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Saturday, May 12, 2012 |
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May 12, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 12:34 PM :: 20396 Views
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- Hawaii Republican Convention This Weekend
- Djou Campaign Kickoff Rally May 23
- Hirono's Mainland Special Interests: Follow the Money
- UHERO: Government Millstone is a Drag on Economy
- JSC Names Nominees for Supreme Court, 2nd Circuit
- Governor Makes Appointments to Public Safety Department and DHHL
- VIDEO: Chamber of Commerce Ad for Lingle
- Ceremony marks the return of 4,000 Schofield soldiers from Afghanistan
- Abercrombie: “Environmentalists Not Paying Attention, Ought to take a look at Themselves”
- Nobody Represents Consumers on Hawaii Health Connector
- Queen's may buy and reopen Hawaii Medical Center-West
- Smart Meters to Take Billions out of Your Pocket
- Maui, Kauai Rebel against Smart Meters
- Hawaiian Grabs 82% of Market, Jacks Up Inter-Island Rates
- OHA Orders Shutdown of Poi Mill
- “Support & Cooperation”: Abercrombie Gives Farmers Market 2 more Weeks to Get Out
- Abercrombie, Ouansafi Make Prison out of Public Housing
- Council Votes $325K to Settle Retaliation Lawsuit vs Carlisle
- New UH Chancellor To Be Paid 95K More Than Predecessor
- PBS Hawaii legislative wrap-up gives win to governor
- Businesses satisfied with 2012 session
- Peeping Police Officer Case Set For Trial Next Month
- Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs petitions for Hawaiian green turtle de-listing
- Maui Councilmembers Pay Out Thousands in Bonuses to Staffers
- Construction of $200M windward sewage tunnel gets the green light
- HC&S sours on sugar production, profits up
- Student helping hands LDS members serve through statewide clean-up day
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Friday, May 11, 2012 |
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May 11, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:22 PM :: 21121 Views
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- Full Text: Final Briefs Filed in Reapportionment Case
- Hawaii Republican Convention This Weekend
- Fading Chances for Rail Funding to Pass Congress
- Hirono Attacks Chamber of Commerce
- Flags Fly at Half-Staff in Honor of Chief Warrant Officer Don C. Viray
- Hundreds gather as an Army helicopter pilot killed in Afghanistan is laid to rest
- Hawaii’s Post-War Social Contract Has Collapsed
- PEW: Hawaii Social Mobility Average
- Tax Revenues Up 12.9%
- Dear Dan: Cayetano's Email to Inouye
- Council Votes Another $291M for Rail
- Grabauskas: Debt Ate 30% of Boston Transit Budget
- Is Peter Carlisle an Absentee Mayor or 'Doing the Business of the City'?
- Honolulu Bag Ban Benefits Halawa Manufacturer
- Ka Loko Figure Kusaka Co-Chairs Hannemann Campaign
- Oceanic Reveals Who’s Buying Political Ads
- Star-Adv: State Historic Preservation on Verge of Disaster
- Geothermal Pollution Claims Debunked
- HELCO gets OK for geothermal RFPs
- Omidyar’s Scribblers Launch Plan to Discredit Anti-Wind Activists
- Burlingame, Mizutani leave journalism
- Commerce, Justice, Science: Hirono, Hanabusa Vote ‘No’!
- 60 Minutes Preview: The Gulen Movement
- Mayor signs bill banning retail plastic bags
- Caldwell: “It is clear to me that the Governor is a Strong Supporter of this Rail Project”
- 57% of Governor’s Bills Passed
- Kona Volunteers Buy New Beds for Hospitals, Old ones ‘falling apart’
- Bio-Fool Plant May Get Started in Keaau
- Abercrombie: Secret volleyball idea at Waikiki Natatorium
- Battered by Sex Harassment Suits, Kauai County Politicos Launch New Department
- Kaiser settles with unions for nurses and other workers
- Postal Service plan would cut hours at 12 Hawaii post offices
- Sonar, Plastics: Enviros Re-Launch Hype Attacks
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Thursday, May 10, 2012 |
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May 10, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:40 PM :: 14456 Views
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- US Chamber of Commerce Endorses Lingle
- Bateman Announces Run for State House District Representing Kona, Kau
- Hawaii Superferries Renamed Guam, Puerto Rico
- 22% Proficient: Hawaii DoE Test Scores Reach Level of Alabama, Mississippi
- Hawaii Courts Among the Nation's Worst for Abused and Neglected Children
- VIDEO: Short Range Missile Killer Tested off Kauai
- Abercrombie questions status of rail
- Honolulu City Council Approves $450 Million in Commercial Paper to Strengthen Rail's Financial Plan
- Chamber aids Lingle with $275K in TV ads
- Oi: Thin-Skinned, Out of Touch Inouye Looses Cool, Feigns Offense
- HSTA Cancels Three Negotiating Sessions, Schedules Strike Vote
- Even Now HSTA’s Okabe Doesn’t Understand LBFO
- Honolulu Council Pushes Funds for Profitable Nonprofits
- Hawaii Supreme Court: State Must Fund Dept. of Hawaiian Home Lands
- Hawaii Insurers Alone in Meeting Requirements of Obamacare
- Tourist count to climb to record 7.8M this year, but Economy Grows only 2.2%
- Attempted kidnapping suspect released from OCCC 8 days ago
- Hawaii's first prosecutor-directed cold case murder unit created on Kauai
- 10,000 Big Island Dopers Dumber than One Judge
- City Seeks 30 Unit Apartment Building as Homeless Transitional Housing
- Cabanilla, DelaCruz, Nishimoto: Deficient financial disclosure forms still on Ethics Commission website after two months
- Cashing In: Hawaii Candidates Stockpiling Campaign Cash
- Are Hawaii's Rules On How Political Parties Can Be Financed Effective?
- Hawaii Geothermal Energy Bills Aim To Reduce Oil Use, Energy Costs
- HORIZON LINES REPORTS FIRST-QUARTER FINANCIAL RESULTS
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012 |
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May 9, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:15 PM :: 19979 Views
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- Pay to Play Bus Dealer Selling Illegally in Hawaii?
- Lawsuit: OCCC Guards Slept Thru Ex-Guard's Prison Suicide
- HSTA Reelects Okabe President
- Abercrombie Releases $37.5M in Transportation CIP
- City to Build More Transitional Housing for Homeless
- Lanai Could Be Liberated from Windfarm: Hawaii Land Sale Part of Dole Restructuring
- US Chamber of Commerce to Run More Campaign Ads in Hawaii
- Inouye Exports Hawaii Democrat Money to Mainland
- DHS Decides to Continue Coverage for Artificial Limbs
- Danger Sign: Act 221 Scammers Enthused About State’s Proposed IT Policy
- Cayetano BRT to Feature Designated Bus Lane on King St or Beretania
- Leeward Students Not Fooled by Grabuskas
- State DOT holds meeting on major freeway work
- HART Puts 150,000 pages of Rail Documents online
- Maui: Broken-down buses and growing ridership collide
- Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders Continue to Flee Hawaii
- Homeless near Keaau Beach Park pack up again
- City Contracting: 6 years, $300K to Build Public Restroom in Park
- Kauai Budget: More Spending, Higher Property Taxes
- Theft and forgery by ex-police officer fetch fine of $2,500
- Greenwood: Socialism is Needed to Win War on Obesity
- Marianas Pension Fund Runs Dry June 15
- Luddite Harassment Suit vs GMO Farmer Transferred to Federal Court
- Solomon Behind OHA Settlement, Geothermal Push
- 1 in 20 isle homeowners late in paying mortgage
- Lawsuit: State Removed Residents of Board-Care Home After False Allegations
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012 |
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May 8, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:55 PM :: 18121 Views
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- Lingle to Host Luncheon for Native American Congressman Tom Cole
- Hawaii: Important NRA Instructor Liability Bill Awaits Governor’s Approval
- Marumoto: Mass Release of Prisoners not True Justice Reform
- Thielen: Landfill Cannot Legally be Located at Ameron
- State Releases Information Technology Proposal
- Census Bureau Releases 2010 Data on Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders
- Survey: Hawaii Failing Small Business Owners
- Big Cable ‘Surcharge’ Provides Automatic Rate Hikes to pay for Billion-Dollar Cable
- MDs Scramble to Find Cancer Drugs for Patients
- AP Article on Hawaii GOP Convention Full of Errors
- Maui Mayor: Critics Of Inouye "Completely Out Of Touch"
- Troubled Myron B Thompson Charter School Tied to Solar Tax Credit Contractor
- Teachers' ballot to cover strike: Re-Vote is ‘Insult to Our Intelligence’
- Teachers Hammer Contract Re-Vote: Are You Kidding? It is a Waste of Time
- Race for the Bottom: Education Secretary Arne Duncan Backs Gay Marriage
- Hawaii #5 in Farmers Markets per Capita
- 2012 Senate Race: Where’s the Money Coming From
- Haleakala Raises Questions About Inouye’s Behind-the-scenes Wheeling Dealing
- SB2858 Administration Headed Away from Open Information
- Liberal Women’s Group Gives Hawaii a ‘B’ for Support of Working Families
- Bank of America starts offering mortgage principal reductions
- HB1755 Voter Registration On Line
- Are There Rules Governing How Political Parties in Hawaii Raise Money?
- Shooting suspect needs protection, lawyer tells judge
- Sewer Line Floats to Surface of Ala Wai Canal: City Says, Don’t Worry, We’re building a Railroad
- Tax Increase in Maui County Budget
- Maui council members issue bonuses worth $46K to 17 staffers
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Monday, May 7, 2012 |
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May 7, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:11 PM :: 15723 Views
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- DoH Explains How Taxpayers Fund Gabbards’ Song and Dance Routine
- Federal Suit Threatened: UH-Hilo Violates Rights of Religious Student Groups
- VIDEO: Molokai Mocks Senators who vote 'With Reservations'
- Hawaii Nurse Elected International VP of Union Nurses Council
- Hawaii a 'Harbinger' as Insurers Give up on Long Term Care
- Death on the Job -- Hawaii Ranks 20th
- Calvin Say Refuses House Override Vote to Block Tricare Tax
- HB1967: Conciliation alternative to medical suits
- Hirono Apologizes for not Being Gay
- Who's Giving Big Bucks to Our Senate Candidates?
- ‘Grease Magnate’ Coming to Neil’s Birthday Party?
