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Thursday, January 24, 2013
Does Senate Bill 219 turn your Daddy’s Duck Gun into an Assault Weapon?
By Tom Lodge @ 1:10 AM :: 7098 Views :: Second Amendment

No hunter or target shooter currently uses an “assault weapon”. The term is a political and media invention, intended to cause confusion....

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Rep. Thielen Wants to Make Shoreline Access Law Permanent
By Rep Cynthia Thielen @ 4:41 PM :: 6357 Views :: Environment, Land Use

House Bill 17 is scheduled for its first hearing in the House Committee on Water and Land on Friday, January 25 at 8:30 a.m. in House Conference Room 325....

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
WaPo: Sting operations reveal Mafia involvement in renewable energy
By Selected News Articles @ 1:46 PM :: 6875 Views :: Energy, Ethics, World News

In an unfolding plot that is part “The Sopranos,” part “An Inconvenient Truth,” authorities swept across Sicily last month....

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Kahuku Windfarm Loan Timed to Boost IPO, Avoid Jail
By Selected News Articles @ 1:24 PM :: 12210 Views :: Energy

"...we have a pretty good mess on First Wind and it is looking like it is going to get a lot worse and quickly...."

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
It's Time to Balance the Budget
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:59 PM :: 3485 Views :: National News

Today, the House will vote on a proposal that would suspend the debt ceiling until May 19....

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Obama Admin. Appoints Hawai'iGas CEO to Nat'l Petroleum Council
By News Release @ 12:54 PM :: 6521 Views :: Energy, National News, Jones Act

The purpose of the NPC is solely to advise, inform and make recommendations to the Secretary of Energy with respect to any matters relating to oil and natural gas....

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
HI-5 Fraud Shows DoH Cannot be Trusted With Soda Tax
By News Release @ 9:23 PM :: 5708 Views :: Health Care, Taxes

As public audits recently revealed, it's difficult to trust the Department of Health to spend our tax dollars wisely....  

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
McDermott: Early Education Proposal Inadequate
By News Release @ 9:10 PM :: 4443 Views :: Education K-12

“I believe comprehensive educational reform can still be done, but not with the ill will the current administration has sown among the educators."

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Johanson: How Will We Pay for All These Initiatives?
By News Release @ 8:50 PM :: 5651 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Republican Party

We should proceed with cautious optimism and be careful not to overcommit our state’s financial resources during our fragile economic recovery....

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How They Voted January 22, 2013
By Congress.org @ 8:45 PM :: 5084 Views :: Congressional Delegation
  • House: Sandy Recovery Supplemental – Substitute Amendment
  • House: Sandy Recovery Supplemental – Long-term Recovery Aid
  • House: Sandy Recovery Supplemental – Final Passage
  • House: Disaster Aid Reform
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
FULL TEXT: State of the State Speech
By News Release @ 3:52 PM :: 4246 Views :: Hawaii State Government

The virus of absolutism now infecting the Congress of the United States appears to be seeping into Hawaii....

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Summary of Bills Repealing the PLDC
By Selected News Articles @ 3:44 PM :: 7552 Views :: Development, Hawaii State Government, Land Use

Repeal Bills:  SB 1; SBs 245, 246; SB 338; SB 425; SB 480; SB 663; SBs 780, 781; SB 866....

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Abercrombie to Sign Executive Order Creating Super-PLDC
By Selected News Articles @ 2:29 PM :: 9108 Views :: Development, Hawaii State Government, Rail

...the state Office of Planning is now drafting a resolution for Abercrombie to sign as an executive policy, recognizing that TOD is a priority of state government....

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Gun Discussions Should Not Be Required for Physicians
By Selected News Articles @ 2:15 PM :: 5162 Views :: Health Care, Second Amendment

...who is going to be held responsible if one of their patients decides to take out some poor store clerk? Is the shooter's doctor now a potential target for a lawsuit? Can the shooter claim at his trial that he was not properly counseled by his physician?

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Obama’s Second Inaugural Address, Translated
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:10 PM :: 6289 Views :: National News, Obama

Obama was honest about his intentions to grow government in order to remake our country along his progressive vision....

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Monday, January 21, 2013
Hawaii School Choice Week Events on Oahu, Maui
By News Release @ 10:08 PM :: 6548 Views :: Education K-12, Family

Hawaii Families for Educational Choice is proud to participate in this nation wide effort and will be hosting several events during National School Choice Week....

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Monday, January 21, 2013
Abercrombie Soda Tax: $1.28 per Gallon
By Selected News Articles @ 8:26 PM :: 7329 Views :: Health Care, Taxes, Cost of Living

In 2011, he had attempted to pass a soda tax under the Orwellian title “Sugary Beverage Healthy Hawaii Fee,” but the state legislature saw through the obfuscating rhetoric and defeated it.

