by Tom Yamachika | Dec 29, 2015 | Environment & Energy
This week we will be talking about GEMS, which stands for Green Energy Market Securitization. It’s a program that was adopted by our state government in Act 211 of 2013. The idea behind GEMS is that the state wanted to facilitate the buildout of “clean energy...
by Michael Hansen | Dec 29, 2015 | Jones Act
The Honolulu Star Advertiser published on December 23, 2015, an Op-Ed, “Jones Act great for some but most of us here suffer,” by John Wesley Nakao, whose day job is in the insurance business. The genesis of Nakao’s piece is his personal experience attempting to...
by Malia Hill | Dec 29, 2015 | Native Hawaiian Issues, Testimony & Letters
The Secretary of the Interior has proposed an administrative rule to establish a government-to-government relationship with the Native Hawaiian community, dependent on that community creating a polity that satisfies the Department’s requirements for...
