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| Friday, March 14, 2025 |
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9th Circuit Rules Hawaii Gun Registration Unconstitutional
By Selected News Articles @ 10:24 PM :: 2362 Views :: Second Amendment
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... Ninth Circuit (Finally) Rules Hawaii’s Gun Purchase Permit and Registration Time Limits are Unconstitutional ....
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| Friday, March 14, 2025 |
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'We Were Scammed:' NZ Lawsuits Expose fraudulent Hawaii Geothermal Developer
By Andrew Walden @ 9:07 PM :: 11973 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy, Ethics, OHA
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... Maori Trust insolvent, placed in receivership, after being looted by IDG Hawaii Geothermal schemers ....
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| Friday, March 14, 2025 |
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UH Manoa Next? Columbia Expels Anti-Semites After Trump Cuts Funding
By Selected News Articles @ 3:50 PM :: 2260 Views :: Higher Education
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... Columbia U knuckled under SIX DAYS after Trump cancelled $400M in federal funds to the university. How long will it take for the UH system to get rid of its’ anti-Semites? ....
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| Friday, March 14, 2025 |
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“After a decade-long battle against public corruption in Hawaii, we have successfully brought numerous cases to a close."
By News Release @ 3:05 PM :: 3158 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Police
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“The cases against these three defendants are the last among a decade-long series of public corruption prosecutions in Hawaii.”
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| Friday, March 14, 2025 |
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Hawaii AG Urges Supreme Court to Keep Medicaid Dollars Flowing to Planned Parenthood
By News Release @ 1:24 AM :: 1352 Views :: Life
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... urging the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm a lower court’s decision recognizing Medicaid recipients’ federally guaranteed right to receive care from Planned Parenthood ....
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| Friday, March 14, 2025 |
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AG Launches New Child Support Payment App
By News Release @ 1:16 AM :: 1967 Views :: Family, Law Enforcement
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... greater flexibility and convenience in managing their child support cases ....
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| Thursday, March 13, 2025 |
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Waianae Business Owner Charged in Fireworks Case
By News Release @ 11:50 PM :: 1991 Views :: Honolulu County, Law Enforcement
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... Importation of Fireworks Without a Valid License or Permit, a class C felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine ....
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| Thursday, March 13, 2025 |
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Hawaii One Step Closer to Legalizing Sports-Betting and Expanding Gambling Addiction
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 9:58 PM :: 1857 Views :: Gambling
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... The bill will now move to the Senate Ways & Means Committee ....
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| Thursday, March 13, 2025 |
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Study: Hawaii's roads and bridges rank 48th for condition and cost-effectiveness
By News Release @ 5:06 PM :: 2298 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics
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... Hawaii's highways rank last in the nation in urban Interstate pavement condition, last in rural fatality rate, 47th in urban fatality rate, and 26th in structurally deficient bridges ...
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| Thursday, March 13, 2025 |
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STR advocates assess landscape in wake of law unleashing counties
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:23 PM :: 3255 Views :: Small Business, Tourism
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... is the new law — Act 17, based on SB2919 — legally sound? ....
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| Thursday, March 13, 2025 |
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Tax bills suggest obliviousness to our daily struggles
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:11 PM :: 1683 Views :: Taxes, Cost of Living
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... Let’s steer clear of tax hikes, instead focus on lowering costs ....
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| Thursday, March 13, 2025 |
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HB422: Let’s close the book on school impact fees
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:59 PM :: 2897 Views :: Education K-12, Development
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... HB422 would abolish the school impact fee program and transfer its balance to the School Facilities Special Fund ....
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| Thursday, March 13, 2025 |
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Grassroot: Highs and Lows of 2025 legislative session at halfway point
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:48 PM :: 2812 Views :: Development, Hawaii State Government, Small Business, Taxes
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... The Hawaii Legislature has reached its halfway point and many promising bills in the areas of housing, taxation and economic freedom are still alive ....
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| Thursday, March 13, 2025 |
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HB300: House Passes Budget Bill
By News Release @ 3:38 PM :: 1752 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... HB300 will now move to the Senate for consideration ....
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| Thursday, March 13, 2025 |
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Man arrested in Utah nursing home may not be extradited for 1977 McKinley HS murder
By Selected News Articles @ 2:55 AM :: 2914 Views :: Honolulu County, Education K-12, Hawaii History, Law Enforcement
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... Hawaii authorities are reportedly deciding to not extradite Castro from Utah, according to a spokesperson for the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office ....
