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Our rent vs. buy metric is especially tight for young prospective buyers....

A federal jury on Tuesday found the state of Hawaii and the Hawaii Department of Transportation's airports division violated a former employee's civil rights....

Smugness and happy talk about sustainability aren’t working anymore....

...require Nai Aupuni to get a court’s official clearance under the Federal Voting Rights Act before they take any further steps....

The push for a tribe has always been the agenda of an entrenched elite....

Plaintiffs outline possible responses to the Nai Aupuni Oprah Aha....

Star-Advertiser is calling for new laws when existing laws aren’t enforced by the state....

Honolulu residents Roxayne Spruance and Leimomi Dierks brought the suit on Dec. 8 against the United States Soccer Federation, Stadium Authority of the state of Hawaii ....

'Natural' supplement makers are a key funding source for the anti-GMO movement....

...spending per privately insured beneficiary in the highest spending HRR (Napa, CA) was $5,515.95, more than three times as high as spending in the lowest spending HRR (Honolulu, HI), which spent $1,707.38 per person....

With more than half of all adults in the U.S. being single....

Hawaii’s tax on Internet access, as well as those of six other states and their localities, will end by mid-year of 2020 if a congressional plan to permanently ban taxes on Internet access makes its way to the president’s desk....

...The number of homeless residents per capita is highest in Honolulu....

In July, 2015, chaos erupts at the progressive NetRoots Nation conference in Phoenix, Arizona....

Medicare will lower all its payments to the penalized hospitals by 1 percent over the course of the federal fiscal year, which runs through September 2016....

...nearly a third of all annual giving taking place in December....

The FEC claims authority over regulating press coverage of elections....

To make matters worse, both of the OHA Employees have also run for a seat in past OHA Board of Trustees elections....

Memo to candidates for Congress next year:  If you are seeking signatures for your nominating petition, you might start in the DOE director's office....

...the vote on this emergency injunction application was 5-4, with Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan dissenting....

TASC’s efforts in defense of NEM in Hawaii have incurred a similar response....

In the wake of a violent tragedy, Planned Parenthood has redoubled its efforts to silence its critics....

...Gabbard suggested that Obama’s decision to place American fighter jets equipped “to target Russian planes” on the border between Turkey and Syria, and his stated opposition to Russian-backed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, could lead the U.S. into a nuclear war....

The 9th Circuit held the ban satisfied exacting scrutiny....

The Court’s docket shows the briefing on the emergency application is complete, but Justice Kennedy’s order contemplates a further order....

Gabbard criticized Ms. Wasserman Schultz, the top officer, last month for leaving her and other party officials out of the discussions about the Democratic presidential debates....

The three most open states are Hawaii, New Hampshire, and Oregon, all of which provide an online searchable database for consumers....

US Rep Tulsi Gabbard has pointed out again and again and again the President Obama is materially aiding Islamist Terrorists....

It’s like a bad Monty Python sketch....

...Ige's office has been flooded with over 500 phone calls and about 300 emails from constituents....

True to Form: Enviros win 90% in Hawaii Supreme Court....

'Screening': Syria is 10% Christian, 'Refugees' are 2% Christian....

Deirdre Marie-Iha, a lawyer from the Hawaii Attorney General's Office, asks for help defending against a free speech case....

Hawaii Ranks 44th with a 6.3% Tax Rate....

...it will likely move public sentiments substantially in one direction and Establishment policies in quite the opposite....

...Hawaii only granted permits to U.S. citizens until a federal judge in Honolulu last year ruled that's unconstitutional.  The department is trying to get around that ruling....

...the Illinois veterans are allowed to continue voting in Illinois by absentee ballot ... if they reside in the Northern Mariana Islands (“NMI”),  American Samoa, or in a foreign country, but not if they reside in Guam, Puerto Rico, or the U.S. Virgin Islands....

Raising a family in the Aloha State comes at a high price....

"The ratio of homeless veterans to the veteran population is 28 times higher in San Francisco than in Virginia Beach, Va"

instead of getting credited for the full retail rate for the energy they produce, customers will be credited for a fixed rate between 15 cents and 28 cents per kilowatt-hour, depending on the island....

Lobbyists thrive in land of sunshine....

The map shows the average amount of EITC taken per tax return in every county in America....

Our data set ranges from the percentage of adults and children who are overweight and obese to the sugary-beverage consumption among adolescents....

WalletHub’s analysts compared 1,268 U.S. cities....

If you’re Social Justice Warrior, you’re a liar....

Hawaii has a low business survival rate, with only slightly more businesses created in 2013 than failed that year....

...mass shootings in this country are more a reflection of problems identifying and treating people with mental health problems....

PUC Chairman Randy Iwase seems confident that the ruling will stand....