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Entries for 'News Release'
Monday, June 16, 2014 |
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Abercrombie Appoints Members to BLNR, HTA
By News Release @ 8:14 PM :: 7132 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor, Land Use, Tourism
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Both are interim appointments subject to state Senate approval....
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Monday, June 16, 2014 |
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Public Corruption: Hawaii Ranks 26th
By News Release @ 7:20 AM :: 5118 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii Statistics
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Corruption increases and distorts spending by U.S. states....
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Saturday, June 14, 2014 |
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You're corrupt so you have no right to say I'm corrupt!
By News Release @ 6:25 PM :: 9344 Views :: Democratic Party, Ethics, Labor, Politicians, Rail
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...Cayetano had claimed PRP's ad campaign tarnished his reputation by unfairly portraying him as corrupt for accepting about $500,000 in illegal campaign contributions during the Democrat's narrow re-election victory over Linda Lingle....
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Saturday, June 14, 2014 |
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Poll: Aiona Wins Three-Way Gubernatorial Race
By News Release @ 3:58 PM :: 8244 Views :: Democratic Party, Politicians, Republican Party
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...Duke is leading in the polls - no matter who he faces in the General Election this November....
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Saturday, June 14, 2014 |
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Pono Choices Authors Scheme for Upcoming School Year
By News Release @ 5:46 AM :: 5140 Views :: Education K-12, Family
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...We will make necessary adjustments that continue to align with the most up-to-date research and practices regarding medical accuracy and age appropriateness to ensure the use of Pono Choices for the upcoming school year....
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Saturday, June 14, 2014 |
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"Pono Choices" proves liberals don't even know their own behinds
By News Release @ 5:31 AM :: 5564 Views :: Education K-12, Family
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...one-third of families did opt out at Niu Valley Middle School....
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Saturday, June 14, 2014 |
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Abercrombie Appoints Rep Wooley Replacement from Secret List
By News Release @ 5:15 AM :: 6188 Views :: Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Politicians
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Gov. Neil Abercrombie today announced the appointment of George Okuda to the state House of Representatives seat for District 48....
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Saturday, June 14, 2014 |
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Tulsi Gabbard Full Text: Hawaii VA Director is a Liar, Should be Fired
By News Release @ 2:21 AM :: 5497 Views :: Military
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...Pfeffer should be fired due to his dishonesty, lack of integrity, incompetence, and his flagrant lack of respect and transparency when dealing with those to whom he is ultimately accountable....
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Friday, June 13, 2014 |
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Hawaii wind player gets comeuppance in Maine
By News Release @ 6:03 PM :: 5853 Views :: Energy
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Maine’s supreme court struck a major blow to First Wind when it overturned regulators’ approval....
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Friday, June 13, 2014 |
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Poll: Ige 48% - Abercrombie 37%
By News Release @ 5:42 PM :: 6426 Views :: Democratic Party, Politicians
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...Ige with 48 percent to 37 percent, with 15 percent undecided....
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Friday, June 13, 2014 |
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HART completes 100th column along rail route
By News Release @ 5:35 PM :: 3863 Views :: Rail
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...we have built 100 columns, about 130 foundations and have just put up the first segments of our guideway....
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Thursday, June 12, 2014 |
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DoE Eases Teacher Evaluation Requirements
By News Release @ 10:53 PM :: 4968 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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The changes reflect the DOE’s commitment to reduce burden on teachers and administrators....
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Thursday, June 12, 2014 |
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DoE Forms Principals Roundtable with HGEA
By News Release @ 6:26 PM :: 5285 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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After a recruitment and selection process of nearly two months, the Hawaii State Department of Education (DOE) is announcing a new Deputy Superintendent’s Principal Roundtable....
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Thursday, June 12, 2014 |
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Productivity and Innovation: Hawaii Stuck on ‘F’
By News Release @ 4:31 PM :: 6363 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Small Business
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The categories in this report were chosen as those most likely to be considered by site selection experts for manufacturing and logistics firms....
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Wednesday, June 11, 2014 |
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Paychecks Hawaii Ratings of the 2014 Legislature
By News Release @ 5:02 PM :: 6461 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Politicians, Small Business
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Lawmakers are rated on their support and advocacy for small business and an improved business climate....
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014 |
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Slom: Abercrombie Should Cut $46M from CIP not DoE
By News Release @ 8:34 PM :: 6782 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii State Government
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...House Finance chair blames mistake on governor's last-minute Turtle Bay deal....
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014 |
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McCain Endorses Djou for Congress
By News Release @ 2:11 PM :: 5189 Views :: Politicians, Republican Party
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"America needs good people with strong credentials and a willingness to stand up for what is right against the corrosive special interests in Washington D.C.”
