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Tuesday, July 6, 2021 |
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The Draft Oʻahu Pedestrian Plan is available for the public’s review
By News Release @ 7:31 PM :: 1829 Views :: Honolulu County
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... Honolulu’s first island-wide pedestrian plan ....
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Thursday, July 1, 2021 |
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Embezzlement, Bribery: Hawaii Non-Profit Executive Sentenced to 46 Months of Imprisonment
By News Release @ 4:00 AM :: 5331 Views :: Honolulu County, DHHL, Ethics, Law Enforcement, OHA, COVID-19
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... Hawaii Non-Profit Executive Sentenced to 46 Months of Imprisonment for Embezzling Over $500,000 from AmeriCorps and for Agreeing to Receive a Bribe for Approving $845,000 in CARES Act Grants ....
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Thursday, July 1, 2021 |
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City Doubles Hanauma Bay Entrance Fee to $25 per Tourist
By News Release @ 2:45 AM :: 2289 Views :: Honolulu County, Tourism
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... $25 entrance fee effective July 1 for non-locals 13 years and older ....
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Thursday, July 1, 2021 |
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Alm: Myeni Encountered Police at Kewalo Basin 30 Minutes Before Shooting
By Video @ 12:51 AM :: 3927 Views :: Honolulu County, Police, Drugs
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... Alm added that Myeni, who did have marijuana in his system...also had an odd encounter with officers just 30 minutes before going to Nuuanu, when he approached police at Kewalo Basin as they took a statement from someone reporting a car theft. Alm said Myeni started questioning the victim himself ….
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Wednesday, June 30, 2021 |
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EPA Orders Navy to Upgrade Pearl Harbor Sewage Treatment Plant
By News Release @ 12:00 PM :: 2752 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military
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... The plant is owned and operated by the U.S. Navy and provides service for up to 40,000 people ....
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Monday, June 21, 2021 |
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'Procurement Collusion' -- Hanabusa, HART Reported to Federal Authorities
By News Release @ 4:32 AM :: 3996 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Rail
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... In order to steer a consulting contract to its former Board Chair, Colleen Hanabusa, Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation (HART), a federally-funded rail transit project, imposed the following narrowly tailored requirements on bidders ....
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Thursday, June 17, 2021 |
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Honolulu Youth Commission to accept applications for Commissioners
By News Release @ 11:35 PM :: 1720 Views :: Honolulu County
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... Applications for Commissioners on the first-ever Honolulu Youth Commission will be accepted beginning Thursday, June 17, 2021 through Friday, July 16, 2021 ....
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Wednesday, June 16, 2021 |
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Blangiardi: I Support HB862 -- 3% TAT Hike for Counties
By News Release @ 10:02 PM :: 2527 Views :: Honolulu County, Taxes, Tourism
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"...I support HB 862 as it provides the City the option of restoring a revenue base which has been lost – allowing us to continue services to our people...."
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Tuesday, June 15, 2021 |
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Doorbell Cam Shows Moments Before Police Shot Lindani Myeni
By Video @ 5:45 PM :: 4626 Views :: Honolulu County, Police
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... Officers responded to calls of a burglary in progress in the Nuuanu area where they shot 29-year-old Lindani Myeni after an altercation at a home on Coelho Way ....
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Monday, June 14, 2021 |
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Make $100K? COVID Money will Pay Your Rent and Utilities
By News Release @ 6:49 PM :: 2543 Views :: Honolulu County, COVID-19
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"... a household of four people earning up to $100,700 a year in total and demonstrating financial hardship from the pandemic can qualify for support ...."
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Monday, June 14, 2021 |
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Wait list opening for Section 8
By News Release @ 6:19 PM :: 2101 Views :: Honolulu County
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“...The rental subsidy program offered by the City, serves more than 3,800 households in partnership with more than 1,400 landlords....”
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Saturday, June 12, 2021 |
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FBI Raids Lead to Shakeup at Planning Commission?
By Andrew Walden @ 9:58 PM :: 5529 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Development
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... Federal authorities, March 30, 2021, unsealed indictments charging six DPP employees in a bribery scheme going back as far as 2012. Challacombe had been Deputy Director of the Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting from 2013-2016, and then Acting Director in 2016-17 ....
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Thursday, June 10, 2021 |
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HPD Sued for False Arrest, Conflict of Interest
By News Release @ 12:11 AM :: 2897 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Police
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... The lawsuit seeks to end HPD’s continuing policy of allowing officers with conflicts of interest to abuse their police powers for personal benefit ....
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Wednesday, June 9, 2021 |
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Honolulu: Interest-free down-payment home loans are now available
By News Release @ 9:00 PM :: 2103 Views :: Honolulu County
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... $800K to fund loans up to $40,000 each ....