- Inouye Adopts Alaska Sen Begich
- ACT 51 Weighted Student Formula Robs Small Rural Schools
- DoE, FACE Team up for ‘Community Organizing’
- Honolulu 240 Ethics Complaints in Three Years
- NYT Praises Hawaii’s Pedophile Law—Doesn’t Mention State Exempted Itself
- Feds: Historic Preservation Division Still Falling Short
- Breiner Endorses Takata for Prosecutor
- VA Investigates Punchbowl Marker Relocations
- Hawaii Insurance Company Filings Not Available online
- AG Sues Bogus Online College
- VIDEO: Drowning off Kalapana, diver had to be taken to Pohoiki first
- Castle out of Debt, Beginning Open Heart Surgery
- Depakote: Lawyers Split $100M Settlement with 45 States, Hawaii Gets $1.2M
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Sunday, May 6, 2012 |
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May 6, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:44 PM :: 13898 Views
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- SEC Report: ML&P on Verge of Bankruptcy
- Bankrupt Marianas Islands Pension Fund Advisor Vanishes
- Asking for More by Limiting Deductions
- SA: List of How major bills fared at the Capitol
- VIDEO: Gov. Cayetano: Honolulu mayoral campaign getting nasty
- Borreca: Democratic State Convention “Going to be a Hotbed of Insurrection”
- Rail Finances Take $244.7M from TheBus
- Abercrombie Alienates Labor, Environmentalists, Progressives
- Survey: Vast Majority Agree Legislature, Inouye Out of Touch, Failing
- Civil Beat Poll: Questionnaire, Toplines and Crosstabs — April 2012
- Public benefits offered by developers are often met with doubts
- US Trustee wants Marianas Pension Fund bankruptcy case dismissed
- Hawaii Case Leads Supreme Court to Review Police Use of Stun Guns
- How to Maintain Competitiveness in Tourism
- Financial Advisor: Hawaii Working Class Families Having Difficulty with Gas, Food, Insurance, Housing
- Hawaii Island Democrats Vote to back Geothermal
- AG Targets Property Owner After Third Gambling Bust
- Change 1: Yukimura: Koloa Tenants ‘Ready to Change’
- Change 2: Journey back to Manzanar
- Change 3: Obama’s Gitmo Trial: "They're engaging in jihad in a courtroom"
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Saturday, May 5, 2012 |
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May 5, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:55 PM :: 19192 Views
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- Considering a Run for Office? Free Candidate Training in Hawaii
- Hawaii Falls Short, May Still Lose RTTT Money: Hirono, Hanabusa Pleased
- Statement from Gov. Linda Lingle on the Legacy of the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative
- Rep. Kymberly Pine Pulls Papers Today to Run for City Council
- Full Text: Supreme Court Ruling Allows Waimanalo Gulch to Remain Open
- DBEDT: April, 2012 Monthly Energy Report
- Senate Democrats: Highlights of 2012 Legislative Session
- Rail Contractors Demand Ben Cayetano Stop Telling the Truth about Inouye and his Cronies
- Meheula: Archaeological Studies Would Put Federal Rail Funding At Risk
- Case: Hirono Hurt Hawaii Farmers With Vote Against Free Trade With S Korea
- Hirono’s past actions don’t show support for kupuna
- Mitt Romney's run for president brings church into the spotlight
- Takata Challenges Kaneshiro for Prosecutor
- Hawaii County Police Refused to Arrest Escaped Coke Dealer
- Feds Indict HPD Narcotics Officer for Revealing Identity of Undercover Officer
- Lawsuit: Fire captain's statements About Woman’s Death led to retaliation
- Are Alleged Lottery Operators Eligible For Welfare, Public Housing?
- Missouri AG sues files suit over school band trip to Hawaii
- This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—May 5
- Maui Electric Bills Going Up Another 1.5%
- Lack of inspectors delays the approval of PV systems
- Construction subcontractors can’t withstand prolonged downturn
- Poll: Do Hawaiians Get Enough Benefits?
- Gun toting resident fights, captures attempted murder suspect
- Abercrombie Appoints Socialist Propagandist as ‘Poet Laureate’
- Big Square Building: Legislators Leave, Occupy Arrives
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Friday, May 4, 2012 |
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May 4, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:20 PM :: 15439 Views
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- Abercrombie: Re-Vote on HSTA Contract Has No Legal Standing
- Abercrombie Cheers Big Cable, Release of Criminals
- House Republicans reclaim the legacy of "Teddy" Roosevelt
- Marcus Oshiro: ‘Top Ten Reasons’ to Pass Supplemental Budget
- Mass Release of Hardened Career Criminals Will Begin this Summer
- Repeat Contract Rejection by HSTA Members Will Likely Lead to Strike
- Teachers Angered by Re-Vote, Prepare to Strike
- Vote Count For New HSTA Prez on Saturday
- Legislature Votes to Burn $14.4B
- Senate passes bill authorizing the state to establish regulations for an undersea power cable
- Stabbed in the Back by Sens English and Baker, Molokai and Lanai Wind Opponents Prepare for “Long Road”
- Environmental exemptions for geothermal energy near final approval
- House Kills Transit-Oriented Development Bill
- Tax Tricare? Senate Unanimously Overrides Abercrombie Veto of GET Exemption
- Cayetano Doubles Down: Calls Inouye Uninformed, Out of Touch
- Cayetano Pummels Caldwell, Carlisle Until They Run Out of Questions
- Charter School Accountability, DoE to get a Slice of Pre-K Education
- Go Topless Day Leads to New Speech Regulations
- CB Poll 66% Want to Die but Won’t do it Themselves
- Abercrombie’s OIP Director Insults Open Government Advocates
- Speaker: Thielen is ‘Out of Order’
- Marumoto Wins Funding for Snake Inspection Program
- Nene Transfer Averages $28K per Goose
- Public Housing Tenants Score $500K Settlement
- Insurance Commissioner's Financial Disclosures are Confidential
- First Wind files $15M permit for Hawaii wind farm
- Tax Subsidized Solar Buyers Not Interested in Cheaper Product
- Band Deposits Gambled Away in Vegas
- New graduates face challenging job market
- The Top 10 Facts About Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
- Drugmakers’ Deal With Obama Said to Be Probed by House
- Punatics, SPACE Cadets Fight over land Use Violations by HICCUP Circus
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Thursday, May 3, 2012 |
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May 3, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:39 PM :: 17501 Views
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- As Legislative Session Ends, HSTA Suddenly Decides to Re-Vote Rejected Contract
- Legislative Wrapup: Victories for Life, Family and Religious Freedom
- Hawaii Churches Win Some Protection Against Forced Civil Unions
- SB2785: Ratepayers will Foot Bill for Billion Dollar Cable
- Ethics, Foreclosures, and Workers Comp: House Republicans Speak Out
- 'Dereliction of Duty' -- Hirono Misses Student Loan Vote for Campaign Event
- GAO Details Progress in Jones Act Study Requested by Puerto Rico Congressional Delegate
- Reject SB2776: Beth and Duane ‘Dog' Chapman Open Letter to Legislators
- Cayetano to Inouye Followers: What are you guys? Potted plants?
- One Year Later: DoE Moribund, Evaluation Bill failed
- CEOs: Hawaii is the 41st Best State for Business 2012
- Lawmakers: Send Tourists to the Moon
- SB2434: Last Minute Effort to Push Insurers off Healthcare Exchange Board
- Development, Big Cable: More Polling Results
- AARP Backs Star-Adv Effort to Keep Monopoly on Profitable Legal Notices
- Landfill selection process under scrutiny
- Having a Baby? Go to Kona -- Kamuela, Hilo Maternity Wards Overflowing
- Traffic fines go to myriad special funds held by state
- PUC Opens Docket for Big Isle Geothermal Plant
- Another Hearing Officer in UH Telescope Case Resigns Amid Conflict Controversy
- Luddites Plan Further Litigation against Fish Farm
- Guam Base Location not to be Finalized til 2015
- Tesoro's profitable quarter gets boost from Hawaii refinery
- Teamsters Shake Down Movie Producers Back East, Too
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012 |
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May 2, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:38 PM :: 13619 Views
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- Reps Fontiane, Pine Cheer Passage of Cyber-Crime Package
- Thielen Makes Final Push for Local Food Production Mandate
- As Final Vote Approaches, Molokai Launches Petition to Stop Big Cable
- HB280: Strangled by Bureaucracy, Coffee Farmers Call for Repeal of Mandatory Inspections
- CB Poll: Non-Voters Oppose Gay Agenda
- Senate resurrects undersea cable bill
- Transit-Oriented Development to be Voted Thursday
- Hawaii Medicaid fee fix up for a final vote
- Video: Secret Amendment Creates Public Land Development Corporation
- SB2115 Charter School Accountability to Be Voted Thursday
- Teacher: Interference, Retaliation by Principals Prevents Improvement in Student Achievement
- No Bus Cuts for Elementary Kids?
- Job cuts will not affect adult education services, schools superintendent says
- DOE tries to crack down on employee theft
- HB2175: Restricting OIP Passes House, Heads for Governor’s Desk
- Kona airport, Palamanui campus and NELHA get big CIPs Nearly $50.4M for West Hawaii projects from Legislature
- Services for soldier killed in Black Hawk crash will be May 10
- Cash Call! Fundraisers for Sens. Baker, Ige During Session
- Free Speech protocol required by a court order 10 years ago is moving through the Council
- Occupy Moron Arrested Disrupting Lei Day Ceremonies at Kapiolani Park Bandstand
- State crews clear out homeless camps under Nimitz highway
- Federal Raid Targeting 'Queens of Lottery', Chinatown Gambling Ring
- Star-Advertiser’s print circulation grows by 6%
- Larger newspapers to lose monopoly on publication of foreclosure notices
- Newt Gingrich ends his presidential campaign
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012 |
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May 1, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:26 PM :: 20726 Views
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- Hawaii Family Forum Wins Right to Intervene in Gay Marriage Case
- Hanabusa, Pflueger, Thugs Fail in Effort to Drive Family off Kauai Kuleana Plot, Intimidate Lawyer
- Activist, Videographer Assaulted by Hanabusa’s Senate Security
- Hirono Misses Vote on Student Loan Reduction Goes to Campaign Fundraiser Instead
- Insurers Will Remain on Board of Hawaii Health Connector after Roz Baker Blocks Reform
- Democrats ‘Just don’t know who is going to vote’ in Primary
- Poll Voting, Cynicism Inversely Proportional
- Cost of Borrowing Could Rise: Non-Profits Score $11.6M, HMC Gets $80M in Bonds, Hurricane, Rainy Day Funds Gets Nothing
- Act 48: Legislators to vote on HB1875 foreclosure reform bill
- Ige Disappointed at Failure to Give Tax Credits to Billionaire Hollywood Movie Moguls
- Kobayashi Loses Vote on Restrictions of $450M Rail Line of Credit
- Cash Call! Sen. Kim Holds Fundraiser During Session
- UHM Ed Perfesser: Give Up or The Keiki Will be ‘hurt’ in “Most Destructive War’ over ‘Inane, Manini’ RTTT Grant
- Former school secretary charged with theft
- Land Use undermines Swapmeet? First Haleiwa, next Aloha Stadium
- Kollar Challenges Kauai Prosecutor over Unsolved Homicides
- Head of Honolulu Air Traffic Control Retires After near-miss Hidden from FAA
- City Council committee considers bills to strengthen disclosure requirements, training
- Bill aims to amend tax incentive for historic homes
- Luddites Crushed as Federal Judge Allows Fish Farming in Federal Waters
- Labeling law and voluntary certification would help isle coffee growers
- Guam: 2000 Marines to be Stationed, 3000 to Rotate
- Hawaii Family Rescuing Child Trafficked Victims in Thailand Gives an Update on Their Mission Work
- 1838 Hawaiian bible & map highlight antique collection
- Occupy Activists Arrested in Plot to Blow Up Bridge
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012 |
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May, 2012 Letters to the Editor
By Letters to the Editor @ 10:24 AM :: 8360 Views
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From Mililani: A Better Vision than Rail
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Monday, April 30, 2012 |
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April 30, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:26 PM :: 10509 Views
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- As Legislators Consider Mass Release of Hardened Criminals, Lawsuit Challenges Half-Way House Supervision
- Last Day for Legislation: Hospitals Medicare Fix, Early Release of Criminals, Gay Unions in Your Church, Tax Credits for Solar Scammers, and More
- Honolulu Banquet Salutes Opening of Aloha Pregnancy Center Osaka
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How They Voted April 30, 2012
- Hawaii Christian Coalition Annual Prayer at the Capitol May 3
- Hanabusa Sued over Beating by Sheriffs at Capitol
- Cayetano: Push Polls Backed by Pacific Resources Partnership
- Honolulu bus cutbacks will hit the already disadvantaged
- State’s Top Paid CEO, Big Landowner Say You Can Afford to build Railroad
- As Rail Heads towards Burials Central, State Historic Preservation Division May Lose Federal Certification
- Teacher Evaluations Immediately Become HGEA Make-Work Program
- Legislature voting on charter school omnibus bill
- Off to clumsy start in landfill site pick
- Poll: Why do Hawaii Voters Vote—or Not?
