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Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Secede, With a Little Help From Putin
By Selected News Articles @ 11:44 PM :: 4976 Views :: National News

... US State secessionist movement controlled from Yekaterinburg, Russia ....

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Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Akina to OHA: E Hana Kakou
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 11:14 PM :: 5044 Views :: OHA

...OHA is relevant and of concern to the entire community....

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Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Full Text: Feds Give Rail Another Extension
By News Release @ 6:12 PM :: 4385 Views :: Rail

...just long enough to con legislators into hiking taxes....

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Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Who’s not giving up on Fed Wreck?
By Video @ 4:52 PM :: 7255 Views :: Akaka Bill, OHA

It Looks Like It's Going To Be A Fight To The Finish....

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Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Apathy on Borrowed Time -- The Condo Owner’s Soul Search
By Selected News Articles @ 2:58 PM :: 5663 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government

A bill calling for the creation of an Office of the Condominium Ombudsman and seven-member commission is currently being drafted in a Hawaii legislative office....

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Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Gallup: Hawaii Tops Well-Being Rankings for Older Americans
By News Release @ 1:56 AM :: 4702 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care

2015 Gallup Healthways State Well-Being Rankings for Older Americans...

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Wednesday, December 7, 2016
BoE Approves Amended Strategic Plan
By Andrew Walden @ 12:17 AM :: 6845 Views :: Education K-12

...HSTA Asks BoE to Reject Plan....

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Tuesday, December 6, 2016
HBA Land Use Conference to Focus on Telescope, TOD, and GMOs
By Robert Thomas @ 9:18 PM :: 4578 Views :: Land Use
"Takings: Regulatory and Physical"
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Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Obama Hawaii Vacation Cost $4.8M
By News Release @ 5:07 PM :: 7779 Views :: Law Enforcement, Obama

Secret Service Lodging Cost Over $1 Million Alone....

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Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Council Reorganization Violates Sunshine Law?
By News Release @ 2:23 PM :: 5310 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics

"...it is no surprise that Mr. Menor still believes himself to be above the law...."

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Tuesday, December 6, 2016
FCC Order: Sandwich Isles $76M Fines, Repayments
By News Release @ 1:39 PM :: 6404 Views :: DHHL, Ethics

...Dan Inouye died nearly 4 years ago....

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Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Homeowners with Exemptions Reminded to File State Tax Returns—Or Else!
By News Release @ 2:14 AM :: 6696 Views :: Maui County, Taxes

...due to a change in requirements, those residents who have qualified for exemptions in the past must now file a state resident income tax form or risk being disqualified....

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Monday, December 5, 2016
Video: Returning Power to Micronesians in Hawaii
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:50 PM :: 6409 Views :: National News, Homelessness

Officials attended and spoke during the events, including Consul General Mr. Kandhi A. Elieisar and Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa....

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Monday, December 5, 2016
Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted December 5, 2016
By Congress.org @ 6:01 PM :: 4767 Views :: Congressional Delegation
Senate: Health Care Videoconferencing
House: Medical Research and Associated Activities 
House: Additional Committee Funding 
House: Banking Regulations
House: Fiscal 2017 Defense Authorization
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Monday, December 5, 2016
New Chief for Bureau of Conveyances
By News Release @ 5:13 PM :: 4342 Views :: Hawaii State Government

...examines, records, and indexes more than 344,000 land and property documents and maps each year....

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Monday, December 5, 2016
Meet Betsy DeVos, Trump’s Pick for Education Secretary
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:15 PM :: 4825 Views :: Education K-12

...She does not support Common Core “period.”....

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Sunday, December 4, 2016
Coordinated Action Needed to Address Homelessness
By Tom Yamachika @ 4:01 AM :: 5014 Views :: Homelessness

Coordinated action is not what our government normally does....

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Sunday, December 4, 2016
Irksome Nuisance: DLNR Pushing Non-Commercial Fishing Licenses Statewide
By Selected News Articles @ 12:52 AM :: 9399 Views :: Environment, Second Amendment

...the cost for an agency to run the licensing program would likely eat up much of the revenue it was supposed to generate....

