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Entries for 'Selected News Articles'
Friday, January 22, 2016 |
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Everything you need to know about Zika, virus that’s spreading like wildfire
By Selected News Articles @ 11:07 PM :: 4877 Views :: Health Care, GMOs
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... will anti-GMO activists block mosquito eradication efforts? ....
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Friday, January 22, 2016 |
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Low Income Tax Relief: Hawaii Earned Income Tax Credit
By Selected News Articles @ 8:14 PM :: 5918 Views :: Republican Party, Taxes
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...26 other states and the District of Columbia have implemented a state EITC....
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Thursday, January 21, 2016 |
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Minimum Wage in Hawaii Compared to Median Income
By Selected News Articles @ 2:29 PM :: 3113 Views :: Hawaii Statistics
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...when it comes to median household income, Hawaii fares better than the national average....
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Thursday, January 21, 2016 |
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Lawsuit: Lopaka Ryder, Killed by Drug Dealer, was Police Informant
By Selected News Articles @ 12:05 PM :: 7940 Views :: Hawaii County , Law Enforcement, Drugs
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...police disclosed his identity either directly or indirectly to persons being investigated....
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Thursday, January 21, 2016 |
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Speaker Souki Proposes Fee Simple Conversion of Commercial Land Leases
By Selected News Articles @ 2:52 AM :: 7780 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Land Use, Small Business
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Hawaii has done it before with lands supporting single-family and multi-family homes. Those historic actions gave the ordinary working person new opportunities for true homeownership....
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Tuesday, January 19, 2016 |
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Supreme Court Declines to hold Nai Aupuni in Contempt
By Selected News Articles @ 1:31 PM :: 4704 Views :: Akaka Bill, OHA
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The U.S. Supreme Court today denied a request by challengers to an election of Native Hawaiians to find the nonprofit organization conducting the election in civil contempt of the court’s prior injunction....
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Saturday, January 16, 2016 |
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Lawsuit Challenges Secrecy at UH Manoa Bio-Safety Lab
By Selected News Articles @ 1:21 PM :: 3911 Views :: Higher Education
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...CDC found "widespread regulatory noncompliance" in the university's labs that use biological agents and toxins....
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Wednesday, January 13, 2016 |
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HB1170: Geothermal Fast-track, part two
By Selected News Articles @ 7:47 PM :: 5469 Views :: Energy, Land Use
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The legislative session has yet to even begin, and House leaders are already poised to fast-track a set of blanket exemptions for power producers....
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Wednesday, January 13, 2016 |
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DoI Adds 2,000 Pro Fed-Wreck Testimonies
By Selected News Articles @ 10:15 AM :: 12346 Views :: Akaka Bill, DHHL, OHA
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... DoI Adds 2,000 Pro Fed-Wreck Testimonies -- Many Dated After 12/30 Deadline ....
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Tuesday, January 12, 2016 |
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Expert Slams Hawaii Legislature for Lumping E-Cigs in with Tobacco
By Selected News Articles @ 4:36 PM :: 5889 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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...the new law incorrectly lumps e-cigarettes and lower-risk smokeless tobacco products in with the much more harmful nicotine cigarettes....
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Monday, January 11, 2016 |
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Legalize Marijuana-Criminalize Fireworks
By Selected News Articles @ 9:46 PM :: 3237 Views
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It is an election year after all…
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Sunday, January 10, 2016 |
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Obama Administration Promoting Race-based Hawaiian Election
By Selected News Articles @ 12:03 PM :: 5163 Views :: Akaka Bill, OHA
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This all began in Hawaii in 2011 when Act 195 was passed....
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Saturday, January 9, 2016 |
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Judicial Watch Opposes Obama Executive Action to Create Hawaiian Tribe
By Selected News Articles @ 10:28 AM :: 5318 Views :: Akaka Bill, OHA
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...the Obama Interior Department’s proposed regulation would be contrary to laws against racial discrimination and would be an unconstitutional end-run around Congress, which has repeatedly rejected legislation granting tribal status to Native Hawaiians....
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Friday, January 8, 2016 |
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Glass Houses of Marijuana: Pots, Kettles and the Color Black
By Selected News Articles @ 1:23 PM :: 5466 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Drugs
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...Department of Health (DoH) officials faced scathing rebukes for doing their job well....
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Friday, January 8, 2016 |
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Federal Aid? Hawaii Ranks 49th
By Selected News Articles @ 2:38 AM :: 4817 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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... states with low levels of support tend to have higher per capita tax collections and populations with lesser reliance on federal assistance ....
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Friday, January 8, 2016 |
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What the Constitution Really Says About Race and Slavery
By Selected News Articles @ 12:01 AM :: 6020 Views :: National News
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One hundred and fifty years ago the 13th Amendment officially was ratified, and with it, slavery finally was abolished....
