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Entries for April 2017
| Sunday, April 30, 2017 |
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April 30, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:10 PM :: 3790 Views
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- Rail 'Solution': Hammer Waikiki Hotels
- SB501: Mandatory Abortion Promotion -- Final Reading House and Senate
- Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
- Making Money at the County Level
- State’s labor costs must be controlled
- Rail stress caused legislative leaps
- Aloha Stadium: On to the Next Boondoggle
- Ishii: Insider Prepares Ige Reeelection Campaign
- Hawaii Dems Should be a Private Club—Keep Fukumoto Out
- Star-Adv: Repair Mental Health safety net to protect public from violence
- Hawaii County Transit: Junkyard of Dead and Dying Buses
- Kauai Ag Loses Water--Eco-Lawyers Celebrate
- New Stalling Tactics from Anti-Telescope Protesters
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| Sunday, April 30, 2017 |
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April, 2017 Letters to the Editor
By Letters to the Editor @ 3:24 AM :: 5475 Views
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Rail 'Solution': Hammer Waikiki Hotels
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| Saturday, April 29, 2017 |
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April 29, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:50 PM :: 4807 Views
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- Fake Methodology: Health Department Claims 11% of Hawaii HS Students are LGBTQ
- Proposed revocation of Jones Act rulings for the offshore industry
- Visitor Spending Up 12.3% in March 2017
- HB209: Legislators Approve Massive Income Tax Hike on Small Businesses
- Public Employee Contracts Cost $460M so Far
- HGEA Principals strike 13.5% pay raise deal with state
- SB501: Mandatory Abortion Promotion Passes Conference Committee
- Victory: Internet Tax, Red Light Cams, TVR Tax, Mandatory Sick Leave – ALL DEAD
- NextEra Payback from HECO: Senate Rejects Gorak
- High Tides to be Used for Global Warming Propaganda this Summer
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| Friday, April 28, 2017 |
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April 28, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:33 PM :: 4420 Views
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- And the Winner is—Not Hawaii
- Are local families fleeing Hawaii taxes?
- State not exempt from family budgeting principles
- To What Extent Does Your State Rely on Sales Taxes?–Hawaii 7th
- US should rethink migrant aid in West Pacific
- The Hill: How the Jones Act drives up the cost of food and gasoline for millions of Americans
- Rep Beth Fukumoto Democrat? “Still waiting”
- HGEA Contract Award 7% Pay Hike, 2 Years—Matches HSTA Per Year
- House Proposes Using Hotel Tax To Finance Honolulu Rail Project
- Too Little Too Late: Council Pretends to Take Step To Allow Use Of Property Tax For Rail Construction
- HB407: Legislators Table Health Savings Account Bill
- Lawmakers 'disappointed' at lack of local finalists for DOE superintendent job
- HB1534 Lawmakers Advance Bill Allowing Mainlander To Be Police Chief
- Oahu’s Neighborhood Boards Are ‘The Pulse Of The Community’
- HB1536: Enviros Freak Out Over Water Bill
- OHA vs Sovereignty on Obama Tuna Monuments
- Soft on Crime: Harass a Monk Seal, Win $30K for Resisting Arrest
- Humane Society Claims it Cannot Take Vicious Dogs from Tweeker Camps
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| Thursday, April 27, 2017 |
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April 27, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:40 PM :: 4638 Views
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- OHA Chair Tries to Limit Beneficiary Input—Discussion Deleted from Video
- OHA hires new Chief Financial Officer
- HART: Even 10-year Rail Tax Extension Is Not Enough
- Budget $1B bigger, even with ‘trim’
- State transportation director: 'I've failed' to properly maintain airports
- Hawaii Voters Wise up to Failed Government Projects
- Arakawa Running for Lt Governor? Bernard Carvalho for Governor?
- Honolulu Council Votes Unanimously to Pretend to Give Sanctuary to Criminal Illegal Aliens
- Council Votes to Raise Property Tax Rates, Hike Fees on Handicapped and Bus Fares
- Ditch Rail Now
- Another Water Rate Hike Coming Soon
- City Council passes sit-lie ban for Kapalama, Iwilei
- Officials closer to determining future of overcrowded OCCC
- California Legislators Advance Socialist ‘Health’ Insurance System
- Dispatches from Duckburg: Land of 10,000 Quacks
- Father reportedly said he disposed of Peter Boy’s body in ocean
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| Wednesday, April 26, 2017 |
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April 26, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:06 PM :: 6527 Views
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- Trump Orders Interior Department to Review Obama Tuna Monuments
- Free Speech Crackdown on Hawaii Pregnancy Centers Passes House Vote
- City unveils new apartments for homeless
- Second Lady Sees Art Therapy in Action at Hawaii Base
- Hawaii: 4th-Highest Gambling Related Arrests Per Capita
- Hawaii’s Best Public High Schools—How did your School Rank?
