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Tuesday, November 14, 2023 |
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Felon Watch: Nan buying Grace Pacific from A&B
By Andrew Walden @ 3:41 AM :: 2878 Views :: Ethics, Development, Rail
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... convicted felon to gain even more control over Hawaii CIP projects ....
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Saturday, October 14, 2023 |
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Is it really a good idea to build a new Aloha Stadium?
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:20 PM :: 1812 Views :: Ethics, Development, Higher Education, Rail, Tourism
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... Considering the record of the old Aloha Stadium, there are many questions ....
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Sunday, September 17, 2023 |
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Has HART gone off the rails again?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 12:00 PM :: 1554 Views :: Ethics, Rail
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... Natalie Iwasa, who was appointed by state Speaker of the House Scott Saiki, has been barred from participating in executive sessions ....
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Saturday, August 5, 2023 |
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Honolulu Rail: ‘I hope its future is short’
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:46 PM :: 2759 Views :: Rail
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... the highest per-passenger operating cost of any light-rail systems in the nation ....
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Tuesday, August 1, 2023 |
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Running the rail is costing even more than originally estimated
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:42 AM :: 2628 Views :: Rail
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... Ridership on the half-completed rail has been steadily falling, causing the per-passenger taxpayer subsidy to go even higher ....
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Saturday, July 22, 2023 |
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Talk of the town: Rail Operating Cost $54 per passenger
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:25 PM :: 2168 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Rail
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... the highest per-passenger cost among light-rail systems in the nation — by far ....
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Sunday, July 16, 2023 |
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Rail Ridership 21 Times Below Projections
By Selected News Articles @ 5:56 PM :: 2834 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Rail
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... 4,000 is a little short of the number that HART projected it would attract once the system is completed: 84,000 people a day ....
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Thursday, July 13, 2023 |
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Skyline's $54 per passenger operating cost highest in U.S.
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:13 PM :: 2820 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Rail
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... “Taxpayers are already paying an enormous amount to build the project, but now are paying even more to run it nearly empty” ....
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Tuesday, July 11, 2023 |
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Double Nothing is Nothing: City announces updated and corrected ridership numbers for Skyline
By News Release @ 6:06 PM :: 1711 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Rail
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... $13B / 3,666 avg daily riders = $3.5M per rider We could have bought each rider a house near their job and a Cadillac or two to put in the garage -- and still saved billions ....
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Friday, July 7, 2023 |
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Only 1,245 passengers ride Rail on first day they had to pay
By News Release @ 5:10 AM :: 1985 Views :: Rail
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... DO THE MATH: $13B / 1,245 = $10.4M per passenger -- slightly more than a Bugatti Centodieci ....
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Sunday, June 25, 2023 |
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The politician and the Skyline buzzsaw
By Selected News Articles @ 4:25 AM :: 2702 Views :: Hawaii History, Rail
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... a list of political careers derailed by rail ....
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Monday, May 8, 2023 |
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TheBus Routes Changing to Link up with Rail
By News Release @ 2:33 PM :: 2117 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail
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... a complete visual map of TheBus and Rail system ....
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Monday, May 1, 2023 |
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Rail: ‘If you build it, make sure you have all your money first’
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:00 AM :: 1705 Views :: Rail
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... a new consequence seems to have emerged: The city recently saw its bond rating downgraded ....
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Wednesday, April 12, 2023 |
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Fixing Hawaii’s Transportation System; A Dose of the Private Sector Would Help
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 7:09 AM :: 1901 Views :: Jones Act, Rail, Cost of Living
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... how Hawai'i can reduce the costs and the improve service quality of its various mass transportation systems ....
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Friday, April 7, 2023 |
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Moody's Downgrade: Rail Debt Gimmick Comes Back To Bite Honolulu Taxpayers
By News Release @ 4:00 PM :: 3276 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail
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... The debt burden has recently been rising due to GOULT bonds issued for construction of the rapid transit system ....
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Saturday, March 25, 2023 |
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HART Seeks 9th Board Member
By News Release @ 4:51 PM :: 1622 Views :: Rail
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... the ninth voting member will be selected by the other eight voting members ....
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Saturday, January 28, 2023 |
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Maui Airport Mini-Rail to be Shutdown for Repairs--Replaced by Golf Carts
By News Release @ 2:40 PM :: 1272 Views :: Maui County, Rail
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... A contractor will provide golf carts to take anyone needing assistance between the CONRAC and the airport lobby. ...
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Friday, January 13, 2023 |
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GE Tax: Audit Shows Tourists Pay 14.1%--not 30%
By Andrew Walden @ 5:21 AM :: 11338 Views :: Rail, Taxes, Tourism, Cost of Living
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...The lie that tourists pay 30% of the GE Tax is front and center as Gov Green and legislators quickly walk back Green’s fake 2022 campaign promise to eliminate the GE Tax from food and medical care....
