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Entries for 'UHERO'
Wednesday, March 11, 2020 |
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COVID19: Hawaii Tourism Drops 35% Since March 1
By UHERO @ 3:31 AM :: 4365 Views :: Economy, Health Care, Tourism
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...In the past two weeks, things have changed markedly, and a SARS-type V-shaped path is now too optimistic....
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Friday, March 6, 2020 |
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UHERO: Making a High-Quality State Revenue/Tax System
By UHERO @ 7:47 PM :: 2964 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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...Hawaii citizens can count on seeing a slew of bills introduced to raise taxes on somebody....
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Monday, February 24, 2020 |
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UHERO: Corona Virus May Damage State Economy
By UHERO @ 5:02 PM :: 4085 Views :: Economy, Health Care, Tourism
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...While visitor arrivals racked up another record year in 2019, real visitor spending fell last year as international spending languished. And now the coronavirus rears its ugly head....
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Thursday, January 30, 2020 |
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Charting a New Fiscal Course for Hawaii: Fiscal Architecture Approach
By UHERO @ 1:49 AM :: 4358 Views :: Economy, Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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...a case for the Hawaii community to focus on “the future fiscal capacity of Hawaii state and local governments.”....
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Tuesday, January 21, 2020 |
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Cost of Living: Hawaii Per Capita Income 4th-Lowest in USA
By UHERO @ 8:07 PM :: 3553 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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...after adjusting for Hawaii’s high prices, the purchasing power of income per person was the fourth lowest in the nation....
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Saturday, December 21, 2019 |
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UHERO: Hawaii economy enters soft patch
By UHERO @ 1:00 AM :: 4235 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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...The state’s population has been declining for the past three years, in part because of outward migration....
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Sunday, October 20, 2019 |
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Cabotage Sabotage: Jones Act Reduces Water Trade Between US States
By UHERO @ 3:04 AM :: 3356 Views :: Jones Act
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...the costs associated with the Jones Act are empirically important and should be taken into account by policy makers....
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Friday, October 18, 2019 |
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NELHA Economic Impact Estimated
By UHERO @ 4:16 AM :: 108484 Views :: Hawaii County , Tax Credits
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... NELHA Host Park generates over $100M annually ....
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Friday, September 20, 2019 |
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Economy Already Weak: Hawaii’s prospects look increasingly dicey
By UHERO @ 7:00 AM :: 3120 Views :: Economy
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...population decline and vacation rental crackdown place economy at risk....
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Friday, September 20, 2019 |
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Drivers of well-being in Hawaii: Quantifying individual and community impacts
By UHERO @ 6:15 AM :: 2941 Views :: Hawaii Statistics
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...In Gallup’s annual well-being index, Hawaii occupied the #1 spot among US states for six out of the past 10 years....
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Wednesday, September 11, 2019 |
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Cabotage Sabotage? The Curious Case of the Jones Act
By UHERO @ 6:37 PM :: 3411 Views :: Jones Act
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...UHERO examines the economic implications of the Jones Act....
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Friday, May 17, 2019 |
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UHERO: Counties see synchronized slowing
By UHERO @ 7:23 PM :: 5444 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Tourism
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...each has seen a falloff in tourism activity and a slowing of employment growth in a number of sectors....
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Friday, May 3, 2019 |
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UHERO: Recent data confirm weaker growth
By UHERO @ 4:24 PM :: 3820 Views :: Economy
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...The number of visitor days remains below last year’s peak, with more worrying signs from falling visitor spending. Job growth has largely stalled and income gains have receded....
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Saturday, April 6, 2019 |
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UHERO: How Obamacare Affects Micronesian Health
By UHERO @ 5:49 PM :: 4526 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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...The Impact of Public Health Insurance on Medical Utilization in a Vulnerable Population: Evidence from COFA Migrants....
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Tuesday, April 2, 2019 |
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Is Leasehold Housing Built on Government Land a Solution to Unaffordable Housing in Honolulu?
By UHERO @ 4:50 AM :: 6796 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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...the State (in 1967) and the City and County of Honolulu (in 2004) passed legislation designed to dismantle leasehold housing on private lands....
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Friday, March 22, 2019 |
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How high is too high? What’s known and unknown about minimum wage increases
By UHERO @ 4:02 AM :: 5002 Views :: Labor, Small Business
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...the subsequent increase to $13 led to large reductions in hours for low wage workers of 6-7% that completely offset a 3% rise in the average hourly wages....
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Friday, March 1, 2019 |
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UHERO: Hawaii Economy slows markedly. Is more in store?
