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Entries for 'Selected News Articles'
Tuesday, December 31, 2013 |
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Schofield Combat Engineers Train Afghan Soldiers
By Selected News Articles @ 1:54 PM :: 4345 Views :: Military
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Dec. 7 marked the start of the Afghan National Engineer Brigade (NEB) training mission....
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Saturday, December 28, 2013 |
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Samoa News Continues to Deceive Public on Faleomavaega; credibility sinking
By Selected News Articles @ 6:01 PM :: 8968 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Congressional Delegation, Politicians
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We had hoped our common sense prescriptions on how to handle questionable statements emanating from the office of Delegate Faleomavaega would have proved persuasive to Samoa News but apparently not....
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Friday, December 27, 2013 |
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Hawaii Next? States Halting Payment to CGI over Obamacare Debacle
By Selected News Articles @ 10:16 PM :: 5222 Views :: Health Care
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Vermont is trying to get a refund of hundreds of thousands of dollars and has refused to pay $5.1 million of its contract with the company....
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Thursday, December 26, 2013 |
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Think your state has Obamacare problems? They’re nothing compared to Guam
By Selected News Articles @ 11:01 PM :: 4508 Views :: Health Care
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Beginning Jan. 1, regulators expect it will be literally impossible for an individual to buy a new policy in the Northern Mariana Islands, and difficult in other territories....
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Thursday, December 26, 2013 |
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Flood Insurance: Sharpening the Government's Blurry Maps
By Selected News Articles @ 1:58 PM :: 7264 Views :: National News, Land Use, Cost of Living
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FEMA's maps govern whether home and business owners are required to buy flood insurance....
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Thursday, December 26, 2013 |
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E.R. Costs for Mentally Ill Soar, and Hospitals Seek Better Way
By Selected News Articles @ 12:45 PM :: 4129 Views :: Health Care
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In the past, paramedics would have taken the man to the closest hospital emergency room.... But instead, under a pilot program, paramedics ushered him through the doors of Holly Hill Hospital, a commercial psychiatric facility....
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Monday, December 23, 2013 |
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Priced out of Paradise: What are Hawaii Leaders Doing?
By Selected News Articles @ 1:26 AM :: 5576 Views :: Cost of Living, GMOs
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They are pushing to grow their industry that may increase availability of organic produce but at a cost that most folks can’t afford....
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Thursday, December 19, 2013 |
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KOS 'Hit Job' on Schatz' Sheep Sex Incident
By Selected News Articles @ 2:53 PM :: 9974 Views :: Politicians
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"...the obvious nature of the hit job and its intent does Hanabusa no good and only serves to engender ill will towards her candidacy...."
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Thursday, December 19, 2013 |
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1000 Good Reasons to Label GMO Food: A Guide for Politicians
By Selected News Articles @ 12:18 PM :: 5084 Views :: GMOs
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When one person tells you that the skies are filled with chemtrails, you trust them and believe them. That also explains why there is always rain predicted on your anti-GMO marches....
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Thursday, December 19, 2013 |
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Succession Plan Quietly Underway for Faleomavaega Seat?
By Selected News Articles @ 3:22 AM :: 7166 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Politicians
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...Tuā’au Kereti Māta’utia, Jr., the first candidate to announce for Faleomavaega's seat, is assistant senior policy adviser to the Governor....
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013 |
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As Hundreds of Hawaii Doctors Threaten to Quit, Obama Administration Delays EHR
By Selected News Articles @ 2:05 PM :: 5316 Views :: Health Care, Small Business
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CMS recently announced that it will extend the federal programs to encourage physicians and hospitals to adopt electronic health records ....
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Monday, December 16, 2013 |
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Secret Obamacare handbook the feds don’t want you to see is online
By Selected News Articles @ 3:53 PM :: 3672 Views :: Health Care
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The 217-page manual reads like a primer for Amway....
