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Entries for 'UHERO'
Friday, December 15, 2017 |
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UHERO: Hawaii’s Long Expansion Gets Global Economic Lift
By UHERO @ 3:38 PM :: 5067 Views :: Economy, Tourism
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...Improving global conditions provide a favorable environment for continued expansion in the Islands....
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Monday, December 11, 2017 |
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017 |
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Governing Green Power: Realigning Institutions to Shovel Ratepayer Money to Elon Musk
By UHERO @ 3:15 PM :: 3677 Views :: Energy
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...The complex system of the future that many of us envision — what some call Utility 2.0 — will require dynamic price setting....
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Friday, November 17, 2017 |
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UHERO: 25 Years Later we still don't know what Sustainable Tourism is
By UHERO @ 3:18 AM :: 3570 Views :: Tourism
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...the report concludes that Hawaii is not yet at the stage of overtourism....
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Friday, September 29, 2017 |
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UHERO: Economy Slowing, Despite Arrivals Boom
By UHERO @ 3:49 PM :: 3851 Views :: Economy
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...the consequence of a flattening construction path and the natural effects of tightening labor markets....
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Friday, September 22, 2017 |
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Oahu Construction Boom Ending: What Excuse Will HART Use Next?
By UHERO @ 4:04 PM :: 6369 Views :: Honolulu County, Economy, Rail
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...number of significant condo and retail projects have wrapped up on Oahu, while fewer new buildings have broken ground, resulting in an overall reduction in construction activity and employment....
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Friday, May 19, 2017 |
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UHERO County Forecast: Economies Still Growing, But Slowing
By UHERO @ 11:59 PM :: 4884 Views :: Economy, Tourism
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Prospects are good for continued growth in each of Hawaii’s four counties, if at a slower pace than in recent years....
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Saturday, May 6, 2017 |
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UHERO: Hawaii economy begins Trump Era in fine form
By UHERO @ 4:38 PM :: 3733 Views :: Economy
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...the economic outlook for Hawaiʻi, which remains favorable, despite tremendous uncertainty about future U.S. policy....
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Thursday, March 30, 2017 |
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UHERO: Electric Car Batteries Part of Plan to Go 100% Renewable
By UHERO @ 5:58 PM :: 4025 Views :: Energy
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...plan to achieve 100% renewable power on Oahu by 2045, subject to a 5% limit on biofuel....
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Tuesday, March 14, 2017 |
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What are the Financial Benefits of a University of Hawaii Education?
By UHERO @ 6:54 PM :: 4291 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education
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...the potential rate of return for associate’s degrees, bachelor’s degrees, and post-graduate degrees....
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Friday, March 10, 2017 |
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Is Hawaii's Hotel Room Tax Law Obsolete?
By UHERO @ 6:59 PM :: 4407 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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With tax collections falling behind expectations, State lawmakers are pressuring the tax department to increase effort to collect uncollected taxes from internet sales....
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Friday, March 3, 2017 |
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UHERO Fears Trumpmonster: “Many things could go wrong in Washington”
By UHERO @ 3:51 PM :: 3948 Views :: Economy
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"...Trump and the Republican Congress could disrupt health care, government employment, and public services...."
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Saturday, February 4, 2017 |
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UHERO: ‘Discriminatory’ HSTA Property Tax Plan hits Renters Hardest
By UHERO @ 12:22 AM :: 6867 Views :: Education K-12, Labor, Taxes
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...an owner of an investment property in Honolulu worth less than half a million dollars can expect to see his (her) combined City and State property tax bill double....
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Friday, February 3, 2017 |
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UHERO: The Exorbitant Cost of Collecting Honolulu’s Rail Surcharge Tax
By UHERO @ 1:43 AM :: 4438 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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Hawaii’s State Government has unnecessarily profited from the Honolulu rail project....
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Wednesday, February 1, 2017 |
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How Many Tourists is Too Many?
By UHERO @ 2:15 AM :: 4189 Views :: Tourism
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Tourists used to stay in designated tourism zones like Waikiki, but now they are everywhere....
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Sunday, January 15, 2017 |
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UHERO Adjusts Economic Forecast Upward Thanks to Trump
By UHERO @ 1:37 AM :: 4231 Views :: Economy
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...we have adjusted upward modestly our forecast for gross domestic product in 2017 to 2019....
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Friday, January 6, 2017 |
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UHERO: Regulating Home-Share Rentals in Hawaii
By UHERO @ 2:08 AM :: 5728 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business, Tourism
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Last year nearly one in three U.S. travelers stayed in home-based accommodation units compared to one in ten in 2011....
