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Saturday, October 5, 2019 |
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Several schools see proficiency rates in math fall to single digits
By News Release @ 4:42 AM :: 4746 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics
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...Just 3% of Waianae High juniors tested proficient in math last school year, from 11% the year before....
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Friday, October 4, 2019 |
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OHA Trustee on Mauna Kea: "Where's the revenue from these Ceded Lands?"
By Selected News Articles @ 10:11 PM :: 5285 Views :: Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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...the Hawai'i Supreme Court ruled that the State of Hawai'i must resolve the claims of Native Hawaiians before selling ceded lands....
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Friday, October 4, 2019 |
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Ed Case: “I don’t accept ‘the price of paradise’”
By Grassroot Institute @ 8:18 PM :: 4275 Views :: Jones Act, Cost of Living
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...he is considering a proposal that would leave the Jones Act in place but forbid shipping companies from charging a certain percentage above an established international shipping rate....
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Friday, October 4, 2019 |
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Mauna Kea: 591 Tickets, Six Arrests
By News Release @ 7:16 PM :: 3810 Views :: Honolulu County, Police
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...The combined total for 7-weeks stands at 4092 citations issued and 43 persons arrested for 71 offenses....
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Friday, October 4, 2019 |
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Mourning the Past Sacrifices the Future
By Joni Kamiya @ 4:17 AM :: 4760 Views :: Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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...It is pretty fun to belong to a cause and feel as if you’re making a difference....
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Friday, October 4, 2019 |
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Energy Efficiency: Hawaii Ranks 16th
By News Release @ 3:42 AM :: 3804 Views :: Energy, Hawaii Statistics
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...Hawaii improved 2.5 points, thanks in part to a new law that sets efficiency standards for products not covered at the federal level, including computers, faucets, and showerheads....
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Thursday, October 3, 2019 |
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Thursday, October 3, 2019 |
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Weigh in on Caldwell’s $772 million splurge on replacing the Blaisdell Arena
By Selected News Articles @ 12:45 PM :: 2957 Views :: Honolulu County
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...Did you know you can weigh in on Caldwell’s $772 million splurge on replacing the Blaisdell Arena, a war memorial? Be quick, though....
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Thursday, October 3, 2019 |
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How to improve Hawaii’s business climate
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:00 AM :: 2775 Views :: Small Business
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...Oahu Weds Oct 23 -- Maui Fri Oct 25....
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Thursday, October 3, 2019 |
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Hawaii is one of three states that allows schools to deny students access to school lunches due to unpaid meal debt
By News Release @ 3:41 AM :: 3396 Views :: Education K-12
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...Many schools struggle to determine what actions to take when students cannot pay for school meals....
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Wednesday, October 2, 2019 |
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Vaccinations? Hawaii Ranks 34th
By Selected News Articles @ 6:36 PM :: 3620 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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...vaccines prevented 732,000 deaths in the U.S. between 1994 and 2013....
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Wednesday, October 2, 2019 |
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Lawsuit: Hawaii has no Plan for Exporting Air Pollution
By Selected News Articles @ 6:20 PM :: 3022 Views :: Environment
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...EPA intends to issue findings on the states’ failures to submit plans to prevent interstate pollution by Nov. 22, 2019....
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Wednesday, October 2, 2019 |
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My Concern Over Transparency at OHA
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:50 AM :: 4122 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...legislators withheld OHA's funds, contingent upon the completion of a special audit of OHA and its LLCs....
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Wednesday, October 2, 2019 |
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Nowhere to Hide: Hawaii County Forced to Stop Pretending to 'Recycle' Paper, Plastic
By News Release @ 2:53 AM :: 4506 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment
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...As of October 16, 2019, paper and plastics will not be accepted because there are no longer any 3rd world countries willing to let us throw this stuff in their landfills....
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Wednesday, October 2, 2019 |
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Poll: Gabbard Crushes Kahele 48% to 26%
By News Release @ 12:03 AM :: 6259 Views :: Democratic Party, Congressional Delegation, Politicians
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...60% of primary voters think Gabbard should drop out of the Presidential race, compared to only 28% who think she should continue....
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Monday, September 30, 2019 |
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Mauna Kea: Harry Kim Presents Fluffy Booklet Full of Cash Offers
By Andrew Walden @ 10:05 PM :: 7209 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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...Will Kim’s book of cash offers be enough to pull the institutional support out from under the telescope protesters camp?....
