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Entries for 'Grassroot Institute'
Saturday, May 24, 2025 |
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VIDEO: Honolulu Rail--We're not going to do THAT Again
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:20 PM :: 523 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Rail
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... promises are not guarantees, and that big government projects tend to come with unexpected costs and delays ....
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Saturday, May 24, 2025 |
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VIDEO: Grassroot legislative wrap-up tour
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:00 PM :: 344 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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... the defeat of nearly all attempts to add more taxes and the passing of five Grassroot model bills and other Grassroot-supported measures ....
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Friday, May 23, 2025 |
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Grassroot Council Testimony: Cutting Red Tape to Build Housing
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:55 PM :: 355 Views :: Hawaii County , Kauai County, Maui County, Development, Small Business
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... testimony before Hawai‘i, Honolulu, Kaua‘i and Maui county councils or planning commissions ....
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Friday, May 23, 2025 |
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Bill 2591 Changes Kauai Zoning to Allow Farmers' Markets
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:49 PM :: 383 Views :: Kauai County, Agriculture, Small Business
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... Bill 2951, was proposed in response to a January zoning complaint that shut down the popular Princeville Farmers and Artists Market ....
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Friday, May 23, 2025 |
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Audit: How to Speed up Building Permits
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:43 PM :: 457 Views :: Hawaii County , Development
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... a new report from the county’s Office of the County Auditor suggests more than two dozen ways to help speed up the process ....
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Friday, May 23, 2025 |
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Hawaii: Where Clean Energy Projects Go to Die
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:31 PM :: 795 Views :: Energy, Development, Land Use
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... Over the past five years, 15 energy projects in the state have been cancelled — more than half of the power projects being considered ....
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Tuesday, May 13, 2025 |
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Legislature Delivers Progress for Housing
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:35 PM :: 556 Views :: Maui County, Development, Taxes
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“I want him to sign the historic review bills, the impact fee bill, the permit bill.”
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Friday, May 2, 2025 |
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Grassroot hails passage of bills aimed at boosting housing supply, helping Lahaina
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:30 AM :: 809 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... State legislators also OK'd bills that will increase healthcare access and reform civil asset forfeiture, pending approval by the governor ....
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Friday, April 25, 2025 |
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Matson Moves to Intervene in Jones Act Lawsuit
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:21 PM :: 1835 Views :: Jones Act
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... A recently filed lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Jones Act has not surprisingly caught the eye of Hawaii-based shipping giant Matson, which filed a motion on April 11 to intervene in the case ....
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Sunday, April 20, 2025 |
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Grassroot Wrap-up: How Legislature handled housing, taxes, rebuilding Lahaina and more
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:20 PM :: 857 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... Registration open for Grassroot’s legislative wrap-up luncheons ....
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Saturday, April 19, 2025 |
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Debating Jones Act defenders is like playing whack-a-mole
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:16 PM :: 1096 Views :: Jones Act
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... No matter how many times the law’s supposed benefits are debunked, the same old arguments pop up again and again ....
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Sunday, April 13, 2025 |
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Grassroot 'legislative wrap-up' tour starts May 13
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:16 PM :: 1029 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... dates, times and locations ....
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Friday, April 11, 2025 |
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Kauai, Maui zoning changes would help farmers, food trucks
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:23 PM :: 1104 Views :: Kauai County, Maui County, Agriculture, Small Business
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... Lawmakers on Kaua‘i and Maui are considering bills that would increase income opportunities for farmers and other small businesses ....
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Tuesday, April 8, 2025 |
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Testimony: Grassroot Bills on the Move
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:59 PM :: 1483 Views :: Honolulu County, Kauai County, Hawaii State Government
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... state and county testimonies the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii submitted for consideration by the respective lawmakers in late March and early April 2025 ....
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Tuesday, April 8, 2025 |
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10 reasons Lahaina rebuilding has been so depressingly slow
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:52 PM :: 1219 Views :: Maui County, Development
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... only 341 permits to rebuild have been issued as of the end of March 2025, and only eight homes have been completed ....
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Sunday, March 30, 2025 |
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Grassroot Institute Testifies on Dozens of Bills
By Grassroot Institute @ 7:31 PM :: 911 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... dozens of bills still on the move ....
