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BY JORENE BARUT - Only the strong survive and the Windward Castle Complex schools won’t surrender to a takeover without a fight. A new force of community members, lawmakers, students and educators has begun training to create an alternative to possible reconstitution. A takeover, or reconstitution, could mean the firing of principals and teachers, starting [...]
While most states celebrate one day of Halloween, there was a year that Hawaii had not one, but two Halloweens. Today, during morning drive, KSSK Radio's Michael W. Perry recounted that fateful day some 33 years ago in 1978 when then Honolulu Mayor Frank Fasi cancelled Halloween. It was all because of a trick of [...]
HONOLULU HALE – West Oahu Councilman Tom Berg introduced 3 City Council Resolutions to promote jobs through making Hawaii the transportation, communications, and financial hub of the Pacific, like a Singapore in Paradise. RESO11-310 Urging the U. S. congress to establish the state of Hawaii as a free-trade zone. RESO11-329 Urging the state of Hawaii to work with the United States congress to establish the State of Hawaii as an area of free-trade. [...]
Big Island Farm Owner Speaks Out About EEOC Investigation The owner of the Big Island farm, which operates Captain Cook Coffee Company, is speaking out about civil charges filed against his farm and five other Hawaii farms last April by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission calling the accusations "false." U.S. District Judge David Ezra dismissed [...]
U.S. Senator's Credit Card Theft Gets National Attention In a news story - "What's the charge for stealing a U.S. senator's credit card?" - Fox News reports on Hawaii's U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye's credit card information being stolen. "The senator was told about the theft in February, but it was not until October that one [...]
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - The Hawaii state legislative auditor has released the 2010 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR), which is a series of audited government statements that detail the financial condition of the state government. Sheila Weinberg, founder and CEO of the Institute for Truth in Accounting, called the state’s liability in the report “shocking", particularly when it [...]
BY ROBERT THOMAS - You remember the Hawaii Superferry, don't you? In case your memory doesn't go back that far, here are our posts on the Hawaii Supreme Court's first opinion, and here are our thoughts on the second. What brings up this case now is then-Governor (and present U.S. Senate candidate) Linda Lingle's recent statement, quoted by Honolulu Civil [...]
VETERAN'S DAY PARADE IN WAIANAE CANCELLED Previous e-newsletter sent October 28 contained information for a parade on Saturday, November 5. The parade had to be cancelled due to scheduling conflicts with personnel needed for APEC event planning. ETHICS REFORM AT CITY HALL PROPOSAL I have introduced Reso 11-327 that if passed, would place on the ballot for [...]
Governor Neil Abercrombie on October 27 testified before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia in support of efforts to strengthen prevention initiatives, including agricultural import and entry inspection functions aimed at detecting and intercepting invasive species at Hawai'i’s ports of entry. The field hearing [...]
HONOLULU -- The Charter School Governance, Accountability, and Authority Task Force (CSGTF) will be holding its sixth meeting on Wednesday, November 2, 2011 at 10 a.m. in conference room 225, at the State Capitol. The Task Force is co-chaired by Senate Education Committee Chair Jill Tokuda and House Education Committee Vice-Chair Della Au Belatti. Representatives [...]
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