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Entries for 'Selected News Articles'
Sunday, June 26, 2011 |
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Am. Samoa Congressional Delegate bought and paid for by Kazakhstan?
By Selected News Articles @ 1:45 AM :: 12083 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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"One Member of Congress, Delegate Eni Faleomavaega from American Samoa, a co-chair and driving force behind the creation of the Central Asia caucus, particularly stands out. In the 2010 election cycle, two of Faleomavaega’s top organizational contributors had been under contract with the Republic of Kazakhstan...."
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Friday, June 24, 2011 |
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How Much Would a Fully Funded Pension System Cost?
By Selected News Articles @ 10:57 AM :: 5745 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Without policy changes, contributions to state and local pension systems in the United States would have to immediately increase by a factor of 2.5, reaching 14.2 percent of the total own-revenue generated by state and local governments (taxes, fees and charges).
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Thursday, June 23, 2011 |
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Progressive Network touts Hawaii tax increases and State-owned Bank proposal
By Selected News Articles @ 10:07 PM :: 8219 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Three Progressive schemes Hawaii legislators are trying to implement--and ten more they haven't thought of yet....
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011 |
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Ethics Violation? NASA Chief allegedly paid off by Global Warmers
By Selected News Articles @ 9:46 PM :: 4483 Views :: National News, Ethics
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A shared $1 million prize from the Dan David Foundation for his "profound contribution to humanity."
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011 |
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Rationing by Waiting: Medicaid eligibility hiked to $64,000/year for early retirees
By Selected News Articles @ 1:56 PM :: 4898 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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President Barack Obama's health care law would let several million middle class people get nearly free insurance meant for the poor, a twist government number crunchers say they discovered only after the complex bill was signed....
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011 |
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Meet your new Defense Secretary: Leon Panetta's War on Reagan's Defense Policies
By Selected News Articles @ 5:06 PM :: 8931 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Senate conservatives proudly call themselves “Reagan Republicans” because of Reagan’s “Peace Through Strength” military policies. But in Leon Panetta, whose nomination comes up for a full Senate vote for Secretary of Defense on Tuesday, they are being asked to endorse a man whose Congressional career was dedicated to fighting Reagan’s defense build-up and anti-communist policies.
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011 |
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VIDEO: Former Utah Governor Huntsman Announces Presidential Campaign
By Selected News Articles @ 3:10 PM :: 3892 Views :: National News, Ethics
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"I respect the President of the United States. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help a country we both love."
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011 |
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Hirono, Akaka: Pension’s Perks for Members With a Past
By Selected News Articles @ 1:57 PM :: 7475 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Rep. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) ... received $45,000 from her state's pension program in 2010.
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Monday, June 20, 2011 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 20
By Selected News Articles @ 3:56 PM :: 6784 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Recent Congressional Votes
- Senate: Ethanol subsidies amendment
- House: Military Construction-Veterans Affairs Appropriations, FY2012
- House: Agriculture Appropriations, FY2012
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Friday, June 17, 2011 |
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Free Trade Agreements Deliver More Trade
By Selected News Articles @ 9:56 AM :: 8542 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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the agreements appear to boost manufacturing exports above the overall trend while having no discernable impact on manufacturing imports....
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Friday, June 17, 2011 |
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Do Film Tax Credits Live Up to Their Promises?
By Selected News Articles @ 9:53 AM :: 4982 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Film tax credits fail to live up to their promises to encourage economic growth overall and to raise tax revenue....
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Friday, June 17, 2011 |
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Health Insurance Doesn't Mean Access to Health Care
By Selected News Articles @ 9:51 AM :: 5094 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Expansions of Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) are designed to extend access to high-quality medical care to all U.S. children. However, evidence suggests that the 37 million children covered by Medicaid-CHIP are less likely to receive specialty care than children covered by commercial insurance....
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Thursday, June 16, 2011 |
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Are Electric Cars Really Green?
By Selected News Articles @ 1:21 AM :: 7403 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Electric cars could produce higher emissions over their lifetimes than petrol equivalents because of the energy consumed in making their batteries....
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011 |
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Everything you've heard about fossil fuels may be wrong
By Selected News Articles @ 7:58 PM :: 4382 Views :: National News, Ethics
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As everyone who follows news about energy knows by now, in the last decade the technique of hydraulic fracturing or "fracking," long used in the oil industry, has evolved to permit energy companies to access reserves of previously-unrecoverable “shale gas” or unconventional natural gas.
