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Thursday, July 12, 2018 |
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City Terminates Watts Constructors’ Right to Work on Joint Traffic Management Center
By News Release @ 8:43 PM :: 4833 Views :: Honolulu County
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...because of its failure to remedy numerous material defaults under the construction contract with the city....
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Thursday, July 12, 2018 |
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The FCC is changing up the country’s emergency alert system to prevent another Hawaii incident
By News Release @ 5:32 PM :: 6076 Views :: National News, Hawaii State Government, Military
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...Action Supports More Effective Local Emergency Alert Tests and PSAs, Addresses False Alerts, and Seeks to Improve Wireless Alerts....
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Thursday, July 12, 2018 |
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Letters being mailed to 44,000 impacted by storage crash of driver licensing documents
By News Release @ 4:46 PM :: 3178 Views :: Honolulu County
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...On September 15, 2017, a server containing multiple disks managed by Marquis ID Systems (MIDS) for the State of Hawai‘i’s drivers’ licensing programs had a multiple hard disk crash....
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Thursday, July 12, 2018 |
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CNBC: America's Top States for Business -- Hawaii 47th
By Selected News Articles @ 3:40 AM :: 4222 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business
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...We score all 50 states on more than 60 measures of competitiveness....
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Thursday, July 12, 2018 |
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Hawaii Highest Energy Costs--Lowest Consumption
By News Release @ 2:51 AM :: 7270 Views :: Energy, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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...2018’s Most & Least Energy-Expensive States....
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Wednesday, July 11, 2018 |
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Department of Health begins implementation of new medicated cannabis amendments
By News Release @ 6:50 PM :: 5136 Views :: Tourism, Drugs
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...More THC, Vaping, and lots of Weed for Kids, Tourists, and out-of-state students....
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Wednesday, July 11, 2018 |
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Are You Guilty of These?
By Video @ 6:19 PM :: 4388 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...Some Wonʻt Bother To Vote & Instead Say One Of These Three Things....
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Wednesday, July 11, 2018 |
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Vote Sam King: Support Forensic Audit of OHA
By News Release @ 5:28 PM :: 4081 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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"...I don't see it hurting the beneficiaries at all, except for those beneficiaries stealing money from OHA...."
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Wednesday, July 11, 2018 |
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Senate Votes 72-27: Former AG Mark Bennett Confirmed to 9th Circuit Court
By News Release @ 3:55 AM :: 3916 Views :: Judiciary
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...Mark will put his skills and experience to good use on the bench as a fair and impartial judge, beholden to nothing but the law and the Constitution....
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Tuesday, July 10, 2018 |
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Keli'i Akina Endorses Sam King for OHA
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 10:57 PM :: 5966 Views :: Ethics, OHA, Politicians
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...Keli'i believes Sam is the candidate who will unite Hawaiians and reform OHA....
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Tuesday, July 10, 2018 |
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Ige Vetoes Eight -- Allows Law Enforcement Standards Board to Become Law
By News Release @ 8:45 PM :: 7279 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Law Enforcement, Police, Taxes
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...Gov. David Ige has notified legislative leaders and key lawmakers that he is vetoing eight out of 11 bills on his Intent to Veto list....
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Tuesday, July 10, 2018 |
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GEMS for Insiders: Polynesian Cultural Center First to Take Advantage of On-Bill Financing
By News Release @ 8:34 PM :: 8451 Views :: Energy, Ethics, Tax Credits, Taxes
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...PCC will finance systems totaling 413 kilowatts (kw), with flexibility to install additional systems and features. The agreement marks the first commercial on-bill financing project in Hawaii using the Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority's recently launched Green Energy Money $aver (GEM$)On-Bill program....
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Tuesday, July 10, 2018 |
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KIUC Paying $3.2 Million to Co-op Members
By News Release @ 8:28 PM :: 4849 Views :: Kauai County, Energy
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...“We had excellent financial results in 2017, which allows us to exercise one of the fundamental benefits of being a not-for-profit cooperative that is owned by the members it serves,” stated Allan Smith, Chairman of the KIUC Board of Directors....
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Tuesday, July 10, 2018 |
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Hawaii--The most expensive place to live in America
By Selected News Articles @ 4:07 PM :: 6265 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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...Out-of-control living expenses in some of these places....
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Tuesday, July 10, 2018 |
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Best Cities to Drive in—Honolulu Scores 86th
By Selected News Articles @ 2:52 PM :: 5396 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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...driving is often a major hassle and expense....
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Tuesday, July 10, 2018 |
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Kau Charter School Shuttered Amid Criminal Investigation
By News Release @ 2:43 AM :: 8147 Views :: Hawaii County , Education K-12, Ethics
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...Big Island police have subpoenaed all of the school’s computers, financial records and student records....