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Monday, December 26, 2022 |
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Convicted Meth Dealer Asks Federal Court Permission to Take Over Laborer’s Union
By Andrew Walden @ 10:48 PM :: 5650 Views :: Ethics, Labor, Rail, Drugs
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... “If my name sounds familiar it's because my dad was President of the Hawaii AFL-CIO and the Business Manager/ Financial Secretary for the Hawaii Carpenters Union Local 745 for over 20 years.”….
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Wednesday, December 21, 2022 |
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Senate Appropriations Bill: Pork for Rail, Red Hill, Housing
By News Release @ 3:20 PM :: 1545 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Military, Rail
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... “We had no idea this was in the works,” said Lori Kahikina, HART’s CEO and executive director ....
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Wednesday, November 30, 2022 |
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Quick Rail Boondoggle Update
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 2:37 AM :: 1561 Views :: Rail
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... Honolulu rail is not alone ....
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Sunday, August 14, 2022 |
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Honolulu announces free week of fares for TheBus
By News Release @ 4:00 AM :: 1673 Views :: Honolulu County, Education K-12, Rail
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... starting August 22 to August 26, 2022. The free fare week is timed with the back-to-school jam ....
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Sunday, August 14, 2022 |
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Plague, Frogs, Fire and Cracks: Eleven Years of HART Excuses
By Andrew Walden @ 12:02 AM :: 2983 Views :: Hawaii History, Rail
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... HART excuses are nearly Biblical: Plague, Frogs, Fires, and Cracks -- but the real reason slipped out as COVID shut down Hawaii's tourism industry: “After Wasting Billions to Build Rail, is it worth $160 million a year to operate?” ....
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Friday, July 22, 2022 |
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Ala Moana Satellite City Hall temporarily halts HOLO card service Because they Have too Many Customers
By News Release @ 5:11 AM :: 1834 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail
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... Walk-in customers make up the majority of the 5,790 HOLO card transactions processed in the past fiscal year at the Ala Moana Satellite City Hall ....
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Thursday, June 30, 2022 |
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Honolulu Rail: $9.9 Billion to Go Nowhere
By Selected News Articles @ 2:00 AM :: 2432 Views :: Rail, COVID-19
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... the state of Hawaii has released a report explaining why the rail project will fail no matter where it goes or how much it costs ....
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Tuesday, June 28, 2022 |
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Time to get real about rail
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 6:33 PM :: 2083 Views :: Rail
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... It was sold to the public on the promise that it would only cost about $4 billion, that it would be completed by 2019 and that the general excise tax surcharge associated with it would end by 2022 ....
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Saturday, June 25, 2022 |
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Rail: Feds Urged to be Skeptical of HART 'Recovery Plan'
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:43 AM :: 1784 Views :: Rail
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...HART’s new plan appears to contain “overly optimistic assumptions about revenues, ridership and costs, and this could saddle local taxpayers with unstated liabilities in the future.”....
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Tuesday, June 21, 2022 |
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Why Panos Prevedouros Left Hawaii
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 2:47 AM :: 3290 Views :: Higher Education, Rail, Cost of Living
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... The former chairman of the University of Hawaii’s civil engineering department says aloha ....
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Monday, June 20, 2022 |
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$119M: Another Extension for Rail Management Contract
By News Release @ 4:47 PM :: 1453 Views :: Rail
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... The US$119 million contract is an extension of existing construction and engineering services Stantec is providing to HART and will run through the end of 2026, with the possibility of a 5-year extension to expected project completion in 2031 ....
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Sunday, June 12, 2022 |
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Bill 45: Rail TOD Giveaway to High Tech Tax Credit Schemers
By Selected News Articles @ 3:30 AM :: 2294 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Rail, Tax Credits
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... The vague language in the proposal lacks any metrics for measuring success, similar to another business-focused tax credit whose value to the state is dubious ...
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Saturday, June 4, 2022 |
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Iwasa Rips Rail Recovery Plan: “Errors that no one seems to care about”
By Natalie Iwasa @ 5:54 PM :: 2206 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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... HART's recovery plan was shipped off to the FTA today with revenue projections that I think are too high ....
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Sunday, May 29, 2022 |
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Transit History
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1710 Views :: Hawaii History, Rail
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... Fat chance of the Feds giving us that much now ....
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Friday, May 20, 2022 |
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Questions persist about viability of Honolulu rail
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 7:05 PM :: 1697 Views :: Rail
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... the one thing we can rely on concerning the Honolulu rail project is the long list of unanswered questions ....
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Friday, May 13, 2022 |
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Honolulu Rail: $9.9 Billion to Go Nowhere
By Selected News Articles @ 5:45 PM :: 2756 Views :: Rail
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... HART now says it will cost $9.9 billion to not finish its rail project by 2031 ....
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Thursday, May 12, 2022 |
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'Good Questions' still bedevil Honolulu rail
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 5:08 PM :: 1634 Views :: Rail
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... Iwasa has valuable insights into the operations of the rail project because she also is a non-voting member of the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation ....
