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Sunday, June 28, 2015 |
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Bribed by Bumpy? Former American Samoa Government Official Sentenced to 22 Months in Prison
By News Release @ 6:36 PM :: 8403 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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In February 2012, a company known as the Native Hawaiian Holding Company Inc. (owned by Bumpy Kanahele) entered into a service contract with the ASG....
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Sunday, June 28, 2015 |
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Project Imua: Hawaii Student payload tested at NASA Flight Facility
By Selected News Articles @ 4:42 PM :: 5150 Views :: Higher Education
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Comprised of four UH Community College campuses, Project Imua involves a joint faculty-student enterprise for designing, fabricating and testing payloads....
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Sunday, June 28, 2015 |
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Health Dep't Taking Action to Reduce New HIV Cases in Hawaii
By News Release @ 3:50 PM :: 8282 Views :: Family, Health Care, Drugs
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Approximately 85 percent of HIV cases in Hawaii occur in men....
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Sunday, June 28, 2015 |
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You Can’t Get on a Canoe Without a Real Plan
By Joni Kamiya @ 3:18 PM :: 7714 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs
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Hawaii is a hot bed for anti-everything activism....
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Sunday, June 28, 2015 |
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Independence Means Freedom from Special Funds
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 5240 Views :: Taxes
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Special funds are pots of money....
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Saturday, June 27, 2015 |
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Danner: Hawaiian Homes Commissioners "Have Rings in Their Noses"
By Andrew Walden @ 9:58 PM :: 9988 Views :: Akaka Bill, DHHL
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According to Kauhane, 104 comments have been submitted to the DoI and 76 are in opposition to the proposed rules--a nearly 3-1 margin....
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Saturday, June 27, 2015 |
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Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage may pave way for expanded gun rights in Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 2:08 PM :: 5925 Views :: Second Amendment
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"...concealed carry licenses held by more than 11 million citizens across the country should now be valid in every state without question...."
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Saturday, June 27, 2015 |
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Hawaii Family Advocates Responds to Gay Marriage Ruling
By Lt Gov Duke Aiona @ 1:25 AM :: 7062 Views :: Family, First Amendment
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Could non-profit organizations face revocation of their tax-exempt status if they say that marriage is between one man and one woman?
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Saturday, June 27, 2015 |
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Hawaiian Homes Commission: Proposed Federal Rules Inappropriate
By News Release @ 1:12 AM :: 7687 Views :: Akaka Bill, DHHL
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...HHC passed a resolution urging the Interior Department extend its July 13, 2015, deadline for public comment....
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Saturday, June 27, 2015 |
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Mauna Kea: Ige Claims he will do Whatever Necessary to Keep Road Open
By News Release @ 12:11 AM :: 7879 Views :: Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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"The roads belong to all the people of Hawai‘i and they will remain open. We will do whatever is necessary to ensure lawful access."
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Friday, June 26, 2015 |
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AG: Two-Thirds of Hawaii Gay Marriages from Out of State
By News Release @ 9:48 PM :: 5214 Views :: Family, Hawaii Statistics
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...96.8% of Hawaii Gays stay outside 'Marriage'....
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Friday, June 26, 2015 |
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You Can Never Know What Plantation Days Meant From Google
By Joni Kamiya @ 8:34 PM :: 8557 Views :: Agriculture, Hawaii History, GMOs
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When you have everything you need and never really had to earn it, it’s hard to fully appreciate it....
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Friday, June 26, 2015 |
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Hawaii Supreme Court: County Initiative Preempted by State Law
By Robert Thomas @ 5:08 PM :: 10916 Views :: Hawaii County , Judiciary, Law Enforcement, Drugs, GMOs
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...Hawaii Supreme Court refined the test for determining when a municipal ordinance or charter provision is preempted by state law....
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Friday, June 26, 2015 |
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Even Where Gay Marriage is Legal, It’s not Equal
By Selected News Articles @ 1:38 PM :: 6789 Views :: Family, First Amendment
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...it is instructive to note the ways in which marriage and “same-sex marriage” remain distinctly unequal in those states that already have extended recognition to same-sex couples....
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Friday, June 26, 2015 |
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Judicial Activism From Supreme Court on Marriage
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:27 PM :: 6954 Views :: Family, First Amendment
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...we must work to protect the freedom of speech, association and religion of those who continue to abide by the truth of marriage as union of man and woman....
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Thursday, June 25, 2015 |
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Visitor Arrivals Jump 9.3%
By News Release @ 11:18 PM :: 5533 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Tourism
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Total Visitor Expenditures Increased 10.4 Percent to $1.2 Billion....