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Tuesday, July 10, 2018 |
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Popular science news website promotes pesticide conspiracy theory
By Selected News Articles @ 1:40 AM :: 5907 Views :: Kauai County, GMOs
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...Was the "secret cocktail" being sprayed from black helicopters?....
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Tuesday, July 10, 2018 |
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Honolulu's Sidewalk Obstruction Prohibition Goes Island-Wide
By Robert Thomas @ 1:17 AM :: 4600 Views :: Homelessness
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...city lawyers have taken great pains to craft the bills with language that works around areas that federal courts have found unacceptable....
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Tuesday, July 10, 2018 |
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Ige Signs Firearms Bills Including Bump Stock Ban
By News Release @ 12:47 AM :: 3993 Views :: Second Amendment
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...Act 157 prohibits the manufacture, importation, sale, transfer and possession of bump fire stocks, multi-burst trigger activators, and trigger cranks....
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Monday, July 9, 2018 |
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Tech Debacle: Hawaii v Ciber Stays in State Courts, Guaranteeing Big Money Payoff
By News Release @ 6:10 PM :: 3743 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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...the State defeated a recent attempt by Ciber’s insurers to move the lawsuit out of state....
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Monday, July 9, 2018 |
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Ala Moana Park EIS Released for Public Comment
By News Release @ 6:05 PM :: 4140 Views :: Honolulu County
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...Revised improvement plans highlighted in Ala Moana Regional Park Draft EIS....
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Monday, July 9, 2018 |
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VIDEO: Make Hawaii Affordable Again
By Brett Kulbis @ 1:58 PM :: 4734 Views :: Republican Party, Cost of Living
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...imposing heavy taxes, creating massive bureaucracies and lavish government programs....
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Sunday, July 8, 2018 |
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Hawaii 11th Most Efficient Education System--When Cost of Living Taken into Account
By Selected News Articles @ 4:10 PM :: 5133 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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...Education narrative favoring wealthier, whiter states was just proven wrong....
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Sunday, July 8, 2018 |
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If You Don’t Rock the Boat, How Do You Change Its Direction?
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 4795 Views :: First Amendment, Hawaii State Government
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...When many of us in Hawaii grew up, we were taught to go with the flow....
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Saturday, July 7, 2018 |
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Hawaii's First Hemp Growers Licensed
By News Release @ 1:44 PM :: 6530 Views :: Agriculture, Small Business, Drugs
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...industrial hemp refers to cannabis plants with a tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) concentration at or below 0.3 percent....
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Saturday, July 7, 2018 |
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Hawaii Timeshares Average 92% Occupancy in First Quarter 2018
By News Release @ 1:36 PM :: 4465 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Tourism
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...By comparison, hotel properties averaged an 82.9 percent occupancy rate for the same quarter....
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Friday, July 6, 2018 |
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Recording Employees: HART’s evasiveness troubling
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 5:32 PM :: 4880 Views :: Ethics, Rail
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...To date, HART officials have not publicly explained why it has been recording the meetings between the auditor and HART employees....
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Friday, July 6, 2018 |
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Public lodging and island-wide sidewalk obstruction bills submitted to City Council
By News Release @ 3:04 AM :: 4885 Views :: Honolulu County, Homelessness
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"...Although we’ve made gains in combating homelessness, there is a group of service-resistant individuals who continue to disobey the rules and take up our public spaces....”
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Friday, July 6, 2018 |
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After Years of Hype: Hawaii Electricity Still 82.4% Coal and Oil
By News Release @ 1:51 AM :: 5829 Views :: Energy, Hawaii Statistics, Tax Credits
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...and this was before the geothermal plant was overrun by lava....
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Friday, July 6, 2018 |
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Honolulu Auditor Announces Next Audit Plans
By News Release @ 1:36 AM :: 4030 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics
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...In accordance with the City Charter Section 3-502.1 (c), we submit to the Honolulu City Council our plan of proposed audits for FY2018-19....
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Friday, July 6, 2018 |
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Blue Cross: Hawaii Lowest Rate of Diagnosed Major Depression
By News Release @ 1:24 AM :: 4434 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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...Wide variations exist in diagnosis rates between states and cities....
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Thursday, July 5, 2018 |
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Only One Jones Act Ship Used in Iraq War
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:25 PM :: 5600 Views :: Jones Act, Military
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...For its overseas sealift operations, America’s military generally relies on America’s Maritime Security Program (MSP) fleet — all foreign-built ships that do not comply with the requirements of the Jones Act....
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Thursday, July 5, 2018 |
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The Jones Act: A Burden America Can No Longer Bear
By Selected News Articles @ 3:15 PM :: 3688 Views :: Jones Act
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...closer scrutiny finds the law’s national security justification to be unmoored from modern military and technological realities....
