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Tuesday, March 8, 2011
House Raids Highway Fund, Raises Vehicle Taxes
By Video @ 9:30 PM :: 13476 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

HB1101: Allows for increase in the State motor vehicle registration fee

HB1097: Extends the $3 per day surcharge on rental motor vehicles

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Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Yoshioka Confirmation: The Missing $700M, screaming, lying, and slander
By News Release @ 12:42 PM :: 7061 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12

...at the end Yoshioka accused Slater of lying and mentioned the 20 misrepresentations by Slater that he had presented to the City Council. At this point Slater was on his feet demanding to answer this slander but with Council Chair Garcia screaming that he was out of order, Slater stood down....

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Monday, March 7, 2011
Contract Settlement: HECO and IBEW put the people first
By Councilmember Kymberly Marcos Pine @ 4:44 PM :: 8371 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

“I’m relieved that HECO and IBEW leaders have put the people of Hawaii first today."

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Sunday, March 6, 2011
Pine: HECO replacement workers put in 17-hour days
By Councilmember Kymberly Marcos Pine @ 12:47 PM :: 8912 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

Workers are exhausted from working very long shifts.  Some told me they worked 17 hours yesterday and are back on the scene again today to work the same number of hours or more.

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Sunday, March 6, 2011
Gulen Cult: Legislators to welcome “Ugly Unionbusting” to Hawaii schools?
By Andrew Walden @ 7:16 AM :: 30010 Views :: Education K-12, Labor, Military, Religion

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Saturday, March 5, 2011
With Power Restored, Rep Pine drops State of Emergency request
By Councilmember Kymberly Marcos Pine @ 5:04 PM :: 8402 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

“In times of disaster we must come together, put aside our differences and help people first." 

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Friday, March 4, 2011
Rep Pine calls for State of Emergency after Strike, Storm leave Ewa, Leeward in dark
By Councilmember Kymberly Marcos Pine @ 11:40 PM :: 8810 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

The power outage has also affected traffic signals which impact the ability of emergency medical personnel, police, fire, civil defense and other emergency services. We are also concerned that hospitals and care facilities may not be able to run the equipment necessary to maintain the health and welfare of their patients.

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Friday, March 4, 2011
Republicans field over 60 Neighborhood Board Candidates
By News Release @ 7:39 PM :: 6541 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12

Party leaders at all levels made a strong push to recruit candidates for Oahu’s neighborhood boards and now that most of the applications are in, there are over 60 Republicans who are running for the boards. 

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Friday, March 4, 2011
Djou: Lingle would make an outstanding US Senator
By Selected News Articles @ 4:15 AM :: 9273 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

“I think she would make an outstanding United States senator,” Djou says. “The best illustration of Governor Lingle’s abilities is 2006. In 2006, it was a highly toxic environment for the GOP nationally, but she managed to win reelection not only by a large landslide but by the largest margin in the history of the state.”

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Thursday, March 3, 2011
Hanabusa, Hirono, Akaka: Make way for Captain Kirk
By Andrew Walden @ 10:49 PM :: 8218 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

Speaking to KHON yesterday, Caldwell said not a word about Akaka.  Instead he tractors both Mazie Hirono and Colleen Hanabusa into the Senate race, and then transports himself into Congress--CD1 or CD2 no matter—all in one sentence....

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Thursday, March 3, 2011
Pine: Hawaii hands out the most welfare dollars, food, and benefits in Nation
By Councilmember Kymberly Marcos Pine @ 5:59 PM :: 8808 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

One day, the mother of a 12 year-old girl I mentored called me asking for help after they had become homeless....

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Thursday, March 3, 2011
Lingle, Djou comment on Akaka retirement
By News Release @ 11:11 AM :: 9262 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

I worked closely with the Senator to gain support for the Akaka Bill and I still have hopes that this important legislation will come to fruition during the remainder of his term. -- Gov Linda Lingle

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Thursday, March 3, 2011
Mufi: “Plenty of time to discuss my plans”
By News Release @ 10:47 AM :: 8085 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

While some may be curious, there will be plenty of time to discuss my own personal plans in light of his announcement.

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Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Extortion, Criminal Conspiracy: FBI investigating Gulen Religious Cult behind Mokapu STEM School, Pacifica Institute
By Selected News Articles @ 8:41 PM :: 19623 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family

An email sent in June 2008 with regard to teachers who were late in making the paybacks reads: "Brother Veli wants to have all the “salary returns."  And he says to withhold future salaries from those who have not made them."

More incriminating still is an email dated June 13, 2007...which recommends "increasing the number of teachers from Turkey ... to acquire more money."

