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Friday, July 15, 2011
IAM: PUC re-bid order should bring halt to Wind Development on Molokai
By News Release @ 2:36 PM :: 9994 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment

Now that the Public Utilities Commission has ordered Hawaiian Electric (HECO) to stop this mega-project and restart it with new bidders, I Aloha Molokai (IAM) requests that Pattern Energy and its subcontractors and partners cease their activities on Molokai immediately.

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Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Democrats call disenfranchisement of Military Personnel “Fair, equitable representation”
By News Release @ 1:48 PM :: 14460 Views :: Hawaii County , Akaka Bill, Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment

fair, equitable representation for all residents ... one man/one vote fairness doctrine ....  we urge the State Democratic Party to pursue all legal options including filing a lawsuit, if necessary, to overturn this Reapportionment Commission decision....

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Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Police, Prosecutors to discuss Cybercrime at Capitol
By News Release @ 12:26 AM :: 13291 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

Briefing on Cybercrime to be held Tuesday, July 12 at 10:00 a.m. at the Hawaii State Capitol, Conference Room 309.

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Friday, July 1, 2011
Insights: Molokai, Lanai leaders debate Big Wind
By News Release @ 6:08 PM :: 12246 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment

While Helm repeatedly stated the I Aloha Molokai position of NO to both the cable and the windmills, Ritte said right now his position is also NO but that could change if given the opportunity to negotiate and have his long list of benefits met. The list was so long that he did not have time to finish reading it.

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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Big Wind to be debated on PBS Insights Thursday
By News Release @ 8:54 PM :: 12079 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment

Insights: Lanai & Molokai

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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Molokai Wind Developer: “We will pack up and leave.”
By News Release @ 3:15 PM :: 12720 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment

“If the community does not want this project it will not go through,” said Pattern Senior Developer Christian Hackett. “And we will pack up and leave.”

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Sunday, June 26, 2011
TEA Party to join July 4 Parades in Kailua, Makawao, Hilo, Kona
By Selected News Articles @ 6:39 PM :: 17714 Views :: Hawaii County , Akaka Bill, Kauai County, DHHL, Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

Please come and join us in Makawao on Saturday, July 2nd for the Annual Makawao Paniolo July 4th Parade. TEA Party Maui plans to enter a patriotic float in the Parade....

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Saturday, June 25, 2011
VIDEO: Fontaine Factor interviews HECO’s Rosegg on Clean Energy
By Video @ 12:10 PM :: 11707 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment

Representative George Fontaine, HD 11, Kīhei, Wailea, Makena, talks with Peter Rosegg with the Hawaiian Electric Company and Maria Tome, Renewable and Transportation Energy Program Manager /Hawaii State Energy Office about Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative.

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Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Broadband to be Trojan Horse for Big Wind Cable?
By Andrew Walden @ 3:35 PM :: 14689 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment

Why the sudden addition of broadband to the Big Wind cable?

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Friday, June 17, 2011
PUC Approves New Maui Windfarm
By News Release @ 2:04 AM :: 10723 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment

The Hawaii Public Utilities Commission has approved a 20-year contract for Maui Electric Company to purchase 21 megawatts (MW) of wind power from Sempra Generation's Auwahi Wind project on the Ulupalakua Ranch in southeastern Maui. 

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Thursday, June 16, 2011
Money released for school construction projects
By News Release @ 11:36 AM :: 12444 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

"$36,000 for improvements of reconfiguration to the cafeteria stage at Mililani Uka Elementary School"

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Monday, May 30, 2011
Molokai Anti-Wind Group Forms
By News Release @ 10:45 AM :: 10269 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment

IAM is fortunate and pleased to announce that on June 2 at 6 p.m. at the Kulana `Oiwi Halau, Robin Kaye from Friends of Lanai (FOL) will be sharing the “Lanai Wind Fall Out” video and their experience with the Big Wind and undersea cable project.

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Friday, May 27, 2011
Association of Alternative Newsweeklies protests subpoena of Maui Time online Commenters’ IDs
By News Release @ 2:13 PM :: 11719 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

Association of Alternative Newsweeklies CONDEMNS the attempt by Maui authorities to force this disclosure, and SUPPORTS the right of Maui Time and Tommy Russo to oppose this subpoena and CALLS ON the district attorney of Maui to immediately withdraw this subpoena and cease all efforts to chill the free speech rights of Maui Time readers.

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Friday, May 27, 2011
Attorney: Seizure of Molokai Ranch for Windfarm may be illegal
By Robert Thomas @ 11:42 AM :: 11240 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment

When the government chooses a preferred beneficiary before it condemns, the taking looks a lot more like the prohibited "A-to-B" taking that the Court professes to frown upon....

