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Friday, February 11, 2022 |
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SB2239 Senate Committee Passes Bill to Limit State Participation in Federal Programs to Militarize Police
By Selected News Articles @ 4:11 AM :: 2958 Views :: Military, Police
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... a bill that would ban state and local law enforcement agencies from acquiring certain military equipment from federal programs ....
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Friday, February 11, 2022 |
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HDOT reports 94 traffic-related deaths on Hawaii roads in 2021
By Toni Schwartz @ 1:34 AM :: 2336 Views :: Hawaii Statistics
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... These figures are up from 2020 (85 fatalities), when nationwide traffic fatalities trended up, but down from the 108 fatalities recorded for 2019 ....
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Friday, February 11, 2022 |
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SHOPO: Honolulu Police Leadership Leaves Neighborhoods Unprotected
By News Release @ 1:20 AM :: 2837 Views :: Honolulu County, Police
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... many neighborhoods unprotected, without a single officer patrolling for the entire shift ....
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Friday, February 11, 2022 |
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Bum Feeding Operation to Vacate Chinatown
By News Release @ 1:16 AM :: 2827 Views :: Honolulu County, Homelessness
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... The City and County of Honolulu and the River of Life Mission have reached an agreement to relocate its public feeding operation from its current location in Chinatown to several new hubs on O‘ahu ....
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Thursday, February 10, 2022 |
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Thursday, February 10, 2022 |
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Hawaiian Electric hits 38% renewable energy in 2021
By News Release @ 3:59 AM :: 2668 Views :: Energy, Hawaii Statistics
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... Return of geothermal boosts Hawaii Island to 60% ....
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Wednesday, February 9, 2022 |
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Who's Overpaying for Cars--16 Hawaii Towns Compared
By Selected News Articles @ 3:50 PM :: 2520 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... auto-loan balances have grown ....
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Wednesday, February 9, 2022 |
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Bills would force landlords to accept Section 8 Tenants
By Selected News Articles @ 3:36 PM :: 3537 Views :: Homelessness, Small Business
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... The Hawaii Interagency Council on Homelessness (HICH) is calling on the Legislature to make it illegal for landlords to discriminate against tenants who receive rental assistance ....
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Wednesday, February 9, 2022 |
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Bribery Arrests: "Proof the system is rigged"
By News Release @ 2:55 PM :: 3688 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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... how widespread this corruption is in our government ....
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Wednesday, February 9, 2022 |
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Safe Travels: Ige Drops Planned Booster Shot Requirement
By News Release @ 2:46 AM :: 2864 Views :: Tourism, COVID-19
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... booster shots will not be required for “up-to-date” vaccination status for individuals traveling to Hawai‘i ....
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Wednesday, February 9, 2022 |
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Feds Bust Two Legislators in Cesspool Bribery Scheme
By News Release @ 12:09 AM :: 4672 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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... Rep Ty Cullen and former cocaine dealer J Kalani 'Powdernose' English arrested today ....
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Tuesday, February 8, 2022 |
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Here’s How Many People Quit Their Jobs in Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 3:12 PM :: 3784 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor, COVID-19
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... 16,000 people in Hawaii quit their jobs in November 2021, the most recent month of available data - a 45.5% increase from one year earlier ....
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Tuesday, February 8, 2022 |
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Grand Wailea Lucrative Target of Next Birdlights Suit
By Court House News @ 2:59 PM :: 3040 Views :: Maui County, Environment
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... Grand Wailea Resort isn't the only place on Maui with night lighting ....
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Tuesday, February 8, 2022 |
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Maui Fentanyl Dealer Gets 15 Years
By News Release @ 3:54 AM :: 4003 Views :: Maui County, Drugs
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... the four lbs of fentanyl was being transported to Dayton, Ohio on December 10, 2014 by a drug trafficking organization operating on Maui and in Northern California ....
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Monday, February 7, 2022 |
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$500M Red Hill Funding on the Move in Congress
By News Release @ 9:05 PM :: 4054 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military
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... a Senate bill includes $100M and a separate House bill includes $403M ....
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Monday, February 7, 2022 |
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Hawaii Carbon Tax Would be Major Burden for Families, Small Business
By Heartland Foundation @ 4:40 AM :: 4451 Views :: Energy, Environment, Taxes
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... Regressive Gasoline Tax Would Top Out At $33.16 Per Barrel In 2035 ....
