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| Tuesday, November 11, 2025 |
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Three names on list to fill vacant Maui council seat
By News Release @ 2:20 PM :: 828 Views :: Maui County, Politicians
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... applications for the Kahului residency area seat must be received by the County Clerk no later than 12:00 noon on Monday, November 10, 2025 ....
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| Tuesday, November 11, 2025 |
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SHPD Begins Updating Statewide Historic Preservation Plan
By News Release @ 1:56 PM :: 143 Views :: Development
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... Take the statewide survey available online ....
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| Tuesday, November 11, 2025 |
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60 Mentally Ill Inmates at WCCC
By News Release @ 1:35 PM :: 137 Views :: Law Enforcement
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... Over 60 inmates who are treated by the WCCC Mental Health Unit participated in today’s event ....
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| Tuesday, November 11, 2025 |
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Alleged Chinese Spy Given Hawaii Mansion
By Court House News @ 1:15 PM :: 178 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, COVID-19
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... Linda Sun was formerly a high-ranking aide in New York’s government. Now, she and her husband face potential prison time ....
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| Tuesday, November 11, 2025 |
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PUC Chair Resigns
By News Release @ 1:07 PM :: 142 Views :: Energy, Hawaii State Government
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... The Governor is currently accepting applications to the Public Utilities Commission ....
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| Tuesday, November 11, 2025 |
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Survey: 75% of Hawaiʻi’s Workforce May Leave
By News Release @ 2:11 AM :: 282 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Cost of Living
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... survey of over 3,200 local workers from across industries shows the cost-of-living crisis affects families across the economic spectrum ....
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| Tuesday, November 11, 2025 |
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HPD Seeks Community Feedback to Enhance Public Safety Services
By News Release @ 1:56 AM :: 204 Views :: Honolulu County, Police
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... The survey will run from Nov. 8 through Dec. 13, 2025 ....
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| Monday, November 10, 2025 |
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HPD finds Missing Tennessee Child Living in Van with Criminal in Hawaii
By News Release @ 2:52 PM :: 280 Views :: Honolulu County, Family, Law Enforcement
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... The juvenile’s father has a lengthy criminal history in both California and Hawaii that include multiple counts of domestic violence, abuse, drugs, battery, and burglary ....
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| Monday, November 10, 2025 |
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Hawaii DoE Backs Down Completely From Punishing Teacher for Allowing Kirk and Trump Discussion on Constitution Day
By News Release @ 12:42 PM :: 416 Views :: Education K-12, First Amendment
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... an 8th-grade history teacher, taught a federally mandated lesson about the Constitution for Constitution Day ....
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| Sunday, November 9, 2025 |
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Eligible Charges
By Tom Yamachika @ 2:48 PM :: 377 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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... some health insurance programs don’t cover general excise tax that we in Hawaii impose on health care charges ....
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| Saturday, November 8, 2025 |
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Bishop Street Lawyer Behind OHA Power Grab?
By Andrew Walden @ 10:37 PM :: 1296 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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"... Kahele ... retained new outside Board counsel (Paul Alston) without consultation, approval, or notice to the Board ...."
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| Saturday, November 8, 2025 |
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Flagged for being too efficient?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:36 PM :: 667 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Development
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... is Honolulu’s building permit process so broken that fast-moving approvals are automatically suspicious? ....
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| Saturday, November 8, 2025 |
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'Building common ground' housing event travels to Kauai on Wednesday, Nov. 12
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:33 PM :: 456 Views :: Kauai County, Development, Land Use
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...Grassroot Institute of Hawaii and Hawaiʻi Appleseed Center for Law & Economic Justice have teamed up with the Rice Street Business Association....
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| Saturday, November 8, 2025 |
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Just the beginning: 36-40 Flights Cut over Weekend
By News Release @ 6:29 AM :: 1530 Views :: National News, Tourism
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... We expect to cancel roughly 36-40 flights each day through Sunday, Nov. 9 ....
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| Friday, November 7, 2025 |
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$360M: HDoT Launches 113 Bicycle, Pedestrian Projects
By News Release @ 1:08 PM :: 421 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... HDOT will invest approximately $360 million in multimodal projects over the next 10 years ....
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| Friday, November 7, 2025 |
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Hilo, 1881: Gaming for Control of the World's Largest Church
By Selected News Articles @ 1:47 AM :: 673 Views :: Hawaii County , Hawaii History, Religion
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“Kekoa tried the same game here some two or three years ago.”
