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Thursday, April 28, 2022 |
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All State Court Public Cases Now Available For E-filing
By News Release @ 8:04 PM :: 1853 Views :: Judiciary
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... The Judiciary is pleased to announce that all civil Family Court cases, including divorce matters, were successfully integrated into the Judiciary Information Management System ....
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Thursday, April 28, 2022 |
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Visitor Arrivals Reach 85% of March 2019 Level
By News Release @ 7:46 PM :: 2515 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Tourism
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... and total spending by visitors who came to the islands in March 2022 was $1.53 billion, which was higher compared to the $1.49 billion (+2.5%) reported for March 2019 ....
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Thursday, April 28, 2022 |
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Senate and House Money Committees Approve State Budget Bill
By News Release @ 6:46 AM :: 1688 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... An operating budget of $8.7 billion in general funds and $16.9 billion through all methods of funding (MOF) for FY23 ... CIP budget of $6 billion (all MOF) for FY22 and FY23 ....
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Wednesday, April 27, 2022 |
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Laughed out of Hawaii, Kahele Slinks Back to Washington, DC
By Selected News Articles @ 6:01 AM :: 4475 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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... Asked Tuesday if he intends to still work for Hawaiian Airlines while in Congress, "Yeah, absolutely" ....
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Wednesday, April 27, 2022 |
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Full Text: Conference Committee Issues Proposed Draft to Create Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority
By News Release @ 5:43 AM :: 3638 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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... This afternoon, the legislative conference committee on House Bill (HB) 2024, Relating to Mauna Kea, issued a proposed conference draft (CD 1) ....
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Wednesday, April 27, 2022 |
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Blangiardi signs Bill 41 outlawing some Short Term Rentals
By News Release @ 5:27 AM :: 2873 Views :: Honolulu County, Small Business, Tourism
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... The measure was passed by the Honolulu City Council on April 13, 2022 by a vote of 8-to-1 ....
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Wednesday, April 27, 2022 |
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How the Jones Act transfers critical industry and jobs overseas
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:01 AM :: 2247 Views :: Jones Act
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... with only 96 large oceangoing Jones Act-qualified ships left — down from 257 in 1980 — it is pretty clear the law has failed ....
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Tuesday, April 26, 2022 |
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DLNR Launches Environmental Stewardship Dashboard
By News Release @ 11:56 PM :: 2345 Views :: Environment, Land Use
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... Where do stewardship projects overlap, and where are there gaps? ....
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Tuesday, April 26, 2022 |
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$328M: After 23 years of Judicial Stalling, State Settles DHHL Suit
By News Release @ 10:14 PM :: 3019 Views :: DHHL
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“... After weeks of intensive negotiations ...."
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Tuesday, April 26, 2022 |
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SB2819: Teacher pay bill emerges from conference committees
By News Release @ 5:46 PM :: 3197 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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... $7,000 pay hike and more fake 'professional development' time to escape actual teaching ....
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Tuesday, April 26, 2022 |
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Chief Justice Seeks Public Comment on Judicial Nominees
By News Release @ 3:43 AM :: 2060 Views :: Judiciary
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... for two vacancies in the District Family Court of the Third Circuit (island of Hawaii), and one vacancy in the District Court of the Fifth Circuit, (island of Kauai). ...
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Monday, April 25, 2022 |
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Vacation rental ban won’t solve Hawaii housing crisis
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:25 PM :: 3249 Views :: Honolulu County, Small Business, Tourism, Cost of Living
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... Oahu tightened the screws in 2019. Yet, housing prices still went up. Even when vacation rental usage declined during the lockdowns, it didn’t result in a significant drop in housing costs....
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Monday, April 25, 2022 |
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Honolulu 5th Lowest Small Business Growth
By Wallet Hub @ 3:30 PM :: 2705 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Small Business
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... Honolulu business environment ranks 84th of 100 large cities in USA ....
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Sunday, April 24, 2022 |
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UHERO: Astronomy impact on Hawaiʻi even greater with ‘spillover’ effects
By UHERO @ 5:23 PM :: 2682 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education
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... The extent of astronomy’s economic impact on the state goes well beyond the standard economic measurements when “spillover” effects are included ....
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Sunday, April 24, 2022 |
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Stealth Taxes in 2022
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 2657 Views :: Taxes
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... Lawmakers can be very crafty and propose things that don’t look like taxes ....
