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Saturday, December 23, 2017 |
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Young Puerto Rican calls for Jones Act repeal
By Michael Hansen @ 5:28 PM :: 4550 Views :: Jones Act
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...The debate over the Merchant Marine Act of 1920 (Jones Act) has been revived as devastating hurricanes stormed through the Caribbean and public figures like Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) have introduced legislation for its partial or total repeal....
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Saturday, December 23, 2017 |
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Bloomberg considers Jones Act reform options
By Michael Hansen @ 5:09 PM :: 4527 Views :: Jones Act
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...First, grant at least a five-year waiver of the act to Puerto Rico. This would speed the island’s recovery. It would also test how best to regulate foreign-flag carriers, and provide data to show exactly what the act is costing....
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Saturday, December 23, 2017 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted December 22, 2017
By Congress.org @ 4:27 PM :: 4624 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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- Senate: Tax Overhaul – Motion to Recede and Concur
- Senate: Short-Term Fiscal 2018 Continuing Appropriations – Motion to Concur
- House: Tax Overhaul – Motion to Concur
- House: Short-Term Fiscal 2018 Continuing Appropriations
- House: Supplemental Disaster Appropriations
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Saturday, December 23, 2017 |
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150M Muslims Barred: Ninth Circuit Finds Trump’s 3rd Travel Ban Illegal
By Selected News Articles @ 2:03 PM :: 4904 Views :: National News
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...the president’s efforts to bar over 150 million nationals of six Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States....
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Saturday, December 23, 2017 |
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Important Tax Law Changes for 2018
By News Release @ 1:05 AM :: 6964 Views :: Taxes
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...State tax law changes impacting businesses and individuals....
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Saturday, December 23, 2017 |
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Ige Appoints Lei Learmont to Replace Rep Oshiro in HD46 Wahiawa
By News Release @ 12:47 AM :: 6607 Views :: Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government
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...Learmont fills the vacancy created when former Rep. Marcus Oshiro joined the Hawai‘i Labor Relations Board in October....
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Friday, December 22, 2017 |
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SCOTUS Keeps Rebuking Lower Courts That Rule Against Trump
By Selected News Articles @ 3:00 PM :: 7121 Views :: National News, Judiciary
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...the justices have issued several fairly extraordinary orders in cases involving the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and the latest iteration of the travel ban, which deals rather harshly with trial courts in California, Hawaii and Maryland....
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Friday, December 22, 2017 |
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Hawaii 2018 Summer Journalism Internships
By News Release @ 2:04 PM :: 5209 Views :: First Amendment
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...Full-time internships (10 weeks at 40 hours/week) with a $4,040 pay....
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Friday, December 22, 2017 |
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Should the government be your Santa?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 12:24 PM :: 5106 Views :: First Amendment
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...Santa is an enthusiastic devotee of the surveillance state....
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Friday, December 22, 2017 |
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The Jones Act Revisited
By Selected News Articles @ 3:01 AM :: 5520 Views :: Jones Act
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...The benefits of the act are concentrated among special interest groups, but the costs are broadly dispersed....
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Friday, December 22, 2017 |
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UH Presents 2018 Budget Request
By News Release @ 2:55 AM :: 4929 Views :: Higher Education
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...UH is currently scheduled to present its budget request to the Senate Committee on Ways and Means in the afternoon of January 9, 2018....
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Friday, December 22, 2017 |
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Hawaii Unemployment Sets Record Low as Labor Force Shrinks
By News Release @ 2:30 AM :: 6235 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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...Labor force drops 1% -- from 690,800 to 684,350 year over year....
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Thursday, December 21, 2017 |
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Census: Hawaii One of only Eight States to Lose Population
By Selected News Articles @ 6:21 PM :: 5430 Views :: Hawaii Statistics
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...Hawaii lost 1,145 residents between 2016 and 2017....
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Thursday, December 21, 2017 |
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Finalists Named for UH Board of Regents
By News Release @ 5:57 PM :: 4793 Views :: Higher Education
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...a list of candidates to Gov. David Ige to fill one At-Large seat and one Maui County seat for 5-year appointments, beginning July 1, 2018, subject to confirmation by the Hawaiʻi State Senate....
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Thursday, December 21, 2017 |
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UH Hilo chancellor search begins
By News Release @ 5:55 PM :: 4447 Views :: Higher Education
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...UH President David Lassner will receive input from the committee and stakeholders and will then present a recommendation for appointment to the Board of Regents....
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Thursday, December 21, 2017 |
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Tupola: Hawaii Families Will Benefit from Tax Cut
By News Release @ 11:59 AM :: 6372 Views :: Republican Party, Taxes
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...the new tax plan will impact Hawai‘i by adding 1,518 new jobs and predicts a $793 after-tax income increase for middle-income families....
