...HIDOE announces its 2019 graduation dates for 64 schools statewide including public charter schools....

...Elon Musk is going to get even more of your money....

...'Sin' taxes are levied on a relatively narrow tax base, and many are regressive, with a larger share of the tax burden falling on those with lower incomes....

...Is There A Way Of Living In Hawai'i Without All The Problems?....

"...The Kealoha case is arguably the single largest corruption case in the history of our state...."

...A new Grassroot Institute of Hawaii report suggests ways to build a financial reserve....

...Unlike tax rates, which vary widely based on an individual’s circumstances, tax burden measures the proportion of total personal income that residents pay toward state and local taxes....

...the State (in 1967) and the City and County of Honolulu (in 2004) passed legislation designed to dismantle leasehold housing on private lands....

...this will be exploited to jam up traffic even more....

...Hawaii residents get the least amount of sleep per night and have the 3rd-lowest job security in USA....

Editor's Note: The Big Island is different because the subdivisions in Puna and Kau change the supply-demand equation. 

...The committee is charged with increasing awareness about the importance of being counted; organizing state resources effectively and cost-efficiently to promote the count; and improving the response rate for the 2020 Census questionnaire....

...Trump Admin Awards $5.1 Million to Group of Pro-life Medical Clinics, Cuts Funding to Planned Parenthood....

"...With two newly-elected Republican legislators on Oahu in 2018, we are really beginning to turn things around....”

...Survey dates are Monday, April 1, 2019 to Tuesday, April 30, 2019....

...four material weaknesses and ten significant deficiencies in internal control over compliance with major federal programs....

... weekly update from GovTrack.us ....

...Suicide Prevention and Palliative Care bills still moving....

...Utility bills have dropped ranging from less than a dollar a month for the average residential customer in Hawaii to about $14 for the same group in Florida....

...The AOC requires Big Island Dairy owners to terminate their dairy operations, remove all their cows from confinement on the site, clean and remove the existing wastewater system, and pay $79,000 by June of 2019....