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Delaware (49.5 percent) and Hawaii (48 percent) are the only states with pass-through employment less than 50% share of total private sector employment....

In 2014, Mississippi had the lowest number of homeless people per 100,000, as it did for the previous three years....

If you allow that diversity, if you encourage it, if you value it, then this body will make stronger legislation that can make people’s lives better in real, tangible ways....

...the proportion of children who’d missed one or more shots increased from an average of 8 percent at the beginning of the study period to 12.4 percent at the end....

Power fluctuations from a first large plant installed in 2012 have already largely burned out the big batteries....

The cost of tobacco for every smoker is $1,029,646 over a lifetime....

...newly eligible adults will have access to addiction treatments this year, many for the first time....

the text of McCain's proposed amendment repeals the US Build requirement of the Jones Act....

The annual median wage for STEM workers (adjusted for cost of living) is two times higher in Houston than in Honolulu....

...five states with the lowest costs Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Mississippi, Hawaii....

Hawaii receives 23.5 percent of its total state general revenues from the federal government....

A Hawaii solar state of the union from Marco Mangelsdorf....

"As of Jan. 19, I will be working with Fox News Channel as an investigative reporter from its Los Angeles bureau"

"...its biggest proposal in the Aloha state is a $600 million cable project...."

“Honestly, I didn’t even know you could arrest ships.” 

OHA has wasted many millions of Hawaiian beneficiary dollars on both the US federal Akaka bill and its state of Hawai`i version successor, Kana`iolowalu....

The goals of public and private unions are diverging....

...the production tax credit (PTC) gives wind companies 2.3 cents for every kilowatt-hour of electricity they produce....

...with projects in Venezuela, Libya, Georgia....

Our former Governor and the Legislature should not have created a law that mandated an issue that was OHA’s kuleana....

In Hawaii, its power company is trying to get a $55 fixed monthly charge, which is double its current fee....

As marijuana legalization took hold in Colorado, the estimated percentage of regular cannabis users in the state jumped to the second-highest level in the country....

...I was finally forced to file a lawsuit against OHA in September 2013 to make it more transparent.  Now that a new leadership team is in place, this lawsuit may no longer be necessary....

Then-Senator David Ige was a key supporter of the universal coverage plan in 2009, but whether he’ll pick up the cause as Governor is unclear....

The problem has also affected other restaurant chains, as a dockworker dispute on the West Coast of the United States has reverberated across the Pacific Ocean....

3,500 is far short of the 130,000 cited by Kissel in a Nov 28 Star-Adv interview as a break-even figure for the Connector....

...The study examines environmental costs for cars' entire life cycle, including where power comes from and the environmental effects of building batteries....

NextEra paid just $88 million in taxes on earnings of nearly $7 billion. That’s a tax rate of just 1.25 percent when the statutory rate is 35 percent....

The Geoghegan firm successfully represented plaintiffs in Judge v. Quinn involving related Seventeenth Amendment issues resulting from the temporary appointment to the US Senate of Roland Burris....

Today, after two decades of "political correctness", nursing grievances has become a primary theme of the popular culture.  But in the 1940s, the opposite choice was made by thousands of young Japanese Americans in Hawaii.  They stood up, volunteered to join in the war effort and proved the doubters wrong.

More than 100 troops from the 45th Sustainment Brigade’s headquarters met an emotional explosion of cheers as they marched into the Wheeler Gulch hangar....

... California, Colorado, Florida, and Hawaii all moved up by at least 10 positions on our ranking ....

“Florida is not known for rooftop solar. It’s known for utility scale projects,” said Leslie Cole-Brooks, executive director, Hawaii Solar Energy Association....

This definitely has U.S. Supreme Court written all over it....

WalletHub conducted an in-depth analysis of 2014’s Most & Least Charitable States....

West Coast ports are suffering a series of slowdowns....

...residents will see a 6% average increase in their annual insurance costs for three years after the infraction....

Delays to asset sales have prompted credit ratings agencies to downgrade the company to junk....

A prominent gay rights activist charged last week with sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy ... has visited the White House more than a half-dozen times in the past two years....

...Hawaii income taxes cost a single parent of two children $272 at poverty level....

...Waters argues that the voting results suggest 128 ballots may have been miscounted out of the 37,178 cast....

...the extremely wealthy establish various special interest groups dedicated to crafting draconian regulations in the name of the public good, tackling hot-button social issues, and riling the hopes of easily led ideologues....

...a confusing patchwork of different laws around the country, driving up the cost of food as much as $500 to every American family....

...new and important cases were decided by the Hawaii courts this year....

Destruction of their crops would be an unconstitutional taking without just compensation, the farmers say....

...will lose their rural designation that allows acute care facilities within their boundaries to receive extra payments as critical access hospitals....