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Friday, November 10, 2017 |
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HART Wastes Rail Money on Kam Hwy Repave that Could be Funded by HDOT
By News Release @ 11:10 AM :: 4480 Views :: Rail
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“Because Farrington Highway and Kamehameha Highway are on the National Highway System, the reconstruction projects are eligible for Federal aid funds, subject to selection by OahuMPO and HIDOT.” -- FHWA Acting Director Nadeau, October 7, 2015
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Friday, November 3, 2017 |
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The Importance of Accurate Testimony
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 11:04 PM :: 5555 Views :: Ethics, Rail
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“The FTA will allow nothing less.” -- Kirk Caldwell
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Wednesday, October 25, 2017 |
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House Speaker and Senate President Name Appointees to HART Board
By News Release @ 5:06 PM :: 4834 Views :: Rail
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...Speaker Saiki named Tobias “Toby” Martyn and Kamani Kuala‘au ... Senate President Kouchi named Kalbert K. Young and Wesley Machida as his appointees to the board....
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Tuesday, October 24, 2017 |
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Rail Plan B: FTA Contradicts Caldwell
By Grassroot Institute @ 7:09 AM :: 6048 Views :: Rail
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...At no point did the FTA reject a “Plan B” option....
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Tuesday, October 24, 2017 |
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The Coming Transit Apocalypse
By Selected News Articles @ 1:05 AM :: 5206 Views :: Rail
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...the four horsemen of the transit apocalypse include....
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Thursday, October 19, 2017 |
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Caldwell signs bills creating Waikīkī Transportation Management Special Improvement District
By News Release @ 3:19 AM :: 8216 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail, Tourism
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...bills passed by the Honolulu City Council last week create and authorize the Waikīkī Transportation Management Special Improvement District....
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Saturday, October 7, 2017 |
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Honolulu Boondoggle Recovery Plan
By Selected News Articles @ 5:08 PM :: 4808 Views :: Rail
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...You know you are in trouble when you have to write a recovery plan for a project that isn’t even half built....
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Saturday, October 7, 2017 |
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Transit Ridership is Declining–So Why Pay Transit CEOs So Much Money?
By Selected News Articles @ 4:20 PM :: 4442 Views :: Rail
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...HART’s CEO, for example, gets $317,000 plus a “housing allowance” of about $4,600 a month and a “transportation allowance” of $600 a month....
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Friday, September 22, 2017 |
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Oahu Construction Boom Ending: What Excuse Will HART Use Next?
By UHERO @ 4:04 PM :: 7300 Views :: Honolulu County, Economy, Rail
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...number of significant condo and retail projects have wrapped up on Oahu, while fewer new buildings have broken ground, resulting in an overall reduction in construction activity and employment....
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Monday, September 18, 2017 |
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Caldwell: Now That Legislature Has Done the Hard Work of Raising Taxes, I Urge HART to Not Do Nothing
By News Release @ 10:17 PM :: 6805 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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"...Doing nothing is unacceptable...." -- Mayor Kirk Caldwell, Sept 18, 2017
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Thursday, September 14, 2017 |
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Council yanks ‘forensic’ from rail audit
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:51 PM :: 6021 Views :: Ethics, Rail
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...the Honolulu City Council unanimously approved Resolution 17-199 to audit the rail for financial cost overruns, but watered down language that would’ve made the audit “forensic.”....
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Sunday, September 10, 2017 |
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Rail: Heads We Win, Tails You Lose
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 6746 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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...The special session rail bill, SB 4, provides that if the Foundation wins and the State is ordered to refund money to the City, then the State will scoop the same amount of money from the City’s share of transient accommodations tax....
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Saturday, September 9, 2017 |
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Caldwell to Meet With Rail Car Manufacturer
By News Release @ 3:35 PM :: 4477 Views :: Rail
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... to discuss the current status of the Honolulu rail project. He will meet with representatives from Hitachi, Seibu, and Tokyu Corporation ....
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Friday, September 8, 2017 |
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Reso 17-199: Will Honolulu Council Back Rail Audit?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 12:41 PM :: 5562 Views :: Ethics, Rail
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...the most recent version of the proposed resolution requests an “independent forensic audit” of HART operations and contract awards....
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Wednesday, September 6, 2017 |
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HDOT Sitting on $505M of Unspent Federal Funds
By News Release @ 5:10 PM :: 5503 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Rail
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...In two and a half years we have successfully reduced the pipeline from nearly $750 million to $505 million....
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Wednesday, September 6, 2017 |
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Andria Tupola: Special Session 2017 Wrap-Up
By News Release @ 12:40 PM :: 5283 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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......Our floor amendment to exclude neighbor islands from the 1% TAT increase received support from four other neighbor island Representatives....
