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Tuesday, August 15, 2023 |
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What Does It Mean for HTA to be Administratively Attached to DBEDT?
By UHERO @ 9:07 PM :: 2124 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Tourism
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... HRS Chapter 26-35 spells out the requirements that apply to an agency administratively attached to a state department ....
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Saturday, August 12, 2023 |
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Sunday, July 30, 2023 |
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Why is it hard to buy and sell cryptocurrency in Hawaii?
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:00 PM :: 2511 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Small Business
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... Hawaii is the worst state in the nation for cryptocurrency, due to the state's strict and confusing regulations ....
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Saturday, July 29, 2023 |
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Green Appoints Thielen, Hannemann ... and Ex-Con Stacy Moniz
By News Release @ 2:17 PM :: 4382 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Labor
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... The Moniz appointment is due in large part from a new law. Under a recent law, Act 260 Session Laws of Hawaii, the Governor must appoint the person nominated by the public employee unions. ....
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Thursday, July 13, 2023 |
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Green Signs 263 Bills -- Vetoes 11
By News Release @ 3:20 PM :: 11771 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... Green issued 11 vetoes on July 7, due to serious legal and programmatic concerns ....
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Thursday, July 13, 2023 |
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Hawaii Finally Outlaws Nepotism--except Legislative and Judicial
By News Release @ 4:24 AM :: 2204 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Judiciary
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... It applies to almost all state employees (except those working for the legislative or judicial branches) ....
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Thursday, July 13, 2023 |
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Hawaii Ethics: 'Community of Social Workers' Banned -- Chinese Communist Propaganda Allowed
By Rep Gene Ward @ 4:07 AM :: 1957 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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"...Thank you for giving a heads up to legislators about accepting a book from Hawai’i’s social workers because it might be an Ethics Violation...."
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Sunday, July 9, 2023 |
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The Budget Is Signed
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1854 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Tax Credits, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... At the ceremony, the Governor made clear that tax relief, especially for ALICE (asset-limited, income-constrained, employed) families, is still on the table. There will be a Phase 2, he said, apparently targeting the 2024 legislative session ....
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Saturday, July 8, 2023 |
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New Sunshine Law Requirements
By News Release @ 1:21 PM :: 1599 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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... two 2023 laws, Act 019 and Act 125, added new Sunshine Law requirements effective July 1 and October 1, 2023 ....
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Saturday, July 8, 2023 |
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New council will evaluate effectiveness of Hawaii DOT
By Selected News Articles @ 12:57 PM :: 1618 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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... Act 242, signed by Gov. Josh Green this week, established the council, which renamed the Highway Safety Council to the Hawaii Highway Safety and Modernization Council ....
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Friday, July 7, 2023 |
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Need $60K to Pay Your Mortgage?
By News Release @ 5:02 AM :: 1881 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Cost of Living
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... Since the program’s inception in 2021, service providers from the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement and Hawaiʻi Community Lending have been serving homeowners with the greatest needs ....
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Friday, July 7, 2023 |
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HHFDC Gives Solar Farm Control of Waianae Affordable Housing Complex
By News Release @ 4:33 AM :: 1583 Views :: Energy, Development, Hawaii State Government
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... The agreement, which began on June 30, calls for Solar Farm View Estates LLC (SFVE) to undertake substantial repairs to the complex and operate it for the next 75 years. The Board of Directors of HHFDC, which retains the property’s fee-simple interest, approved a $4.95 million, low-interest, 10-year loan that allows SFVE to facilitate the repairs ....
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Sunday, July 2, 2023 |
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Lawmakers Wasting Your Money: Let me count the ways
By Grassroot Institute @ 9:26 PM :: 1814 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii State Government
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... Housing, the Honolulu rail, the Aloha Stadium, homelessness and the 64% pay raise for Honolulu City Council members ....
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Saturday, July 1, 2023 |
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Green Signs $37.2B Budget
By News Release @ 4:03 PM :: 1732 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Tax Credits, Taxes
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... Senator Donovan Dela Cruz, chair of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, hailed the tax break bill as a positive financial benefit for struggling families ....
