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Thursday, April 30, 2015 |
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Desperate to Push GE Tax Hike Thru, HART Pretends Property Tax Hike is Only Alternative
By News Release @ 3:07 AM :: 7344 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail, Taxes
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Watch HART try to pitch a Property Tax hike in order to make the GE tax seem palatable....
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 |
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“The Indoctrination of our children” with Dr. Joe McIlhaney
By Rep Bob McDermott @ 11:01 PM :: 7885 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Health Care
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Joe McIlhaney, MD is the Founder and Chairman of The Medical Institute for Sexual Health....
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 |
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Politicians Paid so Navatek Can get $20M Play?
By Selected News Articles @ 10:47 PM :: 8707 Views :: Ethics, Tax Credits
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...77 separate contributions by Navatek or by employees linked to Navatek made to elected officials totaling $81,000....
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 |
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Souki: HB1075 'Will open the doors for a vital public-private partnership'
By News Release @ 4:35 PM :: 6051 Views :: Maui County, Health Care
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... But the Maui News isn't so sure it still won't be sabotaged....
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 |
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UPDATE: 85 Republicans Running for Honolulu Neighborhood Board
By News Release @ 12:39 AM :: 12713 Views :: Honolulu County, Republican Party
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All voting is done online or by phone. Registered voters will receive a ballot in the mail including a passcode they will need to use in order to access their digital ballot. This passcode was mailed out on April 23, 2015....
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015 |
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Full Text: Unanimous Conference Committee Approves Maui Hospital Partnership Bill
By News Release @ 11:21 PM :: 10542 Views :: Health Care, Labor
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House Appoints Conferees, Conference Committee to meet Tues 5PM....
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015 |
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Powdered Alcohol Prohibition Wins in Hawaii Senate
By Sen. Sam Slom @ 11:05 PM :: 7900 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Health Care, Law Enforcement, Small Business
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"Whenever there is a new product, whether it be powdered alcohol or e-cigarettes, we want to jump on it, and ban it."
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015 |
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Best Cities to Start a Business? Honolulu Ranks 66th
By Selected News Articles @ 4:04 PM :: 5101 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business
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...the number of self-employed Americans is expected to rise to more than 60 million by 2020....
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015 |
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Drunk? Reckless? How Much Will Your Car Insurance Increase?
By Selected News Articles @ 3:57 PM :: 6659 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Law Enforcement, Cost of Living
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Having two accidents in the last two years on your record is the most costly traffic violation....
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015 |
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OHA Survey: Will You Like Us if We Reverse our Support for Telescope?
By News Release @ 3:21 PM :: 11387 Views :: Higher Education, OHA
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The survey asks participants about how possible OHA stances on the planned Mauna Kea thirty-meter telescope affects their views regarding OHA....
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Monday, April 27, 2015 |
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Hawaii Open Budget: Online Conference Committee Tracking Tool
By Sen. Sam Slom @ 4:20 PM :: 4726 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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...will be updated daily, shortly after decisions are made in the Conference Committee budget meetings....
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Monday, April 27, 2015 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted April 27, 2015
By Congress.org @ 4:03 PM :: 4360 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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- Senate: Human Trafficking Victims' Fund - Passage
- Senate: Lynch Nomination – Cloture
- House: Consumer Financial Protection Advisory Boards – Passage
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Sunday, April 26, 2015 |
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Feds Block Deal to Transfer Heald Students, College Shuts Down Monday
By News Release @ 3:28 PM :: 4404 Views :: Higher Education
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...these efforts were unsuccessful largely as a result of federal and state regulators seeking to impose financial penalties and conditions on buyers and teach-out partners....
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Sunday, April 26, 2015 |
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The Magical Appearing Tax
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 6045 Views :: Taxes, Drugs
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34.228%! Imagine any customer seeing that kind of tax on the bill!
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Sunday, April 26, 2015 |
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Study: Hawaii Health Connector Loses 63% of 2014 Enrollees--Worst in US
By News Release @ 4:23 AM :: 6443 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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...Exchanges run by the federal government both retained a higher percentage of 2014 enrollees and enrolled a higher percentage of new enrollees in 2015 than states that run their own exchanges....
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Saturday, April 25, 2015 |
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7% Solution Makes Hawaii Pension Debt Seem Smaller
By Selected News Articles @ 3:11 PM :: 6737 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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“The state increased the rate from 4 percent to 7 percent.”
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Saturday, April 25, 2015 |
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Land and Power atop Mauna Kea
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:59 PM :: 6513 Views :: Higher Education, OHA
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...OHA has a financial interest in the outcome of the dispute....