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Sunday, June 12, 2011 |
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A-1 A-Lectrician Case: Hawaii drops appeal against Corporate Donor Law
By Selected News Articles @ 11:01 AM :: 5932 Views
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Hawaii Campaign Spending Commission Chair Paul Kuramoto and four other commission members moved to dismiss their appeal on Thursday after the 9th Circuit upheld an injunction that same day against a similar campaign finance law in San Diego...
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Saturday, June 11, 2011 |
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WaPo: Abercrombie’s Medical Home scheme fails to save money in Medicare
By Selected News Articles @ 2:57 PM :: 7998 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Will Hawaii be saddled with the second-rate already failed ACO/Medical Home scheme promoted by Gov Abercrombie? The Washington Post is already debunking this failure before we start:
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Friday, June 10, 2011 |
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Prophetic Words: Abercrombie was always a loud-mouthed hippie who had all the answers
By Selected News Articles @ 5:42 PM :: 5569 Views :: Energy, Environment
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The Democratic candidate for governor was always a loud-mouthed hippie who had all the answers. I didn't forget....
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Friday, June 10, 2011 |
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Overestimating Wind Power Generation
By Selected News Articles @ 5:07 PM :: 8040 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Growing evidence from both sides of the Atlantic indicates that performance models based on wind data often promise levels of generation substantially above actual wind power output.
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Friday, June 10, 2011 |
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442nd Vet on Redistricting: Military is part of our Community, should be counted
By Selected News Articles @ 3:25 PM :: 8473 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Sorting through different groups and deciding who to include, or who not to include in consideration for representation, I believe should be a non-issue. All should be included.
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Thursday, June 9, 2011 |
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2011 Session Wrap-up: Paychecks Hawaii Rates Legislators
By Selected News Articles @ 12:01 PM :: 5934 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Ratings may be helpful during election periods ....
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Tuesday, June 7, 2011 |
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WSJ: Health Care Initiative Draws Fire, 93% of MD refuse ACO/Medical Home program
By Selected News Articles @ 8:27 PM :: 9311 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The American Medical Group Association said a survey of its members found that 93 percent wouldn't enroll as ACOs in the main proposed Medicare program.
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Tuesday, June 7, 2011 |
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Hawaii DoH Scientist: Shame on the EWG for panic about Hexavalent Chromium in Honolulu Tapwater
By Selected News Articles @ 3:36 PM :: 9791 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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You irresponsibly abuse the public’s trust in your organization and their concern for the health of their loved ones by falsely claiming that USEPA has not set a standard for Cr VI in the drinking water and demanding that it do so. This is a blatant lie. ... Any high school student with access to the internet could have determined this. Given that EWG has been working on this issue for years, I can’t believe that your staff is incompetent enough not to know this.
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Monday, June 6, 2011 |
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Sun Yat-Sen Hawaii Birth Certificate causes Trouble in Taipei
By Selected News Articles @ 2:12 PM :: 15530 Views :: Hawaii History
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...because he had trouble entering the United States due to that country's Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the US immigration authorities decided to issue a document in 1904 that says Sun was born in Honolulu and has US citizenship....
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Friday, June 3, 2011 |
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Progressives: Hirono will rescue us from Xenophobic Warmonger and Corporate Shill Ed Case
By Selected News Articles @ 8:20 PM :: 7976 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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...Last month we were worrying that the always ambitious, always reactionary corporate shill, Ed Case, would get a free ride for the Senate seat he once tried to steal from Dan Akaka, a progressive who is now retiring....
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Thursday, June 2, 2011 |
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HIPA Hawaii Military Spending Study Tied to Fundraiser with Military Contractor?
By Selected News Articles @ 2:14 PM :: 8678 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii Military Affairs Council and The Hawaii Institute For Public Affairs hosted a $35-a-ticket-event for the report co-sponsored by defense contractor BAE Systems yesterday.
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Thursday, June 2, 2011 |
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Abercrombie signs SB1347, gives HECO license to soak Consumers for Green Energy Projects
By Selected News Articles @ 11:26 AM :: 9818 Views :: Hawaii County , Akaka Bill, Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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...there’s no opportunity for the Consumer Advocate to be a part of that process to say on behalf of the consumer, ‘We don’t believe that this rate increase is legitimate. We don’t believe you should authorize it.’ ....
