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Saturday, September 9, 2017 |
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The Power of School Choice
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 7:58 PM :: 5169 Views :: Education K-12, OHA
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...This was my first back to school experience at the Kualapu‘u Public Conversion Charter School on the island of Moloka‘i....
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Saturday, September 9, 2017 |
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BLNR Approves Boating Rule Changes
By News Release @ 4:08 PM :: 6037 Views :: Hawaii State Government, OHA, Small Business
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...The rule changes cover a spectrum of boating and ocean recreation uses, such as: commercial use and parking permits and fees; commercial marine operations and tours....
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Wednesday, September 6, 2017 |
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Another OHA Trustee Caught Red-Handed
By Video @ 5:22 PM :: 8071 Views :: Ethics, Higher Education, OHA
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... How stupid does Peter Apo think we are? ....
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Thursday, August 31, 2017 |
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Profiting from Telescope Protests and Kakaako Development, OHA Trustee Fined $25K
By News Release @ 8:40 PM :: 10935 Views :: Ethics, Development, Higher Education, OHA
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...Apo violated the State Ethics Code by using OHA resources, and his position with OHA, to advance his private business interests....
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Thursday, August 24, 2017 |
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Interior Dep't Sends Trump Recommendations on National Monuments
By News Release @ 2:43 PM :: 6404 Views :: Environment, OHA, Small Business
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...findings and recommendations on national monuments that were under review as a result of the April 26, 2017 executive order....
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Wednesday, August 23, 2017 |
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Mauna Kea: UH to Trade 10,000 Acres for Telescope Approval, Lease Extension?
By News Release @ 6:46 PM :: 9360 Views :: Hawaii County , Higher Education, OHA
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...expedite the return of the 10,000 acres to the State of Hawaiʻi and pursue a new lease or land tenure for the reduced acreage that will support the continued viability of astronomical research....
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Monday, August 21, 2017 |
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VIDEO: Panos on Mauna Kea Telescope
By Video @ 5:19 PM :: 5123 Views :: Higher Education, OHA
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...Panos Prevedouros joins Jay Fidell on Community Matters to discuss developments in the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) plans on Mauna Kea....
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Wednesday, August 16, 2017 |
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Wednesday, August 9, 2017 |
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OHA the Savior of Mauna Kea?
By Video @ 6:11 PM :: 5795 Views :: Ethics, Higher Education, OHA
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...Telescope: For OHA, it’s all About the Rent Money....
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Thursday, August 3, 2017 |
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Haleakala: Police Again Clear Anti-Telescope Demonstrators from Road
By News Release @ 5:43 AM :: 8475 Views :: Maui County, Higher Education, OHA, Police
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... See how it works when the police are allowed to do their job? ....
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Tuesday, August 1, 2017 |
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Akana: OHA Criminal Behavior has been going on for A Very Long Time
By Selected News Articles @ 3:53 PM :: 5302 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...“a criminal probe is now underway on a lucrative, non-bid contract issued by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs”....
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Tuesday, August 1, 2017 |
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Peter Apo Reinventing OHA
By Selected News Articles @ 10:03 AM :: 4335 Views :: OHA
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...struggling to navigate an unfriendly sea of public opinion, a divided beneficiary community, low ratings from important state legislators, and a cautiously uneasy relationship with the state administration....
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Saturday, July 29, 2017 |
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Telescope: Judge Recommends Permit Be Issued, Land Board Hearing Set for Sept 20
By Andrew Walden @ 4:40 AM :: 7700 Views :: Higher Education, OHA
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...BLNR Chair Suzanne Case set Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017 to hear oral arguments in the Contested Case Hearing for the Thirty Meter Telescope....
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Tuesday, July 18, 2017 |
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OHA seeks community input for its Wahiawā lands master plan
By News Release @ 11:21 PM :: 5158 Views :: Land Use, OHA
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...Explore the development of compatible agricultural uses and other programmatic initiatives....
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Saturday, July 15, 2017 |
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State Releases Follow Up Audit of the Management of Mauna Kea
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 7:40 PM :: 6435 Views :: Hawaii County , Higher Education, OHA
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...We found that UH and DLNR have partially implemented four of the recommendations. Three recommendations remain open, and one is inapplicable at this time....
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Friday, June 30, 2017 |
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OHA Announces $6M in Grants
By News Release @ 4:04 PM :: 4696 Views :: OHA
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Click BREG to see who's getting what....
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Thursday, June 29, 2017 |
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Can Hokulea Crew Save Telescope?