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Sunday, February 6, 2022 |
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SB3182: Establish 1% Asset Tax on All Worldwide Holdings
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:03 PM :: 3216 Views :: Taxes
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... In this proposal, “assets” refer to the “worldwide net worth” of the taxpayer and includes items such as stock, business interests, stock and collectibles, business funds and more ....
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Sunday, February 6, 2022 |
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SB3250 would give Hawaii highest income tax rate in U.S.
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:53 PM :: 2837 Views :: Taxes
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... Hawaii already has the third-highest level of economic flight per capita in the nation. ...
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Sunday, February 6, 2022 |
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ALOHA Homes: Unintended Consequences
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:49 PM :: 2768 Views :: Development, Cost of Living
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... the ALOHA homes program as currently envisioned in this bill would result in an expensive, nonsustainable government project that would fail to effectively assist those it is intended to help ....
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Sunday, February 6, 2022 |
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Hawaii Bill Would End Civil Asset Forfeiture, Opt State Out of Federal Program
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:40 PM :: 6031 Views :: Judiciary, Justice Reinvestment, Law Enforcement, Police
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... The legislation would restrict asset forfeiture to felony cases and would require a criminal conviction before prosecutors could proceed with the process in most cases ....
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Sunday, February 6, 2022 |
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Tax Hikes Still on the Table
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 3090 Views :: Taxes
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... Hold on to your wallet ....
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Sunday, February 6, 2022 |
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Republican Legislative Session Update
By Brett Kulbis @ 2:30 AM :: 2982 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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... We are 17 days through the 31st Legislature. The "People's" building is still closed and it doesn't look like Senator Kouchi, Speaker Saiki or Governor Ige are interested in opening it up. ...
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Saturday, February 5, 2022 |
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Saturday, February 5, 2022 |
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2022 Legislature: The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:35 AM :: 4074 Views :: Taxes, COVID-19
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... you can't let your guard down when our esteemed legislators get together ....
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Friday, February 4, 2022 |
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Legislative Session Opens and My oh My!
By News Release @ 3:09 PM :: 5623 Views :: Family, First Amendment, Hawaii State Government, Life
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... Historically, according the Legislative Reference Bureau, only 10% of bills introduced become law ....
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Friday, February 4, 2022 |
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Boosting Long-Term Engagement In the Pacific (BLUE Pacific) Act Passes U.S. House
By Ed Case @ 2:58 PM :: 5995 Views :: National News, Congressional Delegation, Military
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... Provisions included in the COMPETES Act, a major measure to strengthen U.S. economic competitiveness, domestic capacity and supply chains ....
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Friday, February 4, 2022 |
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HECO Offers Electric Car Chargers 58% Discount on Electricity
By News Release @ 2:45 PM :: 3574 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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... New pilot program to offer lower rate as incentive for businesses, building owners to host EV chargers ....
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Thursday, February 3, 2022 |
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SB3043: Senate Committee Hearing Pistol Permitting & Registration Bill
By NRA ILA @ 5:12 AM :: 2404 Views :: Second Amendment
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... This is in order to comply with the recent Yukutake v. Connors court case decision ....
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Thursday, February 3, 2022 |
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SB2242 Hikes both income and capital gains taxes
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:46 AM :: 5060 Views :: Development, Small Business, Taxes
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... thus raising the state’s top income tax rate from 11% to 13% ....
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Thursday, February 3, 2022 |
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OHA Bumps Up $1M Emergency Financial Assistance Program
By News Release @ 2:00 AM :: 13730 Views :: OHA, COVID-19
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... OHA’s Ka Wailele Emergency Financial Assistance Program is being administered by Hawaiʻi Community Lending ....
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Thursday, February 3, 2022 |
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Evening Tour of ʻIolani Palace: A Walk Through the Past
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 1:43 AM :: 4280 Views :: Hawaii History, OHA
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... the first evening tour of the ʻIolani Palace held in over a year ....
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Wednesday, February 2, 2022 |
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Tunnel Vision
By Joni Kamiya @ 5:55 PM :: 6564 Views :: Agriculture, Labor, Small Business, Cost of Living, GMOs
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... The legislature appears to be dead set on ignoring the entire impact of short term solutions and catchy soundbites ....
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Wednesday, February 2, 2022 |
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Red Light Cameras to be Activated by May
By News Release @ 4:54 PM :: 5227 Views :: Honolulu County, Law Enforcement
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... engineering studies to select the ten intersections for the pilot began in January and are expected to be completed in March ....