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Friday, June 30, 2023 |
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Green Releases 'Intent to Veto' List--Legislature Will not Override
By News Release @ 11:51 PM :: 3569 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... Governor Josh Green, M.D., today notified legislative leaders and stakeholders of his intent to veto 11 bills passed by the Hawaiʻi State Legislature during the 2023 session. ...
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023 |
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How Does $10B Disappear?
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:53 PM :: 2435 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... What happened to Hawaii’s $10 billion budget surplus? ....
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Sunday, June 25, 2023 |
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Economic Misfortune Can Fix Our “Shadow Budget”
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:01 AM :: 2109 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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... Sometimes it takes a bad situation to make another bad situation better. This might be one of those times ....
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Thursday, June 22, 2023 |
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Hawaii finances ‘unsustainable’ without economic growth
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:58 PM :: 2212 Views :: Economy, Hawaii State Government
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" ... if the government spending is growing faster than the private sector, then it is unsustainable .... "
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Thursday, June 22, 2023 |
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Green Pours Millions into Housing
By Selected News Articles @ 4:33 PM :: 2284 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Homelessness, Cost of Living
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... "We are working with our colleagues, possibly in the next couple of weeks, you will see this housing declaration of emergency, similarly to address some of the bottlenecks on housing," Green said. ....
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Thursday, June 22, 2023 |
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New XO at HI-EMA
By News Release @ 12:00 PM :: 2126 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Military
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... Don Aweau most recently served with the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a senior advisor ....
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Saturday, June 17, 2023 |
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$1B Budget Cuts 'Wise and Courageous'
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 6:46 PM :: 1918 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... Green plans to trim approximately $1 billion from the Legislature’s proposed biennial budget via 22 separate line item vetoes ....
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Saturday, June 17, 2023 |
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How Grassroot Institute is working for a better Hawaii
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:16 PM :: 2134 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Health Care, Taxes
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... Grassroot Institute “actually proposed 15 model bills this year that were introduced and got one across the finish line, which was the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact” ....
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Saturday, June 17, 2023 |
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What you need to know about property taxes in Hawaii
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:57 PM :: 2793 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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... Hawaii property tax rates thus can be low because the counties that assess and collect them do not have to cover the cost of public schools ....
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Sunday, June 11, 2023 |
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Foley hails inroads on corruption
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:32 PM :: 1861 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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... progress was made in the fight to improve transparency and accountability ....
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Sunday, June 4, 2023 |
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Hawaii’s Shadow Budget
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 2208 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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“...ready, fire, aim....”
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Tuesday, May 30, 2023 |
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Hawaii governor still has long list of bills to sign
By Selected News Articles @ 4:20 PM :: 1994 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Tax Credits, Taxes
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... House Bill 954 would increase the personal exemption from $1,444 to $2,288 beginning with the 2023 tax year and increase the standard deduction ....
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Saturday, May 27, 2023 |
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HDoT Reopens HNL Runway--sort of
By News Release @ 4:01 AM :: 1967 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Tourism
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... Nightly closures of runway 8L from 5 p.m. and 7 a.m. will be needed for a 140-day period to complete the improvements to the runway ....
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Friday, May 26, 2023 |
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Line Item Veto of Slush Fund ‘the responsible thing to do'
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:10 PM :: 1932 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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... Hawaii’s taxpayers have paid about $1.5 billion in just the past two years for housing, but “Where’s all the affordable housing?” ....
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Monday, May 22, 2023 |
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Green Touts 'Progress' in First Six Months
By News Release @ 11:34 PM :: 1599 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... The main areas where progress was cited were affordable housing, homelessness, the high cost of living, healthcare, education, and the environment ....
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Sunday, May 21, 2023 |
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Another Rainy Day Slush Fund
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 2010 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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... The HHRF shut down in 2002. It's fund still has $186.7M today ....
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Friday, May 19, 2023 |
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VIDEO: What went well — and wrong — at the 2023 Hawaii Legislature
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:51 AM :: 1835 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... an inside look at the 2023 Hawaii legislative session ....
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Tuesday, May 16, 2023 |
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‘Defense wins championships’
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:03 AM :: 2128 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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... Since bad bills tend to outnumber good ones, that means we played a lot of defense ....
