Category: Open Forum
Tax Cuts Would Be The Ideal Holiday Gift This Year
by Keli‘i Akina Christmas and New Year’s are right around the corner. But not everything is brimming with holiday cheer. Hawaii’s high cost of living, [Read More…]
Permitting Delays Aggravate Housing Crisis, Show Lack Of Respect For Hawaii Residents
by Keli‘i Akina City officials in John’s Creek, Georgia, recently revamped their government services to be more responsive to local residents. Joe Kent, one of [Read More…]
Fixing Hawaii’s Housing Crisis Need Not Be Complicated
by Keli‘i Akina Hawaii has the highest level of government regulation related to homebuilding in the country. It also has the highest average home prices [Read More…]
Start With Permit Delays To Trim Homebuilding Red Tape
by Keli‘i Akina If you need proof that Hawaii’s housing shortage is related at some level to bureaucratic incompetence, look no further than the many [Read More…]
Election Might Be Turning Point In Quest To Exempt Food, Medicine — And Medical Services — From GET
by Keli‘i Akina With inflation soaring in our already-expensive state, wouldn’t it be nice to get a discount on a few of life’s necessities? That [Read More…]
Fix Hawaii’s Problems The Right Way, Not Via Emergency Orders
by Keli‘i Akina Hawaii desperately needs to fix some of the problems that have been bedeviling us for so long, such as the housing crisis [Read More…]
How To Increase Housing And Ease Homelessness In Hawaii
by Mark Coleman As an expression of hope for the next generation of America’s leaders, Joe Kent gave a presentation last Friday to a group [Read More…]
Oahu’s New Short-Term Rental Ban Uses ‘Sledgehammer,’ Not Data
by Mark Coleman Will Oahu’s new ban on short-term rentals affect you? It will if you have been renting out a room to help pay [Read More…]
Questions Persist About Viability of Honolulu Rail
by Keli’i Akina, Ph.D. At this point, the one thing we can rely on concerning the Honolulu rail project is the long list of unanswered [Read More…]
‘Shipping security’ just another Jones Act myth
by Mark Coleman Hawaii residents have been hearing over and over in recent months that the 1920 federal maritime law known as the Jones Act [Read More…]
