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Entries for 'Keli'i Akina PhD'
Tuesday, January 30, 2018 |
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OHA Audit: LLCs Refuse to Show Check Registers
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 7:02 PM :: 5862 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...Trustee Keli‘i Akina urges LLCs not to obstruct audit....
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Saturday, January 27, 2018 |
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What is the state of our state?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 8:26 PM :: 4280 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics
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...the 2017 Economic Freedom of North America report, ranks Hawaii a low 46th in the nation in terms of economic freedom, due to its high taxation, high regulation and high cost of living....
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Saturday, January 20, 2018 |
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Why is HS Student More Efficient Than State Government?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:39 PM :: 4915 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Military
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...Within five minutes of the erroneous missile alert, Iolani School student William Heyler had tweeted to the world that it was a mistake....
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Wednesday, January 17, 2018 |
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‘Onipa‘a Kākou: OHA Trustee Keli‘i Akina on Native Hawaiian Resilience and Finding Unity in Diversity
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:22 AM :: 6283 Views :: Hawaii History, OHA
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...The main thing is that we all ‘E Hana Kākou,’ that is, work together to build a bright future for Hawaiians and all people.”....
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Saturday, January 13, 2018 |
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Why Freddy Rice Went to Court
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 12:26 AM :: 10737 Views :: Hawaii County , Akaka Bill, Hawaii History, OHA
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...Hawaii Island rancher Freddy Rice passed away on Jan. 5, 2018....
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Monday, January 8, 2018 |
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Overcharged: Why Healthcare Costs Too Much
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 9:39 PM :: 5818 Views :: Health Care, Cost of Living
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...would expansion of Medicare be good for America?....
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Friday, January 5, 2018 |
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Hawaii tax policy feels the heat
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 2:09 PM :: 5752 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Health Care, Rail
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...The administration just told New York and New Jersey they would have to fund their $13 billion Hudson Tunnel rail project on their own, backing out of an Obama-era promise to foot half the bill....
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Saturday, December 30, 2017 |
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Kelii Akina: My Vision as OHA Trustee
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:20 PM :: 4063 Views :: OHA
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...OHA must be seen as a valuable partner, not an opponent, to the broader community....
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Friday, December 29, 2017 |
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Federal tax reform a reason for cheer
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:00 PM :: 4150 Views :: Taxes
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...This week, an actress did something almost unheard of. She apologized for spreading misinformation about the new tax law....
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Thursday, December 28, 2017 |
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Kelii Akina: One Year at OHA a Report Card
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 6:58 PM :: 6185 Views :: Ethics, OHA, Politicians
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...I committed myself to doing three things for the sake of the Hawaiian people: First, ensure a full and independent audit of OHA. Secondly, guide OHA towards financial sustainability as well as growth. Third, watch to make sure OHA funds are not misspent but rather used to meet the real needs of Hawaiian people....
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Friday, December 22, 2017 |
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Should the government be your Santa?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 12:24 PM :: 4578 Views :: First Amendment
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...Santa is an enthusiastic devotee of the surveillance state....
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Friday, December 15, 2017 |
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One Down—44 to go
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 1:21 PM :: 4901 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics
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...Hawaii's extremely modest creep up the ladder of economic freedom....
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Tuesday, December 12, 2017 |
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Keli'i Akina and Malia Hill: DC Update
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:23 PM :: 3949 Views :: Jones Act
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...the Jones Act, Federal Regulation, politics in Washington, and other issues that impact Hawaii....
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Friday, December 8, 2017 |
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Airports Division spreads the red tape
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 6:47 PM :: 5104 Views :: Small Business, Tourism
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...The pilot program requires the rideshare drivers to pay 7 percent of each fare to the state Airports Division....
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Friday, December 1, 2017 |
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Serving the law can circumvent justice
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 7:56 PM :: 5376 Views :: Second Amendment, Drugs
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...legal marijuana users in the state have been receiving letters from the Honolulu Police Department ordering them to turn in their legally owned firearms....
