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Sole proprietorships, S corporations, limited liability companies (LLCs)....

...Hawaii has 49 different CON laws, 3rd highest in USA....

It seems to be the first waiver granted this session by House Speaker Joe Souki....

House Health and Judiciary Committee chairs are looking to move marijuana legislation swiftly through committees....

...“possession, growing, processing, or transporting of not more than six marijuana plants...."

...It often takes four years to obtain approvals from the Land Use Commission and another two more years to get county permits, Ching said....

...reprogramming its Hawaiian microinverter fleet en masse, to help Hawaiian Electric....

...liberal Democrats have taken a page from big tobacco companies.  But will they pay a multi-billion dollar settlement for the social ills created by their deception?....

...Nebraskans pay one of the lowest rates for electricity in the nation and revenues are reinvested in infrastructure to ensure reliable and cheap service for years to come....

...In nearly any other state, the inter-island cable project being considered in Hawaii would be subject to various federal rules and regulations designed to ensure consumers receive the benefits of robust competition....

Pass-through businesses pay a significant role in the US economy. They account for 95 percent of all businesses, more than 60 percent of all business income, and more than 50 percent of all employment....

...With ambulance chasers in positions of power, both the House and Senate are poised to advance HB189 and SB137 in separate hearings on Friday....

Overall Yellow Tang abundance has increased 58% (over 1.3 million fish) from 1999/2000 to 2012-2013 to a current population of 3.6 million fish....

...Correcting this problem and allowing businesses to deduct the full cost in the first year is known as “full expensing”....

...the share of all income held by the top 1% is on a three-decade upswing....

...if the new contract extends longer than three years, that will be a surprise to many....

...millions went to some of the nation’s most prominent and politically active environmentalist groups. The Sierra Club, the Natural Resource Defense Council, Food and Water Watch, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Center for American Progress....

...he eventually became the Sea Shepherd regional director in Hawaii....

...more than 20 states have introduced so-called "Right to Try" bills in the hopes of allowing terminally ill patients to access experimental—and potentially life-saving—treatments more easily....

She’s on a grand tour, marked by private fund-raising pitches to wealthy locals and wannabees from the mainland....

Delaware (49.5 percent) and Hawaii (48 percent) are the only states with pass-through employment less than 50% share of total private sector employment....

In 2014, Mississippi had the lowest number of homeless people per 100,000, as it did for the previous three years....

If you allow that diversity, if you encourage it, if you value it, then this body will make stronger legislation that can make people’s lives better in real, tangible ways....

...the proportion of children who’d missed one or more shots increased from an average of 8 percent at the beginning of the study period to 12.4 percent at the end....

Power fluctuations from a first large plant installed in 2012 have already largely burned out the big batteries....

The cost of tobacco for every smoker is $1,029,646 over a lifetime....

...newly eligible adults will have access to addiction treatments this year, many for the first time....

the text of McCain's proposed amendment repeals the US Build requirement of the Jones Act....

The annual median wage for STEM workers (adjusted for cost of living) is two times higher in Houston than in Honolulu....

...five states with the lowest costs Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Mississippi, Hawaii....

Hawaii receives 23.5 percent of its total state general revenues from the federal government....

A Hawaii solar state of the union from Marco Mangelsdorf....

"As of Jan. 19, I will be working with Fox News Channel as an investigative reporter from its Los Angeles bureau"

"...its biggest proposal in the Aloha state is a $600 million cable project...."

“Honestly, I didn’t even know you could arrest ships.” 

OHA has wasted many millions of Hawaiian beneficiary dollars on both the US federal Akaka bill and its state of Hawai`i version successor, Kana`iolowalu....

The goals of public and private unions are diverging....

...the production tax credit (PTC) gives wind companies 2.3 cents for every kilowatt-hour of electricity they produce....

...with projects in Venezuela, Libya, Georgia....

Our former Governor and the Legislature should not have created a law that mandated an issue that was OHA’s kuleana....

In Hawaii, its power company is trying to get a $55 fixed monthly charge, which is double its current fee....

As marijuana legalization took hold in Colorado, the estimated percentage of regular cannabis users in the state jumped to the second-highest level in the country....

...I was finally forced to file a lawsuit against OHA in September 2013 to make it more transparent.  Now that a new leadership team is in place, this lawsuit may no longer be necessary....

Then-Senator David Ige was a key supporter of the universal coverage plan in 2009, but whether he’ll pick up the cause as Governor is unclear....

The problem has also affected other restaurant chains, as a dockworker dispute on the West Coast of the United States has reverberated across the Pacific Ocean....

3,500 is far short of the 130,000 cited by Kissel in a Nov 28 Star-Adv interview as a break-even figure for the Connector....

...The study examines environmental costs for cars' entire life cycle, including where power comes from and the environmental effects of building batteries....