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Saturday, August 23, 2025 |
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$100M Green Fee Slush Fund: Green Appoints Advisory Council
By News Release @ 1:15 PM :: 625 Views :: Environment, Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Taxes, Tourism
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... $100 million annually, directed toward environmental stewardship, hazard mitigation, infrastructure resilience and enhancing the visitor experience ....
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Thursday, August 21, 2025 |
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Green Unveils 2025 Policy Priorities
By News Release @ 3:35 AM :: 678 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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"...how the Green administration is tackling some of Hawai‘i’s most pressing issues...."
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Thursday, August 14, 2025 |
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12 New Members Appointed to HTA Board
By News Release @ 5:32 PM :: 1087 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Tourism
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... The appointments follow the resignation of the previous board earlier this summer ....
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Sunday, August 10, 2025 |
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Encumbrance for the Stadium
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1072 Views :: Ethics, Development, Hawaii State Government, Higher Education, Tourism
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... Act 88 of 2021, which Act 248 amended, stated that the appropriations in the biennium budget would lapse on June 30, 2024 ....
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Thursday, August 7, 2025 |
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Lawsuit: Hawaii Sheriff Deputies Arrested on Charges Trumped-up by own Department—Top Brass infighting led to suicide of Deputy
By Andrew Walden @ 8:11 PM :: 5850 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Law Enforcement, Police
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... one deputy committed suicide after DLE’s Criminal Investigations Division attempted to use deputies as pawns to hedge against a lawsuit filed by the #3 man in the department ….
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Sunday, August 3, 2025 |
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Constitutional Expenditure Controls
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 807 Views :: Hawaii History, Hawaii State Government
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... over the last fifty years, our lawmakers have tended to regard those provisions as bothersome annoyances, to be worked around or avoided ...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2025 |
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Rule by Decree: Is Hawaii's Democracy Broken?
By Andrew Walden @ 11:41 PM :: 1545 Views :: Ethics, Development, Hawaii State Government, Drugs
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... Do the math: 1+22+14+18+14+8 = 77 emergencies ....
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Wednesday, July 30, 2025 |
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VIDEO: Tsunami Draws Water Down 15 feet in Kahului Harbor
By News Release @ 3:12 AM :: 3379 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics
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... Hawaii harbor mouths opening towards Kamchatka saw larger tsunami effects ....
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Sunday, July 27, 2025 |
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Pay for No Work
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1841 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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... $6.3M salary for 'administrative leave' ....
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Saturday, July 26, 2025 |
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Affordable: Green Signs 'Shot Clock', other homebuilding bills
By Grassroot Institute @ 7:31 PM :: 1392 Views :: Development, Hawaii State Government, Cost of Living
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... Green altered course when he signed a handful of bills that had been on his intent-to-veto list ....
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Sunday, July 20, 2025 |
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Nonprofit Blankety Blank
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1123 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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... $50 million in the hands of a four-person committee ....
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Saturday, July 19, 2025 |
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Green Issues Emergency Proclamation for Wildfire Season
By News Release @ 3:35 AM :: 824 Views :: Maui County, Hawaii State Government, Military
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... Hawaiʻi National Guard’s Operation Hoʻopauahi to Improve Emergency Response Time ....
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Thursday, July 17, 2025 |
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Scott Saiki Appointed Insurance Commissioner
By News Release @ 11:59 AM :: 1032 Views :: Maui County, Hawaii State Government, Cost of Living
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... As Speaker, Saiki Co-chaired the Governor’s Executive and Legislative Condo and Property Insurance Task Force ....
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Sunday, July 13, 2025 |
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SNAP Cliffs Are Coming
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1456 Views :: Family, Hawaii State Government, Cost of Living, COVID-19
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... the USDA whacked our state with an $11 million fine for its huge error rate two years in a row ....
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Saturday, July 12, 2025 |
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HTA Board Positions Open
By News Release @ 4:41 PM :: 857 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Tourism
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... State Boards and Commissions Seeking Applicants ....
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Friday, July 11, 2025 |
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Green Signed 313 Bills Into law
By News Release @ 2:33 AM :: 792 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... Green took action on 313 of the 321 bills enrolled during the 2025 regular session ....
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Thursday, July 10, 2025 |
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Auditor Dings Hawaii ERS Annual Comprehensive Financial Report
By News Release @ 7:39 PM :: 1025 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor
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... Hawaii ERS received a 'disclaimer of opinion' ....
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Tuesday, July 8, 2025 |
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Paid in full. Trust? Still pending.
By Selected News Articles @ 8:36 PM :: 1108 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Small Business, Tourism
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... while the names may change, the pattern — unfortunately — hasn’t ....
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Tuesday, July 8, 2025 |
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SB933CD1: Shell Bill Gives Legislators $50M to Dole out to their Friends
By News Release @ 7:26 PM :: 1115 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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... assigned to a Conference Committee where it was totally rewritten with content not included in any previous version ....
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Tuesday, July 8, 2025 |
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Green Signs Condo Insurance Stabilization Law
By News Release @ 2:15 PM :: 1008 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Cost of Living
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... Zephyr Insurance Company, has partnered with the Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund to accept and process applications from Condominium and Townhouse Associations ....
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Friday, July 4, 2025 |
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Green Vetoes Eight of 20 on 'Intent to Veto List'
By News Release @ 3:13 AM :: 1192 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... Legislature will not schedule override session ....
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Friday, July 4, 2025 |
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Green: 'Big Beautiful Bill' Cuts MedQuest and EBT Cards
By News Release @ 2:39 AM :: 1297 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Health Care
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“While it won’t be easy to stop all the damage from these cuts, we’re moving quickly to protect our communities."