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Monday, September 30, 2019 |
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Ige Approves Rental Units for DHHL
By News Release @ 9:31 PM :: 3179 Views :: DHHL
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...Ige today signed new administrative rules for Planned Communities, Multi-Family Complexes and Rental Housing within the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands....
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Monday, September 30, 2019 |
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VIDEO: Ed Case and Keli'i Akina discuss Jones Act reform
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:46 PM :: 4784 Views :: Jones Act
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...Case says the Jones Act extorts money from Hawaii residents....
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Monday, September 30, 2019 |
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Ethics: CEO Serves on State Board that Shovels Taxpayer Money to his Company
By News Release @ 3:36 AM :: 3885 Views :: Ethics
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...watch how a CEO manages to serve on a Board which gives away over $100K cash to his company....
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Sunday, September 29, 2019 |
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Sunday, September 29, 2019 |
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They’re Taking Their Business Elsewhere
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 4985 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business, Taxes
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...We, among many others, have long warned that if government squeezes our population too hard with taxes, regulations, and other impediments, people will vote. Not necessarily at the ballot box, but with their feet....
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Saturday, September 28, 2019 |
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OHA Refuses to Cooperate with Auditor—May Lose Legislative Appropriation to Hide LLC Secrets
By Andrew Walden @ 9:40 PM :: 4996 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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... Perhaps Trustees don’t want legislators to get a more in-depth view of Trustees’ direct involvement in OHA’s dishonest Act 37 lobbying effort. ...
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Saturday, September 28, 2019 |
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Economic Curtain closing on Jones Act
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 6:05 PM :: 3373 Views :: Jones Act
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...both the number and capacity of Jones Act ships has steadily declined in recent decades, which in turn has reduced domestic water shipments between the states....
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Saturday, September 28, 2019 |
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Feds: We Will Not Pay for Rail Relocation Program
By News Release @ 4:25 AM :: 3203 Views
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...FTA will not allow Federal participation in any past, current, or future costs associated with HART's Relocation Program....
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Saturday, September 28, 2019 |
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Auditor: DoTax Continues to Illegally Hand out Film Tax Credits for Out of State Expenses
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 3:53 AM :: 3911 Views :: Ethics, Tax Credits
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...DoTAX continues to construe the film tax credit statute to include out-of-state expenditures as “qualified production costs,” which is inconsistent with the plain language of the statute and the Legislature’s intent....
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Saturday, September 28, 2019 |
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Australian Man Sentenced To Prison For Illegally Possessing Firearm In Hawaii
By News Release @ 1:58 AM :: 3347 Views :: Second Amendment
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...Federal law prohibits a foreign national living in the United States pursuant to a non-immigrant visa from possessing any firearms....
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Friday, September 27, 2019 |
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Friday, September 27, 2019 |
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Tents, Trash, and Toilets: OHA Funds Make Mauna Kea Protests Possible
By Andrew Walden @ 5:13 AM :: 9844 Views :: Hawaii County , Ethics, Greenmail, Higher Education, Law Enforcement, OHA
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...Perhaps of interest to the Attorney General, the OHA-funded contracts illegally place the rented equipment on land belonging to DHHL, DLNR, and HDoT....
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Friday, September 27, 2019 |
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Feds: Hawaii Firm Bribed Schofield Employees to get Contracts
By News Release @ 3:36 AM :: 5309 Views :: Ethics, Military
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...in order to steer federal contracts worth at least $19 million....
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Thursday, September 26, 2019 |
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Small Business Regulatory Review Board Launches New Website
By News Release @ 9:04 PM :: 3648 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Small Business
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...user-friendly tool to assist Hawai‘i’s business community, rule-drafting agencies, business chambers and trade organizations in providing current information on the status of state and county new and proposed HARs....
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Thursday, September 26, 2019 |
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Mauna Kea Traffic Enforcement: 717 tickets, 4 Arrests
By News Release @ 7:03 PM :: 3868 Views :: Hawaii County , Police
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...Police assigned to be in place for the TMT protestor blockade and encampment on Mauna Kea access road continued the stepped-up traffic enforcement efforts on Daniel K. Inouye Highway....
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Thursday, September 26, 2019 |
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Tourist Arrivals up 9.8%
By News Release @ 5:41 PM :: 3040 Views :: Tourism
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...Visitors to the Hawaiian Islands spent a total of $1.50 billion in August, 2019, an increase of 6.3 percent compared to August, 2018....
