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Entries for 'Selected News Articles'
Sunday, November 13, 2011 |
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Detroit-based Website Takes Aim at Honolulu GOP Treasurer over ties to Radcliffe, Gambling
By Selected News Articles @ 9:12 PM :: 8094 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Anonymous Detroit-based website “The Verifiable Truth” (TVT), in a series of articles posted last week, is taking aim at the connections between Honolulu County GOP Treasurer Liz Hata-Watanabe and gaming lobbyist John Radcliffe.
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Sunday, November 13, 2011 |
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Mafia-Connected FirstWind Got $117M in Federal Loans for Kahuku Windfarm
By Selected News Articles @ 7:55 PM :: 14189 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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As the clock ticks down to the December 31 expiration of the federal cash-grant program for green energy scammers, the New York Times puts one of Hawaii's many wind-scams on the radar....
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Saturday, November 12, 2011 |
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ABC News: Will Lingle Win Hawaii Senate Seat?
By Selected News Articles @ 12:51 PM :: 8355 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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“If voters are angry at Washington, then I can certainly see them perhaps looking at her as somebody who might be more willing to come to D.C. and try and get some things done.”
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Saturday, November 12, 2011 |
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Death, Disease plague 'Occupy’ Protests ... and more
By Selected News Articles @ 9:00 AM :: 13719 Views :: National News, Ethics
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- USA Today: Fights erupt among Occupy Wall Street protesters
- NH Union Leader: Woman charged with pimping teen recruited at Occupy NH rally
- Madison WI Daily Cardinal: 'Occupy Madison' loses permit due to public masturbation and much much more....
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Friday, November 11, 2011 |
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Friday, November 11, 2011 |
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Rank-and-file Fed up with Unions’ Political Spending
By Selected News Articles @ 9:41 PM :: 4263 Views :: National News, Ethics
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47 percent of respondents from union households, believe that union members don’t get their dues’ worth from their unions. 60 percent of those in union households said that labor groups were too involved in politics...
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Friday, November 11, 2011 |
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The History of Veterans Day
By Selected News Articles @ 3:03 AM :: 5611 Views :: National News, Ethics
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...veterans were respected and honored long before any official holiday was established, including by George Washington in his June 8, 1783 Circular Letter of Farewell to the Army calling on Congress to provide veterans’ benefits....
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Thursday, November 10, 2011 |
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David Axelrod's Pattern Of Sexual Misbehavior
By Selected News Articles @ 11:07 AM :: 5008 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Herman Cain has spent his life living and working all over the country — Indiana, Georgia, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Washington, D.C. — but never in Chicago.
So it's curious that all the sexual harassment allegations against Cain emanate from Chicago: home of the Daley machine and Obama consigliere David Axelrod.
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011 |
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Attorney: Why is Hawaii Getting Free Pass on Voting Rights Act Violations?
By Selected News Articles @ 1:46 PM :: 8684 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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If we looked at only the last three presidential elections before 2006 instead of looking at 40-year old elections, Hawaii would be the only state covered (by the Voting Rights Act).
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011 |
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US Tax Foundation Debunks Abercrombie's Soda Tax
By Selected News Articles @ 1:02 PM :: 8254 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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...in more recent years (1998 to 2010) U.S. per capita soda consumption has actually fallen by over 16 percent. This data suggests that consumers may be moving away from soda without the help of excise taxes....
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011 |
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Occupy Wall Street might never have started If politicians hadn’t oversold higher education
By Selected News Articles @ 12:18 PM :: 6897 Views :: National News, Ethics
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While their many expressed grievances cover the waterfront, the one that has received the most fame is that they’ve been lured into very expensive college debts—debts they can’t pay because they don’t have jobs.
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011 |
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011 |
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Horizon Lines Reports $126M Loss in 3rd Quarter
By Selected News Articles @ 8:49 AM :: 6475 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Horizon said economic conditions in its domestic markets are continuing “at a slow and uneven pace.” The carrier serves Puerto Rico, Hawaii and Alaska in addition to the discontinued Guam service.
