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Entries for 'Selected News Articles'
Saturday, January 26, 2013 |
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Jindal to GOP: "Stop Being the Stupid Party"
By Selected News Articles @ 10:09 PM :: 6680 Views :: National News, Republican Party
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Let me warn you in advance that I plan to talk big picture here tonight, and I plan to say some things that may challenge your assumptions....
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Friday, January 25, 2013 |
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A Fracking Good Story
By Selected News Articles @ 3:35 AM :: 9538 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Thursday, January 24, 2013 |
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Health Insuance: Hawaii Has One of Lowest Rejection Rates in Nation
By Selected News Articles @ 5:15 PM :: 6849 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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Hundreds of thousands of consumers have their health insurance applications declined each year according to a 2010 congressional study....
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013 |
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WaPo: Sting operations reveal Mafia involvement in renewable energy
By Selected News Articles @ 1:46 PM :: 7836 Views :: Energy, Ethics, World News
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In an unfolding plot that is part “The Sopranos,” part “An Inconvenient Truth,” authorities swept across Sicily last month....
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013 |
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Kahuku Windfarm Loan Timed to Boost IPO, Avoid Jail
By Selected News Articles @ 1:24 PM :: 13477 Views :: Energy
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"...we have a pretty good mess on First Wind and it is looking like it is going to get a lot worse and quickly...."
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013 |
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Summary of Bills Repealing the PLDC
By Selected News Articles @ 3:44 PM :: 8637 Views :: Development, Hawaii State Government, Land Use
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Repeal Bills: SB 1; SBs 245, 246; SB 338; SB 425; SB 480; SB 663; SBs 780, 781; SB 866....
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013 |
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Abercrombie to Sign Executive Order Creating Super-PLDC
By Selected News Articles @ 2:29 PM :: 10576 Views :: Development, Hawaii State Government, Rail
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...the state Office of Planning is now drafting a resolution for Abercrombie to sign as an executive policy, recognizing that TOD is a priority of state government....
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013 |
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Gun Discussions Should Not Be Required for Physicians
By Selected News Articles @ 2:15 PM :: 5774 Views :: Health Care, Second Amendment
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...who is going to be held responsible if one of their patients decides to take out some poor store clerk? Is the shooter's doctor now a potential target for a lawsuit? Can the shooter claim at his trial that he was not properly counseled by his physician?
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Monday, January 21, 2013 |
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Abercrombie Soda Tax: $1.28 per Gallon
By Selected News Articles @ 8:26 PM :: 8285 Views :: Health Care, Taxes, Cost of Living
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In 2011, he had attempted to pass a soda tax under the Orwellian title “Sugary Beverage Healthy Hawaii Fee,” but the state legislature saw through the obfuscating rhetoric and defeated it.
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Sunday, January 20, 2013 |
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Storm of Protectionism: It’s time to repeal the Jones Act
By Selected News Articles @ 10:01 PM :: 6903 Views :: Jones Act
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In 2003, Hawaii congressman Ed Case introduced legislation to free his state from the Jones Act....
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Sunday, January 20, 2013 |
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Abercrombie to Push Penny an Ounce Soda Tax
By Selected News Articles @ 3:52 PM :: 7097 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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A 12 ounce soda would cost 12 cents more....
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Sunday, January 20, 2013 |
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CBS News' Political Director: Obama Must 'Destroy' Republican Party
By Selected News Articles @ 2:12 PM :: 7118 Views :: National News, Obama
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The author of this outrageous left-wing fever dream is John Dickerson, the political director at CBS News....
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Saturday, January 19, 2013 |
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Hawaii National Guard Trains Afghan Police in Zabul Province
By Selected News Articles @ 12:21 AM :: 5139 Views :: Military
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“They’ve been in the lead,” said the 1st ABCT commander, Col. James R. Crider. “Now we need to make them independent.”
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Thursday, January 17, 2013 |
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Study: Bag Ban Tied to 25% Increase in ER Admissions, Deaths
By Selected News Articles @ 2:04 PM :: 5298 Views :: Environment, Health Care
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ER visits spiked when the ban went into effect. Relative to other counties, ER admissions increase by at least one fourth, and deaths exhibit a similar increase....
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Thursday, January 17, 2013 |
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Obama Signs 23 Gun-Related Executive Orders
By Selected News Articles @ 1:40 PM :: 6301 Views :: Health Care, Second Amendment
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"Launch a national dialogue led by Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan on mental health."
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013 |
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HHSC Exec Discusses Banner Partnership with Hilo MDs
By Selected News Articles @ 9:36 PM :: 12683 Views :: Hawaii County , Hawaii State Government, Health Care, Labor
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Approximately four years ago, the Hawaii State Legislature commissioned Stroudwater Associates to evaluate our Hawaii Health System Safety Net Hospitals....
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Saturday, January 12, 2013 |
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133 Candidates Register for Honolulu Neighborhood Board Elections
By Selected News Articles @ 3:06 AM :: 8784 Views :: Honolulu County
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...Candidate filing is open from now through February 22nd for Honolulu Neighborhood Board elections....