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Saturday, December 3, 2016
City Officials Intentionally Jamming Up Traffic
By Selected News Articles @ 4:03 PM :: 6415 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail

“The city streets are being engineered to create traffic congestion, to slow traffic down, to favor bikers and pedestrians,” the former official said....

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Saturday, December 3, 2016
Denied Another Extension, HART Finally Forced to Submit Financial Plan
By News Release @ 3:36 AM :: 4739 Views :: Rail

...due to the recent passage of Charter Amendment Number 4 in the 2016 Elections, the voters of the City authorized the consolidation of the operations and maintenance functions and responsibilities for all modes of public transit....

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Saturday, December 3, 2016
AG Releases 2015 Hawaii Crime Statistics
By News Release @ 1:02 AM :: 9997 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Law Enforcement

Hawaii’s total Index Crime rate in 2015 was 0.3% below the rate reported in 2014, and 24.7% below the rate reported a decade earlier (2006)....

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Saturday, December 3, 2016
Caldwell Administration seeking applicants for appointed positions
By News Release @ 12:35 AM :: 4798 Views :: Honolulu County

Submit a resume with appropriate references by December 16, 2016....

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Friday, December 2, 2016
Attorney General Outlines Plan to Test Rape Kits
By News Release @ 6:12 PM :: 4709 Views :: Law Enforcement

...since 1992 the state has collected 2240 sexual assault kits. As of June 30, 2016, 1951 of these have not been tested and 289 of them have been tested....

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Friday, December 2, 2016
Maui Seeks Volunteers for County Boards and Commissions
By News Release @ 2:21 PM :: 5456 Views :: Maui County

...deadline for applications is December 31, 2016....

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Friday, December 2, 2016
Auditor: 25% of Trust Funds Managed by Governor’s Office Should be Closed
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 1:16 PM :: 4158 Views :: Hawaii State Government

...the Office of the Governor did not file statutorily required reports for non-general funds and for administratively created funds....

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Thursday, December 1, 2016
Harbors Division Fee Hike designed to boost $77M OHA Slush Fund?
By Andrew Walden @ 11:48 PM :: 12311 Views :: Economy, OHA, Taxes, Cost of Living

...OHA milked $12,684,000 from Harbors Division in 2015....

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Thursday, December 1, 2016
Pearl Harbor Memorial Parade to Commemorate 75th Anniversary of Attack
By News Release @ 12:52 PM :: 5018 Views :: Military

The Parade will begin at 6:00pm following an opening ceremony at 4:30pm....

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Thursday, December 1, 2016
Visitor Spending Increases for Fifth Consecutive Month
By News Release @ 3:19 AM :: 4145 Views :: Tourism

Visitors to Hawaii spent a total of $1.2 billion in October 2016, a 6.8 percent increase compared to last October....

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Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Revealed: How Lindsey Beat Trask
By Video @ 11:08 PM :: 6398 Views :: Ethics, OHA

Who Put $$$ In Lindseyʻs Pocket & Why They Now Have “Uncle Bob” In Theirs....

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Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Anti-GMO ‘National Standing’? The Bungled Star Advertiser Opinion
By Joni Kamiya @ 2:06 AM :: 6517 Views :: GMOs

Who exactly are the anti-GMO activists with 'national standing'?  Let’s take a look....

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Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Hawaii House and Senate Democrats Announce Leadership for 2017
By News Release @ 11:58 PM :: 9396 Views :: Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government

...A new committee, Intrastate Commerce, will focus on regulations and licensing of Hawaii businesses such as banking, telecommunications and property insurance....

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Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Video: UH Manoa chancellor finalists
By Video @ 10:11 PM :: 5186 Views :: Higher Education

Feedback on the candidates can be sent through the executive search website....

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Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Hawaii Civil Rights Commission: Report Trump Voters to Us
By News Release @ 9:27 PM :: 5563 Views :: First Amendment

The Hawaiʻi Civil Rights Commission today called on the people of Hawaii to stand against the reported rise in the incidence of discriminatory harassment and intimidation....

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Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Need $15K? Office of Economic Development Giving Away Money
By News Release @ 9:02 PM :: 4744 Views :: Honolulu County

The deadline to submit proposals is December 30, 2016 at 4 p.m....

