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Thursday, November 23, 2017 |
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New Claims by State in Airport Hangar Lawsuit
By News Release @ 4:04 AM :: 5683 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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...The evidence suggests that dck worldwide directed how dck pacific handled payments to subcontractors....
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Monday, November 20, 2017 |
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Insider Trading: State Employee Writes RFP, then Works for Bidders
By News Release @ 8:34 PM :: 4138 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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...the former state employee could improperly benefit by trading on his or her “insider knowledge” to secure future employment or business opportunities....
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Sunday, November 19, 2017 |
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State Senate Accepting Applications for 2018 Session
By News Release @ 3:45 PM :: 3503 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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...Most begin on January 3, 2018 and end on the last day of the legislative session....
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Thursday, November 16, 2017 |
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Pension pinches profligacy
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 8:00 AM :: 4805 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor
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...Hawaii’s county governments — and county taxpayers — are about to feel the pinch....
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Thursday, November 16, 2017 |
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HGEA Hospital Debacle: DOH Places Seven On Leave
By News Release @ 1:48 AM :: 5990 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Health Care, Labor
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...after decades ignoring the festering problems at the HGEA job trust State Hospital, AG and DoH pretend to suddenly be oh-so-very-concerned....
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Tuesday, November 14, 2017 |
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State Capitol Signs up for Non-Existent Seawater Air Conditioning Scheme
By News Release @ 5:11 PM :: 5294 Views :: Energy, Hawaii State Government
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...a seawater jet powered by Hawaii tax credits is used to shoot pies up into the sky--electricity is generated by harnessing the energy of the pies as they fall back to Earth....
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Tuesday, November 14, 2017 |
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$1.8B Special Fund Audit: DHRD Refuses to Report to Legislature
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 1:42 AM :: 5655 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Labor
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..."We disagree with DHRD. The statutory requirements that DHRD report to the Legislature are unambiguous and do not exempt these trust funds." -- Auditor....
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Sunday, November 12, 2017 |
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Island Air: Did the Airports Division bamboozle Fitch Ratings?
By Andrew Walden @ 12:42 AM :: 7969 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Tourism
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“The Airports Division expects near-term traffic results will be better than projected due to Island Air expanding interisland traffic...." -- Fitch Ratings, October 26, 2017
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Saturday, November 11, 2017 |
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Counties stuck with bailing out pension debt
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 1:11 PM :: 4492 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor
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...the state Legislature has discovered a new tactic for meeting its public pension financial obligations: passing the costs on to the counties....
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Thursday, November 9, 2017 |
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Legacy Pension Costs--Hawaii Scores D-
By Selected News Articles @ 1:57 AM :: 4825 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor
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Legacy Costs evaluates whether states provided adequate funding, as defined by retirement system actuaries, for pensions and other promised retirement benefits for public workers.....
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Wednesday, November 8, 2017 |
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Animal Quarantine Station is Preferred Site for New Jail
By News Release @ 6:00 PM :: 6585 Views :: Development, Hawaii State Government, Law Enforcement
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...Ige today announced that his administration has completed the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the relocation of the O‘ahu Community Correctional Center....
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Tuesday, November 7, 2017 |
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Professional License--DCCA Launches Online Application Status Search
By News Release @ 8:49 PM :: 5295 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Small Business
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...to enable new applicants or existing licensees to search for their application status....
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Thursday, November 2, 2017 |
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Video: ERS not out of woods yet
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:08 PM :: 4760 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor
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...Featuring: Thom Williams, Executive director, Employees’ Retirement System of the State of Hawaii....
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Thursday, November 2, 2017 |
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New HDoT Website Maps Pavement Conditions, Traffic Counts, Fatal Crashes
By News Release @ 3:50 AM :: 3435 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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...New datasets include pavement conditions, traffic counts for state roads, and locations of fatal crashes between 2012-2016....
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Wednesday, November 1, 2017 |
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What Can Hawaii Learn From Google
By Video @ 4:53 AM :: 4425 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Small Business
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...Kelii Akina and Ray Tsuchiyama discuss applying the lessons of Google to the future of Hawaii....
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Saturday, October 28, 2017 |
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Friday, October 27, 2017 |
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Right tools can dig us out of pension debt
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 5:48 PM :: 3896 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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Hawaii’s public pension system has an unfunded liability of $12 billion....
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Sunday, October 22, 2017 |
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DoTax Leaves Fewer Callers in the Dust
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 5608 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...Did DOTAX Turn the Corner on Customer Service?....
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Thursday, October 19, 2017 |
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Moody's: Hawaii has Already Collected the Taxes for Next Recession
By Selected News Articles @ 9:47 AM :: 5485 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...Hawaii has enough in cash reserves to weather next recession, report says....
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Friday, October 13, 2017 |
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Fuchigami Taking over from Ige's Chief of Staff? – That’s What the State Constitution Says
By News Release @ 3:56 AM :: 7403 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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...The position of administrative director is actually one of the few positions created by the State Constitution....
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Thursday, October 12, 2017 |
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Hawaii AG Obstructs Requests on How Much Taxpayer Funds Are Being Spent Fighting Trump’s Travel Ban
By Selected News Articles @ 1:57 PM :: 8012 Views :: National News, Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Law Enforcement
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...the Hawaii AG office denied the public interest fee waiver request and charged $28,396.30 to complete the document search....
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Thursday, October 12, 2017 |
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Tuesday, September 19, 2017 |
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Hawaii 6th Most Indebted State
By News Release @ 9:49 PM :: 7106 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Taxes
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...$27,100 = Each taxpayer's share of Hawaii's debt....
