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Sunday, July 22, 2012 |
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County Services Should Be Paid For By Those Who Benefit
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 5:27 AM :: 6261 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12
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...county officials in the City & County of Honolulu are squirming over what do to with a recommendation made by a commission it appointed to bring fairness and equity into the real property tax system....
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Saturday, July 21, 2012 |
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Restoring City Bus Service: Hearing This Wednesday
By Tom Berg @ 3:41 PM :: 6150 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12
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12-177 was introduced to restore city bus service without raising fares....
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Friday, July 20, 2012 |
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"Save Our Honolulu" Fundraiser to Support Rail Litigation
By Honolulu Traffic @ 1:32 AM :: 7581 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12
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We are raising money to help fund our lawsuit to keep the heavy rail elevated train out of downtown Honolulu....
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012 |
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IRS Backs Off, Grants Tax Free Status to Maui TEA Party
By Selected News Articles @ 10:19 PM :: 11269 Views :: Maui County, First Amendment, Taxes, TEA Party
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"...the IRS contacted us today regarding your 501(c)4 application and stated that they are withdrawing the additional questions that they sent to your organization...."
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012 |
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Queen’s Ranked Among Nation’s Best Hospitals
By Selected News Articles @ 4:59 AM :: 6733 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12
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The Queen’s Medical Center has been recognized as Best Hospital in Hawaii by the U.S. News & World Report in its annual Best Hospitals rankings....
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012 |
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Governor signs special purpose revenue bond for HPU
By News Release @ 4:57 AM :: 7610 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Gov. Neil Abercrombie this week signed a bond issue passed by the state legislature earlier this spring that will help Hawai‘i Pacific University raise as much as $120 million for critical capital projects at its three locations around O‘ahu....
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012 |
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VIDEO: Berg Grills Grabauskas
By Tom Berg @ 1:55 AM :: 7051 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12
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Just released- mainstream media is afraid to cover this - they get their money from pro-rail sponsors . . . too damaging for TV stations to reveal . . . enjoy!
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012 |
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City Announces Annual Bus Service Changes for School Year
By News Release @ 12:55 AM :: 6212 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12
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DTS does this every year when school begins. This year they hope you will think that they have 'restored' their recent rail-related bus service cuts. But you weren't fooled....
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Friday, July 13, 2012 |
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Berg: Restore Cancelled Bus Service
By Tom Berg @ 6:42 PM :: 7262 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12
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Resolution 12-173 to request Honolulu Mayor Peter Carlisle reverse the course that cut but routes and refrain from further cuts being implemented....
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Friday, July 13, 2012 |
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Environment: Rail is Dirtier than Cars
By NCPA @ 4:28 PM :: 11005 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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According to the Department of Energy, the average passenger car uses about 3,500 BTUs per passenger mile--rail transit in Pittsburgh uses more than 11,000 BTUs.
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Friday, July 13, 2012 |
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Djou: "Rail is being transformed from a public works project into a private benefit club"
By Rep Charles Djou @ 3:30 PM :: 8159 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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The City hired PB Americas to plan this rail system. The City’s Transportation Director is a former senior executive at PB Americas and his wife is still an employee of PB Americas. The consulting engineering firm the City hired to monitor PB Americas, Infraconsult, was founded by former executives at PB Americas....
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Friday, July 13, 2012 |
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Informational briefing held for Proposed Biosafety Lab
By News Release @ 3:05 PM :: 6612 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12
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A proposed biosafety lab to be located in West Oʻahu will allow UH researchers to develop diagnostic tests and vaccines for infectious diseases.
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Monday, July 9, 2012 |
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Level 3 Bio Lab for Kalaeloa? Briefing Wednesday
By John Bond @ 9:03 PM :: 7989 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12
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An informational briefing for the public to learn about the proposed "Pacific Health Research Laboratory (PHRL)" at Kalaeloa will be held on Wednesday, July 11, 2012 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Kapolei High School ....
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Monday, July 9, 2012 |
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After Losing Hospital, Ewa Beach Gets New Ambulance
By Councilmember Kymberly Marcos Pine @ 8:42 PM :: 6386 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12
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“The closure of the Hawaii Medical Center had a substantial impact on the Leeward Coast,” said Rep. Pine. “This new ambulance unit provides the much needed crisis medical attention that our community needs.”
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Monday, July 9, 2012 |
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Berg: Bus Cuts Could be Restored by Eliminating Rail Propaganda
By Tom Berg @ 8:37 PM :: 7074 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12
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...we need to come up with $3 million. If we merely stop the rail propaganda efforts costing us over $4 million a year in staff salaries alone to specifically pitch rail, we could do it!
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Monday, July 9, 2012 |
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Planning Commission to Vote on Ewa Development Plan
By Selected News Articles @ 8:24 PM :: 6142 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12
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On July 11, the City Planning Commission will pass or deny the ‘Ewa Development Plan (EDP), which directs the future for the whole Leeward area.
