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Monday, February 23, 2015 |
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Hawaii Republicans Unveil New Logo at Lincoln Day Dinner
By News Release @ 7:16 PM :: 5344 Views :: Republican Party
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...a surprise announcement to over 450 guests at the annual Lincoln Dinner....
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Monday, February 23, 2015 |
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Gabbard 'Mind-Boggled' at Obama's Two-Month Advance Notice of Plan of Attack on ISIS
By Video @ 12:34 PM :: 5860 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Military
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"That you're not only outlining the timeline — which is troubling, but you're also talking about specifically how many troops, how many brigades, where they're coming from, and what they're going to be doing...."
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Monday, February 23, 2015 |
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Rep Karl Rhoads Feeding Info to Calvin Say's Attorney while Chairing 'Special Committee'?
By Selected News Articles @ 4:11 AM :: 7801 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Politicians
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The state House investigation of a challenge to former speaker Calvin Say’s right to hold his seat in Hawaii’s House of Representatives has taken a new twist....
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Sunday, February 22, 2015 |
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Seminar: Your Rights When HART Comes to Take Your Property
By Robert Thomas @ 9:25 PM :: 6465 Views :: Rail, Small Business
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...Thursday, March 5, 2015, from 6:00 - 7:15 p.m. at the Farrington High School Cafeteria....
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Sunday, February 22, 2015 |
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SB358: Green Energy Scammers Push Legislators to Tax Natural Gas
By Andrew Walden @ 9:04 PM :: 5597 Views :: Energy, Taxes
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Under SB358, gas will be taxed more heavily than oil....
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Sunday, February 22, 2015 |
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State-backed Loans: $89M to Companies Tied to OHA Chair Robert Lindsey
By Andrew Walden @ 8:08 PM :: 9895 Views :: Energy, Agriculture, OHA
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If approved, Hawaii taxpayers could find themselves providing $44M in loan guarantees to an Indian company's jet fuel deal in England....
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Sunday, February 22, 2015 |
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Our Best Export – Our Taxes!
By Tom Yamachika @ 4:01 AM :: 4547 Views :: Taxes
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...we are exporting around 15%-20% of our general excise tax....
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Saturday, February 21, 2015 |
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SB473: Concealed Carry Gut and Replace
By News Release @ 8:32 PM :: 6425 Views :: Law Enforcement, Second Amendment
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SB 473, SD1, proposing carry permit issue rules under the Federal retired Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA), has a hearing, Tuesday, 02-24 at 9:15AM....
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Saturday, February 21, 2015 |
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Legislative Agenda: Pot, Parents and Privacy
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 8:25 PM :: 6095 Views :: Family, Life
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The Hawaii State Legislature opened on January 21, 2015 and today, February 20, 2015, is DECKING. What that means is that all bills that have been assigned to multiple committees, must have moved to their final committees....
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Saturday, February 21, 2015 |
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GMOs: How the Precautionary Principle Refutes Itself
By Selected News Articles @ 8:08 PM :: 4994 Views :: GMOs
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Incorporating the precautionary principle into public policy is itself “an activity [that] raises threats of harm to human health or the environment.”....
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Saturday, February 21, 2015 |
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How Housing First Reduced Homelessness 72% in Utah
By Selected News Articles @ 7:51 PM :: 4997 Views :: Homelessness
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In the past nine years, Utah has decreased the number of homeless by 72 percent—largely by finding and building apartments where they can live, permanently, with no strings attached....
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Saturday, February 21, 2015 |
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575 Candidates file for Neighborhood Board Elections
By Selected News Articles @ 2:54 AM :: 4464 Views :: Honolulu County
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The 2015 Neighborhood Board elections will be held in April and May of this year. At stake are 437 seats on Oahu’s 33 Neighborhood Boards....
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Friday, February 20, 2015 |
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HB330: Increase GE Tax by 1%
By Grassroot Institute @ 7:35 PM :: 5680 Views :: Agriculture, Taxes
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... According to ITEP, payment of sales and excise taxes takes up an average of 11% of family income for the poorest 20% of earners ....
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Friday, February 20, 2015 |
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Hawaii #2 in USA: 51.2% Tax on S-Corporation Income
By Selected News Articles @ 2:34 PM :: 7001 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business, Taxes
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The fasted growing type of pass-through business is the S corporation....
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Friday, February 20, 2015 |
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Warning labels and beverage tax fail in Legislature
By News Release @ 1:36 PM :: 4836 Views :: Small Business, Taxes
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We have good news to share about our fights against unfair taxes and regulation....
