Hawaii Directory of Officials, 2010

LRB Library publishes the 2010 Hawaii Directory and offers pdf downloads as a complete volume and by individual agency on the LRB website.

A companion volume to the Guide to Government in Hawaii, this annual publication provides directory information for government in Hawaii. Includes phone numbers, mail and email addresses, and web site URLs.

Hawaii Directory of State, County and Federal Officials, 2010
(March 2010, pdf, 175pp/1.5MB)

Just in ... Haleakala FEIS

Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope on the proposed ATST within the Haleakala High Altitude Observatory (HO) site on Maui was prepared by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The purpose of the project "would be to help scientists understand the solar magnetic activities and variability that drive space weather and the hazards it creates for astronauts and air travelers, and for communications to and from satellites."

Back in May, "Haleakala called best site for telescope" headlined an article in the Star Bulletin that reported NSF had studied 70 sites around the world, including Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, and selected Haleakala as "the only site that satisfies the goals of the world's largest optical solar telescope."

TD194.5 N32 2009
FEIS (pdf, 4 vols.)

See also NSF's ATST environmental compliance website with links to related documents

Just In...second life grid

Kimberly Rufer-Bach of The Magicians, a 3D interactive software development company, has authored a guide for organizations considering Second Life. The virtual world offers not only unbounded environs for personal development and social dynamics, but provides a platform for the expanded development of organizations as well.

Drawing on her involvement in several government agencies' and educational institutions' projects to establish their Second Life presence, Ms. Rufer-Bach initiates the reader into the creative and sometimes demanding social and cultural protocols for a successful Second Life.

the second life grid, the official guide to communication, collaboration, and community engagement, by Kimberly Rufer-Bach

GV1469.25 S425 R84 2009

Just in ... Hawaii outdoor rec

The State Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan (SCORP) 2008 Update was published last month by the Hawaii Dept. of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR). An update of the 2003 SCORP report, it was prepared to qualify for federal funding under the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) Act, P.L. 88-578. LWCF funding is used for the acquisition and development of public lands for outdoor recreation. The state and counties of Hawaii have received more than $36 million in federal grants since the program's inception in 1965.

HC107 H3 H56 2008
Report (pdf, 207pp/14.8 MB)
Appendix (pdf, 274pp/22.3MB)

Just in ... organic farming

Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food, by Pamela C. Ronald and Raoul W. Adamchak, a genetic scientist and an organic farmer, advocates the merger of seemingly polar opposites of the agricultural industry: genetic engineering and organic farming. From the Preface:

Written as part memoir, part instruction, and part contemplation, this book roughly chronicles one year in our life. Our intention is to give readers a better understanding of what geneticists and organic farmers actually do and also to help readers distinguish between fact and fiction in the debate about crop genetic engineering. Readers who wish to know more about the science behind the passionate arguments surrounding genetic engineering and organic agriculture can find it in this book.

xvii, 208 pp.

TP248.65 F66 R66 2008
ISBN13: 978-0195301755
ISBN10: 0195301757

Just in ... coral

The State of Coral Reef Ecosystems of the United States and Pacific Freely Associated States: 2008, by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). This is the third in an ongoing series of reports on the condition of coral reef ecosystems in the U.S. and Pacific Freely Associated States (earlier reports were in 2002 and 2005). Covers coral reefs in: U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Navassa Island (off Haiti), Florida, Northwestern Gulf of Mexico, Hawaii, NW Hawaiian Islands, America Samoa, Pacific Remote Island Areas (such as Johnston, Wake, Palmyra), Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and Palau. 567 pp.

For overview and downloads, go to Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA).

QH104 U56 2008

Just in ... Ben

Ben: A Memoir, From Street Kid to Governor. Former legislator and governor of Hawaii, Benjamin Cayetano has written an "unflinching memoir with no punches pulled, told with warm and candor." Cayetano began his political career in the state House (1975-1978), rose to the Senate (1979-1986), then to lieutenant governor (1986-1994), before being elected the first Filipino American governor in the U.S., serving two terms from 1994 to 2002. Known for his independence and outspokenness, his book has drawn lively interest. 560pp.