- Hawaii Banks top Nation Again
- Andrew Rosen Named President/CEO of Hawaii State Federal Credit Union
- Audit: Aloha Stadium Authority Mismanages Swap Meet
- Hawaii's Insurance Commissioner Subject to Political Influence
- Arakawa Rejects Proposal to Lift Cap on Maui Hostess Bars
- Hydropower developer gets Koke‘e License
- Barack Obama's mother 'was secretly in contact with his estranged father during his entire childhood without his knowledge'
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Sunday, April 29, 2012 |
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April 29, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:44 PM :: 16213 Views
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- Zero in on Details to Figure Out True Story Behind Bills
- Soldiers, Community restore Kaena Point
- The History of Natural Gas in Hawaii
- Honolulu Attorney Named to Board of Owners Counsel of America
- AUDIO: Rick Hamada interviews Michael Hansen of Hawaii Shippers Council
- Borreca: Cayetano Victory Will Signal Serious Loss of Face for Inouye
- Over 200 Rail Jobs go to Mainland Workers
- Solar Scammers May Yet get Legislative Reprieve
- Monday is Deadline for Bill to Release 1,195 Criminals on Streets of Hawaii
- Hawaiian Electric CEO ‘Earns’ $5.3M, Top 5 HEI Execs Pull Down $12.65M
- Natural gas is cheap, but Jones Act rules it out for Hawaii
- SA: Start laying groundwork for Marines
- State Senator "Appalled" by Newspaper Lobbying Tactics
- Cataluna: New Dump? Lets just Make the Peasants Follow our Garbage Rules
- Why Does Abercrombie Have anything to do with Van Jones?
- Demise of Pro Bowl Political Karma for Abercrombie
- UHH added execs during crunch
- Sewer moratorium impacts planned senior facility
- AG, Large Landowners Block Oahu Burial Council Function
- Hawaii Co Voters Consider Blocking Reapportionment Commission Members from Running
- Kenoi Again Refusing to Fund Hawaii County Workers Pension
- Bronster Seeks Dismissal of NMI Pension Fund Bankruptcy Petition
- Remember PREL? Meet McREL
- Officials Request Permission to Shoot Endangered birds to Save Endangered Salmon
- Nature Conservancy Scientists Challenges War on Invasive Species
- Adopted in 1977 Honolulu, Philadelphia Man Finds Himself on Missing Children Website
- Godfather of local surf a legend
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Saturday, April 28, 2012 |
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April 28, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:15 PM :: 20955 Views
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- GOP Lincoln Day Dinner Draws Hundreds
- Lingle: Americans Losing Trust in TSA
- Hotel Workers Sue Local 5 Over Political Use of Dues Money
- Sa-i-gu: Koreans wrestle with aftermath of LA riots
- Green Energy? Do The Math
- After Soaking Taxpayers for $63M on Bailout, Central Pacific Financial Corp. Reports $13.5 Million Net Income
- Audio: Rick Hamada Interviews Congressional Candidate Matt Di Geronimo
- DHS Grabs 12% of Nursing Home ‘Provider Fees’, Hospitals Soaked for 7%
- Pork: The House wanted $300M, the Senate wanted $500M so they compromised on $825M
- Senate Approves Bill Exempting State Projects from Environmental Regs, Approves Amended Hospital Deals
- Civil Unions Mandate Passes, Deadline Extended Until Monday
- Bill Grandfathers Pension Spiking Rights for All Existing Employees
- Last Ditch Effort for Movie Moguls to Score Megabucks from $500M Senate ‘Accelerator’ Plan?
- ILind: Rep. Choy credited with blocking expanded film industry tax credits
- Hawaii Budget Bills Getting ‘Final Touches’
- JRI: 50% Will Offend Again, so We Must Let these Criminals Out Now
- Rail Vacuums $8 million more out of Taxpayers’ Pockets
- Grabauskas Promises Not to Tear Down One Pillar
- Okabe: BoE Gives Too Much Power to Governor
- Laura Thielen Quits Carlisle Admin to Run for Senate
- Federal Communications Commission votes to make political TV ad spending more transparent
- Unions Back Loser: ILWU's endorsement of Caldwell makes him No. 1 in union support
- HMSA Pays for nearly 2,000 medical flights from Big Island
- Mainland Realtors Score Rail Redevelopment Contract
- Star-Adv: Honolulu Bag Ban Gives Us 3 Years to Impose Bag Tax
- Rooftop Solar Limited to 15%, But Industrial Wind Project claims 16% of Maui’s total
- Maui favored as site for smart-grid testing
- Uncovering the Truth About the Undersea Cable
- Nearly Bankrupt, Horizon Lines Pledges to go to the Bottom With the Jones Act
- Endangered Birds Eat Endangered Taro
- U.S. Marshals arrest Maui teacher for multiple counts of sex assault of 8th Grader
- ‘Scientists’ Change Counting Technique, Find 90% Fewer Sharks
- Rep. Marumoto address SCR 97 - Uninsured Motorists
- GOODWILL FOR GOOD JOBS: GOODWILL INDUSTRIES TO HOLD JOB FAIR MONDAY, APRIL 30
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Friday, April 27, 2012 |
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April 27, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:59 PM :: 14706 Views
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- Seven Hawaii High Schools Compete in World Championship of Robotics
- US, Japan Reach $8.6B Deal on Transfer of 9,000 Okinawa Marines
- Marumoto: Plan to Release 1,195 Criminals is 'Kapakahi'
- KITV Video: Euro Socialist working for UHERO Peddles Plastic Bag Tax Proposal
- Leaked Democrat Emails: “Emotional Chickens” Bicker Over Laura Thielen Candidacy
- 6PM Today is Deadline for Bills to Clear Conference Committee
- Plan to Release Hardened Criminals onto Streets of Hawaii May Be in Trouble
- Poof! The tax credits to Hollywood are up this a.m.
- SB3003 Streamlines Permitting for Geothermal Exploration
- Excellent News: Tsuji Amends Phony ‘Food Self-Sufficiency’ Bill to Prevent another HCEI-type Disaster
- New Hearing Officer in UH Telescope Case is Also UH President's Attorney
- Photos: Bulldozers Rape Earth to Construct Mammoth Tax Shelters
- Ag lands approved for solar farms
- State Evicting Haleiwa Farmers Market On Two Weeks Notice
- Two Projects Already Blocked: Carlisle Admin Announces Sewer Hook-Up Moratorium Until 2018
- Time Warner/Oceanic Cable in broad attack on public access media
- Public housing getting modern renovations with private help
- Hannemann Supports Jones Act
- ILWU Backs Loser Caldwell
- Union Lawyers Score $250K Payoff from Hotel
- Pot-Head Abercrombie Signs Law Banning Spice
- Dopers Push Dolan for Hawaii County Prosecutor
- Oahu travel agent tells school band he lost $267,500 for Hawaii trip
- Council passes anti-bullying resolution
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Thursday, April 26, 2012 |
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April 26, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:53 PM :: 11632 Views
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- Hilarious Video: I Aloha Molokai Rips Civil Beat ‘Fact’ Check
- Hawaii is #2 in Nation for Mortgage Scams
- HMA Warns Against 'Imminent Storm' Caused by Obamacare Implementation
- Feds Begin Forcing Hawaii Island MDs into 'Medical Homes'
- NMI Medicaid Cases “Circulate in Hawaii Like Hot Potatoes”
- Hatch Act Violation: Scandalous GSA Official Starred in Inouye Campaign Ad
- City 'Error': Kahuku is #1 Landfill Site, not Ameron
- Dog the Bounty Hunter, Wife Lobby Against Hawaii Justice Reform Initiative
- Star-Adv: Legislators Should give Cronies $300M in Pork Projects, not $500M
- SB2858: Freedom Of Information At Stake In Legislature
- House to vote on Senate's version of highway safety bill
- $25 million for student transit still falls short of Colluding Bus Contractors Wishes, Matayoshi Searches for Pain Plan
- DoE Slashes $6M from Adult Ed Classes
- Abercrombie Scores Big Victory -- Pro Bowl Likely Ending
- DoE TA Pleads Guilty to Sexting, Stalking 12-yr old Girl
- Made Desperate by Hirono’s Weakness, National Democrats Target Lingle
- HART: Nearly Half of Rail Jobs Have Gone to Mainlanders
- Gabbard Votes for $450M Rail Debt
- Plastic Bag Ban: Honolulu Council votes to Cut Lots of Timber for Paper Bags
- After 58 Years of Democrat Rule, Hawaii Women Suffer 20% ‘Pay Gap’
- Obamacare Bribes Distributed in Swing States: Hawaii Gets Nothing
- Obama Admin Redirects $8.3B to Put off Collapse of Medicare Advantage Until After the Election
- Hawaii Gets OK to Reduce Medicaid Income Eligibility
- Hawaii Politicians Received $2.2 Million in Illegal Campaign Contributions
- Big Island Newspaper Publisher Was Actually Coke Dealer Eugene Esposito—Escaped from Lompoc
- Ethics: Secret Target of Secret Commission Gets Anonymous Reprimand
- Old Geothermal Site Up For New Lease
- Anti-Geothermal Meeting in Pahoa
- Big Island Tea retails for $4800/lb at Harrods
- Lower foreclosure rate helps Honolulu rise in U.S. ranking
- Civil Beat Bases Evaluation of Hawaii ERS on George Berish’s Opinion
- Sen. Hee, Rep. Jordan Hold Fundraisers During Session
- Hawaii's Chief Securities Enforcement Lawyer Resigns
- Hawaii Senate confirms Krieg as state Department of Human Resources and Development director
- Students get a sneak peak at hospitality industry through lens of development program
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012 |
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April 25, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:30 PM :: 23048 Views
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- Full Text: Plaintiffs' Motion for Preliminary Injunction Against Reapportionment Plan
- Clinton’s chief economist supports Jones Act reform for Hawaii
- Relativity Media Using Hollywood Accounting to Sell Hawaii Film Incentive
- DoD IDs Hawaii Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan
- 2,700 Okinawa Marines Coming to Hawaii
- Planning Commission Set to Decide on 15-year Extension for Waimanalo Gulch Landfill
- House Democratic Blog: OE Seeks Funds to Prepare for Possibility of Another Reapportionment Plan
- Court Asked to 'Remedy Extraordinary Wrong'
- Say: SB755 Transfers Control from Environmental Council to Governor’s Office
- SA: Resist limiting public input
- House, Less Pork with More Control
- Cash Call! Rep. Herkes Raises Money During Session
- Rail Contractors Illegally Using Ag Land for Construction Yard
- $80M PM Contra-Flow Plan Will Cut Commutes by 20 minutes
- Federal Judge Voids HGEA Make-Work Fee on Air Cargo
- HB2659: Forces Churches to host Gay Union Ceremonies
- Civil Beat Considers a Gay Marriage with Grabuskas
- Another Bogus Civil Beat Fact Check -- Attacks I Aloha Molokai
- Hawaii now Has 10,000 Medicated Pot-Heads
- More Medicated Drug Pushers Busted
- Big Isle Newspaper Publisher is Escaped Coke Dealer
- Pot-Heads, Group Led by Convicted Drug Dealer Harass Hawaii Co Council over Geothermal
- Psychos Obsess over Radiation Dangers on Kauai
- Kauai’s Troubled Prosecutor Gets Appointment From Abercrombie
- Shapiro: Landfill Plan Kills Jobs, Wastes Money
- Honolulu Salaries 2012 — The City's Big Earners
- EMS Director Questions Merger with Fire Department
- Humane Society Pushes for Conferees on HB108
- House Bill 2703 would commit the Aloha State to doubling the amount of food we grow in the islands by 2020
- Feds Investigate Fourth Killing of Monk Seal
- 9%: Hawaii has Most Multi-Generational Homes in Nation
- Business group donates iPads for DOE teacher evaluations
- Gingrich to leave presidential race next Tuesday, sources say
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012 |
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Letters to the Editor, April 2012
By Letters to the Editor @ 12:44 AM :: 18156 Views
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- Transit: Make Better With What We Have
- Tripler Suicide: Army Less Stressful than Bad Marriage
- Does Assisted Suicide Reduce Murder Rate?
