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Entries for 'Tom Yamachika'
Sunday, May 12, 2024 |
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The Green Affordability Plan Passes
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 487 Views :: Taxes
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... a significant tax reform which has been long overdue ....
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Sunday, May 5, 2024 |
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The Also-Rans
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 953 Views :: Taxes
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... “Good riddance!” ....
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Sunday, April 28, 2024 |
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The Home Stretch at the Legislature
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 957 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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... At the end of this month, the Legislature wraps up and we see what gets sent to Gov. Green’s desk for signature or veto ....
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Sunday, April 21, 2024 |
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And Now the Big Guns Come Out
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1626 Views :: Ethics, Small Business, Taxes
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... I became convinced that the proceedings, or at least this part of them, were prearranged ....
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Sunday, April 14, 2024 |
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Aloha ThinkTech
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 962 Views :: First Amendment, Taxes
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... ThinkTech has fallen victim to a phenomenon that has plagued many nonprofits including the Tax Foundation of Hawaii: a drop in donor funding ....
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Sunday, April 7, 2024 |
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The Passthrough Entity Problem
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1173 Views :: Small Business, Taxes
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... This is an issue here in Hawaii because our individual income tax rates can go up to 11%, second highest in the nation ....
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Sunday, March 31, 2024 |
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GET on Health Care, Revisited
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1362 Views :: Health Care, Small Business, Taxes
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... HB 1675: GET exemption for medical services paid for by Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE ....
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Sunday, March 24, 2024 |
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Fear of the Unknown
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1346 Views :: Ethics, Tax Credits, Taxes
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... some bills replace a current tax rate with a blank. Or several blanks. Those are scary because you don’t know what our lawmakers are thinking of putting in there ....
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Sunday, March 17, 2024 |
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The Hawaii Estate Tax
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1966 Views :: Taxes
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... there are bills advancing that would, if enacted, fundamentally change how Hawaii’s estate tax works ....
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Sunday, March 10, 2024 |
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The Worst State to be Rich, Poor, or In Between
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 3157 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... One state made the top five on all lists ....
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Sunday, March 3, 2024 |
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Amended Return Equals Guilty Plea
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1587 Views :: Ethics, Taxes
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... Here’s how the strategy works ....
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Sunday, February 25, 2024 |
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The Department’s Quest to Nullify Evidence
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1391 Views :: Taxes
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... trampling on taxpayers’ rights ....
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Sunday, February 18, 2024 |
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The ConAm Returns Again
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1381 Views :: Education K-12, Taxes
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... The Counties all oppose this bill ....
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Sunday, February 11, 2024 |
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Hoarding School Impact Fees
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1549 Views :: Education K-12, Development, Taxes
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... since 2007, not one thin dime has been spent out of the school impact fees collected ....
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Sunday, February 4, 2024 |
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What Were They Thinking?
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1390 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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... the process to separate the wheat from the proverbial chaff has begun ....
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Sunday, January 28, 2024 |
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LLC Ownership Secrecy: Oh BOI, More Red Tape for All
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1409 Views :: Ethics, Small Business
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... ultra-wealthy oligarchs, bad actors, and others are seeing us—the United States—as a haven where they can park money or assets in entities, like limited liability companies ....
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Sunday, January 21, 2024 |
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Will Tax Relief be on Agenda for 2024?
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1148 Views :: Taxes, Cost of Living
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... In the 2023 legislative session, that legislation was amended beyond recognition in both the House and Senate ....
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Sunday, January 14, 2024 |
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More Tax Hikes Coming
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1756 Views :: Taxes
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... It isn’t very far into the new year, but already the tax hike proposals have begun ....
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Sunday, January 7, 2024 |
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Tax Word Find
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1174 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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... remedy the consequences of some other folks who dropped the ball ....
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Sunday, December 31, 2023 |
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Restaurants Getting Cooked
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 2109 Views :: Small Business, Tourism
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... A number of restaurants are in a pinch recently. Here’s what happened to them ....
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Sunday, December 24, 2023 |
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Merry Wet Christmas for Honolulu BWS
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 3214 Views :: Honolulu County, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... Honolulu consumers will be subjected to a double whammy next year ....
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Sunday, December 17, 2023 |
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School Non-Spending
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1401 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii State Government
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... the Department of Education approached the Department of Budget and Finance with a list of about $900 million in projects that it didn’t think it could move before the funding for the project ran out of time ....
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Sunday, December 10, 2023 |
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The Two Gorillas Still Menace the Budget
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:14 AM :: 1752 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor
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... The names of the two gorillas are ERS and EUTF ....
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Sunday, December 3, 2023 |
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Population: Still Losing
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1403 Views :: Taxes, Cost of Living
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... Are we going to put more pressure on our taxpayer base to dig into their pockets ever more deeply? ....
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Sunday, November 26, 2023 |
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Wholesaling: What You Don’t Know
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1434 Views :: Small Business, Taxes
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... you as a taxpayer can never really know, but you can protect yourself ....