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Sunday, December 15, 2013 |
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Lack of Statewide policy threatens new Ag jobs
By Selected News Articles @ 11:56 PM :: 4299 Views :: GMOs
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We need to determine what is in the best interests of the state as a whole before this new and promising industry is literally pecked apart by local jurisdictions and activist mobs....
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Sunday, December 15, 2013 |
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Fire Hazard: Volcano School Threatened with Closure After Abercrombie Refuses to Release Funds
By Selected News Articles @ 10:53 PM :: 5138 Views :: Hawaii County , Education K-12
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...the elected State Legislature has twice appropriated $618,000 of State construction and improvement funds specifically directed to the VSAS. The Governor of the State Hawaii, exercising what amounts to line item veto, has arbitrarily, for two years, withheld these funds....
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Saturday, December 14, 2013 |
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Am Samoa: Talanei Perpetuating Faleomavaega Fraud?
By Selected News Articles @ 8:22 PM :: 10255 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Politicians
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...the public is increasingly asking questions about his lengthy, apparent disappearance from public view....
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Saturday, December 14, 2013 |
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Samoa News finally raises questions about Faleomavaega
By Selected News Articles @ 1:38 AM :: 7300 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Politicians
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Samoa News deserves credit for publishing a story in today's paper about the virtual disappearance of our delegate to Congress....
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Thursday, December 12, 2013 |
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Rep Faleomavaega a No-Show Again
By Selected News Articles @ 5:13 PM :: 6982 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Politicians
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No reasons were given for his absence and he is still listed on the Committee's website as Ranking Member of the subcommittee....
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013 |
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Payment Due: The Obamacare Deadline No One Is Talking About
By Selected News Articles @ 8:58 PM :: 3803 Views :: Health Care
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...amid the rush to enroll as many people as possible by the Dec. 23 deadline, there's a huge caveat that isn't getting much public attention: For coverage to take effect on Jan. 1, enrollees must pay their first month's premium....
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013 |
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UPDATE: Faleomavaega a "no show" at event; Remarks delivered for him
By Selected News Articles @ 9:32 PM :: 6920 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Politicians
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We will be watching via internet to see if he shows up at his subcommittee session tomorrow....
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013 |
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Hawaii SEED Wants to Destroy Papaya Farmers
By Selected News Articles @ 9:16 PM :: 5020 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs
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The truth is that Mr. Ritte enjoys his papayas and doesn’t care if it is GMO or not because he knows that it is fine. Remember the March ag day Mr. Ritte?
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Monday, December 9, 2013 |
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Am Samoa: Faleomavaega back in action?
By Selected News Articles @ 4:38 PM :: 4478 Views :: National News
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...there has been a virtual blackout of news coverage....
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Wednesday, December 4, 2013 |
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Brookings: New Evidence Raises Doubts on Abercrombie’s Preschool for All
By Selected News Articles @ 3:34 PM :: 3724 Views :: Education K-12
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...supporters of Preschool for All, including some academics who are way out in front of what the evidence says and know it, have turned a blind eye to the mixed and conflicting nature of research findings....
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Tuesday, December 3, 2013 |
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University of Hawaii honors Wounded Warriors and US service members
By Selected News Articles @ 10:35 PM :: 5149 Views :: Higher Education, Military
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...the Black Knights from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point played the University of Hawaii Warriors, Saturday, Nov. 30....
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Tuesday, December 3, 2013 |
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Another Anti-GMO Leader Apologizes: "The authorities I trusted in were wrong"
By Selected News Articles @ 4:18 PM :: 6136 Views :: GMOs
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What happens if one picks the wrong authority and psychologically ties oneself to a person expressing an argument, rather than to the evidence....
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Monday, December 2, 2013 |
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Lack of Transparency Leads Many to Ask: Who Has Connections to CGI?
By Selected News Articles @ 8:04 PM :: 7626 Views :: Ethics, Health Care
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Because Hawaii legislators exempted the health law from many of the rules that hold other government ventures accountable, there remain more questions than answers about the debacle....
