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Entries for 'Selected News Articles'
Thursday, February 7, 2013 |
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Legislators Study Mandatory Long Term Care Insurance Plan
By Selected News Articles @ 10:15 PM :: 5478 Views :: Health Care
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Any successful program "must be mandatory (no one can opt out), public (government-supported and managed) and limited (will not provide full coverage)," the ILWU said....
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Thursday, February 7, 2013 |
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PEW: Hawaii Elections Performance Index Ranks 44th
By Selected News Articles @ 9:11 PM :: 5798 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Office of Elections
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Highest rate of nonvoting due to registration or absentee ballot problems: Hawaii was the only state with an increase in the rate of registration and absentee voting problems of more than 1 percent between 2008-2010.
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Thursday, February 7, 2013 |
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North Korea Prepares to Launch Mobile Missile Able to Reach Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 8:21 PM :: 5076 Views :: Military
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Six of the missiles were shown during the parade...intelligence agencies believe it can range Alaska and Hawaii and possibly the U.S. West Coast....
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013 |
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Gallup: Hawaii Ranks Third in 'Economic Confidence'
By Selected News Articles @ 2:24 AM :: 6300 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics
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Minnesota (-8) and Hawaii (-9) -- the first time since Gallup initiated daily tracking in 2008 that confidence has been this close to crossing into positive territory in any of the 50 states.
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Saturday, February 2, 2013 |
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236 Candidates Register for Honolulu Neighborhood Board Elections—Deadline Feb 15
By Selected News Articles @ 3:40 PM :: 5969 Views :: Honolulu County
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Candidate filing is open through February 15, 2013 for Honolulu Neighborhood Board elections....
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013 |
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FrackNation TV Debut: Debunks Anti-Natural Gas Hysteria
By Selected News Articles @ 3:53 PM :: 7058 Views :: Energy
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- Saturday, February 2 at 9:30 a.m. Hawaii Time
- Wednesday, February 6 at 7 p.m. Hawaii Time
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013 |
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Must Read: Leading Activist Apologizes For Starting Anti-GMO Movement
By Selected News Articles @ 10:01 PM :: 10080 Views :: GMOs
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"I apologise for having spent several years ripping up GM crops. I am also sorry that I helped to start the anti-GM movement back in the mid 1990s, and that I thereby assisted in demonising an important technological option which can be used to benefit the environment."
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013 |
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HHSC Exec: Hospitals "Being Pushed to Brink of Collapse"
By Selected News Articles @ 6:35 PM :: 6629 Views :: Health Care
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"Hilo Medical Center, the other thirteen HHSC facilities, and hospitals nationwide are being pushed to the brink of collapse, given the new health reform law changes."
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Monday, January 28, 2013 |
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Survey: Honolulu 3rd Least Affordable Housing on Earth
By Selected News Articles @ 1:08 PM :: 8148 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Land Use, Cost of Living
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Even in Honolulu, housing affordability has deteriorated markedly, with the Median Multiple rising 0.6 points in just the last year. Honolulu was less affordable than all but Hong Kong and Vancouver...
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Monday, January 28, 2013 |
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Gallup: Obama Job Approval Jumps 8.1% in Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 12:49 PM :: 7460 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Obama
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Residents of Hawaii, along with those living in the District of Columbia, were most likely to approve of President Barack Obama in 2012, according to an analysis of Gallup Daily tracking for the year....
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Sunday, January 27, 2013 |
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Kulani Prison to be Sovereignty Movement Training and Recruitment Center
By Selected News Articles @ 3:52 PM :: 9843 Views :: Akaka Bill, Law Enforcement, OHA
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...see the list of 1,000 well-known prison reform activists, elected Democrats, Hawaii County Prosecutor, sovereignty activists, religious leftists, green mailers, and current inmates who have signed on to this effort....