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Monday, November 7, 2011 |
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‘America’s Battalion’ arrives in Afghanistan from Kaneohe
By Selected News Articles @ 11:25 PM :: 11784 Views :: Maui County, Energy, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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In the coming weeks 3/3 will take control of operations in Garmsir District, relieving fellow Hawaii-based 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment. The “Lava Dogs” of 1/3 are nearing the end of their seven-month deployment, which began in April.
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Monday, November 7, 2011 |
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Name and Shame? Obama May Go Public with Inouye’s Funding Requests
By Selected News Articles @ 12:55 PM :: 7843 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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In a move that could escalate hostilities with Congress, President Obama may be planning to use his executive authority to publicize special funding requests that lawmakers make for pet projects.
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Sunday, November 6, 2011 |
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Occupy Honolulu: Waikiki Shooting was “Round One”
By Selected News Articles @ 11:55 AM :: 17932 Views :: Homelessness, Law Enforcement, Tourism
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"...those doing the attacking will die...." -- Occupy Honolulu
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Thursday, November 3, 2011 |
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Detroit Gambling Promoters Using 10-Year-Old Study to Re-Ignite Case for Gambling in Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 9:03 PM :: 8194 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Jake Miklojcik, author of the study and a Lansing-based consultant-for-hire, is the go-to-guy when Detroiters Michael Malik and Marian Ilitch -- or their PR mouthpiece Tom Shields -- need to produce a "study" to support their gambling/business agenda.
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Wednesday, November 2, 2011 |
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Hawaii At Bottom of Future Economic Performance Rankings
By Selected News Articles @ 11:36 PM :: 7135 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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In predicting states' future economic performance, New York, Vermont, Maine, California, and Hawaii scored the lowest in the rankings.
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011 |
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011 |
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442nd legacy takes Soldiers from 'enemy aliens' to heroes
By Selected News Articles @ 1:41 PM :: 6844 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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"This is an American story and it speaks to the greatness of this nation."
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Monday, October 31, 2011 |
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Waipahu soldier and 11 others overcome Afghanistan ambush, receive awards
By Selected News Articles @ 3:52 PM :: 11926 Views :: Maui County, Energy, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Waipahu native Army Pfc. Edward Barut and his team successfully overcame a 45-minute complex attack in which insurgents used rocket propelled grenades, small arms fire and improvised explosive devices.
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Sunday, October 30, 2011 |
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Honolulu Cockfighter paid by City: $480K to ‘Investigate Rooster Complaints’
By Selected News Articles @ 4:14 PM :: 12380 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Ethics
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For the past nine years Honolulu officials have paid publicly professed cockfighters a total of $480,000 in taxpayer dollars to respond to loose and nuisance fowl complaints....
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Saturday, October 29, 2011 |
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Star-Advertiser Punked by Global Warmer posing as Climate Skeptic
By Selected News Articles @ 12:38 PM :: 11125 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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This is what happens to people who believe in Anthropogenic Global Warming.
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Friday, October 28, 2011 |
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APEC: Obama needs Congressional Support for Free Trade in Pacific—but Hirono, Hanabusa vote No
By Selected News Articles @ 3:53 PM :: 11642 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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The Obama administration is hoping to build on the momentum of recent free-trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama as attention turns to the Trans-Pacific Partnership and trade promotion authority.
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Thursday, October 27, 2011 |
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Why is Detroit Casino Operator Mike Malik Dragging former Hawaii Governor Waihee on Long Island, NY?
By Selected News Articles @ 1:02 PM :: 14178 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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(lt-to-rt) lobbyist Michael McKeon, attorney Lance Boldrey, Gov. John Waihee & Detroit Syndicator Michael J. Malik
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011 |
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Honolulu 16th Worst City to Be Young
By Selected News Articles @ 3:21 PM :: 9847 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Census data released in September revealed the statistical proof behind what millions had already known....
