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Sunday, July 14, 2019 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted July 13, 2019
By Selected News Articles @ 2:14 PM :: 3322 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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... weekly update from GovTrack.us ....
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Sunday, July 14, 2019 |
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So What Really Is a Resort Fee?
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 5632 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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...we are starting to see laws passed in the 2019 Legislature take effect....
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Saturday, July 13, 2019 |
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Senate Confirms Trump Appointee to Ninth Circuit
By Selected News Articles @ 2:53 PM :: 3752 Views :: Judiciary
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...Bress will fill the seat vacated by Judge Alex Kozinski, who stepped down in 2017 amid sexual misconduct allegations....
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Saturday, July 13, 2019 |
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Honolulu Among Worst Cities for First-Time Home Buyers
By Selected News Articles @ 4:57 AM :: 5328 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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...WalletHub compared 300 cities of varying sizes across 27 key indicators of market attractiveness, affordability and quality of life....
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Saturday, July 13, 2019 |
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Hawaii--3rd Lowest Student Debt
By Selected News Articles @ 4:43 AM :: 5155 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education, Cost of Living
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...Student Debt as % of Income, Adjusted for Cost of Living (3rd-lowest)....
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Friday, July 12, 2019 |
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Ige Appoints New Chief of Staff, COO
By News Release @ 11:26 PM :: 3843 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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...Ige has appointed Linda Chu Takayama as his chief of staff, effective Aug. 1 an Keith Yamamoto as chief operating officer....
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Friday, July 12, 2019 |
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Puerto Rico Relief? Special interests lobby to uphold Jones Act
By Selected News Articles @ 10:57 PM :: 5614 Views :: Ethics, Jones Act
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...Several domestic shipping and maritime interest groups, alongside unions, are backing lobbying efforts to keep the Jones Act on the books....
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Friday, July 12, 2019 |
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CNBC America's Top States for Business -- Hawaii 49th
By Selected News Articles @ 4:45 PM :: 5703 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business, Cost of Living
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...To rank CNBC's 2019 America's Top States for Business, we put all 50 states through a rigorous test and graded them based on more than 60 measures of competitiveness in 10 broad categories....
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Friday, July 12, 2019 |
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A Step in the Right Direction
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:06 PM :: 3579 Views :: Small Business
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...For almost three decades, the handyman exemption in Hawaii was capped at $1,000, a limit that includes the cost of labor and materials....
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Friday, July 12, 2019 |
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DHHL Approves Kalaeloa Solar Project
By News Release @ 3:02 PM :: 5839 Views :: DHHL, Energy
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...A proposal to Build Solar Farm on Hawaiian Home Lands turns ugly in Kapolei....
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Friday, July 12, 2019 |
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School Bus Dangers
By Joni Kamiya @ 4:14 AM :: 7034 Views :: Education K-12, Agriculture, GMOs
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...activists have scared parents into believing that they must fear pesticides but ignore other real safety hazards....
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Friday, July 12, 2019 |
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Updating Old Jones Act Cost Estimates
By Michael Hansen @ 3:18 AM :: 5232 Views :: Jones Act, Cost of Living
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...The Hawaii Shippers’ Council (HSC) recently reviewed its 1997 estimates of the cost of the Jones Act on Hawaii....
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Thursday, July 11, 2019 |
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Tourism Activists Find New Way to Push Agriculture out of Hawaii
By News Release @ 5:21 AM :: 7929 Views :: Kauai County, Environment, Agriculture, GMOs
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...Hawai‘i’s Agribusiness Development Corporation (ADC) has violated the federal Clean Water Act by polluting ocean waters along Kauaʻi’s West Side without a permit, a federal court ruled yesterday....
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Wednesday, July 10, 2019 |
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Telescope Construction to Begin Next Week
By News Release @ 6:56 PM :: 6285 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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...The State Department of Transportation announced that Mauna Kea Access Road will be closed and there could be lane and other road closures associated with large equipment movement beginning July 15....
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Wednesday, July 10, 2019 |
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Ige Signs Anti-Gun Legislation
By News Release @ 6:12 PM :: 3614 Views :: Second Amendment
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...Ige signed the final remaining anti-gun bill awaiting his consideration, Senate Bill 600. This comes on the heels of him signing Senate Bill 1466 on June 27th....
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Wednesday, July 10, 2019 |
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Ige Vetoes 18 Bills, Allows Two to Become Law
By News Release @ 3:33 AM :: 3492 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... Ige boosts film tax credit and allows condo associations to conduct non-judicial forclosures ....
