You may all recall that if you go to the store in Hawaii and buy a bottle of your favorite beverage, a couple of other charges show up on your bill. One is a 5 cent deposit, which you can get back if you bring back the bottle for recycling,
Lack of transparency and accountability on the part of the city and state government is a dirty business … literally. Hawaii News Now reporter Rick Daysog reports on a car wash that was built to clean Honolulu’s refuse trucks. Or would have, had it ever worked. Instead, taxpayers are out
In theory, Hawaii’s open government laws are good ones, requiring greater transparency than many other states and promoting the idea that open government is a key to good government and an informed citizenry. But that’s only in theory. In practice, those who attempt to request government records or invoke sunshine
With the revelation that employees of Hawaii’s State Hospital System were manipulating the rules governing overtime in order to increase their pay, it is clear that there is a great need for broad reform. The Heartland Institute recently ran an article on the issue including commentary from the Grassroot Institute.
“I think we need to focus on living within our means and not expanding.” said Tim Lussier, executive director of the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii
In preparation for our upcoming Milton Friedman dinner, we will be highlighting a number of videos illustrating the views of the illustrious Friedman himself. The second of these videos is on the topic of government spending being “free”. Check it out! Friedman on the Free Lunch Myth
On 6/21/12 the Court of Justice of the European Union handed down a ruling on a labor law case involving department store workers in Spain.
GRIH’s Cody Hensarling was interviewed by Hawaii News Now’s Tim Sakihara on the 6 o’clock news on May 21st, 2012. The topic of discussion was the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upcoming conference in Maui and whether or not this constitutes wasteful spending. The video of what aired on the
The Book Hawaii’s Government Doesn’t Want You to Read by Malia Hill Wondering just how much it cost the State to renovate the mosaic at the Capitol? Want the full story on the thousands of dollars embezzled from the State by Department of Education employees (one of whom bought a
An Uncensored Look At The Fiscal Challenges Facing Hawaii by Danny de Gracia The incoming Twenty-Sixth Legislature of Hawaii and newly elected Governor Neil Abercrombie have inherited for 2011 significant challenges in the form of persistent unemployment/underemployment unstable global markets, an ongoing international currency war, dramatically rising costs of commodities and chief of all, a
You may all recall that if you go to the store in Hawaii and buy a bottle of your favorite beverage, a couple of other charges show up on your bill. One is a 5 cent deposit, which you can get back if you bring back the bottle for recycling,
Lack of transparency and accountability on the part of the city and state government is a dirty business … literally. Hawaii News Now reporter Rick Daysog reports on a car wash that was built to clean Honolulu’s refuse trucks. Or would have, had it ever worked. Instead, taxpayers are out
In theory, Hawaii’s open government laws are good ones, requiring greater transparency than many other states and promoting the idea that open government is a key to good government and an informed citizenry. But that’s only in theory. In practice, those who attempt to request government records or invoke sunshine
With the revelation that employees of Hawaii’s State Hospital System were manipulating the rules governing overtime in order to increase their pay, it is clear that there is a great need for broad reform. The Heartland Institute recently ran an article on the issue including commentary from the Grassroot Institute.
“I think we need to focus on living within our means and not expanding.” said Tim Lussier, executive director of the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii
In preparation for our upcoming Milton Friedman dinner, we will be highlighting a number of videos illustrating the views of the illustrious Friedman himself. The second of these videos is on the topic of government spending being “free”. Check it out! Friedman on the Free Lunch Myth
On 6/21/12 the Court of Justice of the European Union handed down a ruling on a labor law case involving department store workers in Spain.
GRIH’s Cody Hensarling was interviewed by Hawaii News Now’s Tim Sakihara on the 6 o’clock news on May 21st, 2012. The topic of discussion was the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upcoming conference in Maui and whether or not this constitutes wasteful spending. The video of what aired on the
The Book Hawaii’s Government Doesn’t Want You to Read by Malia Hill Wondering just how much it cost the State to renovate the mosaic at the Capitol? Want the full story on the thousands of dollars embezzled from the State by Department of Education employees (one of whom bought a
An Uncensored Look At The Fiscal Challenges Facing Hawaii by Danny de Gracia The incoming Twenty-Sixth Legislature of Hawaii and newly elected Governor Neil Abercrombie have inherited for 2011 significant challenges in the form of persistent unemployment/underemployment unstable global markets, an ongoing international currency war, dramatically rising costs of commodities and chief of all, a
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