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Entries for October 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 |
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AUDIO: Lingle Announces Senate Bid
By Selected News Articles @ 12:14 PM :: 9008 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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A Lingle-Hirono campaign would be a rematch from their 2002 gubernatorial face-off. Lingle, who outraised Hirono in that contest, won that race by five percentage points.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How They Voted October 11th
By Selected News Articles @ 1:21 AM :: 6209 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act - H.R.3080
The House is scheduled to vote on implementing a trade pact with South Korea.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 |
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Who Is Responsible for Protecting America?
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:24 AM :: 5409 Views :: Military
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Today, as America continues its worldwide fight against terrorist forces, it is vital to remember who is ultimately responsible for America's security, what the Constitution provides, and what the Founders intended.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 |
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Abercrombie, HTA Leave Tokyo
By News Release @ 12:11 AM :: 9332 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Abercrombie and officials from the Hawai'i Tourism Authority (HTA) ... met with representatives of various Japanese agencies that are key partners in the visitor industry.
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Monday, October 10, 2011 |
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Obama Sends South Korea Free Trade Agreement to Congress
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:43 PM :: 9413 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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it's vitally important to quickly enact the three pending U.S. trade agreements with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea. These FTAs have been sitting on the President's desk since 2007 for no good reason. President Obama has finally made them a priority by sending them to Congress last Monday night....
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Sunday, October 9, 2011 |
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Hawaii Christian Coalition salutes Kaauwai, Plans Community Meetings
By News Release @ 12:35 PM :: 5758 Views :: Energy, Environment
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The Hawaii Christian Coalition would like to thank Jonah Kaauwai for his dedicated service to the Hawaii Republican Party. Although we accept the party's change of leadership, we hope that their platform of honoring life and families will continue....
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Sunday, October 9, 2011 |
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Solar Tax Credits: Cash from General Fund Lines Pockets of Mainland Companies
By Andrew Walden @ 4:26 AM :: 10142 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits
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“Free Solar” may sound like music to the ears of low-income Hawaii homeowners and non-profits, but to the General Fund it sounds more like a vacuum cleaner....
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Sunday, October 9, 2011 |
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Taking a Step Back on Nation’s Economic Path
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 12:02 AM :: 5577 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Here we go again with another round of spending in an attempt to convince voters that the national leadership knows what they are doing.
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Saturday, October 8, 2011 |
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Climate Change and Regulatory Takings in Coastal Hawaii
By Robert Thomas @ 11:26 PM :: 6272 Views :: Energy, Environment
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The Center for Island Climate Adaptation and Policy (“ICAP”) at the UH Sea Grant College Program has prepared this paper to examine the interactions among climate change, the regulation of shoreline development in Hawai‘i, and Constitutional law regarding unpermitted takings of private property for public benefit
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Saturday, October 8, 2011 |
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Spin Doctors try to blame Staff for Abercrombie being Abercrombie
By Andrew Walden @ 4:11 PM :: 7207 Views :: Energy, Environment
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According to senior Democrats, Abercrombie has been getting almost every single thing wrong—”batting 1.000”—but can get his act together by firing his staff and placing the Fifth Floor under the control of old-boy political operator Bruce Coppa.
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Saturday, October 8, 2011 |
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VIDEO: Pilot ditches Cessna, rescued by Coast Guard off Hilo
By Video @ 12:28 PM :: 7900 Views :: Hawaii County
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Pilot climbs onto wing after ditching 13 miles off Hilo.
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Friday, October 7, 2011 |
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Epiphany leads to Mass Resignations: Abercrombie Administration Incompatible with Family Values
By Andrew Walden @ 11:59 PM :: 7857 Views :: Energy, Environment
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... The news is all the more shocking because Levinson is the son of ex-Justice Stephen “Broken Trust” Levinson, the inventor of gay “marriage”. Sporting a newly-trimmed Mohawk, Rep Blake Oshiro remains in denial ....
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Friday, October 7, 2011 |
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Just back from Paris, Abercrombie flees to Japan
By News Release @ 9:29 PM :: 8603 Views :: Energy, Environment, World News, Family
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Abercrombie will travel to Asia from October 9 – 21, 2011 ....
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Friday, October 7, 2011 |
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Still Jobless After All These Years
By Heritage Foundation @ 8:29 PM :: 3774 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Yesterday at the White House, President Barack Obama faced the media to once again plug the American Jobs Act--his plan for more stimulus spending, paid for with even more taxes on America's job creators. And this morning, not a day later, America received a reminder of why a continuation of the President's tried-and-failed policies is not a prescription for success....
