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Thursday, February 7, 2013
Keaau K-8: Nearly 1,000 students assigned digital devices
By News Release @ 3:19 AM :: 4849 Views :: Education K-12

This January, Keaau students in kindergarten through grade 8 began working under a digital curriculum that includes a digital device, such as a laptop or tablet, assigned for their personal use....

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Thursday, February 7, 2013
NRA: Deeply Flawed Hawaii Mental Health Bill to be Heard Friday
By News Release @ 3:07 AM :: 6126 Views :: Health Care, Second Amendment

Under this proposed legislation, Hawaiians would be subject to warrantless entry into their homes, warrantless seizure of their firearms and other weapons based solely on a mere “report” by a so-called “mental health professional.” 

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Thursday, February 7, 2013
World Economic Forum: Reform Jones Act to Grow Economy
By Michael Hansen @ 2:55 AM :: 9073 Views :: Jones Act

“Although the US Jones’ Act fleet only accounts for 10% of the total capacity of containerships used in cabotage trades, its impact is disproportionately higher due to the requirement for vessels to be US-built, unlike most other countries...."

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Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Dojo Mystic Ousted From City Administration
By AtomicMonkey @ 5:34 PM :: 10408 Views :: Honolulu County, Democratic Party

Following an article in Hawaii Free Press, Honolulu’s stodgy and turgid media establishment slowing began to acknowledge the story....

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Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Taking America from Welfare State to Opportunity Society
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:47 AM :: 2098 Views

This week, we are highlighting America's Opportunity for All, The Heritage Foundation's plan to help people secure these dreams....

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Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Abercrombie Unveils Early Childhood Action Strategy
By News Release @ 2:37 AM :: 4756 Views :: Education K-12

The strategy focuses on improving health, development, and learning experiences and outcomes of Hawaii’s youngest children, prenatal to age eight....

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Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Fighting Government Cronyism with an Opportunity Agenda
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:41 AM :: 4841 Views :: National News, Ethics

How does cronyism affect your life? Tell us in the comments.... 

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Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Gallup: Hawaii Ranks Third in 'Economic Confidence'
By Selected News Articles @ 2:24 AM :: 6167 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics

Minnesota (-8) and Hawaii (-9)  -- the first time since Gallup initiated daily tracking in 2008 that confidence has been this close to crossing into positive territory in any of the 50 states. 

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Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Gun Buyback Bill Re-Scheduled to be Heard in Senate Committee this Thursday
By News Release @ 2:10 AM :: 4648 Views :: Second Amendment

Thursday, February 7, in the Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs (PSM) Committee at 2:45 p.m. in conference room 224 ....
 

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Monday, February 4, 2013
Watershed Plan: Abercrombie Executive Order Allows Logging of Dead Trees
By News Release @ 11:17 AM :: 4673 Views :: Environment

"...remove dead standing trees along roads...."

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Monday, February 4, 2013
What Ideas Are Conservatives FOR?
By Heritage Foundation @ 9:18 AM :: 3612 Views :: National News

 ...we're going to take our arguments to all Americans....

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Sunday, February 3, 2013
DoTax Employees Secretly Arrested, Fired
By Andrew Walden @ 12:40 PM :: 11293 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Law Enforcement, Tax Credits, Taxes

A number of tax department employees who were investigated in connection with the security breaches have been “arrested and relieved of their duties,” said state Rep. John Mizuno....

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Sunday, February 3, 2013
Jacking Up the Heat in Tax and Fee Hell
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 5:05 AM :: 5143 Views :: Taxes

People inquiring about what the legislature is doing are surprised when told that lawmakers are hard at work trying to find ways to take even more of their money. Of course, it starts at the top....

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Saturday, February 2, 2013
Minimum Wage Increase Could Put People Out of Work
By News Release @ 9:49 PM :: 6866 Views :: Labor, Small Business, Cost of Living

The House Minority Caucus urged caution today as two bills to increase the minimum wage to 120 percent its current level passed the Labor & Public Employment and Economic Development & Business committees....

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Saturday, February 2, 2013
Banner CMO to Meet HHSC MDs, Staff
By News Release @ 9:44 PM :: 5811 Views :: Health Care

Through information technology and system design, Banner is able to make a profit in a Medicare environment by DATA driven health care....

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Saturday, February 2, 2013
236 Candidates Register for Honolulu Neighborhood Board Elections—Deadline Feb 15
By Selected News Articles @ 3:40 PM :: 5876 Views :: Honolulu County

Candidate filing is open through February 15, 2013 for Honolulu Neighborhood Board elections....

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Friday, February 1, 2013
New York Fed Recommends Jones Act exemption for Puerto Rico
By Michael Hansen @ 10:50 PM :: 11576 Views :: Jones Act

...the New York Fed identified the Jones Act as a major impediment to the Island’s prosperity....