By Selected News Articles @ 3:33 AM :: 5973 Views :: Higher Education, OHA
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...Nainoa Thompson: University of Hawai‘i is the most important navigator....
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Thursday, June 29, 2017 |
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Akina: Change OHA’s Current Spending Policy
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 1:03 AM :: 4773 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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“Crucial Recommendations for Achieving Fiscal Sustainability”
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Wednesday, June 28, 2017 |
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OHA: Hot Air vs Fresh Air
By Video @ 6:21 PM :: 5071 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...One Labels Calls For Truth & Transparency A Witch Hunt. -- The Other Trustee Asks Beneficiaries To Participate & Speak Out Even More....
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Wednesday, June 21, 2017 |
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The Greatest Journey Didn’t Start with a Protest
By Joni Kamiya @ 10:54 PM :: 6848 Views :: Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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If it were not for the brave souls who decided to collect information from the wind, stars, weather, and ocean currents, what we know as Native Hawaiians may have not arrived here in Hawaii....
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Monday, June 12, 2017 |
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Message to OHA: ‘Clean up your Act’
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 1:29 AM :: 5578 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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Beneficiaries are calling for higher levels of transparency and accountability....
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Wednesday, June 7, 2017 |
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Who Just Got Caught at OHA?
By Video @ 12:16 AM :: 8627 Views :: Kauai County, Ethics, OHA
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...The Office Of Hawaiian Affairs Independent Audit Hasn't Even Started Yet & Already Someone Has Been Caught....
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Saturday, June 3, 2017 |
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OHA releases report on the health of Native Hawaiian men
By News Release @ 11:29 PM :: 7682 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, OHA
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...Transforming the Health of Native Hawaiian Men, a 45-page report on the well-being of Hawaiian kāne....
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Thursday, June 1, 2017 |
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Sex Harassment: Only Victim Can Sue Peter Apo says Court
By News Release @ 10:49 PM :: 6306 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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Plaintiff Mililani Trask, a former OHA trustee, does not have the legal standing to sue Apo, First Circuit Court Judge Dean Ochiai ruled....
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Wednesday, May 31, 2017 |
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Help Stop This OHA Cover-up
By Video @ 9:41 PM :: 3922 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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The State Attorney General Steps In and ....
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Wednesday, May 31, 2017 |
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Trump Education Budget Cuts Native Hawaiian Education, Boosts Charter Schools
By Selected News Articles @ 9:37 PM :: 7498 Views :: Education K-12, OHA
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...provides supplemental awards “to school districts that agree to adopt weighted student funding combined with open enrollment systems that allow Federal, State, and local funds to follow students to the public school of their choice...."
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Saturday, May 27, 2017 |
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Randy Roth: OHA Copies Bishop Estate--Misusing LLCs to Hide from Law
By Video @ 4:50 AM :: 8644 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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My testimony today focuses on what I perceive to be OHA’s misuse of wholly owned LLC subsidiaries to avoid laws applicable to OHA and OHA trustees.....
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Saturday, May 27, 2017 |
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Education leaders formalize Maunakea Scholars program
By News Release @ 4:31 AM :: 7551 Views :: Education K-12, Higher Education, OHA
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...more opportunities for local high school students to use Maunakea Observatories for their innovative research projects....
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Thursday, May 25, 2017 |
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Akina Praises Trustees Unanimous Support for OHA Audit
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 2:49 AM :: 3715 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...the SOQ will allow OHA to engage an auditor or auditing firm to conduct an examination of not only OHA but its subsidiary LLCs, for a period reaching back five years....
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Wednesday, May 24, 2017 |
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OHA Trustees Approve Independent Audit
By Video @ 4:35 AM :: 8851 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...Office Of Hawaiian Affairs Trustees Are Afraid Of You....
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Sunday, May 21, 2017 |
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OHA to Vote on Audit Wednesday
By News Release @ 1:10 PM :: 4706 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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RM #17-06 is both the authorization to retain an auditor to perform the independent audit of OHA, and is the final approval for funding of the audit itself....
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Thursday, May 18, 2017 |
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OHA community meetings to update on Corrupt Kakaʻako Makai planning process
By News Release @ 5:07 PM :: 6893 Views :: Ethics, Development, OHA
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Thursday at 6 p.m. at Windward Community College in Kāneʻohe....
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Wednesday, May 17, 2017 |
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OHA’s Secret Contract
By Video @ 5:10 PM :: 4983 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...Hawaiiʻs Attorney General Had No Choice But To Start A Criminal Probe....
