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Hounded by Luddites, shakedown artists, and anti-GMO hypesters, Hawaii’s Kamapachi Farms open ocean fish farm has now been named by TIME magazine as one of the Best Inventions of the Year 2012. Surely it will soon be driven from the state....

About 99.9 percent of solar photovoltaic (PV) lease companies in Hawaii are owned by out-of-state investors....

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LINK >>> 2012 Hawaii Polling Place Locator with Sample Ballots

At $22,394, Hawaii's adjusted average income figure is more than $7,000 below that of the next lowest state....(we're 39% lower than Mississippi and 56% lower than Alaska)

2.9 percent of all new electric vehicles sold so far in the U.S. this year were registered in Hawaii, ranking the state 10th in the country. This rate is almost eight times the state’s share of all new car registrations in the U.S., where Hawaii ranks 41st overall at 0.4 percent.

Hawaii looted its catastrophe fund to "balance" the budget and doubled down by taking borrowed money to replenish it....

"It's happening. Romney winning independents, safe Obama states no longer safe, female gap closing. Obama is in trouble."

$1436.40 per household per year is currently being paid into Hawaii government employees pensions—third highest in the nation. Table 4 (pg. 48) shows that an additional $1288 per household is needed ....

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Rather than pretending that the damage of tax increases is limited to “rich” people, it makes sense to look at overall economic effects, either nationally or within each state....

This timely study represents the most comprehensive analysis of American teacher unions’ strength ever conducted....

As you read, remember that whatever Congress does to Indian Tribes will become law for the Akaka Tribe as well.

Brookings' analysis of international commercial air travel passenger levels within the United States' global aviation network ....

Hawaii had the highest percentage of multi-generational households, accounting for 11.1% of all family households in that state....

CMS has now included the details of a home’s three most recent routine inspections. For many homes, that means results from 2009 and 2010 are now available online....

The index compares states' economic health to conditions in July 1992. That is, a score of 100 indicates a level of productivity equal to that of that month....

Hawaii’s rank worsened from 18th to 14th….

RASMUSSEN: R 50% O 46%...GALLUP: R 51% O 46%...

It took three months for UHSC to stop Ing from misrepresenting himself but after Ing was threatened with expulsion from UH, he capitulated....

"We are not going to volunteer as long as (fired elections workers) are not reinstated or treated fairly...." -- April 18, 2012

The ceremony presided over by Pope Benedict XVI, will actually begin at 9:30 p.m. Hawaii time....

The LDS Church is making its mark in the U.S. and around the world....

Six volunteers will head into a barren landscape in Hawaii to simulate a 120-day Mars mission....

...extremely high cost of living, tax burden per capita, malpractice award payouts per capita, and number of disciplinary actions taken against physicians....

The essential areas, proposed as critical habitat, include seven units totaling approximately 18,766 acres (7,597 hectares) on the island of Hawai‘i....

According to legislators we interviewed, owners and operators of existing zipline and canopy tours in Hawai‘i are the main proponents of [regulation]….

"Because camping fees will be deposited into the general fund, rather than a special revenue account or other special fund, the parks and recreation department has no plan for how it intends to make improvements to the camping program." -- Audit

...a knock-down-drag-out fight with Democratic Governor Neil Abercrombie that has left teachers without a contract since July 2011....

Solar leasing companies are reporting “fair market value” installed costs that are far higher than the actual cost of installing solar.

...on June 7, 2012, the Board Counsel opined that Trustee Apoliona, miraculously, no longer had a conflict of interest because the Fiscal Committee Chairman took out any references to Trustee Apoliona’s bank within the proposal....

For two decades, the domestic wind-energy sector has enjoyed a lucrative subsidy known as the production tax credit (PTC). That tax treatment, which provides wind-energy producers with 2.2 cents for every kilowatt-hour of electricity produced, expires at the end of 2012.

...we found that all 22 businesses are required by their insurance agencies to provide annual inspection reports by insurer-accredited companies designated under industry standards as qualified challenge course professionals. As a result, the industry is basically self-regulating....

Ing, a mailman working out of a Sand Island postal facility, served as treasurer of Branch 860 for 14 years....

A new twist on the home-improvement scam targets folks who want to cut their energy bills with rooftop solar panels or windmills....

...the investigation focuses on the fair-market value of PV installations for which SolarCity sought cash grants....

“This report and one TSA fiasco after another have demonstrated that this isn’t the problem of a few bad apples. There are system-wide problems...."

The Tax Foundation’s 2013 edition of the State Business Tax Climate Index enables business leaders, government policymakers, and taxpayers to gauge how their states’ tax systems compare. 

Some of these governors are schizophrenic on taxes: They jack up overall business tax rates, then give breaks to favored businesses....

Big banks have been able to write off millions in taxes by over reporting the cost of financed solar PV projects in what may be the country’s next banking scandal....

...otherwise UH will be condemned to be the punch line of a joke, a place for cronies to pad their retirement (high three), or a pit stop to collect fat paychecks and loud Aloha shirts....

GOP Challenger Viewed as Candidate with New Ideas....

Many have asked how come none of the regular environmental and public interest watch-dog groups sounded the alarm earlier? How did such a law get passed?

One of the first items on the PLDC agenda was to seek control over the state land under the Olomana golf course....

...due to the presence of Asian citrus psyllid, a vector of the bacterial pathogen that causes citrus greening....

This morning the City Council will have the first reading of Bill 65 to accept a revision of the Ewa Development Plan.

Unfortunately for locavores, the same fundamental economic realities that shaped the development of our globalized food supply chain are still very much with us.

...they would be compensated for legal costs if layoffs occur due to contract cancellations under sequestration — but only if the contractors follow the Labor guidance....

Note to Greenwood: Hey MRC, this report is nice and all, but you’re in Hawaii now....

Though 10 states have shirked their duties under national air quality standards for lead, environmental regulators have not cracked down, activists claim in federal court.