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| Saturday, April 9, 2011 |
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April 9, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:14 PM :: 13043 Views
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- Abercrombie’s $100M omission: HGEA settlement tied to other secret labor agreements
- Government workers’ agreement to add more than $100 million to state deficit
- House GOP: HGEA Settlement is expensive, unfair
- Unity House HQ up for Sale
- VIDEO: Heritage Foundation Leader interviewed in Hawaii
- Tsunami: Obama signs Disaster Declaration for Hawaii
- Bonham: Peak tax and business revenue returns sometime in 2012
- Maui Chamber of Commerce: 95% oppose either type of GE Tax hike
- Shapiro: Budget is so bad….
- After voting to Shut down Federal Government three times, Hirono, Hanabusa pretend to be against it
- OHA to turn its operatives around on Geothermal in Puna at Meeting today
- Kenoi profits 58% from Subdivision approval
- Crisis? Hawaii County finds $16M for Hilo Bayfront paths
- Crisis? $800,000 in county checks uncashed
- Former KPD officer convicted of driving drunk
- NYT: Explosion Kills Workers at Facility for Fireworks
- Did Trump really send investigators to Hawaii?
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| Friday, April 8, 2011 |
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April 8, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:07 PM :: 15852 Views
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- No New Taxes! Rally April 15--Honolulu, Kona, Hilo, Kahului, Lihue
- HGEA: Contract Agreement includes Paid Time Off
- VIDEO: Lanai Wind Fall Out
- Abercrombie Announces $300M in new CIP Spending—“This is just the beginning”
- Full Results: Daily Kos Hawaii Poll
- GOP: Abercrombie Approval rating down to 48%
- Hirono, Hanabusa vote for Government Shutdown, stop paying troops
- Akaka Bill Passes Indian Affairs Committee
- How They Voted: Senate Ways and Means votes to hike GE Tax by eliminating exemptions
- SB1363 10-cents-per-bag Tax: Greens, Big Business, Big Government team up to Rip Off Consumers
- Borreca: Abercrombie is Tanking
- Rebellion in the Senate Kills 1%GE Tax Hike Proposal—Exemptions to be hit
- HGEA Agreement amounts to 1.5% Pay Hike—Carlisle
- Star-Advertiser: Abercrombie not upfront with public about HGEA Deal
- Contract: NOT THE “NEW DAY” PEOPLE VOTED FOR
- Federal Shutdown: Inouye uninterested in the kind of cutting that Democrats now see as necessary
- State-run Superferry plan still afloat
- Forum on geothermal energy to include OHA Cronies
- Elected BoE sez Bye-Bye
- Boaters bemoan lack of aid after Schatz comes back from DC Empty handed
- Meetings will gather comments on proposed wind farm
- Wood-Burning Power plant vote delayed
- IRV Produces results like Berg’s Win in Council District 1
- Hawaii journalist shield law extension advances
- Banned Fireworks Storage: Explosion claims Four Lives
- Ways and Means votes against Legislators’ 5% Salary Hike
- Judiciary Committee defers bill to convert Sick Leave into vacation Days
- Inouye, Akaka: Let gay sex tourists give away Green Cards
- Prison Guard gets 18 months for Gay Rape of inmate
- University of Hawaii Wants To Close Major Research Group
- With Tourism squeezed, Rep Roy Takumi pushes against Free Trade with S Korea
- Ex-Reform Party Birther Trump touted Pelosi as “The Best”
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| Thursday, April 7, 2011 |
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April 7, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 12:08 PM :: 17138 Views
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- State Reaches Agreement with HGEA
- Unemployment rate dips to 5.2 percent in Honolulu (oops!)