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Sunday, May 1, 2022 |
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Archegos -Theranos - Honolulu Rail: The Price of Lying
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 3:14 PM :: 2261 Views :: Ethics, Rail
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... What do these three multi billion dollar failures have in common? ....
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Wednesday, March 23, 2022 |
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HART: Recovery Plan Does Not Exist (yet)
By Andrew Walden @ 10:21 PM :: 1785 Views :: Rail
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..."We submitted a Recovery Plan to the FTA, proposing to amend the Full Funding Grant Agreement" (not quite) ....
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Tuesday, March 15, 2022 |
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State of the City: Blangiardi Announces Latest Scheme to Get Rail Money Withheld by Feds
By Video @ 7:23 PM :: 3620 Views :: Honolulu County, Homelessness, Rail, COVID-19
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"...We submitted a Recovery Plan to the FTA, proposing to amend the Full Funding Grant Agreement to the following scope: 18.75 miles/19 stations through Downtown, to the Civic Center Station, which is 1.25 miles and 2 stations short of Ala Moana Center...."
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Friday, March 11, 2022 |
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Blangiardi meets with FTA to discuss Honolulu Rail Project
By News Release @ 2:14 AM :: 2420 Views :: Rail
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... Mayor Blangiardi said, “Even though this was a very quick turn-around trip for me, the time I spent with the Administrator was well worth the trip" ....
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Wednesday, March 2, 2022 |
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Blangiardi Appoints Sheet Metal Union Boss to HART Board
By News Release @ 2:16 AM :: 2549 Views :: Honolulu County, Labor, Rail
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"...Art’s management background at Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation (SMART) Workers Local Union 293 and his experience on the Planning Commission make him the perfect candidate...."
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Friday, January 21, 2022 |
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Honolulu Rate Commission seeks input on TheBus, HandiVan fare changes
By News Release @ 5:29 PM :: 2235 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail
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... The Honolulu Rate Commission will be taking public testimony on proposed fare policy changes affecting TheBus and TheHandi-Van at its January 24th and February 8th meetings ....
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Tuesday, January 4, 2022 |
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New Ethics Comm Exec Director a Pro-Rail Corporate Lawyer and Lobbyist
By News Release @ 4:19 AM :: 2511 Views :: Environment, Ethics, Rail
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... Ethics Commission Chair Melinda Wood stated: “Mr. Harris has the right mix of public policy, litigation, and managerial experience to excel in this role." ....
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Sunday, December 19, 2021 |
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NYT Looks at Honolulu Rail: Why U.S. Infrastructure Is So Expensive
By Selected News Articles @ 3:15 PM :: 3210 Views :: Rail
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... Using the Honolulu rail project as an example, the New York Times wants to know why so many infrastructure projects suffer from such large cost overruns ....
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Sunday, December 19, 2021 |
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The New County TAT Earmarks Aren’t the Real Problem
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 2067 Views :: Rail, Taxes, Tourism
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... these debates are meaningless ....
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Wednesday, December 15, 2021 |
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Blangiardi signs bill to recover lost Transient Accommodations Tax revenue and give it to Rail
By News Release @ 1:34 AM :: 2348 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail, Taxes, Tourism
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...Translation: The Legislature took the counties' share of the state TAT away but let them impose their own TAT. I'm giving it to rail -- so, in effect, other city services have been cut to fund rail but -- like a shell game -- with so many moving parts, the public has been deceived....
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Friday, December 3, 2021 |
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Oahu's new 'tourism tax' will affect residents, too
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:19 PM :: 2643 Views :: Rail, Taxes, Tourism
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... projected revenues from the tax fall short of what the project needs to cover its budget shortfalls ....
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Wednesday, November 24, 2021 |
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Lost Opportunity: Schatz Secures Extension Of $493 Million Honolulu Rail Funding Grant In Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal
By News Release @ 5:08 AM :: 3049 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Rail
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... in yet another failure of leadership, Schatz misses an opportunity to put the rail nightmare behind us ....
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Friday, October 22, 2021 |
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County TAT could further debilitate Hawaii tourism
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:06 PM :: 2687 Views :: Economy, Rail, Taxes, Tourism
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... Hawaii is still in a state of emergency, tourism has slowed, businesses are closing and unemployment is high. The economy will take years to recover ....
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Tuesday, October 19, 2021 |
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More Honolulu Rail Follies
By Selected News Articles @ 3:26 PM :: 824 Views :: Rail
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... there is a teensy disagreement over the value of the land. HART offered Hughes $13.5 million; Hughes thought it was worth “about” $100 million more ....
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Sunday, October 10, 2021 |
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HART Makes Up Its Voting Rules
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 2910 Views :: Ethics, Rail, Taxes, Tourism
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... The memo concludes that the State did not have the power under the Hawaii Constitution to provide for four extra HART board members. Thus, we can basically ignore the extra folks and conduct business as if they weren’t around ....
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