Entries for 'Grassroot Institute'

When New York City implemented tough rent control policies during the 1970s and early 1980s, over 300,000 apartments were abandoned over an 11-year period....

Our review of states’ fiscal health reveals crippling deficits and pension liabilities that could lead to future tax hikes, service cuts or both....

...in a state that is consistently ranked the worst place in America to make a living, the government decided to make getting a job even more challenging....

...the Governor is opening the door to a major expansion of executive power in our state....

Hawaii’s Legislators are well on their way to depleting the state’s $890 million cash balance....

Hawaii lawmakers will likely attempt to raise taxes next year to pay for new record spending levels....

...a new program called Education Savings Accounts has accomplished this elsewhere, and provided more educational options for families....

Hawaii has the most burdensome licensing requirements for low to middle income jobs compared to the rest of the nation....

...1,900 applicants have been waiting for years, often decades, to get hooked up to the county water system....

...dividing the project into an AC portion and an energy portion would greatly reduce the per-classroom cost....

...why they’ve chosen to leave their home islands....

At the rate Hawaii is spending and taxing, projected budgets will only be sustainable for two more years....

...kabuki theater aimed at baffling and confusing union members to make it look like their union bosses are actually doing something for them when they’re not....

Officials in Maui County are set to impose stringent standards upon short-term housing permitting while serving Airbnb hosts with harsh civil penalties....

...at $6,000 per resident, the burden of Hawaii’s pension shortfalls is among the highest in the nation....

There are less police officers on the streets today per person than there were in the 1990’s....

...in Hawaii, parents aren’t allowed to send their children to a different school unless they get a rare district exemption....

...why it's so expensive to cool Hawaii schools....

In essence, the legislature just handed the Hawaii taxpayers a bill, and even they don't know how high it's going to be....

... Grassroot Institute Exposes Flaws in Veto Override Regarding Maui Hospitals ....

Legislators will convene on Monday, July 18th for a special session to determine whether $25 million in severance pay will be paid to union employees transitioning to new employment in a private hospital system....

"The legislature must avoid establishing a costly disincentive that would hinder the saving of other neighbor islands' hospital systems through healthy public-private partnerships...."

“There’s plenty of resistance from insurance companies at the state level against direct primary care."

...Grassroot Institute analyst Matthew Reade speaks with Thomas Rubin, a mass transit consultant who advised Hawaii officials in the early stages of the project....

“Here in Hawaii we don’t have trailer parks–they’re not legal.”

Compact Impact: Why Pacific Islanders are Fleeing to Hawaii - Neil Mellen...

Early in the effort to determine a mass transit alternative for Oahu, city officials announced that the rail project would likely cost a little more than $3 billion....

Taxpayers in Hawaii spend about $1.8 billion on education every year....

Hawaii Ranked in Bottom Five States for Economic Freedom....

“We looked at the payroll from July 2014 to June 2015"

...Grassroot Institute warns that we are closer to a Native Hawaiian tribe than ever before....

...Panel Discussion with the Judicial Watch Legal Team....

One of the new rules requires farmers to track their product from “seed to sale.”....

A new report has been released by the Grassroot Institute titled 10 Free Market Solutions for Agriculture in Hawaii....

...An economic boon for the territory—and for Hawaii—would be an exemption from the antiquated Jones Act governing shipping from U.S. ports....

...a spate of new regulatory restrictions that have affected Hawaii....

Puerto Rico’s recent bankruptcy, the Jones Act, and how this could affect us here in Hawaii....

Jennifer Kajiyama and Carol Feinga are part of Keep Laie Cool, an initiative working to solve the crisis of Hawaii’s hot classrooms....

... 41% growth in regulatory impact between 1997 and 2013 ....

...GoFarm Hawaii director Steven Chiang and host Keli`i Akina discuss how a new generation of farmers is being equipped to succeed....

...Jiva Jive of the Maui Dance Advocates speaks with Joe Kent to discuss the dancing laws on Maui....

...new accounting rules require the state to report pension debt in its balance sheet....

...Until recently, hospital labor on Maui was given exclusively to a public labor union. As a result, 70% of the budget was spent on employees....

“The main reason is a very cumbersome permitting process, in a way that prevents people from building housing quickly and at a low cost…."

...most of those “savings” are coming from taxpayers pockets....

A large crowd attended and listened as Mayor Alan Arakawa, Councilwoman Elle Cochran, and Grassroot President Keli'i Akina, Ph.D. discussed the future of farming on Maui....

...Leon Siu discusses with host Keli`i Akina the historic relationship between Christianity and Hawaiian history....