- Seek Truth in Response to Physician Assisted Suicide
- Well written and thoughtful letters from young Hawaiians
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012 |
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April 24, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:19 PM :: 12092 Views
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- Contractor Scores Hawaii RTTT Assessment Contract
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted April 23, 2012
- Hawaii has no consumer advocates, national advocacy official says
- Justice Reinvestment Preview: Zero-Tolerance Probation Used as Excuse to Let Quadruple Rapist Walk
- 1195 Hardened Criminals to be released onto streets of Hawaii, 48.8% expected to Reoffend
- Teacher: Please Reject Race to the Top
- HART Addition: Spend $119M to Build and Tear Down Rail, Avoid $22M in Delay Claims, Total Savings $194M
- They’re Baaaack! Film company trying to resurrect huge new tax credits
- Solar Scammers Give One Last Push to Save their Illegal tax Credits
- Socialists Give One Last Push for State Bank of Abercrombie founded on Toxic Mortgages
- Meeting in Secret, Legislature Decides How Many HGEA Make-Work Jobs To Create
- Usual Crooks, Cronies Lineup to back Maile Shimabukuro
- Hawaii Lawmaker Voted on Bills Backed By His Employer — Oceanic Cable
- Accreditors want public input on HPD's adherence to policies
- Suffering Under Obama’s Earmark Ban, Inouye Delivers a Piddling $5.8M
- Inouye’s DoA $250M for Rail Cited as Earmark Work Around
- Honolulu Council to Vote on Bag ban or Bag Tax Wednesday
- City Moving On $10M H-POWER Sewage Burner
- Usual Suspects Attempt to Block Construction of Haleakala Solar Telescope
- Full List of Honolulu City Employees Published
- Hawaii Residential Electric Bills up to $847 per Month
- Hawaii’s Willoughby Eliminated in First Round of Utah GOP Voting
- Legislation on air quality could close Nuuanu crematorium
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Monday, April 23, 2012 |
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April 23, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:45 PM :: 10790 Views
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- Full Text: 2012 HSTA Legislative Endorsement Questionnaire
- DHS Proposes Merging Medicare, Medicaid
- Health Exchange Launches First Stage of Computer Program to Control Your Health Care
- Senate Likely to Shift Republican Even Without Lingle Victory
- Waipahu Man Among Four Hawaii Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan
- Sierra Club: Unlike Lingle, Abercrombie Hasn’t Met a Farm He Doesn’t Want to Pave
- Carlisle Demands Council Approve $450M credit line for ‘Unforeseen’ rail ‘Catastrophe’
- SB2927 Contradicts Grabuskas’ Call for Rail Transparency
- Case Decries Sierra Club Endorsement of ‘Endless Partisan Warfare’
- Case Burns Money While Hirono and Lingle Save for Fall
- Green Energy Scammers Seek to Cover Ford Island Runway With Solar Panels
- HB2275 / SB2466: Hospitals Step Up to Make Medicare, Medicaid Work
- Patients pay Annual Fee to Get 30 minute Doctor Visits
- Four-Time Child Rapist Gets Probation
- Another man stabbed outside of Mayor Wright Homes
- Bugs, Snakes, and Mosquitoes Feature in This Year’s Pitch for More HGEA Make Work Jobs
- Techie Creates Online Campaign Finance Database
- State Audit Information Often Withheld from Public
- Louie takes a Slap at Clayton Hee, Borreca over Kakaako Deal
- Enviros Brag About Ending Traditional Hawaiian Cultural Practices
- Hawaii banks report more lending, Profits
- Hawaii teams win awards at world robotics meet
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Sunday, April 22, 2012 |
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April 22, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:07 PM :: 15585 Views
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- Zip Needed in Public Decision Making
- Hawaii Court Ruling Challenges Gun Ban After Non-Violent Misdemeanor Conviction
- DHS Money Grab Threatens Hawaii Hospitals, Nursing Homes
- HSTA Candidates Bicker Over Who is Better at Killing Education Reform
- Senate Shows Little Interest in Environmental Exemption Bill
- Star-Adv: Hirono should debate Case more often
- Suzanne Case: Stop Global Warming Because I need to Get to My House on Round Top
- Sierra Club Endorses Hanabusa, Hirono, Gabbard
- Retail Giants Want to Make Sure they Get a Cut of the Bag Tax Action
- Kakaako advocates rally against OHA’s residential development
- Hawaii Should Demand Labeling of ‘Organic’ Foods
- Dispute reveals OHA Grant Funded Kawaiaha'o Disinterment
- Defense Lawyers Upset over Bill Protecting Animals
- AP: Hawaii College Grads Face Worst Job Prospects in Years
- KIUC smart meter rollout to begin
- Political Pressure, New Competition Bring New Cuts In Star Advertiser Ad Rates
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Saturday, April 21, 2012 |
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April 21, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:38 PM :: 19450 Views
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- Selection Committee Proposes Kailua Site for New Oahu Landfill
- Utility Rejects "Expensive, High Risk" Undersea Power Cable Project
- Ward, Slom, Marumoto Talk Story at Maunalua Bay
- “Dumbest Decision in City’s History” Rail Construction to begin Monday
- Legislators Pressured by HSTA Legislative Endorsements During Session
- 93% Not participating in Earth Day activities this weekend
- Sovereignty Scammers’ Lawyer Scores $1.2M in Estate Settlement
- House, Senate Conferees Debate How Much Control Gays Should Have over your Church
- Billionaire Movie Moguls Could Still Get Hawaii Tax Credits
- Cash Call! Fundraisers for Reps. Evans, Awana, Mizuno
- Lawmakers working to iron out details of 'move over' bill
- SA: Fine on city an empty gesture
- Hawaii Tourism Authority Gives $1.1M to Profitable NonProfits
- Pflueger Federal Tax Case Split Into Three Trials
- Appeals court upholds labor ruling against Hilo newspaper
- DoH Harasses Farmer, Forces Destruction of Crops
- Kauai Administration pondering property tax increase
- The Dalai Lama isn’t a rock star
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Friday, April 20, 2012 |
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April 20, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:59 PM :: 11936 Views
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- After Dumping Goldman Sachs, Hawaii ERS Quietly Seeks New Managers for $1.2B
- Jobs? Hanabusa Votes Against Tax Cut for 97% of Hawaii’s Employers
- Lesson from Hawaii: Is the GOP really the party of fiscal responsibility?
- HSTA Lawsuit against Laupahoehoe Charter School Dismissed
- US News and World Report Ranks UH Manoa
- Akaka Co-Sponsors Bill to Protect Civil Rights of Military Personnel
- Federal Correctional Officer Charged with Sexual Abuse of Detainee
- Three Convicted in Looting of Am Samoa Non-Profit
- Abercrombie Appoints Jo Ann Uchida Takeuchi DCCA Deputy Director
- Abercrombie Releases $34.2 Million for CIP
- Listening Sessions for Ocean Resources Management Plan
- Well written and thoughtful letters from young Hawaiians
- Six University of Hawaii Regents named
- Stiglitz: Jones Act, Young Bros and High Electricity Cripple Hawaii
- SA: Reveal credit union executives’ pay
- Alcohol and Sign Printing at the Hawaii Co Elections Office
- Secret Budget Negotiations Continue Until Monday
- Tax Credits Don’t Pay Off but Bogus Last Minute ’Studies’ Sure Do
- Chong: Solar Tax Credits Siphon Money from State
- Rail contractor's request for $15.9M Change Order first of Many to Come
- $250 million for rail Likely to Die in US House
- HART vs. LIUNA: Whose Responsibility it is to Blackmail Council Candidates?
- School Busses: Legislators Push Back Against DoE’s “Irresponsible Fear-Mongering”
- Laura Thielen: “People think I am a Republican; I would have a tremendous amount of support in the Republican Party”
- Price: Is there an Upside to SB2858?
