority's interpretation, a "deemed denial" is not ripe for appeal until the court affirmatively issues an order disposing of the post-judgment motion....

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Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Abercrombie Appoints Patricia Kim Park to JSC
By News Release @ 7:55 PM :: 5155 Views :: Judiciary

In the mid-1970s, she and her husband, Arthur, joined former Lt. Gov. Thomas P. Gill to form the firm of Gill Park and Park....

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Tuesday, December 17, 2013
City Ambulance Contractor Turns Down 30-40% of Calls in Leeward Oahu
By Councilmember Kymberly Marcos Pine @ 5:15 PM :: 6137 Views :: Honolulu County, Health Care

"Turning down 30-40% of requested calls puts our residents at a greater risk of death or prolonged injury and is unacceptable,” said Councilmember Kymberly Marcos Pine

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Tuesday, December 17, 2013
HSTA Joins AFL-CIO
By News Release @ 5:06 PM :: 4526 Views :: Labor

Certificates of Affiliation were presented to HSTA at the biennial Hawaii State AFL-CIO Convention on November 14....

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Tuesday, December 17, 2013
As Hundreds of Hawaii Doctors Threaten to Quit, Obama Administration Delays EHR
By Selected News Articles @ 2:05 PM :: 5970 Views :: Health Care, Small Business

CMS recently announced that it will extend the federal programs to encourage physicians and hospitals to adopt electronic health records ....

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Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Why the Price of Crude in America Is Out of Whack with the Rest of the World
By NCPA @ 1:35 PM :: 5298 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living

A barrel of Brent currently changes hands for $109; WTI fetches just $98; HECO pays $132....

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Tuesday, December 17, 2013
How the EPA Plans to Kill Jobs and Reduce Your Income
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:24 PM :: 3780 Views :: Energy

If you feel like you’re not paying enough, you’re in luck....

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Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Auditor: HART Paid $563K to Blogger who said Job was 'Obviously' to Help Pro-Rail Candidates
By Andrew Walden @ 3:47 AM :: 7232 Views :: Ethics, Rail

"With Pro-Rail Candidates Having Won the Primary Election, 55-to-45 Percent, the Project's Public Involvement Team Obviously Has Been Doing Its Job"


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Monday, December 16, 2013
Hawaii Driving Ranks 48th for Drunk, 41st for Careless
By News Release @ 10:43 PM :: 5981 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Law Enforcement

Road rage, careless driving, swerving cars: these may all be things you encounter....

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Monday, December 16, 2013
FULL TEXT: Abercrombie Releases Supplemental Budget
By News Release @ 8:39 PM :: 3941 Views :: Hawaii State Government

The Abercrombie Administration on Monday submitted its Executive Supplemental Budget for Fiscal Biennium 2013-2015 and updated Program and Financial Plan for 2013-2019 to the state Legislature....

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Monday, December 16, 2013
Tim Lussier Appointed Hawaii State Director for Western Liberty Network
By News Release @ 5:33 PM :: 4475 Views :: Politicians

Western Liberty Network trains leaders and helps small government activists learn how to successfully engage in electoral politics at the local level....

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Monday, December 16, 2013
NOAA announces regulations to protect marine mammals during Navy training
By News Release @ 5:07 PM :: 5390 Views :: Environment, Military

... final  regulations requiring the United States Navy to implement protective measures during training and testing activities off the coasts of California and Hawaii and on the high seas ....

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Monday, December 16, 2013
Secret Obamacare handbook the feds don’t want you to see is online
By Selected News Articles @ 3:53 PM :: 4078 Views :: Health Care

The 217-page manual reads like a primer for Amway....

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Monday, December 16, 2013
Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How They Voted December 16, 2013
By Congress.org @ 12:48 PM :: 4111 Views :: Congressional Delegation

The House is in Recess until January....

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Monday, December 16, 2013
How to Help Uninsured Americans
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:43 PM :: 3389 Views :: Health Care

Two of the problems Obamacare promised to solve were getting coverage for people with pre-existing conditions and helping the uninsured get coverage....

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Sunday, December 15, 2013
Lack of Statewide policy threatens new Ag jobs
By Selected News Articles @ 11:56 PM :: 4738 Views :: GMOs

We need to determine what is in the best interests of the state as a whole before this new and promising industry is literally pecked apart by local jurisdictions and activist mobs....

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Sunday, December 15, 2013
Hawaii Supreme Court: Demand A Contested Case, And There's A Good Chance You'll Get One
By Robert Thomas @ 11:33 PM :: 6890 Views :: Judiciary, Land Use

The Hawaii Supreme Court has issued its latest opinion in the apparently eternal metaphysical question of the circuit courts' appellate jurisdiction to review decisions under the Hawaii Administrative Procedures Act....