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Sunday, June 8, 2014 |
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Dave Bateman Announces for House 5
By News Release @ 4:08 AM :: 5504 Views :: Politicians, Republican Party
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"...our elected leaders continually disrespect the voters by passing laws that the people have clearly said they do not want,” Bateman said....
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Sunday, June 8, 2014 |
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Ige Goes Wobbly on GMOs
By News Release @ 4:07 AM :: 6489 Views :: GMOs
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...Ige said he will review the recent Vermont GMO labeling decision as a possible solution....
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Saturday, June 7, 2014 |
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Ethics: City Employee Processes Dozens of Permits for His Own Contracting Company
By News Release @ 6:25 PM :: 5396 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics
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2012: Commission staff received a complaint that Employee was using city work time to stand in line to process residential building permit applications....
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Saturday, June 7, 2014 |
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55% of Maui anti-GMO Signatures Worthless, but Petition on Ballot Anyway
By News Release @ 5:16 AM :: 4375 Views :: GMOs
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...4,342 registered voters in the County of Maui have signed the petition, while 5,284 signatures have been deemed invalid....
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Friday, June 6, 2014 |
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Full Text: DoE Report Takes Pono Choices ‘Off the Shelf’
By News Release @ 11:21 PM :: 6846 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Health Care
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"I see that several of the points that we made in our January 31st McDermott Report are being addressed," said McDermott....
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Friday, June 6, 2014 |
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Waitlisted patients cost Hawaii Hospitals $62.7M
By News Release @ 2:55 AM :: 5090 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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Nearly one in five of Hawaii’s waitlisted patients — that is, those remaining in a hospital after the need for acute care ceases — have an infectious disease....
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Friday, June 6, 2014 |
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Food, Flowers, Furniture: Ethics Commission to Look at Legislators Million Dollar Slush Fund
By News Release @ 2:41 AM :: 4393 Views :: Ethics
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...and the allowance was used to buy a sledgehammer for Rep Tom Brower to attack the homeless....
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Friday, June 6, 2014 |
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130th troops wrap-up mission as lead engineer element in Afghanistan
By News Release @ 12:14 AM :: 4054 Views :: Military
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More than 100 Soldiers from the 130th Engineer Brigade's headquarters reunited with their families here yesterday....
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Friday, June 6, 2014 |
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Will State Lose $800M in Fed Funding Due to Governor Abercrombie?
By News Release @ 12:03 AM :: 5915 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Politicians
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Since Abercrombie’s tenure as governor, hundreds of millions of dollars that should have been used to repair deteriorating highways and bridges have set untapped....
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Thursday, June 5, 2014 |
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Hawaii Candidates: Beware of the Hawaii Center for Food Safety Questionnaire
By News Release @ 8:32 PM :: 4671 Views :: GMOs
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Here’s a copy of the questionnaire that they have been sending candidates....
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Thursday, June 5, 2014 |
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NFIB Hawaii 2014 Legislative Wrap-up
By News Release @ 8:29 PM :: 3814 Views :: Small Business
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...NFIB helped defeat three bills negatively affecting small business before the Legislature adjourned May 2....
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Thursday, June 5, 2014 |
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Eligible? Hawaii Ranks 49th in Welfare Participation
By News Release @ 8:15 PM :: 4178 Views :: Hawaii Statistics
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...Hawaii ranks 49th among all states in accessing SNAP benefits with one out of every three eligible individuals not enrolled....
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Thursday, June 5, 2014 |
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Kauai Audit finds 'Favoritism' in Furloughs
By News Release @ 4:56 PM :: 7178 Views :: Kauai County, Ethics, Labor
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The public and the employees were told that county offices needed to be shut down because the county was in financial difficulty. This was not true....
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Wednesday, June 4, 2014 |
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Richardson is fifth least expensive among top law schools in the U.S.
By News Release @ 12:30 AM :: 4132 Views :: Higher Education
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The report found that the 2013 graduates who borrowed to attend Richardson carry an average debt load of $70,263....
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014 |
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Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Kyo-ya Case
By News Release @ 8:54 PM :: 5640 Views :: Development, Tourism
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...the Hawaii Supreme Court announced it would consider the four-year legal challenge waged by a hui of environmental groups against the City and County of Honolulu....
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014 |
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DBEDT: Obama Orders Mainland to Follow Hawaii's Expensive Energy Policies
By News Release @ 4:28 PM :: 6307 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits
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Other states are being ordered to follow Hawaii's example and give lots of money to green energy scammers who in turn give campaign contributions to the politicians who made their scams possible...
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014 |
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Council on Revenues: Tax Revenue Will Decline for 2014 as Movie Moguls Grab Tax Credit Millions
By News Release @ 4:58 AM :: 5198 Views :: Tax Credits, Taxes
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...The Act also increases the cap on the amount of the credit per production from $8 million to $15 million and moves the expiration date for the credit from January 1, 2016 to January 1, 2019....