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| Thursday, November 6, 2025 |
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OHA Approves Emergency Relief Payments for Native Hawaiians
By News Release @ 11:23 PM :: 1330 Views :: OHA
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... OHA estimates nearly 14,000 Native Hawaiian beneficiaries may qualify for the $350 direct payment to help meet food costs ....
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| Thursday, November 6, 2025 |
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Lawsuit: OHA Budget Process Rooted in Illegal Power Grab
By Andrew Walden @ 7:03 PM :: 896 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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... OHA C-suite officers could be subject to criminal sanctions ....
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| Thursday, November 6, 2025 |
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Hawaii Household Debt Highest in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 3:21 PM :: 916 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... and increasing ...
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| Thursday, November 6, 2025 |
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Ex-Justice Wilson: Hawaii Judiciary Believes Courts have duty to protect future generations from Climate Change
By News Release @ 12:43 AM :: 679 Views :: Environment, Ethics
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"Hawaii’s right to bring such litigation, he noted, has been threatened by the federal government's attempts to block such litigation."
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| Thursday, November 6, 2025 |
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AI Tool Helps You Keep Track of Hawaii Government Actions
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:24 AM :: 464 Views :: First Amendment, Hawaii State Government
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... keeping up with myriad government actions is challenging ....
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| Thursday, November 6, 2025 |
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| Wednesday, November 5, 2025 |
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Hawaii AG joins suit over Trump’s limits for FEMA grants
By Court House News @ 11:18 AM :: 525 Views :: Maui County, National News, Hawaii State Government
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...attempt by Trump to curtail the agency’s programs and shift the burden of emergency management back to individual states, as it was before Katrina....
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| Wednesday, November 5, 2025 |
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Hawaii AG joins suit to protect student loan forgiveness for 'illegal purpose' nonprofit employees
By News Release @ 11:01 AM :: 488 Views :: Higher Education
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...the Department of Education issued a rule that threatened to remove eligibility for student loan forgiveness to anyone who works for someone with “a substantial illegal purpose.”....
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| Tuesday, November 4, 2025 |
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DoH Preps Hemp Retail Registration System
By News Release @ 10:42 PM :: 445 Views :: Small Business, Drugs
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... Office of Medical Cannabis Control and Regulation (OMCCR) is launching an outreach and education initiative to encourage voluntary compliance among hemp retailers and distributors, including online and out-of-state businesses ....
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| Tuesday, November 4, 2025 |
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Matson Partners with WhaleSpotter to Commercialize Breakthrough Whale Detection Technology
By News Release @ 2:23 PM :: 523 Views :: Environment, Jones Act
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... monitoring to reliably detect whales up to three nautical miles away, day or night ....
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| Tuesday, November 4, 2025 |
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Restoring ʻĀina, Restoring Ourselves
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 2:19 AM :: 590 Views :: Agriculture, Land Use, OHA
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... Across Hawaiʻi, many lands remain unused ....
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| Tuesday, November 4, 2025 |
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County of Maui seeking volunteers to serve on Boards and Commissions
By News Release @ 2:06 AM :: 418 Views :: Maui County
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... need volunteers for more than 30 panels, including Liquor Control Commission, Maui Planning Commission, Police Commission, Salary Commission, Urban Design Review Board, Fire and Public Safety Commission and others ....
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| Monday, November 3, 2025 |
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Convicted Felon Arrested and Charged After Stealing Multiple Firearms from a Storage Locker
By News Release @ 6:36 PM :: 633 Views :: Law Enforcement
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... Campbell was previously convicted of burglary in the first degree in 2001 and has six prior felony convictions in the State of Hawaii ....
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| Sunday, November 2, 2025 |
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Easing farmworker housing rules crucial to Hawaii’s agriculture future
By News Release @ 5:45 PM :: 943 Views :: Agriculture, Development
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... having clear standards and not a bunch of hoops to jump through ....
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| Sunday, November 2, 2025 |
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Ohana Voices: Artificial Intelligence-powered civic-engagement platform
By News Release @ 5:35 PM :: 524 Views :: First Amendment, Hawaii State Government
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... to revolutionize how Hawaii residents communicate with legislators ....
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| Sunday, November 2, 2025 |
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TATmas Tree
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 757 Views :: DHHL, Taxes, Tourism
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... Department of Hawaiian Home Lands is proposing Legislators again hike the Transient Accommodations Tax ....
