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Saturday, November 12, 2022 |
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Bipartisan O‘ahu
By Selected News Articles @ 9:56 PM :: 2148 Views :: Republican Party
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... for the first time in years Republicans in Hawai’i gained seats in the Hawai’i State Legislature ....
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Saturday, November 12, 2022 |
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Red Flags 2: Fraud, Waste, and Abuse at OHA
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:00 PM :: 4481 Views :: Akaka Bill, Ethics, OHA
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... The PM report found 22 of the 38 questionable transactions with evidence of fraud, waste and abuse ... OHA noted matters requiring criminal prosecution will be turned over to the relevant authorities for appropriate action ....
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Saturday, November 12, 2022 |
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DLNR Imposes $1M Fine for Coral Damage
By News Release @ 3:33 PM :: 1853 Views :: Environment
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... the barge’s anchors and cables broke or damaged over 15,000 corals and 140-square yards of live rock ....
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Thursday, November 10, 2022 |
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General Election Results--Fourth Read and Recount Results
By Andrew Walden @ 9:00 PM :: 6678 Views :: Office of Elections
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... Republicans win four new House seats and a new Senate seat ....
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Thursday, November 10, 2022 |
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Why is there a doctor shortage in Hawaii?
By Grassroot Institute @ 8:55 PM :: 3409 Views :: Health Care, Small Business, Taxes
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... The state is short more than 1,000 doctors, which means some patients cannot get care, and the ones who do have to wait a long time. ...
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Thursday, November 10, 2022 |
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Respiratory Syncytial Virus and influenza are increasing in Hawaii
By News Release @ 8:20 PM :: 2414 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, COVID-19
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... RSV is a common respiratory virus that usually causes mild, cold-like symptoms ....
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Thursday, November 10, 2022 |
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Oahu’s short-term rental ban walking on thin ice
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:32 AM :: 3197 Views :: Honolulu County, Small Business, Tourism
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... A preliminary injunction against Oahu’s ban on short-term rentals of fewer than 90 days is a bad sign for the City & County of Honolulu ....
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Thursday, November 10, 2022 |
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How Sandboxes Could Help Hawaii Prosper
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:20 AM :: 1677 Views :: Small Business
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... Hawaii is one of the most difficult states in which to start a business ....
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Wednesday, November 9, 2022 |
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Tuesday, November 8, 2022 |
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75% of Hawaii Rural Hospitals at Risk of Closing
By News Release @ 7:41 PM :: 3008 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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... Hawaii has the highest percentage of at-risk rural hospitals in USA ...
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Tuesday, November 8, 2022 |
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Too Late to Mail Ballots -- Cast in person at Voter Service Centers or Drop Boxes
By News Release @ 12:01 AM :: 4790 Views :: Office of Elections
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... Voters can still drop their ballots off in person at ballot drop boxes or vote in person at voter service centers ....
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Monday, November 7, 2022 |
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'By-right' approvals could lower cost of housing
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:42 AM :: 2204 Views :: Maui County, Development, Cost of Living
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... by-right approval for affordable housing projects would streamline the process for homebuilders and potentially yield big savings ....
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Monday, November 7, 2022 |
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Hawaii County could use ‘Konno’ exceptions to address permit backlog
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:26 AM :: 2281 Views :: Hawaii County , Development, Labor
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... “Konno” has a provision that has an exemption for special or unique services that are essential to the public and cannot be filled by civil servants ....
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Sunday, November 6, 2022 |
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Notice of Anticipated Judicial Vacancy – District Judge, District Court of the First Circuit
By News Release @ 8:47 PM :: 1558 Views :: Judiciary
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... The Chief Justice has the discretion to assign a district judge/district family judge to either the District Court or Family Court ....
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Sunday, November 6, 2022 |
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The Empty Homes Tax
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 2711 Views :: Development, Taxes, Tourism
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... The idea seems to be gaining steam now since our federal court has struck down Honolulu’s recent ordinance clamping down on transient vacation rentals ....
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Sunday, November 6, 2022 |
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How to win the housing permitting game
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 1:28 AM :: 2126 Views :: Honolulu County, Development
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... delays, missing emails and bureaucratic difficulties ....
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Saturday, November 5, 2022 |
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Hawaii Supreme Court: Hawaii MDs Eligible for Enhanced Medicaid Payments
By Andrew Walden @ 9:00 PM :: 2919 Views :: Hawaii County , Health Care
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... the Hawaii Department of Human Services spent seven years litigating against an honest doctor in Hilo. They lost ....
