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Thursday, July 30, 2015
Will Hawaii Planned Parenthood Sex Ed Programs Boost Baby Parts Business?
By Selected News Articles @ 12:34 AM :: 6423 Views :: Education K-12, Life

...Conflict of interest....

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Thursday, July 30, 2015
Molasses Spill Produces $15M Windfall for State
By News Release @ 12:06 AM :: 5715 Views :: Environment, Jones Act

"This is one of the largest settlements for an environmental violation in Hawaii’s history,” said Chin....

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Wednesday, July 29, 2015
HART: Caldwell Appoints 'Expert' tied to Rail Projects Even More Messed up than Ours
By News Release @ 10:34 PM :: 4772 Views :: Rail

Mr Burns' extensive rail project experience includes the Third Street Light Rail and Central Subway Project in San Francisco....

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Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Did They Sneak Your Name onto the Native Hawaiian Roll?
By Video @ 7:17 PM :: 6310 Views :: Akaka Bill, OHA

You Can Now See If Your Name Was Added Fraudulently To The Native Hawaiian Roll....

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Wednesday, July 29, 2015
School Safety: Hawaii Ranks 5th in USA
By News Release @ 2:02 AM :: 7682 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics

... 2015's States with the Best & Worst School Systems ....

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Tuesday, July 28, 2015
McDermott: Investigate Hawaii Planned Parenthood Operations
By Rep Bob McDermott @ 6:42 PM :: 4750 Views :: Life

...involvement by Planned Parenthood of Hawaii in the illegal sale or transfer of infant organs....

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Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Kanaiolowalu Strips 27,470 ‘Unverifiable’ Names, Publishes ‘Certified’ Roll
By News Release @ 6:05 PM :: 6442 Views :: Akaka Bill, OHA

... Certified Native Hawaiian roll posted online with only 95,690 names ....

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Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Ward: NOAA should not be given cart blanche over Hawaii Waters
By Rep Gene Ward @ 4:30 PM :: 5155 Views :: Environment

...I believe the SSMA is written in a rather one-sided manner....

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Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Planned Parenthood Dead Baby Sales--“We Can See How Much We Can Get Out of It”
By Video @ 3:52 PM :: 4848 Views :: Life

...Planned Parenthood’s Black Market in Baby Parts....

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Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Honolulu 4th Most Expensive City for Singles
By Selected News Articles @ 10:06 AM :: 5236 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living

For singles in Honolulu, the highest lifestyle-related costs are clothing and housing....

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Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Ige Appoints Committee to Talk About Homelessness, Calls it Leadership
By News Release @ 4:20 AM :: 4836 Views :: Homelessness

...“The underlying issues that lead to homelessness ... cannot be resolved quickly,” said Gov. Ige....

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Monday, July 27, 2015
Bottle Tax to be Cut by Half Cent
By News Release @ 9:56 PM :: 5725 Views :: Environment, Taxes

...the state’s redemption rate decreased from 72.6 percent in fiscal year 2014 to 68.4 percent in the last fiscal year, which ended in June 2015....

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Monday, July 27, 2015
Honolulu Women Betrayed Demand Investigation of Planned Parenthood
By News Release @ 5:33 PM :: 5363 Views :: Life

...Tuesday, July 28th at 11AM....

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Monday, July 27, 2015
Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted July 27, 2015
By Congress.org @ 2:20 PM :: 4615 Views :: Congressional Delegation
Senate: Surface Transportation Reauthorization 'Shell' – Cloture 
House: Coal Combustion Residuals – Passage 
House: Genetically Engineered Food – Passage 
House: Sanctuary Cities – Passage
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Sunday, July 26, 2015
DoE Fined $1.1M for Illegal Dumping
By News Release @ 2:00 PM :: 6368 Views :: Education K-12, Environment

...the transported soil was contaminated with heavy metals such as arsenic, barium, cadmium, lead, and mercury....

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Sunday, July 26, 2015
Food Babe vs Hawaii Papaya Farmers
By Joni Kamiya @ 12:36 PM :: 7771 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs

She posted an article telling her dimwitted, gullible followers to avoid Hawaiian papayas....