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011 |
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AMA: Hawaii 5th Least Competitive Health Insurance Market
By Selected News Articles @ 1:50 PM :: 9339 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Alabama was the state with the least competitive health insurance market and had two insurance companies controlling roughly 95 percent of the marketplace. In order, the next nine states with the least competitive health insurance markets were Alaska, Delaware, Michigan, Hawaii, Washington DC, Nebraska, North Carolina, Indiana and Maine.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011 |
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Lingle not running from RINO label
By Selected News Articles @ 2:12 PM :: 7218 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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...Lingle said she expects to be one of the lawmakers called upon to serve in Gang of 12-like arrangements, where bipartisan groups of senators bridge political gaps to tackle the largest problems....
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Monday, October 24, 2011 |
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Clean Energy's Accounting Gimmick: "Free" Taxpayer Subsidies
By Selected News Articles @ 7:08 PM :: 6029 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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...the program which created Solyndra is set to quietly impose billions of dollars of losses on taxpayers, all of which will be hidden from the federal budget thanks to a massive accounting gimmick....
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Monday, October 24, 2011 |
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LifeNews: Lingle Faces Pro-Abortion Mazie Hirono in Hawaii Senate Race
By Selected News Articles @ 5:08 PM :: 6332 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Hirono holds a 0% rating from the National Right to Life Committee, indicating she has not cast even one pro-life vote in her entire career in the House.
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Friday, October 21, 2011 |
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Neil Abercrombie is the Least Popular Governor in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 5:19 PM :: 7414 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Neil Abercrombie has assumed the dubious distinction of 'most unpopular Governor in the country' in PPP's polling. Only 30% of voters now approve of him to 56% disapproving. That represents a 33 point decline in his net approval since March, when PPP found him at 48/41.
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Friday, October 21, 2011 |
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No Gag Order in Hawaii Blind-Deaf School Homosexual Rape Gang Case
By Selected News Articles @ 12:21 AM :: 14107 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics, Health Care
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...Scott O'Neal, the counselor named in the lawsuit, and his lawyer, Randall K. Schmidt, fired back with a request to enjoin Green from making further media statements to ensure a fair trial....
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Thursday, October 20, 2011 |
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VIDEO: Gaddafi Pulled from Storm Drain, Argues with Captors before Getting Final Bullet
By Selected News Articles @ 2:39 PM :: 10110 Views :: World News
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File Photo: Gaddafi greets Nation of Islam boss, Louis Farrakhan.
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Thursday, October 20, 2011 |
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Pro-Assisted Suicide Advocates Falsely Advertise Suicide as Legal in Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 2:41 AM :: 7666 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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If the 1909 statute made assisted suicide legal, which it does not, then Hawaii would quickly become a breeding ground for abuse of those at the worst time in their lives – those who are sick and contemplating suicide.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011 |
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New Poll shows Lingle beating Ed Case for Senate
By Selected News Articles @ 5:54 PM :: 5596 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Linda Lingle's image has rebounded over the last 7 months after she left office unpopular, and it looks like she might be able to make the Hawaii Senate race competitive.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011 |
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Horizon Lines Avoids Bankruptcy, But Delisted by NYSE
By Selected News Articles @ 5:31 PM :: 16654 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Horizon Lines completed a complicated $652.8 million refinancing that saves the largest U.S. domestic ocean carrier from bankruptcy and will leave bondholders with most of the company's stock.
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011 |
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Lawyer: Hawaii Assisted Suicide is Not "Already Legal"
By Selected News Articles @ 7:17 PM :: 5947 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Kathryn Tucker, Director of Legal Affairs for Compassion & Choices, claims that physician-assisted suicide, which she terms "aid in dying," is already legal in Hawaii. Her claim, based in part on a 1909 statute, fails for the reasons set forth below.
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011 |
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Rail Debate: Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda on Island Insights
By Selected News Articles @ 4:31 PM :: 8639 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Thursday, October 13, on Public Television's KHET Channel 10, Governor Cayetano and Cliff Slater were part of an Island Insights discussion of rail. They were joined by former Honolulu City Councilmember Gary Okino and Drew Astolfi, head of FACE....
