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Entries for 'Andrew Walden'
| Wednesday, August 14, 2013 |
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Star-Advertiser Gets it Wrong: Obama Cannot Act on ‘Sovereignty’
By Andrew Walden @ 1:58 AM :: 7124 Views :: Akaka Bill
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...the Schatz and Hanabusa camps seek to outdo each other in hare-brained schemes to invent the Akaka Tribe. And the Star-Advertiser editorial board has been suckered by the rhetoric....
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| Sunday, August 11, 2013 |
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Akaka Tribe “Disenrollment” -- 75% of Hawaiians “will not be acknowledged”
By Andrew Walden @ 9:00 PM :: 7874 Views :: Akaka Bill
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The Akaka Tribe hasn’t even formed yet--but the expulsions have already begun....
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| Saturday, August 10, 2013 |
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Not Just Hawaii: Insurance Companies Reject Obamacare Exchanges--Reid Predicts Single-Payer Coming
By Andrew Walden @ 2:03 PM :: 4416 Views :: Health Care
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Just as in Hawaii, the Obamacare Exchanges in other states are not attracting insurance competitors....
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| Tuesday, August 6, 2013 |
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Act 268 Hawaii Unfunded Liabilities Plan: Pot of Gold for Corrupt Union Leaders
By Andrew Walden @ 9:29 PM :: 9945 Views :: Ethics, Labor
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OPEB-related corruption has been in the news for years. For instance....
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| Saturday, August 3, 2013 |
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Ashford Nomination Challenged on Ethics
By Andrew Walden @ 6:20 PM :: 8391 Views :: Ethics, Judiciary
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The ethical response is to try again, not to proceed in violation of Hawaii law and court rules....
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| Monday, July 29, 2013 |
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Skeletons in the Closet of the Wind
By Andrew Walden @ 8:44 PM :: 12524 Views :: Energy
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| Monday, July 29, 2013 |
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Hanabusa: Obama Considers Creating Akaka Tribe Without Congressional Approval
By Andrew Walden @ 12:27 AM :: 9056 Views :: Akaka Bill
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"We know he will seriously consider our request to use his executive branch authority to achieve this elusive goal."
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| Sunday, July 21, 2013 |
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Solar Scam: DoE Overpays $612M for Athletic Supporter?
By Andrew Walden @ 12:27 AM :: 8136 Views :: Education K-12, Energy
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“I don’t think you understand the gravity of the situation as it now stands.”
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| Tuesday, July 16, 2013 |
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Ikaika Anderson forms Congressional Campaign Committee
By Andrew Walden @ 3:26 PM :: 5983 Views :: Democratic Party, Politicians
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Anderson is not obligated to resign his Council seat to run for Congress....
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| Sunday, July 14, 2013 |
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After Receiving Campaign Cash, OHA Trustees Give $1.25M to Insolvent Geothermal Company
By Andrew Walden @ 1:12 AM :: 10482 Views :: Energy, OHA
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If OHA were more skilled at 'due diligence' it would have spotted the million dollar loan IDG's New Zealand partner wrote off last year....
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| Tuesday, July 9, 2013 |
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Sen David Ige to challenge Abercrombie for Governor
By Andrew Walden @ 2:04 PM :: 7370 Views :: Democratic Party, Politicians
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Ige will not be running for reelection to the Senate....
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| Thursday, June 27, 2013 |
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Voting Rights: Hawaii Moves to Top of Enforcement List?
By Andrew Walden @ 10:40 PM :: 5888 Views :: Office of Elections
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Why? Hawaii's consistently low voter turnout....
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| Tuesday, June 18, 2013 |
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NCTQ Report: UH Education Departments Among Nation's Worst
By Andrew Walden @ 9:52 PM :: 6397 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education
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the National Council on Teacher Quality 2013 Teacher Prep Review has bad news for Hawaii Universities' Schools of Education....