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Wednesday, January 6, 2016 |
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Friedrichs v CTA: Will Supreme Court End Mandatory Union Membership for Government Employees Nationwide?
By Selected News Articles @ 3:48 PM :: 4928 Views :: Labor
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The nine teachers who are suing their union in Friedrichs v. CTA are doing so because they believe that many union stances taken in collective bargaining are bad for public schoolteachers and bad for the children they teach....
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Tuesday, January 5, 2016 |
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“Entire American Samoa school system must be revamped”
By Selected News Articles @ 6:12 PM :: 4600 Views :: Education K-12
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“We are not doing enough” to educate Samoan students in math and science....
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Monday, January 4, 2016 |
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Alleged Monk Seal Harasser Sues Police over Arrest
By Selected News Articles @ 4:50 PM :: 6009 Views :: Environment, Police
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration volunteers, who shot the video, called police and told them he was "sitting next to the seal and possibly was harassing the seal,"....
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Thursday, December 31, 2015 |
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Man OK With Pedophilia Loses Bid to Teach Kids
By Selected News Articles @ 5:06 PM :: 5859 Views :: Education K-12, Higher Education
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"the university could look to what Oyama said as an indication of what he would do once certified."
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Wednesday, December 30, 2015 |
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Real ID Begins Jan 10: Will Washington State Residents Need Passport to Fly to Hawaii?
By Selected News Articles @ 5:13 PM :: 6529 Views :: Tourism
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For California, the passport requirement is set to take effect May 10 ....
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Wednesday, December 30, 2015 |
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Champagne Taxes? Hawaii Ranks #3 in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 3:59 PM :: 4936 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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This Thursday night, millions of Americans will celebrate the New Year with close friends, good food, and champagne....
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Wednesday, December 30, 2015 |
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Hawaii’s Expensive Green Energy Program Saves No Energy
By Selected News Articles @ 3:48 AM :: 7270 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits, Taxes
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Hawaii's Green Energy Market Securitization program (GEMS) financed with $145 million in bonds....
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Monday, December 28, 2015 |
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Housing Cheaper to Rent than Buy -- only in Honolulu and Silicon Valley
By Selected News Articles @ 7:12 PM :: 7502 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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Our rent vs. buy metric is especially tight for young prospective buyers....
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Thursday, December 24, 2015 |
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Airport Division Turned Blind Eye to Sex Harassment
By Selected News Articles @ 2:35 PM :: 6081 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Labor
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A federal jury on Tuesday found the state of Hawaii and the Hawaii Department of Transportation's airports division violated a former employee's civil rights....
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Wednesday, December 23, 2015 |
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EColi Chipotle: Thousands Sickened by Organic Filth at GMO-Free Restaurant Chain
By Selected News Articles @ 5:28 PM :: 4730 Views :: GMOs
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Smugness and happy talk about sustainability aren’t working anymore....
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Wednesday, December 23, 2015 |
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Nai Aupuni to be Subject to Federal Voting Rights Act?
By Selected News Articles @ 4:05 PM :: 5569 Views :: Akaka Bill, OHA
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...require Nai Aupuni to get a court’s official clearance under the Federal Voting Rights Act before they take any further steps....
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Saturday, December 19, 2015 |
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The Racial Spoils System Invents a Tribe for Native Hawaiians
By Selected News Articles @ 3:50 PM :: 6935 Views :: Akaka Bill, DHHL, OHA
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The push for a tribe has always been the agenda of an entrenched elite....
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Saturday, December 19, 2015 |
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A new test on Hawaii’s future?
By Selected News Articles @ 2:46 PM :: 7017 Views :: Akaka Bill, DHHL, OHA
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Plaintiffs outline possible responses to the Nai Aupuni Oprah Aha....
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Saturday, December 19, 2015 |
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TAT Already Applies to TVRs—but DoTax Not Enforcing it
By Selected News Articles @ 1:38 PM :: 5122 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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Star-Advertiser is calling for new laws when existing laws aren’t enforced by the state....
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Thursday, December 17, 2015 |
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Class Action Suit Filed over Canceled Soccer Game
By Selected News Articles @ 1:25 PM :: 4132 Views :: Tourism
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Honolulu residents Roxayne Spruance and Leimomi Dierks brought the suit on Dec. 8 against the United States Soccer Federation, Stadium Authority of the state of Hawaii ....
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Thursday, December 17, 2015 |
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Lawsuit: Deadly ‘Natural’ Supplement contained “methamphetamine-like chemical”
By Selected News Articles @ 12:53 PM :: 5301 Views :: Health Care, GMOs
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'Natural' supplement makers are a key funding source for the anti-GMO movement....
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015 |
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Study: Honolulu Lowest Per-Patient Health Spending in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 3:11 AM :: 4323 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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...spending per privately insured beneficiary in the highest spending HRR (Napa, CA) was $5,515.95, more than three times as high as spending in the lowest spending HRR (Honolulu, HI), which spent $1,707.38 per person....