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Friday, February 20, 2015 |
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Tears and Gnashing of Teeth as Cosmic Vortex Sweeps Pesticides up Mountain Causing Multiple Illnesses and Dirty Window Blinds
By Joni Kamiya @ 12:49 PM :: 6111 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs
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The best part of the hearing was hearing Dustin Barca go on about toxins and the horrible corporations. He even talked about how the cigarette companies and their evils. It’s weird because I just saw him smoking some corporate grown tobacco and inhaling toxins....
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Friday, February 20, 2015 |
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HB 825 Provides Little Incentive for Illegal Vacation Rentals to Register
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:32 PM :: 7520 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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...the effect of this bill is to burden the compliant small businesses and owner/operator establishments by creating a system that favors larger rental companies and hotels....
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Friday, February 20, 2015 |
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More waivers convey a “Public be damned” attitude toward legislative hearings
By Selected News Articles @ 10:08 AM :: 4045 Views :: Ethics
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The Hawaii state legislature committed three more waivers of notice....
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Friday, February 20, 2015 |
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House Bills for 2015: Sex, Drugs and a Place for the Kids to Hide Out
By Rep Bob McDermott @ 3:53 AM :: 7401 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Drugs
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...bills that might have negative impacts on families or communities....
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Friday, February 20, 2015 |
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Takai vs Takai on Homeland Security Funding
By Andrew Walden @ 2:34 AM :: 5623 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Military
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Did any reporter ask Takai whether he regretted last month's vote against funding DHS?
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Thursday, February 19, 2015 |
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Neighborhood Boards: 516 Candidates Enter Race With One Day to Go
By News Release @ 10:26 PM :: 4715 Views :: Honolulu County
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The deadline to submit completed candidate and voter registration forms for Neighborhood Board elections is this Friday, February 20, 2015....
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Thursday, February 19, 2015 |
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25%: Hawaii Ranks 43rd in Weekly Church Attendance
By Selected News Articles @ 10:17 PM :: 6418 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Religion
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Church attendance provides ties that bind members to their communities, and research shows that at the individual level, those who are most religious have higher well-being than those who are less religious....
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Thursday, February 19, 2015 |
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HECO, Taxes, Pesticides, and Teacher Tenure: House Republicans Speak Out
By Video @ 8:48 PM :: 5235 Views :: Republican Party
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House Republicans speak out on the floor of the legislature....
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Thursday, February 19, 2015 |
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500 Expected at GOP Lincoln Dinner Tonight
By News Release @ 8:00 PM :: 4040 Views :: Republican Party
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“With Hawaii’s all-Democrat Congressional delegation taking a back seat in the Republican controlled congress, we’re honored to give the people of Hawaii a chance to hear from a sitting United States Senator in the majority Party."
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Thursday, February 19, 2015 |
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Honolulu Ranks 42nd for Economic Diversity
By Selected News Articles @ 7:41 PM :: 3529 Views :: Hawaii Statistics
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Honolulu Ranks 42nd Overall (tied with Irving, TX): 77th for 'Income Diversity' and 101st for 'Educational Diversity'....
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Thursday, February 19, 2015 |
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House and Senate Republicans Join Forces on Legislation
By News Release @ 7:16 PM :: 4284 Views :: Republican Party
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Senator Slom said, "I am very pleased to see that Rep. Fukumoto Chang has taken a more proactive, pragmatic approach as House Minority leader than her predecessor...."
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Thursday, February 19, 2015 |
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Hawaii: Anti-Gun Legislation Deferred, Pro-Gun Bills Progressing
By News Release @ 4:51 PM :: 4274 Views :: Second Amendment
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...anti-gun Senate Bills 783 and 462 were deferred indefinitely....
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Thursday, February 19, 2015 |
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Thursday, February 19, 2015 |
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Gallup: Alaska, Hawaii Lead the United States in Well-Being
By News Release @ 1:50 PM :: 3940 Views :: Hawaii Statistics
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Hawaii and Colorado are the only states to finish in the top 10 every year since 2008....
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Thursday, February 19, 2015 |
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015 |
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015 |
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Scorecard: House Omnibus Marijuana Package
By Selected News Articles @ 10:47 PM :: 4230 Views :: Drugs
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Here is a list of the bills that were heard by the House Committee on Health – how did your representative vote?