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Sunday, July 26, 2015
Who’s the Boss, Anyway? (Part 2)
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 4657 Views :: Taxes
...voters had limited the power of its legislature to enact taxing and spending bills, and some legislators sued....
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Friday, July 24, 2015
Clean Energy Fail: While Most States Clean Up, Hawaii CO2 Emissions Rise Since '08
By Andrew Walden @ 8:49 PM :: 7775 Views :: Energy, Hawaii Statistics

...What matters is whether the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative is delivering the CO2 reductions which for many justify the increased expense.  The answer is no.....

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Friday, July 24, 2015
Thousands of Hawaiians Fraudulently Added to Kanaiolowalu Roll, 23,000 to be Stripped out by Roll Commission
By Selected News Articles @ 5:30 PM :: 6531 Views :: Akaka Bill, OHA

The certified list is shorter because it omits the names of people whose Hawaiian ancestry has not yet been verified....

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Friday, July 24, 2015
Hawaii Gas Taxes 3rd Highest in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 5:04 PM :: 5761 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes

Hawaii 45.1 cents per gallon, plus federal 18.4 excise tax, plus GE Tax....

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Friday, July 24, 2015
Report: 51% of Honolulu Roads in Poor Condition
By News Release @ 5:37 AM :: 6655 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii Statistics

10th worst in USA ....

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Thursday, July 23, 2015
Hawaii Councilman Proposes Reforms After P-Card Audit
By News Release @ 9:38 PM :: 5698 Views :: Hawaii County , Ethics

Hawai‘i County Code should be amended to bring it in line with state law...

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Thursday, July 23, 2015
Greece, Puerto Rico and the Jones Act
By Michael Hansen @ 9:28 PM :: 5170 Views :: Jones Act

The only real answer is a coordinated, unified, and well-reasoned effort to persuade Congress to repeal or modernize this relic from a bygone century....

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Thursday, July 23, 2015
Honolulu sewer bonds sell at interest rate higher than bankrupt Detroit
By News Release @ 9:02 PM :: 4946 Views :: Honolulu County

Honolulu pays 3.89% -- Detroit pays 3.24% while in bankruptcy....

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Thursday, July 23, 2015
No More Bee-Pocalypse
By NCPA @ 3:50 PM :: 6810 Views :: Environment, Agriculture

...the cover of Time magazine foretold of a "world without bees"....

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Thursday, July 23, 2015
UH research funding up after years of decline
By News Release @ 1:22 PM :: 4172 Views :: Higher Education

...the first increase in extramural award funding after three straight years of decline....

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Thursday, July 23, 2015
Mother of Murdered Baby Challenges Hawaii Child Abuse Registry
By Selected News Articles @ 12:35 PM :: 6936 Views :: Family, Law Enforcement

Hawaii is among the states with the lowest rates in the country of foster children who were re-abused within six months of being reunited with their families....

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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Full Text: Kanaiolowalu Roll Published
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:13 PM :: 7767 Views :: Akaka Bill, OHA

Because this is a large document, it will take some time to load completely....

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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Strange News: DoE Builds School on Time, Under Budget
By News Release @ 10:53 PM :: 4900 Views :: Education K-12

...design-build has a single point of responsibility....

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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Income qualifications for free/reduced lunch updated for SY 2015-16
By News Release @ 3:40 PM :: 6472 Views :: Education K-12, Family

Children from households with income at or below the following levels are eligible for free or reduced-price meals....

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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Nai Aupuni Bylaws Confirm it is Running a State Election
By Andrew Walden @ 3:36 PM :: 6978 Views :: Akaka Bill, OHA

OHA authorized the funds and OHA invited the participants to form Nai Aupuni....

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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Cities Americans are Leaving: Honolulu Ranks 4th
By Selected News Articles @ 2:55 PM :: 6441 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living

...and Detroit ranks 14th....

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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Video: Planned Parenthood Senior Executive Haggles Over Baby Parts Prices
By Video @ 12:32 AM :: 4971 Views :: Life

President of PPFA Medical Directors’ Council Mary Gatter Doesn’t Want to “Lowball” Price, Suggests “Less Crunchy” Technique, Says She Wants a Lamborghini....

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Tuesday, July 21, 2015
FULL TEXT: Ige Administration Testimony Against NextEra Merger
By News Release @ 11:23 PM :: 5243 Views :: Energy
“The state respectfully opposes the merger in its current form because it fails to align with the state’s renewable energy goals.”
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Kids Count: One in Eight Children in Hawaii Live in Poverty
By News Release @ 5:08 PM :: 5993 Views :: Family, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living

“The high cost of living in Hawaii amplifies the hardship that many of our low-income and poor families face...."

