Small Business

... short-term rentals have been lawful, residential uses in these districts for decades ....

... When it comes to healthcare in Hawaii, it is clear there is room for more freedom .... 

... the fund has swollen to over $50 million ....

... easy, virtually cost-free way to improve healthcare access and quality in Hawaii would be to remove the state’s regulations on interstate telehealth ....

... Hawaii has only 2.5 registered boats per 100 residents--dead last in USA ....

... "If (the $2.19M fine is) upheld by the hearings officer it will mean the closure of these two urgent care facilities." ....

... Hawaii taxes beer at $0.93 per gallon .....

... Increasing 11% per year over a 5-year period -- The Honolulu Council apparently used this as a model. ....

... questions that could reshape insurer-provider contracts statewide ....

... Two bills that would relax some of these regulations passed out of a Maui County Council committee just this week ....

... The Department of Education’s driver education program is incomplete, a loosely organized and inconsistent collection of school-level practices, that is incapable of being meaningfully evaluated ....

... there are at least a dozen layers of regulation that stifle energy innovation in Hawaii ....

... testimony before Hawai‘i, Honolulu, Kaua‘i and Maui county councils or planning commissions ....

... Bill 2951, was proposed in response to a January zoning complaint that shut down the popular Princeville Farmers and Artists Market ....

... The groups are challenging President Trump’s April 17 proclamation that would allow U.S.-flagged vessels to fish commercially ....

... This marks the first such action by Interior in over 30 years ....

... The bipartisan legislation provides congressional direction to fully implement the South Pacific Tuna Treaty, which has been diplomatically negotiated among the U.S. and 16 Pacific Islands nations ....

“This bill recognizes that programs like the Hā‘ena State Park access and entry management program, which reinvests its proceeds into environmental and community benefits, shouldn’t be treated like traditional, for-profit carriers,”

... only San Jose and Washington, DC are worse ....

"...all of the negotiations and conversations take place behind closed doors...."