It wasn’t long ago that, in response to numerous complaints of students sweltering in their classrooms, Governor Ige proclaimed that he would commit $100 million to cool 1,000 classrooms.  At

A recent, eagerly awaited independent financial review of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) has been in the news lately.  The review, conducted by the California-based accounting firm CliftonLarsenAllen (“CLA”),

Recently, the website howmuch.net, a financial literacy website with interesting visualizations about various financial topics, came out with a comparison called, “This is How Long You Need to Work to

Piling on, for those of you who aren’t football fans, happens when a player or group of players jump on top of a runner who already has been tackled, just

Some folks ask me if I have any radical ideas to change the tax system in Hawaii.  Here’s one: Stop taxing transportation of goods and people. Before you stop laughing

This week we focus on our safety net systems for people or families in need.  In the early 1990s, a major part of this net came from the federal Aid

A recent op-ed column in Real Clear Politics by Scott Hodge, president of the national Tax Foundation (not related to the Tax Foundation of Hawaii although the names are similar)

Hawai`i is an island state that is home to a unique set of flora and fauna.  It’s vulnerable to invasive species not only from foreign countries but also from the