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Entries for 'Selected News Articles'
Monday, April 29, 2024 |
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These Are the 10 Worst Places To Retire in Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 11:19 PM :: 355 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... From expensive housing to pricey food and utility costs, you should plan on boosting your budget if you intend to retire in Hawaii ....
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Friday, April 26, 2024 |
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The trouble with Tulsi: Why the former Hawaii congresswoman is Trump’s worst choice for vice president
By Selected News Articles @ 4:20 PM :: 1763 Views :: Tulsi Gabbard
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... Trump and Biden are the two oldest presidential nominees in history. Given this reality, their understudies may be a factor in 2024 in a way they haven’t in decades ....
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Friday, April 26, 2024 |
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After Wildfire Lawsuits, Soaring PG&E power rates approach Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 3:43 PM :: 814 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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... Can you guess what’s going to happen as a result of Lahaina? ....
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Friday, April 26, 2024 |
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Bill allowing counties more authority over short-term rentals on Green's desk
By Selected News Articles @ 1:07 PM :: 568 Views :: Development, Small Business, Tourism
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... A conference committee agreed to pass Senate Bill 2919, which would allow counties to create zoning laws regulating short-term rentals ....
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Tuesday, April 23, 2024 |
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HB2342 on Governor's Desk: Legalize 'open carry' of everything except guns
By Selected News Articles @ 3:09 AM :: 931 Views :: Second Amendment
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... This bill would legalize the open carry of all non-firearm weapons, including butterfly knives, switchblades, brass knuckles, swords, and spears ....
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Tuesday, April 23, 2024 |
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Small Business Economic Trends: How does Hawaii Compare?
By Selected News Articles @ 2:48 AM :: 455 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business
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... the gold standard measurement of the Main Street economy ....
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Monday, April 22, 2024 |
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National Republicans scrutinize Hawaii voting rolls
By Selected News Articles @ 3:50 PM :: 682 Views :: Office of Elections, Republican Party
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... the state is violating federal law by not having what are known as “clean” voter rolls ....
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Monday, April 22, 2024 |
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Crichton: Environmentalism is a religion
By Selected News Articles @ 12:02 AM :: 134577 Views :: Environment, Religion
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There's an initial Eden, a paradise, a state of grace and unity with nature, there's a fall from grace into a state of pollution as a result of eating from the tree of knowledge....
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Monday, April 22, 2024 |
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Ira Einhorn, Earth Day's Dirty Secret
By Selected News Articles @ 12:01 AM :: 75778 Views :: Environment
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Ira Einhorn, Master of Ceremonies, Earth Day Rally on Belmont Plateau in Fairmount Park, Phila, PA, Apr. 22, 1970.
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Friday, April 19, 2024 |
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Blangiardi: City Will Not Sue Glock
By Selected News Articles @ 11:59 PM :: 1703 Views :: Honolulu County, Second Amendment
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... a Council bill had proposed hiring specialized legal experts from the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence and Dentons law firm ....
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Thursday, April 18, 2024 |
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Hawaii's Insurance Crisis as Premiums Nearly Quadruple
By Selected News Articles @ 4:54 PM :: 1123 Views :: Cost of Living
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... insurance costs for condominiums have risen by 100 percent to 1,000 percent ....
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Wednesday, April 17, 2024 |
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Naming Names: Airports Division Ran Late-Night Parties Where Hawaii Politicians Raked In Money
By Selected News Articles @ 4:04 PM :: 3078 Views :: Honolulu County, Maui County, Ethics, Hawaii State Government, OHA, COVID-19
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... late-night parties in a cramped second-floor office where lobbyists and executives seeking government contracts lined up to drop cash and checks into a metal lockbox ....
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Wednesday, April 17, 2024 |
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Attorneys Blocking JetBlue/Spirit Merger Now Targeting Hawaiian/Alaska Airlines Deal
By Selected News Articles @ 1:15 PM :: 1018 Views :: Judiciary, Tourism
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... this law firm also filed a similar suit wherein JetBlue was subsequently blocked in its attempt to acquire Spirit Airlines ....
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Monday, April 15, 2024 |
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Homicide up 175% in Honolulu
By Selected News Articles @ 4:59 AM :: 1279 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii Statistics, Police
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... 11 homicides in Honolulu as of March 31 ....
