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Tuesday, May 15, 2012 |
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May 15, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:32 PM :: 18596 Views :: Hawaii County News, Agriculture, Kauai County News, DHHL, Maui County News, Congressional Delegation, Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Hawaii Reapportionment Commission: U.S. Military, Military Families and Students Don't Count
- Hawaii Health Exchange Will Take Place of Your Insurer
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How They Voted May 14
- State DoH Loots $2M from Kona Water Bottler
- Lingle: Support S2134 for Military Working Dogs
- Supreme Court: Rights of Native Hawaiian Practitioners Not Absolute
- $12,482 dog run part of thousands of dollars in upgrades to governor’s residence
- I Aloha Molokai Candidate Challenges J Kalani ‘Powdernose’ English for Senate
- As Hemmings looms over Democratic Field, Abercrombie’s Wife Backs SD 25 Primary Challenger
- Hawaii Health Connector: HMSA Spent $27K Lobbying
- Hawaii Five-0 Teamsters Official Killed By Police
- Hawaii Movie, TV Drivers Have A Long History of Drugs and Violence
- Old Boy Crooks, Cronies Join Hirono Campaign Team
- FACT CHECK — Djou: I Accepted No PAC Money Last Quarter 100% True
- School library being eaten away by termites
- OHA Closing Poi Factory, Laying off Workers
- Private Hospital in Guam May Reduce Transfer of Patients to Hawaii
- Funding for Marines move to Guam on hold
- Quick growth of solar industry can lure entrepreneurs astray
- Feds Decide Thursday on Solar Tariffs
- New design unveiled for Hawaii's law enforcement memorial
- HB2681: DNLR Officers to Get Tasers?
- Convicted Felon, Thief Seeks $40K in Donations
- Cerberus Said to Seek $1.8 Billion Loan for Kyo-Ya Hawaii Resorts
- US Fish Stocks Hit Record Levels
- Hamakua Resident Roseanne Barr too Crazy for Green Party
- UH opponents get more money from taxpayers and students
- University of Hawaii Manoa Chancellor Hinshaw to get $287K sabbatical, $292K/year tenured med school professorship
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Monday, May 14, 2012 |
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May 14, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:49 PM :: 17236 Views :: Hawaii County News, Agriculture, Kauai County News, DHHL, Maui County News, Congressional Delegation, Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Declining Unions, Growing Churches Shape the Future of Hawaii Politics
- France, Flights, and Free Cars: A Peek into a $10B Jones Act 'Union'
- VIDEO: Molokai Voters' Guide to the Bizarre Rituals and Slippery Corridors of Hawaii Senate
- Marx Nails Mufi, Tulsi on Rail
- Court could erase map of new state legislative boundaries
- Big Cable Approval Sets off State Capitalist Feeding Frenzy
- Cayetano: I Cut Income Taxes
- PBN: 20.8% of Hawaii Workers Employed by Government – #7 in USA
- HB 1875 Will Likely Cause Complete Shutdown of Foreclosures in Hawaii
- Principals offered One-Time $10K merit bonus
- Makaweli Poi: Three Years of OHA Mismanagement Undo Generations of Cultural Tradition
- Kau Coffee: Resolute farmers and investors develop a fresh economy on acreage sugar left fallow
- ILind: Fears about bill amending sunshine law and public records law are overblown
- Honoring our fallen police officers this week
- UH graduates new doctors, hopes many will practice in the islands
- Kaiser reaches 3-year deal with 100,000 workers
- City’s Failure to Invest in Sewer Lines causes Four-Year Moratorium on new Construction
- SA: Give weekend ban at Kailua a chance
- Maui Raising Bus Fares?
- Time-share owners sue Diamond Resorts over fees
- LGBT Story: NovaLei Gonzalez, ‘I’m from Hawaii’
- DLNR Hosts Meetings on Kaunakakai Ferry Improvements
- Environmental groups collecting millions from federal agencies they sue, studies show
- Big Cable: WindFarm Scammers Push for Giant Transmission Project in Maine
- Fate of Bahamas OTEC Project Unknown
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Sunday, May 13, 2012 |
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May 13, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:28 PM :: 15273 Views :: Hawaii County News, Agriculture, Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party, National News, Development
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- Hawaii Republicans Unite for Once-in-a-Generation Campaign
- VIDEO: Congressman Charles Djou addresses Hawaii Republicans
- A Lull Before the Storm, Taxpayers Should be Wary
- Lingle: Save Medicaid, Social Security
- Hidden Windfarm Subsidy: Taxpayers Fork Out $18,401 for Each Electric Car
- Kauai Smartmeter Contract: Mainland Contractor Beats Out Local Union Workers
- Fund to Reelect Incumbents: Profitable Non-Profits Score Megabucks
- Rural Hospital Loses Millions Every Year, But Has Waiting List for LTC Beds
- Star-Adv Launches Another Attack on Charter Schools
- UH Leftist Perfersser: Close Down E-W Center
- Kalaeloa suggested to house incoming Marines
- Website aimed at Cayetano is not being very nice itself
- Pflueger can't block access to water and land, court rules
- DHHL Dumps College Scholarship Program
- Waimea community helps select new principal of charter school
- West Hawaii accounts for two-thirds of property tax burden
- Windfarm Scammers Take Aim at Small Pacific Island Nations
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Saturday, May 12, 2012 |
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May 12, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 12:34 PM :: 15414 Views :: Kauai County News, DHHL, Maui County News, Congressional Delegation, Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Hawaii Republican Convention This Weekend
- Djou Campaign Kickoff Rally May 23
- Hirono's Mainland Special Interests: Follow the Money
- UHERO: Government Millstone is a Drag on Economy
- JSC Names Nominees for Supreme Court, 2nd Circuit
- Governor Makes Appointments to Public Safety Department and DHHL
- VIDEO: Chamber of Commerce Ad for Lingle
- Ceremony marks the return of 4,000 Schofield soldiers from Afghanistan
- Abercrombie: “Environmentalists Not Paying Attention, Ought to take a look at Themselves”
- Nobody Represents Consumers on Hawaii Health Connector
- Queen's may buy and reopen Hawaii Medical Center-West
- Smart Meters to Take Billions out of Your Pocket
- Maui, Kauai Rebel against Smart Meters
- Hawaiian Grabs 82% of Market, Jacks Up Inter-Island Rates
- OHA Orders Shutdown of Poi Mill
- “Support & Cooperation”: Abercrombie Gives Farmers Market 2 more Weeks to Get Out
- Abercrombie, Ouansafi Make Prison out of Public Housing
- Council Votes $325K to Settle Retaliation Lawsuit vs Carlisle
- New UH Chancellor To Be Paid 95K More Than Predecessor
- PBS Hawaii legislative wrap-up gives win to governor
- Businesses satisfied with 2012 session
- Peeping Police Officer Case Set For Trial Next Month
- Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs petitions for Hawaiian green turtle de-listing
- Maui Councilmembers Pay Out Thousands in Bonuses to Staffers
- Construction of $200M windward sewage tunnel gets the green light
- HC&S sours on sugar production, profits up
- Student helping hands LDS members serve through statewide clean-up day
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Friday, May 11, 2012 |
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May 11, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:22 PM :: 16587 Views :: Hawaii County News, Agriculture, Kauai County News, DHHL, Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Full Text: Final Briefs Filed in Reapportionment Case
- Hawaii Republican Convention This Weekend
- Fading Chances for Rail Funding to Pass Congress
- Hirono Attacks Chamber of Commerce
- Flags Fly at Half-Staff in Honor of Chief Warrant Officer Don C. Viray
- Hundreds gather as an Army helicopter pilot killed in Afghanistan is laid to rest
- Hawaii’s Post-War Social Contract Has Collapsed
- PEW: Hawaii Social Mobility Average
- Tax Revenues Up 12.9%
- Dear Dan: Cayetano's Email to Inouye
- Council Votes Another $291M for Rail
- Grabauskas: Debt Ate 30% of Boston Transit Budget
- Is Peter Carlisle an Absentee Mayor or 'Doing the Business of the City'?
- Honolulu Bag Ban Benefits Halawa Manufacturer
- Ka Loko Figure Kusaka Co-Chairs Hannemann Campaign
- Oceanic Reveals Who’s Buying Political Ads
- Star-Adv: State Historic Preservation on Verge of Disaster
- Geothermal Pollution Claims Debunked
- HELCO gets OK for geothermal RFPs
- Omidyar’s Scribblers Launch Plan to Discredit Anti-Wind Activists
- Burlingame, Mizutani leave journalism
- Commerce, Justice, Science: Hirono, Hanabusa Vote ‘No’!
- 60 Minutes Preview: The Gulen Movement
- Mayor signs bill banning retail plastic bags
- Caldwell: “It is clear to me that the Governor is a Strong Supporter of this Rail Project”
- 57% of Governor’s Bills Passed
- Kona Volunteers Buy New Beds for Hospitals, Old ones ‘falling apart’
- Bio-Fool Plant May Get Started in Keaau
- Abercrombie: Secret volleyball idea at Waikiki Natatorium
- Battered by Sex Harassment Suits, Kauai County Politicos Launch New Department
- Kaiser settles with unions for nurses and other workers
- Postal Service plan would cut hours at 12 Hawaii post offices
- Sonar, Plastics: Enviros Re-Launch Hype Attacks
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Thursday, May 10, 2012 |
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May 10, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:40 PM :: 11231 Views :: Hawaii County News, Agriculture, Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- US Chamber of Commerce Endorses Lingle
- Bateman Announces Run for State House District Representing Kona, Kau
- Hawaii Superferries Renamed Guam, Puerto Rico
- 22% Proficient: Hawaii DoE Test Scores Reach Level of Alabama, Mississippi
- Hawaii Courts Among the Nation's Worst for Abused and Neglected Children
- VIDEO: Short Range Missile Killer Tested off Kauai
- Abercrombie questions status of rail
- Honolulu City Council Approves $450 Million in Commercial Paper to Strengthen Rail's Financial Plan
- Chamber aids Lingle with $275K in TV ads
- Oi: Thin-Skinned, Out of Touch Inouye Looses Cool, Feigns Offense
- HSTA Cancels Three Negotiating Sessions, Schedules Strike Vote
- Even Now HSTA’s Okabe Doesn’t Understand LBFO
- Honolulu Council Pushes Funds for Profitable Nonprofits
- Hawaii Supreme Court: State Must Fund Dept. of Hawaiian Home Lands
- Hawaii Insurers Alone in Meeting Requirements of Obamacare
- Tourist count to climb to record 7.8M this year, but Economy Grows only 2.2%
- Attempted kidnapping suspect released from OCCC 8 days ago
- Hawaii's first prosecutor-directed cold case murder unit created on Kauai
- 10,000 Big Island Dopers Dumber than One Judge
- City Seeks 30 Unit Apartment Building as Homeless Transitional Housing
- Cabanilla, DelaCruz, Nishimoto: Deficient financial disclosure forms still on Ethics Commission website after two months
- Cashing In: Hawaii Candidates Stockpiling Campaign Cash
- Are Hawaii's Rules On How Political Parties Can Be Financed Effective?
