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| Thursday, August 31, 2017 |
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August 31, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:59 PM :: 5881 Views
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- $2.4B Tax Hike: How They Voted
- Ige Appointments: 5 HCDA, 1 UH Regent, 1 HLRB, 2 Judges
- Sex Shame? 9th Circuit Revives Attempt to Shut Down Kauai Drug Rehab Program
- Visitor Spending Increases 9.8% in July 2017
- Caldwell: I’ll be Back for More
- Politicians stealing from outer islands
- ILWU, KSBE Behind Biomess Scheme to Gouge Electric Ratepayers
- Trump to Dump Obama’s Dreamers—Chin to Sue
- Will Robin Danner Control all Hawaii Inter-Island Cables?
- Updated Hawaii Salary Database: Doctors And Judges Do Well, Thank You
- More Money for Crooked Honolulu Liquor Commission
- Hawaii Prescription Drug Abuse Lower than Mainland
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| Wednesday, August 30, 2017 |
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August 30, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:23 PM :: 5507 Views
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- $2.4B Tax Hike: How They Voted
- HEI to Burn $205M Helping Tax Credit Scammers Make More Money on Alt Energy
- Inouye congressional papers available to the public
- HEI to Burn $205M Helping Tax Credit Scammers Make More Money on Alt Energy
- Successful Missile Defense Test off Kauai
- McDermott withdraws--Rep Andria Tupola to Run for Governor?
- $2.4B Tax Hike -- 3rd Read in Senate Today
- HART Magically Makes $548M Disappear
- Only Independent, ‘Deep Dive’ Rail Audit Will Suffice
- Trump Administration Gives Ige Full Control over Hawaii Schools
- Honolulu apartment rents jump 30% in 8 years
- Homeless Drug Addicts Behind Increase in vandalism, criminal acts reported by Kahului businesses
- Grand Jury Probe Zeros In On ‘Safe House’ Property Deal
- Al Hee Minion Robin Danner Grabs for Control of Crooked Sandwich Isles Scam Company
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| Tuesday, August 29, 2017 |
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August 29, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:13 PM :: 5401 Views
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- Grassroot Institute Testifies on Jones Act in Washington, DC
- Hawaii v Trump Argued Before 9th Circuit Court
- Ige Appointments: 5 HCDA, 1 UH Regent
- After Decade of Litigation, Supreme Court Refuses to Order State to Repair Gold Coast Seawalls
- Hawaii: Fewest Nurses Per Capita in USA
- $2.4B Tax Hike: How They Voted
- Rail: Oahu Tax Payers Don’t Want to Pay but Maui Reps, Sens Ready to Tax Sister Isles
- Caldwell Continues to Play Heavy, Helping Legislators Distract Public While Raising Taxes $2.4B
- Legislators Use Fake Audit to Make themselves Look Good While Raising Taxes $2.4B
- Schatz, Hanabusa: Caldwell is Full of BS
- Mufi: No TAT Hike
- House reorganization continues
- Legislature needs to pay foster parents fairly
- No Need Tents: Homeless Can be Forced into Hard-Walled Structures at $9,500 each
- Star-Adv: Trump forces us to Investigate SNAP Fraud, Waste
- Anti- Sand Mining Lies Exposed
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| Monday, August 28, 2017 |
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August 28, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:43 PM :: 4074 Views
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- Trump has the authority to modify existing monument boundaries
- 3 Things That Could Derail The Honolulu Rail Bailout
- Rail Skeptics Booted from House Finance Committee
- Rail Crooks Saved: Lawmakers Drop ‘Forensic’ Audit
- Pay ACLU Lawyers $75K to House Homeless in their Homes
- Abercrombie Rants Raves Against Anti-Big-Wind Activist
- Liberals to Establish Think Tank in Hawaii?