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Monday, January 21, 2013
Star-Advertiser Buys Kauai Garden Isle Newspaper
By News Release @ 8:21 PM :: 9289 Views :: Kauai County, First Amendment

Under the agreement, The Garden Island, with a total average circulation of 9,509 daily and 8,413 on Sundays, will continue to be published Monday through Friday and Sunday.

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Monday, January 21, 2013
The Legislature and the Death of Big Ideas
By Rep Charles Djou @ 6:01 PM :: 7703 Views :: Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party

In both percentage and numerical terms, the Hawaii Legislature has fewer Republicans in its ranks than non-communists in communist China’s National People’s Congress....

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Monday, January 21, 2013
Full Text: Obama's Second Inaugural Address
By News Release @ 12:48 PM :: 7343 Views :: National News, Obama

The patriots of 1776 did not fight to replace the tyranny of a king with the privileges of a few or the rule of a mob.  They gave to us a Republic, a government of, and by, and for the people, entrusting each generation to keep safe our founding creed.

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Monday, January 21, 2013
MLK, Obama and Opportunity
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:38 PM :: 5804 Views :: National News, Obama

The politics of division and class warfare, the centerpiece of Obama’s campaign rhetoric, are the antithesis of King’s dream....

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Monday, January 21, 2013
Our American Triumph: Civil Rights and Hawaii Statehood
By Ryan Yasukawa @ 12:08 AM :: 31386 Views :: Hawaii History

The politics of the civil rights struggle has much in common with Hawai`i’s path to statehood....

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Sunday, January 20, 2013
Storm of Protectionism: It’s time to repeal the Jones Act
By Selected News Articles @ 10:01 PM :: 6210 Views :: Jones Act

In 2003, Hawaii congressman Ed Case introduced legislation to free his state from the Jones Act....

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Sunday, January 20, 2013
Abercrombie to Push Penny an Ounce Soda Tax
By Selected News Articles @ 3:52 PM :: 6287 Views :: Health Care, Taxes

A 12 ounce soda would cost 12 cents more....

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Sunday, January 20, 2013
Heritage: Conservative ideas need a new message
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:42 PM :: 3657 Views :: National News

Conservative ideas work. Numerous states are demonstrating that low taxes, right-to-work laws, school choice, energy development and other common-sense policies improve the lives of everyone....

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Sunday, January 20, 2013
CBS News' Political Director: Obama Must 'Destroy' Republican Party
By Selected News Articles @ 2:12 PM :: 6401 Views :: National News, Obama

The author of this outrageous left-wing fever dream is John Dickerson, the political director at CBS News....

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Sunday, January 20, 2013
Instill Priorities for Precious Tax Dollars
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 5:53 AM :: 4722 Views :: Taxes

...each bright, shiny and eager face will have an agenda to deliver to his or her constituents back in their home districts. That means money!

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Saturday, January 19, 2013
Honolulu: Hundreds Rally in Defense of Second Amendment
By Andrew Walden @ 10:37 PM :: 10005 Views :: Second Amendment

Hundreds of local hunters and their supporters rallied at the Capitol today as at least one Senator backed away from a gun control measure he had earlier introduced....

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Saturday, January 19, 2013
Hawaii Republicans Announce District Caucuses
By David S Chang @ 6:48 PM :: 6035 Views :: Republican Party

Caucus meetings are open to all Republican Party members. You can sign up at www.GOPHawaii.com if you are not already a member.

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Saturday, January 19, 2013
40th Annual March for Life Saturday, January 26
By News Release @ 3:42 AM :: 6546 Views :: Family, Life

40th Annual March for Life rally at the State Capitol on Saturday, January 26, 2013, from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m....

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Saturday, January 19, 2013
Hawaii National Guard Trains Afghan Police in Zabul Province
By Selected News Articles @ 12:21 AM :: 4544 Views :: Military

“They’ve been in the lead,” said the 1st ABCT commander, Col. James R. Crider. “Now we need to make them independent.”

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Saturday, January 19, 2013
Abercrombie Administration Cuts General Assistance Payments Again
By News Release @ 12:09 AM :: 5632 Views :: Economy, Hawaii State Government

Effective Feb. 1, 2013, GA payments will be reduced from $319 to $298 per person per month for an estimated 5,537 Hawaii beneficiaries....

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Friday, January 18, 2013
UH System Enrollment Drops 2.3%
By News Release @ 11:59 PM :: 4754 Views :: Higher Education

Opening enrollment for the University of Hawai‘i System for the spring 2013 semester stands at 55,373 students, a slight decline of 1,303 students, or 2.3 percent, compared to spring 2012....

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Friday, January 18, 2013
Hawaii Supreme Court to Hear Another Shoreline Case
By Robert Thomas @ 9:34 PM :: 6896 Views :: Judiciary, Land Use

The Hawaii Supreme Court has accepted certiorari and agreed to review the Intermediate Court of Appeals' unpublished memorandum opinion in Diamond v. Dobbin....

