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The fasted growing type of pass-through business is the S corporation....

The Hawaii state legislature committed three more waivers of notice....

Church attendance provides ties that bind members to their communities, and research shows that at the individual level, those who are most religious have higher well-being than those who are less religious....

Honolulu Ranks 42nd Overall (tied with Irving, TX): 77th for 'Income Diversity' and 101st for 'Educational Diversity'....

Refineries would have access to cheaper domestically-produced crude oil, which would lower the cost of gasoline, diesel and fuel oil. And there would be less need for imported oil....

Requires PUC to establish community-based renewable energy tariff or tariffs by no later than January 1, 2016....

...Healthcare.gov failed customers on the last hours of open enrollment this past weekend and now anyone who had problems signing up is getting an extension....

...HB631 will be granted a hearing tomorrow, Wednesday, February 18th....

...If HCR33 gets a hearing, it will first be in the House of Representatives Ocean, Marine Resources & Hawaiian Affairs committee chaired by Rep. Kaniela Ing....

...Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement will soon be requesting funding from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs....

Consumers should be especially aware of the difficulty that continues to exist in trying to get straight information....

...to make experimental drugs available to terminally ill patients who meet certain qualifications....

Opposition parties are rightfully tattletales. They are critics and watchdogs. Without this tattling, many things go on that the public does not know about....

...they would like the public to believe that they can offer more transparency to government by decreasing transparency....

...Expenses, including the $1.25M loan to IDG, would not be recovered....

...“coexist,” written on a wall using a Muslim crescent as the letter “C,” a Star of David as the letter “X,” and a Christian cross as a “T.”....

...Chinese threats to back several groups of Hawaiian independence activists....

On August 22, Neil Abercrombie sent a letter to Washington, D.C., urging the Federal Communications Commission to approve Comcast’s controversial proposal to merge with Time Warner....

...Native American reservations are among the poorest communities in the United States. Here’s how the government keeps Native Americans in poverty....

...‘In the business and trading world, people go to jail for such manipulations of data’….

Longtime Hawaii mediator and facilitator Peter Adler will coordinate the effort....

...While advocacy organizations may feel this strategy is useful, their fight has taken a heavy toll on those of us living in the war zones they orchestrated....

...a short autobiographical piece highlighting some of Parks’ early experiences with armed self-defense....

...the strengthening US dollar is driving down Hawaiian’s projected unit revenues by 3.5% to 6.5%....

The President’s budget has a proposed increase in the federal capital gains tax rate....

...In coming weeks, Hawaii’s Supreme Court is expected to hand down a decision....

...A single filer earning Hawaii's median income of $61,408 can expect to pay $4,043.88 in state income taxes, the highest dollar amount of any state, or 6.59% of his income....

Sole proprietorships, S corporations, limited liability companies (LLCs)....

...Hawaii has 49 different CON laws, 3rd highest in USA....

It seems to be the first waiver granted this session by House Speaker Joe Souki....

House Health and Judiciary Committee chairs are looking to move marijuana legislation swiftly through committees....

...“possession, growing, processing, or transporting of not more than six marijuana plants...."

...It often takes four years to obtain approvals from the Land Use Commission and another two more years to get county permits, Ching said....

...reprogramming its Hawaiian microinverter fleet en masse, to help Hawaiian Electric....

...liberal Democrats have taken a page from big tobacco companies.  But will they pay a multi-billion dollar settlement for the social ills created by their deception?....

...Nebraskans pay one of the lowest rates for electricity in the nation and revenues are reinvested in infrastructure to ensure reliable and cheap service for years to come....

...In nearly any other state, the inter-island cable project being considered in Hawaii would be subject to various federal rules and regulations designed to ensure consumers receive the benefits of robust competition....

Pass-through businesses pay a significant role in the US economy. They account for 95 percent of all businesses, more than 60 percent of all business income, and more than 50 percent of all employment....

...With ambulance chasers in positions of power, both the House and Senate are poised to advance HB189 and SB137 in separate hearings on Friday....

Overall Yellow Tang abundance has increased 58% (over 1.3 million fish) from 1999/2000 to 2012-2013 to a current population of 3.6 million fish....

...Correcting this problem and allowing businesses to deduct the full cost in the first year is known as “full expensing”....

...the share of all income held by the top 1% is on a three-decade upswing....

...if the new contract extends longer than three years, that will be a surprise to many....

...millions went to some of the nation’s most prominent and politically active environmentalist groups. The Sierra Club, the Natural Resource Defense Council, Food and Water Watch, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Center for American Progress....

...he eventually became the Sea Shepherd regional director in Hawaii....

...more than 20 states have introduced so-called "Right to Try" bills in the hopes of allowing terminally ill patients to access experimental—and potentially life-saving—treatments more easily....

She’s on a grand tour, marked by private fund-raising pitches to wealthy locals and wannabees from the mainland....