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Friday, April 14, 2023 |
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Lawmakers continue to hammer out details on public firearms ban
By Selected News Articles @ 6:06 AM :: 2127 Views :: Second Amendment
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... Senate President Ronald Kouchi said members of the conference committee would be named at a later date ....
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Thursday, April 13, 2023 |
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Cockfighting Guam Officer Reinstated With Back Pay
By News Release @ 7:13 PM :: 2323 Views :: Ethics, Law Enforcement
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... conveniently, Mr. San Nicolas is a Commodity Inspector with the GDOA, one of a handful of trained and sworn law enforcement officers within that division....
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Wednesday, April 12, 2023 |
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Three scenarios for Kauai property tax relief
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:55 PM :: 2299 Views :: Kauai County, Taxes
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... Resolution No. 2023-33 will establish the real property tax rates for fiscal 2024 ....
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Wednesday, April 12, 2023 |
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Fixing Hawaii’s Transportation System; A Dose of the Private Sector Would Help
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 7:09 AM :: 2438 Views :: Jones Act, Rail, Cost of Living
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... how Hawai'i can reduce the costs and the improve service quality of its various mass transportation systems ....
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Tuesday, April 11, 2023 |
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Second Crossover: House Approves 77 More Senate Bills
By News Release @ 7:19 PM :: 1957 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... These bills now head back to the Senate for their consideration ....
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Tuesday, April 11, 2023 |
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DoH Releases Hawai‘i Youth Risk Behavior Survey
By News Release @ 5:49 PM :: 2652 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Health Care, Drugs
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... Topics covered in the survey include unintentional injuries and violence; tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use; sexual behaviors that contribute to unintended pregnancy; protective factors; mental health and suicide; dietary behaviors; and physical activity ....
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Tuesday, April 11, 2023 |
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Bribery: Rep Ty Cullen gets 24 Months Prison
By News Release @ 5:49 AM :: 2404 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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... Cullen accepted bribery payments on eight (8) separate occasions over the course of several years ....
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Monday, April 10, 2023 |
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Hawaii AG Brings in Billionaire's Lawyer to Fight Against Second Amendment
By Selected News Articles @ 5:47 PM :: 2349 Views :: Second Amendment
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... 'EveryTown' is an anti-gun organization backed by billionaire Mike Bloomberg ....
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Monday, April 10, 2023 |
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Hawaii: Two Anti-Gun Bills Eligible for Floor Votes
By NRA ILA @ 5:38 PM :: 2212 Views :: Second Amendment
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... House Bill 426 and Senate Bill 1230 ....
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Monday, April 10, 2023 |
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Tax Hikes: Where Hawai'i Fits in National Trends
By Tom Yamachika @ 4:42 PM :: 2180 Views :: Taxes
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... Wealth tax, proposed simultaneously in seven states including Hawaii ....
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Sunday, April 9, 2023 |
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Survey: Hawaii Residents Reject Soft-on-Crime Policies
By News Release @ 6:11 PM :: 2316 Views :: Hawaii County , Law Enforcement
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"...A majority also support creation of new offenses criminalizing fraud and corruption by public officials and employees...."
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Sunday, April 9, 2023 |
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UHERO: Hawaii needs a Super-HTA with 'Authority and Force to Require Others to Carry out the Plan'
By UHERO @ 4:01 PM :: 2398 Views :: Tourism
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"...HTA’s statutory authority lacks force .... HTA did not have sufficient authority or resources to require others to help carry out (the) plan...."
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Sunday, April 9, 2023 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted April 8, 2023
By GovTrack .us @ 1:00 PM :: 1943 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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... votes cast and bills introduced in Congress ....
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Sunday, April 9, 2023 |
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This Week’s Testimony from Grassroot Institute
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:00 PM :: 2357 Views :: Small Business, Taxes, Tourism
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... Testimonies submitted to the state Legislature, Honolulu Council, and Maui Council by the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii during the past week ....
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Sunday, April 9, 2023 |
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Hope for Tax Relief Still Alive
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1974 Views :: Taxes
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... only one Senate committee, Ways & Means, will be entrusted with the fate of all three bills ....
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Saturday, April 8, 2023 |
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Hawaii Average Monthly Utility Cost $611.87
By Selected News Articles @ 8:49 PM :: 4139 Views :: Energy, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... Hawaii has the highest electricity price, nearly triple the US average rate, and the state relies on imported petroleum for 60% of its electricity generation ....
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Saturday, April 8, 2023 |
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HB622 Suicide Prevention Bill Passes Final Committee
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 7:14 PM :: 2187 Views :: Life, Religion
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... The bill will now move to the full Senate for a vote ....