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Wednesday, December 20, 2017 |
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Caldwell: Affordable Housing is a Monster Which Must be Killed
By News Release @ 9:40 PM :: 6137 Views :: Honolulu County, Cost of Living
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...Caldwell is calling upon the Honolulu City Council to pass legislation that places a moratorium on their construction....
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Wednesday, December 20, 2017 |
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Bloomberg: Jones Act political contributions and lobbying
By Michael Hansen @ 6:36 PM :: 6757 Views :: Ethics, Jones Act, Labor
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...Still playing with U.S. ports....
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Wednesday, December 20, 2017 |
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Hawaii 70% Ready: Health Emergency Preparedness
By News Release @ 4:51 PM :: 5128 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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...Hawaii's Flu Vaccination Rate is 49.2 Percent, 18th Highest....
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Wednesday, December 20, 2017 |
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State pension woes raise specter of county bankruptcies
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:15 PM :: 10296 Views :: Maui County, Labor, Taxes
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...Hokama also asked Thom Williams, executive director of the ERS, if the debt would still be owed if the county went bankrupt....
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Wednesday, December 20, 2017 |
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Bureaucracy thwarts state modernization
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:07 PM :: 6470 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor, Taxes
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...Hawaii’s entrenched state and county bureaucracies delaying the advance of high technology into their own operations....
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Wednesday, December 20, 2017 |
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Who Gets a Tax Cut Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act?
By Tax Foundation @ 11:48 AM :: 5902 Views :: Taxes
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...To help provide a sense of how the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act would impact real taxpayers, we’ve run the taxes of eight example households....
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Wednesday, December 20, 2017 |
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Bloomberg: The Jones Act serves no purpose
By Michael Hansen @ 2:25 AM :: 4598 Views :: Jones Act
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...the second in a planned series of four editorials focusing on the impacts of Jones Act cabotage on the U.S. economy....
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Wednesday, December 20, 2017 |
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DoH: $1.75B Needed to Replace Cesspools Statewide
By News Release @ 2:07 AM :: 5627 Views :: Environment, Health Care
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...DOH has filed a report with the Legislature identifying 14 priority areas of the state where 43,000 cesspool upgrades are critically needed to protect public health and the environment....
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Wednesday, December 20, 2017 |
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After Years, State finally goes public on Rat Lungworm
By News Release @ 1:58 AM :: 7221 Views :: Hawaii County , Health Care, Tourism
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...Tourists are attracted to places with well-known Rat Lungworm infestations. it is a selling point. Really....
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Tuesday, December 19, 2017 |
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Scientists: Latest Round of Kauai Hysterics Wrong
By News Release @ 11:09 PM :: 6079 Views :: Kauai County, Environment
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...Tests by USDA Lab Show No Evidence of Diphacinone in Whale Livers....
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Tuesday, December 19, 2017 |
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Survey: 62% of Hawaii Youth Not Qualified for Military Service
By News Release @ 3:20 PM :: 8728 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics, Military, Drugs
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...Crime and Inability to Join Military or Workforce Present National Crisis....
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Tuesday, December 19, 2017 |
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Ige Announces Supplemental Budget
By News Release @ 12:42 AM :: 3947 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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...FY 19 amendments total $85.5 million – an increase of .6 percent over FY 19...FY 19 amendments total $1.497 billion, an increase of 215 percent over FY 19 CIP....
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Monday, December 18, 2017 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted December 18, 2017
By Congress.org @ 7:06 PM :: 4421 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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- Senate: Grasz Nomination - Confirmation
- Senate: Willett Nomination - Confirmation
- Senate: Ho Nomination - Confirmation
- House: Mortgage Lender Escrow Requirement Exemption
- House: Iranian Asset Report Requirement
- House: Privacy Notice Requirement Exemption
- House: Iranian Aircraft Purchase Transactions
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Monday, December 18, 2017 |
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Homeless Court clears hundreds of cases--16 Accept Housing
By News Release @ 4:48 PM :: 9390 Views :: Honolulu County, Homelessness, Judiciary
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...How Tickets Forced 16 Homeless to accept Housing....
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Monday, December 18, 2017 |
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Most Caring Cities? Honolulu Ranks 34th
By Selected News Articles @ 2:25 PM :: 3315 Views :: Hawaii Statistics
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...share of sheltered homeless persons to number of volunteering hours per capita to share of income donated to charity....
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Sunday, December 17, 2017 |
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Defense Department to Investigate Chinese Aid to Micronesia
By Selected News Articles @ 2:09 PM :: 13705 Views :: National News, Ethics, Military
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...islanders to trade in “U.S. government handouts, which are scheduled to end in 2023, for the wide-open promise of Chinese-style capitalism....”