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Sunday, March 30, 2025 |
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VIDEO: Progress in reducing housing regulations
By Grassroot Institute @ 7:17 PM :: 880 Views :: Development
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... conversation between Ted Kefalas, the Grassroot Institute director of strategic campaigns, and state Rep. Lauren Matsumoto on the March 11 episode of “The Right Side” radio show ....
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Monday, March 17, 2025 |
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Lahaina Housing: ‘Yes in God’s Backyard’
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:44 AM :: 970 Views :: Maui County, Development, Religion
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... members of the Pukalani Community Church of the Nazarene spent eight months building four homes for residents displaced by Maui’s August 2023 wildfires ....
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Sunday, March 16, 2025 |
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Grassroot Bills Alive After Crossover
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:35 PM :: 902 Views :: Development, Hawaii State Government, Small Business, Taxes
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... March 6, marked the halfway point of the Hawaii's 2025 legislative session, which is when the bills that are still alive cross over from the House chamber to the Senate and vice versa ....
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Thursday, March 13, 2025 |
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STR advocates assess landscape in wake of law unleashing counties
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:23 PM :: 1244 Views :: Small Business, Tourism
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... is the new law — Act 17, based on SB2919 — legally sound? ....
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Thursday, March 13, 2025 |
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Grassroot: Highs and Lows of 2025 legislative session at halfway point
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:48 PM :: 819 Views :: Development, Hawaii State Government, Small Business, Taxes
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... The Hawaii Legislature has reached its halfway point and many promising bills in the areas of housing, taxation and economic freedom are still alive ....
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Friday, March 7, 2025 |
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“It’s becoming harder and harder for the working person who doesn’t own a home yet just to rent a place to live”
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:16 PM :: 2363 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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“...Hawaii doesn’t have a scarcity of land. We build housing and urban development on only 5% of the land mass....”
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Sunday, March 2, 2025 |
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Grassroot Institute Legislative Week in Review
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:44 PM :: 948 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Jones Act, Taxes
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... 50 testimonies in the past two weeks ....
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Wednesday, February 26, 2025 |
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Grassroot: State's school impact fees earn 'F'
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:27 PM :: 899 Views :: Education K-12, Development, Taxes
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... The report says the fees are not needed, are likely unconstitutional, have never been spent, and are driving up Hawaii housing costs ....
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Saturday, February 15, 2025 |
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LIST: Dozens of Bills That Could Affect Cost of Living
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:58 PM :: 1476 Views :: Development, Health Care, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... measures related to housing, healthcare, taxes and government accountability ....
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Saturday, February 15, 2025 |
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Policies that could help turn the tide of people leaving Hawaii
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:44 PM :: 1393 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use
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... Hawaii’s high housing costs are due mostly to Hawaii’s excessively strict land-use and zoning regulations, as well as its long permitting wait times ....
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Saturday, February 15, 2025 |
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California wildfire recovery lessons from Lahaina
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:32 PM :: 984 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use
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“...Lessons from Maui as LA Begins to Rebuild....”
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Friday, February 14, 2025 |
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Report urges changes to cut review delays at State Historic Preservation Division
By Grassroot Institute @ 7:00 PM :: 862 Views :: Development
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... Updating the definition of “historic property” would speed up permitting for homebuilding while protecting Hawaii’s history ....
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Friday, February 14, 2025 |
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18 Months Later: Maui Council Begins to Loosen Rebuild Restrictions
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:00 PM :: 981 Views :: Maui County, Development
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... Maui County Council considering multiple housing-related bills, including one aimed specifically at making it easier for older buildings to be rebuilt after the 2023 wildfires ....
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Friday, February 14, 2025 |
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Frustrations, ironies of ‘Princeville Market Saga’
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:00 PM :: 1229 Views :: Kauai County, Agriculture, Small Business
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...zoning complaints led to the market’s closure in January, and now, other farmers markets across the county face a similar fate unless the Kauai County Council takes action....
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Saturday, February 8, 2025 |
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‘Enough is enough’ says Case regarding Jones Act and Hawaii
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:45 AM :: 1449 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Jones Act
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... Case announced he was reintroducing three bills aimed at alleviating Hawaii of the burdens of the century-old maritime law ....
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Wednesday, February 5, 2025 |
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Do you think the city spends your money responsibly?
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:30 PM :: 1035 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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... here's how the City and County of Honolulu spends your money ....