- Hawaii Business Tax Burden -- 7th Highest in USA
- HSTA Expensive? Just Wait Until HGEA/UPW/UHPA Cash In
- Search for Hawaii public schools leader down to 2 finalists
- Hawaii threatened by North Korea now, U.S. commander tells Congress
- Hanabusa: FTA will Give HART More Time to File Recovery Plan
- Sick Leave: Legislators Advance Massive Unfunded Mandate Against Small Business
- HB1580: Car Dealers Eager to Force You to Buy an Electric from Them
- In Legislature’s Waning Days, Some Bills Vanish Without Explanation
- Former Cocaine Dealer is Most Absentee Legislator
- Soft on Crime: To Help Criminals Avoid Deportation, Honolulu eyes sanctuary city status
- Enviros Sue to Force Legally Present Foreign Fishermen out of Hawaii
- Legislature’s attacks on judges tied to past failure to fund Hawaiian Homes
- HUD: $83,700 a year is now considered low-income in Honolulu
- Father takes police to where he left Peter Boy’s body
- Another Domestic Violence Case for Infamous Ex-HPD Officer?
- Tour Busses to be Banned on North Shore
- Is a DLNR officer harassing a North Shore businessman?
- Rat Lungworm: Suddenly the Antis Like Pesticide
- Moved Here from Mainland, Homeless Drug Addict Allegedly Tries to Run Over Maui Bicyclist
- Big Island Residents Step Up Resistance To Solar Project
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| Tuesday, April 25, 2017 |
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April 25, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:26 PM :: 4278 Views
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- Conference Committee Agrees on State Budget
- Talking GMOS at the March for Science
- Maui Council to Consider 7.6% Property Tax Hike
- Emergency Preparedness? Hawaii Below Average State
- Oral Health: Hawaii Kids Rank 49th in USA
- Legislature: Rail Tax Hike Next on Agenda
- More raises likely following teachers’ contract agreement, but how will the state pay for them?
- Son of HGEA President: Fired state cop sentenced to 10 years for sex assault
- Honolulu Prosecutor Could Be A Witness For The Defense
- PUC: Secret Testimony Shows Gorak Being Punished for Opposing NextEra
- Honolulu To Open Makiki Apartments For Homeless
- Hawaii: Second Highest Paid RN in USA (not counting Cost of Living)
- Hawaii Better Business Bureau to be Used to Promote Liberal Agenda?
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| Monday, April 24, 2017 |
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April 24, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:47 PM :: 4162 Views
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- Tracking Eleven Tax Hike Bills into Secretive Conference Committees
- Don’t Compel Doctors to Promote State-Favored Programs
- Vice President Mike Pence Visits Am Samoa
- HB1580: Fake Ban of Gasoline and Diesel Vehicles Statewide
- Advocates had high hopes at the Hawaii Legislature, but some condo bills died and others were watered down
- Biomess: Hu Honua ‘Green’ Energy at $0.21 per kwh – $435M out of Ratepayers Pockets
- Rat Lungworm: Fear of Losing Tourism Squelches Public Health
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| Sunday, April 23, 2017 |
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April 23, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:09 PM :: 3774 Views
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- IRS: Hawaii Legislature Voted to Destroy Employee Retirement System
- HSTA Contract Agreement: 13.6% Raise, ‘Streamlined Evaluations’
- Best Small Cities to Start a Business? Kaneohe Ranks 1176th
- HECO Touts Green Energy Progress on Earth Day
- Democrats Blocking: Fukumoto ‘Akin to Our Most Regressive Corporatists’
- Reelection? Ige Has Very Little Money in Campaign Account
- SB505: Urine Test for Opioid Prescriptions
- Child Abuse Bills Before Legislature
- Hawaii Co Budget worries fueled by firefighter raise, hotel tax in limbo
- Hawaii County Bus System in State of Collapse
- In Spite of Anti-GMO Activists’ Boycott, 1000s ‘March for Science’
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| Saturday, April 22, 2017 |
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April 22, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:46 PM :: 5295 Views
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- Ira Einhorn, Earth Day's Dirty Secret
- Crichton: Environmentalism is a religion
- HB165: How Lawmakers can Deal with Annoying Citizens
- Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
- Kouchi Wants 20% Rail Skim—10-Year GE Tax Hike
- Desperate to Sway Conference Committee, HART Claims Recovery plan for rail required by FTA ‘is not complete at this stage’
- DOT disregards its duty to public
- Telescope: Ige says his involvement in the case is limited to administrative actions
- Anti-GMO Activists Boycott ‘March for Science’
- Will FEMA Cancel Hawaii’s access to federal flood insurance?
