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Entries for March 2013
Monday, March 18, 2013 |
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Hawaii Republican Party Growth and Opportunity Project
By News Release @ 5:48 PM :: 3468 Views
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...a new path and new solutions for a Republican Party that’s more inclusive and successful....
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Monday, March 18, 2013 |
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Affordable Care Act Application Long and Cumbersome
By NCPA @ 3:18 PM :: 3428 Views :: Health Care
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Emerging new details about the application process for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) suggest that applying for benefits will be an onerous and grueling process....
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Monday, March 18, 2013 |
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Monday, March 18: Hawaii Statehood
By Selected News Articles @ 2:03 PM :: 5016 Views :: Hawaii History
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On this date in 1959, President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Hawaii Statehood Bill ....
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Monday, March 18, 2013 |
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Make Your Voice Heard for Marriage
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:00 PM :: 3440 Views :: Family
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Marriage is the fundamental building block of all human civilization....
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Sunday, March 17, 2013 |
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Food Fight: Environmentalist Top Chef Supports Oyster Farmer Against Other Enviros
By Robert Thomas @ 11:44 PM :: 4878 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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Undercutting the trope that the lawsuit by a Marin County, California oyster farm to keep operating is all a right-wing plot ....
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Sunday, March 17, 2013 |
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PPPA: PLDC Bait and Switch? Next Hearing March 19
By Andrew Walden @ 9:34 PM :: 6393 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Tax Credits
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... as quickly as demands for repeal of Act 55 were heard, legislators introduced a bill establishing bills to establish a Public Private Partnership Authority ....
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Sunday, March 17, 2013 |
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Homeless tent cities: Seattle’s decade-long nightmare coming to Honolulu?
By Andrew Walden @ 8:13 PM :: 34644 Views :: Homelessness
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...what is the real track record of Seattle’s “four successful homeless camps”? Hawai’i Free Press found some answers and they aren’t pretty....
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Sunday, March 17, 2013 |
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Jones Act: Five House Reps Introduce Resolution Urging Reform
By Michael Hansen @ 7:28 PM :: 5935 Views :: Jones Act
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A bipartisan group of five Hawaii State Representatives introduced in the current session a pair of resolutions calling on the U.S. Congress to enact reform ....
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Sunday, March 17, 2013 |
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Key to Hawaii’s Future is Business Climate
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 6:11 AM :: 9466 Views :: Economy, Small Business, Tax Credits, Taxes
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we, mere mortals, cannot predict what the prize industry of the future will be....
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Saturday, March 16, 2013 |
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Saddam Hussein's Honolulu Airplane Bomber to be Released Early
By Selected News Articles @ 11:47 PM :: 6264 Views
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Last year, Australian police reopened inquiries into the 1982 bombing of the Israeli consulate in Sydney and a Jewish club, after finding links to Rashed....
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Saturday, March 16, 2013 |
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Political Future? Djou Speaks, Lingle on Tap
By Andrew Walden @ 9:30 PM :: 7794 Views :: Republican Party
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“an open seat in CD1, an untested incumbent in CD2, a Senate appointee with low name recognition, and the least popular governor in the nation” competing on the Democratic side
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Saturday, March 16, 2013 |
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Video: Hawaii Advisory Team Postures Afghan Police for Counter-IED Success
By Video @ 8:25 PM :: 5084 Views :: Military
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A feature focusing on the relationship a Hawaii Advisory Team has with the Qalat Reserve Kandak....
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Saturday, March 16, 2013 |
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Commission Approves Charter School Accountability Contract
By News Release @ 1:54 PM :: 4557 Views :: Education K-12
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...accountability measures for financial and organizational performance for all charter schools in the state....
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Saturday, March 16, 2013 |
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List of Tax Measures Moving in Legislature Totals Seven Pages
By Andrew Walden @ 12:06 AM :: 6991 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Tax Credits, Taxes
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Some raise, some redistribute. Others give credit where credit may not be due....
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Friday, March 15, 2013 |
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Honolulu County Republican Party Convention
By News Release @ 10:46 PM :: 5411 Views :: Republican Party
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10:00am this Saturday, March 16th, at Moanalua Middle School....
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Friday, March 15, 2013 |
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HCR 189: "No Big Wind, No Big Cable"
By News Release @ 8:00 PM :: 4683 Views :: Energy
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“The message from both Lana`i and Molokai residents is very clear – no wind turbines, no undersea cables,” Carroll said.