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011 |
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Honolulu Traffic vs. Star-Advertiser: Rail Job Count 650, not 17,250
By Selected News Articles @ 4:19 PM :: 5291 Views :: Energy, Environment
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The Star Advertiser report on jobs associated with the rail project is pure editorial posing as reportage....
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011 |
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Cato Backs Suit Challenging DHHL Residents’ Property Tax Discount
By Selected News Articles @ 1:14 AM :: 7144 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The group of taxpayers now seek review in the U.S. Supreme Court. Cato, joined by the Pacific Legal Foundation, the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, the Goldwater Institute, and Professor Paul M. Sullivan, filed a brief urging the Court to take the case ....
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Sunday, October 16, 2011 |
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Why evangelicals must stand up to anti-Mormon bigotry
By Selected News Articles @ 6:07 PM :: 6297 Views :: National News, Ethics
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This is bigotry buttressed by irrelevance fortified with invincible ignorance.
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Sunday, October 16, 2011 |
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Feds: Medical Marijuana Laws and Hawaii County Council Drive Growth in Drug Trade
By Selected News Articles @ 5:30 PM :: 11086 Views :: Hawaii County , Akaka Bill, Energy, Environment
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Law enforcement officials have reported an influx of criminal groups and independent growers from the West Coast who are relocating to Hawaii .... they often find medical marijuana certificates while serving search and arrest warrants but seize far greater amounts of marijuana than allowed by law, in addition to other illicit drugs and weapons….
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Sunday, October 16, 2011 |
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Lawsuit Challenges Kaiser’s Non-profit Status: Money funneled to For-Profit Entities?
By Selected News Articles @ 12:57 PM :: 8975 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Kaiser Foundation Health Plan's former Chief Administrative Officer claims she was fired for protesting that the putative nonprofit was "funneling funds to related for-profit Kaiser entities ... (and) using its fraudulently obtained tax-exempt status to fuel its market expansion/dominance."
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Friday, October 14, 2011 |
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Rail Transit on Oahu: Real Estate Investment Opportunity or Urban Blight?
By Selected News Articles @ 10:40 PM :: 8835 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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If rail transit becomes a reality, what will be its effect be on Hawaii real estate?
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Friday, October 14, 2011 |
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Honolulu Rated 5th Most Dangerous US Airport
By Selected News Articles @ 4:30 PM :: 7726 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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We averaged the Runway Incident Rate-the total number of runway incidents divided by the total number of runway operations (takeoffs and landings)-over the five years covered in our survey period.
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Friday, October 14, 2011 |
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Tax on ‘Tax-Free’ Bonds still alive in Congress: Hawaii Public Housing At Risk
By Selected News Articles @ 12:07 PM :: 9553 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Residents of Hawaii’s largest public housing facility began returning to renovated units this month. They enjoyed the fruits of a public-private partnership that supporters worry will not be replicated in the future because of threats to the status of tax-exempt bonds that underpinned the project’s financing.
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Thursday, October 13, 2011 |
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Cook: Hawaii Senate Race a toss-up
By Selected News Articles @ 7:06 PM :: 6743 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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...with former Gov. Linda Lingle’s announcement this week that she would run for the seat being vacated by Democratic Sen. Dan Akaka, this race moves from the Solid Democratic column to Toss Up....
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011 |
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Hanabusa: Lingle resonates with voters
By Selected News Articles @ 5:41 PM :: 7823 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Hanabusa calls Lingle an "extremely good politician" and a "formidable candidate" with an uncanny ability to connect with voters.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011 |
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Lingle Hits Moderate, Bipartisan themes in Campaign Rollout
By Selected News Articles @ 1:34 AM :: 6990 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Lingle stressed that one of her strengths is getting people to work together regardless of party affiliation, a concept that she believes is in short supply in Washington.
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