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Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Meet the Gay Activist in Charge of Federal 'Safe Schools' Policy
By Selected News Articles @ 12:37 AM :: 6772 Views :: Education K-12, Family

Kevin Jennings, founder of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN)....

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Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Hirono, Schatz Nominate Three for Federal Judge
By News Release @ 9:34 PM :: 5661 Views :: Judiciary

Clare Connors, David Louie, and Jill Otake....

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Tuesday, June 16, 2015
DUI Enforcement? Hawaii Ranks 27th
By Selected News Articles @ 6:23 PM :: 5278 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Law Enforcement

2015’s Strictest and Most Lenient States on DUI....

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Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Couch Potatoes Short in Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 1:37 AM :: 4567 Views :: Hawaii Statistics

Some play video games in homes littered with pizza crusts and empty Mountain Dew cans. Others watch daytime soap operas....

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Monday, June 15, 2015
Sex Ed: BoE Opting In to Opt Out?
By Selected News Articles @ 11:04 PM :: 6436 Views :: Education K-12, Family

"...only if the student’s parent or legal guardian provides prior consent.…"

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Monday, June 15, 2015
Best Cities for Families? Honolulu Ranks 92nd
By Selected News Articles @ 6:50 PM :: 6045 Views :: Family, Hawaii Statistics

WalletHub compared each of the 150 most populated U.S. cities across 30 key metrics. Our data set ranges from crime rates to school system rankings to housing costs....

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Monday, June 15, 2015
Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 15, 2015
By Congress.org @ 3:39 PM :: 4738 Views :: Congressional Delegation
  • Senate: Fiscal 2016 Defense Authorization -- Cloture
  • House: CFTC Operations – Passage
  • House: Fiscal 2016 Transportation-HUD Appropriations
  • House: Police Body Cameras – Passage
  • House: Meat Labeling – Passage
  • House: Fiscal 2016 Defense Appropriations – Passage
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Monday, June 15, 2015
Is "Safe-Sex" Education the Reason Behind the Drop in Abortion in Hawaii?
By Selected News Articles @ 12:41 AM :: 8194 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Health Care

Laurie Temple Field, a former associate of the ACLU and now a representative for Hawaii Planned Parenthood, lost no time....

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Monday, June 15, 2015
Why Johns Hopkins Quit Providing Trans-Gender Surgery
By Selected News Articles @ 12:17 AM :: 9057 Views :: Family, Health Care

The idea that one’s sex is a feeling, not a fact, has permeated our culture and is leaving casualties in its wake....

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Sunday, June 14, 2015
Where’s the Tax Stamp on that Eggplant?
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 7746 Views :: Agriculture, Health Care, Taxes

...many common vegetables contain nicotine....

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Saturday, June 13, 2015
TMT to Boost UH Hilo Astronomy Program, add Scholarships for Hawaii Students
By News Release @ 3:10 PM :: 6520 Views :: Greenmail, Higher Education

“TMT and our partners support the Governor’s vision. In the past two weeks, Caltech and the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences have pledged their support...."

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Friday, June 12, 2015
Honolulu? You Need to Be a Millionaire to Retire
By Selected News Articles @ 10:59 PM :: 8152 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living

...retirement in Hawaii would require $65,822 annually in disposable income, and (given Hawaii’s relatively high income taxes) pre-tax income of $91,451....

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Friday, June 12, 2015
Escape Hatch in 100% Renewable Bill Signed into Law
By Selected News Articles @ 8:01 PM :: 5931 Views :: Energy

...it does not specify any penalties. It also outlines broad reasons the requirements may be waived....

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Friday, June 12, 2015
Survey: Multiracial in America
By Selected News Articles @ 7:17 PM :: 4886 Views :: Hawaii Statistics

Multiracial Americans are at the cutting edge of social and demographic change in the U.S....

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Friday, June 12, 2015
BWS: Leaking Red Hill Tanks Just 100' Above Key Aquifer
By News Release @ 6:46 PM :: 8353 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military

This aquifer is also the same one that BWS uses to provide water to residents from Moanalua to Hawaii Kai....

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Friday, June 12, 2015
NextEra Behind Bogus Windfarm Tax Credit Study
By Selected News Articles @ 5:10 PM :: 7938 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits, Taxes

...federal subsidies to wind power do not create investment out of nowhere; they simply distort the relative cost of producing wind energy, shifting investments from other sectors of the economy to wind projects....