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| Sunday, August 27, 2017 |
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August 27, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:57 PM :: 5116 Views
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- UPDATE: Billion Dollar Bailout Added to Rail Tax Hike Bill
- Full Text: Feds Letter Demanding Rail Plan by Sept 15
- Honolulu: For 1000s Property Tax Rate Will Quadruple Sept 1
- Honolulu Republicans Protest Rail Bailout Bill
- Legislators Exploit Caldwell’s Unpopularity to Distract Public While Enacting Massive Tax Hike
- Make Sister Isles Pay for Rail? Senators say ‘No’ but Big Island Reps Ready to Stab Constituents in Back
- Ige: Who needs Campaign cash When I Have Unions?
- Alarmed at Possibility of Outside Chief, Some on Council suggest having mayor pick police chief
- Lawsuit Challenges PUC Approval of Hu Honua Biomass Plant
- Money: A&B, Activists Fight for Control of Profitable Water
- Balance soars past $20,000 in SNAP account
- Tourism economy failing local families
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| Saturday, August 26, 2017 |
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August 26, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:09 PM :: 4352 Views
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- UHPA: Fund our Contract During Special Session
- Hawaii Millionaire Will Go Broke Faster Than Any Other State
- Saltchuk puts Matson’s terminal expansion at risk?
- You are more than partners in the waste and fraud; you are the enablers
- Caldwell: Legislators too Stupid to Understand Where Latest $548M Came from
- Caldwell is accused of padding rail budget
- Mufi Hannemann, Sister Island Councilmembers: No TAT Hike
- UH-Hilo Suggests Legally Binding Mauna Kea Conditions
- City ordinance change requires wind developers to hold public hearings
- Global Warming Exists Thanks to Years of Dire Warnings
- Anti-Superferry Hypesters Mark Decade of Mob Rule
- Hawai`i Anti-Marijuana Bureaucrat Profits from Selling Medical Marijuana
- Clinic that caters to homeless aimed at easing burden on state's largest hospital
- $33M Procurement Suspended to Fix Ko Olina Caldwell Spill
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| Saturday, August 26, 2017 |
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August, 2017 Letters to the Editor
By Letters to the Editor @ 2:51 AM :: 4682 Views
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- You are more than partners in the waste and fraud; you are the enablers
- HART Rail Costs Nearly Triple Rail Tunnel
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| Friday, August 25, 2017 |
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August 25, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 9:18 PM :: 7798 Views
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- Full Text: Caldwell Rips Legislators Rail Tax Hike Plan
- Full Text: Rail Tax Hike Bill
- Rail: How to Gut an Audit
- Pasha signs contract to build two containerships; what now?
- West Oahu Schools Underfunded? AG Responds to McDermott Suit
- Lawsuit Filed Over Kauai Bird Deaths--HDOT Claims to be in Compliance
- Caldwell: ‘I don’t need to take this’ Yelling from Drunk, Belligerent Legislators
- Sen Thielen: Caldwell Lied Three Times at Hearing
- Hanabusa: Caldwell’s $548M Surprise Covers up for Something
- Maui Council Chair: “Why are they taking advantage of the Neighbor Islands on rail?”
- Panos: Only a Forensic Audit Can Find Truth
- Ige ‘Elated’ About Rail Tax Hikes
- Business Insiders Pushing Rail
- State To Homeless Shelters: If You Want Money, Show Results
- Hawaii's medi-juana dispensaries could offer candies and liquids within next two weeks
- Grandmother who launched Kealoha corruption probe believes indictments are coming
- Kawananakoa Estate Fight: Lawyers File, Respond
- Hawaii: Nobody Spends More on ‘Efficiency’ Contracts
- Hawaii to be Liberated from 9th Circuit Court?
- Telescope Protesters Oppose UH Plan to Trade 10,000 Acres for Approval
- Pohakuloa seeks citizens for advisory board
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| Thursday, August 24, 2017 |
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August 24, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 9:20 PM :: 5553 Views
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- Mauna Kea: UH to Trade 10,000 Acres for Telescope Approval, Lease Extension
- Postpone tax talk until after rail audit
- State GOP Calls for Forensic Audit of Rail
- Keep Traffic Jammed: Rail FEIS Shows Plans for Lane-Elimination
- Interior Dep't Sends Trump Recommendations on National Monuments
- Schatz: Put Everybody on Medicaid
- Some Women are More Equal than Others
- Which Counties Benefit Most From the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction?
- Multi-Billion Dollar Tax Hike--Legislators' rail funding deal makes Sister Islands Pay
- Caldwell to Legislators $3B Tax Hike or Nothing--Promises Tax Hike Trifecta--GE Tax, TAT, Property Tax all to go up
- Hot Potato: Will Legislators Vote to Make Themselves Responsible for Rail Disaster?
- Could recent plunge in public transportation ridership spell trouble for rail? (Clue: “Yes”)
- Why is a forensic audit still not essential? …
- ‘Friends of Rail’ – New Name for the Same old Insiders
- Foster parents to Legislature: Use special session to pay out $9M settlement
- Oahu’s Cheapest Source Of Power Is About To Go Away
- Mansions are easier to build on Valley Isle than apartments
- Money: Gaggle of Activists Pick over Remains of Sand Mining Operation
- Homeless Meth Addicts Would Rather Drown Than Accept Shelter
- Hawaii Co Council to take another bite at foam food container ban
- High court ruling could take away legal protections for off-duty officers working private events
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| Wednesday, August 23, 2017 |
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August 23, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:32 PM :: 4370 Views
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- Feds Search for Criminals Buying Honolulu Real Estate Thru Shell Companies
- Kona DLNR Harassment: Judge Throws Case out on Technicality
- Ige Unveils Plan to Bulldoze Kalihi, Build Condos
- College Rankings: BYUH, HPU, Chaminade Trounce UH Campuses
- Using Freedom of Information Act to target biotech scientists boomerangs against anti-GMO activists
- Rail: Hannemann, Hanabusa Pointing Fingers
- Stop Rail At Middle Street, Then Use Express Buses
- HELCO rate hike OK’d—Will Pay for Solar
- Bus Driver Shortage? Roberts Hawaii Grabs for Millions from DoE Budget
- Mandatory Sprinkler Bill Deferred
- Will Dopers Have the Right to Stay Doped up at Work?
- Proposed in-car smoking ban advances
- Waianae Tweeker Camp Claims Rotting Piles of Garbage are Just a Coincidence
- Government enables homeless
- Earthjustice files suit over DOT lights, imperiled seabirds
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| Tuesday, August 22, 2017 |
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August 22, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:46 PM :: 4452 Views
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- Oahu Event: New Directions in Education
- A strange mix of piracy and racketeering
- UPDATE: No More Bailouts for Rail!
- Pearl City: 43 Homeless Forced to Accept Shelter
- What Does it Take to be Expelled from Manoa Mosque?
- UH Selected to Host ‘Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Campus Center’
- Hawaii Rankings: How Good is Your Community College?
- Legislators: GE Tax Hike and TAT Hike to Pay for Rail
- Rail represents everything that is wrong with state government
- Caldwell Plan: Tax Military Families to Pay for Rail
- Kishimoto: I will let HSTA do Whatever it Wants
- KSBE Trustees: Jeff Stone Operative Replaces Al Hee Operative
- Neutral party sought in heiress’s case
- Outcry over secrecy surrounding termination of Honolulu police officer, possible pay off
- Former DOCARE Manager Charged With Child Molestation
- Go West Young Bum! Sit-lie ban extended to 15 other Oahu communities
- State certified vs. black market: Potheads paying for quality
- VICTORY! 3,700 Days of Big Wind, Big Cable Finally End
- Sierra Club sues state to force Statewide replacement of fuel tanks
- Not Worth It: Operator Admits US Windfarms kill 500K Birds per Year
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| Monday, August 21, 2017 |
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August 21, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:07 PM :: 4779 Views
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- OPEN LETTER: Tulsi Gabbard's GMO labeling push is an embarrassment to pro-science progressives
- VIDEO: Panos on Mauna Kea Telescope
- Survey: 70 Percent of Union Members Want Re-certification Vote
- Carvalho for Governor? Ige to Remind Votes that…uh…uhh….
- LOL! “Rising seas will devour Waikiki, wash away billions from Hawaii's economy”
- Batteries: How Much Can Elon Musk Raise Hawaii Electric Bills?
- Competition could spark a price war
- Should City Dump UPW’s bulky-trash program?
- Race Hustlers Target McKinley Statue (again) in Desperate Bid for Attention, Money
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| Sunday, August 20, 2017 |
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August 20, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:36 PM :: 4302 Views
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- Hawaii Family Forum: Talk to Your Kids About Racism
- The Grand Skim of Things, Part 3
- Legislators Foolhardy Enough to Give Caldwell More Money?
- Star-Av: Fake Audit Can Help Legislators Raise Taxes for Rail
- Don’t Increase TAT for Rail
- Hawaii only state that did not regularly review child deaths
- Honolulu 7th Most Expensive City for Car Owners
- Public Land Must be Made Available for Affordable Housing
- It Begins: Global Warmers: Go Mauka
- Dope Dealers Yearn for Honey Butane Oil
- Activist: Waianae Deserves Massive Festering Homeless Tent City
- Borreca: Hawaii Democrats Can Exploit Trump Remarks in Local Elections
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| Saturday, August 19, 2017 |
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August 19, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 9:20 PM :: 4006 Views
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- City rail audit won’t look for fraud?
- Hawaii misses the bitcoin boom
- Report: Island With Highest Prices Has Smallest Proportion of Mainland Buyers
- Oral Arguments set for Morita vs Gorak
- Feds Reach $10M Deal In Hawaii Birth Complications Suit
- Woman who waited 4 hours for rescue from condo fire dies
- Anti-Sunscreen Hysteria Reaches NY Times
- DLNR still responding to concerns on Lehua rat eradication
- Star-Adv: Trump Poisons Nation
- WaPo: How Employers Can Fire Trump Voters—a State-by State Guide
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| Friday, August 18, 2017 |
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August 18, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:31 PM :: 5619 Views
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- Hawaii Statehood: Tiny 1959 opposition was anti-Japanese, not anti-American
- Honolulu Republicans: Happy Statehood Day!
- Ships No Longer a Mystery: TOTE to Launch New Hawaii Service
- Honolulu City Lights application deadline Sept 1
- Desperation: HART Backs Efficiency Audit
- Kauai Reps Scheme for Rail Tax Hikes
- Ige says he can beat Hanabusa in a potential 2018 match-up
- Ige: I Want to Remind You I had Nothing to do With Kishimoto Pick and Neither did my Wife
- Honolulu Council Resolution: Block All Mainland HPD Chief Applicants
- Caldwell Trick will Put 8,000 Condos in Highest Property Tax Bracket Sept 1
- Thirty Meter Telescope executive hopeful project will receive permit ahead of September hearing
- For most, life is not an either/or proposition
- Hawaii developers face challenges selling affordable housing units
- DoH: Many People Not Fooled by ‘Medical’ Marijuana
- Fewer people are using public transportation in Honolulu
- Muslim Sues Hawaiian Tel: Presence of Trump Supporter Violates my Rights
- County Council approves gun ranges for the Big Island
- Ignored, Fukumoto Finds Way to Get Some Attention
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| Thursday, August 17, 2017 |
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August 17, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:07 PM :: 4448 Views
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- Honolulu: $100 worth only $80.32
- Corporations Becoming New Arbiters Of Public Morality
- DBEDT Releases 2016 Hawaii Data Book
- Grabauskas Suspected of Withholding Records
- How A Princess’s Embattled Fortune Could Become A Massive Native Hawaiian Charity
- Will State Provide Land for Affordable Housing?
- DoE: 33% Absenteeism on South Side of Big Island
- Child Deaths: DHS Reverts to Tried and True System for Covering Up
- Greenmail: Panel wants to make watching delicious whales a Hawaiian experience
- Body camera video showed MPD officers acted by the book with protesters
- Army searching for 5 aboard downed chopper
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| Wednesday, August 16, 2017 |
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August 16, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 10:28 PM :: 4382 Views
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- Telescope: OHA Sees Chance for Land and Money Grab
- Jones Act: Matson and Pasha Seek Every Loophole
- Compact Impact: DoI Launches Census of COFA Migrants
- Honolulu Ethics Comm Seeks Comments on Draft Strategic Plan
- Honolulu 2016 Citizen-Centric Report Released
- Audit: Bulky Pickup Schemes Generate Millions in Overtime
- Rail Solution? A new PR Campaign!
- Council committee to take up measure seeking rail audit
- State Surplus Becomes Deficit After Paying Wages, Benefits, Pension
- Star-Adv: Only Days Left for Legislators to Come up with Tax Hike for Rail
- Obamacare Causing $68M in Losses for HMSA, Kaiser
- Hawaii AG to Oversee Kawananakoa Dispute
- The state is spending a lot less on school buses. Here's how
- Mindless Bureaucracy: Housing Becomes Less Affordable on Oahu
- Hawaii’s household debt per capita ranks highest among 50 states
- Analysis: Most renters in Hawaii are 'cost-burdened'
- Homeless Can Get Housing if they Walk Across The Street: Most Won’t
- Officer caught fighting with girlfriend on video expected to get six-figure payoff
- Gulliver, Lilliputians: Kona Spaceport Tied Down by Red Tape
- Fraud-Riddled Hawaii recycling program hit lowest rate in 2016
- Its Easy to Call Trump Racist
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| Tuesday, August 15, 2017 |
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August 15, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:26 PM :: 5436 Views
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- Charlottesville Attack Was Domestic Terrorism
- DLNR Sea Level Rise Adaptation Meeting Set for Hilo, Kona
- Broken Trust Published 20 Years Ago
- Rep Tupola Backs Forensic Audit for HART
- Special Session to be Cancelled?
- Apo voices support for TMT
- Definition of ‘Renewable Energy’ is Political
- DoH Bureaucratic Bottleneck Keeps 100lbs of Weed off Streets
- Guam on Edge as Norks Chicken Out
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| Monday, August 14, 2017 |
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August 14, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:14 PM :: 6044 Views
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- Kawananakoa Estate: Sex, Drugs, and Inequality
- HART Rail Costs Nearly Triple Rail Tunnel
- Grassroot: Investigate Rail Fraud, Waste, Abuse
- Oahu GOP: Mo More Bailouts for Rail
- Mattis: ‘We’ll Take It Out’ If North Korea Fires A Missile At Guam
- Heiress Kawananakoa: Lawyer is trying to take control of $200M estate
- Tuition Hikes Explained: UH Manoa Paying 72 Over $200K
- New DoE Sup’t Finds Way to Keep Daughter out of Hawaii Public Schools
- Hotels Control Opposition to Kauai dairy plan
- Hotels Chemophobes Team up for Sunscreen Megaprofits
- A bad week for sunshine
- Police Called 3x Day to Kona’s New Homeless Tent City
- Ex-Cop Sues Honolulu For Not Paying To Defend Him In Assault Lawsuit
- Star-Adv Nailed for Misleading Styrofoam Ban Rhetoric
- Association says a sprinkler system bill is not feasible
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| Sunday, August 13, 2017 |
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August 13, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:21 PM :: 5224 Views
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- The Grand Skim of Things, Part 2
- 2018: Service to Muslims Could Make Chin Lt Governor
- Maui Council: TAT Hike Makes Neighbor Islands Pay for Rail (but we still aren’t legalizing TVRs)
- Pay for Rail by Eliminating Pension Spiking
- Rail Condemnation: Jurors Not Fooled by HART’s Appraiser
- Workings of Hawaii government hew to satirical Parkinson’s Law
- Roberts Hawaii Sees Money in Maui School Bus Debacle
- REIT Tax Losers Whine
- Maui Dopers Clean out Shelves at Weed Store
- Money: Danner’s Annual Show Set for October
- Muslim Relabeled as Grandmother upon Arrival in Hawaii
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