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Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Honolulu 40 Days for Life Rally at Capitol
By Janet M. Grace @ 2:08 PM :: 9073 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

Kick-Off Rally on Sunday, March 6 @ State Capitol from 4:00PM - 5:30PM

Being Human Documentary to Air March 8-11 on KALO-TV

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Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Slom on Taxes and Pensions: “I don’t think this Governor is going to wink-flinch”
By Video @ 9:40 PM :: 8138 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

Slom: Legislators, Governor will turn to GE Tax in the waning days of this session….

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Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Legislature seeks to tax music, book, movie writers working in Hawaii
By News Release @ 2:47 PM :: 8100 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

... the House Finance Committee heard bills that would tell a business how much it can pay its executives, prohibit a deduction of business travel expenses, impose fees on repeat visitor accommodations, tax creative entrepreneurs who write music or movies, tax their death benefits when a key employee dies; and reverse the state’s long standing position of encouraging investment in high technology firms.

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Tuesday, March 1, 2011
HB853: State-Owned Bank to be run by Takamine, Abercrombie
By News Release @ 2:44 PM :: 10169 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

“This State run bank would be governed by persons without a banking background including Governor Abercrombie and the State Director of Labor. I cannot see how Governor Abercrombie, who would be designated as Chairman of the Bank, and three of his political appointees could operate this bank while also managing the entire State, ” noted Rep. Gene Ward, House Republican Leader.

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Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Finalists for new Dean of College of Natural Sciences will visit UH Mānoa
By News Release @ 11:43 AM :: 8633 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
Four finalists have been identified for the position of Dean of the College of Natural Sciences at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.  The four are scheduled to participate in a two-day period of visits that covers college department discussions; meetings with senior administrators, faculty, staff, students and members of their respective professions; and a public presentation.
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Monday, February 28, 2011
HB1465 to be heard Thursday: Protect Elders against “Power-of-attorney” abuse
By Councilmember Kymberly Marcos Pine @ 6:54 PM :: 8959 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

Sadly, the most widely exploited document used by perpetrators of elderly abuse is the Power of Attorney because it can give the perpetrator immediate access to the victim’s bank accounts, real estate, and other valuable property unlike a will, trust, or estate planning document that may not take effect for many years.

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Sunday, February 27, 2011
Charles Djou, second most moderate Republican in 111th Congress
By Andrew Walden @ 8:06 PM :: 12992 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

According to an analysis of the 111th US Congress published Friday by the National Journal, among Republicans Hawaii Representative Charles Djou was out-moderated only by Rep Joseph Cao of New Orleans. 

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Friday, February 25, 2011
Limbaugh: Did Honolulu Council ever pass resolution condemning Mao’s genocide?
By Selected News Articles @ 7:27 PM :: 13012 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, National News, Ethics, World News, Family

We'd have to check the archives to see if the Honolulu City Council ever did issue a condemnation of Mao Tse-tung for the genocide of Chinese people back when the cultural revolution, the great leap forward and all that stuff took place. 

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Thursday, February 24, 2011
Full Text: Carlisle’s State of the City Speech
By News Release @ 9:50 PM :: 9304 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

 The word change can simply mean, “something becomes different.”  Like a car tire that runs over a large pothole, and becomes flat.  But change can also mean “something is transformed.”  Transformation is an evolutionary process.  Like a caterpillar becomes a butterfly.  “Transformation” is a concept that will be discussed several times today as we review the challenges facing our city.

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Thursday, February 24, 2011
$37,500? Abercrombie makes fool of himself during Pension Tax debate
By Video @ 1:34 AM :: 11642 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

"That’s why it is egregious for you to indicate that what I’m saying is that somebody with a sole total income of $37,500—that that is their sole income—that they would be asked under those circumstances to pay that.  But if anybody wants to try and manipulate the numbers for a personal political agenda in order to  try and score political points, let me tell you—this is one Governor that’s not going to put up with it." -- Abercrombie

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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Djou: Hawaii Politicians Detached From Reality
By Rep Charles Djou @ 2:25 PM :: 10326 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

Hawaii’s elected officials are ready to tackle every issue - except job creation and the deficit.  The first major action taken by the Hawaii State Senate was to become the only legislative chamber in the United States to eliminate the invocation.  The legislature has confronted issues ranging from decriminalization of marijuana, civil unions, bingo on Hawaiian Homelands and banning the sale of toy guns. 

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Friday, February 18, 2011
Newt Gingrich to speak in Honolulu tonight
By News Release @ 3:45 PM :: 8525 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will be headlining the Hawaii GOP’s annual Lincoln Day Dinner.  The Party fundraising event will be held tonight at the Hilton Hawaiian Village.