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Thursday, July 5, 2012 |
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Abercrombie Releases $75M for Honolulu Airport CIP
By News Release @ 11:08 PM :: 8547 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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...Abercrombie today announced the release of more than $75.3 million for various Capital Improvement Projects (CIP) at Honolulu International Airport....
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Tuesday, July 3, 2012 |
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Record Ethics Fine: Nestor Garcia Conflict of Interest on Rail Votes
By News Release @ 2:37 AM :: 8245 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12
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He failed to tile conflict of interest disclosures for 38 rail transit bills and resolutions and for 12 other matters such as rezoning from agriculture to commercial and residential uses around Kapolei....
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Saturday, June 30, 2012 |
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JSC Seeking Nominations for Two Oahu Judicial Vacancies
By News Release @ 1:59 AM :: 8273 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Judge, Circuit Court of the First Circuit (Oʻahu)
Judge, Family Court of the First Circuit (Oʻahu)
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Saturday, June 30, 2012 |
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Notice of Petition for Retention the Honorable Gerald H. Kibe
By News Release @ 1:44 AM :: 9097 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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The Constitution of the State of Hawaiʻi empowers the Commission to determine whether Judge Kibe should be retained in office for an additional term of six years.
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012 |
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Charles Djou Advances to ‘Contender’
By News Release @ 12:37 PM :: 10360 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Hawaii Republican Candidate Takes Big Third Step to Achieving ‘Young Gun’ Status....
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012 |
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Berg Resolution Seeks End to Funding of 'Rail Propaganda'
By Tom Berg @ 11:02 PM :: 7448 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12
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Berg introduced Resolution 12-160 to put a stop to the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation's frivolous expenditures that continue to promote rail....
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012 |
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FULL TEXT: Final Motion for Summary Judgment in Rail Suit
By Honolulu Traffic @ 10:54 PM :: 7102 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12
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"We responded to every single one of the arguments in their 300-some pages of briefing."
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012 |
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Rail will use more energy than buses or autos
By Honolulu Traffic @ 10:52 PM :: 6394 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12
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...years ago rail was the low energy user and today it has morphed into being a relatively high energy user....
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012 |
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Illegal Vacation Rentals Behind Opposition to Haleiwa Inn?
By Selected News Articles @ 2:04 PM :: 7756 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12
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...pent up demand has been filled by black-market opportunism. About 450 multi-room country inns, including one with 41 beds the City cannot seem to shut down, have established themselves in residences outside the commercial districts....
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Sunday, June 24, 2012 |
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Rail: Designed to Fail
By Selected News Articles @ 5:28 PM :: 10793 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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The nation’s 52nd-largest urban area has only about 950,000 people, yet it is spending $5.3 billion, or more than $5,500 per resident, to build a single 20-mile rail line. That’s probably a greater cost per person than any rail system ever built....
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Sunday, June 24, 2012 |
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VIDEO: Oahu Council District 1 Candidates Face Off
By Video @ 2:11 AM :: 6212 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12
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Dan Boylan moderates a discussion among the candidates vying to represent Honolulu City Council District 1, which includes the Waianae Coast, Kapolei, Makakilo and parts of Ewa Beach
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Saturday, June 23, 2012 |
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Honolulu Premiere: "Urbanized" - Designing Cities, Working Cities
By Robert Thomas @ 1:40 PM :: 7930 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Urbanized (Gary Hustwit 2012), Saturday, June 23, 7:00 p.m., at R&D, 691 Auahi Street, Honolulu....
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012 |
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Panos Schools Caldwell on Rail, BRT
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 5:28 PM :: 9494 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Dr. Prevedouros addresses questions posed by Candidate Caldwell....
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Sunday, June 17, 2012 |
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Planned Rail Extensions: $266,207 per rider
By News Release @ 5:09 PM :: 7762 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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CEO Grabauskas tells us that the cost of the planned extensions to UH, Waikiki and to Kapolei Town will bring the total to $9.03 billion ....
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Sunday, June 17, 2012 |
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HART's $3M Noise Machine
By News Release @ 5:01 PM :: 7823 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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...the entire listing of HART people and companies on staff includes over $3M of "public involvement' and 'multimedia' contracts....
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Saturday, June 16, 2012 |
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Kalaeloa Renewable Energy Park: Community Leaders Demand EIS
By News Release @ 6:34 PM :: 8634 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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The entire former MCAS Ewa was designated as National Register eligible during the BRAC transfer process and significant historic sites have already been discovered since the original BRAC 1999 surveys were done....
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Friday, June 15, 2012 |
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Abercrombie Evicts Haleiwa Farmers Market, Blames Organizers
By News Release @ 10:55 PM :: 8780 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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“I cannot believe this is happening at 1:30 on Friday afternoon, when all our vendors have already picked and prepared their products for the Sunday market."
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Thursday, June 14, 2012 |
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Oahu's Untapped Hydroelectric Resources
By Henry Curtis @ 2:21 PM :: 10546 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Oahu has several large, dammed reservoirs, all of which could provide continuous power ....