- Hawaii Geothermal Energy Bills Aim To Reduce Oil Use, Energy Costs
- HORIZON LINES REPORTS FIRST-QUARTER FINANCIAL RESULTS
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012 |
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May 9, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:15 PM :: 15404 Views :: Kauai County News, DHHL, Maui County News, Congressional Delegation, Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Pay to Play Bus Dealer Selling Illegally in Hawaii?
- Lawsuit: OCCC Guards Slept Thru Ex-Guard's Prison Suicide
- HSTA Reelects Okabe President
- Abercrombie Releases $37.5M in Transportation CIP
- City to Build More Transitional Housing for Homeless
- Lanai Could Be Liberated from Windfarm: Hawaii Land Sale Part of Dole Restructuring
- US Chamber of Commerce to Run More Campaign Ads in Hawaii
- Inouye Exports Hawaii Democrat Money to Mainland
- DHS Decides to Continue Coverage for Artificial Limbs
- Danger Sign: Act 221 Scammers Enthused About State’s Proposed IT Policy
- Cayetano BRT to Feature Designated Bus Lane on King St or Beretania
- Leeward Students Not Fooled by Grabuskas
- State DOT holds meeting on major freeway work
- HART Puts 150,000 pages of Rail Documents online
- Maui: Broken-down buses and growing ridership collide
- Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders Continue to Flee Hawaii
- Homeless near Keaau Beach Park pack up again
- City Contracting: 6 years, $300K to Build Public Restroom in Park
- Kauai Budget: More Spending, Higher Property Taxes
- Theft and forgery by ex-police officer fetch fine of $2,500
- Greenwood: Socialism is Needed to Win War on Obesity
- Marianas Pension Fund Runs Dry June 15
- Luddite Harassment Suit vs GMO Farmer Transferred to Federal Court
- Solomon Behind OHA Settlement, Geothermal Push
- 1 in 20 isle homeowners late in paying mortgage
- Lawsuit: State Removed Residents of Board-Care Home After False Allegations
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012 |
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May 8, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:55 PM :: 13816 Views :: Hawaii County News, Agriculture, Maui County News, Congressional Delegation, Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Lingle to Host Luncheon for Native American Congressman Tom Cole
- Hawaii: Important NRA Instructor Liability Bill Awaits Governor’s Approval
- Marumoto: Mass Release of Prisoners not True Justice Reform
- Thielen: Landfill Cannot Legally be Located at Ameron
- State Releases Information Technology Proposal
- Census Bureau Releases 2010 Data on Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders
- Survey: Hawaii Failing Small Business Owners
- Big Cable ‘Surcharge’ Provides Automatic Rate Hikes to pay for Billion-Dollar Cable
- MDs Scramble to Find Cancer Drugs for Patients
- AP Article on Hawaii GOP Convention Full of Errors
- Maui Mayor: Critics Of Inouye "Completely Out Of Touch"
- Troubled Myron B Thompson Charter School Tied to Solar Tax Credit Contractor
- Teachers' ballot to cover strike: Re-Vote is ‘Insult to Our Intelligence’
- Teachers Hammer Contract Re-Vote: Are You Kidding? It is a Waste of Time
- Race for the Bottom: Education Secretary Arne Duncan Backs Gay Marriage
- Hawaii #5 in Farmers Markets per Capita
- 2012 Senate Race: Where’s the Money Coming From
- Haleakala Raises Questions About Inouye’s Behind-the-scenes Wheeling Dealing
- SB2858 Administration Headed Away from Open Information
- Liberal Women’s Group Gives Hawaii a ‘B’ for Support of Working Families
- Bank of America starts offering mortgage principal reductions
- HB1755 Voter Registration On Line
- Are There Rules Governing How Political Parties in Hawaii Raise Money?
- Shooting suspect needs protection, lawyer tells judge
- Sewer Line Floats to Surface of Ala Wai Canal: City Says, Don’t Worry, We’re building a Railroad
- Tax Increase in Maui County Budget
- Maui council members issue bonuses worth $46K to 17 staffers
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Monday, May 7, 2012 |
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May 7, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:11 PM :: 12278 Views :: Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party, National News, Development
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- DoH Explains How Taxpayers Fund Gabbards’ Song and Dance Routine
- Federal Suit Threatened: UH-Hilo Violates Rights of Religious Student Groups
- VIDEO: Molokai Mocks Senators who vote 'With Reservations'
- Hawaii Nurse Elected International VP of Union Nurses Council
- Hawaii a 'Harbinger' as Insurers Give up on Long Term Care
- Death on the Job -- Hawaii Ranks 20th
- Calvin Say Refuses House Override Vote to Block Tricare Tax
- HB1967: Conciliation alternative to medical suits
- Hirono Apologizes for not Being Gay
- Who's Giving Big Bucks to Our Senate Candidates?
- ‘Grease Magnate’ Coming to Neil’s Birthday Party?
- Inouye Adopts Alaska Sen Begich
- ACT 51 Weighted Student Formula Robs Small Rural Schools
- DoE, FACE Team up for ‘Community Organizing’
- Honolulu 240 Ethics Complaints in Three Years
- NYT Praises Hawaii’s Pedophile Law—Doesn’t Mention State Exempted Itself
- Feds: Historic Preservation Division Still Falling Short
- Breiner Endorses Takata for Prosecutor
- VA Investigates Punchbowl Marker Relocations
- Hawaii Insurance Company Filings Not Available online
- AG Sues Bogus Online College
- VIDEO: Drowning off Kalapana, diver had to be taken to Pohoiki first
- Castle out of Debt, Beginning Open Heart Surgery
- Depakote: Lawyers Split $100M Settlement with 45 States, Hawaii Gets $1.2M
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Sunday, May 6, 2012 |
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May 6, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:44 PM :: 11001 Views :: Hawaii County News, Agriculture, Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- SEC Report: ML&P on Verge of Bankruptcy
- Bankrupt Marianas Islands Pension Fund Advisor Vanishes
- Asking for More by Limiting Deductions
- SA: List of How major bills fared at the Capitol
- VIDEO: Gov. Cayetano: Honolulu mayoral campaign getting nasty
- Borreca: Democratic State Convention “Going to be a Hotbed of Insurrection”
- Rail Finances Take $244.7M from TheBus
- Abercrombie Alienates Labor, Environmentalists, Progressives
- Survey: Vast Majority Agree Legislature, Inouye Out of Touch, Failing
- Civil Beat Poll: Questionnaire, Toplines and Crosstabs — April 2012
- Public benefits offered by developers are often met with doubts
- US Trustee wants Marianas Pension Fund bankruptcy case dismissed
- Hawaii Case Leads Supreme Court to Review Police Use of Stun Guns
- How to Maintain Competitiveness in Tourism
- Financial Advisor: Hawaii Working Class Families Having Difficulty with Gas, Food, Insurance, Housing
- Hawaii Island Democrats Vote to back Geothermal
- AG Targets Property Owner After Third Gambling Bust
- Change 1: Yukimura: Koloa Tenants ‘Ready to Change’
- Change 2: Journey back to Manzanar
- Change 3: Obama’s Gitmo Trial: "They're engaging in jihad in a courtroom"
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Saturday, May 5, 2012 |
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May 5, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:55 PM :: 15136 Views :: Hawaii County News, Agriculture, Maui County News, Congressional Delegation, Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Considering a Run for Office? Free Candidate Training in Hawaii
- Hawaii Falls Short, May Still Lose RTTT Money: Hirono, Hanabusa Pleased
- Statement from Gov. Linda Lingle on the Legacy of the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative
- Rep. Kymberly Pine Pulls Papers Today to Run for City Council
- Full Text: Supreme Court Ruling Allows Waimanalo Gulch to Remain Open
- DBEDT: April, 2012 Monthly Energy Report
- Senate Democrats: Highlights of 2012 Legislative Session
- Rail Contractors Demand Ben Cayetano Stop Telling the Truth about Inouye and his Cronies
- Meheula: Archaeological Studies Would Put Federal Rail Funding At Risk
- Case: Hirono Hurt Hawaii Farmers With Vote Against Free Trade With S Korea
- Hirono’s past actions don’t show support for kupuna
- Mitt Romney's run for president brings church into the spotlight
- Takata Challenges Kaneshiro for Prosecutor
- Hawaii County Police Refused to Arrest Escaped Coke Dealer
- Feds Indict HPD Narcotics Officer for Revealing Identity of Undercover Officer
- Lawsuit: Fire captain's statements About Woman’s Death led to retaliation
- Are Alleged Lottery Operators Eligible For Welfare, Public Housing?
- Missouri AG sues files suit over school band trip to Hawaii
- This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—May 5
- Maui Electric Bills Going Up Another 1.5%
- Lack of inspectors delays the approval of PV systems
- Construction subcontractors can’t withstand prolonged downturn
- Poll: Do Hawaiians Get Enough Benefits?
- Gun toting resident fights, captures attempted murder suspect
- Abercrombie Appoints Socialist Propagandist as ‘Poet Laureate’
- Big Square Building: Legislators Leave, Occupy Arrives
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Friday, May 4, 2012 |
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May 4, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:20 PM :: 11701 Views :: Maui County News, Congressional Delegation, Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Abercrombie: Re-Vote on HSTA Contract Has No Legal Standing
- Abercrombie Cheers Big Cable, Release of Criminals
- House Republicans reclaim the legacy of "Teddy" Roosevelt
- Marcus Oshiro: ‘Top Ten Reasons’ to Pass Supplemental Budget
- Mass Release of Hardened Career Criminals Will Begin this Summer
- Repeat Contract Rejection by HSTA Members Will Likely Lead to Strike
- Teachers Angered by Re-Vote, Prepare to Strike
- Vote Count For New HSTA Prez on Saturday
- Legislature Votes to Burn $14.4B
- Senate passes bill authorizing the state to establish regulations for an undersea power cable
- Stabbed in the Back by Sens English and Baker, Molokai and Lanai Wind Opponents Prepare for “Long Road”
- Environmental exemptions for geothermal energy near final approval
- House Kills Transit-Oriented Development Bill
- Tax Tricare? Senate Unanimously Overrides Abercrombie Veto of GET Exemption
- Cayetano Doubles Down: Calls Inouye Uninformed, Out of Touch
- Cayetano Pummels Caldwell, Carlisle Until They Run Out of Questions
- Charter School Accountability, DoE to get a Slice of Pre-K Education
- Go Topless Day Leads to New Speech Regulations
- CB Poll 66% Want to Die but Won’t do it Themselves
- Abercrombie’s OIP Director Insults Open Government Advocates
- Speaker: Thielen is ‘Out of Order’
- Marumoto Wins Funding for Snake Inspection Program
- Nene Transfer Averages $28K per Goose
- Public Housing Tenants Score $500K Settlement
- Insurance Commissioner's Financial Disclosures are Confidential
- First Wind files $15M permit for Hawaii wind farm
- Tax Subsidized Solar Buyers Not Interested in Cheaper Product
- Band Deposits Gambled Away in Vegas
- New graduates face challenging job market
- The Top 10 Facts About Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
- Drugmakers’ Deal With Obama Said to Be Probed by House
- Punatics, SPACE Cadets Fight over land Use Violations by HICCUP Circus
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Thursday, May 3, 2012 |
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May 3, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:39 PM :: 13661 Views :: Hawaii County News, Agriculture, Maui County News, Congressional Delegation, Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- As Legislative Session Ends, HSTA Suddenly Decides to Re-Vote Rejected Contract
- Legislative Wrapup: Victories for Life, Family and Religious Freedom
- Hawaii Churches Win Some Protection Against Forced Civil Unions
- SB2785: Ratepayers will Foot Bill for Billion Dollar Cable
- Ethics, Foreclosures, and Workers Comp: House Republicans Speak Out
- 'Dereliction of Duty' -- Hirono Misses Student Loan Vote for Campaign Event
- GAO Details Progress in Jones Act Study Requested by Puerto Rico Congressional Delegate
- Reject SB2776: Beth and Duane ‘Dog' Chapman Open Letter to Legislators
- Cayetano to Inouye Followers: What are you guys? Potted plants?