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Wednesday, June 9, 2021 |
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Vaccinations Make Honolulu 14th Most Livable City on Earth
By News Release @ 6:06 PM :: 2587 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii Statistics, COVID-19
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... The biggest gainer in this year’s index is Honolulu. The city rose 46 places to fourteenth after its strong progress in containing the pandemic and rolling out its vaccination programme ....
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Monday, June 7, 2021 |
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Survey: What do you think about the City's Plan to Eliminate Lanes, Jam up Traffic?
By News Release @ 5:33 PM :: 2250 Views :: Honolulu County
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... The City invites the public to participate in the Human Services Transportation Coordination Plan Update survey ....
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Thursday, June 3, 2021 |
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Honolulu Rental and Utility Relief Program will reopen on Monday
By News Release @ 4:33 AM :: 1772 Views :: Honolulu County
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... City and County of Honolulu will accept 10,000 applications ....
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Wednesday, June 2, 2021 |
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2021 Neighborhood Board Election Final Results Posted
By News Release @ 2:34 AM :: 2040 Views :: Honolulu County
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... 495 candidates filed to run in this year’s election and 402 were elected ....
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Monday, May 31, 2021 |
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Honolulu Police Commission Announces Recruitment for Chief of Police
By News Release @ 5:25 AM :: 2537 Views :: Honolulu County, Police
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... Application packets and required documents must be received/postmarked by: June 30, 2021 ....
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Saturday, May 29, 2021 |
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Homelessness Audit: Most Recommendations Still 'In Process' Four Years Later
By News Release @ 1:27 AM :: 2432 Views :: Honolulu County, Homelessness
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"... a low level of confidence in city efforts to address homelessness ...."
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Friday, May 21, 2021 |
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Hawaii Is Replacing Its Last Coal Plant With a ‘Giant Battery’—Powered by Oil
By Selected News Articles @ 8:13 PM :: 4228 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy, Cost of Living
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... The revelation that the Kapolei Energy Storage Facility will be powered with oil caused an uproar at a recent meeting, but the project is slated to continue ....
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Thursday, May 20, 2021 |
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Bodycam Video Shows Sykap Shooting, Crash into Canal
By Video @ 5:29 AM :: 3093 Views :: Honolulu County, Police
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... HNN has obtained the April 5 footage from the officer who fired the first shots-- Just yesterday Prosecutor Alm said he would withhold video from the public during his 'independent investigation' ....
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Wednesday, May 19, 2021 |
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Neighborhood Board Election Ends Friday, May 21
By News Release @ 6:45 PM :: 3227 Views :: Honolulu County
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... The voting period is from April 26 to May 21, 2021 ....
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Thursday, May 13, 2021 |
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Homeless HONU Shelter begins operation in Whitmore Village
By News Release @ 9:27 PM :: 2485 Views :: Honolulu County, Homelessness
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... Operation of HONU is done through a joint effort by the Honolulu Police Department, the City’s Department of Community Services, and the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Homelessness. ...
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Thursday, May 13, 2021 |
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Stung by PUC, HECO Releases 'Customer Energy Resources Strategy'
By News Release @ 4:45 PM :: 2700 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy, Cost of Living
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"... to increase rooftop solar and similar customer energy resources to the scale needed to reach the state’s clean energy benchmarks ...."
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Thursday, May 13, 2021 |
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HECO vs PUC on Kapolei Battery Farm
By News Release @ 4:29 PM :: 2450 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy, COVID-19
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... Hawaiian Electric is asking the PUC to approve the KES project but without the operational and financial conditions it imposed in its April 29, 2021, decision and order (No. 37754) ....
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Saturday, May 8, 2021 |
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Notice of Anticipated Judicial Vacancy – District Judge, District Court of the First Circuit
By News Release @ 4:04 PM :: 2324 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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Friday, May 7, 2021 |
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Creating Facts on the Ground: Stadium Authority Rushes Decision to Demolish Aloha Stadium
By News Release @ 3:45 AM :: 4141 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Hawaii State Government, Higher Education, Rail, Tourism
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... In a special Stadium Authority Board Meeting this morning (Thursday, May 6), the Board confirmed and voted for an early demolition of the existing stadium location ....
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Thursday, May 6, 2021 |
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O‘ahu to continue in Tier 3 four more weeks
By News Release @ 9:15 PM :: 2763 Views :: Honolulu County, Small Business, COVID-19
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... while the county and the state work together on incorporating vaccination counts on O‘ahu into modified metrics for the Tier system ....
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Monday, May 3, 2021 |
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City’s Rental and Utility Relief Program closes after just a few minutes -- will reopen June 7
By News Release @ 10:34 PM :: 2222 Views :: Honolulu County, COVID-19
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... it will reopen the first working Monday of each month as long as funds are available ....
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Saturday, May 1, 2021 |
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City’s Rental and Utility Relief Program to reopen May 3 at 2 p.m.