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Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Renewables Losing Support Worldwide
By Jack Dini @ 1:35 PM :: 5330 Views :: Energy

2015 may go down in the books as the year support for renewable energy died....

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Monday, July 20, 2015
Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted July 20, 2015
By Congress.org @ 10:51 PM :: 4637 Views :: Congressional Delegation
Senate: No Child Left Behind Overhaul - Passage
House: Veterans Loans - Passage
House: Transportation Funding and California Drought – Passage
House: California Drought – Passage
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Monday, July 20, 2015
UHERO: Decoupling Socks Electric Ratepayers with Soaring Fixed Costs
By UHERO @ 9:18 PM :: 7206 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living

Residential customers now pay roughly $0.17/kWh for fixed costs....

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Monday, July 20, 2015
Ige Appoints Moriguchi Director of Early Learning
By News Release @ 9:04 PM :: 4124 Views :: Education K-12

Moriguchi was born and raised on O‘ahu and has worked in education for more than 15 years. She has served as an educational specialist at the state Department of Education....

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Monday, July 20, 2015
Jones Act Squeezes Mainland Cattle Industry
By Michael Hansen @ 4:11 AM :: 5019 Views :: Jones Act

This is the same issue that spurred the founding in Hawaii of the Jones Act Reform Coalition (JARC) in the mid-1990’s....

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Sunday, July 19, 2015
OHA Trustee to Use Trust Funds to Sell Marijuana?
By Andrew Walden @ 10:23 PM :: 8563 Views :: OHA, Drugs

"The Association Board has scheduled an invitation to meet with a native Hawaiian entrepreneur currently operating out of Arizona and Las Vegas...."

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Sunday, July 19, 2015
Post-Employment Benefits Are King
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 5379 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor
The Hawaii Constitution says, “Membership in any employees' retirement system of the State or any political subdivision thereof shall be a contractual relationship, the accrued benefits of which shall not be diminished or impaired.”
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Saturday, July 18, 2015
Lawsuit: Kaiser Barely Pays for Medevac
By Selected News Articles @ 2:36 PM :: 5132 Views :: Health Care

...Kaiser policy said it would cover 80 percent of the cost of medically necessary emergency transportation services, Kaiser denied most of it, leaving him with a $36,000 balance due....

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Saturday, July 18, 2015
HART seeks applicants for vacancy on Board of Directors
By News Release @ 2:19 PM :: 4505 Views :: Rail

“We are looking for an individual who ... supports rail transit ...” said HART Board Chairman Ivan Lui-Kwan....

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Saturday, July 18, 2015
Clean Energy? Kicking Hawaii Consumers When They're Already Down
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:53 PM :: 5640 Views :: Energy, Taxes

...fuel taxes are "highly regressive," meaning that they hurt the poor the most....

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Saturday, July 18, 2015
NOAA Vote on Federal Takeover of Hawaii Waters Monday
By News Release @ 1:48 PM :: 4202 Views :: Environment

Monday, July 20, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m at the Pagoda Hotel’s International Ballroom....

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Friday, July 17, 2015
Paniolo Power to Withdraw from Merger Docket
By News Release @ 6:46 PM :: 6283 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy

"...will instead concentrate on the PUC's pending Power Supply Improvement Plan (PSIP) docket, which is better suited to address transformational planning issues...."

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Friday, July 17, 2015
UH Hilo spending $33,000 to ensure U.S. flag does not fly above state flag
By Selected News Articles @ 6:35 PM :: 4741 Views :: Higher Education

“On Dec. 1, Hawaiian sovereignty activists lowered the American flag on the single pole at the front entrance to the UH-Hilo campus and hoisted the Hawaii state flag that previously flew beneath."

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Friday, July 17, 2015
Report: 154,000 Senior Caregivers in Hawaii
By News Release @ 4:41 PM :: 5388 Views :: Family, Health Care

Family caregivers in Hawaii provided 144 million hours of care – worth an estimated $2.1 billion....

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Friday, July 17, 2015
Nearly 70K Solar Systems Approved in Hawaii
By News Release @ 4:31 AM :: 5513 Views :: Energy, Hawaii Statistics

Since October, 2014 more than 15,000 applications have been approved to install or interconnect....

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