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| Saturday, May 28, 2016 |
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Two Arrests: Corruption Bust Strikes at Heart of Drive for Fake Indian Tribe
By Andrew Walden @ 9:25 PM :: 16852 Views :: Akaka Bill, Education K-12, Ethics, OHA
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...what the powers that be look for when they pick the the future generations of leadership for Hawaii....
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| Saturday, May 28, 2016 |
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“Rap Back”: A New Federal Firearm Registry
By News Release @ 2:26 PM :: 5855 Views :: Second Amendment
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The primary intended use of “Rap Back” appears to be for persons on probation, those who are the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation--and now for Hawaii gun owners ....
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| Saturday, May 28, 2016 |
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Regents to Vote on New UH Cancer Center Director
By News Release @ 3:53 AM :: 5968 Views :: Health Care, Higher Education
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“He can be instrumental in our efforts to keep the UH Cancer Center NCI-designated"
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| Friday, May 27, 2016 |
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Who’s Running: Candidates Pulling Papers as of May 27, 2016
By Andrew Walden @ 10:00 PM :: 8518 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Office of Elections, Politicians
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Hanabusa, Galuteria & Lei Ahu Isa pull papers to run for CD1 -- Tuesday June 7 is last day to file ....
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| Friday, May 27, 2016 |
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9 misdirected arguments against GMOs
By Selected News Articles @ 9:49 PM :: 8963 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs
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...many arguments are put forth on why GMOs are “bad” and should be avoided. However, many of these arguments are not about GMOs, but rather, are issues that we’re facing in modern agriculture and in our economy....
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| Friday, May 27, 2016 |
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April 2016: Visitor Expenditures Decline 1.1 Percent
By News Release @ 9:31 PM :: 5549 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Tourism
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...but total visitor arrivals to the Hawaiian Islands increased 3.4 percent from a year ago to 700,573 visitors....
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| Friday, May 27, 2016 |
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UH Report: 14,954 Homeless Seek Help – 24% from Mainland
By Selected News Articles @ 6:03 AM :: 5846 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Homelessness
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...The increase was highest among unaccompanied homeless adults: 8,250 accessed services in FY 2015....
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| Thursday, May 26, 2016 |
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Ethics: Hawaii DoT Capital Improvements Director in Bed with Parsons Brinckerhoff–Literally
By News Release @ 2:56 PM :: 9703 Views :: Energy, Ethics, Rail
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...her spouse was employed by Parsons as a Vice President and was Parsons’ principal consultant and a point of contact for 12 DOT Parsons Projects....
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| Thursday, May 26, 2016 |
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Billions of Dollars Later, Veterans Health Administration Still Failing
By NCPA @ 2:05 PM :: 6586 Views :: Health Care, Military
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The results are pretty bad, according to a report by Dr. Sanjay Gupta....
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| Thursday, May 26, 2016 |
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Jones Act Worsens Puerto Rico’s economic crisis
By Michael Hansen @ 10:09 AM :: 5473 Views :: Jones Act
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...Puerto Rico’s Economic Crisis Rooted in History of Feds’ Anti-Trade Policies....
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| Thursday, May 26, 2016 |
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Hawaii Most Unaffordable Rentals of Any State
By News Release @ 2:55 AM :: 6835 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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In Hawaii the two-bedroom housing wage is $34.22/hr ....
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| Thursday, May 26, 2016 |
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After One Month as HART Chair, Hanabusa flees to run for Congress
By Andrew Walden @ 12:51 AM :: 11196 Views :: Democratic Party, Congressional Delegation, Politicians, Rail
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Hanabusa is an opportunist. She gave up her House seat to achieve something bigger and better in the Senate, but she lost....
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| Wednesday, May 25, 2016 |
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Hawaii Democratic Convention This Weekend
By News Release @ 4:45 PM :: 4822 Views :: Democratic Party
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...May 28th and May 29th, at the Sheraton Waikiki....
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| Wednesday, May 25, 2016 |
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Hawaii one of only 14 States to Tax the Dead
By Selected News Articles @ 4:42 PM :: 5605 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...In addition to the federal estate tax of 40 percent....
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| Wednesday, May 25, 2016 |
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Connecting the dots between Jones Act and EL FARO sinking
By Michael Hansen @ 4:03 PM :: 6148 Views :: Jones Act
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...the connection between the Jones Act, the age of the ship, and likely causes the ship was lost....
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| Wednesday, May 25, 2016 |
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Ethics Ruling: Sen Josh Green Secretly Living in Honolulu Since 2005
By News Release @ 5:16 AM :: 10736 Views :: Ethics, Politicians
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... Josh Green Lives and Works on Oahu but Says he Still Occasionally Visits his Kona District ....