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Saturday, April 8, 2023 |
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In Honolulu $100K only worth $36,026
By Selected News Articles @ 6:26 PM :: 2968 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... In Honolulu, $100K amounts to just $36,036 when you consider taxes and the cost of living ....
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Saturday, April 8, 2023 |
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Counties must prioritize property tax relief
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 6:08 PM :: 1655 Views :: Taxes, Cost of Living
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... No one likes the idea of our county governments profiting from Hawaii’s high cost of living. But that’s what is going to happen soon unless we engineer some property tax relief ....
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Saturday, April 8, 2023 |
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Is there relief for rising property taxes on Oahu?
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:53 AM :: 2714 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... Akina said Hawaii home prices are sky-high because of the scarcity of housing caused by “all the regulation … that developers and individual home builders have to go through in order to renovate or in order to build.” ....
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Friday, April 7, 2023 |
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Moody's Downgrade: Rail Debt Gimmick Comes Back To Bite Honolulu Taxpayers
By News Release @ 4:00 PM :: 4079 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail
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... The debt burden has recently been rising due to GOULT bonds issued for construction of the rapid transit system ....
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Friday, April 7, 2023 |
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30 Years later First members Appointed to Oahu Historic Preservation Commission
By News Release @ 12:00 PM :: 2011 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Hawaii History
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... Administratively, the Oʻahu Historic Preservation Commission will be managed by the City’s Department of Planning and Permitting ....
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Thursday, April 6, 2023 |
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OHA Rejects $100M Offer--Sees More Profit in Lying About Kakaako Makai
By News Release @ 11:50 PM :: 2471 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Development, OHA
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"... The prohibition of residential development via a 'perpetual easement' has too adverse of an impact on the future value of Hakuone lands ...."
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Thursday, April 6, 2023 |
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Coming Soon: 'Six ways to get around the visitor fee in Hawaii'
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:13 AM :: 2322 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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"...what you’re really doing is just shifting the visitor impact around, and you’re creating new issues of congestion and use....”
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Thursday, April 6, 2023 |
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Hawaii Minimum salary needed to be happy: $195,300
By Selected News Articles @ 6:04 AM :: 2455 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... but you can settle for emotional well-being at $111,600 ....
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Wednesday, April 5, 2023 |
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Supreme Court: OHA Can Hide its Crooked Deals in Executive Session
By Andrew Walden @ 7:04 PM :: 2209 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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... This unanimous ruling will allow any Hawaii governmental body to hide its corrupt dealings in bogus ‘Executive Sessions’ simply by paying a shyster to sit in and twiddle his thumbs ....
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Wednesday, April 5, 2023 |
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Reimagining Tourism: DLNR Police Sweep Bums out of Uncle Billy's Hotel--Again
By News Release @ 5:52 PM :: 1880 Views :: Hawaii County , Homelessness
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... DLNR pays $9000/mo for ‘security’ at Uncle Billy’s and somehow can’t keep the bums out. Obviously this raid is timed to support the DLNR’s request for $12.5M to demolish Uncle Billy’s. First Rule of Bureaucracy: “Maintain the problem” ....
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Wednesday, April 5, 2023 |
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IRS Red Hill Relief: Will Not Tax Relocation Payments
By News Release @ 5:39 PM :: 1823 Views :: Military, Taxes
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... The Internal Revenue Service issued guidance today on relief payments ....
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Wednesday, April 5, 2023 |
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Hawaii COVID Hospitalizations Jump 90% in Week
By News Release @ 5:25 PM :: 2199 Views :: COVID-19
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... The number of total positive COVID-19 hospitalizations has increased over the past week (3/26 – 4/4) from 39 to 74 patients, which is an 89.7% increase....
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Wednesday, April 5, 2023 |
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Hawaii's Throwback Rule -- The wrong tax, at the wrong rate, in the wrong state
By Tax Foundation @ 12:00 PM :: 2039 Views :: Small Business, Taxes
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... motivating these businesses—or at least certain aspects of their business—to locate elsewhere ....
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Tuesday, April 4, 2023 |
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Pouring cold water on 'visitor impact fee'
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:21 PM :: 1884 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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... impractical and legally dubious ....
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Tuesday, April 4, 2023 |
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Civil Defense: Public Meetings Set
By News Release @ 11:10 PM :: 1721 Views :: Environment, Military
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... to provide input for the 2023 State Hazard Mitigation Plan ....
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Tuesday, April 4, 2023 |
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Hawai‘i County seeking board, commission applicants to fill vacancies
By News Release @ 11:01 PM :: 1976 Views :: Hawaii County
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... Volunteer members of these Boards and Commissions serve for staggered terms ranging from four to five years ....
