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Friday, May 30, 2014 |
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Today in 1984: SCOTUS Upholds Hawaii Land Redistribution Eminent Domain Plan
By Robert Thomas @ 5:52 PM :: 7276 Views :: Hawaii History, Land Use
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It was on this day in 1984 that the U.S. Supreme Court issued its 8-0 decision in Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff....
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014 |
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Intermediate Court of Appeals: No Landlocked Real Estate in Hawaii
By Robert Thomas @ 2:36 PM :: 10750 Views :: Hawaii History, Judiciary, Land Use
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In Malulani Group, Ltd. v. Kaupo Ranch, Ltd., No. 30509 (May 5, 2014), the issue was whether the owner of a landlocked parcel could assert an easement....
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Friday, May 9, 2014 |
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Parks Service Announces Hearings on Honouliuli Gulch Internment Site
By News Release @ 5:01 AM :: 4787 Views :: Hawaii History
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This draft study report is available for public review for 60 days, with comments due to us by July 15, 2014....
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Sunday, April 20, 2014 |
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Historic Preservation: Public Denounces Amended Drafts of SB2633 and HB1678
By News Release @ 1:46 AM :: 6304 Views :: Development, Hawaii History
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...SB2633 SD1 HD1 and HB1678 HD1 SD1 attempt to amend the definition of “historic property” by exempting residential properties....
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014 |
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Prince Kuhio: The bridge from Kingdom to State
By Andrew Walden @ 1:01 PM :: 43964 Views :: Akaka Bill, DHHL, Hawaii History, OHA
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The life of Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalaniana'ole tells the story of how Hawaiians came to be Hawaiian-Americans.
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Monday, March 17, 2014 |
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March 17, 1959: Eisenhower Signs Hawaii Statehood Bill
By Video @ 4:10 AM :: 5108 Views :: Hawaii History
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Video March 17, 1959: Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill....
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 |
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The Real Stories Behind "The Descendants"
By Robert Thomas @ 9:08 PM :: 9426 Views :: Hawaii History, Land Use
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"Deconstructing The Descendants: How George Clooney Ennobled Old Hawaiian Trust and Made the Rule Against Perpetuities Sexy"
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Thursday, February 20, 2014 |
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See it Live: Famed Nimitz' WWII 'Diary' to be Unveiled Online Monday
By News Release @ 8:18 PM :: 6357 Views :: Hawaii History, Military
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The Naval War College Library in Newport, R.I. will publicly unveil online the 4,000-page "Gray Book" collection of Fleet Adm. Chester Nimitz communications that started in the wake of the Pearl Harbor attack and ran right up until the closing days of the war....
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Saturday, February 1, 2014 |
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Living History Day: USS Missouri Celebrates Double Anniversary
By News Release @ 9:57 PM :: 7190 Views :: Hawaii History, Military
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On January 29, 1999, exactly 55 years after its launch, the Battleship Missouri Memorial opened in Pearl Harbor ....
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Friday, January 17, 2014 |
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89 Year Old Ewa Aviation Site, Battlefield and Top Secret Cold War Mission Control
By John Bond @ 11:31 PM :: 12764 Views :: Hawaii History, Military
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One of Hawaii's least known very historic sites is the former Ewa Gate (Gate Two) of former NAS Barbers Point. It has a history going back to 1925....
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Saturday, December 7, 2013 |
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Sunday Morning: Ewa Battlefield Commemoration
By John Bond @ 11:17 AM :: 6870 Views :: Hawaii History, Military
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Ewa battlefield area involved not only destruction of planes at Ewa Field but also overhead air battles between Japanese planes, Army P-40's and Navy SBD's....
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Friday, December 6, 2013 |
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Honor Thy Father: Battleship Missouri Sneak Preview of Hawaii 5-0 WW2 Remembrance Episode
By News Release @ 2:17 PM :: 6442 Views :: Hawaii History, Military
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...the episode focuses on the attempted murder of a Pearl Harbor veteran that lead Five-0 to use decades old evidence to investigate....
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Friday, December 6, 2013 |
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Oneula Beach Dec 7, 1941: Air Photos from Landing B-17 Flying Fortress
By John Bond @ 5:14 AM :: 23865 Views :: Hawaii History, Military
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On the morning of 7 December 1941, twelve Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses were approaching Hawaii after a 14-hour flight from California....
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013 |
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Judge Sam King: A Memoir
By News Release @ 4:49 PM :: 8484 Views :: Hawaii History, Judiciary, Republican Party
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In his half-century on the bench, he presided over some of the most sensational of Hawai‘i’s organized crime trials, and he upheld the 1967 Hawai‘i Land Reform Act that shifted property ownership in Hawai‘i from large trusts to ordinary citizens....
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Thursday, November 14, 2013 |
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Diamond Sangha's Secret: From Zen Buddhism to Preying on Vulnerable Women
By Selected News Articles @ 1:17 PM :: 8157 Views :: Hawaii History, Religion
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Aitken never went public with what he knew about Shimano, not in 1964, and not for the next half century until his death....
