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Saturday, February 3, 2024 |
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DCCA Dumps Mis-Named 'Innovation Lab': Crypto Suddenly Deregulated
By News Release @ 1:20 AM :: 1164 Views :: Small Business
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... The Aloha State had persistently earned a virtually worst-in-the-nation popularity for its unfriendliness towards digital currencies—second solely to New York, a state with a Bitlicense that Hawaii was trying to adapt ....
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Saturday, February 3, 2024 |
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Alaska and Hawaii Delegations Seek Medicare Reimbursement Flexibility for Rural Hospitals
By News Release @ 12:50 AM :: 1105 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Health Care
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... to increase the amount that hospitals in Alaska and Hawaii can be reimbursed by Medicare to perform outpatient procedures for enrolled seniors ....
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Friday, February 2, 2024 |
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Kalani HS Wins 2024 Hawaiʻi LifeSmarts State Competition
By News Release @ 11:59 PM :: 2339 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Economy
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“...Hawaiʻi currently holds the national championship title...."
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Friday, February 2, 2024 |
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial: Wall That Heals Coming to Maui
By News Release @ 12:52 AM :: 1133 Views :: Maui County, Military
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... Over 250 volunteers are needed to support its 24-hour display ....
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Friday, February 2, 2024 |
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HECO: Blackouts This Weekend Will be Longer than Usual Thanks to New Policy
By News Release @ 12:29 AM :: 1261 Views :: Energy
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"Due to our enhanced wildfire safety protocols, outages in areas designated by the state as at-risk for wildfires may experience longer outages."
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Thursday, February 1, 2024 |
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PUC Approves $95M Rate Hike for 5-year HECO grid resilience plan
By News Release @ 11:47 PM :: 1152 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Cost of Living
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"... The estimated impact on a typical monthly bill for a residential customer using 500 kilowatt hours will be $0.17 on Oahu, $0.47 on Hawaii Island and $0.39 in Maui County ...."
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Thursday, February 1, 2024 |
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HECO New Welcome Home Rate: $0.62 per kwh
By News Release @ 11:20 PM :: 1725 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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... Have a day job? You are sooo screwed ....
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Thursday, February 1, 2024 |
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Three Ways to Lower Hawaii's Cost of Living
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:18 PM :: 1314 Views :: Development, Jones Act, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... reduce housing regulations, support reform of the federal Jones Act and cut taxes ....
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Thursday, February 1, 2024 |
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Reduce Minimum Lot Size to Lower Housing Costs
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:06 PM :: 1140 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... the minimum lot size on Maui of 6,000 square feet incentivizes the construction of large homes rather than smaller, more affordable ones ....
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Wednesday, January 31, 2024 |
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18 Years Later State Wins Dannenberg EUTF Suit
By News Release @ 2:38 PM :: 1290 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Health Care, Labor
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... contending that the EUTF had unconstitutionally diminished accrued retiree health benefits under Article XVI, Section 2 of the Hawai‘i Constitution ....
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Wednesday, January 31, 2024 |
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Five Straight Months of Tourism Decline Since Lahaina Fire
By News Release @ 2:02 PM :: 1239 Views :: Maui County, Hawaii Statistics, Tourism
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... Since the August 2023 Maui wildfires, visitor arrivals have decreased in four out of the last five months while visitor spending recorded five straight months of decline compared to 2022 ....
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Wednesday, January 31, 2024 |
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Murder of Ariel Sellers: Motion to Unseal Kalua Family Court Records
By News Release @ 3:15 AM :: 1608 Views :: Family, First Amendment, Judiciary
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... Isabella is now declared dead, and the Kaluas are charged with her murder. Under these extreme facts, the secrecy generally afforded to these types of cases should yield to openness ....
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Tuesday, January 30, 2024 |
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Tuesday, January 30, 2024 |
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Eco-Lawyers to Sue Hawaiian Electric Because Birds Hit Power Lines?
By News Release @ 6:35 PM :: 1086 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Environment
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... possible litigation challenging harm to imperiled Hawaiian seabirds caused by power lines and streetlights on Maui and Lāna‘i ....
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Tuesday, January 30, 2024 |
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FEMA to Build Hawaii's First Mobile Home Park
By News Release @ 4:08 AM :: 1535 Views :: Maui County, Development
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"...Draft Environmental Assessment For Alternative Temporary Transportable Housing Unit Group Site Known as the Kaʻanapali Temporary Group Site...."
