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Friday, June 25, 2021 |
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HGEA Protects Sheriff Deputy After He Admitted Doing Favors for Katherine Kealoha
By News Release @ 10:19 PM :: 4985 Views :: Ethics, Police
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... Cayetano and Kealoha have a lengthy professional relationship that includes serving together on the Board of Directors for the Hawaii Law Enforcement Memorial Foundation ....
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Friday, June 25, 2021 |
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Aloha too often means goodbye
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 5:58 PM :: 2746 Views :: Cost of Living
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... I’ve watched my children leave for the mainland to start college or their careers. And I know there’s a good chance they won’t be coming back, except for short visits ....
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Friday, June 25, 2021 |
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HTA Poll Shows New Residents Like Tourists the Least
By Hawaii Tourism Authority @ 5:04 AM :: 3634 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Tourism
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... the highest percentage of respondents who said they do not think tourism is worth the issues came from residents ... who have lived in Hawaii for less than one year ....
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Thursday, June 24, 2021 |
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No Quarantine for Vaccinated Mainland Travelers Starting July 8
By News Release @ 10:24 PM :: 3306 Views :: Tourism, COVID-19
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... Gov. David Ige announced that effective July 8, the State of Hawai‘i will eliminate its pre-travel testing/quarantine requirement for domestic travelers to Hawai‘i who have been fully vaccinated in the United States ....
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Thursday, June 24, 2021 |
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Unemployment: Hawaii Worst Recovery from COVID
By Selected News Articles @ 9:49 PM :: 3346 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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... Hawaii Unemployment Rates Are Bouncing Back Least ....
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Thursday, June 24, 2021 |
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Hawaii Ranks 47th for Civic Engagement
By Selected News Articles @ 9:24 PM :: 2680 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Military
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... and 2nd for Military Engagement ....
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Thursday, June 24, 2021 |
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Pimp Foolishly Leaves Hawaii--Ends up in Federal Prison
By News Release @ 8:53 PM :: 3268 Views :: Law Enforcement
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... Convicted in Milwaukee, Hawaii pimp faces a maximum life term of imprisonment and a mandatory minimum of 15 years ....
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Thursday, June 24, 2021 |
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Is Hawaii Becoming a Perfect Contradiction?
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 8:47 PM :: 3358 Views :: Environment, COVID-19
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... An island state without ferries but more than enough "environmentalists" ....
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Thursday, June 24, 2021 |
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How High Are Wine Taxes in Your State?
By Tax Foundation @ 4:34 AM :: 2664 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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... Hawaii wine taxes are 14th highest in USA ....
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Wednesday, June 23, 2021 |
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Ige's intent-to-veto list praised for being 'fiscally responsible'
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:09 PM :: 2733 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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... Grassroot Institute of Hawaii CEO Keli'i Akina says the list reflects a commendable effort to avoid increasing Hawaii's taxpayer burden ....
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Wednesday, June 23, 2021 |
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Ethics: School Principal Gives $43K in 'Cash Advances', Runs up credit card
By News Release @ 4:14 AM :: 3359 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics
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"...the Governing Board failed to manage the financial performance of the school...."
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Wednesday, June 23, 2021 |
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Hawai‘i Plunges to 44th in the Nation in Ensuring Economic Well-Being of Keiki
By News Release @ 2:56 AM :: 2859 Views :: Family, Hawaii Statistics
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... Hawaii’s ranking in children’s economic well-being dropped in one year from 25th to 44th, according to the 2021 KIDS COUNT® Data Book, a 50-state report analyzing how families fared between the Great Recession and the start of the COVID-19 crisis ....
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Wednesday, June 23, 2021 |
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COVID Became Opportunity to Force 100s of Homeless back onto the Streets
By News Release @ 2:24 AM :: 2311 Views :: Homelessness
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... we can use an emergency to FORCE the homeless back on to the streets but we can't use an emergency to build SRO housing for the homeless and then FORCE them to use it. This is an artificailly created crisis ....
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Tuesday, June 22, 2021 |
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Unemployment 8.1% for May--Down 0.4%
By News Release @ 11:07 PM :: 3365 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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... Statewide 595,300 were employed and 52,150 unemployed in May ....
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Tuesday, June 22, 2021 |
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53,000 Unemployed in Hawaiʻi, But State Chamber Dealing with Employee Shortages
By News Release @ 3:55 PM :: 3958 Views :: Labor, Small Business, COVID-19
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... in April 2021 the state of Hawaiʻi had 53,000 people unemployed and 27,415 job openings ....
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Tuesday, June 22, 2021 |
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Why Hawaii residents are moving away
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 6:42 AM :: 4582 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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... State taxes a major driver of the exodus ....