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Sunday, December 15, 2013
Fire Hazard: Volcano School Threatened with Closure After Abercrombie Refuses to Release Funds
By Selected News Articles @ 10:53 PM :: 5683 Views :: Hawaii County , Education K-12

...the elected State Legislature has twice appropriated $618,000 of State construction and improvement funds specifically directed to the VSAS. The Governor of the State Hawaii, exercising what amounts to line item veto, has arbitrarily, for two years, withheld these funds....

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Sunday, December 15, 2013
PHOTOS: MMA Fighter Leads Surf Nazis in Haleiwa Anti-GMO March
By News Release @ 12:59 PM :: 9755 Views :: GMOs

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Sunday, December 15, 2013
Creating a Fairer State Tax System and Economy for All Families
By News Release @ 12:53 PM :: 7031 Views :: Labor, Taxes, Cost of Living

Our state’s lower-income families are faced with almost insurmountable structural challenges to escaping poverty....

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Sunday, December 15, 2013
Reimagining Housing in Hawaii
By News Release @ 12:43 PM :: 6333 Views :: Homelessness, Cost of Living

... Hawaii Appleseed released a report entitled Reimagining Housing in Hawaii, detailing successful affordable housing models like microunits, ohana housing, modular housing, among others....

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Sunday, December 15, 2013
Time to Ease the Tax Burden to Allow Economy to Prosper
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 4:01 AM :: 4932 Views :: Taxes

Now that everyone is aware that the tax increases of the last few years have allowed state government to accumulate nearly a billion dollars in surplus funds, it is time for policymakers to think about insuring that Hawaii is ready for the next downturn....

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Saturday, December 14, 2013
Want to Run as a Democrat? Sorry, You Just Missed the Deadline
By Andrew Walden @ 9:59 PM :: 6708 Views :: Democratic Party, Office of Elections

A key deadline on the election calendar passed with little notice December 3....

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Saturday, December 14, 2013
Am Samoa: Talanei Perpetuating Faleomavaega Fraud?
By Selected News Articles @ 8:22 PM :: 11374 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Politicians

...the public is increasingly asking questions about his lengthy, apparent disappearance from public view....

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Saturday, December 14, 2013
Feds: Hawaii Health Connector Sign-up Count Inflated
By Andrew Walden @ 7:51 PM :: 4573 Views :: Health Care

...the “Number of Individuals Who Have Selected a Marketplace Plan” is “pre-effectuated” -- including individuals who have not made any premium payments....

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Saturday, December 14, 2013
Homosexual Education Program Back -- 12 Schools Next Semester
By News Release @ 11:29 AM :: 8364 Views :: Education K-12, Family

A review of Pono Choices confirmed the curriculum is ... aligned with ... state law ....

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Saturday, December 14, 2013
Samoa News finally raises questions about Faleomavaega
By Selected News Articles @ 1:38 AM :: 8132 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Politicians

Samoa News deserves credit for publishing a story in today's paper about the virtual disappearance of our delegate to Congress....

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Friday, December 13, 2013
State Hires Big Guns to Argue Reapportionment Case
By Robert Thomas @ 10:18 PM :: 4855 Views :: Office of Elections

The State has hired some very big gun Supreme Court litigators at who knows what cost....

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Friday, December 13, 2013
Federal Regulations Discourage Small-Scale Hydro Projects
By NCPA @ 10:10 PM :: 3659 Views :: Energy

...FERC oversees all permits for hydropower plans. The process is so onerous that license-seekers sometimes have to obtain permits from up to 25 different agencies. It can take years....

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Friday, December 13, 2013
Keeping Patients in Dedicated Observation Units Could Save Millions
By NCPA @ 10:06 PM :: 3705 Views :: Health Care

...dedicated hospital observation units could lead to $950 million in national cost savings, according to a new study in Health Affairs....

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Friday, December 13, 2013
Election Season: Abercrombie Gives $3M to Nonprofits
By News Release @ 8:25 PM :: 4029 Views :: Hawaii State Government

...Abercrombie today announced the release of more than $3.03 million for various capital improvement grants to Hawaii-based nonprofit organizations whose missions benefit ....

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Friday, December 13, 2013
Full Text: Hawaii Juvenile Justice Working Group Report
By News Release @ 8:16 PM :: 7459 Views :: Justice Reinvestment, Law Enforcement

...the policy recommendations are projected to accelerate current trends, reducing the HYCF average daily population by 60 percent by 2019....

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