Entries for June 2022

... Gouveia was previously sentenced by the Court in 2005 to ten years imprisonment for attempted possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine ....

... Hawaii and Massachusetts top the 2022 State Scorecard rankings, based on overall performance across 56 measures of health care access and quality, service use and cost, health disparities, and health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 ....

... Demographia United States Housing Affordability – 2022 Edition Released ....

... data compares the difference between white and black Americans in areas such as annual income, unemployment rate and homeownership rate ....

... Hawaii also ranks the highest among U.S. states, with a DI score of 78.4% for millennials ....

... Tuesday, the Commission on Water Resource Management (CWRM) unanimously agreed to designate the entire Lahaina Aquifer Sector Area as both a Surface Water and Ground Water Management Area ....

... Stacker compiled a list of the counties with the highest unemployment rate in Hawaii using data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ....

... to Further Remediate, Defuel and Close Red Hill and Move the Fuel to More Strategic Locations Elsewhere in the Indo-Pacific ....

... is the protection of ‘FOP’ (friends and family of the police) so ingrained in the force that they need not hear directly from Joe Logan to know that they should let his meth addict son off the hook again and again? ....

... Hawaii’s policymakers haven’t given up the dream of regulating it into oblivion ....

... Hawaii has averaged 68 catalytic converter thefts per 100,000 registered vehicles in just the first four months of 2022 ....

“...In many concentrated insurance markets such as Hawaiʻi, insurers have few incentives to negotiate lower prices. They can easily pass these costs onto premiums without losing market share....”

Hawaii was the last place in the US to abolish indentured servitude....

... State-local taxes paid $8,410 -- 14.1% of income ....

... The drumbeat for Jones Act reform has been growing louder ....

... Whether it be a bake sale, benefit dinner, or a silent auction, any income from an activity the primary purpose for which is raising money is GET taxable ....

... The vague language in the proposal lacks any metrics for measuring success, similar to another business-focused tax credit whose value to the state is dubious ...

... votes cast and bills introduced for week ending June 11, 2022 ....

... In the Urban Honolulu metro area the median monthly rent price is $1,779 - 62.3% higher than the national average ....

... Hawaii per-capita pension liability $39,939.43 ....

... the first month of long-term monitoring (LTM) drinking water data ....

... urging Governor Ige to veto HB 1567 HD1 SD1 CD1, which eliminates the use of monetary bail and requires defendants to be released on their own recognizance for certain nonviolent offenses ....

Today is Kamehameha Day in Hawaii....

... Securities fraud, insider trading, $26.7 M in hidden executive stock awards?  Yes.  Hawaii’s high-tech tax credit schemers are at it again ....

... all the ways HSTA is working to recruit your son ....

... the program’s first graduating class in Hawai‘i to graduate with a 100% post-program employment rate, and official accreditation status ....

... 1st place Kentucky has 69x more NCIS background checks per capita than 50th place Hawaii ....

... Nearly 30 years ago, in our 1992 report, we had raised concerns about the quality of the data used by the department (and nothing has changed since) ....

... Property owners maintain that pre-existing rental properties shouldn't be subject to a new ordinance changing minimum lease length ....

... Despite misinformation circulating on social media, the importation of “incompatible-male” mosquitoes to control populations of wild mosquitoes and to save four native bird species from extinction, does not involve the use of any genetically modified organisms (GMOs) or genetically engineered (GE) organisms ....

... capping the amount of any single renewable energy source to 45% per island ....

... Council Dist 2: Makua Rothman vs convicted cocaine dealer Chad Tsuneyoshi ....

... filing closed Tuesday, June 7, 2022, candidates have one day to withdraw ....

... Cultural appropriation by the Polynesian Voyaging Society is robbing me and my Micronesian brothers of our heritage, history and truthful place in the world ....

... Hawaii improved significantly in 2021 after initially being hard hit by the pandemic ....

... data compares the difference between white and black Americans in areas such as high school and college degrees, test scores and graduation rates ....

... ‘Hawaii zoning atlas’ will identify barriers to housing ....

"...In the largest sector (government), the Hawaii economy added 400 jobs between January 2021 and April 2022...."

... once again the Feds doing the job the State won't do ....

... 2022’s Best & Worst State Economies ....

... Average Closing Costs for Purchase Mortgages Increased 13.4% in 2021--CoreLogic ....

... On a per capita basis, the Aloha State reported 88.7 average daily cases per 100,000 people, the most of any state ....

... The Cost of Dying: Average cost of funerals, cremations, and medical care ....

... the high cost of living makes Hawaii nurses the lowest-salaried nurses in the nation ....

...Will Hawaii Republicans manage to field a credible candidate for Governor?....

... HB2024 HD1 SD2 CD1 assumes that UH Real Property Agreements become property owned and controlled by the MKSOA by legislative directive ....

... It would have increased the state sales tax and would have eliminated many tax credits and deductions.  The legislature, predictably, tossed out these offsets ....

... How much money will Hawaii private school boards be willing to pay lawyers for the ‘privilege’ of pushing this latest pseudo-intellectual academic fad on their students? ....

... Over 1,300 climate lawsuits have been filed in the U.S.  None has yet succeeded ....

... it’s technically easier to build a house for Oprah than it is to build houses for average families ....