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Friday, April 26, 2024 |
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Bill allowing counties more authority over short-term rentals on Green's desk
By Selected News Articles @ 1:07 PM :: 56 Views :: Development, Small Business, Tourism
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... A conference committee agreed to pass Senate Bill 2919, which would allow counties to create zoning laws regulating short-term rentals ....
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Friday, April 26, 2024 |
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Hawaii Window Open: Student loan debt repayment for health professionals
By News Release @ 4:33 AM :: 96 Views :: Health Care
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... The application deadline for the second cohort of this groundbreaking program is July 1, 2024 ....
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Friday, April 26, 2024 |
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Bill 152 pre-approved multi-family designs would speed up Hawaii Island housing
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:25 AM :: 84 Views :: Hawaii County , Development
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... allow the Hawaii County Department of Public Works to issue pre-approved model plans for multi-family housing — as it already does for single-family dwellings ....
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Friday, April 26, 2024 |
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UH breaks extramural funding record in FY2024, on track for $550M
By News Release @ 3:52 AM :: 85 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education
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... the third consecutive year that UH has topped half a billion dollars in extramural funding ....
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Friday, April 26, 2024 |
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Bonfire: HART Receives $125M from Feds
By News Release @ 2:38 AM :: 122 Views :: Rail
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... if HART awards the City Center Guideway and Stations contract, expected later this year, an additional $250 million will be burned ....
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Thursday, April 25, 2024 |
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OHA Trustee Keli'i Akina Files for Re-election
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 6:23 PM :: 117 Views :: OHA
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... All registered voters in Hawaii are eligible to vote for OHA Trustees ....
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Thursday, April 25, 2024 |
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Rolling Blackouts end for Big Island as oil-fired plants come online
By News Release @ 3:36 AM :: 1109 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy
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"...Combined, these oil-fired units have up to 53 megawatts of generating capacity. ...."
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Thursday, April 25, 2024 |
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US Space Force Plans 'Space Surveillance' Telescopes for Haleakala
By News Release @ 3:35 AM :: 190 Views :: Maui County, Military
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... Environmental Impact Statement for the Department of the Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing Site Small Telescope Advanced Research Facility ....
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024 |
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Maui Property Tax Resolution Full of Blank Numbers
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:26 PM :: 159 Views :: Maui County, Taxes
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... Resolution 24-78 would set property tax rates for the coming year ....
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024 |
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Maui budget full of tax hikes
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:18 PM :: 179 Views :: Maui County, Taxes
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... County officials are seeking significant property tax increases while doing virtually nothing to cut spending or spend wisely ....
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024 |
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Budget Emerges from Conference Committee
By News Release @ 10:35 PM :: 176 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... House Bill 1800 CD1 will be up for a final vote in both chambers before being transmitted to the governor for consideration ....
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024 |
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Let’s end embarrassing tax on medical services
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 5:26 PM :: 174 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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... the GET makes practicing in Hawaii so financially challenging, causing many Hawaii doctors to retire or move away ....
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024 |
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DOBOR to Clear Bums and Junk Cars from Kahului Harbor
By News Release @ 12:12 AM :: 222 Views :: Maui County, Homelessness
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... Fifty-four trucks and cars, many inoperable, will be towed from the state’s Kahului Harbor on May 6 ....
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024 |
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Notice of Anticipated Judicial Vacancy – Circuit Judge, Circuit Court of the First Circuit (island of Oʻahu)
By News Release @ 12:08 AM :: 187 Views :: Honolulu County, Judiciary
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... The Judicial Selection Commission is accepting applications and nominations to fill the following anticipated judicial vacancy ....
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Tuesday, April 23, 2024 |
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Green: 450 units to be built for 'FEMA Ineligible' Lahaina Survivors
By News Release @ 6:03 PM :: 316 Views :: Maui County, Homelessness
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... 'Not eligible' = Illegals and homeless. Mixing them together is unfair to the illegals ....
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Tuesday, April 23, 2024 |
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Another Foster Care Fail: Kids Sleep in Attic of Home Full of Lunatics, Perverts, and Drug Addicts
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 4:01 AM :: 474 Views :: Ethics, Family
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... The State Auditor studied 30 foster homes picked at random. Here is one of the 30 ....