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Saturday, January 12, 2013 |
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'Coastal Development' Tops Priorities for Hawaii Ocean Resources Plan
By Selected News Articles @ 12:12 AM :: 5177 Views :: Environment
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ORMP sets its own ”Management Priorities” and right at the top of the list is priority #1....
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Friday, January 11, 2013 |
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Medicated Marijuana Activists Release Poll Results
By Selected News Articles @ 2:29 PM :: 5586 Views :: Drugs
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The Drug Policy Action Group interviewed 603 Hawaii voters....
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Thursday, January 10, 2013 |
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PEW: Vote-by-Mail Favors Old White Democrats
By Selected News Articles @ 6:59 PM :: 7061 Views :: Office of Elections
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What would happen if voting by mail became compulsory? ... We answer that question in this paper....
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Thursday, January 10, 2013 |
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Abercrombie, Star-Advertiser Laugh at Union Effort to Save Tesoro, Price Spikes Predicted
By Selected News Articles @ 5:44 PM :: 7040 Views :: Energy, Labor
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"Tesoro does not know what potential buyers might ask of state of Hawaii or federal officials."
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Thursday, January 10, 2013 |
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First U.S. Plant to Make Gasoline and Diesel Fuel from Natural Gas
By Selected News Articles @ 4:20 PM :: 7569 Views :: Energy, National News
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...a South African company, announced its intention to build a 96,000-barrel-per-day gas-to-liquids plant in Lake Charles, LA....
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013 |
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The 'Magic Table'--Hawaii High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area
By Selected News Articles @ 6:40 PM :: 8593 Views :: Military, Drugs
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Fluorescent lights hang above; though they appear to be on, the room seems eerily dark....
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Tuesday, January 8, 2013 |
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Bad Blood May Mean Primaries for Hawaii Democrats
By Selected News Articles @ 10:29 PM :: 7192 Views :: Democratic Party, Congressional Delegation
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“There is buzz that folks are going to get primaried, there’s no question about that.”
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Tuesday, January 8, 2013 |
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Tesoro Obeys Abercrombie, Drops Dead
By Selected News Articles @ 4:48 PM :: 7944 Views :: Energy
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Hawaii's largest oil refinery is closing, precisely as we predicted it would....
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Sunday, January 6, 2013 |
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Hawaii Succession Law Unconstitutional: Senate Could Have Refused to Seat Schatz
By Selected News Articles @ 4:46 PM :: 8618 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Hawaii State Government
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...the Seventeenth Amendment prevents the Hawaii legislature from substantively constraining the Governor’s choices in making a temporary appointment....
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Friday, January 4, 2013 |
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Thanks to Abercrombie, Republican Senators More Racially Diverse than Democrats
By Selected News Articles @ 12:30 PM :: 6908 Views :: National News, Congressional Delegation
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there are now more Republican minorities in the Senate (South Carolina’s Tim Scott, Florida’s Marco Rubio, and Texas’s Ted Cruz) than Democrats (New Jersey’s Robert Menendez and Hawaii’s Mazie Hirono).…
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Thursday, January 3, 2013 |
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Lawsuit: Mentally Disabled Girl Raped at Three DoE Schools
By Selected News Articles @ 1:22 PM :: 10975 Views :: Education K-12, Health Care
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The mother claims that her daughters teacher and state administrators not only failed to investigate the abuse that occurred on and off school grounds, but conspired to cover it up, and then suspended her.
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Tuesday, January 1, 2013 |
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Fiscal Cliff Deal Extends, Expands Wind Production Tax Credit
By Selected News Articles @ 7:04 PM :: 8117 Views :: Energy, National News
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The deal also greatly relaxes the standards for companies to qualify to grab that tax credit....
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Tuesday, January 1, 2013 |
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House Passes Fiscal Cliff Tax Hikes 257-167
By Selected News Articles @ 1:41 PM :: 6969 Views :: National News, Taxes
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When Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush increased taxes in return for spending cuts—cuts that never ultimately came—they did so at ratios of 1:3 and 1:2....
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Sunday, December 30, 2012 |
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Prosecutor: Illinois Ruling May Affect Concealed-Carry Laws in Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 3:04 PM :: 7255 Views :: Second Amendment
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...a right to keep and bear arms for personal self-defense in the eighteenth century could not rationally have been limited to the home....
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Friday, December 28, 2012 |
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"Impeach Abercrombie"
By Selected News Articles @ 4:24 PM :: 11253 Views :: Democratic Party, Congressional Delegation, Politicians
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Angry comments were plastered on Abercrombie's Facebook page following the announcement of his decision Wednesday, with some predicting he would be a one-term governor....
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Friday, December 28, 2012 |
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Rail: Tashima's final ruling — now the case is eligible for appeal
By Selected News Articles @ 1:48 PM :: 6705 Views :: Rail
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Judge Tashima issued his final ruling yesterday and that allows us to at last appeal both this ruling and the others that he has made over the 19 months that this case has taken....
