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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Kona Coffee Farmers 'Disappointed' by Safeway Blending Lawsuit Settlement
By News Release @ 8:11 AM :: 4587 Views :: Agriculture

Kona coffee growers are disappointed that the stipulated dismissal leaves unresolved what they believe is the key question....

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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
DLNR Seeking Streamlined Permitting Process to Restore Fishponds
By News Release @ 8:00 AM :: 4137 Views :: Environment
Public Comment Period on Draft Environmental Assessment through May 23....
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
HECO: Renewables Hit 13.9% for 2012
By News Release @ 12:10 AM :: 3832 Views :: Energy
The 13.9 percent achievement was an improvement over the 12 percent reported for 2011....
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Abercrombie: UPW Contract 'Positive Result of Partnership'
By News Release @ 12:04 AM :: 4121 Views :: Labor
The Governor also acknowledged the efforts of UH Manoa Industrial Relations Center Director Joyce Najita, whose mediation services greatly contributed to achieving consensus....
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Monday, April 29, 2013
SB69: Mandatory Background Checks to be Voted
By News Release @ 7:29 PM :: 4520 Views :: Second Amendment

... mandatory background check bill on already acquired firearms .....

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Sunday, April 28, 2013
House, Senate Approve Resolution Challenging Big Cable, Big Wind
By News Release @ 1:31 PM :: 4267 Views :: Energy

Governor is requested to engage and work with Lanai, Molokai, and the other neighbor island communities when formulating energy policy ....

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Sunday, April 28, 2013
HB622: A Sieve Law Not a Shield Law
By News Release @ 11:32 AM :: 2991 Views
The media would be better off arguing case law because that’s virtually all the bill allows....
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Sunday, April 28, 2013
Army Completes EIS for Pōhakuloa Battle Course
By News Release @ 12:04 AM :: 5281 Views :: Environment, Military

Army announces the completion of the Final Environmental Impact Statement to construct and operate a modern Infantry Platoon Battle Course and associated infrastructure at Pōhakuloa....

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Saturday, April 27, 2013
VOG: Hawaii County Air Flunks
By News Release @ 11:45 PM :: 4635 Views :: Environment
Vog contributes to grade 'F' Big Island air quality and grade 'B' Oahu air quality....
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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Two Marijuana Bills Pass Conference Committee
By News Release @ 10:00 PM :: 3719 Views

"The negative changes to SB 642 fall squarely on Senator Green...."

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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Caldwell Announces Town Hall Meeting Schedule
By News Release @ 5:14 PM :: 3915 Views :: Honolulu County

... six town hall meetings that will be held across Oahu during the month of May ....

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Saturday, April 27, 2013
ALERT – Upcoming Votes on Exemption Bills
By News Release @ 12:22 PM :: 5698 Views :: Development, Land Use
SB 1207: Exempts the Department of Transportation from any permitting or site plan approval requirements established for lands in the Conservation District, for any work involving submerged lands....
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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Does Hawaii Constitution Prohibit Gut and Replace?
By News Release @ 12:16 PM :: 4231 Views :: Hawaii State Government

Hawaii Court decisions on the Constitutional mandate that the contents of a bill must contain only one subject, and the subject of the bill must be expressed in its title....

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Saturday, April 27, 2013
(No) Shield Law Passes Conference – Will Limit Our News Sources
By News Release @ 11:55 AM :: 4007 Views :: First Amendment

The “Shield Law” bill passed out of Conference Committee yesterday (HB 622)....

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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Neighborhood Board Ballot Passcodes Sent to Voters
By News Release @ 11:26 AM :: 4140 Views :: Honolulu County
The Neighborhood Commission Office has mailed passcodes to 180,000 eligible voters who may cast ballots online for contested seats on the 2013-2015 Neighborhood Boards....
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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Six Animal-Related Bills Moving Forward
By News Release @ 12:44 AM :: 7175 Views :: Agriculture, Hawaii State Government, Second Amendment

The bills await final, floor votes of both the House and the Senate on Tuesday, April 30th....

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Saturday, April 27, 2013
SB1093 Early Education Passes Conference Committee
By News Release @ 12:09 AM :: 3706 Views :: Education K-12

The bill appropriated $1.160M for administration costs for two years and $6M in FY15 for subsidies based on a sliding fee scale....

