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NextEra paid just $88 million in taxes on earnings of nearly $7 billion. That’s a tax rate of just 1.25 percent when the statutory rate is 35 percent....

The Geoghegan firm successfully represented plaintiffs in Judge v. Quinn involving related Seventeenth Amendment issues resulting from the temporary appointment to the US Senate of Roland Burris....

Today, after two decades of "political correctness", nursing grievances has become a primary theme of the popular culture.  But in the 1940s, the opposite choice was made by thousands of young Japanese Americans in Hawaii.  They stood up, volunteered to join in the war effort and proved the doubters wrong.

More than 100 troops from the 45th Sustainment Brigade’s headquarters met an emotional explosion of cheers as they marched into the Wheeler Gulch hangar....

... California, Colorado, Florida, and Hawaii all moved up by at least 10 positions on our ranking ....

“Florida is not known for rooftop solar. It’s known for utility scale projects,” said Leslie Cole-Brooks, executive director, Hawaii Solar Energy Association....

This definitely has U.S. Supreme Court written all over it....

WalletHub conducted an in-depth analysis of 2014’s Most & Least Charitable States....

West Coast ports are suffering a series of slowdowns....

...residents will see a 6% average increase in their annual insurance costs for three years after the infraction....

Delays to asset sales have prompted credit ratings agencies to downgrade the company to junk....

A prominent gay rights activist charged last week with sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy ... has visited the White House more than a half-dozen times in the past two years....

...Hawaii income taxes cost a single parent of two children $272 at poverty level....

...Waters argues that the voting results suggest 128 ballots may have been miscounted out of the 37,178 cast....

...the extremely wealthy establish various special interest groups dedicated to crafting draconian regulations in the name of the public good, tackling hot-button social issues, and riling the hopes of easily led ideologues....

...a confusing patchwork of different laws around the country, driving up the cost of food as much as $500 to every American family....

...new and important cases were decided by the Hawaii courts this year....

Destruction of their crops would be an unconstitutional taking without just compensation, the farmers say....

...will lose their rural designation that allows acute care facilities within their boundaries to receive extra payments as critical access hospitals....

...Hawaii taxpayers can now breathe easier because he was defeated in the Democratic primary....

...to conduct a tour of the Army installations here to get a first-hand view of capabilities of the units....

We crunched the numbers using the six criteria below to determine if the state you live in is prime habitat for a downer of a Thanksgiving....

If current trends hold, the black hole will grow 'like a cancer' (hint, hint) and swallow the entire system....

Hawaii has employed gimmicks to give the appearance of fiscal improvements in their entitlement programs....

For many rural hospitals, partnering with big health systems is the only hope for survival....

...the ban will "probably bankrupt Molokai"....

the Wahiawa Lions Club 68th Annual Veterans Day Parade....

In Hawaii v. Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the Supreme Court unanimously declared....

...Tribal Governments and Americans Indian individuals can do very little with their lands without the approval of the BIA’s suffocating bureaucracy....

Long-suffering California (and Hawaii) gun owners received some rare good news....

Hawaii has one of the most onerous business tax situations. Another drawback: the highest cost of living....

“But they all kissed the ring because they wanted his money.”

Paul Sullivan, a Hawaii resident and former deputy campaign manager for President Bill Clinton, could owe  millions of dollars in attorney fees ....

When businesses suffer losses in a calendar year, well-structured corporate tax codes allow them to deduct those losses against previous or future tax returns....

Planned Parenthood’s Kona Health Center will shut down after Monday, November 10....

McCartney is a former executive director of the Hawaii State Teachers Association....

Congressional candidate Aumua Amata was yesterday elected to serve as American Samoa’s non-voting Delegate to the U.S. House, unseating longtime incumbent, Congressman Faleomavaega Eni....

...a former member of Faleomavaega's staff is suing the delegate....

...by calculating the number of elected officials in the federal government per adult population in each state for the most recent election years....

Omidyar...seemed not to realize what he had gotten into....

Nationally, the combined net income of sole proprietors, LLCs, Partnerships, and S corporations has increased fivefold and now accounts for more than 50 percent of all business income....

We score all 50 states on 56 measures of competitiveness, developed using input from business groups, economic development experts, companies and the states themselves.....

"The Department of Education has a constitutional mandate to establish a statewide public school system that consists of, among other things, a comprehensive Hawaiian education program...."

...Faleomavaega neither resigned nor retired and finally has returned home just a few days short of a year after his medical evacuation last October....

...he and others were kidnapping and keeping Afghan boys as sex slaves, trafficking narcotics and providing munitions to the Taliban to "facilitate insider attacks on Marine and other coalition forces."....

...the magnitude of these payments exceeds the average salary of an American teacher, as well as a soldier deployed in Afghanistan, by at least $10,000 per year....