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Thursday, June 29, 2023 |
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City Fined $434K for Dumping Sewage into Kaneohe Bay
By News Release @ 3:37 PM :: 970 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment
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... Between April 2023 and May 2023, CCH discharged effluent from the wastewater treatment plant in exceedance of daily NPDES permit limits for enterococci on 13 occasions ....
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Thursday, June 29, 2023 |
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Ninth Circuit upholds ban on 'FCKBLM' license plate
By Court House News @ 1:00 AM :: 1625 Views :: First Amendment
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... The banning of profanity on license plates is constitutional, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled Wednesday, following a Honolulu man's challenge to the city's recall of a vanity plate reading "FCKBLM" ....
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Thursday, June 29, 2023 |
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ACLU: Why did Police Leave Rifle Unattended?
By News Release @ 12:23 AM :: 1474 Views :: Police
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"... an incredibly neglectful and reckless weapons security practice on the part of HPD ...."
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Wednesday, June 28, 2023 |
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14 Years Later HiDoT Still Trying to get Rid of Falls of Clyde
By News Release @ 11:59 PM :: 1696 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Tourism
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... HDOT is working to redevelop Pier 7 at Honolulu Harbor which has been vacant and inactive for the last 14 years, after Bishop Museum closed the Hawaiʻi Maritime Center ....
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Wednesday, June 28, 2023 |
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How Gov. Josh Green’s Approval Compares to the Nation’s Most Popular Governors
By Selected News Articles @ 3:47 PM :: 1797 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Politicians
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... Green has an approval rating of 62% and a disapproval rating of 22% ....
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Wednesday, June 28, 2023 |
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Lawsuit Challenges Hawaii's 'Sensitive Places' Gun Law
By News Release @ 4:33 AM :: 1732 Views :: Second Amendment
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... The lawsuit targets several problematic provisions within ACT 52, including the ban on carrying firearms at parks, beaches, banks, restaurants that serve alcohol, and their adjacent parking areas ....
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Wednesday, June 28, 2023 |
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20 Years of Fraud--With Tokuda out of Legislature, DoH finally begins to check up on Recycling Companies
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 3:11 AM :: 2632 Views :: Environment, Ethics, Congressional Delegation
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... in 2022, with Reynolds Recyling employee Jill Tokuda heading for Congress, the Legislature passed Act 12 which requires DOH to develop a risk-based process to address criminal fraud that the State Auditor has reported for 20 years ....
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023 |
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Hawaii 4th-Highest Beer Taxes in USA
By Tax Foundation @ 11:59 PM :: 2250 Views :: Taxes, Cost of Living
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... all the different layers of taxation on production and distribution make up about 40 percent of the retail price for beer ....
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023 |
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About that so-called Vienna housing model
By Grassroot Institute @ 8:00 PM :: 2322 Views :: Development, Cost of Living
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... some Hawaii lawmakers have been looking at the so-called Vienna model of housing as a way to help resolve Hawaii's housing crisis ....
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023 |
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Tweets highlight Matson's schizophrenic relationship with China
By Grassroot Institute @ 7:00 PM :: 1702 Views :: Jones Act
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... guess which shipyard is upgrading Matson ships ....
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023 |
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Feds Back Hawaii Sterile Mosquito Plan
By News Release @ 5:59 PM :: 2122 Views :: Kauai County, Maui County, Environment
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... Implementing cutting-edge strategies to control and eradicate invasive mosquitoes that spread avian malaria, which has ravaged Hawaiian forest bird populations ....
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023 |
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How Does $10B Disappear?
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:53 PM :: 2358 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... What happened to Hawaii’s $10 billion budget surplus? ....
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Monday, June 26, 2023 |
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Grassroot Institute urges Maui Council to reject higher tax burden
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:40 PM :: 2240 Views :: Maui County, Taxes
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... A proposed 0.5% county surcharge added to the state's 4% rate would jack up the cost of living, cost jobs and harm productivity ....
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Sunday, June 25, 2023 |
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‘Think outside the box’ to fix Hawaii’s unemployment tax
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:24 PM :: 2134 Views :: Small Business, Taxes
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... businesses in Hawaii are going to be paying $130 million more this year in unemployment taxes than they did last year. That’s a 46% increase ....
