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Sunday, June 19, 2011 |
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Big Projects in Hawaii - Why Are They Stuck?
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 12:06 PM :: 8199 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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There are 10 basic dimensions that account for the reasons that big projects succeed or fail....
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Saturday, June 18, 2011 |
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June 23 Washington Middle School: Abercrombie to hear from public on Pro Bowl
By News Release @ 12:32 PM :: 8686 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Please be sure to join us for a public forum on June 23, 6 to 7:30 p.m., at Washington Middle School. In addition to words from and Q&A with the Governor and Lt. Gov., there will be brief presentations from Bruce Coppa on our efforts to improve the economy ....
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Saturday, June 18, 2011 |
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NASA-Funded Group Doctors Sea Level Data
By News Release @ 1:21 AM :: 11071 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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what happens when sea level in the real world does not rise nearly as much as alarmists predict? If you are a NASA-funded gatekeeper of sea level data, you merely doctor the data....
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Saturday, June 18, 2011 |
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Feds: U.S. travel and tourism industry on pace for record-setting year
By News Release @ 12:37 AM :: 7776 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The U.S. Department of Commerce has announced international visitors spent an estimated $12.3 billion on travel to, and tourism-related activities within, the United States during April. This represents a 19 percent increase from April 2010. Travel and tourism-related exports have increased, on average, nearly $1.4 billion a month in 2011.
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Friday, June 17, 2011 |
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A Summer of Robots: Fueling innovation for the New Economy
By News Release @ 11:29 PM :: 11842 Views :: Hawaii County , DHHL, Maui County, Energy, Environment
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The Robotics Organizing Committee (ROC) will host the events in coordination with robotics supporters and community partners throughout the state, beginning on June 21 and running through August 28, 2011.
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Friday, June 17, 2011 |
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Hawaii Government Impact: The High Cost of Land Use and Housing
By News Release @ 11:09 PM :: 10465 Views :: Hawaii County , Akaka Bill, Energy, Environment
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Sunday 26 June, 2:00pm at the Naniloa Hotel's Polynesian Room in Hilo. Featured speakers are UH School of Law Prof. David Callies, author of the definitive book “Regulating Paradise” and Big Island real estate broker David Turner.
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Friday, June 17, 2011 |
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Greek Crisis: Moody’s warns of possible First Hawaiian Bank downgrade
By News Release @ 9:24 PM :: 12361 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Moody's Investors Service placed the stand-alone bank financial strength rating of First Hawaiian Bank on review for possible downgrade....
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Friday, June 17, 2011 |
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Hot Water Restored At Mayor Wright Housing
By News Release @ 9:21 PM :: 8189 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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The hot water backup system installation is a first step towards ensuring a permanent solution. The state budget for fiscal year 2012 includes $5.6 million in capital improvement funds for a long-term solution to the water heating system at Mayor Wright Homes.
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Friday, June 17, 2011 |
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Free Trade Agreements Deliver More Trade
By Selected News Articles @ 9:56 AM :: 8627 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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the agreements appear to boost manufacturing exports above the overall trend while having no discernable impact on manufacturing imports....
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Friday, June 17, 2011 |
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Do Film Tax Credits Live Up to Their Promises?
By Selected News Articles @ 9:53 AM :: 5034 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Film tax credits fail to live up to their promises to encourage economic growth overall and to raise tax revenue....
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Friday, June 17, 2011 |
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Health Insurance Doesn't Mean Access to Health Care
By Selected News Articles @ 9:51 AM :: 5147 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Expansions of Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) are designed to extend access to high-quality medical care to all U.S. children. However, evidence suggests that the 37 million children covered by Medicaid-CHIP are less likely to receive specialty care than children covered by commercial insurance....
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Friday, June 17, 2011 |
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PUC Approves New Maui Windfarm
By News Release @ 2:04 AM :: 9852 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment
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The Hawaii Public Utilities Commission has approved a 20-year contract for Maui Electric Company to purchase 21 megawatts (MW) of wind power from Sempra Generation's Auwahi Wind project on the Ulupalakua Ranch in southeastern Maui.
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Thursday, June 16, 2011 |
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Money released for school construction projects
By News Release @ 11:36 AM :: 11405 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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"$36,000 for improvements of reconfiguration to the cafeteria stage at Mililani Uka Elementary School"
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Thursday, June 16, 2011 |
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Are Electric Cars Really Green?