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Thursday, June 14, 2012 |
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Pentagon Cuts Could Eliminate Commissaries, Exchanges
By News Release @ 1:20 PM :: 10313 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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This plan would impact more than 164,000 military service members, retirees, and family members who live on Oahu.... Commissary shoppers in Hawaii save 50.7% with annual savings for a family of four of $7,360.
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Monday, June 11, 2012 |
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Hawai`i Free Press Editor to be Interviewed on AM760
By Selected News Articles @ 10:42 PM :: 5850 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Tuesday June 12 from 5pm to 6pm on business talk radio KGU--AM760....
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Sunday, June 10, 2012 |
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Ansaldo Employee: Focus is Entirely on Gaining a Project, Not on Doing Anything Useful
By John Bond @ 2:56 PM :: 9231 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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The emphasis seems to be to win the projects, instead of making money on the projects. Most projects start out from behind, almost assured of losing money. This leads the management to feel the need to cut engineering costs....
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Saturday, June 9, 2012 |
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Rail Plan Calls for 472,000 More Cars on Road
By Selected News Articles @ 5:05 PM :: 7344 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12
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...the rail project would reduce daily car trips by 48,000, but it would be in the face of a 520,000 increase in daily car trips because of population growth....
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Friday, June 8, 2012 |
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Eric Marshall, Senate Dist 10 -- Last Candidate on the Ballot
By News Release @ 2:01 PM :: 8055 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Although the June the 5th candidate filing deadline has come and gone one last candidate has been added to the 2012 Election....
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Friday, June 8, 2012 |
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Deedy Case: Redacted Text of Motion for Dismissal
By Selected News Articles @ 5:15 AM :: 8569 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Circuit Court Judge Karen Ahn in July will consider defense motion for dismissal of state charges against Federal Agent Christopher Deedy in the Waikiki APEC shooting of Kailua resident Kolin Elderts....
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Friday, June 8, 2012 |
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Potential Buyers of HMC West to Participate in Leeward Job Fair
By Councilmember Kymberly Marcos Pine @ 1:49 AM :: 8597 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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The Queen's Medical Center and Hawaii Pacific Health will be attending the Leeward Job and Career Fair. The hospitals hope to fill 450 job openings available at their current facilities....
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Thursday, June 7, 2012 |
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Larry Fenton Announces Senate Dist 11 Campaign as Republican
By News Release @ 10:30 AM :: 6485 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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District 11 now includes Manoa, Makiki, Tantalus, Papakolea, and Punchbowl.
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Thursday, June 7, 2012 |
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Liz Larson Announces Hawaii State Senate Campaign
By News Release @ 4:18 AM :: 9668 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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District 12 includes Waikiki, Ala Moana, Ward, Kaka’ako, parts of McCully, Moliili, and Makiki....
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Tuesday, June 5, 2012 |
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Fires at Kahuku Windfarm Released 'Reactive' Particles, $2M Damage
By Selected News Articles @ 3:51 PM :: 12718 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Defective parts caused a devastating fire in a 2-month-old Hawaii wind farm that cost millions to repair, the energy company that ran the farm says in a Texas court.
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Thursday, May 31, 2012 |
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Rail Suit Ruling May Contain 'Poison Pill'
By Selected News Articles @ 6:04 PM :: 9250 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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the court’s ruling may contain a "poison pill" as a result of one part of the Defendants’ pleadings....
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012 |
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DoJ Details Admissions of Criminal Pfluegers
By News Release @ 3:16 PM :: 11042 Views :: Honolulu County, Democratic Party, Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Charles Alan Pflueger, owner of Pflueger Inc., Randall Kurata, the company’s chief financial officer, and Julie Kam, Pflueger’s executive assistant, pleaded guilty....
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Saturday, May 26, 2012 |
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Mike Greco Announces State Senate Campaign
By News Release @ 5:25 PM :: 8635 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Greco, a 2004 graduate of the University of Hawaii Manoa, served as a Naval Aircrewman with the VP-4 Skinny Dragons at Marine Corps Base Hawaii....
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Friday, May 25, 2012 |
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Kaleikini v Yoshioka: Rail Project in 'Grave' Danger
By Robert Thomas @ 1:23 AM :: 11606 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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The Hawaii Supreme Court just concluded oral arguments in Kaleikini v. Yoshioka and it does not look good for the City and the State....
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Thursday, May 24, 2012 |
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National Trust for Historic Preservation Files Amicus Brief in Rail Suit
By News Release @ 8:15 PM :: 6774 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12
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Section 4(f) contains a substantive prohibition on the construction of transportation projects requiring the "use" of historic sites, park and recreational areas ....
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012 |
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Oral Argument Preview: Can The Honolulu Rail EIS Be Segmented?
By Robert Thomas @ 3:01 PM :: 7503 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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That's the question the Hawaii Supreme Court will consider this Thursday, May 24, 2012, when it hears oral arguments in Kaleikini v. Yoshioka ....
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