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Thursday, July 5, 2018 |
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Department of Hawaiian Home Lands: Broken Promises
By Video @ 12:52 PM :: 6743 Views :: DHHL
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...Representative Gene Ward formed a study group to analyze what could be done to fulfill the Prince's promise....
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Thursday, July 5, 2018 |
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SCHHA: Danner Confab Set for July 14-15
By News Release @ 12:38 PM :: 4039 Views :: DHHL
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...“It’s a really cool summit,” said Robin Puanani Danner, the SCHHA elected chairman since the fall of 2015....
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Thursday, July 5, 2018 |
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Who Wants to Kill OHA's Forensic Audit?
By Video @ 1:09 AM :: 4460 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...After Voting For It Some OHA Trustees Have Been Secretly Trying To Kill It Off....
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Tuesday, July 3, 2018 |
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Rate Hikes Coming: Matson Christens Big Overpriced Inouye Boat
By News Release @ 11:07 PM :: 4295 Views :: Jones Act
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...It is the first of two new ships being built for Honolulu-based Matson by Philly Shipyard at a total cost of approximately $418 million for the pair, and the first of four new vessels that Matson will put into its Hawaii service during the next two years....
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Tuesday, July 3, 2018 |
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Akina: Where is the "Forensic" Audit OHA Trustees Promised?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 9:49 PM :: 4284 Views :: OHA
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...After over a year of endless delays and obstacles, the independent audit has not even started....
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Tuesday, July 3, 2018 |
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UH Cancer Center Keeps National Cancer Institute designation
By News Release @ 5:38 PM :: 4515 Views :: Health Care, Higher Education
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...Of more than 1,000 cancer centers across the country, the UH Cancer Center is one of only 70 NCI-Designated Cancer Centers in the nation....
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Tuesday, July 3, 2018 |
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ACLU Demands Pahoa Voters be Allowed to Register and Vote in Person on Election Day
By News Release @ 5:28 PM :: 5116 Views :: Hawaii County , Office of Elections
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...The letter, written by ACLU of Hawai’i Legal Director, Mateo Caballero, vows swift legal action if the “severe burden on the right to vote” imposed by the Office of Elections’ current voting plans for areas of Hawai‘i Island affected by the eruption of Kilauea Volcano are not fixed....
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Tuesday, July 3, 2018 |
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To What Extent Does Your State Rely on Individual Income Taxes?
By Tax Foundation @ 5:13 PM :: 3984 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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... Hawaii Ranks 27th --Income taxes account for 22.8% of spending ....
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Tuesday, July 3, 2018 |
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Ige Appoints Four New Members to HTA Board
By News Release @ 4:05 PM :: 4038 Views :: Tourism
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...Ige recently nominated the four business and community leaders to serve on HTA’s board, with their appointments confirmed by the Hawaii State Senate....
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Tuesday, July 3, 2018 |
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Designed to Fail: Local 5 Pushing Subprime Mortgage Scheme
By News Release @ 3:28 PM :: 5295 Views :: Ethics, Labor
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- Loan-to-value -100% for purchase and 110% for purchases with a rehab
- No consideration of credit score
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Monday, July 2, 2018 |
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HART Seeks Applicants to Fill Board Vacancy
By News Release @ 5:39 PM :: 3832 Views :: Rail
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...Applicants must submit the HART Board Application Form, along with a cover letter and resume via email by July 6, 2018 at 4:30 p.m....
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Monday, July 2, 2018 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation--How They Voted July 2, 2018
By Andrew Walden @ 5:31 PM :: 3647 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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...Weekly Digest of Hawaii Conressional Delegation Votes from GovTrack.us....
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Monday, July 2, 2018 |
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Best States to Start a Business? Hawaii 50th
By Selected News Articles @ 9:59 AM :: 4111 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business
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...WalletHub compared the 50 states across 25 key indicators of startup success to determine the most fertile grounds in which to launch and grow an enterprise....
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Monday, July 2, 2018 |
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Hawaiian Legislative Report Card Released
By News Release @ 12:56 AM :: 6103 Views :: DHHL, OHA, Politicians
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...Ka Lahui Hawai‘i Political Action Committee (KPAC) announces the publication of its 3rd KOHO PONO Legislative Report Card in the July 2018 issue of the Ka Wai Ola....
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Sunday, July 1, 2018 |
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It’s Not Easy Bein’ — an Employer
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 4816 Views :: Labor, Small Business
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...Before I hire the worker, I need to comply with laws saying what I can and can’t ask the prospective employee....
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Saturday, June 30, 2018 |
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State Payroll Modernization Readies for ‘Group 2’ Rollout
By News Release @ 4:46 PM :: 4584 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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...The HawaiiPay project is helping the state to replace its mainframe payroll system that is more than 50 years old with a single integrated software system called PeopleSoft....
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