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| Monday, December 29, 2014 |
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Letters to the Editor, December, 2014
By Letters to the Editor @ 12:19 PM :: 4501 Views
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- Lava and Pahoa: Looking Back at 2014
- Ewa: 1825 Malden Trails at Risk
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| Monday, December 29, 2014 |
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December 29, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 12:01 PM :: 4612 Views
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- Anti-GMO Activism Caused by Illegal TVRs?
- Prosecutorial Misconduct -- Police Misconduct: Chief's Wife is Common Denominator in Two Separate Cases
- Star-Adv: Legalize TVRs and Tax Them
- Billionaire's Website Touts Idea of You Living in a Truck
- Tranny Sees WSF Expansion as Way to Reduce Athletics, Attack Religion
- NextEra Sets up Website to Tout Merger
- Maintenance rebate for solar water heaters brought back
- Few Show up to See Ige on Kauai
- Hilo Medical Center improves some patient satisfaction scores despite working with limited resources
- Soldiers Invite Obama to Wedding, He Tells them to Get out of Way
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| Sunday, December 28, 2014 |
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December 28, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:34 PM :: 4303 Views
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- Eight Tax Hikes Proposed for Hawaii
- Rowena Akana: Now That I'm in Charge, Everything is Fine at OHA
- 152 Candidates File for Neighborhood Board Elections
- Obamacare: Hawaii State Funds to Cover 46% Cut in Physician Pay
- Hawaii Ranks 17th: 10.3% Smoke Marijuana
- Hawaii GET: Another Perspective
- Smart Business Hawaii: "Voice of Hawaii small businesses" closes
- Star-Adv: Legalizing Illegal Vacation Rentals Could be Cash Cow for State
- E-Cigs to Be Targeted for Tax Hike
- HHSC in 'A Weaker Limbo'
- Health Connector Claims 15,000 Policies Sold
- NextEra: Solar rebates for Big Projects, not Rooftops
- CoC: Loss of Military Presence Could Drive Hawaii into Recession
- Grumpy, Sleepy, Dopey -- Flashback 2014
- Catherine Awakuni appointed Chair DCCA
- Candidates for neighborhood boards sought
- Soon All Four Counties Will Have Film Facilities
- Astronomy’s impact: Sector pumps $91.48 million into Big Isle economy in 2012
- Historic trails a public asset worth saving
- Kauai Leading state in hate?
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| Saturday, December 27, 2014 |
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December 27, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:26 PM :: 5126 Views
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| Friday, December 26, 2014 |
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December 26, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:37 PM :: 4500 Views
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- College Town? Honolulu Ranks 185th
- Star-Adv: Isle issues could use Obama's pull (no mention of Akaka Tribe)
- Esther Kia'aina: Akaka Tribe? 'Not much I can say'
- Cancer Center Used as Latest Excuse for Tax Hikes
- Hilo students defend right to free speech
- 5,141 leave Hawaii in 2014
- Ige: Affordable housing, state office bldg. could be built along rail
- Honolulu’s Affordable Housing Rules Only Produced 68 Units in FY 2014
- One Stop Center Needed to Deal with Homelessness Among Micronesian Migrants
- 'Beach Replenishment' is Latest Excuse for Tax Hike
- TVR Report Designed to Make Case for Tax Hikes
- Committee wraps up study for Age-Friendly City Initiative
- Nobody Uses Bike Lane so Drivers Park There
- Obama to troops: Afghanistan ‘not going to be a source of terrorist attacks again’
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| Thursday, December 25, 2014 |
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December 25, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:26 PM :: 5248 Views
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- How Christmas Came to Hawaii
- Duke Aiona: What's Next?
- Is OHA a Criminal Enterprise?
- 142 Candidates File for Neighborhood Board Elections
- Hawaii Supreme Court Confirms Election Contests Are Tough
- "Peace on Earth and good will toward men" Can Guide Policy
- Ige Looks at Budget, Contracts and Ends extra Xmas Eve, New Years Eve holiday
- Trevor Ozawa Questions Rail Cost Overruns
- New program helps homeless veteran reunite with family on mainland
- Wearing of body cameras proposed for officers
- Pothead Cop Breaks Sentencing Agreement, Gets Less Time Anyway
- Hawaii is one of two states to avoid upcoming Medicare penalties
- Lower Bills Coming: LNG to be Approved by Dec 31?
