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Friday, June 24, 2016
Hawaii Passes First of Its Kind Gun Legislation
By Selected News Articles @ 12:52 PM :: 5676 Views :: Second Amendment

"The lawful acquisition, possession, carrying, or use of a firearm does not justify subjecting citizens to ongoing monitoring," the National Rifle Association's Institute for Legislative Action....

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Friday, June 24, 2016
Conviction Tossed: How They Get Away in Soft on Crime Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 12:47 PM :: 5284 Views :: Law Enforcement

"If people didn't upset me, I wouldn't have to punch them...."

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Friday, June 24, 2016
Oppression of Education
By Joni Kamiya @ 1:54 AM :: 9575 Views :: Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA, GMOs

...it’s clear who the real oppressors are....

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Friday, June 24, 2016
Djou: Rail Mess is a Pure Failure of Leadership
By Rep Charles Djou @ 12:01 AM :: 5387 Views :: Rail

...the Honolulu rail system cost could now reach as high as almost $11 bil. from the original projected cost of $5.2 bil....

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Thursday, June 23, 2016
Molasses Spill Very Profitable for Aha Moku Council
By News Release @ 11:52 PM :: 5091 Views :: Greenmail

...spill settlement funding to support Aha Moku for the next fiscal year....

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Thursday, June 23, 2016
Ige Signs Rap Back: Hawaii Gun Owners to be Placed in FBI Database
By News Release @ 8:06 PM :: 7129 Views :: Second Amendment

Rifle Association: “High Likelihood of Legal Action”....

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Thursday, June 23, 2016
Energy monitoring and management coming to 250 public schools
By News Release @ 5:00 AM :: 6350 Views :: Education K-12, Energy

All public elementary, middle, and high schools in the Hawaiian Electric Companies' service territory are receiving new, intelligent, energy-monitoring devices and software....

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Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Rusting Wind Junk off Waikiki: Feds Declare Open Season
By News Release @ 8:33 PM :: 8072 Views :: Energy

...a call for information and nominations to gauge the wind industry’s interest in commercial wind leases in two areas offshore Oahu....

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Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Caldwell Buys Iwilei Building: Hub for Homeless to Rival LA Skid Row
By News Release @ 8:18 PM :: 7289 Views :: Honolulu County, Homelessness

...Council members Carol Fukunaga, Ann Kobayashi and Ron Menor on a follow-up trip to review Seattle’s homeless projects, including hygiene centers and government-sanctioned tent cities....

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Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Child Well-Being: Hawaii Ranks 23rd
By News Release @ 6:21 PM :: 8590 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Hawaii Statistics, Health Care

...according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 2016 KIDS COUNT Data Book....

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Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Fed Wreck Plan B
By Video @ 5:48 PM :: 8939 Views :: Akaka Bill, DHHL, OHA

Danner pushing for the US DoI Office of Native Hawaiian Relations to be located in Honolulu, not DC....

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Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Hanabusa Uses Teachers to Open Door to More Lobbyist 'Gifts' to Legislators
By News Release @ 4:23 PM :: 10536 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics, Labor

...Hanabusa pointed out that the same issues underlying the disagreement over teacher travel and education trips are also involved in applying the gift provisions of the ethics code to legislators....

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Wednesday, June 22, 2016
DOCARE Chief Forced Out—Retaliation for Investigating DLNR Corruption, Theft of Guns
By News Release @ 2:59 AM :: 13185 Views :: Environment, Hawaii State Government, Law Enforcement

...in a June 16 letter, Case said she was not extending Friel's employment past his six-month probation period....

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Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 21, 2016
By Congress.org @ 2:35 AM :: 5038 Views :: Congressional Delegation
Senate: Fiscal 2017 Defense Authorization 
Senate: Fiscal 2017 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations 
House: IRS and Free Speech 
House: Fiscal 2017 Defense Appropriations
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Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Feral Cats Kill More Seabirds -- No Eradication Planned
By News Release @ 2:16 AM :: 6296 Views :: Kauai County, Environment

...Last week, researchers discovered the bodies of six endangered Hawaiian Petrels at a remote breeding colony in Hono o Na Pali Natural Area Reserve, Kauai....

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Wednesday, June 22, 2016
DLNR Closing Mauna Kea, Bringing in Helicopters for Sheep Eradication
By News Release @ 2:13 AM :: 8069 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment, Second Amendment

...aerial shooting from helicopters of feral goats, feral sheep, mouflon and mouflon/feral sheep hybrids....

