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Thursday, June 9, 2011
2011 Session Wrap-up: Paychecks Hawaii Rates Legislators
By Selected News Articles @ 12:01 PM :: 6366 Views :: Energy, Environment

Ratings may be helpful during election periods .... 

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Tuesday, June 7, 2011
WSJ: Health Care Initiative Draws Fire, 93% of MD refuse ACO/Medical Home program
By Selected News Articles @ 8:27 PM :: 10154 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

The American Medical Group Association said a survey of its members found that 93 percent wouldn't enroll as ACOs in the main proposed Medicare program.

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Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Hawaii DoH Scientist: Shame on the EWG for panic about Hexavalent Chromium in Honolulu Tapwater
By Selected News Articles @ 3:36 PM :: 10639 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

You irresponsibly abuse the public’s trust in your organization and their concern for the health of their loved ones by falsely claiming that USEPA has not set a standard for Cr VI in the drinking water and demanding that it do so. This is a blatant lie. ...  Any high school student with access to the internet could have determined this. Given that EWG has been working on this issue for years, I can’t believe that your staff is incompetent enough not to know this.

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Monday, June 6, 2011
Sun Yat-Sen Hawaii Birth Certificate causes Trouble in Taipei
By Selected News Articles @ 2:12 PM :: 16455 Views :: Hawaii History

...because he had trouble entering the United States due to that country's Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the US immigration authorities decided to issue a document in 1904 that says Sun was born in Honolulu and has US citizenship....

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Friday, June 3, 2011
Progressives: Hirono will rescue us from Xenophobic Warmonger and Corporate Shill Ed Case
By Selected News Articles @ 8:20 PM :: 8647 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

...Last month we were worrying that the always ambitious, always reactionary corporate shill, Ed Case, would get a free ride for the Senate seat he once tried to steal from Dan Akaka, a progressive who is now retiring....

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Thursday, June 2, 2011
HIPA Hawaii Military Spending Study Tied to Fundraiser with Military Contractor?
By Selected News Articles @ 2:14 PM :: 9273 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii Military Affairs Council and The Hawaii Institute For Public Affairs hosted a $35-a-ticket-event for the report co-sponsored by defense contractor BAE Systems yesterday.

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Thursday, June 2, 2011
Abercrombie signs SB1347, gives HECO license to soak Consumers for Green Energy Projects
By Selected News Articles @ 11:26 AM :: 10697 Views :: Hawaii County , Akaka Bill, Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

...there’s no opportunity for the Consumer Advocate to be a part of that process to say on behalf of the consumer, ‘We don’t believe that this rate increase is legitimate. We don’t believe you should authorize it.’ .... 

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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How They Voted May 31
By Selected News Articles @ 5:12 PM :: 7502 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

Recent Congressional Votes

  • Senate: FY2012 House Budget Resolution
  • Senate: President’s FY2012 Budget Resolution
  • Senate: Patriot Act Extensions
  • House: National Defense Authorization Act, FY2012
  • House: Patriot Act Extensions
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
HB838: Reapportionment Funds Held up by Abercrombie
By Selected News Articles @ 11:35 AM :: 8623 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

There is upon your desk an emergency appropriation by the legislature (HB838) awaiting your signature to fund the functions of the Reapportionment Commission and its temporary staff positions.

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Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Brookings: Muslims expel reformer from Manoa mosque, claim Arabs discovered Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 9:25 PM :: 27101 Views :: Hawaii History, Religion

...he showed us the manuscript of Islam: A Religion of Peace? in which he points to the “negative” verses in the Quran and argues for their removal. “We should reject the earlier part of the Quran and use only the end part,” he told us, noting the community calls him a kafir (non-believer)....

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Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Test of Shield Law? Maui PD subpoenas ID of online commenter who threatened Cop
By Selected News Articles @ 1:35 PM :: 12108 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment

The Maui Police Department has issued a subpoena to obtain the IP addresses of Maui Time web commenters, citing the terroristic threatening of one of its officers. by Maui police officer Nelson Johnson....The comment in question was left in response to an April 14 blog post in which Maui Time publisher Tommy Russo posted a video of himself being assaulted....

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Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Gallup: Hawaii residents are Least-Stressed in US
By Selected News Articles @ 1:34 PM :: 8572 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

Hawaiians were the least likely in the United States in 2010 to say they felt stressed for much of the previous day, at 30.2%. Residents of Utah were the most likely to report experiencing stress, at 45.1%, according to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index.