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Sunday, April 24, 2022 |
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Swimming in money, legislators could easily add to debt burden
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:47 AM :: 2949 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Tax Credits, Taxes
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... What one hand might be giving, the other might be taking away by spending money on things that could come back to haunt us ....
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Saturday, April 23, 2022 |
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OHA LLCs Funnel Dollars to COO, Individuals, Lawfirm
By Andrew Walden @ 9:45 PM :: 3505 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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... OHA LLCs make hundreds of payments to Amazon, Best Buy, Home Depot and other retail outlets and hundreds of payments directly to named individuals ....
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Saturday, April 23, 2022 |
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Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 5:27 PM :: 2547 Views :: Family, Life
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... Bills Move to Conference Committees ....
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Saturday, April 23, 2022 |
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City celebrates Earth Day by releasing 2022 Annual Sustainability Report
By News Release @ 4:41 PM :: 2383 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment
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... respecting the State religion by celebrating our efforts to get closer to the goddess Gaia ....
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Saturday, April 23, 2022 |
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‘Deliberative process’ loophole would encourage secrecy
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:44 AM :: 2254 Views :: Ethics, First Amendment
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... a statutory exemption to Hawaii’s open records law ....
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Saturday, April 23, 2022 |
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Kaimuki HS Grad Pleads Guilty to Trumpster Fraud
By News Release @ 3:31 AM :: 2577 Views :: Ethics, Republican Party
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... Two Leaders Of ‘We Build The Wall’ Online Fundraising Campaign Plead Guilty To Defrauding Hundreds Of Thousands Of Donors ....
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Friday, April 22, 2022 |
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Economic report ranks Hawaii in bottom 10
By Selected News Articles @ 5:13 PM :: 2133 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics
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... over 83,000 people have moved away from Hawaii between 2011 and 2020 ....
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Thursday, April 21, 2022 |
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How Much Food Costs in Hawaii, Compared to the Nation
By Selected News Articles @ 2:35 PM :: 3944 Views :: Family, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... In Hawaii, a family of four can expect to spend an average of $14,042 on food in 2022, the highest amount among states ....
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Thursday, April 21, 2022 |
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Video: 175 Junk Cars being Removed from DLNR Land on Maui
By News Release @ 2:19 PM :: 2470 Views :: Maui County, Environment
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“...People have been abandoning vehicles in an area about ¼-mile off the pavement and it’s been happening for 6-7 years...."
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Thursday, April 21, 2022 |
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Water to be Restored to Five Molokai Streams
By News Release @ 2:02 PM :: 2955 Views :: Maui County, Environment, Agriculture
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... For more than a century these streams were almost fully diverted and often dry ....
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Thursday, April 21, 2022 |
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Jury Convicts Katherine Kealoha's Drug-Dealing Brother
By News Release @ 4:42 AM :: 3723 Views :: Hawaii County , Honolulu County, Ethics, Drugs
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... Federal Jury Convicts Big Island Pain Doctor Rudolph B. Puana of Conspiracy and Distribution of Oxycodone and Fentanyl ....
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Thursday, April 21, 2022 |
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Victims' rights events set for Oahu, Maui
By News Release @ 4:01 AM :: 5483 Views :: Honolulu County, Maui County, Law Enforcement
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... commemorating National Crime Victims’ Rights Week ....
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Wednesday, April 20, 2022 |
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Ethics Complaint Nails Kahele
By Selected News Articles @ 3:25 PM :: 3043 Views :: Ethics, Congressional Delegation
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... Kahele is cosponsoring legislation and taking action as a committee member that directly affects his outside employer, which is further evidenced by Hawaiian Airlines lobbying on the bills Kahele cosponsored ....
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Wednesday, April 20, 2022 |
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The cost of “excess inflation” in Hawaii
By UHERO @ 12:02 AM :: 3276 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... inflation has not been over 7.5% since 1991 ....
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Wednesday, April 20, 2022 |
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Former Maui Police Officer Pleads Guilty to Child Enticement Charge
By News Release @ 12:01 AM :: 2505 Views :: Maui County, Police
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... on December 3, 2021, Saffeels contacted the online profile of what appeared to be a young female ....