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How They Voted May 31
By Selected News Articles @ 5:12 PM :: 6829 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Recent Congressional Votes
- Senate: FY2012 House Budget Resolution
- Senate: Presidents FY2012 Budget Resolution
- Senate: Patriot Act Extensions
- House: National Defense Authorization Act, FY2012
- House: Patriot Act Extensions
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011 |
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HB838: Reapportionment Funds Held up by Abercrombie
By Selected News Articles @ 11:35 AM :: 7985 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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There is upon your desk an emergency appropriation by the legislature (HB838) awaiting your signature to fund the functions of the Reapportionment Commission and its temporary staff positions.
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011 |
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Brookings: Muslims expel reformer from Manoa mosque, claim Arabs discovered Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 9:25 PM :: 25137 Views :: Hawaii History, Religion
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...he showed us the manuscript of Islam: A Religion of Peace? in which he points to the “negative” verses in the Quran and argues for their removal. “We should reject the earlier part of the Quran and use only the end part,” he told us, noting the community calls him a kafir (non-believer)....
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011 |
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Test of Shield Law? Maui PD subpoenas ID of online commenter who threatened Cop
By Selected News Articles @ 1:35 PM :: 11166 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment
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The Maui Police Department has issued a subpoena to obtain the IP addresses of Maui Time web commenters, citing the terroristic threatening of one of its officers. by Maui police officer Nelson Johnson....The comment in question was left in response to an April 14 blog post in which Maui Time publisher Tommy Russo posted a video of himself being assaulted....
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011 |
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Gallup: Hawaii residents are Least-Stressed in US
By Selected News Articles @ 1:34 PM :: 7910 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Hawaiians were the least likely in the United States in 2010 to say they felt stressed for much of the previous day, at 30.2%. Residents of Utah were the most likely to report experiencing stress, at 45.1%, according to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index.
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011 |
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Abercrombie’s Medical Homes: Global Budget to control your Healthcare
By Selected News Articles @ 1:36 PM :: 9886 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The American Medical Group Association, representing medical groups that provide care for roughly 1 in 3 Americans, said that 90% of its members would not participate in the new Accountable Care Organization (ACO) model the Obama administration wants to impose on Medicare providers.
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011 |
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Hirono launches Campaign by misleading public on education reform, clean energy
By Selected News Articles @ 1:53 AM :: 7129 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The Governor’s Administration played a pivotal role in developing the Race to the Top public education program that was awarded $75 million in Federal funds and won praise from President Obama’s Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan.... Hirono either purposely failed to acknowledge Governor Lingle’s landmark, community-based effort known as the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative (HCEI), or she has been away from Hawaii so long she is out of touch with the progress that has been made in this critical area. President Obama’s Dept. of Energy has lauded the HCEI as a model for other states.
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Monday, May 23, 2011 |
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Humans Wiped Out Land Crabs 1000 yrs ago In Hawaii (they were delicious)
By Selected News Articles @ 2:58 PM :: 5952 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Land before humans came to the Hawaiian Islands around 1,000 years ago, there ruled land crabs which roamed great distance, a new study has claimed.
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Sunday, May 22, 2011 |
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Aiona vs. Hannemann for CD2?
By Selected News Articles @ 10:24 PM :: 7875 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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POLL Daily Kos March 22: Aiona 42% – Hannemann 42%
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Thursday, May 19, 2011 |
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Hawaii Judges Cannot Be Impartial About Rail Project
By Selected News Articles @ 1:43 PM :: 8835 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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All nine federal judges in Hawaii have recused themselves from hearing the latest complaint, of a long string, that challenges a major transportation project in Honolulu. With each judge stepping back from the case, 9th Circuit Judge A. Wallace Tashima will step in, according to an order filed Friday....
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Thursday, May 19, 2011 |
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Your Private Information Public? HHS Audit finds massive Security Gaps in Electronic Medical Records
By Selected News Articles @ 11:32 AM :: 9237 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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As HMSA and the Abercrombie administration push forward with electronic medical records in Hawaii—a key requirement for any medical rationing system—the Obama Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General has today released two audits of electronic medical records security systems….
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Thursday, May 19, 2011 |
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Hawaii WW2 vet to Obama: “Shape up and start acting like an American”
By Selected News Articles @ 11:23 AM :: 9461 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The Late Harold B. Estes' letter to Obama: "One of the benefits of my age, perhaps the only one, is to speak my mind, blunt and direct even to the head man. So here goes....
