Final budget battle focused on earmarks for nonprofits

The Council for Economic Education is thrilled to announce the winners of the 13th Annual National Economics Challenge, a rigorous academic competition putting students' economic skills and knowledge to the ultimate test. Nailing questions that few ...

Adrienne LaFrance/Civil Beat Honolulu City Councilman Breene Harimoto was a lonely man Wednesday. Or maybe he just didn't speak loud enough. Not only was Harimoto unsuccessful in cutting millions of dollars in nonprofit earmarks from the city's ...

Courtesy Ernie Martin Campaign Federal records released Tuesday show Honolulu City Council chair Ernie Martin received more than $4,000 in campaign contributions from the president of an organization that had been given millions of dollars in ...

Resolution 13-74 CD1, introduced by council members Ron Menor and Kymberly Pine, will be heard tomorrow by the Honolulu City Council at 10:00am. If adopted, Resolution 13-74 would aid the Honolulu Police Department as well as law-abiding gun owners, ...

Honolulu residents who still harbor any warm and fuzzy feelings about their government after the last few weeks simply haven't been paying attention. Any number of events on the national level could have prompted distrust of government, but ...

A $2.16 billion operating budget for the coming 2014 fiscal year approved by the City Council on Wednesday is the largest ever for Honolulu. The budget is about $72 million more than the one Mayor Kirk Caldwell submitted in March. But city officials ...

Residents living near the YMCA of Honolulu have petitioned the city to stop a zoning change application for a planned condominium tower on the YMCA property and alleged that they weren't properly informed of the plans. About 170 neighbors of the ...

Eight student teams head to New York City to compete in final rounds New York, NY (PRWEB) April 30, 2013 Do you know the difference between Keynesian and Monetarist theories? Or how industries under monopolistic competition resemble those in pure ...

HONOLULU--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie welcomed more than 600 attendees to the 2013 Annual Conference of National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems (NCPERS) yesterday and chastised a small but vocal number of ...