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Friday, March 15, 2013 |
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Kauai County Smacks Down Hype: "No Atrazine in Water Supply"
By News Release @ 6:28 PM :: 9077 Views :: Kauai County, Environment, GMOs
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...no trace of the chemical was ever found in our Waimea-Kekaha water system, and there has been no detection (Countywide) since 2005....
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Friday, March 15, 2013 |
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UH Federalist Society: "Litigating for Liberty: Non-traditional Public Interest Law."
By Robert Thomas @ 1:34 PM :: 6225 Views :: Judiciary, Land Use
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Scott Bullock, the Institute for Justice lawyer who argued Kelo will be speaking next Monday at the University of Hawaii School of Law ....
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Friday, March 15, 2013 |
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Heritage: Why We Don't Need Universal Preschool
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:04 PM :: 3510 Views :: Education K-12
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Heritage experts took a look at the President’s plan to see if it would actually help America’s needy children get ahead in the “race of life.”
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Friday, March 15, 2013 |
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Reason: Case for Universal Preschool Lacks Compelling Evidence
By NCPA @ 12:59 PM :: 3015 Views :: Education K-12
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Evidence from Oklahoma and Georgia, two states that adopted universal preschool in the 1990s, suggests that Obama's plan to expand preschool would have few meaningful effects....
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Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
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Dick Rowland: 83 Years Young and Still Fighting for Liberty
By News Release @ 6:49 PM :: 3668 Views
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When we asked Dick if we could celebrate his birthday publicly, he said only if we celebrated his most important birthday, America's Birthday: July 4th 1776....
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Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
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Hawaii ranked seventh in U.S. for solar energy
By Selected News Articles @ 6:42 PM :: 5477 Views :: Energy, Hawaii Statistics
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Hawaii gets a greater percentage of its electricity from solar than any other state....
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Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
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State information officer honored with ‘Federal 100 Award’
By News Release @ 6:15 PM :: 3098 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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Hawaii is the only state government in the nation to be recognized as part of the 2013 Federal 100 Awards by Federal Computer Week magazine....
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Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
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SB286: Solomon Decision Allows Legislature to Define 'Permanent Resident'
By News Release @ 2:53 PM :: 9890 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Military, Office of Elections
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UPDATE: SB286 Approved with Amendments Thursday March 14, House Committee on Judiciary...
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Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
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House GOP: "Many Bad Bills Did Not Pass"
By News Release @ 2:05 PM :: 4751 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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This is a promising time in your Hawaii House of Representatives....
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Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
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Medicaid Expansion Is the Wrong Move
By NCPA @ 1:59 PM :: 3297 Views :: Health Care
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By 2021, 46 percent of all Americans will be dependent on the government for their health care....
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Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
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House approves $23.25B budget
By News Release @ 1:56 PM :: 5012 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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HB200 HD1 appropriates funds for operating and capital improvement costs of the Executive Branch for the next biennium fiscal years FY2013-2014 and FY2014-2015
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Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
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Report: Hawaii Beer Distributors Generate 850 Direct Jobs, $200 Million
By News Release @ 1:52 PM :: 6146 Views :: Economy, Small Business
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New Study Measures Jobs, Economic Impact and Community Service....
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Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
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I'm Gay and I Oppose Same-Sex Marriage
By Selected News Articles @ 1:42 PM :: 5463 Views :: Family
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...it’s also possible to oppose same-sex marriage based on reason and experience....
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Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
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What We Still Don't Know About Benghazi
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:38 PM :: 4065 Views :: National News
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Yesterday, President Obama nominated a new ambassador to Libya to succeed Christopher Stevens, who was killed in the terrorist attack in Benghazi last September 11....
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Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
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Horizon Lines Loses $94.7M for 2012
By Michael Hansen @ 5:13 AM :: 5236 Views :: Jones Act
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Net loss decreased by approximately 48% to $94.7 million from $229.4 million in 2011....
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Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
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McCain: OHA Cronies Milk Defense Budget for Millions
By Selected News Articles @ 4:26 AM :: 10200 Views :: Akaka Bill, Agriculture, Military, OHA
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“Now we’re in sequestration, we have a bill that would give ... companies an additional 5 percent, $15 million,” McCain said. “It’s disgraceful, and it’s been going on for years....
