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What Makes Hawaii Unique, Part 4 of 5

Hawai‘i’s current congressional delegation at unveiling of portrait of the late Sen. Daniel Inouye in the U.S. Capitol Author’s Note: Here are links to Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 in this series of posts. Government and Politics: Regulation + Taxation = Key Business Concerns Every state and locality has a distinct political environment […]

What Makes Hawaii Unique, Part 1 of 5

Author’s Note: This post is the first in what will be a five-part series that offers my thoughts — as a former 27-year resident of Hawai‘i — as to what makes the Aloha State different from our country’s other 49 states. I wrote it over a decade ago, while I was still living in the […]