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Thursday, June 25, 2015 |
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Maui: Protesters Stop Haleakala Telescope Construction Convoy
By News Release @ 8:55 PM :: 71097 Views :: Higher Education, OHA
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...Organizers and the Site Supervisor had a brief discussion after which time he stated the drivers were going to be sent home and the delivery would be cancelled....
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Thursday, June 25, 2015 |
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NYT: Ige’s diffidence risks making things on Mauna Kea worse
By Selected News Articles @ 5:10 PM :: 6141 Views :: Higher Education, OHA
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This is a conflict between OHA and the University of Hawaii over control of public land revenues....
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Thursday, June 25, 2015 |
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NYT: Obamacare Ruling May Have Just Killed State-Based Exchanges
By Selected News Articles @ 5:01 PM :: 4757 Views :: Health Care
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The Hawaii exchange is collapsing....
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Thursday, June 25, 2015 |
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Ige 'On National Stage' Faking It -- Touts 7 solar farms blocked by HECO, PUC
By News Release @ 4:25 AM :: 5185 Views :: Energy
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“All [of these projects] will generate energy below what we pay to generate energy using oil,” he said. (Except for one problem--they aren't going to be built.)
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Thursday, June 25, 2015 |
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Ige Fails to Clear Mauna Kea Protesters, Relies on 'Mutual Respect and Aloha'
By News Release @ 2:43 AM :: 7130 Views :: Higher Education, Law Enforcement, OHA
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"It is our belief that there will be mutual respect and aloha on Wednesday and in the days ahead as TMT restarts construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope...."
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015 |
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Kaiser: King v. Burwell will not Affect Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 6:19 PM :: 5257 Views :: Health Care
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The Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling by the end of June in King v. Burwell....
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015 |
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CNBC: Hawaii Worst State for Business
By Selected News Articles @ 6:04 PM :: 6620 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business
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...by the numbers on just about everything else, Hawaii doesn't measure up, and not only for reasons beyond its control....
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015 |
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Sexual Paranoia: Why Professors Are Becoming Scared of Their Students
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:54 PM :: 5450 Views :: Higher Education
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“new codes [of sexual conduct] sweeping American campuses....”
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015 |
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HS Sports: Hawaii 2nd Lowest Gender Gap
By News Release @ 3:47 PM :: 5885 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics
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In Hawaii only 4.7% of high schools have a 10%+ gender equity gap in sports....
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015 |
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Wine Taxes: Hawaii Ranks 12th
By Selected News Articles @ 3:27 PM :: 5949 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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Check out today’s map below to see where your state lies on the wine tax spectrum....
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015 |
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Video: Adventures of a Monsanto Agronomist
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:34 PM :: 7059 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs
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...Keli'i Akina speaks with Monsanto agronomist Dan Clegg about the latest....
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015 |
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Proposed Federal Rules for Hawaiian Homelands Parallel Obama Admin Rewrite of Indian Law
By Andrew Walden @ 4:23 AM :: 9577 Views :: Akaka Bill, DHHL, OHA
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"The Department will create a tribe, not recognize an historic tribe."
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015 |
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Full Text: Court Orders Release of Kanaiolowalu Roll
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:56 AM :: 6476 Views :: Akaka Bill, OHA
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...official order from the Honorable Jeannette Castagnetti ordering the NHRC to disclose the list....
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015 |
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Internal Report: Gay Human Rights Campaign a Judgmental White Men’s Club
By Selected News Articles @ 4:39 PM :: 7504 Views :: National News, Family
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Staff at the Human Rights Campaign last fall described the working environment at the nation’s largest LGBT rights group as “judgmental,” “exclusionary,” “sexist,” and “homogenous” ...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015 |
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Feds Extend Hawaii NCLB Waiver
By News Release @ 3:47 PM :: 4891 Views :: Education K-12
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"The Hawaii Department of Education (HIDOE) has aligned its reform efforts and internal systems and processes to leverage progress toward outcomes...."
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015 |
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University of Hawaii: The empty ‘marketplace of ideas’
By Selected News Articles @ 4:27 AM :: 6301 Views :: First Amendment, Higher Education
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On college campuses fear of offending people now trumps the fear of losing free speech....
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015 |
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Caldwell refuses to sign Council Budget Bills
By News Release @ 4:19 AM :: 6240 Views :: Honolulu County, Homelessness
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...The City Council deleted funding for the Office of Strategic Development (OSD) positions needed to address homelessness and the affordable housing crisis....