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Sunday, December 17, 2017 |
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Gamers of the World Unite: You have nothing to lose but your micro-transactions
By Tom Yamachika @ 12:17 PM :: 4725 Views :: Gambling
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...looking to introduce legislation to combat predatory practices by game publishers. He called Star Wars: Battlefront II, an “online casino...."
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Sunday, December 17, 2017 |
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State Highways Program Update
By News Release @ 1:03 AM :: 4376 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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...high visibility current and upcoming highways projects statewide....
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Saturday, December 16, 2017 |
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AG Chin: Every time your oceanfront property erodes, the State seizes more of your land
By News Release @ 12:59 AM :: 6158 Views :: Environment, Land Use
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...Hawaii Attorney General Doug Chin issued a formal advisory opinion today stating that when the shoreline migrates landward (or mauka) due to erosion or sea level rise, the dividing line between public and private ownership also migrates mauka....
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Friday, December 15, 2017 |
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Study: Third of Honolulu renters spend half their income on rent
By News Release @ 9:45 PM :: 4191 Views :: Cost of Living
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...More than half of renters in Honolulu are spending more than a third of their income on rent each month, and 29 percent are spending more than 50 percent of their monthly income....
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Friday, December 15, 2017 |
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Conservative Rankings of Hawaii Legislators—2017 Session
By News Release @ 4:57 PM :: 5536 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics
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...The ACUF has reviewed each piece of legislation voted on in both the Senate and House of Representatives to produce average scores for each chamber as well as individual scores for each sitting member....
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Friday, December 15, 2017 |
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UHERO: Hawaii’s Long Expansion Gets Global Economic Lift
By UHERO @ 3:38 PM :: 6175 Views :: Economy, Tourism
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...Improving global conditions provide a favorable environment for continued expansion in the Islands....
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Friday, December 15, 2017 |
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Nominations Open for KIUC Elections
By News Release @ 2:33 PM :: 6116 Views :: Kauai County, Energy
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...The Kaua‘i Island Utility Cooperative Nominating Committee has selected five candidates for its Board of Directors election on March 10, 2018....
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Friday, December 15, 2017 |
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200 High School Students Watch Supreme Court Hear Lesbian Child Custody Case
By News Release @ 1:49 PM :: 7481 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Judiciary
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...The case heard at Castle, CC vs. DD, is a parentage case involving a former same sex married couple. The issue is whether Appellant has a legal parent/child relationship with the child born to Appellee during the marriage....
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Friday, December 15, 2017 |
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Child Molester: KSBE Apology letter implies abuse since 1962
By News Release @ 1:41 PM :: 7692 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics, Law Enforcement
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...unforgivable acts of physical and emotional abuse committed against Kamehameha School students at the hands of Dr. Robert Browne, a St. Francis consulting psychiatrist between the years of 1962 through 1984....
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Friday, December 15, 2017 |
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One Down—44 to go
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 1:21 PM :: 5516 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics
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...Hawaii's extremely modest creep up the ladder of economic freedom....
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Friday, December 15, 2017 |
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Congress Approves Renewed Palau COFA Agreement
By News Release @ 12:54 PM :: 6807 Views :: National News, Military
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...Signed into law yesterday by the President, the enactment officially authorizes the strategic agreement signed between the United States and Palau governments in 2010....
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Friday, December 15, 2017 |
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U.S. Election Assistance Commission Releases Hawaii Election Data Interactive
By News Release @ 12:11 PM :: 5767 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Office of Elections
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...Online Tool Helps Users Pull Election Data for Specific State and Local Jurisdictions, Compare with Others....
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Friday, December 15, 2017 |
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Thursday, December 14, 2017 |
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Hawaii among worst states for economic freedom
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:17 AM :: 5718 Views :: Hawaii Statistics
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...The 2017 Economic Freedom of North America report helps explain why life is tough in the Aloha State....
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Thursday, December 14, 2017 |
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State launches Kupuna Caregivers Program
By News Release @ 2:06 AM :: 5293 Views :: Family, Hawaii State Government
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...Working caregivers who pay for services to support their kupuna may now be eligible for financial help of up to $70 per day....
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Wednesday, December 13, 2017 |
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Hawaii: Worst Place to Pay off Student Loans
By News Release @ 6:48 PM :: 5045 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education
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...High costs of living stretch Hawaii workers’ paychecks thin and leave them with far less disposable income than residents in other states, making it the worst state for student loan affordability....
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Wednesday, December 13, 2017 |
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200th Anniversary of Henry ‘Opukaha‘ia
By News Release @ 6:35 PM :: 6778 Views :: Hawaii History
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...The event is free and open to the public....
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Wednesday, December 13, 2017 |
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The Jones Act costs all Americans too much
By Michael Hansen @ 5:20 PM :: 4360 Views :: Jones Act
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... Bloomberg -- “Hurricanes or no hurricanes, this ridiculous policy needs a rethink” ....
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