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Wednesday, September 6, 2017 |
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Ige Signs $2.4B Rail Tax Hike Bill
By News Release @ 2:01 AM :: 6835 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail, Taxes
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...Ige’s signing of the rail funding bill also allows the Honolulu City Council to approve Bill 45, which extends O‘ahu’s half-percent surcharge to the state general excise tax another three years....
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Sunday, September 3, 2017 |
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Rail: I Dunno About TAT
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 7240 Views :: Rail, Taxes, Tourism
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...The TAT, when it was enacted in 1986, was primarily meant to fund the Hawaii Convention Center....
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Saturday, September 2, 2017 |
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$2.4B Tax Hike: How They Voted
By Andrew Walden @ 10:09 AM :: 7864 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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...Senators highlighted in YELLOW are up for reelection in 2018. Only four of them voted for the tax hike....
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Friday, September 1, 2017 |
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Ige Appoints Pro-Rail Thug to HCDA
By John Bond @ 8:37 PM :: 8880 Views :: Ethics, Development, Rail
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...Timson worked at First Hawaiian Bank as vice president while FHB Chairman Don Horner was HART board chair. She organized large groups of screaming union supporters to crash, harass and threaten at public meetings....
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Friday, September 1, 2017 |
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Rail: Republicans Propose 'Forensic Audit' Amendment
By News Release @ 5:34 PM :: 8495 Views :: Ethics, Rail, Republican Party
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...Require the State Auditor to perform a forensic audit to look for fraud, waste, and abuse....
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Thursday, August 31, 2017 |
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Rail: FTA is open to shortening the route
By Honolulu Traffic @ 6:57 PM :: 6748 Views :: Ethics, Rail, Taxes
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...FTA is complicit. That’s why it is likely to approve a Plan B that stops at Middle Street....
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Sunday, August 27, 2017 |
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UPDATE: Billion Dollar Bailout Added to Rail Tax Hike Bill
By News Release @ 6:00 PM :: 6516 Views :: Rail
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...SB1 has been deleted from the WAM Hearing notice and replaced by SB4.... WAM Hearing Monday 3pm, Capitol Auditorium....
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Sunday, August 27, 2017 |
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Honolulu Republicans Protest Rail Bailout Bill
By Brett Kulbis @ 5:52 PM :: 7080 Views :: Rail, Republican Party, Taxes
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Senate Committee on Ways and Means to hold hearing Monday, August 28th beginning at 3pm...
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Saturday, August 26, 2017 |
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Full Text: Feds Letter Demanding Rail Plan by Sept 15
By Andrew Walden @ 10:01 PM :: 6669 Views :: Ethics, Rail, Taxes
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...The Recovery Plan does not include a financial plan with funding sufficient to cover HART's current estimated total Project cost....
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Friday, August 25, 2017 |
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Rail: How to Gut an Audit
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:31 PM :: 5843 Views :: Ethics, Rail
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Hawaii lawmakers are finally embracing the call for a “deep dive” audit of the Honolulu rail project, but how they follow through on that embrace could make it all for naught....
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Friday, August 25, 2017 |
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Full Text: Caldwell Rips Legislators' Rail Tax Hike Plan
By News Release @ 5:30 AM :: 5897 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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...we were told that this was not a negotiation but a take it or leave it situation....
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Thursday, August 24, 2017 |
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Keep Traffic Jammed: Rail FEIS Shows Plans for Lane-Elimination
By Honolulu Traffic @ 3:23 PM :: 4607 Views :: Rail
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...buried in one of the technical reports that are referenced and made part of the FEIS so you would not be able to say they didn’t tell you....
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Wednesday, August 23, 2017 |
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State GOP Calls for Forensic Audit of Rail
By Shirlene Ostrov @ 8:51 PM :: 6849 Views :: Ethics, Rail, Republican Party
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...A call for Republicans to push for a forensic audit of HART and their failed rail project!....
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Wednesday, August 23, 2017 |
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Tuesday, August 22, 2017 |
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UPDATE: No More Bailouts for Rail!
By Brett Kulbis @ 12:22 AM :: 5525 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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...In a week, lawmakers will be opening a special legislative session to determine how they are going to raise our taxes....
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Friday, August 18, 2017 |
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City rail audit won’t look for fraud?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 8:11 PM :: 6859 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Rail
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...despite the fact that City Auditor Edwin Young told the committee “the red flags were there”....
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Friday, August 18, 2017 |
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Desperation: HART Backs Efficiency Audit
By News Release @ 2:04 AM :: 5035 Views :: Ethics, Rail
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...HART Directors discussed using public-private partnerships to help fund the remaining elements of Honolulu's Rail Transit Project....
