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Saturday, August 12, 2023 |
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Hawaii Libertarians Coalesce with Other 3rd Party Activists, Elect New Leadership
By Andrew Walden @ 1:27 AM :: 2255 Views :: Office of Elections, Republican Party
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... Three political parties have been disqualified by the State in the prior cycle: Green, Aloha Aina, and the Constitution Parties. All of these unaffiliated independent voters are ripe pickings for the third largest party fighting for a seat at the debate table with the drones and the clones ....
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Saturday, August 12, 2023 |
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It was 125 years ago today: Hawaii Becomes US Territory
By Selected News Articles @ 12:01 AM :: 27587 Views :: Hawaii History
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On August 12, 1898, the United States and Spain reached a cease-fire agreement in its brief conflict over Cuba and the Philippines....
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Friday, August 11, 2023 |
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'All of Lahaina Gone': 89 Dead, 100s Missing, 1,700 Buildings Destroyed
By Video @ 11:59 PM :: 3774 Views :: Maui County, Tourism
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... Green described Lahaina as “total devastation,” estimating that about 80% of the town was destroyed, with hundreds of families displaced. He added that the damage to property will be in the “billions of dollars.” ....
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Friday, August 11, 2023 |
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OHA: Lahaina Fires Caused by 'Western Forces'
By News Release @ 9:15 PM :: 2530 Views :: Maui County, OHA
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... The fires are in part due to the climate crisis, a history of colonialism in our islands, and the loss of our right to steward our ʻāina and wai. ....
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Friday, August 11, 2023 |
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Lahaina Fire Recovery: How You Can Help
By News Release @ 9:00 PM :: 1985 Views :: Maui County
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... donate to Hawaii Community Foundation “Maui Strong Fund” and the Hawaii Red Cross ....
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Friday, August 11, 2023 |
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Maui, Oahu COVID Hospitalizations Up
By News Release @ 3:06 PM :: 2083 Views :: Honolulu County, Maui County, COVID-19
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... the hospital admission rate for Honolulu and Maui counties increased to 10.4 new COVID-19 hospitalizations per 100,000 people ....
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Thursday, August 10, 2023 |
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VIDEO: Hawaii National Guard Fights Fires, Biden Declares Disaster
By News Release @ 6:15 PM :: 2103 Views :: Maui County, Military
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... The National Guard has activated 134 troops — including 99 Army National Guard personnel and 35 Air National Guard personnel — to assist in the in the ongoing local and federal wildfire response efforts ....
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Thursday, August 10, 2023 |
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BLNR Reschedules Mauna Kea Telescope Hearing
By News Release @ 2:48 PM :: 2008 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, OHA
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... The Board will hold oral arguments regarding the issues raised in the motion, responses, and replies on Friday, October 6, 2023, commencing at 1:00 p.m. ....
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Thursday, August 10, 2023 |
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Historic Maui town in ruins after wildfires
By Court House News @ 6:00 AM :: 1633 Views :: Maui County
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... Officials have confirmed 53 fatalities in the devastating wildfires that destroyed Lahaina and have yet to be fully contained ....
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Wednesday, August 9, 2023 |
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Hawaii cannot prevent gun owners from carrying in many public areas — for now
By Court House News @ 3:06 PM :: 2364 Views :: Second Amendment
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... A federal judge has temporarily enjoined Hawaii from enforcing a brand-new law that would block open carrying in public areas, like local beaches ....
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Wednesday, August 9, 2023 |
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53 Dead: People Jump in Water as Fire Burns Thru Historic Lahaina Town
By Video @ 12:48 PM :: 4083 Views :: Maui County, Tourism
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... Much of historic Lahaina town destroyed as huge wildfire sends people fleeing into water ....
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Wednesday, August 9, 2023 |
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Temporary Restraining Order Granted in Hawaii Second Amendment Case
By News Release @ 1:01 AM :: 2257 Views :: Second Amendment
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... Federal Judge Kobayashi issued her verdict on the TRO request in the case of Wolford v. Lopez ....
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Wednesday, August 9, 2023 |
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Staircase proposal could be small step toward more housing
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:40 AM :: 2055 Views :: Development, Cost of Living
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... Can single-stair construction actually reduce the building costs and contribute to alleviating our housing shortage? ....
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Tuesday, August 8, 2023 |
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Honolulu sued for plans to demolish iconic ‘Stairway to Heaven’
By Court House News @ 11:59 PM :: 1535 Views :: Honolulu County, Tourism
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... The Haʻikū Stairs have been slated for removal due to safety concerns, but activists say that there are alternatives to ripping out the popular steps ....
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Tuesday, August 8, 2023 |
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DHHL Awards First-Ever 'Subsistence' Ag Lots
By News Release @ 2:36 PM :: 2143 Views :: Hawaii County , DHHL
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... Subsistence agricultural lots are also slated for development in Honokōwai, Maui, Anahola, Kauaʻi and Honomū on Hawaiʻi Island ....
