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Tuesday, June 18, 2019 |
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Hawaii 3rd Most Dangerous for Older Pedestrians
By News Release @ 4:05 AM :: 3439 Views :: Hawaii Statistics
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...Between 2008-2017, Hawaii adults over 50 were 2.6 times as likely to be struck and killed while walking compared to people under 50….
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Monday, June 17, 2019 |
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Why is the Hawaii Attorney General too busy to prosecute charter school corruption?
By Andrew Walden @ 8:42 PM :: 8446 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics, Law Enforcement
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...The day after an allegedly corrupt charter school director evaded justice, the AG’s office sent out yet another nationally-themed news release--ironically calling on Congress to do something about … corrupt educational institutions....
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Monday, June 17, 2019 |
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Economic Well-Being of Children: Hawaii Ranks 34th
By News Release @ 7:32 PM :: 7662 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Economy, Hawaii Statistics
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...conditions have shown little to no improvements in more recent years, with the state’s rank for this domain slipping from 30 in 2018 to 34 in 2019....
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Sunday, June 16, 2019 |
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After Lying to Legislature OHA Shoots Messenger--and Misses
By Andrew Walden @ 10:28 PM :: 7759 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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... what was it that Keli'i Akina said? ....
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Sunday, June 16, 2019 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 16, 2019
By Selected News Articles @ 8:04 PM :: 2615 Views
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... weekly update from GovTrack.us ....
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Sunday, June 16, 2019 |
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HI-5 – Have We Stopped the Leakage Yet?
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 5991 Views :: Environment, Ethics, Small Business
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...“Look. We’ve issued four audit reports on the program...."
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Saturday, June 15, 2019 |
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OECD Jones Act Study generates very large impact numbers
By Michael Hansen @ 9:43 PM :: 4267 Views :: Jones Act
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...The Organization of Economic Development Cooperation (OECD) recently released a new study of local content requirements for maritime services in the U.S. under the Jones Act....
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Saturday, June 15, 2019 |
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Conservative Rankings of Hawaii State Legislators
By Selected News Articles @ 9:15 PM :: 5326 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics
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...nineteen Senators and two Representatives – all Democrats – earned membership in the ‘Coalition of the Radical Left’ by scoring 10% or less....
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Saturday, June 15, 2019 |
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Conservatives Rank Hawaii CongDel: Schatz Hits 14%
By News Release @ 8:37 PM :: 3896 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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...The guide ranks members of Congress based upon their commitment to conservative principles as demonstrated by their voting records in the 2018 session of Congress....
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Saturday, June 15, 2019 |
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Feds: Hawaii #2 for White Collar Crime
By Selected News Articles @ 7:29 PM :: 7377 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii Statistics, Law Enforcement
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...in Hawaii, 29% of federal criminal convictions are for white collar crime, second only to New Jersey....
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Saturday, June 15, 2019 |
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Debunked: Caldwell’s ‘Vancouver Tax’ Does Nothing to Ease Rental Crisis
By Andrew Walden @ 4:07 AM :: 10692 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Taxes
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...1,100 homes were removed from the rental market in the first year of the city’s empty-homes tax....
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Saturday, June 15, 2019 |
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Hawaii Mortgage Debt--2nd Highest in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 3:28 AM :: 4228 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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...and Hawaii has the 4th-lowest home ownership rate in USA....
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Friday, June 14, 2019 |
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Let’s be reasonable about STRs
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:43 PM :: 6368 Views :: Small Business, Taxes, Tourism
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...there is a bill before Gov. David Ige, SB 1292, which he has until June 24 to veto or sign....
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Friday, June 14, 2019 |
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How High Are Wine Taxes in Your State?
By Tax Foundation @ 12:23 PM :: 4339 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...Hawaii taxes wine at $1.38/gallon, 14th highest in USA....
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Friday, June 14, 2019 |
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Hey, shipbuilders, Jones Act reform is your friend
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:07 AM :: 4044 Views :: Jones Act
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...the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts growth for the U.S. shipbuilding industry in the long term, should the U.S-build requirement of the law be abolished or relaxed....
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Friday, June 14, 2019 |
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Hawaii needs a handy ‘adjust policy’ tab
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:37 AM :: 3812 Views :: Economy
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...I just gave Hawaii the best economic outlook in the country, and all it took was a few mouse clicks....
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Thursday, June 13, 2019 |
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Home Sharing Under Attack
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:54 PM :: 5036 Views :: Small Business, Tourism
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...lawmakers' plans to crack down on the vacation rental industry may hurt Hawaii's struggling economy....
