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Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Hawaiians Don't Trust OHA to Re-Start Native Hawaiian Convention
By Video @ 10:58 PM :: 4319 Views :: OHA

Video from FreeHawaii.blogspot.com.... 

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Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Hawaii Shippers Council Discusses Port Slowdown, Jones Act Reform on Guam Radio
By Michael Hansen @ 10:41 PM :: 6307 Views :: Jones Act, Labor

Mike Hansen, President of the Hawaii Shippers Council (HSC) interviewed by K57 Guam’s leading talk radio host Ray Gibson....

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Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Survey: Hawaii Millionaire Lead Slipping
By News Release @ 9:12 PM :: 6263 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics

Hawaii ranks 4th with 32,829 millionaire households out of 473,750 total households = 6.93%....

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Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Honolulu Bed Bugs Crawl Up to 42nd Place
By News Release @ 8:40 PM :: 5453 Views :: Hawaii Statistics

Nationally, bed bug business increased 18 percent last year with nearly half of cities showing a rise in bed bug treatments....

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Wednesday, January 21, 2015
2015 Senate Majority Legislative Program
By News Release @ 8:02 PM :: 6086 Views :: Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government

...ensure that Hawai‘i is well-prepared for any disaster, economic disruption, or other external factor by encouraging the production and consumption of locally grown and locally raised food....

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Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Opening Day: Speaker Souki Calls on House to Tackle Unfinished Business
By News Release @ 8:00 PM :: 6061 Views :: Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government

Souki called for the House to draft enabling legislation to provide the state’s public hospital the option of looking at private-public partnerships...

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Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Hawaii #1 in Homelessness (again)
By Selected News Articles @ 7:46 PM :: 7327 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Homelessness

In 2014, Mississippi had the lowest number of homeless people per 100,000, as it did for the previous three years....

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Wednesday, January 21, 2015
House Minority Leader Opening Day Remarks
By Selected News Articles @ 5:11 PM :: 4506 Views :: Republican Party

If you allow that diversity, if you encourage it, if you value it, then this body will make stronger legislation that can make people’s lives better in real, tangible ways....

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Wednesday, January 21, 2015
US Senate Votes Unanimously to Recognize January 25-31 as National School Choice Week
By News Release @ 12:43 PM :: 4600 Views :: Education K-12

There are 65 National School Choice Week events and counting in Hawaii....

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Wednesday, January 21, 2015
CNHA Hijacks Civic Clubs to Push for Fake Indian Tribe
By News Release @ 2:29 AM :: 12015 Views :: Akaka Bill, DHHL, OHA

“Why would the AHCC BOD so blatantly disregard the voice of Hawaiian Civic Club members?"

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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Anti-GMO Activists Stack Hearing: Why Bad Lawmaking Reigns in Hawaii Politics
By Joni Kamiya @ 11:43 PM :: 6090 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs

When lawmakers rely on bad science from activists, it takes something away from all of us and they don’t even realize it....

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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Full Text of Joni Ernst’s Republican Response to 2015 State of the Union
By News Release @ 11:43 PM :: 6032 Views :: National News, Republican Party

...history has shown there’s nothing our nation, and our people, can’t accomplish....

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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Full Text: State of the Union Address
By News Release @ 11:34 PM :: 5629 Views :: Obama

It has been, and still is, a hard time for many....

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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Vaccination Refusal: Study Documents Rise of Ignorance in 'Progressive' Communities
By Selected News Articles @ 11:11 PM :: 4817 Views :: Health Care

...the proportion of children who’d missed one or more shots increased from an average of 8 percent at the beginning of the study period to 12.4 percent at the end....

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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
KIUC Buys Batteries from Company Behind Kahuku Windfarm Fire and Surprisingly it is a Disaster
By Selected News Articles @ 10:25 PM :: 7105 Views :: Kauai County, Energy

Power fluctuations from a first large plant installed in 2012 have already largely burned out the big batteries....

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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
263 Candidates file for Neighborhood Board Elections
By News Release @ 9:58 PM :: 4639 Views :: Honolulu County

“Serving on your Neighborhood Board presents the opportunity to create real change in your community, build a legacy, and network with other leaders.”

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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Accountability for Big Infrastructure Projects?
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 8:47 PM :: 4896 Views :: Rail

Long term risks to taxpayers: How Projects Get out of Control Using the Wrong Procurement Methods....

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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
HECO Plan Rewards Solar Contractors, Cuts Payments to Solar Consumers
By News Release @ 6:26 PM :: 6879 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living

Any program changes from this proposal would apply only to new customers....

