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... for at least seven years the parcel has been used rent-free by Pacific Biodiesel ....

... Hawaii ranked dead last for the amount of square footage $300,000 can buy -- 443 square feet ....

... the remaining gun control bills have now crossed over between the House and Senate ....

... Every Hawaii-based company that ships its goods outside of the state has come up against the Jones Act ....

... Despite promising “every dollar” would go to fire relief, the organization spent only about 34 percent of funds raised ....

... a debt burden of $2.25 billion, translating to $17,400 per taxpayer ....

... former Hawaii residents are finding it easier to buy homes—especially in Washington, where a whopping 56% of movers from Hawaii achieve homeownership shortly after relocating ....

... Civil forfeiture allows the government of Hawaii to take your property and sell it for profit without proving you did anything wrong ....

... Hawaii ranks 44th ....

... The bureau was started in 2010 during the Obama administration ....

... the Trump administration is reintroducing a 10% tariff on all imports from China ....

"... Espionage threats increased as more than 176,000 Chinese illegally entered U.S. under Biden ...."

... This bill allows children to be legally stolen from the Mainland, and from American Samoa, Guam and other US territories where juvenile sex-change is not legal ....

... Honolulu inflation is up 1% in just the last two months ....

... “Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs” ....

... Set for a February 11, 2025, hearing before Senate HHS/CPN committees, SB1150 grants a de-facto immunity and asylum in Hawaii for any kidnapper who claims to be helping a child receive so-called ‘gender-affirming’ treatments ....

... 'Lahaina Strong' Leaders Register Again as 'Our Hawaii' Lobbyists and Continue the Grift Amid Eroding Community Support ....

... government price controls come with negative consequences ....

... Honolulu, with its 10.25 percent tax rate and an average tourism tax of $51.70 per night, came out on top ....

... 82% utilization rate among the 139 emergency, transitional and permanent housing programs on Hawaii ....

... Ken Lawson uses images of UH administrators to illustrate hypothetical shooting ....

... QI owns 'Down to Earth' -- subsidiaries were banned in Sri Lanka, Nepal and Rwanda and prosecuted in India ....

... California Gov. Gavin Newsom is looking to Hawaii for advice on how to rebuild after wildfires ....

... a remarkable dissent that should echo through the halls of American jurisprudence ....

... missing FBI background check and ethics disclosure forms ....

... A thicket of red tape has made the island's rebuilding efforts painfully slow ....

... gas prices, rush-hour traffic, road quality ....

... Choosing the right state for a business is crucial to its success ....

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... Without those protections, women’s sports will eventually be destroyed said Sia Li'iLi'i, a product of Halawa, Hawai'i. ...

... New Mexico is #1 ....

... modeled on Workers Comp .... 

... The U.S. Senate has voted 84-9 to begin debate on the Laken Riley Act.  Schatz and Hirono are among the nine .... 

... Since late 2019, Par Pacific's executives and PAC have collectively wired state Democrats a total of nearly $34,000 ....

... Walmart reportedly is rolling back its diversity, equity and inclusion policies to focus on being more "belonging." ....

... there were 1,970 abortions reported in Hawaii in 2022, a decrease of 11% from 2021 ....

... The adventures of a false diplomat in Ibiza exposed: luxury vehicles, private clubs, cryptocurrency bank and other fantasies ....

... the woman was starting to choke and motioned for the doctor to stop — but he continued ....

... the defendants may have a valid argument in favor of federal law since Honolulu is suing over conduct taking place outside of Hawaii’s borders ....

... lawsuits challenging the Jones Act have failed to seize upon an important piece of the Constitution ....

... The nonprofit analyzed every gun law in every state ....

... It mostly comes down to one thing: housing ....

... Hawaii has the lowest average disposable income, $5,929 per working resident ....

"... iconoclastic inaccuracies and thought-terminating clichés ...."

... not for the faint of heart ....

... the coalition plans to take concrete action by working together to leverage and enforce each state’s existing civil liability and consumer protection laws ....

... reforms implemented in 2019 have not reduced pretrial incarceration ....

... Hawaii has effectively declared that the Second Amendment, as interpreted in Bruen, does not apply within its borders ....

... after over 5-hours public testimony of which the majority opposed Bill 46 ....

“...Since 2009, Communist Chinese passport holders have been permitted to sidestep the U.S.. visa requirements to enter the northern Mariana islands through categorical parole....”