- State Demotes Securities Regulator
- State Agencies Ignore Auditor’s Reports
- First Honolulu Mayoral Debate Set
- Yoshioka Beginning to Choke on Bus Service Cuts
- Despite Warnings and Pleas, Honolulu Rail Headed for 'Burials Central'
- PUC Delinks Oil and Wind: Wind Scammers Lose $330,000/yr
- Eco-Faddists Demand Bag Tax to Harass People into Obeying Their Religious Dogma
- Double Header: Two Sheriffs On Trial This Month
- After Stabbing, Ouansafi Praises Security
- Stoned Drunk Driver Drives over Cliff, State to Pay $3M
- First Hawaiian Continues to Profit by Refusing to Lend to Deadbeats
- State Income Tax Due Today
- Senate confirms 3 Board of Education members
- Community school could turn into state's first adult charter school
- ‘Pregnant Man,’ Splits From ‘Wife’ Of 9 Years, Going Through ‘Rough Patch’
- Hawaii One of Few Places in US With No Licensed Aerial Drones
- Retirement Fund Bankruptcy: Worst time in CNMI history
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Thursday, April 19, 2012 |
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April 19, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:57 PM :: 14916 Views
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- Legislators Voting to Release 1,100 Criminals on Streets of Hawaii
- HB425 Opens Door to Natural Gas, Mandates Diversity of Fossil Fuel Energy Sources
- Save Kakaako: Rally to Stop HB2819
- Hanabusa Scores $284,000 in special interest money
- DoE Announces Public School Graduation Dates
- US Energy Dep't: 300 Open Criminal Investigations of Green Energy Scammers
- Star-Adv Editorial: Census should guide election boundaries
- Hawaii Co Elections Office: Alcohol, Parties, and Sign-making Business
- Rail? Cayetano? Abercrombie Spokesperson Gives Non-Denial Denial
- Bus Ridership Jumps as City Considers Service Cuts
- Rail Project Cases Argued in Federal, State Court
- Desperate Green Energy Scammers Now Claim their Baksheesh Benefits Economy 44-1
- Legislature Voting to Let Lots of Criminals out of Prison
- Lawsuit Settlement Will Cover up Homosexual Rape Gang stretching back to 1970s at Blind-Deaf School
- Hawaii Kevorkian Taunts Police
- Pathetic Hawaii Supreme Court Gives Alleged Attempted Babykiller New Trial
- Hanabusa Pays Herself $51K from Campaign Funds
- ‘Buzzy G’ Coordinates Senate Democrat Fundraisers so Lobbyists Can Avoid Scheduling Conflicts
- Tsunami alert: Don't cut that program
- President Obama signs Hawaii disaster declaration
- Stimulated? Hawaii Burns Thru $1.5B in ‘Recovery’ Funds
- Business chiefs try to ride to the rescue of rail project
- Failure to Block: Hanabusa, Hirono Vote Against Small Business Tax Cuts
- Rep. Pono Chong on SB 755, Environmental Protection & the Public Trust
- Bag Tax in Political Death Throes
- City Employees Travel to Germany to Oversee Sewer Pipe Manufacturing
- Council Spends on Travel and TVs
- GSA Watchdog Says Employees Are Reporting Abuse
- Hawaii Could Establish a Veterans Court modeled on Drug Court
- Act 208 Blocks Crazy Stupid Criminals from Working as Security Guards
- Bank Fees don’t Pass Legislature
- NELHA Aquaculture Pays Off
- City Council committee approves measure to Create Kayak Rental Monopoly in Kailua
- Lahainaluna HS to Celebrate David Malo Day
- NMI Retirement Fund Bankruptcy Goes to Court
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012 |
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April 18, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:48 PM :: 8460 Views
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6. Legislators Begin Secret Budget Negations
7. Abercrombie Comes out Against Rail, Backs Cayetano
8. Judge invalidates Pay-to-Play Rule Under which Rail Contracts Awarded
9. Government Union Members Have no Effective Process to Report Corruption
10.US Sen. Daniel Akaka doing well after dehydration?
11."Fraud, waste, corruption:" Congress decries GSA culture
12. Lingle #1: Case's fundraising totals trail Hirono's by wide margin
13.LDS: Without Religious Freedom, Hawaii Civil Unions Law Likely Unconstitutional
14.Democrats Consider lawsuit to Knock Laura Thielen Off ballot
15.Cash Call! Reps. Kawakami, Shimabukuro Latest to Hold Fundraisers During Session
16.Water Board Nominees Approved over Hee’s Objections
17.More schools volunteer for teacher evaluation pilot program
18.TheBus uses half the energy that rail would use
19.Mainland Solar Contactors form Front Group to Save their Baksheesh
20.HECO, MECO in top 10 for Solar Penetration
21.Firearm registrations break records in Hawaii
22.ERS Dumps Goldman Sachs, Looking for New Equity Managers
23.Malu Mota Fundraiser Meets Convicted Killer in Kau
24.Report: Hawaii Women Make 80% of Males’ Income
25.Judge approves Univ. of Hawaii data breach class action settlement
26.Congressman alleges China helping North Korea with ICBMs
27.Dalai Lama eyes reform in China, fearing return to 'Cultural Revolution'
28.$1M to Bring Dalai Lama to Hawaii
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012 |
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April 17, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:18 PM :: 18318 Views
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- Djou Outlines Strategy for Congressional Race
- Challenge to Democratic Party Bosses: Laura Thielen Launches State Senate Campaign
- No Natural Gas for Hawaii with Jones Act Ships
- Malulani Hospital seeks Mainland Partner
- Hawaii Bishop at Vatican, Prays for Courage to Defend Religious Liberty
- Hawaii Marines Lead Offensive Against Jihadi Dope Farms
- Election plans move ahead despite pending lawsuit
- Were Political Signs Printed at Hawaii County Elections Commission Warehouse?
- Akaka Hospitalized over weekend? Misses Key Vote
- KHON Retracts Story About Inouye Hospitalization
- Borreca: Solving Natatorium issue could be Governor's legacy
- Hannemann has $631K to Gabbard’s $465K
- State Refuses to Enact Tax Credits for the Poor
- Bill to speed development at rail depots moves ahead
- TEA Party Rally Draws few to Capitol
- Star-Adv: Haleiwa Farmers Market Should Move to make Way for State Paper Shufflers
- Hawaii Whistleblowers Not Protected from Retaliation
- EPA Working Hard to Make Sure Nobody Saves Money with Seawater Air Conditioning
- Waimanalo Gulch Hearing Today
- Enviros Sue Maui County over Wastewater Again
- Hawaiian Airlines Inaugural Flies Jewel Smugglers to Japan and back
- As City Cleans up Last Big Waianae Coast Homeless Camp, Some Finally Accept Shelter
- VIDEO: Homelessness Industry Activist Harasses Makaha Beach Cleanup Volunteers
- MD Busted for Selling Dope
- SB2579 Encourages Underage Prostitution?
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Monday, April 16, 2012 |
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April 16, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:37 PM :: 10921 Views
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- Dalai Lama Slams Beijing for Burnings
- Hawaii Bishop at Vatican, Prays for Courage to Defend Religious Liberty
- Honolulu TEA Party Rally April 16
- Case: Far Left Hirono is just as Bad as Limbaugh
- Rail Advertiser: Don’t Add 4th Lane to H-1
- Abercrombie Tries to Block HFF From Defending Marriage
- Blue Planet Foundation Legislative Agenda: Higher Utility Bills for the People, More Tax Credits for ‘Green’ Energy Scammers
- OSHA to Take Over Takamine’s Incompetent DoL?
- In spite of High Cost of Living, Hawaii Workers’ Earnings Below US Average
- Hawaii doctors offer patients 'choice' to die
- KHON Retracts Story About Inouye Hospitalization
- NHLC Shake-Down Lawyers Still Grabbing for Control of Public Water
- 13% of OHA Small Business Loans Default
- Kobayashi to Credit Unions: Disclose Exec Salaries, or Face Property Tax Hikes
- Congressional hearing on GSA's lavish spending begins Monday
- Politics: Leaders debate Micronesia impact in US areas
- Micronesia: Fishing days to dominate treaty talks
- Vacation Rental Legislation is Deceptive
- 90% of Hawaii Financial Disclosures Hidden from Public View
- Shoppers and farmers are dismayed over the state forcing the Haleiwa Farmers' Market from its site
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Sunday, April 15, 2012 |
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April 15, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:29 PM :: 9921 Views
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- Lingle to Focus on Comprehensive Tax Reform
- Ed Week: Hawaii in Biggest Trouble, Feds Have Good Reason to Revoke Race to the Top
- UH: Hawaii Physician Shortage Could Grow from 600 to 1600
- SB3010: Sierra Club Threatens to Sue over Environmental Exemptions
- Zenith Reached in Earmarking of Unrelated Fund Sources
- QUEST Rationing: Hospitalization, Artificial Limbs Eliminated to Pay for ‘Preventative Services’
- Hee: OHA Must Go After More Land and Money
- SB2438: PUC to Rely on HECO-Controlled ‘Institute’ to Approve ‘Clean Energy’ Projects
- Bag Tax, Big Cable, and Kupuna Care Lead Star-Adv Editors Legislative Priorities
- Ihara: ‘Gut and Replace’ Hits New Peak this Session
- Will Natural Gas be Allowed to Lower Hawaii’s Electric Rates?
- State Capitalists Raise Money for Pro-Rail Propaganda
- Hanabusa Brings in $224,000
- DoH Bans Backyard Burning Statewide—$10,000 Fine
- Hawaii Would Be Hit Hard by Buffet Rule
- Akiona: Obama Budget Targets Independent Contractors
- Guam National Guard Teams to Deploy to Afghanistan
- UH Manoa Perfesser Predicts Future Census Questions: How many times have you changed your sex?
