Sometimes less is more. In Houston, the largest city in Texas by population, less zoning has resulted in more housing, helping it enjoy a significantly higher standard of living than Honolulu, as measured by the purchasing power of real wages. Find out more about Houston’s example by watching this interview with Tory
It’s been a long time coming, but thanks to new Honolulu City Council member Heidi Tsuneyoshi, representing District 2, it’s finally going to get done: a forensic audit of the city’s wildly over-budget and behind-schedule rail project. Tsuneyoshi met with Grassroot Institute of Hawaii President Keli‘i Akina on Monday to discuss
In this Feb. 6, 2019 episode of “Hawaii Together” on the ThinkTech Hawaii network, host Keli’i Akina talks with Gale Pooley about the BYU-Hawaii professor’s recent policy report, “The Simon Abundance Index: A New Way to Measure Availability of Resources.” Written with researcher Marian Tupy, the report shows that instead
“There’s no real story here for why we should think that giving the government control of the health care economy would lead to a cost reduction. Cost reductions benefit consumers who are very widely distributed and disorganized, whereas the producers of health care are very concentrated, powerful industries that are
Get to know our eyes and ears in our nation’s capital: Malia Blom Hill, the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii director of policy. Hill completed her undergraduate studies at Mount Saint Mary’s University in Los Angeles, earned a law degree from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., then worked in
What happens when Grassroot Institute of Hawaii President Keli’i Akina hosts a special edition of “Hawaii Tomorrow” to discuss education in our islands? Listen here as he interviews Alex Teece of Teach for America and Lynn Finnegan. Alex Teece: As director of the external affairs team, Alex works closely with the
Sometimes less is more. In Houston, the largest city in Texas by population, less zoning has resulted in more housing, helping it enjoy a significantly higher standard of living than Honolulu, as measured by the purchasing power of real wages. Find out more about Houston’s example by watching this interview with Tory
It’s been a long time coming, but thanks to new Honolulu City Council member Heidi Tsuneyoshi, representing District 2, it’s finally going to get done: a forensic audit of the city’s wildly over-budget and behind-schedule rail project. Tsuneyoshi met with Grassroot Institute of Hawaii President Keli‘i Akina on Monday to discuss
In this Feb. 6, 2019 episode of “Hawaii Together” on the ThinkTech Hawaii network, host Keli’i Akina talks with Gale Pooley about the BYU-Hawaii professor’s recent policy report, “The Simon Abundance Index: A New Way to Measure Availability of Resources.” Written with researcher Marian Tupy, the report shows that instead
“There’s no real story here for why we should think that giving the government control of the health care economy would lead to a cost reduction. Cost reductions benefit consumers who are very widely distributed and disorganized, whereas the producers of health care are very concentrated, powerful industries that are
Get to know our eyes and ears in our nation’s capital: Malia Blom Hill, the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii director of policy. Hill completed her undergraduate studies at Mount Saint Mary’s University in Los Angeles, earned a law degree from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., then worked in
What happens when Grassroot Institute of Hawaii President Keli’i Akina hosts a special edition of “Hawaii Tomorrow” to discuss education in our islands? Listen here as he interviews Alex Teece of Teach for America and Lynn Finnegan. Alex Teece: As director of the external affairs team, Alex works closely with the