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Sunday, September 17, 2017 |
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Legislature with U R Missing
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 4718 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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...there is "supposed to be" opportunity for participation....
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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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HDOT Sitting on $505M of Unspent Federal Funds
By News Release @ 5:10 PM :: 5255 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Rail
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...In two and a half years we have successfully reduced the pipeline from nearly $750 million to $505 million....
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Wednesday, September 6, 2017 |
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Hawaii Sues Trump over DACA
By News Release @ 5:07 PM :: 5226 Views :: National News, Hawaii State Government
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...Sen. Dianne Feinstein suggests DACA is on shaky legal ground....
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Thursday, August 31, 2017 |
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Obamacare Could Bankrupt ERS
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 7:18 PM :: 5494 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor
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...a 1% increase in health care costs equals a $2 billion increase in unfunded liabilities....
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Wednesday, August 30, 2017 |
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Sunday, August 20, 2017 |
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The Grand Skim of Things, Part 3
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 5383 Views :: DHHL, Hawaii State Government
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...one State department that has funds with no exemption, and refuses to pay it: the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL)....
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Friday, August 18, 2017 |
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Hawaii misses the bitcoin boom
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:59 PM :: 6849 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Small Business
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....Since then, the price of bitcoin has catapulted to over $4,000 per bitcoin, up from $1,000....
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Sunday, August 13, 2017 |
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The Grand Skim of Things, Part 2
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 4064 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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...the Central Services Skim has redirected about $45 million a year from the special funds to the state general fund....
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Wednesday, August 9, 2017 |
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Want Land? DLNR Will Buy You Some
By News Release @ 4:32 AM :: 5321 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Land Use
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Grant applications for land acquisition....
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Sunday, August 6, 2017 |
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The Grand Skim of Things (Part 1)
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 6497 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Rail, Taxes
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...A Hawaii law dating back to 1955, which now can be found at HRS section 36-27, says that 5% of any special fund’s income will be paid to the state general fund to pay “central service expenses....”
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Sunday, July 30, 2017 |
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No Hanahana -- Kaukau Anyway
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 5603 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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...if you don’t work, you don’t eat....
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Thursday, July 27, 2017 |
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HiDoT Puts State Highway Project Database on line
By News Release @ 3:56 AM :: 4243 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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...Available data includes the schedule, scope, and estimated cost for all current State Highways projects as well as all projects planned to begin construction in the next two years....
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Saturday, July 22, 2017 |
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Millennials are public pension losers
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 1:56 PM :: 5127 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor
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Hawaii may be giving millennials the short end of the stick when it comes to the state’s unfunded public pension liabilities....
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Friday, July 21, 2017 |
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AG Chin Politicizing Office and ignoring his real job
By Rep Bob McDermott @ 2:04 AM :: 5565 Views :: National News, Hawaii State Government
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...a hyper-partisan, publicity-seeking, grandstander....
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Thursday, July 13, 2017 |
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Invasive Species Inspectors Communicate 'Caveman Style' After (another) State IT Project Failure
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 2:03 PM :: 5321 Views :: Agriculture, Hawaii State Government
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...After more than a decade of development and close to $4.2 million in new and amended contracts, Department of Agriculture has failed in its attempt to implement a central integrated database.... (try MS Excel next time)
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Tuesday, July 11, 2017 |
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Ige Vetoes 13 Bills--Two Become Law Without Signature
By News Release @ 9:40 PM :: 5190 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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...Ige announced that he has vetoed 13 of 15 bills on his Intent to Veto list....
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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 :: 6464 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, June 30, 2017 |
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SB410: Public union power grab goes too far
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 2:54 PM :: 5182 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor
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All employers need a few basic freedoms to be productive, among them the freedom to manage their employees....
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Friday, June 23, 2017 |
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Ige to Veto 15 Bills
By News Release @ 11:46 PM :: 4887 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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SB410 Labor Union Givesway, SB1240 Aquarium Fishing, SB562 AG to Defend Counties, HB2 'Tiny Homes' on Big Island Ag Land, HB627 Public-Private Partnerships....
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Wednesday, June 21, 2017 |
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NFIB Hawaii Small Business End-of-Session Report
By Selected News Articles @ 11:15 PM :: 4817 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Small Business
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Defeat – for now – of onerous paid leave and minimum wage proposals highlight accomplishments for small business. Big court victory an added bonus....
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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 :: 4558 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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Monday, June 5, 2017 |
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VIDEO: Sam Slom, Hawaii's Opposition Voice
By Video @ 11:42 PM :: 7028 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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...E Hana Kakou with Keli'i Akina, "Sam Slom, Hawaii's Opposition Voice"....
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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 :: 7486 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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Sunday, May 28, 2017 |
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Human Casualties at the Legislature
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:09 AM :: 5819 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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Monday, May 22, 2017 |
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State Scores ‘F’ -- Balance Sheets Hide Retirement Debt
By Selected News Articles @ 12:21 PM :: 3468 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics
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...state government officials continue to obscure large amounts of retirement debt on their balance sheets, despite new rules to increase financial transparency....
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Monday, May 15, 2017 |
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Star-Adv Flacks for DHS Insiders--Trashes Peter Boy Book
By Andrew Walden @ 3:46 PM :: 7455 Views :: Family, Hawaii State Government, Law Enforcement
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...entrenched interests within the DHS culture of secrecy are afraid of this book and its contents....
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