- One Year Later: DoE Moribund, Evaluation Bill failed
- CEOs: Hawaii is the 41st Best State for Business 2012
- Lawmakers: Send Tourists to the Moon
- SB2434: Last Minute Effort to Push Insurers off Healthcare Exchange Board
- Development, Big Cable: More Polling Results
- AARP Backs Star-Adv Effort to Keep Monopoly on Profitable Legal Notices
- Landfill selection process under scrutiny
- Having a Baby? Go to Kona -- Kamuela, Hilo Maternity Wards Overflowing
- Traffic fines go to myriad special funds held by state
- PUC Opens Docket for Big Isle Geothermal Plant
- Another Hearing Officer in UH Telescope Case Resigns Amid Conflict Controversy
- Luddites Plan Further Litigation against Fish Farm
- Guam Base Location not to be Finalized til 2015
- Tesoro's profitable quarter gets boost from Hawaii refinery
- Teamsters Shake Down Movie Producers Back East, Too
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012 |
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May 2, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:38 PM :: 10745 Views :: Maui County News, Congressional Delegation, Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Reps Fontiane, Pine Cheer Passage of Cyber-Crime Package
- Thielen Makes Final Push for Local Food Production Mandate
- As Final Vote Approaches, Molokai Launches Petition to Stop Big Cable
- HB280: Strangled by Bureaucracy, Coffee Farmers Call for Repeal of Mandatory Inspections
- CB Poll: Non-Voters Oppose Gay Agenda
- Senate resurrects undersea cable bill
- Transit-Oriented Development to be Voted Thursday
- Hawaii Medicaid fee fix up for a final vote
- Video: Secret Amendment Creates Public Land Development Corporation
- SB2115 Charter School Accountability to Be Voted Thursday
- Teacher: Interference, Retaliation by Principals Prevents Improvement in Student Achievement
- No Bus Cuts for Elementary Kids?
- Job cuts will not affect adult education services, schools superintendent says
- DOE tries to crack down on employee theft
- HB2175: Restricting OIP Passes House, Heads for Governor’s Desk
- Kona airport, Palamanui campus and NELHA get big CIPs Nearly $50.4M for West Hawaii projects from Legislature
- Services for soldier killed in Black Hawk crash will be May 10
- Cash Call! Fundraisers for Sens. Baker, Ige During Session
- Free Speech protocol required by a court order 10 years ago is moving through the Council
- Occupy Moron Arrested Disrupting Lei Day Ceremonies at Kapiolani Park Bandstand
- State crews clear out homeless camps under Nimitz highway
- Federal Raid Targeting 'Queens of Lottery', Chinatown Gambling Ring
- Star-Advertiser’s print circulation grows by 6%
- Larger newspapers to lose monopoly on publication of foreclosure notices
- Newt Gingrich ends his presidential campaign
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012 |
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May 1, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:26 PM :: 15660 Views :: Hawaii County News, Agriculture, Kauai County News, DHHL, Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Hawaii Family Forum Wins Right to Intervene in Gay Marriage Case
- Hanabusa, Pflueger, Thugs Fail in Effort to Drive Family off Kauai Kuleana Plot, Intimidate Lawyer
- Activist, Videographer Assaulted by Hanabusa’s Senate Security
- Hirono Misses Vote on Student Loan Reduction Goes to Campaign Fundraiser Instead
- Insurers Will Remain on Board of Hawaii Health Connector after Roz Baker Blocks Reform
- Democrats ‘Just don’t know who is going to vote’ in Primary
- Poll Voting, Cynicism Inversely Proportional
- Cost of Borrowing Could Rise: Non-Profits Score $11.6M, HMC Gets $80M in Bonds, Hurricane, Rainy Day Funds Gets Nothing
- Act 48: Legislators to vote on HB1875 foreclosure reform bill
- Ige Disappointed at Failure to Give Tax Credits to Billionaire Hollywood Movie Moguls
- Kobayashi Loses Vote on Restrictions of $450M Rail Line of Credit
- Cash Call! Sen. Kim Holds Fundraiser During Session
- UHM Ed Perfesser: Give Up or The Keiki Will be ‘hurt’ in “Most Destructive War’ over ‘Inane, Manini’ RTTT Grant
- Former school secretary charged with theft
- Land Use undermines Swapmeet? First Haleiwa, next Aloha Stadium
- Kollar Challenges Kauai Prosecutor over Unsolved Homicides
- Head of Honolulu Air Traffic Control Retires After near-miss Hidden from FAA
- City Council committee considers bills to strengthen disclosure requirements, training
- Bill aims to amend tax incentive for historic homes
- Luddites Crushed as Federal Judge Allows Fish Farming in Federal Waters
- Labeling law and voluntary certification would help isle coffee growers
- Guam: 2000 Marines to be Stationed, 3000 to Rotate
- Hawaii Family Rescuing Child Trafficked Victims in Thailand Gives an Update on Their Mission Work
- 1838 Hawaiian bible & map highlight antique collection
- Occupy Activists Arrested in Plot to Blow Up Bridge
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Monday, April 30, 2012 |
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April 30, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:26 PM :: 8273 Views :: Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- As Legislators Consider Mass Release of Hardened Criminals, Lawsuit Challenges Half-Way House Supervision
- Last Day for Legislation: Hospitals Medicare Fix, Early Release of Criminals, Gay Unions in Your Church, Tax Credits for Solar Scammers, and More
- Honolulu Banquet Salutes Opening of Aloha Pregnancy Center Osaka
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How They Voted April 30, 2012
- Hawaii Christian Coalition Annual Prayer at the Capitol May 3
- Hanabusa Sued over Beating by Sheriffs at Capitol
- Cayetano: Push Polls Backed by Pacific Resources Partnership
- Honolulu bus cutbacks will hit the already disadvantaged
- State’s Top Paid CEO, Big Landowner Say You Can Afford to build Railroad
- As Rail Heads towards Burials Central, State Historic Preservation Division May Lose Federal Certification
- Teacher Evaluations Immediately Become HGEA Make-Work Program
- Legislature voting on charter school omnibus bill
- Off to clumsy start in landfill site pick
- Poll: Why do Hawaii Voters Vote—or Not?
- Hawaii Banks top Nation Again
- Andrew Rosen Named President/CEO of Hawaii State Federal Credit Union
- Audit: Aloha Stadium Authority Mismanages Swap Meet
- Hawaii's Insurance Commissioner Subject to Political Influence
- Arakawa Rejects Proposal to Lift Cap on Maui Hostess Bars
- Hydropower developer gets Koke‘e License
- Barack Obama's mother 'was secretly in contact with his estranged father during his entire childhood without his knowledge'
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Sunday, April 29, 2012 |
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April 29, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:44 PM :: 12758 Views :: Hawaii County News, Agriculture, Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Zero in on Details to Figure Out True Story Behind Bills
- Soldiers, Community restore Kaena Point
- The History of Natural Gas in Hawaii
- Honolulu Attorney Named to Board of Owners Counsel of America
- AUDIO: Rick Hamada interviews Michael Hansen of Hawaii Shippers Council
- Borreca: Cayetano Victory Will Signal Serious Loss of Face for Inouye
- Over 200 Rail Jobs go to Mainland Workers
- Solar Scammers May Yet get Legislative Reprieve
- Monday is Deadline for Bill to Release 1,195 Criminals on Streets of Hawaii
- Hawaiian Electric CEO ‘Earns’ $5.3M, Top 5 HEI Execs Pull Down $12.65M
- Natural gas is cheap, but Jones Act rules it out for Hawaii
- SA: Start laying groundwork for Marines
- State Senator "Appalled" by Newspaper Lobbying Tactics
- Cataluna: New Dump? Lets just Make the Peasants Follow our Garbage Rules
- Why Does Abercrombie Have anything to do with Van Jones?
- Demise of Pro Bowl Political Karma for Abercrombie
- UHH added execs during crunch
- Sewer moratorium impacts planned senior facility
- AG, Large Landowners Block Oahu Burial Council Function
- Hawaii Co Voters Consider Blocking Reapportionment Commission Members from Running
- Kenoi Again Refusing to Fund Hawaii County Workers Pension
- Bronster Seeks Dismissal of NMI Pension Fund Bankruptcy Petition
- Remember PREL? Meet McREL
- Officials Request Permission to Shoot Endangered birds to Save Endangered Salmon
- Nature Conservancy Scientists Challenges War on Invasive Species
- Adopted in 1977 Honolulu, Philadelphia Man Finds Himself on Missing Children Website
- Godfather of local surf a legend
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Saturday, April 28, 2012 |
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April 28, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:15 PM :: 15816 Views :: Hawaii County News, Agriculture, Maui County News, Congressional Delegation, Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- GOP Lincoln Day Dinner Draws Hundreds
- Lingle: Americans Losing Trust in TSA
- Hotel Workers Sue Local 5 Over Political Use of Dues Money
- Sa-i-gu: Koreans wrestle with aftermath of LA riots
- Green Energy? Do The Math
- After Soaking Taxpayers for $63M on Bailout, Central Pacific Financial Corp. Reports $13.5 Million Net Income
- Audio: Rick Hamada Interviews Congressional Candidate Matt Di Geronimo
- DHS Grabs 12% of Nursing Home ‘Provider Fees’, Hospitals Soaked for 7%
- Pork: The House wanted $300M, the Senate wanted $500M so they compromised on $825M
- Senate Approves Bill Exempting State Projects from Environmental Regs, Approves Amended Hospital Deals
- Civil Unions Mandate Passes, Deadline Extended Until Monday
- Bill Grandfathers Pension Spiking Rights for All Existing Employees
- Last Ditch Effort for Movie Moguls to Score Megabucks from $500M Senate ‘Accelerator’ Plan?