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013 |
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Sunday, November 10, 2013 |
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NYT to Hawaiians: We Tell You What Your Culture is
By News Release @ 9:52 PM :: 10295 Views :: Family, Hawaii History, Religion
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As a Native Hawaiian Christian, allow me a response....
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Friday, November 8, 2013 |
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Child molester back at work at Hawaii Legislature (Again)
By Andrew Walden @ 11:48 AM :: 45810 Views :: Family, Hawaii History, Law Enforcement
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Rouse is now managing the office of Rep Karen Awana, D-Nanakuli....
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Thursday, October 31, 2013 |
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1998 Admissions: ACLU, Lambda Legal, and Gays Didn't Want 'Marriage' -- Constitutional Amendment Language 'Misleading'
By Andrew Walden @ 1:05 PM :: 7319 Views :: Family, Hawaii History
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...at their moment of victory over the people they quietly admit to the key deceptions used to manufacture consent....
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Wednesday, October 30, 2013 |
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Lawsuit: Hawaii Constitution Forbids Legislature from Creating Gay Marriage
By Rep Bob McDermott @ 9:50 PM :: 11705 Views :: Family, First Amendment, Hawaii History, Hawaii State Government
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Representative Bob McDermott filed a lawsuit today seeking a Declaratory Judgment regarding the 1998 ballot issue pertaining to same-sex marriage....
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Friday, October 25, 2013 |
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Sierra Club: Senate Should Reject Superferry’s only Supporter
By News Release @ 6:39 PM :: 6451 Views :: Environment, Hawaii History
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Abercrombie has nominated Genevieve Salmonson to the position of interim director of the state Department of Health (DOH) Office of Environmental Quality Control....
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013 |
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September 11 Commemoration, Flags at Half-Staff
By News Release @ 11:43 PM :: 6063 Views :: Hawaii History, Military
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In observance of the 12th anniversary of the attacks of 9/11....
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Friday, September 6, 2013 |
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Thursday, August 15, 2013 |
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UH Responds to Star-Adv: Claims Inouye Center Project 'Not Shrouded in Secrecy'
By News Release @ 2:26 PM :: 9194 Views :: Ethics, Congressional Delegation, Hawaii History, Higher Education, Politicians
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"...swift action on the center was necessary since the senate will store papers for no longer than six months from the time the office is closed...."
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013 |
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Life of the Land? OHA Trustee Seeks to Change State Motto
By Video @ 2:52 PM :: 7468 Views :: Akaka Bill, Hawaii History
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Apo’s newspeak version would read: “The Sovereignty of the Land is Perpetuated in Righteousness” – a slogan which just happens to dovetail with the latest push for the Akaka Tribe. How convenient....
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Sunday, July 7, 2013 |
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JULY 7: Hawaii Annexed by USA
By News Release @ 5:53 PM :: 4223 Views :: Hawaii History
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On this date 115 years ago, the U.S. began absorbing an island paradise....
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Wednesday, June 5, 2013 |
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Hawaii's Forgotten Internment Camps
By Video @ 8:57 PM :: 5558 Views :: Hawaii History
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"[In Hawaii] it was just select families. And for many years, members of those families didn't want to talk about it."
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Tuesday, June 4, 2013 |
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Losing One Of The Good Guys
By Robert Thomas @ 7:21 PM :: 8158 Views :: National News, Agriculture, Hawaii History
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...Bob Fletcher, who saved farms of interned Japanese Americans, dies at 101....
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Friday, May 31, 2013 |
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More Flooding in Kakaako's Future
By John Bond @ 9:29 PM :: 9076 Views :: Environment, Development, Hawaii History
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Right now there is a race to see how fast Kakaako can be sold and developed before the mainland and foreign real estate investors find out they will be stuck with enormous future expenses....
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Friday, April 12, 2013 |
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An Oral History: The Life of Calvin Say
By Video @ 12:29 PM :: 5872 Views :: Hawaii History
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Olelo will be airing "An Oral History: The Life of Calvin Say," a 6-part documentary ....
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Friday, March 29, 2013 |
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VIDEO: Kalaeloa Solar Illegal Heavy Equipment Crushes Hawaiian Caves
By Video @ 12:10 PM :: 8324 Views :: Energy, Hawaii History
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Heavy Trucks In Violation Of Programmatic Agreement. Karst Caves And Sinkholes Get Flooded....
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Monday, March 25, 2013 |
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Valor with Honor – Screening and Discussion with Director Burt Takeuchi
By News Release @ 1:50 PM :: 6652 Views :: Hawaii History, Military
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Comprising more than 35 interviews with Japanese-American veterans who served in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team during World War II, Valor With Honor tells the amazing story....
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013 |
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VIDEO: HCDA Bulldozes Ancient Hawaiian Trails for Solar Farm
By John Bond @ 10:53 PM :: 12482 Views :: Energy, Hawaii History, OHA
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...huge wide roads were bulldozed through these Hawaiian sites causing massive, irreparable damage to the ancient Kualaka'i trail that is many hundreds if not one thousand years old....