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Sunday, June 25, 2023 |
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DoH conditionally approves Red Hill defueling plan
By News Release @ 4:00 PM :: 2132 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military
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... setting the framework to begin defueling about 104 million gallons of fuel from the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility ....
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Sunday, June 25, 2023 |
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DoH Publishes Red Hill Exposure Assessment
By News Release @ 3:54 PM :: 2172 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Health Care, Military
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... Report summarizes potential chemical exposure to residents from 2021 jet fuel exposure ....
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Sunday, June 25, 2023 |
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Happy Day for Hawaii Healthcare
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 12:00 PM :: 2258 Views :: Health Care
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... physicians from around the country will enjoy an expedited path to licensure in our state ....
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Sunday, June 25, 2023 |
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Economic Misfortune Can Fix Our “Shadow Budget”
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:01 AM :: 2036 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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... Sometimes it takes a bad situation to make another bad situation better. This might be one of those times ....
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Sunday, June 25, 2023 |
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The politician and the Skyline buzzsaw
By Selected News Articles @ 4:25 AM :: 3083 Views :: Hawaii History, Rail
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... a list of political careers derailed by rail ....
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Saturday, June 24, 2023 |
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Kauai: Sterile Mosquito Plan Released
By News Release @ 8:00 PM :: 2304 Views :: Kauai County, Environment
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... draft environmental assessment for the use of Wolbachia-based incompatible male mosquitoes on the island of Kauaʻi to stop the spread of avian malaria ....
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Saturday, June 24, 2023 |
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HiDOT Jacks up Airport Parking Fees in Effort to Price You Out
By News Release @ 2:25 PM :: 2334 Views :: Tourism, Cost of Living
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... the Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation expects the additional benefit of reduced demand for overnight and multiple-day parking ....
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Saturday, June 24, 2023 |
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Hawaii Republicans Finally Elect Party Treasurer
By News Release @ 1:19 PM :: 7995 Views :: Republican Party
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... results from electronic vote released ....
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Saturday, June 24, 2023 |
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New Hawaii law makes official misconduct a felony
By Selected News Articles @ 12:57 PM :: 2628 Views :: Ethics
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... The punishment for a Class C felony is a minimum of one year and a maximum of five years in prison ....
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Friday, June 23, 2023 |
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OHA CEO Sylvia Hussey Quits
By News Release @ 11:50 PM :: 2916 Views :: OHA
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... OHA Board Chair Carmen “Hulu” Lindsey notified agency staff members of the planned June 30, 2023, departure by email on May 3. ....
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Friday, June 23, 2023 |
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Hawaii Tops Health Rankings Again
By News Release @ 3:37 PM :: 336 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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... but Hawaii is among the worst states in terms of women receiving early prenatal care ....
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Friday, June 23, 2023 |
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Climate Litigation Wave Crashes Into Hawaii’s Supreme Court
By Selected News Articles @ 3:25 PM :: 3290 Views :: Energy, Environment, Ethics, Judiciary
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... Such lawsuits abound, with as many as 300 cases underway. Honolulu’s, though, has a twist ....
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Friday, June 23, 2023 |
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'Multi-Ton' Chinese Fentanyl Exporters Arrested in Honolulu
By News Release @ 3:01 PM :: 2578 Views :: Drugs
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... advertising fentanyl precursors as a “Mexico hot sale;” guaranteeing “100% stealth shipping” abroad; and posting to its websites documentation of Amarvel Biotech shipping chemicals to Culiacan ....
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Thursday, June 22, 2023 |
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Hawaii finances ‘unsustainable’ without economic growth
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:58 PM :: 2128 Views :: Economy, Hawaii State Government
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" ... if the government spending is growing faster than the private sector, then it is unsustainable .... "
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Thursday, June 22, 2023 |
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Governor’s budget cuts were ‘really good thing’ for Hawaii
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:45 PM :: 1784 Views
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... The biennial budget passed by the 2023 Hawaii Legislature threatened to wipe out the state’s projected surplus by fiscal 2028 ....
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Thursday, June 22, 2023 |
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Green Pours Millions into Housing
By Selected News Articles @ 4:33 PM :: 2193 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Homelessness, Cost of Living
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... "We are working with our colleagues, possibly in the next couple of weeks, you will see this housing declaration of emergency, similarly to address some of the bottlenecks on housing," Green said. ....
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Thursday, June 22, 2023 |
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New XO at HI-EMA
By News Release @ 12:00 PM :: 2048 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Military
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... Don Aweau most recently served with the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a senior advisor ....
