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Tuesday, February 13, 2024 |
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Liberation of crypto is win for Hawaii
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 11:35 PM :: 1594 Views :: Small Business
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... the state Division of Financial Institutions has quietly decided to let cryptocurrency companies operate freely in Hawaii ....
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Tuesday, February 13, 2024 |
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Three Anti-Gun Bills Scheduled to be Heard
By NRA ILA @ 10:53 PM :: 2022 Views :: Second Amendment
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... utilize taxpayer dollars to create a state level propaganda arm to further the anti-gun agenda ....
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Tuesday, February 13, 2024 |
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Big Island: Low Winds Lead to Rolling Blackouts
By News Release @ 10:43 PM :: 2163 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy
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... Wind resources are forecast to be zero ....
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Tuesday, February 13, 2024 |
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Monday, February 12, 2024 |
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Blangiardi announces Andy Sugg as new Chief of Staff
By News Release @ 3:31 PM :: 1828 Views :: Honolulu County
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... Sugg previously served as a television executive in Hawai‘i and has years of experience in working alongside Mayor Blangiardi ....
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Monday, February 12, 2024 |
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Kaheohe 'comprehensive' homeless solution houses only 34 people
By News Release @ 3:25 PM :: 1635 Views :: Homelessness
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... This kauhale will provide housing for approximately 34 people at a time, including 24-7 security, intake/management staff, and peer support ....
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Monday, February 12, 2024 |
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9th Circuit To Hear Oral Argument in Absentee Voting Case for Citizens in U.S. Territories
By Selected News Articles @ 1:53 PM :: 1677 Views :: Military, Office of Elections
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... In October 2020, former Hawaii residents now residing in Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands filed a lawsuit ....
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Sunday, February 11, 2024 |
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Sunday, February 11, 2024 |
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Hoarding School Impact Fees
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 2076 Views :: Education K-12, Development, Taxes
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... since 2007, not one thin dime has been spent out of the school impact fees collected ....
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Saturday, February 10, 2024 |
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Hawaii energy policy bedeviled by price, reliability tradeoffs
By Grassroot Institute @ 9:10 PM :: 1794 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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... ‘What will it cost, and at what price in terms of reliability?’ ....
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Saturday, February 10, 2024 |
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SB3196: More Gun Control on the Agenda
By News Release @ 8:56 PM :: 2539 Views :: Second Amendment
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... SB3196 significantly expands the existing assault weapons ban, including stricter regulations on assault rifles, shotguns, and high-capacity magazines ....
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Saturday, February 10, 2024 |
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Saturday, February 10, 2024 |
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Nearly 5,000 Maui fire victims remain in hotels
By Selected News Articles @ 7:46 PM :: 1838 Views :: Maui County
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... To date, 7,796 people have been moved into housing through the American Red Cross non-congregate sheltering program, but 4,961 more people remain in hotels ....
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Saturday, February 10, 2024 |
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AGAIN: Family Court Gave Another Girl to Another Convicted Felon, She was also starved and tortured to death
By Andrew Walden @ 4:56 AM :: 5440 Views :: Family, Judiciary
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... duct tape around her arms and torso binding them to her sides and her hands are behind her. Geanna's eyes have a black covering duct taped to her head. The duct tape is wrapped around her eyes and forehead area as well as over the top of her head ....
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Friday, February 9, 2024 |
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Oahu Man Sentenced to 40 Years in Prison for Sexual Exploitation of a Child
By News Release @ 11:59 PM :: 919 Views :: Family, Law Enforcement
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... between at least August 2018 and November 2020, Kaaiawaawa repeatedly sexually assaulted a child who was six to eight years old ....
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Friday, February 9, 2024 |
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SB2392: Hawaii committee advances bill that could keep Trump off the ballot
By Selected News Articles @ 1:28 PM :: 2229 Views :: First Amendment, Office of Elections, Republican Party
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...Rhoads said the bill does not apply just to Trump but could also apply to others. The Hawaii Office of Elections does not have a process in place if someone tries to challenge a candidate on a ballot, he said....
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Friday, February 9, 2024 |
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'Spirit of Aloha' Hawaii Supreme Court gun ruling brings praise and ridicule
By Selected News Articles @ 1:17 PM :: 2402 Views :: Second Amendment
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...A ruling by the Hawaii Supreme Court saying "there is no state constitutional right to carry a firearm in public"....
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Friday, February 9, 2024 |
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Hawaii 2nd-Worst State for Fatal Crashes Involving Unlicensed Drivers
By Selected News Articles @ 2:33 AM :: 1577 Views :: Hawaii Statistics
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... Hawaii: 23.14% of drivers in fatal crashes found not to have a valid license ....