- GE Tax hearing: Democrats demand choice between two types of GE Tax Hike, nobody fooled
- Democrats to buy Support for GE Tax hike with $100M in tax Credits
- HGEA: Tentative Agreement on Parameters of Contract
- HGEA Comp Time: Governor Just Kicked the can down the road again
- Mayors still in dark about HGEA Contract
- House Finances passes Tax Credits for Billionaire Clinton Cronies, Bag Tax hiked to 10 cents for middle class
- Study: U.S. has 4M gay adults; 1.7 pct. of populace
- Committee Approves Five Hawaii Ed Board Appointees
- Kauai Council Rejects Biodegradable bags
- Rush to Use Crops as Fuel Raises Food Prices and Hunger Fears
- Hawaii County Council to burn through $56M—14 new projects
- Case to announce Senate bid within 10 days, claims to be OK with Inouye
- Loss of Hawaiian album Grammy greeted with dismay and shrugs
- Obama golf pal arrested in Honolulu prostitution sting
- Trump: I Have Investigators in Hawaii...'They Cannot Believe What They're Finding'
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| Wednesday, April 6, 2011 |
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April 6, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 12:50 PM :: 11444 Views
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- HB793: Hikes GE Tax 25%, eliminates exemptions, Hearing Wednesday
- No New Taxes! Rally April 15--Honolulu, Kona, Hilo, Kahului, Lihue
- GE Tax Showdown in Senate—A vote to remember in November
- Senate Indian Affairs Committee to vote on Akaka Bill Thursday
- Ward: 100s of alternatives to tax hike
- House GOP Calls on Abercrombie to Cut Spending
- SB570: Hawaii Pension Tax Bill Alive and Well
- Recktenwald appoints Acoba Kauai District Court Judge
- Hawaii Guard told to prepare for possible deployment
- Senate Budget demands $650M in new Revenues
- Sen. Sees Unions Behind Tax Increase Proposal
- Airlift capacity nearly unchanged
- McDonald's Hiring 1,000 New Hawaii Employees (no crisis here)
- Shapiro: New developments show rail project way off track
- Civil Beat catches up to Hawai’i Free Press on Todd Apo Ethics Violations
- Martin: No problem with Garcia’s $60K Side Job
- Maui Green Police hunt down Bag Ban Violators –impose $1000/day fines
- Senate Hearing Begins on Board of Education Nominees
- Bills target isle harbors for private development
- Insurer, hospital agree on new compensation system
- UH advised to ‘forgive’ debt
- UH-Hilo seeks $36M to build student housing
- Hawaii County to buy 3000 ac of ‘open space’
- Man Who Conned Hawaii Inmates Pleads Guilty
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| Tuesday, April 5, 2011 |
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April 5, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:15 PM :: 15793 Views
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- Todd Apo and KoOlina: Ethics Violation kept secret since 2007
- VIDEO: GOP balances budget without Tax Hikes
- No New Taxes! Rally April 15--Honolulu, Kona, Hilo, Kahului, Lihue
- Hawaii’s Congressional Delegation: How They Voted April 4, 2011
- Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders own 11,383 Hawaii businesses
- Abercrombie gets around to announcing appointment of Kawakami to State House
- Abercrombie Appoints Judge Loo to Maui Circuit Court
- Hawaii Gun Permits hit new record in 2010
- Kaauwai: Are you better off now than you were 2 1/2 years ago?
- Senate Dems to Force choice between two types of GE Tax hike
- GE Tax Hike: Tell them what you think
- Now Where Will They Find The Money?
- Unions Rally at Capitol, Demand more Spending
- Ethically Challenged Apo among picks for Transit Authority
- A State Indian Tribe for OHA Cronies
- Loser Van Dyke on New Akaka Bill: Nothing to see here, just move along
- Judiciary to Vote on AG Louie
- Senate Hearings for BoE Nominees to Begin Tomorrow
- Japan Airline Cuts countered by increases elsewhere, Charters planned for Golden Week
- Timeshare in Hawaii: Build it and They Will Come
- Movie stars, billionaires and corporate execs are arriving more often in private jets
- Lawmakers give men wearing dresses a chance to strike it rich
- Shapiro: Where was the vetting on Maui judge appointment?
- Wildman: A DISTURBING PATTERN?
- Kalapa, Milks win majority on Credit Union Board
- Kamehameha headmaster to retire after 23 years
- Clayton Hee about to Kill Shield law
- It's Too Early For Law Regulating Undersea Cable
- Borreca: Global warming should be on governor’s agenda
- Superferry Redux: Pasha Line new vessel to offer roll on-roll off service
- State held responsible for deaths of 2 women
- ABC News: Duckworth for Hawaiian Senator?
- Bill Clinton: 'Birthers' will hurt GOP
- LA Times: Why Hillary Clinton must run in 2012
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| Monday, April 4, 2011 |
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April 4, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:10 PM :: 14329 Views
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- HB793: Hikes GE Tax 25%, eliminates exemptions, Hearing Wednesday
- Save Our Jobs—Stop SB741 Alcohol Tax
- Abercrombie’s Board of Education: Accountability begins now, and it’s already ugly
- U.S. Supreme Court Won't Hear Nader Hawaii Ballot Access Case
- Abercrombie Administration delays endangering lives of Combat Pilots, soldiers
- Hawaii Hotels posting strong revenue and occupancy rates
- Prudential: Worst may be over for Oahu Real Estate Market
- Senate to Hear Testimony against both kinds of GE Tax hikes Wednesday
- Unions, Non-profits to push for more spending at Rally today
- Governor has no clue on balancing budget
- Tax Hikes Pending in Hawaii Legislature Might Require Cigar Smokers to Take Out a Second Mortgage
- HD 14 Nomination raises ethical questions
- Bill: Instant Runoff Voting
- Rail: Council grills Carlisle Admin on Billion Dollar Deception
- Berg Cheapest On Honolulu City Council
- Former news anchor ready to give her all for schools (Another one who did not apply)
- Council to consider county furloughs, wage cuts
- SA: Turtle Bay reset welcome
- California firm joins Molokai wind project: Pattern Energy Group is expected to “engage all of the community”
- Ocean AC project is safe, firm says
- US Rep. Hirono says she advanced measure granting $6M Hawaii airport improvement pork
- Brockovich still pushing Hexavalent Chromium Scam
- 175 years of boarding at LHS celebrated at David Malo Day
- The quiet Draft of Tammy Duckworth?