DU627.83 C39 C39 2009
ISBN 978-0-9790647-0-8 (softbound)
ISBN 978-0-9821698-0-3 (casebound)

See review, chapter 1 of book, commentaries:
    Advertiser, Feb. 15, 2009
    Chapter 1 (pdf)
    DePledge, Feb. 18, 2009
    Shapiro, Mar. 18, 2009

Just in ...

The American Journey of Barack Obama, by the Editors of Life Magazine. This is a photographic and narrative journey of Obama's life from his boyhood in Hawaii and Indonesia, his schooling at Columbia and Harvard, his early political years in Chicago and the Senate in Washington, to his campaign and victory in the presidential race. Family photographs trace his roots in Kenya and Kansas to his life with Michelle and their two daughters today. 176pp.

E901.1 O23 S84 2008
ISBN 978-0-316-04560-5


Hot, Flat , and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America, by Thomas L. Friedman. Friedman says our world is getting "hot, flat, and crowded" because of global warming, the rise of the middle class around the world, and rapid population growth. He sees energy and environmental crises and calls for American leadership in Code Green: "a strategy that can help to ease global warming, biodiversity loss, energy poverty, petrodictatorship, and energy supply shortages--and make America stronger at the same time." 438pp.

GE197 F75 2008
ISBN 978-0-374-16685-4

See New York Times review, Sept. 9, 2008

Just in ... on education

Facing the Future: Financing Productive Schools is the final report from the Center on Reinventing Public Education on the School Finance Redesign Project, based on a six-year study of America's school finance system. Its four recommendations for a new finance system optimized to promote student learning:

• Drive all funds to schools based on student counts
• Keep linked data about uses of funds and results
• Encourage innovation and experimentation
• Hold schools and districts accountable for student performance and continuous improvement

LB2825 H54 2008
Report (pdf 69pp/1.6MB), Dec. 2008
Summary


Making Charter School Facilities More Affordable: State-driven Policy Approaches is the latest in the Innovations in Education series from the U.S. Dept. of Education (ED). It profiles policies in 8 states (Arizona, California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, and Texas) and the District of Columbia "that have been developed to help charter schools address various facilities-related challenges." The report offers the following considerations in implementing the models presented:

• Context is key (different circumstances suggest different approaches)
• Policy remedies are evolving and can be interdependent
• The current environment presents questions about the extent to which charter schools should be in the real estate business
• Challenges remain and innovative solutions are needed
• Policy decisions touch on equity and cost-effectiveness

LB1027 U54 (08-1)
Report (pdf, 78pp/585kB), Dec. 2008
Overview

Broadband for Hawaii

The Hawaii Broadband Task Force (HBTF), established by the Legislature through Act 2, First Special Session of 2007, issued its final report last month. The Task Force's recommendations:

1. Establish a forward-looking vision to make Hawaii globally competitive.
   

   Enact legislation that enshrines in statute a forward-looking vision to guide policy and action: Hawaii recognizes broadband as critical infrastructure for the 21st century.



2. Create a one-stop broadband advancement authority.

   Enact legislation that consolidates any and all state and county wired and wireless, voice, data and video regulation, franchising and permitting functions into a one-stop self-funded expert broadband advancement authority in the State Dept. of Commerce and Consumer Affairs (DCCA).



3. Welcome trans-Pacific submarine fiber to Hawaii.
   

   Reduce the barriers to landing new fiber in Hawaii through a shared-use, open-access, fiber-ready, international submarine cable landing station on Oahu that is made available to all projects on a fair and equitable basis.



4. Stimulate demand for broadband.
   

   All government agencies should actively develop and deploy public services that apply broadband capabilities in their areas of responsibility.

Hawaii Broadband Task Force Final Report (pdf, 74pp/2MB)

Available in the Library: TK5103.4 H36 2008

Just in ...

