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Friday, February 7, 2020 |
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Free Golf, Methamphetamines, and Building Permits
By Andrew Walden @ 12:00 PM :: 14078 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Development, Small Business, Cost of Living
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...These are the kind of people who make Hawaii what it is today....
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Thursday, February 6, 2020 |
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Lawsuit: Plastic Hysteria is Excuse for Feds to Take Control of Hawaii Waterways
By News Release @ 2:25 AM :: 3638 Views :: Environment, Ethics
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...Your recycling was shipped to Asia and then they dumped it into the ocean because recycling is and always has been a fraud. Now it is washing up on our beaches and enviro lawyers are using it as an excuse to enhance their power....
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Tuesday, February 4, 2020 |
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SB42: Block AG's Investigation of Telescope Protesters Funding
By Andrew Walden @ 4:23 PM :: 4525 Views :: Ethics, Greenmail, OHA
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...The Senate Committee on Hawaiian Affairs is set to hear SB42 SD1 today at 1:19pm....
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Saturday, February 1, 2020 |
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FAA employee blocked from inspecting Kauai tour chopper prior to crash
By Selected News Articles @ 1:49 AM :: 4451 Views :: Ethics, Small Business, Tourism
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...FAA bosses twice denied him travel authorizations to visit the helicopter company, making it next to impossible to perform adequate FAA oversight....
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Friday, January 31, 2020 |
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How to Restore OHA's Credibility
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 5:31 PM :: 3459 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...The way OHA has responded to recent events has affected its credibility in the eyes of Hawai’i’s lawmakers and OHA’s own Hawaiian beneficiaries....
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Friday, January 31, 2020 |
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Former Schofield Range Director Pleads Guilty In Bribery Scheme
By News Release @ 4:09 AM :: 3785 Views :: Ethics, Military
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...Winslett further admitted that he accepted $723,333.33 in kickbacks from a local subcontractor....
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Wednesday, January 29, 2020 |
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ILWU Boss Gets 30 Months for Theft
By News Release @ 11:45 PM :: 3899 Views :: Ethics, Labor
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...Nathan Lum was the former division director of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 142, Longshore Division (ILWU)....
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Monday, January 27, 2020 |
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SB2331 Will Legislators Give Kaneshiro Crony $50M?
By Andrew Walden @ 4:20 PM :: 5668 Views :: Hawaii County , Ethics, Law Enforcement
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...What does a drunk rave promoter know about aviation fuel anyway?....
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Sunday, January 26, 2020 |
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Auditor: CIP Management Gets Even Worse
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 5:48 AM :: 4610 Views :: Ethics, Development, Hawaii State Government
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...The State’s Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Budget for FY2019 was $2.02 billion....
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Sunday, January 26, 2020 |
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Report: HIOSH has the Ethics of a Used Car Salesman
By News Release @ 5:07 AM :: 3437 Views :: Ethics
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... Occupational Health Branch Manager for HIOSH takes new hires shopping for used cars ....
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Sunday, January 26, 2020 |
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OHA Audit: Don’t Let Them Double Up!
By Tom Yamachika @ 4:00 AM :: 3567 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...This deserves an answer....
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Friday, January 24, 2020 |
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Campbell HS: DoE Lawyers Fight Female Athletes Over Technicalities
By Selected News Articles @ 3:38 AM :: 3713 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics
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...it probably costs more to pay the lawyers than to build the lockerroom....
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Thursday, January 23, 2020 |
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FAA Lowered Bar for Southwest Airlines Hawaii Approvals, Complaint Alleges
By Selected News Articles @ 12:34 AM :: 3589 Views :: Ethics, Tourism
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...U.S. air-safety regulators likely acted improperly in the way they authorized Southwest Airlines Co. to begin flights between California and Hawaii last year....
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Tuesday, January 21, 2020 |
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Senate Updates Sexual Harassment Policy
By News Release @ 8:44 PM :: 3130 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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...the Hawaii State Senate’s new Anti-Harassment Policy....
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Sunday, January 19, 2020 |
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Auditor: DBEDT Hides $6.5M from Legislature
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 5:53 PM :: 3344 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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...DBEDT had non-general funds with balances totaling $5.75 million and administratively created non-general funds with balances totaling more than $750,000 that were not reported to the 2019 Legislature as required by HRS....
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Sunday, January 12, 2020 |
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Common Cause Announces Legislative Agenda for 2020
By News Release @ 10:33 PM :: 3178 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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...Common Cause Hawaii will be holding a meeting about the 2020 Hawaii State Legislative Session on Saturday, January 25....
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Friday, January 10, 2020 |
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Schatz Bill: Funnel Tax Credit Money to Pono Shim's LLC
By News Release @ 10:15 PM :: 4735 Views :: Ethics, Congressional Delegation, Tax Credits
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...“Inspiring Nationally Vibrant Economies Sustaining Tribes (INVEST) Act"....