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Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Abercrombie’s Medical Homes: Global Budget to control your Healthcare
By Selected News Articles @ 1:36 PM :: 10743 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

The American Medical Group Association, representing medical groups that provide care for roughly 1 in 3 Americans, said that 90% of its members would not participate in the new Accountable Care Organization (ACO) model the Obama administration wants to impose on Medicare providers.  

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Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Hirono launches Campaign by misleading public on education reform, clean energy
By Selected News Articles @ 1:53 AM :: 7760 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

The Governor’s Administration played a pivotal role in developing the Race to the Top public education program that was awarded $75 million in Federal funds and won praise from President Obama’s Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan....  Hirono either purposely failed to acknowledge Governor Lingle’s landmark, community-based effort known as the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative (HCEI), or she has been away from Hawaii so long she is out of touch with the progress that has been made in this critical area. President Obama’s Dept. of Energy has lauded the HCEI as a model for other states.

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Monday, May 23, 2011
Humans Wiped Out Land Crabs 1000 yrs ago In Hawaii (they were delicious)
By Selected News Articles @ 2:58 PM :: 6469 Views :: Energy, Environment

Land before humans came to the Hawaiian Islands around 1,000 years ago, there ruled land crabs which roamed great distance, a new study has claimed.

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Sunday, May 22, 2011
Aiona vs. Hannemann for CD2?
By Selected News Articles @ 10:24 PM :: 8535 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

POLL Daily Kos March 22: Aiona 42% – Hannemann 42%

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Thursday, May 19, 2011
Hawaii Judges Cannot Be Impartial About Rail Project
By Selected News Articles @ 1:43 PM :: 9644 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

All nine federal judges in Hawaii have recused themselves from hearing the latest complaint, of a long string, that challenges a major transportation project in Honolulu.  With each judge stepping back from the case, 9th Circuit Judge A. Wallace Tashima will step in, according to an order filed Friday....

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Thursday, May 19, 2011
Your Private Information Public? HHS Audit finds massive Security Gaps in Electronic Medical Records
By Selected News Articles @ 11:32 AM :: 10079 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

As HMSA and the Abercrombie administration push forward with electronic medical records in Hawaii—a key requirement for any medical rationing system—the Obama Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General has today released two audits of electronic medical records security systems….

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Thursday, May 19, 2011
Hawaii WW2 vet to Obama: “Shape up and start acting like an American”
By Selected News Articles @ 11:23 AM :: 10137 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

The Late Harold B. Estes' letter to Obama: "One of the benefits of my age, perhaps the only one, is to speak my mind, blunt and direct even to the head man. So here goes....

"You fly around the world telling our friends and enemies despicable lies like: "We're no longer a Christian nation" "America is arrogant" -- (Your wife even announced to the world, "America is mean- spirited." Please tell her to try preaching that nonsense to 23 generations of our war dead buried all over the globe who died for no other reason than to free a whole lot of strangers from tyranny and hopelessness.)"

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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Courthouse News: Watchdogs & Ex-Hawaii Officials Aim to Shelve Mass Transit Project
By Selected News Articles @ 1:33 PM :: 9308 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

In April, the Obama administration lost $1.5 billion of $2 billion budgeted to improve America's antiquated transportation systems, with high-speed rail projects. Though the funds will now likely go toward deficit reduction, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, a defendant in the Hawaii rail lawsuit, has asked for $53 billion over the next six years.

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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Billionaire Soros Pours $48M into Media Organizations
By Selected News Articles @ 10:37 AM :: 4514 Views :: National News, Ethics

...And that number is an understatement. It is gleaned from tax forms, news stories and reporting. But Soros funds foundations that fund other foundations in turn, like the Tides Foundation, which then make their own donations. A complete accounting is almost impossible because a media component is part of so many Soros-funded operations....

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Tuesday, May 17, 2011
HGEA to Nurses: State not Responsive to Negotiations
By Selected News Articles @ 10:59 PM :: 7217 Views :: Energy, Environment

If agreement is not reached in the current round of negotiations, the team will make a decision on whether to proceed to arbitration. The timetable for arbitration is contained in a March 23, 2011 Memorandum of Agreement, which allows for either the Union or the Employer to request the Hawaii Labor Relations Board (HLRB) implement impasse procedures.

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Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Moody’s Cuts Hawaii’s Bond Rating
By Selected News Articles @ 11:35 AM :: 6582 Views :: Energy, Environment

Moody's justified the downgrade based on the state's forecast depletion of reserve funds by the end of the 2011 fiscal year, sustained budget shortfalls relieved by one-time solutions and low pension-funded ratios relative to other states. Hawaii's audited financial results have also come in late since fiscal 2007....

