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Entries for 'Andrew Walden'
Friday, October 25, 2013 |
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SB1 Would Impose New Tax on Churches—Even if they Accept Gay Marriage
By Andrew Walden @ 5:31 AM :: 7740 Views :: Family, First Amendment, Taxes
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...marriage-related church functions, until now regarded as non-profit, will be considered a ‘for-profit’ activity....
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Friday, October 18, 2013 |
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Abercrombie, Legislature Say: “The People Choose on Marriage”
By Andrew Walden @ 3:18 AM :: 5147 Views :: Family
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...the legislature and governor have already mandated their own interpretation of the Constitution –one which is at odds with Louie’s....
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013 |
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Saturday, October 12, 2013 |
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Civil Rights: What’s Worse than Being ‘Forced’ to Conduct Gay Marriages?
By Andrew Walden @ 8:41 PM :: 7766 Views :: Family, First Amendment
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"The list would include churches that charge commercially for, say, a community group's use of its facility...."
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Saturday, October 5, 2013 |
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Secret Chart Reveals HMSA Individual, Family Rates-- $873 Per Person for Non-Smokers
By Andrew Walden @ 10:48 PM :: 11529 Views :: Health Care
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HMSA, Kaiser, and the Hawaii Health Connector continue to refuse to make these rates public, but we've got them here....
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Thursday, October 3, 2013 |
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Hawaii Health Connector Secret Rates Revealed? HMSA Premium Jumps 44%
By Andrew Walden @ 11:59 PM :: 6488 Views :: Health Care
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Under their current small-business group coverage they are paying $810.56 per month. Their new price effective July 1, 2014 will be $1,166.24 per month....
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Monday, September 30, 2013 |
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Taking Effect Today: Honolulu Property Tax Hikes Target Elderly
By Andrew Walden @ 8:12 PM :: 5919 Views :: Honolulu County, Taxes
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...thanks to a Christmas Tree Clause in 13-33, developers and wealthy individuals with 10 acres or more have been given an easy out for upzoned properties....
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Friday, September 27, 2013 |
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Report: Anti-GMO Activists Cause Cancer on Kauai
By Andrew Walden @ 1:29 PM :: 5510 Views :: GMOs
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The only thing resembling a 'cancer cluster' consists of surfers in Hanalei who spend too much time in the sun....
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Thursday, September 26, 2013 |
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Lawsuit: Ratepayers Challenge Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative
By Andrew Walden @ 3:09 AM :: 4353 Views :: Energy
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...ratepayers complaining of bills as high a $1600 and frequent power outages caused by termite-ridden overhead power poles are suing the State of Hawaii ....
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Thursday, September 26, 2013 |
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ECrim: Hawaii Political Criminals Now Protected by $1000 Paywall
By Andrew Walden @ 12:40 AM :: 7219 Views :: Ethics, Politicians
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Meanwhile—purely in the interest of saving time and money for fellow investigators--this writer will be obligated to search through the files and make a complete list of the criminal records of all Hawaii’s elected officials and post it online....
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Sunday, September 22, 2013 |
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First Amendment: 14 Gay Marriage Laws vs Abercrombie
By Andrew Walden @ 9:46 PM :: 9035 Views :: Family, First Amendment, Religion
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... the religious freedom clauses of Abercrombie’s proposed gay marriage bill are substantially weaker than the language used by other states....
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Friday, September 20, 2013 |
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Gentry Pacific Deal: Akana Sues, Alleges OHA Abuse of Executive Sessions
By Andrew Walden @ 10:34 PM :: 5504 Views :: OHA
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After months of criticism of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs purchase of the Gentry Pacific Design Center, Trustee Rowena Akana has filed suit....
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Friday, September 20, 2013 |
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Obamacare Plans: Four Things the Health Connector Isn’t Telling You
By Andrew Walden @ 10:07 PM :: 6374 Views :: Health Care, Cost of Living
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- Deductibles
- Family rates
- Smokers' rates
- What's not covered
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Saturday, September 14, 2013 |
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Anti-Aquarium Nuts Attack Big Isle Fisherman For Catching Delicious Tiger Shark
By Andrew Walden @ 4:40 AM :: 8352 Views :: Environment, Second Amendment
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...a few weeks ago the puppy-murdering phonies of "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals" (PETA) hounded a Kauai fisherman whose close call with a giant ahi was captured on video. Now the national spotlight is focused on a Big Island youth...
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Friday, September 13, 2013 |
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Gay Marriage Bill Violates First Amendment
By Andrew Walden @ 11:23 PM :: 9515 Views :: Family, First Amendment, Religion
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Gay marriage on the line in the October 28 special legislative session, but apparently Governor Neil Abercrombie is willing to risk losing the vote for a crack at imposing government dogma on Hawaii's religious believers....