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Tuesday, February 1, 2022 |
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FACT: Our Congressional Leaders Are Unable or Unwilling to Close Red Hill
By Rep Bob McDermott @ 6:19 PM :: 4909 Views :: Environment, Congressional Delegation, Military
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... Defueling is not a complete shutdown or decommissioning. It is simply a mechanism to fix safety deficiencies and buy time to keep the fuel tanks in Red Hill ....
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Tuesday, February 1, 2022 |
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Honolulu Council Copies OHA Playbook--Threatens Military Leases in Hawaii
By News Release @ 5:03 AM :: 6032 Views :: Honolulu County, Greenmail, Military, OHA
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... this is the same political model being used by OHA to extract rent money from astronomy on Mauna Kea ....
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Monday, January 31, 2022 |
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DoD on Red Hill: We Will Appeal DoH 'Final Order'
By News Release @ 11:05 PM :: 4531 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military
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... we have a deadline of this Wednesday, February 2, 2022, to file an appeal of DOH's Final Order, and we are planning to file in both federal and state court by this deadline ....
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Monday, January 31, 2022 |
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HB1585: Emergency powers reform bill could be stronger
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:54 PM :: 6648 Views :: Hawaii State Government, COVID-19
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... HB1585 needs greater clarity about the role of the Legislature and stronger statements about protecting transparency and individual rights ....
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Monday, January 31, 2022 |
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“11th Hour” changes could jeopardize property rights of Kahoma Village residents
By News Release @ 10:28 PM :: 3750 Views :: Maui County, Development
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..."I am always concerned by any piece of legislation that is not signed by Corporation Counsel...." -- Mayor Victorino
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Monday, January 31, 2022 |
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OHA Trustee Keola Lindsey Resigns
By News Release @ 6:48 PM :: 6672 Views :: Hawaii County , Office of Elections, OHA
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... OHA’s Board of Trustees will have 60 days to appoint a new trustee for Hawaiʻi Island, who will serve in the position until the next Hawaiʻi state general election in November 2022 ....
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Monday, January 31, 2022 |
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Unemployment Recovery? Hawaii Dead Last
By Selected News Articles @ 3:40 PM :: 3465 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor, COVID-19
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... States Whose Unemployment Rates Are Bouncing Back Most ....
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Monday, January 31, 2022 |
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Hawaii 2nd Worst Racial Wealth Gap
By Selected News Articles @ 3:26 PM :: 2669 Views :: Hawaii Statistics
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... 2022's States with the Biggest and Smallest Wealth Gaps by Race/Ethnicity ....
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Sunday, January 30, 2022 |
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Astronomy Adds $221M to Hawaii Economy
By News Release @ 4:06 PM :: 5447 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education
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... The total economic impact of $221 million, which also accounts for indirect and induced impacts, is nearly as much as farming statewide ....
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Sunday, January 30, 2022 |
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The Future of Blankety Blank
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 3214 Views :: Ethics, Taxes
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... Want to pass one of these bills? Go ahead, make my day! ....
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Sunday, January 30, 2022 |
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Hawaii Second Amendment Legislative Webinar
By News Release @ 4:05 AM :: 2251 Views :: Second Amendment
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... Please join our webinar this Sunday 6pm where we'll go over upcoming bills in the legislature and how you can help ....
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Sunday, January 30, 2022 |
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Hawaii Second Highest Homelessness Rate in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 3:51 AM :: 6097 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Homelessness, Cost of Living
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... In Hawaii, an estimated 6,458 people are experiencing homelessness - or about 45.6 for every 10,000 people, the second highest homeless rate among states ....
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Saturday, January 29, 2022 |
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Minimum debate over minimum wage
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:44 PM :: 4579 Views :: Labor, Small Business, Cost of Living
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... the Senate has tried to avoid any real debate on the issue ....
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Saturday, January 29, 2022 |
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Blangiardi Exempts Affordable rentals from GE Tax
By News Release @ 4:31 PM :: 3956 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Taxes
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... New incentives approved to spur development of affordable rentals ....
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Saturday, January 29, 2022 |
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Auditor Rips 'Never-ending fishing expedition'
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 5:12 AM :: 2979 Views :: Ethics
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... Efforts to rein in the watchdog continue ....
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Friday, January 28, 2022 |
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Hawaii Most Unionized State in USA
By News Release @ 3:03 AM :: 3889 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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... Hawaii has the highest union membership rate at 22.4 percent ....
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