"You fly around the world telling our friends and enemies despicable lies like: "We're no longer a Christian nation" "America is arrogant" -- (Your wife even announced to the world, "America is mean- spirited." Please tell her to try preaching that nonsense to 23 generations of our war dead buried all over the globe who died for no other reason than to free a whole lot of strangers from tyranny and hopelessness.)"
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011 |
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Courthouse News: Watchdogs & Ex-Hawaii Officials Aim to Shelve Mass Transit Project
By Selected News Articles @ 1:33 PM :: 8497 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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In April, the Obama administration lost $1.5 billion of $2 billion budgeted to improve America's antiquated transportation systems, with high-speed rail projects. Though the funds will now likely go toward deficit reduction, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, a defendant in the Hawaii rail lawsuit, has asked for $53 billion over the next six years.
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011 |
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Billionaire Soros Pours $48M into Media Organizations
By Selected News Articles @ 10:37 AM :: 4143 Views :: National News, Ethics
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...And that number is an understatement. It is gleaned from tax forms, news stories and reporting. But Soros funds foundations that fund other foundations in turn, like the Tides Foundation, which then make their own donations. A complete accounting is almost impossible because a media component is part of so many Soros-funded operations....
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011 |
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HGEA to Nurses: State not Responsive to Negotiations
By Selected News Articles @ 10:59 PM :: 6684 Views :: Energy, Environment
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If agreement is not reached in the current round of negotiations, the team will make a decision on whether to proceed to arbitration. The timetable for arbitration is contained in a March 23, 2011 Memorandum of Agreement, which allows for either the Union or the Employer to request the Hawaii Labor Relations Board (HLRB) implement impasse procedures.
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011 |
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Moody’s Cuts Hawaii’s Bond Rating
By Selected News Articles @ 11:35 AM :: 6015 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Moody's justified the downgrade based on the state's forecast depletion of reserve funds by the end of the 2011 fiscal year, sustained budget shortfalls relieved by one-time solutions and low pension-funded ratios relative to other states. Hawaii's audited financial results have also come in late since fiscal 2007....
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Monday, May 16, 2011 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted May 16
By Selected News Articles @ 5:31 PM :: 6787 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Recent Congressional Votes
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Senate: Cloture Motion; James M. Cole to be Deputy Attorney General
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House: Putting the Gulf of Mexico Back to Work Act
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House: Reversing President Obama’s Offshore Moratorium Act
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House: Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011
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Thursday, May 12, 2011 |
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Plaintiffs Seek Injunction to block Honolulu Rail Construction, Contracting
By Selected News Articles @ 2:44 PM :: 8670 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Plaintiffs seek declaratory and injunctive relief to ensure that Defendants do not implement the Honolulu High-Capacity Transit Corridor Project...before complying fully with federal environmental laws.
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Thursday, May 12, 2011 |
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Psychiatrists Boycott Honolulu Meeting Over Desmond Tutu Invitation
By Selected News Articles @ 1:48 PM :: 14402 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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In a speech in Boston, Mr. Tutu directly attacked the Jewish supporters of Israel as being in effect traitors to America, controlling U.S. foreign policy for the benefit of Israel and to the detriment of America. In that speech he compared American Jewish supporters of Israel to Hitler, Mussolini, Idi Amin, Milosevich, Stalin, and Pinochet.
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Thursday, May 12, 2011 |
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Only 60% of “classroom spending” actually reaches classroom
By Selected News Articles @ 11:25 AM :: 3864 Views :: National News, Ethics
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School districts very often define spending categories in unexpected ways, making it difficult to distinguish classroom spending from operational costs....
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Monday, May 9, 2011 |
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Coverup: DoE changes tests, surveys to create illusion of progress
By Selected News Articles @ 5:58 PM :: 8603 Views :: Education K-12
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…a decade’s worth of reform and rhetoric that hasn’t made much of a dent.
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011 |
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Bin Laden, the terror godfather next door: Local children playing in his garden, his own at a nearby school
By Selected News Articles @ 5:28 PM :: 5468 Views :: World News, Family
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'I used to go to their house. He had two wives, one spoke Arabic, and the other one spoke Urdu. They had three children, a girl and two boys. They gave me two rabbits. They had installed a camera at the outer gate so they could see people before they entered the house,' Zarar Ahmed said....
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011 |
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Study: Hawaii has most expensive rentals in Nation
By Selected News Articles @ 2:09 PM :: 8847 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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...NLIHC calculates Hawaii’s "housing wage" at $31.08 per hour. The “housing wage” which is the full-time hourly wage a household would need to earn in order to afford the fair market rent for an apartment....
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