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Tuesday, April 23, 2024 |
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HB2342 on Governor's Desk: Legalize 'open carry' of everything except guns
By Selected News Articles @ 3:09 AM :: 363 Views :: Second Amendment
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... This bill would legalize the open carry of all non-firearm weapons, including butterfly knives, switchblades, brass knuckles, swords, and spears ....
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Tuesday, April 23, 2024 |
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Small Business Economic Trends: How does Hawaii Compare?
By Selected News Articles @ 2:48 AM :: 238 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business
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... the gold standard measurement of the Main Street economy ....
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Monday, April 22, 2024 |
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City Points to Empty Rail System as Example of 'Sustainability'
By News Release @ 11:15 PM :: 102 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Rail
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... and an interactive Skyline tour, showcasing that Earth Day is for everyone ....
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Monday, April 22, 2024 |
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How does Hawai‘i’s economic geography affect its healthcare industry?
By UHERO @ 9:42 PM :: 258 Views :: Health Care, Cost of Living
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... The state’s high cost of living likely compounds these problems by hindering the recruitment of healthcare professionals ....
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Monday, April 22, 2024 |
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Four House Bills up for Final Reading
By News Release @ 9:18 PM :: 249 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... The final vote is set for 11:30 a.m. during the Floor Session. Upon approval, these bills will advance to the governor's desk for his signature ....
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Monday, April 22, 2024 |
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National Republicans scrutinize Hawaii voting rolls
By Selected News Articles @ 3:50 PM :: 290 Views :: Office of Elections, Republican Party
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... the state is violating federal law by not having what are known as “clean” voter rolls ....
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Monday, April 22, 2024 |
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Crichton: Environmentalism is a religion
By Selected News Articles @ 12:02 AM :: 134275 Views :: Environment, Religion
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There's an initial Eden, a paradise, a state of grace and unity with nature, there's a fall from grace into a state of pollution as a result of eating from the tree of knowledge....
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Monday, April 22, 2024 |
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Ira Einhorn, Earth Day's Dirty Secret
By Selected News Articles @ 12:01 AM :: 75521 Views :: Environment
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Ira Einhorn, Master of Ceremonies, Earth Day Rally on Belmont Plateau in Fairmount Park, Phila, PA, Apr. 22, 1970.
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Sunday, April 21, 2024 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted April 20, 2024
By GovTrack .us @ 5:23 PM :: 410 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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... votes cast and bills introduced in Congress ....
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Sunday, April 21, 2024 |
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And Now the Big Guns Come Out
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1173 Views :: Ethics, Small Business, Taxes
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... I became convinced that the proceedings, or at least this part of them, were prearranged ....
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Saturday, April 20, 2024 |
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Maui County's new Recovery Permitting Center to open April 29 in Kahului
By News Release @ 11:48 PM :: 558 Views :: Maui County, Development
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... to assist residents with the process of applying for Disaster Recovery Building Permits for alterations, repairs, reconstruction and new construction of structures in areas affected by the August 2023 Maui wildfires ....
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Saturday, April 20, 2024 |
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Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 10:35 PM :: 466 Views :: Education K-12, Family, First Amendment, Drugs
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... Hawaii's Legislature Seeks to Change Constitution to Lock In Same-Sex Marriage ....
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Saturday, April 20, 2024 |
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OIP Issues Five New Opinions
By News Release @ 10:22 PM :: 491 Views :: Hawaii County , Education K-12, Ethics, Police
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... one formal opinion and four informal opinions ....
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Saturday, April 20, 2024 |
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HB2526 Goes to Governor: Felony for repeat offenders who drive without a license
By News Release @ 4:26 PM :: 470 Views :: Judiciary, Law Enforcement
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... after a McKinley High School student's life was claimed by a habitual traffic offender ....
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Saturday, April 20, 2024 |
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Office of Elections: RFK Jr. will appear on Hawaii ballot
By News Release @ 4:09 PM :: 588 Views :: Democratic Party, Office of Elections
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... hearings officer Aaron Schulaner, said an objection filed by the Democratic Party of Hawaii “did not meet its burden of proof in this case” ....
