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Senate Panel Approves Increases In Hawaii Estate, Conveyance Taxes Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2020

Senate Panel Approves Increases In Hawaii Estate, Conveyance Taxes

The measure would also suspend some excise tax exemptions for various industries to generate extra tax revenue.

Leonardo DiCaprio Lends Support To Hawaii Bill Protecting Sharks

Leonardo DiCaprio Lends Support To Hawaii Bill Protecting Sharks

The actor and environmentalist says that shark populations 鈥渁re critical to ocean health and resiliency.鈥

New Sunshine Rules Would Require Requests For Some In-Person Meetings Suevon Lee/Civil Beat/2019

New Sunshine Rules Would Require Requests For Some In-Person Meetings

Senate Bill 1034 would still allow for physical meetings, but there are worries that one provision in the bill could limit meeting access to some individuals.

Hawaii Senate Committee Mulls Inheritance And Conveyance Tax Increases Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Hawaii Senate Committee Mulls Inheritance And Conveyance Tax Increases

Even after a $1.6 billion federal bailout, a key lawmaker says the state might need more money.

House Investigation Into Sharon Har Postponed Until Criminal Case Concludes Screenshot

House Investigation Into Sharon Har Postponed Until Criminal Case Concludes

The state representative is charged with drunken driving and is also the subject of two complaints.

Hawaii Lawmakers Advance Capital Gains Tax Increase Flickr: Chris Potter

Hawaii Lawmakers Advance Capital Gains Tax Increase

The higher state capital gains tax rates would initially raise more than $57 million extra next year.

Lawmakers Want New Group To Determine Future Of OHA Kakaako Makai Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2019

Lawmakers Want New Group To Determine Future Of OHA Kakaako Makai

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs says it does not plan to cooperate with the group if two resolutions pass the Legislature.

Many Inmates Leaving Prison Are Still Having Trouble Getting ID Cards Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2019

Many Inmates Leaving Prison Are Still Having Trouble Getting ID Cards

Advocates say something as simple as a state ID card can make all the difference for released convicts.

Should Hawaii Invest To Help Workers Displaced By The Pandemic Find New Careers? Ronen Zilberman/Civil Beat/2020

Should Hawaii Invest To Help Workers Displaced By The Pandemic Find New Careers?

Hawaii paid hundreds of unemployed tourism workers to learn new job skills last year. Now state lawmakers want to create a permanent jobs corps 鈥 but no one knows how to fund it.

John Pritchett: Double Standard John Pritchett/Civil Beat/2021

John Pritchett: Double Standard

The Hawaii House Speaker wants public officials to get substantial salary increases even as the state continues to struggle through a pandemic-induced economic crisis.