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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 :: 3838 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 :: 3405 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 :: 4181 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 :: 2825 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 :: 3846 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 :: 3402 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 :: 4449 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 :: 3432 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 :: 4569 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 :: 4566 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 :: 2764 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 :: 4105 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 :: 2633 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 :: 3419 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 :: 2670 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 :: 3983 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 :: 3818 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 :: 3458 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 :: 4579 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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| Saturday, August 28, 2021 |
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Senate Votes Sonja M.P. McCullen to ICA
By News Release @ 2:16 AM :: 2990 Views :: Judiciary
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... Judge McCullen has served as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney with the Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for a combined 11 years in the Appellate Division ....
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| Saturday, August 28, 2021 |
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1854: Hawaiian Kingdom Legislature Orders Mandatory Vaccines for Everybody
By Selected News Articles @ 2:08 AM :: 5613 Views :: Hawaii History, Health Care, COVID-19
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... Would the Hawaiian Kingdom Compel Everyone to Take the COVID-19 Vaccine? The Answer is “YES” ....
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| Friday, August 27, 2021 |
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SCOTUS Strikes Down CDC Eviction Moratorium And Leaves Tantalizing Clues About Takings
By Robert Thomas @ 11:48 PM :: 3884 Views :: Small Business, COVID-19
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... The other shoe -- perhaps the most predictable shoe drop in legal history -- dropped yesterday ....
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| Friday, August 27, 2021 |
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Sweet Deal for Maui Developer--DHHL Affordable Housing Credits
By Andrew Walden @ 6:49 PM :: 7640 Views :: DHHL, Maui County, Ethics
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... the affordable housing credits paid to Dowling are worth $1.4M to $20.6M over and above DHHL’s $10.8M parcel valuation ....
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| Friday, August 27, 2021 |
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DBEDT: Delta Drives Down Hawaii Economic Forecast
By News Release @ 4:35 PM :: 3980 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, COVID-19
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... DBEDT revised its economic growth projection for 2021 to 2.7 percent, down from 3.5 percent ....
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| Friday, August 27, 2021 |
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Poisoning of People
By Joni Kamiya @ 4:11 PM :: 6823 Views :: Maui County, Ethics, GMOs, COVID-19
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... I have to laugh because they mocked me as being sheep but, uh, they are the ones taking enough of a toxic substance made for sheep! ....
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| Friday, August 27, 2021 |
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Hawaii County's Failed Bus System Cited for ADA Violations
By News Release @ 4:04 PM :: 2945 Views :: Hawaii County
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... The county agrees to fix “chronically inoperable” wheelchair lifts and make other changes to avoid getting sued ....
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| Friday, August 27, 2021 |
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COVID Quackery: Medical Board Files Complaint Against Pang After Legislators Demand Firing
By News Release @ 6:34 AM :: 5582 Views :: Ethics, Health Care, COVID-19
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... Hawaii feed stores seeing spike in Ivermectin sales--One Person Poisoned ....
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| Friday, August 27, 2021 |
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Hawaii: Highest Food Costs in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 4:21 AM :: 4279 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... Hawaii Households spend the most dollars on food according to a LendingTree study ....
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| Friday, August 27, 2021 |
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Maui Council Passes Organic Pesticide and Fertilizer Bill
By News Release @ 2:45 AM :: 4702 Views :: Maui County, Environment, Agriculture
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... Bill No. 72, which only allows pesticides and fertilizers that are compatible with organic systems and permitted under the USDA National Organic Program to be used on county property ....
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| Thursday, August 26, 2021 |
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Secret Arbitration Revealed: How DPS Official Kept Crooked Cop On The Job After FBI Raid
By Selected News Articles @ 2:42 PM :: 14081 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Labor, Police
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... top Corrections Official was Secret Arbitrator keeping mafia-connected HPD officers on the job ....
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| Thursday, August 26, 2021 |
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Secretary of the Army appoints Ti Leaf Group President as civilian aide
By News Release @ 12:42 PM :: 2849 Views
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... Noe Kalipi is one of two CASAs representing Hawaii, joining Gil Tam, CASA for Hawaii (O'ahu East). She currently serves as the chief strategy officer for Progression Energy and owns a consulting firm specializing in systems planning, food security, energy security and community empowerment ....
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| Thursday, August 26, 2021 |
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98.6% of State Employees Comply with COVID Mandate
By News Release @ 2:22 AM :: 3888 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor, COVID-19
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... 87% fully vaccinated and close to 5% partially vaccinated ....
