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Entries for January 2013
Thursday, January 3, 2013 |
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Uproar Over Bloated Sandy Aid Package
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:10 PM :: 3778 Views :: National News
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The real “selfishness and duplicity,” however, comes from those who insist that this bill is meant for Sandy’s victims—when in reality, it is a special-interest money fest....
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013 |
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Sabas: Boss Inouye 'Is Watching Us'
By News Release @ 11:14 PM :: 6023 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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...step forward and demonstrate that we were listening and paying attention to his lessons on leadership and humanity (because you know he is watching us)....
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013 |
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Abercrombie Releases $45M CIP, $25M Barbers Point Land Buy
By News Release @ 11:05 PM :: 5264 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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...this project will provide land acquisition for the last remaining, undeveloped parcel of land contiguous with existing harbor lands....
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013 |
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Bloomberg Editorial Blasts Jones Act
By Michael Hansen @ 4:53 PM :: 7446 Views :: National News, Jones Act
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Bloomberg calls for major Jones Act reform in two parts: elimination of the U.S. build requirement for ships engaged in domestic coastwise trades; and, a more controversial proposal to allow foreign ship owners to compete....
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013 |
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Fiscal Cliff: Who Won? Who Lost?
By John Goodman @ 2:42 PM :: 6440 Views :: National News, Taxes
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...real billionaires, like Warren Buffett, are going to be affected very little by the new higher rates (unrealized capital gains will still be taxed at a rate of zero), while entrepreneurs with pass-through income are going to get hosed....
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013 |
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Hospital Systems Branch Out as Insurers
By NCPA @ 2:38 PM :: 4584 Views :: National News, Health Care
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A growing number of hospital systems are moving to start their own insurance plans, aiming to broaden their roles and prepare for the changes coming under the federal health care overhaul, says the Wall Street Journal....
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013 |
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Taxes to Rise on Most American Workers
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:07 PM :: 5903 Views :: National News, Taxes
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The Wall Street Journal calculates that the “typical U.S. family earning $50,000 a year” will lose “an annual income boost of $1,000.”
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Tuesday, January 1, 2013 |
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Fiscal Cliff Deal Extends, Expands Wind Production Tax Credit
By Selected News Articles @ 7:04 PM :: 7455 Views :: Energy, National News
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The deal also greatly relaxes the standards for companies to qualify to grab that tax credit....
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Tuesday, January 1, 2013 |
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Kauai Farmers to Boycott OHA Poi Mill
By News Release @ 5:00 PM :: 12775 Views :: Kauai County, Agriculture, OHA
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HEWA: we do NOT endorse this unexpected news that OHA is giving us, Makaweli Poi, away to a random group we never heard of before....
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Tuesday, January 1, 2013 |
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House Passes Fiscal Cliff Tax Hikes 257-167
By Selected News Articles @ 1:41 PM :: 6235 Views :: National News, Taxes
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When Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush increased taxes in return for spending cuts—cuts that never ultimately came—they did so at ratios of 1:3 and 1:2....
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Tuesday, January 1, 2013 |
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Tax Hikes to Start the New Year
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:36 PM :: 4809 Views :: National News, Taxes
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Postpones sequestration’s automatic spending cuts (including those to defense) by two months....
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Tuesday, January 1, 2013 |
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OHA launches Anti-Obesity Marketing Campaign
By News Release @ 1:55 AM :: 5580 Views :: Health Care, OHA
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OHA is partnering with The Queen’s Medical Center, Waianae Coast Comprehensive Center, the Hawaii Department of Health, the Department of Native Hawaiian Health and Hawaii Medical Service Association....
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