The Pineapple Project

I'm not one to toot my own horn, but in this particular instance, it appears that a recent study has backed up what I have been saying f...

In fairness to Hawai'i, I wanted to write a post pointing out that there are terrible lawyers all over the country...and it is increasin...

Don't look now, but Big Brother is coming to a paradise near you.   Camera-based crime-fighting is coming to high-crime areas on O'...

The Judiciary's annual report - entitled Justice in Jeopardy - details the current state of the Hawaiian Judiciary and discusses the im...

As I have written about numerous times HERE and HERE, the State of Hawai'i is having budget issues (to put it mildly).  The annual budge...

This week's headnote is topically relevant to something near and dear to my heart: the sad state of the American legal profession.  Spec...

This is going to be a rant.  It is also going to be long.  Sorry.  On the bright side, it will be controversial and may even spark a few com...

Today, the Governor released his proposed operating budget for the next two years.  I have some thoughts on this, and I will share them even...

No, this post is not about the movie celebrating stoners.  Instead, it turns out that there is a weather phenomenon known as the Pineapple E...

Thursday night through Friday afternoon saw a major thunderstorm for the first time since I've been in Hawaii.  It made for a very wet f...

It's easy to forget sometimes just how young Hawaii is as a State (1959).  Today, I remembered when I found out that Neil Abercrombie wa...

Here's your weekly current event post.   Attorneys general in some states are increasingly trying to make headlines speaking out about ...

The other day, I wrote about Kill Haole Day  and a somewhat recent  federal appellate case .  Here is a little more information on that case...

Before I moved to Hawaii, I had a professor tell me how lucky I was to be moving to a place with so much racial and ethnic diversity.  He to...

Marijuana is still illegal to possess without a prescription in California as voters rejected Proposition 19 by a 54% to 46% margin.  Maybe...