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| Thursday, August 26, 2021 |
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VIDEO: Dalai Lama Gets the Vax--Says You Should Too!
By Video @ 2:13 AM :: 3721 Views :: Religion, COVID-19
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... His Holiness the Dalai Lama receiving the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine at Zonal Hospital, Dharamshala, H.P., India ....
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| Wednesday, August 25, 2021 |
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Tourist Busted after Lifting Turtle out of Sea and not Eating it
By News Release @ 2:59 AM :: 5334 Views :: Maui County, Law Enforcement, Tourism
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... tourist fails to uphold traditional Hawaiian cultural practices ....
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| Tuesday, August 24, 2021 |
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Honolulu Rail Critic Pushes for Middle Street Endpoint
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 8:02 PM :: 4005 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail
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... Then on August 3 came devastating confirmation from a respected FTA agent ....
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| Tuesday, August 24, 2021 |
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Pope Francis: "Getting the vaccine is an act of love"
By Video @ 5:58 PM :: 3620 Views :: Religion, COVID-19
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"Getting the vaccines that are authorized by the respective authorities is an act of love. I pray to God that each one of us can make his or her own small gesture of love, no matter how small, love is always grand."
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| Tuesday, August 24, 2021 |
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Oahu Workplace Survey: 1 in 3 Already Have Vaccine Mandate
By UHERO @ 4:58 AM :: 4073 Views :: Honolulu County, Small Business, COVID-19
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... The largest businesses of 50 or more employees reported the lowest proportion of vaccinations at their workplaces ....
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| Tuesday, August 24, 2021 |
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City submits revised short-term rental bill to Planning Commission
By News Release @ 1:33 AM :: 4538 Views :: Honolulu County, Small Business, Tourism
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... would not allow any new STRs in residential areas, but allow STRs adjacent to existing resort areas ....
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| Monday, August 23, 2021 |
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Beam-in-the-Eye Environmentalism
By Selected News Articles @ 8:35 PM :: 12096 Views :: Energy, Environment
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"... States and localities enact symbolic green regulations while embracing land-use regimes that harm the environment ...."
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| Monday, August 23, 2021 |
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No Land for TMT on La Palma: Spanish Court Revokes Telescope License (again)
By News Release @ 5:19 PM :: 7357 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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... a judge of the High Court of Justice of the Canary Islands has revoked the concession of public forest land to the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) for the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) ....
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| Monday, August 23, 2021 |
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No Longer EUA: FDA Full Approval for COVID Vaccine
By News Release @ 4:59 PM :: 3335 Views :: COVID-19
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“While millions of people have already safely received COVID-19 vaccines, we recognize that for some, the FDA approval of a vaccine may now instill additional confidence to get vaccinated."
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| Monday, August 23, 2021 |
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Trump Tells Crowd: 'Take the Vaccines'
By Video @ 1:45 PM :: 4469 Views :: Republican Party, COVID-19
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"I recommend: Take the vaccines. I did it." -- Donald J Trump, August 22, 2021
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| Monday, August 23, 2021 |
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Lawsuits bring significant changes to Hawaii gun laws
By Selected News Articles @ 1:00 AM :: 4859 Views :: Honolulu County, Second Amendment
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... Today's ruling against the State eliminates the ten-day expiration period of pistol permits....and the requirement that an individual physically brings a firearm to the police station to register....
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| Monday, August 23, 2021 |
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Union Lawsuit Compares COVID Vaccine to Nazi Experiments
By Andrew Walden @ 12:18 AM :: 7789 Views :: Labor, COVID-19
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... Nazi experiments? Flu is worse? Livestock deworming pill is the cure? Hydroxychloroquine? All of these tired old anti-vaxxer chestnuts are front and center ....
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| Sunday, August 22, 2021 |
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Have We Unwittingly Put the Brakes on HART?
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 3412 Views :: Rail
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...What you might not have seen is the difficulty the HART board is having making decisions....
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| Sunday, August 22, 2021 |
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Trustee: Criminal Al Hee Rakes in $15M While on Parole
By Selected News Articles @ 5:51 AM :: 6988 Views :: DHHL, Ethics
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... SIC allowed third-party telecommunication carriers to use the Paniolo Cable Network without permission, without compensation to Paniolo and in violation of the Settlement Agreement ....
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| Saturday, August 21, 2021 |
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"One step forward, two steps back"
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 5:10 PM :: 3159 Views :: COVID-19
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... Everywhere you look, there are indications that people are losing patience with the current style of governance and the uncertainty of living under executive orders ....
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| Saturday, August 21, 2021 |
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