By UHERO @ 3:48 PM :: 4688 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics
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...Tourism challenges were not limited to the aftermath of flood and fire, but also reflected weakening in some key markets and a falloff in spending. At home, population growth has been negative for the past two years, weighing on demand....
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Friday, February 15, 2019 |
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Charting a New Course For Hawaii Tourism
By UHERO @ 1:21 PM :: 4109 Views :: Tourism
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...Diminishing economic contribution, eroding resident sentiment, and increasing congestion and stress on sites and attractions provide evidence that the current governance model is inadequate....
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Friday, February 8, 2019 |
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UHERO: New Benchmarking Will Reveal Higher Unemployment
By UHERO @ 3:09 PM :: 4389 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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...We expect downward revisions in the healthcare industry and in accommodation and food services, where job gains remained lackluster throughout 2018....
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Friday, December 14, 2018 |
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UHERO Economic Forecast: Record-high Visitor Numbers--Unimpressive Income Gains
By UHERO @ 4:59 PM :: 3969 Views :: Economy
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...record-high visitor numbers, record-low unemployment, and ongoing—if unimpressive—income gains....
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Wednesday, November 21, 2018 |
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UHERO: Revenue Decoupling Jacks up Utility Rates
By UHERO @ 3:36 AM :: 4979 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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...statistically significant upward adjustments on average are observed across utilities that experienced decoupling....
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Monday, October 1, 2018 |
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Food Waste Recycling Program Makes Pigs Happy--But Costs City at H-Power
By UHERO @ 8:45 PM :: 6434 Views :: Honolulu County, Agriculture, Small Business
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“The vast majority of those businesses impacted by the City’s food waste recycling ordinance are continuing to use local piggeries to recycle their food waste.”
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Friday, September 28, 2018 |
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Hawaii Construction Forecast: After Pullback, Construction Prospects Firm
By UHERO @ 11:33 PM :: 6610 Views :: Development, Economy, Labor
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...Following two years of decline, the pace of building in Hawaii has stabilized. The value of construction permits is posting healthy gains across all sub-sectors this year....
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Friday, September 21, 2018 |
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UHERO: Hawaii's Growth Down, But Not Out
By UHERO @ 2:49 PM :: 4079 Views :: Economy
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...Global tourism continues to power forward, and there remains a healthy pipeline of construction work. And even with the recent labor market weakness, Hawaii continues to enjoy its lowest unemployment in many years....
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Friday, August 10, 2018 |
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As SEC Closes in on Elon Musk, UHERO Continues to Dream Up New Ways to Send Him Money
By UHERO @ 1:29 AM :: 4997 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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...This study asks the question, how valuable is residential real-time pricing (RTP) in comparison to time-of-use (TOU) rates to absorb increasing sources of intermittent renewable energy?....
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Thursday, June 21, 2018 |
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UHERO: Wind and Solar will Drive up Electric Rates a Lot More
By UHERO @ 3:06 AM :: 5940 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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...the variability of solar and wind power makes the system-wide costs grow considerably as their share of the power mix rises....
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Thursday, June 7, 2018 |
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Is the Hawaii Convention Center Profitable?
By UHERO @ 1:59 AM :: 5953 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Tourism
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...HTA CEO George Szegeti said “In CY2017 the convention center turned a net operating profit of $1.1 million, marking its second consecutive year of profitability.” This is surprising news, indeed....
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Friday, June 1, 2018 |
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UHERO: Healthy county economies face growing pains
By UHERO @ 9:47 PM :: 3700 Views :: Economy
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...Tourism keeps surprising to the upside, even as visitor numbers strain infrastructure and communities....
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Wednesday, May 30, 2018 |
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Who is Driving Electric Vehicles in Hawaii?
By UHERO @ 9:42 PM :: 6225 Views :: Energy, Environment, Hawaii Statistics
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...An analysis of factors that affect EV adoption in Hawaii....
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Monday, May 14, 2018 |
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UHERO: Rolling Blackouts Can Hide Green Energy Rate Hikes
By UHERO @ 7:56 PM :: 4963 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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... Dynamic pricing = 'Voluntary' rolling blackouts or brownouts. You agree to use at certain hours and not at others ....
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Friday, May 4, 2018 |
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UHERO: Hawaii set for more growth
By UHERO @ 4:59 PM :: 4888 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics
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...Tourism has surged again in the first part of 2018, extending one of the longest periods of sustained visitor growth. Construction, while volatile month to month, also remains on a high plateau....
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Friday, May 4, 2018 |
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Rethinking Hawaii Tourism: Time to Shift from Marketing to Managing Tourism?
