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Sunday, September 12, 2021 |
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What happened to our state’s balance of powers?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 9:44 PM :: 3032 Views :: COVID-19
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... When we got our first look at the tier system that outlined how our lives would be restricted by COVID-19 orders, we didn’t realize that eventually we, the people, would be divided into tiers ....
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Sunday, September 12, 2021 |
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Public input requested for new Maunakea Master Plan
By News Release @ 7:48 PM :: 4088 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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... the draft is going to the UH Board of Regents for review and possibly further changes before final approval, which is expected in early 2022 ....
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Sunday, September 12, 2021 |
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Can the Hawaii SMART Health Card record your sexual performances and store them in a database?
By Andrew Walden @ 6:41 AM :: 7897 Views :: Health Care, COVID-19
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... the small print reveals a trail of breadcrumbs leading to your bedroom ....
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Sunday, September 12, 2021 |
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Vacant Homes Tax?
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 9302 Views :: Honolulu County, Taxes
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... How does some bureaucrat sitting in the real property tax office have any idea whether a property is vacant? ....
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Saturday, September 11, 2021 |
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Hawaii most expensive state to raise children
By Selected News Articles @ 4:25 AM :: 3713 Views :: Family, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... Parents in Hawaii may spend the most on bringing up their children with an estimated total cost of $281,597 to support a kid’s basic needs for 18 years ....
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Saturday, September 11, 2021 |
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FEMA Sends 30 Medics to Administer Antibody Treatment
By News Release @ 3:50 AM :: 2425 Views :: COVID-19
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... Monoclonal antibodies help the immune system temporarily respond to the immediate infection ....
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Saturday, September 11, 2021 |
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Friday, September 10, 2021 |
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Thursday, September 9, 2021 |
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VIDEO: Biden Vaccine Mandate for Federal Employees, Contractors and Large Private Sector Employers
By Video @ 10:41 PM :: 3661 Views :: National News, Labor, COVID-19
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... More than 80 million Americans working in the private sector will soon be federally mandated to either get vaccinated against Covid-19 or get tested weekly ....
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Thursday, September 9, 2021 |
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Thursday, September 9, 2021 |
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89% of DoE Employees Vaxxed--Lower on Maui
By News Release @ 3:20 AM :: 3272 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, COVID-19
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...the Hāna-Lahainaluna-Duckburg Complex Area is the lowest at 75%....
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Thursday, September 9, 2021 |
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Spying on You: Digital Hawaii SMART Health Card
By News Release @ 2:43 AM :: 3924 Views :: Hawaii State Government, COVID-19
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... Foil a Spy: Laminate a photocopy of your CDC vax card. Score it down the middle to fold to the size of a business card. Then put it in your wallet ....
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Thursday, September 9, 2021 |
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Wednesday, September 8, 2021 |
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HSTA files class grievances over COVID school conditions, testing mandate
By News Release @ 4:05 PM :: 3154 Views :: Education K-12, Labor, COVID-19
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"HIDOE has thus far refused to formally engage in the bargaining process, preferring only to sit informally over these issues...."
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Tuesday, September 7, 2021 |
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The Cost of Disinformation
By Joni Kamiya @ 11:55 PM :: 4195 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs, COVID-19
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... Hearing after hearing, the least informed made so many false claims and none could ever be corroborated with data. Like a virus, that same disinformation was repeated over and over until it was believed as fact. Not one politician asked these testifiers for evidence ever. ...
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Tuesday, September 7, 2021 |
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COVID mandates lead to crisis of aloha
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 11:41 PM :: 2769 Views :: COVID-19
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... we must come together when the government overreaches and threatens fundamental rights ....
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Monday, September 6, 2021 |
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Ethics Commission to Replace Dan Gluck
By Andrew Walden @ 9:47 PM :: 3142 Views :: Ethics
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“The Hawai‘i State Ethics Commission is accepting applications for the position of Executive Director.”
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Monday, September 6, 2021 |
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Judge Denies Feds’ motion to dismiss voting rights lawsuit in Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 9:02 PM :: 2643 Views :: Office of Elections
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... A motion to dismiss a voting rights lawsuit involving U.S. citizens who moved to overseas territories was denied by a federal judge on Friday, allowing the case to proceed ....
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Sunday, September 5, 2021 |
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Manoa Rep Dale Kobayashi Speaks at Antivaxxer Rallies
By Andrew Walden @ 7:32 PM :: 10688 Views :: Democratic Party, Higher Education, COVID-19
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... Now that the cat is out of the bag, will voters in Manoa reelect their antivaxxer Rep in 2022? ....