By Selected News Articles @ 1:21 AM :: 7475 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Electric cars could produce higher emissions over their lifetimes than petrol equivalents because of the energy consumed in making their batteries....
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011 |
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Honolulu Alliance forms to block Federal Control of Hawaii Capitol Area
By News Release @ 4:14 PM :: 8990 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The ahupua'a of Honolulu and Kapalama have been proposed as a future National Heritage Area (NHA) site, a permanent federal designation which was introduced in Congress as S. 359 and H. 1297.
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011 |
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After stock craters 64%, Feds to dump 5.6M shares of Inouye’s Central Pacific Bank
By News Release @ 1:00 PM :: 9617 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The Treasury acquired the shares this year as part of the Hawaii-based bank holding company's recapitalization. The stock was trading around $29 a share at the time of the Treasury's investment...and closed Tuesday at $14.13.... The stock is down 64% in the past year.
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011 |
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Fitch downgrades Hawaii, Cites Tourism Dependence
By News Release @ 12:12 PM :: 6281 Views :: Energy, Environment
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The downgrade reflects the state's minimal financial cushion against risks inherent in an economy dominated by the volatile tourism sector following the depletion of previously large balances as well as the state's significant and growing long-term liabilities.
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011 |
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Abercrombie signs bill hiking GE Tax $400M, Matson raises rates in response
By News Release @ 11:12 PM :: 7107 Views :: Energy, Environment
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...the state of Hawaii has temporarily suspended many general excise tax exemptions. The suspended exemptions include certain transportation and maritime support services such as stevedoring. This means that the state will tax carriers for a portion of the cargo costs that had previously been exempted, and the cost to carriers serving the state will increase. Effective July 10, 2011, Matson will implement a General Excise Tax Arbitrary to recover these extra costs.
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011 |
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Google to fund Kuhio Park Terrace rehab project
By News Release @ 12:05 PM :: 10913 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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According to Christoph Gabler, Senior Vice-President for AEGON USA Realty Advisors, LLC, the Towers at KPT are the first phase of a 1,025 community being redeveloped by the Michaels Development Company in partnership with Vitus Group and the Hawaii Public Housing Authority.
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Monday, June 13, 2011 |
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Renewable Energy and Hybrid Cars Still Only at 1%
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 7:39 PM :: 10179 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Despite governmental mandates for renewables, if their electricity production is converted to equivalent tons of oil, then their share is only 1.3% in 2010....
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Monday, June 13, 2011 |
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Survey: Fewer than 3% of Ewa residents plan to ride Rail
By Tom Berg @ 6:29 PM :: 7779 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Please join me this Wednesday evening, June 15th, from 7pm to 9pm, for a very important town hall meeting at the brand new Ewa Makai Middle School in Ewa Beach....
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Monday, June 13, 2011 |
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75% of Schools could lose Federal Funding in 2014
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:15 AM :: 6042 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Under the law, all children are required to be proficient in math and reading by 2014—a standard that could leave three-quarters of U.S. schools labeled as failures, leaving them at risk of losing federal funding.
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Monday, June 13, 2011 |
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Video: Sen. Sam Slom Legislative Wrap-up
By Video @ 11:11 AM :: 8196 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Senator Slom addresses a luncheon at the Hawaii Venture Capitol Association – May 26, 2011 at the Plaza Club, Honolulu Hawaii. The subject: State budget, deficit, spending, taxation, economy, more.
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Monday, June 13, 2011 |
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Ward: Abercrombie’s Pro Bowl attack continues short-sighted strategy
By Rep Gene Ward @ 10:56 AM :: 7586 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie’s statements against the Pro Bowl last Thursday revealed the severity of the vision deficit facing our state.
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Monday, June 13, 2011 |
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Fannie Mae ends use of non-judicial foreclosure in Hawaii
By News Release @ 10:02 AM :: 9813 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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- Effective immediately and until further notice, all new Fannie Mae foreclosures in Hawaii must be commenced as judicial foreclosures.
- Effective immediately, all pending Fannie Mae non-judicial foreclosures in Hawaii that have not proceeded to sale should be dismissed and converted to judicial foreclosures.
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Monday, June 13, 2011 |
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Pro-Bowl: Collateral damage in Abercrombie’s war on Mufi?