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Wednesday, June 21, 2023 |
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Hawaii Gun Registration Applications Drop
By News Release @ 4:35 PM :: 2159 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Second Amendment
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... 21,881 personal/private firearm permit applications were processed statewide during 2022, marking a 6.1% decrease ....
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Wednesday, June 21, 2023 |
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Sailor Wins Right to Register Guns
By News Release @ 3:57 PM :: 3439 Views :: Military, Second Amendment
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... City and state to pay $130K to settle gun owner’s lawsuit ....
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Wednesday, June 21, 2023 |
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Oil Spills: EPA Hammers Pacific Biodiesel
By News Release @ 3:44 PM :: 2208 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Environment
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... Failure to implement measures required by the SPCC Rule can threaten public health or the welfare of fish and other wildlife ....
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Wednesday, June 21, 2023 |
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Blangiardi announces leadership changes at two City departments
By News Release @ 3:10 PM :: 2163 Views :: Honolulu County
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... Keith Suzuka will serve as Deputy Director of the Department of Land Management and Ben Sullivan will serve as Deputy Director of the Office of Climate Change, Sustainability and Resiliency ....
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Wednesday, June 21, 2023 |
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Maui Mayor accepting applications to Independent Nomination Board
By News Release @ 2:52 PM :: 1892 Views :: Maui County
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... The application deadline is 4:30 p.m. June 29 ....
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Monday, June 19, 2023 |
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Neighborhood Commission Office Holds Revote in Hawaii Kai Subdistrict 11
By News Release @ 11:07 PM :: 2163 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics
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... a computer glitch prevented Sub District 11 voters from being able to electronically submit their votes ....
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Monday, June 19, 2023 |
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Hawaii most expensive state to live in
By Selected News Articles @ 5:03 PM :: 2444 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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"... living in Hawaii would require an annual income of at least $80,000 to $100,000 for a single person and around $125,000 to $150,000 for a family ....”
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Monday, June 19, 2023 |
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Honolulu Credit Card Debt Soars
By Selected News Articles @ 4:45 PM :: 2258 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... Honolulu average household credit card debt is $14,927, up by $2,498 ....
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Monday, June 19, 2023 |
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Honolulu Rent Highest in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 4:11 PM :: 2328 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... #1 Highest Avg Rent in USA: Urban Honolulu, HI $2,514/mo ....
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Sunday, June 18, 2023 |
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A Dirty Problem
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 2400 Views :: Environment, Development, Tax Credits
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... five blind monks trying to describe an elephant ....
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Saturday, June 17, 2023 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 17, 2023
By GovTrack .us @ 11:06 PM :: 1730 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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... bills introduced and votes cast in Congress ....
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Saturday, June 17, 2023 |
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$1B Budget Cuts 'Wise and Courageous'
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 6:46 PM :: 1861 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... Green plans to trim approximately $1 billion from the Legislature’s proposed biennial budget via 22 separate line item vetoes ....
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Saturday, June 17, 2023 |
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How Grassroot Institute is working for a better Hawaii
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:16 PM :: 2047 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Health Care, Taxes
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... Grassroot Institute “actually proposed 15 model bills this year that were introduced and got one across the finish line, which was the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact” ....
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Saturday, June 17, 2023 |
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What you need to know about property taxes in Hawaii
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:57 PM :: 2688 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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... Hawaii property tax rates thus can be low because the counties that assess and collect them do not have to cover the cost of public schools ....
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Friday, June 16, 2023 |
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Divide and Conquer: More Property Tax Tiers Means Higher Taxes
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:48 PM :: 2144 Views :: Kauai County, Taxes
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... This situation has left the owners of many long-term rentals stuck with much higher tax bills ....
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Friday, June 16, 2023 |
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Hawaii May Unemployment 3.1%
By News Release @ 2:34 PM :: 2096 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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... in comparison with March 2020 (the last month prior to pandemic effects), nonfarm jobs were down by 24,200, or -3.7 percent ....
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Friday, June 16, 2023 |
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HTA: De Fries Gets Boot
By News Release @ 4:36 AM :: 2152 Views :: Ethics, Tourism
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... 'Hawai‘i Tourism Authority President and CEO John De Fries Announces He Will Decline Extension of Employment Contract' LOL! ....
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