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Sunday, January 27, 2013 |
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Meet the Profiteer Behind Hawaii Medical Marijuana Cards
By Selected News Articles @ 7:47 AM :: 11749 Views :: Law Enforcement, Drugs
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"This guy's been operating (as a commercial enterprise) for two or three decades." .... In other words, he's a drug dealer.
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Saturday, January 26, 2013 |
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199 Candidates Register for Honolulu Neighborhood Board Elections
By Selected News Articles @ 11:50 PM :: 6413 Views :: Honolulu County
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Candidate filing is open through February 15, 2013 (date corrected) for Honolulu Neighborhood Board elections. Candidates may register online at the NB election webpage.
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Saturday, January 26, 2013 |
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Jindal to GOP: "Stop Being the Stupid Party"
By Selected News Articles @ 10:09 PM :: 6145 Views :: National News, Republican Party
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Let me warn you in advance that I plan to talk big picture here tonight, and I plan to say some things that may challenge your assumptions....
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Friday, January 25, 2013 |
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A Fracking Good Story
By Selected News Articles @ 3:35 AM :: 8834 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Thursday, January 24, 2013 |
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Health Insuance: Hawaii Has One of Lowest Rejection Rates in Nation
By Selected News Articles @ 5:15 PM :: 6122 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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Hundreds of thousands of consumers have their health insurance applications declined each year according to a 2010 congressional study....
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013 |
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WaPo: Sting operations reveal Mafia involvement in renewable energy
By Selected News Articles @ 1:46 PM :: 6993 Views :: Energy, Ethics, World News
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In an unfolding plot that is part “The Sopranos,” part “An Inconvenient Truth,” authorities swept across Sicily last month....
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013 |
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Kahuku Windfarm Loan Timed to Boost IPO, Avoid Jail
By Selected News Articles @ 1:24 PM :: 12420 Views :: Energy
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"...we have a pretty good mess on First Wind and it is looking like it is going to get a lot worse and quickly...."
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013 |
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Summary of Bills Repealing the PLDC
By Selected News Articles @ 3:44 PM :: 7731 Views :: Development, Hawaii State Government, Land Use
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Repeal Bills: SB 1; SBs 245, 246; SB 338; SB 425; SB 480; SB 663; SBs 780, 781; SB 866....
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013 |
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Abercrombie to Sign Executive Order Creating Super-PLDC
By Selected News Articles @ 2:29 PM :: 9332 Views :: Development, Hawaii State Government, Rail
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...the state Office of Planning is now drafting a resolution for Abercrombie to sign as an executive policy, recognizing that TOD is a priority of state government....
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013 |
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Gun Discussions Should Not Be Required for Physicians
By Selected News Articles @ 2:15 PM :: 5267 Views :: Health Care, Second Amendment
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...who is going to be held responsible if one of their patients decides to take out some poor store clerk? Is the shooter's doctor now a potential target for a lawsuit? Can the shooter claim at his trial that he was not properly counseled by his physician?
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Monday, January 21, 2013 |
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Abercrombie Soda Tax: $1.28 per Gallon
By Selected News Articles @ 8:26 PM :: 7463 Views :: Health Care, Taxes, Cost of Living
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In 2011, he had attempted to pass a soda tax under the Orwellian title “Sugary Beverage Healthy Hawaii Fee,” but the state legislature saw through the obfuscating rhetoric and defeated it.
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Sunday, January 20, 2013 |
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Storm of Protectionism: It’s time to repeal the Jones Act
By Selected News Articles @ 10:01 PM :: 6299 Views :: Jones Act
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In 2003, Hawaii congressman Ed Case introduced legislation to free his state from the Jones Act....
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Sunday, January 20, 2013 |
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Abercrombie to Push Penny an Ounce Soda Tax
By Selected News Articles @ 3:52 PM :: 6421 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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A 12 ounce soda would cost 12 cents more....