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Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Judiciary Expands ‘Steps to Avoid Eviction’ Program
By News Release @ 2:03 AM :: 6083 Views :: Homelessness, Judiciary

Tenants and landlords are being pointed to resources designed to prevent disputes from escalating to eviction....

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Tuesday, June 21, 2016
HGEA Announces Primary Election Endorsements
By News Release @ 4:46 AM :: 8064 Views :: Labor, Politicians

...the state’s largest labor union, announced its endorsed candidates for the 2016 Primary Election today....

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Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Ige Extends Homeless Emergency Proclamation
By News Release @ 4:22 AM :: 4412 Views :: Homelessness

Ige today signed a fifth supplemental proclamation on homelessness, which will remain in effect until August....

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Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Education Savings Accounts: A New Way Forward
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:27 AM :: 6251 Views :: Education K-12, Tax Credits

Taxpayers in Hawaii spend about $1.8 billion on education every year....

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Monday, June 20, 2016
Study: Hawaii Ex-Con Recidivism 48.9%
By News Release @ 8:07 PM :: 7256 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Justice Reinvestment

This study is comprised of 2,464 offenders from the Fiscal Year 2012 cohort....

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Monday, June 20, 2016
Rail Recovery Plan? Feds Explain How Rail Systems Blow Budget
By Andrew Walden @ 1:00 PM :: 5604 Views :: Rail

HART began talking publicly about a “Recovery Plan” only this month even though FTA rules apparently required a Recovery Plan since late 2014....

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Monday, June 20, 2016
Rep Thielen to DEA: Legalize Hemp
By Rep Cynthia Thielen @ 2:35 AM :: 6306 Views :: Agriculture, Drugs

...filing an official rulemaking petition demanding that the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)  remove industrial hemp from the federal drug schedules....

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Monday, June 20, 2016
Trustee: OHA Wasted $33M on Akaka Bill
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 2:13 AM :: 7658 Views :: Akaka Bill, OHA

Office of Hawaiian Affairs Trustee Leina’ala Ahu Isa has issued a statement on her Facebook page that OHA spent $33 million on the Akaka Bill....

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Monday, June 20, 2016
Star-Adv Hits Caldwell ‘Abject Failure of Leadership’
By Rep Charles Djou @ 1:22 AM :: 7968 Views :: Honolulu County, Politicians, Rail

The newspaper characterized Caldwell's decision-making as "political expediency" driven by his re-election campaign....

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Sunday, June 19, 2016
Meet the Environmental Protest Industry
By Joni Kamiya @ 7:40 PM :: 7135 Views :: Greenmail

They have spread misinformation on everything from GMOs, the Superferry, TMT, and now the ocean monument....

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Sunday, June 19, 2016
Big Oil, OHA, and Brian Schatz team up to Give Hawaii Fishermen the Shaft
By Joni Kamiya @ 7:36 PM :: 8274 Views :: Environment, Greenmail, OHA

... big oil is funding these ocean closures worldwide ....

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Sunday, June 19, 2016
CD1: U.S. Air Force colonel Shirlene Ostrov is “a candidate who can win.”
By News Release @ 7:20 PM :: 7930 Views :: Military, Politicians, Republican Party

She is a new face to Hawaii politics, but she is no stranger to the arena in Washington, DC, where she served as a Congressional liaison for the U.S. Transportation Command....

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Sunday, June 19, 2016
Video: How Free is Hawaii Economically?
By Grassroot Institute @ 7:13 PM :: 5891 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics

Hawaii Ranked in Bottom Five States for Economic Freedom....

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Sunday, June 19, 2016
Maui: Half of Overtime Goes to 376 Police Officers
By Grassroot Institute @ 7:00 PM :: 9058 Views :: Maui County, Labor, Police

“We looked at the payroll from July 2014 to June 2015"

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Sunday, June 19, 2016
Fatherhood, Poverty, and the “Post-Marriage Society”
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:50 PM :: 5073 Views :: Family

A wedding ring on Dad's finger is more than a symbol of his commitment to Mom. It also proves to be the ultimate anti-poverty weapon for their children....

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Sunday, June 19, 2016
Charter School Corruption Mirrors State Government
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 4812 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics

Many agencies relish the ability to spend public money with little or no accountability....

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Sunday, June 19, 2016
Pine: Before we rush to decide on a rail route, shouldn't we get numbers first?
By Councilmember Kymberly Marcos Pine @ 3:55 AM :: 6263 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail

leaders are making serious decisions on changing the rail route without publicly analyzing facts or figures on how the change will affect the ridership numbers....

