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| Thursday, August 24, 2017 |
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Which Counties Benefit Most From the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction?
By Tax Foundation @ 5:16 PM :: 5636 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...how much U.S. taxpayers deduct in home mortgage interest by county....
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| Thursday, August 24, 2017 |
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Some Women are More Equal than Others
By Selected News Articles @ 4:46 PM :: 4109 Views :: Hawaii Statistics
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...According to the Center for American Progress....
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| Thursday, August 24, 2017 |
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Schatz: Put Everybody on Medicaid
By Selected News Articles @ 4:08 PM :: 7131 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Health Care
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...The senator also purports to somehow raise the payment rates that Medicaid doles out to hospital systems and physicians, but how he would do so remains unclear....
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| Thursday, August 24, 2017 |
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Keep Traffic Jammed: Rail FEIS Shows Plans for Lane-Elimination
By Honolulu Traffic @ 3:23 PM :: 5466 Views :: Rail
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...buried in one of the technical reports that are referenced and made part of the FEIS so you would not be able to say they didn’t tell you....
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| Thursday, August 24, 2017 |
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Interior Dep't Sends Trump Recommendations on National Monuments
By News Release @ 2:43 PM :: 7693 Views :: Environment, OHA, Small Business
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...findings and recommendations on national monuments that were under review as a result of the April 26, 2017 executive order....
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| Wednesday, August 23, 2017 |
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State GOP Calls for Forensic Audit of Rail
By Shirlene Ostrov @ 8:51 PM :: 7801 Views :: Ethics, Rail, Republican Party
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...A call for Republicans to push for a forensic audit of HART and their failed rail project!....
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| Wednesday, August 23, 2017 |
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Mauna Kea: UH to Trade 10,000 Acres for Telescope Approval, Lease Extension?
By News Release @ 6:46 PM :: 11253 Views :: Hawaii County , Higher Education, OHA
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...expedite the return of the 10,000 acres to the State of Hawaiʻi and pursue a new lease or land tenure for the reduced acreage that will support the continued viability of astronomical research....
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| Wednesday, August 23, 2017 |
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Using Freedom of Information Act to target biotech scientists boomerangs against anti-GMO activists
By Selected News Articles @ 2:14 PM :: 11984 Views :: Ethics, Higher Education, GMOs
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...UH Manoa anti-GMO prof Hector Valenzuela curiously worked hard to hide part of his emails....
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| Wednesday, August 23, 2017 |
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College Rankings: BYUH, HPU, Chaminade Trounce UH Campuses
By News Release @ 1:45 PM :: 8021 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education
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...College Choice Releases 2017 Rankings of the Best Colleges in Four Western States....
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| Wednesday, August 23, 2017 |
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| Wednesday, August 23, 2017 |
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Kona DLNR Harassment: Judge Throws Case out on Technicality
By News Release @ 2:50 AM :: 7611 Views :: Hawaii County , Ethics, Small Business
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...Judge Fujino dismissed the case because plaintiffs cannot file suit directly in the circuit court challenging the application of a rule....
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| Wednesday, August 23, 2017 |
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Feds Search for Criminals Buying Honolulu Real Estate Thru Shell Companies
By News Release @ 1:50 AM :: 5695 Views :: Law Enforcement
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...about 30 percent of reported transactions involve a beneficial owner or purchaser representative that was also the subject of a previous suspicious activity report....
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| Tuesday, August 22, 2017 |
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Hawaii Rankings: How Good is Your Community College?
By Selected News Articles @ 3:16 AM :: 5734 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education
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....2017’s Best & Worst Community Colleges....
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| Tuesday, August 22, 2017 |
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Oahu, Maui Events: New Directions in Education
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:49 AM :: 6828 Views :: Education K-12
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...Students in Hawaii have few options when it comes to school choice....
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| Tuesday, August 22, 2017 |
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A strange mix of piracy and racketeering
By Michael Hansen @ 12:33 AM :: 4676 Views :: Jones Act
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...How Congress abets seaway robbery....
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| Tuesday, August 22, 2017 |
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UPDATE: No More Bailouts for Rail!
By Brett Kulbis @ 12:22 AM :: 6370 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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...In a week, lawmakers will be opening a special legislative session to determine how they are going to raise our taxes....
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| Monday, August 21, 2017 |
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Pearl City: 43 Homeless Forced to Accept Shelter
By News Release @ 11:47 PM :: 5563 Views :: Homelessness
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...US Vets provided transportation to its Waianae Civic Center shelter....