- Samantha Power to be the next Secretary of State?
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| Sunday, April 3, 2011 |
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April 3, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:27 PM :: 14707 Views
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- City finally 'Sees the Light' on Lunalilo Home Rd
- Waialua Robotics wins big in Vegas
- Abercrombie Secretly Appoints Kawakami to replace Morita in State House
- Hawaii Legislators Dump 180 day school year
- Brian “I am not a clone” DeLima: BoE Policy Audit to “look at what decisions can be handled by the superintendent and her staff, and reduce our footprint”
- Star-Advertiser: Akaka should submit bill that had Lingle’s support
- Hawaii sees travel numbers rise
- The drop in tourists from Japan to Hawaii may not be as severe as originally thought
- HTA: Japan Tourism Drop Less Than Expected
- GOP hits Garcia on conflict of interest
- SA: The HIPA clout
- Respect citizenry via judicial selection transparency
- Volokh Conspiracy: Hawaii Ban on Photographing Human Remains Older Than 50 Years?
- Success: Homeless Sweeps push families into Shelters
- Abercrombie's Priest calls on public to ignore child neglect and abuse by homeless
- Progressives launch attack on MRC Greenwood spending
- Widely implemented ‘food safety’ program hurts local farmers
- DDT being used to wipe out Mosquitoes in Kaiula
- HPD’s pitch for more funds: “Budget cuts slashing DARE program on Oahu”
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| Saturday, April 2, 2011 |
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April 2, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 11:17 AM :: 16029 Views
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- GOP Files Ethics complaint over Nestor Garcia’s $60K side job
- Abercrombie names DBEDT Deputy Director
- HB1049: Raid on Hurricane Fund to Trigger 7.5% Tax on Premiums?
- Panos: Wind Study doesn't answer questions about Cost
- Abercrombie names new UH Regents, E-W Center Board members
- Friday Night Surprise: GET Hike Back on Table
- Maui News: Abercrombie is “pathetic excuse for leadership” we need Linda Lingle
- Legislators prepare to gut 180 day law
- Rail Funds: Oahu Taxpayers $623M, Congress $34M
- Bombardier wants the city to disclose more information about Ansaldo’s Winning Rail proposal
- Molokai expels Wind Farm, Maui could be next Victim
- Carlisle says labor savings may have to go beyond 5 percent
- Secret labor Agreement: Hawaii commerce department to end furlough days
- Tax Sweeps of Vendors Begin Again
- Obamacare Preview: Penalties for those with health risks considered in 2009 by Hawaii’s public employee health plan
- One week after Dengue Fever, Mosquito Control becomes excuse for Tax Hikes
- VIDEO: Prison or Youth ChalleNGe? The future fate of Kulani
- Brewbaker resists jumping to conclusions about Japan Tsunami
- Airport parking rates to increase statewide
- Office of Information Practices Director Selected
- Bankruptcies average 297 per month, down from 330
- Canadian Hawaii Real Estate Fraud to face trial
- US task force arrests 61 fugitives on Maui
- Ariz. law bans abortions based on race or gender
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| Friday, April 1, 2011 |
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April 1, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:02 PM :: 17683 Views
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- House GOP releases Balanced State Budget without Tax Hikes
- Wildman’s Firm didn’t pay Payroll Taxes
- Mufi on Senate race: Washington DC has always been an interest of ours
- Hawaii House GOP Proposes Budget Fixes without Tax Hikes
- Abercrombie Head Fake: Senate to decide between Two types of GE Tax Hike
- More Federal Funds? Schatz returns from DC Empty Handed
- Asselbaye: “We cannot continue cutting government”
- Tax on sugary drinks would be discriminatory and seriously harm our economy
- Hawaii Tax Revenues rise with Gas Prices
- Hawaiian Airlines to DOUBLE flights to Japan (Meanwhile Abercrombie prophesizes doom)
- Tsutsui Names Ex-Rep Amaral to judge selection panel (Crony of Danner sisters, tied to new version of Akaka Bill)
- Lambda, ACLU drop suit, plan for next suit: “We’ll be watching closely for any signs of problems” with Civil Unions
- Abercrombie: My relationships with Legislators are excellent, we’re not pals
- New BOE era off to good start
- Senate to vote on Closing School, converting to Prison
- Former Casino Boss; Don’t Do it!
