...its net positive macroeconomic impacts are small....

...the Pentagon is eliminating the Hawaii-based Joint Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Command and the Washington-based Defense Prisoner of War Missing Personnel Office — and creating a new single agency....

In this policy report, the Annie E. Casey Foundation explores the intersection of kids, race and opportunity....

Hawaii Health Connector sign ups still come in at less than 1 percent of the state’s population....

...the Kobayashi Group is an investor in a hui that plans to build one or more luxury developments in Kaka’ako....

...sometimes the Legislature feels like a Whack-a-Mole game, where you knock down a bad bill, only to find the contents pop up again in another bill....

Residents identified homeless and/or homelessness as a priority for the City to address....

The Office of the City Auditor is pleased to present its fourth annual Service Efforts and Accomplishments (SEA) Report for the City and County of Honolulu....

...The new (to the State) application is expected to save money, improve security, and enhance sustainability (everybody else has been doing this for years, but hey) ....

Hawaii’s public schools can be a model for the nation, according to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan...

...Obamacare as the ultimate April Fools’ Day punchline....

Upcoming Congressional Bills

• Senate: Medicare “Doc Fix”
• Senate: Unemployment Benefits
• House: Ukraine Aid
• House: Health Care Reform

"...OHA is not seeing resistance from Kamehameha Schools and Howard Hughes Corp., the two major developers in Kaka'ako Mauka, as suggested in the editorial...."

Today is kinda-sorta the deadline to sign up for Obamacare....

At June 30, 2013, ERS had an “unfunded actuarial accrued liability” of about $8.4 billion. For EUTF, the number was about $18.2 billion....

...If you are not politicized, you are not Hawaiian....

“Numerous food truck owners have written to say that if this bill were to become law, they would not be able to operate within the capital special district."

$38,213,000 – Honolulu Community College Advanced Technology Training Center, Oahu....

...highlighting those bills that champion taxpayers and residents; and bills that affect our rights and freedoms....

...highlighting education proposals, spending, and reforms....