- Kauai Charter school community meeting slated
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| Wednesday, December 24, 2014 |
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December 24, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:54 PM :: 5246 Views
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- How Christmas Came to Hawaii
- Lawsuit: State Gave Foster Boys to Bisexual Child Molester
- HTA Study: Vacation Rental Units are 25% of Total Lodging
- New report ranks Hawaii among worst places for business
- Al Hee Hires Beverly Hills Lawyer, Claims to be Not Guilty, Posts $25K Bond
- HHSC to get less than half of funding it had sought
- Court Rejects Tommy Waters Election Challenge for City Council Seat
- Kapolei: DHHL Gets $200M to Mismanage
- New Family Court rule guarantees legal aid for kids hurt in the system
- 23% Increase Licensing fees for nurses, realtors, others will Pay to Replace Decades old Wang Computers
- North Shore Kauai Nearly 40% of Homes are Illegal TVRs
- Legal pot Makes Denver a Magnet for Homeless
- Hawaii Lowest Mortgage Default Risk in USA
- DLNR cuts presidential security coverage
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| Tuesday, December 23, 2014 |
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December 23, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:54 PM :: 5779 Views
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- Single Payer Collapses in Vermont--Is David Ige Listening?
- Full Text: Ige Sends Budget to Legislature
- Hope or Despair for Hawaii's 'Ohana?
- Troubled Obamacare vendor awarded new Hawaii contract
- Commuter-Adjusted Daytime Population on Oahu
- Briefing: Doctors Discuss Challenge of Working With Medicaid
- PMA Requests Federal Mediation in West Coast Longshore Negotiations
- HART advertises first package of rail station contracts
- Video: Meet Hawaii's New Republican House Members
- Ige on Tax Increase: "Sometimes things happen"
- Ige Proposes Internet Sales Tax: $26B budget boosts Spending 8%
- Ige Budget leaves HHSC $48M in Red
- Star-Adv Editors Complain they Have a Hard time Getting Marijuana--Want 26 Pot Shops Opened
- Reopened Kulani Prison Still 70% Empty
- Old Boy Continuity: Takai Makes Hanabusa's Chief of Staff His Own
- Tax Credit Crowd Wants NextEra Deal
- Sidewalks in Chinatown cleared of homeless
- Thai workers on Hawaii farms may not get any of $8.7M award
- Forbes: Bank of Hawaii Second Best in USA
- Hawaii Dominates List of US Most Expensive Air Routes
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| Monday, December 22, 2014 |
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December 22, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:27 PM :: 4312 Views
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- Motions Fly in Lawsuit Seeking Removal of Schatz from Office
- U.S. should respond aggressively to cyber attack, expert says
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How they Voted December 22, 2014
- Honolulu Police Commission under fire
- February Showdown for HECO-Nextera Deal
- DHHL reform good first step
- Ritte Takes Molokai Down Slippery Slope (Again)
- Bad Data Tells Us Hawaii Is Very Healthy
- Espero: Constituents Not Clamoring for Legal Marijuana, Dispensaries more Likely
- HPD to start enforcing sit-lie law in Chinatown
- Sovereignty Activists Push to Recruit More Prisoners
- Hawaii Atheist Doesn't Fool Michigan
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| Sunday, December 21, 2014 |
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December 21, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:33 PM :: 4708 Views
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- Task Force: Legislature Must Act This Session to Get Obamacare Waiver for Hawaii
- ILWU Port Slowdowns Behind Japanese Potato Crisis?
- 133 Candidates File for Neighborhood Board Elections
- London Mayor’s Unpaid Tax Bill
- Scary Sticker Shock: Prospects Slim for Alarming $700M Rail Cost Overrun
- Shapiro: Rail is $5.26B Lemon
- Ige's Budget Due Monday: Santa Claus is coming, but he'll probably skip UH
- Mufi: No HEI sale to NextEra unless it serves Hawaii cronies
- Homosexual Rape Traumatizes Hawaii 6 Year Old
- Activists Push for Right to Give Marijuana to 5-year old, 8-year old
- REITS Targeted for $60M Tax Hike--to be Passed on to Tenants
- Honolulu Affordable Housing Rules Not Like Maui's?
- Ethics Commission staff recommend closing lobbyist disclosure loopholes
- Lava Six to seven days away from Pahoa
- Plastic Bags OK if they are Thicker and Say 'Reusable'?
- Obama Hanging our with Hooker-Lovin Buddy (again)
- Hawaii? Hacker posts more S. Korean reactor info on Internet
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| Saturday, December 20, 2014 |
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December 20, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:08 PM :: 5754 Views
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- Federalist Society: Is Obama Bringing the Akaka Bill Back?
