...Nineteen states and the District of Columbia are in the highest-rated category, “Working Toward Innovative Equality”....

“...Because of COVID-19, we are all thinking more about lung health. Now is the time for lawmakers to act and take this opportunity to achieve lasting reductions in tobacco-related death and disease....”

... “Lockdowns Versus Liberty,” -- civil liberties in the time of an emergency ....

... ICA affirmed a lower court decision finding that the chief of the Hawaii County Police Department had the authority to request aid from Maui County Police Department and the Honolulu Police Department ....

... Control work is scheduled for February 17 and 18. Public access to affected areas and the Mauna Kea Hunter Access Road will be restricted ....

... new tax bills, sometimes dressed up as “surcharges,” “fees” or “closing loopholes” ....

... Institutions in Hawaii have only spent 40 percent of total allocated funds ....

... Honolulu Neighborhood Board registration will be open thru February 19 ....

... JAN 27–LAST DAY TO INTRODUCE BILLS ....

... the feds once again doing the job the State just won't do ....

... A survey commissioned by the agency in 2015 found that the public regarded OHA as the least favorable of the major Hawaiian-serving organizations ....

... For all of 2020, total visitor arrivals declined 73.8 percent from the previous year .... 

... Biden’s Buy America EO and accompanying briefing statement included explicit declarations of his administration’s support for the Jones Act and its inclusion in the policy ....

... Research shows that half of Hawaii’s population wants the vaccine and another quarter are still deciding ....

... 36.7% of State revenue comes from GE Tax ....

... According to Laeha’s suit he was suspended by OHA’s then-CEO Kamanao Crabbe one day before he was set to reveal OHA’s real budget and "corrupt and unlawful practices" to Legislators ....

... ILWU, Teamsters, IATSE, UFCW ....

... "Recent analysis by the Hawai'i Budget & Policy Center finds that this statewide program got out more housing assistance to help renters per capita than any other state effort across the country" ....

... Hawaii's economy is on the ropes right now, but that hasn't stopped some legislators from going all in with new tax-increase proposals ....

... I was fortunate to get an appointment the very next day I called at my local Kaiser Clinic ....