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Friday, December 16, 2016 |
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UHERO Panic Attack: Trump More Dangerous than China
By UHERO @ 2:47 PM :: 4401 Views :: Economy
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...China (is not) as large a risk as the possibility of policy errors by the incoming Trump administration....
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Saturday, November 19, 2016 |
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UHERO: Desperately Seeking Housing in Honolulu
By UHERO @ 11:29 PM :: 4439 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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...presentation for the Building Industry Association of Hawaii's 2016 summit, "Still Houseless in Honolulu."....
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Saturday, November 19, 2016 |
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UHERO: Obama’s Recession Produced Greater Inequality in Health
By UHERO @ 11:25 PM :: 3806 Views :: Health Care
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...obesity and overweight rates increased high school educated people, while there is weak evidence that they decreased for the college educated....
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Saturday, October 1, 2016 |
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Tuesday, August 2, 2016 |
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TOU Pricing: A Cool New Way to Raise Your Electric Rates
By UHERO @ 10:13 PM :: 3598 Views :: Energy
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...The proposed rates have the highest cost during the on-peak period from 5pm to 10pm....
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Friday, May 13, 2016 |
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UHERO: How State Shares Transient Accommodation Tax With Counties
By UHERO @ 9:49 PM :: 3989 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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This paper examines Hawaii’s recent effort at developing a model to allocate the state’s transient accommodation tax....
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Monday, May 9, 2016 |
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Variable Electric Pricing: What a Difference a Rate Makes
By UHERO @ 11:53 PM :: 3910 Views :: Energy
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...variable pricing of electricity, both wholesale and retail, can lower the cost of intermittent renewables....
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Monday, May 9, 2016 |
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UHERO: Hawaii Innovation Matters
By UHERO @ 9:17 PM :: 5029 Views :: Economy, Small Business
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Innovation is the key to economic growth and prosperity....
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Thursday, February 25, 2016 |
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UHERO Tries to Make Hi-Tech Tax Credits Look Good
By UHERO @ 3:01 AM :: 4134 Views :: Tax Credits
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"...innovation-oriented projects that improve the living standards of Hawaii residents...." LOL!
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Thursday, February 11, 2016 |
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UHERO: Recent Trends in Hawaii's Green Economy: Agriculture, Energy and Natural Resource Management
By UHERO @ 5:55 PM :: 7273 Views :: Energy, Agriculture, Economy, Hawaii Statistics
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...three sectors that are key to future sustainability in Hawai‘i - energy, agriculture and natural resource management....
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Sunday, January 31, 2016 |
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UHERO: New Perspectives on Land and Housing Markets in Hawaii
By UHERO @ 12:03 AM :: 3298 Views
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...Honolulu’s inflation-adjusted land and housing prices have been highly volatile in the medium term since the 1960s....
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Tuesday, January 5, 2016 |
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UHERO: Status Update on Federal GHG Emissions Reduction Policy for Hawaii
By UHERO @ 6:16 PM :: 4096 Views :: Energy
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Under the CPP, states have been given the choice of meeting either a rate- or mass-based goal for their existing fleet of power plants....
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Friday, December 11, 2015 |
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UHERO Hawaii Forecast: Expansion Will Continue, Despite Global Challenges
By UHERO @ 2:36 PM :: 4085 Views :: Economy
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Next year will see some easing of visitor growth....
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Tuesday, December 8, 2015 |
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Gauging Home Affordability: The Challenge
By UHERO @ 12:02 AM :: 3981 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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At a time of dwindling inventory and rising prices, housing affordability has once again become a hot topic in Hawaii....
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Saturday, November 7, 2015 |
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UHERO: Research Driven Energy Policy
By UHERO @ 8:59 PM :: 4012 Views :: Energy
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Take, for example, public discussion surrounding the potential merger of HECO and NextEra....
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Sunday, October 25, 2015 |
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Does PV Add Home Value?
By UHERO @ 1:15 PM :: 4088 Views :: Energy
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...PV already installed on a home is worth about $4,000 more than the median value of a PV permit....
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Friday, September 25, 2015 |
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UHERO: Tourism, Construction Lead Economy
By UHERO @ 4:41 PM :: 5897 Views :: Economy, Rail, Tourism
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Tourism is pushing toward new records, and the construction upswing is building in strength....
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Monday, July 20, 2015 |
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UHERO: Decoupling Socks Electric Ratepayers with Soaring Fixed Costs
By UHERO @ 9:18 PM :: 6362 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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Residential customers now pay roughly $0.17/kWh for fixed costs....
