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Sunday, June 19, 2022 |
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Hawaii's labor force participation rate increasing, jobs report shows
By Selected News Articles @ 5:08 PM :: 2572 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Small Business
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... Hawaii's labor force increased by 7,400 people from May 2021 to May 2022 ....
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Sunday, June 19, 2022 |
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We’ve Got Bills – Lots of Them
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1908 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... how Hawaii compares on the ten most common household bills ....
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Sunday, June 19, 2022 |
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We can do something about inflation
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 5:17 AM :: 1768 Views :: Economy
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... From a rate of 1.9% in 2018, inflation jumped to 7.1% in 2021 and was 8.2% as of April 2022 ....
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Saturday, June 18, 2022 |
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Jones Act lobby feeling the heat as calls for waivers or reform increase
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:47 PM :: 1824 Views :: Jones Act
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... A confluence of events both in Hawaii and nationwide has led to a growing chorus of voices calling for either waivers from or reform of the federal maritime law known as the Jones Act ....
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Saturday, June 18, 2022 |
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Evidence keeps rolling in against proposed minimum-wage increase
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:42 PM :: 2191 Views :: Labor, Small Business
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“...Evidence of the Unintended Labor Scheduling Implications of the Minimum Wage....”
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Saturday, June 18, 2022 |
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DHHL Summary of 2022 Legislative Session
By News Release @ 12:00 PM :: 1715 Views :: DHHL
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... In September 2021, the Hawaiian Homes Commission approved ten legislative proposals ....
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Saturday, June 18, 2022 |
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News That Criminals Can Use: Girls Used to Commit Crimes will not be Jailed
By Selected News Articles @ 4:57 AM :: 2384 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Law Enforcement
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... Another world is possible. A world where girls can get away with anything ....
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Friday, June 17, 2022 |
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Bribery: Kaneshiro, Mitsunaga Arrested by FBI
By Selected News Articles @ 4:48 PM :: 6413 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Law Enforcement
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... Kaneshiro was on paid leave for two years ....
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Friday, June 17, 2022 |
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'Reef Friendly' Sunscreens Caught Lying About SPF Protection
By News Release @ 5:15 AM :: 4053 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment, Greenmail
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... All the mineral-based products we tested failed SPF or UVA tests - and shockingly several products failed on both counts ....
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Thursday, June 16, 2022 |
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Hawaii Unemployment Rate 4.2% for May
By News Release @ 8:07 PM :: 1941 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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... the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for May was 4.2 percent, compared to the revised rate of 4.1 percent in April ....
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Thursday, June 16, 2022 |
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Four Big Island Residents Sentenced to Federal Prison for Methamphetamine Trafficking
By News Release @ 12:00 PM :: 2265 Views :: Hawaii County , Drugs
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... Gouveia was previously sentenced by the Court in 2005 to ten years imprisonment for attempted possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine ....
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Thursday, June 16, 2022 |
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Hawaii Best Health Care During COVID
By News Release @ 6:30 AM :: 2179 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, COVID-19
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... Hawaii and Massachusetts top the 2022 State Scorecard rankings, based on overall performance across 56 measures of health care access and quality, service use and cost, health disparities, and health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 ....
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Wednesday, June 15, 2022 |
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Honolulu Among Least Affordable Housing on Earth
By News Release @ 11:26 PM :: 2140 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... Demographia United States Housing Affordability – 2022 Edition Released ....
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Wednesday, June 15, 2022 |
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State Economies with the Most Racial Equality -- Hawaii Ranks 4th
By Selected News Articles @ 11:05 PM :: 1285 Views
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... data compares the difference between white and black Americans in areas such as annual income, unemployment rate and homeownership rate ....
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Wednesday, June 15, 2022 |
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Honolulu Most Diverse Large Metro in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 10:43 PM :: 1728 Views :: Hawaii Statistics
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... Hawaii also ranks the highest among U.S. states, with a DI score of 78.4% for millennials ....
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Wednesday, June 15, 2022 |
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'Water Management Area' -- New Way to Selectively Control Development
By News Release @ 10:04 PM :: 2676 Views :: Maui County, Environment, Development, Land Use
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... Tuesday, the Commission on Water Resource Management (CWRM) unanimously agreed to designate the entire Lahaina Aquifer Sector Area as both a Surface Water and Ground Water Management Area ....
