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... Hawaii beer tax is $0.93 per gallon ....

... powerful liberal Democrats use large campaign donations to buy the loyalty of vulnerable one- and two-term representatives that have small campaign war chests ....

"It's not a question of if, it's a question of when Zika comes here to this island, and we have a very unique opportunity right now to squash it."

Of the lawmakers, only the state’s lone Republican Senator, Sam Slom, divulged the requested information....

Typically overlooked in presidential election, the three U.S. territories in the Pacific are front and center in the campaign for this year’s Republican Party nomination....

American Samoa says the U.S. government violated its sovereign rights by shrinking the zone around the territory....

This base is far wider than the national median, where the sales tax applies to 34.46 percent of personal income....

...The volunteers have been instructed by the campaign’s lawyers to stop using its logo and remove any similar posts from social media accounts....

A bill introduced in the Hawaii Senate would restrict the warrantless use of drones by state and local law enforcement....

The legislation would enable terminally ill patients to access to medications and treatments not yet given final approval for use by the FDA....

And Hawaii legislators are considering a gas tax hike ....

...a dozen proposals related to the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transit....

This culture of “vote buying” creates a false majority....

...Pew Research Center’s most recent Religious Landscape Study....

... legislation that would enable medicine and medical device manufacturers to offer eligible terminally ill patients “investigational drugs” and “experimental treatments” ....

At one end of the spectrum, fully 71% of those who live in the District of Columbia, 70% of those in Vermont and 68% of those in Hawaii said stricter environmental regulations are worth the cost....

...Since church/state bars the government dictating doctrine to people of faith, liberal Democrats are inventing other ways to steamroll their agenda....

A federal judge rejected United Public Workers' emergency request to stay a law that privatizes three Hawaii hospitals and strips some 500 workers of civil-service protections....

Almost every single candidate in both parties has introduced policies that would alter our tax code. However, the approach that candidates have taken differs tremendously....

...while GM methods face challenges when applied in a continent as large as Africa, there is no such issue on an island isolated in middle of the Pacific Ocean....

...his committee has the oversight responsibility over DLNR....

...the Hawaii Legislature is considering a pair of bills based on California’s affirmative-consent standard that would make it nearly impossible for accused University of Hawaii System students to prove they received consent in a sexual encounter....

...the Washington Post published that North Korea’s missile test was an example of President Barack Obama’s failed policy of strategic patience with North Korea....

U.S. District Judge Helen Gillmor refused to block the privatization after discussion on Feb. 9....

The purpose of the 48-hour notice rule is so that the public may participate meaningfully in the legislative process....

Section 6 removes the penalties for the unauthorized diversion (theft) from a dispensary or production center....

Now you know why Hawaii’s dispensaries are required to grow indoors....

...require the state to disburse funds to an exclusive bargaining representative pursuant to a contract between a union and the state's department of budget and finance....

This is just the latest example of the Department of Education attempting to shortchange Hawaii’s special needs students....

Temporary tax increases expired in Hawaii. The three top rate brackets were eliminated, and the top marginal rate fell from 11 percent to 8.25 percent....

This “licensed therapist” loophole is something that liberals would use to dictate what religions can and cannot believe in....

...the USNS Puerto Rico is the ship being considered by Bay Ferries....

The bill is unabashedly simple and seeks to reduce both possession of drugs and the distribution of drugs from felonies to civil violations....

...Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake (R) and Rep. Matt Salmon (R) introduced legislation that would split up the 9th Circuit and add a new 12th Circuit....

According to Gallup, Hawaii is the 2nd most Democrat state but conservatives outnumber liberals by 1.3% and Hawaii is 3rd in self-described moderates....

Though often thought of as a major tax type, corporate income taxes account for just 5.3 percent of state tax collections nationally ....

Hawaii reports nearly 22 scams to BBB per 100,000 people ....

To illustrate how the carrot-and-stick approach can work, Satel describes the success of Hawaii’s Opportunity Probation with Enforcement program....

A group using the name the Evacuator Group and the now-suspended Twitter handles @Ev4cuati0nSquad and @SwatTheW0rld has claimed responsibility for the threats....

First in line after the 7:45 a.m. office opening in Hilo was state Rep. Joy San Buenaventura....

"...No, there are no helicopters, although I asked...."

We don’t need lawmakers deciding what therapies should be supported or legal....

...at the Royal Hawaiian Golf Club in Kailua....

...retirees tend to live in rural or suburban areas with pleasant climates....

Hawaii residents reach the top spot for the fifth time since Gallup and Healthways began tracking well-being in 2008...

...HTA claimed, up to 47,000 additional tourists visited the Hawaiian islands to watch the game...analysis of flight records at all of Hawaii's airports around game time found that claim to be false....

...hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars that are being wasted on biofuels....

By the year's end, the utility will need to collect $7,940,691.56 more to fulfill "revenue requirements" for GEMS....

The bills, SB 2127 and HB 1658, say UH has “failed to charge sufficient sublease rent...."