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Monday, July 17, 2017 |
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HART Boardmember: Our Credibility has Disappeared, Nobody Knows Who is Responsible
By News Release @ 11:24 PM :: 8423 Views :: Ethics, Rail, Taxes
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...Full Text: Letter to HART Boardmembers, Mayor and County Councilmembers from John Henry Felix....
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Sunday, July 16, 2017 |
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HART's Latest Excuse: Blame Paulette Kaleikini
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 8:01 PM :: 5873 Views :: Ethics, Rail
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... HART's current cost overrun is 93.4%, of which 1% is due to the two lawsuits ....
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Sunday, July 16, 2017 |
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How Rail Bonds Can Help Put Local Politicians in Jail
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 5533 Views :: Ethics, Rail
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...City officials were accused of certifying financial statements in 2002 and 2003 that were false because they failed to disclose that the city was purposely underfunding....
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Friday, July 14, 2017 |
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Honolulu Auditor Announces Plans for 2017-18
By News Release @ 10:13 AM :: 5913 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics
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...plan of proposed audits for FY2017-18....
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Sunday, July 9, 2017 |
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Mucking Around in the Past?
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 4888 Views :: Ethics, Rail
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...HART stunned critics by cancelling a special audit that would have examined past cost overruns....
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Saturday, July 8, 2017 |
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IT Project Stripped out of DOTax after decade of influence buying, psychosis, and bankruptcy
By Selected News Articles @ 12:55 PM :: 6566 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Labor
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...The shift out of DOTax is just a scam to justify vetoing HB1414 which mandated an audit of the State's decade-long series of IT debacles....
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Friday, July 7, 2017 |
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HART board chokes on forensic audit
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:36 AM :: 5968 Views :: Ethics, Rail
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“It’s not my intent to muck around in the past.”
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Wednesday, July 5, 2017 |
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Some reasons why the HART Board does not want to do a forensic audit
By Honolulu Traffic @ 10:25 PM :: 5431 Views :: Ethics, Rail
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...a number of allegedly flagrant violations of the law including the following....
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Tuesday, July 4, 2017 |
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Al Hee's Scam Company Loses its Monopoly on DHHL
By News Release @ 4:31 PM :: 7040 Views :: DHHL, Ethics
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Another step towards dismantlement of Dan Inouye's legacy....
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Saturday, July 1, 2017 |
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Are you confused about the status of the $250,000 HART special audit?
By Selected News Articles @ 2:34 PM :: 4958 Views :: Ethics, Rail
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...‘We made a screwy stupid decision back then.’ And I think going forward, that’s what I would like to do, unless there’s some critical issue where we suspect there’s like fraud or embezzlement or something....
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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 :: 4838 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 :: 5132 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 28, 2017 |
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Grassroot: Feds Should Audit Rail
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 5:24 AM :: 4963 Views :: Ethics, Rail
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We hope that the Department of Transportation’s Office of the Inspector General will be moved to mount a comprehensive fiscal and engineering audit of Honolulu rail ....
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Friday, June 23, 2017 |
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HART Cancels Audit: "It's not my intent to figure out what we did wrong”
By Selected News Articles @ 3:52 PM :: 5862 Views :: Ethics, Rail
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... this week, the rail board cancelled a special audit designed to show taxpayers why the costs have ballooned so high ....
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Friday, June 16, 2017 |
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Auditor: 2017 Legislature Batting .000 -- 65 Bogus Special Funds
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 2:21 AM :: 4629 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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...None of the 65 Special Funds proposed in the 2017 Legislative session met criteria....
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Friday, June 16, 2017 |
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State Recycling Program: A Decade of Fraud (Part 6)
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 2:18 AM :: 6751 Views :: Environment, Ethics
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The Department of Health, which administers the Program, has been aware of this flawed payment system since 2006 but has done little to address it....
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Thursday, June 15, 2017 |
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Audit Catches Maui County Finance Directory Abusing P-Card–Exposes Hostess Bar Loophole
By News Release @ 2:15 AM :: 6377 Views :: Maui County, Ethics
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...The County Finance Director’s travel was presumed to be to attend an Association of Certified Fraud Examiners in Nashville, TN, relating to “bribery and corruption”....