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Wednesday, June 15, 2022 |
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Counties with the highest unemployment rate in Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 9:49 PM :: 2258 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Small Business
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... Stacker compiled a list of the counties with the highest unemployment rate in Hawaii using data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ....
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Wednesday, June 15, 2022 |
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Congress Moving $2.2B for Red Hill
By Ed Case @ 2:48 PM :: 2244 Views :: Environment, Congressional Delegation, Military
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... to Further Remediate, Defuel and Close Red Hill and Move the Fuel to More Strategic Locations Elsewhere in the Indo-Pacific ....
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Wednesday, June 15, 2022 |
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Secret Swearing in for Joe Logan Designed to Head Off New Questions About Special Treatment
By Andrew Walden @ 3:04 AM :: 2763 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Police
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... is the protection of ‘FOP’ (friends and family of the police) so ingrained in the force that they need not hear directly from Joe Logan to know that they should let his meth addict son off the hook again and again? ....
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Tuesday, June 14, 2022 |
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Good news/bad news about cryptocurrency in Hawaii
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 2:15 PM :: 2168 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Small Business
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... Hawaii’s policymakers haven’t given up the dream of regulating it into oblivion ....
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Tuesday, June 14, 2022 |
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Hawaii #1 for Catalytic Converter Theft
By Selected News Articles @ 1:55 PM :: 2482 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Law Enforcement
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... Hawaii has averaged 68 catalytic converter thefts per 100,000 registered vehicles in just the first four months of 2022 ....
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Tuesday, June 14, 2022 |
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How much profit are private labs earning from PCR testing?
By UHERO @ 12:00 PM :: 2530 Views :: Economy, Health Care, COVID-19
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“...In many concentrated insurance markets such as Hawaiʻi, insurers have few incentives to negotiate lower prices. They can easily pass these costs onto premiums without losing market share....”
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Monday, June 13, 2022 |
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Hawaii State Tax Burden: 14.1% of Income -- 3rd Highest in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 4:09 PM :: 1975 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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... State-local taxes paid $8,410 -- 14.1% of income ....
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Sunday, June 12, 2022 |
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Call for Jones Act reform gaining momentum
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:00 PM :: 1970 Views :: Jones Act
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... The drumbeat for Jones Act reform has been growing louder ....
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Sunday, June 12, 2022 |
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General Excise Tax on Nonprofits
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1865 Views :: Taxes
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... Whether it be a bake sale, benefit dinner, or a silent auction, any income from an activity the primary purpose for which is raising money is GET taxable ....
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Sunday, June 12, 2022 |
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Bill 45: Rail TOD Giveaway to High Tech Tax Credit Schemers
By Selected News Articles @ 3:30 AM :: 3175 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Rail, Tax Credits
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... The vague language in the proposal lacks any metrics for measuring success, similar to another business-focused tax credit whose value to the state is dubious ...
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Sunday, June 12, 2022 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 11, 2022
By Selected News Articles @ 3:16 AM :: 1596 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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... votes cast and bills introduced for week ending June 11, 2022 ....
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Sunday, June 12, 2022 |
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Oahu and Maui Have Some of the Highest Rents in the Nation
By Selected News Articles @ 3:02 AM :: 2051 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... In the Urban Honolulu metro area the median monthly rent price is $1,779 - 62.3% higher than the national average ....
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Saturday, June 11, 2022 |
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Hawaii Per-Capita Pension Liability 4th Highest in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 5:04 PM :: 2173 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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... Hawaii per-capita pension liability $39,939.43 ....
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Friday, June 10, 2022 |
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Mayors Blangiardi, Roth, Victorino, and Kawakami urge Governor Ige to veto HB 1567
By News Release @ 4:10 PM :: 2224 Views :: Justice Reinvestment, Law Enforcement
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... urging Governor Ige to veto HB 1567 HD1 SD1 CD1, which eliminates the use of monetary bail and requires defendants to be released on their own recognizance for certain nonviolent offenses ....
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Thursday, June 9, 2022 |
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Volta Securities Fraud: Did Latest Hawaii High Tech Fail Take a Bite out of ERS?
By Andrew Walden @ 10:05 PM :: 2779 Views :: Ethics, Tax Credits
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... Securities fraud, insider trading, $26.7 M in hidden executive stock awards? Yes. Hawaii’s high-tech tax credit schemers are at it again ....
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Thursday, June 9, 2022 |
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Transsexualize Your Child: Hawaii Teachers Union Publishes Toolkit
By News Release @ 5:58 PM :: 2983 Views :: Education K-12, Family
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... all the ways HSTA is working to recruit your son ....