- Incompetent Lazy HGEA Members Leave ‘$1B Sitting on the Floor’
- Vexatious Stene: Public communications with DPW staff stymied
- Gays Won’t be Forcing Your Insurance Rates Higher This Year
- Head of Police Commission Has Ties to SHOPO Pres, Samoa
- Committee Rejects Governor’s Choice For Utilities Commission—Senate hearing Next
- Soft on Crime: Homeless Lunatic Allegedly Slashes Haliewa Grocer
- Lawyers Field Day: Supreme Court Rules Impaired drivers entitled to lawyer before taking alcohol, drug test
- Hawaii's medi-juana dispensaries prepare for license renewals as state delays continue
- Affordable Housing? Lawmakers consider more rules that would add Cost to new homes
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| Friday, April 21, 2017 |
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April 21, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:17 PM :: 6055 Views
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- Cayetano to Trump: Cancel Federal Rail Funding
- Desperate to Influence Conference Committee, Caldwell Pretends to Take Responsibility for Massive GE Tax Hike
- Conference Committee to Hear SB501: Mandatory Abortion Promotion
- TMT Contested Case Deadline Set
- Hawaii Officially Proclaims Children of Fallen Patriots Day
- Are Enviros Finally Ready to Accept Fish Farming?
- HTA: Without TVRs Hawaii Would Lose 15% of Tourists
- HTA: Tamp Down all this Rat Lungworm Talk
- The day when America moved toward becoming a global power
- Victory: HSTA’s $500M Property Tax Slush Fund Killed
- Poison Pill? Hawaii Senate To Propose 10-Year Extension On Rail Tax
- Nobody Responsible for Rail Mess: HART Board Nears 100% Turnover
- It Begins: Firefighters to Get 5% Raise
- Judge Blocks Access To AG Investigation Of Hawaii Auditor
- Health Beat: Why We All Need Health Savings Accounts
- HCR50: Hawaii Progressives Urge Legislators to DROP ‘Corporate Personhood’ Issue
- Ex-policeman ‘No Contest’ to road rage assault case
- Mother disturbed over DOE employee's lewd messages with 11-year-old student
- DOE has change of heart after first denying classroom space to Christian group
- After 2 brutal attacks, some call for greater efforts to ensure the mentally ill get treatment
- Enviros Begin to Walk Back Coral Bleaching Hysteria
- Bought n Paid For: Schatz, Hirono Rolling in Cash
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| Thursday, April 20, 2017 |
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April 20, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:58 PM :: 4943 Views
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- Punish Judiciary? House Censors Legislator
- Ciber: Company Behind 7-Year HDOT Software Failure Files Bankruptcy
- To What Extent Does Your State Rely on Corporate Income Taxes?
- School tax plan’s problems pile up
- Health Care Lobby Push Back on Hawaii Gay Child Mandate
- HB552: State Obamacare Bill to become Study?
- Competing Airbnb Bills Set Off Lobbying Battle
- Wind power raises Maui electric bills
- Silicon Valley Corporate Welfare Queens Finally Admit Algae Energy was just a Scam
- Allow new homeowners to build equity in workforce housing
- HPD, SHOPO Sign Body Cam Agreement
- Honolulu Police Commissioner Finds Cool New Way to Help Cops Get off Easy
- It took the state nearly 12 hours to alert the public about 3 escapees
- Kahauiki Homeless Village to add preschool, day care center
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| Wednesday, April 19, 2017 |
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April 19, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:50 PM :: 7564 Views
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- ‘30-35’ Applications for Honolulu Police Chief—Will Outsiders be Allowed to Compete?