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Thursday, September 12, 2013 |
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HMSA 'Dumping' Thousands of Policies, Blames Obamacare
By Andrew Walden @ 8:07 PM :: 10035 Views :: Health Care
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"The Affordable Care Act...is bringing many changes.... Your plan is among those that won’t meet ACA requirements."
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013 |
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Sunday, September 8, 2013 |
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Geothermal: How to Divide Hawaiians from their Money
By Andrew Walden @ 10:31 PM :: 6951 Views :: Energy, OHA
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How to Divide Hawaiians from their Money? Put the charges on their electric bill....
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Saturday, September 7, 2013 |
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Bones at the Convention Center: Mark Twain vs Mike McCartney
By Andrew Walden @ 3:53 PM :: 5642 Views :: First Amendment
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"...we rode a considerable distance over ground so thickly strewn with human bones that the horses' feet crushed them, not occasionally, but at every step...."
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Wednesday, September 4, 2013 |
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Abercrombie Risks Losing Vote in order to Force Gay Marriage into Churches
By Andrew Walden @ 5:28 AM :: 4912 Views :: Family
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Lambda Legal began preparing the ground for Abercrombie’s proposed gay marriage “religious exemption” as far back as 2007....
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Sunday, September 1, 2013 |
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Gay Divorce: Abercrombie Special Session for Arizona ‘Pregnant Man’?
By Andrew Walden @ 11:41 PM :: 6637 Views :: Family
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Abercrombie’s draft gay marriage bill would make Hawaii the only state in the nation to claim legal jurisdiction over divorces in which neither party is a resident of the state....
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013 |
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Lech Walesa: “Gays should not impose themselves on the majority”
By Andrew Walden @ 4:59 PM :: 4627 Views :: Family
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Like the Dalai Lama and Martin Luther King Jr, Walesa does not believe in the gay agenda. Here are the quotes....
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Tuesday, August 27, 2013 |
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Dalai Lama: “They want me to condone homosexuality…a relationship between two men is wrong.”
By Andrew Walden @ 4:07 PM :: 22510 Views :: Family, Religion
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As with everything else, gay activists have been desperately working to make the Dalai Lama their own....
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013 |
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Martin Luther King Jr Recommends Gay Conversion Therapy
By Andrew Walden @ 11:53 PM :: 11875 Views :: Family, First Amendment
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...this is the only recorded comment by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr on homosexuality....
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Saturday, August 17, 2013 |
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013 |
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Star-Advertiser Gets it Wrong: Obama Cannot Act on ‘Sovereignty’
By Andrew Walden @ 1:58 AM :: 6917 Views :: Akaka Bill
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...the Schatz and Hanabusa camps seek to outdo each other in hare-brained schemes to invent the Akaka Tribe. And the Star-Advertiser editorial board has been suckered by the rhetoric....
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Sunday, August 11, 2013 |
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Akaka Tribe “Disenrollment” -- 75% of Hawaiians “will not be acknowledged”
By Andrew Walden @ 9:00 PM :: 7688 Views :: Akaka Bill
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The Akaka Tribe hasn’t even formed yet--but the expulsions have already begun....
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Saturday, August 10, 2013 |
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Not Just Hawaii: Insurance Companies Reject Obamacare Exchanges--Reid Predicts Single-Payer Coming
By Andrew Walden @ 2:03 PM :: 4302 Views :: Health Care
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Just as in Hawaii, the Obamacare Exchanges in other states are not attracting insurance competitors....
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Tuesday, August 6, 2013 |
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Act 268 Hawaii Unfunded Liabilities Plan: Pot of Gold for Corrupt Union Leaders
By Andrew Walden @ 9:29 PM :: 9667 Views :: Ethics, Labor
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OPEB-related corruption has been in the news for years. For instance....
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Saturday, August 3, 2013 |
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Ashford Nomination Challenged on Ethics
By Andrew Walden @ 6:20 PM :: 8204 Views :: Ethics, Judiciary
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The ethical response is to try again, not to proceed in violation of Hawaii law and court rules....
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Monday, July 29, 2013 |
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Skeletons in the Closet of the Wind
By Andrew Walden @ 8:44 PM :: 12181 Views :: Energy
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Monday, July 29, 2013 |
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Hanabusa: Obama Considers Creating Akaka Tribe Without Congressional Approval
By Andrew Walden @ 12:27 AM :: 8835 Views :: Akaka Bill
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"We know he will seriously consider our request to use his executive branch authority to achieve this elusive goal."