- Flying to Hawaii: Comparing the Cost and Frequency Across States
- The Economic Impact of Astronomy in Hawaii
- Reforming No Child Left Behind
- Lying About 'Temporary' Tax Hikes is Old Tactic
- Lawmakers question the rush to extend rail surcharge
- Attention Honolulu: Maui County Forced to Relax Affordable Housing Requirements
- Angling for Money, UH Claims to be Unable to Afford Cancer Center Debt
- Desperate: Hawaii Health Connector enrollment deadline extended
- Pressler: HHSC, State Hospital top list of DoH Priorities
- Caldwell Won’t Discuss the Problems of Honolulu’s Police Chief
- Kauai PD first in state to use body cams on patrol
- Morita Ordered to Tear Down Vacation Rentals--fine cut in half
- Financial Disclosure Debate Moving to Hawaii Supreme Court
- Aloha United Way flexes political muscle to rebuff ethics recommendation
- Drug Dealer Marries Two-Time Killer in Hawaii's First Prison Gay Marriage
- Gabbard to Push Hemp Again this Session
- Maui Council Gives Mayor Authority to Raise Water Rates by Declaring 'Shortage'
- TAT? Study Group Says Hire Consultant
- Walter Ritte, Anti-GMO Activists Hail Thugs Who Attacked Fishermen
- NextEra to Drill for Natural Gas
- Russian Nuclear Bombers Again Buzz Guam--Unchallenged
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| Friday, December 19, 2014 |
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December 19, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:40 PM :: 5196 Views
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- HART: ‘Begin the discussion now of extending the existing half-percent GET surcharge’
- University of Hawaii athletics must tackle fiscal woes
- Hawaii Supreme Court: Agencies Have No Duty To Keep Their Records Accurately
- Hawaii's Demise Through the Eyes of The Economist
- Policy Talk: New Governor and His Agenda
- An American Hero: Capt. Jerry Coffee
- Obamas depart D.C. for annual Hawaiian vacation
- Recktenwald: No Right to Question Gay Marriage
- Caldwell: HART GE Tax Revenues Being Manipulated to Fake Crisis
- Ige: We Will Do Better Job of Counting Honolulu GE Tax Revenue
- Slater: Convert Rail into Elevated Highway
- Star-Adv: Police Chief may be Compromised, Commission Must Act Now
- HECO Spins Revolving Door at PUC
- While Honolulu pushes to force more development of affordable homes, Maui Discovers Policy is a Failure
- Definition of Insanity? Neil Milner Renews Push For Pension Tax
- Failure Justifies More Spending #1: Should State Hospital get Another $200M?
- Failure Justifies More Spending #2: UH to Legislature--Give Us Money or We'll Raise Tuition
- Its Budget Time So State environmental response programs Claim to be running out of money
- Hu Honua Bio-Mass project moving forward after settlement
- Hawaii Co Council: E-Cigs Same Regs as Tobacco
- Kauai Co Auditor's Retaliation Suit Back in State Court
- Hawaii 4th Longest Work Hours in USA
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| Thursday, December 18, 2014 |
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December 18, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:00 PM :: 5736 Views
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- OHA Chair Demands Censorship of Kakaako Coverage
- VIDEO: Oz Stender Said What About OHA?
- Corruption: Al Hee Indicted on 13 Counts--Could Get 39 Years in Federal Prison
- Gay Marriage Advocate Starts Pushing Polygamy for Hawaii
- Hawaii Supreme Court hears gay marriage arguments
- Part of a Broader Plan: Homosexual Teacher Helps School Kids Come Out as Gay
- Hawaii churches continue to struggle for their religious freedom
- Hawaii Reports 1 Child Abuse Death from fiscal year 2008 through 2013
- $500M Short? HART Cites Its Own Incompetence as Reason for Massive GE Tax Hike
- Star-Adv: OHA's challenge to open-meetings ruling lacks merit
- PRP Gets $3,100 Fine For Campaign Violations
- P20: Public schools need flexibility, but be clear about what kind
- 2nd Director Put on Leave at Nepotistic Charter School
- As NextEra Closes in, Blue Planet Demands 100% 'Clean Energy' Cars
- Mayor veto of GMO Ag Tax stands
- GMO appeal squeaks through council (Mainland Anti-GMO Groups Make Same Worthless 'Free Representation' Offer)
- SHOPO, Former Chief Speak up for Embattled Kealoha as Commission Refuses to Act
- Judge Hawaii County Aerial Animal Eradication is Illegal
- UH Management Chaos? All they need is $9.7B and Everything Would be OK
- No Hawaii Assisted Living Center Meets More Than 75% of Goals
- Bikers refusing to use new King Street bike lane
- City crews Pick up 6 Tons of Homeless' Trash: Continue daily enforcement of "stored property ordinance."