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| Sunday, November 2, 2025 |
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Halloween is over, but spooky creatures still haunt us
By News Release @ 1:28 AM :: 514 Views :: Jones Act, Rail
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... the Jones Act goblin, the budget banshee and the grasping rail ....
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| Saturday, November 1, 2025 |
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Why Are Fewer Young People Identifying as Trans?
By Selected News Articles @ 5:47 PM :: 1343 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Higher Education
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... since 2023 both trans and queer identification have dropped sharply within Generation Z ....
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| Friday, October 31, 2025 |
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State Tax Competitiveness--Hawaii Ranks 41st
By Tax Foundation @ 11:48 PM :: 701 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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... the general excise tax (GET) has an extremely broad base that includes virtually all business inputs, both goods and services, leading to significant tax pyramiding ....
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| Friday, October 31, 2025 |
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After 500,000 Warnings, Speed Cams Begin Issuing Real Tickets
By News Release @ 11:27 PM :: 946 Views :: Honolulu County, Law Enforcement
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... Since March, HDOT has sent over 500,000 warnings ....
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| Friday, October 31, 2025 |
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Tourist Count Drops 2.5%
By News Release @ 4:30 PM :: 1029 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Tourism
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... there were 690,858 total visitors to the Hawaiian Islands in September 2025, a 2.5 percent decline compared to September 2024 ....
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| Thursday, October 30, 2025 |
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$250 per person: State Opens up Welfare Spigots to Make up for Loss of SNAP
By News Release @ 11:54 PM :: 1228 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... Applications for the $250 Hawaiʻi Relief Program will be accepted beginning today, Wednesday, October 29, 2025 ....
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| Thursday, October 30, 2025 |
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Petition: Investigate Legislator who took $35K Bribe
By News Release @ 2:51 PM :: 2332 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Law Enforcement
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... A Hawaii lawmaker who allegedly pocketed $35,000 in exchange for political favors remains unnamed and uncharged, despite federal court records confirming the transaction ....
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| Thursday, October 30, 2025 |
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Koko Head Shooting Complex Back at 100%
By News Release @ 12:46 AM :: 631 Views :: Honolulu County, Second Amendment
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... The opening of the metallic silhouette range represents the final range to be reopened at the Koko Head Shooting Complex since its initial closure in September 2022 ....
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| Thursday, October 30, 2025 |
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| Wednesday, October 29, 2025 |
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Hawaii is Failing in Affordability and Homebuilding: Can Gov. Green Change That?
By News Release @ 6:13 PM :: 942 Views :: Development, Hawaii Statistics, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... Green became the first governor in the nation to declare their state’s housing crisis a statewide public emergency in summer 2023 ....
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| Wednesday, October 29, 2025 |
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Maui Council to Meet November 3 to Establish Process to Fill Vacancy
By News Release @ 3:54 PM :: 875 Views :: Maui County, Politicians
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... The process would closely follow steps taken by the council in 2002 to replace Council Chair Patrick Kawano, who passed away while in office ....
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| Wednesday, October 29, 2025 |
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HART Board of Directors Elects New Chair and Vice Chair
By News Release @ 4:33 AM :: 891 Views :: Rail
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... following the resignation of Chair Colleen Hanabusa on September 26, 2025 ....
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| Wednesday, October 29, 2025 |
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Kamehameha Admissions: Without Affirmative Action Defense, Who Needs Victimology?
By Andrew Walden @ 2:13 AM :: 3696 Views :: Akaka Bill, DHHL, Education K-12, Judiciary, OHA
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... By eliminating affirmative action as a defense for Kamehameha’s admissions policy, SFA has done us all a favor ....
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| Tuesday, October 28, 2025 |
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Hawaii Joins 22 States Suing to Keep Welfare Cash Flowing
By Selected News Articles @ 5:12 PM :: 626 Views :: National News, Hawaii State Government
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... Coalition Urges Court to Immediately Restore SNAP Funding Relied Upon by 42 Million Americans ....
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| Tuesday, October 28, 2025 |
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Final request: Kama asks Council to name Kauanoe Batagan as her successor
By News Release @ 2:29 PM :: 1183 Views :: Maui County, Politicians
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... Kauanoe Batagan is Executive Director of the Maui Metropolitan Planning Organization ....
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