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Thursday, December 27, 2012 |
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Full Text: HART Wins Favorable Rail Ruling
By Selected News Articles @ 9:37 PM :: 9577 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Rail
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...this matter is remanded to the Federal Transit Administration....
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Thursday, December 27, 2012 |
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Hubris Online: Abercrombie’s Head Scratcher Not Logical, Must be Personal
By Selected News Articles @ 12:38 PM :: 10462 Views :: Democratic Party, Congressional Delegation, Politicians
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“This does not make any logical/political sense, so therefore it must be personal.” --Washington Post
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Thursday, December 27, 2012 |
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Obama Skips Inouye in Memoirs
By Selected News Articles @ 12:03 PM :: 7996 Views :: Hawaii History, Politicians
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Obama spent most of the speech describing his own impressions of Inouye....
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012 |
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Inouye Staff Offer Dead Fish, Tell Schatz ‘Good Luck’
By Selected News Articles @ 8:39 PM :: 15193 Views :: Democratic Party, Politicians
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Inouye's chief of staff, Jennifer Sabas, says despite the disappointment, Inouye's office wishes Schatz "the best of luck."
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012 |
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Seniority? Hawaii is better off without it
By Selected News Articles @ 2:37 PM :: 8974 Views :: Hawaii History, Politicians
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"The lesson for everybody is you don't want your town to turn into this."
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Tuesday, December 25, 2012 |
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Hilo, Kailua-Kona, Maui, Honolulu: Freedomworks Tour Cancelled
By Selected News Articles @ 5:55 PM :: 9427 Views :: TEA Party
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Matt Kibbe, President and CEO of FreedomWorks is speaking January 6-9 at events throughout Hawaii.
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Tuesday, December 25, 2012 |
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In Hoc Anno Domini: So the light came into the world
By Selected News Articles @ 12:07 AM :: 13431 Views :: Religion
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When Saul of Tarsus set out on his journey to Damascus the whole of the known world lay in bondage. There was one state, and it was Rome. There was one master for it all, and he was Tiberius Caesar....
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Sunday, December 23, 2012 |
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Hawaiian Culture: "All politics was religious and all religions were political"
By Selected News Articles @ 3:04 PM :: 8941 Views :: Hawaii History, Religion
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The notion that religion belongs in the realm of governance has its origins in the host culture, said Lilikala Kame‘eleihiwa, professor at the Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies....
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Friday, December 21, 2012 |
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The wind production tax credit still hangs in the fiscal-cliff balance
By Selected News Articles @ 5:25 PM :: 6489 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits
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The wind lobby is working overtime to convince Congress to pass an extension before the clock runs out on December 31st....
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Friday, December 21, 2012 |
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List of Potential Senate Candidates is also List of Potential Special Election Candidates
By Selected News Articles @ 5:06 PM :: 7256 Views :: Democratic Party, Politicians
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If Hanabusa is appointed senator, you can take the names of most of the folks listed above as possible candidates in the special election ....
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Thursday, December 20, 2012 |
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With Hawaii Army Guard mentoring, Afghan forces take independent strides
By Selected News Articles @ 2:54 PM :: 7310 Views :: World News, Military
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Operation Southern Fist II near Shor Bak, Afghanistan....
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012 |
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Hanabusa will apply for Senate vacancy, Case Considers Special Election Run
By Selected News Articles @ 5:08 PM :: 7092 Views :: Democratic Party, Politicians
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“…we’re electing our next senator-for-life in this process….”
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012 |
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Feds set no-go zones for Obama vacation
By Selected News Articles @ 6:38 PM :: 7767 Views :: Honolulu County, Obama
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...Federal Aviation Administration issued several flight restrictions for Hawaii from 8 P.M. Friday through midnight on Sunday January 6....
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012 |
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Hawaii's Future: California Solar Power Adds $1.3B to Non-Users' Costs
By Selected News Articles @ 3:19 PM :: 7857 Views :: Energy, National News, Cost of Living
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Pacific Gas & Electric, the state's biggest utility, will pass on about $700 million in annual costs to people without solar systems ....
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012 |
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Is General Motors Breaking Iran Nuclear Sanctions?
By Selected News Articles @ 2:05 PM :: 4886 Views :: World News
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...parts are still arriving there and automobiles still being produced....
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Monday, December 17, 2012 |
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The Jones Act Debate in Puerto Rico: Urban Legend or a Never-Ending Story?
By Selected News Articles @ 11:28 PM :: 6715 Views :: Jones Act
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...the U.S. build section of the Act should be modified in certain trades of domestic shipping in order to support the U.S. Merchant Marine....
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Monday, December 17, 2012 |
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Hawaii Loses One of its Three Major Industries
By Selected News Articles @ 9:35 PM :: 8704 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Economy
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Hawaii had three major industries: tourism, the military, and Sen. Dan Inouye....
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