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Tuesday, May 16, 2017 |
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Peter Apo: ‘People can just make up stuff, and pronounce cultural claims with little or no validation’
By Selected News Articles @ 1:33 AM :: 6571 Views :: Greenmail, OHA
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...I observe a seriously diminished vigilance in contemporary Hawaiian society on maintaining the cultural dignity of our traditions in the absence of a collective will to check our facts....
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Sunday, May 14, 2017 |
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What has the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Done for you Lately?
By Selected News Articles @ 1:05 PM :: 4559 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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OHA tries to co-opt any aloha `āina, Mauna Kea and Independence events every time....
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Wednesday, May 10, 2017 |
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Will Criminal Activity at OHA Ever Stop?
By Video @ 7:58 PM :: 4708 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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Someone Wants To Stack The Deck Against You ....
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Wednesday, May 10, 2017 |
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Governing in the Shadows: OHA Scores ‘F’ on Transparency
By News Release @ 2:17 PM :: 5625 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...OHA Gets An F Grade For Not Telling You How It Spends Your Money....
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Sunday, May 7, 2017 |
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OHA Procurement Violations: Crabbe, Lindsey and the $435K Beamer
By Andrew Walden @ 12:10 AM :: 13582 Views :: Ethics, Higher Education, OHA
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Multiple procurement violations underlie a secret $435,000 contract between the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) and a company owned by UH Law Professor Kamana Beamer.....
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Saturday, May 6, 2017 |
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Dexter Kaiama: Keanu Sai's Favorite Lawyer Censured
By News Release @ 11:44 PM :: 9465 Views :: Ethics, Judiciary, OHA
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"...Kaiama, with reckless disregard as to the truth or falsity of the allegation, accused the presiding Judge of committing war crimes under international Conventions, and thereby filed a frivolous document that served no legal or practical purpose...."
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Friday, May 5, 2017 |
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Court: OHA Trustees Violated Sunshine Law Responding to Kerry Letter
By News Release @ 6:29 PM :: 6814 Views :: Akaka Bill, Ethics, OHA
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...The May 1, 2017 decision by Judge Jeffrey P. Crabtree has been posted to OIP’s website....
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Wednesday, May 3, 2017 |
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SR33: Appoint OHA Trustees?
By Selected News Articles @ 9:25 PM :: 6788 Views :: Ethics, Labor, OHA
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State Senate asks OHA to convene a group of Hawaiian leaders, legal scholars, and Hawaiian community members to review whether it’d be better to appoint OHA Trustees rather than elect them....
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Wednesday, May 3, 2017 |
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Special Audit of OHA and Its Subsidiaries
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 9:02 PM :: 4174 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...this audit seeks to identify areas of “waste, abuse and fraud...”
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Wednesday, May 3, 2017 |
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Two Tricks OHA is Pulling
By Video @ 6:16 PM :: 4811 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...re-writing the rules....
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Thursday, April 27, 2017 |
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OHA hires new Chief Financial Officer
By News Release @ 1:02 AM :: 4119 Views :: OHA
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OHA today named David K. Laeha as the agency’s new Chief Financial Officer and Resource Management Director. He will start on May 16....
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017 |
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OHA Chair Tries to Limit Beneficiary Input—Discussion Deleted from Video
By Video @ 9:49 PM :: 5257 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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OHA Edited That Part Of The Meeting Video Out Before They Later Posted It Online....
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Thursday, April 20, 2017 |
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TMT Contested Case Deadline Set
By News Release @ 7:00 PM :: 7085 Views :: Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017 |
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Kawananakoa Letter Debunks OHA LLCs Claim to be Immune from UIPA
By Andrew Walden @ 3:34 PM :: 6688 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...attorneys representing Abigail Kawananakoa effectively debunk arguments used by the LLC lawyer Kimberly Greeley in opposition to an earlier open records request--which is still pending--from Hawai'i Free Press....
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017 |
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Office of Maunakea Management awarded 2017 Preservation Commendation
By News Release @ 2:22 AM :: 6232 Views :: Environment, Higher Education, OHA
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The Historic Hawaiʻi Foundation will honor the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Office of Maunakea Management (OMKM) for its outstanding preservation efforts of Maunakea....
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Friday, April 14, 2017 |
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Telescope Solution: Maunakea World Park?
By News Release @ 4:12 PM :: 8364 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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'Maunakea World Park' Advanced by Hawaii Mayor Kim at ILOA Galaxy Forum Kona....
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