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022 |
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Track Your Ballot: Ballottrax Service Launched in Hawaii
By News Release @ 10:43 PM :: 2528 Views :: Office of Elections
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... Hawaii voters can sign up now to receive notifications about their mail ballot ....
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022 |
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Hawaii Banks Charging More Than Payday Lenders for Small Loans
By Selected News Articles @ 3:38 PM :: 3521 Views :: Ethics, Cost of Living
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... FDIC-supervised institutions’ prices equal or surpass payday lenders’ in Hawaii ....
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Monday, April 18, 2022 |
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Maui’s Automated Planning and Permitting System is LIVE
By News Release @ 11:59 PM :: 2341 Views :: Maui County, Development
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... a new web-based software designed to support planning and permit processing ....
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Monday, April 18, 2022 |
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Court Order: Masks not Required in Airports or on Bus
By News Release @ 11:40 PM :: 1828 Views :: COVID-19
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... but Masks Still Required Indoors for Hawaii Public School Students ....
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Monday, April 18, 2022 |
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SB2070: $50M for ‘thinly veiled scam’?
By Andrew Walden @ 11:02 PM :: 4309 Views :: Environment, Ethics, Agriculture
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... When a couple of penny-stock touts, one of whom is listed in the Panama Papers, team up to sell timber futures and carbon credits what does the Legislature do? ....
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Monday, April 18, 2022 |
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High Tax Hawaii 43rd in Economic Growth
By Selected News Articles @ 4:53 PM :: 2760 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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... A newly released report examines the tax burden and economic climate of all 50 states ....
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Sunday, April 17, 2022 |
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Once Upon a Rebate
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 2184 Views :: Tax Credits
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... Governor Dorothy’s two bills died in the Legislature ....
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Saturday, April 16, 2022 |
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UHERO is my new housing policy hero
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 11:56 PM :: 3094 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... Delays, zoning rules and a long pathway to approval make homebuilding difficult and expensive ....
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Saturday, April 16, 2022 |
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Will Legislators loan $50M to a drunken rave promoter?
By Andrew Walden @ 8:01 PM :: 3596 Views :: Ethics
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... Karamatsu Bonds have been a legislative perennial ever since he got two DUI’s while spiraling down from Vice Speaker of the House to working in Keith Kaneshiro’s corruption-riddled Honolulu Prosecutor’s office and promoting rave parties ....
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Saturday, April 16, 2022 |
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Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 1:37 AM :: 2906 Views :: Family, First Amendment, Life
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... Assisted Suicide Bill Passes Final Reading ....
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Friday, April 15, 2022 |
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National Community Survey of Honolulu Residents
By News Release @ 10:21 PM :: 2017 Views :: Honolulu County
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... residents’ opinions across 10 facets of the community: Economy; Mobility; Community Design; Utilities; Safety; Natural Environment; Parks and Recreation; Health and Wellness; Education, Arts, and Culture; and Inclusivity and Engagement ....
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Friday, April 15, 2022 |
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How Much it Costs to House a Family of 4 in Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 4:02 PM :: 2678 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... This amount reflects both housing and utilities costs for a modest two-bedroom rental ....
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Friday, April 15, 2022 |
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Unemployment Bounceback? Hawaii Ranks 50th
By Selected News Articles @ 3:49 PM :: 2007 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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... In order to identify the states whose unemployment rates are bouncing back most, WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia ....
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Thursday, April 14, 2022 |
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Hawaii Unemployment 4.1% for March
By News Release @ 9:23 PM :: 1992 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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... total nonagricultural jobs decreased by 300 over-the-month ....
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Thursday, April 14, 2022 |
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VIDEO: Measuring the Burden of Housing Regulation in Hawaii
By UHERO @ 6:44 AM :: 3031 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... One of the factors that may explain Hawaii’s high home prices are government regulations that limit the ability of the housing market to create the units necessary to meet demand ....
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Wednesday, April 13, 2022 |
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Honolulu Population Down 1.2% in Year
By Selected News Articles @ 4:17 PM :: 2442 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii Statistics
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... 13,690 more people moved out of the metro area than moved in over the last year ....
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Wednesday, April 13, 2022 |
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Wednesday, April 13, 2022 |
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State Response to COVID: Hawaii Ranks 39th
By News Release @ 6:23 AM :: 2143 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, COVID-19
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... found little health benefit of closing schools or businesses ....
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