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Tuesday, July 3, 2012 |
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Will Matson Survive?
By Michael Hansen @ 4:17 PM :: 8313 Views :: Jones Act
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...trapped in a protected and proscribed market, surrounded by customers who don't like paying its exorbitant rates and unable to afford modern ships....
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Tuesday, July 3, 2012 |
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Hawaii Republicans Celebrate July 4th Statewide
By News Release @ 3:55 PM :: 6156 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Come Celebrate the 4th of July with the Hawaii Republican Party!
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Tuesday, July 3, 2012 |
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Probation Fees: Will Justice Reinvestment become a Revenue Center for the Judiciary, PSD, and Police?
By Selected News Articles @ 3:16 PM :: 8829 Views :: Justice Reinvestment
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...today's New York Times which points out how probation--the key element of Hawaii's Justice Reinvestment initiative--is becoming a revenue center for courts, police, jails, and private companies....
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Tuesday, July 3, 2012 |
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Record Ethics Fine: Nestor Garcia Conflict of Interest on Rail Votes
By News Release @ 2:37 AM :: 8497 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12
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He failed to tile conflict of interest disclosures for 38 rail transit bills and resolutions and for 12 other matters such as rezoning from agriculture to commercial and residential uses around Kapolei....
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Tuesday, July 3, 2012 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted July 2, 2012
By Congress.org @ 1:00 AM :: 5703 Views :: Energy, Environment
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- Senate: FDA User Fees Final Passage
- Senate: Highway/Flood Insurance/Student Loan Package Adoption of Conference Report
- House: Contempt Resolution
- House: FY13 Transportation-HUD Appropriations Final Passage
- House: Highway/Flood Insurance/Student Loan Package Adoption of Conference Report
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Tuesday, July 3, 2012 |
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Rate Hike: HECO Gets $59M, Ratepayers Get $0.85
By News Release @ 12:30 AM :: 5828 Views :: Energy, Environment
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The company estimates a typical residential customer using 600 kilowatt-hours a month will receive a refund of 85 cents, which includes interest since July 2011....
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Tuesday, July 3, 2012 |
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Case Welcomes Hirono's Change of Mind on a Statewide Televised Debate
By Ed Case @ 12:10 AM :: 5948 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Case welcomed Congresswoman Mazie Hirono's acceptance of at least one statewide televised debate....
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Monday, July 2, 2012 |
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Obamacare: Five Broken Promises
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:51 PM :: 4610 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Obamacare ends Medicare as we know it, including severe physician reimbursement cuts ....
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Sunday, July 1, 2012 |
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Pay to Play: Will Cayetano Retaliate Against Hirono?
By Andrew Walden @ 9:29 PM :: 12357 Views :: Ethics, Labor, Politicians
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"Is PRP implying that Mazie Hirono who also received illegal contributions did any wrongdoing?" -- Ben Cayetano
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Sunday, July 1, 2012 |
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Complete List of Cancelled School Bus Routes
By News Release @ 1:27 PM :: 6699 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Please click on the following file to view student transportation bus routes being discontinued....
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Sunday, July 1, 2012 |
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Can a Tax Increase be in the Works?
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 5:44 AM :: 6534 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Taxpayers are being set up for a tax increase, make that several tax increases as a result of the work of the latest Tax Review Commission.
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Saturday, June 30, 2012 |
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Lingle: Akaka Bill Will End These Lawsuits Forever
By News Release @ 2:13 PM :: 9434 Views :: Energy, Environment
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The Court has denied certiorari in Corboy v. Louie....
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Saturday, June 30, 2012 |
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Geothermal: 600mw Available on Big Island
By Selected News Articles @ 2:25 AM :: 8560 Views :: Hawaii County , Akaka Bill
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The effects of an eruption would be more profound as the geothermal power development increased in size....
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Saturday, June 30, 2012 |
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JSC Seeking Nominations for Two Oahu Judicial Vacancies
By News Release @ 1:59 AM :: 8503 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Judge, Circuit Court of the First Circuit (Oʻahu)
Judge, Family Court of the First Circuit (Oʻahu)
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Saturday, June 30, 2012 |
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Notice of Petition for Retention the Honorable Gerald H. Kibe
By News Release @ 1:44 AM :: 9360 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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The Constitution of the State of Hawaiʻi empowers the Commission to determine whether Judge Kibe should be retained in office for an additional term of six years.
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Friday, June 29, 2012 |
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Abercrombie Cancels Jr Kindergarten for Thousands of Children
By News Release @ 10:45 PM :: 6920 Views :: Energy, Environment
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"...repeals junior kindergarten programs at the end of the 2013-2014 school year...."
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Friday, June 29, 2012 |
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Hoku Out of Cash in Nine Weeks, So Broke It Can't Write Annual Report
By News Release @ 9:16 PM :: 9937 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits
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Act 221 Tax Credits paid for this mess and Hawaii media covered for this scam company all they way through ....
