As of July 1,  Hawaii has a new, expanded production tax credit, which grants motion pictures, digital media and film productions, an income tax credit of 20-25 percent....

HLE for males at age 65 years varied from a low of 10.1 years in Mississippi to a high of 15.0 years in Hawaii....

Lowering health care costs is tougher than improving the quality of care, according to first-year results from a key pilot program ....

Fourteen months ago, President Barack Obama was a bigot. Now he is simply wrong. That's what you have to believe to agree with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's majority opinion ....

Perez has faced questions about his misleading congressional testimony about his involvement in a quid pro quo deal with the city of St. Paul, Minnesota....

...we’ve set a course to provide even more low-cost clean energy to our customers....

On July 10, 2013, Mayor Kirk Caldwell proposed ten property tax bills. All ten bills passed the first reading at the Honolulu City Council....

capital improvement grants to Maui and Hawaii Counties as well as two local nonprofit organizations....

No hospitals in Hawaii are nationally ranked. Three hospitals met standards for strong performance within the state....

Now that the odds that ObamaCare will crash and burn have ticked up a notch or two, the words “single payer” are being heard more frequently....

Obamacare was supposed to go so well, we were told....

There were no other modifications to the existing $44.7-million contract except for its duration....

The first phase ... includes route restoration to Aiea Heights, Halawa Heights and Waikele Elementary School attendance areas....

Businesses don't just look at their own costs when deciding where to set up shop. They also look at the costs for their employees....

...removal of 108,000 non-permanent military and their families is “unconstitutional” and “discriminatory”....

The effects of same-sex civil marriage in Canada—restrictions on free speech rights, parental rights in education, and autonomy rights of religious institutions....

Businesses should see this as a warning, as they are a convenient target for politicians ....

Eleven state House and Senate Democrats face complaints before the Democratic Party of Hawaii for proposing a constitutional amendment on traditional marriage last session....

"The unintended consequences of the ACA are severe...."

Grassroot Institute President Keli'i Akina interviews Hawaii Shippers Council President Michael Hansen....

Public Safety and Economic Development Committee hearing at Honolulu Hale, July 16th at 9:00 a.m....

For this list, we looked at six pieces of criteria....

“Any action that weakens the protectionism of the Jones Act will ultimately be to the long-term benefit of U.S. shipping.”

The court concluded that the Charter amendment adopted by the voters was, in reality, a prohibited zoning initiative....

DLNR will hold a public information meeting from 9 to 11 a.m. Thursday, July 18....

Recent Congressional Votes

• Senate: Student Loan Interest Rates – Cloture
• House: Energy-Water Appropriations – Passage
• House: Farm Bill – Passage

When Harry Reid gets frustrated, he threatens to change the Senate’s rules to get his way....

I was once a libertarian activist....

News of the very generous pay increases granted to police officers sent shock waves through the ranks of city and county officials across the state generating calls for “revenue enhancements” or tax increases....

If OHA were more skilled at 'due diligence' it would have spotted the million dollar loan IDG's New Zealand partner wrote off last year....

Written comments must be received by July 22, 2013 or postmarked by that date....

Hawaii’s federal judges say the proposed rail line passes too close to the Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Federal Building...

We always believed that the issues in this case merited resolution by the U.S. Supreme Court....

an exclusive luncheon fundraiser for the Hawaii Republican Assembly's campaign to 'conservatize' Hawaii....

...the impending total depletion of its trust fund....

Schatz brought on many of the national consultants who helped Hirono win her seat last November....

Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys say clerks need to enforce law, not bound by district court injunction....

...some jurisdictions did not accurately define compact migrants, account for federal funding that supplemented local expenditures, or include revenue received from compact migrants....

Obama backed the administration of Mohamed Morsi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, who was just ousted by the protesters and the military....

Judge Susan Oki Mollway's letter to HART and federal transit officials....

This is an excellent summary of our appeal and why the District Court's decision was in error....

Full text of today's ruling....

...for causing or permitting visible fugitive dust to become airborne....