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Monday, May 16, 2011
Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted May 16
By Selected News Articles @ 5:31 PM :: 7514 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

Recent Congressional Votes

  • Senate: Cloture Motion; James M. Cole to be Deputy Attorney General
  • House: Putting the Gulf of Mexico Back to Work Act
  • House: Reversing President Obama’s Offshore Moratorium Act
  • House: Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011
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Thursday, May 12, 2011
Plaintiffs Seek Injunction to block Honolulu Rail Construction, Contracting
By Selected News Articles @ 2:44 PM :: 9587 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

Plaintiffs seek declaratory and injunctive relief to ensure that Defendants do not implement the Honolulu High-Capacity Transit Corridor Project...before complying fully with federal environmental laws.

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Thursday, May 12, 2011
Psychiatrists Boycott Honolulu Meeting Over Desmond Tutu Invitation
By Selected News Articles @ 1:48 PM :: 15678 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family

In a speech in Boston, Mr. Tutu directly attacked the Jewish supporters of Israel as being in effect traitors to America, controlling U.S. foreign policy for the benefit of Israel and to the detriment of America. In that speech he compared American Jewish supporters of Israel to Hitler, Mussolini, Idi Amin, Milosevich, Stalin, and Pinochet.

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Thursday, May 12, 2011
Only 60% of “classroom spending” actually reaches classroom
By Selected News Articles @ 11:25 AM :: 4292 Views :: National News, Ethics

School districts very often define spending categories in unexpected ways, making it difficult to distinguish classroom spending from operational costs....

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Monday, May 9, 2011
Coverup: DoE changes tests, surveys to create illusion of progress
By Selected News Articles @ 5:58 PM :: 9365 Views :: Education K-12

…a decade’s worth of reform and rhetoric that hasn’t made much of a dent. 

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Bin Laden, the terror godfather next door: Local children playing in his garden, his own at a nearby school
By Selected News Articles @ 5:28 PM :: 5893 Views :: World News, Family

'I used to go to their house. He had two wives, one spoke Arabic, and the other one spoke Urdu. They had three children, a girl and two boys. They gave me two rabbits. They had installed a camera at the outer gate so they could see people before they entered the house,' Zarar Ahmed said....

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Study: Hawaii has most expensive rentals in Nation
By Selected News Articles @ 2:09 PM :: 9769 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

...NLIHC calculates Hawaii’s "housing wage" at $31.08 per hour. The “housing wage” which is the full-time hourly wage a household would need to earn in order to afford the fair market rent for an apartment....

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Maritime Industry Leader: Throw out Jones Act requirement for US Built ships
By Selected News Articles @ 11:34 AM :: 7879 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

The Jones Act has singularly failed to deliver on its declared objectives of "supporting foreign and domestic commerce and creating a merchant marine of the best equipped and most suitable types of vessels." The "must build in America" clause is the biggest problem. Today the U.S. builds 1 percent of the world’s commercial ships — with 95 percent being built in Asia....

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Monday, May 2, 2011
Special Forces exterminate Osama Bin-Laden: Hideout was mansion next to Pakistani Military Academy
By Selected News Articles @ 2:43 AM :: 7083 Views

President Bush called the operation a “momentous achievement” that “marks a victory for America, for people who seek peace around the world, and for all those who lost loved ones on September 11, 2001.”

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Friday, April 29, 2011
'Birther' Myth First Spread by Hillary Clinton Supporters in 2008
By Selected News Articles @ 11:07 AM :: 10175 Views :: Obama

Indeed, the rumor that Obama was not a U.S. citizen was initially spread in April 2008 by a group of Hillary Clinton supporters, as reported April 22 by Politico’s Ben Smith and Byron Tau....

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Friday, April 29, 2011
British Hawaii: U.K. flavor in the former 'Sandwich Isles'
By Selected News Articles @ 8:19 AM :: 11943 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family

... despite a few early skirmishes — including the one that cost the English explorer his life — the people who preceded the Europeans to the so-called "Sandwich Isles" by at least a thousand years generally had good relations with the British empire....

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Friday, April 29, 2011
Conspicuous Gallantry: Medal of Honor for Kaho’ohanohano, Svehla
By Selected News Articles @ 8:09 AM :: 11857 Views :: DHHL, Energy, National News, World News

Kaho'ohanohano, just 21, hailed from Hawaii. He left his home in Maui to fight with Company H, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. He distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism in action against the enemy in the vicinity of Chupa-ri, Korea, on Sept. 1, 1951.