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Thursday, November 23, 2017 |
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Grassroot: Things to be Thankful for This Year
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 1:15 PM :: 5723 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Health Care, Jones Act
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...We are grateful for your partnership in striving for a Hawaii that leads the world in individual liberty and economic opportunity....
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Friday, November 17, 2017 |
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Understanding the Congressional tax bill
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 9:16 PM :: 3673 Views :: Taxes
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There’s a lot of news out there about the tax bills before the Congress, and nearly all of it is confusing....
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Thursday, November 16, 2017 |
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Pension pinches profligacy
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 8:00 AM :: 4800 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor
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...Hawaii’s county governments — and county taxpayers — are about to feel the pinch....
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Saturday, November 11, 2017 |
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Counties stuck with bailing out pension debt
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 1:11 PM :: 4489 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor
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...the state Legislature has discovered a new tactic for meeting its public pension financial obligations: passing the costs on to the counties....
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Sunday, November 5, 2017 |
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Akina--Let's Work Together for Hawaiian Charter Schools
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 2:20 AM :: 5660 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics, OHA
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Clearly, OHA owes our beneficiaries a sincere apology and a commitment to change our practices internally....
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Friday, November 3, 2017 |
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The Importance of Accurate Testimony
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 11:04 PM :: 5294 Views :: Ethics, Rail
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“The FTA will allow nothing less.” -- Kirk Caldwell
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Friday, October 27, 2017 |
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Right tools can dig us out of pension debt
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 5:48 PM :: 3892 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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Hawaii’s public pension system has an unfunded liability of $12 billion....
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Friday, October 20, 2017 |
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UPDATE: OHA Trustees Reject CNHA Grab for Charter School Funds
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:59 AM :: 8195 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics, OHA
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...the Resource Management Committee opted to instead give the grant funds directly to the charter schools, instead of to the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement....
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Tuesday, October 17, 2017 |
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Video: Kelii Akina on The State of Racial Harmony in Hawaii
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:24 AM :: 3983 Views :: OHA
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...Michael Lilly , Former Hawaii Attorney General, joins Hawaii Together with Keli'i Akina for a discussion on the history and current state of Racial Harmony in Hawaii....
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Thursday, October 12, 2017 |
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State of Hawaii Auditing OHA
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 1:49 AM :: 5155 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...the state Auditor has already informed OHA of its preliminary findings....
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Friday, September 22, 2017 |
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Hurricanes Blow Jones Act Out of the Way
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:35 PM :: 4325 Views :: Jones Act
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"...we waived regulations, we waived rules, we waived the Jones Act restrictions to free up additional capacity."
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Friday, September 15, 2017 |
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Jones Act Waivers Prove Need for Reform
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 2:19 PM :: 3516 Views :: Jones Act
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The very fact that such waivers are standard in emergencies reveals something that the Jones Act lobby doesn't want people to understand....
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Saturday, September 9, 2017 |
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The Power of School Choice
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 7:58 PM :: 5168 Views :: Education K-12, OHA
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...This was my first back to school experience at the Kualapu‘u Public Conversion Charter School on the island of Moloka‘i....
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Friday, September 8, 2017 |
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Hawaii taxes block prosperity
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 10:40 PM :: 4073 Views :: Taxes
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Confucius said to the ruler: So long as when you get richer, the poor get richer....
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Friday, September 8, 2017 |
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Reso 17-199: Will Honolulu Council Back Rail Audit?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 12:41 PM :: 5274 Views :: Ethics, Rail
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...the most recent version of the proposed resolution requests an “independent forensic audit” of HART operations and contract awards....
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Thursday, September 7, 2017 |
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Dropping college enrollment shows Americans are no longer buying the college lie
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 12:01 AM :: 5435 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education
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...University of Hawaii college enrollment has plummeted by 15 percent in just six years, from a high of 60,300 students in 2012 to 51,300 as of 2017....
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Thursday, August 31, 2017 |
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Obamacare Could Bankrupt ERS
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 7:18 PM :: 5491 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor
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...a 1% increase in health care costs equals a $2 billion increase in unfunded liabilities....