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Sunday, September 5, 2021 |
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Honolulu Council urged to shelve digital vaccine passports resolution
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:43 PM :: 2632 Views :: COVID-19
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... The New York measure upon which this Honolulu resolution is based is already being challenged in court and has been criticized for its intrusions ....
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Sunday, September 5, 2021 |
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Counties, You’re TAT Collectors Now
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 2844 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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... HB 862 makes no provision whatsoever for joint collection. The counties are on their own ....
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Sunday, September 5, 2021 |
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Unemployment: State Refunds $700M to Feds
By News Release @ 3:10 AM :: 1848 Views
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... DLIR today announced it paid $700M to the U.S. Department of the Treasury for advances it has received to pay regular unemployment insurance benefits ....
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Sunday, September 5, 2021 |
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Registration Opens for 2021-2022 Hawaii LifeSmarts Competition
By News Release @ 2:56 AM :: 2220 Views :: Education K-12
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... LifeSmarts is a free national educational program that teaches students critical life skills through online quizzes and in-person competitions covering five key areas: Personal Finance, Consumer Rights & Responsibilities, Health & Safety, the Environment, and Technology ....
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Sunday, September 5, 2021 |
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JSC Announces Two Judicial Vacancies
By News Release @ 2:52 AM :: 3797 Views :: Hawaii County , Kauai County, Judiciary
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...Third Circuit and Fifth Circuit ....
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Saturday, September 4, 2021 |
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Anti-Vaxxer to Lead Hawaii Democratic Party?
By News Release @ 4:33 PM :: 6842 Views :: Democratic Party, COVID-19
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... We have a duty to elect pro-science leaders, but some of our elected Democrats protest with anti-vaxxers ....
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Friday, September 3, 2021 |
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DoH Report: Delta Variant now nearly all of Hawaii COVID Cases
By News Release @ 2:57 AM :: 2685 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, COVID-19
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... DOH released a new cluster report identifying 70 COVID-19 clusters statewide, totaling 1,374 cases. Eighteen clusters occurred on Oʻahu, 44 occurred on Maui, one occurred on Hawaiʻi Island and seven occurred on Kauaʻi. ....
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Thursday, September 2, 2021 |
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Akina: OHA is Becoming More Accountable in How It Gives Out Money
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 11:21 PM :: 3273 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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... How effective were our reform efforts? Well, I am pleased to say that one of the first report cards has just arrived ....
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Thursday, September 2, 2021 |
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Liliʻuokalani Took Decisive Action to Stop the Spread of Smallpox
By Selected News Articles @ 11:08 PM :: 3306 Views :: Hawaii History, COVID-19
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... the science behind creating vaccines is not new. It has been around for more than 200 years ....
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Thursday, September 2, 2021 |
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VIDEO: Blangiardi shows us why it is useless to argue with antivaxxer fools
By Video @ 4:28 PM :: 3531 Views :: Honolulu County, COVID-19
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... Instead of drawing attention to these protesters, political leaders should be out at vaccination sites thanking people for getting vaxxed and highlighting the stories behind their decision to get vaxxed. These stories will convince others to get vaxxed ....
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Thursday, September 2, 2021 |
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DoE Enrollment Down 1.7% for 2021-22
By News Release @ 3:03 AM :: 3171 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics, COVID-19
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... Enrollment at Hawaii's public and charter schools for the 2021-22 school year decreased to 171,600 students, compared with enrollment of 174,704 students at the start of last school year — a difference of 1.7% ....
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Thursday, September 2, 2021 |
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Two Hawaii Lawyers Appointed to Interior Department
By News Release @ 2:46 AM :: 3246 Views :: DHHL, OHA
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... Summer Lee Haunani Sylva and Keone Nakoa ....
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Thursday, September 2, 2021 |
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Must Upload COVID Database to Enter UH Campus
By News Release @ 1:17 AM :: 2852 Views :: Higher Education, COVID-19
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... Unvaccinated UH students and employees are required to upload proof of a negative COVID-19 test to the LumiSight UH app to be on a UH campus or property during the fall 2021 semester ....
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Thursday, September 2, 2021 |
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City Releases Draft Right-of-Way Widths for Planned Streets
By News Release @ 12:24 AM :: 3327 Views :: Honolulu County, Land Use
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"...to implement Complete Streets which provide equitable access across all modes and for all abilities, including pedestrians, bicycles, cars, trucks, and buses...."