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Saturday, April 25, 2015 |
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Neighborhood Board elections now open for voting
By News Release @ 4:42 AM :: 5171 Views :: Honolulu County
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Voters may use the passcodes to cast ballots online via their computers or mobile devices from today, April 24, until May 15....
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Saturday, April 25, 2015 |
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UH: $14M Plan to Save Cancer Center Accreditation
By News Release @ 2:10 AM :: 4861 Views :: Higher Education
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...The UH Cancer Center is being administratively incorporated into JABSOM to improve efficiency....
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Saturday, April 25, 2015 |
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Common Cause: Audit the Clinton Foundation
By News Release @ 12:38 AM :: 7523 Views :: Democratic Party, Ethics, Politicians
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...Hirono, Schatz, Takai already endorse Hillary....
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Friday, April 24, 2015 |
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Sacred? Protest Leaders Demand $50M Yearly Rent for Telescope Site
By News Release @ 10:05 PM :: 7786 Views :: Higher Education, OHA
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"...Ten years of rent and revenue sharing lost = $500,000,000 .... "
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Friday, April 24, 2015 |
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Suffering Loss of Tobacco Tax Revenues, Health Department Applauds Act 19 Restrictions on E-Cigs
By News Release @ 4:39 PM :: 5348 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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"While tobacco use among Hawaii’s public middle and high school students has declined over the past decade, e-cigarette use has been increasing rapidly."
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Friday, April 24, 2015 |
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Crabbe: OHA Wants 'percentage of gross receipts' from Telescope
By News Release @ 4:06 PM :: 8565 Views :: Higher Education, OHA
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OHA recommends the following or similar guidelines for the valuation of future subleases for telescopes on Mauna Kea, including the TMT....
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Friday, April 24, 2015 |
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Auditor: No Special Fund Raids After AG Tightens Enforcement
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 1:28 PM :: 4130 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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On February 27, 2013, the department conducted department-wide training for deputies whose clients administer non-general fund....
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Friday, April 24, 2015 |
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One Simple State Tax Code Tweak to Favor Marijuana Taxpayers over Tax Evaders
By Selected News Articles @ 12:45 PM :: 5690 Views :: Taxes, Drugs
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Perhaps the largest expenses these operators are forbidden from deducting under § 280E are the excise taxes and license fees they pay to the state....
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Thursday, April 23, 2015 |
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OHA, University to Di$cuss Telescope
By News Release @ 10:48 PM :: 5637 Views :: Higher Education, OHA
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...a meeting tomorrow (April 24) for representatives from the Governor’s office, the University of Hawaiʻi, the Office of Mauna Kea Management, the Mauna Kea Hui, the Mauna Kea ʻOhana, and OHA to di$cuss the thirty meter telescope....
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Thursday, April 23, 2015 |
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To Taxi or Ride-share?: Limiting Government’s Role
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:04 PM :: 4446 Views :: Small Business
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...regulations should then be applied equitably to taxi and ride-sharing companies and drivers....
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Thursday, April 23, 2015 |
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HART GE Tax Receipts $9M Above Expectations
By News Release @ 9:54 PM :: 5531 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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“We now have collected nearly $1.47 billion in local revenue funding for rail”
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Thursday, April 23, 2015 |
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Ohana Policy Group Pushes Back Against Kindergarten Gay Sex Education
By News Release @ 4:49 PM :: 8445 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Health Care
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Hawaii's Ohana Policy Group is developing strategies and tactics to combat in-school lifestyle indoctrination....
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Thursday, April 23, 2015 |
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Your Electric Bill is Higher than you Think
By NCPA @ 2:27 PM :: 6723 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits
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...Consumers pay for electricity twice: once through monthly electricity bills and a second time through taxes that finance subsidies for inefficient wind and other energy producers....
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Thursday, April 23, 2015 |
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Tiny Honolulu Rail Stations Limit Capacity of $300M per Mile System
By Selected News Articles @ 2:18 PM :: 5041 Views :: Rail
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Heavy-rail lines have much higher capacities because train lengths are limited only by platform lengths, which in most cases is 8 to 11 cars. But Honolulu is building a heavy-rail line whose platforms are only long enough to allow four 60-foot cars....
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Thursday, April 23, 2015 |
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HSTA Contract Reopener Showers Teachers in Cash
By News Release @ 5:33 AM :: 8788 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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One-time lump sum payment of $2000 for all active, full-time licensed teachers....
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Thursday, April 23, 2015 |
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Feds OK Pasha Acquisition of Horizon's Hawaii Business
By News Release @ 3:53 AM :: 5107 Views :: Jones Act
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The clearance paves the way for an anticipated final closing before the end of the second quarter....