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Saturday, May 13, 2023 |
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‘One step forward, one step back’ was Legislature’s MO
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:59 PM :: 2134 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Health Care, Small Business
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... the Legislature approved a bill authorizing the state to join the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, which will help alleviate the state’s doctor shortage, but shelved other licensure compact bills that would have applied to nurses and other healthcare professionals. It also failed to exempt medical services from the state’s general excise tax ....
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Saturday, May 13, 2023 |
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Biggest Budget Increase Ever: The good, bad and ‘mostly ugly’ at 2023 Legislature
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:41 PM :: 2119 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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... “The budget is increasing by 30% this year,” Kent said, far exceeding last year’s record increase of 17% and breaking the state’s constitutionally mandated spending limit as well, which can be bypassed by a two-thirds vote ....
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Friday, May 12, 2023 |
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Hawaii DoE Legislative Wrap-up
By News Release @ 5:31 PM :: 2104 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii State Government
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... The Department had a successful legislative session, with five out of the seven administrative bills we advocated for being passed ....
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Wednesday, May 10, 2023 |
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Projected state surplus vanishes in face of planned higher spending
By Grassroot Institute @ 9:29 PM :: 2229 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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... The Legislature's proposed spending plan for fiscal 2024 could result in a state budget deficit of $45 million by fiscal 2028, if OK'd by the governor ....
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Monday, May 8, 2023 |
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DoI to End 'Compact Impact' Payments
By News Release @ 5:12 PM :: 2343 Views :: National News, Hawaii State Government
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... More than half of these populations now reside in the continental United States and an estimated 43% are U.S. citizens ....
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Sunday, May 7, 2023 |
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Join us for our annual overview of what went down at the Legislature
By Grassroot Institute @ 8:36 PM :: 2100 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... On Maui, Hawaii Island and Oahu, Grassroot Institute staffers will take a look at the ups and downs of this year's legislative session ....
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Saturday, May 6, 2023 |
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Legislature on track to violate state's legal spending limit
By Grassroot Institute @ 8:56 PM :: 2473 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... The proposed budget is $668 million more than the governor requested and doesn't even include almost 30 other measures that require funding ....
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Saturday, May 6, 2023 |
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Dela Cruz News: Conference Committee Sneaks $200M Slush Fund into Budget
By Andrew Walden @ 7:48 AM :: 2657 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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... Apparently the Governor is becoming the appropriator--constitutionally a function of the Legislature ....
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Saturday, May 6, 2023 |
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HTA Funding? $30M Magically Appears After Legislature Zeroes out Budget
By News Release @ 6:20 AM :: 2437 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Tourism
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“HTA is thankful that the Governor, Lieutenant Governor and the Legislature agreed on a funding approach that will allow HTA to continue...."
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Saturday, May 6, 2023 |
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Sine Die: Green Calls Session Success
By News Release @ 6:10 AM :: 2092 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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"...Green would like to thank the legislature for its collaboration...."
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Saturday, May 6, 2023 |
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Green Names Tokioka head of DBEDT
By News Release @ 5:31 AM :: 2559 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Tourism
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... how will this help Dela Cruz make money on Aloha Stadium? ....
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Saturday, May 6, 2023 |
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Mana Moriarty to head Office of Consumer Protection
By News Release @ 5:03 AM :: 2717 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... The Executive Director of OCP is the consumer counsel for the State of Hawai‘i ....
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Friday, May 5, 2023 |
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HB600: Safe Routes to School
By News Release @ 5:41 PM :: 2171 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii State Government
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... empower the State, county, schools, and community members to directly collaborate on efforts to make streets safer ....
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Friday, May 5, 2023 |
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Sine Die: House Leaders Tout Budget
By News Release @ 5:37 PM :: 2042 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... On closing day, the House passed the final version of the state budget and priority fiscal bills ....
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Thursday, May 4, 2023 |
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Chair of State Council on Developmental Disabilities Indicted for International Financial Fraud
By News Release @ 4:18 AM :: 3081 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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... a years-long scheme to steal millions of dollars from American consumers’ bank accounts ....
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Tuesday, May 2, 2023 |
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He'eia: DOBOR Spews Filth into Harbor for Eight Years--Now DoH Grabs Control of Budget
By News Release @ 11:20 PM :: 2211 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Hawaii State Government
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... After eight years of inaction, DoH forced DOBOR's hand by grabbing control of their budget ....
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