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Thursday, June 9, 2022 |
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Hawai‘i Youth Challenge Academy Graduates 83 Students
By News Release @ 5:41 PM :: 1711 Views :: Education K-12, Military
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... the program’s first graduating class in Hawai‘i to graduate with a 100% post-program employment rate, and official accreditation status ....
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Thursday, June 9, 2022 |
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Hawaii Gun Industry Among Smallest in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 5:27 PM :: 1760 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Second Amendment
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... 1st place Kentucky has 69x more NCIS background checks per capita than 50th place Hawaii ....
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Wednesday, June 8, 2022 |
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Audit: 50 Years of UPW Overtime Games at DPS
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 9:40 PM :: 2648 Views :: Justice Reinvestment, Labor, Law Enforcement
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... Nearly 30 years ago, in our 1992 report, we had raised concerns about the quality of the data used by the department (and nothing has changed since) ....
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Wednesday, June 8, 2022 |
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Short-term rental property owners contest new bill regulating rentals on Hawaii
By Court House News @ 6:10 PM :: 2473 Views :: Honolulu County, Small Business, Tourism
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... Property owners maintain that pre-existing rental properties shouldn't be subject to a new ordinance changing minimum lease length ....
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Wednesday, June 8, 2022 |
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Mosquito News: DLNR Refutes anti-GMO Lies
By News Release @ 5:39 PM :: 2103 Views :: Environment, GMOs
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... Despite misinformation circulating on social media, the importation of “incompatible-male” mosquitoes to control populations of wild mosquitoes and to save four native bird species from extinction, does not involve the use of any genetically modified organisms (GMOs) or genetically engineered (GE) organisms ....
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Wednesday, June 8, 2022 |
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Sierra Club, Solar Industry Rally Against SB2510
By News Release @ 4:48 PM :: 1772 Views :: Energy
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... capping the amount of any single renewable energy source to 45% per island ....
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Tuesday, June 7, 2022 |
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Cocaine News Update: Is Council District 2 Reserved for Crime Families?
By Andrew Walden @ 11:41 PM :: 8584 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Politicians, Drugs
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... Council Dist 2: Makua Rothman vs convicted cocaine dealer Chad Tsuneyoshi ....
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Tuesday, June 7, 2022 |
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508 Candidates Pull Papers -- 394 file
By News Release @ 11:00 PM :: 24570 Views :: Office of Elections
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... filing closed Tuesday, June 7, 2022, candidates have one day to withdraw ....
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Tuesday, June 7, 2022 |
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When permission is absent--Misrepresentation of Micronesian navigation must be corrected
By Selected News Articles @ 9:48 PM :: 3591 Views :: Hawaii History
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... Cultural appropriation by the Polynesian Voyaging Society is robbing me and my Micronesian brothers of our heritage, history and truthful place in the world ....
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Tuesday, June 7, 2022 |
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Racial Equality in Education -- Hawaii Ranks 11th
By Selected News Articles @ 9:08 PM :: 1649 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics
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... data compares the difference between white and black Americans in areas such as high school and college degrees, test scores and graduation rates ....
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Tuesday, June 7, 2022 |
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Hawaii Lack of Affordable Housing “largely a manufactured crisis”
By Video @ 7:15 PM :: 4300 Views :: Development, Land Use
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... ‘Hawaii zoning atlas’ will identify barriers to housing ....
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Tuesday, June 7, 2022 |
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Biden Admin Claims Hawaii is Economic Success Story
By News Release @ 2:07 PM :: 2445 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, COVID-19
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"...In the largest sector (government), the Hawaii economy added 400 jobs between January 2021 and April 2022...."
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Tuesday, June 7, 2022 |
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Feds Bust Gambling, Drug Ring Operating on Maui, Oahu
By News Release @ 1:08 PM :: 2284 Views :: Gambling, Drugs
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... once again the Feds doing the job the State won't do ....
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Monday, June 6, 2022 |
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State Economy: Hawaii Ranks 48th
By Selected News Articles @ 5:47 PM :: 2012 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics
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... 2022’s Best & Worst State Economies ....
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Monday, June 6, 2022 |
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Hawaii 3rd Highest Closing Costs in USA
By News Release @ 12:00 PM :: 1482 Views :: Cost of Living
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... Average Closing Costs for Purchase Mortgages Increased 13.4% in 2021--CoreLogic ....
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