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Sunday, June 7, 2015 |
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UHERO: Neighbor Island Tourism Still Has Room to Grow
By UHERO @ 3:08 PM :: 5194 Views :: Economy, Tourism
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Tourism will see additional healthy gains on the Neighbor Islands for the next two years, before rising occupancy and costs begin to bring down growth rates, something that has already occurred on Oahu....
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Sunday, June 7, 2015 |
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UHERO Electric Vehicle Forecast for Hawaii
By UHERO @ 2:57 PM :: 4674 Views :: Energy, Hawaii Statistics
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...Hawaii-specific EV and car sales data to provide a preliminary forecast of potential EV adoption in Hawaii....
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Thursday, May 7, 2015 |
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Kilauea Largest Source of SO2 Pollution in USA
By UHERO @ 2:19 AM :: 6778 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment, Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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Using Vog from Kilauea to Estimate the Health Consequences of Particulate and SO2 Pollution....
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Friday, March 27, 2015 |
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UHERO: Despite Kakaako, Residential building permits fell last year
By UHERO @ 11:03 PM :: 8567 Views :: Development, Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Rail
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...Assuming affirmative resolution of ongoing entitlement battles for Hoopili and Koa Ridge, single-family building will begin to pick up over the next two years....
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Wednesday, March 11, 2015 |
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UHERO: Economic Impact of NELHA
By UHERO @ 12:40 PM :: 5745 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Economy, Small Business
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NELHA currently accommodates 37 tenants ranging from companies bottling deep sea water to solar and biofuel companies....
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Friday, February 27, 2015 |
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UHERO: Economy in 2015 will look a lot like 2014
By UHERO @ 2:34 PM :: 4134 Views :: Economy
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...not all damage from the past recession has been repaired....
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 |
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Creating "Paradise of the Pacific": How Tourism Began in Hawaii
By UHERO @ 4:59 AM :: 6002 Views :: Hawaii History, Jones Act, Tourism
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...the early years of one of the most successful tourist destinations in the world, Hawaii, from about 1870 to 1940....
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Sunday, January 25, 2015 |
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Chamber of Commerce Hawaii: State of the Economy Presentation
By UHERO @ 4:25 PM :: 3876 Views :: Economy
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Carl Bonham presented this 2014 economic recap and 2015 forecast on January 20, 2015 at an event hosted by the Chamber of Commerce Hawaii....
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Friday, January 23, 2015 |
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Up to $1.2 Billion Electricity Savings for Hawaii After Oil Prices Plummet
By UHERO @ 11:02 AM :: 4886 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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...if prices stay this low, it will take up to four months before electricity prices fully reflect the drop in oil prices....
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Saturday, January 17, 2015 |
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Dropping Oil Prices Boost Hawaii's Economy
By UHERO @ 2:30 AM :: 5282 Views :: Energy, Economy
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The drop in crude oil prices from $112/ barrel in June of 2014 to $46/barrel today will, if sustained, provide a nice boost to Hawaii’s economy....
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Saturday, December 20, 2014 |
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Flying to Hawaii: Comparing the Cost and Frequency Across States
By UHERO @ 12:56 AM :: 5410 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Tourism
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...The latest installment in the UHERO dashboard project is packed with information on the cost of travel to Hawaii from the US mainland....
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Saturday, December 20, 2014 |
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The Economic Impact of Astronomy in Hawaii
By UHERO @ 12:50 AM :: 5010 Views :: Economy, Higher Education
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Including indirect and induced benefits and adjusting for inter-county feedback and spillover effects, the astronomy sector had a total impact of $167.86 million statewide....
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Saturday, November 8, 2014 |
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UHERO: LNG Could Save Hawaii Ratepayers $800M/Year
By UHERO @ 8:18 PM :: 7345 Views :: Energy, Environment, Cost of Living
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...to estimate the impacts of Hawaii importing LNG for use in the electric sector....
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Sunday, October 26, 2014 |
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UHERO State Forecast Update: Hawaii's Economy In Need of An Engine
By UHERO @ 2:00 PM :: 5932 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Tourism
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Weak tourism and federal downsizing are holding down growth. Construction has disappointed this year....
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Tuesday, October 14, 2014 |
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UHERO: PV Growth in Hawaii?
By UHERO @ 6:43 AM :: 3718 Views :: Energy
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Under the current rate structure, DG providers are providing “cheap” electricity while consuming “expensive” electricity....
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