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| Sunday, June 16, 2013 |
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Lawsuit: Hawaii Gambling Machine Contract Guaranteed ‘No problem from Vice-Squad’
By Andrew Walden @ 2:41 AM :: 9150 Views :: Gambling, Law Enforcement
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Despite this assurance, the record also reveals that the parties also made jokes about being “locked up” because of these games....
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| Sunday, June 16, 2013 |
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Abercrombie Quietly Orders More Pay Hikes, Publishes HGEA, UPW Contracts
By Andrew Walden @ 1:24 AM :: 4466 Views :: Labor
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Abercrombie’s office quietly slipped three more executive orders onto its webpage this week....
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| Thursday, June 13, 2013 |
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Email Chain Reveals Hawaii Obamacare Leaders Debating “Inevitable Failure”
By Andrew Walden @ 12:32 AM :: 8151 Views :: Health Care
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... HHA continues to meet, without a budget, working on developing a universal, cost-effective health care system that will be ready for implementation when the Affordable Care Act inevitably fails....
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| Sunday, June 9, 2013 |
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Bottled Water Battle: A Decade of OHA Harassment Continues
By Andrew Walden @ 9:26 PM :: 7467 Views :: OHA, Small Business
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OHA has served as the agent of an Oahu-based bottled water company seeking to destroy its tiny Kauai-only competitor, Kauai Springs....
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| Saturday, June 8, 2013 |
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Abercrombie Quietly Orders Pay Hikes
By Andrew Walden @ 12:17 AM :: 4185 Views :: Labor
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Abercrombie’s office quietly slipped two more executive orders onto its webpage this week....
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| Wednesday, June 5, 2013 |
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Ed Week: Hawaii DoE Dropout Rate Jumps to 32.8%
By Andrew Walden @ 11:02 PM :: 9303 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics
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...according to Education Week, the Hawaii DoE is 7th best in the nation when it comes to changing the numbers....
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| Sunday, June 2, 2013 |
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Feds Bust Sandwich Isles Com: $25M/year Funneled to Hee Company
By Andrew Walden @ 9:16 PM :: 17924 Views :: Akaka Bill, DHHL, National News, Ethics
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The FCC order exposes more information on Hee than has ever before been made public....
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| Sunday, June 2, 2013 |
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HIRA Candidate for GOP Chair Stars in Gay Pride Parade
By Andrew Walden @ 5:37 PM :: 6685 Views :: Family, Republican Party
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...Hayes, Miss Gay Pride 1987-88, "has been coming here to fight for a quarter century."
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| Saturday, June 1, 2013 |
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.05% Solution: Abercrombie Quietly Appoints DUI Taskforce
By Andrew Walden @ 4:11 PM :: 4116 Views :: Law Enforcement
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...a mandate to cut the legal blood alcohol limit from 0.08% to 0.05%.....
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| Friday, May 24, 2013 |
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Census looks at 2012 Elections: Hawaii Worst Voter Registration, 2nd Worst Voter Participation
By Andrew Walden @ 9:51 PM :: 5654 Views :: Office of Elections
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Hawaii will improve voter participation when Hawaii has a politically competitive two party system....
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| Friday, May 24, 2013 |
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Honolulu Muslim Leader Accuses Radical Muslim of Two Local Attacks
By Andrew Walden @ 2:12 AM :: 14455 Views :: Judiciary, Law Enforcement
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Will Hawaii’s soft-on-crime Judiciary allow an insanity plea to a Muslim claiming a religious justification for acts of violence or terrorism?
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| Wednesday, May 22, 2013 |
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Filipino Veterans Equity Act Celebrates 20 Years of Pretending
By Andrew Walden @ 1:43 PM :: 6155 Views :: National News, Politicians
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The idea is to talk about it, not to pass it....