By Andrew Walden @ 12:02 AM :: 7117 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Abercrombie’s bizarre attack on the Pro-Bowl is part of Progressive Democrats’ ongoing war against Mufi Hannemann, Dan Inouye, and the “old-boy” Democrats. And this is not Abercrombie’s first attack on Mufi’s new base in the Hawaii tourism industry....
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Sunday, June 12, 2011 |
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Voting Rights? Star-Advertiser pushes to disenfranchise Military Personnel
By Andrew Walden @ 9:50 PM :: 9259 Views :: Energy, Environment
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The Oahu Advisory Council of the Reapportionment Commission will meet Wednesday June 15 at 8AM in the State Capitol Conference room 329. Public testimony will be accepted.
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Sunday, June 12, 2011 |
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Hawaii Nat’l Guard Youth Challenge Academy to celebrate Graduation at Barber’s Point
By News Release @ 11:54 AM :: 9785 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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The Naval Air Museum Barbers Point (NAMBP) will be hosting Hawaii Youth Challenge Graduating Cadets for a time of exploring real aircraft, beginning at 1300 through 1530 on Monday, June 13, 2011.
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Saturday, June 11, 2011 |
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DoTax completes Internal Investigation into its “Unusual Reporting” of Monthly Tax Revenues
By Andrew Walden @ 3:15 PM :: 10040 Views :: Energy, Environment
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“since taking office six months ago, Tax Director Fred Pablo has reviewed the department’s operations and noticed unusual reporting in monthly tax revenue reports. Pablo immediately addressed these concerns by conducting and completing an internal investigation and analysis of the revenue reports.”
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Saturday, June 11, 2011 |
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WaPo: Abercrombie’s Medical Home scheme fails to save money in Medicare
By Selected News Articles @ 2:57 PM :: 8073 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Will Hawaii be saddled with the second-rate already failed ACO/Medical Home scheme promoted by Gov Abercrombie? The Washington Post is already debunking this failure before we start:
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Friday, June 10, 2011 |
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Prophetic Words: Abercrombie was always a loud-mouthed hippie who had all the answers
By Selected News Articles @ 5:42 PM :: 5629 Views :: Energy, Environment
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The Democratic candidate for governor was always a loud-mouthed hippie who had all the answers. I didn't forget....
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Friday, June 10, 2011 |
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Overestimating Wind Power Generation
By Selected News Articles @ 5:07 PM :: 8125 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Growing evidence from both sides of the Atlantic indicates that performance models based on wind data often promise levels of generation substantially above actual wind power output.
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Friday, June 10, 2011 |
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442nd Vet on Redistricting: Military is part of our Community, should be counted
By Selected News Articles @ 3:25 PM :: 8599 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Sorting through different groups and deciding who to include, or who not to include in consideration for representation, I believe should be a non-issue. All should be included.
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Friday, June 10, 2011 |
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Is More Better? Education Spending Increases in Hawaii
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:42 AM :: 5826 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Hawaii’s per pupil expenditure climbed to $12,399 in 2009, ranking it as the 11th highest in the nation, according to a recent U.S. Census Bureau report. This new rate marks a 12% increase compared to the previous year.
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Friday, June 10, 2011 |
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Reapportionment Commission rejects Multi-Member Districts, hears testimony in favor of counting Military Personnel
By Andrew Walden @ 1:05 AM :: 7532 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Some Democrats have advocated counting rapists, child molesters, pimps, drug dealers and other convicted felons and prison inmates but not counting the military personnel who put it all on the line to defend America. The final decision was postponed until the next meeting.
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Thursday, June 9, 2011 |
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Terry Lock named Hawaii Early Childhood Coordinator
By News Release @ 11:11 PM :: 6455 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Moving forward on his plan to invest in young children, Governor Neil Abercrombie today announced Terry Lock as the Governor’s Early Childhood Coordinator....
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Thursday, June 9, 2011 |
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Newspaper Guild: Star-Advertiser demands end to seniority system, 50% cut in sick leave
By News Release @ 1:01 PM :: 7739 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Your bargaining committee met with representatives of management for collective bargaining talks on May 24 and May 25. Darren Carroll, of TNG-CWA, was our chief negotiator. Ron Leong, an attorney, was management’s lead negotiator....