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Wednesday, July 2, 2025 |
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Hawai‘i’s state road usage charge begins for electric vehicles on July 1
By News Release @ 4:07 AM :: 1129 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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"...by 2033, the program is expected to expand to all light-duty vehicles...."
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Tuesday, July 1, 2025 |
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Green Signs State Budget
By News Release @ 11:35 AM :: 703 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... Green today signed House Bill 300 (Act 250), the Executive Biennium Budget ....
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Monday, June 30, 2025 |
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Lawsuit Challenges “Dam Special Fund” Used to Undermine Constitutional Expenditure Controls
By Tom Yamachika @ 3:57 PM :: 900 Views :: Ethics, Agriculture, Hawaii State Government
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... The lawsuit alleges that the Special Fund was intended to be, and is, used to circumvent expenditure controls that are in the Hawaii Constitution for the protection of taxpayers ....
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Saturday, June 28, 2025 |
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No Surprise: BLNR Rejects Another Army EIS
By News Release @ 1:15 PM :: 1144 Views :: Hawaii County , Honolulu County, Environment, Hawaii State Government, Military
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... this is a negotiating position for the master lease renewals ....
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Wednesday, June 25, 2025 |
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HTA Hearing Uncovers an Old Story: The State Still Doesn’t Pay on Time
By Selected News Articles @ 4:44 PM :: 990 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Tourism
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“... Hope you’ve got a good banker for bridge loans—because we might not pay you on time ....”
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Wednesday, June 25, 2025 |
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Green Adds One More Bill to 'Intent-to-Veto' List
By News Release @ 3:24 AM :: 868 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... Green added SB 935, Relating to Government, to the 2025 Intent-to-Veto list transmitted to Legislative leadership by the statutorily required June 24 deadline ....
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Wednesday, June 25, 2025 |
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Bills that passed the Lege now on the edge
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:18 AM :: 840 Views :: Development, Hawaii State Government, Law Enforcement
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... SB66, which would create a permitting “shot clock” and allow third-party permit approval if the 60-day processing deadline is not met; and HB126, which would reform the state’s civil asset forfeiture process ....
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Thursday, June 12, 2025 |
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House Announces New Assignments: Leadership, Committee Chair
By News Release @ 5:50 PM :: 1145 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... Speaker Nadine K. Nakamura today announced updated leadership and committee appointments in the Hawaiʻi House of Representatives ....
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Sunday, June 8, 2025 |
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The Unseen Stopper Committees
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 837 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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... money chairs’ macabre tradition ....
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Friday, June 6, 2025 |
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Governor Green Releases 'Intent-to-Veto' List
By News Release @ 11:59 PM :: 1217 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... Green informed legislative leaders and stakeholders of his intent to veto 19 bills ....
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Thursday, May 29, 2025 |
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Joe Gedeon Appointed to Fill Gene Ward's House Seat
By News Release @ 1:45 AM :: 1338 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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... I have been asked if I plan on running for the House District 18 seat in November of 2026. I can advise you today that I have filed with Campaign Spending Commission as the initial step in that process ....
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Sunday, May 25, 2025 |
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2025 Legislative Special Funds -- 0 for 86
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1103 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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... out of the eighty-six special and revolving funds reviewed, not one of them met the statutory criteria ....
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Saturday, May 24, 2025 |
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VIDEO: Grassroot legislative wrap-up tour
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:00 PM :: 916 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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... the defeat of nearly all attempts to add more taxes and the passing of five Grassroot model bills and other Grassroot-supported measures ....
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Sunday, May 18, 2025 |
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2025 Legislative Also-Rans
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1042 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... a few bills that passed both houses of the legislature, but did not make it through conference, may come back to haunt us next year ....
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Monday, May 12, 2025 |
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2025 Legislative Wrap-Up
By Tom Yamachika @ 3:05 AM :: 1150 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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... there were a few tax increases and a bill that is kind of a tax cut ....
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Sunday, May 4, 2025 |
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The Major Raid that Wasn’t
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1346 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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... Senate Draft 2 of the bill proposed to raid ninety-seven special funds for $320M ....
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Friday, May 2, 2025 |
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Grassroot hails passage of bills aimed at boosting housing supply, helping Lahaina
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:30 AM :: 1110 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... State legislators also OK'd bills that will increase healthcare access and reform civil asset forfeiture, pending approval by the governor ....
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Thursday, May 1, 2025 |
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State Launches Operation Hire Hawai‘i to Fill Vacant Positions
By News Release @ 6:00 PM :: 1420 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor
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... More than 900 interested job seekers attended ....
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Thursday, May 1, 2025 |
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Hawaii legislature approves $20 billion state budget
By Court House News @ 1:38 PM :: 1274 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... Hawaii lawmakers passed the budget for the next two years and began voting on more than 200 bills as the legislative session draws to a close ....
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Tuesday, April 22, 2025 |
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FULL TEXT: Conference Commitee Approves State Budget Bill
By News Release @ 2:21 AM :: 1947 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... finalized in a joint conference committee after both chambers initially passed different versions. The bill will now be up for final reading in both chambers before heading to the Governor's desk ....
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Sunday, April 20, 2025 |
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Grassroot Wrap-up: How Legislature handled housing, taxes, rebuilding Lahaina and more
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:20 PM :: 1146 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... Registration open for Grassroot’s legislative wrap-up luncheons ....
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Sunday, April 13, 2025 |
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Grassroot 'legislative wrap-up' tour starts May 13
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:16 PM :: 1292 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... dates, times and locations ....
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Wednesday, April 9, 2025 |
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Kouchi, Nakamura Agree: Legislators will not have to vote on Massive Pay Hike
By News Release @ 12:37 AM :: 1337 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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... pay raises ranging from 35% to 48% over the next six years for top state executives, lawmakers and judges ....
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