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Monday, January 29, 2024 |
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Senate Sets Triple Hearing on Vacation Rental Bill
By News Release @ 9:06 PM :: 1376 Views :: Development, Small Business, Tourism
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... Senate Bill 2919 establishes State Regulations for short-term vacation rentals, allows the counties to adopt zoning ordinances and regulations for the amortization or phasing out of certain land lands or structures, and applies the TAT to shelters and vehicles with, or advertised as including, sleeping accommodations ....
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Sunday, January 28, 2024 |
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Not Much to Show for Governor's Emergency Housing Proclamations
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:54 PM :: 1326 Views :: Development, Land Use
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... the proclamations have only been used once ....
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Sunday, January 28, 2024 |
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Proposed STR regulations pose threat to Hawaii Island economy
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:39 PM :: 1431 Views :: Hawaii County , Economy, Small Business, Tourism
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“...30% respondents reported that if there was not a home and vacation rental option during their recent stay in Hawaii, they would not have made the trip....”
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Sunday, January 28, 2024 |
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DoTAX Grabs for Restaurants' COVID Relief Money
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:23 PM :: 1228 Views :: Small Business, Taxes, COVID-19
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... restaurants hit with surprise tax bill applicable to the financial aid received under federal Restaurant Revitalization Fund ....
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Sunday, January 28, 2024 |
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Reasons to be optimistic about the 2024 Legislature
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 11:00 AM :: 1120 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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... Will this be the year that we finally start to see positive big changes — or are we going to see more taxes, more spending, more regulations? ....
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Sunday, January 28, 2024 |
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LLC Ownership Secrecy: Oh BOI, More Red Tape for All
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1327 Views :: Ethics, Small Business
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... ultra-wealthy oligarchs, bad actors, and others are seeing us—the United States—as a haven where they can park money or assets in entities, like limited liability companies ....
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Sunday, January 28, 2024 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 27, 2024
By GovTrack .us @ 4:00 AM :: 1151 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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... bills introduced and votes cast in Congress ....
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Sunday, January 28, 2024 |
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House Introduces Maui Wildfire Bills
By News Release @ 3:40 AM :: 1128 Views :: Maui County
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... Measures stem from proposals in the House Interim Working Groups Final Report ....
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Saturday, January 27, 2024 |
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Audit Exposes Widespread Payroll Cheating at State Hospital
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 7:57 PM :: 1728 Views :: Ethics, Health Care, Labor
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"...staff’s intentional attempts to inflate their pay...."
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Saturday, January 27, 2024 |
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Transit: Its growth, decline, and pending demise
By Cliff Slater @ 7:47 PM :: 1277 Views :: Rail
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... Cliff Slater’s Tour de Force ....
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Saturday, January 27, 2024 |
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Yet Another Report on How to Improve Hawaii's Competitiveness
By News Release @ 4:59 PM :: 1204 Views :: Economy
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... Over the years there have been many reports, plans, and efforts to improve Hawaii’s economy, with mixed success ....
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Friday, January 26, 2024 |
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Hawaii Democrats to Investigate Kim Coco Iwamoto Anti-Vaxxerism?
By News Release @ 2:10 PM :: 2285 Views :: Democratic Party, Politicians
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... today we called upon the Democratic Party of Hawai'i to investigate whether Kim Coco Iwamoto's positions on vaccines align with the party's values and duties ....
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Friday, January 26, 2024 |
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Hawaii Bill Would Take Steps Against a Central Bank Digital Currency
By Selected News Articles @ 1:18 PM :: 1572 Views :: First Amendment, Hawaii State Government
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“A person who chooses not to participate in a digital currency system shall not be subject to additional surveillance, monitoring, or scrutiny by any government entity."
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Friday, January 26, 2024 |
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Hawaii 2nd Smallest Racial Wealth Gap
By Selected News Articles @ 5:01 AM :: 1253 Views :: Hawaii Statistics
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... States with the Biggest and Smallest Wealth Gaps by Race/Ethnicity (2024) ....
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Friday, January 26, 2024 |
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Lung Association: Hawai‘i Earns Mixed Grades for Tobacco Control Policies
By News Release @ 5:00 AM :: 1080 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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... American Lung Association “State of Tobacco Control” report releases Hawai‘i grades for tobacco control policies, outlines steps to reduce burden of tobacco ....
