...one more hospitalization....

...tinkering with the tax code to raise more money has the effect of putting the brakes on what little spin we have left on our economic engine....

...Honolulu Mayoral Candidate Keith Amemiya knows a lot about the ‘affordable’ housing system and how to ‘work’ it....

...bills introduced and votes cast in Congress....

"...Current operational practices are reactive and appear to wait for park conditions to deteriorate before action is taken, rather than maintaining quality conditions...."

...caught off guard by another last-minute government switcheroo....

...use of CWAs, also known as project labor agreements, would drastically limit the use of nonunion employees on public projects, thereby reducing competition among bidding contractors and increasing costs for Honolulu taxpayers....

...Timesheets and leave requests are now transmitted electronically to payroll offices, replacing paper-based manual labor-intensive tracking methods in employee pay calculation....  

...8 cases on Oahu and 1 Oahu resident diagnosed out of state....

... Pandemic no excuse for government hostility to sunshine laws ....

... The Judicial Selection Commission is accepting applications and nominations ....

...The O‘ahu Pedestrian Plan’s draft pedestrian priority network open for public comment....

...The best gift for this 100-year-old law that harms Hawaii would be to modernize it for the 21st century....

...Mulligan says that despite Trump’s reputation as a strong supporter of protectionist tariffs, the President sees the Jones Act as a “harmful regulation” and is particularly disappointed by the lack of competitiveness of U.S. shipyards....

... he notes the complete absence of self-propelled oceangoing liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers in the Jones Act fleet ....

...The Jones Act turns 100 years old today....

...the UPW still has not agreed to allow all guards to be searched for contraband....

... this is the largest number of new cases in quite a while ....

...Pine today addressed rumors that professional agitators have arrived in the islands to stir up trouble at peaceful protests being staged to honor George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement....

...the Trump administration has since revised the rule, making it more difficult to challenge land-use rules that make housing more expensive....