- Legalized Bribery Bill Tabled
- Hawaii State Bank resolution still alive
- The Bus: Doesn’t have the financial mobility to add routes—as Rail expenses mount
- Stock buy foments talk of A&B breakup
- State receives 12 more suspected cases of dengue
- States Propose Measures to Alter, Remove CON Processes
- Program may bring displaced citizens of Japan to stay on Maui
- Turtle Bay project pared down
- $45M fine tilts Horizon to bankruptcy
- Birthers have nothing on rabid anti-Bushers
- Found Photos: The Story of Chicago's "Little Hawaii" Neighborhood
- With mom in hospital, “Psychic” Sylivia Brown’s son struggles to keep up
- Sale of $100M home has Hawaii connections
- Omidyar Accidentally Buys Hawaii
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| Thursday, March 31, 2011 |
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March 31, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:22 PM :: 13668 Views
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- No New Taxes! Rally April 15--Kona, Hilo, Kahului, Lihue
- 2011 Akaka Bill grants Tribal officials broad immunity from Hawaii Criminal and Civil Laws
- 2011 Akaka Bill: More than 73% of Hawaiians not "Qualified" for membership in Akaka Tribe
- Tax Freedom Day in Hawaii: April 6
- Governor renews push for beverage taxes
- Palafox Redux? Wildman withdraws over “unresolved situation”
- Hawaii Right to Life: Oppose HCR 71 on HPV vaccination
- Supreme Courts seeks Six Volunteers to Discipline Lawyers
- OBAMA POLL HITS NEW LOW...
- ...Hillary Nears All Time High
- One Dead In Marine Helicopter Crash Off Kaneohe
- Abercrombie backs GE Tax hike on Shipping, Airlines, Cellphone bills
- New Akaka Bill Ignores Lingle Concerns
- City's deceptive bidding process for rail contract hid $900M in costs
- Legislators want to accept $200 bribes from unions, business, pension funds
- Abercrombie’s New BoE to do Policy Audit, NOT Financial Audit
- SB1284 Designed to force Disabled children back into DoE Schools
- Shapiro: Dope Bills all about Money, not ‘Compassion’
- Painters’ Union leader arrested at rally
- APEC planners: Hawaii will be ready
- Hawaii could be fallback site for firms in Japan
- Hurricane Fund, Rainy Day Fund wiped out Just to get thru June
- While Abercrombie preaches Doom and Gloom, Stalled condo projects on Oahu move forward
- Effort to Amend Kauai Plastic Bag Ban becomes entangled in procedure
- Study: Big Isle least healthy in State
- FERC approves Wailua hydro
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| Wednesday, March 30, 2011 |
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March 30, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:37 PM :: 11741 Views
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- No New Taxes! Rally April 15--Kona, Hilo, Kahului, Lihue
- Daily KOS Polls Hawaii Senate Race: Mufi 47–Lingle 40
- CoR: Tsunami effect smallish, Weak February tax receipts major factor
- COFA Migrations: Field work complete, GAO Audit report due in September
- VIDEO: House debates Retirement, Gambling, Insurance—and frozen Bread
- HTA addressing “short-term consolidation of flights” by JAL
- State honors sacrifice of 17 with medal
- Hawaii Visitors Up 11.8% in Feb—so how are tax receipts down?
- Pot, Kettle, Black: Abercrombie calls Trump Bankrupt
- Forbes: Honolulu most expensive tourist destination, prices up 20% on strong demand
- Media Portrays Public as supporting Tax Hikes, Lottery
- Cayetano, Slom and Slater plan to sue over rail project
- Akaka Bill Reintroduced to Congress
- Precisely as Predicted: Hawaii's Race To The Top Delayed
- ABERCROMBIE TO ANNOUNCE HIS PICKS FOR BOARD OF EDUCATION
- Kauai Dems Name three to Replace Rep Morita
- AARP Rallies against Pension Tax, for more spending
- Last Appointment: Hee v. Louie
- Two Hawaii Labor Trafficking Bills Still Alive
- Gay Marriage: Invented in Hawaii for first time in history of human race
- Medicaid for non-American non-immigrants?
- Japan's tsunami debris headed for West Coast, then Hawaii
- Abercrombie Fundraiser to be sentenced on Dope Charges
- Punatic Dopers Sue County, demand $5M
- Kakaako homeless: where are they now?