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Friday, February 9, 2024 |
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Guam Meth Kingpin Gets 30 Years
By News Release @ 2:21 AM :: 1766 Views :: Drugs
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... “Melvin Naputi was a fugitive for years and a drug dealer known for violence for years, if not decades,” said Resident Agent in Charge Kenneth L. Bowman ....
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Friday, February 9, 2024 |
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Maui Fires: Green, Bissen Feds Six-Month Update
By News Release @ 1:46 AM :: 1469 Views :: Maui County
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... An estimated 9,806 people have been displaced because of the wildfires, 3,971 properties were destroyed, and 100 souls were lost in the fires ....
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Thursday, February 8, 2024 |
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UHERO: After Six Months of 'Relief' Lahaina Survivors Health Worsens
By UHERO @ 3:30 PM :: 1769 Views :: Maui County, Hawaii Statistics
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... About half of Maui residents impacted by the August wildfires say their health is worse now compared to a year ago ....
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Thursday, February 8, 2024 |
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House to Consider Three Bills to Reduce Cost of Living
By News Release @ 3:04 AM :: 1837 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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... On Thursday, February 8, the House Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce will take up three measures aimed at reducing the financial burden for Hawaiʻi's residents ....
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Thursday, February 8, 2024 |
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Hawaii Supreme Court Rejects Major Second Amendment Rulings in New Gun-Carry Decision
By Selected News Articles @ 2:45 AM :: 2340 Views :: Second Amendment
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“The history of the Hawaiian Islands does not include a society where armed people move about the community to possibly combat the deadly aims of others.” -- Supreme Court without laughing
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Wednesday, February 7, 2024 |
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Kula Fire Recovery: "No one is coming to save you"
By Selected News Articles @ 4:47 PM :: 2233 Views :: Maui County, Development, Small Business
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“For a long time, people looked to government like it was their job to take care of everything. But the best course of action is not to go through elected officials, it’s to stand up and do it."
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Wednesday, February 7, 2024 |
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Blackouts cast doubt on renewable energy mandates
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:10 PM :: 1969 Views :: Energy, Environment
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... Hawaiian Electric blamed reduced solar and wind power as a partial cause of the blackouts ....
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Wednesday, February 7, 2024 |
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Star-Advertiser Profitable ... except
By Selected News Articles @ 2:23 PM :: 1647 Views :: First Amendment
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... although the Hawaii operations were profitable, the potential purchase price was lower than Black Press had hoped ....
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Tuesday, February 6, 2024 |
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A social tax policy I could agree with
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 8:13 PM :: 1568 Views :: Taxes
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... It used to be that you could trust the Legislature to not raise taxes during an election year ....
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Tuesday, February 6, 2024 |
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Hawaii Information Practices: Annual Report for 2023
By News Release @ 7:56 PM :: 1665 Views :: Ethics, First Amendment
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... 2,253 UIPA record requests received by the State agencies in FY 2023 and 2,839 by the Counties ....
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Tuesday, February 6, 2024 |
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DLNR: Court Ruling Protects Endangered Hawaii Birds from 'Save the Mosquito' Activists
By News Release @ 7:29 PM :: 1643 Views :: Maui County, Environment
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... granting summary judgment and finding the Environmental Assessment prepared for using the Incompatible Insect Technique (IIT) to control mosquito born avian malaria on east Maui ....
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Tuesday, February 6, 2024 |
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Lahaina Fire: Maui PD After Action Report Full Text
By News Release @ 2:49 PM :: 2237 Views :: Maui County, Police
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... the fires claimed 100 lives and destroyed dozens of homes upcountry and over 3,000 dwellings and units in Lahaina ....
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Tuesday, February 6, 2024 |
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Family Court Secrets: Two Years After Ariel Sellers Murder, Kaluas Still Retain Parental Rights
By Selected News Articles @ 1:45 PM :: 3623 Views :: Family, Judiciary
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... One of the surviving siblings was forced to spend more than a year in detained custody due the running objections of the imprisoned Kaluas asserting their parental rights through counsel ....
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Tuesday, February 6, 2024 |
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Monday, February 5, 2024 |
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Court: HMSA Physician Contracts “oppressive, unconscionable, and unenforceable”
By Andrew Walden @ 7:48 PM :: 5151 Views :: Health Care, Small Business
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... In a February 2, 2024 Order, 3rd Circuit Judge Robert D S Kim has voided HMSA, HMSA Medicare, and Quest ‘Participating Physician Agreements’ ....
