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...Hawaii taxpayers can now breathe easier because he was defeated in the Democratic primary....

...to conduct a tour of the Army installations here to get a first-hand view of capabilities of the units....

We crunched the numbers using the six criteria below to determine if the state you live in is prime habitat for a downer of a Thanksgiving....

If current trends hold, the black hole will grow 'like a cancer' (hint, hint) and swallow the entire system....

Hawaii has employed gimmicks to give the appearance of fiscal improvements in their entitlement programs....

For many rural hospitals, partnering with big health systems is the only hope for survival....

...the ban will "probably bankrupt Molokai"....

the Wahiawa Lions Club 68th Annual Veterans Day Parade....

In Hawaii v. Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the Supreme Court unanimously declared....

...Tribal Governments and Americans Indian individuals can do very little with their lands without the approval of the BIA’s suffocating bureaucracy....

Long-suffering California (and Hawaii) gun owners received some rare good news....

Hawaii has one of the most onerous business tax situations. Another drawback: the highest cost of living....

“But they all kissed the ring because they wanted his money.”

Paul Sullivan, a Hawaii resident and former deputy campaign manager for President Bill Clinton, could owe  millions of dollars in attorney fees ....

When businesses suffer losses in a calendar year, well-structured corporate tax codes allow them to deduct those losses against previous or future tax returns....

Planned Parenthood’s Kona Health Center will shut down after Monday, November 10....

McCartney is a former executive director of the Hawaii State Teachers Association....

Congressional candidate Aumua Amata was yesterday elected to serve as American Samoa’s non-voting Delegate to the U.S. House, unseating longtime incumbent, Congressman Faleomavaega Eni....

...a former member of Faleomavaega's staff is suing the delegate....

...by calculating the number of elected officials in the federal government per adult population in each state for the most recent election years....

Omidyar...seemed not to realize what he had gotten into....

Nationally, the combined net income of sole proprietors, LLCs, Partnerships, and S corporations has increased fivefold and now accounts for more than 50 percent of all business income....

We score all 50 states on 56 measures of competitiveness, developed using input from business groups, economic development experts, companies and the states themselves.....

"The Department of Education has a constitutional mandate to establish a statewide public school system that consists of, among other things, a comprehensive Hawaiian education program...."

...Faleomavaega neither resigned nor retired and finally has returned home just a few days short of a year after his medical evacuation last October....

...he and others were kidnapping and keeping Afghan boys as sex slaves, trafficking narcotics and providing munitions to the Taliban to "facilitate insider attacks on Marine and other coalition forces."....

...the magnitude of these payments exceeds the average salary of an American teacher, as well as a soldier deployed in Afghanistan, by at least $10,000 per year....

A new data map courtesy of Fitch Ratings shows which states have the highest college tuition growth....

City could have worked harder to prevent Sand Island sewage spill....

...Honolulu’s airport is hardly the welcome to Hawaii that you might expect.....

GovTrack predicts S.567 and H.R.3118 has a 0% chance of passing out of committee and a 0% probability of being enacted....

With the right policies, the U.S. has an opportunity to become the world’s top energy producer and to continue the return of manufacturing jobs....

...paying tens of millions of euros to Indian officials including a former Air Force head through intermediaries and falsifying invoices to win a high-profile contract....

Tracks of all tropical cyclones (tropical depressions, tropical storms, and hurricanes) to pass within 100 miles of the Hawaiian Islands, 1949 - 2014....

The cost of groceries is two times higher in Honolulu than in Houston....

Poll taken September 20 - October 1 ....

The poll of 600 likely voters was conducted from Oct. 3 to Oct. 8, as lying National Democrat ads claiming Aiona would outlaw abortion filled the airwaves....

The judges added that other lawsuits challenging Hawaii's marriage equality law already in the pipeline "do not defeat mootness" in this case....

...Hawaii is number 1 at $55,560, Alaska is #2 at $53,822....

If passed and signed into law, PITFA would make the ITFA moratorium permanent and force these seven states to cease imposing taxes on Internet access....

...six states received D+ or D grades: Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island....

...Hawaii Ranks 11th overall: 4th on Income, 20th on GDP, and 44th on Federal Taxes....

... the Connector was “a creature of the legislature”....

Swift-certain-fair (SCF) sanctioning improves on conventional practice....

...Kahle and Huber moved from Hawaii to Norton Shores (MI) last year....

...it remains a mystery what is keeping Faleomavaega in Washington more than three weeks after Congress has recessed....

Billionaire 'Bond King,' Erotic Sneezing Enthusiast, Quits Job Just Ahead Of Firing....

State suffered the fourth worst economic drop from 1992-2001 of any US State going back to the Great Depression....