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Tuesday, August 15, 2017 |
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Rep Tupola Backs Forensic Audit for HART
By News Release @ 1:44 PM :: 7384 Views :: Ethics, Rail, Taxes
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...City and HART officials were often unable to give specific answers to our questions and rarely took responsibility for their cost overruns and inflated budgets....
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Monday, August 14, 2017 |
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Oahu GOP: Mo More Bailouts for Rail
By Brett Kulbis @ 3:03 PM :: 5623 Views :: Rail, Republican Party
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...today's information hearing is nothing more than kabuki theater designed to make us believe they're concerned....
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Monday, August 14, 2017 |
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Grassroot: Investigate Rail Fraud, Waste, Abuse
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:00 PM :: 5039 Views :: Ethics, Rail
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“What is needed is a full, independent forensic audit of the project, to identify the reason — or reasons — for its significant cost overruns and missed deadlines...."
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Friday, August 11, 2017 |
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No need for special session this summer
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:49 PM :: 6161 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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...the immediate cash flow problems have been solved for the most part by the Honolulu City Council, which authorized the sale of $350 million in bonds to help bail out the project....
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Friday, August 11, 2017 |
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Audit the rail: An idea that’s catching on
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 2:11 PM :: 5169 Views :: Ethics, Rail
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...Mahalo for helping this idea to catch on....
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Friday, August 11, 2017 |
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Rail Fail: Why You Should Speak Out
By Shirlene Ostrov @ 2:04 PM :: 6963 Views :: Rail, Republican Party, Taxes
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...Honolulu Rail Project is on track to becoming the costliest and most mismanaged public transportation project in our nation's history....
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Thursday, August 10, 2017 |
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Rail: ‘Special audit possibly coming down the line’
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:00 AM :: 5591 Views :: Ethics, Rail
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...Cliff Slater told the HART board that “everything should come up on the table, as John Henry Felix is calling for.”....
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Wednesday, August 9, 2017 |
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Who Needs Rail? Cost-Effective Lane Projects Save Commuters Time
By News Release @ 4:21 AM :: 4280 Views :: Rail
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“While highways funding is limited, we haven’t let that stop us...."
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Tuesday, August 8, 2017 |
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Full Text: Lawmaker Leaks Plan to Make Sister Isles Pay for Rail -- Public Hearing Set
By News Release @ 5:22 PM :: 7200 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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...The Hawaii Legislature is hosting a public informational briefing on state funding for the City & County of Honolulu’s rail project at 10 a.m. Aug. 14 in the State Capitol auditorium....
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Sunday, August 6, 2017 |
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Rail Stations Designed to Profit KSBE, HECO, First Hawaiian
By Andrew Walden @ 9:34 PM :: 5962 Views :: Rail
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...Cashing in at Middle Street, Kalapama, Iwilei....
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Sunday, August 6, 2017 |
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The Grand Skim of Things (Part 1)
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 6882 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Rail, Taxes
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...A Hawaii law dating back to 1955, which now can be found at HRS section 36-27, says that 5% of any special fund’s income will be paid to the state general fund to pay “central service expenses....”
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Tuesday, August 1, 2017 |
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Secret Rail Meetings at Legislature
By News Release @ 6:21 PM :: 6835 Views :: Ethics, Rail, Taxes
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... If the funding of rail was all that was on the table it would be simple....
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Tuesday, August 1, 2017 |
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HART officials to meet with bond rating agencies in San Francisco
By News Release @ 1:32 AM :: 5122 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail
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...In addition to the bond meetings, on Tuesday Mayor Caldwell and Chair Manahan will tour electric bus manufacturer Proterra to examine emission free buses that could be brought to O‘ahu in the future....
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Sunday, July 30, 2017 |
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Rail: Rod Tam Floats Magnetic Levitation
By News Release @ 10:59 AM :: 4503 Views :: Rail
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...WELCOME to the PEOPLE’S PUBLIC HEARING ON RAIL....
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Saturday, July 29, 2017 |
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Demanding best practices in rail accounting
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:51 PM :: 4809 Views :: Ethics, Rail
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What does it say about the state of governance in Hawaii that endorsing basic standards of fiscal responsibility is a revolutionary act?
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Wednesday, July 26, 2017 |
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Estimating Ride Hailing’s Bite out of Transit
By Selected News Articles @ 3:30 AM :: 4280 Views :: Rail
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...Transit’s Precipitous Decline....
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Tuesday, July 25, 2017 |
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$1.6B Available to Pay for Rail -- Without Raising Taxes
By Andrew Walden @ 4:54 AM :: 9026 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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... we found $1.595B being siphoned off of Rail for non-rail purposes ....
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