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BY JIM DOOLEY - The city has awarded a new, $33.4 million contract to Infraconsult LLC, the company that has already received nearly $50 million in contracts to oversee the $5.2 billion Honolulu rapid transit project. Award of the new job to Infraconsult was posted yesterday on the city’s procurement website. Although the city sought competitive [...]
Gov. Neil Abercrombie’s policy team has implemented a new "Testimony Tracking System" to "find potential conflicts between different agencies sooner rather than later" when it comes to submitting testimony to lawmakers. Agency directors and staff are given their own log in into the system, which is officially called the “Office of the Governor Legislative Bill [...]
BYRecently Steven Manlanga of the Manhattan Institute authored "How Stimulus Spending Ruined Buffalo" in the Wall Street Journal. It describes that stimulus was the vehicle for ruining Buffalo, New York and at the core of this stimulus was none other but a light rail system: In his State of the State Address this month, New [...]
BY JIM DOOLEY AND MALIA ZIMMERMAN - A 38-year-old Asian female was arrested for prostitution inside University of Hawaii Professor Lawrence W. Boyd Jr.’s residence in 2007 after she agreed to have sex with an undercover police officer for $325, according to a police report released today. The officer was investigating an X-rated website called “Volcano [...]
BY LOWELL L. KALAPA- Well, Hawaii lawmakers are off and running, promising to exercise care in handling the state’s fragile economy, surrounded by stories of struggling families trying to make ends meet as they lose their second job or see fewer hours.But things have not changed at the State Capitol. Both the state administration and [...]
BY MIKE MCCARTNEY - 2011 was an outstanding year for Hawai‘i’s tourism economy, with momentum and growth seen across the Hawaiian Islands. The strong numbers could not have been achieved without the hard work and dedication of our visitor industry, as well as the one-of-a-kind destination Hawaii is, through our people, place and culture. The [...]
HONOLULU, HAWAII- Today, the Board of Directors of the Hawai'i Symphony Orchestra announced its 2012 Masterworks season beginning March 4, 2012. The group of civic and business leaders and the musicians of the Hawai'i Symphony Orchestra had previously announced an approved contract and have been developing plans for the 2012 season for many months. Under [...]
KAMUELA, HAWAII –– North Hawai‘i Community Hospital (NHCH) announces zero deficiencies in audit of Nuclear Medicine Department. The NHCH Nuclear Medicine Department recently underwent an audit of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensed activities conducted by Gamma Corporation. The facility audit included performance of the operations and records of the NHCH Nuclear Medicine [...]
HONOLULU, HAWAII - The State of Hawai'i is re-energizing its successful EV Ready Rebate Program with an additional $150,000 and has extended the deadline for rebates on new electric or plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and chargers from January 31 to March 31, 2012. Funding is available on a first-come, first-served basis, and will run through [...]
Has Barack Obama learned nothing in three years? Last night, during his State of the Union address, he promised “a blueprint for an economy.” But economies are crushed by blueprints. An economy is really nothing more than people participating in an unfathomably complex spontaneous network of exchanges aimed at improving their material circumstances. It can’t [...]
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