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Friday, August 25, 2017 |
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Rail: How to Gut an Audit
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:31 PM :: 5513 Views :: Ethics, Rail
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Hawaii lawmakers are finally embracing the call for a “deep dive” audit of the Honolulu rail project, but how they follow through on that embrace could make it all for naught....
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Friday, August 18, 2017 |
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City rail audit won’t look for fraud?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 8:11 PM :: 6481 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Rail
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...despite the fact that City Auditor Edwin Young told the committee “the red flags were there”....
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Friday, August 11, 2017 |
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Audit the rail: An idea that’s catching on
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 2:11 PM :: 4932 Views :: Ethics, Rail
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...Mahalo for helping this idea to catch on....
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Monday, August 7, 2017 |
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Why Hawaii Isn't Rich Like Texas
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 12:01 AM :: 6606 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Taxes
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Texas has no personal income tax....
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Saturday, August 5, 2017 |
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Why a Tax on Soda is Unhealthy
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 5:14 PM :: 6368 Views :: Health Care, Taxes, Cost of Living
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...Hawaii has no soda tax. But that's not for lack of trying.....
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Saturday, July 29, 2017 |
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Demanding best practices in rail accounting
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:51 PM :: 4556 Views :: Ethics, Rail
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What does it say about the state of governance in Hawaii that endorsing basic standards of fiscal responsibility is a revolutionary act?
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Saturday, July 22, 2017 |
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Millennials are public pension losers
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 1:56 PM :: 5122 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor
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Hawaii may be giving millennials the short end of the stick when it comes to the state’s unfunded public pension liabilities....
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Friday, July 14, 2017 |
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Giving Rail Credit Where it Isn't Due
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 11:59 PM :: 5162 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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...rail is like the cousin who is always hitting you up for money....
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Saturday, July 8, 2017 |
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Economic freedom needed to increase affordable housing
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 1:31 PM :: 6701 Views :: Jones Act, Land Use, Cost of Living
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Dr. Keli’i Akina gave the following speech on June 30th, 2017, at the 2017 Maui County Affordable Housing Summit, hosted by the Maui Chamber of Commerce and Maui County Department of Housing & Human Concerns....
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Friday, June 30, 2017 |
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SB410: Public union power grab goes too far
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 2:54 PM :: 5179 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor
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All employers need a few basic freedoms to be productive, among them the freedom to manage their employees....
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Thursday, June 29, 2017 |
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Akina: Change OHA’s Current Spending Policy
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 1:03 AM :: 4771 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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“Crucial Recommendations for Achieving Fiscal Sustainability”
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Wednesday, June 28, 2017 |
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Grassroot: Feds Should Audit Rail
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 5:24 AM :: 4891 Views :: Ethics, Rail
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We hope that the Department of Transportation’s Office of the Inspector General will be moved to mount a comprehensive fiscal and engineering audit of Honolulu rail ....
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Monday, June 12, 2017 |
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Message to OHA: ‘Clean up your Act’
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 1:29 AM :: 5576 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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Beneficiaries are calling for higher levels of transparency and accountability....
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Friday, June 9, 2017 |
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TVRs: No Taxation Without Legalization!
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 12:48 AM :: 5307 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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...state lawmakers are eager to capture $26 million dollars in tax money every year from short-term vacation rentals....
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Friday, June 2, 2017 |
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Where Pro-Rail and Anti-Rail Voices Agree
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 11:18 PM :: 5741 Views :: Rail
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...it's something we should have done a long time ago....
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Friday, May 26, 2017 |
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Maui Hospital: The Little Engine That Could
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:28 AM :: 6969 Views :: Maui County, Health Care
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...Despite multiple attempts to stop or derail it, things keep chugging along. And come July 1, it looks like Maui residents are finally going to start getting the care they deserve....
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Thursday, May 25, 2017 |
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Akina Praises Trustees Unanimous Support for OHA Audit
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 2:49 AM :: 3712 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...the SOQ will allow OHA to engage an auditor or auditing firm to conduct an examination of not only OHA but its subsidiary LLCs, for a period reaching back five years....
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