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....

And House Republican Caucus Legislative Package Bills....

Testimony will be heard on HB624 Tuesday morning at 8:30 am in room 326....

Wednesday, February 4, 2015 at 2:45pm at the Capitol Building, Room 016....

...liberal Democrats have taken a page from big tobacco companies.  But will they pay a multi-billion dollar settlement for the social ills created by their deception?....

...In fiscal year 2013-2014, Hawaii’s captive insurers wrote more than $2.85 billion in premium volume and generated more than $20 million in economic benefits to Hawaii....

... Cancer Center Business Model 'Flawed and Incomplete' ....

Three gun bills are up for a hearing in the Hawaii Senate Public Safety Committee, Tuesday Feb 3, 2015....

• Senate: Keystone XL Pipeline - Passage
• House: Liquefied Natural Gas Exports - Passage

Tom Lodge of the Hawaii Hunting Association is providing a list of hunting-related bills....

Will the trio of English, Keith-Agaran, and Shimabukuro be able to carry OHA's ball now that it has been dropped by Galuteria, Hee, and Solomon?

All state income tax systems in the United States, including ours, have a set of rules that are used to figure out which state has the primary right to tax income....

The report is being made available in accordance with Hawaiʻi’s public records law....

If the Legislature fails to grant MMMC permission to negotiate a partnership agreement with HPH and MMMC goes bankrupt, this interview will be the smoking gun....

“The bottom line of this bill is to start saving lives."

Voting has been compulsory in Australia since 1912 and appears to have reached about 94% voter turn-out in most elections....

...a new state-by-state comparison puts Hawaii as #1 in terms of the gap between the income residents earn and the cost of housing....

...Nebraskans pay one of the lowest rates for electricity in the nation and revenues are reinvested in infrastructure to ensure reliable and cheap service for years to come....

The deadline to apply is February 20, 2015....

...In nearly any other state, the inter-island cable project being considered in Hawaii would be subject to various federal rules and regulations designed to ensure consumers receive the benefits of robust competition....

...see the status and progress of planned renewable generation projects, including customer-sited rooftop solar as well as mid-sized and utility-scale wind and solar projects....

The defendant is the former executive director of the Hawaii Centers for Independent Living....