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Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Transportation planning meeting will focus on Central Oahu
By News Release @ 10:21 AM :: 5847 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail

...Wednesday, November 30 at 7:30 p.m. at Mililani High School Cafeteria....

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Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Midnight Regulations in Paradise
By Selected News Articles @ 2:55 AM :: 9856 Views :: Akaka Bill, OHA

...the Trump administration should immediately act to rescind that rule, and Congress can also reject it via the Congressional Review Act....

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Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Annual Stop Flu at School Vaccination Program
By News Release @ 1:14 AM :: 6060 Views :: Education K-12, Health Care

Completed Vaccination Consent Forms due to Schools by December 16....

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Monday, November 28, 2016
2017 Honolulu Neighborhood Board Elections: Candidate Registration Begins
By News Release @ 6:15 PM :: 6987 Views :: Honolulu County

Any Oahu resident who will be at least 18 years of age by February 17, 2017 can be a candidate....

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Monday, November 28, 2016
List of Honolulu Neighborhood Board Vacancies
By News Release @ 6:09 PM :: 5265 Views :: Honolulu County

...20 Neighborhood Board seats are currently vacant island-wide....

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Monday, November 28, 2016
Report: Returning Power to Micronesians
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:07 PM :: 5612 Views :: National News

...Neil Mellen details how political intervention has limited access to healthcare, education and employment....

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Monday, November 28, 2016
Honolulu—23% of Homeowners Saddled with Second Mortgage
By Selected News Articles @ 1:39 AM :: 5568 Views :: Hawaii Statistics

...most home buyers in the Honolulu area don’t have enough money for a 20 percent down payment....

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Sunday, November 27, 2016
DOI Rule? Republicans Prepare to Reverse Obama’s ‘Flurry of Midnight Actions’
By Selected News Articles @ 9:04 PM :: 8212 Views :: Akaka Bill, National News

"...we will work with our colleagues to ensure that Congress scrutinizes your actions — and, if appropriate, overturns them.”

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Sunday, November 27, 2016
Paradise for Lawyers: UH Law School top 10 for best chance of paying off debt
By News Release @ 4:18 PM :: 5390 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education

...one of the 10 best law schools in the country in terms of starting salaries that exceed the debt that law graduates carry....

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Sunday, November 27, 2016
Zombie States – Hawaii Is No. 6
By Tom Yamachika @ 4:37 AM :: 5079 Views :: Hawaii State Government

...financially “dead” but are somehow shambling on....

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Sunday, November 27, 2016
Hawaii just became the first state to elect a 100 percent one-party state Senate since 1979
By Selected News Articles @ 3:32 AM :: 5120 Views :: Republican Party

Despite good results for Republicans across the country, Hawaii was Hillary Clinton’s best state nationally, voting for her by a resounding 62-32 margin over Donald Trump....

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Sunday, November 27, 2016
Documents Reveal Waihee Hustles Indians for $2M
By Andrew Walden @ 1:40 AM :: 13094 Views :: Akaka Bill, Ethics, OHA

Many of $2.168M in expenses are nebulous, making it easy for the usual suspects to score padded communications and media contracts....

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Saturday, November 26, 2016
Are capitalism and spirituality incompatible?
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:44 PM :: 8170 Views :: Economy, Religion
Free markets can help the rich, but what about the poor?
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Saturday, November 26, 2016
RFP Posted for Honolulu Ethics Commission Audit
By Natalie Iwasa @ 4:22 AM :: 5443 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics

Two inspectors and prior commissioners who recently left the commission are not listed as interviewees....

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Thursday, November 24, 2016
Hawaii's Aquarium Fishery: Regulated, Valuable, Sustainable
By Video @ 1:38 AM :: 8335 Views :: Environment, Small Business

It is the most intensively managed of all fisheries in the State....

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Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Fake Indian Tribe: Robin Danner’s Desperate Million Dollar Gamble
By Video @ 9:30 PM :: 6998 Views :: Akaka Bill, OHA

...Is The Robin Danner Crowd Making One Final Attempt To Turn You Into A Tribe?....

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