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Thursday, June 21, 2012
HGEA Announces Candidate Endorsements for State, County Races
By News Release @ 5:05 PM :: 7626 Views :: Energy, Environment

HGEA slate of endorsed candidates announced for state and county races....

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Thursday, June 21, 2012
Hawaii Sierra Club Announces Endorsements
By News Release @ 4:53 PM :: 7491 Views :: Energy, Environment

Sierra Club endorsements include seven Republicans....

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Thursday, June 21, 2012
President Obama's Fast and Furious Scandal Grows
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:00 PM :: 4558 Views :: National News, Ethics

On the night of December 15, 2010, U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was shot and killed by an untraceable assault weapon that was deliberately handed to Mexican drug lords by U.S. officials ....

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Thursday, June 21, 2012
Supreme Court: Union Must Give Advance Opt-Out for Political Fee Increase
By News Release @ 1:26 PM :: 4740 Views :: National News, Ethics

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 today, siding with nonmember California state employees challenging a Service Employees International Union (SEIU) political fee charged to them without notice and opportunity to opt out....

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Thursday, June 21, 2012
Momentum Shifting Against LOST as Potential Damage to U.S. Interests Are Exposed
By News Release @ 1:04 PM :: 5740 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

“I don’t support it, of course,” McConnell said, “and I don’t think it will pass.”

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Wednesday, June 20, 2012
FULL TEXT: Application for PUC Approval of Ellison Lanai Buy
By News Release @ 9:35 PM :: 10789 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment

The ownership structure of Octopus Holdings, L.P. is as follows: ninety eight percent (98%) of the partnership interest is owned by the Lawrence J. Ellison Revocable Trust and the remaining two percent (2%) is owned by Tentacle Corporation....

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Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Justice Reinvestment: Abercrombie Signs Bills as Part of Plan to Release Hundreds of Criminals from Prison
By News Release @ 8:41 PM :: 8160 Views :: Justice Reinvestment
The bills are based on recommendations of the Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI), a data-driven approach Hawai'i is using to reduce corrections spending....
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Dues Used for Political Activism: Hotel Workers Sue Local 5
By News Release @ 5:55 PM :: 6563 Views :: Energy, Environment

UNITE HERE officials agreed to refund a substantial chunk of Orr's union dues after they were caught using her money for political activism....

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Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Panos Schools Caldwell on Rail, BRT
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 5:28 PM :: 9720 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

Dr. Prevedouros addresses questions posed by Candidate Caldwell....

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Wednesday, June 20, 2012
BoE Issues First Year Report, Abercrombie Signs Education Bills
By News Release @ 4:44 PM :: 6200 Views :: Energy, Environment

The report provides a list of BOE actions that focused on changes in student achievement, service support improvements and staff development....

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Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Rationing Health Care by Making Patients Waste Time
By John Goodman @ 1:35 PM :: 6992 Views :: National News, Ethics

The single biggest mistake in all of health policy is the belief that the best way to make health care accessible is to make it free at the point of delivery....

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Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Obama's War on Domestic Energy Production
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:27 PM :: 4329 Views :: National News, Ethics

Today, the Senate will vote on the fate of one of the most expensive regulations of all time....

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Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 19, 2012
By Congress.org @ 5:53 PM :: 7467 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
  • Senate: Motion to Table; Farm Bill – Sugar Price Supports Repeal 
  • Senate: Motion to Table; Farm Bill – Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Elimination
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012
PEW: Hawaii $21B Short on Pension Funding
By Selected News Articles @ 4:31 PM :: 6217 Views :: Energy, Environment

Hawaii’s retirement plans had a liability of $32.5 billion and the state has fallen $21 billion short in setting aside money to pay for it....

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Tuesday, June 19, 2012
June 30 Deadline: Rail Funding Depends on New Transportation Bill
By Honolulu Traffic @ 1:59 AM :: 8405 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

Here's Transportation Daily's view on the last minute efforts by Congress to craft an acceptable new Transportation Bill....

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Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Rail: Full Funding Grant Agreement Requires Bus Cuts
By Honolulu Traffic @ 12:43 AM :: 7202 Views :: Energy, Environment

You can find the real reason for bus service reductions in the FTA’s rather grudging letter granting acceptance of the City/HART’s rail project into the Final Design process....

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Tuesday, June 19, 2012
PAYCHECKS HAWAII Rates the 2012 Legislators
By News Release @ 12:15 AM :: 6812 Views :: Energy, Environment

Lawmakers are rated on their support and advocacy for small business and an improved business climate....

