House Bill 1240 will bypass the House Committee on Education and is referred solely to the House Committee on Finance....

Customers heard pitches that turned out to be false, deceptive, and misleading....

On August 22, Neil Abercrombie sent a letter to Washington, D.C., urging the Federal Communications Commission to approve Comcast’s controversial proposal to merge with Time Warner....

...Native American reservations are among the poorest communities in the United States. Here’s how the government keeps Native Americans in poverty....

...their projects “are not obligated to physically deliver electricity.”...

...‘In the business and trading world, people go to jail for such manipulations of data’….

...HB1307, introduced by Rep Kaniela Ing, raises income taxes on middle class families by 12%....

The Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives announced today that the latest addition of Maui and Kauai missionary materials to its Digital Collection....

The final three names as identified by the nominating committee will then be forwarded to the Governor....

...hearing in the Hawaii House Water & Land Committee, Monday Feb 9, 2015....

Longtime Hawaii mediator and facilitator Peter Adler will coordinate the effort....

...While advocacy organizations may feel this strategy is useful, their fight has taken a heavy toll on those of us living in the war zones they orchestrated....

...the early years of one of the most successful tourist destinations in the world, Hawaii, from about 1870 to 1940....

February 20 is the deadline to file....

...a short autobiographical piece highlighting some of Parks’ early experiences with armed self-defense....

...Establishes a wage reporting requirement. Provides penalties for violation. Prohibits retaliation against employees....

The Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) announced today that weekend vessel loading and unloading operations will be temporarily suspended this weekend....

...Ige today announced his nominees to the Hawaii Community Development Authority (HCDA)....

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 24, 2015 at the Kamiano Center on Fort Street Mall, at 6:30 P.M....

What is missing on the conservative side is leadership....

...the strengthening US dollar is driving down Hawaiian’s projected unit revenues by 3.5% to 6.5%....

Ige is nominating Leonard Hoshijo to be the Deputy Director in the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations....

The President’s budget has a proposed increase in the federal capital gains tax rate....

...we are already highly regulated and another level of regulation will be the last shovel of dirt on our graves....

Here are five Obama tax proposals that make no sense....

...In coming weeks, Hawaii’s Supreme Court is expected to hand down a decision....

...A single filer earning Hawaii's median income of $61,408 can expect to pay $4,043.88 in state income taxes, the highest dollar amount of any state, or 6.59% of his income....

Sole proprietorships, S corporations, limited liability companies (LLCs)....

...Hawaii has 49 different CON laws, 3rd highest in USA....

"...No one can predict when that will happen — five days, seven days, two weeks — but the ports will soon grind to a halt...."

...the state is frequently singled out as having one of the most burdensome tax systems in the nation....

...it is necessary to take bold action and embrace policies that improve the state’s business climate....

It seems to be the first waiver granted this session by House Speaker Joe Souki....

House Health and Judiciary Committee chairs are looking to move marijuana legislation swiftly through committees....

HB1252 Will Rescind The Native Hawaiian Roll & Fire The Roll Commissioners....

After spending two years to create a strategic path forward for Hawaiian Education....

Gib Arnold has released the following statement in response to the NCAA allegations against his program at UH Manoa....

Housing / homelessness is now the new hot button concern, increasing from 6% to 17% over the past year, overtaking Education as well as infrastructure, covering roads and mass transit....

Yet another black eye for the industry which funds anti-GMO activism....

...“possession, growing, processing, or transporting of not more than six marijuana plants...."

Ethics Commission exposes UH and HART in one report ....

...It often takes four years to obtain approvals from the Land Use Commission and another two more years to get county permits, Ching said....

If you’d like to express your opinion on this matter and get farmers back on track, please send the Hawaii County Council an email....

...This is what happens when anti-Superferry activists are allowed to operate seagoing catamarans....

...we now need a more responsible and accountable government that is going to actually complete this project the right way without corruption, massive additional cost over-runs and more taxes....

To allow the denial of requests on the grounds that they may be embarrassing, inconvenient, or unfair would permit the withholding of exactly the type of information and records that the law was designed to expose....

...reprogramming its Hawaiian microinverter fleet en masse, to help Hawaiian Electric....

...Jared Meyer of Economics21 at the Manhattan Institute says the 1920 law hurts the American economy, raises prices and harms the American shipping industry....

...21 key metrics, ranging from the median household income gap to the unemployment rate gap....