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Wednesday, April 10, 2024 |
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SB2553: Hawaii 'opt out' retirement scam
By Selected News Articles @ 5:31 PM :: 3140 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Small Business
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...a scam designed to shunt the least attentive investors -- those who do not 'opt out' -- into low return, high fee accounts run by whichever financial institution makes the most campaign contributions....
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Wednesday, April 10, 2024 |
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Prices in Hawaii are Ridiculous: 7 Things that Cost Way More
By Selected News Articles @ 5:30 PM :: 1635 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... Groceries, Gas, Electricity, Housing, Taxes, and more ....
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Wednesday, April 10, 2024 |
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Rich States, Poor States: Hawaii Ranks 41st--Will Legislature Send Tax Cuts to Governor?
By Selected News Articles @ 3:02 PM :: 1686 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business, Taxes
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... Gov. Josh Green addressed the tax and migration issues in his policy brief issued last month. One of his solutions is indexing the state's income tax for inflation, he said ....
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Monday, April 8, 2024 |
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Marconi Point Project Connected to DPP Bribery Scandal
By Selected News Articles @ 6:14 PM :: 1886 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Development, Land Use
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... City Seeks to Dismiss Marconi Claims, Supports Move to Depose Bribery Convicts ....
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Saturday, April 6, 2024 |
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Trask: UH Regents Shakeup May Profit OHA
By Selected News Articles @ 5:46 PM :: 1613 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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... must pay fair market value for their leases ....
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Friday, April 5, 2024 |
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Lahaina Fire Solution: A Rate Hike, of Course
By Selected News Articles @ 3:32 AM :: 1152 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Cost of Living
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"Making ratepayers to pay for the cost of their negligence and mismanagement is not the way to go"
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Thursday, April 4, 2024 |
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Ministry of Truth: Hawaii Lawmakers Call for Set Standards for Ethical News Sources
By Selected News Articles @ 9:34 PM :: 1294 Views :: First Amendment
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... Hawaii's move to mandate a journalist group to vet news sources for "ethics and objectivity" ignites debate on misinformation and freedom of the press ....
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Tuesday, April 2, 2024 |
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Hawaii 2nd Highest State Tax Burden
By Selected News Articles @ 5:15 PM :: 1555 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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... Overall Tax Burden 11.80% ....
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Monday, April 1, 2024 |
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Concealed Carry Win on Big Island
By Selected News Articles @ 5:56 PM :: 2163 Views :: Hawaii County , Second Amendment
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... The legal ownership of a firearm inherently includes the right to carry it ....
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Monday, April 1, 2024 |
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Salary Needed for family of Four to Live Comfortably in Honolulu -- $299K
By Selected News Articles @ 4:42 PM :: 1591 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... Total salary needed for two working adults with two children $299,520 ....
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Saturday, March 30, 2024 |
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Stop Big Oil Suit: Did Hawaii's Hyper-Ideological Supreme Court Blow It?
By Selected News Articles @ 1:52 PM :: 2173 Views :: Environment, Ethics, Judiciary, Cost of Living
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... there's a price to be paid for preening and posturing ....
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Friday, March 29, 2024 |
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DoD Returns Red Hill Control to US Navy
By Selected News Articles @ 6:12 PM :: 1372 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military
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... Joint Task Force – Red Hill transferred authority of the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage to the Navy Closure Task Force – Red Hill ....
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Wednesday, March 27, 2024 |
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‘I hope you die a slow and painful death’--Student 'triggered' by Israeli flags at UH Manoa
By Selected News Articles @ 9:32 PM :: 1547 Views :: First Amendment, Higher Education
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"... Pro-Israel supporters at UHM planted Israeli flags in a common space to express their support for Israeli Jews following the Oct. 7 massacre ...."
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Tuesday, March 26, 2024 |
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Hawaii Democratic-controlled Senate Committee Passes COS Resolution
By Selected News Articles @ 12:01 PM :: 1396 Views :: First Amendment, Second Amendment
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... The Hawaii Senate committee’s approval of S.R. 168 and S.C.R. 196 is another example of how the Left supports an Article V convention and would use one to push radical, anti-American revisions to the U.S. Constitution ....
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Tuesday, March 26, 2024 |
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HGEA Plants Convicted Felon on HLRB
By Selected News Articles @ 4:51 AM :: 1830 Views :: Ethics, Labor
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... it "harms the legal system, the profession, and the public" while fostering "a perception of privilege and arrogance" ....