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| Wednesday, May 25, 2016 |
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Hawaii GOP Chair Comments on Party Convention
By News Release @ 4:58 AM :: 5823 Views :: Republican Party
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...325 Republican delegates up over 60% from the 2015 state convention....
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| Wednesday, May 25, 2016 |
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Election Office Admits ‘Mistakes Were Made’
By Robert Thomas @ 4:47 AM :: 5305 Views :: Office of Elections
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After A Judicial Feeding Frenzy, The Hawaii Supreme Court Searches For Rules To Fix The Office Of Elections....
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| Tuesday, May 24, 2016 |
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$500M: Obama Raids Zika Budget to Finance UN Climate Change Fund
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:22 PM :: 5492 Views :: Health Care
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...the Obama administration already has the authority to pay for a Zika response from existing agency budgets, but chose not to....
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| Tuesday, May 24, 2016 |
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SB2954--Hawaii Could Be First to Put Gun Owners in Federal Database
By Selected News Articles @ 3:55 PM :: 8085 Views :: Second Amendment
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...But only if Gov Ige signs SB2954, now sitting on his desk, into law....
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| Tuesday, May 24, 2016 |
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Charter Commission Proposal: Eliminate Neighborhood Boards
By News Release @ 3:49 AM :: 4937 Views :: Honolulu County
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...neighborhood boards represent grassroots democracy in its purest form....
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| Monday, May 23, 2016 |
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Video Sales Pitch Helps Convince Hawaii Patients to Die Cheaply
By News Release @ 6:35 PM :: 8177 Views :: Health Care, Life
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...part of a larger initiative to transform medical care for serious illness in the state of Hawaii....
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| Monday, May 23, 2016 |
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Hawaii Seniors’ Income: Say 'aloha' to a good retirement
By Selected News Articles @ 6:30 PM :: 7939 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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...ratios of pre-retirement income that seniors are replacing range from a high of 72.59% in Hawaii to a low of 48.22% in Massachusetts....
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| Monday, May 23, 2016 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted May 23, 2016
By Congress.org @ 12:51 PM :: 5463 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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House: Fiscal 2016 Zika Response Appropriations
House: Fiscal 2017 Defense Authorization
House: Fiscal 2017 Military-Construction-Veterans Affairs Appropriations
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| Monday, May 23, 2016 |
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Hawaii: Worst State to make a Living
By Selected News Articles @ 3:44 AM :: 9421 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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...For the sixth year in a row Hawaii was named the worst state to make a living for its 68.6 percent higher cost of living than the national average....
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| Sunday, May 22, 2016 |
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UHERO Releases County Economic Forecasts
By News Release @ 5:46 PM :: 7060 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics
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Hawaii’s four counties are moving steadily forward, accommodating new visitors, restoring lost jobs, and growing household incomes....
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| Sunday, May 22, 2016 |
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Honolulu Rail: It Just Keeps Getting Worse
By Selected News Articles @ 5:17 AM :: 5855 Views :: Rail
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At $2.9 billion this extra cost is nearly $3,000 for every man, woman and child in Honolulu. It is more than $8,500 per household....
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| Sunday, May 22, 2016 |
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How Taxes Work
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 5206 Views :: Taxes
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Every day, ten men go out for dinner....
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| Sunday, May 22, 2016 |
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Djou ‘Thinking About’ Run for Congress as Republican Convention Meets
By Andrew Walden @ 2:16 AM :: 6133 Views :: Republican Party
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Over 300 boisterous Republican delegates met at the Philippine Community Center in Waipahu....
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| Saturday, May 21, 2016 |
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Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Big Island Council Candidate’s Eligibility
By Robert Thomas @ 11:42 PM :: 7124 Views :: Judiciary, Office of Elections
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If there's one thing that makes lawyers sit bolt upright in a sweat at 3 am, it's the prospect of missing a jurisdictional deadline....
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| Saturday, May 21, 2016 |
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Hawaii Supreme Court Rules on Big Cabbage Case
By Robert Thomas @ 11:20 PM :: 10849 Views :: Agriculture, Judiciary, Law Enforcement, Police
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...the unanimous Hawaii Supreme Court threw out the conviction of the farmer, tagged by Officer Fuiava of Five-O for transporting a load of cabbage uncovered....
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| Saturday, May 21, 2016 |
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PUEO Hawaiians Support Telescope
By News Release @ 2:13 PM :: 9325 Views :: Hawaii County , Higher Education, OHA
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...to dispel the myth that all Native Hawaiians oppose the project....