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
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Governor Encouraged by Council on Revenues Forecast
By News Release @ 11:07 PM :: 4333 Views :: Economy, Hawaii State Government
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an increase to its previous projection for 2013 General Fund tax revenues from 5.1 to 6.7 percent growth....
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
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Republican Caucus Commends Fiscally Conservative Hawaii House Budget
By News Release @ 7:43 PM :: 6514 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Republican Party, Taxes
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"This is a clear sign that the House is moving in the right direction," said Minority Leader Aaron Ling Johanson, Vice Chair of the House Committee on Finance.
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
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Chevron Drives Kitimat LNG Export Project Forward
By Michael Hansen @ 7:38 PM :: 6770 Views :: Energy, Jones Act
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...the several planned LNG export terminal projects at Kitimat are probable sources of LNG for Hawaii....
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
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WAC: Legislature Endangers UH Accreditation
By News Release @ 6:50 PM :: 5468 Views :: Higher Education
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The Commission is deeply concerned about press accounts of the attempts of individuals within the government to demand specific personnel actions ... legislation has recently been introduced that could interfere with the University's ability to manage its own affairs....
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
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UH Mānoa Law School leaps 26 points in rankings
By News Release @ 6:13 PM :: 4907 Views :: Higher Education
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Richardson Law School ranked 80th among the nation’s 144 best law schools compared with 106th a year ago....
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
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Hawaii Had Lowest Election Turnout in Nation – 44.1%
By Selected News Articles @ 4:35 PM :: 6034 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Office of Elections
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- Texas – 50.1%
- Oklahoma – 49.6%
- West Virginia – 46.8%
- Hawaii – 44.1%
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
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Many Patients Object to Focusing on Costs
By NCPA @ 3:37 PM :: 3074 Views :: Health Care
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The study shows that many patients believe that medical decisions should not consider financial costs but only consider health....
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
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Green Cars: Not So Clean After All
By NCPA @ 3:32 PM :: 6380 Views :: Energy, Environment, Tax Credits
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...It costs 30,000 pounds of carbon-dioxide emission to produce an electric car, equal to about 80,000 miles of travel....
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
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Hawaii Gun Registration Bill to be Heard this Thursday
By News Release @ 3:29 PM :: 4905 Views :: Second Amendment
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House Public Safety Committee this Thursday, March 14 at 9:30 a.m. in House conference room 309....
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
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Hawaii Meth Project Foundation Joins The Partnership at Drugfree.org
By News Release @ 3:26 PM :: 4993 Views :: Drugs
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Hawaii Meth Project to Continue its Focus on Meth Prevention Operating as Independent Organization and Local Member of The Partnership....
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
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Obamacare's Medicaid Trap
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:21 PM :: 3989 Views :: Health Care
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While Members of Congress are arguing about defunding parts of Obamacare, the rubber is meeting the road in the states....
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
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Schatz Proposes $180 Billion Carbon Tax
By News Release @ 3:16 PM :: 6375 Views :: Environment, Taxes
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What is the appropriate price per ton for 'polluters' to pay? The draft contains alternative prices of $15, $25, and $35 per ton....
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013 |
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How Hawaii Minimum Wage Workers Earn $24.24 per hour
By Selected News Articles @ 4:34 PM :: 9683 Views :: Labor, Cost of Living
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The average wage when adding in tips for the front of the house is $24.24 per hour....
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013 |
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Sequester Cuts Highlight Government Inefficiency
By NCPA @ 4:04 PM :: 3850 Views :: National News
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...the public is supposed to believe that public agencies are so inefficient that a 1 percent cut in resources would trigger horrendous consequences but a 1 percent increase in taxes on individuals would be inconsequential....
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013 |
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First Look at the 2014 Ryan Budget
By Andrew Walden @ 3:55 PM :: 4063 Views :: National News
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The Ryan budget achieves an important improvement over last year by balancing the budget within 10 years....
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013 |
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A Defining Moment for Marriage and Self-Government
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:47 PM :: 4901 Views :: Family
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Family is and will always remain the building block of civil society....
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013 |
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Medicare Advantage Cuts under ObamaCare Will Affect Low-Income Seniors Most
By NCPA @ 3:44 PM :: 4556 Views :: Health Care
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Low-income seniors will see an estimated 7 percent to 8 percent reduction in their Medicare Advantage benefits in 2014....
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