- ILind: Rep. Choy credited with blocking expanded film industry tax credits
- Hawaii Budget Bills Getting ‘Final Touches’
- JRI: 50% Will Offend Again, so We Must Let these Criminals Out Now
- Rail Vacuums $8 million more out of Taxpayers’ Pockets
- Grabauskas Promises Not to Tear Down One Pillar
- Okabe: BoE Gives Too Much Power to Governor
- Laura Thielen Quits Carlisle Admin to Run for Senate
- Federal Communications Commission votes to make political TV ad spending more transparent
- Unions Back Loser: ILWU's endorsement of Caldwell makes him No. 1 in union support
- HMSA Pays for nearly 2,000 medical flights from Big Island
- Mainland Realtors Score Rail Redevelopment Contract
- Star-Adv: Honolulu Bag Ban Gives Us 3 Years to Impose Bag Tax
- Rooftop Solar Limited to 15%, But Industrial Wind Project claims 16% of Maui’s total
- Maui favored as site for smart-grid testing
- Uncovering the Truth About the Undersea Cable
- Nearly Bankrupt, Horizon Lines Pledges to go to the Bottom With the Jones Act
- Endangered Birds Eat Endangered Taro
- U.S. Marshals arrest Maui teacher for multiple counts of sex assault of 8th Grader
- ‘Scientists’ Change Counting Technique, Find 90% Fewer Sharks
- Rep. Marumoto address SCR 97 - Uninsured Motorists
- GOODWILL FOR GOOD JOBS: GOODWILL INDUSTRIES TO HOLD JOB FAIR MONDAY, APRIL 30
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Friday, April 27, 2012 |
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April 27, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:59 PM :: 11739 Views :: Kauai County News, DHHL, Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Seven Hawaii High Schools Compete in World Championship of Robotics
- US, Japan Reach $8.6B Deal on Transfer of 9,000 Okinawa Marines
- Marumoto: Plan to Release 1,195 Criminals is 'Kapakahi'
- KITV Video: Euro Socialist working for UHERO Peddles Plastic Bag Tax Proposal
- Leaked Democrat Emails: “Emotional Chickens” Bicker Over Laura Thielen Candidacy
- 6PM Today is Deadline for Bills to Clear Conference Committee
- Plan to Release Hardened Criminals onto Streets of Hawaii May Be in Trouble
- Poof! The tax credits to Hollywood are up this a.m.
- SB3003 Streamlines Permitting for Geothermal Exploration
- Excellent News: Tsuji Amends Phony ‘Food Self-Sufficiency’ Bill to Prevent another HCEI-type Disaster
- New Hearing Officer in UH Telescope Case is Also UH President's Attorney
- Photos: Bulldozers Rape Earth to Construct Mammoth Tax Shelters
- Ag lands approved for solar farms
- State Evicting Haleiwa Farmers Market On Two Weeks Notice
- Two Projects Already Blocked: Carlisle Admin Announces Sewer Hook-Up Moratorium Until 2018
- Time Warner/Oceanic Cable in broad attack on public access media
- Public housing getting modern renovations with private help
- Hannemann Supports Jones Act
- ILWU Backs Loser Caldwell
- Union Lawyers Score $250K Payoff from Hotel
- Pot-Head Abercrombie Signs Law Banning Spice
- Dopers Push Dolan for Hawaii County Prosecutor
- Oahu travel agent tells school band he lost $267,500 for Hawaii trip
- Council passes anti-bullying resolution
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Thursday, April 26, 2012 |
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April 26, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:53 PM :: 9433 Views :: Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Hilarious Video: I Aloha Molokai Rips Civil Beat ‘Fact’ Check
- Hawaii is #2 in Nation for Mortgage Scams
- HMA Warns Against 'Imminent Storm' Caused by Obamacare Implementation
- Feds Begin Forcing Hawaii Island MDs into 'Medical Homes'
- NMI Medicaid Cases “Circulate in Hawaii Like Hot Potatoes”
- Hatch Act Violation: Scandalous GSA Official Starred in Inouye Campaign Ad
- City 'Error': Kahuku is #1 Landfill Site, not Ameron
- Dog the Bounty Hunter, Wife Lobby Against Hawaii Justice Reform Initiative
- Star-Adv: Legislators Should give Cronies $300M in Pork Projects, not $500M
- SB2858: Freedom Of Information At Stake In Legislature
- House to vote on Senate's version of highway safety bill
- $25 million for student transit still falls short of Colluding Bus Contractors Wishes, Matayoshi Searches for Pain Plan
- DoE Slashes $6M from Adult Ed Classes
- Abercrombie Scores Big Victory -- Pro Bowl Likely Ending
- DoE TA Pleads Guilty to Sexting, Stalking 12-yr old Girl
- Made Desperate by Hirono’s Weakness, National Democrats Target Lingle
- HART: Nearly Half of Rail Jobs Have Gone to Mainlanders
- Gabbard Votes for $450M Rail Debt
- Plastic Bag Ban: Honolulu Council votes to Cut Lots of Timber for Paper Bags
- After 58 Years of Democrat Rule, Hawaii Women Suffer 20% ‘Pay Gap’
- Obamacare Bribes Distributed in Swing States: Hawaii Gets Nothing
- Obama Admin Redirects $8.3B to Put off Collapse of Medicare Advantage Until After the Election
- Hawaii Gets OK to Reduce Medicaid Income Eligibility
- Hawaii Politicians Received $2.2 Million in Illegal Campaign Contributions
- Big Island Newspaper Publisher Was Actually Coke Dealer Eugene Esposito—Escaped from Lompoc
- Ethics: Secret Target of Secret Commission Gets Anonymous Reprimand
- Old Geothermal Site Up For New Lease
- Anti-Geothermal Meeting in Pahoa
- Big Island Tea retails for $4800/lb at Harrods
- Lower foreclosure rate helps Honolulu rise in U.S. ranking
- Civil Beat Bases Evaluation of Hawaii ERS on George Berish’s Opinion
- Sen. Hee, Rep. Jordan Hold Fundraisers During Session
- Hawaii's Chief Securities Enforcement Lawyer Resigns
- Hawaii Senate confirms Krieg as state Department of Human Resources and Development director
- Students get a sneak peak at hospitality industry through lens of development program
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012 |
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April 25, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:30 PM :: 18089 Views :: Hawaii County News, Agriculture, Kauai County News, DHHL, Maui County News, Congressional Delegation, Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Full Text: Plaintiffs' Motion for Preliminary Injunction Against Reapportionment Plan
- Clinton’s chief economist supports Jones Act reform for Hawaii
- Relativity Media Using Hollywood Accounting to Sell Hawaii Film Incentive
- DoD IDs Hawaii Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan
- 2,700 Okinawa Marines Coming to Hawaii
- Planning Commission Set to Decide on 15-year Extension for Waimanalo Gulch Landfill
- House Democratic Blog: OE Seeks Funds to Prepare for Possibility of Another Reapportionment Plan
- Court Asked to 'Remedy Extraordinary Wrong'
- Say: SB755 Transfers Control from Environmental Council to Governor’s Office
- SA: Resist limiting public input
- House, Less Pork with More Control
- Cash Call! Rep. Herkes Raises Money During Session
- Rail Contractors Illegally Using Ag Land for Construction Yard
- $80M PM Contra-Flow Plan Will Cut Commutes by 20 minutes
- Federal Judge Voids HGEA Make-Work Fee on Air Cargo
- HB2659: Forces Churches to host Gay Union Ceremonies
- Civil Beat Considers a Gay Marriage with Grabuskas
- Another Bogus Civil Beat Fact Check -- Attacks I Aloha Molokai
- Hawaii now Has 10,000 Medicated Pot-Heads
- More Medicated Drug Pushers Busted
- Big Isle Newspaper Publisher is Escaped Coke Dealer
- Pot-Heads, Group Led by Convicted Drug Dealer Harass Hawaii Co Council over Geothermal
- Psychos Obsess over Radiation Dangers on Kauai
- Kauai’s Troubled Prosecutor Gets Appointment From Abercrombie
- Shapiro: Landfill Plan Kills Jobs, Wastes Money
- Honolulu Salaries 2012 — The City's Big Earners
- EMS Director Questions Merger with Fire Department
- Humane Society Pushes for Conferees on HB108
- House Bill 2703 would commit the Aloha State to doubling the amount of food we grow in the islands by 2020
- Feds Investigate Fourth Killing of Monk Seal
- 9%: Hawaii has Most Multi-Generational Homes in Nation
- Business group donates iPads for DOE teacher evaluations
- Gingrich to leave presidential race next Tuesday, sources say
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012 |
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Letters to the Editor, April 2012
By Letters to the Editor @ 12:44 AM :: 14242 Views :: Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party, National News, Development
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- Transit: Make Better With What We Have
- Tripler Suicide: Army Less Stressful than Bad Marriage
- Does Assisted Suicide Reduce Murder Rate?