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Sunday, January 20, 2013 |
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CBS News' Political Director: Obama Must 'Destroy' Republican Party
By Selected News Articles @ 2:12 PM :: 6509 Views :: National News, Obama
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The author of this outrageous left-wing fever dream is John Dickerson, the political director at CBS News....
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Saturday, January 19, 2013 |
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Hawaii National Guard Trains Afghan Police in Zabul Province
By Selected News Articles @ 12:21 AM :: 4624 Views :: Military
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“They’ve been in the lead,” said the 1st ABCT commander, Col. James R. Crider. “Now we need to make them independent.”
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Thursday, January 17, 2013 |
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Study: Bag Ban Tied to 25% Increase in ER Admissions, Deaths
By Selected News Articles @ 2:04 PM :: 4849 Views :: Environment, Health Care
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ER visits spiked when the ban went into effect. Relative to other counties, ER admissions increase by at least one fourth, and deaths exhibit a similar increase....
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Thursday, January 17, 2013 |
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Obama Signs 23 Gun-Related Executive Orders
By Selected News Articles @ 1:40 PM :: 5707 Views :: Health Care, Second Amendment
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"Launch a national dialogue led by Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan on mental health."
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013 |
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HHSC Exec Discusses Banner Partnership with Hilo MDs
By Selected News Articles @ 9:36 PM :: 11431 Views :: Hawaii County , Hawaii State Government, Health Care, Labor
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Approximately four years ago, the Hawaii State Legislature commissioned Stroudwater Associates to evaluate our Hawaii Health System Safety Net Hospitals....
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Saturday, January 12, 2013 |
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133 Candidates Register for Honolulu Neighborhood Board Elections
By Selected News Articles @ 3:06 AM :: 8104 Views :: Honolulu County
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...Candidate filing is open from now through February 22nd for Honolulu Neighborhood Board elections....
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Saturday, January 12, 2013 |
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'Coastal Development' Tops Priorities for Hawaii Ocean Resources Plan
By Selected News Articles @ 12:12 AM :: 4679 Views :: Environment
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ORMP sets its own ”Management Priorities” and right at the top of the list is priority #1....
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Friday, January 11, 2013 |
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Medicated Marijuana Activists Release Poll Results
By Selected News Articles @ 2:29 PM :: 5109 Views :: Drugs
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The Drug Policy Action Group interviewed 603 Hawaii voters....
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Thursday, January 10, 2013 |
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PEW: Vote-by-Mail Favors Old White Democrats
By Selected News Articles @ 6:59 PM :: 6076 Views :: Office of Elections
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What would happen if voting by mail became compulsory? ... We answer that question in this paper....
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Thursday, January 10, 2013 |
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Abercrombie, Star-Advertiser Laugh at Union Effort to Save Tesoro, Price Spikes Predicted
By Selected News Articles @ 5:44 PM :: 6333 Views :: Energy, Labor
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"Tesoro does not know what potential buyers might ask of state of Hawaii or federal officials."
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Thursday, January 10, 2013 |
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First U.S. Plant to Make Gasoline and Diesel Fuel from Natural Gas
By Selected News Articles @ 4:20 PM :: 6905 Views :: Energy, National News
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...a South African company, announced its intention to build a 96,000-barrel-per-day gas-to-liquids plant in Lake Charles, LA....
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013 |
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The 'Magic Table'--Hawaii High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area
By Selected News Articles @ 6:40 PM :: 7874 Views :: Military, Drugs
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Fluorescent lights hang above; though they appear to be on, the room seems eerily dark....
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Tuesday, January 8, 2013 |
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Bad Blood May Mean Primaries for Hawaii Democrats
By Selected News Articles @ 10:29 PM :: 6509 Views :: Democratic Party, Congressional Delegation
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“There is buzz that folks are going to get primaried, there’s no question about that.”
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Tuesday, January 8, 2013 |
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Tesoro Obeys Abercrombie, Drops Dead
By Selected News Articles @ 4:48 PM :: 7149 Views :: Energy
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Hawaii's largest oil refinery is closing, precisely as we predicted it would....
