Nothing is more a part of good government than the local School Boards. Because of Hawaii’s century old habit of centralization, the once statewide elected School Board was changed, by vote, to that of a Governor appointed one. How sad, not only because the issues of a elected School Board […]
Map of Hawaiian Homelands Those of Native Hawaiian ancestry can and should control the assets that belong to them. Those of Native Hawaiians ancestry are stymied when it comes to the full benefit of the assets they can use to enrich themselves and the Hawaiian culture in-spite of the fact […]
The City and County of Honolulu encompasses all of Oahu making the Mayor and the nine members of the City Council the sole arbitrators for municipalities as divergent as Downtown Honolulu is from rural Kahuku. The City and County of Honolulu structure was established by Charter in 1907 when Oahu […]
Hawaii state government abandoned the chance to lower energy cost and increase the take home pay on Hawaii’s families by losing the opportunity for NextEra to buy Hawaiian Electric Company. NextEra would have brought in much needed capitol and greater depth of expertise to deal with Oahu overworked and under-powered […]
Prior to the collapse of the sugar and pineapple industries Hawaii had what was called a three legged stool economy. That economy consisted of sugar/pineapple, tourism and military spending. Though there is modern agricultural production there is no equivalent exportable commodity that the sugar/pine industry occupied. This leaves Hawaii dependent […]
The state of Hawaii is built on a mid-twentieth century model of centralized one-party rule, unionization, protection of favored industries and excessive regulation. While this development model had its points in the transition from an agriculturally based territorial government, it is proving itself unable to keep up with the demands […]
Part of what hold Hawaii back on is the conflicted nature of land ownership and use. On the US mainland the majority land that was made available for settlement after the War of Independence was parceled out in large sections and had clear lines of ownership. In Hawaii land use […]