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Jones Act study boldly goes where no research has gone before
If you remember nothing else, remember these numbers: 1.2 billion, 5 and 9,100. No, those aren’t lottery numbers or the beginning of a Carnac the Magnificent skit. They are the answers to a question that we at the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii have been asking for...
Jones Act lobby lobs a dud in advance of our landmark study
How do you know you’re starting to make a real difference on an issue? The quality of both your critics and your friends improves. By that measure, the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii is having a banner week. On Tuesday, the American Maritime Partnership released a...
Let’s work together … to reform the Jones Act
If you have been following the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii’s coverage of the Jones Act for the past few years, you might have noticed that our discussion of reform rarely focuses on a specific political party. That isn’t just because we are a nonpartisan...
Help from the Legislature will have to wait
Hawaii’s 2020 legislative session adjourned yesterday (Friday, July 10), and thank goodness for that. It was a session interrupted in March by the COVID-19 crisis, then reconvened for four hectic weeks in June and July. When the session began in January, we had been...
Happy Fourth of July, despite the irony
This week, we celebrate the nation’s independence … while still under lockdown. Usually, we associate the Fourth of July with picnics, parades and fireworks, all celebrating that day in 1776 when the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. This...