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Friday, February 18, 2011
Recktenwald names Browning to replace McKenna
By News Release @ 2:52 PM :: 8426 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

Judge Browning’s assignment is effective March 4, 2011. He will succeed Judge Sabrina McKenna, who will be sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court on March 3 at 4:15 p.m. in the Supreme Court Courtroom.

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Monday, February 14, 2011
Pensions, Rail, Earmarks: Abercrombie and Obama wage war on Inouye
By Andrew Walden @ 12:30 AM :: 12419 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

Just two months into his term, Neil Abercrombie has led Hawaii politics into chaos.  From the White House to Honolulu Hale, progressive Democrats are duking it out with the old boys. 

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Saturday, February 12, 2011
Honolulu Neighborhood Board Elections to be Cancelled?
By Andrew Walden @ 11:17 PM :: 14181 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12

Hundreds of community activists and aspiring political leaders across Oahu are preparing for Neighborhood Board Elections in April and May to fill 439 seats on 33 Neighborhood Boards.  February 18 is the last day to register to vote in the election and the last day for candidates to file nomination papers.  But NCO Executive Assistant Bryan Mick and the Neighborhood Commission (NCO) have a surprise in store.  On February 17, 2011 the Commission will be holding a “Special Meeting” to vote on a motion to cancel the election ....

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Saturday, February 12, 2011
Fighting Meth With Miles around Oahu
By News Release @ 7:34 PM :: 9429 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

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Saturday, February 12, 2011
SB1449 Hearing Saturday: Hawaii Sunset Advisory Commission to assess Government Agencies
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:33 AM :: 7854 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

The committee(s) on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs has rescheduled its public hearing to Saturday, 2-12-2011 at 10 a.m. in conference room 229.

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Saturday, February 12, 2011
Rep Ward, Sen Slom invite public to speak out on pension tax, other issues
By News Release @ 1:27 AM :: 8154 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

 

  • WHAT: Legislative Townhall Meeting 
  • WHERE: Haha‘ione Elementary School Cafeteria
  • WHEN: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.  
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Thursday, February 10, 2011
UPDATE: Freedomnomics Author John Lott to Speak in Honolulu
By News Release @ 6:17 PM :: 10817 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, National News, Ethics

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Thursday, February 10, 2011
Transparency: Regents Candidate Advisory Council Names Finalists for UH Board of Regents
By News Release @ 4:32 PM :: 14874 Views :: Hawaii County , Akaka Bill, Kauai County, DHHL, Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

HONOLULU – The Regents Candidate Advisory Council (RCAC) has presented a list of candidates to Gov. Neil Abercrombie to fill four seats on the University of Hawai’i Board of Regents, including two City and County of Honolulu seats, a Hawai’i County seat and a Maui County seat.

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Thursday, February 10, 2011
SB1425: Legislative Committee to discuss banning all Oahu Landfills
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:53 PM :: 7829 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

According to Senate Bill 1425, relating to banning the acceptance of solid waste in landfills, no landfill in a county with a population greater than or less than 500,000 residents, will be allowed to accept deliveries of municipal solid waste - beginning  July 1, 2012, for Honolulu, and for the smaller counties, a date to be determined by their councils.

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Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Abercrombie appoints Don Horner to BoE, plans to appoint Horner to New BoE
By News Release @ 4:32 PM :: 8726 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

In November 2010, Hawai‘i voters approved a Constitutional Amendment that gives the Governor the authority to appoint members of the BOE. Governor Abercrombie is encouraged that the State Legislature has been moving expeditiously to establish the appointment process for BOE members. When that legislative process is complete, Governor Abercrombie intends to name Horner among his first appointments.

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Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Rep Pine introduces 18 bills
By News Release @ 12:05 AM :: 7951 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
  • Bills to Decongest Traffic
  • Bills to Cut Taxes & Make Government More Responsive to the People
  • Bills to Solve Problems within Homeowner Associations
  • Bills to Stop Elder Abuse
  • Bills to Solve Problems for Our Schools
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011
The transsexual agenda for Hawaii schools
By Andrew Walden @ 12:39 PM :: 25851 Views :: Education K-12, Family

Here's the long history behind the new anti-bullying policy being proposed for Hawaii schools. 

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Monday, February 7, 2011
Could Djou Challenge Akaka?
By Selected News Articles @ 11:19 PM :: 10038 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

Former Rep. Charles Djou (R-Hawaii) all but swore off elective politics in his recent farewell address, but the former congressman recently penned an article that is sure to ignite speculation among the state's political observers over whether a 2012 bid against Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) is in the offing.

