...It is open to everyone and will be held on October 11, 2017 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, Waikiki Beach Resort, Coral Ballrooms 1 & 2 from 8:30 AM to 12:45 PM....

...surveys taken in 2012 and 2017 show similar results....

... Hawaii moved up from 11th to 7th ....

... Shortage of Affordable housing:  Its not the demand, its the supply ....

...According to the Social Security Administration, one in five Americans lives with a disability, and one in 10 has a severe disability....

Thanks to support from University of Hawaii Press and Kamehameha Schools, the public now has free access to the bestselling book Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement & Political Manipulation at America’s Largest Charitable Trust....

...Comments must be post-marked, emailed, faxed, or hand delivered no later than Friday, October 13, 2017. All comments will be kept confidential....

...We have been creating a bill package that strives to make our government and our state more accountable, affordable, and accessible to and for you....

• Senate: Fiscal 2018 Defense Authorization
• Senate: Francisco Nomination – Confirmation
• Senate: Delrahim Nomination – Confirmation
• House: Maternal and Infant Home Visit Program
• House: FAA Short Term Reauthorization, Flood Insurance and Hurricane Tax Adjustments
• House: Parole Violators' Benefits Revocation

...a secret commission larded with Kealoha loyalists has picked some candidates to continue the tradition....

...The more technical progress, the less attractive cultural nationalism becomes....

Over the past several months, there has been a court fight brewing that could have changed how the Department of Taxation lobbies for legislation....

Hawaii has enacted such a law and it is under challenge in federal district court. ...

... legislation that would permanently exempt Puerto Rico from the Merchant Marine Act of 1920, or the Jones Act, to aid recovery efforts in the wake of Hurricane Maria and encourage long-term economic growth ....

...A similar program at an Oahu intermediate school produced a 91 percent daily school attendance rate in 2016-17, up about 40 percent from 2015-16....

...The Hawaii legislature has directed the Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism (DBEDT) to undertake a study on the future of utility ownership models on each island in Hawaii....

...the consequence of a flattening construction path and the natural effects of tightening labor markets....

...Gallup says it's exercise, Bloomberg says it's labor unions....

Total visitor arrivals rose 4.8 percent to 818,581....

...Puerto Rico needs more than temporary Jones Act waiver...the Jones Act had been significantly hindering essential relief efforts to the millions of hurricane victims on the island....