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Maui hospitals point the way

by Aaron Lief | Jan 1, 2018 | Accountability, Budget, Health care, Privatization, Taxes, Unions, Website

After years of hemorrhaging millions of Hawaii taxpayer dollars, the three state-run hospitals in Maui County have been turned over to a public-private partnership that now is improving the quality of the medical services at those facilities while reducing their...

Bureaucracy thwarts state modernization

by Joe Kent | Dec 19, 2017 | Privatization, Research & Commentary, Taxes, Unions, Website

Hawaii’s entrenched state and county bureaucracies have long been blamed for many things, and delaying the advance of high technology into their own operations is definitely one of them. Repeated failures in trying to upgrade the payroll and other technology systems...

Public park model not working in Kakaako

by Malia Hill | Oct 20, 2017 | Government Waste, Homelessness, Legislature, Privatization, Research & Commentary, Socioeconomics, Website

Kakaako Waterfront Park was supposed to be the kind of scenic public space that leaps, unprompted, to the imagination at the words “Honolulu” and “park.” On the cusp of its opening in 1992, politicians spoke about how it was going to be “people-oriented.” The park...