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Friday, March 22, 2024 |
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Victory! Honolulu Agrees to Suspend Enforcement of Unconstitutional Ordinance, Saving Local Businesses
By Selected News Articles @ 11:50 PM :: 2657 Views :: Honolulu County, First Amendment, Small Business, Tourism
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... City suspends enforcement of a city ordinance that’s driving several restaurants in Waikiki out of business ....
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Friday, March 22, 2024 |
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Hawaii -- Most Affordable State For Healthcare
By Selected News Articles @ 3:16 AM :: 1429 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Cost of Living
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... Hawaii boasts the lowest percentages and costs in several key metrics ....
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Wednesday, March 20, 2024 |
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Star-Advertiser Sold to Carpenter Media -- after paying $150K ransom
By Selected News Articles @ 4:22 PM :: 1923 Views :: First Amendment
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... The Hawaii properties of Black Press were hit by a January ransomware attack that froze crucial computer systems ....
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Tuesday, March 19, 2024 |
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Hawaii 2nd-Worst Taxpayer ROI
By Selected News Articles @ 6:46 PM :: 1666 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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... states with the Best & Worst Taxpayer Return on Investment in 2024 ....
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Tuesday, March 19, 2024 |
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The last time Congress created a new state
By Selected News Articles @ 12:01 AM :: 15570 Views :: Hawaii History
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...On March 19, 1959, Congress approved Hawaii for admission to the union as the 50th state....
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Monday, March 18, 2024 |
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Hawaii Worst State for Doctors
By Selected News Articles @ 3:06 PM :: 1593 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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... from the average annual wage of physicians to the number of hospitals per capita to the quality of the public hospital system ....
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Saturday, March 16, 2024 |
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HB2079 Would Legalize Child Kidnapping for Sex Change
By Selected News Articles @ 7:09 PM :: 8961 Views :: Family, Health Care, Law Enforcement
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... to allow legal protections for any non-parent with sufficient access and means to remove a child of any age from their home state, and to bring them to Hawaii in the name of receiving “Gender Affirming Care” ....
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Friday, March 8, 2024 |
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Study: DoE Pandemic Failure will Cost Hawaii $31B
By Selected News Articles @ 2:41 AM :: 1664 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, COVID-19
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... Hawaii students in the COVID cohort can expect on average 3.7 percent lower lifetime earnings ....
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Thursday, March 7, 2024 |
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Kouchi in Danger After Nahale-a Debacle?
By Selected News Articles @ 4:11 AM :: 3436 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Higher Education, Politicians
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... if a person who voted for Nahale-a gets ticked off enough to try and flip at least one of the votes that voted against, then they could have a shot at reorganizing the Senate ....
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Thursday, March 7, 2024 |
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DBEDT Forecast: 1.5% Economic Growth for 2024
By Selected News Articles @ 2:31 AM :: 1291 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics
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... Though visitor spending decreased by 4.5 percent in January 2024, state general excise tax (GET) collections were up by 2.4 percent during the same month, an increase which can be attributed to household spending ....
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Wednesday, March 6, 2024 |
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Hawaii Senate Passes Bill to Legalize Marijuana Despite Ongoing Federal Prohibition
By Selected News Articles @ 6:41 PM :: 1345 Views :: Drugs
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... SB3335 will move to the House for further consideration ....
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Thursday, February 29, 2024 |
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Major Energy Companies Ask SCOTUS To Intervene In Hawaii Climate Lawsuit
By Selected News Articles @ 3:03 PM :: 1511 Views :: Energy, Environment, Judiciary
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... The Supreme Court previously declined energy companies’ request to consider whether the claims should be heard in federal court ....
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Thursday, February 29, 2024 |
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Thursday, February 29, 2024 |
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Hawaii Worst State to Be Middle Income from a Tax Perspective
By Selected News Articles @ 1:15 PM :: 1545 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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... for middle income earners, taxes take 13.62% of income--highest in the USA ....
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Wednesday, February 28, 2024 |
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Bills increasing costs for tourists moving through Hawaii Legislature
By Selected News Articles @ 2:19 PM :: 1331 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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... two proposals that would increase the transient accommodation tax, known as TAT ....
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