- Hardships do not faze new BYUH student president
- Lawsuit: Waikiki Shooting Gallery Charged with Negligence
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Saturday, April 14, 2012 |
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April 14, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:47 PM :: 23491 Views
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- Mazie Brings "Mr Fannie Mae" to Hawaii
- Hawaii Shippers Council Outlines Jones Act Reform Proposals
- Hawaii Economic Performance Ranks 15th, Economic Outlook 46th
- Hawaii Youth Link Assisted Suicide to Teen Suicide
- Makers of Promotional Products Rally to Defense of Rail
- SB2341: Would Allow Overnight Accommodations on Maui Ag Land
- SB2394: Would Allow Condemnation of Private Property to Bail Out Mortgage lenders
- VIDEO: Thielen, Rivere, Ward Rip SB755 Environmental Exemptions
- Case: Hirono Now Ducking 10 Debate Invitations
- Public Access TV Relegated to Digital Siberia
- Adrianne Heely Appointed Maui Judge
- North Korea's Rogue Missile Launch
- Redistricting case will be heard in May
- HSTA pressure kills class-time bill
- Educated Youth Flee Hawaii
- Waipahu Students Not Fooled by Rail Presentation
- Abercrombie’s Wife Endorses Tulsi Gabbard
- Legislature out of control on attacking Hawaii’s environmental protections
- Civil Beat’s “integrity investigation” questioned by Ian Lind
- Legislators Consider Giving Sex Workers Welfare, Labor Law Protections
- Honolulu TSA Screeners Acquitted of Catching too Many Illegals and Too Many Drug Smugglers
- GSA official to assert privilege to remain silent
- World Laughs at Incompetent Socialists in N Korea
- Illegal Dumping Settlement Dumps on taxpayers
- After Hee’s Bill Fails, Opihi Season Requested by Resolution
- Schatz traveling to Asia to discuss clean energy Scams
- Kauai electric utility will begin installing smart meters
- Horse Cruelty Case May Be Tossed Due to Bumbling Kauai Prosecutor’s Office
- Homeless Alcoholic Busted in Kauai Church Fire
- UH Manoa Perfesser Preaches His Atheist Religion at California Revival Meet
- Some Hawaii post offices offering late collections on Tax Day
- International Marketplace to Be Demolished
- Photo: First axis deer killed on Big Island
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Friday, April 13, 2012 |
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April 13, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:31 PM :: 10182 Views
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- Lingle Campaign Raises $3.1M
- Not Aimed at Hawaii This Time: N Korea Rocket fails, falls in Ocean
- Celebrate Israel Day Hawaii, May 20
- Am Samoa Congressional Race: Radewagen, Lancaster Challenge Faleomavaega
- Salon: Am Samoa's Congressional Delegate Defends Dictatorship at Behest of Lobbyist
- Abercrombie Signs Kakaako Over to OHA, HCDA Maintains Development Control
- HB 108- Dog Fighting OK, Dog Breeding Illegal
- Payment Protection: State Sues Seven Mainland Credit Card Companies
- Akaka: Lingle is ‘Friendly’, Her Role Model is ‘Open-Minded’
- Tipping Point? Isle Democrats lead charge against the environment
- Abercrombie Dept of Corrections Appointee Flees State
- SA Editors Grasping at Straws Claim: Teacher evaluations within reach
- DOE seeks extra funds to preserve Colluding Bus Contactors
- Grabbucks: New HART Boss Pulls Down $300K / year
- Grabbucks vs TheBus: “Rail is the Gift that keeps on Giving”
- Inouye: The Only Thing That Will Stop Rail is World War III -- Carlisle: We Need to Build an Army
- Cayetano: "Carlisle prone to Making Stupid Statements"
- Caldwell: Carlisle “Crazy” To Build Rail Columns and tear them Down
- Honolulu Council Keep Rail Budget Intact
- Malama Solomon Scores Worst Senate Attendance Record
- House OKs charter school bill despite divisive ethics provision
- Senate Passes bill Requiring minimum sick leave
- State deputy sheriff accused of sexually assaulting female detainee
- April electric rates up on all islands except 1
- Crooks, Cronies Squabble over Geothermal Royalties
- Haleiwa Farmer’s Market to Stay open til end of Month
- DoH Harasses Local Businesses, Cane Fire Gets Fine
- Solar Telescope Construction May Begin Despite Permit Challenge
- SB2402: Dim Bulb Legislators Vote to Block State Use of Fluorescent Bulbs, Stadium Lighting on Edge
- Leading Theocrat Hailed by Billionaire as He Launches Four Day Hawaii Tour
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Thursday, April 12, 2012 |
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April 12, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:35 PM :: 10487 Views
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- Lingle, Collins: "Bipartisanship is Leadership"
- VIDEO: Guam Senator Garners Support for Jones Act Exemptions
- The View from DC: No Sign Hawaii is Serious about Teacher Evaluations
- State Steals $200M from Hawaiians, Gives 30 Ac to OHA: Hee, Solomon Boycott Signing
- Matthew DiGeronimo to Run for CD2
- Linda Lingle's Role Model: Susan Collins of Maine
- Useless $75,000 Drone Traced to Waihee Cronies
- Boylan: Hawaii Dems Suspicious of Party-Switchers
- GSA Spends $330,000 to Relocate One Employee to Hawaii, Then He Quits
- Manoa Chancellor Candidates At the End of their Careers
- Number of police officers holding medical marijuana cards remains a mystery
- Police Warn Chinatown Shopowner not to Antagonize Meth Dealers, Threaten Him With Arrest
- City Council Would Create Bureaucracy to Track Plastic Bag Use
- Stanley Chang: Give Councilmembers $40K more to Play With
- State orders Haleiwa Farmer's Market to close
- Koa Ridge, Hoopili Last Big Master Plans?
- Profitable Nonprofits Lose 19%
- Few Hawaii Donors Support Presidential Super PACs
- Plan would squeeze 4th lane into Honolulu freeway
- Historic Kauai Church Vandalized on Easter Eve
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012 |
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April 11, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:35 PM :: 17445 Views
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- Three Judge Panel Will Hear Reapportionment Case
- Honolulu TEA Party Rally April 16
- Study: Hawaii Cost of Long Term Care Soars 87% in Five Years
- Carlisle Admin: Keep Waimanalo Gulch Open 15 More Years
- Legislators Exempt State from Child Molestation Claims
- Horizon Lines Completes Restructuring
- Marumoto: SB2858 Relating to Closed Government
- Activists attack bills that exempt construction projects from review
- Without High-rises, OHA Cannot Justify Kakaako Toxic Waste Cleanup Expense
- Civil Unions, Bag Ban, Taxes, Tax Credits Set for Crossover
- Big Victory for HSTA: House Kills Teacher Eval Bill, $266M in Federal Funds at Risk
- HGEA Inks Fake Principal Accountability Evaluations
- Rail development proposal fails to give public a voice
- Geothermal to be Issue in Hawaii County Mayor’s Race
- Big Wind Opponents Suffer Defeat in House
- Rep Mele Carroll Misses 25% of Sessions, Makes Excuses
- Hawaii Gov’t Hiring Tarnished by Nepotism, Cronyism, and Patronage
- SB2115 Would Allow Nepotism in Charter Schools
- GSA employees travel to Hawaii five-days for a one-hour ribbon cutting, Planning 10 day return Trip
- Feds Bust HPD Officer with Medical Marijuana Card for Multi-Location Grow-Op
- Wisconsin Homosexual Child Molester Gets 10 Years in Waikiki Molestation cases
- Top Five Lobbying Spenders
- Senate: DLNR Officers Don't Need Taser Training
- Federal Taskforce Stacked by Homelessness Industry
- Styrofoam: Mainland Green Energy Scammers Attack Hawaii Restaurant Industry
- TPL Aims for 16% Profit on Sale of Swampland
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012 |
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April 10, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:09 PM :: 10528 Views
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- Yoshioka: Bus Service Cuts Have no Connection With Rail
- $25M Kapolei Biofuel Refinery Produces 5 Barrels per Day
- While Hawaii Legislators Sleep, Another State Bars Companies Doing Business With Iran
- Federal judges will hear challenge to state reapportionment plan
- N.Korea presses on with anniversary rocket launch
- BoE to Vote on Teacher Accountability
- Budget: Abercrombie Paying $11,700 per Goose, $168K per Delinquent
- Rail Opponents Ask Judge For Decision
- Rail crews continue search for ancestral bones
- An environmental review of Rail precast facility OK'd, Could Lead to new Lawsuit
- Environmentalists rally against "dirty dozen" bills at capitol
- SB2785: Big Cable for Big Wind Vote Today
- Paper bag use Soars as Plastic Bags banned on Maui, Kauai
- Bag Distributor Wants Amendments to City Bag Ban
- Akaka Committee to Meet With AWOL Soldier
- Soft on Crime: Suspect in Arson, Killing of 97-year-old Has 8 Convictions
- Politically Connected Public Housing Resident Calls for State to Ban Smoking in Homes
- Crystal meth use drops among workers in isles
- Unions Use Sewage Plant As Endorsement Backdrop
- Nepotism Not Illegal in Hawaii
- Hawaii judges' pay Lowest in Nation
- What Do Hawaii Lawmakers Have Against Ethics Code?
- Government Health IT Comes to Hawaii
- Teen Pregnancy Rate Continues to fall
- Honolulu Residents Abuse City’s New 311 Service
- Long lines shift from DMV to Health Department
- Harbors Dep’t Buys Useless $75K Drone
- Occupy Honolulu expands encampment to Central Pacific Bank
- State offering mortgage assistance to first time homebuyers
- Allegiant Air to Start Hawaii Flights
- How Hawaiian princes brought Surfing to Britain in 1890
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Monday, April 9, 2012 |
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April 9, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:26 PM :: 15819 Views
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- Pacific Rim GSA: 115 iPods Missing
- RNC Moves to Boost Hawaii GOP
- Hawaiian societies caught as much fish as modern fishers
- HSTA Leader: Abercrombie, Legislators Should Switch to Republican Party
- Daughtery Challenges Okabe: The top-down approach has bankrupted teacher morale
- Gov. Lingle Selected Laura Thielen for Her Cabinet Based On Talent, Not Political Affiliation
- Hawaii Gaming Promoter to Host $1M Obama Fundraiser
- Airline Exec Offers to Campaign Against Lingle in Exchange for Subsidies
- Republicans Overwhelmingly Reaffirm Ted Liu as National Committeeman
- Council Support Wavers As Key Rail Vote Looms
- Kauai District Attorney Recuses Herself AGAIN
- Runner for political seat would be youngest ever to hold office in state, at 18
- Tobacco giant Philip Morris was top lobbyist during May-December 2011
- State Workers having a Hard Time Scoring Workers Comp Bennies
- Hawaii Owes $60,000 in Airport Workers’ Harassment Suit
- Electric Car Drivers May Face Federal Charges
- SA: Make room for bikes on roads
- Hawaii Turns to Dog Shrinks As 'Incessant Barkers' Enter Pleas
- Ninth Circuit Revives Lawsuit over Religious Marijuana Use
- Laupahoehoe Charter School names new Principal
- Kids' English takes priority at Kalihi School
- Highlighting Hawaii's problem of child abuse
- Mokulele Flights to Chicago, London put on hold
- Supreme Court’s Ratings Jump Following Health Care Hearings
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Sunday, April 8, 2012 |
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April 8, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:34 PM :: 18342 Views
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- Hawaii Among Worst States in Nation on Taxing the Working Poor
- GSA Scandal: Lingle Takes Aim at Waste and Fraud
- Zero Confidence in Lawmakers Revealed
- Big Island Prosecutor Candidate Promises to Re-Open Peter Boy Case
- State Senate Candidates Scramble to Distance themselves from Abercrombie
- Boylan: Romney May Be Next President
- New tax credits sought for Billionaire Movie Moguls
- Borreca: Legislators Rejected Lingle’s Call to Stop Taxing the Poor
- Kauai Democrats: Never make the mistake of electing a Republican governor again
- Tulsi Gabbard Would Repeal DOMA
- Cataluna: Hilo Peeping Tom Beaten
- MADD: Pass HB2320 Ignition Interlock
- State Gets off Easy After Hiring Doper as Spinal Surgeon
- DoE Closing Adult GED Schools
- RTTT pays to Hire 200 Un-Licensed Obamabots to ‘Teach’ in DoE Schools
- Punatic: Only 1% of Oil Used to generate Electricity is Imported
- Navy Testing New Generation of Power Buoy
- UH athletics could lose $2 million
- Japan Prepares to Shoot Down North Korean Missile
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Saturday, April 7, 2012 |
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April 7, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:02 PM :: 17592 Views
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- Lawsuit: Veterans, Military Personnel Challenge Hawaii Reapportionment Plan
- NTU: Hanabusa voted for 91% of Tax Increases, Hirono 88%
- Push Poll Audio: "Berg got so drunk ..."
