(POSTED 4/18/07) The Hawai`i Campaign Spending Commission went along with the recommendation of its staff and, in a vote November 13, effectively overturned a key element of Hawai`i election laws. Now, the voting public will no longer be able to … Continued
(POSTED 3/22/07) In 2006, the Department of Land and Natural Resources got a big bump in its budget and in its workforce. From an operating funds level of roughly $77 million in the 2005-2006 fiscal year, the department’s operating budget … Continued
(POSTED 3/22/07) Actually, if you have an extra $5 million lying around, it’s easy to be almost anything you want – including a purchaser of a unit (well, the smallest unit) at Everett Dowling’s Maluaka condominium project at Makena, in … Continued
(POSTED 9/14/06) Emma Yuen, now is a graduate student at Stanford, weighs in with her latest reflections on Hawai`i. For the last three years, I have gone to college on the mainland, and have come home to Hawai`i only for … Continued
(POSTED 9/14/06) The Environmental Protection Agency has announced a settlement with Kamehameha Schools stemming from an incident in which it gave pigs an accidental overdose of rat poison in an experiment intended to show the effectiveness of using helicopters to … Continued
(POSTED 5/3/06) Score one for Concerned Citizens of Honolulu. This is the group that last fall challenged the Nuclear Regulatory Commission over its decision not to require preparation of an environmental assessment or environmental impact statement for a Cobalt-60-fueled irradiation … Continued
(POSTED 4/6/06) In recent months, Hawai`i has lost two important voices on behalf of rational environmental planning and liberal social causes: Martha Black and Astrid Monson. Both women were in their 90s. In recent years, declining health had removed them … Continued
(POSTED 3/3/06) Just how much oil does the fishing industry consume? According to a recent study, the world’s commercial fishing fleets collective burn as much fuel in a year as the entire country of the Netherlands – some 50 billion … Continued
(POSTED 1/26/06) The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board has granted the petition of Concerned Citizens of Honolulu for a hearing on an application submitted by Pa`ina Hawai`i to build a Cobalt-60 irradiator at the Honolulu International Airport. And that has … Continued
(POSTED 10/31/05) One of the first actions of Governor Linda Lingle was a hiring freeze. It wasn’t absolute. Executive departments could push paperwork through the Department of Budget and Finance, the fiscal overseers, and on to the governor’s office if … Continued