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Sunday, July 21, 2013 |
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Solar Scam: DoE Overpays $612M for Athletic Supporter?
By Andrew Walden @ 12:27 AM :: 7900 Views :: Education K-12, Energy
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“I don’t think you understand the gravity of the situation as it now stands.”
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013 |
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Ikaika Anderson forms Congressional Campaign Committee
By Andrew Walden @ 3:26 PM :: 5787 Views :: Democratic Party, Politicians
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Anderson is not obligated to resign his Council seat to run for Congress....
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Sunday, July 14, 2013 |
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After Receiving Campaign Cash, OHA Trustees Give $1.25M to Insolvent Geothermal Company
By Andrew Walden @ 1:12 AM :: 10042 Views :: Energy, OHA
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If OHA were more skilled at 'due diligence' it would have spotted the million dollar loan IDG's New Zealand partner wrote off last year....
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013 |
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Sen David Ige to challenge Abercrombie for Governor
By Andrew Walden @ 2:04 PM :: 7188 Views :: Democratic Party, Politicians
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Ige will not be running for reelection to the Senate....
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Thursday, June 27, 2013 |
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Voting Rights: Hawaii Moves to Top of Enforcement List?
By Andrew Walden @ 10:40 PM :: 5711 Views :: Office of Elections
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Why? Hawaii's consistently low voter turnout....
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013 |
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NCTQ Report: UH Education Departments Among Nation's Worst
By Andrew Walden @ 9:52 PM :: 6161 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education
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the National Council on Teacher Quality 2013 Teacher Prep Review has bad news for Hawaii Universities' Schools of Education....
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Sunday, June 16, 2013 |
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Lawsuit: Hawaii Gambling Machine Contract Guaranteed ‘No problem from Vice-Squad’
By Andrew Walden @ 2:41 AM :: 8905 Views :: Gambling, Law Enforcement
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Despite this assurance, the record also reveals that the parties also made jokes about being “locked up” because of these games....
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Sunday, June 16, 2013 |
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Abercrombie Quietly Orders More Pay Hikes, Publishes HGEA, UPW Contracts
By Andrew Walden @ 1:24 AM :: 4318 Views :: Labor
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Abercrombie’s office quietly slipped three more executive orders onto its webpage this week....
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Thursday, June 13, 2013 |
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Email Chain Reveals Hawaii Obamacare Leaders Debating “Inevitable Failure”
By Andrew Walden @ 12:32 AM :: 7921 Views :: Health Care
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... HHA continues to meet, without a budget, working on developing a universal, cost-effective health care system that will be ready for implementation when the Affordable Care Act inevitably fails....
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Sunday, June 9, 2013 |
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Bottled Water Battle: A Decade of OHA Harassment Continues
By Andrew Walden @ 9:26 PM :: 7191 Views :: OHA, Small Business
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OHA has served as the agent of an Oahu-based bottled water company seeking to destroy its tiny Kauai-only competitor, Kauai Springs....
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Saturday, June 8, 2013 |
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Abercrombie Quietly Orders Pay Hikes
By Andrew Walden @ 12:17 AM :: 4042 Views :: Labor
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Abercrombie’s office quietly slipped two more executive orders onto its webpage this week....
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Wednesday, June 5, 2013 |
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Ed Week: Hawaii DoE Dropout Rate Jumps to 32.8%
By Andrew Walden @ 11:02 PM :: 9091 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics
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...according to Education Week, the Hawaii DoE is 7th best in the nation when it comes to changing the numbers....
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Sunday, June 2, 2013 |
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Feds Bust Sandwich Isles Com: $25M/year Funneled to Hee Company
By Andrew Walden @ 9:16 PM :: 17555 Views :: Akaka Bill, DHHL, National News, Ethics
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The FCC order exposes more information on Hee than has ever before been made public....
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Sunday, June 2, 2013 |
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HIRA Candidate for GOP Chair Stars in Gay Pride Parade
By Andrew Walden @ 5:37 PM :: 6483 Views :: Family, Republican Party
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...Hayes, Miss Gay Pride 1987-88, "has been coming here to fight for a quarter century."
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Saturday, June 1, 2013 |
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.05% Solution: Abercrombie Quietly Appoints DUI Taskforce
By Andrew Walden @ 4:11 PM :: 3980 Views :: Law Enforcement
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...a mandate to cut the legal blood alcohol limit from 0.08% to 0.05%.....
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Friday, May 24, 2013 |
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Census looks at 2012 Elections: Hawaii Worst Voter Registration, 2nd Worst Voter Participation
By Andrew Walden @ 9:51 PM :: 5499 Views :: Office of Elections
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Hawaii will improve voter participation when Hawaii has a politically competitive two party system....
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