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The LCS program is indicative of the problems with U.S. shipbuilding both military and commercial with high costs, poor quality and an inability to deliver on schedule....

The Japanese government in 2009 recognized that accepting such an apology would undermine the foundations of the US-Japan alliance. Just look at how the 1993 Apology Resolution has undermined the foundations of the State of Hawaii.

...While resolutions and proclamations such as these may seem to be a cheap and easy way to score campaign contributions, they can take a toll....

...North Korea appears relentless; and will continue test after nuclear test, before it perfects its missile capability....

...SCOTUS ruling confirms “one person one vote” standard for states....

Ancestral landowners in Guam who claim they were never fully compensated for property confiscated during World War II will have their day in court....

In response to recent provocative actions taken by China in the South China Sea....

The Veterans Treatment Court of the First Circuit teamed up with community service providers....

"...the southeast section of the Site Area is coterminous with (has the same boundaries as) a designated explosive dumping area...."

Finally its importance in helping to win the Pacific PSY-WAR against Japan in WW-II can be revealed....

...Pfeffer was not on the job today after sending an email to the VA staff around noon Tuesday....

The LCS were originally projected to cost around US $90 million each in 2001, when the program was being conceived. Bloomberg reported in January 2016 the LCS have cost on average about $440 million each....

...the Washington Post published that North Korea’s missile test was an example of President Barack Obama’s failed policy of strategic patience with North Korea....

Three KC-135 Stratotankers belonging to the 203rd Air Refueling Squadron, along with flight and maintenance crews and other support personnel....

"Implementation of the selected action will not result in significant impacts."

...in Honolulu, health records indicated that more than a third of outpatients were not evaluated at least four times in the 30 days after being flagged as high risk for suicide, as required by facility policy....

...as a result of a collaboration between and the Department of Veterans Affairs Pacific Island Health Care System, Partners in Care, and the Homeless Veterans Task Force....

...hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars that are being wasted on biofuels....

Families on the mainland are coming forward, saying their loved ones are among the missing Marines....

A primary rationale for the domestic ship build requirement of Jones Act cabotage – which requires commercial vessels in coastwise service be built in the US. -- is to support Naval shipbuilding capacity....

The U.S. Supreme Court is now considering that question in a Texas case in which Hawaii’s decades-long exclusion of active-duty military and families from the body politic is front and center....

Tomorrow, the US Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in two election law cases, Evenwel v. Abbott, No. 14-940, and Harris v. Arizona Ind. Redistricting Comm'n, No. 14-232....

17 megawatts of solar facilities on three separate military installations on Oahu....

...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....

Six veterans are now enrolled in the Hilo and Kona Veterans Treatment Courts since the program’s inception in November 2014....

US Rep Tulsi Gabbard has pointed out again and again and again the President Obama is materially aiding Islamist Terrorists....

"...our efforts to overthrow Assad has increased and will continue to increase the strength of ISIS and other Islamic extremists...." -- Rep Tulsi Gabbard

As of 10AM Friday November 20, 2015, 1,848 persons have signed....

It’s like a bad Monty Python sketch....

This is the second time Turkish Muslims have disrupted a moment of silence for victims of ISIS....

...Ige's office has been flooded with over 500 phone calls and about 300 emails from constituents....

Senator Sam Slom wrote a letter to Governor Ige, urging him to reconsider his position....

'Screening': Syria is 10% Christian, 'Refugees' are 2% Christian....

According to the NYT, so far no Syrian refugees have been resettled in Hawaii....

...it will likely move public sentiments substantially in one direction and Establishment policies in quite the opposite....

In Hawaii there are more than 14,000 women veterans; only 4,300 access their benefits and health care through the VA....

...the Illinois veterans are allowed to continue voting in Illinois by absentee ballot ... if they reside in the Northern Mariana Islands (“NMI”),  American Samoa, or in a foreign country, but not if they reside in Guam, Puerto Rico, or the U.S. Virgin Islands....

Nationally, Veterans Treatment Courts are serving an estimated 13,200 veterans who would otherwise be incarcerated....

"The ratio of homeless veterans to the veteran population is 28 times higher in San Francisco than in Virginia Beach, Va"

Hawai‘i Island Veterans Day Parade November 7, starting at 10 a.m., Downtown Hilo....

...a comprehensive look at the issues facing men and women who experienced military sexual trauma....

...Obama has been refusing to label terrorist group ISIS as “Islamic extremists,” instead opting for “violent extremists,” a choice Maher called “crazy” on his HBO talk show. “Words do matter,” he said....

Sponsored by the Hawaii Navy League....

The Hawaii State Supreme Court courtroom was filled with supporters of the five U.S. veterans who completed the intensive two-year program.....

In a letter to MRFF dated Oct. 9, Killeen wrote that the “sign will remain in its present location and not be altered in any way”....

...KimJong Un is “on a quest for nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them intercontinentally....”

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard said: “The Administration continues to put our resources toward failed missions and strengthening our enemy, rather than focusing on defeating our enemy...."