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Friday, February 1, 2013
Caldwell Secretly Appoints ‘Chief of Staff’--Convicted Criminal Harry Mattson
By Andrew Walden @ 9:10 PM :: 19182 Views :: Honolulu County, Democratic Party, Ethics

 Mugshot: Caldwell's Chief of Staff

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Friday, February 1, 2013
Nobriga vs DHHL: Some Days You Get the Bull
By Robert Thomas @ 7:05 PM :: 7586 Views :: Agriculture, Land Use

Did you know that as a Hawaii landowner you own all unmarked or unbranded cattle, horses, mules, donkeys, sheep, goats, and swine, over twelve months of age, which may be running wild on your land?

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Friday, February 1, 2013
Celebrity Incentive To Move To Hawaii: We'll Give You An "Inoffensive" Space
By Robert Thomas @ 6:56 PM :: 5240 Views :: First Amendment

"The preamble to the bill specifically mentions celebrities but nothing is said about limiting the act to celebrities and paparazzi."

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Friday, February 1, 2013
Hawaii Charter School Law Improves from 35th to 14th in Nation
By News Release @ 3:03 PM :: 6359 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics

Hawaii’s law still needs significant improvement in several areas, including beefing up the requirements for charter application....

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Friday, February 1, 2013
Some Families to Be Priced out of Health Overhaul
By NCPA @ 12:59 PM :: 4694 Views :: National News, Health Care

IRS regulations issued Wednesday failed to fix the problem as liberal backers of the president's plan had hoped, says the Associated Press....

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Friday, February 1, 2013
How to Balance the Budget in 10 Years
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:41 PM :: 3628 Views :: National News

Both houses of Congress have now voted to suspend the debt ceiling until May 19, buying lawmakers more time to develop a budget. The Senate would put together a budget for the first time in three years....

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Friday, February 1, 2013
Pearl City Man Indicted on Homosexual Kiddie Porn Charges
By News Release @ 1:59 AM :: 3651 Views :: Law Enforcement

Agents recovered computer storage media, including a disk that contained images of a minor boy engaged in sexually explicit conduct....

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Friday, February 1, 2013
Lanai to PUC: Murdock's Wind Waiver No Longer Valid
By News Release @ 1:09 AM :: 6082 Views :: Energy, Land Use

“The Commission granted Hawaiian Electric and C&C a waiver from competitive bidding based on, among other conditions, demonstrated ‘site control.’"

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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Breaking Down The Tesoro Refinery Closure
By News Release @ 11:50 PM :: 6467 Views :: Energy, Economy

Tesoro announced they were shutting down their refinery .... The question on everyone’s mind—what does this mean for Hawai‘i?

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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Feds Release RTTT Report: "We will continue to work closely with Hawaii"
By News Release @ 11:40 PM :: 4678 Views :: Education K-12

Among the major challenges identified by the USDOE was the delayed principal evaluation implementation.

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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Honolulu at the Bottom of Top 300 Cities
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 10:45 PM :: 6336 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics

Global Metro Monitor update of the Brookings Institution. Yet another non-flattering economic statistic....

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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Rep. McDermott: after nine years of development, new principal evaluation process still flunks
By News Release @ 7:54 PM :: 4553 Views :: Education K-12

Last week the State Department of Education finally released the criteria for principal evaluations....

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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Tax Cut or Minimum Wage Hike? Hawaii 4th-Highest Taxes for Low Income Residents
By Andrew Walden @ 4:14 AM :: 7736 Views :: Labor, Small Business, Taxes

Instead of cutting taxes on the poor, Abercrombie proposes to extract more taxes from them by hiking the minimum wage.

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Thursday, January 31, 2013
A Blow to Obama's Imperial Presidency
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:56 AM :: 5951 Views :: National News, Obama

“Our unilateral president must take his unilateral medicine.” 

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Hawaii: Attempt to Repeal Protections for NRA Instructors Fails
By News Release @ 10:36 PM :: 5383 Views :: Second Amendment

NRA-ILA is pleased to report that an attempt to repeal newly-enacted protections for National Rifle Association instructors has failed....

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Would a Jones Act exemption lower the cost of electricity in Hawaii?
By Michael Hansen @ 10:02 PM :: 5965 Views :: Jones Act

The type of ship needed to transport LNG is a highly-specialized kind of tanker ship known as an LNG Carrier, none of which have been built in the U.S. since the mid-1970’s....

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
FrackNation TV Debut: Debunks Anti-Natural Gas Hysteria
By Selected News Articles @ 3:53 PM :: 6944 Views :: Energy

  • Saturday, February 2 at 9:30 a.m. Hawaii Time
  • Wednesday, February 6 at 7 p.m. Hawaii Time

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Reforming America's Immigration System
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:45 PM :: 4009 Views :: National News

The Heritage Foundation has released the following statement....

