Letter cites serious flaws in $28 million taxpayer-funded HI dorm project

By   /  May 17, 2013  /  Featured, Hawaii, News  /  No Comments

University of Hawaii at Hilo

By Malia Zimmerman | Hawaii Reporter

HONOLULU — A University of Hawaii-Hilo spokeswoman insists a $28 million dorm project will be ready by August, but a report obtained by Hawaii Reporter and Watchdog.org outlines numerous flaws in the taxpayer-funded project.

The problems are so serious they could increase the project’s cost and delay its fall opening.

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Hawaii leads nation in per-capita debt for unfunded union benefits

By   /  May 15, 2013  /  Hawaii, News  /  No Comments

Source: Truth in Accounting

By Malia Zimmerman | Hawaii Reporter
HONOLULU — Hawaii taxpayers have a heavy burden to bear when it comes to covering “other post-employment retirement benefits” for their public employees.
In a newly released analysis, the Washington, D.C.-based Truth in Accounting reports Hawaii’s OPEB — those “other post-employment retirement benefits” — is more than $9,800 per capita. That’s more than [...]

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Group sues for Obama vacation records

By   /  May 14, 2013  /  Featured, Hawaii, News  /  5 Comments

AP file photo

Aloha, U.S. Secret Service? You’ve been served.

About those vacations to Hawaii, we want to know how much they’re costing taxpayers.

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IRS sorry it targeted 27 tea parties in 18 states, 2 in Hawaii

By   /  May 10, 2013  /  Featured, Hawaii, News  /  1 Comment

Honolulu Tea Party rally 2012

By Malia Zimmerman | Hawaii Reporter
HONOLULU – The Internal Revenue Service apologized today for unfairly targeting two Hawaii tea party groups and 25 other tea party organizations in 18 states.
The apology followed demands by IRS employees that tea parties applying for a 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) tax-exempt status disclose membership lists, associations, transcripts, videos of rallies and [...]

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University of Hawaii president retires before lucative contract ends

By   /  May 9, 2013  /  Hawaii, News  /  No Comments

M.R.C. Greenwood

By Malia Zimmerman | Hawaii Reporter
HONOLULU – After a number of high-profile battles with key Hawaii lawmakers in 2012 and 2013, University of Hawaii President M.R.C. Greenwood announced this week she will step down.
Greenwood said she will retire in September, before her $475,000-plus annual contract with the university expires in 2015.
Greenwood, 70, said in a statement [...]

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