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Wednesday, July 30, 2025 |
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Tsunami of Traffic: How One Gas Station Line Jammed up All of Kapolei
By Andrew Walden @ 4:08 AM :: 106 Views :: Honolulu County, Police
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... Behind this blockage, total traffic gridlock took hold for three hours between 4pm and 7pm on Kapolei-area roads ....
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Wednesday, July 30, 2025 |
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Tsunami Reaches 4 feet in Some Hawaii Harbors
By News Release @ 3:12 AM :: 126 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics
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... Hawaii harbor mouths opening towards Kamchatka saw larger tsunami effects ....
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Tuesday, July 29, 2025 |
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UPDATE: DoT Extends Public Comment Period on Teenagers' Climate Plan
By News Release @ 7:50 PM :: 770 Views :: Energy, Environment, Ethics
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“...This isn’t just a policy document. These proposals will have real and lasting impacts on families, kūpuna, workers, and businesses across Hawai‘i...”
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Tuesday, July 29, 2025 |
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Spain Offers €400M to Bring TMT to Canary Islands
By News Release @ 7:16 PM :: 191 Views :: Hawaii County , Ethics, Higher Education, Land Use
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... Hawaii's master lease renewal process pays off big for Chile ... and now Spain ....
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Tuesday, July 29, 2025 |
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FBI Director Kash Patel visits Honolulu field office
By News Release @ 2:29 AM :: 276 Views :: Law Enforcement
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... He praised the great working relationships between the FBI and the local, state, and federal law enforcement partners ....
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Tuesday, July 29, 2025 |
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Corruption Lawsuit: Another Hawaiian ‘8a’ Defense Contractor in Court
By Andrew Walden @ 1:11 AM :: 347 Views :: Ethics, Military, OHA
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... alleges that ‘8a’ insiders from several interrelated 8a contracting firms are systematically shortchanging the Kailua-based ‘Native Hawaiian Legal Defense and Education Fund, LLC’ aka Ho‘omaka Foundation ....
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Monday, July 28, 2025 |
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How 'Big Beautiful Bill' Affects UH Student Loans and Research Grants
By News Release @ 5:13 PM :: 253 Views :: Higher Education
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... This message was shared with the students, faculty and staff of the 10-campus University of Hawaiʻi system on July 21, 2025 ....
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Monday, July 28, 2025 |
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$40M Rate Hike for Hawaii American Water
By News Release @ 2:54 AM :: 404 Views :: Hawaii County , Honolulu County, Cost of Living
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... at Mauna Lani and Waimea the typical single-family customer will see a rate increase of approximately $18 to $25 per month ....
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Sunday, July 27, 2025 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted July 25, 2025
By GovTrack .us @ 5:13 PM :: 342 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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... bills introduced and votes cast in Congress ....
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Sunday, July 27, 2025 |
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Pay for No Work
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1264 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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... $6.3M salary for 'administrative leave' ....
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Saturday, July 26, 2025 |
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Baked to order: New cottage food rules
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 9:23 PM :: 571 Views :: Agriculture, Small Business
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... to more easily produce and sell jams, relishes and sauces made with local ingredients ....
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Saturday, July 26, 2025 |
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Affordable: Green Signs 'Shot Clock', other homebuilding bills
By Grassroot Institute @ 7:31 PM :: 674 Views :: Development, Hawaii State Government, Cost of Living
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... Green altered course when he signed a handful of bills that had been on his intent-to-veto list ....
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Friday, July 25, 2025 |
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Trump Executive Order: Clear Homeless Drug Addicts from Streets and Put them in Treatment Centers
By News Release @ 3:34 PM :: 982 Views :: Homelessness, Drugs
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... Executive Order to restore order to American cities and remove vagrant individuals from our streets, redirecting federal resources toward programs that tackle substance abuse and returning to the acute necessity of civil commitment ....
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Friday, July 25, 2025 |
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Schatz: National Housing Shortage Is A Problem The Government Has Created; We Can Fix It
By News Release @ 2:52 PM :: 540 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... Schatz Introduces YIMBY Act To Encourage Localities To Cut Regulations, Adopt Pro-Housing Policies ....
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Thursday, July 24, 2025 |
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Energy companies seek dismissal in Hawaii climate lawfare case
By Selected News Articles @ 10:35 PM :: 521 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy, Environment, Higher Education, Judiciary
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... Energy companies being sued by the city of Honolulu over climate change accusations have motioned for summary judgment, stating that Hawaii’s two-year statute of limitations makes the plaintiffs’ case unsubstantial ....