- Hi Co Furloughs: Council Pressures Kenoi on bargaining position
- Zoo accreditation in jeopardy
- Tsutsui on Akaka: New definition of Obsequious
- Pawlenty Calls Out Trump’s Birtherism
- Why Liberals Love the Birthers
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| Tuesday, March 29, 2011 |
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March 29, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 11:23 AM :: 11254 Views
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- No New Taxes! Rally April 15--Kona, Hilo, Kahului
- Hawaii Legislature to Honor 16 fallen Heroes
- Djou: No plans to seek seat in Senate
- Durbin's Flawed Islamophobia Hearing
- Rep Brower: “Info Brief Your Ego”
- Was Abercrombie Bragging about Secret Labor Settlement?
- Delayed Refunds: Abercrombie could use Budget trick he derided as Phony
- Senate Ways and Means Committee considers 5% GE Tax
- Making The Tax Increase Hidden
- State’s Finances Grim, State Agencies Asked to Cut Spending by 10 Percent, Legislators debate excuses needed for GE Tax hike
- Soda tax getting another look in Hawaii
- Senators seek specifics on Abercrombie's vow to remake government
- But Administration Testifies in favor on more spending
- Kouchi: What state services do you want to keep? (Peddling Tax Hikes)
- DoE Advertiser claims cuts will end Education reform
- JAL drops one Honolulu Flight for three weeks in April
- Gaming advocates are seizing on the Tsunami panic
- Hawaii’s public financing pilot project likely to fall along with Arizona’s campaign law
- Alexander to preach Abercrombie to Catholics
- “More Federal Funds” Ecos now claim “$10s of Millions in Tsunami damage” to NW Hawaiian Isles
- Honolulu City Council Chairman: 'Don't Tell Me I'm a Whore'
- Carlisle’s Roads Nominee is stockholder, employee of Contractor CH2M Hill—But Councilmembers approve anyway
- Berg, Anderson: Counties being ‘robbed’, State ‘skimming’ TAT
- Committee OKs bill to end discount on recycling fees
- Maui residents oppose wind farm access road plans
- Hawaii WWII Vets Mark Anniversary: Group Plans Celebration For Congressional Gold Medal
- Japan nuclear isotope that reached Hawaii identified as iodine-131
- Pearl City river considered a breeding ground for mosquitoes
- SA: Stop shark tour boat violence
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| Monday, March 28, 2011 |
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March 28, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:45 PM :: 11984 Views
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- SB605: Legislators to raise Salary Caps for DoE Bureaucrats?
- Redistricting for A Republican Hawaii
- Abercrombie to Petty, Bogged Down Legislature: Stop bickering and pointing fingers
- Hawaii Wind Developer tied to Largest-ever asset seizure by anti-Mafia police
- SB1363 Bag Tax: Greens, Big Business, Big Government team up to Rip Off Consumers
- CB: Raising GE Tax “looks increasingly plausible”
- ACT 221 Scammers Push for Hawaii Stock Exchange Formation
- OHA Homeless Tent City , Akaka Tribe Bills nearing final approval
- SA: Poker Bill violates Federal Law
- Poker Alliance “dubious” about State regulation of Internet Poker
- Alaska looks at Tourism: “Hawaii’s success story”
- Japan Airlines cuts flights to Hawaii and other destinations
- SA: Palolo Elementary a model for improvement
- Isle food stamp use rises As state gives them to families making over $48K/year
- Keeping Hawaii Inmates' IDs Out of The Trash
- Haleiwa businesses rally around shark tour owner
- Senate Judiciary Committee Sitting on Human Trafficking Bill
- 9th Circuit Panel Upholds decision in suit against Hawaii's State Historic Preservation Division
- 2 Big Island resorts still closed because of tsunami damage
- Bill seeks end to city subsidy for recycling
- Revisionist History: Godless Senators now consider abolishing Columbus Day
- Prominent Chinese blogger charged as crackdown deepens
- Birther Trump: I want Hawaii governor 'investigated'
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| Sunday, March 27, 2011 |
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March 27, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:57 PM :: 16725 Views
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- Djou: Presidential Leadership is Missing in Libya
- No New Taxes! Rally April 15--Kona, Hilo, Kahului
- Case: Poll shows I whip any Democrat in 2012 Senate Primary
- VIDEO: FBI investigating Gulen Charter Schools, parents pulling kids out
- Hawaii to keep prisoners on Mainland: Lack of space forces state to continue to bid out for incarceration
- Robotics: Six Hawaii Teams headed for St Louis Championships
- Still No response from Obama as Hirono, Abercrombie beg for Disaster Declaration
- $2900/month from Ewa developer: Nestor Garcia has ANOTHER side job