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Tuesday, August 8, 2023 |
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HUD $21M Block Grant for DHHL
By News Release @ 2:31 PM :: 2239 Views :: DHHL
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... funding may be used to provide rental assistance to Native Hawaiians living on or off the Hawaiian Home Lands ....
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Tuesday, August 8, 2023 |
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Molokai Principal Gets Nepotism Exception
By News Release @ 3:07 AM :: 2102 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics
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... Only one candidate applied ....
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Tuesday, August 8, 2023 |
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Kauai Birds Pushed to Edge of Extinction by Mosquito-borne Avian Malaria
By News Release @ 2:39 AM :: 1996 Views :: Kauai County, Environment, GMOs
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... While conservation partners wait for final approval of a proposed mosquito birth control, also known as the Incompatible Insect Technique (IIT) ....
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Monday, August 7, 2023 |
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Court: Hawaii Butterfly Knife Ban Violates Second Amendment
By Selected News Articles @ 3:13 PM :: 2245 Views :: Second Amendment
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... Hawaii Butterfly Knife Ban Violates Second Amendment: So the Ninth Circuit held today (Teter v. Lopez), in an opinion by Judge Carlos Bea, joined by Judges Daniel Collins and Kenneth Lee ....
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Sunday, August 6, 2023 |
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Taking No Prisoners in California
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 2103 Views :: Taxes
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... The current DoTax administration has told practitioners that he is more open to settling cases to whittle down the backlog of tax appeals ....
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Sunday, August 6, 2023 |
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Little changes can lead to more housing
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 2:42 AM :: 2031 Views :: Development, Cost of Living
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... how regulations and building codes have made constructing small apartment buildings more expensive and less efficient ....
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Sunday, August 6, 2023 |
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This Day in History: Truman Announces Hiroshima Bombing
By Selected News Articles @ 12:01 AM :: 59451 Views :: Hawaii History, Military
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August 6 and 9 have been made into International Days of Anti-American historical revisionism. So here is a look at reality as seen from first-hand sources instead of whining activists.
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Saturday, August 5, 2023 |
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Honolulu Rail: ‘I hope its future is short’
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:46 PM :: 2752 Views :: Rail
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... the highest per-passenger operating cost of any light-rail systems in the nation ....
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Saturday, August 5, 2023 |
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"Wouldn’t it be nice to get a permit in 10 days?"
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:14 PM :: 2394 Views :: Honolulu County, Development
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... Bill 6 would allow building applications to be reviewed by qualified third-party reviewers ....
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Saturday, August 5, 2023 |
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DoE Teacher vacancies drop
By News Release @ 2:36 PM :: 2240 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics
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... DoE reports a significant decrease in the number of teacher vacancies this school year – roughly 340 – compared to more than 1,000 vacancies at the start of last school year ....
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Saturday, August 5, 2023 |
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DoE Short 200 Bus Drivers
By News Release @ 4:52 AM :: 2092 Views :: Education K-12
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... All available school bus drivers are being assigned to cover federally mandated special education transportation services and prioritize the transportation of elementary and middle school students ....
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Saturday, August 5, 2023 |
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Rate Hikes Coming: Consumer Advocate Urges Public to Participate in Energy Equity Docket
By News Release @ 4:43 AM :: 2342 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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... addressing critical issues related to clean energy access, affordability, and fairness in Hawai‘i ....
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Saturday, August 5, 2023 |
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Fence to keep Homeless Drug Addicts and Criminals out of Uncle Billy's
By News Release @ 4:32 AM :: 2254 Views :: Hawaii County , Homelessness, Tourism
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... While the Emergency Proclamation issued by Governor Josh Green, M.D., on July 18, removes and/or expedites some of the regulatory processes associated with a project of this magnitude it does not exempt a demolition contractor from securing material disposal certificates and other regulatory permits. A demolisher has not been chosen yet through the established procurement process. ...
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Friday, August 4, 2023 |
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FAA Outlines Hawaii Air Tour Safety Improvements
By News Release @ 8:50 PM :: 2185 Views :: Small Business, Tourism
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... The public will have 30 days to comment on the new process, which would take effect in spring 2024. It would replace an outdated, 15-year-old manual ....
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Friday, August 4, 2023 |
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Hawaii Democrats Used ‘Fake Electors’ During The 1960 Election. Nobody Was Charged.
By Selected News Articles @ 2:48 PM :: 3595 Views :: National News, Hawaii History, Office of Elections
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... A recount of Hawaii’s votes ultimately reversed the outcome of the state election ....
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Friday, August 4, 2023 |
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Mixed feelings characterize reaction to housing proclamation
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:39 AM :: 1577 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... “It really does is just put pressure on the Legislature and say, ‘Are you going to act?'"....
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Thursday, August 3, 2023 |
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Steve Forbes says the Jones Act should be sunk
By Michael Hansen @ 10:37 PM :: 2310 Views :: Jones Act
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... the law has ended up hurting our national security by severely harming American shipbuilding, making us more dependent on imported energy, damaging our ports and waterways and inflicting unnecessary pain on victims of natural disasters ....