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| Tuesday, May 21, 2013 |
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Neighborhood Board Election Results Announced
By Andrew Walden @ 11:41 PM :: 6673 Views :: Honolulu County
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Voting for Honolulu Neighborhood Board elections ended Friday. The Neighborhood Commission Office today released the results....
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| Saturday, May 18, 2013 |
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Stanley Chang Suspended by Bar Association
By Andrew Walden @ 11:41 PM :: 12217 Views :: Judiciary, Politicians
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Honolulu Councilmember and Congressional candidate Stanley Chang has lost his right to practice law in Hawaii....
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| Saturday, May 18, 2013 |
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Hints from GOP: Aiona for Governor, Djou for Congress
By Andrew Walden @ 4:52 PM :: 6641 Views :: Politicians, Republican Party
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It was Duke Aiona's day at the Hawaii State Republican Convention....
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| Saturday, May 18, 2013 |
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IRS to Maui TEA Party: "Provide details of your relationship with Dylan Nonaka"
By Andrew Walden @ 4:08 AM :: 8531 Views :: First Amendment, Taxes, TEA Party
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Among the questions sent from the National IRS office in Cincinnati was this item referencing Dylan Nonaka....
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| Friday, May 17, 2013 |
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Mitsunaga Launches New Attack on Kobayashi
By Andrew Walden @ 9:53 PM :: 7087 Views :: Ethics, Higher Education
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...Abercrombie crony Dennis Mitsunaga senses the opportunity to displace Inouye crony Bert Kobayashi....
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| Thursday, May 16, 2013 |
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Atheists Attack HGEA, UPW Contract: Demand Unions Give Up Paid Holiday
By Andrew Walden @ 2:58 PM :: 5550 Views :: First Amendment, Labor
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sponsored by gay ‘marriage’ activist, convicted thief Michael ‘Bitchbear’ Golujuch, Jr....
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| Sunday, May 12, 2013 |
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Database Reveals Hawaii MDs and the Drugs They Prescribe
By Andrew Walden @ 9:26 PM :: 6467 Views :: Health Care
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... a new-media, information age repressive technique aimed at physicians ....
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| Sunday, May 12, 2013 |
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Akaka Tribe: Frankenstein Bill to Create a Frankenstein Tribal Roll
By Andrew Walden @ 12:58 AM :: 6985 Views :: Akaka Bill
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Since so few signed Kana’ioluwalu, they will just graft 108,000 Kau Inoa signers onto the Roll....
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| Sunday, May 5, 2013 |
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Hawaii Health Connector Funded by Cutting off Coverage for Cancer Patients
By Andrew Walden @ 3:10 PM :: 3352 Views
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...the $128M was paid for by cutting off funding and closing the Pre-Existing Conditions Insurance Plan (PCIP) program which provided coverage for seriously ill patients who were otherwise denied overage due to 'pre-existing conditions.'....
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| Saturday, May 4, 2013 |
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Deadline for Public Comment on Rail AIS May 30
By Andrew Walden @ 7:48 PM :: 4099 Views :: Rail
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...SHPD and HART have made only the most minimal public mention of the new deadline....
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| Sunday, April 28, 2013 |
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As CEO Pay Hits $5.8M, Hawaiian Electric Flunks Executive Compensation Scorecard
By Andrew Walden @ 12:51 AM :: 4651 Views :: Energy
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... Do HEI execs have their own private "decoupling" scheme?
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| Wednesday, April 24, 2013 |
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Stanley Chang Running for CD1?
By Andrew Walden @ 10:50 AM :: 10695 Views :: Honolulu County, Democratic Party, Congressional Delegation
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Dan Inouye was barely in the grave when Honolulu Councilmember Stanley Chang signed Federal Election Commission documents....
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| Monday, April 22, 2013 |
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Oahu Biofuel Plant: Honeywell CEO to Face Questions
By Andrew Walden @ 3:27 PM :: 4113 Views :: Energy
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...the $25 million taxpayer gift was specifically allocated for a biofuels demonstration plant to be built on Oahu....