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| Thursday, March 13, 2025 |
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Gov. Josh Green on Trump wanting states to run education: “I’ll take it”
By Video @ 2:45 AM :: 2634 Views :: Education K-12
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... Hawaii governor in support of states taking over education ....
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| Wednesday, March 12, 2025 |
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Hawaii Gun Ban Bills Scheduled for Hearing in House Judiciary Committee
By NRA ILA @ 5:30 PM :: 1753 Views :: Second Amendment
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... March 13th at 2:00pm the House Judiciary Committee will hold a public hearing on Senate Bill 308 and Senate Bill 401 ....
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| Wednesday, March 12, 2025 |
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| Wednesday, March 12, 2025 |
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Appeal period set to begin for updated FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Maps
By News Release @ 4:34 PM :: 2288 Views :: Honolulu County, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... some properties may now be classified within high-risk zones, known as Special Flood Hazard Areas, for the first time ....
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| Wednesday, March 12, 2025 |
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Hawaiian Electric Sells off Another Asset--Hamakua Power
By News Release @ 4:27 PM :: 3429 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy
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... HEI continues to raise money to cover Lahaina Fire settlement ....
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| Wednesday, March 12, 2025 |
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Construction Defect Litigation, Housing Affordability, and Homeownership in Hawai‘i
By UHERO @ 4:14 PM :: 2208 Views :: Development, Judiciary, Cost of Living
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... litigation is becoming an increasingly significant source of uncertainty and risk in Hawai‘i’s housing market ....
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| Wednesday, March 12, 2025 |
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Hounded by Enviros, Rodrigues Withdraws as Water Nominee
By News Release @ 4:04 PM :: 2132 Views :: Development, Hawaii State Government, Land Use
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... control of water is the enviros new tool to block affordable housing and force you out of Hawaii ....
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| Wednesday, March 12, 2025 |
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Silicon Valley Billionaires Order Hawaii Legislators, AG to Target Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers
By News Release @ 10:00 AM :: 1621 Views :: Life
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... 'Electronic Frontier Foundation' targets pro-life crisis pregnancy centers ....
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| Wednesday, March 12, 2025 |
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Six Years Later: Hilo's Singing Bridge Still Needs Emergency Repairs
By News Release @ 9:17 AM :: 2280 Views :: Hawaii County , Ethics
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... HDOT made repairs to Wailuku Bridge in September 2019, November 2020, and April 2023. A full rehabilitation of the bridge is planned to begin in 2027 ....
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| Tuesday, March 11, 2025 |
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Crackpot Lawsuit is all it takes--Maui Mayor and SHOPO make Complete Fools of Themselves Trying to get rid of Chief Pelletier
By Andrew Walden @ 4:04 AM :: 6232 Views :: Maui County, Ethics, Police
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... Pelletier credit card records prove he was in Las Vegas, hundreds of miles away from the alleged rape scene ....
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| Monday, March 10, 2025 |
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Pacific Biodiesel Occupies ADC Land In Keaʻau; No Lease, No Rent
By Selected News Articles @ 10:34 PM :: 3811 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy, Ethics
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... for at least seven years the parcel has been used rent-free by Pacific Biodiesel ....
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| Sunday, March 9, 2025 |
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Planned Parenthood Hawaii Begins Promoting Sex-Change Telehealth
By News Release @ 3:22 PM :: 2469 Views :: Health Care, Life
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"...a game-changing expansion of our existing telehealth care...."
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| Sunday, March 9, 2025 |
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Lien on Me
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1783 Views :: Taxes
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... a nasty little device used by tax agencies ....
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| Sunday, March 9, 2025 |
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The Unity House Scandal Never Really Ended — decades later, it might bankrupt Hawaiian Electric
By Andrew Walden @ 1:39 AM :: 11779 Views :: Energy, Ethics, Higher Education, OHA, Cost of Living
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... a leftover Unity House scheme could be costing Hawaiian Electric as much as $476M per year ....
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| Saturday, March 8, 2025 |
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Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 6:45 PM :: 3094 Views :: Family, First Amendment, Gambling, Life
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... Bills Still in Play: Sports Betting & Right to Contraceptives ....
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| Saturday, March 8, 2025 |
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Spreading Aloha Through Saying Goodbye
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 6:24 PM :: 2403 Views :: Cost of Living
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“More Native Hawaiians flock to mainland cities and leave Hawaiʻi, citing high costs.”
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| Saturday, March 8, 2025 |
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Social Worker Arrested in Torture Death of Foster Girl
By Andrew Walden @ 1:24 AM :: 7915 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Higher Education, COVID-19
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... The latest foster parent arrested for child torture is a university instructor, social worker, DoE behavioral health specialist, and UH Manoa PhD student ....