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Thursday, June 13, 2019 |
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15 Seconds of Terror--Near Repeat of Sacred Falls Tragedy
By News Release @ 4:03 PM :: 5341 Views :: Law Enforcement, Tourism
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...“15-seconds of terror,” is how a trespassing Honolulu hiker describes his near miss with a rock-fall incident at the closed Sacred Falls State Park on King Kamehameha Day....
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Thursday, June 13, 2019 |
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Bill 31 Dead: No Sanctuary City
By Brett Kulbis @ 4:00 PM :: 10371 Views :: Honolulu County, Law Enforcement, Republican Party
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...“There really is no support. You’d think that Hawaii would kind of be the center for immigration issues. But I guess if it’s deemed a ‘sanctuary city,’ that’s not well-received.”....
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Wednesday, June 12, 2019 |
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Ige Signs 64 Bills Into Law
By News Release @ 11:04 PM :: 4294 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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...Gov. David Ige signed the following bills on June 7, 2019. Legislative leadership has been notified....
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Wednesday, June 12, 2019 |
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Hawaii #2 for Suicide: Drug, Alcohol Deaths up
By News Release @ 4:10 AM :: 5918 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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...Suicide deaths rose to the second-highest rate in the country at 15.2 per 100,000 in 2017, the latest data available, from 8.2 per 100,000 in 2005, while alcohol deaths climbed to 5.8 from 3.5 and drug poisonings increased to 13.8 from 9.4....
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Tuesday, June 11, 2019 |
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Tulsi Gabbard Had a Very Strange Childhood
By Selected News Articles @ 1:51 PM :: 9537 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Hawaii History, Religion
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...Mike announced that his wife and boys would not be able to eat most of what his mother had cooked, as they were now vegetarian. Also, everyone needed to stop calling the children by their birth names. Their new names were Bhakti, Jai, and Naryana....
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Monday, June 10, 2019 |
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Sunscreen, Straws and Subtlety: The Dangers of Oversimplifying a Complex Environmental Problem
By Selected News Articles @ 5:17 PM :: 3834 Views :: Environment
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...Overwhelming activist and media focus on a small part of the problem leads to confused and misinformed citizens....
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Sunday, June 9, 2019 |
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HB1383: Will Ige Veto Marijuana Decriminalization?
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 8:04 PM :: 7438 Views :: Family, Life, Drugs
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...the Governor has indicated his discomfort with the bill....
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Sunday, June 9, 2019 |
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DOE, Fork Over That General Ledger!
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 5115 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics
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...the Education Institute of Hawaii that wants to see the general ledger for the whole Department of Education....
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Sunday, June 9, 2019 |
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Warmers: $23B Homes to be Destroyed in Urban Honolulu
By News Release @ 3:10 AM :: 6739 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Rail
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... meanwhile the State and City keep building Rail in the alleged inundation zone ....
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Saturday, June 8, 2019 |
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ACLU: Proposed Mauna Kea Rules Unconstitutional
By News Release @ 6:26 PM :: 6056 Views :: First Amendment, Higher Education, OHA
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...proposed rules as they may infringe upon the constitutional rights of individuals seeking to access Mauna Kea....
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Saturday, June 8, 2019 |
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ACLU: DoE Would Rather Litigate Than Build Locker Rooms for Female Students
By News Release @ 6:19 PM :: 5595 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics
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...Documents filed yesterday in federal court by the ACLU of Hawai‘i reveal that DOE has simply been waiting for two female high school athletes to graduate, hoping the mere fact of their graduation will prevent the girls from being able to proceed with their gender discrimination lawsuit....
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Saturday, June 8, 2019 |
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Democrat Senator Reveals His Ties to the Knights of Columbus
By Heritage Foundation @ 4:31 PM :: 7273 Views :: Congressional Delegation, First Amendment, Religion
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...Some Democrats have stood up to Hirono's anti-Catholic rhetoric....
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Friday, June 7, 2019 |
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Hawaii 3rd Highest Beer Taxes in USA
By Tax Foundation @ 7:10 PM :: 6051 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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... Hawaii imposes $0.93 tax per gallon of beer ....
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Friday, June 7, 2019 |
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Honolulu needs a spending cap, pronto!
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 6:42 PM :: 6242 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail, Taxes
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... This week, the Honolulu City Council approved an operating budget of $2.8 billion, an increase of 8.8% over last year’s budget and almost $1 million more than the amount proposed by Mayor Kirk Caldwell ....