- Seek Truth in Response to Physician Assisted Suicide
- Well written and thoughtful letters from young Hawaiians
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012 |
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April 24, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:19 PM :: 8997 Views :: Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Contractor Scores Hawaii RTTT Assessment Contract
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted April 23, 2012
- Hawaii has no consumer advocates, national advocacy official says
- Justice Reinvestment Preview: Zero-Tolerance Probation Used as Excuse to Let Quadruple Rapist Walk
- 1195 Hardened Criminals to be released onto streets of Hawaii, 48.8% expected to Reoffend
- Teacher: Please Reject Race to the Top
- HART Addition: Spend $119M to Build and Tear Down Rail, Avoid $22M in Delay Claims, Total Savings $194M
- They’re Baaaack! Film company trying to resurrect huge new tax credits
- Solar Scammers Give One Last Push to Save their Illegal tax Credits
- Socialists Give One Last Push for State Bank of Abercrombie founded on Toxic Mortgages
- Meeting in Secret, Legislature Decides How Many HGEA Make-Work Jobs To Create
- Usual Crooks, Cronies Lineup to back Maile Shimabukuro
- Hawaii Lawmaker Voted on Bills Backed By His Employer — Oceanic Cable
- Accreditors want public input on HPD's adherence to policies
- Suffering Under Obama’s Earmark Ban, Inouye Delivers a Piddling $5.8M
- Inouye’s DoA $250M for Rail Cited as Earmark Work Around
- Honolulu Council to Vote on Bag ban or Bag Tax Wednesday
- City Moving On $10M H-POWER Sewage Burner
- Usual Suspects Attempt to Block Construction of Haleakala Solar Telescope
- Full List of Honolulu City Employees Published
- Hawaii Residential Electric Bills up to $847 per Month
- Hawaii’s Willoughby Eliminated in First Round of Utah GOP Voting
- Legislation on air quality could close Nuuanu crematorium
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Monday, April 23, 2012 |
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April 23, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:45 PM :: 8591 Views :: Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Full Text: 2012 HSTA Legislative Endorsement Questionnaire
- DHS Proposes Merging Medicare, Medicaid
- Health Exchange Launches First Stage of Computer Program to Control Your Health Care
- Senate Likely to Shift Republican Even Without Lingle Victory
- Waipahu Man Among Four Hawaii Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan
- Sierra Club: Unlike Lingle, Abercrombie Hasn’t Met a Farm He Doesn’t Want to Pave
- Carlisle Demands Council Approve $450M credit line for ‘Unforeseen’ rail ‘Catastrophe’
- SB2927 Contradicts Grabuskas’ Call for Rail Transparency
- Case Decries Sierra Club Endorsement of ‘Endless Partisan Warfare’
- Case Burns Money While Hirono and Lingle Save for Fall
- Green Energy Scammers Seek to Cover Ford Island Runway With Solar Panels
- HB2275 / SB2466: Hospitals Step Up to Make Medicare, Medicaid Work
- Patients pay Annual Fee to Get 30 minute Doctor Visits
- Four-Time Child Rapist Gets Probation
- Another man stabbed outside of Mayor Wright Homes
- Bugs, Snakes, and Mosquitoes Feature in This Year’s Pitch for More HGEA Make Work Jobs
- Techie Creates Online Campaign Finance Database
- State Audit Information Often Withheld from Public
- Louie takes a Slap at Clayton Hee, Borreca over Kakaako Deal
- Enviros Brag About Ending Traditional Hawaiian Cultural Practices
- Hawaii banks report more lending, Profits
- Hawaii teams win awards at world robotics meet
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Sunday, April 22, 2012 |
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April 22, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:07 PM :: 12064 Views :: Kauai County News, DHHL, Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Zip Needed in Public Decision Making
- Hawaii Court Ruling Challenges Gun Ban After Non-Violent Misdemeanor Conviction
- DHS Money Grab Threatens Hawaii Hospitals, Nursing Homes
- HSTA Candidates Bicker Over Who is Better at Killing Education Reform
- Senate Shows Little Interest in Environmental Exemption Bill
- Star-Adv: Hirono should debate Case more often
- Suzanne Case: Stop Global Warming Because I need to Get to My House on Round Top
- Sierra Club Endorses Hanabusa, Hirono, Gabbard
- Retail Giants Want to Make Sure they Get a Cut of the Bag Tax Action
- Kakaako advocates rally against OHA’s residential development
- Hawaii Should Demand Labeling of ‘Organic’ Foods
- Dispute reveals OHA Grant Funded Kawaiaha'o Disinterment
- Defense Lawyers Upset over Bill Protecting Animals
- AP: Hawaii College Grads Face Worst Job Prospects in Years
- KIUC smart meter rollout to begin
- Political Pressure, New Competition Bring New Cuts In Star Advertiser Ad Rates
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Saturday, April 21, 2012 |
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April 21, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:38 PM :: 15224 Views :: Kauai County News, DHHL, Maui County News, Congressional Delegation, Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Selection Committee Proposes Kailua Site for New Oahu Landfill
- Utility Rejects "Expensive, High Risk" Undersea Power Cable Project
- Ward, Slom, Marumoto Talk Story at Maunalua Bay
- “Dumbest Decision in City’s History” Rail Construction to begin Monday
- Legislators Pressured by HSTA Legislative Endorsements During Session
- 93% Not participating in Earth Day activities this weekend
- Sovereignty Scammers’ Lawyer Scores $1.2M in Estate Settlement
- House, Senate Conferees Debate How Much Control Gays Should Have over your Church
- Billionaire Movie Moguls Could Still Get Hawaii Tax Credits
- Cash Call! Fundraisers for Reps. Evans, Awana, Mizuno
- Lawmakers working to iron out details of 'move over' bill
- SA: Fine on city an empty gesture
- Hawaii Tourism Authority Gives $1.1M to Profitable NonProfits
- Pflueger Federal Tax Case Split Into Three Trials
- Appeals court upholds labor ruling against Hilo newspaper
- DoH Harasses Farmer, Forces Destruction of Crops
- Kauai Administration pondering property tax increase
- The Dalai Lama isn’t a rock star
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Thursday, April 19, 2012 |
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April 19, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:57 PM :: 11800 Views :: Hawaii County News, Agriculture, Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Legislators Voting to Release 1,100 Criminals on Streets of Hawaii
- HB425 Opens Door to Natural Gas, Mandates Diversity of Fossil Fuel Energy Sources
- Save Kakaako: Rally to Stop HB2819
- Hanabusa Scores $284,000 in special interest money
- DoE Announces Public School Graduation Dates
- US Energy Dep't: 300 Open Criminal Investigations of Green Energy Scammers
- Star-Adv Editorial: Census should guide election boundaries
- Hawaii Co Elections Office: Alcohol, Parties, and Sign-making Business
- Rail? Cayetano? Abercrombie Spokesperson Gives Non-Denial Denial
- Bus Ridership Jumps as City Considers Service Cuts
- Rail Project Cases Argued in Federal, State Court
- Desperate Green Energy Scammers Now Claim their Baksheesh Benefits Economy 44-1
- Legislature Voting to Let Lots of Criminals out of Prison
- Lawsuit Settlement Will Cover up Homosexual Rape Gang stretching back to 1970s at Blind-Deaf School
- Hawaii Kevorkian Taunts Police
- Pathetic Hawaii Supreme Court Gives Alleged Attempted Babykiller New Trial
- Hanabusa Pays Herself $51K from Campaign Funds
- ‘Buzzy G’ Coordinates Senate Democrat Fundraisers so Lobbyists Can Avoid Scheduling Conflicts
- Tsunami alert: Don't cut that program
- President Obama signs Hawaii disaster declaration
- Stimulated? Hawaii Burns Thru $1.5B in ‘Recovery’ Funds
- Business chiefs try to ride to the rescue of rail project
- Failure to Block: Hanabusa, Hirono Vote Against Small Business Tax Cuts
- Rep. Pono Chong on SB 755, Environmental Protection & the Public Trust
- Bag Tax in Political Death Throes
- City Employees Travel to Germany to Oversee Sewer Pipe Manufacturing
- Council Spends on Travel and TVs
- GSA Watchdog Says Employees Are Reporting Abuse
- Hawaii Could Establish a Veterans Court modeled on Drug Court
- Act 208 Blocks Crazy Stupid Criminals from Working as Security Guards
- Bank Fees don’t Pass Legislature
- NELHA Aquaculture Pays Off
- City Council committee approves measure to Create Kayak Rental Monopoly in Kailua
- Lahainaluna HS to Celebrate David Malo Day
- NMI Retirement Fund Bankruptcy Goes to Court
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012 |
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April 17, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:18 PM :: 14667 Views :: Hawaii County News, Agriculture, Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Djou Outlines Strategy for Congressional Race
- Challenge to Democratic Party Bosses: Laura Thielen Launches State Senate Campaign
- No Natural Gas for Hawaii with Jones Act Ships
- Malulani Hospital seeks Mainland Partner
- Hawaii Bishop at Vatican, Prays for Courage to Defend Religious Liberty
- Hawaii Marines Lead Offensive Against Jihadi Dope Farms
- Election plans move ahead despite pending lawsuit
- Were Political Signs Printed at Hawaii County Elections Commission Warehouse?
- Akaka Hospitalized over weekend? Misses Key Vote
- KHON Retracts Story About Inouye Hospitalization
- Borreca: Solving Natatorium issue could be Governor's legacy
- Hannemann has $631K to Gabbard’s $465K
- State Refuses to Enact Tax Credits for the Poor
- Bill to speed development at rail depots moves ahead
- TEA Party Rally Draws few to Capitol
- Star-Adv: Haleiwa Farmers Market Should Move to make Way for State Paper Shufflers
- Hawaii Whistleblowers Not Protected from Retaliation
- EPA Working Hard to Make Sure Nobody Saves Money with Seawater Air Conditioning
- Waimanalo Gulch Hearing Today
- Enviros Sue Maui County over Wastewater Again
- Hawaiian Airlines Inaugural Flies Jewel Smugglers to Japan and back
- As City Cleans up Last Big Waianae Coast Homeless Camp, Some Finally Accept Shelter
- VIDEO: Homelessness Industry Activist Harasses Makaha Beach Cleanup Volunteers
- MD Busted for Selling Dope
- SB2579 Encourages Underage Prostitution?
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Monday, April 16, 2012 |
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April 16, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:37 PM :: 8855 Views :: Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Dalai Lama Slams Beijing for Burnings
- Hawaii Bishop at Vatican, Prays for Courage to Defend Religious Liberty
- Honolulu TEA Party Rally April 16
- Case: Far Left Hirono is just as Bad as Limbaugh
- Rail Advertiser: Don’t Add 4th Lane to H-1
- Abercrombie Tries to Block HFF From Defending Marriage
- Blue Planet Foundation Legislative Agenda: Higher Utility Bills for the People, More Tax Credits for ‘Green’ Energy Scammers
- OSHA to Take Over Takamine’s Incompetent DoL?
- In spite of High Cost of Living, Hawaii Workers’ Earnings Below US Average
- Hawaii doctors offer patients 'choice' to die
- KHON Retracts Story About Inouye Hospitalization
- NHLC Shake-Down Lawyers Still Grabbing for Control of Public Water
- 13% of OHA Small Business Loans Default
- Kobayashi to Credit Unions: Disclose Exec Salaries, or Face Property Tax Hikes
- Congressional hearing on GSA's lavish spending begins Monday
- Politics: Leaders debate Micronesia impact in US areas
- Micronesia: Fishing days to dominate treaty talks
- Vacation Rental Legislation is Deceptive
- 90% of Hawaii Financial Disclosures Hidden from Public View
- Shoppers and farmers are dismayed over the state forcing the Haleiwa Farmers' Market from its site
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Sunday, April 15, 2012 |
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April 15, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:29 PM :: 7810 Views :: Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Lingle to Focus on Comprehensive Tax Reform
- Ed Week: Hawaii in Biggest Trouble, Feds Have Good Reason to Revoke Race to the Top
- UH: Hawaii Physician Shortage Could Grow from 600 to 1600
- SB3010: Sierra Club Threatens to Sue over Environmental Exemptions
- Zenith Reached in Earmarking of Unrelated Fund Sources
- QUEST Rationing: Hospitalization, Artificial Limbs Eliminated to Pay for ‘Preventative Services’
- Hee: OHA Must Go After More Land and Money
- SB2438: PUC to Rely on HECO-Controlled ‘Institute’ to Approve ‘Clean Energy’ Projects
- Bag Tax, Big Cable, and Kupuna Care Lead Star-Adv Editors Legislative Priorities
- Ihara: ‘Gut and Replace’ Hits New Peak this Session
- Will Natural Gas be Allowed to Lower Hawaii’s Electric Rates?
- State Capitalists Raise Money for Pro-Rail Propaganda
- Hanabusa Brings in $224,000
- DoH Bans Backyard Burning Statewide—$10,000 Fine
- Hawaii Would Be Hit Hard by Buffet Rule
- Akiona: Obama Budget Targets Independent Contractors
- Guam National Guard Teams to Deploy to Afghanistan
- UH Manoa Perfesser Predicts Future Census Questions: How many times have you changed your sex?