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014 |
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Hawaii Refinery Converts to Lower Cost Mexican Oil
By News Release @ 1:54 AM :: 5639 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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“By the end of the first quarter, we had worked through the high-cost crude inventory...."
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014 |
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Honolulu Patients 2nd Happiest in USA
By News Release @ 1:36 AM :: 5374 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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...Vanguard derived its findings by developing special software to scour online reviews on Google+ and Yelp.com websites of 46,300 individual doctors....
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Monday, June 2, 2014 |
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Baron and Budd negotiate $3.7 million settlement for State of Hawaii
By News Release @ 1:42 PM :: 5557 Views :: Judiciary, Cost of Living
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...Baron and Budd negotiated a $3.7 million settlement on behalf of the State of Hawaii and a $1.6 million settlement on behalf of the State of Mississippi....
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Monday, June 2, 2014 |
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Danger: Waihee Launches 'Homeowners' Super-PAC
By News Release @ 1:42 PM :: 4347 Views :: Politicians
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The Super PAC will be promoting our unique Homeowners Bill of Rights and Wrongs ....
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Sunday, June 1, 2014 |
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NIOSH: Distant Water Tuna Fleet Workers at High Risk
By News Release @ 3:34 PM :: 5246 Views :: Jones Act, Labor
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... compared to most other fishing fleets in the U.S., workers in this fleet are at high risk of suffering a fatal injury ....
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Sunday, June 1, 2014 |
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Moody's: US state debt growing at slowest pace in years--but Hawaii Still Tops
By News Release @ 12:53 AM :: 2924 Views
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Moody's state medians show Connecticut, Massachusetts, Hawaii, New Jersey and New York have the highest net tax-supported debt per capita....
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Saturday, May 31, 2014 |
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Ige on Kakaako: ‘Too much, too fast’
By News Release @ 10:16 PM :: 5779 Views :: Development, Politicians
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...We need to abide, throughout Hawaii, by the environmental and cultural regulations our state has enacted....
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Saturday, May 31, 2014 |
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HSDC Gives Away Another $4.5M in 'HI Tech' Corporate Welfare
By News Release @ 5:40 AM :: 5182 Views :: Tax Credits
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...HSDC today announced the State of Hawaii’s $4.5 million commitment to Startup Capital Ventures II....
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Friday, May 30, 2014 |
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Keli’i Akina to Run for OHA Trustee-at-Large
By News Release @ 7:40 AM :: 4887 Views :: OHA
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Pledges to oppose race-based nation plans and meet real needs of Hawaiians....
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Friday, May 30, 2014 |
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HTA: Visitor Spending Down 2.9%
By News Release @ 3:06 AM :: 4338 Views :: Tourism
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For the first four months of 2014, total visitor expenditures fell 2.9 percent to $4.9 billion and total arrivals dropped 2.6 percent to 2,720,760 visitors....
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Thursday, May 29, 2014 |
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Will OHA Delay Kana'iolowalu? Live Stream Here
By News Release @ 6:50 AM :: 5423 Views :: Akaka Bill, OHA
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The meeting, to be held at 10 a.m. at the OHA boardroom in Honolulu, will be streamed live on the Web....
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Thursday, May 29, 2014 |
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Aiea: More Condos, Fewer Traffic Lanes, and Toxic Waste
By News Release @ 3:24 AM :: 8080 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Development, Rail
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...1,500 residential units in five towers will be the city’s first catalytic Transit Oriented Development project along the rail route....
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014 |
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OHA applauds Obama Administration's consideration of Administrative path to federal recognition
By News Release @ 9:37 PM :: 4256 Views :: Akaka Bill, OHA
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Office of Hawaiian Affairs Chair Colette Machado and Ka Pouhana/CEO Kamana'opono Crabbe issued a joint statement today commending the Obama Administration....
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014 |
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Court Guts Atheist Lawsuit Against Oahu Churches
By News Release @ 6:27 PM :: 10302 Views :: Education K-12, First Amendment, Religion
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A Hawaii court decided Tuesday to dismiss most of a renewed lawsuit against two Oahu churches....
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014 |
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Railroading Paradise: Pro-Rail Sierra Club Releasing Rail Documentary
By News Release @ 5:47 AM :: 5538 Views :: Rail
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Flashback 2012: "Members, Donors Threaten to Resign as Sierra Club Oahu Group Votes to Back Rail"
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Monday, May 26, 2014 |
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Democrats argue who can "take on Djou"
By News Release @ 12:03 AM :: 7230 Views :: Democratic Party, Politicians, Republican Party
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Yesterday, Hawaii Democrats held their state convention and speaker after speaker made solemn promises to continue the status quo of one-party rule....
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