Hawaii taxpayers about to get railroaded?
Lawmakers are calling for more tax increases to pay for the Honolulu rail project’s skyrocketing costs.
Grassroot Institute video goes viral
The Grassroot Institute of Hawaii reached almost half a million people in just six days with a video about how locals are fleeing Hawaii’s high taxes and cost of living.
Democrats dominant in Hawaii because voters like their ideas
Mark Coleman looks into the state of political competition in Hawaii and suggests that ideas are why the Democratic Party of Hawaii has been top dog for so long.
The Jones Act is the ‘third rail of the American waterfront’
The Maritime Professional published on May 5, 2017, an opinion-editorial, “Electrocuted,” commenting on five (5) protectionist U.S. maritime policy issues that can be more or less included under the Jones Act rubric and importantly have been in the domestic maritime news within the past year or so. The author of the piece is Joseph A. […]
The Hill: Has the ‘swamp’ at Veterans Affairs drained out on the Pacific Islands?
Has the bureaucracy of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs grown so big that it can shield employees from accountability? Worried Hawaii veterans would like to know. The list of VA scandals stretches from the East Coast all the way to the Pacific. And evidence of poor practices continues to roll in. In the last […]