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Friday, June 29, 2012 |
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'Irresponsible': Hanabusa Walks off House Floor, Skips Holder Contempt Vote
By Nacia Blom @ 7:08 PM :: 6569 Views :: Energy, Environment
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"If Hanabusa wants skip out on doing her job, we encourage the voters of Hawaii to help Hanabusa by voting for a new representative who actually wants to work for Hawaii in Congress."
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Friday, June 29, 2012 |
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Trashing Tricare: Obama Threatens Veto After House Refuses to Raise Fees
By Selected News Articles @ 3:37 PM :: 7494 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Some fear the administration’s proposal is an effort to increase enrollment in the state-run insurance exchanges mandated under the president’s controversial health care law.
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Friday, June 29, 2012 |
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New Rail Financial Plan Boosts Operating Cost to $6 Billion, Delays Opening
By Honolulu Traffic @ 3:09 PM :: 7963 Views :: Rail
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...the operating subsidy for transit has been increased by $600 million over the next 18 years to a total of $6 billion dollars....
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Friday, June 29, 2012 |
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Police Disperse Angry Crowd at Kapolei Neighborhood Board
By Selected News Articles @ 3:01 PM :: 12456 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail
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... Many gathered again in the parking lot as more police arrived and flaring tempers were separated by additional HPD officers ....
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Friday, June 29, 2012 |
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Hirono: Obamacare Gives $28.7M to Community Health Clinics
By News Release @ 2:39 PM :: 8208 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center, Waimanalo Health Center, the Hilo Bay Clinic, West Hawaii Community Health Center, Hana Community Health Center, and Malama I Ke Ola Health Center on Maui....
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Friday, June 29, 2012 |
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If Individual Mandate is a Tax, What is Eminent Domain?
By Robert Thomas @ 2:05 PM :: 4815 Views :: National News, Ethics
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We're starting to appreciate the Chief's "functional" approach. What say we apply that same test to a legislature's statement regarding the "public use" for which it is condemning property?
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Friday, June 29, 2012 |
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Catholic Bishops Unanimous ‘In Our Vigorous Opposition to This Unjust and Illegal Mandate’
By Selected News Articles @ 1:34 PM :: 4417 Views :: National News, Ethics
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision sets the stage for an historically unprecedented confrontation between Roman Catholics and the federal government over whether Catholics remain free to exercise their religion ....
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Friday, June 29, 2012 |
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Heritage: Join the Fight to Repeal Obamacare
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:09 PM :: 4646 Views :: National News, Ethics
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This decision will energize freedom-loving Americans to once again take matters into their own hands....
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Thursday, June 28, 2012 |
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It's Not OK!
By David S Chang @ 10:17 PM :: 6559 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The last thing we need is another tax, especially at a time when the people of Hawaii and our nation desperately need jobs....
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Thursday, June 28, 2012 |
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Djou: Supreme Court Ruling a Disappointment to Working Families and Small Businesses
By Rep Charles Djou @ 9:54 PM :: 4385 Views :: Energy, Environment
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... bureaucrat-focused, DC-centered approach based on bigger government is not what is right for Hawaii, or the nation ....
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Thursday, June 28, 2012 |
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Eight Potential Vetoes Line Up With Votes of Senate's Lone Republican
By Sen. Sam Slom @ 9:25 PM :: 5176 Views :: Energy, Environment
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The Senate Minority voted “NO” on 7 of these measures—often casting the lone vote in opposition— and on one bill “with reservations.”
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Thursday, June 28, 2012 |
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Obamacare Decision "Creates a Debilitated, Inoperable Version of Health-Care Regulation"
By Selected News Articles @ 9:02 PM :: 4994 Views :: National News, Ethics
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... It creates a debilitated, inoperable version of health-care regulation ... a jumble of now senseless provisions ....
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Thursday, June 28, 2012 |
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Health Insurance? No need: Abercrombie promises to dump Prepaid Health Care Act
By Andrew Walden @ 6:34 PM :: 22772 Views :: Health Care
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Abercrombie’s campaign platform portrays abandonment of the Prepaid Act as a step to “Develop a System of Universal Healthcare.” It is exactly the opposite. In the fine print, Abercrombie focuses squarely on managing the State’s finances so “costs are controlled so that we can collectively afford the system and pay for it in a way that is fair and sustainable. We need to create efficiencies out of the current incoherence in our system, create incentives and opportunities for cost-effective preventive healthcare….”
It’s all about the money.
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Thursday, June 28, 2012 |
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Case: Stop 'Gladiatorial Circus' and Implement Obamacare
By Ed Case @ 6:33 PM :: 6472 Views :: Energy, Environment
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"...it's time to put the political histrionics aside and work to implement the law...."
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Thursday, June 28, 2012 |
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Obamacare Will Add 84,130 to Hawaii's Bankrupt Medicaid System
By Selected News Articles @ 6:10 PM :: 7419 Views :: Energy, Environment
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In Hawaii 84,130 will be added to Medicaid. Many will first lose their existing private health insurance.