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Thursday, August 3, 2023 |
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Chief Justice Appoints Three Oahu District Court Judges
By News Release @ 10:21 PM :: 2513 Views :: Honolulu County, Judiciary
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... Recktenwald today appointed three individuals to fill judicial positions in the District Court of the First Circuit ....
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Thursday, August 3, 2023 |
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Maui Leads Statewide Push for counties to increase their TAT surcharges
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:15 PM :: 2354 Views :: Maui County, Taxes, Tourism
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... approving for inclusion in the 2024 Hawaii State Association of Counties legislative package a state bill relating to the county transient accommodations tax ....
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Thursday, August 3, 2023 |
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All Hawaii Firearms training affidavits void January 1, 2024
By News Release @ 3:00 PM :: 4594 Views :: Second Amendment
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... If you have ever taken a handgun class in Hawaii required to purchase a firearm. Starting January 1st, 2024, you will need to take that class again ....
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Thursday, August 3, 2023 |
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Hawaii Highest Monthly Expenses in USA
By News Release @ 2:45 PM :: 2528 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... Hawaii residents spend $3,070 each month on the ten most common household bills, which is +50% above the national average ....
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Thursday, August 3, 2023 |
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Hawaii 2nd Lowest Student Debt
By Wallet Hub @ 1:51 PM :: 2275 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education
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... 2023's States with the Most and Least Student Debt ....
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Thursday, August 3, 2023 |
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Queens Hospital Bum Flop Stays Full
By News Release @ 1:38 PM :: 2424 Views :: Health Care, Homelessness
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... 15 patients come off the homeless merry go round for a while ....
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Wednesday, August 2, 2023 |
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Ninth Circuit limits remote abortion access on Guam
By Court House News @ 3:08 PM :: 2156 Views :: Life
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... The Ninth Circuit ruled that Hawaii doctors may no longer provide the abortion pill to their patients in Guam through telemedicine ....
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Wednesday, August 2, 2023 |
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Secret Abortions for Underage Girls: Hawaii AG Challenges Idaho's Abortion Travel Law
By Selected News Articles @ 2:55 PM :: 2529 Views :: Family, Life
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... Idaho’s law that makes it illegal to either obtain abortion pills for a minor or to help them leave the state for an abortion without their parents' knowledge and consent ....
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Wednesday, August 2, 2023 |
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Housing Emergency Includes Consumer Product Price Controls
By News Release @ 4:32 AM :: 2286 Views :: Cost of Living
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... state law prohibits them from increasing prices on basic goods during Governor Green's State of Emergency ....
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Tuesday, August 1, 2023 |
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Healthcare Crisis on the Island of Molokaʻi
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 8:00 PM :: 2333 Views :: Maui County, Health Care
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... Imagine an island with no doctors permanently living there, where patients must travel by air to access specialized medical care ....
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Tuesday, August 1, 2023 |
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Hawaii's North Korean Stooges Step Into the Light
By Selected News Articles @ 5:00 AM :: 2595 Views :: World News
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... individuals who have for years been communicating and collaborating with intelligence agents of North Korea's United Front Department stationed at the North's Mission to the United Nations ....
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Tuesday, August 1, 2023 |
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Running the rail is costing even more than originally estimated
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:42 AM :: 2622 Views :: Rail
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... Ridership on the half-completed rail has been steadily falling, causing the per-passenger taxpayer subsidy to go even higher ....
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Tuesday, August 1, 2023 |
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Are Hawaii's legal Gun Owners a Threat to Democracy? An illegal paramilitary group? Politically violent? Lawyers representing the State seem to think so.
By Selected News Articles @ 4:31 AM :: 2769 Views :: Second Amendment
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... The State Attorney General's office has sought the assistance of lawyers from the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy & Protection at Georgetown University Law Center ....
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Tuesday, August 1, 2023 |
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1853 Hawaiian Mission to Marquesan Cannibals
By Selected News Articles @ 12:01 AM :: 18464 Views :: Hawaii History, Religion
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At the Marquesas Islands, Herman Melville and his friend jumped ship....
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Sunday, July 30, 2023 |
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Housing Emergency Designed to Fail
By Andrew Walden @ 11:29 PM :: 3992 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... Because it is temporary, Green’s Proclamation ensures that too few projects will be approved to actually bring down the cost of housing ....
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Sunday, July 30, 2023 |
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The Jones Act Paradox: Why is a Law that is Deemed “Essential” So Frequently Waived?
By Selected News Articles @ 7:53 PM :: 2415 Views :: Jones Act
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... clinging to this outdated policy is not an act of patriotism, but rather one of stagnation ....
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Sunday, July 30, 2023 |
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Hawaii isn't running out of land
By Selected News Articles @ 7:45 PM :: 2547 Views :: Land Use, Cost of Living
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... a 1961 land-use law and subsequent amendments placed most of the land in the state off limits to development ....
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Sunday, July 30, 2023 |
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Why is it hard to buy and sell cryptocurrency in Hawaii?
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:00 PM :: 2170 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Small Business
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... Hawaii is the worst state in the nation for cryptocurrency, due to the state's strict and confusing regulations ....
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