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Monday, June 8, 2020 |
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Rep Case Bill Would Allow States to Impose Air-Travel COVID Testing
By Ed Case @ 7:00 PM :: 2864 Views :: Tourism, COVID-19
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...to allow Hawai’i to impose a pre-board test requirement on passengers destined for Hawai’i to protect visitors and residents from COVID-19....
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Monday, June 8, 2020 |
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COVID Count: One new case out of 327 tests
By News Release @ 5:59 PM :: 1790 Views :: COVID-19
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...no new deaths, no new hospitalizations, one patient released today....
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Monday, June 8, 2020 |
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UH begins training COVID-19 contact tracers
By News Release @ 3:10 AM :: 2664 Views :: Higher Education, COVID-19
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...The program as a whole expects to train 320 contact tracers by mid-July 2020 as well as hundreds more in the next year....
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Sunday, June 7, 2020 |
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BLM Protesters Leave Signs at Hawaii GOP HQ
By News Release @ 8:33 PM :: 4924 Views :: First Amendment, Law Enforcement, Republican Party
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"...Hundreds of the marchers today in the Black Lives Matter rally in Honolulu chose to leave their signs at the doorstep of the Hawaii Republican Party...."
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Sunday, June 7, 2020 |
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Hawaii Spending Cap Too Easily Ignored by Lawmakers
By Grassroot Institute @ 8:03 PM :: 3180 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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...Start working now to adopt a meaningful spending cap....
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Sunday, June 7, 2020 |
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Kam Napier: How to strike the right balance in reopening Hawaii economy
By Grassroot Institute @ 8:00 PM :: 2961 Views :: Economy, COVID-19
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... Napier has encouraged his readers to think critically about how our state and counties have responded to the public health threat ....
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Sunday, June 7, 2020 |
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COVID Count: Two new cases out of 1,092 tests
By News Release @ 7:50 PM :: 1975 Views :: COVID-19
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...one more hospitalization....
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Sunday, June 7, 2020 |
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Is Our GET Too Soft on Sales to the Feds?
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 2866 Views :: Tax Credits, Taxes
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...tinkering with the tax code to raise more money has the effect of putting the brakes on what little spin we have left on our economic engine....
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Sunday, June 7, 2020 |
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Amemiya Joins Pack of Insiders Grabbing ‘Affordable’ Housing Units for Themselves
By Andrew Walden @ 3:57 AM :: 17650 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Development
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...Honolulu Mayoral Candidate Keith Amemiya knows a lot about the ‘affordable’ housing system and how to ‘work’ it....
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Sunday, June 7, 2020 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 6, 2020
By GovTrack .us @ 3:13 AM :: 2300 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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...bills introduced and votes cast in Congress....
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Saturday, June 6, 2020 |
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Auditor Dings City Parks for Poor Management
By News Release @ 10:49 PM :: 2266 Views :: Honolulu County
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"...Current operational practices are reactive and appear to wait for park conditions to deteriorate before action is taken, rather than maintaining quality conditions...."
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Saturday, June 6, 2020 |
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Life in the time of lockdowns
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 10:19 PM :: 2788 Views :: Small Business, COVID-19
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...caught off guard by another last-minute government switcheroo....
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Saturday, June 6, 2020 |
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Repeal Bill 40, Honolulu's discriminatory builder contracting law
By Joe Kent @ 9:56 PM :: 3982 Views :: Honolulu County, Labor, Small Business
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...use of CWAs, also known as project labor agreements, would drastically limit the use of nonunion employees on public projects, thereby reducing competition among bidding contractors and increasing costs for Honolulu taxpayers....
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Saturday, June 6, 2020 |
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State Finally Launches Digital Time and Leave System
By News Release @ 9:23 PM :: 3015 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor
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...Timesheets and leave requests are now transmitted electronically to payroll offices, replacing paper-based manual labor-intensive tracking methods in employee pay calculation....
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Saturday, June 6, 2020 |
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COVID Count: Nine new cases out of 798 tests
By News Release @ 6:10 PM :: 2530 Views :: COVID-19
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...8 cases on Oahu and 1 Oahu resident diagnosed out of state....
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Saturday, June 6, 2020 |
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Notice of Anticipated Judicial Vacancy – Circuit Judge of the Third Circuit
By News Release @ 4:32 AM :: 2357 Views :: Judiciary
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... The Judicial Selection Commission is accepting applications and nominations ....
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Saturday, June 6, 2020 |
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Caldwell Announces New Plan to Jam up Traffic
By News Release @ 4:00 AM :: 2497 Views :: Honolulu County
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...The O‘ahu Pedestrian Plan’s draft pedestrian priority network open for public comment....