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Thursday, October 6, 2011 |
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ALA: 1909 Law Does Not Allow Assisted Suicide
By News Release @ 8:51 PM :: 5972 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Suicide law proponents are using a 1909 Hawaii law as a basis for their assertions, claiming the law allows doctors to administer lethal drugs upon patient request. In fact, this law was written to allow doctors to administer non-traditional/herbal drugs in battling such illnesses as Hansen's Disease (leprosy), tuberculosis, and asthma.
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Thursday, October 6, 2011 |
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Inouye Slams Ed Case: “I don’t want to deal with a person like that”
By Selected News Articles @ 8:16 PM :: 7413 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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“What I am going to do? Am I going to just sit around and do nothing? I was hurt,” he said of his reaction to Case’s challenge to Akaka.
“He hasn’t given me any explanation, and if that’s the way he’s going to deal with me, I don’t want to deal with a person like that.”
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Thursday, October 6, 2011 |
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State of Hawaii to SCOTUS: Protect Property Rights from "Overreaching Federal Regulation"
By Robert Thomas @ 7:42 PM :: 8977 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Precluding pre-enforcement judicial review buttresses a regime where EPA has assumed the authority to enjoin development by issuing unreviewable compliance orders. Such a result is repugnant to the core principle in the Due Process Clause that "[n]o person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law."
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Thursday, October 6, 2011 |
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Asselbaye, Aoki Resign from Abercrombie Administration
By News Release @ 7:32 PM :: 6953 Views :: Energy, Environment
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... Coppa was chief operations officer of Communications Pacific and executive director of Pacific Resource Partnership, an organization representing contractors and the carpenters union. Unlike Asselbaye, he's well connected in the local community, especially with labor ....
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Thursday, October 6, 2011 |
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KIUC: In Race for Tax Credits, Solar Beats Wind, Biofuel
By News Release @ 7:11 PM :: 8917 Views :: Honolulu County, Democratic Party, Energy, Environment
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A Request for Proposal to contractors to build the PV facility was released this week. “We are on a very short timeline to qualify for the federal incentives,” said Brad Rockwell, KIUC manager of production.
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Thursday, October 6, 2011 |
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Hawaii has lowest level of Serious Mential Illness in US
By News Release @ 2:08 PM :: 3595 Views
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...among adults aged 18 or older, the rate of serious mental illness in the past year ranged from 3.5 percent in Hawaii and South Dakota to 7.2 percent in Rhode Island....
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Thursday, October 6, 2011 |
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Steve Jobs and American Exceptionalism
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:52 PM :: 7553 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Steve Jobs, who died yesterday at the too-young age of 56, was a living refutation of all what liberals constantly tell us about our country ....
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Thursday, October 6, 2011 |
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Rep Pine: Pass HB1465 to Stop Elder Abuse
By Councilmember Kymberly Marcos Pine @ 1:33 AM :: 11413 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Rep. Pine introduced HB 1465, relating to powers of attorney, which is still alive in the legislature. HB 1465 requires that anyone seeking power of attorney for an elderly person must have at least two signatures.
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011 |
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First 100 Residents move into Renovated Kuhio Park Apartments
By News Release @ 4:04 PM :: 9300 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Each of the two high-rise towers at the Kuhio Park property, which together include 555 units, is expected to be renovated in 12 months. During renovations, residents moved into an “on-site hotel” at Tower B.
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011 |
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Waihee: Mass murderer Zhou Enlai is a hero of mine
By News Release @ 3:50 PM :: 7183 Views
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Former Governor John Waihee will serve as "Goodwill Ambassador" at the event. He was invited to represent the original Hawaiian people, and all Hawaii's diverse communities, for the cause of peace and aloha. He said, "Zhou Enlai is a hero of mine. I did a lot of studying about China, and he was the person that I admired. He was the kind, progressive face of China. I was always interested in his life."
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011 |
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Is the Postal Service Doomed?
By Heritage Foundation @ 6:16 AM :: 3874 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat is supposed to stop the United States Postal Service (USPS) from delivering mail, but can it be saved from mounting debt, plummeting volume, and the not-so-slow-motion postal train wreck coming quickly down the road?
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011 |
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VIDEO: Lingle at Djou Fundraiser in Manoa
By Dylan Nonaka @ 11:03 PM :: 9423 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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In case you missed it, the campaign got some great media coverage on Sunday. Governor Lingle helped us with a successful fundraiser and Stacey shared an update on what Charles is doing in Afghanistan.
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011 |
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Back to the Future: Hilo Girl leads 12 Army Cooks replacing 84 Contractors in Iraq
By News Release @ 10:41 PM :: 10124 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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As the United States Army's mission in Iraq winds down, soldiers find themselves giving up progressively more of their creature comforts. At Contingency Operating Station Garry Owen, Iraq, Soldiers from 215th Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division are “getting lean” in preparation for that day.