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Wednesday, September 1, 2021 |
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The Danger of Politics
By Joni Kamiya @ 7:01 PM :: 2375 Views :: COVID-19
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... Disinformation continues to flow all over the social media while the unvaccinated are filling hospital beds on ICUs ....
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Wednesday, September 1, 2021 |
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Hawaii Catholic Diocese not giving religious exemptions for COVID vaccines
By Selected News Articles @ 5:08 PM :: 3323 Views :: Religion, COVID-19
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... “Pope Francis has made it clear that being vaccinated can be an act of charity toward the community in order to curtail the spread of the virus.” ....
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Wednesday, September 1, 2021 |
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HTA Publishes Three Year Plan to Reduce Tourism
By News Release @ 3:19 AM :: 2776 Views :: Tourism
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... The community-based plan is part of HTA’s work toward Malama Kuu Home (caring for my beloved home) and its accelerated efforts underway to manage tourism in a regenerative manner ....
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Tuesday, August 31, 2021 |
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Rep Okimoto: Vaccine passport will increase spread among unvaccinated
By News Release @ 11:45 PM :: 3676 Views :: Honolulu County, Small Business, COVID-19
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... if you implement a policy that segregates the vaccinated with the unvaccinated, we're inadvertently incentivizing the unvaccinated community to gather and spread COVID within their own communities ....
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Tuesday, August 31, 2021 |
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State Announces End of All Federal Unemployment & Assistance Programs
By News Release @ 11:27 PM :: 2939 Views :: Labor, COVID-19
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... This affects individuals receiving Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC), and Mixed Earners Unemployment Compensation (MEUC). ...
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Tuesday, August 31, 2021 |
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New Tax Proposals at the Honolulu Council
By Video @ 5:01 AM :: 3850 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail, Taxes
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... Honolulu rail project get a portion of the revenues? ....
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Monday, August 30, 2021 |
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City Launches Vaccine Pass System for Restaurants, Bars, Gyms
By News Release @ 11:43 PM :: 3709 Views :: Honolulu County, Small Business, COVID-19
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... City launches “Safe Access O‘ahu” program to help protect businesses, employees and customers ....
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Monday, August 30, 2021 |
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Tourists Spent $1.58B in July
By News Release @ 8:40 PM :: 2342 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Tourism
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... Visitor spending decreased compared to $1.70 billion (-6.8%) in July 2019....
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Monday, August 30, 2021 |
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Federal Court Decision: Parts of Hawaii Gun Registration Law are Unconstitutional
By Selected News Articles @ 4:40 PM :: 3603 Views :: Second Amendment
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... The order of summary judgment will not take effect until 15 September 2021 ....
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Monday, August 30, 2021 |
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Hotel Occupancy Hits 82.4%
By News Release @ 4:36 PM :: 2132 Views :: Tourism
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... Compared with July 2019, RevPAR was 16.9 percent higher, driven by increased ADR (+21.0%) which offset slightly lower occupancy (-2.9 percentage points) ....
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Sunday, August 29, 2021 |
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Jenga game illustrates how government budgets go wrong
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:15 PM :: 2860 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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... “Yes,” Weinberg said. “You are going to mess up Hawaii’s finances.” ....
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Sunday, August 29, 2021 |
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Can Raising a Tax Lose Money?
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 2249 Views :: Taxes
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... One fundamental assumption that has been made over the years by our lawmakers is that if you enact a tax, money will be raised. What if that weren’t true? ....
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Saturday, August 28, 2021 |
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Hawaiʻi graduates among nation's best on student debt
By News Release @ 5:38 PM :: 3366 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education, Cost of Living
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... Hawaiʻi college graduates are among the least likely to leave school with debt. And for those who do graduate with debt, they owe among the least in the country ....
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Saturday, August 28, 2021 |
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Mythbusting 10 Fears & Rumors About COVID Vaccination
By Selected News Articles @ 5:29 PM :: 3353 Views :: COVID-19
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... Dr. Keawe Kaholokula of the John A. Burns School of Medicine addresses 10 fears and rumors about the vaccine currently circulating in our community ....
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Saturday, August 28, 2021 |
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Saturday, August 28, 2021 |
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Supreme Court Rules Against the Revised CDC Eviction Moratorium
By Selected News Articles @ 2:36 PM :: 2853 Views :: Small Business, COVID-19
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... Here is the Supreme Court majority's explanation of why the moratorium is illegal ....
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Saturday, August 28, 2021 |
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How Much COVID does your school have?
By News Release @ 2:41 AM :: 3881 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics, COVID-19
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... Campbell HS is #1 followed by Waipahu, Kapolei, and Farrington ....
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