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Tuesday, July 9, 2019 |
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Company was told to stop skydiving before fatal crash; now ordered to vacate
By News Release @ 8:40 PM :: 8485 Views :: Law Enforcement, Tourism
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...“If you want to maintain your aircraft there are not a lot of options up there because the state won’t allow it.”...
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Tuesday, July 9, 2019 |
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Kapiolani CC apprenticeship program showcased at mayors conference
By News Release @ 8:22 PM :: 4509 Views :: Higher Education, Labor
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...invited to present a Best Practices session on its apprenticeship program and how it could address employee shortages....
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Tuesday, July 9, 2019 |
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Lyon Corruption: Ex-Schatz, Winer New Gig at Strategies360
By News Release @ 3:38 PM :: 6423 Views :: Ethics, Congressional Delegation
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... Really Obvious Question: Has Winer received a target letter or a subject letter in the Lyon investigation? ....
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Tuesday, July 9, 2019 |
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Ige Signs More Bills into Law
By News Release @ 10:36 AM :: 6907 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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...ACT 268 establishes the Stadium Development District and puts the state’s Aloha Stadium lands under the jurisdiction of the Stadium Authority....
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Tuesday, July 9, 2019 |
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Gabbard: Harris Leveled ‘False Accusation’ of Racism at Biden
By Selected News Articles @ 3:37 AM :: 4822 Views :: Democratic Party, Congressional Delegation
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...'It was a false accusation that Joe Biden is a racist'....
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Tuesday, July 9, 2019 |
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Free Market Economics with Mark Skousen
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:28 AM :: 3459 Views :: Economy
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...Skousen discusses with host Keli'i Akina what free-market economics is and why we should promote it....
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Monday, July 8, 2019 |
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Trustee Akina Praises OHA’s Support of Court Order to Open LLCs’ Books
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 11:23 PM :: 5071 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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"...Under interim CEO Sylvia Hussey’s leadership, transparency reigns...."
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Monday, July 8, 2019 |
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Solar Variance Trick Makes Housing Even More Un-affordable in Hawaii
By Andrew Walden @ 11:04 PM :: 8860 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy, Development, Cost of Living
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...a dirty legislative trick from 2008 has--eleven years later--effectively outlawed new installation of tankless on-demand gas water heaters....
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Sunday, July 7, 2019 |
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HSTA Members Grill Dem Presidential Contenders--Demand More Money
By News Release @ 9:25 PM :: 6704 Views :: Democratic Party, Education K-12, Labor
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...First Question: “How are you going to increase salaries...."
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Sunday, July 7, 2019 |
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Feds Bust Hawaii-Based Fraudsters
By News Release @ 5:19 AM :: 3859 Views :: Law Enforcement
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...Husband and Wife Plead Guilty To Involvement In Multi-Million Dollar Investment Fraud Scheme Based in Hawaii....
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Sunday, July 7, 2019 |
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Do We Have a Legitimate Government?
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 4120 Views :: Hawaii History
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...It pains me to read stories of people who lost their homes after being told that they didn’t have to pay back their mortgages because the laws under which they were made were invalid in Hawaii....
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Saturday, July 6, 2019 |
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OHA LLCs Agree to Provide Check Register
By Andrew Walden @ 8:43 PM :: 7047 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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... OHA’s response comes just two days after the departure of former OHA CEO Kamana’o Crabbe ....
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Saturday, July 6, 2019 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted July 6, 2019
By Selected News Articles @ 4:25 PM :: 3492 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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... Congress was on recess this week, but members did introduce bills ....
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Friday, July 5, 2019 |
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ACLU Claims Prosecutor Retaliated Against Safe House Whistle-blowers
By News Release @ 3:40 PM :: 5959 Views :: Honolulu County, Family, Law Enforcement
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...the project lost its funding at the City Council and is set to close in August....
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Friday, July 5, 2019 |
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Harvard: High Housing Costs Caused by 'Regulatory Constraints on Development'
By News Release @ 12:53 PM :: 4617 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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...“These constraints, largely imposed at the local level, raise costs and limit the number of homes that can be built in places where demand is highest.”....
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Friday, July 5, 2019 |
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Energy: Hawaii has Highest Prices, Lowest Consumption
By Selected News Articles @ 2:14 AM :: 6103 Views :: Energy, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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...despite the nation's lowest electricity consumption, chart-topping rates give Hawaii the 10th highest electric bills....