- HECO to select Cable Contractor, Hand Ratepayers the Bill
- Abercrombie uses Kahuku Wind Scam to pressure Lanai, Molokai
- Louie’s Record as Chair of Aloha Tower Development Corp should bar confirmation by Senate
- Chang: Poker Casinos don’t go far enough
- Tsunami justifies push for State Pension Reforms
- Hawaii may drain hurricane funds to pay for Abercrombie give aways
- Cayetano, Dan Case back Abercrombie’s Judicial secrecy
- Ed Case to Decide About Hawaii Senate Bid Soon
- Only Four Legislators think Abercrombie’s pet Think Tank is worth $200
- SA: Tsunami justifies push to diversify Tourism Market
- Democrat Operative pushes to revive Single Casino proposal
- Crime in Waikiki: Tourism Industry pushes back against Homelessness Industry
- Hawaii medical (sic) marijuana dispensary bill amended—could open up in Waikiki
- Alaska Airlines Begins Service to Lihue from Oakland and San Jose 1,000 new visitors every week
- Diabetes Program Begins in Vulnerable Marshall Islands
- Gay opposition rises against Israel Apartheid Week
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| Saturday, March 26, 2011 |
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March 26, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:20 PM :: 13369 Views
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- Prince Kuhio: The bridge from Kingdom to State
- Hawaii Internet Poker Bill part of nationwide effort by illegal Gambling Sites
- Hotwire: Hawaii hotel rates jump 25%, growth tops nation
- Side Effects: Children Face Reduced Access to Coverage Under Obamacare
- Waialua HS takes lead in Robotics Regionals
- Another Secret Labor Agreement Exposed: Paid Time Off given 4,900 UPW, HGEA members by Abercrombie Admin
- Inouye Backs Obama’s Libya War
- Progressives want to silence debate over Senatorial race
- Japan Tsunami now becomes excuse to drain Hurricane Fund to pay for Abercrombie Giveaways
- Hawaii seeks to protect its unique health law?
- Stanford Carr: “Maui Real Estate is booming”
- Naval shipyard: “We’re Hiring”
- Hawaii House committee chair doesn't want to hear from Ethics Commission
- Inouye pushes Kalaupapa flight subsidy for Contributor
- Cronies squabble over how to profit from School Closures
- OHA’s End-run Bad For All Hawaii
- Tobacco tops list as Ethics Commission Releases Lobbying Expense Disclosures
- Pearl City residents asked to clean up dengue breeding grounds
- Rep Rivere to speak out against North Shore Arsons
- The Best and Brightest: Rep Jerry Chang Trapped in London, needs $2800
- Maui Internment Camp: “He was treated good”
- Plastic ‘disappears’ from garbage patch
- Laysan Island completely covered by Tsunami, Seven workers survive
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| Friday, March 25, 2011 |
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March 25, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:24 PM :: 10965 Views
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- Conservatives lead Hawaii GOP--but will they pay for it?
- VIDEO: “All Costs for Wind Cable are on the Ratepayer”
- Berg, Tamayo to host Community Meeting on Emergency Preparedness, Waimanalo Gulch
- “More Federal Funds”: Abercrombie pumps Tsunami claims up to $30.6M
- Abercrombie reopens nominations for Commission on Water Resource Management
- Borreca: Democrats wrong if they think U.S. Senate race is a slam dunk
- Council Chair collects $60,000/year “salary” from Pro-Rail Developers’ group
- TRUTH: Hawaii hotels three-fourths full, room rates mostly up
- LIES: Hawaii's New Budget Deficit: $1.3 Billion
- Hawaii Taxation Report outlines plan to pick your pocket
- SB755 Gaming Bill passes Second Read
- Online Gambling: “A Grey, Murky, Quasi-legal Area”
- True catastrophe is failure of state leaders
- Ethics: Legislators Retaliation threats against Kondo alarming
- State Jobs for Life: Hawaii Departments Fired 67 out of 14,000 in 2010
- Myron B Thompson Nepotism: Vice principal's bonus and a $175K gift to a support group
- Hawaii now an option for military dependents evacuating Japan
- St. Francis to resume control of Hawaii Medical
- Pastor of Kawaiahao Church reminds critics that the history of his congregation is that it is native Hawaiian but also Christian
- Man raped in Lahaina Homeless Tent City
- Kahuku Community spilt on Wind Farm as Ribbon Cut
- SA: Sink state-run superferry idea
- Arson suspected as another shark tour boat burns
- Anti-plastic Luddites target food industry
- Shinseki still forced to deny rumors spread by 9-11 trooothers
- Dengue fever hits Pearl City
- Parole Denied in 40-Year-Old Murder Case
- Kalaupapa residents lobby for lower airfares after monopoly hikes price to $500
- Honolulu TV stations claim wins and growth
- Hawaii Parental Rights Amendment to be heard
- Human remains found in Sand Island freezer—no foul play suspected?