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Friday, January 10, 2020 |
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Pine: High Profile Ousters Cast Shadow on Government Transparency
By Councilmember Kymberly Marcos Pine @ 5:41 PM :: 4756 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Law Enforcement
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...This week, the Honolulu Police Commission ousted vocal Kealoha critic, Loretta Sheehan, from her Chair position. Additionally, it was reported that the Federal Public Defender for 24 years, Peter Wolff, who originally exposed the crimes of former City Prosecutor Katherine Kealoha and former Chief of Police Louis Kealoha, will also be ousted from his job....
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Thursday, January 9, 2020 |
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Audit: Handi-Van Phone System May be ADA Violation
By News Release @ 6:51 PM :: 4242 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Rail
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...an ineffective communications system that sometimes prevents riders from making reservations, drops calls, and does not record voicemail complaints....
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Thursday, January 9, 2020 |
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OHA's First Cover-up of 2020
By Video @ 3:39 AM :: 3626 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...The New Year's Barely Started & There's Already A Cover-Up at OHA....
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Wednesday, January 8, 2020 |
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Lawsuit: Hawaii AG David Louie Conspired with Money-Grubbing Trial Lawyers to Gin up $8B Case
By Andrew Walden @ 6:06 PM :: 4700 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Law Enforcement
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... The lawsuit could have far broader implications for the AG’s office given the large number of national cases the Hawaii AG’s office involves itself in. How many of those cases are driven by the profit interest of private law firms? ....
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Wednesday, January 8, 2020 |
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Crooks Cry Racism: Debunking OHA’s Audit Excuses
By Andrew Walden @ 5:16 AM :: 5590 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...We at Hawai’i Free Press only needed 30 minutes to write this point-by-point rebuttal. Yes. It is that easy....
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Wednesday, January 8, 2020 |
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Former HUD employee sentenced to 66 months in prison for fraud and identity theft
By News Release @ 3:30 AM :: 2959 Views :: Ethics
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...from 2014 to 2019, Tong used an alias to act as property manager and landlord for five properties she rented to Section 8 voucher holders....
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Sunday, January 5, 2020 |
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OHA Sacrifices $3.2M to Hide Lawyer’s Conflict of Interest?
By Andrew Walden @ 7:23 PM :: 7426 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...Former OHA CEO Kamana’o Crabbe is gone and OHA claims Crabbe’s departure shows the agency is cleaning up. But the Board lawyer who signed off on everything is still in place....
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Thursday, January 2, 2020 |
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Legislative Agenda: OHA to Parlay Mauna Kea Protests into Control of BLNR, LUC
By Andrew Walden @ 9:16 PM :: 4630 Views :: Ethics, Greenmail, OHA
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...ensuring that four members of both the Land Use Commission and the Board of Land and Natural Resources are selected from lists submitted to the Governor by OHA....
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Tuesday, December 31, 2019 |
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State Auditor Suspends OHA Audit Over Refusal to Release Records
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 12:16 AM :: 4349 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...OHA Trustees Machado, Lee Admit Refusing to Provide Unredacted Minutes to Auditor....
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Sunday, December 29, 2019 |
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Caught: OHA Audit Report Secrets Revealed
By Video @ 1:01 PM :: 3899 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...Watch This For A Quick Run-Down & Where You Can See It For Yourself....
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Sunday, December 29, 2019 |
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Don't Sweep OHA Audit Under the Rug
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 2:32 AM :: 4030 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...There are serious questions which must now be answered....
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Saturday, December 21, 2019 |
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Campaign Spending: John Carroll Declines to Seek Criminal Charges Against Eric Ryan
By Andrew Walden @ 2:20 AM :: 3919 Views :: Ethics, Republican Party
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... Respondents reported a monthly charge of $14.65 to Netflix on 6/19/18, 7/17/18, and 8/17/18 for “online research” ....
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Saturday, December 21, 2019 |
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Busted: Josh Green Hiding Out of State Contributions--Out $13K
By Andrew Walden @ 2:04 AM :: 4172 Views :: Ethics, Politicians
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...8 contributors who each gave the $6,000 maximum amount to Respondent, also gave to another candidate committee. However, Respondent reported that these 8 contributors had Hawaii addresses while the other candidate committee reported that these 8 contributors had out-of-state addresses....
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Saturday, December 21, 2019 |
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Legislative Agenda: CSC Behind Seven Bills for Campaign Finance reform
By Andrew Walden @ 1:48 AM :: 2636 Views :: Ethics
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...the following 7 bills have been drafted for the Commission’s consideration for the 2020 Legislative Session....