Engines of Democracy: Politics and Policymaking in State Legislatures, by Alan Rosenthal of the Eagleton Institute of Politics, likens the state legislature to the Little Engine That Could. "The legislature (and not the executive or the judiciary) is truly the engine of democracy." Acknowledging that state constitutions also provide for executive and judicial branches of government, "Yet in the order in which provisions are specified in constitutions, the legislative branch comes first, ahead of the executive and judiciary. The legislature is not only the first branch of government, it is the branch closest to the people." 466 pp.
JK2488 R68 2009 (ISBN 978-0-87289-459-4)


State & Local Government Procurement: A Practical Guide. Considered the flagship publication of the National Association of State Procurement Officials (NASPO), this updated guide covers, among other subjects, emerging issues such as:

• Pervasiveness of information technology and its implications
• Streamlined procurement processes and emphasis on performance-based contracting
• Convergence of federal and international policies and practices
• Vendor opposition to terms and conditions
• Growth of green purchasing, immigration enforcement and other social policies

422 pp.
JF1525 P85 N37 2008


Encouraging Bicycling and Walking: the State Legislative Role from the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) reports on recent trends in bicycling and walking and examines state legislative activity in funding, planning, and safety.

• Funding - Reviews efforts to finance biking and walking infrastructure and programs, including funding stream mechanisms
• Planning - Examines how states have integrated biking and walking into transportation plans and projects
• Safety - Discusses increasing safety for pedestrians and bicyclists, including creating new laws; increasing penalties; targeting enforcement; and increasing responsibility for motorists, pedestrians, and bicyclists

76 pp.
HN85 N37 (08-4)

Just in...vog

After March 12, 2008, when a new gas vent in Halemaumau crater significantly increased vog emissions, a House Special Committee on Vog Effects of the Hawaii Legislature was established. Hearings were held in the summer covering health and public safety, agriculture, and economic impacts. The Committee's report and supporting documents were recently received.

House Special Committee on Vog Effects Report (pdf, 20pp/784kB), Oct. 6, 2008
RA576.6 H32 2008

Supporting Documents to House Special Committee on Vog Effects Report dated October 6, 2008
RA576.6 H3 H33 2008

Just in...

The Dream Begins:How Hawaii Shaped Barack Obama, by Hawaii journalists Stu Glauberman and Jerry Burris, relates Obama's youth in Hawaii from 1971 as a ten-year-old through his graduation from Punahou in 1979. The authors also cover his birth and early childhood in Hawaii and four years in Indonesia. Against the background of '70s Hawaii, the book describes the Obama's navigation through issues of race and adolescence. 152 pp.
E901.1 O23 G55 2008 (ISBN 9780981508689)

See Star Bulletin review, Aug. 10, 2008


In Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics, Joe Biden chronicles his life from his childhood in Scranton, PA, and Wilmington, DE; his personal challenges; his long tenure in the U.S. Senate since his election in 1972 at age 29; and his roles in and reflections on national events and politics. 400 pp.
E840.8 B54 A3 2007 (ISBN 9781400065363)

See Christian Science Monitor review, Aug. 28, 2007

ConCons in other states

Illinois and Hawaii are among 14 states that mandate periodic referenda to call constitutional conventions. The Library just received a report published last April by the Legislative Research Unit (LRU) of the Illinois General Assembly on how constitutional revisions are handled by different states. The 14 with mandatory referenda are Alaska, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Rhode Island. The report also describes constitutional revision efforts of 7 states without mandatory referenda: Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, Utah, and Virginia.

Included are appendices on how states call ConCons (by the legislature or by mandatory referendum), referendum frequency, and constitutional citations; and how a constitution revision commission works.

State Constitutional Revision in Recent Decades (pdf, 23pp/1.43MB), April 17, 2008 (KF4530 I54 2008)

Just in...

Developing a Dream Destination: Tourism and Tourism Policy Planning in Hawaii, by James Mak, professor of economics at the University of Hawaii (UH), covers the development of tourism policy in Hawaii from the 1960s to the present. Chapters discuss the genesis of tourism policy; taxing tourism; promoting tourism; the Hawaii Convention Center (HCC) and the Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA); improving Waikiki; the Neighbor Islands; and lessons from Hawaii's experience. 255 pp. (G155 H3 M34 2008) (ISBN 0824832439).

See press release.


In Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren't Fair (and What We Can Do About It), author William Poundstone posits the "spoiler effect"--in five U.S. presidential elections, the second most popular candidate won because of a spoiler, a minor candidate who tipped the election from the most popular to someone else (think Ralph Nader). Poundstone also proffers remedies to the problem, favoring range voting, in which voters rank the candidates. Range voting, he says, "has become the favored voting method of the Internet." 338 pp. (JK1976 P68 2008) (ISBN 0809048939).