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Monday, June 22, 2015 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 22, 2015
By Congress.org @ 11:40 PM :: 5140 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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Senate: Fiscal 2016 Defense Authorization - Passage
Senate: Fiscal 2016 Defense Appropriations – Cloture
House: U.S. Citizens in Iran - Passage
House: Fiscal 2016 Intelligence Authorization – Passage
House: Iraq Troop Withdraw – Passage
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Monday, June 22, 2015 |
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Ige in DC to Teach Feds How to use Green Energy Hype to Jack Up Rates, Taxes
By News Release @ 8:45 PM :: 5075 Views :: Energy
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...Ige will join other elected officials and business leaders for the Washington Post’s “Powering Cities” forum on Tuesday, June 23...
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Monday, June 22, 2015 |
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Ouch! Mounting Medicare Cuts Hurt Hawaii Hospitals
By News Release @ 6:59 PM :: 4507 Views :: Health Care
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HHIC Insights Medicare report illustrates the impact of the numerous Medicare payment cuts to Hawaii’s hospitals and how it would be potentially exacerbated by additional cuts proposed by Congress....
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Monday, June 22, 2015 |
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Oahu, Maui Among Metro Areas That Least Resemble U.S.
By Selected News Articles @ 1:14 PM :: 3803 Views :: Hawaii Statistics
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Our data set includes 23 key metrics, such as age, gender and income as well as household makeup and housing tenure....
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Sunday, June 21, 2015 |
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Contested Case or Court Case? The Hawaii Supreme Court Decides
By Robert Thomas @ 6:58 PM :: 6881 Views :: Judiciary, Land Use
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It's a fine balance, and until the Hawaii Supreme Court's recent decision in Kellberg v. Yuen, and the Intermediate Court of Appeals' decision in Hoku Lele, LLC v. City and County of Honolulu....
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Sunday, June 21, 2015 |
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Fishery Management Council Questions use of Turtles to Strangle Tuna Industry
By News Release @ 4:37 PM :: 5774 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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Public hearings will be held in American Samoa, CNMI and Guam on July 6, 13 and 15, respectively....
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Sunday, June 21, 2015 |
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BoE Appoints New Superintendents
By News Release @ 3:12 PM :: 6700 Views :: Education K-12
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...new leaders are appointed to key state offices....
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Sunday, June 21, 2015 |
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Telescope Construction to Re-Start Wednesday
By News Release @ 5:14 AM :: 7288 Views :: Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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...TMT International Observatory Board has decided to move ahead to restart the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on the morning of Wednesday, June 24....
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Sunday, June 21, 2015 |
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Friends Don’t Let Friends Pay Higher Taxes?
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 4171 Views :: Taxes
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...we don’t want to inflict a disproportionate amount of pain on our friends....
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Saturday, June 20, 2015 |
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$418M 'Clean Energy' Tax Hike: Fewer flights and fewer visitors to Hawaii would be expected
By Andrew Walden @ 6:26 PM :: 12550 Views :: Energy, Environment, Tourism, Cost of Living
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...it is OK that their plan would gut the tourism industry because it would also drive Hawaii's cost of living up to the point where residents could no longer afford to leave....
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Friday, June 19, 2015 |
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APHIS on Invasive Species: "The truth is we just don't care that much"
By Andrew Walden @ 9:50 PM :: 7933 Views :: Environment, Agriculture
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... two draft replies--one labeled "the truth" and the other labeled "option 2" ....
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Friday, June 19, 2015 |
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European Trade Talks 'Can Open Jones Act'
By Michael Hansen @ 6:11 PM :: 4617 Views :: Jones Act
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A prominent European politician has urged the region's shipowners to get behind important trade talks....
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Friday, June 19, 2015 |
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Government of a Few: New Data Shows Just How Broken Hawaii's Democracy Really Is
By News Release @ 6:01 AM :: 7195 Views :: Democratic Party, Hawaii Statistics, Republican Party
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...the median district in states like Hawaii, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming is more than 70% to 30% for the majority party....
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Friday, June 19, 2015 |
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DHS: For First Time Majority of Homeless Refusing Shelter
By Andrew Walden @ 4:41 AM :: 6264 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Homelessness
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...A total of 1,217 homeless refusing shelter have been added to Hawaii's homeless population in the last two years....
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Thursday, June 18, 2015 |
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DLNR Steps in to Save Sea Cucumbers Harvested at Behest of Anti-GMO Huckster Promoting Quack Cancer Treatment
By Andrew Walden @ 8:30 PM :: 5661 Views :: GMOs
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DLNR Chairperson Suzanne Case points out, “Until very recently this was not an issue."
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Thursday, June 18, 2015 |
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Ward, McDermott Call for Souki to Drop Complaint Against Ethics Chair
By News Release @ 4:57 PM :: 3895 Views :: Ethics
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Recently increased enforcement by the Commission has made the ethics code come to life and reach beyond the mere platitudes it was in the past when enforcement of the code was a rare exception....
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