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Monday, December 2, 2013 |
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Supreme Court Declines to hear Online Sales Tax Case
By Selected News Articles @ 12:41 PM :: 4542 Views :: National News, Taxes
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The law is a complicated one, made so in an effort to get around the Supreme Court’s past rulings that states could not require sales tax collection by a company if that company is not physically present in the state....
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Sunday, December 1, 2013 |
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World AIDS Day: Gay Inc Drops HIV for Marriage, Military & Money
By Selected News Articles @ 8:45 PM :: 8934 Views :: Family, Health Care, Homelessness
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Today is World AIDS Day, but in Hawaii the focus is on tomorrow, the first day for legal gay marriage....
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Sunday, December 1, 2013 |
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Food Activism: The Dunning-Kruger Effect
By Selected News Articles @ 7:22 PM :: 5084 Views :: GMOs
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This effect may be span any number of areas ranging from fear of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), fear of nuclear power, fear of vaccinations or even fear of child abduction by strangers....
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Sunday, December 1, 2013 |
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Anti-GMO Activist: “I Cater to a Very Wealthy Clientele”
By Selected News Articles @ 7:17 PM :: 5245 Views :: GMOs
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...in January she was listed as one of Hawaii Island's most wanted....
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Sunday, December 1, 2013 |
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Reductio ad Monsantium
By Selected News Articles @ 6:38 PM :: 4851 Views :: GMOs
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For many anti-GMO activists, Monsanto assumes the role of Satan in Christianity....
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013 |
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Lessons learned from the Hawaii ‘gay marriage’ fight
By Selected News Articles @ 8:13 PM :: 6631 Views :: Family, First Amendment
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It was particularly refreshing to see how fearless the Hawaii people were when testifying before the Legislature. They ignored "political correctness" and simply told the truth from their hearts. In other words, they weren't afraid....
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013 |
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Am Samoa: Coverup on Rep Faleomavaega Health Questions?
By Selected News Articles @ 4:07 PM :: 7840 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Politicians
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It has been almost a month now since Delegate Faleomavaega was stricken with some unrevealed ailment after arriving on an evening flight from Honolulu to Pago Pago....
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Monday, November 25, 2013 |
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Political Ads & Local TV News The Honolulu Case
By Selected News Articles @ 7:30 PM :: 4949 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Politicians
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...political ads, by definition, raise questions about public issues that the candidates think will resonate with voters. Given these circumstances, an obvious question is to what extent are those public issues covered....
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Monday, November 25, 2013 |
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The Extraordinary Pierre Omidyar
By Selected News Articles @ 2:59 PM :: 12754 Views :: Pierre Omidyar
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In other words: look out Government, you’re about to be pummeled by a crusading, righteous billionaire! And corporate America? Ah, don’t worry. Your dirty secrets—freshly transferred from the nasty non-profit hands of the Guardian to the aggressively for-profit hands of Pierre Omidyar—are safe with us....
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Sunday, November 24, 2013 |
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Wind Farms: If you thought your bill was going to drop, you're Disappointed
By Selected News Articles @ 3:06 PM :: 4653 Views :: Energy
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“If you heard the message as, ‘Your bill is going to drop,’ those people feel a sense of disappointment,” said Doug McLeod, Maui County’s energy commissioner....
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Friday, November 22, 2013 |
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Hawaii: Foodstamp Allotment Jumps 3.4% for 190,000
By Selected News Articles @ 3:32 AM :: 5441 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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While most states see cuts, Hawaii's 190,000 food stamp recipients will see an INCREASE from $319 to $330 per month....
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Thursday, November 21, 2013 |
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Transit Spending Slows Urban Growth
By Selected News Articles @ 12:58 PM :: 5189 Views :: Development, Rail
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...regions that spend more money on transit seem to grow slower than regions that spend less....
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013 |
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Hawaii, Illinois Last of the ‘Easy Targets’ for Gay Marriage
By Selected News Articles @ 2:37 PM :: 4308 Views :: Family
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...no state - except for West Virginia, which has a tradition of conservatism on social issues - where gay marriage is forbidden by law or constitutional amendment has a government wholly dominated by Democrats....