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011 |
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Special Education Vouchers reduce Over-Diagnosis of Learning Disabilities
By NCPA @ 2:33 PM :: 4200 Views :: National News, Ethics
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...why has the incidence of disability diagnosis increased so drastically in 25 years? Several studies suggest that this increase has occurred because schools are incentivized to do so....
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011 |
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Solyndra, Fast and Furious: Come Clean and Cut Funding
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:07 PM :: 4245 Views :: National News, Ethics
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What did the President know and when did he know it, goes the old Washington adage. Thus did the American people learn yesterday in separate but equally startling revelations that the Obama Administration knew more about two scandals than it has been revealing. The first is regarding the Operation Fast and Furious gun running disaster and the second is the now-bankrupt, Obama-backed Solyndra solar power company.
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011 |
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Hawaii DoE Launches Anti-Bullying Campaign
By News Release @ 11:14 AM :: 5752 Views :: Energy, Environment
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A series of student-produced public service announcements promoting safe schools will be hitting the airwaves in a statewide video campaign announced today ....
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011 |
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Hawaii Public Schools to Offer Surfing as Official Sport
By News Release @ 10:53 AM :: 4904 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Hawaii public high school students will for the first time be able to compete in school sanctioned surf competitions as early as the spring of 2013....
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Monday, October 3, 2011 |
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Ready for A Debit Card Tax?
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:23 PM :: 2556 Views
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Bank of America is imposing the new fee in anticipation of a $2 billion annual loss brought about by the "Durbin Amendment" -- a provision of last year's Dodd-Frank Wall Street financial reform bill.
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Monday, October 3, 2011 |
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Why Stop at $500K? DoTAX Quietly Multiplies Hawaii Solar Tax Credit
By Andrew Walden @ 12:46 AM :: 13730 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits
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Hawaii has the most regressive taxation structure in the nation. When the Legislature returns, they will find a big fat hole in the budget because once again the tax system is being used to redistribute wealth from the poorest to the richest.
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Sunday, October 2, 2011 |
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“Tiny” Rate Due to Broad Base of Hawaii’s “Sales Tax”
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 7:20 PM :: 5738 Views :: Energy, Environment
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...for the national Tax Foundation study to proclaim that Hawaii’s general excise tax rate is the lowest of all the retail sales tax rates is misleading and uninformed....
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Sunday, October 2, 2011 |
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The Inside Story Behind the Awlaki Assassination
By IPT News @ 1:29 AM :: 8219 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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U.S. intelligence officials, aware of other planned attacks, had arrested several Muslim American converts who returned here after "studying" in the Sudan....
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Sunday, October 2, 2011 |
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US Supreme Court Asked to Decide: Is Hawaiian Homes Property Tax Exemption Racial Discrimination?
By Robert Thomas @ 12:02 AM :: 7446 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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In a cert petition filed September 15, five Hawaii taxpayers argue that they have standing to challenge the constitutionality of property tax exemptions conferred on lessees of Hawaiian Homesteads.
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Saturday, October 1, 2011 |
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Deadly Fireworks Explosion: Saftey Violations Lead to $415k fine
By News Release @ 12:48 PM :: 7554 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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“At the end of our investigation, we identified eleven potential causes for the explosion, each of which carries a penalty for violating health and safety laws.”
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Saturday, October 1, 2011 |
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Maui County Settles Dispute with Merrill Lynch Over Student Auction Rate Securities
By News Release @ 3:57 AM :: 8553 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment
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Mayor Alan Arakawa is pleased to announce that the County of Maui has reached a resolution regarding the purchase of $32 million in student loan auction rate securities from Merrill Lynch.
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Saturday, October 1, 2011 |
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Council of State Governments Looks at Hawaii Justice Reinvestment
By News Release @ 3:43 AM :: 7230 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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...a data-driven justice reinvestment strategy to bring out-of-state prisoners back to Hawaii, reduce spending on corrections, and reinvest savings generated in strategies that would reverse recent crime trends....
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Saturday, October 1, 2011 |
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Double Taxed: Hawaii Tax Base Larger than Economy
By Selected News Articles @ 2:52 AM :: 4462 Views
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So while Hawaii's combined rate is a low-sounding 4.35%, the sales tax burden on residents is the third highest in the country ($2,043 per person per year, as against an average of $1,005).
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Saturday, October 1, 2011 |
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The Legal Battle Over Honolulu’s Train to Nowhere
By Selected News Articles @ 2:41 AM :: 9832 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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It appears likely that Honolulu and FTA failed to consider reasonable alternatives and accurately assess the alternatives’ environmental consequences in the Final Environmental Impact Statement, as required under NEPA.
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