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Thursday, June 9, 2011 |
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2011 Session Wrap-up: Paychecks Hawaii Rates Legislators
By Selected News Articles @ 12:01 PM :: 5996 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Ratings may be helpful during election periods ....
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Thursday, June 9, 2011 |
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State Auditor: Public Housing oversight Erratic
By News Release @ 11:50 AM :: 5296 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Turnaround on vacant units was slow, adversely impacting families on the waiting list as well as rent collections. As of February 15, 2011, the authority had a total of 233 vacant units that either had pending maintenance work or were available for rent; overall, these units had been vacant an average of six months.
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Wednesday, June 8, 2011 |
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Sen Sam Slom to Address Kona TEA Party
By News Release @ 11:32 PM :: 10916 Views :: Hawaii County , Akaka Bill, Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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The meeting is on Saturday, June 18th at 1:00 PM at the Kona Vistas Pavilion.
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Wednesday, June 8, 2011 |
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DLNR outsources Historic Preservation
By News Release @ 2:41 PM :: 8306 Views :: Environment, Development, Hawaii State Government, OHA
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The Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) took action to improve operations at its State Historic Preservation Division (SHPD) and ensure federal compliance. The Department awarded a contract to Solutions Pacific, LLC to implement recommendations of the National Park Service’s Corrective Action Plan.
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Wednesday, June 8, 2011 |
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Mitsubishi, State sign agreement to Promote New Electric Car
By News Release @ 10:50 AM :: 7198 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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In November of 2011, MMNA will launch the battery-powered electric vehicle Mitsubishi i ....
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Wednesday, June 8, 2011 |
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Sanjeev “Sonny” Bhagowalia named Chief Information Officer of Hawaii
By News Release @ 2:17 AM :: 10004 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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In anticipation of the CIO’s arrival, OIMT has begun an assessment intended to provide an overview of technology across the state. OIMT selected Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) to lead this assessment.
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Tuesday, June 7, 2011 |
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WSJ: Health Care Initiative Draws Fire, 93% of MD refuse ACO/Medical Home program
By Selected News Articles @ 8:27 PM :: 9404 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The American Medical Group Association said a survey of its members found that 93 percent wouldn't enroll as ACOs in the main proposed Medicare program.
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Tuesday, June 7, 2011 |
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Hawaii DoH Scientist: Shame on the EWG for panic about Hexavalent Chromium in Honolulu Tapwater
By Selected News Articles @ 3:36 PM :: 9899 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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You irresponsibly abuse the public’s trust in your organization and their concern for the health of their loved ones by falsely claiming that USEPA has not set a standard for Cr VI in the drinking water and demanding that it do so. This is a blatant lie. ... Any high school student with access to the internet could have determined this. Given that EWG has been working on this issue for years, I can’t believe that your staff is incompetent enough not to know this.
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Tuesday, June 7, 2011 |
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Ed Case: Our Challenges, My Beliefs, Your Support
By Ed Case @ 3:00 PM :: 7404 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Ours is the greatest country. Not just our founding principles, but our history and our continued promise. Our freedoms, balance of majority rule and minority rights, inclusion of new peoples. It’s not always easy being an American. We make mistakes, get out of balance, rarely take a straight path to a better future. But our foundations are sound, we self-correct, and we have bettered our world at great sacrifice. By staying true to our principles and heritage in a changing world, we will prevail.
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Tuesday, June 7, 2011 |
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Libertarian Think-tank Ranks Hawaii #47 in Freedom
By News Release @ 1:47 PM :: 8202 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Freedom Rankings for Hawaii
- #47 Overall
- #46 Economic
- #43 Personal
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Tuesday, June 7, 2011 |
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DBEDT: Census Report looks at Redistricting in Hawaii
By News Release @ 2:57 AM :: 6009 Views :: Energy, Environment
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The report was produced by the Hawaii State Data Center, a part of the Research and Economic Analysis Division of DBEDT, from data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2010 Redistricting Data ....
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Tuesday, June 7, 2011 |
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New Charges: Rod Tam to be arraigned for Campaign Spending Violations
By News Release @ 2:31 AM :: 8070 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Arraignment and plea is scheduled for Tuesday, June 7, 2011, at 8:30 a.m., in Courtroom 7C before the Honorable Randal Shintani.
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