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Wednesday, May 25, 2011
VIDEO: Fontaine Factor Discusses Domestic Violence in Hawaii
By Video @ 8:21 PM :: 13550 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

Representative George Fontaine discusses domestic violence in Hawaii with Dara Carlin a domestic violence survivor and advocate; and Tiffinie Walters a domestic violence survivor....

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Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Test of Shield Law? Maui PD subpoenas ID of online commenter who threatened Cop
By Selected News Articles @ 1:35 PM :: 12332 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment

The Maui Police Department has issued a subpoena to obtain the IP addresses of Maui Time web commenters, citing the terroristic threatening of one of its officers. by Maui police officer Nelson Johnson....The comment in question was left in response to an April 14 blog post in which Maui Time publisher Tommy Russo posted a video of himself being assaulted....

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Sunday, May 22, 2011
Hawaii PUC Stats show Windfarms cause Blackouts
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 5:11 PM :: 14916 Views :: Hawaii County , Akaka Bill, Kauai County, DHHL, Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

HELCO reported that 20,660 customer interruptions (16% of all interruptions) were related to Independent Power Producer (non-HELCO Generation) sources. In 2009 Hamakua Energy Partners (HEP) and Pakini Nui Windfarm were the non-HELCO generation sources that caused customer interruptions. 

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Friday, May 20, 2011
Maui Armed Forces Day Picnic Saturday
By News Release @ 10:41 PM :: 8832 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL

Kalama Park on Saturday, May 21, at 11:30 -2:30 (middle pavilion by the playground equipment).

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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
VIDEO: Rep Gene Ward’s Sine Die Speech
By Video @ 5:06 PM :: 11874 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

Representative Gene Ward, Minority Leader, Sine Die Announcement May 2011, Hawaii State House of Representatives ....

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Monday, May 2, 2011
SB1274: Obamacare being used to Weaken Right to Appeal Insurance Coverage Denials
By News Release @ 7:26 PM :: 11141 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

As the 2011 Hawai`i State Legislature moves closer to an end, boisterous applause, back-slapping, and high-fives erupted on the morning of Friday, May 1st in Conference Room 229 at the Hawai`i State Capitol as health insurance lobbyists congratulated themselves. They were celebrating the passage of Senate Bill 1274 that repeals a decade-old consumer protection law consumers have used successfully to overturn health plan denials approximately 80% of the time.... 

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Friday, April 29, 2011
Friends of Lanai Calls for Big Wind Bidding Process to be Reopened
By News Release @ 11:03 AM :: 10972 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment

Friends of Lāna‘i (FOL) today petitioned Hawaii’s Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to reopen the competitive bidding process for the “Big Wind” project.

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Tuesday, April 19, 2011
SB99: Preserve Young Bros Monopoly on Inter-Island Shipping
By Grassroot Institute @ 8:27 PM :: 12344 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment

PUC--"This bill would make it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for companies to gain entry into the water carrier market in Hawaii….”

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Friday, April 15, 2011
Fontaine Factor: Judges speak up on Drug Courts
By Video @ 11:13 PM :: 10383 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

Representative George Fontaine discusses Hawaii Drug Courts with Chief Judge, Judge Shackley Raffetto from Maui and Judge Michael D. Wilson from Oahu....

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Friday, April 15, 2011
No New Taxes! Rally April 15--Honolulu, Kona, Hilo, Kahului, Lihue
By News Release @ 8:27 AM :: 25110 Views :: Hawaii County , Akaka Bill, Honolulu County, Democratic Party, Kauai County, DHHL, Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

Hawaii has one of the highest State Tax Rates in the United States, and yet the State Legislature is considering many new increases in taxes including income, excise, and other fees.  Are you Taxed Enough Already?

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Friday, April 8, 2011
VIDEO: Lanai Wind Fall Out
By Video @ 12:13 PM :: 12051 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment

This project uses tax and rate payer money to enrich a privately held corporation. It bills itself as “green” when it is actually a corporate boondoggle to put a billion dollars every four years into one man’s pocket.

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Thursday, April 7, 2011
SB1363 10-cents-per-bag Tax: Greens, Big Business, Big Government team up to Rip Off Consumers
By Andrew Walden @ 1:07 AM :: 22712 Views :: Hawaii County , Akaka Bill, Honolulu County, Democratic Party, Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment

After two years of marketing the alleged horrors of the non-existent “Pacific Garbage Patch”, environmentalists, big business, and big government are ready to cash in.