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Thursday, July 24, 2025 |
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How to Apply for Honolulu Property Tax Credit
By News Release @ 5:11 PM :: 942 Views :: Honolulu County, Tax Credits
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... Sept. 30, 2025 is the deadline to apply ....
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Thursday, July 24, 2025 |
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Hawaii Attorney General Releases Annual Firearm Statistics
By News Release @ 12:04 PM :: 490 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Second Amendment
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... 16,879 personal/private applications for permits to acquire firearms were processed statewide during 2024, marking a 28.3% decrease ....
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Wednesday, July 23, 2025 |
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DoE Ready to Resume Most School Bus Routes
By News Release @ 2:13 AM :: 358 Views :: Education K-12
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... nine routes remain temporarily suspended — about 6% of the 138 routes that were impacted at the peak of last school year’s disruptions ....
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Monday, July 21, 2025 |
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Hawaii's Only Oil Refinery Inks $100M 'Renewable' Fuels Deal
By News Release @ 11:27 PM :: 861 Views :: Energy, Environment
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... Par Pacific, Mitsubishi, and ENEOS to Establish Joint Venture for Renewable Fuels in Hawaii ....
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Monday, July 21, 2025 |
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DoH: COVID Activity on the Increase in Hawaii
By News Release @ 10:11 PM :: 624 Views :: COVID-19
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... The test positivity rate statewide was 12.4% as of July 19, 2025, up from 10.9% the previous week ....
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Monday, July 21, 2025 |
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Search is on for a new KSBE Trustee
By News Release @ 6:28 PM :: 653 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics, Development, Land Use
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... Trustee to succeed Trustee Robert K.W.H. Nobriga, whose term expired on June 30, 2025 ....
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Monday, July 21, 2025 |
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Sovereignty Activists team up with Chinese Communist Front Group
By Andrew Walden @ 5:27 PM :: 1221 Views :: Higher Education, OHA
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... "How a U.S. Tech Mogul Used Nonprofits to Sow Chinese Propaganda" -- NYT ....
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Sunday, July 20, 2025 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted July 18, 2025
By GovTrack .us @ 3:06 PM :: 520 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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Sunday, July 20, 2025 |
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Nonprofit Blankety Blank
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 822 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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... $50 million in the hands of a four-person committee ....
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Saturday, July 19, 2025 |
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Hawaii climate policy going overboard on cruise ships
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 5:24 PM :: 887 Views :: Environment, Tourism
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... the DOT is supposed to decarbonize every transportation sector in Hawaii, but there aren’t a lot of options when it comes to maritime emissions ....
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Saturday, July 19, 2025 |
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So Many Pools, So Little Truth: Inside Maui’s Water Crisis Theater
By Selected News Articles @ 4:23 PM :: 1667 Views :: Maui County, Development, Tourism
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... The only cited support was a comparison of empty non-owner occupied second homes in one phase of the Wailea Palms property to another phase that allows short-term rentals ....
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Saturday, July 19, 2025 |
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Need $600K? Maui County Launches New Federally Funded Fire Recovery Program
By News Release @ 3:34 PM :: 933 Views :: Maui County
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... Hoʻokumu Hou programs are open to individuals and families who meet eligibility requirements that include income limits and loss of property during the 2023 Maui wildfires. ...
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Saturday, July 19, 2025 |
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Maui County Clears Out Homeless Meth Addicts (again)
By News Release @ 3:23 PM :: 683 Views :: Maui County, Homelessness, Drugs
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... Work crews encountered unsanitary conditions including rat infestations, feces and maggots ....
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Saturday, July 19, 2025 |
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Green Issues Emergency Proclamation for Wildfire Season
By News Release @ 3:35 AM :: 508 Views :: Maui County, Hawaii State Government, Military
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... Hawaiʻi National Guard’s Operation Hoʻopauahi to Improve Emergency Response Time ....
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Friday, July 18, 2025 |
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Student Jones Act Essay Contest
By Grassroot Institute @ 7:29 PM :: 592 Views :: Jones Act
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... High school, college students can earn $10,000, $5,000 or $1,000 from Jones Act essay contest ....
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Friday, July 18, 2025 |
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Maui lawmakers give green light to food trucks and kitchenettes
By Grassroot Institute @ 7:14 PM :: 539 Views :: Honolulu County, Maui County, Development, Small Business
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... the Planning Commission backs a bill that would make it easier for B&Bs destroyed in the 2023 fires to rebuild ....
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Friday, July 18, 2025 |
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Fraud and Misrepresentation: IDG Geothermal Schemers Get Cold Reception from Hawaii County Council
By Andrew Walden @ 5:58 PM :: 1332 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy, Ethics
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... Successful geothermal project leadership in New Zealand? There is a record of litigation surrounding those efforts which include claims of fraud and misrepresentation ....
