Part 2 in a series by Malia Zimmerman Big Island small business owner Jim O’Keefe found out the hard way that his American dream, owning his own business, was too difficult to maintain in Hawaii. He closed down his 13-year-old extensive bakery wholesale and retail operation, O’Keefe & Sons Bread Bakers,
by Malia Zimmerman When Ed Case was in Congress (2002-2007), he shook Hawaii’s political powers to the core when he challenged Hawaii’s three other congressional delegates over their support for the Jones Act – the federal law that mandates only American built, owned and manned ships transport goods between American ports.
by Pearl Hahn Federal judge David Ezra chose to toss a lawsuit seeking to overturn the Jones Act, an 89-year-old law that restricts interstate shipping to Hawaii to only U.S.-built and U.S.-flagged ships. Earlier this fall, Honolulu attorneys John Carroll and Christopher Dias filed the suit against the U.S. government on
Part 2 in a series by Malia Zimmerman Big Island small business owner Jim O’Keefe found out the hard way that his American dream, owning his own business, was too difficult to maintain in Hawaii. He closed down his 13-year-old extensive bakery wholesale and retail operation, O’Keefe & Sons Bread Bakers,
by Malia Zimmerman When Ed Case was in Congress (2002-2007), he shook Hawaii’s political powers to the core when he challenged Hawaii’s three other congressional delegates over their support for the Jones Act – the federal law that mandates only American built, owned and manned ships transport goods between American ports.
by Pearl Hahn Federal judge David Ezra chose to toss a lawsuit seeking to overturn the Jones Act, an 89-year-old law that restricts interstate shipping to Hawaii to only U.S.-built and U.S.-flagged ships. Earlier this fall, Honolulu attorneys John Carroll and Christopher Dias filed the suit against the U.S. government on
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