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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 :: 5669 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 :: 8780 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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Tuesday, June 6, 2017 |
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Wikileaks: Omidyar Website Gave up Leaker to NSA
By Selected News Articles @ 11:56 PM :: 8246 Views :: Ethics, First Amendment, Military, Pierre Omidyar
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Civil Beat June 5, 2016: "Not all anonymous sources are created equal. Some do benefit you, and those should be protected...."
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Sunday, June 4, 2017 |
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Human Casualties at the Legislature, Part 2
By Tom Yamachika @ 11:31 PM :: 7615 Views :: Energy, Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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...fifteen senators wanted to stick their thumbs in the Governor’s eye....
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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 :: 6421 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 :: 3982 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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The State Attorney General Steps In and ....
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Sunday, May 28, 2017 |
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Human Casualties at the Legislature
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:09 AM :: 5908 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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...If there is a position taken by a committee chair on one bill or one issue that is not reflecting the wishes of the committee, why can't the committee simply reject the chair's recommendation?....
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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 :: 8754 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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Thursday, May 25, 2017 |
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Akina Praises Trustees Unanimous Support for OHA Audit
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 2:49 AM :: 3793 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 :: 9009 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...Office Of Hawaiian Affairs Trustees Are Afraid Of You....
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Tuesday, May 23, 2017 |
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Whistleblowers: Sunrun Faked Hawaii Sales Data to Boost IPO
By Selected News Articles @ 5:09 AM :: 8792 Views :: Energy, Ethics
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...employees in Hawaii didn’t process cancellations representing about 40 percent of total orders in Hawaii between May 2015-October 2015....
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Tuesday, May 23, 2017 |
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Sex, Lies, and Repetitious Badgering: Meet Hawaii’s New Superintendent of Schools
By Video @ 4:45 AM :: 18288 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics
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... The HSTA wanted 'new perspectives' -- so Ige's BoE dumped Matayoshi and got this ....
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Sunday, May 21, 2017 |
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OHA to Vote on Audit Wednesday
By News Release @ 1:10 PM :: 4786 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 :: 7016 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 :: 5069 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...Hawaiiʻs Attorney General Had No Choice But To Start A Criminal Probe....
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Wednesday, May 17, 2017 |
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ACLU: Ten Questions for Honolulu’s Next Chief of Police
By News Release @ 4:29 AM :: 6017 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Police
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...we ask that the Commission pose the following ten questions to all candidates for the position....
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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 :: 4626 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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Thursday, May 11, 2017 |
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Attorneys General to Feds: Let us Investigate Home Care Fraud
By Selected News Articles @ 11:15 PM :: 6154 Views :: Ethics, Health Care, Law Enforcement
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Hawaii's AG joins other states asking the federal government for a policy change that would allow the states greater flexibility to investigate Medicaid fraud....
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Thursday, May 11, 2017 |
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Federal organic fraud in America
By Selected News Articles @ 2:02 PM :: 5694 Views :: Ethics, Agriculture
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...40% of the organic food sold in America tested positive for prohibited pesticide residue....
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Wednesday, May 10, 2017 |
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Will Criminal Activity at OHA Ever Stop?
By Video @ 7:58 PM :: 4793 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 :: 5731 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 :: 13800 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 :: 9622 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 :: 6925 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 :: 6909 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 :: 4247 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 :: 4899 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...re-writing the rules....
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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 :: 5385 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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Friday, April 21, 2017 |
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HB165: How Lawmakers can Deal with Annoying Citizens
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 6:34 PM :: 5240 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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...HB165 (now headed to a Conference Committee) would modernize the existing Sunshine Law by requiring electronic posting of public agency meeting notices and minutes and making board packets available for public inspection....
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Thursday, April 20, 2017 |
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Ciber: Company Behind 7-Year HDOT Software Failure Files Bankruptcy
By News Release @ 12:55 AM :: 6050 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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2015: State Sues Tech Firm for Buying Influence with Abercrombie Administration....
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Wednesday, April 19, 2017 |
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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 :: 6800 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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