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Sunday, February 4, 2024 |
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Danger: 200 tax bills being considered by Legislature
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:59 PM :: 2078 Views :: Tax Credits, Taxes
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"... they’re not providing a very efficient source of revenue ...."
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Sunday, February 4, 2024 |
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Hawaii: Never a shortage of costly and grandiose project proposals
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:48 PM :: 2210 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use
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... how to facilitate homebuilding in Hawaii at no cost to taxpayers ....
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Sunday, February 4, 2024 |
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Hawaii’s cost-of-living problem is an economic freedom problem
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:35 PM :: 1556 Views :: Cost of Living
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“...We get used to the low level of economic freedom here in Hawaii, but we don’t realize that that’s the reason our children are leaving...."
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Sunday, February 4, 2024 |
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Let’s Fulfill MLK’s Dream in Hawai‘i
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:19 PM :: 1751 Views :: Hawaii History, OHA
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... On Sept. 17, 1959, King made a historic visit to Honolulu and addressed the first session of the Hawaiʻi State House of Representatives ....
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Sunday, February 4, 2024 |
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Kauai: Tourism Industry Scores Another Big Win Over Agriculture
By News Release @ 12:45 PM :: 2123 Views :: Kauai County, Environment, Agriculture, Tourism
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... To prevent tourists from seeing muddy water, West Kauai seed farms will be required to get federal NPIDES permits ....
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Sunday, February 4, 2024 |
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What Were They Thinking?
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1773 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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... the process to separate the wheat from the proverbial chaff has begun ....
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Sunday, February 4, 2024 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted February 3, 2024
By GovTrack .us @ 3:29 AM :: 1375 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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... bills introduced and votes cast in Congress ....
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Sunday, February 4, 2024 |
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Maui 'Renewable' Power Plant--Surprise, its Diesel!
By News Release @ 3:12 AM :: 2008 Views :: Maui County, Energy
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... Biofuel power plant technology is identical to diesel. When nobody is looking, the plant will switch to diesel, thus saving ratepayers a bundle. Hawaiian Electric has already done this at least twice ....
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Saturday, February 3, 2024 |
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HIDOE seeks feedback on revising student journalism policy
By News Release @ 2:24 AM :: 1710 Views :: Education K-12, First Amendment
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... More than a year and a half after then-Gov. David Ige signed a new law providing more First Amendment protections for student journalists ....
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Saturday, February 3, 2024 |
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DHS Expands Preschool Open Doors Program to Age 3
By News Release @ 2:11 AM :: 1642 Views :: Education K-12, Family
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... DHS Expands Preschool Open Doors Program to Include Eligible 3-year-olds and Increases Income Eligibility Limits ....
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Saturday, February 3, 2024 |
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DCCA Dumps Mis-Named 'Innovation Lab': Crypto Suddenly Deregulated
By News Release @ 1:20 AM :: 1497 Views :: Small Business
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... The Aloha State had persistently earned a virtually worst-in-the-nation popularity for its unfriendliness towards digital currencies—second solely to New York, a state with a Bitlicense that Hawaii was trying to adapt ....
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Saturday, February 3, 2024 |
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Alaska and Hawaii Delegations Seek Medicare Reimbursement Flexibility for Rural Hospitals
By News Release @ 12:50 AM :: 1551 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Health Care
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... to increase the amount that hospitals in Alaska and Hawaii can be reimbursed by Medicare to perform outpatient procedures for enrolled seniors ....
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Friday, February 2, 2024 |
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Kalani HS Wins 2024 Hawaiʻi LifeSmarts State Competition
By News Release @ 11:59 PM :: 3318 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Economy
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“...Hawaiʻi currently holds the national championship title...."
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Friday, February 2, 2024 |
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial: Wall That Heals Coming to Maui
By News Release @ 12:52 AM :: 1656 Views :: Maui County, Military
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... Over 250 volunteers are needed to support its 24-hour display ....
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Friday, February 2, 2024 |
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HECO: Blackouts This Weekend Will be Longer than Usual Thanks to New Policy
By News Release @ 12:29 AM :: 1637 Views :: Energy
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"Due to our enhanced wildfire safety protocols, outages in areas designated by the state as at-risk for wildfires may experience longer outages."
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Thursday, February 1, 2024 |
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PUC Approves $95M Rate Hike for 5-year HECO grid resilience plan
By News Release @ 11:47 PM :: 1873 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Cost of Living
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"... The estimated impact on a typical monthly bill for a residential customer using 500 kilowatt hours will be $0.17 on Oahu, $0.47 on Hawaii Island and $0.39 in Maui County ...."
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