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Friday, January 26, 2024 |
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Christian Club Sues Hawaii Department Of Education After Allegedly Being Barred From School Grounds
By Selected News Articles @ 2:08 AM :: 1758 Views :: Education K-12, First Amendment, Religion
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... For nearly two years DoE has blocked elementary school Good News Clubs in facilities that are open to other, similarly situated non-religious organizations ....
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Thursday, January 25, 2024 |
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Wednesday, January 24, 2024 |
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Video: Massive Waves Rip thru Kwajalein Base
By Video @ 6:45 PM :: 1363 Views :: Military
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... Roi-Namur Island was struck by several substantial waves on Saturday night. It was NOT a tsunami. The powerful waves were driven by cyclonic surges in the open sea ....
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Wednesday, January 24, 2024 |
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Sen Karl Rhoads Closing Barn Door after the Trump Escapes?
By Andrew Walden @ 6:16 PM :: 2016 Views :: First Amendment, Office of Elections, Republican Party
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... SB2393 cannot keep Trump off the ballot: But it could have all kinds of unintended consequences in future elections ....
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Wednesday, January 24, 2024 |
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Wednesday, January 24, 2024 |
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Court: Ethics Rules do Apply to OHA Trustees
By News Release @ 1:12 PM :: 1296 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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... The Hawai‘i State Ethics Commission is pleased to announce a significant legal victory in Akana v. Hawai‘i State Ethics Commission ....
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Tuesday, January 23, 2024 |
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Tuesday, January 23, 2024 |
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Money Grab: OHA Sues to Abolish Mauna Kea Authority
By News Release @ 2:14 PM :: 1006 Views :: Higher Education, OHA
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... this is all about the master lease negotiations ....
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Tuesday, January 23, 2024 |
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Recovery? Maui County Greets New Year with GE Tax Increase
By News Release @ 1:33 PM :: 1196 Views :: Maui County, Taxes
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... Maui County surcharge and GET is 4.5% as of Jan. 1, 2024 ....
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Tuesday, January 23, 2024 |
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Hawaii Bill Would Legalize Raw Milk Sales
By News Release @ 1:23 PM :: 1129 Views :: Health Care, Small Business
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... Passage into law would take an important step toward further rejecting a federal prohibition scheme in practice and effect ....
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Monday, January 22, 2024 |
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VIDEO: State of the State Address 2024
By Video @ 4:56 PM :: 1128 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... Green addresses Legislature ....
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Monday, January 22, 2024 |
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Hawaii Bill Would Reform Civil Asset Forfeiture Process, Opt State Out of Federal Program
By Selected News Articles @ 3:22 AM :: 1090 Views :: Law Enforcement
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... reform the state’s asset forfeiture process to require a conviction in most cases ....
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Sunday, January 21, 2024 |
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Did you Buy a Gun and a Bible? Feds Sift Thru Bank Transactions Looking for 'Domestic Terrorists'
By Selected News Articles @ 5:15 PM :: 1540 Views :: First Amendment, Second Amendment
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... All-American consumerism by a completely peaceful and law-abiding citizen somehow threatens the people running my own country into the ground ....
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Sunday, January 21, 2024 |
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Will Tax Relief be on Agenda for 2024?
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1089 Views :: Taxes, Cost of Living
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... In the 2023 legislative session, that legislation was amended beyond recognition in both the House and Senate ....
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Saturday, January 20, 2024 |
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Saiki Updates House Committee Assignments
By News Release @ 9:15 PM :: 2089 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... Representatives Mizuno and Evslin ....
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Saturday, January 20, 2024 |
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Changing ideas is the key to improving Hawaii
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:37 PM :: 1154 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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"...a unique, uncensored and raw platform...."
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Saturday, January 20, 2024 |
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Saturday, January 20, 2024 |
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Ways to improve Maui Interim Housing Plan
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:08 AM :: 1015 Views :: Maui County
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... $500 million plan is fine but could be improved to more quickly help displaced fire victims ....
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Saturday, January 20, 2024 |
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Hold on to your wallets! The Legislature is back in session
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:56 AM :: 1152 Views :: Development, Land Use, Taxes
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... “artificial limiters” imposed on the housing stock via the state’s 5% cap on land zoned for residential ....
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Friday, January 19, 2024 |
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HR6062: Congress Considers Amendments to American Samoa Constitution
By News Release @ 4:43 PM :: 976 Views :: National News
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... to allow for American Samoa to enact constitutional changes as approved by the people without unnecessary additional procedures in Washington ....
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