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Friday, January 18, 2013
'School Quality Survey' seeks parent feedback
By News Release @ 8:40 PM :: 4282 Views :: Education K-12

Beginning this month, schools will mail or ask students to bring the surveys home....

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Friday, January 18, 2013
DoE Asks Feds to Transfer School Repair Funds from Kamaile Academy to Deaf-Blind School
By News Release @ 8:32 PM :: 4144 Views :: Education K-12

To date, one school has successfully applied for funds. Because the school was not awarded the full amount of the carryover, HIDOE has asked USDOE for approval to use the balance of the carryover for ... Hawaii School for the Deaf and the Blind (HSDB).

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Friday, January 18, 2013
HB9: Rep. Cynthia Thielen Seeks to Repeal PLDC
By Rep Cynthia Thielen @ 7:26 PM :: 7612 Views :: Environment, Economy, Hawaii State Government

Rep Thielen introduced House Bill 9 to repeal the controversial Public Lands Development Corporation....

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Friday, January 18, 2013
'VSE Corp' Blamed in Deadly Waikele Bunker Explosion
By News Release @ 4:20 PM :: 10501 Views :: Law Enforcement, Military, Small Business

"VSE was unaware that despite DEI’s military ordnance background, the company had no experience with fireworks disposal.”

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Friday, January 18, 2013
Six Hawaii Colleges Make ‘Military-Friendly’ List for 2013
By News Release @ 3:49 PM :: 8341 Views :: Higher Education, Military

...a survey through which we could measure the military-friendly policies enacted at each school....

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Friday, January 18, 2013
A Health Scare for Small Businesses
By NCPA @ 2:20 PM :: 6044 Views :: National News, Health Care, Small Business

Many small-business owners haven't yet realized that the way they structure their firm in 2013 could determine their status under the law in a year's time....

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Friday, January 18, 2013
Public-Private Partnerships Could Keep State Park Gates Open
By NCPA @ 2:16 PM :: 6773 Views :: Environment, National News, Hawaii State Government

Thousands of developed U.S. Forest Service recreation areas have utilized this PPP model successfully for more than 25 years....

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Friday, January 18, 2013
Responding to Newtown
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:58 PM :: 5822 Views :: National News, Health Care, Second Amendment

“Given the weak track record of federal mental health programs, states should exercise primary responsibility for determining appropriate mental health services, which will entail eliminating restrictions currently imposed by the federal government.”

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Friday, January 18, 2013
UHERO: UH Not as Bloated as Other Universities
By Andrew Walden @ 2:09 AM :: 3902 Views

...the total staff-to-faculty and total staff-to-enrollment ratios for UHM are also consistently and substantially below the averages...

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Friday, January 18, 2013
UHERO: UH Manoa Generates $3.2B in Business
By News Release @ 1:38 AM :: 6216 Views :: Economy, Higher Education

Overall, the $1.40 billion of education-related expenditures attributable to UHM generated $2.45 billion in local business sales, $735 million in employee earnings, $131 million in state tax revenues, and slightly under 20,000 jobs in Hawai‘i in FY2012....

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Friday, January 18, 2013
FERC Comes to the Rescue as Gas Supply Threatened by Tesoro Shutdown
By News Release @ 12:57 AM :: 5043 Views :: Energy

...The Gas Company relies on a single source for its SNG: the Tesoro oil refinery....

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Thursday, January 17, 2013
HSTA: "Time and Money Needed"
By News Release @ 10:17 PM :: 5704 Views :: Education K-12, Labor

“The State informed HSTA that there will be a formal response made at our next bargaining session on January 22."

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Thursday, January 17, 2013
Abercrombie: "Legislature May Need to Adjust Act 55 to Avoid Repeal"
By News Release @ 10:07 PM :: 7858 Views :: Environment, Development, Hawaii State Government, Land Use

"If the Legislature cannot achieve this outcome, the possibility of repeal will ensue."

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Thursday, January 17, 2013
Rep Thielen Introduces Bill Promoting Energy Efficiency in Schools
By Rep Cynthia Thielen @ 10:02 PM :: 6090 Views :: Education K-12, Energy

...schools that enter into these contracts and see their electric bills drop will actually get to keep the savings as a result....

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Thursday, January 17, 2013
Slom: Thank God Senate Will Again Have Daily Prayer
By Sen. Sam Slom @ 4:01 PM :: 7152 Views :: First Amendment, Hawaii State Government, Religion

Thank God, this body will once again have daily prayer, because if ever there was a time elected officials should call on a higher authority for guidance, it is now.

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Thursday, January 17, 2013
Kim: Opening Day Remarks
By News Release @ 3:52 PM :: 4956 Views :: Hawaii State Government

I hope, first and foremost, that there will be NO new tax burdens thrust upon our citizens … that we will not automatically open the taxpayers’ pocketbooks to every budget request, every new proposal, every capital improvement project....

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