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Thursday, April 28, 2011
Immigration Files: UH Manoa Counseled Obama Sr. “about his Playboy Ways”
By Selected News Articles @ 10:03 PM :: 14907 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family

…And another immigration memo, from June 1964, records that Harvard officials were trying "to get rid of him" and "couldn't seem to figure out how many wives he had."….

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Thursday, April 28, 2011
Hawaii Rated Worst State to Earn a Living
By Selected News Articles @ 6:55 AM :: 10244 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

An extremely high cost of living, coupled with a fairly high tax rate, give Hawaii the lowest adjusted-average income....

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Thursday, April 28, 2011
Hawaii Anti-Trust Adventures: Investigating Big Five Control of Matson
By Selected News Articles @ 6:45 AM :: 8458 Views :: Energy, Environment

While enforcing the federal antitrust laws in Hawaii, (in the early 1960s) my boss, Ray Carlson, and I investigated the big five companies’ control of the Matson Steamship Company. We had the fervent support of the Hawaii Attorney General. We finished the investigation and filed a case against the Matson and the companies controlling it....

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Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Birthers vs. Truthers: The Double Standard on Conspiracy Theories
By Selected News Articles @ 11:29 AM :: 10967 Views :: Republican Party, Obama

 ... more than half of Democrats believed Bush was complicit in the 9-11 attacks ....

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Saturday, April 23, 2011
About the Birth Certificate
By Selected News Articles @ 2:15 AM :: 9228 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

Traditional history courses were torn down in favor of “queer” studies, black studies, Asian studies, women’s studies; language was deconstructed in order to remove its capitalistic foundations; traditional sexual mores were torn asunder in the name of “tolerance.”  President Obama was the result.

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Thursday, April 21, 2011
Shell Game: Rail Costs down, but Handi-van getting $1.15B?
By Selected News Articles @ 1:11 PM :: 10192 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

Is the City is hiding a politically damaging increase in rail cost projections by placing the money in the Handi-van account and using inflated census numbers to justify it?  At a future date, will the moneys be quietly transferred back to rail?

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Thursday, April 21, 2011
Missile Defense: Hawaii Five-O
By Selected News Articles @ 2:02 AM :: 12835 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family

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Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Inouye claims Lingle supports current version of Akaka Bill
By Selected News Articles @ 12:59 PM :: 7382 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

But it is a reflection of some of the concerns she’s voiced, and I think she’s supportive. The general concept, she’s for it.

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Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Inouye: Ed Case will not be allowed to Crucify Me
By Selected News Articles @ 11:56 AM :: 7906 Views :: Energy, Environment

‘When I get agitated and irritated, I might act up.'

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Monday, April 18, 2011
U.S. credit rating outlook lowered by S&P
By Selected News Articles @ 10:48 AM :: 3710 Views :: National News, Ethics

From 2003 to 2008, the nation's general government debt varied between 2% and 5% of GDP....  In 2009, as the government increased spending to stimulate the economy, S&P said the U.S. debt load "ballooned" to more than 11% and has yet to come down….

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Monday, April 18, 2011
Birther Trump calls for Tax Increases, Backs Obamacare
By Selected News Articles @ 9:59 AM :: 4381 Views :: National News, Ethics

More evidence that Birtherism is nothing but a scheme to help Obama get reelected....

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Sunday, April 17, 2011
After lobbying in Hawaii: Online Poker sites seized by FBI, execs Indicted
By Selected News Articles @ 6:20 PM :: 12838 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

 Seizure notice posted on Full Tilt Poker

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Sunday, April 17, 2011
Hawaii Windfarms killing endangered Birds: After five years Mitigation Lags
By Selected News Articles @ 5:30 PM :: 14010 Views :: Energy, Environment

"They are doing a good job," said Lance Holter, chairman of the Sierra Club Maui Group.

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Sunday, April 17, 2011
Democrat Staffer, Obama voter heads Trump’s Birther Campaign
By Selected News Articles @ 12:27 PM :: 8266 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

The man behind Donald Trump's possible 2012 presidential campaign is a registered Democrat who voted for Barack Obama in 2008....

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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Inspecting his cattle: Jeff Stone Polls Democratic Senate Primary
By Selected News Articles @ 1:40 PM :: 5928 Views

The poll, conducted by SMS for developer Jeff Stone, was taken among 700 voters statewide between March 18 and April 3. The margin of error was 3.7 percentage points.

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