Showing posts with label transient accommodations tax. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transient accommodations tax. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Green imposes spending limits on state departments, tax office going after noncompliant vacation rentals, Maui Councilmember Tasha Kama dies, more news from all the Hawaiian Islands

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Hawaiʻi’s Child Welfare Reform Efforts Bump Up Against Budget Fears. Gov. Josh Green has imposed spending restrictions on state departments ...
Friday, October 10, 2025

$400M state stockpile could soften blow of federal cuts, state libraries banned from saying 'banned' during Banned Books Week, state Senate committees to examine impacts on agriculture food security, IRONMAN kicks off with Kona underpants run, more news from all the Hawaiian Islands

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Legislators to examine federal impacts on ag, food security. Two state Senate committees will hold a joint informational briefing next week...
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Auditor calls classroom cooling project a $120M disaster, deadline nears for proposed uses of green fee, Honolulu inflation rate slows, more news from all the Hawaiian Islands

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Auditor: Plan To Cool Hawaiʻi Classrooms A ‘$120 Million Disaster’. A multimillion-dollar effort to cool the state’s school classrooms has ...
Monday, April 28, 2025

Legislature advances 'green fee' on short-term stays, hotels and cruise ships; union workers get 4% or less raises; pay-to-play, sports betting bills DOA, more news from all the Hawaiian Islands

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Hawaiʻi Legislature Takes Historic Step Toward A Visitor ‘Green Fee’. Under the bill, the transient accommodations tax that visitors pay on ...
Friday, February 28, 2025

Hotel tax hike still on the table, economists predict 2k+ local layoffs in Trump plan, warn of possible recession; Aloha Stadium price tag rises to $650M, more news from all the Hawaiian Islands

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Lawmakers eye tourism industry to help fund $1.4B reportedly needed for climate resiliency. Three measures still alive at the Legislature w...
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Green's climate fee bill clears first committee, marijuana legalization gets initial approval, DHHL seeks $20M for geothermal exploration, more news from all the Hawaiian Islands

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First climate fee bills pass initial hearing, with concerns. Gov. Josh Green’s bills to fund Hawaii’s climate change response by increasing...
Friday, October 25, 2024

Hawaiian Airlines begins layoffs, state mulls ways to help insurance-stricken condo owners, hundreds of Maui health-care workers to strike, more news from all the Hawaiian Islands

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Hawaiian Airlines begins merger-related layoffs. Hawaiian Airlines plans to eliminate 73 people from its 1,400 noncontract workforce in Haw...
Friday, November 19, 2021

Most Hawaii lower-grade students a year behind, woman indicted in church sex trafficking ring, USS Daniel Inouye reaches Pearl Harbor home port, more news from all the Hawaiian Islands

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Hawaii schoolchildren pre-COVID ©2021 All Hawaii News Most Hawaii elementary and middle schoolers are at least one grade level behind, testi...
Thursday, October 28, 2021

Oahu loosens COVID restrictions, HMSA to eliminate hundreds of jobs, state fines Navy $325k for Red Hill fuel leak, more news from all the Hawaiian Islands

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Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi Oahu to loosen COVID-19 restrictions for large events. Mayor Rick Blangiardi is loosening COVID-19 restrictio...