... marijuana providers with high startup costs are not allowed to deduct any of them or any routine business expenses ....

Renewable fuel proponents took another shot this year at enacting a renewable fuels credit....

...The Strategic Plan, which was last updated in 2012, is a combined effort to further develop comprehensive strategies focused on three foundational goals of quality education: Student Success, Staff Success and Successful Systems of Support....

...Ige's fourth supplemental proclamation on homelessness will remain in effect until late June....

Candidate filing for the 2016 Elections runs from February 1, 2016 through June 7, 2016....

...Gary and Hector kept repeating the words corporations and chemicals over and over....

...Until recently, hospital labor on Maui was given exclusively to a public labor union. As a result, 70% of the budget was spent on employees....

“The main reason is a very cumbersome permitting process, in a way that prevents people from building housing quickly and at a low cost…."

...the conference committee on Senate Bill 2954 recommended that the Senate concur with the House amendments that were made to SB 2954.  This bill will now go back to the Senate for final concurrence.  Additionally, House Bill 2632 has been scheduled for a conference committee hearing....

... Sign this petition opposing Bill 165 so that I may share it with the Council members when we discuss the tax increase in the Finance Committee on May 3 ....

...Sanders’ camp has been quiet as far as whether Gabbard would join the Vermont senator as his running mate....

...much of the university’s request is not accommodated in either the House or Senate version of the budget....

...When Zika makes it to Hawaii and destroys the tourism industry, remember the environmentalists and organic pseudo-farmers who refused to allow spraying....

“We look like potted plants.” -- Formby

...“Keahole Management Group LLC” is managed by former House Vice-Speaker Jon Riki Karimtsu ....

"...only four cities—Burlington-South Burlington, Vt.; Elmira-Corning, N.Y.; Honolulu, Hawaii; and Salinas, Calif.—qualified for the 'cleanest cities' list in the "State of the Air' report...."

... HB2501 Conference Committee meets today at 2pm, do the math ....

...debtor in possession....

Representative Bob McDermott discusses the building of a new school for Ewa Beach with Kurt Fevella President at The Ewa Beach Lions Club....