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Tuesday, June 19, 2012
School Choice in D.C. Saved…For Now
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:04 AM :: 2210 Views

President Obama has begun "evolving" his positions on various policy issues as polls show him neck and neck with Mitt Romney. His latest about-face restores a popular school voucher program for needy children in Washington, D.C.—after he had yanked its funding....

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Monday, June 18, 2012
Abercrombie Proclaims 'Hawaii Pollinator Week'
By News Release @ 11:42 PM :: 5465 Views :: Energy, Environment

“By marking Hawai'i Pollinator Week in conjunction with National Pollinator Week, our state is helping to create a positive ‘buzz’ around bees...."

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Monday, June 18, 2012
Act 101 Expands DoTAX Subpoena Power
By Selected News Articles @ 10:34 PM :: 5684 Views :: Energy, Environment

Department of Taxation may begin to use the subpoena power beyond criminal investigations into examination and collection functions....

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Monday, June 18, 2012
VIDEO: Lingle "Looking Back, Looking Forward"
By News Release @ 8:28 PM :: 4502 Views :: Energy, Environment

The video features Governor Lingle and several supporters, as they discuss how our state and country should move forward....

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Monday, June 18, 2012
UH Manoa ‘Confucius Institute’: Chinese Communist Party Celebrates its Influence in Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 4:55 PM :: 6692 Views :: Higher Education

"...a source of opinions and authority that is ultimately answerable to the Chinese Communist Party and which is not subject to scholarly review...."

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Monday, June 18, 2012
NYT Editorial: Lingle Deserves Credit for Creativity
By Selected News Articles @ 2:25 PM :: 5581 Views :: Energy, Environment

NYT: Ms. Lingle deserves credit for creativity in trying to get noticed by voters in Hawaii, a state with abysmal voter turnout and deep election inertia....

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Monday, June 18, 2012
To Get More Federal Medicaid Funds, Hawaii Joins Hospital Tax Bandwagon
By NCPA @ 2:09 PM :: 8734 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

During the recent economic downturn, 20 states (Hawaii is #21) increased health provider taxes to take advantage of federal matching funds....

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Monday, June 18, 2012
Feds: Hawaii Too Small to Succeed with Health Exchange
By NCPA @ 1:57 PM :: 8423 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

The decision facing them is whether they will continue to attempt to create state-run exchanges (despite the financial pitfalls) or if they will run partnership exchanges with the federal government....

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Monday, June 18, 2012
The Grecian Formula for Economic Decline
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:39 PM :: 4512 Views :: National News, Ethics

The President and his team have been blaming "European headwinds" for some of the U.S. economy's woes. But the truth is that the policies pursued by Washington and Athens are frighteningly similar....

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Monday, June 18, 2012
Vouchers Breathe New Life into Shrinking Catholic Schools
By NCPA @ 4:21 AM :: 4554 Views :: National News, Ethics

For the first time in decades, Catholic education is showing signs of life....

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Sunday, June 17, 2012
Planned Rail Extensions: $266,207 per rider
By News Release @ 5:09 PM :: 7952 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

CEO Grabauskas tells us that the cost of the planned extensions to UH, Waikiki and to Kapolei Town will bring the total to $9.03 billion .... 

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Sunday, June 17, 2012
HART's $3M Noise Machine
By News Release @ 5:01 PM :: 7987 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

...the entire listing of HART people and companies on staff includes over $3M of "public involvement' and 'multimedia' contracts....

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Sunday, June 17, 2012
Beware of Misleading Assumptions for Tax Relief
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 5:37 AM :: 5667 Views :: Energy, Environment

Whenever some policymaker comes up with a proposal to grant a tax preference to a certain group of taxpayers, one has to take that proposal with a grain of salt ....

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Sunday, June 17, 2012
Case: Hirono Pandering, Hiding, Living in a Fantasy World
By Ed Case @ 3:44 AM :: 5978 Views :: Energy, Environment

"Hirono is, well, either living in a fantasy world or pandering to the electorate."

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Saturday, June 16, 2012
Kalaeloa Renewable Energy Park: Community Leaders Demand EIS
By News Release @ 6:34 PM :: 8797 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

The entire former MCAS Ewa was designated as National Register eligible during the BRAC transfer process and significant historic sites have already been discovered since the original BRAC 1999 surveys were done....

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Saturday, June 16, 2012
Djou: Hawaii Small Businesses Deserve Better than an 'F'
By Rep Charles Djou @ 3:23 PM :: 10346 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

...sustainable job growth is not going to come from a few big corporations hiring hundreds of people. Job growth is going to come from lots and lots of small businesses....