By News Release @ 10:23 AM :: 2732 Views :: Honolulu County, Economy, COVID-19
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"...fraudulent applications may be referred to law enforcement....”
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Thursday, April 15, 2021 |
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After Kaka'ako Makai Debacle: 'OHA Shall Seek Decision Making Influence over All Land in Hawai'i'
By Andrew Walden @ 6:08 AM :: 4604 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Development, Land Use, OHA
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... OHA shall promote the idea that every property in Hawai'i is sacred and pursue initiatives that help achieve a broad acceptance of this truth ....
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Saturday, April 10, 2021 |
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DLNR hands out more dam fines
By News Release @ 3:05 PM :: 3209 Views :: Hawaii County , Honolulu County, Agriculture
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... Ka’u dam has been empty since about 2010 ....
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Friday, April 9, 2021 |
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Forced out by SHOPO, Blangiardi and Police Commission--HPD Chief Ballard Resigns
By Video @ 10:34 PM :: 6066 Views :: Honolulu County, Police
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...The Mafia has achieved its goal. Next they will impose the Chief they want. Someone like Kealoha without the drug-addicted wife to ruin it all....
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Wednesday, April 7, 2021 |
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O‘ahu businesses and activities to continue operations in Tier 3
By News Release @ 11:22 PM :: 2711 Views :: Honolulu County, Small Business, COVID-19
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... Honolulu will continue to operate in Tier 3 of the reopening strategy for the next four weeks, meaning O‘ahu businesses and activities will continue operations without reverting back to the Tier 2 framework ....
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Friday, April 2, 2021 |
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Oʻahu Neighborhood Board Elections Kick Off on April 23
By Selected News Articles @ 11:56 PM :: 2659 Views :: Honolulu County, OHA
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... If you are a registered voter, you will receive a passcode in the mail which will allow you to vote online ....
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Wednesday, March 31, 2021 |
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Feds Bust Six in DPP Bribery Scheme
By Selected News Articles @ 1:04 AM :: 7157 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Development
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... Federal corruption probe targets DPP staffers and one local architect ....
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Tuesday, March 30, 2021 |
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Public hearing set on Honolulu short-term rental draft rules
By News Release @ 10:53 PM :: 3055 Views :: Honolulu County, Small Business, Tourism
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... DPP will hold a public hearing April 6 on draft rules to regulate and register short-term rentals on O‘ahu ....
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Monday, March 29, 2021 |
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Fools. No Joke: Plastic Ware to be Outlawed Effective April 1
By News Release @ 9:47 PM :: 3400 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Small Business
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... Bill 40 or the Disposable Food Ware Ordinance (DFWO), takes effect April 1, 2021 ....
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Sunday, March 28, 2021 |
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What Does Blangiardi’s Police Commission Nominee Know About Kimura Shooting?
By Andrew Walden @ 11:54 PM :: 6147 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Police
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... Cap't Ben Mahi was the 2nd-highest-ranking officer of HPD Division 1, when a drunken Division 1 Sgt Anson Kimura accidentally shot waitress Hyun Ju Park ....
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Sunday, March 28, 2021 |
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Honolulu Republicans Elect New County Leadership
By Brett Kulbis @ 4:13 AM :: 3029 Views :: Honolulu County, Republican Party
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... hundreds of Republicans participated in the virtual Honolulu County Republican Party Convention ....
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Saturday, March 27, 2021 |
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Guilty of Bribery, Embezzlement: Caldwell Admin CARES Act Administrator Hanalei Aipoalani
By News Release @ 3:26 AM :: 8458 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, COVID-19
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... Hanalei Aipoalani, 42, of Waianae, Hawaii, pled guilty in federal court today to embezzling more than $500,000 from AmeriCorps and to agreeing to accept a bribe for the administration of grants under the CARES Act ....
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Friday, March 26, 2021 |
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Outdoor Weddings up to 100 People Now Allowed on Oahu
By News Release @ 10:24 PM :: 3084 Views :: Honolulu County, Small Business, Tourism, COVID-19
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... the request to modify Honolulu’s COVID-19 recovery framework to include “weddings” as a category has been approved and is effective immediately ....
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Friday, March 26, 2021 |
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Protest Erupts After DHHL Selects Community Solar Developers
By News Release @ 4:28 PM :: 4749 Views :: Hawaii County , Honolulu County, DHHL, Energy
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... State Sen. Kurt Fevella (R, Ewa Beach-Iroquois Point) organized the action to rally opponents and to publicize many DHHL beneficiary complaints that the solar farm plan originated without their input and is a bad use of the agency’s trust land ....
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Friday, March 19, 2021 |
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Mayor Blangiardi meets with wedding industry demonstrators
By News Release @ 6:38 PM :: 3335 Views :: Honolulu County, Small Business, Tourism, COVID-19
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... Mayor Rick Blangiardi listened to members of the wedding industry during a demonstration outside of Honolulu Hale ....
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