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Monday, February 7, 2011
Emergency Landing gives Koko Head Elementary students chance to learn about helicopters
By News Release @ 3:37 PM :: 9723 Views :: Hawaii County , Akaka Bill, Maui County, Education K-12

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Monday, February 7, 2011
Feb 18 deadline to Neighborhood Board Candidates to file for election
By Selected News Articles @ 3:09 PM :: 7756 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12

Candidates have until Friday February 18 to file nomination papers for Oahu’s upcoming Neighborhood Board elections.  Up for grabs, all 439 seats on 33 Neighborhood Boards.

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Saturday, February 5, 2011
Djou: Hawaii bets on Machine Politics for the 21st Century
By Rep Charles Djou @ 7:50 PM :: 10825 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

The Obama-style politics and the youthful 2010 class of freshmen Republicans in the U.S. House might be a passing fad or it might become a lasting trend.  Hawaii has sent a congressional delegation that is betting the modern movement toward a much quicker internet dominated system of governing, based on transparency rather than pork, is temporary and our nation will eventually return to the 20th Century seniority centric system of quiet machine based power-dealing.  The American people will render the verdict on Hawaii’s bet in the next couple of years.

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Friday, February 4, 2011
HB1058: Buying Office Equipment with Capital Improvement Bonds
By Video @ 12:00 AM :: 12293 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

Amends chapter 37, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to include agency-wide technology and computer systems with an estimated useful life of greater than seven years as capital investments to allow all costs to be financed with bond funds and depreciated as capital investments.

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Thursday, February 3, 2011
VIDEO: Fontaine “HB166 is an anti-business bill”
By Video @ 2:41 PM :: 12338 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

Fontaine: “We heard from a Maui roofing contractor who said that if he received a $70K fine … he would have to earn $7M in additional business in order to make up the fine because his profit margin is so slim.”

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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
HB1464 to be Heard Wednesday -- Ethics rules for Homeowners Associations
By News Release @ 8:19 PM :: 8792 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

Although the Flag Bill (HB1468) must eventually be heard – the Flag Bill will NOT be heard tomorrow.  This delay however gives all us who are passionate about displaying our flag on our own property more time to contact and urge Representative Cabanilla, Chairman of the House Committee on Housing, to put the flag bill – HB 1468—on the schedule for a hearing.

However, the bill that will be heard tomorrow, HB 1464, also deals with homeowner community associations and the lack of transparency by some homeowner community association boards in their decisions and actions and the lack of fairness by some of these boards in their treatment of their association members. 

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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
ProPublica evaluates Honolulu Medical Examiner
By Selected News Articles @ 6:28 PM :: 12202 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

In detective novels and television crime dramas like "CSI," the nation's morgues are staffed by highly trained medical professionals equipped with the most sophisticated tools of 21st-century science. Operating at the nexus of medicine and criminal justice, these death detectives thoroughly investigate each and every suspicious fatality.

The reality, though, is far different. In a joint reporting effort, ProPublica, PBS "Frontline" and NPR spent a year looking at the nation's 2,300 coroner and medical examiner offices and found a deeply dysfunctional system that quite literally buries its mistakes.

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Monday, January 31, 2011
HB48: Mandatory Voter Registration bill deferred
By Grassroot Institute @ 9:44 PM :: 9762 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

The bill says that every qualified applicant “is required to authorize the attorney general to collect and transmit the necessary personal information required for registering the qualified applicant with the county clerk.”

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Monday, January 31, 2011
UPDATE: HB1468 Flagpole Bill will NOT be heard Wednesday
By News Release @ 4:31 PM :: 10459 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

This bill, HB 1468, brings Hawaii into compliance with the federal law as well as ensuring that these home owners may display their American Flag continuously 365 days a year despite any association board's regulation, covenant, or similar binding agreement to the contrary.  It also removes any fee you would have to pay to display our Flag.  HB1468 IS BEING HEARD WED FEB 2, 8:30AM IN CONFERENCE ROOM 325 AT THE CAPITOL.

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Saturday, January 29, 2011
Rep Michele Bachmann to speak on Oahu, Maui
By News Release @ 3:02 PM :: 14624 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Maui County, Education K-12, National News, Ethics

Oahu:  Wednesday, Feb. 2nd, 11:30 am to 1 pm

Maui: Wednesday, February 2nd, 5:30 to 8pm

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Thursday, January 27, 2011
House GOP Caucus introducing transparency bills
By News Release @ 10:46 PM :: 8815 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

"The State House of Representatives needs to address the lack of transparency and public participation in the legislative process by using the technology we have at our disposal today by immediately communicating to the public through video, webcasting and audio transmission," said Representative Thielen.

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