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Friday, July 18, 2025 |
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Transportation barriers impacting Hawaiʻi rural health care
By News Release @ 2:00 AM :: 541 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Cost of Living
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... Long ambulance response times, costly and unreliable non-emergency transportation, and insufficient insurance coverage for travel-related health care expenses ....
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Friday, July 18, 2025 |
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Two Indicted for Fraudulent FEMA Claims for Lahaina Fire
By News Release @ 1:35 AM :: 902 Views :: Maui County, Ethics
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... Daylyn Harris, 34, and Chelsea Johnson, 32, of Honolulu, Hawaii, were arrested on July 15, 2025 ....
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Thursday, July 17, 2025 |
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Insurance Companies Dumping Single-Wall Homes
By Selected News Articles @ 12:21 PM :: 1981 Views :: Maui County, Development, Cost of Living
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... single-wall construction is considered structurally inferior in hurricane-prone areas ....
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Thursday, July 17, 2025 |
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Scott Saiki Appointed Insurance Commissioner
By News Release @ 11:59 AM :: 685 Views :: Maui County, Hawaii State Government, Cost of Living
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... As Speaker, Saiki Co-chaired the Governor’s Executive and Legislative Condo and Property Insurance Task Force ....
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Wednesday, July 16, 2025 |
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After Latest Fire at Sea, Matson Begins Refusing Shipment of Electric Cars
By Andrew Walden @ 2:28 PM :: 1948 Views :: Energy, Jones Act
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... Questions: Will Pasha follow suit? Does Matson's ban extend to shipments of lithium batteries for consumer products and for solar installations? ....
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Monday, July 14, 2025 |
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Hawaii gang enforcer gets 30 years, ending landmark case
By Court House News @ 11:31 PM :: 980 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Law Enforcement, Police, Politicians, Drugs
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... drive-by shootings and armed robberies as part of the notorious Miske Enterprise ....
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Monday, July 14, 2025 |
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HDoT Awards Contract for Removal of 'Falls of Clyde'
By News Release @ 10:14 PM :: 637 Views :: Hawaii History
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... The 146-year-old vessel has been docked at Honolulu Harbor since 2008 ....
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Monday, July 14, 2025 |
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State Job Growth? 'Health Care and Food Services'
By News Release @ 5:04 PM :: 550 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Labor, Small Business, Tourism
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... Hawai‘i Projects 41,000 New Jobs by 2032, Led by Health Care and Food Services ....
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Monday, July 14, 2025 |
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Discovery of unknown publications by Batimea Pua’aiki (Blind Bartimeus of Hawaii)
By Selected News Articles @ 12:01 AM :: 2482 Views :: Hawaii History, Religion
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... New Evidence from the Ke Kumu Hawaii Newspaper ....
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Sunday, July 13, 2025 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted July 11, 2025
By GovTrack .us @ 6:48 PM :: 538 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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Sunday, July 13, 2025 |
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LGBTQ Commission Pushing Green to Sign Executive Order Making Hawaii Sex-Change Kidnapping Sanctuary
By News Release @ 5:36 PM :: 2074 Views :: Family, Law Enforcement
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... SB1150 failed in the Legislature, but the LGBTQ Commission still wants to grab your children. Will Green help them do it? ....
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Sunday, July 13, 2025 |
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SNAP Cliffs Are Coming
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1139 Views :: Family, Hawaii State Government, Cost of Living, COVID-19
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... the USDA whacked our state with an $11 million fine for its huge error rate two years in a row ....
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Saturday, July 12, 2025 |
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Permitting progress prevails
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 7:08 PM :: 731 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Development
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"...decisive action to address Hawaii’s notorious permitting delays...."
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Saturday, July 12, 2025 |
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Judicial Nominees Sought for Oahu, Maui, Big Island
By News Release @ 6:51 PM :: 618 Views :: Judiciary
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... The following notices were posted to the JSC website on Friday, 11 July 2025 ....
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Saturday, July 12, 2025 |
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HTA Board Positions Open
By News Release @ 4:41 PM :: 614 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Tourism
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... State Boards and Commissions Seeking Applicants ....
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Saturday, July 12, 2025 |
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VIDEO: HFD Chief Hao on the Māʻili wildfire
By Video @ 4:33 PM :: 576 Views :: Honolulu County
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... On July 6, 2025, the Honolulu Fire Department (HFD) received a 911 call at 2:33 p.m. for a wildland fire near 87-253 Pa‘akea Road in Mā‘ili ....
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