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....

Fortunately, our lawmakers are allowing the three top rates to die a natural death at the end of this year with our highest marginal rate a more modest 8.25%....

One barrier to business is the Merchant Marine Jones Act....

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

" ... Lawmakers should allow non-American ships to carry goods between the island and the mainland .... "

No more than 48 hours after the U.S. Supreme Court redefined marriage for all 50 states, calls to revoke the tax-exempt status for churches began....

...city launches innovative new partnerships to provide cultural integration to COFA populations....

HC&S has been a member of the Maui community for over 140 years....

The Honolulu City Ethics Commission has just adopted a new policy that minimizes government transparency....

HAWSCT Again Clarifies When A Judgment Is "Final" And Appealable (They're Serious About This Finality Thing)....

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

“Yesterday we decided to break down what some would consider to be a campsite."

The Hawaiian Homes Commission is Saying “NO!” to Any US Dept. of Interior Rule Changes....

...Senate Minority Budget Director Paul Harleman about the current economic status of Hawaii and his concerns for the state's future financial stability....

Hawaii has just won last place in the latest ranking of business climates among the fifty states....

Act 169: "Requires certain state councils, boards and commissions to attend a legal training course administered by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs on native Hawaiian customs and rights."

...Judge says Maui County prohibition is pre-empted by federal and state law....

The U.S. House passed its FY 2016 transportation appropriations bill earlier this month, and the Senate bill was reported from the Senate Committee on Appropriations on June 25....

...Yesterday, Hawaii Governor Ige held a press conference to announce his intent to veto SB 265 which could enact Hawaii’s first sex trafficking law....

...electric vehicles generate a negative environmental benefit of about -0.5 cents per mile relative to comparable gasoline vehicles....

...At the end of 2014, customers were annually shifting an estimated $53 million, an increase of $15 million over the 2013 estimated total of $38 million....

...today's 5-4 decision in Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Comm'n....

While Kanahele got a role playing himself in the movie 'Aloha,' his business partner in two enterprises--Quin Ngoc Rudin--is in a federal penitentiary in California....

Ige has informed the Hawai‘i State Legislature of his intent to veto the following bills....

Hawaii’s new Environmental Court will have broad jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases affecting the environment....

Puerto Rico Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla announced the Commonwealth will not be able to pay its $72 billion outstanding debt....

The HART check register can be viewed here ....

In February 2012, a company known as the Native Hawaiian Holding Company Inc. (owned by Bumpy Kanahele) entered into a service contract with the ASG....

Comprised of four UH Community College campuses, Project Imua involves a joint faculty-student enterprise for designing, fabricating and testing payloads....

Approximately 85 percent of HIV cases in Hawaii occur in men....

Hawaii is a hot bed for anti-everything activism....

Special funds are pots of money....

According to Kauhane, 104 comments have been submitted to the DoI and 76 are in opposition to the proposed rules--a nearly 3-1 margin....

"...concealed carry licenses held by more than 11 million citizens across the country should now be valid in every state without question...."

...HHC passed a resolution urging the Interior Department extend its July 13, 2015, deadline for public comment....

"The roads belong to all the people of Hawai‘i and they will remain open. We will do whatever is necessary to ensure lawful access."

...96.8% of Hawaii Gays stay outside 'Marriage'....

When you have everything you need and never really had to earn it, it’s hard to fully appreciate it....

...Hawaii Supreme Court refined the test for determining when a municipal ordinance or charter provision is preempted by state law....

...it is instructive to note the ways in which marriage and “same-sex marriage” remain distinctly unequal in those states that already have extended recognition to same-sex couples....

...we must work to protect the freedom of speech, association and religion of those who continue to abide by the truth of marriage as union of man and woman....

Total Visitor Expenditures Increased 10.4 Percent to $1.2 Billion....

...Organizers and the Site Supervisor had a brief discussion after which time he stated the drivers were going to be  sent home and the delivery would be cancelled....

This is a conflict between OHA and the University of Hawaii over control of public land revenues....

The Hawaii exchange is collapsing....