Nationally, the combined net income of sole proprietors, LLCs, Partnerships, and S corporations has increased fivefold and now accounts for more than 50 percent of all business income....

We score all 50 states on 56 measures of competitiveness, developed using input from business groups, economic development experts, companies and the states themselves.....

“Solar energy comes and goes. You need something fast to fill the gaps.”

...140 individuals are targeted to move into IHS shelters or homes and an additional 120 transient individuals will be returned to their homes outside Hawaii....

...a tax that has been described as the largest tax increase in U.S. history....

New Jersey, New York and Illinois have imposed mandatory quarantines for health care workers who treated Ebola patients in West Africa....

A Secret Deal Has Already Been Struck Between The Obama Administration & The US Dept. Of Interior....

"The Department of Education has a constitutional mandate to establish a statewide public school system that consists of, among other things, a comprehensive Hawaiian education program...."

...the Aloha state should not be lead by those who want gain by invoking FEAR, but by leaders who can cast a vision and implement a plan that brings HOPE to our islands....

...Coburn's newly released “2014 Wastebook” has only one sad and lonely reference to federal spending on “silly, unnecessary, and low priority projects” in Hawaii....

...yes I did look at the pension tax as an option. I did look at raising the GET tax....

Takai voted to raid the state retirement fund and to institute a pension tax....

North Korea now has the ability to produce a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can be mounted atop a ballistic missile....

...the State Business Tax Climate Index, released this morning by the nonpartisan Tax Foundation....

Keonepoko and Pahoa High School will remain as election polling sites for the General Election on Tuesday, November 4....

...Faleomavaega neither resigned nor retired and finally has returned home just a few days short of a year after his medical evacuation last October....

Must See: Anti-GMO activist stops his Volvo in middle of busy highway....

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