Entries for 'Selected News Articles'

...and this doesn't include the General Excise Tax....

...the Governor of American Samoa candidly questions whether the ruling applies in that U.S. territory....

...Guam refused to issue tax overpayment refunds "often for several years at a time," instead using the money to fund the government....

... Caldwell 'Running from Controversy', 'Wasn't Around' During Crisis, 'Not the First Time' ....

Excepting heavily incentivized research and development (R&D) operations, mature firms generally experience above-average tax costs in Hawaii....

The adjusted cost of living for retired persons in Honolulu is twice as high as it is in Laredo, Texas....

...Visualize Chris Butler, a heartbeat away from the Presidency....

There were southern politicians who were concerned about adding the territory’s multiethnic population to the Union....

... Aug. 26 is Women’s Equality Day ....

100 Kauai voters participated ....

The Hawaii defendants are members of the Campaign Spending Commission....

Our data set ranges from the percentage of adults aged 25 and older with a bachelor’s degree or higher to the attainment gap between women and men....

With zero experience in getting families off the street....

Students in Hawaii will be subject to sex-ed classes with an emphasis on pregnancy prevention rather than abstinence, whether they or their parents like it or not....

...straight out of a Michael Bloomberg gun-ban training manual....

According to a recent PEW survey, 25 percent of people in the last year have change their opinion to a favorable view of vaccines....

If the Gov’s team wants to learn why Hawaii should try Housing First, they can start with Google and actually learn a lot....

Hawaii has the lowest effective rate at 0.28%....

...states could easily offer more data to their citizens....

A joint resolution of Congress made Hawaii a U.S. territory on August 12, 1898...

August is Child Support Awareness Month ....

In Hawaii, there were 995 drunk driving episodes yearly per 1,000 people....

The Hawaii Public Utilities Commission has set formal evidentiary hearings and public listening sessions on NextEra Energy Inc.’s $4.3 billion acquisition of Hawaiian Electric Co., according to public documents....

...but 2nd highest student debt as a percentage of income adjusted by cost of living ....

...attractiveness of the largest U.S. cities in terms of livability, the quality of their health and education systems, economic growth and tax rates....

Sex trafficking became a prosecutor’s priority when I returned to office in 2010.    That year, exactly one pimp was arrested, and in 2011 the respected Polaris Project ranked Hawaii among the worst states for anti-sex trafficking efforts....

...Meanwhile -- 3,500 astronomers converging on Waikiki....

...it was possible that plaintiffs could establish standing if they amended their complaint, any amendment would be futile because plaintiffs’ Commerce Clause challenge to the Jones Act would fail on the merits....

...an economic study for commissioned by the state recommends Hawaii raise taxes on gasoline by $.85 per gallon....

...Conflict of interest....

For singles in Honolulu, the highest lifestyle-related costs are clothing and housing....

The certified list is shorter because it omits the names of people whose Hawaiian ancestry has not yet been verified....

Hawaii 45.1 cents per gallon, plus federal 18.4 excise tax, plus GE Tax....

Hawaii is among the states with the lowest rates in the country of foster children who were re-abused within six months of being reunited with their families....

...and Detroit ranks 14th....

...Kaiser policy said it would cover 80 percent of the cost of medically necessary emergency transportation services, Kaiser denied most of it, leaving him with a $36,000 balance due....

“On Dec. 1, Hawaiian sovereignty activists lowered the American flag on the single pole at the front entrance to the UH-Hilo campus and hoisted the Hawaii state flag that previously flew beneath."

...the deeper you dig, the more fraud you find in the case against GMOs....

...the threat of losing NEM has led some in the PV industry down the path of hyperbole, exaggeration and self-interested fear-mongering....

The average monthly consumption of electricity per housing unit in Louisiana is triple that in Hawaii....

Hawaii taxes many products multiple times and, by one estimate, ultimately taxes 99.21 percent of the state's personal income....

Only in Washington DC is $100 more worthless....

Today’s map shows how spirit excise taxes in your state compare....

Hawaii ranks 40th among US states for its fiscal health, based on its fiscal solvency in five separate categories....

Across all metro areas, Urban Honolulu, Hawaii has the highest cost of living, while Danville, Illinois is the least expensive place to live in the country....

Why? Cost of living is the main issue....

If California is America’s future, then that future is overrun with poverty....

Study also finds that alcohol consumption is a salient predictor of marijuana use....

For example, the Aina Koa Pono project....