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Saturday, November 5, 2022 |
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Who Wants to be an ICA Judge? Applicants made public for first time
By News Release @ 1:45 PM :: 2223 Views :: Ethics, Judiciary
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... Until March 16, 2022, the Judicial Selection Commission Rules had prohibited the Judicial Selection Commission from sharing the names of applicants applying for judicial positions ....
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Saturday, November 5, 2022 |
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Unemployment Trust Fund Grows to $205M
By News Release @ 3:58 AM :: 2700 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Small Business, Taxes
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... Hawaii’s unemployment insurance (UI) program is funded exclusively by employers via state and federal payroll taxes on wages ....
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Saturday, November 5, 2022 |
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Fuel Completely Removed From Red Hill Pipes
By Selected News Articles @ 12:48 AM :: 2018 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military
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... The Joint Task Force – Red Hill is currently in the third phase of the original defueling plan, which involves contracting out infrastructure repairs ....
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Friday, November 4, 2022 |
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Former Maui Police Officer Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison for Attempted Child Enticement
By News Release @ 7:54 PM :: 2330 Views :: Maui County, Ethics, Police
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... In addition to his sentence, Saffeels must also register as a sex offender ....
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Friday, November 4, 2022 |
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City to begin installation of Active Transportation Monitoring devices across Oʻahu
By News Release @ 5:26 PM :: 1739 Views :: Honolulu County
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... These ATM devices will monitor and count the number of pedestrians and bicyclists who pass over the sensors ....
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Thursday, November 3, 2022 |
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EBay Employees Get Prison for 'Aggressive Cyberstalking'
By News Release @ 11:46 PM :: 1337 Views :: First Amendment, Pierre Omidyar
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... deliveries to the victims’ home, including a preserved fetal pig, a bloody pig Halloween mask, a funeral wreath, a book on surviving the loss of a spouse, and pornography addressed to the victims but delivered to their neighbor’s homes ....
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Thursday, November 3, 2022 |
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DEA Intercepts 9 lbs of Heroin and Meth Heading for HOPE Probationer
By News Release @ 5:04 AM :: 2475 Views :: Justice Reinvestment, Drugs
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... Thaxton pled down 2009 pimping and child rape charges to felony assault then came before Judge Steven Alm on HOPE violations 13 times between 2010 and 2015 ....
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Wednesday, November 2, 2022 |
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Community health workers don’t need licensing, auditor says; is Legislature listening?
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:17 PM :: 2109 Views :: Health Care, Small Business
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... A proposed certification scheme for community health workers would burden the workers and raise prices for everyone, according to a new report by Hawaii Office of the State Auditor ....
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Wednesday, November 2, 2022 |
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Hawaii COVID Spending: $1M for Sea Urchins
By News Release @ 9:58 PM :: 2475 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, COVID-19
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... Hawaii spent $1 million on a sea urchin hatchery and $300,000 for an engineering assessment of the now-condemned Aloha Stadium. …
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Wednesday, November 2, 2022 |
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Aiona: DLNR Holomua Marine Initiative 'Copying California'
By Lt Gov Duke Aiona @ 9:15 PM :: 2153 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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... more transparency is required to ensure plans account for our local culture, and not simply copying a California plan for Hawaiʻi use ....
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Wednesday, November 2, 2022 |
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Wednesday, November 2, 2022 |
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Wednesday, November 2, 2022 |
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Housing for Hawaii's Future
By Samuel Wilder King II @ 5:38 PM :: 2011 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... Wednesday from 3:30pm to 5:00pm on Zoom, a panel discussion on housing in Hawaii with three Hawaii housing legends ....
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Tuesday, November 1, 2022 |
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Navy Proposing Red Hill Closure Plan That Allows For Potential Reuse of Tanks
By Selected News Articles @ 10:24 PM :: 1401 Views
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... The Navy is looking to potentially reuse the tanks ....
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Tuesday, November 1, 2022 |
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Protecting OHA from Corruption
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 9:25 PM :: 2708 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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“...Powerful members of our community engaged in wrongdoing…various official watchdogs engage in willful blindness....”
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Tuesday, November 1, 2022 |
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Bill 56: New Legislation to Address Permitting Problems at DPP
By News Release @ 5:24 AM :: 2631 Views :: Honolulu County, Development
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... Bill 56 Would Eliminate Lengthy Permit Requirements for Home Repairs ....
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Monday, October 31, 2022 |
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Short-term rental ban deserves short life
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 6:57 PM :: 2182 Views :: Honolulu County, Small Business, Tourism
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... Formerly known as Bill 41, the new law was supposed to go into effect this week, but a federal judge temporarily blocked it until its provisions can be hashed out in court ....
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Sunday, October 30, 2022 |
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“Dedicated Funding Source”? Nah
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1866 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... the “dedication” of the funding source is often porous ....
