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...Ige said requiring proof of victimization is “unrealistic” due to victims’ fear of retaliation from their former pimps or sex buyers.... 

...Bills Introduced and Votes Cast for the week ending June 29, 2019....

...This week’s opening round of Democratic Party presidential debates threatens to fall short on science and is likely to be dominated by ideological talking points when it comes to food, farming and agricultural biotechnology....

... High-profile right-wing and alt-right internet trolls like Jack Posobiec, fellow Pizzagater Mike Cernovich, and Infowars‘ Paul Joseph Watson praised Gabbard on Twitter for her performance ....

... and the lowest voter turnout for 2016 Presidential election ....

...Weekly Update from GovTrack.us....

...a message to Gabbard: “Good luck running for president, but don't come back to Hawaii.”....

... weekly update from GovTrack.us ....

...nineteen Senators and two Representatives – all Democrats – earned membership in the ‘Coalition of the Radical Left’ by scoring 10% or less.... 

...in Hawaii, 29% of federal criminal convictions are for white collar crime, second only to New Jersey....

...and Hawaii has the 4th-lowest home ownership rate in USA....

...Mike announced that his wife and boys would not be able to eat most of what his mother had cooked, as they were now vegetarian. Also, everyone needed to stop calling the children by their birth names. Their new names were Bhakti, Jai, and Naryana....

...Overwhelming activist and media focus on a small part of the problem leads to confused and misinformed citizens....

...The Crabbe-created LLCs must be dissolved, the irregularities in contract awarding must end, and the FBI must be raid the offices now before all the evidences of corruption are destroyed while Crabbe hangs on till the end of the month.... 

...low tech, low patents, low innovation....

...Thanks to the ultimate resource: the human mind....

...Congress was not in session last week but two resolutions were introduced by members of the Hawaii congressional delegation....

...in Hawaii the dollar has less buying power than in any other state....

...lots of jobs sit unfilled as Hawaii has the 5th-lowest avg starting salaries (adjusted for cost of living) in the USA....

...A 2014 FSM government claim against Lyon Associates Inc. for over $4.6 million for ”errors and omissions” in the designs for a road and sewer project in Chuuk State raises additional questions about the company’s involvement in the FSM....

...A decade after the first missionaries arrived, the gospel tore across the islands in the 1830s....

...The Senate confirmed a Los Angeles attorney Tuesday to a seat on the Ninth Circuit after he faced criticisms from Democrats over his record of representing fossil fuel companies in court, making him the second Trump nominee added to the San Francisco-based appeals court in a week....

...the average officer is only 45 years old — 42 for non-disability enlisted personnel — upon retirement from service....

...But the list of controversial donors to Gabbard, as detailed by her filings with the Federal Election Committee, doesn’t end there....

...Honolulu and Pearl City tie with Juneau, AK as the cities with the lowest average starting salaries when adjusted for cost of living.... 

...Hawaii combined pass-through business income tax rate 43.7%, second only to California....

...Hawaii was third behind Illinois and New Jersey for how much of its total revenue would be required to pay off its unfunded retirement liabilities over the next 30 years....

...Those unfamiliar with the Hawaii case may wonder what it has to do with the New York action, and the answer to that is that the notoriously anti-gun Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals tied the two together....

...Democratic Hawaii Rep. and presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard criticized Facebook for banning fringe leaders during her appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast Monday....

...Hawaii has the 2nd-most treatment centers per drug user....

...In Hawaii, state law imposes a registration requirement on almost all firearms. Under a bill signed into law in June 2016, Hawaii became the first state to couple this registration requirement to the Rap Back service....

... Another climate lie bites the dust ....

"...Years needed to afford down payment: 25.68...."

...members of Congress who spoke with President Trump emerged from the White House projecting supreme confidence that a Jones Act waiver is now effectively off the table....

...It won’t come from renewables—which can never supply all the power we need—but from foundational scientific discoveries....

...Honolulu is slightly ahead of Toledo and Cleveland, Ohio....

...The University of South Dakota determined that a student group naming its party “Hawaiian Day” did not violate the school’s policy....

...2019’s Best & Worst States for Nurses....

...As of Sept. 30, Hawaii has paid $36.4 million to Abraaj Global Growth Markets Fund....

... Approve 47% – Disapprove 36% ....

...2019’s Most Gambling-Addicted States....

...Recent fatal shootings involving PSD employees and a riot/disturbance at the Maui Community Correctional Center (MCCC) have brought the Department front and center attention....

...Hilo and Kahului are the places to be....

...this is the price Hawaii pays for pandering to anti-fluoridation nuts....

...the memo contradicts arguments EPA and the Department of Justice made on the same case three years ago....

... weekly update from GovTrack.us ....

...2019’s States Most Dependent on the Gun Industry....

...farmers are increasingly frustrated and dispirited by having to deal with the demands and unrealistic expectations of a public that is growing ever more distant from the realities of agriculture....

...“Knives are arms protected by the Second Amendment,” a complaint filed Wednesday in the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii contends....

...This line of thinking is one step away from web sites touting “miracle cures THEY don’t want you to know about.”....