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Friday, December 20, 2019 |
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Hawaii Grade F for Business Subsidy Transparency -- 2nd Worst in USA
By News Release @ 2:39 AM :: 5562 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii Statistics, Small Business, Tax Credits
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..."Failing States" do not meet even basic standards of online spending transparency for economic development subsidies....
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Wednesday, December 18, 2019 |
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Why You Should Mahalo OHA Trustee Keli'i Akina
By Video @ 11:52 PM :: 3761 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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"...He's the only one that got the forensic audit done...."
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Wednesday, December 18, 2019 |
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State Supreme Court to Hear Gut n Replace Appeal
By Tom Yamachika @ 11:12 PM :: 3467 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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...The Supreme Court of Hawaii will take over the Common Cause / League of Women Voters' gut-n-replace appeal. The transfer order was filed today....
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Wednesday, December 18, 2019 |
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Barbers Point Air Museum Sues Airports Division to Block Eviction, Destruction of US Navy-owned Planes
By Selected News Articles @ 5:26 PM :: 5044 Views :: Ethics, Military, Small Business
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...the museum did quite a bit more work at Kaleloa Airport than just display airplanes....
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Tuesday, December 17, 2019 |
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Revolving Door: Andrew Pereira leaving City for 'new opportunity in private sector'
By News Release @ 9:54 PM :: 3450 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics
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...Pereira’s last day at Honolulu Hale will be Tuesday, Dec. 31....
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Saturday, December 14, 2019 |
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OIP Strips Back OHA Censorship
By Andrew Walden @ 8:51 PM :: 4907 Views :: Ethics, First Amendment, OHA
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...OIP deconstructs OHA insiders’ latest gambit in their flagging attempt to silence dissident Trustee Keli’i Akina....
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Friday, December 13, 2019 |
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'Gut and replace' has got to go
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 5:23 PM :: 4145 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Higher Education
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...the name game is at the heart of the Legislature’s practice of “gut and replace"....
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Friday, December 13, 2019 |
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Thursday, December 12, 2019 |
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Anti-Vaxxers Target Samoa with Disinformation Campaign
By Selected News Articles @ 3:41 AM :: 4643 Views :: Ethics, World News, Health Care
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"...Unfortunately, these anti-vaxx people all live overseas, but they’re using social media to influence our population and our community. What can the government do? We’re not wasting time with those people....”
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Tuesday, December 10, 2019 |
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Auditor: Zoo Loses Track of $658K
By News Release @ 6:41 PM :: 4121 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Tourism
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...The cooperative agreement between the zoo and the Zoo Society hampered roles and responsibilities....
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Sunday, December 8, 2019 |
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How OHA Lawyers Hid $200K Procurement Violation
By Andrew Walden @ 8:38 PM :: 5712 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...Are there other items fraudulently deleted from the check registers?....
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Saturday, December 7, 2019 |
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Naming Names: Meet the Political Insiders Behind Eviction of Barbers Point Air Museum
By Selected News Articles @ 6:28 PM :: 7128 Views :: Ethics, Military
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...sometimes you wonder who edits articles in the newspaper....
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Friday, December 6, 2019 |
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OIP: OHA’s PIG is a Dead Duck
By Andrew Walden @ 11:58 PM :: 6011 Views :: Ethics, First Amendment, OHA
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...Responding to questions about OHA Trustee Chair Colette Machado’s imaginary “OIP Opinion”....
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Thursday, December 5, 2019 |
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Honolulu Ethics Commission Presents Strategic Plan
By News Release @ 8:58 PM :: 3433 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics
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...This is the Commission’s first such plan and the culmination of three years of public meeting discussions, development and drafting, and outreach to stakeholders....
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Wednesday, December 4, 2019 |
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OHA Admits LLC Audit "observed indicators of potential fraud"
By News Release @ 11:05 PM :: 4053 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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"...As the sample was judgmentally selected, it is inappropriate to extrapolate sample results across all OHA contracts and disbursements during the review period...." -- OHA
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Monday, December 2, 2019 |
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How to Defraud the DoD--GAO Publishes Handy Guide
By News Release @ 9:15 PM :: 3520 Views :: Ethics, Military
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...If you're having trouble jumping on the gravy train, be sure to check out these cartoon-illustrations in the Full Report for a how-to guide....
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Saturday, November 30, 2019 |
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OHA Seeks Volunteer Board Manager to Oversee LLC
By News Release @ 8:53 PM :: 4018 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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... will be one of a board of three appointed managers, is expected to direct and oversee the Chief Operating Officer (“COO”) of Hi`ilei Aloha LLC ....
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Saturday, November 30, 2019 |
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OHA Policy Should Not Discourage Trustees from Speaking Out
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 8:35 PM :: 4735 Views :: Ethics, First Amendment, OHA
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...On November 12, the editors of the Honolulu Star-Advertiser urged OHA to scrap its 'one voice’ policy....
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