- Biofuel: Honeywell Hints at Tesoro Refinery Takeover
- Big Island Paper Pushes Back against Equal Representation for Military Families, Students
- HR61: Legislators Salivate for Legalized Honu Hunting
- New Tax Evasion Charge Filed Against Retired HPD Major Nishimura
- Honolulu Bag ban Would cost Stores $30K month, Cause Paper bag use to Skyrocket
- Lingle the Only Reason there’s a Tossup
- Aiona will focus on practicing law but is still open to public service in the future
- Aiona ‘Excited about Opportunity to bring people together’
- Rivere, Say, Aila, Harris Debate Environmental Review Exemptions
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Shapiro: Political mess deepens as sewage sludge returns
- OHA, Enviros Only Get One Water Commissioner
- HB2236: Funds Commission to Study Ways to Raise Your Taxes
- Shelving of 2 bills hampers reform of workers' comp
- Mitch Roth running for Hawaii County prosecutor
- Castle’s Man in DoE Retires
- HPD Employee Faced Retaliation for Sex Harassment Lawsuit
- Star-Adv Backs AWOL Surfer Soldier
- Dalai Lama's visit, peace initiative will show isles to the rest of world
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Friday, April 6, 2012 |
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April 6, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 11:41 PM :: 13250 Views
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- Lawsuit: Veterans, Military Personnel Challenge Hawaii Reapportionment Plan
- Okabe to Obama: Abercrombie is 'Difficult'
- US Constitutional Convention? Hawaii State House Wants to Write Obamacare into Constitution, Strengthen Power of President
- VIDEO: Hawaii Federal Rapper at Center of Latest GSA Scandal
- Hawaii's Good Friday Holiday - What's Up With That?
- Seek Truth in Response to Physician Assisted Suicide
- Thielen May File as Democrat, Challenge Party to Sue
- Political Comeback? Former Sen. Fred Hemmings Says Hawaii is Ready to Change the 'Status Quo'
- Charles Djou: Back from Afghanistan - Ready for Political Battle
- Lingle acknowledges her challenge as a pro-choicer
- Duke Aiona Leaves St Louis School Job, Returns to Law Practice
- Insurers Launch Big Brother Medical Records System
- New Hawaii State Securities Lawyer: $900,000 In Back Taxes, Child Support
- Gore Cult Praises Hawaii’s Preparation for Global Warming, Demands More
- Water Board Appointees Get Instructions for Malama Solomon’s Water Deliveries
- Abercrombie Admin Backs Castle & Cooke Development
- Honolulu Council Campaign Getting Ugly
- Feds Bust Five in cockfighting, illegal gambling case
- Online Poker Site Accepts Hawaii Players
- Double Murderer Charges Parole Board Vindictive, Gets New Hearing
- Food businesses face fee 1050% Fee hikes to Create HGEA Jobs
- W. Oahu churches expand to serve growing congregations
- Open-ocean cages get state's approval
- "Pacific Gibraltar" -- Important New Book on Hawaiian History
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Thursday, April 5, 2012 |
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April 5, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:25 PM :: 22288 Views
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- U.S. Senator Susan Collins Visits Hawaii
- Guam Legislator Calls for Exemption from US-Build Provisions of Jones Act
- Rep Kymberly Pine Running for Honolulu City Council
- Hirono Supporters Worry about Candidate’s Ability to Go One-on-One vs Lingle
- Lingle: Pro-choice Republican women Needed in Senate
- Inouye, Muslims Raise Money for Michigan Democrat Senate Candidate
- SA: Legislators Should Let Housing Authority Ban Smoking in Public Housing
- April 6 is ‘Tax Freedom Day’ in Hawaii
- Abercrombie to Steal $200M from Hawaiians, Give 30 ac to OHA Trustees
- Hurried House Rushes 13 Bills to Hearing
- Ernie Martin: Honolulu Will Move Bag Tax
- Honolulu Budget panel Decides Horses are Agricultural: OKs restoration of tax breaks for horse owners
- Abercrombie: No Declaration for Annual Hawaii Prayer Day
- Pacific Palisades Shooter Was Watch Commander at Wahiawa Prison
- Oi: Thielen is type of Candidate Democrats Need
- Enviros Prepare to Destroy Tuna Farm
- Sen Roz Baker Makes Excuses for Vacation Rental Bill
- Improvements at Kewalo may hinge on public-private partnership
- Hawaii SB2168 Will Activate Nationwide Reinsurance Tax Clearinghouse
- HB2703 Directs Dept of Ag to Maintain Count of Local Grown Food
- State senators table workers comp bill
- Rep. Giugni’s Fundraiser During Session
- Are Hawaii Judges Governed By Conflict Of Interest Rules
- “Clean Energy’ Stimulus Funds Burned by State, Cronies, Utilities, and Profitable Nonprofits
- Tesoro Sale Casts Doubt: Federal Stimulus Still Not Stimulating Many Jobs at Local Biorefinery Plant
- Biofool Scammer Makes Nice in Hamakua
- Christian Sparks Propane Price War in Puna
- 6 Occupy Honolulu protesters plead no contest, nobody cares
- Descent Into Haole: 'The Descendants' Dissed
- City offers online Sunshine Law training for board, commission members
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012 |
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April 4, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:35 PM :: 12600 Views
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- KOS: The Secret Behind Mitt Romney’s Hawaii Landslide
- Faleomavaega: Bahrain’s Best Friend in Congress
- Hawaii: Is the Obama Administration Giving States Flexibility When It Rejects Proposals to Reduce Medicaid Costs?
- Suicide Activists Line up Hawaii Doctors to Kill Patients
- Honolulu Community College Announces Final Three Candidates for Chancellor
- The Seven Rules of Bureaucracy
- Atheist Advertiser vs. First Amendment: ‘Don't allow anti-civil union actions’
- Democrats, Media Carefully Avoid Any Discussion of Illegality in Thielen Rejection
- DoE Pulls Out All the Stops to Save Funding for Colluding School Bus Contractors
- Reforming Hawaii's charter schools: 5 myths and 5 realities
- HB2819: Kakaako Development Gut and Replace
- Small Contractors to be Cut Out of $500M in CIP?
- State's answer to its budget deficit is crippling small construction companies
- HB466: Workers Comp Reform Proposal Described as Sop to Pill Mills
- Act 221 Scammers, Insurance Companies Team Up With Abercrombie Admin to Profit from Controlling Hawaii Health Exchange
- Health exchange board needs to be accountable to public
- Hawaii to receive part of $137.5M WellCare settlement
- University of Hawaii-Manoa Chancellor Candidate Eliminated Two Dozen Degree Programs at MSU
- Abercrombie’s Apocalypse: The King Nebuchadnezzar Effect
- Enviros Pounce on Abercrombie Water Board Nominees
- Rent-a-Mob: Anti-Geothermal Punatics Hammer HECO
- Another Mainland Solar Contractor Seeks Profits from Hawaii Tax Credits
- Small Businesses Losing Revenue Due to Bag Bans
- Gabbard Adds Bottle Tax to Plastic Bag Tax Bill
- NPS Short Circuits Bottle Ban After Donor Complaints
- Food Truck Fix Passed, Signed into law
- Soft on Crime: 13-year Criminal Record, Out of Jail 1 month Tries to Run Down officer in Stolen Jeep
- Mayor Won't Cancel Sewage Treatment Contract
- ‘October Baby’ Well Received in Honolulu, Slated for National Rollout
- HPD officers say enforcing 30-year old policy endangers their lives
- Hawaii Still Waiting as Coast Guard Rolls Out ‘Rescue 21’ System on Mainland
- Inouye, Wife Visit Arab-American Museum
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012 |
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April 3, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:36 PM :: 20037 Views
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- Pentagon Prepares for Possible Shoot Down of North Korean Missile
- Ko Olina, Kyo-Ya Snag HTA Board Positions
- ACLU: Hawaii Counties Among Few Requiring Warrant to Track Cell Phones
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How They Voted April 2, 2012
- Feds Reject Hawaii’s 10-Day Medicaid Hospital Limit
- While Cutting Services, Hawaii fails to reap up to $80M in federal Medicaid money
- As Legislators Threaten to Impose Accountability, HSTA Pretends to become interested in Negotiations
- $11B budget bill moves ahead
- Rep Har Pushes Abercrombie’s SB755 Environmental Takeover
- Lanai Voter Regrets Abercrombie Vote
- Abercrombie, Hee Team up to Push Dogs-in-Restaurants Bill—Restaurant Owner Must Clean Up Dog Poop
- As Filipinos Move to Middle Class, they Line up with Republicans against Rail
- Assisted Suicide: Six Hawaii Kervorkians Announce Plan to Commit Manslaughter
- Star-Adv: Police Should Get Record of Everybody’s Prescriptions
- Study: HECO Overpaying for Windfarm Electricity by 200% to 300%
- New emission controls will cost shippers billions
- Hee Pushes Thru Bill to Block Public Housing Residents From Smoking in their Own Apartments
- Non-Resident VR Owner feels ‘Kicked in the Face’
- Ethics Commission Nixes OHA’s Lawmaker Invites
- Legislators still slow in filing financial disclosures
- Bankruptcy filings down 25.4 percent in March
- HLTA takes applications for Hannemann's position
- Candidates for UH Manoa Chancellor set to visit the Manoa campus
- H-Power Recycles All Metals in Waste Stream
- HB1947: Anti-Small Farmers Bill Backed by Agribusiness
- Is The Way Hawaii Selects Judges Transparent?
- Drunk Driver Kills Two, Families of Victims Given $210,000 by State of Hawaii
- Hawaii Whale Population Increasing 7% Per Year
- Beck to Publish Book on Obama’s Communist Mentor
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Monday, April 2, 2012 |
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April 2, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:51 PM :: 13737 Views
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- HB1033: Tracing the Financial Outlines of Socialism in Hawaii
- S&P: Credit Risks Mount For U.S. Domestic Shipping Companies As Ships Start Showing Their Age
- Vancouver Sun: Hawaii Vacation Rental Bills Violate NAFTA
- Abercrombie: Unions Better Wake Up, HSTA Contract Will be up in June
- SB682 Could Change Terms of OHA Settlement
- Ethics: Belatti Throws Clunker into Charter School Reform Bill
- Today may be the last chance to remove monopoly health insurers from the Hawaii Health Connector
- Green Energy Bank would Use Hawaii General Fund to Build Wind farms Nationwide
- Is It 'Reckless' To Build Honolulu Rail Before Feds Commit Funds?
- Second Crossover Deadline Thursday
- Mufi Teams Up with Guam Republicans for Fundraiser
- Hawaii Scores 25% for Executive Branch Financial Disclosure
- Pay raises advocated for city officials
- Molokai condo lawsuit gets big result, lots of news
- Condo losses from theft now $100,000
- Obstacles to Veterans Transitioning into University Education?