- Hawaii is Home to Last Baby Boomer--He Can't Afford to Leave
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| Wednesday, December 17, 2014 |
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December 17, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:10 PM :: 4917 Views
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- Only 3,500 Sign Up for Obamacare in Hawaii
- 114 Candidates File for Neighborhood Board Elections
- Hawaii Family Forum: "Never, never, never give up."
- Hawaii is Addressing Liabilities, but There’s a Long Way to Go
- Feds Pay Hawaii to 'Test health care payment and service delivery models'
- A&B CEO Elected Chair of Hawaii Nature Conservancy
- Feds Pay Hawaii to 'Test health care payment and service delivery models'
- Nanakuli: City to Update Homeless Project
- Police Commission Chair Already Convinced that Chief is Innocent
- With NextEra Coming, Media Suddenly Admits That New Solar Projects Increase Oahu Electricity Bills
- NextEra/HECO transaction application to be filed with Hawaii regulators in six weeks
- New DHHL permit process approved
- Mentally Ill Criminal Released, Stabs Kailua Woman
- The Economist Looks at Hawaii Homelessness, Gets it Wrong
- Star-Adv on Bike Lane: Danger of 'Appalling Fatalities' is Greatest Now
- University of Hawaii athletics must tackle fiscal woes
- New calls for regulation as vacation rental popularity grows
- Schatz Booted off Energy Committee
- Mainland Anti-GMO Activists Admit they are Using Rural Hawaii Residents as pawns
- Fishermen Get Meddling Outside Enviros Out of their Hair, Solve Fisheries Issues
- Remark about ethnicity wins convict resentencing hearing
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| Tuesday, December 16, 2014 |
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December 16, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:23 PM :: 5839 Views
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- OHA Chair: Exposure of My Kakaako-Pelatron Connection is 'less than helpful to elected officials'
- Health Exchange Signups Less Than 10% of Number Needed
- OHA Sues OIP Over Decision on Sunshine Law Violation
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How They Voted December 15, 2014
- Unemployment Insurance Rates Drop 22%
- Ige’s Interim AG Follows in Predecessor’s Footsteps by Fighting Disclosure Ruling
- FBI to Investigate HPD after Kealoha's stolen mailbox case dismissed
- Abercrombie Pardons Dirty Cop, Crooked Professor
- Lawyers Launch Stockholder Suit against HECO Merger
- Delacruz Back with Kapolei Land Swap Bill
- Hawaii Co Council to Decide on GMO Ruling Appeal
- Maui GMO case Reassigned to Judge Oki Mollway
- Council eyes Sunshine change
- Liver Failure: Natural Supplements Maker Faces Federal Mail Fraud Investigation
- Last lei stand in Waikiki struggling to stay in business
- Will the Rohrabacher Amendment Actually Block Federal Prosecution of Medical Marijuana Patients and Their Suppliers?