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Tuesday, April 4, 2023 |
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Rate Hikes Coming: Hawaiian Electric seeks public comment on draft ‘Integrated Grid Plan: A pathway to a clean energy future’
By News Release @ 4:42 AM :: 2289 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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... Your rates will be going up to pay for the infrastructure we need to make irregular and erratic wind and solar electricity less damaging to our grid ....
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Monday, April 3, 2023 |
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Priced Out: Millennials Buying Cheapest Homes in Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 10:36 PM :: 2416 Views :: Development, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... In most US metro areas, millennials are buying homes at prices above the general market. But in Honolulu millennials are buying homes 4.2% below the market average. This is the biggest downside gap in any of the 56 large metros studied ....
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Sunday, April 2, 2023 |
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Charter School Corruption: Ten Years Later Felony Theft Whittled Down to Almost Nothing
By News Release @ 8:07 PM :: 2861 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics
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... At one point, the school had racked up more than $400,000 in debt with $100,000 in undocumented expenses such as $12,000 for healing oils and acupuncture ....
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Sunday, April 2, 2023 |
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2023 State Audit of OHA: Is the ‘Glass Half Empty’ or ‘Half Full’?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 7:56 PM :: 1992 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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... Audits can be a difficult pill to swallow ....
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Sunday, April 2, 2023 |
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Is there life after Downtown Walmart?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 7:47 PM :: 2262 Views :: Development, Cost of Living
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... adaptive reuse ....
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Sunday, April 2, 2023 |
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Assisted Suicide Expansion Bill Passes Final Senate Committee
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 5:19 PM :: 1999 Views :: Life
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... The bill will now move to the full Senate for a vote for 3rd Reading ....
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Sunday, April 2, 2023 |
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VIDEO: Lottery Scammer Tracked to Ewa Beach Condo
By Video @ 4:33 PM :: 2500 Views :: Honolulu County, Law Enforcement
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... from Trilogy Media April, 2023: Today we’re showing up to the front door of a money mule scammer who’s expecting a check of $150,000 from a victim of a PCH/Lottery scam ....
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Sunday, April 2, 2023 |
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Legislative Madness
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 2014 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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... “It’s just four months of chaos" ....
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Saturday, April 1, 2023 |
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Micronesia: Will Lyon Associates Crook Become FSM President Again?
By Andrew Walden @ 7:22 PM :: 4125 Views :: Ethics, World News
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... Has Hawaii’s corruption of FSM opened the doors to China’s corruption of FSM? ....
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Saturday, April 1, 2023 |
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Abercrombie Among Finalists named for 3 seats on UH Board of Regents
By News Release @ 2:56 PM :: 2079 Views :: Higher Education
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... Abercrombie said he sent Green a letter Friday requesting consideration for a seat on the board ....
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Saturday, April 1, 2023 |
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Judge dismisses parts of lawsuit over arrest of 10-year-old girl
By Court House News @ 2:03 PM :: 5049 Views :: Honolulu County, Education K-12, Police
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... Trial for the case has been scheduled for February 2024 ....
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Saturday, April 1, 2023 |
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KĀKOU: Hawaiʻi’s Town Hall -- Concealed Carry: Should the Government Restrict Where Guns Are Allowed?
By Video @ 5:40 AM :: 2192 Views :: Second Amendment
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... PBS Hawai‘i is bringing together community leaders and citizens with varied perspectives to discuss next steps ....
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Saturday, April 1, 2023 |
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Green signs seven “Good Government” bills into law
By News Release @ 5:27 AM :: 1905 Views :: Ethics
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... Governor Josh Green, M.D. today signed seven “Good Government” bills into law, to advance the goals of ethics, lobbying, and campaign spending laws in Hawai‘i ....
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Saturday, April 1, 2023 |
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Blangiardi signs Bill 57, designating 'sensitive places' for firearms on Oʻahu
By News Release @ 1:27 AM :: 2111 Views :: Honolulu County, Second Amendment
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... The bill, which was passed by the Honolulu City Council earlier this month, goes into effect on May 1, 2023 ....
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Friday, March 31, 2023 |
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Creating Positions: Senate WAM Budget Burns Your Tax Cut Money
By News Release @ 7:19 PM :: 1785 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... can you count how many times the word 'adding' is used? ....
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Friday, March 31, 2023 |
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Memo to reluctant legislators: Hawaii can afford to cut taxes
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:48 PM :: 2018 Views :: Taxes
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... we can’t afford not to cut taxes because really, what we’re sitting on right now, are unhealthy ending balances ....
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Friday, March 31, 2023 |
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2017 cesspool law creating a mess for Hawaii property owners
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:39 PM :: 2310 Views :: Development, Cost of Living
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... the state’s mandate to eliminate cesspools is too costly for homeowners ....
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