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REPORT FROM HAWAIIAN ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES - HONOLULU, Jul 30, 2010 – Hawaiian Electric Company today asked the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to consider a rate increase for Oahu in 2011. The filing asks for a basic revenue increase of 3.1% largely for the cost of major completed capital projects serving its electric customers, as well [...]
I'm thankful that Mufi Hannemann's resignation from the Honolulu Mayor's position gives Oahu's voters what is essentially a referendum on the way this City has been run. The four politicians running for this office all have clearly represented their support of the status quo with even prosecutor/politician Peter Carlisle pledging to have rail all over [...]
SUBMITTED BY ELLIOT ENOKI, U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE HONOLULU, HAWAII - JOHN GILBERT MENDOZA, age 58, appeared in federal district court yesterday morning and was sentenced to seventy-two (72) months confinement, five years of supervised release, and to pay a special assessment of $1,875. MENDOZA was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount [...]
Washington, D.C. – Following a favorable hearing on improving the Post-9/11 GI Bill, Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee Chairman Daniel K. Akaka (D-Hawaii) is preparing to move forward with legislation to improve the new program. “The original GI Bill changed my life and our country,” said Akaka, one of three current U.S. Senators who went to [...]
PACIFIC OCEAN – More than 100 midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy and from colleges around the country embarked the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) to experience life on a Navy vessel during Rim of Pacific (RIMPAC) 2010. The Midshipmen took part in a month- long summer cruise, a once in a [...]
BY REP. CHARLES DJOU, R-HI- Hawai‘i ranks 48th out of 50 states as a place favorable for business, according to a recent CNBC special report on “America’s Top States for Business.” The report is not good news for Hawai‘i’s working families. Our costs of living, doing business, transporting goods, and most of all, running government [...]
BY DANIEL SON - Washington, DC — Congressman Charles K. Djou (HI-01), along with Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), introduced the “Truth in Spending” Act, which would increase the long-term fiscal accountability of direct spending legislation. Congressman Djou and Congresswoman Giffords at a press conference today “My colleagues on both sides of the aisle and I [...]
BY MALIA BLOM HILL - It is, I confess, too easy to mock and criticize politicians. Maybe it's the endless weighing of polls and legacies and that finger held constantly to the wind. Or maybe it's the obfuscations, the justifications, and the ill-considered legislation. But politicians do have to think about a lot of things [...]
BY MALIA HILL - So, who do you think pays the most in state taxes in the US? New Yorkers? That would have been my guess, simply based on how legendarily expensive it is. (Not to mention how bad a beating my wallet takes every time I go there. Ok, technically speaking, the nice restaurants [...]
BY CHRISTOPHER G. ADAMO - Once again, the despicable conduct of the Obama Administration compels us to do a “reality check,” this time in regard to the lawsuit filed by Eric Holder’s Justice Department against the State of Arizona. Put aside, for the moment, the abject hypocrisy of his selective devotion to the law, wherein [...]
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