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Monday, April 4, 2011
Abercrombie Appoints Judge Loo to Maui Circuit Court
By News Release @ 9:55 PM :: 10029 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment

Governor Abercrombie Appoints Judge Loo to Circuit Court

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Friday, April 1, 2011
Panos: Wind Study doesn't answer questions about Cost
By Selected News Articles @ 3:11 PM :: 14237 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

Ever since I visited the decrepit wind project at South Point on the Big Island I realized that wind farms are investment schemes, not reliable energy production plants. So did T. Boone Pickens with his multibillion dollar order of GE wind turbines for his “Pickens Plan,” a plan that has been abandoned because wind energy makes no business sense....

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Friday, March 25, 2011
VIDEO: All Costs for Wind Cable are on the Ratepayer
By Video @ 3:02 AM :: 11099 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment

If the majority of the lawmakers and Hawaiian Electric Co. get their way under Senate Bill 367 — the bill designed to finance an interisland cable — the Oahu ratepayer will be solely responsible for the cost of the project, predicted to cost somewhere between $500 million to $1 billion.

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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Rep Fontaine supports SB 52 Registration of Sex Offenders
By Video @ 9:31 PM :: 10939 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment

As defined, the offense of violation of privacy in the first degree involves the installation or use of “any device for observing, recording, amplifying, or broadcasting another person in a stage of undress or sexual activity in that place.” – Attorney General Louie

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Tsunami Roulette: Are Kahului fuel tanks and sewage plant at risk?
By Selected News Articles @ 1:16 AM :: 8494 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL

Analysis by Thomas R Cannon, Architect AIA, Chair of the Maui County General Plan Advisory Committee.

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Thursday, March 10, 2011
Foreclosures: Rep Fontaine opens up Direct Line to Bank Assistance
By News Release @ 6:10 PM :: 11686 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

Fontaine, who represents South Maui, will have access to an exclusive bank hot line on behalf of constituents and other Maui homeowners who are having difficulties with their mortgage payments. BOA’s goal is to establish contact with the customer within one business day, and to provide a response the legislator’s office and to the borrower within 20 business days on the specific issues of the inquiry.

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Tuesday, March 8, 2011
House Raids Highway Fund, Raises Vehicle Taxes
By Video @ 9:30 PM :: 13457 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

HB1101: Allows for increase in the State motor vehicle registration fee

HB1097: Extends the $3 per day surcharge on rental motor vehicles

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Friday, March 4, 2011
VIDEO: Reps Fontaine, McKelvey against HB141 weakening Repeat Offender sentencing
By Video @ 11:42 AM :: 9965 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment

“This bill primarily affects property crimes and takes repeat offender status away from those kinds of crimes.  As a police officer I’ve dealt with this many many times where we’ve had people that have gone out and habitually burglarized homes, stolen cars all to fuel their drug habit….  And I feel that we need to have that repeat offender status for these kinds of crimes because of the fact that we do have these people that are just habitual criminals….”  -- Rep George Fontaine (R-Kihei)

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Friday, February 25, 2011
Full Text: Maui 2011 State of the County Speech
By News Release @ 10:55 PM :: 9961 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL

It has been a busy two months in office. So far there have been floods in Kihei and Maalaea, rockslides on the pali, a ban on plastic bags and a push for a major film production studio. And that was just January.

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Sunday, February 13, 2011
West Maui Taxpayers Association to hold Annual Meeting
By News Release @ 3:35 PM :: 8398 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL

Mayor Alan Arakawa will be attending and will make opening remarks, as well as speaking about his plans for West Maui....

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Thursday, February 10, 2011
Transparency: Regents Candidate Advisory Council Names Finalists for UH Board of Regents
By News Release @ 4:32 PM :: 14848 Views :: Hawaii County , Akaka Bill, Kauai County, DHHL, Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

HONOLULU – The Regents Candidate Advisory Council (RCAC) has presented a list of candidates to Gov. Neil Abercrombie to fill four seats on the University of Hawai’i Board of Regents, including two City and County of Honolulu seats, a Hawai’i County seat and a Maui County seat.

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Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Sen. Gary Hooser campaign website linked to Holocaust deniers
By Andrew Walden @ 12:28 AM :: 22995 Views :: Democratic Party, Kauai County, Politicians, GMOs

Hooser invites readers to look at his campaign website www.GaryHooser.com. Listed on the right column of his site are links to other websites described as “Senator Gary Hooser’s Regular Reading Regime.” The 25 links include the Kailua, O`ahu-based anti-Semitic 9-11 conspiracy website www.WhatReallyHappened.com (WRH).

At WRH “Regular Readers” like Hooser may peruse an article from a Holocaust denier publication asserting: “(only) two to three hundred thousand Jews perished in Nazi concentration camps, but none in gas chambers.” Another WRH article touts a 1928 communist scheme to send Russian Jews to Siberia. There are literally hundreds of such articles interspersed between a selection of articles about Jewish child molesters, Jewish swindlers, and any other—mostly Jewish or “Israeli”--wrongdoing.