- Hardships do not faze new BYUH student president
- Lawsuit: Waikiki Shooting Gallery Charged with Negligence
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Saturday, April 14, 2012 |
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April 14, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:47 PM :: 18123 Views :: Hawaii County News, Agriculture, Kauai County News, DHHL, Maui County News, Congressional Delegation, Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Mazie Brings "Mr Fannie Mae" to Hawaii
- Hawaii Shippers Council Outlines Jones Act Reform Proposals
- Hawaii Economic Performance Ranks 15th, Economic Outlook 46th
- Hawaii Youth Link Assisted Suicide to Teen Suicide
- Makers of Promotional Products Rally to Defense of Rail
- SB2341: Would Allow Overnight Accommodations on Maui Ag Land
- SB2394: Would Allow Condemnation of Private Property to Bail Out Mortgage lenders
- VIDEO: Thielen, Rivere, Ward Rip SB755 Environmental Exemptions
- Case: Hirono Now Ducking 10 Debate Invitations
- Public Access TV Relegated to Digital Siberia
- Adrianne Heely Appointed Maui Judge
- North Korea's Rogue Missile Launch
- Redistricting case will be heard in May
- HSTA pressure kills class-time bill
- Educated Youth Flee Hawaii
- Waipahu Students Not Fooled by Rail Presentation
- Abercrombie’s Wife Endorses Tulsi Gabbard
- Legislature out of control on attacking Hawaii’s environmental protections
- Civil Beat’s “integrity investigation” questioned by Ian Lind
- Legislators Consider Giving Sex Workers Welfare, Labor Law Protections
- Honolulu TSA Screeners Acquitted of Catching too Many Illegals and Too Many Drug Smugglers
- GSA official to assert privilege to remain silent
- World Laughs at Incompetent Socialists in N Korea
- Illegal Dumping Settlement Dumps on taxpayers
- After Hee’s Bill Fails, Opihi Season Requested by Resolution
- Schatz traveling to Asia to discuss clean energy Scams
- Kauai electric utility will begin installing smart meters
- Horse Cruelty Case May Be Tossed Due to Bumbling Kauai Prosecutor’s Office
- Homeless Alcoholic Busted in Kauai Church Fire
- UH Manoa Perfesser Preaches His Atheist Religion at California Revival Meet
- Some Hawaii post offices offering late collections on Tax Day
- International Marketplace to Be Demolished
- Photo: First axis deer killed on Big Island
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Friday, April 13, 2012 |
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April 13, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:31 PM :: 8052 Views :: Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Lingle Campaign Raises $3.1M
- Not Aimed at Hawaii This Time: N Korea Rocket fails, falls in Ocean
- Celebrate Israel Day Hawaii, May 20
- Am Samoa Congressional Race: Radewagen, Lancaster Challenge Faleomavaega
- Salon: Am Samoa's Congressional Delegate Defends Dictatorship at Behest of Lobbyist
- Abercrombie Signs Kakaako Over to OHA, HCDA Maintains Development Control
- HB 108- Dog Fighting OK, Dog Breeding Illegal
- Payment Protection: State Sues Seven Mainland Credit Card Companies
- Akaka: Lingle is ‘Friendly’, Her Role Model is ‘Open-Minded’
- Tipping Point? Isle Democrats lead charge against the environment
- Abercrombie Dept of Corrections Appointee Flees State
- SA Editors Grasping at Straws Claim: Teacher evaluations within reach
- DOE seeks extra funds to preserve Colluding Bus Contactors
- Grabbucks: New HART Boss Pulls Down $300K / year
- Grabbucks vs TheBus: “Rail is the Gift that keeps on Giving”
- Inouye: The Only Thing That Will Stop Rail is World War III -- Carlisle: We Need to Build an Army
- Cayetano: "Carlisle prone to Making Stupid Statements"
- Caldwell: Carlisle “Crazy” To Build Rail Columns and tear them Down
- Honolulu Council Keep Rail Budget Intact
- Malama Solomon Scores Worst Senate Attendance Record
- House OKs charter school bill despite divisive ethics provision
- Senate Passes bill Requiring minimum sick leave
- State deputy sheriff accused of sexually assaulting female detainee
- April electric rates up on all islands except 1
- Crooks, Cronies Squabble over Geothermal Royalties
- Haleiwa Farmer’s Market to Stay open til end of Month
- DoH Harasses Local Businesses, Cane Fire Gets Fine
- Solar Telescope Construction May Begin Despite Permit Challenge
- SB2402: Dim Bulb Legislators Vote to Block State Use of Fluorescent Bulbs, Stadium Lighting on Edge
- Leading Theocrat Hailed by Billionaire as He Launches Four Day Hawaii Tour
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Thursday, April 12, 2012 |
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April 12, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:35 PM :: 8501 Views :: Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Lingle, Collins: "Bipartisanship is Leadership"
- VIDEO: Guam Senator Garners Support for Jones Act Exemptions
- The View from DC: No Sign Hawaii is Serious about Teacher Evaluations
- State Steals $200M from Hawaiians, Gives 30 Ac to OHA: Hee, Solomon Boycott Signing
- Matthew DiGeronimo to Run for CD2
- Linda Lingle's Role Model: Susan Collins of Maine
- Useless $75,000 Drone Traced to Waihee Cronies
- Boylan: Hawaii Dems Suspicious of Party-Switchers
- GSA Spends $330,000 to Relocate One Employee to Hawaii, Then He Quits
- Manoa Chancellor Candidates At the End of their Careers
- Number of police officers holding medical marijuana cards remains a mystery
- Police Warn Chinatown Shopowner not to Antagonize Meth Dealers, Threaten Him With Arrest
- City Council Would Create Bureaucracy to Track Plastic Bag Use
- Stanley Chang: Give Councilmembers $40K more to Play With
- State orders Haleiwa Farmer's Market to close
- Koa Ridge, Hoopili Last Big Master Plans?
- Profitable Nonprofits Lose 19%
- Few Hawaii Donors Support Presidential Super PACs
- Plan would squeeze 4th lane into Honolulu freeway
- Historic Kauai Church Vandalized on Easter Eve
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012 |
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April 11, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:35 PM :: 13795 Views :: Hawaii County News, Agriculture, Maui County News, Congressional Delegation, Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Three Judge Panel Will Hear Reapportionment Case
- Honolulu TEA Party Rally April 16
- Study: Hawaii Cost of Long Term Care Soars 87% in Five Years
- Carlisle Admin: Keep Waimanalo Gulch Open 15 More Years
- Legislators Exempt State from Child Molestation Claims
- Horizon Lines Completes Restructuring
- Marumoto: SB2858 Relating to Closed Government
- Activists attack bills that exempt construction projects from review
- Without High-rises, OHA Cannot Justify Kakaako Toxic Waste Cleanup Expense
- Civil Unions, Bag Ban, Taxes, Tax Credits Set for Crossover
- Big Victory for HSTA: House Kills Teacher Eval Bill, $266M in Federal Funds at Risk
- HGEA Inks Fake Principal Accountability Evaluations
- Rail development proposal fails to give public a voice
- Geothermal to be Issue in Hawaii County Mayor’s Race
- Big Wind Opponents Suffer Defeat in House
- Rep Mele Carroll Misses 25% of Sessions, Makes Excuses
- Hawaii Gov’t Hiring Tarnished by Nepotism, Cronyism, and Patronage
- SB2115 Would Allow Nepotism in Charter Schools
- GSA employees travel to Hawaii five-days for a one-hour ribbon cutting, Planning 10 day return Trip
- Feds Bust HPD Officer with Medical Marijuana Card for Multi-Location Grow-Op
- Wisconsin Homosexual Child Molester Gets 10 Years in Waikiki Molestation cases
- Top Five Lobbying Spenders
- Senate: DLNR Officers Don't Need Taser Training
- Federal Taskforce Stacked by Homelessness Industry
- Styrofoam: Mainland Green Energy Scammers Attack Hawaii Restaurant Industry
- TPL Aims for 16% Profit on Sale of Swampland
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012 |
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April 10, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:09 PM :: 8403 Views :: Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Yoshioka: Bus Service Cuts Have no Connection With Rail
- $25M Kapolei Biofuel Refinery Produces 5 Barrels per Day
- While Hawaii Legislators Sleep, Another State Bars Companies Doing Business With Iran
- Federal judges will hear challenge to state reapportionment plan
- N.Korea presses on with anniversary rocket launch
- BoE to Vote on Teacher Accountability
- Budget: Abercrombie Paying $11,700 per Goose, $168K per Delinquent
- Rail Opponents Ask Judge For Decision
- Rail crews continue search for ancestral bones
- An environmental review of Rail precast facility OK'd, Could Lead to new Lawsuit
- Environmentalists rally against "dirty dozen" bills at capitol
- SB2785: Big Cable for Big Wind Vote Today
- Paper bag use Soars as Plastic Bags banned on Maui, Kauai
- Bag Distributor Wants Amendments to City Bag Ban
- Akaka Committee to Meet With AWOL Soldier
- Soft on Crime: Suspect in Arson, Killing of 97-year-old Has 8 Convictions
- Politically Connected Public Housing Resident Calls for State to Ban Smoking in Homes
- Crystal meth use drops among workers in isles
- Unions Use Sewage Plant As Endorsement Backdrop
- Nepotism Not Illegal in Hawaii
- Hawaii judges' pay Lowest in Nation
- What Do Hawaii Lawmakers Have Against Ethics Code?
