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Entries for 'Natalie Iwasa '
Saturday, June 4, 2022 |
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Iwasa Rips Rail Recovery Plan: “Errors that no one seems to care about”
By Natalie Iwasa @ 5:54 PM :: 2703 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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... HART's recovery plan was shipped off to the FTA today with revenue projections that I think are too high ....
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Wednesday, June 6, 2018 |
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A Sneaky Way to Approve City Funds for Rail
By Natalie Iwasa @ 4:35 AM :: 5543 Views :: Ethics, Rail
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...Buried in a proposed amendment to the bill for HART’s capital improvement budget (Bill 22, CD2, FD1) is the statement....
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Saturday, November 26, 2016 |
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RFP Posted for Honolulu Ethics Commission Audit
By Natalie Iwasa @ 4:22 AM :: 5082 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics
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Two inspectors and prior commissioners who recently left the commission are not listed as interviewees....
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Sunday, November 6, 2016 |
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Honolulu Charter Amendments – Blank vs. “No” Vote
By Natalie Iwasa @ 2:43 AM :: 5256 Views :: Honolulu County
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Some people are recommending “no” votes on all 20 Honolulu charter amendments....
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Monday, October 24, 2016 |
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Guide to 20 Honolulu Charter Amendment questions
By Natalie Iwasa @ 3:53 AM :: 7863 Views :: Honolulu County
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One ballot will contain 20 Honolulu Charter Amendment questions....
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Friday, October 14, 2016 |
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Charter Amendment #4 on Rail – What’s Not in the Booklet
By Natalie Iwasa @ 10:22 PM :: 4954 Views :: Rail
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Voters should have received the 2016 Charter Amendments booklet this week....
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Sunday, July 17, 2016 |
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Honolulu Charter Commission Prepares 27 Amendments for Ballot
By Natalie Iwasa @ 6:25 PM :: 4564 Views :: Honolulu County
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#35 – deletes the requirement that no more than a majority of the reapportionment commission members shall be from the same political party....
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Wednesday, March 16, 2016 |
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Sunday, February 7, 2016 |
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HART Errors – Lack of Acknowledgement is Troublesome
By Natalie Iwasa @ 5:36 PM :: 4212 Views :: Rail
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...HART did not address the issue of the error....
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Monday, February 1, 2016 |
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Rail’s Numbers – A Pattern of Errors and Inconsistencies
By Natalie Iwasa @ 12:07 PM :: 4600 Views :: Rail
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...HART Chair Don Horner then made a point of asking the auditors whether they had found any “pattern of errors,” “inconsistencies” or “sloppy information.”....
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Wednesday, January 27, 2016 |
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Charter Commission Defers Proposal to Repeal Affordable Housing Fund
By Natalie Iwasa @ 1:21 PM :: 4033 Views :: Honolulu County
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... commissioners decided to defer Proposal 17, which would have repealed the Affordable Housing Fund, Clean Water and Natural Lands Fund, and Grants in Aid Fund as well as returned authorization for special fund creation back to the mayor with council approval ....
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Sunday, January 17, 2016 |
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Honolulu Charter Commission Discusses Ethics, Police, Fire and Salaries
By Natalie Iwasa @ 7:40 PM :: 4914 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics
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... more independence with respect to investigation of waste, abuse and fraud? ....
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Sunday, January 10, 2016 |
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Update on Honolulu Charter Commission – Meeting Friday
By Natalie Iwasa @ 8:57 PM :: 4532 Views :: Honolulu County
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The commission has been meeting since March 2015 and received over 150 proposals for changes to the charter. Fifteen of those proposals have been deferred....
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Saturday, December 12, 2015 |
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Charter Commission Agenda: Defer all ‘Proposals to Dismantle HART’
By Natalie Iwasa @ 9:09 PM :: 6142 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail
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The next meeting is scheduled for Thursday December 17 at 3:30 p.m....
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 |
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HART Math – When 1 + 1 Doesn’t Equal 2
By Natalie Iwasa @ 1:28 PM :: 4604 Views :: Rail
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...project expenditures are $1,637M, $1,581M or $1,512M, depending on which report one looks at....
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Thursday, April 9, 2015 |
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Rail Tax: 2022 Sunset is Only Remaining Check on HART Spending
By Natalie Iwasa @ 2:58 AM :: 5507 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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The only way to contain costs is to force HART to live within its current means....
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 |
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Star-Advertiser and Sierra Club Endorse Iwasa for Council
By Natalie Iwasa @ 10:54 PM :: 5616 Views :: Honolulu County, Politicians
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Honolulu City Council District 4 (East Oahu) candidate Natalie Iwasa picked up key endorsements....
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014 |
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New Apps Make Campaign Spending Data More Accessible
By Natalie Iwasa @ 2:30 AM :: 4629 Views :: Office of Elections
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Have you ever tried to figure out who’s monetarily supporting a particular candidate or how your political contributions are being spent?
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014 |
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Property Tax Exemptions Reduce Honolulu Tax Revenue $100M
By Natalie Iwasa @ 9:28 PM :: 5662 Views :: Tax Credits, Taxes
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...You’ll never see it as a line item in the budget....
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Sunday, November 10, 2013 |
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Back and Forth with Grants-in-Aid
By Natalie Iwasa @ 10:55 PM :: 4488 Views :: Honolulu County
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At least one organization didn’t even ask to be funded....
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Sunday, February 24, 2013 |
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Bill 4 to Create New Honolulu Council Slush Fund?
By Natalie Iwasa @ 6:43 PM :: 6981 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics
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...organizations such as labor unions, political action committees, social clubs and credit unions, are eligible for these grants....
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Thursday, January 26, 2012 |
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Hawaii Safe Routes to School Challenge
By Natalie Iwasa @ 7:03 PM :: 6152 Views :: Energy, Environment
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The state has received over $7 million in SRTS funding since 2005. Unfortunately, most of this funding has not yet been awarded, and Hawaii remains dead last out of all states in the amount obligated....
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