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Saturday, April 20, 2024 |
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Maui County Pushes Back Against AG Report on Fires
By News Release @ 3:24 PM :: 754 Views :: Maui County, Ethics
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... The more liability assigned to Maui County, the less liability for Hawaiian Electric. Maui County cannot declare bankruptcy and transfer ownership of the County to outside lenders. Hawaiian Electric can. This is all about protecting old-boy power centers. ....
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Saturday, April 20, 2024 |
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Lahaina fire victims must 'show regular progress toward their permanent housing plan in order to continue staying in FEMA housing'
By News Release @ 2:36 PM :: 656 Views :: Maui County
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... We encourage families to continue to show regular progress toward their permanent housing plan in order to continue staying in FEMA housing ....
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Saturday, April 20, 2024 |
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DCCA Revokes Miske Termite License--14 Cases of Price Gouging
By News Release @ 2:58 AM :: 798 Views :: Ethics, Law Enforcement
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... License revocation, $35,000 fine, $22,114.56 restitution ....
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Friday, April 19, 2024 |
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Blangiardi: City Will Not Sue Glock
By Selected News Articles @ 11:59 PM :: 1488 Views :: Honolulu County, Second Amendment
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... a Council bill had proposed hiring specialized legal experts from the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence and Dentons law firm ....
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Friday, April 19, 2024 |
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242 Candidates Pull Papers Statewide
By News Release @ 11:18 PM :: 13054 Views :: Office of Elections
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... Candidate filing begins on February 1, 2024, and goes through June 4, 2024 ....
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Friday, April 19, 2024 |
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Property tax hikes wrong medicine for Maui woes
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:24 PM :: 601 Views :: Maui County, Taxes
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... Tax hikes would burden average Maui homeowners the most ....
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Friday, April 19, 2024 |
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Insurance ‘stabilization’ bill would spread pain to everyone
By Grassroot Institute @ 9:57 PM :: 664 Views :: Small Business, Taxes, Cost of Living
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“...if you look through the bill, it’s a bunch of blank spaces. It says conveyance taxes will increase by blank percent. Or short-term rental taxes are gonna have a blank percent tax on them....”
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Friday, April 19, 2024 |
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PLA? State keeps piling on rules that increase Hawaii’s cost of living
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 9:20 PM :: 835 Views :: Labor, Small Business, Cost of Living
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... Hawaii’s $1.5 million PLA threshold is now the lowest in the nation ....
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Friday, April 19, 2024 |
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‘Blankety-blank’ bills at Legislature leave Hawaii taxpayers in the dark
By Grassroot Institute @ 9:04 PM :: 610 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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... To address the problem, Yamachika suggested that legal action might be necessary ....
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Friday, April 19, 2024 |
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Honolulu mayor says he's responsible for Honolulu’s gun licensing problems.
By Video @ 8:20 PM :: 836 Views :: Honolulu County, Second Amendment
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... The law clearly says the police chief makes the policies, but the mayor says he's pulling those strings ....
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Friday, April 19, 2024 |
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Taxpayers Not on the Hook for HECO's $542M 'Special Purpose Revenue Bonds'
By Andrew Walden @ 3:37 AM :: 677 Views :: Energy
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... another $700M has been authorized, but not issued ....
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Friday, April 19, 2024 |
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25 House Bills up for Final Reading
By News Release @ 1:30 AM :: 639 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... A final vote is scheduled for Friday, April 19 at 11:30 a.m. on the House Floor during the Floor Session ....
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Thursday, April 18, 2024 |
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Hawaii's Insurance Crisis as Premiums Nearly Quadruple
By Selected News Articles @ 4:54 PM :: 1005 Views :: Cost of Living
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... insurance costs for condominiums have risen by 100 percent to 1,000 percent ....
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Thursday, April 18, 2024 |
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City’s DMV employees gearing up for LGBTQ+ sensitivity training
By News Release @ 4:37 PM :: 547 Views :: Homelessness, Law Enforcement
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... employees will be trained to use an individual’s chosen names and preferred gender pronouns when renewing a Hawaiʻi driver’s license or motor vehicle registration ....
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Thursday, April 18, 2024 |
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Six public forums scheduled for UH president’s search
By News Release @ 4:18 PM :: 496 Views :: Higher Education
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... Each forum will be ninety minutes long and available in-person and virtually via Zoom ....
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