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Sunday, February 2, 2025 |
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Legislature: Grassroot Institute sifts through onslaught of bills
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:51 PM :: 883 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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... many of the usual losers are back, mainly the proposals to increase taxes or impose new so-called fees ....
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Sunday, February 2, 2025 |
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Bill 105: Let Lahaina Rebuild as it Was
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:34 PM :: 1167 Views :: Maui County, Development, Religion
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"... Bill 105, which would waive for five years the nonconformity rule for churches, temples and anyone else seeking to rebuild in the wake of the Lahaina fires...."
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Sunday, January 26, 2025 |
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Hawaii taxpayers could benefit from new IRS Direct File system
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:41 AM :: 929 Views :: Small Business, Tax Credits, Taxes
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... Tax season is just around the corner, and there’s a good chance that many of the people reading this will be paying someone else to help file their taxes online ....
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Sunday, January 19, 2025 |
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Housing Affordability: Regulations or Spending?
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:21 PM :: 859 Views :: Development, Cost of Living
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... “it’s much easier to spend money than it is to deal with regulations, and that’s what’s going on here.” ...
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Saturday, January 18, 2025 |
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Spending restraint tagged as best way to protect 2024 state tax cuts
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:00 AM :: 745 Views :: Taxes
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... employees should already be seeing a bump in their paychecks thanks to the tax cuts ....
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Saturday, January 18, 2025 |
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Trump should bypass support for the protectionist Jones Act
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:41 AM :: 996 Views :: Jones Act
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... trying to roll back policies that have damaged the U.S. economy ....
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Sunday, January 12, 2025 |
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Debate: Jones Act Reform a Winning Topic
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:00 AM :: 892 Views :: Jones Act
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... this is a strange gift to receive ....
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Sunday, December 22, 2024 |
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Deferral of 'empty homes' tax leads list of recent good news
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:31 AM :: 1188 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Taxes
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... The Honolulu City Council shelved Bill 46 while also approving bills that will actually be effective at facilitating more housing ....
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Sunday, December 22, 2024 |
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Does Jones Act really support jobs?
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:01 AM :: 1086 Views :: Jones Act
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... U.S. maritime jobs disappearing despite protectionist Jones Act ....
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Saturday, December 7, 2024 |
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Why Hawaii's housing costs are among the highest in the nation
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:24 PM :: 1698 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... State land use laws significantly restrict urban development, meaning neighborhoods or condos can only make up about 5 percent of the state ....
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Thursday, December 5, 2024 |
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New report challenges common claim that 'Jones Act jobs' have been increasing
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:52 PM :: 1100 Views :: Jones Act
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... Jobs in America’s waterborne transportation and related sectors have actually declined in recent decades, federal statistics show ....
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Tuesday, December 3, 2024 |
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How to make Hawaii more livable
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:41 AM :: 1286 Views :: Land Use, Cost of Living
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... we only build in Hawaii on 5% of the land mass — 95% is agriculture or preservation land ....
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Sunday, December 1, 2024 |
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ALERT: Stop the misguided "empty homes" tax proposal
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:25 AM :: 1129 Views :: Honolulu County, Taxes
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... The Honolulu City Council is considering Bill 46, which would create a tax on all so-called empty homes ....
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Sunday, November 24, 2024 |
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Permit delays blamed for pervasive ‘pain and regulatory heartache’
By Grassroot Institute @ 8:33 PM :: 1416 Views :: Development
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... the widespread desire for change, “not only of people who want to get their permits approved, but also the people who are approving the permits.” ....
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Sunday, November 17, 2024 |
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Grassroot-backed proposals make headway at Hawaii's county councils
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:37 PM :: 1490 Views :: Hawaii County , Maui County, Development
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... testimonies Grassroot submitted to Hawaii's county councils during the past two weeks ....
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Sunday, November 17, 2024 |
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Bill 212 could speed up permitting process on Hawaii Island
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:17 PM :: 1551 Views :: Hawaii County , Development, Small Business
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... Bill 212 would increase the permit threshold for maintenance projects to $25,000 ....
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Monday, November 11, 2024 |
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Backyard cottages one way to meet Maui housing needs
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:14 AM :: 1482 Views :: Maui County, Development
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... let homeowners build more backyard cottages ....
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