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Thursday, April 23, 2015 |
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London Times: Jones Act 'Key Bargaining Chip' in Trans-Atlantic Trade Negotiations
By Selected News Articles @ 3:46 AM :: 5060 Views :: Jones Act
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...that 95-year-old law has become a key bargaining chip in one of the world’s largest trade accords....
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Thursday, April 23, 2015 |
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Sen Murkowski: An Effort to Look at Jones Act, Energy Exports
By Michael Hansen @ 3:44 AM :: 7401 Views :: Energy, Jones Act
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"I don't think we should get all agitated and upset when there's an effort to look at the Jones Act," Murkowski said....
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Thursday, April 23, 2015 |
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Chinese Communist 'Confucius Institute' a Threat to Academic Freedom at UH Manoa
By News Release @ 2:33 AM :: 7333 Views :: First Amendment, Higher Education
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Students for a Free Tibet has launched a global “Say No to China’s Confucius Institutes” campaign....
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Thursday, April 23, 2015 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation Dead Last in Clout
By Selected News Articles @ 1:23 AM :: 7890 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Hawaii Statistics
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Since 1990, Roll Call has been tracking the potential influence each state has on national affairs....
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015 |
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015 |
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25% Tax Would Make State Senior Partner in Marijuana Business
By Andrew Walden @ 5:47 AM :: 8342 Views :: Taxes, Drugs
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...HB321, SD2 proposes a 15% gross proceeds tax and a 10% special sales tax on so-called 'medical' marijuana sold in Hawaii....
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015 |
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NOAA Uses Hawaii Reefs to 'Showcase Climate Resilience'
By News Release @ 3:21 AM :: 4212 Views :: Environment
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...projects will take place in West Hawai‘i, West Maui, and He’eia (O’ahu)....
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015 |
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Conference Committee Begins Negotiations on State Budget
By News Release @ 10:18 PM :: 4395 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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House and Senate conferees met today to begin negotiations on a final version of HB500, the state budget bill....
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015 |
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Telescope: OHA Seeks 'Collective Re$olution', 'Po$itive Outcome'
By News Release @ 9:25 PM :: 4839 Views :: Higher Education, OHA
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The Office of Hawaiian Affairs has continued to urge Governor Ige and University of Hawaiʻi President Lassner to address the outstanding legal i$$ue$ involved in the planned Mauna Kea thirty-meter telescope before the moratorium on construction is lifted....
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015 |
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The day when America moved toward becoming a global power
By Selected News Articles @ 2:26 PM :: 4633 Views :: Hawaii History
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On April 21, 1898, Spain broke off diplomatic relations with the United States in a long-simmering dispute over Cuba....
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015 |
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Honolulu: 40% of Homeless Refusing to Accept Shelter
By News Release @ 2:15 PM :: 6099 Views :: Honolulu County, Homelessness
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The number of homeless individuals on Oahu is 4,903, a 4% (191) increase over 2014. The percentage of those who are unsheltered is 40% (1,939), the highest percentage since these data were collected in 2009....
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015 |
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Governor Ige to Sign Bill Designating the Hawaiian Hoary Bat As State Land Mammal
By Sen. Sam Slom @ 5:26 AM :: 6705 Views :: Environment, Hawaii History
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...the ōpe‘ape‘a, or Hawaiian hoary bat, flew through the Senate, glided through the House of Representatives, and will land on Governor Ige's desk in the attic of the Capitol Building....
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Monday, April 20, 2015 |
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New Laws Regulate Aquarium Fishermen
By Selected News Articles @ 10:01 PM :: 6119 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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The aquarium fishermen even at loss of income have willingly agreed to the new laws and plan to have continuing dialogue with DAR....
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Monday, April 20, 2015 |
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NOAA: Hawaii Humpbacks 'Not at Risk'
By News Release @ 3:59 PM :: 5973 Views :: Environment
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The humpback whale is currently listed as endangered throughout its range. The proposed rule finds that ten of those 14 populations do not warrant ESA listing....
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Monday, April 20, 2015 |
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Hawaii Noted for 'Anti-Innovation Policy Choices'
By News Release @ 2:07 PM :: 4889 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business
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Modest Innovators need improvements in several policy and other foundational criteria to better create an environment for innovative companies to thrive....
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Monday, April 20, 2015 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted April 20, 2015
By Congress.org @ 1:43 PM :: 4335 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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Senate: Medicare Payments to Physicians - Passage
House: Manufactured Housing High-Cost Mortgages - Passage
House: State and Local Sales Tax Deductions - Passage
House: Estate Tax Repeal – Passage
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