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Tuesday, June 22, 2021 |
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Russian Naval Fleet 35 Miles South of Oahu
By Selected News Articles @ 5:46 AM :: 4109 Views :: Military
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... Russia says that they are 300 miles off the coast of Hawaii, yet unconfirmed satellite images from June 19 appear to show them much closer - within 35 miles of the U.S. state ....
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Tuesday, June 22, 2021 |
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UH Study: 58% of UH Students are Starving, 14% Live on Streets
By News Release @ 12:13 AM :: 3434 Views :: Higher Education, Homelessness
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... according to this study 105% of Hawaii's homeless are enrolled at UH ....
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Tuesday, June 22, 2021 |
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OHA Gains More Power Over NW Hawaiian Islands
By News Release @ 12:01 AM :: 2750 Views :: Environment, OHA
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... New guidance document to integrate Native Hawaiian culture into management of Papahānaumokuākea ....
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Monday, June 21, 2021 |
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Ige Releases 'Intent to Veto' List
By News Release @ 11:48 PM :: 2542 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... Gov. David Ige has notified legislative leaders and key lawmakers of his intent to veto 28 out of 268 bills passed during the 2021 Hawai‘i legislative session ....
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Monday, June 21, 2021 |
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'Procurement Collusion' -- Hanabusa, HART Reported to Federal Authorities
By News Release @ 4:32 AM :: 4863 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Rail
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... In order to steer a consulting contract to its former Board Chair, Colleen Hanabusa, Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation (HART), a federally-funded rail transit project, imposed the following narrowly tailored requirements on bidders ....
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Monday, June 21, 2021 |
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Four More Unlicensed Crypto Currency Dealers for Hawaii
By News Release @ 4:16 AM :: 4147 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Small Business
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... Admittance into the DCIL enables the companies to conduct business in Hawaii without first obtaining a state money transmitter license ....
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Sunday, June 20, 2021 |
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Showdown of the Juggernauts
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 2360 Views :: Taxes
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... Taxing Income in the New World of Teleworking ....
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Sunday, June 20, 2021 |
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State Supreme Court: With Environmentalism Anybody Can Veto Affordable Housing
By Robert Thomas @ 4:54 AM :: 6110 Views :: Maui County, Environment, Development, Greenmail, Judiciary, Land Use
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... Anyone Claiming That An Affordable Housing Project Might Impact Their Property Interests In A "Clean And Healthful Environment" Has Standing To Object ....
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Friday, June 18, 2021 |
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COVID tier confusion bespeaks a bigger problem
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 10:17 PM :: 2543 Views :: COVID-19
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... More than a year into the COVID-19 emergency, we’re still experiencing the many ways in which the government can regulate and limit our daily lives ....
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Friday, June 18, 2021 |
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Hawaii Pre-Travel Testing Program Expands to French Polynesia
By News Release @ 9:45 PM :: 3082 Views :: Tourism, COVID-19
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... Hawaii - Tahiti flights begin Aug 7 ....
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Friday, June 18, 2021 |
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Kailua man receives over 24 years in prison for drug trafficking and money laundering
By News Release @ 4:31 AM :: 3212 Views :: Drugs
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... Wilcox utilized his Kailua clothing company, “Armed and Dangerous,” as a front business to launder cash drug proceeds ....
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Thursday, June 17, 2021 |
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Waipahu High principal selected as interim superintendent (again)
By News Release @ 11:58 PM :: 3038 Views :: Education K-12
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... The BOE also tapped Hayashi to be interim before current Superintendent Christina Kishimoto was hired in August 2017 ....
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Thursday, June 17, 2021 |
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Honolulu Youth Commission to accept applications for Commissioners
By News Release @ 11:35 PM :: 2206 Views :: Honolulu County
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... Applications for Commissioners on the first-ever Honolulu Youth Commission will be accepted beginning Thursday, June 17, 2021 through Friday, July 16, 2021 ....
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Thursday, June 17, 2021 |
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Ige appoints Rep Lynn DeCoite to State Senate
By News Release @ 11:27 PM :: 3001 Views :: Democratic Party, Maui County
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... Maui County Democrats will now scramble for the next prize--appointment to DeCoite's vacant House seat ....
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Thursday, June 17, 2021 |
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Cockfighting Arrests on Molokai - The investigation and arrests were long in coming
By Video @ 11:13 PM :: 4054 Views :: Maui County, Gambling, Law Enforcement
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... Police reported seizing more than $160,000 in cash, along with gambling ledgers and paraphernalia, from an illegal cockfighting derby attended by 300 to 400 people last month on Molokai ....
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Wednesday, June 16, 2021 |
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UHERO: Should the Counties Get a Share of the Transient Accommodation Tax?
By UHERO @ 11:05 PM :: 3347 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes, Tourism
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... The Legislature’s decision to strip the county’s share of TAT revenues is certainly a stark change from just a few years ago ....