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Monday, March 18, 2013 |
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Monday, March 18: Hawaii Statehood
By Selected News Articles @ 2:03 PM :: 5713 Views :: Hawaii History
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On this date in 1959, President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Hawaii Statehood Bill ....
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Monday, January 21, 2013 |
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Our American Triumph: Civil Rights and Hawaii Statehood
By Ryan Yasukawa @ 12:08 AM :: 35812 Views :: Hawaii History
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The politics of the civil rights struggle has much in common with Hawai`i’s path to statehood....
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Thursday, December 27, 2012 |
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Obama Skips Inouye in Memoirs
By Selected News Articles @ 12:03 PM :: 7983 Views :: Hawaii History, Politicians
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Obama spent most of the speech describing his own impressions of Inouye....
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012 |
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Seniority? Hawaii is better off without it
By Selected News Articles @ 2:37 PM :: 8958 Views :: Hawaii History, Politicians
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"The lesson for everybody is you don't want your town to turn into this."
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Sunday, December 23, 2012 |
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Is Abercrombie Vitousek?
By Andrew Walden @ 8:29 PM :: 11994 Views :: Democratic Party, Hawaii History, Politicians
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The fight between Hanabusa and Hirono over Inouye’s seat is the latest flare-up of the battle between old-boys and progressives within the Democratic Party....
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Sunday, December 23, 2012 |
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Hawaiian Culture: "All politics was religious and all religions were political"
By Selected News Articles @ 3:04 PM :: 8914 Views :: Hawaii History, Religion
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The notion that religion belongs in the realm of governance has its origins in the host culture, said Lilikala Kame‘eleihiwa, professor at the Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies....
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Friday, December 21, 2012 |
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Remembrance Ceremony for Senator Daniel K. Inouye
By News Release @ 12:02 AM :: 5646 Views :: Hawaii History, Politicians
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On Saturday, Dec. 22, Senator Inouye will lie in state from 5 p.m. to midnight in the State Capitol Rotunda. A short program will commence with the arrival of the senator’s casket....
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Monday, December 17, 2012 |
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Senator Daniel Inouye Dies at 88
By Selected News Articles @ 5:21 PM :: 8656 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Hawaii History
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Inouye died of respiratory complications at 5:01 p.m. EST (12:01 HST) Monday at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, his office said....
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Saturday, December 8, 2012 |
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Honolulu City Council to Honor December 7 Vets at Ewa Field
By John Bond @ 1:55 AM :: 8796 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii History, Military
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Saturday morning at Ewa Field on Saturday, December 8, at 9 AM....
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012 |
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How HMSA Used Health Care Advisory Council to Establish Medical Monopoly
By Selected News Articles @ 7:01 PM :: 11643 Views :: Hawaii History, Health Care
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Governor Linda Lingle signed, SB 665 SDI HD2 CD1 which prohibits "a person representing a health maintenance organization under chapter 4320, a mutual benefit society issuing individual and group hospital or medical service plans under chapter 432, or any other health care organization" from membership on the Council....
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Saturday, July 14, 2012 |
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New Website: The Real Hanabusa
By News Release @ 5:24 PM :: 9404 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii History, Politicians
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Meet The Real Hanabusa for yourself at TheRealHanabusa.com....
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Monday, June 11, 2012 |
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Kamehameha Day: Abercrombie, Hirono, Akaka, Inouye sending Hawaiians to tribalism?
By Andrew Walden @ 10:37 AM :: 17861 Views :: Akaka Bill, Hawaii History
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Kamehameha between 1782 and 1810 united the islands into the Hawaiian Kingdom, created the Hawaiian nationality and a national state from competing Polynesian groups, who themselves had been feudal--not tribal--for as much as 500 years....
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Saturday, June 2, 2012 |
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Book: Obama's Puck's Alley Drug Dealer Killed by Gay Lover
By Selected News Articles @ 9:19 PM :: 20283 Views :: Hawaii History, Drugs, Obama
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(Ray) was a long-haired haole hippie who worked at the Mama Mia Pizza Parlor not far from Punahou and lived in a dilapidated bus ....
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Saturday, April 28, 2012 |
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The History of Natural Gas in Hawaii
By Michael Hansen @ 4:20 PM :: 17119 Views :: Energy, Hawaii History, Jones Act
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In response to my article, a reader asks: “We get all the natural gas we need now. How does it get here? The article makes it sound impossible, but it’s here.”
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011 |
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Sneak Attack: Re-write of Pearl Harbor History Awaits Death of WW2 Veterans
By Selected News Articles @ 6:41 AM :: 30215 Views :: Hawaii History, Higher Education, Military
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...it is the role of academics to "correct" ... history. As one organizer commented, this will be more easily accomplished once the WWII generation has passed away. Another wrote, "America's nostalgic war memories are beginning to fray around the edges"....
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