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Friday, June 12, 2015
Sales Tax Collections Per Capita: Hawaii Ranks #2 in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 4:22 PM :: 6457 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes

Hawaii collects $2,088 per person....

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Friday, June 12, 2015
Kahuku Windfarm Draft EIS: 21 Years of Death for Shearwater, Nene, Hoary Bat and more
By News Release @ 3:52 PM :: 8964 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy, Environment

The applicant is requesting an ITP to authorize take of one threatened and six endangered species....

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Friday, June 12, 2015
Tweet Analysis Shows Hawaii #1 in Job Satisfaction
By News Release @ 3:14 PM :: 5591 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor

...analysis reveals those who love their job enough to tweet about it in the United States live in the Western half of the country....

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Friday, June 12, 2015
Sea Level Rise? Nonsense, Oahu is Rising From the Sea for Next 1.5M Years
By Selected News Articles @ 10:23 AM :: 14605 Views :: Environment, Hawaii History

...Newsflash: The Land is Moving too....

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Friday, June 12, 2015
Media: Court Orders Release of Native Hawaiian Roll
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:56 AM :: 5986 Views :: Akaka Bill, OHA

...highlights of the media coverage of the decision....

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Thursday, June 11, 2015
Full Text: UH files lawsuit against former men’s head basketball coach
By News Release @ 11:42 PM :: 6083 Views :: Ethics, Higher Education

These claims are separate and apart from matters being addressed in Arnold’s pending grievance....

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Thursday, June 11, 2015
The Carbon Tax Charade
By Selected News Articles @ 10:53 AM :: 6515 Views :: Energy, Environment

Many fossil fuel producers will benefit, while the poor—and the economy—will suffer....

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Thursday, June 11, 2015
US House Votes to Permanently Ban Hawaii's Tax on Internet Access
By Selected News Articles @ 10:53 AM :: 4997 Views :: Taxes

The Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act now goes to the Senate....

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Thursday, June 11, 2015
Three Steps to Turn Hawaiian Homelands into Indian Tribe
By Video @ 10:52 AM :: 7876 Views :: Akaka Bill, DHHL

...Secretly Scheming For Three Years To Turn Hawaiians Into A US Tribe....

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Thursday, June 11, 2015
Study: Hawaii 4th Best State for Teen Drivers
By Selected News Articles @ 10:51 AM :: 3833 Views :: Hawaii Statistics

...driving conditions for teens in the 50 U.S. states based on 16 key metrics....

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Thursday, June 11, 2015
Rail: The Cost is the Benefit
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 1:18 AM :: 5541 Views :: Rail

"It must always be remembered how cost-effectiveness works in the public sector: the cost is the benefit."

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Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Hawaiian Electric Shareholders Finally Approve NextEra Merger
By News Release @ 5:36 PM :: 5024 Views :: Energy

...one more organ of old-boy power is dissolved into corporate America....

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Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Calvin Say case shakes up Hawaii Supreme Court
By Selected News Articles @ 3:09 PM :: 6085 Views :: Ethics, Judiciary

"...Calvin K.Y. Say is the uncle of one of my current law clerk’s spouse, and that another law clerk, prior to joining my staff, worked on a campaign involving Respondent Calvin K.Y. Say...." -- Rectenwald

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Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Full Text: UH Manoa Interim Accreditation Report
By News Release @ 1:53 AM :: 4494 Views :: Higher Education

In a June 1, 2015 letter, WASC Vice President Barbara Gross Davis wrote that panel members were “extremely impressed” by Mānoa’s Interim Report and its progress....

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Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Insurgents Win HSTA Leadership Election (again)
By News Release @ 9:58 PM :: 6229 Views :: Education K-12, Labor

...and this time the outgoing leadership admits it....

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Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Ige Signs Bill Setting 100% Renewable Energy Goal
By News Release @ 2:41 AM :: 5977 Views :: Energy

...directing the state’s utilities to generate 100 percent of their electricity sales from renewable energy resources by 2045....

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Monday, June 8, 2015
Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 8, 2015
By Congress.org @ 1:39 PM :: 3533 Views
Senate: Patriot Act Reauthorization – Passage
House: Magnuson-Stevens Reauthorization – Passage
House: Fiscal 2016 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations -- Passage
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Monday, June 8, 2015
Travel Assoc: FAA Bill before Congress Should Cut Taxes on Airfares
By News Release @ 12:42 PM :: 5691 Views :: Taxes, Tourism

Organization presents comprehensive policy platform to lower aviation taxes, promote airline competition and fix air travel infrastructure in coming FAA reauthorization....