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Friday, June 5, 2020 |
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Jones Act 100th -- Happy Birthday, NOT!
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:54 PM :: 2092 Views :: Jones Act
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...The best gift for this 100-year-old law that harms Hawaii would be to modernize it for the 21st century....
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Friday, June 5, 2020 |
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Could “Tariff Man” Trump support Jones Act reform?
By Michael Hansen @ 11:24 PM :: 2201 Views :: Jones Act
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...Mulligan says that despite Trump’s reputation as a strong supporter of protectionist tariffs, the President sees the Jones Act as a “harmful regulation” and is particularly disappointed by the lack of competitiveness of U.S. shipyards....
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Friday, June 5, 2020 |
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US Sen Mike Lee calls for Jones Act gas carrier exemption
By Michael Hansen @ 11:10 PM :: 3118 Views :: Energy, Jones Act
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... he notes the complete absence of self-propelled oceangoing liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers in the Jones Act fleet ....
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Friday, June 5, 2020 |
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Happy Birthday Jones Act. Let’s Hope it’s Your Last
By Cato Foundation @ 9:43 PM :: 2304 Views :: Jones Act
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...The Jones Act turns 100 years old today....
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Friday, June 5, 2020 |
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UPW Prison Guard Busted Allegedly Smuggling Meth into OCCC
By News Release @ 7:36 PM :: 5309 Views :: Ethics, Labor, Law Enforcement, Drugs
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...the UPW still has not agreed to allow all guards to be searched for contraband....
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Friday, June 5, 2020 |
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COVID Count: Six new cases out of 921 tests
By News Release @ 7:26 PM :: 1911 Views :: COVID-19
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... this is the largest number of new cases in quite a while ....
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Friday, June 5, 2020 |
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Kym Pine: ANTIFA Agitator Photos not Credible
By Councilmember Kymberly Marcos Pine @ 7:09 PM :: 4077 Views :: First Amendment, Police
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...Pine today addressed rumors that professional agitators have arrived in the islands to stir up trouble at peaceful protests being staged to honor George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement....
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Thursday, June 4, 2020 |
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Land Use: Disparate Impact
By Selected News Articles @ 11:38 PM :: 3106 Views :: Land Use, Cost of Living
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...the Trump administration has since revised the rule, making it more difficult to challenge land-use rules that make housing more expensive....
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Thursday, June 4, 2020 |
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Honolulu’s Terrible Folly and a Transit Mystery
By Selected News Articles @ 11:18 PM :: 3575 Views :: Rail
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...The 20-mile line is expected to cost $9.2 billion, more than the cost of the 243 miles of light-rail lines in Sacramento, Saint Louis, Salt Lake City, San Diego, and San Jose combined....
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Thursday, June 4, 2020 |
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Honolulu 7th Largest Increase in Unemployment
By Selected News Articles @ 10:59 PM :: 3173 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, COVID-19
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...Bureau of Labor Statistics recently disclosed that it misclassified many workers on temporary layoffs as “absent from work because of other reasons” rather than “unemployed.” Therefore, the real unemployment rate may be around 33 percent higher than reported....
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Thursday, June 4, 2020 |
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ERS Risks $75M of Your Retirement Fund on Hawaii High Tech Startups
By News Release @ 10:45 PM :: 3885 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor, Tax Credits
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...how many times will Hawaii fall for phony High-Tech scamsters?....
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Thursday, June 4, 2020 |
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HD5 Rep Creagan Withdraws from Race for Reelection
By Andrew Walden @ 10:20 PM :: 3230 Views :: Hawaii County , Politicians
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...Creagan made his unannounced move June 3, 2020—the last day for withdrawals and one day after the deadline to file....
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Thursday, June 4, 2020 |
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Free Food Giveaways set to conclude
By News Release @ 7:24 PM :: 4090 Views :: Honolulu County, Economy, Labor, COVID-19
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...to provide food assistance to recently unemployed individuals is set to conclude with two remaining food distribution events at Aloha Stadium....
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Thursday, June 4, 2020 |
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COVID Count: Two New Cases out of 1,698 tests
By News Release @ 6:36 PM :: 1840 Views :: COVID-19
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...no new deaths, no new hospitalizations....
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Thursday, June 4, 2020 |
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Young Bros: Another Jones Act Failure
By Michael Hansen @ 4:52 AM :: 3015 Views :: Jones Act
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“...Hawaii and Puerto Rico now receive more cargo from foreign countries than they do from the U.S. mainland....”