- Government Health IT Comes to Hawaii
- Teen Pregnancy Rate Continues to fall
- Honolulu Residents Abuse City’s New 311 Service
- Long lines shift from DMV to Health Department
- Harbors Dep’t Buys Useless $75K Drone
- Occupy Honolulu expands encampment to Central Pacific Bank
- State offering mortgage assistance to first time homebuyers
- Allegiant Air to Start Hawaii Flights
- How Hawaiian princes brought Surfing to Britain in 1890
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Monday, April 9, 2012 |
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April 9, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:26 PM :: 12424 Views :: Kauai County News, DHHL, Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Pacific Rim GSA: 115 iPods Missing
- RNC Moves to Boost Hawaii GOP
- Hawaiian societies caught as much fish as modern fishers
- HSTA Leader: Abercrombie, Legislators Should Switch to Republican Party
- Daughtery Challenges Okabe: The top-down approach has bankrupted teacher morale
- Gov. Lingle Selected Laura Thielen for Her Cabinet Based On Talent, Not Political Affiliation
- Hawaii Gaming Promoter to Host $1M Obama Fundraiser
- Airline Exec Offers to Campaign Against Lingle in Exchange for Subsidies
- Republicans Overwhelmingly Reaffirm Ted Liu as National Committeeman
- Council Support Wavers As Key Rail Vote Looms
- Kauai District Attorney Recuses Herself AGAIN
- Runner for political seat would be youngest ever to hold office in state, at 18
- Tobacco giant Philip Morris was top lobbyist during May-December 2011
- State Workers having a Hard Time Scoring Workers Comp Bennies
- Hawaii Owes $60,000 in Airport Workers’ Harassment Suit
- Electric Car Drivers May Face Federal Charges
- SA: Make room for bikes on roads
- Hawaii Turns to Dog Shrinks As 'Incessant Barkers' Enter Pleas
- Ninth Circuit Revives Lawsuit over Religious Marijuana Use
- Laupahoehoe Charter School names new Principal
- Kids' English takes priority at Kalihi School
- Highlighting Hawaii's problem of child abuse
- Mokulele Flights to Chicago, London put on hold
- Supreme Court’s Ratings Jump Following Health Care Hearings
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Sunday, April 8, 2012 |
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April 8, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:34 PM :: 14370 Views :: Hawaii County News, Agriculture, Kauai County News, DHHL, Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Hawaii Among Worst States in Nation on Taxing the Working Poor
- GSA Scandal: Lingle Takes Aim at Waste and Fraud
- Zero Confidence in Lawmakers Revealed
- Big Island Prosecutor Candidate Promises to Re-Open Peter Boy Case
- State Senate Candidates Scramble to Distance themselves from Abercrombie
- Boylan: Romney May Be Next President
- New tax credits sought for Billionaire Movie Moguls
- Borreca: Legislators Rejected Lingle’s Call to Stop Taxing the Poor
- Kauai Democrats: Never make the mistake of electing a Republican governor again
- Tulsi Gabbard Would Repeal DOMA
- Cataluna: Hilo Peeping Tom Beaten
- MADD: Pass HB2320 Ignition Interlock
- State Gets off Easy After Hiring Doper as Spinal Surgeon
- DoE Closing Adult GED Schools
- RTTT pays to Hire 200 Un-Licensed Obamabots to ‘Teach’ in DoE Schools
- Punatic: Only 1% of Oil Used to generate Electricity is Imported
- Navy Testing New Generation of Power Buoy
- UH athletics could lose $2 million
- Japan Prepares to Shoot Down North Korean Missile
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Saturday, April 7, 2012 |
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April 7, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:02 PM :: 14067 Views :: Hawaii County News, Agriculture, Kauai County News, DHHL, Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Lawsuit: Veterans, Military Personnel Challenge Hawaii Reapportionment Plan
- NTU: Hanabusa voted for 91% of Tax Increases, Hirono 88%
- Push Poll Audio: "Berg got so drunk ..."
- Biofuel: Honeywell Hints at Tesoro Refinery Takeover
- Big Island Paper Pushes Back against Equal Representation for Military Families, Students
- HR61: Legislators Salivate for Legalized Honu Hunting
- New Tax Evasion Charge Filed Against Retired HPD Major Nishimura
- Honolulu Bag ban Would cost Stores $30K month, Cause Paper bag use to Skyrocket
- Lingle the Only Reason there’s a Tossup
- Aiona will focus on practicing law but is still open to public service in the future
- Aiona ‘Excited about Opportunity to bring people together’
- Rivere, Say, Aila, Harris Debate Environmental Review Exemptions
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Shapiro: Political mess deepens as sewage sludge returns
- OHA, Enviros Only Get One Water Commissioner
- HB2236: Funds Commission to Study Ways to Raise Your Taxes
- Shelving of 2 bills hampers reform of workers' comp
- Mitch Roth running for Hawaii County prosecutor
- Castle’s Man in DoE Retires
- HPD Employee Faced Retaliation for Sex Harassment Lawsuit
- Star-Adv Backs AWOL Surfer Soldier
- Dalai Lama's visit, peace initiative will show isles to the rest of world
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Friday, April 6, 2012 |
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April 6, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 11:41 PM :: 10779 Views :: Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Lawsuit: Veterans, Military Personnel Challenge Hawaii Reapportionment Plan
- Okabe to Obama: Abercrombie is 'Difficult'
- US Constitutional Convention? Hawaii State House Wants to Write Obamacare into Constitution, Strengthen Power of President
- VIDEO: Hawaii Federal Rapper at Center of Latest GSA Scandal
- Hawaii's Good Friday Holiday - What's Up With That?
- Seek Truth in Response to Physician Assisted Suicide
- Thielen May File as Democrat, Challenge Party to Sue
- Political Comeback? Former Sen. Fred Hemmings Says Hawaii is Ready to Change the 'Status Quo'
- Charles Djou: Back from Afghanistan - Ready for Political Battle
- Lingle acknowledges her challenge as a pro-choicer
- Duke Aiona Leaves St Louis School Job, Returns to Law Practice
- Insurers Launch Big Brother Medical Records System
- New Hawaii State Securities Lawyer: $900,000 In Back Taxes, Child Support
- Gore Cult Praises Hawaii’s Preparation for Global Warming, Demands More
- Water Board Appointees Get Instructions for Malama Solomon’s Water Deliveries
- Abercrombie Admin Backs Castle & Cooke Development
- Honolulu Council Campaign Getting Ugly
- Feds Bust Five in cockfighting, illegal gambling case
- Online Poker Site Accepts Hawaii Players
- Double Murderer Charges Parole Board Vindictive, Gets New Hearing
- Food businesses face fee 1050% Fee hikes to Create HGEA Jobs
- W. Oahu churches expand to serve growing congregations
- Open-ocean cages get state's approval
- "Pacific Gibraltar" -- Important New Book on Hawaiian History
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Thursday, April 5, 2012 |
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April 5, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:25 PM :: 17724 Views :: Hawaii County News, Agriculture, Kauai County News, DHHL, Maui County News, Congressional Delegation, Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- U.S. Senator Susan Collins Visits Hawaii
- Guam Legislator Calls for Exemption from US-Build Provisions of Jones Act
- Rep Kymberly Pine Running for Honolulu City Council
- Hirono Supporters Worry about Candidate’s Ability to Go One-on-One vs Lingle
- Lingle: Pro-choice Republican women Needed in Senate
- Inouye, Muslims Raise Money for Michigan Democrat Senate Candidate
- SA: Legislators Should Let Housing Authority Ban Smoking in Public Housing
- April 6 is ‘Tax Freedom Day’ in Hawaii
- Abercrombie to Steal $200M from Hawaiians, Give 30 ac to OHA Trustees
- Hurried House Rushes 13 Bills to Hearing
- Ernie Martin: Honolulu Will Move Bag Tax
- Honolulu Budget panel Decides Horses are Agricultural: OKs restoration of tax breaks for horse owners
- Abercrombie: No Declaration for Annual Hawaii Prayer Day
- Pacific Palisades Shooter Was Watch Commander at Wahiawa Prison
- Oi: Thielen is type of Candidate Democrats Need
- Enviros Prepare to Destroy Tuna Farm
- Sen Roz Baker Makes Excuses for Vacation Rental Bill
- Improvements at Kewalo may hinge on public-private partnership
- Hawaii SB2168 Will Activate Nationwide Reinsurance Tax Clearinghouse
- HB2703 Directs Dept of Ag to Maintain Count of Local Grown Food
- State senators table workers comp bill
- Rep. Giugni’s Fundraiser During Session
- Are Hawaii Judges Governed By Conflict Of Interest Rules
- “Clean Energy’ Stimulus Funds Burned by State, Cronies, Utilities, and Profitable Nonprofits
- Tesoro Sale Casts Doubt: Federal Stimulus Still Not Stimulating Many Jobs at Local Biorefinery Plant
- Biofool Scammer Makes Nice in Hamakua
- Christian Sparks Propane Price War in Puna
- 6 Occupy Honolulu protesters plead no contest, nobody cares
- Descent Into Haole: 'The Descendants' Dissed
- City offers online Sunshine Law training for board, commission members
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012 |
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April 4, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:35 PM :: 9313 Views :: Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- KOS: The Secret Behind Mitt Romney’s Hawaii Landslide
- Faleomavaega: Bahrain’s Best Friend in Congress
- Hawaii: Is the Obama Administration Giving States Flexibility When It Rejects Proposals to Reduce Medicaid Costs?
- Suicide Activists Line up Hawaii Doctors to Kill Patients
- Honolulu Community College Announces Final Three Candidates for Chancellor
- The Seven Rules of Bureaucracy
- Atheist Advertiser vs. First Amendment: ‘Don't allow anti-civil union actions’
- Democrats, Media Carefully Avoid Any Discussion of Illegality in Thielen Rejection
- DoE Pulls Out All the Stops to Save Funding for Colluding School Bus Contractors
- Reforming Hawaii's charter schools: 5 myths and 5 realities
- HB2819: Kakaako Development Gut and Replace
- Small Contractors to be Cut Out of $500M in CIP?
- State's answer to its budget deficit is crippling small construction companies
- HB466: Workers Comp Reform Proposal Described as Sop to Pill Mills
- Act 221 Scammers, Insurance Companies Team Up With Abercrombie Admin to Profit from Controlling Hawaii Health Exchange
- Health exchange board needs to be accountable to public
- Hawaii to receive part of $137.5M WellCare settlement
- University of Hawaii-Manoa Chancellor Candidate Eliminated Two Dozen Degree Programs at MSU
- Abercrombie’s Apocalypse: The King Nebuchadnezzar Effect
- Enviros Pounce on Abercrombie Water Board Nominees
- Rent-a-Mob: Anti-Geothermal Punatics Hammer HECO
- Another Mainland Solar Contractor Seeks Profits from Hawaii Tax Credits
- Small Businesses Losing Revenue Due to Bag Bans
- Gabbard Adds Bottle Tax to Plastic Bag Tax Bill
- NPS Short Circuits Bottle Ban After Donor Complaints
- Food Truck Fix Passed, Signed into law
- Soft on Crime: 13-year Criminal Record, Out of Jail 1 month Tries to Run Down officer in Stolen Jeep
- Mayor Won't Cancel Sewage Treatment Contract
- ‘October Baby’ Well Received in Honolulu, Slated for National Rollout
- HPD officers say enforcing 30-year old policy endangers their lives
- Hawaii Still Waiting as Coast Guard Rolls Out ‘Rescue 21’ System on Mainland
- Inouye, Wife Visit Arab-American Museum
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012 |
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April 3, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:36 PM :: 15794 Views :: Maui County News, Congressional Delegation, Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party, National News, Development
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- Pentagon Prepares for Possible Shoot Down of North Korean Missile
- Ko Olina, Kyo-Ya Snag HTA Board Positions
- ACLU: Hawaii Counties Among Few Requiring Warrant to Track Cell Phones
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How They Voted April 2, 2012
- Feds Reject Hawaii’s 10-Day Medicaid Hospital Limit
- While Cutting Services, Hawaii fails to reap up to $80M in federal Medicaid money
- As Legislators Threaten to Impose Accountability, HSTA Pretends to become interested in Negotiations
- $11B budget bill moves ahead
- Rep Har Pushes Abercrombie’s SB755 Environmental Takeover
- Lanai Voter Regrets Abercrombie Vote
- Abercrombie, Hee Team up to Push Dogs-in-Restaurants Bill—Restaurant Owner Must Clean Up Dog Poop
- As Filipinos Move to Middle Class, they Line up with Republicans against Rail
- Assisted Suicide: Six Hawaii Kervorkians Announce Plan to Commit Manslaughter
- Star-Adv: Police Should Get Record of Everybody’s Prescriptions
- Study: HECO Overpaying for Windfarm Electricity by 200% to 300%
- New emission controls will cost shippers billions
- Hee Pushes Thru Bill to Block Public Housing Residents From Smoking in their Own Apartments
- Non-Resident VR Owner feels ‘Kicked in the Face’
- Ethics Commission Nixes OHA’s Lawmaker Invites
- Legislators still slow in filing financial disclosures
- Bankruptcy filings down 25.4 percent in March
- HLTA takes applications for Hannemann's position
- Candidates for UH Manoa Chancellor set to visit the Manoa campus
- H-Power Recycles All Metals in Waste Stream
- HB1947: Anti-Small Farmers Bill Backed by Agribusiness
- Is The Way Hawaii Selects Judges Transparent?