- Birthers Hound Kapiolani Hospital
- Hawaii Reporter: World Famous Psychic, Author Sylvia Browne Hospitalized in Hawaii
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| Thursday, March 24, 2011 |
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March 24, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:33 PM :: 13636 Views
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- SB218: House Health Committee may save St Francis Hospitals from Closure
- Surprise: Gaming bill passes House Committees
- House GOP: Democrats Support Gambling Instead of School Supplies for Children
- Attorney General demands $170M from Online Travel Companies
- Kapolei Shopping Center lease to generate $140M for DHHL
- Hawaii Rifle Association annual meeting Sunday
- Hilo, Kapaa top list of Drunkest Cities in America
- Hawaii: The Worst State to Shop Online
- Rep Fontaine supports SB 52 Registration of Sex Offenders
- Slom: Gambling & Tax bills bargaining chips for GE Tax hike
- Bad Bills Still Alive as Legislation Cross Houses
- DoE killing 180 day law with help of Senate Education Committee
- Star-Advertiser: Instant Runoff Needed to Prevent Republicans from Winning Elections
- House Republicans score 5x the CIP of Dissident Democrats
- House Committees Approve Poker Proposal --Surprise Amendment Would Allow Poker Tournaments, On-Line Hosting
- Rep Brower gets Schooled on Gambling Law
- Things that make you go hmmmm.....THE GAMBLING BAIT AND SWITCH
- Council on Revenues will meet Tues to give Abercrombie the numbers he needs to justify Tax hikes
- GE Tax Exemption bill Held, more Prep for overall GE Tax Hike
- Prep-Work for GE Tax Hike: “Disaster's tourism impact isn't just Japan”
- Census: Hawaii 1 of top 5 states in tax growth
- HTA to spend $3 million to stampeded Legislature into Hiking GE Tax after Japanese arrivals drop
- Judge rejects suit challenging rail survey (nice show for LaHood)
- New rail lawsuit takes shape
- Feds tout Honolulu rail project
- SB367: HECO wants to socialize cable cost, privatize any profit
- Electricity utility and state officials will dedicate Oahu’s first large-scale wind farm today
- HB680: Bill would abolish Kakaako makai community panel
- Kauai Council to Hike Property Taxes $144/year
- Election 2012: Kenoi buying Kona Votes with CIP
- Cabanilla Resolution: Eliminating NIMBY
- Looser ethics bill for legislators will make influence-peddling easier
- State Senate Honors Ronald Reagan
- Matsumoto in smack down of Berish on ERS
- Online Travel Companies Owe Hawaii $170 Million In Unpaid Taxes
- MORE BAD LEGISLATION PENDING
- Hawaii: 35% of teen Pregnancies end in Abortion
- SA: ‘Obamacare’ not so abominable for Hawaii’s Medicare beneficiaries
- ILWU Pushing Frozen Bread Bill to boost Love’s
- Former GM: Scrap Yard Doesn't Need Subsidy
- Murderer may walk streets thanks to Judge Michael Town
- Ex-officer admits vandalizing SUV
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| Wednesday, March 23, 2011 |
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March 23, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:53 PM :: 15820 Views
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- Legislators, DBEDT support two casinos and Internet Gaming—Amendment violates Federal Law
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation AWOL on Libya
- 9-11 truthers claim Shinseki running for Hawaii Senate seat, Inouye’s office forced to deny
- US Approaching Insolvency, Fix To Be 'Painful': Dallas Federal Reserve Chair Fisher
- Only “modest decline” in Japan travel
- Shapiro: Governor needs to deliver on vow to do more with less
- Abercrombie on Rail: “It’s all photos and photo-ops right now. I’ve seen those before.”
- Honolulu Council plays hardball over Transit Authority
- State Still Wants to Cap Counties' Share of TAT
- Public Workers “comfortable with furloughs” -- May Be Offered 'Mini Furlough'
- Legislators, Big Business push Bag Tax on Hawaii shoppers
- First Hawaiian: $1.8M raised for Japan relief
- Bill legalizing $200 bribes still alive
- HCR107 to investigate secession from United States
- SA: DoE Doesn’t need to test students (SB1282)
- Panel tables bill over electing attorney general
- Mysterious Abercrombie OIP pick Rejects Offer, vanishes
- Hawaii Legislature Backs Off Punishing Tourism Publications
- Developer: Maui Windfarm to be dead in 25 years
- Akaka teams up with 47 Senate Dems to protect Green Energy Scammers
- Resurrected: Gambling Inserted into Shell Bill
- County mum on felon fire captain
- Former Maui officer charged with sex assault, kidnapping
- Despite Furloughs, Overtime Down in Most City Departments (Oops!)