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Saturday, June 16, 2012
Green Energy’s Bankruptcy Blackout
By NCPA @ 3:18 PM :: 5513 Views :: National News, Ethics

Here’s the breakdown of how well green energy is actually doing....

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Saturday, June 16, 2012
Micronesia’s future between China and the US
By Selected News Articles @ 3:03 PM :: 7187 Views :: World News

FSM is commanding the attention and money of both China and the US....

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Friday, June 15, 2012
Favored Nations: Abercrombie Signs over Millions to to HGEA, UHPA
By News Release @ 11:02 PM :: 6854 Views :: Energy, Environment

Abercrombie June 13 signed three bills giving 'Favored Nation' money to HGEA and UHPA.  

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Friday, June 15, 2012
Abercrombie Evicts Haleiwa Farmers Market, Blames Organizers
By News Release @ 10:55 PM :: 8958 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

“I cannot believe this is happening at 1:30 on Friday afternoon, when all our vendors have already picked and prepared their products for the Sunday market."

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Friday, June 15, 2012
Your Act 221Tax Credit Dollars At Work: Hopeless Hoku Forms Restructuring Committee
By News Release @ 7:13 PM :: 7232 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits

... a solar energy products and services company, natch ....

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Friday, June 15, 2012
State Appeals Court: Individuals Cannot Sue to Determine Vacation Rental in Violation
By Robert Thomas @ 6:41 PM :: 5537 Views :: Energy, Environment

a person complaining about a vacation rental cannot circumvent the City's enforcement procedures and the administrative appeal process by instituting an original jurisdiction lawsuit....

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Friday, June 15, 2012
FACE: Hawaii Home Health Aides Underpaid
By News Release @ 5:40 PM :: 5622 Views :: Energy, Environment

Home Care Aide is projected to be the fastest growing occupation in every county in Hawaii through 2018....

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Friday, June 15, 2012
Hawaii Loses 10 Construction Jobs a Day as Rail Work Begins
By Selected News Articles @ 4:59 PM :: 6802 Views :: Labor, Rail

Union members who have been led to believe rail would put them back to work can now see that it simply isn’t happening....

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Friday, June 15, 2012
Hawaiian’s Big Growth Gamble
By Selected News Articles @ 3:09 PM :: 6156 Views :: Energy, Environment

“We have to be proactive in trying to line up debt or lease financing for the 2013 aircraft deliveries. The funding for three of those five [planes] is already taken care of. Staying ahead of this is the biggest risk....

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Friday, June 15, 2012
How Taxmageddon Will Impact You
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:53 PM :: 4390 Views :: National News, Ethics

"I've said that this is a make-or-break moment for the middle class, and I believe it," President Obama told an Ohio crowd yesterday. Indeed it is—because in a sluggish economy, American taxpayers are about to be clobbered by the largest tax increase in history....

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Thursday, June 14, 2012
Judicial Selection Commission Appoints Cahill
By News Release @ 5:26 PM :: 8775 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment

Under Article VI, Section 3 of the Hawaiʻi State Constitution, the Commission was duty-bound to make an appointment after the Governor’s office failed to do so within 30 days....

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Thursday, June 14, 2012
Hawaii to be First State to Set Up Obamacare Exchange?
By News Release @ 4:49 PM :: 9170 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

“Hawaii looks forward to working collaboratively with CMS in order to ultimately obtain approval for State-Based Exchange and to ensure the Connector’s operational readiness for 2014,” stated Governor Abercrombie.

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Thursday, June 14, 2012
House Republicans: Veto the PEO Bill
By News Release @ 3:57 PM :: 5759 Views :: Energy, Environment

If enacted, it would be difficult, perhaps impossible, for these small businesses to comply with the bonding and registration requirements.

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Thursday, June 14, 2012
Oahu's Untapped Hydroelectric Resources
By Henry Curtis @ 2:21 PM :: 10874 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

Oahu has several large, dammed reservoirs, all of which could provide continuous power ....

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Thursday, June 14, 2012
US Flag Ships 'Grey-listed', Detained Overseas Due to Poor Maintenance
By Selected News Articles @ 1:31 PM :: 11631 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family

The glorious Jones Act at work ....

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Thursday, June 14, 2012
Pentagon Cuts Could Eliminate Commissaries, Exchanges
By News Release @ 1:20 PM :: 10506 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

This plan would impact more than 164,000 military service members, retirees, and family members who live on Oahu.... Commissary shoppers in Hawaii save 50.7% with annual savings for a family of four of $7,360.

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Thursday, June 14, 2012
State Dept. Video: 'Visit America: It's Easier than You Think'
By Selected News Articles @ 1:11 PM :: 10715 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family

Says visa process is now smoother....

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