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Thursday, April 25, 2024 |
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Rolling Blackouts end for Big Island as oil-fired plants come online
By News Release @ 3:36 AM :: 946 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy
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"...Combined, these oil-fired units have up to 53 megawatts of generating capacity. ...."
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Thursday, April 25, 2024 |
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US Space Force Plans 'Space Surveillance' Telescopes for Haleakala
By News Release @ 3:35 AM :: 67 Views :: Maui County, Military
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... Environmental Impact Statement for the Department of the Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing Site Small Telescope Advanced Research Facility ....
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024 |
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Maui Property Tax Resolution Full of Blank Numbers
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:26 PM :: 82 Views :: Maui County, Taxes
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... Resolution 24-78 would set property tax rates for the coming year ....
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024 |
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Maui budget full of tax hikes
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:18 PM :: 89 Views :: Maui County, Taxes
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... County officials are seeking significant property tax increases while doing virtually nothing to cut spending or spend wisely ....
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024 |
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Budget Emerges from Conference Committee
By News Release @ 10:35 PM :: 94 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... House Bill 1800 CD1 will be up for a final vote in both chambers before being transmitted to the governor for consideration ....
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024 |
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Let’s end embarrassing tax on medical services
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 5:26 PM :: 106 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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... the GET makes practicing in Hawaii so financially challenging, causing many Hawaii doctors to retire or move away ....
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024 |
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DOBOR to Clear Bums and Junk Cars from Kahului Harbor
By News Release @ 12:12 AM :: 171 Views :: Maui County, Homelessness
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... Fifty-four trucks and cars, many inoperable, will be towed from the state’s Kahului Harbor on May 6 ....
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024 |
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Notice of Anticipated Judicial Vacancy – Circuit Judge, Circuit Court of the First Circuit (island of Oʻahu)
By News Release @ 12:08 AM :: 148 Views :: Honolulu County, Judiciary
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... The Judicial Selection Commission is accepting applications and nominations to fill the following anticipated judicial vacancy ....
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Tuesday, April 23, 2024 |
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Green: 450 units to be built for 'FEMA Ineligible' Lahaina Survivors
By News Release @ 6:03 PM :: 258 Views :: Maui County, Homelessness
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... 'Not eligible' = Illegals and homeless. Mixing them together is unfair to the illegals ....
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Tuesday, April 23, 2024 |
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Another Foster Care Fail: Kids Sleep in Attic of Home Full of Lunatics, Perverts, and Drug Addicts
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 4:01 AM :: 419 Views :: Ethics, Family
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... The State Auditor studied 30 foster homes picked at random. Here is one of the 30 ....
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Tuesday, April 23, 2024 |
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HB2342 on Governor's Desk: Legalize 'open carry' of everything except guns
By Selected News Articles @ 3:09 AM :: 309 Views :: Second Amendment
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... This bill would legalize the open carry of all non-firearm weapons, including butterfly knives, switchblades, brass knuckles, swords, and spears ....
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Tuesday, April 23, 2024 |
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Small Business Economic Trends: How does Hawaii Compare?
By Selected News Articles @ 2:48 AM :: 198 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business
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... the gold standard measurement of the Main Street economy ....
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Monday, April 22, 2024 |
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How does Hawai‘i’s economic geography affect its healthcare industry?
By UHERO @ 9:42 PM :: 221 Views :: Health Care, Cost of Living
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... The state’s high cost of living likely compounds these problems by hindering the recruitment of healthcare professionals ....
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Monday, April 22, 2024 |
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Four House Bills up for Final Reading
By News Release @ 9:18 PM :: 216 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... The final vote is set for 11:30 a.m. during the Floor Session. Upon approval, these bills will advance to the governor's desk for his signature ....
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Monday, April 22, 2024 |
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National Republicans scrutinize Hawaii voting rolls
By Selected News Articles @ 3:50 PM :: 263 Views :: Office of Elections, Republican Party
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... the state is violating federal law by not having what are known as “clean” voter rolls ....
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Monday, April 22, 2024 |
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Crichton: Environmentalism is a religion
By Selected News Articles @ 12:02 AM :: 134184 Views :: Environment, Religion
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There's an initial Eden, a paradise, a state of grace and unity with nature, there's a fall from grace into a state of pollution as a result of eating from the tree of knowledge....