- Private Schools Raise Tuition 3%-6%
- State House resolution calls for lower shipping fees on Internet purchases
- EXCLUSIVE: Honolulu Zoo's full accreditation restored
- Maui: 450 Idiots Spend 10 Hours Listening to Conspiracy Huckster
- Charlie Maxwell Changed With Pension, Free Time
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Sunday, April 1, 2012 |
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April 1, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:16 PM :: 10599 Views
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- Felony Inducement? Laura Thielen Senate Run Rejected by Democratic State Committee
- Zing To Taxpayers, You Are Paying For Those Giveaways
- Lingle Calls for Reauthorization of Export-Import Bank
- Gallup: After Electing Hanabusa, Urban Honolulu Drops from 4th best to 57th
- Broken Trust Figures Abercrombie, Hee, Levinson: Churches Must be Forced to Conduct Gay Union Ceremonies
- Star-Adv: After Supremes Overturn Obamacare, We Will Still Destroy Prepaid
- Multiple Violations: DCCA Securities Enforcement Headed By Lawyer Sanctioned by Hawaii Supreme Court
- Feds Loss on Central Pacific Bailout Estimated at $63.1M
- SB682: Another Waikiki In the Making?
- Unity House Looted of Another $800K in Lotus Hotel Deal
- Hawaii's marriage rates by community
- Soft on Crime: Burglar Released Early After Multiple Convictions, Kills 3 year old boy in Drunk Driving Hit and Run
- Cataluna: Which Drunk Legislator was Dumber?
- Star-Adv Profiles AWOL Soldier Surfing Northshore
- JSC: Nobody Wants to be on Hawaii Supreme Court
- Police Will be Overseeing your Prescriptions
- Waterman Aka Hemmings is dead at 59
- NMI: Signature campaign to Allow Land Sales to Outsiders begins
- Hawaii County report offers 40 recommendations to improve tax policy
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Saturday, March 31, 2012 |
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March 31, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:25 PM :: 15403 Views
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- Overworked Doctor Commits Suicide at Tripler
- Honolulu Tea Party Rally, Monday April 16
- Bailout: $60M Loss as Feds Sell Interest in Central Pacific Bank
- HTA: Visitor Arrivals up 2.5% from Year Ago
- Hawaii NRA Instructor Liability Bill to be Heard in Senate Committee
- Applicants Sought for Chair of the Elections Commission
- Kealakehe Selected as Site of Future Judiciary Complex in Kona
- DLNR Snares Slowly Torture Pigs
- April 22 is Deadline for Reapportionment Litigation
- Tires Slashed, Signs Stolen: Cayetano's Campaign Targeted Again
- Spending Billions on Rail, City Now Cuts Back on TheBus
- Aging Flower Child Abercrombie Morphs into Spiro Agnew
- After Decades, Kamaoa Wind Farm Finally Being Torn Down
- After Kamehameha – DHHL Deal Fails, Jeff Stone Sells Golf Course to Firm Headed by Micah Kane
- Data Mining May Penalize Doctors Who Help Poor, Homeless
- Bag Tax May Not Be Heard in House?
- Frankel: “Big money’s at stake” on Haleakala
- HSTA Will Resume bargaining April 5
- Sunshine Law likely to be amended by several pending bills
- Amid gold rush to recruit veterans, concerns over rankings of "military friendly" colleges
- Medicare Paying $15,000 to Save Old People’s Vision
- NAACP sunset vigil to honor King and victim of Florida shooting
- Council approves $10K for Police Commission counsel
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Friday, March 30, 2012 |
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March 30, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:45 PM :: 13766 Views
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- Barney Frank on Maui: Hirono Raises Funds with Man Who Caused Housing Collapse
- NRA: Immediate Action Needed on Hawaii Instructor Liability Bill
- Abercrombie: We Need to Move Past Self-Appointed Hawaiian Organizations
- OHA Cronies Will Get $200M worth of Land to Personally Profit From
- Abercrombie: I delayed Capital Improvement Projects for 20 Months
- Laura Thielen, Former Lingle appointee, to run for SD25 as Democrat
- Hawaii Legislature Advances Law in Hopes of Deceiving US Department of Education
- Plan to Let Criminals Out of Prison Stripped from Bill after Ala Moana Work Release Arrests
- Mandatory Sick Leave: Another Made in San Francisco Pipedream
- Property Management Firms Behind Non-Resident Vacation Rental Owners
- Inouye Behind Firing of Haleakala Hearing Officer
- Bag Ban Littered With Confusing Exemptions
- Who Speaks for the Abercrombie Administration?
- Losers: Hirono, Hanabusa vote against House Budget
- Josh Green Lines Pockets as State Health Connector Nears Approval
- Wooley, Hooser Bob and Weave as Dirty Dozen Near Approval
- SB2927 Will Help Line Up TOD Developers for Rail
- The Navy will withdraw from service three ships at Pearl Harbor in the next two years
- Change state Constitution if you want to rein in debt
- Star-Adv Desperately Looks for Justification of $100K Gift to Atheist
- Split in trade groups lobbying for Hawaii’s solar/PV industry
- Hawaii one of Only 8 States to Raise Cigarette Taxes
- Waste to Energy Proposals Sought in Maui, Hawaii
- Maui Resident Appointed to National Taxpayer Advocacy Panel
- Hawaii becomes 20th state to certify Americans Elect on November general election ballot
- Hawaii leads nation in electric vehicle charging stations
- Profitable Non-Profits Drive Expanding Definition of Autism
- Hamakua Resident Roseanne Barr Publishes Address of George Zimmerman’s Parents
- Zoo Suspects Crazy Bums Freed Tawny Frogmouth
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Thursday, March 29, 2012 |
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March 29, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:19 PM :: 11715 Views
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- Rail Plaintiffs to FTA: We suspect that you are no longer shocked by the City’s deceptive practices
- Abercrombie: Environmental Critics Are 'Apocalyptic Naysayers'
- Hawaii's fallen heroes remembered in medal of honor ceremony
- Abercrombie Rambles at Medal of Honor Ceremony
- Hawaii Is Tops in Cronyism, Nepotism, and Patronage
- Hawaii: Highest State Debt Per Capita
- State Owned Bank: $4B at Risk to Reward Cronies
- Out-of-state workers already on the rail job
- Star-Adv: We Want Our $75M--Use HB2527 to Pressure HSTA on RTTT Settlement
- Lingle Campaign Slaps Down Democrat Attack on Republican Jewish Coalition
- Hawaii Charter School Overhaul Looks Likely
- Pay raises suggested for top City and County jobs
- Civil Beat Loses Chief Editor
- Kailua, Urban Honolulu are Top Communities for Divorced Persons
- Census: Honolulu and San Diego Swap Residents
- Nearly $3.9M award from jury over Molokai ‘campaign of intimidation’
- Feds Bust Airline Workers Allegedly Moving 300 lbs of Meth to Hawaii
- Prison Guard Arrested for Allegedly Shooting Up Pearl City
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012 |
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March 28, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:45 PM :: 15659 Views
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- Lingle Commends US Chamber for Tourism-Focused Senate Testimony
- Life of the Land Releases Hawaii Energy Report
- State, County Projects Exempt from Environmental Review? Thielen, Rivere Rip SB755
- Teacher: DoE Allows Students to Take and Re-Take Tests until they Pass
- SB1332: Kobayashi UH Exemption to be Continued?
- Is Honolulu Rail Debt Causing Budget Cuts?
- Grabuskas: Rail Funding not Guaranteed
- Sen. Roz Baker Blasted Over Hearing Conduct
- Slom: Health Exchange Lacks Sunshine, Ethics
- HMSA seeks rate boost
- HB2175: Task-Force Lobbyists to be Exempted from Ethics Code
- Hawaii Adds 1,200 Gov’t Jobs, Loses 33,800 Private Sector Jobs
- Paid Sick Leave Mandate on Today’s legislative Agenda
- Young Brothers’ President Nominated to Board of Ag
- Hawaii GOP 'Still Looking' for Candidate to Run in Congressional Race
- New guns for Hawaii sheriffs packed up & shipped back to Smith & Wesson
- Horizon Lines' debt restructuring puts future in limbo
- Gay Waikiki Murder Trail Continues
- State says condo funds must be deposited locally
- Vandals strike Honolulu Zoo, exotic birds missing
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012 |
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March 27, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:43 PM :: 15576 Views
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- Report: HSTA not to Blame for All Delays in Race to the Top
- Hawaii GOP Appoints New Executive Director
- Obama Whispers Away America's Security
- Banks to Pay only 20% of Mortgage Settlement
- Giant radar returns to sea as N. Korean launch looms
- Abercrombie’s Medical Plan: Iowa Senator Pushes Hawaii to Dump Psychiatrists off Medicaid
- New health board is off to an uncomfortable start
- New Secret Weapon in Federal Anti-Rail Lawsuit in Honolulu: University Law Students
- Performance Evaluations front and center as RTTT Squad Arrives
- Criminal UPW Boss Gary Rodrigues on the Loose in Honolulu, Looking for a Job
- Cyberbullying, Kiddie Porn on Legislative Agenda Today
- Abercrombie Victory: No Plans being made for 2013 Pro Bowl
- Can Abercrombie be Held Accountable for his Actions?
- City Down to ‘only’ 150 Sewage Spills a Year
- Higher Electric Bills Ahead: PUC Gives Go-Ahead to Biofool Scammers
- Sex Offenders on the Loose
- HPD investigates 100,000 missing police reports
- Ritte Demands Boat Visiting Molokai Hand over Cash
- Lawmakers question UH Manoa Chancellor's necessity
- Certified Hawaii CEO Fired – Was Allegedly Stealing from Homeowners Associations
- What delayed news of theft by CEO of major property management firm?
- 9th Circuit Voids Hawaii Foreclosure Sale
- 9th Circuit Rules on Waikiki Coral Damage Fine
- $65,000 to preserve WWII Japanese-American internment sites in Hawaii
- Taro task force looking for members
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Monday, March 26, 2012 |
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March 26, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 9:54 PM :: 10490 Views
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- Prince Kuhio: The bridge from Kingdom to State
- Obama to Russia: ‘After My Election I Have More Flexibility’ on Missile Defense
- Hirono, Hanabusa Vote Against Tort Reform
- US House Report: Funding for Kahuku Windfarm is ‘Junk’, Industrial Solar Failing
- Did Hawaii Geothermal Developer Benefit from Illegal Bailout?
- On the Money: Abercrombie's RTTT deal with HSTA
- Tax credit for renewable energy faces reductions, curtailed caps
- Big solar firms said to hog potential HECO megawatts
- HECO Feed-In-Tariff (FIT)
- Fuddy: Pension Spiking is Written into Union Contracts, Cannot be Outlawed
- City called lax in collecting land tax
- House Judiciary Ctte Votes to Give $100K to Atheist, $231K to Criminals
- 43% of DoE Employees are not Teachers
- Hawaii State Salaries 2012: Pay Per Pupil By Complex Area
- US Supreme Court declines to hear Pacific Beach Hotel case
- Court lets bankrupt owner sell local TV station KIKU
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