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• Proposal to end partisan primary elections getting support

  A ballot measure pushed by former Phoenix mayor Paul Johnson that would get rid of partisan primary elections is receiving some big union and business contributions. Johnson wants to get an initiative before voters replacing partisan primaries with nonpartisan ones with the top two vote-getters facing off in general elections. The aim is to dilute conservative power in the state by giving moderates a chance to get in runoffs. The idea has support from some Democrats, more moderate Republicans and...

• Donor gives UH business college Ala Moana Hotel condo unit

  Hong Kong businesswoman Cecilia Ho has gifted a condominium unit at the Ala Moana Hotel with a value of $117,000 to the University of Hawaii Manoa’s Shidler College of Business. The college said it plans to use the condotel unit for visiting professors, faculty candidates and visiting executives-in-residence. Ho, a Shidler College alumna, has authorized the school to sell the unit in the future to fund the Cecilia Ho Endowed Scholarship for Excellence for full-time undergraduate students enrolled...

• Oahu's Dillingham Ranch on the market for $65M

  A 2,700-acre ranch on the North Shore of Oahu founded a century ago by Hawaii railroad tycoon Benjamimn Franklin Dillingham has gone on the market for $65 million. The Dillingham Ranch in Waialua includes oceanfront property, Oahu’s North Shore polo grounds and a main lodge built in 1917 that recently underwent a multimillion-dollar restoration. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to acquire such an iconic landholding,” said Ed Rapoza of Island Land Co., who represents the listing along...

• Incentives approved for Gaylord's Denver hotel project approved

  A proposed Gaylord Entertainment Co. hotel/conference center in Colorado received approval for state Regional Tourism Act funding Friday, although the amount approved was lower than its backers were seeking. Gaylord CEO Colin Reed had said earlier this month that his Nashville-based hospitality company would not move forward with the planned 1,500-room, $824 million facility if it did not receive everything it sought from the state. But after the Colorado Economic Development Commission voted to...

• Judge: Mastro creditor Hazelrigg must redo bankruptcy papers

  U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Timothy Dore ruled against Bellevue businessman Tom Hazelrigg III Friday morning, saying Hazelrigg could not refuse to answer questions about his finances in his involuntary bankruptcy by making a blanket assertion of his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination. Hazelrigg had turned in largely blank bankruptcy schedules earlier with a notation that he was asserting his Fifth Amendment right. “It’s hard to imagine some of these questions are protected...