Eco-snobs give Supreme Court another chance to toy with Superferry
The state Supreme Court, whose ruling last year led to a three-month shutdown of Hawaii Superferry, will decide whether the interisland service can continue in a new case to be heard next week.
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Still Asleep After Mumbai
by Daniel Pipes
Victims caught in terrorist atrocities perpetrated for Islam typically experience fear, torture, horror, and murder, with sirens screaming, snipers positioning, and carnage in the streets. That was the case recently in Bombay (now called Mumbai), where some 195 people were murdered and 300 injured. But for the real target of Islamist terror, the world at large, the experience has become numbed, with apologetics and justification muting repulsion and shock.
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State pension fund $5B short
"But the ERS' funding of future benefits for 66,589 workers who have not yet retired suffered in prior years when state and counties diverted money that should have been contributed to the pension fund. The diverted funds were used to deal with budget shortfalls.
"That diversion of funds is one of the main reasons why the ERS' liability for future payments stood at $5.17 billion at the end of June."
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Alleged Florida fugitive, drug dealer, and con artist allegedly ravages East Hawai`i's leftist cultural elite...
As an actress, O'Hara starred in the lead role of Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage and Her Children" at East Hawaii Cultural Center in 2005 and gave a "powerful performance," according to Jackie Pualani Johnson, a UH-Hilo drama professor....
Alt title: I am the woman Antonio Gramsci warned you about....
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