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| Friday, March 7, 2025 |
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“It’s becoming harder and harder for the working person who doesn’t own a home yet just to rent a place to live”
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:16 PM :: 4372 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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“...Hawaii doesn’t have a scarcity of land. We build housing and urban development on only 5% of the land mass....”
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| Friday, March 7, 2025 |
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Seven Gun Bills Moving Fast at Half-Way Point in Legislative Session
By Selected News Articles @ 1:16 PM :: 2368 Views :: Second Amendment
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... the remaining gun control bills have now crossed over between the House and Senate ....
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| Friday, March 7, 2025 |
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Hawaii AG Celebrates Injunction Against Trump Funding Cuts
By News Release @ 12:57 PM :: 4034 Views :: National News, Hawaii State Government, Health Care, Higher Education
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“NIH’s proposed drastic reduction of our facilities and administrative rate would result in the elimination of approximately $16.5M in funding that the University of Hawaiʻi uses...."
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| Thursday, March 6, 2025 |
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$21.19B: House Finance Committee Approves State Budget
By News Release @ 1:57 PM :: 1765 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... the House draft of the budget bill (HB300), will now proceed to the House floor for third reading and are expected to cross over to the Senate on Wednesday, March 12 ....
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| Thursday, March 6, 2025 |
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SB350 Fakes Contraceptive Protection in State Constitution
By News Release @ 1:37 PM :: 2609 Views :: Family, Health Care, Life
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... The wording of SB350 does nothing to protect contraceptive access if federal authorization is withdrawn or denied ....
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| Thursday, March 6, 2025 |
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DBEDT Reduces Hawaii Economic Growth Projection to 1.7%
By News Release @ 1:14 AM :: 4172 Views :: Economy, Tourism
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... The downward adjustment was mainly due to the expected slowdown in tourism growth, higher projected consumer inflation and increasing policy uncertainty at the national and international levels ....
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| Wednesday, March 5, 2025 |
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Kewalo: Gather to celebrate the death of bill SB 534
By News Release @ 2:43 PM :: 2741 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Development, OHA
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... OHA introduced three failed bills SB534, HB605, and SB211 this legislative session ....
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| Wednesday, March 5, 2025 |
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How the century-old Jones Act is hurting Hawaii’s economy
By Selected News Articles @ 1:09 PM :: 2384 Views :: Jones Act
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... Every Hawaii-based company that ships its goods outside of the state has come up against the Jones Act ....
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| Wednesday, March 5, 2025 |
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HB1118: Vaccination Bill Dead
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 1:33 AM :: 3157 Views :: Gambling, Health Care, Life
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... The bill was RECOMMITTED to the JDC committee. It is dead for this session ....
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| Wednesday, March 5, 2025 |
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Despite apology, Hawaii mobster gets 9 years for role in crime syndicate
By Court House News @ 1:23 AM :: 2652 Views :: Drugs
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... Harry Kauhi cooperated with the prosecution, testified against a crime boss and apologized for his actions ....
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| Wednesday, March 5, 2025 |
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Senate Fireworks Bills on the Move
By News Release @ 1:14 AM :: 1888 Views :: Law Enforcement
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... SB222, SB227, SB1324 ....
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| Wednesday, March 5, 2025 |
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Will Kōloa Rum Co. lawsuit be the nail in Jones Act coffin?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 1:00 AM :: 2369 Views :: Jones Act
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... the act intentionally disadvantaged the ports of Hawaii and Alaska ....
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| Tuesday, March 4, 2025 |
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Lawsuit Filed Against State After Latest CWS Child-Torture Death
By Andrew Walden @ 10:24 PM :: 4079 Views :: Family, Law Enforcement
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... allegedly CWS and PACT informed four times but did nothing before death of Sarai Perez-Rivera ....
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| Tuesday, March 4, 2025 |
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VIDEO: Trump Speech to Congress
By Video @ 9:04 PM :: 1890 Views :: National News
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... Trump speech to joint session of Congress, March 4, 2025, 4pm HST ....
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| Tuesday, March 4, 2025 |
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Applicants Wanted for State Ethics and Campaign Spending Commissions
By News Release @ 5:16 PM :: 2217 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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... Vacancies on both commissions are appointed by the Governor from a list of nominees submitted by the Judicial Council ....
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| Tuesday, March 4, 2025 |
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Hawaii Assisted Living Costs Highest in USA
By News Release @ 3:29 PM :: 3074 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Cost of Living
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... assisted living cost up 21% since 2023 ....
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