...local authorities share fingerprints from everyone booked into jail with federal authorities, who comb the prints for immigrants, those here legally and illegally, so they can be deported....

Many public two- and four-year colleges and universities avoided significant tuition increases for the second year in a row... but not UH....

...Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) released its 2015 Congressional Pig Book, the 23rd edition of the group’s exposé on pork-barrel spending....

...economic class diversity, ethno-racial and linguistic diversity, economic diversity and household diversity....

Hawaii now joins Oregon, Massachusetts, Maryland, Vermont, New Mexico, and Nevada as cautionary tales in government central planning....

Regarding E-Cigs, Hawaii should defer to the FDA for guidance on this regulatory framework....

The Barack Obama Foundation announced today that the future Barack Obama Presidential Center will be located on Chicago’s South Side (which is nowhere near Hawaii)....

...the League of American Bicyclists has released its 2015 Bicycle Friendly State rankings....

In 2014, the State Office of Planning, on its own accord, initiated an examination of the State land use system....

The merger agreement requires 75% approval by shareholders, so far it only has 70% approval....

...it would take over 7 years before the savings would cover the cost of the Powerwall....

Honolulu Ranks 101st: 95th for 'Professional Opportunities' and 107th for 'Quality of Life'....

The HI State Legislature 2015 Session adjourned on time May 7, with a flurry of gun bill activity over the “Deedy” bill, HB888....

Labeling food that contains GMO is illogical because genetic engineering is a process and not an ingredient....

...rules proposed May 8, 2015 by the US Department of the Interior (DoI), at the urging of Robin Danner's Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement, create a path to federal recognition in three steps....

"Where is all the money going?" -- OHA Trustee Rowena Akana

The Guam legislature passed a law that allowed only “native inhabitants of Guam” to vote in an upcoming plebiscite concerning Guam’s political relationship with the United States....

A double standard on an important issue like this is a great way to breed derision and distrust of government....