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Monday, April 22, 2024 |
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Ira Einhorn, Earth Day's Dirty Secret
By Selected News Articles @ 12:01 AM :: 75460 Views :: Environment
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Ira Einhorn, Master of Ceremonies, Earth Day Rally on Belmont Plateau in Fairmount Park, Phila, PA, Apr. 22, 1970.
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Sunday, April 21, 2024 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted April 20, 2024
By GovTrack .us @ 5:23 PM :: 384 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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... votes cast and bills introduced in Congress ....
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Sunday, April 21, 2024 |
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And Now the Big Guns Come Out
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1097 Views :: Ethics, Small Business, Taxes
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... I became convinced that the proceedings, or at least this part of them, were prearranged ....
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Saturday, April 20, 2024 |
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Maui County's new Recovery Permitting Center to open April 29 in Kahului
By News Release @ 11:48 PM :: 521 Views :: Maui County, Development
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... to assist residents with the process of applying for Disaster Recovery Building Permits for alterations, repairs, reconstruction and new construction of structures in areas affected by the August 2023 Maui wildfires ....
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Saturday, April 20, 2024 |
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Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 10:35 PM :: 425 Views :: Education K-12, Family, First Amendment, Drugs
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... Hawaii's Legislature Seeks to Change Constitution to Lock In Same-Sex Marriage ....
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Saturday, April 20, 2024 |
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OIP Issues Five New Opinions
By News Release @ 10:22 PM :: 458 Views :: Hawaii County , Education K-12, Ethics, Police
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... one formal opinion and four informal opinions ....
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Saturday, April 20, 2024 |
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HB2526 Goes to Governor: Felony for repeat offenders who drive without a license
By News Release @ 4:26 PM :: 429 Views :: Judiciary, Law Enforcement
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... after a McKinley High School student's life was claimed by a habitual traffic offender ....
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Saturday, April 20, 2024 |
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Office of Elections: RFK Jr. will appear on Hawaii ballot
By News Release @ 4:09 PM :: 552 Views :: Democratic Party, Office of Elections
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... hearings officer Aaron Schulaner, said an objection filed by the Democratic Party of Hawaii “did not meet its burden of proof in this case” ....
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Saturday, April 20, 2024 |
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Maui County Pushes Back Against AG Report on Fires
By News Release @ 3:24 PM :: 712 Views :: Maui County, Ethics
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... The more liability assigned to Maui County, the less liability for Hawaiian Electric. Maui County cannot declare bankruptcy and transfer ownership of the County to outside lenders. Hawaiian Electric can. This is all about protecting old-boy power centers. ....
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Saturday, April 20, 2024 |
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Lahaina fire victims must 'show regular progress toward their permanent housing plan in order to continue staying in FEMA housing'
By News Release @ 2:36 PM :: 616 Views :: Maui County
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... We encourage families to continue to show regular progress toward their permanent housing plan in order to continue staying in FEMA housing ....
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Saturday, April 20, 2024 |
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DCCA Revokes Miske Termite License--14 Cases of Price Gouging
By News Release @ 2:58 AM :: 765 Views :: Ethics, Law Enforcement
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... License revocation, $35,000 fine, $22,114.56 restitution ....
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Friday, April 19, 2024 |
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Blangiardi: City Will Not Sue Glock
By Selected News Articles @ 11:59 PM :: 1437 Views :: Honolulu County, Second Amendment
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... a Council bill had proposed hiring specialized legal experts from the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence and Dentons law firm ....
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Friday, April 19, 2024 |
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242 Candidates Pull Papers Statewide
By News Release @ 11:18 PM :: 12961 Views :: Office of Elections
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... Candidate filing begins on February 1, 2024, and goes through June 4, 2024 ....
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Friday, April 19, 2024 |
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Property tax hikes wrong medicine for Maui woes
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:24 PM :: 569 Views :: Maui County, Taxes
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... Tax hikes would burden average Maui homeowners the most ....
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Friday, April 19, 2024 |
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Insurance ‘stabilization’ bill would spread pain to everyone
By Grassroot Institute @ 9:57 PM :: 619 Views :: Small Business, Taxes, Cost of Living
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“...if you look through the bill, it’s a bunch of blank spaces. It says conveyance taxes will increase by blank percent. Or short-term rental taxes are gonna have a blank percent tax on them....”