- Drunk Driver Kills Two, Families of Victims Given $210,000 by State of Hawaii
- Hawaii Whale Population Increasing 7% Per Year
- Beck to Publish Book on Obama’s Communist Mentor
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Monday, April 2, 2012 |
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April 2, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:51 PM :: 10869 Views :: Maui County News, Congressional Delegation, Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- HB1033: Tracing the Financial Outlines of Socialism in Hawaii
- S&P: Credit Risks Mount For U.S. Domestic Shipping Companies As Ships Start Showing Their Age
- Vancouver Sun: Hawaii Vacation Rental Bills Violate NAFTA
- Abercrombie: Unions Better Wake Up, HSTA Contract Will be up in June
- SB682 Could Change Terms of OHA Settlement
- Ethics: Belatti Throws Clunker into Charter School Reform Bill
- Today may be the last chance to remove monopoly health insurers from the Hawaii Health Connector
- Green Energy Bank would Use Hawaii General Fund to Build Wind farms Nationwide
- Is It 'Reckless' To Build Honolulu Rail Before Feds Commit Funds?
- Second Crossover Deadline Thursday
- Mufi Teams Up with Guam Republicans for Fundraiser
- Hawaii Scores 25% for Executive Branch Financial Disclosure
- Pay raises advocated for city officials
- Molokai condo lawsuit gets big result, lots of news
- Condo losses from theft now $100,000
- Obstacles to Veterans Transitioning into University Education?
- Private Schools Raise Tuition 3%-6%
- State House resolution calls for lower shipping fees on Internet purchases
- EXCLUSIVE: Honolulu Zoo's full accreditation restored
- Maui: 450 Idiots Spend 10 Hours Listening to Conspiracy Huckster
- Charlie Maxwell Changed With Pension, Free Time
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Sunday, April 1, 2012 |
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April 1, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:16 PM :: 8352 Views :: Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Felony Inducement? Laura Thielen Senate Run Rejected by Democratic State Committee
- Zing To Taxpayers, You Are Paying For Those Giveaways
- Lingle Calls for Reauthorization of Export-Import Bank
- Gallup: After Electing Hanabusa, Urban Honolulu Drops from 4th best to 57th
- Broken Trust Figures Abercrombie, Hee, Levinson: Churches Must be Forced to Conduct Gay Union Ceremonies
- Star-Adv: After Supremes Overturn Obamacare, We Will Still Destroy Prepaid
- Multiple Violations: DCCA Securities Enforcement Headed By Lawyer Sanctioned by Hawaii Supreme Court
- Feds Loss on Central Pacific Bailout Estimated at $63.1M
- SB682: Another Waikiki In the Making?
- Unity House Looted of Another $800K in Lotus Hotel Deal
- Hawaii's marriage rates by community
- Soft on Crime: Burglar Released Early After Multiple Convictions, Kills 3 year old boy in Drunk Driving Hit and Run
- Cataluna: Which Drunk Legislator was Dumber?
- Star-Adv Profiles AWOL Soldier Surfing Northshore
- JSC: Nobody Wants to be on Hawaii Supreme Court
- Police Will be Overseeing your Prescriptions
- Waterman Aka Hemmings is dead at 59
- NMI: Signature campaign to Allow Land Sales to Outsiders begins
- Hawaii County report offers 40 recommendations to improve tax policy
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Saturday, March 31, 2012 |
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March 31, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:25 PM :: 11707 Views :: Maui County News, Congressional Delegation, Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Overworked Doctor Commits Suicide at Tripler
- Honolulu Tea Party Rally, Monday April 16
- Bailout: $60M Loss as Feds Sell Interest in Central Pacific Bank
- HTA: Visitor Arrivals up 2.5% from Year Ago
- Hawaii NRA Instructor Liability Bill to be Heard in Senate Committee
- Applicants Sought for Chair of the Elections Commission
- Kealakehe Selected as Site of Future Judiciary Complex in Kona
- DLNR Snares Slowly Torture Pigs
- April 22 is Deadline for Reapportionment Litigation
- Tires Slashed, Signs Stolen: Cayetano's Campaign Targeted Again
- Spending Billions on Rail, City Now Cuts Back on TheBus
- Aging Flower Child Abercrombie Morphs into Spiro Agnew
- After Decades, Kamaoa Wind Farm Finally Being Torn Down
- After Kamehameha – DHHL Deal Fails, Jeff Stone Sells Golf Course to Firm Headed by Micah Kane
- Data Mining May Penalize Doctors Who Help Poor, Homeless
- Bag Tax May Not Be Heard in House?
- Frankel: “Big money’s at stake” on Haleakala
- HSTA Will Resume bargaining April 5
- Sunshine Law likely to be amended by several pending bills
- Amid gold rush to recruit veterans, concerns over rankings of "military friendly" colleges
- Medicare Paying $15,000 to Save Old People’s Vision
- NAACP sunset vigil to honor King and victim of Florida shooting
- Council approves $10K for Police Commission counsel
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Thursday, March 29, 2012 |
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March 29, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:19 PM :: 9810 Views :: Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Rail Plaintiffs to FTA: We suspect that you are no longer shocked by the City’s deceptive practices
- Abercrombie: Environmental Critics Are 'Apocalyptic Naysayers'
- Hawaii's fallen heroes remembered in medal of honor ceremony
- Abercrombie Rambles at Medal of Honor Ceremony
- Hawaii Is Tops in Cronyism, Nepotism, and Patronage
- Hawaii: Highest State Debt Per Capita
- State Owned Bank: $4B at Risk to Reward Cronies
- Out-of-state workers already on the rail job
- Star-Adv: We Want Our $75M--Use HB2527 to Pressure HSTA on RTTT Settlement
- Lingle Campaign Slaps Down Democrat Attack on Republican Jewish Coalition
- Hawaii Charter School Overhaul Looks Likely
- Pay raises suggested for top City and County jobs
- Civil Beat Loses Chief Editor
- Kailua, Urban Honolulu are Top Communities for Divorced Persons
- Census: Honolulu and San Diego Swap Residents
- Nearly $3.9M award from jury over Molokai ‘campaign of intimidation’
- Feds Bust Airline Workers Allegedly Moving 300 lbs of Meth to Hawaii
- Prison Guard Arrested for Allegedly Shooting Up Pearl City
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012 |
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March 28, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:45 PM :: 12285 Views :: Maui County News, Congressional Delegation, Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Lingle Commends US Chamber for Tourism-Focused Senate Testimony
- Life of the Land Releases Hawaii Energy Report
- State, County Projects Exempt from Environmental Review? Thielen, Rivere Rip SB755
- Teacher: DoE Allows Students to Take and Re-Take Tests until they Pass
- SB1332: Kobayashi UH Exemption to be Continued?
- Is Honolulu Rail Debt Causing Budget Cuts?
- Grabuskas: Rail Funding not Guaranteed
- Sen. Roz Baker Blasted Over Hearing Conduct
- Slom: Health Exchange Lacks Sunshine, Ethics
- HMSA seeks rate boost
- HB2175: Task-Force Lobbyists to be Exempted from Ethics Code
- Hawaii Adds 1,200 Gov’t Jobs, Loses 33,800 Private Sector Jobs
- Paid Sick Leave Mandate on Today’s legislative Agenda
- Young Brothers’ President Nominated to Board of Ag
- Hawaii GOP 'Still Looking' for Candidate to Run in Congressional Race
- New guns for Hawaii sheriffs packed up & shipped back to Smith & Wesson
- Horizon Lines' debt restructuring puts future in limbo
- Gay Waikiki Murder Trail Continues
- State says condo funds must be deposited locally
- Vandals strike Honolulu Zoo, exotic birds missing
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012 |
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March 27, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:43 PM :: 12628 Views :: Maui County News, Congressional Delegation, Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Report: HSTA not to Blame for All Delays in Race to the Top
- Hawaii GOP Appoints New Executive Director
- Obama Whispers Away America's Security
- Banks to Pay only 20% of Mortgage Settlement
- Giant radar returns to sea as N. Korean launch looms
- Abercrombie’s Medical Plan: Iowa Senator Pushes Hawaii to Dump Psychiatrists off Medicaid
- New health board is off to an uncomfortable start
- New Secret Weapon in Federal Anti-Rail Lawsuit in Honolulu: University Law Students
- Performance Evaluations front and center as RTTT Squad Arrives
- Criminal UPW Boss Gary Rodrigues on the Loose in Honolulu, Looking for a Job
- Cyberbullying, Kiddie Porn on Legislative Agenda Today
- Abercrombie Victory: No Plans being made for 2013 Pro Bowl
- Can Abercrombie be Held Accountable for his Actions?
- City Down to ‘only’ 150 Sewage Spills a Year
- Higher Electric Bills Ahead: PUC Gives Go-Ahead to Biofool Scammers
- Sex Offenders on the Loose
- HPD investigates 100,000 missing police reports
- Ritte Demands Boat Visiting Molokai Hand over Cash
- Lawmakers question UH Manoa Chancellor's necessity
- Certified Hawaii CEO Fired – Was Allegedly Stealing from Homeowners Associations
- What delayed news of theft by CEO of major property management firm?
- 9th Circuit Voids Hawaii Foreclosure Sale
- 9th Circuit Rules on Waikiki Coral Damage Fine
- $65,000 to preserve WWII Japanese-American internment sites in Hawaii
- Taro task force looking for members
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Monday, March 26, 2012 |
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March 26, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 9:54 PM :: 8532 Views :: Honolulu County News, Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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- Prince Kuhio: The bridge from Kingdom to State
- Obama to Russia: ‘After My Election I Have More Flexibility’ on Missile Defense
- Hirono, Hanabusa Vote Against Tort Reform
- US House Report: Funding for Kahuku Windfarm is ‘Junk’, Industrial Solar Failing
- Did Hawaii Geothermal Developer Benefit from Illegal Bailout?
- On the Money: Abercrombie's RTTT deal with HSTA
- Tax credit for renewable energy faces reductions, curtailed caps
- Big solar firms said to hog potential HECO megawatts
- HECO Feed-In-Tariff (FIT)
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- City called lax in collecting land tax
- House Judiciary Ctte Votes to Give $100K to Atheist, $231K to Criminals
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- US Supreme Court declines to hear Pacific Beach Hotel case
- Court lets bankrupt owner sell local TV station KIKU
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