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
The Left’s War on, well, Everything! Science, the economy and humans
By NCPA @ 2:56 AM :: 5800 Views :: Environment, Ethics, Economy

...liberals are increasingly shedding their humanist pretentions and showing (their true) misanthropic nature....

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Hawaii Gun Buyback Bill Scheduled to be Heard This Week
By News Release @ 11:13 PM :: 5448 Views :: Second Amendment

The average person who voluntarily surrenders a firearm to police is not a criminal and the firearms surrendered are not those misused by criminals....

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Must Read: Leading Activist Apologizes For Starting Anti-GMO Movement
By Selected News Articles @ 10:01 PM :: 9915 Views :: GMOs

"I apologise for having spent several years ripping up GM crops. I am also sorry that I helped to start the anti-GM movement back in the mid 1990s, and that I thereby assisted in demonising an important technological option which can be used to benefit the environment."

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
HHSC Exec: Hospitals "Being Pushed to Brink of Collapse"
By Selected News Articles @ 6:35 PM :: 6517 Views :: Health Care

"Hilo Medical Center, the other thirteen HHSC facilities, and hospitals nationwide are being pushed to the brink of collapse, given the new health reform law changes."

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
HECO Lifts Limits on Solar Installations
By News Release @ 3:26 PM :: 5937 Views :: Energy

In October 2012, HECO again raised the limit to 75 percent of minimum load (which roughly translates to 23 percent of peak....HECO's proactive approach, fundamentally, aims to move beyond arbitrary limits....

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
John Kerry, President Obama's Ideological Twin
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:56 PM :: 2640 Views

Senator John Kerry (D-MA) is likely to be confirmed today as the next Secretary of State after sailing through a Senate hearing last week. What does this mean for America and its foreign policy?

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
HECO to Pay H-Power 21 Cents Per KWH
By News Release @ 12:57 AM :: 8512 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living

Comparison: Highest RETAIL electric rate on Mainland -- Connecticut at 19.5 cents per kwh

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
The Empire Strikes Back: Reaction To UH Lawprof's Study Of Success Rates In Hawaii Supreme Court Cases
By Robert Thomas @ 12:56 AM :: 8859 Views :: Environment, Development, Judiciary

...the good professor labeled the record of the 1993-2010 Hawaii Supreme Court on property issues "appalling," so it should come as no surprise that two of the beneficiaries of those rulings have now rallied to that court's defense....

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Monday, January 28, 2013
$59.8M Vanishes as State, HECO Reach Agreement
By News Release @ 11:30 PM :: 6162 Views :: Energy, Hawaii State Government

As part of the settlement, HELCO will withdraw its request for a 4.2 percent or $19.8 million rate increase in 2013. HECO and its subsidiaries will also reduce by $40 million the amount being sought for improvements to two major projects....

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Monday, January 28, 2013
Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How They Voted January 28, 2013
By Congress.org @ 6:19 PM :: 5044 Views :: Congressional Delegation
  • Senate: Temporary Rules Changes
  • Senate: Permanent Rules Changes
  • House: Short-Term Suspension of Debt Limit – Final Passage
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Monday, January 28, 2013
Survey: Honolulu 3rd Least Affordable Housing on Earth
By Selected News Articles @ 1:08 PM :: 8007 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Land Use, Cost of Living

Even in Honolulu, housing affordability has deteriorated markedly, with the Median Multiple rising 0.6 points in just the last year. Honolulu was less affordable than all but Hong Kong and Vancouver...

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Monday, January 28, 2013
Gallup: Obama Job Approval Jumps 8.1% in Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 12:49 PM :: 7338 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Obama

Residents of Hawaii, along with those living in the District of Columbia, were most likely to approve of President Barack Obama in 2012, according to an analysis of Gallup Daily tracking for the year....

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Monday, January 28, 2013
It's School Choice Week
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:43 PM :: 5465 Views :: Education K-12, National News

...school choice advocates—including parents, teachers, schoolchildren and administrators, and many others—will come together to promote educational choice, with more than 3,600 events taking place nationwide....

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Sunday, January 27, 2013
Over 1000 March for Life in Honolulu
By Andrew Walden @ 6:47 PM :: 6946 Views :: Life

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Sunday, January 27, 2013
Kulani Prison to be Sovereignty Movement Training and Recruitment Center
By Selected News Articles @ 3:52 PM :: 9653 Views :: Akaka Bill, Law Enforcement, OHA

...see the list of 1,000 well-known prison reform activists, elected Democrats, Hawaii County Prosecutor, sovereignty activists, religious leftists, green mailers, and current inmates who have signed on to this effort....

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