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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Representative Mele Carroll to resign from State House
By News Release @ 6:15 PM :: 4548 Views :: Hawaii State Government

...Complications from her previous cancer treatments have arisen in recent months....

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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Parker Ranch sells rights to NextEra to Build Giant Windfarm
By News Release @ 5:05 PM :: 6289 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy

This agreement provides NextEra Energy Resources with long-term access rights to PRFT lands to develop renewable energy derived from PRFT's wind resources....

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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
McCain challenges Jones Act build and ownership requirements
By Michael Hansen @ 2:30 PM :: 6754 Views :: Jones Act

...McCain’s instant amendment would be a rider to the Keystone Pipeline legislation....

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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Smoking is a Million Dollar Habit--and Hawaii is More Expensive than Most
By Selected News Articles @ 1:54 PM :: 6588 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Cost of Living

The cost of tobacco for every smoker is $1,029,646 over a lifetime....

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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 20, 2015
By Congress.org @ 1:48 PM :: 4621 Views :: Congressional Delegation
Senate: Keystone XL Pipeline - Cloture
House: Rulemaking Process Overhaul – Passage
House: Fiscal 2015 Homeland Security Appropriations - Passage
House: Financial Regulatory Revisions - Passage
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Kelii Akina Interviews Danny Kaleikini, Ambassador of Aloha
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:35 PM :: 5149 Views :: Hawaii History

...Danny Kaleikini speaks in this Martin Luther King Day interview as an ambassador for racial harmony....

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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Duke Aiona Appointed Executive Director of Hawaii Family Advocates
By News Release @ 1:27 PM :: 7930 Views :: Family, First Amendment, Politicians

...the appointment of James “Duke” Aiona as interim executive director will strengthen the organization’s ability to speak for families across the state....

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Monday, January 19, 2015
Republican Statewide Caucuses to Elect Leaders
By News Release @ 9:47 PM :: 4990 Views :: Republican Party

Republicans will gather to elect precinct and district officers, and elect delegates and alternates to the 2015 State Convention....

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Sunday, January 18, 2015
Hawaii Escrow Companies: Federal 'Kickback' Rules Mean Realtors must do the Paperwork
By Andrew Walden @ 8:44 PM :: 6141 Views :: Small Business

...it's been at least a decade since I or any agent or broker prepared a time line or ordered a condo doc....

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Sunday, January 18, 2015
254 Candidates file for Neighborhood Board Elections
By News Release @ 5:49 PM :: 4646 Views :: Honolulu County

“Serving on your Neighborhood Board presents the opportunity to create real change in your community, build a legacy, and network with other leaders.”

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Sunday, January 18, 2015
OHA Introduces Legislative Package
By News Release @ 5:21 PM :: 4435 Views :: OHA

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees has approved the following bills and resolutions to be put forward as OHA’s 2015 state legislative package....

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Sunday, January 18, 2015
The Ten Percent Solution
By Tom Yamachika @ 4:01 AM :: 5194 Views :: Taxes

The state has been draining money out of the rail surcharge. Lots of money....

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Sunday, January 18, 2015
Senator McCain’s Jones Act Amendment: Good for America
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:18 AM :: 5241 Views :: Jones Act

The Alaska governor is actually required to “use best efforts and all appropriate means to persuade the United States Congress to repeal those provisions of the Jones Act formerly codified at 46 U.S.C. 861, et seq.”...

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Saturday, January 17, 2015
OHA Chair Lindsey: Rescind CEO’s Authority, Let Staff Know Who is Boss
By Andrew Walden @ 9:03 PM :: 10349 Views :: OHA

...current admin budgeting format and procedures create an open checkbook under various program areas....

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Saturday, January 17, 2015
New Medicaid Enrollees: Many Need Addiction Treatment
By Selected News Articles @ 5:52 PM :: 6247 Views :: Health Care, Homelessness

...newly eligible adults will have access to addiction treatments this year, many for the first time....

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Saturday, January 17, 2015
A New Opportunity for Jones Act Reform in Washington, DC
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:25 PM :: 5089 Views :: Jones Act

Senator John McCain introduced a measure to modify the Jones Act so that American ship companies can purchase their ships from our allies....

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Saturday, January 17, 2015
Pro-Life? Hawaii Ranks 45th
By News Release @ 2:59 AM :: 5867 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Life

This annual resource, dubbed “the playbook” of model legislation, combines more than 50 pieces of our model legislation, expert analysis, and 50 state report cards into a single nonpartisan guide for legislators....