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Sunday, October 30, 2022 |
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Public meetings for proposed tuition increase in 2025, 2026
By News Release @ 3:22 AM :: 2002 Views :: Higher Education, Cost of Living
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... a 2% increase in resident tuition rates at the three UH universities in AY 2025–26 and a 2% increase in AY 2026–27 ....
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Sunday, October 30, 2022 |
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Supply-side constraints to expanding Hawaii residential housing
By UHERO @ 3:10 AM :: 2233 Views :: Development, Land Use
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... UHERO Executive Director Carl Bonham participated in a panel on supply-side constraints to expanding residential housing at the Hawaii Economic Association’s 2022 Annual Conference ....
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Saturday, October 29, 2022 |
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JSC Announces Opening for Second Supreme Court Justice
By News Release @ 4:16 PM :: 1759 Views :: Judiciary
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... This JSC announcement seeks a replacement for Associate Justice Paula Nakayama who turns 70 next October. It is separate from the October 14, 2022, JSC notice seeking a replacement for Associate Justice Michael Wilson ....
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Saturday, October 29, 2022 |
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Former JROTC Instructor Receives 168 Months in Prison for Sexual Exploitation of Student
By News Release @ 5:03 AM :: 2452 Views :: Kauai County, Education K-12, Military
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... United States District Judge Jill A. Otake today sentenced Victor Aguilar, 66, of Kauai, Hawaii to 168 months of imprisonment ....
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Friday, October 28, 2022 |
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Hawaii Sex Offender Arrested Quickly After Foolishly Leaving State
By News Release @ 4:02 AM :: 2571 Views :: Maui County, Law Enforcement
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... Maui rapist and drug dealer now in a Louisiana jail on $505,000 bail ....
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Thursday, October 27, 2022 |
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Hawai‘i Tourism in Search of the Promised Land
By UHERO @ 11:59 PM :: 1799 Views :: Tourism
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"...The problem has been implementation...."
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Thursday, October 27, 2022 |
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BLNR Repeals Waikiki blue card requirement
By News Release @ 11:24 PM :: 2339 Views :: Honolulu County, Small Business, Tourism
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... Certification permits have long been required for surf and sailboard instructors, catamaran and canoe captains and second captains, and commercial motorboat operators, operating in Waikiki ....
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Thursday, October 27, 2022 |
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Tourist Count Reaches 95.5% of Pre-COVID Number--Spending Flat
By News Release @ 7:19 PM :: 1957 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Tourism
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... accounting for inflation, the actual dollar increase in tourist spending is a paltry $30M ....
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Thursday, October 27, 2022 |
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Voting Power? Hawaii Ranks 10th
By Selected News Articles @ 6:41 PM :: 2406 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Hawaii Statistics, Office of Elections
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... how much your individual vote counts ....
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Thursday, October 27, 2022 |
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‘If you want to get mad about something, get mad about the Jones Act’
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:20 PM :: 2181 Views :: Jones Act
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... if your state is on a navigable river or an external coast you have been missing out on massive amounts of economic activity for decades ....
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Thursday, October 27, 2022 |
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Defamation trial begins in pregnancy porn promotion case
By Court House News @ 5:40 AM :: 2012 Views :: Health Care
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... Doula defendants take the stand against a fellow birth worker they accused of enticing women into creating maternity and breastfeeding porn ....
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Wednesday, October 26, 2022 |
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Short-term Rental Ban: City Warned About Enforcement
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:18 PM :: 2730 Views :: Honolulu County, Small Business, Tourism
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... a warning letter Kugle sent Oct. 21 to Honolulu officials about how they should be cautious that their publicized intent to 'aggressively' enforce the law doesn’t violate the judge’s order ....
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Tuesday, October 25, 2022 |
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2023 State Business Tax Climate Index--Hawaii Ranks 43rd
By Tax Foundation @ 10:46 PM :: 1872 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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... The Tax Foundation’s State Business Tax Climate Index enables business leaders, government policymakers, and taxpayers to gauge how their states’ tax systems compare ....
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Tuesday, October 25, 2022 |
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GE Tax Takes $200M Bite out of Health Care
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:02 PM :: 2035 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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“If we exempted medical care from the general excise tax it would save doctors and patients more than $200 million [a year]. And that would help keep doctors in our state, rather than having to flee the state to earn money elsewhere...."
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Tuesday, October 25, 2022 |
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Hawaii’s biggest barrier to more housing is politics
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 5:27 PM :: 2607 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... The result is exactly what we have in Hawaii: a lot of talk about lowering the cost of housing, but very little effective reform ....
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