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Friday, April 26, 2013
Budget Report & Worksheets from Conference Committee
By News Release @ 11:36 PM :: 4135 Views :: Hawaii State Government

Lead Senate and House negotiators on the State Budget bill announced they closed negotiations three days ahead of an internal deadline. ..

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Friday, April 26, 2013
Bag Tax Goes National
By News Release @ 9:28 PM :: 5002 Views :: Environment, Taxes
... H.R. 1686, the Trash Reduction Act of 2013 -- Annualized Cost: $4.08 billion .... 
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Friday, April 26, 2013
Tourism: First Quarter 2013 Sets New Record
By News Release @ 3:41 PM :: 4062 Views :: Tourism
Every day, an average of $44 million was spent in the state from January through March....
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Friday, April 26, 2013
500 Petition Against School Lands Bills
By News Release @ 8:52 AM :: 6550 Views :: Education K-12, Development, Land Use
... The following petition was heard last night (Thursday April 25, 2013) in Senate Chambers ....
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Thursday, April 25, 2013
HGEA Announces Unit 8 Contract Settlement
By News Release @ 10:47 AM :: 5848 Views :: Labor

HGEA’s Unit 8 membership consists of approximately 2,350 administrative, professional and technical University of Hawaii employees....

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Thursday, April 25, 2013
Auditor: Less Than Half of Audit Recommendations Implemented
By News Release @ 10:13 AM :: 4084 Views :: Hawaii State Government
Requests by our office to meet with the SPO to conduct our follow-up were not granted....
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Thursday, April 25, 2013
Caldwell: Feds Reaffirm Commitment to Honolulu Rail
By News Release @ 8:42 AM :: 4114 Views :: Rail

Caldwell said he received further assurance that federal funding for Honolulu’s rail transit project remains firmly on track...

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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
House Republican Legislative Update
By News Release @ 11:49 PM :: 3468 Views
The last day of session, also known as Sine Die, is next Thursday, May 2....
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
HIRA: Democrats Want to Tax Your Online Purchases
By News Release @ 11:40 PM :: 4047 Views :: Taxes
proposed federal law will permit states to increase the price tag for virtually all of your online purchases....
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
OHA awards $1.5 million to charter schools
By News Release @ 11:26 PM :: 4661 Views :: Education K-12, OHA
“OHA’s support literally keeps our doors open.”
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
HSTA Cheers Defeat of 'Instructional Hours', Targets Preschool Vouchers
By News Release @ 12:10 PM :: 4797 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
...SB 1084 is a voucher that will allow public money to pay for private preschools....
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Hawaii Ranks 41st for Business
By News Release @ 11:14 PM :: 4921 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business
...The study examines 32 factors over which state governments have control relative to efforts to be pro-business....
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
US Attorney General to Honor Hawaii Victims Rights Advocate
By News Release @ 11:04 PM :: 5244 Views :: Justice Reinvestment
...Holder will present Pamela Joyce Ferguson-Brey with an award during the National Crime Victims' Rights Week awards ceremony on Wednesday, April 24....
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Public Invited to Comment on Complete Streets Projects
By News Release @ 12:55 AM :: 3626 Views :: Honolulu County
... pedestrian and bicycle safety advocates cheered the passage of Ordinance 12-15 ....
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
OHA Publishes Budget Outline, Seeks Comments
By News Release @ 12:50 AM :: 3099 Views :: OHA
...public comment period runs from April 22, 2013 through May 3, 2013....
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Monday, April 22, 2013
Act 27: Abercrombie Orders Doctors, Hospitals to Provide Abortion Pills
By News Release @ 11:00 PM :: 6520 Views :: First Amendment, Health Care

...provisions that require any hospital in Hawaii to provide information about, offer and, if accepted or requested, dispense emergency contraception....

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Monday, April 22, 2013
Nicole Velasco to Head Neighborhood Commission
By News Release @ 8:15 PM :: 3962 Views :: Honolulu County
...The office provides administrative and technical support services to the Neighborhood Commission and Oahu’s 33 neighborhood boards....
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Monday, April 22, 2013
Conference Committee Hearing on Senate Bill 69 Rescheduled
By News Release @ 7:46 PM :: 3679 Views :: Second Amendment

... conference committee will reconvene tomorrow, April 23, at 10:30 am in Conference Room 312 ....