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| Sunday, April 21, 2013 |
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Abercrombie Orders ‘Flexible Pay’ Hikes to Match Outside Job Offers
By Andrew Walden @ 11:36 PM :: 5080 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor
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... the new, legal, and inexpensive way of bribing Cabinet members and their top lieutenants ....
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| Sunday, April 21, 2013 |
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Contracts: UPW 17% Raise, HSTA 15%, HGEA 8%
By Andrew Walden @ 10:43 PM :: 6856 Views
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Did Abercrombie just negotiate away the money for his preschool voucher system and his tax credit giveaways for green energy scammers?
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| Sunday, April 21, 2013 |
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How A&B Wins Big From Environmental Litigation
By Andrew Walden @ 3:08 AM :: 14200 Views :: Environment, Development, Greenmail, Land Use
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Why would one of the state’s largest developers fund so-called anti-development groups?
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| Wednesday, April 17, 2013 |
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Campaign 2014: Youthful Hawaii GOP Takes Aim at Legislature, Congress
By Andrew Walden @ 6:12 AM :: 5104 Views :: Republican Party
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“seven of 51, one of 25, and zero of four is not good enough”
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| Sunday, April 14, 2013 |
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DoTax Cooking Books to Influence Legislature? HART Calls for Audit
By Andrew Walden @ 6:02 PM :: 5527 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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...the illusion of greater revenues would be helpful in Abercrombie’s effort to create a state-funded ‘Early Education’ voucher system....
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| Friday, April 12, 2013 |
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After Deadly Train Wreck, DC Metro Dumps Honolulu Rail Contractor Ansaldo
By Andrew Walden @ 12:59 PM :: 9952 Views :: Rail
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“In its final report on the June 22, 2009, accident, the National Transportation Safety Board said a malfunction of the automatic train control system was the direct cause of the crash.”
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| Sunday, April 7, 2013 |
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Creative Insolvency: EUTF to Enter ‘Shadow Insurance Industry’?
By Andrew Walden @ 1:36 PM :: 9538 Views :: Health Care, Labor
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...a multi-billion dollar scheme to rework Hawaii government employees pension and health insurance funding is made its way through the legislature....
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| Saturday, April 6, 2013 |
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SB893, the Marvin Dang Bill: Mollway Demands Kondo’s Head
By Andrew Walden @ 1:47 PM :: 6864 Views :: Ethics
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...Mollway was removed from office for “a sporadic presence in the office, taking off on vacation and sick-leave days in small increments, so that he did not manage the staff effectively.”
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| Thursday, April 4, 2013 |
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Stimulus Japan Style: Cost of Hawaii Vacation Jumps 3% Today
By Andrew Walden @ 1:53 PM :: 8497 Views :: World News, Tourism
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The Yen-denominated price of Hawaii vacations jumped 3% today and has increased 23% since September....
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| Thursday, April 4, 2013 |
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From Hawaii to Virginia, are College Accreditors Overstepping their Authority?
By Andrew Walden @ 3:37 AM :: 7719 Views :: Higher Education
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... a remarkably similar “wrongful intrusion of college accreditors in state governance matters” ....
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| Sunday, March 31, 2013 |
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SJR12: Schatz, Hirono Tinker with Hawaiian Homelands Blood Quantum
By Andrew Walden @ 8:24 PM :: 10406 Views :: Democratic Party, DHHL, Congressional Delegation
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...blood quantum disputes have been a feature of internal politics within the Department of Hawaiian Homelands....
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| Sunday, March 31, 2013 |
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Anti-GMO Activist: Crazy Hawaiians Make us Look Bad
By Andrew Walden @ 8:33 AM :: 6812 Views :: GMOs
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Anti-GMO activists just can’t seem to decide who they hate. Last week they were telling Sen Nishihara to “go back to Japan”. This week they are blaming "Native Hawaiians" for “irrational shenanigans”....
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