By Jim Dooley | Hawaii Reporter
HONOLULU — A bill that would ban the sale of smokeless electronic cigarettes to minors and impose the 70% tobacco tax on the devices was briskly debated at the state Legislature today.

All of the testimony favored a ban on sale of the products to minors but more than 1,000 individuals and [...]

Hawaii Reporter
HONOLULU – The University of Hawaii is threatening legal action against the operator of a pornographic website called universityofhawaii.xxx.
X-rated domain names were made publicly available late last year and many universities around the country, including Hawaii Pacific University here, purchased names that could have associated their institutions with pornography.
The University of Hawaii chose not to do [...]

By Jim Dooley | Hawaii Reporter
HONOLULU – The state spends nearly $1 million annually to publish legal notices in Honolulu’s only newspaper and lawmakers are looking for ways to trim that bill.

Two measures that would allow electronic publication of some or all legal  notices on internet websites were discussed in a joint meting of three Senate [...]

By Jim Dooley – Hawaii Reporter
HONOLULU — Honolulu Prosecutor Keith Kaneshiro today continued his lonely objections to aspects of Gov. Neil Abercrombie’s plan to amend Hawaii’s criminal justice in ways that would release more convicted felons from prisons and jails.

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OAHU – The Honolulu Area Rapid Transit Authority, the entity that oversees the construction and management of the city’s proposed $5.3 billion elevated steel on steel rail system, has launched a series of radio advertisements promoting the project and directing the public to check out the HART web site for traffic updates.