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Friday, April 19, 2024 |
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PLA? State keeps piling on rules that increase Hawaii’s cost of living
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 9:20 PM :: 796 Views :: Labor, Small Business, Cost of Living
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... Hawaii’s $1.5 million PLA threshold is now the lowest in the nation ....
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Friday, April 19, 2024 |
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‘Blankety-blank’ bills at Legislature leave Hawaii taxpayers in the dark
By Grassroot Institute @ 9:04 PM :: 577 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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... To address the problem, Yamachika suggested that legal action might be necessary ....
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Friday, April 19, 2024 |
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Honolulu mayor says he's responsible for Honolulu’s gun licensing problems.
By Video @ 8:20 PM :: 803 Views :: Honolulu County, Second Amendment
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... The law clearly says the police chief makes the policies, but the mayor says he's pulling those strings ....
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Friday, April 19, 2024 |
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Taxpayers Not on the Hook for HECO's $542M 'Special Purpose Revenue Bonds'
By Andrew Walden @ 3:37 AM :: 642 Views :: Energy
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... another $700M has been authorized, but not issued ....
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Friday, April 19, 2024 |
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25 House Bills up for Final Reading
By News Release @ 1:30 AM :: 606 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... A final vote is scheduled for Friday, April 19 at 11:30 a.m. on the House Floor during the Floor Session ....
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Thursday, April 18, 2024 |
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Hawaii's Insurance Crisis as Premiums Nearly Quadruple
By Selected News Articles @ 4:54 PM :: 964 Views :: Cost of Living
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... insurance costs for condominiums have risen by 100 percent to 1,000 percent ....
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Thursday, April 18, 2024 |
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City’s DMV employees gearing up for LGBTQ+ sensitivity training
By News Release @ 4:37 PM :: 513 Views :: Homelessness, Law Enforcement
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... employees will be trained to use an individual’s chosen names and preferred gender pronouns when renewing a Hawaiʻi driver’s license or motor vehicle registration ....
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Thursday, April 18, 2024 |
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Six public forums scheduled for UH president’s search
By News Release @ 4:18 PM :: 465 Views :: Higher Education
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... Each forum will be ninety minutes long and available in-person and virtually via Zoom ....
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Wednesday, April 17, 2024 |
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Full Text: Hawaii Attorney General Maui Wildfire Report
By News Release @ 5:53 PM :: 834 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Land Use
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... AG Lopez structured the FSRI contract to focus entirely on the role of public agencies, thus avoiding any liability borne by Hawaiian Electric or private landowners such as KSBE ....
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Wednesday, April 17, 2024 |
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Naming Names: Airports Division Ran Late-Night Parties Where Hawaii Politicians Raked In Money
By Selected News Articles @ 4:04 PM :: 2689 Views :: Honolulu County, Maui County, Ethics, Hawaii State Government, OHA, COVID-19
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... late-night parties in a cramped second-floor office where lobbyists and executives seeking government contracts lined up to drop cash and checks into a metal lockbox ....
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Wednesday, April 17, 2024 |
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Attorneys Blocking JetBlue/Spirit Merger Now Targeting Hawaiian/Alaska Airlines Deal
By Selected News Articles @ 1:15 PM :: 877 Views :: Judiciary, Tourism
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... this law firm also filed a similar suit wherein JetBlue was subsequently blocked in its attempt to acquire Spirit Airlines ....
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024 |
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No Surprise: Waipiʻo Peninsula eliminated from consideration as potential future landfill site
By News Release @ 11:52 PM :: 439 Views :: Honolulu County
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... based on concerns regarding the site’s proximity to near-shore waters ....
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024 |
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Rolling Blackouts: Senators Demand PUC Investigation
By News Release @ 11:08 PM :: 860 Views :: Energy
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"The lack of reliability due to insufficient energy generation, HECO’s aging equipment, unreliable oil-fired power generation, and immediate and long term solutions should be investigated."
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024 |
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10 'Good Government' Bills up for Final House Vote
By News Release @ 10:53 PM :: 655 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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... A final vote is scheduled for Wednesday, April 17, and upon approval, the bills proceed to the governor's desk for his signature....
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