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... Nickie Lum Davis has retained Potomac International Partners to push for a grant of clemency. One of the lobbyists on the account is Mark Cowan, who was a member of Trump’s transition team ....

... gaps between black people and white people ....

... potential monetary losses — including both the lifetime and annual cost of a cigarette pack per day, health care expenditures, income losses and other costs .... 

...Of its 117 total traffic deaths in 2018, 45 traffic deaths in Hawaii came when one or more of the drivers had been drinking....

... Prof. Cynthia Franklin is currently on a team developing a partnership between al-Quds University and the University of Hawaii at Manoa ....

... Nick Ochs was the Hawaii Republican candidate for House District 22 ....

... 8 of 16 Hawaii towns are among the worst 10% credit card debtors in USA ....

...I don’t have an opinion about sea walls. I do have an opinion about connected, rich people buying oceanfront property on sinking islands even as they try to sell us on the idea that an ocean rise clocked at less than 2 mm per year is what really matters – and that we should give up fossil fuel to save their beaches....

...“We will rely on the advisory opinion of the auditor in making corrective changes. If OHA’s in-house policies do not conform to our obligations as a state agency, then we should create policies that do.”....

... Maintaining the decades-long partnership between OHA and the state to fund programs ....

... Kawailoa Pursues Bill to Engage in Economic Enterprise ....

... This is all about OHA’s plan to develop Kakaako Makai ....

... Kahele "elated" that New Mexico congresswoman Deb Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo, was appointed as secretary to the interior by Joe Biden ....

... Officials now pledge action, after a Honolulu Star-Advertiser and ProPublica investigation ....

... All 5 States with Worst Homeless Problems Governed by ‘Democrat Trifectas’ ....

... Reality: A casino is 'in the box', not 'out of the box' ....

... revising a drafting mistake in the 1996 welfare reform bill that barred the islanders from the program ....

...The case involves the Antiquities Act of 1906, which allows the president to proclaim landmarks and structures with historic and scientific interest as national monuments....

...in Hawaii every available Obamacare plan covers elective abortions....

... The state still owes another 1,300 acres to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands ....

... Since July, 26.8 percent of users searching in Honolulu from somewhere else in the country were looking for a short-term lease, up significantly from 14.9 percent at this time last year....

... suspected communist spy Fang Fang served as president of both the Chinese Student Association and Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs (APAPA) ....

...As we mark 75 years since the cessation of hostilities in the Pacific Theater of the Second World War....

... With a population with a strong demographic base, what has happened to the job situation which makes it so high? The answer in a word is “tourism” ....

... Hawaii sees an average of 410 stolen cars per 100,000 registered vehicles. ...

"...it is about power...." --  Brendon Lee

... While the Democrats are distant from Ms. Gabbard, the Libertarian Party is waiting with open arms, if she can embrace more of its agenda. ...

...“Israel is a very strong partner” and the “best example of democracy and the American values that we have in the Middle East” ....

...only 7 Hawaii-based patents awarded in 2019....

...Environmental laws are for the little people, not the environmentalists....

...last year Youssef briefly courted journalists with a story about Hunter’s links to the now-defunct mbloom fund....

...“Hawaii is on track for both the nation’s: 1) largest raw vote increase vs. 2016 (33.8% so far) 2) biggest pro-Trump swing vs. 2016 (-32.2 pts to -29.5 pts)" ....

... groceries +69.3%, transportation +46.6%, utilities +99.4% ....

...Joe Biden’s Transition Aide Helped Steer $3M to Hunter Biden-Linked Firm....

...“I don’t see any end in sight, really, because it just seems to have gotten worse"....

... Remember 'Mbloom'? -- financed by Hawaii taxpayers via Hawaii Strategic Development Corporation (HSDC) ....

... How Vice President Richard Nixon handled Hawaii's disputed electoral votes in 1960 ....

... “Senator Hirono Demands ACB Be Weighed Against a Duck to See if She Is a Witch” ....

"... Oh, stop it. The world is in flames ...." -- Mazie Hirono

... In three of the past five years, the awards fell into the single digits. ...

... the homes have proved too expensive for many applicants ....

...It doesn’t matter whether those restrictions actually do anything to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; all that matters is that they be as restrictive as possible....

... A Growing Epidemic: States with the Highest Young Adult Vaping Rates ....

... Because OHA get plans for Mauna Kea .... 

... Civic participation is a key ingredient of a well-functioning democracy ....

... Hawaii both indicate that they transmitted fewer ballots to voters than were submitted ....

...‘Heavy’ pesticide exposure linked to cardiovascular disease?  Flawed study raises ‘troubling’ questions about public health research....

...Unless the corrupt “old guard trustees” (or their clones now running for OHA seats) are replaced with honest people willing to clean up the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the state and federal government will step in and shut it down, saying: “See? We gave you Hawaiians chance, and you blew it.”....

...First Circuit Judge Steven Alm’s probation reform pilot program, Hawaii’s Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE), which launched in 2004 to reduce recidivism and probation violations....

...well-connected people often found their way to the tops of housing waiting lists while the names of people who really needed affordable housing disappeared....