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Sunday, November 19, 2023 |
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The Lahaina Recovery Fund
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1393 Views :: Maui County, Energy
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... Claimants who want a distribution from the fund agree not to sue the fund contributors ....
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Sunday, November 12, 2023 |
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Owning in a Burn Zone
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 2089 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use
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“... It’s absurd, the socialist mentality, they think they own the land ....”
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Sunday, November 5, 2023 |
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Crossing the Rubicon Again
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1568 Views :: Ethics, Development, Taxes
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... Green suspended the General Excise Tax as it related to vendors involved in the design, construction, sale, lease, or financing of housing projects designed to provide rapid relief to the homeless ....
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Sunday, October 29, 2023 |
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Upsetting the Apple Cart in 24-Year-Old Litigation
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1254 Views :: DHHL, Judiciary
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... One of the longest running court cases in modern history is Kalima v. State ....
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Sunday, October 15, 2023 |
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Tourists, Keep Out!
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1875 Views :: Maui County, Tourism
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... government should not be there to take choices away ....
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Monday, October 9, 2023 |
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Aiming the Cannon at Monster Homes
By Tom Yamachika @ 3:50 AM :: 1827 Views :: Honolulu County, Development
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... Bill 52 provides an initial fine of $25,000, plus $10,000 per day without an upper limit ....
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Sunday, October 8, 2023 |
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Who Really Pays?
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1793 Views :: Maui County, Environment, Ethics, Development
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... the costs of corruption, fraud, and related bad behavior ....
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Sunday, October 1, 2023 |
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Let the Donor Beware
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:46 AM :: 1901 Views :: Democratic Party, Maui County, Ethics
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... the fund directs the user to a page on ActBlue, a fund-raising platform used by Democrats ....
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Sunday, September 24, 2023 |
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Lahaina Scammers
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1952 Views :: Maui County, Ethics
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... there is a darker side ....
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Sunday, September 17, 2023 |
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Challenging the Housing Czar
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1875 Views :: Maui County, Ethics, Development, Land Use
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... Threats of violence ....
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Sunday, September 10, 2023 |
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Taxing Government Benefits
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1702 Views :: Maui County, Taxes
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... Legitimate questions now need to be asked about whether the government is going to want to take back some of that Lahaina money in taxes ....
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Sunday, September 3, 2023 |
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Tax Deadlines on Maui
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1702 Views :: Maui County, Taxes
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... On August 18, 2023, the Internal Revenue Service announced “expansive tax relief” for Hawaii wildfire victims ....
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Sunday, August 27, 2023 |
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Lahaina Scammers
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1939 Views :: Maui County, Ethics
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... there is a darker side ....
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Sunday, August 20, 2023 |
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Whether DOE Should Have a Monopoly on Our Kids
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:06 AM :: 1777 Views :: Education K-12
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... not all of it has been peachy ....
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Sunday, August 13, 2023 |
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A Different Kind of Emergency in Government
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 2162 Views :: DHHL
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... They need to spend money. Quickly ....
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Sunday, August 6, 2023 |
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Taking No Prisoners in California
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 2274 Views :: Taxes
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... The current DoTax administration has told practitioners that he is more open to settling cases to whittle down the backlog of tax appeals ....
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Sunday, July 30, 2023 |
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Getting Kids to School in Kihei
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 2438 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12
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... In early 2020, when DoE approached Maui County for permits, it said that the design of the pedestrian overpass was already started and projected for it to be built in 2022 and 2023 ....
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Sunday, July 23, 2023 |
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Study the Empty Homes Tax Again?
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 2579 Views :: Honolulu County, Taxes
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... Folks on the Neighbor Islands: Don’t laugh. You might be next! ....
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Sunday, July 16, 2023 |
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How Not to Cool the Schools
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 2201 Views :: Education K-12, Energy
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... facilities geniuses at our DOE came up with the idea ....
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Sunday, July 9, 2023 |
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The Budget Is Signed
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1744 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Tax Credits, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... At the ceremony, the Governor made clear that tax relief, especially for ALICE (asset-limited, income-constrained, employed) families, is still on the table. There will be a Phase 2, he said, apparently targeting the 2024 legislative session ....
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Sunday, July 2, 2023 |
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Cronyism: The 2023 Intent to Veto List
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1555 Views :: Taxes
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... cronyism, revenge and retribution -- someone's been sandbagging ....
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Sunday, June 25, 2023 |
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Economic Misfortune Can Fix Our “Shadow Budget”
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:01 AM :: 2036 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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... Sometimes it takes a bad situation to make another bad situation better. This might be one of those times ....
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Sunday, June 18, 2023 |
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A Dirty Problem
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 2400 Views :: Environment, Development, Tax Credits
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... five blind monks trying to describe an elephant ....
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Sunday, June 11, 2023 |
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Fevella’s Film Feud
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 2384 Views :: Ethics, Labor
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... Apparently Fevella filed a personnel complaint against the head of the Hawaii Film Office, Donne Dawson, to emphasize this point ....
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