Kona Real Estate Broker Minoo Elison empowers buyers through education
As a kid growing up, I moved a lot. We owned our own home briefly, just long enough for my parents to put my sister and I to work removing all the terrible floral wallpaper.
Business Roundup: 11-11-19
Binchotan: Bar &Grill
debuts at Fairmont
Small Business Matters: Opportunity Zones: Money in motion or dead in the water?
Opinions about the current administrations tax cuts vary and depend on where you sit in the economy and on your perspective.
Tax Foundation of Hawaii: An expensive charter crisis on Maui
Maui has figured out a way to bleed cash from its budget very quickly. Its called a charter crisis. It pits one part of government against another one. Lawyers then are needed to represent one or both warring parties, and when those lawyers get paid, theres a good chance that taxpayers will end up footing the bill.
Piilani Partners appeals permit denial
HILO An attorney representing a company appealing the countys denial of a Special Management Area permit to drill for and bottle water in Hilo argued in court Tuesday the Windward Planning Commissions decision was based on speculation about things that could potentially happen.
Tax Foundation of Hawaii: The parable of the two horses
The Hawaii State Tax Watch Doggie at long last has made his son put down his smartphone.
Business Roundup: 11-04-19
Free HiSTEP Kick-off seminar Wednesday
Kaiser billing-practices suit against Queen’s dismissed
HONOLULU A federal court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. against The Queens Health Systems over unfair billing practices.
Tax Foundation of Hawaii: Saving the Legislature from itself!
This week we look at the State Auditors recent follow-up report, Report No. 19-14, on the Motion Picture, Digital Media, and Film Production income tax credit.
Business Roundup: 10-21-19
Claypool new Hilton Waikoloa Village director of spa and recreation
Tax Foundation of Hawaii: Business fees go down! –huh?
In the news recently was a story about business and licensing fees actually going down.
Small Business Matters: TMT, 20 years later: what could have been
Weve come a long way in the 20 years that have passed since the TMT protesters decided to turn back time and not be part of the future: another generation of continuing dependence on tourisms whims, limited opportunities for our young people, and brain drain. All of this accompanied by a sort of general societal letdown after the promise of all the good that could have been being abruptly snatched away; a kind of cultural deflation.
Imua in Business: Malama Mushrooms — medicinal company taking root in Kona
Forget about dogs, mushrooms may be modern mans new best friend. Aside from portobello burgers and the trippy magical mushrooms that you fooled around with in high school, there are hundreds of mushroom species that have medicinal and beneficial properties that the Anthropocene could really use.
Tax Foundation of Hawaii: The strange case of Bank of America
Once upon a time, there was a big bank called Bank of America. It wanted to try doing business in Hawaii, since it was already in many of the other western states, so it reached a deal to buy Honolulu Federal (do you remember HonFed?) and took over all of their branches in Hawaii. This was in 1992.
Business Roundup: 10-14-19
Business Plan 2020 workshop set
Kealakekua real estate agent loses license; others fined by DCCA
Tax Foundation of Hawaii: If Housing costs in Honolulu are bad now …
The cost of having four walls and a roof over your head in Honolulu has been staggeringly expensive relative to the rest of the nation for a while now.
Business Roundup: 10-07-19
Speed Networking event Wednesday
Tax Foundation of Hawaii: They’re taking their business elsewhere
A few months ago, we tried to remind folks about Its the economy, stupid. There we reported that we had been getting lots of news about our economy, and none of it was good.
Business Roundup: 09-30-19
Esteban named Kona Seaside Shops
general manager