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Thursday, June 4, 2020 |
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Sierra Club: Maui Mayor Exploits Corona Emergency Powers to Fast-Track Shoreline Development
By News Release @ 3:52 AM :: 4317 Views :: Maui County, Ethics, Development, COVID-19
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... On May 30, Mayor Victorino issued a directive indicating certain shoreline development approval requests will be reviewed within fifteen days or be automatically approved ....
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Wednesday, June 3, 2020 |
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Ige Admin Places 'Reopening Strategy' Online
By News Release @ 10:20 PM :: 2663 Views :: Economy, COVID-19
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...It was developed by the Governor’s Office along with the Hawai‘i Economic and Community Recovery Navigator in collaboration with many government agencies and business sector partners....
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Wednesday, June 3, 2020 |
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COVID Count: One New Case out of 1,130 Tests
By News Release @ 5:55 PM :: 1824 Views :: COVID-19
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...three patients released today....
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Wednesday, June 3, 2020 |
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Republicans Contest Only About Half of Legislative Races
By News Release @ 2:52 PM :: 2370 Views :: Republican Party
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"...the most legislative candidates the Hawaii Republican Party has had in several election cycles...."
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Wednesday, June 3, 2020 |
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Hawaiian Electric posts new battery projects’ details
By News Release @ 1:03 PM :: 3421 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits
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...Really Obvious Question: How many of these 16 are represented by Caliboso?....
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Tuesday, June 2, 2020 |
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423 Candidates Pull Papers for Election--333 File
By News Release @ 10:59 PM :: 27564 Views :: Office of Elections
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... 5 withdrawals by June 3 deadline....
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Tuesday, June 2, 2020 |
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VIDEO: How to Save Lives in Hawaii, in 50 Seconds
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:34 PM :: 2760 Views :: Economy, COVID-19
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...if our leaders let their coronavirus lockdowns linger, Hawaii can expect a wave of "deaths of despair"....
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Tuesday, June 2, 2020 |
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US Supreme Court declines to lift restrictions on crowds at church services
By Selected News Articles @ 5:46 PM :: 2788 Views :: First Amendment, COVID-19
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...Chief Justice John Roberts wrote a short opinion to express his agreement with (and to explain) the denial of the church’s request....
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Tuesday, June 2, 2020 |
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New online system to assist with shooting range reservations
By News Release @ 5:36 PM :: 4888 Views :: Honolulu County, Second Amendment
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...Parks and Recreation Online System, PROS, available to public beginning Wednesday, June 3 at 12 noon....
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Tuesday, June 2, 2020 |
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COVID Count: One new case out of 587 tests
By News Release @ 5:23 PM :: 1874 Views :: COVID-19
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... no new deaths, no new hospitalizations, one patient released ....
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Monday, June 1, 2020 |
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Applicants Sought for Disciplinary Board of the Hawaii Supreme Court
By News Release @ 11:15 PM :: 2438 Views :: Judiciary
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... The Hawaii Supreme Court is seeking both attorney and non-attorney applicants to fill six positions on the Disciplinary Board ....
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Monday, June 1, 2020 |
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COVID Count: No new cases out of 434 tests
By News Release @ 5:36 PM :: 1799 Views :: COVID-19
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...no new deaths, no new hospitalizations....
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Sunday, May 31, 2020 |
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COVID Count: Hawaii Down to only 27 Active Cases
By News Release @ 7:01 PM :: 2243 Views :: COVID-19
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...This month, the state has seen only 45 new confirmed cases and has had seven days with no increase in confirmed infections....
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Sunday, May 31, 2020 |
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The Governor, The Legislature, and The Billion Dollar Mess
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 3526 Views :: Hawaii State Government, COVID-19
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...figuring out how to spend $1 billion of federal money that is being made available to Hawaii under the CARES Act....
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Saturday, May 30, 2020 |
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Case, Gabbard Pursue First National Forest for Hawai’i
By News Release @ 8:16 PM :: 3801 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Congressional Delegation
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...Their legislation follows their recent initiative to create Hawaii’s first National Heritage Area at Ka’ena Point....
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Saturday, May 30, 2020 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted May 30, 2020
By GovTrack .us @ 7:56 PM :: 2370 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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... bills introduced and votes in Congress from GovTrack.us ....
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Saturday, May 30, 2020 |
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COVID Count: 3 New Cases, Only 29 Active Cases Statewide
By News Release @ 5:31 PM :: 2090 Views :: COVID-19
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...no new deaths, no new hospitalizations, one patient released....
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