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Monday, June 8, 2015
Full Text: Court Dismisses American Samoa Suit for US Citizenship
By Selected News Articles @ 11:21 AM :: 5829 Views :: National News

...the 14th Amendment does not guarantee birthright citizenship to unincorporated territories....

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Sunday, June 7, 2015
Can OHA Keep Na'i Aupuni from Stealing $2.6M?
By Andrew Walden @ 11:01 PM :: 12265 Views :: Akaka Bill, Ethics, Greenmail, OHA

Na'i Aupuni's five directors have close ties to Kana'iolowalu including Pauline Namuo, wife of Roll Commission Executive Director Clyde Namuo....

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Sunday, June 7, 2015
UHERO: Neighbor Island Tourism Still Has Room to Grow
By UHERO @ 3:08 PM :: 6642 Views :: Economy, Tourism

Tourism will see additional healthy gains on the Neighbor Islands for the next two years, before rising occupancy and costs begin to bring down growth rates, something that has already occurred on Oahu....

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Sunday, June 7, 2015
UHERO Electric Vehicle Forecast for Hawaii
By UHERO @ 2:57 PM :: 6075 Views :: Energy, Hawaii Statistics

...Hawaii-specific EV and car sales data to provide a preliminary forecast of potential EV adoption in Hawaii....

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Sunday, June 7, 2015
Waianae Coast schools a national model for counseling
By News Release @ 2:51 PM :: 5165 Views :: Education K-12

...praise from the American School Counselor Association for their efforts to raise student achievement through comprehensive counseling services....

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Sunday, June 7, 2015
Whither the Resort Fee?
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 7127 Views :: Taxes, Tourism

By adding a resort fee of $25 to a room rate of $125, the hotel brings in $150 per night but it can advertise a $125 room rate....

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Saturday, June 6, 2015
Supreme Court Seizes Control of Telescope Case, Will Decide Who Gets Payoffs
By News Release @ 4:38 PM :: 9027 Views :: Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA

Now, appeals from both the TMT and ATST CDUPs are under review by the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court....

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Saturday, June 6, 2015
Not Really Closing: Another $70M to be Wasted on New Hawaii Health Exchange Plan
By Selected News Articles @ 3:42 PM :: 5256 Views :: Health Care

The federal government has been withholding about $70 million in grant money, but that will likely be released thanks to the board's vote, which will enable the exchange to continue doing outreach....

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Saturday, June 6, 2015
Maui County Meets with Municipal Utility Operators
By News Release @ 1:51 PM :: 5203 Views :: Energy

In order to further explore the possibility of Maui County running its own power utility....

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Saturday, June 6, 2015
Hawaii Cigarette Taxes 5th Highest in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 1:47 PM :: 6645 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
...could cause budgetary problems as cigarette tax revenues are on the decline as less and less people smoke....
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Saturday, June 6, 2015
Almost 80% of Hawaii Obamacare Enrollees Have Failed to Pay Premiums in 2015
By Americans for Tax Reform @ 1:43 PM :: 5549 Views :: Health Care
Kissell admitted that “A lot of them haven't even been billed.”
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Friday, June 5, 2015
State Technology Transformation 'will not move forward without the right people in place'
By News Release @ 12:07 AM :: 4877 Views :: Hawaii State Government

...hiring and retaining qualified state government IT staff is a top priority, noting the challenge of an aging workforce and lack of millennials....

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Thursday, June 4, 2015
Raising a family in Hawaii is already difficult, why are you making it harder?
By Selected News Articles @ 11:52 PM :: 6479 Views :: Family

...I am awarding the title of “Biggest Loser” at the 2015 Legislature to families....

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Thursday, June 4, 2015
Adulthood - Interrupted: Hawaii Leads the Way
By Selected News Articles @ 10:25 PM :: 7814 Views :: Health Care, Office of Elections, Drugs

In Progressive World, there are at least four stages of legally becoming an adult....

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Thursday, June 4, 2015
Big Island Press Club: Keeping Government Transparent
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:16 PM :: 6777 Views :: Hawaii County , Ethics

Thursday, June 18, from noon until 1:30 at Restaurant Kenichi in Hilo....

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Thursday, June 4, 2015
Daily Beast Celebrates 'Triumph' of 'Samoa's Caitlyn'
By Selected News Articles @ 9:41 PM :: 7068 Views :: Family, Higher Education

...we’re all entitled to our own truth, which we can shape and color and carry around like a fashion accessory. Capital T Truth is, like, so 20th century....

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