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Saturday, January 17, 2015
Dropping Oil Prices Boost Hawaii's Economy
By UHERO @ 2:30 AM :: 6406 Views :: Energy, Economy

The drop in crude oil prices from $112/ barrel in June of 2014 to $46/barrel today will, if sustained, provide a nice boost to Hawaii’s economy....

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Saturday, January 17, 2015
Report: Low Income Students a Majority in Hawaii Public Schools
By News Release @ 1:03 AM :: 12072 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics

"...the trends of the last decade will be prologue for a nation not at risk, but a nation in decline.…"

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Friday, January 16, 2015
Ige Names Doug Chin AG, Randy Iwase PUC Chair
By News Release @ 9:45 PM :: 6476 Views :: Energy, Hawaii State Government

Doug Chin is former managing director for the City and County of Honolulu.  Randy Iwase was Supervising Deputy Attorney General whose division provided legal counsel to the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and the Public Utilities Commission....

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Friday, January 16, 2015
Empower Windward: Neighborhood Board Election 2015 Workshop
By News Release @ 9:36 PM :: 4181 Views :: Honolulu County

Tuesday January 20, 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Kailua District Park, Multipurpose Room, 21 South Kainalu Drive....

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Friday, January 16, 2015
Hawaii Obamacare exchange projected to be financially viable — in 2022
By Malia Zimmerman @ 5:38 PM :: 4765 Views :: Health Care

...a new report from the Hawaii Commerce and Consumer Affairs Department shows the Connector won’t be fiscally sustainable until 2022....

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Friday, January 16, 2015
Leeward Coast Third in Homelessness
By Councilmember Kymberly Marcos Pine @ 3:31 PM :: 5464 Views :: Homelessness

...at the Wai'anae Boat Harbor, outreach workers are trying to help transition to supportive housing....

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Friday, January 16, 2015
OHA Hires Design Team to Develop Kakaako Makai Plan
By News Release @ 1:21 AM :: 8870 Views :: Development, OHA

The collaborative is a partnership among four Hawaiian firms: Edith Kanaka‘ole Foundation; DTL; PBR Hawai‘i; and WCIT Architecture....

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Thursday, January 15, 2015
Pono Choices: Proposed Keiki Caucus Bills Would Undermine Parental Rights
By Rep Bob McDermott @ 10:22 PM :: 6629 Views :: Education K-12, Family
“This new and better approach has hardly taken hold, but the State Legislature’s Keiki Caucus is already planning to attack it.”
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Thursday, January 15, 2015
Staff of Bankrupt, Nepotistic Charter School to be Paid Thru End of Month
By News Release @ 10:07 PM :: 4431 Views :: Education K-12

At that point—and hopefully sooner—all students should have transferred to other schools....

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Thursday, January 15, 2015
UH Board of Regents Nominees Sent to Ige
By News Release @ 9:52 PM :: 4815 Views :: Higher Education

...to fill one Maui County seat and one City and County of Honolulu seat for 5-year appointments, beginning July 1, 2015....

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Thursday, January 15, 2015
Hawaii Defense Foundation Urges Supreme Court to Take Up San Francisco Gun Control Case
By News Release @ 9:47 PM :: 4782 Views :: Second Amendment

Firearms Policy Coalition and a dozen other civil rights groups ask the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on an NRA-backed lawsuit....

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Thursday, January 15, 2015
Sen McCain Introduces Amendment to Jones Act
By Selected News Articles @ 2:10 PM :: 6542 Views :: Jones Act

the text of McCain's proposed amendment repeals the US Build requirement of the Jones Act....

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Thursday, January 15, 2015
Insurance Risk to Drivers: Hawaii Ranks 20th
By Selected News Articles @ 1:49 PM :: 5449 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
What kind of financial risks do drivers take when they take to the road?
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Thursday, January 15, 2015
241 Candidates File for Neighborhood Board Elections
By News Release @ 2:38 AM :: 4030 Views :: Honolulu County

“Serving on your Neighborhood Board presents the opportunity to create real change in your community, build a legacy, and network with other leaders...”

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Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Going forward and looking back at the Honolulu City Council
By Rachelle Chang @ 11:11 PM :: 7868 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail, Taxes

...keeping the Oahu half-percent rail surcharge in place will only encourage lawmakers to increase the surcharge whenever there is a rail transit shortfall....

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