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| Monday, August 21, 2017 |
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What Does it Take to be Expelled from Manoa Mosque?
By Selected News Articles @ 9:55 PM :: 9215 Views :: Hawaii History, Religion
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...it has not been easy going for Saleem Ahmed....
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| Monday, August 21, 2017 |
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UH Selected to Host ‘Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Campus Center’
By Selected News Articles @ 9:46 PM :: 6652 Views :: First Amendment, Higher Education
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...the center's "planning committee will work to develop practice spaces focused on creating new narratives and new relationships while naming and honoring the ongoing pain and trauma wrought by belief in racial hierarchy, structural racism, and white privilege."....
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| Monday, August 21, 2017 |
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OPEN LETTER: Tulsi Gabbard's GMO labeling push is an embarrassment to pro-science progressives
By Selected News Articles @ 5:28 PM :: 6908 Views :: GMOs
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It’s disheartening to see intelligent individuals on the political left like yourself continue to focus your efforts on this issue despite an overwhelming scientific consensus that indicates you are simply tilting at windmills....
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| Monday, August 21, 2017 |
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VIDEO: Panos on Mauna Kea Telescope
By Video @ 5:19 PM :: 6158 Views :: Higher Education, OHA
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...Panos Prevedouros joins Jay Fidell on Community Matters to discuss developments in the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) plans on Mauna Kea....
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| Monday, August 21, 2017 |
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Survey: 70 Percent of Union Members Want Re-certification Vote
By News Release @ 3:35 PM :: 4792 Views :: Labor
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...Survey Coincides with Fifth Annual National Employee Freedom Week (Aug 20-26) to Promote Workplace Rights....
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| Sunday, August 20, 2017 |
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The Grand Skim of Things, Part 3
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 6348 Views :: DHHL, Hawaii State Government
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...one State department that has funds with no exemption, and refuses to pay it: the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL)....
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| Sunday, August 20, 2017 |
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Hawaii Family Forum: Talk to Your Kids About Racism
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 1:45 AM :: 9619 Views :: Education K-12, Family, First Amendment, Life
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...The recent images from Charlottesville, VA-marches by torchlight, Nazi salutes, armed militia, angry mobs engaged in violent confrontation-are scary for adults to encounter, let alone children....
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| Friday, August 18, 2017 |
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Hawaii misses the bitcoin boom
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:59 PM :: 8157 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Small Business
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....Since then, the price of bitcoin has catapulted to over $4,000 per bitcoin, up from $1,000....
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| Friday, August 18, 2017 |
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City rail audit won’t look for fraud?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 8:11 PM :: 7864 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Rail
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...despite the fact that City Auditor Edwin Young told the committee “the red flags were there”....
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| Friday, August 18, 2017 |
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Honolulu Republicans: Happy Statehood Day!
By Brett Kulbis @ 3:47 PM :: 4770 Views :: Hawaii History
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...on August 21, 1959 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a proclamation making Hawaii the 50th state....
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| Friday, August 18, 2017 |
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Desperation: HART Backs Efficiency Audit
By News Release @ 2:04 AM :: 5745 Views :: Ethics, Rail
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...HART Directors discussed using public-private partnerships to help fund the remaining elements of Honolulu's Rail Transit Project....
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| Friday, August 18, 2017 |
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Ships No Longer a Mystery: Young Bros Owner to Launch New Hawaii Service
By Michael Hansen @ 12:50 AM :: 8008 Views :: Jones Act
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...“This week [TOTE] began conversations to secure the new deep water Kapalama Container Terminal (KCT) in Honolulu...."
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| Thursday, August 17, 2017 |
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Honolulu City Lights application deadline Sept 1
By News Release @ 8:27 PM :: 6690 Views :: First Amendment, Religion
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...Non-profit organizations wanting to create a display on the Frank F. Fasi Civic Center grounds during the annual Honolulu City Lights exhibition must apply by September 1, 2017....
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| Thursday, August 17, 2017 |
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Honolulu: $100 worth only $80.32
By Tax Foundation @ 3:29 PM :: 6474 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... Honolulu is the most expensive city in the USA, but in rural Hawaii $100 is worth $99.90 ....
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| Thursday, August 17, 2017 |
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DBEDT Releases 2016 Hawaii Data Book
By News Release @ 4:30 AM :: 4080 Views :: Hawaii Statistics
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...the 2016 edition of the “State of Hawaii Data Book.”....