- Other Cities Report Problems with Honolulu Rail Contractor
- County hearing officer recommends Hu Honua permit approval
- Hawaiian Elec. in Solar Power Pact
- Developer gets approval for new mall on DHHL land in Kapolei
- Tsunami, Power Outages Still On Minds Of Many Ewa Residents
- Hawaii’s #6 Tax Delinquent ensnared in Calif. building dispute
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| Tuesday, March 22, 2011 |
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March 22, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:11 PM :: 9665 Views
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- Kucinich, Nader: Obama could be Impeached for Libya War
- Tsunami Roulette: Are Kahului fuel tanks and sewage plant at risk?
- Regime Change is goal of Obama’s Libya War
- Hanabusa still lives at Ko Olina
- Subcontractors, airlines, others would pay the GET
- UHERO: We still think the economy is going to recover
- Borreca Joins Abercrombie’s Doom and Gloom Brigade
- Delta: Japan travel decline a 6 to 9 month one time event
- Hawaii’s February unemployment holds steady at 6.3%
- SA: Reject Abercrombie’s assault on travel media
- Is Wildman a Pay-to-Play Judicial Appointment?
- Hawaii reapportionment commission forms
- SB367: Oahu electric customers would pay for undersea power cable under pending legislation
- Green Energy Scammers Panic over 2016 Sunset (HB1270/HB566)
- Honolulu Contracts for 80 rail cars at $574M
- City Says Rail Contracts Coming in Under Budget; Critics Not Convinced
- House Has Approved Government Purchase Of State-Run Superferry
- Luddites Frantic as First Application For Factory Fish Farm in U.S. Waters Poised for Approval
- BoE Chair Toguchi calls for suspension of 180-day law
- “Worse than Furloughs” DoE, BoE promise chaos if Legislature Cuts Budget $110M
- Legislature pushes plan to close school, convert to prison
- Still Celebrating Islam Day on September 11, Muslims give away shoes in Kalihi, SA helps them raise money
- Hawaii County Cuts Spending, Holds line on taxes
- OHA $329K buys favor from Hawaiian Orgs
- GRASSROOT INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES 2011 PORK REPORT COVER DESIGN CONTEST
- Hokulia Plaintiff: “My Mom, an Eighty Eight Year Old Bar Fly in Kailua-Kona”
- Officer probed for crash Sunday after license was revoked
- Hawaii Doper Church defeated: Idaho Supreme Court rules against claim that marijuana is a religious sacrament
- HMSA applies to raise plan premiums by 4.2%
- NLRB: OK To Spy on Your Boss
- Threat to internet links? “We need to go out and find out what the hell is happening in Hawaii”
- 125th Anniversary of ILWU
- Mufi: 'CNMI could learn from Hawaii strategy'
- Pacific troops get new leader: The crisis in Japan is a top priority as Francis Wiercinski takes charge
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| Monday, March 21, 2011 |
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March 21, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:09 PM :: 12366 Views
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- The plan to Overhaul Straight Hawaii
- Hawaii 2011 Reapportionment Commission includes Jeff Stone's Wife, Hannemann Staffer married to Rail Contractor
- Hanabusa, Hirono vote for Government Shutdown—Oppose Afghan Withdrawal
- HECO: IBEW got raises, we got two-tier Pension Plan
- Rep Fontaine interviews Bishop Silva, Darryl Vincent on Homelessness
- Excuse: Senate Money Chairman: Hawaii House Budget 'No Longer Valid'
- Visitors still arriving from Japan
- Intent: Anything that is rented or shipped will pay GE Tax under House Scheme to extract $729M from Hawaii residents ($521 per person)
- Tax The Peasants: GE Tax to hit Shipping, Phone bill, Airline travel
- SA: Approve city gas tax increase
- SB367: Committees to discuss $1B undersea Cable Scam Today (Give our money to billionaire wind-scammers)
- Number of bills alive in Legislature shrinks
- HPD Officer Salaries: A Tale of Confusion and Contradiction
- Chairman of ERS Board Responds to George Berish Series on Public Pensions
- Businessman offers plastic bag alternative
- Tipping Fees: Should Private Scrap Yard Get $1.9 Million Subsidy from Honolulu?
- Hawaii burns $2.35M on “Open Space”
- AT&T to buy T-Mobile USA for $39 billion
- Four Hawaii Borders bookstores will close
- Hawaii Small Businesses Absorbing Soaring Gas Costs
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