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Thursday, June 6, 2019 |
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OHA Trustees target one of their own for ‘investigation’--then chicken out
By Andrew Walden @ 11:10 PM :: 8390 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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... was this Crabbe's final attempt at revenge? ....
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Thursday, June 6, 2019 |
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Crabbe Out as OHA CEO
By Selected News Articles @ 9:44 PM :: 7098 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...The Crabbe-created LLCs must be dissolved, the irregularities in contract awarding must end, and the FBI must be raid the offices now before all the evidences of corruption are destroyed while Crabbe hangs on till the end of the month....
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Thursday, June 6, 2019 |
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Final Report: Utility Ownership and Regulatory Models for Hawaii
By News Release @ 7:30 PM :: 5213 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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...Study concludes that ratepayers are being gouged to the greatest possible degree and no other system could gouge us more effectively without us noticing....
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Thursday, June 6, 2019 |
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Feds Debunk Surfrider's Fake Bacteria Counts
By News Release @ 7:04 PM :: 10028 Views :: Kauai County, Environment, Agriculture, Greenmail
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...Scientists use a powerful microbial detection device to show that suggestions of sewage in Kauai’s watershed were mostly false positives....
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Wednesday, June 5, 2019 |
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Death Gets 373 Homeless off Streets
By News Release @ 9:47 PM :: 6195 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii Statistics, Homelessness
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...373 people who were considered homeless at the time of their deaths have died on O‘ahu from 2014 through 2018....
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Wednesday, June 5, 2019 |
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‘Housing First’ Gets 450 Homeless off Streets
By News Release @ 9:36 PM :: 6307 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii Statistics, Homelessness
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...91 percent of Honolulu’s Housing First clients came into the program as chronically homeless, and over 60 percent came directly from living on the streets....
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Wednesday, June 5, 2019 |
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Honolulu ranked America’s best small city for second year in a row
By News Release @ 9:28 PM :: 4317 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii Statistics
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...based on several criteria, including crime rates, air quality, housing affordability, entertainment offerings, cultural diversity, and economic vitality....
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Wednesday, June 5, 2019 |
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Low Participation Breakfast: DoE is Serving it All Summer
By News Release @ 5:45 PM :: 5290 Views :: Education K-12, Family
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...Hawaii 39.7% of free-lunch eligible students participate in free breakfast program – 2nd lowest in USA....
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Wednesday, June 5, 2019 |
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Panos: Some Ways To Stop The Exodus To The Mainland
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 4:02 AM :: 5918 Views :: Economy, Cost of Living
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...For decades now, the young ones have heard this message loud and clear....
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Tuesday, June 4, 2019 |
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OHA Distributes $6M Grant Money
By News Release @ 8:39 PM :: 4816 Views :: OHA
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...OHA Board of Trustees approves $6 million for community grants....
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Tuesday, June 4, 2019 |
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Feds Identify Hawaii's Six Worst Nursing Homes
By News Release @ 4:25 AM :: 5888 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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... identified as having a “persistent record of poor care” ....
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Tuesday, June 4, 2019 |
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Hawaii joins states suing OxyContin maker
By News Release @ 3:21 AM :: 5076 Views :: Health Care, Drugs
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...In Hawaii, opioid deaths, hospitalizations, and treatment services have risen significantly over the last several years....
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Monday, June 3, 2019 |
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Hawaii Economy is Booming--And It's the 4th Worst
By Selected News Articles @ 6:50 PM :: 5190 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics
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...low tech, low patents, low innovation....
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Sunday, June 2, 2019 |
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Earth Is Nearly 520 Percent More Abundant Now Than in 1980
By Selected News Articles @ 8:30 PM :: 7087 Views :: Energy, Environment, Economy
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...Thanks to the ultimate resource: the human mind....
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Sunday, June 2, 2019 |
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Shining Light on Revenue Estimates
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 4982 Views :: Economy, Taxes
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...DOTAX justified the shroud of darkness surrounding its revenue projections with a theory, derived from federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) law, called “deliberative process privilege.”....
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Saturday, June 1, 2019 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 1, 2019
By Selected News Articles @ 5:19 PM :: 3917 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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...Congress was not in session last week but two resolutions were introduced by members of the Hawaii congressional delegation....
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Saturday, June 1, 2019 |
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Help the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board develop ethics training
By News Release @ 1:38 AM :: 6177 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics, Labor
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...work with Dr. Troy Hutchings to make the Model Code of Ethics for Educators 'appropriate for Hawaii'....
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