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015 |
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015 |
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AEI: Retire the Jones Act
By Selected News Articles @ 9:59 PM :: 4338 Views :: Jones Act
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Refineries would have access to cheaper domestically-produced crude oil, which would lower the cost of gasoline, diesel and fuel oil. And there would be less need for imported oil....
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015 |
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Lawsuit Challenges Secrecy of Kanaiolowalu Roll Commission
By Grassroot Institute @ 9:32 PM :: 6038 Views :: Akaka Bill, OHA
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...Judicial Watch and former Hawaii Attorney General Michael Lilly are filing suit to compel the Native Hawaiian Roll Commission to release the list to the public....
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015 |
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Big Island Group Proposes Electric Co-Op
By News Release @ 4:25 PM :: 5881 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy
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Local, democratic control over the island’s energy infrastructure....
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015 |
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449 Candidates File for Neighborhood Board Elections
By News Release @ 3:40 PM :: 3767 Views :: Honolulu County
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The deadline to submit completed candidate and voter registration forms for Neighborhood Board elections is this Friday, February 20, 2015....
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015 |
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Another House waiver of public notice—on an important energy bill
By Selected News Articles @ 12:09 PM :: 4974 Views :: Energy, Ethics
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Requires PUC to establish community-based renewable energy tariff or tariffs by no later than January 1, 2016....
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015 |
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Schatz 3rd Most Absentee Senator
By Selected News Articles @ 12:09 PM :: 4537 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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...on Vocativ’s Senate list Hawaii Democrat Brian Schatz missing the third-most votes....
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015 |
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Hirono: ObamaCare Needs MORE Snow Days
By Selected News Articles @ 8:31 PM :: 4798 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Health Care
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...Healthcare.gov failed customers on the last hours of open enrollment this past weekend and now anyone who had problems signing up is getting an extension....
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015 |
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2015 Hawaii Legislative Watch: Taxes
By Rachelle Chang @ 4:55 PM :: 4363 Views :: Taxes
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1,515 bills were introduced in the House of Representatives and 1,379 bills were introduced in the Senate – over 400 more bills than were introduced in 2014....
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015 |
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House Violates Public Notice Rules for Transsexual Birth Certificate Hearing
By Selected News Articles @ 3:13 PM :: 5554 Views :: Family, Health Care
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...HB631 will be granted a hearing tomorrow, Wednesday, February 18th....
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted February 17, 2015
By Congress.org @ 2:42 PM :: 3879 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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- Senate: Child Pornography Victims Restitution - Passage
- House: Keystone XL Pipeline – Passage
- House: Small Business Tax Extenders – Passage
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015 |
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In Hawaii, The State of Liabilities, The Cost of Rail is Just the Beginning
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:20 PM :: 6523 Views :: Labor, Rail, Taxes
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Liabilities everywhere: The rail project, the failing state hospital system, overdue maintenance on state buildings and campuses, underfunded public worker pensions and health insurance, and so much more....
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015 |
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SB992: Creates Tribal Judiciary, Places 12,000 Hawaiian Children at Risk
By Andrew Walden @ 4:30 AM :: 8401 Views :: Akaka Bill, Family, OHA
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"Allowing a program like this to stand alone will lead to improper use and potentially corruption of a system whose sole purpose should be the safety and protection of the children."
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015 |
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Full Text: Rail Cost Engineer on 'Billion Dollar Mile'
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 12:12 AM :: 5699 Views :: Rail
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...a brood of unethical government contractors and incapable government enforcers....
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Monday, February 16, 2015 |
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I Mua Manoa Proposes UH Budget Sustainability Plan
By News Release @ 5:59 PM :: 3988 Views :: Higher Education
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I Mua Manoa proposes the following seven (7) steps to address the issue of transparency and to make the budget sustainable....
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Monday, February 16, 2015 |
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Monday, February 16, 2015 |
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SB1071: Second Amendment Rights for Legal Immigrants
By News Release @ 2:56 PM :: 3994 Views :: Second Amendment
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The language in the bill about non-resident aliens is just "housekeeping" to clarify terminology in statute passed years ago....
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Monday, February 16, 2015 |
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HCR33: Will House Pass Resolution Supporting Fake Indian Tribe?
By Selected News Articles @ 4:51 AM :: 5232 Views :: Akaka Bill, OHA
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...If HCR33 gets a hearing, it will first be in the House of Representatives Ocean, Marine Resources & Hawaiian Affairs committee chaired by Rep. Kaniela Ing....
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