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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 :: 5677 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 :: 7271 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 :: 6134 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 :: 8777 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 :: 3976 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 :: 4455 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 :: 9454 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 :: 3352 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 :: 13809 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 :: 4767 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 :: 4435 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 :: 6207 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 :: 4217 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 :: 5584 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 :: 6223 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 :: 6174 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 :: 7538 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 :: 7782 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 :: 5563 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 :: 6858 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 :: 5815 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 :: 5767 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 :: 5334 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 :: 5100 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 :: 6820 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 :: 4397 Views :: Jones Act
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... Bloomberg -- “Hurricanes or no hurricanes, this ridiculous policy needs a rethink” ....
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Wednesday, December 13, 2017 |
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Hawaii Ranks 5th in Protecting Kids from Tobacco
By News Release @ 4:57 PM :: 4628 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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... Hawaii is spending $6.6 million this year on tobacco prevention and cessation programs, which is 48.1 percent of the $13.7 million recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ....
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Wednesday, December 13, 2017 |
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Wednesday, December 13, 2017 |
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Hawaii: Homelessness and Poverty Do Not Correlate
By Selected News Articles @ 3:48 PM :: 5472 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Homelessness
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...Honolulu is #1 for Homelessness, Pearl City is the 2nd-least needy city in USA....
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Wednesday, December 13, 2017 |
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John McHugh PhD New Head of Pesticides Branch
By News Release @ 12:29 AM :: 5403 Views :: Agriculture, Hawaii State Government
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...His appointment is effective January 1, 2018. He succeeds Thomas Matsuda who will retire on December 31, 2017....
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Tuesday, December 12, 2017 |
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Child Care: Hawaii Among Most Unaffordable States
By News Release @ 11:57 PM :: 7007 Views :: Family, Cost of Living
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...Cost of Care Report Shows No State Has Affordable Care Massachusetts, Utah, Oregon, Minnesota, New York, Washington, and Hawaii Top Nation's Unaffordability List for Infants and Toddlers....
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Tuesday, December 12, 2017 |
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Hawaii Mayors commit to Ban Gasoline, Diesel Vehicles by 2045
By News Release @ 10:39 PM :: 7392 Views :: Energy, Environment
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...Weasel Words Allow Continued use of Fossil Fuels....
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Tuesday, December 12, 2017 |
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Applications Being Accepted for Maui County Boards and Commissions
By News Release @ 4:33 PM :: 4769 Views :: Maui County
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...deadline for applications is December 31, 2017....
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Tuesday, December 12, 2017 |
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Keli'i Akina and Malia Hill: DC Update
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:23 PM :: 4449 Views :: Jones Act
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...the Jones Act, Federal Regulation, politics in Washington, and other issues that impact Hawaii....
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Tuesday, December 12, 2017 |
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America’s Health Rankings--Hawaii 2nd Healthiest
By News Release @ 2:43 PM :: 4592 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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... In the past three years, violent crime increased 29% ....
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Tuesday, December 12, 2017 |
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Hawaii 3rd-Highest Tax Revenue Per Capita
By Selected News Articles @ 1:53 PM :: 4753 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...$4,540 a year in tax revenue per resident....
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Tuesday, December 12, 2017 |
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How Affirmative Action Hurts Asian-Americans in College Admissions
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:09 AM :: 5083 Views :: Higher Education
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...Asian-Americans must score 140 points higher on their SATs than white students, 270 points higher than Hispanic students, and 450 points higher than black students....
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Tuesday, December 12, 2017 |
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EPA, State of Hawaii receive Navy’s Red Hill Fuel Tank upgrade study
By News Release @ 1:09 AM :: 5945 Views :: Environment, Military
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...Aging fuel storage tanks at Red Hill could soon get an upgrade....
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Tuesday, December 12, 2017 |
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Ethics: Top HTA Execs Busted Taking Travel Upgrades
By News Release @ 12:20 AM :: 6942 Views :: Ethics, Tourism
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...Top HTA Exec solicited thousands of dollars in travel perks from Hawaiian, JAL, Starwood, China Air, and others....
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Monday, December 11, 2017 |
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Throwing Money at Housing Won’t Work
By Selected News Articles @ 11:47 PM :: 5892 Views :: Homelessness, Cost of Living
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...government’s real job is to out of the way, not create more costly programs that don’t work....
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Monday, December 11, 2017 |
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Draft EIS for Natatorium set to be complete by summer 2018
By News Release @ 11:38 PM :: 7443 Views :: Honolulu County, Military, Tourism
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...four alternatives proposed for the facility....
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Monday, December 11, 2017 |
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Hawaii DOE Saves $13M on School Bus Routes
By News Release @ 3:57 PM :: 4130 Views :: Education K-12
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...The Hawaii State Department of Education and TransPar have saved the state approximately $13 million annually through the Get on Board student transportation initiative....
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Monday, December 11, 2017 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted December 11, 2017
By Andrew Walden @ 2:33 PM :: 2587 Views
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- Senate: Nielsen Nomination - Confirmation
- Senate: Balash Nomination - Confirmation
- Senate: Short-Term Fiscal 2018 Continuing Appropriations
- House: Tax Overhaul – Motion to Request Conference
- House: Concealed Carry Reciprocity Between States
- House: Small Business Mergers Regulatory Exemption
- House: Short-Term Fiscal 2018 Continuing Appropriations
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Monday, December 11, 2017 |
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Kaneshiro names new First Deputy Prosecuting Attorney
By News Release @ 1:38 PM :: 5868 Views :: Honolulu County, Law Enforcement
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...Sapolu has worked as a Deputy Prosecutor since 2011....
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Monday, December 11, 2017 |
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Monday, December 11, 2017 |
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State Now Accepting Grant-in-Aid Applications
By News Release @ 1:33 AM :: 3839 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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...Deadline for GIA applications is January 19, 2018....
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Monday, December 11, 2017 |
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DCCA Approves Sale of Hawaiian Tel to Cincinnati Bell
By News Release @ 1:27 AM :: 3403 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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...The requirements outlined in the Decision and Order include....
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Monday, December 11, 2017 |
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Payday Lending: Legislature to Consider New Regulations?
By News Release @ 1:13 AM :: 4017 Views :: Small Business
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...Hawai‘i legalized payday lending in 1999 as a way to regulate the check cashing business....
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Sunday, December 10, 2017 |
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Tech: 'Clinically Psychotic' HGEA Signs Suicide Pact
By Andrew Walden @ 8:27 PM :: 10446 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Labor, Politicians
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...The seeming political power play is actually a sign of Perreira’s weakness....
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