Entries for 'Grassroot Institute'

...Cliff Slater told the HART board that “everything should come up on the table, as John Henry Felix is calling for.”....

...the state-run Maui Memorial Hospital faced every problem a medical facility could. Dogged by consistently low professional accreditation ratings, it lacked specialists and had constant funding shortfalls. Patients regularly had to be airlifted to Honolulu, even for trauma care....

...Peggy will share her behind-the-scenes stories and insights about Ronald Reagan’s final years....

...VIDEO: Grassroot Institute writer discusses audit of rail fiasco....

...Presentation featuring Dr. Kyle Varner, former Hawaii physician....

...rail leaders want to put $350 million on the city’s “credit card” to fund the project....

“It’s not my intent to muck around in the past.”

...things could have turned out differently....

...there has never been a full independent audit investigating the rail for fraud, waste and abuse....

Stuck in traffic? Panos Prevedouros will share traffic solutions that will free up our state's gridlock and get traffic flowing again....

...negotiations with the public employee unions take place mostly at the state level, but the counties nevertheless are on the hook....

...state lawmakers mostly would just be raising taxes on the rich and giving it to themselves....

...the home sharing economy helps locals deal with Hawaii’s cost of living....

The Grassroot Institute of Hawaii reached almost half a million people in just six days with a video about how locals are fleeing Hawaii’s high taxes and cost of living....

But signs in the media, the Legislature and the governor’s office all point to a special session this summer where the tax hikes are likely to materialize....

We're the Hawaii expats....

It's easier than ever before to rent space in your house, but a movement to crack down on home-sharing may threaten this new and evolving industry....

Today, the U.S. has fewer shipyards than any time in the recent past. Between 2006 and 2011, the Jones Act-eligible fleet shrank by over 17 percent....

That’s because when government salaries increase, so do pension promises....

...the phenomenon of locals leaving Hawaii to live on the mainland has been increasing significantly in recent years....

Most families in Hawaii know that they shouldn’t spend more money than they have. But somehow, Hawaii legislators haven’t gotten the message....

As comprehensive policy failures go, COFA may be the best-kept secret in Washington, D.C....

...the Jones Act is not just a Hawaii problem — it’s a national problem....

At nearly 100 years old, it is still able to defeat reform efforts … despite a mountain of evidence that it cripples the economy, fails to achieve its aims and is badly in need of modernization....

...Jones Act distorts U.S. economy, endangers military....

For Randy Perreira, head of the Hawaii Government Employees Association, the problems at Hawaii’s airports are just a matter of not enough kumbaya....

When first introduced, HB1518 put forth a very worrisome proposal....

Hawaii lawmakers would like us to believe that they are cutting the state budget in the current legislative session, but it’s not true....

...The Governor did, at least, stop short of calling it his “Five Year Plan”....

...Hawaii’s public pension system has been operating like a Ponzi scheme....

...Ige’s current budget overspends by $292 million next year....

...Watchdog Group Says State Budget Must be Reevaluated....

... the Honolulu Star-Advertiser noted with apparent alarm the “uncommonly heavy load of tax proposals still moving through both state Capitol chambers” ....

...Unsustainable government salaries and pensions are worsening the crisis....

SB107 would raise the minimum wage 62% from $9.25 / hour ....

...if the minimum wage was increased, many grocery stores today would simply replace workers with automated tablets....

...Ige announced that he would cut $220 million from his current spending plan. However, the ‘cuts’ are only reductions in proposed spending increases....

 ...$9,450 a year more without spending a penny....

Hawaii is missing $23 billion ....

Keli'i Akina and Andy Blom share Grassroot insights from Hawaii and DC....

...Honolulu County workers make more than neighbor island workers....

...New data show government outpacing private sector, pointing to an unhealthy economy....

...give everybody a pay raise--by cutting taxes....

the Department of Taxation has been allowed to keep a full 10% of the rail surcharge for the costs of administering it, despite the fact that the law directs DOTAX to calculate how much is required for its management of the surcharge, then return the remainder to the rail project....

Salaries and benefits of Hawaii government workers have increased by 26 percent in the past decade....

...challenging times include high shipping costs, high taxes, a high rate of public sector unionism, shaky government pension programs, inadequate housing supply and pervasive homelessness, excessive business and employment regulations, cronyism and corruption....

Grassroot Institute Urges Legislature to Act on Surcharge "Skimming"....