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Wednesday, June 16, 2021 |
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Blangiardi: I Support HB862 -- 3% TAT Hike for Counties
By News Release @ 10:02 PM :: 3320 Views :: Honolulu County, Taxes, Tourism
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"...I support HB 862 as it provides the City the option of restoring a revenue base which has been lost – allowing us to continue services to our people...."
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Wednesday, June 16, 2021 |
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Free Money from the Sky: Another $100 for MEUCs
By News Release @ 9:43 PM :: 3634 Views :: Labor, Small Business, COVID-19
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... Department of Labor & Industrial Relations (DLIR) today announced it will start processing MEUC applications beginning on June 17, 2021 ....
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Wednesday, June 16, 2021 |
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European Travel Ban Takes 3.21% of Hawaii GDP
By Selected News Articles @ 2:48 PM :: 3243 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Tourism
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... States Hurt the Most by the European Travel Ban -- Hawaii 5th ....
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Wednesday, June 16, 2021 |
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Citizenship: Appeals Court Victory for American Samoa
By News Release @ 4:36 AM :: 3107 Views :: National News
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“It is the height of irony that those claiming to right the wrongs of the past fail to see they are perpetuating them by seeking to override American Samoa’s precious self determination from without."
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Tuesday, June 15, 2021 |
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Doorbell Cam Shows Moments Before Police Shot Lindani Myeni
By Video @ 5:45 PM :: 5347 Views :: Honolulu County, Police
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... Officers responded to calls of a burglary in progress in the Nuuanu area where they shot 29-year-old Lindani Myeni after an altercation at a home on Coelho Way ....
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Tuesday, June 15, 2021 |
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SB404 Would Hide Source of Funding for Political Ads
By News Release @ 5:44 PM :: 1619 Views
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... SB 404 would roll back key transparency protections, making it almost impossible for voters to know who is paying for an election advertisement, and why, about a political candidate ....
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Tuesday, June 15, 2021 |
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DOJ: Chinese Money Laundering Buys Big Island Properties
By News Release @ 12:50 PM :: 5323 Views :: Hawaii County , Development, Law Enforcement
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... routed the proceeds of these schemes through at least six pieces of real estate on the Island of Hawaii ....
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Tuesday, June 15, 2021 |
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UHPA: Labor Board Rejects Challenge to UH Budget Cuts
By News Release @ 12:01 AM :: 5400 Views :: Higher Education
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... A University of Hawaii position currently occupied by a tenured faculty member is potentially being eliminated because of a legislative bill designed to target that specific job position ....
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Monday, June 14, 2021 |
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Make $100K? COVID Money will Pay Your Rent and Utilities
By News Release @ 6:49 PM :: 3204 Views :: Honolulu County, COVID-19
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"... a household of four people earning up to $100,700 a year in total and demonstrating financial hardship from the pandemic can qualify for support ...."
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Monday, June 14, 2021 |
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Wait list opening for Section 8
By News Release @ 6:19 PM :: 2602 Views :: Honolulu County
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“...The rental subsidy program offered by the City, serves more than 3,800 households in partnership with more than 1,400 landlords....”
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Monday, June 14, 2021 |
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Former Tsunami Center Site Transferred to DHHL
By News Release @ 5:55 PM :: 2902 Views :: DHHL
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... Transfer of Surplus Federal Land to the Hawaiian Home Lands Trust Could Provide Up To 400 New Homesteads for Native Hawaiian Families ....
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Sunday, June 13, 2021 |
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Taxing Government Largesse
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 3762 Views :: Small Business, Taxes, COVID-19
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...“Landlords are subject to GET on these amounts whether the payments are received from the tenants or directly from the agency that administers the relief program on behalf of the tenant.” The same reasoning applies to income tax, federal and state....
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Saturday, June 12, 2021 |
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FBI Raids Lead to Shakeup at Planning Commission?
By Andrew Walden @ 9:58 PM :: 6770 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Development
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... Federal authorities, March 30, 2021, unsealed indictments charging six DPP employees in a bribery scheme going back as far as 2012. Challacombe had been Deputy Director of the Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting from 2013-2016, and then Acting Director in 2016-17 ....
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Saturday, June 12, 2021 |
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End COVID-19 transparency dodge
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:50 AM :: 3508 Views :: Ethics, First Amendment, COVID-19
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... Hawaii businesses might be reopening, but Hawaii government agencies still have a ways to go ....
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Saturday, June 12, 2021 |
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Sen. Lee Introduces Bills to Repeal, Reform PVSA
By News Release @ 4:31 AM :: 3207 Views :: Jones Act, Tourism
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... Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) has introduced three bills to repeal and reform the Passenger Vessel Services Act of 1886 (PVSA), an outdated, protectionist law that harms American jobs and American tourism ....
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