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Saturday, February 5, 2011
Tea Party Revival author Leland Baker to speak at Maui Event
By News Release @ 8:54 PM :: 8819 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL

Location: Kalama Heights Retirement Home, Garden Room

Date: Friday, February 18th, 2011, 6:30pm

Cost: Free and open to the public!

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Saturday, February 5, 2011
Sen Schumer Demands Investigation: Reusable Bags Contain Harmful Chemicals and Harbor Bacteria
By News Release @ 10:33 AM :: 18966 Views :: Hawaii County , Akaka Bill, Honolulu County, Democratic Party, Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

Senator Charles Schumer and other congressional leaders have called on government safety agencies to investigate why such elevated levels of lead are coming into contact with our food and leaching into the environment. Perhaps even more alarming, a University of Arizona study found fecal coliform bacteria and E. coli in some of the bags.

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Saturday, February 5, 2011
KTA, Safeway, Walgreens: Excessive Amounts of Lead Found in Reusable Grocery Bags
By News Release @ 10:29 AM :: 22211 Views :: Hawaii County , Akaka Bill, Honolulu County, Democratic Party, Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

EPA standard for lead in packaging materials is 100ppm.  Safeway tests 6.72 times the EPA limit.  Walgreens is 2.98 times, KTA Superstores 2.85 times, and Defense Comissary Agency tests 2.35 times the EPA standard. 

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Friday, February 4, 2011
HB1058: Buying Office Equipment with Capital Improvement Bonds
By Video @ 12:00 AM :: 12271 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

Amends chapter 37, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to include agency-wide technology and computer systems with an estimated useful life of greater than seven years as capital investments to allow all costs to be financed with bond funds and depreciated as capital investments.

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Thursday, February 3, 2011
VIDEO: Fontaine “HB166 is an anti-business bill”
By Video @ 2:41 PM :: 12315 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

Fontaine: “We heard from a Maui roofing contractor who said that if he received a $70K fine … he would have to earn $7M in additional business in order to make up the fine because his profit margin is so slim.”

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Saturday, January 29, 2011
Rep Michele Bachmann to speak on Oahu, Maui
By News Release @ 3:02 PM :: 14595 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Maui County, Education K-12, National News, Ethics

Oahu:  Wednesday, Feb. 2nd, 11:30 am to 1 pm

Maui: Wednesday, February 2nd, 5:30 to 8pm

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Wednesday, January 26, 2011
SB819 would study Mileage Fee for Hawaii Motorists
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:58 PM :: 10407 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment

Thanks to the high cost of motor vehicle fuel--which in Hawaii includes the second highest gasoline taxes in the country at 63.5 cents per gallon--people have started buying alternative cars and cars which get better fuel mileage. The unintended consequence of increasing the cost of motor vehicle fuel is that there is less money going into the state coffers....

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Monday, January 3, 2011
Calif. EIS shows plastic bag ban harms environment
By Selected News Articles @ 5:59 PM :: 14461 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

Maui’s County-wide plastic bag ban goes into effect January 11, 2011.  No EIS has been required.  Here’s what they are hiding:

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Saturday, December 25, 2010
VIDEO: Rep George Fontaine plays Santa at Kihei Youth Center
By Video @ 9:34 AM :: 11234 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment
Representative George. Fontaine plays Santa for the Kihei Youth Center. Council member Don Couch helped out along with Kihei Youth Center Director Leh...
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Thursday, December 9, 2010
EIS Begins for Undersea Power Cable Project
By News Release @ 2:04 PM :: 12736 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

The PEIS will examine the program-level impacts of the development of up to 400 megawatts (MW) of wind energy on Maui County, the transmission of the energy to Oahu via an undersea cable, and the integration of that energy into Oahu’s electrical grid.

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Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Abercrombie Selects Budget Director, Labor Team
By News Release @ 1:54 PM :: 13966 Views :: Hawaii County , Akaka Bill, Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment

Governor-Elect Neil Abercrombie today named Kalbert Young as the Budget and Finance Director; and Sen. Dwight Takamine and Audrey Hidano as the team heading up the state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations as its director and deputy director, respectively.

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Monday, November 29, 2010
VIDEO: Newly elected GOP Reps plan for upcoming Legislative session
By Video @ 3:51 PM :: 13433 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

Better Government Dec 2010 with Representatives George Fontaine (R-Kihei), Arron Ling Johanson (R-Aiea), Gil Riviere (R-North Shore) and Gene Ward Ph.D (R Hawaii Kai). 

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