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| Friday, May 20, 2016 |
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Hawaii Republican State Convention Set for May 21
By News Release @ 11:00 PM :: 7310 Views :: Republican Party
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...at the Filipino Community Center's Casamina Flores Ballroom in Waipahu....
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| Friday, May 20, 2016 |
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Who’s Running: Candidates Pulling Papers as of May 20, 2016
By Andrew Walden @ 10:16 PM :: 5752 Views :: Office of Elections
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Tuesday June 7 is the last day to file ....
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| Friday, May 20, 2016 |
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Hawaiians Lobby DC Against Fake Indian Tribe
By News Release @ 9:37 PM :: 9091 Views :: Akaka Bill, DHHL, OHA
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Hawaiians have spent this week meeting with U.S. federal officials to oppose a longstanding plan to put Hawaiians into tribal nation status, much like American Indians....
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| Friday, May 20, 2016 |
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Floating Windfarm Electricity Costs More Than Double
By Selected News Articles @ 5:25 PM :: 4640 Views :: Energy
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Floating turbine foundations cost about eight times more than seafloor-based supports for their conventional counterparts....
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| Friday, May 20, 2016 |
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Auditor: Ag Department Still Not Checking Weights, Measures
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 4:22 PM :: 6772 Views :: Agriculture, Hawaii State Government
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...despite having secured state funding since 2012, the chairperson of the Board of Agriculture has neither re-established nor filled the branch’s program manager and inspector positions....
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| Friday, May 20, 2016 |
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Full Text: Eric Gill Sued by Local 5 Dissidents
By News Release @ 3:33 AM :: 6250 Views :: Labor
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...While serving in his capacity as President of Local 5 Plaintiff was suspended from his office in retaliation for criticism of Gill....
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| Friday, May 20, 2016 |
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DoH: Marijuana Licensees Scored
By News Release @ 3:09 AM :: 5422 Views :: Drugs
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Licensees were selected based on the scoring of 13 merit criteria....
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| Friday, May 20, 2016 |
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Bankruptcy for Code Rebel: Yet Another Hawaii High Tech Tax Credit Implosion
By Andrew Walden @ 2:22 AM :: 12695 Views :: Tax Credits
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... How many high-tech tax credit scams must we suffer before legislators and the governor shut off the flow of taxpayer dollars? ....
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| Thursday, May 19, 2016 |
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Rep Takai Will Not Seek Reelection
By News Release @ 5:38 PM :: 7066 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Politicians
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...I had truly hoped to aggressively fight this cancer while seeking re-election, but I recently learned that my cancer has spread....
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| Wednesday, May 18, 2016 |
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Hawaiian Electric: Natural Gas Can Save Ratepayers $3.7B
By News Release @ 11:17 PM :: 4784 Views :: Energy
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Over 8M barrels less oil imported annually
4M tons less greenhouse gas emissions
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| Wednesday, May 18, 2016 |
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BoE Strips Student Performance out of Teacher Evaluations
By News Release @ 5:54 PM :: 6444 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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"Discarding standardized testing in teacher evaluations"
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| Wednesday, May 18, 2016 |
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Full Text: Robin Danner Evicts Jade Danner from Hawaiian Homelands
By Video @ 5:08 PM :: 14176 Views :: Akaka Bill, DHHL
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...Who Would Robin Evict If She Was Head Of A US Federally Recognized Hawaiian Tribe?....
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| Wednesday, May 18, 2016 |
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With HC&S Closing Anyway, A&B Settles Cane Burning Lawsuit
By News Release @ 3:51 PM :: 7185 Views :: Maui County, Agriculture
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...the lawsuit was meritless and the plaintiffs' post-settlement claims are inaccurate....
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| Wednesday, May 18, 2016 |
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Court Advances Suit by Dead Informant's Mom
By Selected News Articles @ 4:21 AM :: 9380 Views :: Law Enforcement, Police, Drugs
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Keawe Ryder, a 37-year old Kona musician, was found dead in a South Kohala lava field in 2013. He had been shot and hit with a hammer....
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| Wednesday, May 18, 2016 |
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Temporary Injunction Blocks Maui Hospital Privatization
By News Release @ 1:55 AM :: 8217 Views :: Maui County, Health Care, Labor
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Today’s order lasts only until September 30, 2016, unless sooner terminated by the Court. The Court also ordered the parties to the lawsuit to file a joint status report on or before June 30, 2016....
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| Wednesday, May 18, 2016 |
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Hawaii Painters Business Agent Pleads Guilty in $1.5M Theft
By Selected News Articles @ 1:38 AM :: 8566 Views :: Ethics, Labor, Small Business
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...he diverted client money to his own personal use over a 17-year period....
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