See NY Times review, 3.20.08

Just in...

A Spark Is Struck! Jack Hall and the ILWU in Hawaii by Sanford Zalburg. Jack Hall not only led the ILWU in Hawaii from 1944 to 1969 but made the union a powerful force through one of Hawaii's most transformative eras. This is a new edition of Zalburg's still definitive 1979 biography. 558 pp. (HD6509 H25 Z34 2007) (ISBN 0979064784)

See Star Bulletin review, 2.24.2008


Who Owns the Crown Lands of Hawaii? by Jon M. Van Dyke. The author, a University of Hawaii (UH) law professor, presents the complex history of crown lands, almost a million acres, which belonged to the monarchy. Crown lands are part of "ceded lands," a longstanding and contentious issue in the executive, legislative, and judicial arenas. 485 pp. (KFH451 V36 2008) (ISBN hardcover: 0824832100; paperback: 0824832117)

See Advertiser commentary, 2.13.2008


State-by-State Report on Authentication of Online Legal Resources was published by the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) to answer the question, "How trustworthy are state-level primary legal resources on the Web?" Among the report's findings: "No state's online primary legal resources are authenticated or afford ready authentication by standard methods." 241 pp. (KF242 A12 M37 2007)

Also available online (pdf, 256pp/12MB)

Just in...Hawaii fishes

Reef and Shore Fishes of the Hawaiian Islands (560 pp.), by John E. Randall, was published in 2007 by the University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program. The book covers the 612 species found within the Hawaiian Islands from the shore down to 656 feet (200m). Introductory chapters present a historical review of ichthyological research in Hawaii, zoogeography, introductions of alien fishes, marine conservation, and methods for fish identification. (Ref. QL636.5 R35 2007) (ISBN 1929054033)

See Star Bulletin review, 4.24.2007

Hawaii Directory of State, County and Federal Officials, 2008

LRB Library publishes the 2008 Hawaii Directory and offers pdf downloads as a complete volume or by individual agency on the LRB website.

A companion volume to the Guide to Government in Hawaii, this annual publication provides directory information for government in Hawaii. Includes phone numbers, mail and email addresses, and web site URLs.

Hawaii Directory of State, County and Federal Officials, 2008
(February 2008, pdf, 185pp/800kB)

Just in...2 on Hawaii

The Hawaii 2050 Sustainability Task Force issued its report on "charting a course for Hawaii's sustainable future." See post from the Hawaii House Blog.

See also FR post from last year on the Task Force and an earlier publication.

Hawaii 2050 Sustainability Plan (pdf, 99pp/9.6MB)
(HC79 E5 H25 2008)

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In Healthcare Hawaii Style, Frank L. Tabrah, M.D., writes of his lengthy medical experience in Hawaii, beginning as a plantation doctor in Kohala on the Big Island, and the evolution of medical care in the islands. Dr. Tabrah sees in the health care system that developed from the plantation communities promising elements for national universal health care. From the Preface:

Proponents of National Health plans and single-party payment systems will find much in the universal coverage of the plantation years and the success of mandatory health coverage since 1974 to ponder in solving our health care crisis.

See review from the Star Bulletin.

Healthcare Hawaii Style, Model for the Nation? How the Aloha State Leads the Way Toward Universal Healthcare
(RA447 H3 T32 2007)

Just in . . . Legislative drafting

The Legislative Drafter's Desk Reference, Second Edition, 583pp., updates the first edition published in 1992 by considering the impact of electronic documents and the Internet, and the role of the courts in interpreting legislation. (Ref. KF4950 F55 2007)

Table of contents:

• The first stage: preparing to put pen to paper
• Writing the bill: preliminary considerations
• Writing the provisions of a prototypical bill
• Writing amendatory provisions
• Style, form, and usage generally
• The role of the courts
• The uniquely federal forms and styles
• State and regulatory drafting considerations

The authors: Lawrence E. Filson is former Deputy Legislative Counsel and Sandra L. Strokoff is Senior Counsel, both for the Office of the Legislative Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives.