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Entries for July 2013
Wednesday, July 31, 2013 |
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Why Is Washington Talking About a Government Shutdown?
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:07 PM :: 3962 Views :: Health Care
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It’s not even August, and Members of Congress are starting to buzz about the upcoming budget and debt ceiling fight....
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Tuesday, July 30, 2013 |
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Simplified property taxes
By Rachelle Chang @ 9:40 PM :: 4664 Views :: Taxes
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With ten new property tax proposals under consideration in Honolulu, it’s a good time to think about what makes for fair and reasonable property taxes....
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Tuesday, July 30, 2013 |
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How to Use Obamacare to Scam Taxpayers
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:47 PM :: 3951 Views :: Health Care
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Looking for a little extra cash?
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Tuesday, July 30, 2013 |
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Honolulu Ranks 62nd in Per-Capita Public Employees
By Selected News Articles @ 2:32 PM :: 4904 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii Statistics
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The Examiner used the Census Bureau's 2011 Annual Survey of Public Employment and Payroll to rank every U.S. city with a population of 200,000 or more....
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Monday, July 29, 2013 |
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Skeletons in the Closet of the Wind
By Andrew Walden @ 8:44 PM :: 11779 Views :: Energy
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Monday, July 29, 2013 |
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Feds: Hawaii DoE no longer 'High Risk'
By News Release @ 8:33 PM :: 3923 Views :: Education K-12
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Hawaii State Department of Education (DOE) this morning received notification from the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) that its Race to the Top (RTTT) grant is no longer considered “high-risk”....
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Monday, July 29, 2013 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted July 29, 2013
By Congress.org @ 2:57 PM :: 4065 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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- Senate: Student Loan Interest Rates Passage
- House: Defense Appropriations NSA Phone Record Collection Amendment
- House: Defense AppropriationsFinal Passage
- House: Coal Ash Regulations Passage
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Monday, July 29, 2013 |
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Defunding Obamacare Explained in One Infographic
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:20 PM :: 3837 Views :: Health Care
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The movement to defund Obamacare is gaining traction in Washington....
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Monday, July 29, 2013 |
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Big Cable Could Cost Consumers 12 cents per Kwh
By News Release @ 5:01 AM :: 4405 Views :: Energy
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As much as an additional 12 cents/kilowatt hour could be added to each HECO bill on O`ahu, just for the undersea cable, according to an Integrated Resource Planning Final Report filed recently with the PUC....
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Monday, July 29, 2013 |
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Hanabusa: Obama Considers Creating Akaka Tribe Without Congressional Approval
By Andrew Walden @ 12:27 AM :: 8560 Views :: Akaka Bill
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"We know he will seriously consider our request to use his executive branch authority to achieve this elusive goal."
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Sunday, July 28, 2013 |
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Forum to Outline Changes to State Mental Health Care System
By News Release @ 4:02 PM :: 5294 Views :: Health Care
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...community forum on Monday, July 29, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. in the Queen’s Conference Center Auditorium....
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Sunday, July 28, 2013 |
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Analysis of Hawaii County Bill 79
By Selected News Articles @ 4:01 PM :: 3925 Views :: GMOs
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it may in fact require everyone who wears or eats or sells a GMO food or other product to register with the county and pay a fee....
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Sunday, July 28, 2013 |
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UPDATE: Flossie Weakening East of Hana
By News Release @ 1:39 PM :: 9220 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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AT 8 AM HST...TROPICAL STORM FLOSSIE WAS LOCATED 90 MILES NE OF HILO MOVING WNW AT 20 MPH. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS 40 MPH....
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Sunday, July 28, 2013 |
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Onerous Burden of Doing Business Goes Beyond Taxes
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 11:37 AM :: 5160 Views :: Small Business, Taxes
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In addition to the fees and charges levied for these required permits and licenses, there is the time that it takes to secure many of these permits and licenses....
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Saturday, July 27, 2013 |
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Kauai Farmers Mobilize to Save Agriculture from Anti-GMO Protesters
By Video @ 4:02 PM :: 8784 Views :: Kauai County, Agriculture, GMOs
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Correcting the misinformation being spread by special interest groups about how we farm....
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Saturday, July 27, 2013 |
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Growing Up With Two Moms: The Untold Children’s View
By Selected News Articles @ 1:36 PM :: 4755 Views :: Family
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The children of same-sex couples have a tough road ahead of them—I know, because I have been there....
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Saturday, July 27, 2013 |
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Lessons from France on Defending Marriage
By Selected News Articles @ 1:09 PM :: 4160 Views :: Family
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Unlikely characters, including gay men, are leading the French people in protest against redefining marriage....
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Saturday, July 27, 2013 |
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Paradise lost: Honolulu taxpayers drowning in crystal clear sea of debt
By Malia Zimmerman @ 4:17 AM :: 5503 Views :: Honolulu County, Taxes
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Honolulu, fiscal watchdogs warn, must curb spending, focus on its debt and address critical multi-billion dollar infrastructure problems ....
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Saturday, July 27, 2013 |
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Why I’m Going to Hawaii to Defend the Maize Winter Nurseries
By Selected News Articles @ 1:48 AM :: 5642 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs
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Hawaii currently plays an important role in the global food supply – one far more important than that of its historical sugarcane and pineapple industries....
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Saturday, July 27, 2013 |
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HTA: Arrivals, Spending Up
By News Release @ 1:39 AM :: 4153 Views :: Tourism
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Visitors who came to Hawai‘i in June 2013 spent a total of $1.3 billion, an increase of 7 percent from June 2012....
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Friday, July 26, 2013 |
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‘Sue and Settle’: Secret backroom deals by bureaucrats and enviros hurt economy
By Selected News Articles @ 4:47 PM :: 5096 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Sue and Settle process has left Hawaii burdened with an EPA mandated ‘Regional Haze’ plan which forces human emitters to make up for emissions from Kilauea Volcano....
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Friday, July 26, 2013 |
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$217M: Fake Bribe Offered to Hawaii for Fake ‘Marriage’
By UHERO @ 3:16 PM :: 6546 Views :: Family
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The same author in 2011 made the same type of claims in the run-up to Civil Unions....
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Friday, July 26, 2013 |
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Can Obamacare Get the Young Blood It Needs to Live?
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:43 PM :: 3478 Views :: Health Care
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of the projected 7 million exchange enrollees next year, 2.7 million need to be young adults to make the premiums work....
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Friday, July 26, 2013 |
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ObamaCare Glitch Number One: Verifying Eligibility
By NCPA @ 2:37 PM :: 3349 Views :: Health Care
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...a delayed and untested verification process is an open-invitation to cheat....
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Thursday, July 25, 2013 |
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Abercrombie Signs Ocean Resources Management Plan
By News Release @ 9:02 PM :: 5328 Views :: Environment, Hawaii State Government
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Tracking the success of the plan will be coordinated with the state Office of Information Management and Technology....
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Thursday, July 25, 2013 |
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Caldwell's TOD Pick Connects Smart Growth, Active Aging
By News Release @ 8:39 PM :: 6962 Views :: Health Care, Life, Rail
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Caldwell announced today the selection of veteran transportation planner Harrison Rue as the Administrator of the City’s Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Program....
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Thursday, July 25, 2013 |
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Pierluisi introduces Puerto Rico Jones Act exemption legislation
By Michael Hansen @ 6:35 PM :: 4332 Views :: Jones Act
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...create a limited exemption from the U.S. build requirement of the Jones Act allowing foreign-built ships to transport bulk cargoes the domestic Puerto Rico trade...
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Thursday, July 25, 2013 |
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Full Text: Stop Rail Files Comments on Rail DSEIS
By Honolulu Traffic @ 4:19 PM :: 3987 Views :: Rail
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Comments were required to be filed by July 22 ....
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Thursday, July 25, 2013 |
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Hawaii, Guam, Am Samoa, NMI Question Proposed Listing of 66 Coral Species
By News Release @ 3:56 PM :: 4692 Views :: Environment
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The Steering Committee for the Pacific Islands Regional Ocean Partnership (PROP) met last week in Honolulu....
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Thursday, July 25, 2013 |
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3 Whoppers from Obama’s Big Economic Speech
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:32 PM :: 9104 Views :: National News, Economy, Health Care, Obama
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- Obamacare is going great.
- I cut the deficit in half.
- Middle-class income is stuck in the ’70s.
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Thursday, July 25, 2013 |
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KSBE, ML&P, Grove Farm Plan to Chop Down Thousands of Trees
By News Release @ 1:22 PM :: 5477 Views :: Energy, Agriculture
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The feedstock for the biofuel is anticipated to be woody biomass-based....
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Thursday, July 25, 2013 |
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Soaring Renewable Fuel Costs Spark New Fight over Ethanol Mandate
By NCPA @ 1:08 PM :: 4823 Views :: Energy, Agriculture
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Renewable fuel credit prices rose to record highs recently, reigniting the debate over repealing the federal government's ethanol mandate....
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Thursday, July 25, 2013 |
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Jonesing for Relief from Port Protectionism
By Selected News Articles @ 4:01 AM :: 4868 Views :: Jones Act
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Jacksonville, Florida, brings in coal from Colombia rather than West Virginia.....
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Thursday, July 25, 2013 |
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CNBC: Slash Fuel Prices, Repeal Jones Act
By Selected News Articles @ 3:00 AM :: 4544 Views :: Jones Act
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The airline industry, whose largest expense is fuel, is also behind the structural change in the legislation that would allow foreign-made vessels to transport on U.S. waters....
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Thursday, July 25, 2013 |
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PETA Attacks Hawaii Man Nearly Killed by Ahi
By News Release @ 2:43 AM :: 7346 Views :: Environment, Second Amendment
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As Native Hawaiians and residents of Hawai‘i, we take serious offense at your public attack upon a local fisherman for catching ahi....
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013 |
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Hawaii Ranks #3 in Solar Installations Per Capita
By News Release @ 1:24 PM :: 4737 Views :: Energy, Hawaii Statistics
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States with more homeowners and businesses “going solar” share these policies....
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013 |
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Hawaiian Airlines: Strengthening Dollar Undermines Results
By News Release @ 12:43 PM :: 3730 Views :: Tourism
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On our international routes we are seeing the strengthening of the dollar undermine some of the excellent results we have had in the last couple of years but this portion of our business remains the core focus of our expansion plans....
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013 |
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How Much of Food Activism Is Nonsense?
By Selected News Articles @ 12:36 PM :: 5765 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs
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There are plenty of people out there telling us what we should eat—and worse, trying to use public policy to make us live by their opinions....
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013 |
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Organic food – What is an ‘organic’ label really worth?
By Selected News Articles @ 12:12 PM :: 5777 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs
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fraud has flown under the radar. And as sales have boomed and the stakes have risen, the scale of deception has broadened....
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013 |
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3 “Kitchen Table” Topics for Obama’s Speech Today
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:34 AM :: 4103 Views :: Economy
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Obama says he’s ready to get back to the “kitchen table” issues after months of focusing on gun control, amnesty for illegal immigrants, and other tangents....
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013 |
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Lanai: OHA Wants a Cut of Ellison's Action
By News Release @ 12:05 AM :: 6596 Views :: Maui County, OHA
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As billionaire Larry Ellison makes gestures....
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013 |
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Interim UH President Scores 'F', Responsible for Data Breaches
By News Release @ 11:20 PM :: 6122 Views :: Higher Education
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Board of Regents has identified Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer David Lassner as Interim President of the university and will vote on the appointment at a special board meeting July 30....
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013 |
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Hawaiian Homes Commission Votes to Reform Revocable Permit Program
By News Release @ 11:16 PM :: 5795 Views :: Akaka Bill, DHHL
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With a vote of 7-0, the Hawaiian Homes Commission voted to amend its long-standing revocable permit (RP) program....
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013 |
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University of Hawaii regent calls for investigation into tuition hikes
By Malia Zimmerman @ 11:01 PM :: 3876 Views :: Higher Education
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Regent Jan Sullivan wants an investigation into whether the record tuition increases can be rolled back or halted altogether....
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013 |
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Malpractice: Trial Attorneys Take on Negligent Abortionists
By Selected News Articles @ 10:29 PM :: 5979 Views :: Family, Health Care, Judiciary
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“Botched Abortion” project designed to hold abortionists accountable for medical malpractice....
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013 |
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What do the Supreme Court marriage decisions mean for churches?
By Selected News Articles @ 10:21 PM :: 4728 Views :: Family, First Amendment
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Here are some short key points regarding the impact of the decisions....
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013 |
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For the Sake of the Keiki
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 10:08 PM :: 4285 Views :: Family
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...the institution of marriage is morphing into a whole new thing....
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013 |
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S&P Pleased by Tax Hikes, Concerned About Abercrombie's Spending
By News Release @ 9:53 PM :: 6707 Views :: Economy, Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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"...the budget includes new spending on program enhancements that could eventually result in fiscal pressure...."
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