- Arraignment held for HPD officer accused of sex assault
- Malama Market Pahoa to close, evacuate as lava advances
- Mentally Ill Person Lived on Streets 20 Years
- Kauai Council Votes to Block Photographers
- Legacy Of A Honolulu Vietnam War Protest Justifies Wetting Down Muslim Terrorists
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| Monday, December 15, 2014 |
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December 15, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:26 PM :: 5054 Views
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- Hawaii Teens #1 in E-Cigarette Use
- OHA Sues Office of Information Practices for Daring to Nail Sunshine Law Violation
- Friends of Lanai Takes on NextEra
- Monday is Deadline for Obamacare Sign Up--And Nobody Wants it
- More Delays in Police Chief Civil Case
- Anti-GMO Ag Tax on Kauai Council Agenda Again
- Sovereignty Activists Complain UH Hilo Not Teaching Sovereignty
- Hawaii Co Council to Vote on E-Cigarette Law
- Four Years: Kauai County Fights Release of Toxicology Reports
- Soft on Islam Policy Leads to Sydney Terror Attack
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| Sunday, December 14, 2014 |
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December 14, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:33 PM :: 4178 Views
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- How Christmas Came to Hawaii
- NextEra: The Green Corruption Files
- A Cliff in Hawaii Income Tax, Too
- Save HECO pt 1: Demand that NextEra Block LNG to keep Rates High
- Save HECO pt 2: Jobs Lost as NextEra Cuts Electric Bills by Building Natural Gas Plants, Installing Smart Meters
- Utility merger brings attention to undersea power cable proposal
- Life of the Land, HECO & the Future
- Star-Adv Cheers Obama Library 3' Above Allegedly Rising Sea Levels
- Star-Adv Continues to Cover up Litigious Atheists' Move to Michigan
- Suggested Amendments to Sunshine Law
- Cyclists Will Die, but I've Got Counter Research
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| Saturday, December 13, 2014 |
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December 13, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:00 PM :: 4317 Views
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- 90 Candidates File for Neighborhood Board Elections
- FBI Names Paul D. Delacourt Special Agent in Charge of Honolulu Division
- UH Hilo Highlighted in New Report: Most U.S. Colleges Violate Students’ Free Speech Rights
- The Inside Scoop on HECO’s Four Year Death Cycle
- Hawaii Pacific Health exec Virginia Pressler named state health director
- State Supreme Court Rules Counties Do Not Have Duty to Maintain Public Records
- FBI Director Visits Honolulu, Focus on Cybercrime
- Suspension lifted for HPD officer involved in police brutality case
- House Bill 83 keeps compact funds intact
- Energy Security? Repeal Jones Act
- WaPo Laughs at Hawaii Obama Library proposal
- Senate Dems Suffer So Many Losses that they now rely on Hirono for Intelligence, Schatz for Ethics
- Damage at Kailua Waste Water Treatment Plant Will Cost taxpayers
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| Friday, December 12, 2014 |
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December 12, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:46 PM :: 5071 Views
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- Hawaii Republicans Should Follow Lingle's Path to Victory
- Is the HECO-NextEra Merger a Done Deal?
- Hawaii 4th-Worst State for Small Business
- Smart Growth v. Suburbanization Score is 0-1
- National Report: Hawaii Ranks 5th in Protecting Kids from Tobacco
- Hawaii Tech Chief: Bhagowalia's Pie in the Sky Promise Not Likely to Materialize Anytime Soon Thanks to HGEA
- Cost of HGEA Behind Collapse of HHSC Hospitals
- Hawaii DoT Claims Administrative Costs 'Only' $16,512 per Mile
- Hawaii takes small steps on $20B retiree liability
- PBN: UH Chronically Dysfunctional
- Kauai Audit report finds 'Discrepancies' in 80% of Vacation, Sick Leave Records
- Hawaii’s new first lady will focus on education
- NextEra Personnel Already Placed in HECO Offices
- Kewalos: OHA Lied About Kakaako Commitments
- Making it Up as they Go Along: Gay New Figures $19.3 for Hawaii
- Anti-GMO Activists Sinking in Moral Quicksand
- One Third of Hawaii Toddlers Not Immunized -- State Ranks 40th
- Council Gives Drunken Thief $250K
- Hawaii Loses 6100 Jobs to China
- Lawsuit Filed Against Pohakuloa
- Department of Health, U.S. Navy at odds over recommendation for Red Hill tanks
- Abercrombie's Last Act: Pardons Man convicted of violent Manoa home invasion
- US Coast Guard, Police, Prepare for First Family's Holiday Arrival
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| Thursday, December 11, 2014 |
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December 11, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:15 PM :: 4062 Views
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- Top Chicago Labor Law Firm Takes Aim at Illegal Appointment of Brian Schatz
- House Briefing to Look at UH Budget Request
- Senate Briefing on ERS Financial Status
- Active Lifestyle? Honolulu Ranks 24th
- Obamacare Increasing Coverage, but Not Access to Health Care
- Pension Fund Deficit: Still 26 Years From Solvency
- Ige to OHA: 'Focus on areas of common goals and common understanding'
- OHA Trustees: Servant Leaders with High Standards?
- Strategies for Clean Elections?
- Not going to Rise? Hawaii Obama Presidential Community Organizing Center Proposed at Sea Level
- Aloha United Way fundraising with state described as unfair
- Hawaii Public Utilities Commission needs to expand
- Ige One of 10 Governors Elected Without Majority
- Juror: 'Somebody Hired to Steal Chief's Mailbox'
- Kauai Council to Vote on Anti-GMO Agriculture Tax Hike
- Anti-GMO Ex-mayoral candidate who defied laws guilty
- HPD officer indicted in sexual assault
- Hotel Sneaks into Mayor Wright Redevelopment Plan
- Water Commission Balks at Federal Water Grab
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