...every state receives a Report Card that grades the state on 41 key legislative components that must be addressed in a state’s laws....

...a confusing patchwork of different laws around the country, driving up the cost of food as much as $500 to every American family....

...the extremely wealthy establish various special interest groups dedicated to crafting draconian regulations in the name of the public good, tackling hot-button social issues, and riling the hopes of easily led ideologues....

...new and important cases were decided by the Hawaii courts this year....

...The Hawaii Supreme Court has issued a unanimous opinion in Friends of Makakilo v. D.R. Horton-Schuler Homes, LLC....

Under the TBOR, tax increases and significant government borrowing had to be presented to the voters before they could take effect....

Destruction of their crops would be an unconstitutional taking without just compensation, the farmers say....

... effective January 1, 2015, persons with disability parking permits will be charged the standard parking rate at city parking lots ....

In a hastily called faculty and staff meeting at the Cancer Center at about 2:30 p.m. Friday....

Hawaii’s state campaign spending commissioners want the Honolulu city prosecutor to investigate a case brought by former Gov. Ben Cayetano against Pacific Resource Partnership’s political action committee....

The team estimates the new system will reduce electricity usage by more than all of the utility scale photovoltaic systems currently operating in Hawaii....

5,454 individuals (38%) were continuing clients from FY 2013....

"...the Pono Choices survey instruments ... are part of an ongoing research project...."

"We actually share some important common goals with the Sovereignty activists."

...will lose their rural designation that allows acute care facilities within their boundaries to receive extra payments as critical access hospitals....

Senator Slom discusses  Police Reform with Prof Aaron Hunger....

...Hawaii taxpayers can now breathe easier because he was defeated in the Democratic primary....

...fight for an allocation model that allows tuition money to follow the students....

...Hawaii’s $30-billion unfunded liability per resident is $21,852, the seventh highest in the nation....