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015 |
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Honolulu Is the 11th Best City for Singles
By Selected News Articles @ 1:06 AM :: 5421 Views :: Family, Hawaii Statistics
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With more than half of all adults in the U.S. being single....
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Monday, December 14, 2015 |
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Internet tax ban could offer relief for Hawaii businesses
By Selected News Articles @ 5:58 PM :: 4498 Views :: Taxes
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Hawaii’s tax on Internet access, as well as those of six other states and their localities, will end by mid-year of 2020 if a congressional plan to permanently ban taxes on Internet access makes its way to the president’s desk....
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Monday, December 14, 2015 |
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87 Times More Homeless in Honolulu than Las Vegas
By Selected News Articles @ 3:06 PM :: 4683 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Homelessness
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...The number of homeless residents per capita is highest in Honolulu....
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Friday, December 11, 2015 |
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‘Hawaii’s George Soros': The Hidden Funding Behind Efforts to Disrupt Hillary Clinton’s Opponents
By Selected News Articles @ 7:22 PM :: 10352 Views :: Democratic Party, Politicians, Republican Party
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In July, 2015, chaos erupts at the progressive NetRoots Nation conference in Phoenix, Arizona....
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Friday, December 11, 2015 |
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Medicare Penalizes Maui Memorial, Pali Momi, Wahiawa General over Safety Incidents
By Selected News Articles @ 12:20 AM :: 5069 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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Medicare will lower all its payments to the penalized hospitals by 1 percent over the course of the federal fiscal year, which runs through September 2016....
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Wednesday, December 9, 2015 |
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Retired Hawaii police officers frustrated by barriers to concealed carry
By Selected News Articles @ 1:06 AM :: 5870 Views :: Law Enforcement, Second Amendment
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...Tom Fratinardo, a retired police officer, is trying to obtain concealed carry authorization under the federal Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act.…
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Tuesday, December 8, 2015 |
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2015 Most Charitable States--Hawaii Ranks 21st
By Selected News Articles @ 10:52 PM :: 3614 Views :: Hawaii Statistics
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...nearly a third of all annual giving taking place in December....
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Monday, December 7, 2015 |
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A-1 A-Lectricitian--Feds Overreach on Election Regulation
By Selected News Articles @ 3:22 PM :: 6115 Views :: Ethics, First Amendment
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The FEC claims authority over regulating press coverage of elections....
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Friday, December 4, 2015 |
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Akana: OHA Employees ‘Suspiciously’ Placed at Top of Na’i Aupuni Ballot
By Selected News Articles @ 12:05 AM :: 5002 Views :: Akaka Bill, OHA
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To make matters worse, both of the OHA Employees have also run for a seat in past OHA Board of Trustees elections....
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Friday, December 4, 2015 |
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Am Samoa: New Embarrassments for Faleomavaega sister
By Selected News Articles @ 12:02 AM :: 5564 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Politicians
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Memo to candidates for Congress next year: If you are seeking signatures for your nominating petition, you might start in the DOE director's office....
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Thursday, December 3, 2015 |
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CATO: US Constitution Still Applies to Nai Aupuni
By Selected News Articles @ 7:59 PM :: 4747 Views :: Akaka Bill, OHA
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...the vote on this emergency injunction application was 5-4, with Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan dissenting....
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Thursday, December 3, 2015 |
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“Green McCarthyism”--A leading solar advocacy group is drawing criticism from its own industry
By Selected News Articles @ 7:45 PM :: 5589 Views :: Energy, Ethics
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TASC’s efforts in defense of NEM in Hawaii have incurred a similar response....
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 |
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Planned Parenthood Turns Tragedy Into Censorship
By Selected News Articles @ 4:53 PM :: 5278 Views :: First Amendment, Life
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In the wake of a violent tragedy, Planned Parenthood has redoubled its efforts to silence its critics....
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 |
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Gabbard: Obama Could Cause ‘Devastating Nuclear War’ With Russia
By Selected News Articles @ 12:30 PM :: 7145 Views :: Military, Politicians, Obama
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...Gabbard suggested that Obama’s decision to place American fighter jets equipped “to target Russian planes” on the border between Turkey and Syria, and his stated opposition to Russian-backed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, could lead the U.S. into a nuclear war....
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Monday, November 30, 2015 |
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Supreme Court Refuses to Hear A-1 A-Lectrician Case
By Selected News Articles @ 6:38 PM :: 5927 Views :: Ethics, First Amendment
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The 9th Circuit held the ban satisfied exacting scrutiny....
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Monday, November 30, 2015 |
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What’s Next in Akina vs Na’i Aupuni Case?
By Selected News Articles @ 6:30 PM :: 5006 Views :: Akaka Bill, OHA
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The Court’s docket shows the briefing on the emergency application is complete, but Justice Kennedy’s order contemplates a further order....
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