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Monday, April 22, 2013
Petition Seeks Defeat of Three PLDC-Clone Bills
By News Release @ 4:58 PM :: 7229 Views :: Environment, Development, Land Use
...House Bill 70, Senate Bill 1207 and Senate Bill 1171 separately serve to keep PLDC objectives alive and operating....
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Monday, April 22, 2013
Confident, Rail Opponents Seek Expedited Hearing on Appeal
By News Release @ 4:17 PM :: 4428 Views :: Rail

... BRT was not considered even a reasonable alternative to be studied ....

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Sunday, April 21, 2013
Petition Lists 7 Gut and Replace Bills, 11 Frankenstein Bills
By News Release @ 2:13 PM :: 7133 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government

Due to maneuvers by various legislative committees resulting in major changes in bills without public notice, we are petitioning the legislative bodies to defeat the following bills....

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Saturday, April 20, 2013
Without Shield Law, Reporters Would be Dragged into Civil Suits they Cover
By News Release @ 1:53 PM :: 3246 Views :: First Amendment

... civil litigation involving Enron’s collapse, the Catholic Church’s priest abuse scandals, Bridgestone/Firestone’s allegedly defective tires, tobacco company liability and almost any product liability lawsuit ....

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Saturday, April 20, 2013
US Deploys Its Newest Missile Defense System to Guam
By News Release @ 1:30 PM :: 3761 Views :: Military

THAAD remains the most successfully tested Missile Defense system since 2003, with a 10 for 10 intercept flight record....

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Saturday, April 20, 2013
OHA: Profitable Non-profits Score $8M
By News Release @ 3:15 AM :: 4283 Views :: OHA

The 32 non-profit groups were selected from 146 applications for OHA grant money....

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Saturday, April 20, 2013
Abercrombie Appoints Darrell T Young DHHL Deputy Director
By News Release @ 2:24 AM :: 4444 Views :: DHHL

...Young is currently serving as the director of communications and acting deputy director....

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Saturday, April 20, 2013
Obamacare Paycuts Pushing 900 Hawaii MDs Into Retirement
By News Release @ 2:17 AM :: 4612 Views :: Health Care

"There are many changes coming to medicine that some physicians might not like."

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Saturday, April 20, 2013
HB634 Obstructs Sale of Businesses With Over 100 Employees
By News Release @ 2:01 AM :: 3854 Views :: Labor

House Bill 634, which would require the purchase of a company to hire 100 percent of the seller’s employees, is now in a conference committee....

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Friday, April 19, 2013
SB535: Illegal to Fire Your Child’s Babysitter
By News Release @ 11:52 PM :: 8862 Views :: Family, Labor

SB535SD1HD2 would make it illegal for any Hawaii family to fire or otherwise change the employment status of nannies, babysitters, caretakers, and other domestic workers....

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Friday, April 19, 2013
Medical Marijuana Bills Delayed in Conference Committee
By News Release @ 11:50 PM :: 3857 Views :: Drugs

Both the House and Senate will present a CD1 draft of SB 642 and HB 668 that would amend the bills....

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Friday, April 19, 2013
Calling All Cronies: Caldwell Announces $1.6M Cash Giveaway
By News Release @ 11:49 PM :: 4675 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics

...seeking proposals from (ahem) 'qualified non-profit organizations' for $1.6 million in Grants-in-Aid funds....

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Friday, April 19, 2013
Portnoy vs Hee on Shield Law
By News Release @ 6:17 PM :: 5729 Views :: Ethics, First Amendment
Clearly there is some personal animosity between the two ....
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Friday, April 19, 2013
SB1084 Relating to Early Childhood Education Moves Forward
By News Release @ 4:55 PM :: 3729 Views :: Education K-12

SB1084 proposes a constitutional amendment to allow the appropriation of public funds for private early childhood education programs ....

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Friday, April 19, 2013
Budget Negotiations: Support Puuanahulu Shooting Range
By News Release @ 1:24 AM :: 4740 Views :: Second Amendment
The proposed world class Puuanahulu Shooting Range in Kailua-Kona  is still in the state budget....
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