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Thursday, September 26, 2019 |
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TMT Responds to Poll Showing Supporters Outnumber Opponents by 14%
By News Release @ 2:46 AM :: 4867 Views :: Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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""These poll results do not deter or discourage us because we strongly believe they reflect responses to a number of issues beyond TMT."
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Wednesday, September 25, 2019 |
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Lawsuit Strips TMT of Canary Islands Permit
By Andrew Walden @ 9:42 PM :: 10204 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment, Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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...If the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) is not built in Hawaii, it can just go to the Canary Islands, right? Wrong....
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Wednesday, September 25, 2019 |
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Hawaii’s One-Stop Solution for Professional Licensees Wins State Government Project Experience Award
By News Release @ 9:12 PM :: 4708 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor, Small Business
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...“A recent enhancement that allowed new applications to be submitted online has cut Guard Employee (GDE) processing time from 15 days to two!”....
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Wednesday, September 25, 2019 |
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Court Upholds Ethics Comm Ruling Against Rowena Akana
By News Release @ 9:02 PM :: 3882 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...The Commission imposed an administrative penalty of $23,106.53 and referred the matter to the Attorney General for further action....
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Tuesday, September 24, 2019 |
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3 Titanic Floating Windfarms to Surround Oahu?
By Selected News Articles @ 9:45 PM :: 4063 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy
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...the likelihood of all of these projects remains speculative, and the timeframes even more so given BOEM’s decision to review the entire permitting process....
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Tuesday, September 24, 2019 |
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Wind Farms Could Drive Bats to Extinction
By Selected News Articles @ 5:41 PM :: 125999 Views :: Energy, Environment
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...Existing research shows USFWS doesn’t have a clue how many bats exist and or even if this species can survive their approved wind energy mortality....
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Tuesday, September 24, 2019 |
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Debt: Hawaii Owes $31,200 Per Taxpayer
By News Release @ 5:14 PM :: 4716 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics
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...Hawaii is tied with Massachussets for 4th-highest debt per taxpayer....
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Tuesday, September 24, 2019 |
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Auditor: DoE School Impact Fee Illegal and Indefensible
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 4:50 PM :: 6300 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics, Development, Taxes
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...The DOE’s inconsistent and problematic implementation of the school impact fee law calls into question the relevance and appropriateness of the fees that have been collected to date....
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Tuesday, September 24, 2019 |
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Hawaii Public School Spending 16th Highest per Pupil
By Selected News Articles @ 12:05 AM :: 5721 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Cost of Living
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...and teachers salaries are the lowest in USA when adjusted for cost of living....
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Tuesday, September 24, 2019 |
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OHA seeks nonprofit to administer $1.1 million grant for higher education scholarships
By News Release @ 12:01 AM :: 3999 Views :: Higher Education, OHA
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...Between 2010 and 2018, OHA provided more than 2,000 post-secondary education scholarships, totaling more than $5.6 million....
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Sunday, September 22, 2019 |
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Telescope Protesters Lead 'Two Minute Hate'
By Andrew Walden @ 8:18 PM :: 5885 Views :: First Amendment, Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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“In the future, everybody will be Emmanuel Goldstein for 2 minutes.” – Andy Orwell....
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Sunday, September 22, 2019 |
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Honolulu Monthly Cost of Living $9,632
By Selected News Articles @ 6:50 PM :: 3586 Views :: Cost of Living
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...What It Actually Costs to Live in America’s Most Expensive Cities....
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Sunday, September 22, 2019 |
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Sunday, September 22, 2019 |
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Effects of the Jones Act
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 3350 Views :: Jones Act
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...A recent working paper released by the University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization, or UHERO, collects and reports hard data on the effects of the Jones Act....
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Sunday, September 22, 2019 |
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Feds Approve Hawaii Windfarm Plan to Kill 424 Bats, 47 Nene, 27 Petrels
By News Release @ 2:05 AM :: 4960 Views :: Energy, Environment
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...incidental take permit (ITP) amendments to three applicants—Kawailoa Wind, LLC; Auwahi Wind, LLC; and Kaheawa Wind Power II, LLC—and a new ITP to Tawhiri Power, LLC....
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Saturday, September 21, 2019 |
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Public Comment on Judicial Nominees -- 30 Days
By News Release @ 6:20 PM :: 3102 Views :: Judiciary
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