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With only 10 of Hawaii's 51 state representatives voting against SB 510....

This is the first in a four-part map series in which we will examine the primary sources of state and local tax collections....

...Neera Tanden, a close confidante of Hillary Clinton and president of the Center for American Progress, took to Twitter on Friday to urge Hawaiians to vote Gabbard out of Congress....

...the Star-Adv omits any reference to “Hanapohaku Project Manager Linda Schatz”, also known as Mrs Brian Schatz....

Pension obligations must be fulfilled eventually....

...Total Tax Burden: 11.27% – #2 in USA....

"The story of Trump 's message to Assad"

Don’t worry: You can trust the Feds and Silicon Valley with your ‘medical’ marijuana records—unless you annoy them in some way....

Hawaii Ranks #1 for Fewest Hours of Sleep per Night ....

Brian Schatz sold his hardly used soul for a low six figures. And George Soros probably overpaid for a worthless product....

U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson of Hawaii "is so way out – he's such a political hack . . . that I think even the Ninth Circuit will reverse him...."

Just 20 out of more than 530,000 refugees settled in the United States since 2010 were brought to Hawaii....

On February 24, AP reporters Vivian Salama and Alicia Caldwell published an AP “exclusive”: “DHS report disputes threat from banned nations.”....

If it were not for groups like Audubon and the Sierra Club etc. making millions off dead eagles and endangered species through mitigation, these groups would probably have a completely different opinion about wind energy’s “incidental take” permits....

...contrasting state and local tax collections with the quality of the services residents receive....

People with years or decades to live may qualify for assisted suicide....

The action followed a Thursday report in the Washington Times revealing that Cronin had signed a letter in March 2016 along with 121 other former Republican national security officials opposing Trump's presidential bid....

Charli Scott, was five months pregnant with their unborn child when she was killed....

Defending Hawaii must be a priority for the Trump administration, Congress, and the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency....

Mass legalization of assisted suicide is not inevitable....

“Deaths of despair” in midlife rose most dramatically for white non-Hispanic Americans with a high school degree or less and more on the Sister Isles than on Oahu....

...Ms. Tupola said, “Every single past leader has told me, ‘You won’t succeed unless you fix the party.’’’....

This coming Thursday, March 23, 2017, at 10:00 AM....

"...we cannot let our personal inclinations get ahead of important, overarching principles about who gets to make decisions in our democracy...."

In Oregon, 1,749 lethal prescriptions have been written and at least 1,127 patients have died from ingesting the drugs....

...Democrats from southern states expressed concern over incorporating Hawaii’s predominantly non-white population into the Union....

...Implement a forensic audit of OHA’s expenses, especially in regards to “Hawaiian Nation Building”....

Capitol Hill’s crosshairs turned Thursday on the Ninth Circuit just a day after a federal judge under the court’s purview became the latest to thwart efforts by the president to block Muslim immigration....

...the Trump administration is placing its hopes for the ban in the hands of the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Virginia....

NAIT is an unindicted co-conspirator named in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism-financing trial of 2007-08....

Don’t expect the Ninth Circuit to stand in the way. It was that court that pointed the way for the Hawaii judge....

…instead of ruling on the Trump administration’s revised policy, Judge Watson has ruled on the character of Donald Trump....

The Civil Rights Commission said that Hawaii “is in a league by itself” when it comes to officially sanctioned discriminatory conduct....

...the claim that it is a Muslim ban is contradicted by Iraq’s removal from the list because arrangements have been made for the Iraqi government to provide the information needed for effective vetting of Iraqi nationals....

A federal judge found that the island’s efforts to restrict voting to “native” residents violated the Constitution....

He represents Bin Laden’s bodyguard for free, but charges the State of Hawaii $600/hr....

The plaintiff listed in Hawaii’s lawsuit against President Trump’s executive order on immigration is a member of an organization that has several current and former leaders tied to terrorist activity....

...5,000 Hawaii voters sign petition against assisted suicide....

It’s a litany of reasons why Hawaii and the Imam think the order is a big scary monster that’s embarrassing and keeps the Imam’s Syrian mother-in-law from visiting even though she hasn’t come to visit since 2005....

...this policy likely would backfire and make all housing in the islands more expensive....

...a Hawaii bill that would force the state’s five pro-life pregnancy centers to advertise taxpayer-funded abortions was sent along to the house Tuesday....

The House passed HB314 by a 50-0 margin....

Literally the first allegations against President Trump have to do with the things he said on the campaign trail, rather than the executive order itself....

...during fiscal year 2015, the state accepted all of seven refugees, according to data from the Office of Refugee Resettlement. Only one jurisdiction, the District of Columbia, accepted fewer....

...Experts call for immediate upgrade in state's missile defenses....

...testimonies she and several other pregnancy center supporters submitted had been completely omitted from the process, in spite of the fact they had receipts from their online submission forms....

The legislation would not only establish important privacy protections at the state level, it would also help thwart the federal surveillance state....

Note low scores in all government functions: Education, Crime, Infrastructure and ‘Government’ – High scores in non-government functions: Health Care, Opportunity, Economy....

Only 20.2 percent of younger households own their homes, the lowest among the states....