- Rich States-Poor States: Hawaii Ranks 43rd
- FBI Investigating Muslim Terrorists in Hawaii
- What will happen to Food for Peace cargo preference?
- Schatz Gins up Phony Investigation to Help Hotel Industry Beat Airbnb
- Accountability? DoE Releases ESSA Plan
- New Hawaii Veterans Affairs Chief Tied to Falsified Medical Wait Times, 13 Deaths in Arizona
- 72% Support Telescope
- Tax Hikes: Legislators Begin Secret Negotiations
- TVR Tax Bills Head to Conference Committee
- Union Says Suspensions Shouldn’t Stop Prison Guard Promotions
- Hawaii Medicaid Shortchanges Nursing Homes
- Critics: Safeguards added in wake of 'Peter Boy' case aren't enough
- Recently Released from Lunatic Asylum, Homeless Male Accused in Assault of 80-yr-old Woman has long rap sheet
- Sit-Lie Expansion Forces Five Homeless Meth Addicts to Accept Shelter
- Homelessness Bills in Conference Committee
- Another HSTA Member Convicted: Pleads guilty for soliciting minor for prostitution
- Latest Details on Misconduct by HSTA Members
- Prosecutor Defends Domestic Abuse Safe House
- Deal Reached In Dispute Over Waimea River Ag Water Diversion
- Manoa Residents Willing to Fix the Roads in Caldwell’s Holes
- Waimanalo: Caldwell’s Decaying Rec Facilities Closed Due to Rusting, Collapsing Ceiling Panels
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| Tuesday, April 18, 2017 |
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April 18, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:33 PM :: 4921 Views
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- Hawaii: April 19 is Tax Freedom Day
- Kawananakoa Letter Debunks OHA LLCs Claim to be Immune from UIPA
- Race for Hawaii Republican Party Chair—Interviews with Ostrov and Tupola
- Video: Free Market Solutions for Hawaii's Economy
- Office of Maunakea Management awarded 2017 Preservation Commendation
- Nearly half of likely voters say Hawaii is moving in wrong direction
- The word on the streets is that they are horrible
- Anti-GMO Losers Take over Hawaii County Democratic Party
- Anti-GMO Activists to Focus on Denying Water to Agriculture
- Billionaires Pay City to Impose ‘Resiliency’ Officer of the Eco-Religion
- Gabbard Rakes in $2M, Hanabusa Pays Herself $200K
- 'We should be angry': Attorney says state liable for Peter Boy's death
- Kauai PD: Positive Experience With Body Cameras
- State Supreme Court hits some bank foreclosures
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| Monday, April 17, 2017 |
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April 17, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:35 PM :: 4560 Views
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- Tracking Eleven Tax Hike Bills into Secretive Conference Committees
- Tax Hikes: What Your Lawmakers Are Getting Away With
- Star-Adv: Rail Broken Promises Corrosive
- Poll: Residents Support Legalizing TVRs 63% to 36%
- Legislators Want to Pressure Counties to Legalize vacation rentals
- Poll Looks at Airport Authority Proposal
- Ige still considering HCDA picks
- Will President Donald J Trump Liberate Hawaii, Am Samoa, and Guam from Obama Legacy Tuna Monuments
- Pandering to Dem Base: Legislators Consider More Fake Sanctuary State Resolutions
- 3% of State’s Natural Gas to Come from Sewage
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| Sunday, April 16, 2017 |
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April 16, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:27 PM :: 5080 Views
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- Tax Casualty? Maui County Carnival
- Poll: Rail Tax Hike Rejected 57-41%
- Rail Tax: ‘They Think We’re Liars’
- Rail Tax Extension: Will Conference Committee Bow to Caldwell’s Cheap Theatrics
- Bill 41: Eliminate ‘Residential A’ Property Tax
- Hawaii: 48% Support Trump Travel ban
- Gabbard faces questions about Syria and Trump
- Airport Incompetence
- Kauai police chief wants to change public perception with transparency
- Hawaii County Prosecutor Mitch Roth Ended Timidity of Prosecutors, Solved Peter Boy Case
- In Medicare, states are far from equal
- Another Big Money Cash Giveaway for Hawaii Hi Tech Schemers
- Tests find no DU threat (Again)
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| Saturday, April 15, 2017 |
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April 15, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 12:52 PM :: 5095 Views
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- Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
- Free Speech Crackdown on Hawaii Pregnancy Centers Passes House
- Connect to Careers: Preparing next generation of Hawaii workforce
- Study: House GOP Blueprint Would Put $5613 in Your Pocket, Hawaii
- Josh Green for Lt Gov? “I’ve already found my own way.”