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Sunday, January 6, 2013 |
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Hawaii Succession Law Unconstitutional: Senate Could Have Refused to Seat Schatz
By Selected News Articles @ 4:46 PM :: 7840 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Hawaii State Government
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...the Seventeenth Amendment prevents the Hawaii legislature from substantively constraining the Governor’s choices in making a temporary appointment....
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Friday, January 4, 2013 |
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Thanks to Abercrombie, Republican Senators More Racially Diverse than Democrats
By Selected News Articles @ 12:30 PM :: 6267 Views :: National News, Congressional Delegation
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there are now more Republican minorities in the Senate (South Carolina’s Tim Scott, Florida’s Marco Rubio, and Texas’s Ted Cruz) than Democrats (New Jersey’s Robert Menendez and Hawaii’s Mazie Hirono).…
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Thursday, January 3, 2013 |
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Lawsuit: Mentally Disabled Girl Raped at Three DoE Schools
By Selected News Articles @ 1:22 PM :: 9897 Views :: Education K-12, Health Care
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The mother claims that her daughters teacher and state administrators not only failed to investigate the abuse that occurred on and off school grounds, but conspired to cover it up, and then suspended her.
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Tuesday, January 1, 2013 |
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Fiscal Cliff Deal Extends, Expands Wind Production Tax Credit
By Selected News Articles @ 7:04 PM :: 7527 Views :: Energy, National News
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The deal also greatly relaxes the standards for companies to qualify to grab that tax credit....
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Tuesday, January 1, 2013 |
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House Passes Fiscal Cliff Tax Hikes 257-167
By Selected News Articles @ 1:41 PM :: 6316 Views :: National News, Taxes
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When Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush increased taxes in return for spending cuts—cuts that never ultimately came—they did so at ratios of 1:3 and 1:2....
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Sunday, December 30, 2012 |
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Prosecutor: Illinois Ruling May Affect Concealed-Carry Laws in Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 3:04 PM :: 6671 Views :: Second Amendment
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...a right to keep and bear arms for personal self-defense in the eighteenth century could not rationally have been limited to the home....
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Friday, December 28, 2012 |
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"Impeach Abercrombie"
By Selected News Articles @ 4:24 PM :: 10310 Views :: Democratic Party, Congressional Delegation, Politicians
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Angry comments were plastered on Abercrombie's Facebook page following the announcement of his decision Wednesday, with some predicting he would be a one-term governor....
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Friday, December 28, 2012 |
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Rail: Tashima's final ruling — now the case is eligible for appeal
By Selected News Articles @ 1:48 PM :: 6011 Views :: Rail
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Judge Tashima issued his final ruling yesterday and that allows us to at last appeal both this ruling and the others that he has made over the 19 months that this case has taken....
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Thursday, December 27, 2012 |
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Full Text: HART Wins Favorable Rail Ruling
By Selected News Articles @ 9:37 PM :: 8523 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Rail
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...this matter is remanded to the Federal Transit Administration....
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Thursday, December 27, 2012 |
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Hubris Online: Abercrombie’s Head Scratcher Not Logical, Must be Personal
By Selected News Articles @ 12:38 PM :: 9630 Views :: Democratic Party, Congressional Delegation, Politicians
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“This does not make any logical/political sense, so therefore it must be personal.” --Washington Post
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Thursday, December 27, 2012 |
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Obama Skips Inouye in Memoirs
By Selected News Articles @ 12:03 PM :: 7242 Views :: Hawaii History, Politicians
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Obama spent most of the speech describing his own impressions of Inouye....
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012 |
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Inouye Staff Offer Dead Fish, Tell Schatz ‘Good Luck’
By Selected News Articles @ 8:39 PM :: 14406 Views :: Democratic Party, Politicians
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Inouye's chief of staff, Jennifer Sabas, says despite the disappointment, Inouye's office wishes Schatz "the best of luck."
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