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| Wednesday, August 16, 2017 |
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Corporations Becoming New Arbiters Of Public Morality
By Selected News Articles @ 10:01 PM :: 4801 Views :: First Amendment
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....in this chess game, those in Charlottesville are just pawns....
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| Wednesday, August 16, 2017 |
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| Wednesday, August 16, 2017 |
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Audit: Bulky Pickup Schemes Generate Millions in Overtime
By News Release @ 5:43 PM :: 7058 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Labor
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...153 employees received $1.7 million in overtime for bulky and white goods collection....
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| Wednesday, August 16, 2017 |
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Honolulu 2016 Citizen-Centric Report Released
By News Release @ 5:06 PM :: 4463 Views :: Honolulu County
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... government financial information in a concise, timely, clear, understandable, and accurate manner to the general public ....
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| Wednesday, August 16, 2017 |
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Honolulu Ethics Comm Seeks Comments on Draft Strategic Plan
By News Release @ 4:56 PM :: 5582 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics
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...Please send your comments on the draft strategic plan by September 1, 2017....
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| Wednesday, August 16, 2017 |
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Compact Impact: DoI Launches Census of COFA Migrants
By News Release @ 3:50 PM :: 5043 Views :: National News
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...Interior, Census Launch 2018 Enumeration of Compact Migrants in Hawaii, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa To Determine Distribution of Compact Impact Funds....
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| Tuesday, August 15, 2017 |
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Jones Act: Matson and Pasha Seek Every Loophole
By Michael Hansen @ 10:41 PM :: 6256 Views :: Jones Act
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...big enough to sail four ships through....
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| Tuesday, August 15, 2017 |
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Rep Tupola Backs Forensic Audit for HART
By News Release @ 1:44 PM :: 8786 Views :: Ethics, Rail, Taxes
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...City and HART officials were often unable to give specific answers to our questions and rarely took responsibility for their cost overruns and inflated budgets....
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| Tuesday, August 15, 2017 |
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Broken Trust Published 20 Years Ago
By News Release @ 1:35 AM :: 6632 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii History
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The essay titled “Broken Trust”, published on August 9, 1997 by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, reported widespread corruption involving Bishop Estate....
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| Monday, August 14, 2017 |
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Charlottesville Attack Was Domestic Terrorism
By IPT News @ 9:04 PM :: 5725 Views :: National News
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...Trump's refusal Saturday to specifically condemn by name those Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazi white supremacists was morally deficient....
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| Monday, August 14, 2017 |
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Mattis: ‘We’ll Take It Out’ If North Korea Fires A Missile At Guam
By Selected News Articles @ 6:22 PM :: 4980 Views :: Military
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...the U.S. military will shoot down North Korea’s missiles if they fire on U.S. territory....
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| Monday, August 14, 2017 |
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Oahu GOP: Mo More Bailouts for Rail
By Brett Kulbis @ 3:03 PM :: 6451 Views :: Rail, Republican Party
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...today's information hearing is nothing more than kabuki theater designed to make us believe they're concerned....
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| Monday, August 14, 2017 |
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Grassroot: Investigate Rail Fraud, Waste, Abuse
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:00 PM :: 5763 Views :: Ethics, Rail
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“What is needed is a full, independent forensic audit of the project, to identify the reason — or reasons — for its significant cost overruns and missed deadlines...."
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| Sunday, August 13, 2017 |
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The Grand Skim of Things, Part 2
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 4799 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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...the Central Services Skim has redirected about $45 million a year from the special funds to the state general fund....
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| Saturday, August 12, 2017 |
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Youth Homelessness--Hawaii Ranks 5th
By Selected News Articles @ 4:51 PM :: 5741 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Homelessness
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...2017’s States with the Most Underprivileged Children....
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| Saturday, August 12, 2017 |
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Tough On DUI? Hawaii Ranks 26th
By Selected News Articles @ 4:15 PM :: 3891 Views :: Hawaii Statistics
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...compare drunk driving penalties in all 50 states and D.C.....
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| Saturday, August 12, 2017 |
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DBEDT: Hawaii Economy Slowing
By News Release @ 3:58 PM :: 6251 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics
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...After two years of consecutive growth above 2 percent, Hawaii’s economy grew by 0.9 percent during the first quarter of 2017....
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| Saturday, August 12, 2017 |
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Registration Open for Hawaii LifeSmarts Competition
By News Release @ 3:44 PM :: 4722 Views :: Education K-12
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LifeSmarts is a free, national educational program that teaches students critical life skills in five key areas....
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