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Sunday, June 19, 2016
Mayor Becomes Incoherent
By Rep Charles Djou @ 3:53 AM :: 8158 Views :: Honolulu County, Politicians, Rail

Over the past 48-hours the mayor's policy on rail swung wildly in a display of uneven and poorly constructed leadership....

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Sunday, June 19, 2016
Rail: Easy Ways to Save Millions without Cutting Line Short
By Andrew Walden @ 1:51 AM :: 8694 Views :: Rail

This is the third artificial rail crisis Caldwell has ginned up to push a tax hike....

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Saturday, June 18, 2016
Rail: Caldwell’s Flip-Flop Opens Door to Lawsuits by Property Owners Targeted by HART
By Robert Thomas @ 6:55 PM :: 7213 Views :: Land Use, Rail

...if a taking is abandoned or dismissed prior to final judgment, the condemnor is on the hook for "damages."....

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Saturday, June 18, 2016
Fake Indian Tribe: OHA Legal Shell Game Copied from Southern Segregationists
By Robert Thomas @ 6:45 PM :: 6712 Views :: Akaka Bill, OHA

...his argument allowed careful listeners to see the analogy to Jim Crow southern governments....

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Friday, June 17, 2016
Ninth Circuit Digs In on Hawaii GMO Rules
By Selected News Articles @ 9:16 PM :: 5288 Views :: GMOs

The implications of the court's ruling or rulings in this case will be vast....

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Friday, June 17, 2016
Court Lifts Stay—Allows Maui Hospital Privatization to Proceed
By News Release @ 9:06 PM :: 7285 Views :: Maui County, Health Care, Labor

...negotiations continue and the order still prevents the parties from actually closing the transaction....

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Friday, June 17, 2016
Caldwell’s Sad Little Zoo—More at Stake than Money
By Selected News Articles @ 5:54 PM :: 4731 Views :: Honolulu County

"the elephants were recently found playing with a car battery that got in there somehow"

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Friday, June 17, 2016
Hawaii #1 in Percentage of Transportation Costs Funded by Fuel Taxes, Registration Fees
By Selected News Articles @ 5:07 PM :: 5006 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes

The share of infrastructure expenditures funded by tolls, user fees, and user taxes ranges from 14.3 percent in Alaska to 79.8 percent in Hawaii....

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Friday, June 17, 2016
VIDEO: 9th Circuit Hears Akina Suit vs Fake Tribe
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:45 PM :: 5820 Views :: Akaka Bill, OHA

...Grassroot Institute warns that we are closer to a Native Hawaiian tribe than ever before....

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Friday, June 17, 2016
Full Text: Caldwell statement on rail project
By News Release @ 3:34 AM :: 6352 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail

"...and secure additional funding to complete the last five miles of the project to Ala Moana...."

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Friday, June 17, 2016
Fire Mayor, Not the Ethics Director
By Rep Charles Djou @ 3:08 AM :: 6829 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Politicians

Totto's troubles only started when he started investigating Caldwell's political fundraising practices....

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Thursday, June 16, 2016
VIDEO: Ninth Circuit Oral Arguments In Hawaii Anti-GMO Cases
By Robert Thomas @ 9:47 PM :: 4409 Views :: GMOs

Official full-length Ninth Circuit video recording of the hearings....

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Thursday, June 16, 2016
Flip Flop: Caldwell Suddenly Decides Rail Must End at Middle Street
By Rep Charles Djou @ 9:14 PM :: 4814 Views :: Rail

Earlier today, Kirk Caldwell had a massive change of position on rail by admitting that the route might need to be shortened to end at Middle Street....

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Thursday, June 16, 2016
Pay for Performance: AMA Softening Stand Against Assisted Suicide?
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 8:09 PM :: 5937 Views :: Health Care, Life

...Meet the Insurance Executive Behind Assisted Suicide in Hawaii....

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Thursday, June 16, 2016
Rogue Systems: Top Solar Contractor Busted for Lying to Hawaii Consumers
By News Release @ 5:01 PM :: 6730 Views :: Energy, Ethics

...after allegedly misrepresenting information related to requirements for interconnecting solar energy systems....

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Thursday, June 16, 2016
UH launches whistleblower hotline
By News Release @ 5:24 AM :: 5380 Views :: Ethics, Higher Education

...to confidentially report violations of laws, rules, regulations and UH policies....

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Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Frustrated with Caldwell: Ethics Director Resigns after 16 Years
By News Release @ 11:47 PM :: 5627 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics

Totto’s relationship with the city administration was contentious from the beginning with questions about funding by lobbyists for the mayor’s inaugural luau....

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