By UHERO @ 2:06 AM :: 3722 Views :: Tourism
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...Even though most respondents still think tourism brings more benefits than costs to our state, the percent of those who think otherwise has been rising for some time....
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Sunday, March 4, 2018 |
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Republican Tax Cuts Pump $1.3B into Hawaii Economy
By UHERO @ 1:30 AM :: 6886 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...Democrat media unanimous: 'Nothing to see here'....
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Friday, December 15, 2017 |
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UHERO: Hawaii’s Long Expansion Gets Global Economic Lift
By UHERO @ 3:38 PM :: 5818 Views :: Economy, Tourism
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...Improving global conditions provide a favorable environment for continued expansion in the Islands....
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Monday, December 11, 2017 |
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017 |
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Governing Green Power: Realigning Institutions to Shovel Ratepayer Money to Elon Musk
By UHERO @ 3:15 PM :: 4339 Views :: Energy
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...The complex system of the future that many of us envision — what some call Utility 2.0 — will require dynamic price setting....
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Friday, November 17, 2017 |
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UHERO: 25 Years Later we still don't know what Sustainable Tourism is
By UHERO @ 3:18 AM :: 4138 Views :: Tourism
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...the report concludes that Hawaii is not yet at the stage of overtourism....
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Friday, September 29, 2017 |
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UHERO: Economy Slowing, Despite Arrivals Boom
By UHERO @ 3:49 PM :: 4431 Views :: Economy
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...the consequence of a flattening construction path and the natural effects of tightening labor markets....
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Friday, September 22, 2017 |
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Oahu Construction Boom Ending: What Excuse Will HART Use Next?
By UHERO @ 4:04 PM :: 7300 Views :: Honolulu County, Economy, Rail
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...number of significant condo and retail projects have wrapped up on Oahu, while fewer new buildings have broken ground, resulting in an overall reduction in construction activity and employment....
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Friday, May 19, 2017 |
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UHERO County Forecast: Economies Still Growing, But Slowing
By UHERO @ 11:59 PM :: 5667 Views :: Economy, Tourism
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Prospects are good for continued growth in each of Hawaii’s four counties, if at a slower pace than in recent years....
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Saturday, May 6, 2017 |
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UHERO: Hawaii economy begins Trump Era in fine form
By UHERO @ 4:38 PM :: 4342 Views :: Economy
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...the economic outlook for Hawaiʻi, which remains favorable, despite tremendous uncertainty about future U.S. policy....
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Thursday, March 30, 2017 |
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UHERO: Electric Car Batteries Part of Plan to Go 100% Renewable
By UHERO @ 5:58 PM :: 4765 Views :: Energy
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...plan to achieve 100% renewable power on Oahu by 2045, subject to a 5% limit on biofuel....
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Tuesday, March 14, 2017 |
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What are the Financial Benefits of a University of Hawaii Education?
By UHERO @ 6:54 PM :: 4990 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education
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...the potential rate of return for associate’s degrees, bachelor’s degrees, and post-graduate degrees....
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Friday, March 10, 2017 |
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Is Hawaii's Hotel Room Tax Law Obsolete?
By UHERO @ 6:59 PM :: 5068 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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With tax collections falling behind expectations, State lawmakers are pressuring the tax department to increase effort to collect uncollected taxes from internet sales....
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Friday, March 3, 2017 |
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UHERO Fears Trumpmonster: “Many things could go wrong in Washington”
By UHERO @ 3:51 PM :: 4548 Views :: Economy
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"...Trump and the Republican Congress could disrupt health care, government employment, and public services...."
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Saturday, February 4, 2017 |
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UHERO: ‘Discriminatory’ HSTA Property Tax Plan hits Renters Hardest
By UHERO @ 12:22 AM :: 7678 Views :: Education K-12, Labor, Taxes
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...an owner of an investment property in Honolulu worth less than half a million dollars can expect to see his (her) combined City and State property tax bill double....
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Friday, February 3, 2017 |
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UHERO: The Exorbitant Cost of Collecting Honolulu’s Rail Surcharge Tax
By UHERO @ 1:43 AM :: 5086 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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Hawaii’s State Government has unnecessarily profited from the Honolulu rail project....
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Wednesday, February 1, 2017 |
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How Many Tourists is Too Many?
By UHERO @ 2:15 AM :: 4764 Views :: Tourism
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Tourists used to stay in designated tourism zones like Waikiki, but now they are everywhere....
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Sunday, January 15, 2017 |
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UHERO Adjusts Economic Forecast Upward Thanks to Trump
By UHERO @ 1:37 AM :: 4838 Views :: Economy
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...we have adjusted upward modestly our forecast for gross domestic product in 2017 to 2019....
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