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Thursday, June 28, 2012 |
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Lingle: Obamacare Decision Puts Healthcare in Hands of Next Congress
By Gov. Linda Lingle @ 5:55 PM :: 8088 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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...questionable policy judgments in the PPACA such as the decision to create unelected Independent Review Boards, the punitive tax on medical device manufacturers, and the elimination of Medicare Advantage programs deserve meaningful bipartisan discussion....
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Thursday, June 28, 2012 |
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Va. AG 'much relieved' after reading health care ruling
By Selected News Articles @ 4:42 PM :: 4956 Views :: National News, Ethics
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"But having read more of the opinions, I'm much relieved about individual rights and the states' rights within the constitutional structure."
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Thursday, June 28, 2012 |
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Abercrombie Pretends Obamacare is not Attack on Prepaid Health Care Act
By News Release @ 4:23 PM :: 6457 Views :: Health Care
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“Here in Hawai'i, we already have our Prepaid Health Care Act, which enables a vast majority of our residents to be insured...." (Then why is he trying to dismantle it?)
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Thursday, June 28, 2012 |
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Fitch: Electronic Medical Records Key to HPH Future Profitability
By News Release @ 4:10 PM :: 6480 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Fitch believes HPH's strategy augurs well for sustained financial performance in a pressured reimbursement environment....
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Thursday, June 28, 2012 |
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Barking Sands: Navy Test of Missile Interceptor Successful
By Selected News Articles @ 3:28 PM :: 9291 Views :: Honolulu County, Democratic Party, National News, Ethics
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flames of ignition light up the black night and shake the grounds of the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) as a medium-range missile accelerates out of its launch pad ....
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Thursday, June 28, 2012 |
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ADF: Suits to Continue Against Obamacare Abortion Mandate
By News Release @ 2:40 PM :: 4874 Views :: National News, Ethics
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ADF is challenging the Obama administration’s abortion pill mandate in several lawsuits because it unconstitutionally requires faith-based employers to provide or pay for insurance coverage of abortion-inducing drugs and devices ....
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Thursday, June 28, 2012 |
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Fast and Furious: The Events Leading to Eric Holder’s Contempt Vote
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:22 PM :: 4884 Views :: National News, Ethics
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history and timeline of the operation and subsequent scandal....
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Thursday, June 28, 2012 |
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FULL TEXT: Supreme Court Upholds Obamacare Mandate as Tax, Restricts Commerce Clause
By Selected News Articles @ 1:20 PM :: 5842 Views :: National News, Ethics
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By a 5-4 vote, the court held the mandate valid under Congress' constitutional authority "to lay and collect Taxes".... Conservatives wanted to see the Supreme Court put a limit on the commerce power, and Thursday it did.
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Thursday, June 28, 2012 |
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Obamacare After the Court
By Heritage Foundation @ 5:16 AM :: 4862 Views :: National News, Ethics
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The policy landscape will change dramatically after 10 a.m. today. If the Supreme Court does not strike down Obamacare in its entirety, Congress should move to repeal it....
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Thursday, June 28, 2012 |
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Abercrombie Signs Big Cable Bill, Demands Openness to All Green Energy Scams
By News Release @ 1:57 AM :: 5969 Views :: Energy, Environment
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We must view our islands as interdependent and remain open to all renewable projects....
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012 |
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Fast and Furious: Democrats Break Ranks to Join Contempt Vote Tomorrow
By News Release @ 2:08 PM :: 4842 Views :: National News, Ethics
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"Either you or your most senior advisors were involved in managing Operation Fast & Furious and the fallout from it, or ... "
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012 |
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After Threatening Hospital Sustainability Fee With Veto, Abercrombie Signs LTC Bill
By News Release @ 1:38 PM :: 6824 Views :: Energy, Environment
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The Nursing Facility Sustainability Program special fund is expected to generate $11.5 million. Twelve percent of the revenue shall be used by the DHS ....
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012 |
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Inouye, Akaka Vote Against Raises for Union Workers
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:08 PM :: 6618 Views :: National News, Ethics
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The RAISE Act would lift the ceiling on unionized workers' wages by allowing employers to pay individual workers more—but not less—than the union contract specifies.
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012 |
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Does Coordinated Health Care Save Money?
By NCPA @ 1:00 PM :: 4538 Views :: National News, Ethics
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The claim that coordinated care will save money without degrading quality is a common belief behind almost all mainstream health reform efforts....
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012 |
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Solyndra Not the Only Questionable Obama Loan to "Green" Energy
By NCPA @ 12:50 PM :: 4377 Views :: National News, Ethics
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The very public failure of energy company Solyndra has focused a lot of attention on the Department of Energy's loan guarantee programs....
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012 |
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Charles Djou Advances to ‘Contender’
By News Release @ 12:37 PM :: 10633 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Hawaii Republican Candidate Takes Big Third Step to Achieving ‘Young Gun’ Status....
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012 |
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Case, Lingle Set First Debate; Hirono Silent
By Ed Case @ 11:57 PM :: 9470 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment
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The Chamber's invitation is to the primary winners. Congresswoman Mazie Hirono was also invited but has not accepted....
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