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"As tempting as it was to bring in extra funds to our schools, I told the Governor that such a dichotomy is simply not in our way of thinking...."

"...it is not true that Jesus embraces all the behavior of those he loves...."

"Despite the continued increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, the annual-mean global temperature has not risen in the twenty-first century challenging the prevailing view that anthropogenic forcing causes climate warming."

limits vary widely, remaining unlimited in twelve states while being set as low as $160 per election to candidates for State House and State Senate in Montana....

Sherbow claimed he initially approached Gabbard because he was born into the same obscure Western-Hindu tradition as Tulsi....

Hawaii has the broadest sales tax in the United States, taxing many products multiple times and, by one estimate, ultimately taxing 99.21% of the state's personal income. This base is far wider than the national median, where the sales tax base applies to 34.46%....

The federal appeals court in Honolulu found that Act 163, which the Hawaii Legislature passed in 2010, contradicts the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)....

He said it would not have necessarily been easier to convict Deedy of the lesser manslaughter charge....

I could see that this was the first time they had stepped in mud or been to a farm. They were city boys, city girls. Two of them were even sporting dyed hair....

Esther Kiaaina may be the next Assistant Secretary of Interior for Insular Affairs....

"Congress is deemed by the Supreme Court to have exclusive and plenary power to deal with Indian affairs"

“The Humane Society is currently examining the sheep to see if it has been sexually molested.”

Hawaii's bid for it got a $5,000 donation from the global law and lobbying firm Skadden Arps....

...spokeswoman Xochitl Hinojosa stood by his comment....

Your final charges probably will be higher than shown here because the most highly variable costs are not included: title insurance, title search, taxes, other government fees and escrow fees....

Just as the GOP activists in Idaho want bad-intentioned Democrats and free-thinking independents out of “their” nominating process, so do Democratic Party leaders in Hawaii....

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered an expedited hearing for the federal rail lawsuit on August 15th....

The Examiner used the Census Bureau's 2011 Annual Survey of Public Employment and Payroll to rank every U.S. city with a population of 200,000 or more....

it may in fact require everyone who wears or eats or sells a GMO food or other product to register with the county and pay a fee....

The children of same-sex couples have a tough road ahead of them—I know, because I have been there....

Hawaii currently plays an important role in the global food supply – one far more important than that of its historical sugarcane and pineapple industries....

Sue and Settle process has left Hawaii burdened with an EPA mandated ‘Regional Haze’ plan which forces human emitters to make up for emissions from Kilauea Volcano....

Jacksonville, Florida, brings in coal from Colombia rather than West Virginia.....

The airline industry, whose largest expense is fuel, is also behind the structural change in the legislation that would allow foreign-made vessels to transport on U.S. waters....

There are plenty of people out there telling us what we should eat—and worse, trying to use public policy to make us live by their opinions....

fraud has flown under the radar. And as sales have boomed and the stakes have risen, the scale of deception has broadened....

“Botched Abortion” project designed to hold abortionists accountable for medical malpractice....

Here are some short key points regarding the impact of the decisions....

the RNC is putting its time and money into California AP communities....

No hospitals in Hawaii are nationally ranked. Three hospitals met standards for strong performance within the state....

Businesses don't just look at their own costs when deciding where to set up shop. They also look at the costs for their employees....

The effects of same-sex civil marriage in Canada—restrictions on free speech rights, parental rights in education, and autonomy rights of religious institutions....

For this list, we looked at six pieces of criteria....

I was once a libertarian activist....

Judge Susan Oki Mollway's letter to HART and federal transit officials....

Full text of today's ruling....

identify changeable policies so that Hawaii can move off the bottom of this list....

Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., sent a letter to JPAC’s commander, demanding information about that internal report and the military’s efforts to suppress it....

"The Director continues to assert that this is a priority for the Bureau, but at this point, there's little evidence to suggest that this probe is on the fast track."

To pressure political decision-makers for more resources, SHARE has hosted mandatory camp-outs on council members’ lawns, at the mayor’s home and at the King County Administration Building....