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013 |
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Worldwide Headlines: Sledgehammer Wielding 'Vigilante' Rep Brower is 'Extreme, Scary, Potentially Dangerous'-- Should be 'Behind Bars'
By Selected News Articles @ 3:55 PM :: 5260 Views :: Homelessness
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Think Progress: 'If Brower were found roaming middle-class neighborhoods and smashing items in people’s homes, he would find himself both out of office and behind bars.'
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013 |
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Hickam POW/MIA lab, slow to ID human remains, has time to shoot Bradley Cooper movie
By Selected News Articles @ 3:13 PM :: 4149 Views :: Military
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...a Pentagon spokeswoman said that no human remains were shown on camera....
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Monday, November 18, 2013 |
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"If I vote no on SB1 Ewa Beach will be toast." - Rep. Rida Cabanilla
By Selected News Articles @ 4:37 PM :: 6627 Views :: Ethics, Family, First Amendment
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She cited certain loss of money for James Campbell High School, Ewa-Makai Middle School, the "new High School in Ewa Beach", the widening of Ft. Weaver Rd., and others...
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Friday, November 15, 2013 |
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Forbes: Kaua’i goes rogue, anti-GMO bill passes, legal fight looms
By Selected News Articles @ 10:55 PM :: 8017 Views :: Kauai County, GMOs
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...a person hand selected by the fierce opponents of crop biotechnology cast the deciding vote....
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Friday, November 15, 2013 |
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For USA, Honolulu, LA, SF, Seattle Among World's 20 Worst Traffic Cities
By Selected News Articles @ 3:37 PM :: 5609 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Rail
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Los Angeles continues to be the most congested urban area in the United States, with an excess travel time of 35 percent. San Francisco (32 percent), Seattle, and much smaller Honolulu (tied at 28 percent)....
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Thursday, November 14, 2013 |
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Obama concedes, announces changes to health care law
By Selected News Articles @ 7:41 PM :: 3051 Views :: Health Care
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President Obama said Thursday he will let Americans renew for one year any health plans that do not meet Obamacare's coverage standards....
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Thursday, November 14, 2013 |
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Diamond Sangha's Secret: From Zen Buddhism to Preying on Vulnerable Women
By Selected News Articles @ 1:17 PM :: 7321 Views :: Hawaii History, Religion
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Aitken never went public with what he knew about Shimano, not in 1964, and not for the next half century until his death....
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Thursday, November 14, 2013 |
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Gay Marriage Signing Ceremony: "Imagine There's No Religion"
By Selected News Articles @ 11:27 AM :: 5865 Views :: Family, First Amendment
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"...SB1, is the epitome of the 1st Amendment in action." - Abercrombie at Signing of SB1 HD1
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013 |
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Honolulu Muslim Eye-Gouge Attacker Tied to Staten Island Jihadi
By Selected News Articles @ 1:44 PM :: 8844 Views :: Law Enforcement, Military, Religion
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...he was subpoenaed to testify in New York in a terrorism case against a friend he met in a Honolulu mosque....
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Friday, November 8, 2013 |
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Hawaii: Where agendized people go to live out their dreams
By Selected News Articles @ 2:18 AM :: 7235 Views :: Family, First Amendment
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...we won’t be back because the state already seems to be choked with haoles like us....
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Thursday, November 7, 2013 |
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Judge: 1998 Voters May Have Thought they were Banning Gay Marriage
By Selected News Articles @ 6:32 PM :: 7218 Views :: Family, First Amendment
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Sakamoto said he would hear a challenge if the state Legislature passes and Abercrombie signs a law allowing gay marriage....
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Thursday, November 7, 2013 |
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Answered: Why Two Obama Loyalists Lost Their Health Policies
By Selected News Articles @ 6:10 PM :: 3547 Views :: Health Care
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It did not cover dependents in the manner set out by the law, and it did not cover pediatric dental....
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