Honolulu Magazine had an excellent section this month on Green Hawaii, a 32-page guide to living green. Here are some of their ideas, some of which you may not have considered. 1. Remove your shoes at home: dirt on your shoes can carry disease organisms, and reducing dirt lowers the amount of
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05/28/2009
For a second month in a row, Hawai'i was in the bottom half of states with the worst April foreclosure rates, as growth in local foreclosure filings continued to outpace the national average. There were 684 foreclosure filings in Hawai'i last month, more than triple the 216 in the same month last
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05/14/2009
The legislature, in their final days, overrode Gov. Lingle's vetoes and passed four measures that will increase taxes to balance the state budget. Democratic legislators increased state income taxes on the wealthy, the hotel-room tax, the conveyance tax on the sale of luxury and second homes, and
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05/10/2009
There's been a lot of controversy the last couple of weeks over a dive operator's proposal to begin shark-feeding tours in the waters of Maunalua Bay. Happily, the Hawaii Kai Neighborhood Board voted this week to adopt a resolution calling for a total statewide ban on shark tours (read my blog a
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05/02/2009