- White Nationalists Dump Trump Want Gabbard to Run
- Rat Lungworm: Hawaii accused of downplaying parasite that struck SF couple
- Lab: DoH Lying About Marijuana Testing Progress
- Indictment: Most Successful Company at NELHA is a Giant Scam
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| Friday, April 14, 2017 |
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April 14, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:41 PM :: 4688 Views
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- Hawaii's Good Friday Holiday - What's Up With That?
- House Approves Massive Rail Tax Hike and 37 Other Bills
- To What Extent Does Your State Rely on Property Taxes?
- Willes Lee Fills Vacancy on NRA Board
- How to Change the Jones Act
- Telescope Solution: Maunakea World Park?
- U.S. May Launch Strike If North Korea Reaches For Nuclear Trigger
- North Korea attack? House Passes a Resolution
- Full Text: PUC Commissioner Gorak vs Anonymous Complaint
- Darryl Perry for HPD Chief?
- Kauai police use body cam footage to clear officers of misconduct claims after recent protest
- HNL Hangar: More Finger-Pointing in HDOT’s Latest Disaster
- Will Private-Public Partnership Make New Stadium Possible
- HART: Feds Help us Shift Blame for Rail Mess
- 100,000 Pounds Of Debris Hauled Out Of Papahanaumokuakea—No Mention of Plastic Bags
- Volunteers Build Ewa Beach Skate park After Caldwell Refuses
- ‘Booster’ Accused of Stealing $10K from School Club
- Court report: State never should have returned 'Peter Boy' to his parents
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| Thursday, April 13, 2017 |
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April 13, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:44 PM :: 4622 Views
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- Those Life Saving Facts
- GE Tax Hike and Property Tax Hike: A double-whammy of taxes to pay for Honolulu’s ‘over priced, over budget’ rail system
- Counties, Tourism Industry Challenge HSTA Slush Fund Tax
- Public may get more say on Oahu wind farms
- HB165: Bring Sunshine Law into 2017 with online notices, postings
- Musings: Real and Imagined Dangers
- Hawaii Fishing Fleet: Enviros Try New Angle of Attack
- HSTA Homosexual Child Molester Gets Probation
- Your Tax Dollars paid for Transsexual Propaganda Film
- 100 Potheads Per Day Register to Feel Medicated
- Not in Good Standing: Nonprofit could get extended lease at Kewalo
- How HNL compares to America's best-run airports
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| Wednesday, April 12, 2017 |
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April 12, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:30 PM :: 4666 Views
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- Robin Danner Writing OHA’s Budget
- How They Voted: SB501 Mandatory Promotion of Abortion
- Conservative Rankings of Hawaii Legislators—2016 Session
- Family Prosperity Index: Hawaii Ranks 41st
- UH 2017 legislative budget update
- Leapfrog: Hawaii Among States With Most ‘A’ Grade Hospitals
- How They Voted: House Approves $792M GE Tax Hike 41-10
- Rate Hike Coming: Gays Demand You Pay to Give Them Children
- Senate approves Health Savings plans in insurance bill
- Hawaii County tax, fee hikes on table
- Under Fire In DC, Gabbard Is Still A Hit On The Big Island
- Rep Ing to Run for Maui Mayor, Arakawa to Run for Governor
- Veterans: Choice program a good option, but needs improvement
- Time to accelerate audit on Tourism Authority
- SB562: House Wants to Eliminate Lifeguards, Replace Them with Lawyers in Speedos
- $270K to be Wasted on Honolulu Climate Change Office
- Homeless Shelters Sit Empty Because Homeless Choose to Refuse Shelter
- Star-Adv: Clear out Homeless Camps Before They Burn Freeway Down
- Need a Meth Pipe? Hawaii Legislators are Trying to Help You Get One
- Former inmates sue DPS, claim they were held too long at HCCC
- Why Condo Associations Are Sweating After A Judge’s Ruling
- Suit claims school, DOE complicit in sex assault
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