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Friday, July 5, 2019 |
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NIFLA v. Becerra: One Year Later, Still the Most Significant Abortion SCOTUS Case in Decades
By Selected News Articles @ 12:25 AM :: 5566 Views :: First Amendment, Life
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... Can the government mandate that groups or individuals speak a message with which they fundamentally disagree? ....
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Thursday, July 4, 2019 |
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Lyon Corruption: While Son in Law Rots in Federal Detention, President Christian Returns to FSM Senate
By News Release @ 7:26 PM :: 5792 Views :: National News, Ethics
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...Former President of the FSM, Peter M. Christian, is the official declared winner for Pohnpei State’s at-large seat, having received 6,060 votes or 46.46% of all votes cast....
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Thursday, July 4, 2019 |
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'Life, liberty and ... property'
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 6:56 PM :: 3791 Views :: Law Enforcement
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...without property rights, many of our other rights or freedoms would be shallower....
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Wednesday, July 3, 2019 |
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OHA LLC Records Being Destroyed?
By Video @ 11:50 PM :: 4433 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...They Did Something Nobody Else Would Be Allowed To Do....
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Wednesday, July 3, 2019 |
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Kealoha Barred from Practicing Law
By News Release @ 11:10 PM :: 4897 Views :: Ethics, Judiciary
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...with proceedings stayed until the criminal proceedings are final....
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Wednesday, July 3, 2019 |
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Hawaii to Erase Prostitution Convictions After Three Years
By Selected News Articles @ 1:25 PM :: 3976 Views :: Law Enforcement
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...Ige said requiring proof of victimization is “unrealistic” due to victims’ fear of retaliation from their former pimps or sex buyers....
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Tuesday, July 2, 2019 |
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DoH: Six Months of Suicide in Hawaii
By News Release @ 1:11 PM :: 5033 Views :: Health Care, Life
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...Hawaii Department of Health releases six-month progress report on Our Care, Our Choice Act....
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Monday, July 1, 2019 |
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OHA Needs a Watchdog!
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 8:36 PM :: 5689 Views :: Ethics, First Amendment, OHA
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...If an OHA Trustee cannot publicly disagree with Board decisions, then it would hinder any Trustee from functioning as a watchdog. That would be a terrible loss to beneficiaries....
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Sunday, June 30, 2019 |
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Telescope: DLNR vs KAHEA 'No Sound Cannon'
By News Release @ 3:21 PM :: 8238 Views :: Greenmail, Higher Education, Law Enforcement, OHA, Police
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...The assertion that DOCARE utilized an LRAD in association with protests on Maui’s Haleakala several years ago is completely false....
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Sunday, June 30, 2019 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 30, 2019
By Selected News Articles @ 2:16 PM :: 3749 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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...Bills Introduced and Votes Cast for the week ending June 29, 2019....
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Sunday, June 30, 2019 |
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The Tax on Ghost Homes
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 6992 Views :: Development, Land Use, Taxes
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... a vacant home fee of 5% or 10% ....
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Sunday, June 30, 2019 |
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DHHL Announces Search for Larry Mehau's Successor
By News Release @ 4:22 AM :: 4652 Views :: DHHL
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...present your claim by September 30, 2019, or be forever barred from succeeding....
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Sunday, June 30, 2019 |
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OHA looking for Someone to Give Away $1.66M
By News Release @ 4:14 AM :: 3728 Views :: OHA
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...OHA seeks non-profit to administer $1.66 million emergency financial assistance grant....
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Saturday, June 29, 2019 |
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Activist Attacks Destroy Another 17% of Hawaii Seed Industry Acreage
By News Release @ 8:30 PM :: 149439 Views :: Agriculture, Hawaii Statistics, GMOs
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...Acreage harvested for all seed crops is expected to total 2,530 acres during the 2018-19 season, down 17 percent from the previous season....
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Saturday, June 29, 2019 |
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Will Hawaii be the Next Puerto Rico?
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:00 AM :: 4430 Views :: Jones Act
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...Hear how Jones Act has cost Puerto Rico dearly, and Hawaii, too....
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Saturday, June 29, 2019 |
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Ige Appoints New Budget and Finance Director
By News Release @ 9:59 AM :: 4294 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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...Neal Miyahira starts as Budget and Finance director on July 1. His appointment is subject to Senate confirmation....
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