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Wednesday, January 28, 2015 |
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The Jones Act Risks Lives (again)
By Heritage Foundation @ 8:57 PM :: 5507 Views :: Jones Act
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With the onset of another snowstorm hitting the Northeast, New Jerseyans are shaking their snow shovels at a federal law that causes them almost yearly fits....
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015 |
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Legislative Agenda: Rep Fukumoto Chang on Mike Buck Show
By Audio @ 6:36 PM :: 6273 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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Representative Fukumoto Chang on Mike Buck Jan 20, 2015 – Audio Only....
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015 |
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015 |
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Legislative Ambulance Chasers Dig In To Taxpayers' Deep Pockets
By Selected News Articles @ 6:20 PM :: 6970 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Judiciary
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...With ambulance chasers in positions of power, both the House and Senate are poised to advance HB189 and SB137 in separate hearings on Friday....
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015 |
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DLNR Report Shows Major Increase in Aquarium Fish Populations
By Selected News Articles @ 5:53 PM :: 7292 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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Overall Yellow Tang abundance has increased 58% (over 1.3 million fish) from 1999/2000 to 2012-2013 to a current population of 3.6 million fish....
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015 |
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Developer to Head DLNR? Ige's Dumb Move
By Video @ 4:10 PM :: 6423 Views :: Development, Hawaii State Government
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A Developer In Charge Of Hawai`iʻs Lands, Water & Resources?
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015 |
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Tax Foundation: Hawaii Failing Small Businesses on Depreciation
By Selected News Articles @ 12:49 PM :: 6085 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...Correcting this problem and allowing businesses to deduct the full cost in the first year is known as “full expensing”....
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015 |
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United States Ranks Twelfth for Economic Freedom
By NCPA @ 12:37 PM :: 5374 Views :: Economy
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...America's public debt "exceeds the value of the economy's annual production."....
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015 |
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Children in Single-Parent Families Perform Worse on Achievement Tests than Their Two-Parent Peers
By NCPA @ 12:20 PM :: 6377 Views :: Education K-12, Family
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Among 15-year-old students in the United States, 20.7 percent live in single-parent families....
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015 |
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Inequality State: Top 1% Grab 71% of Income Growth
By Selected News Articles @ 2:06 AM :: 5034 Views :: Hawaii Statistics
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...the share of all income held by the top 1% is on a three-decade upswing....
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015 |
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Thanks to Obamacare, ILWU Contract Maybe Short-Lived
By Selected News Articles @ 10:16 PM :: 6571 Views :: Health Care, Labor
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...if the new contract extends longer than three years, that will be a surprise to many....
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015 |
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300 Candidates file for Neighborhood Board Elections
By News Release @ 9:37 PM :: 5023 Views :: Honolulu County
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“Serving on your Neighborhood Board presents the opportunity to create real change in your community, build a legacy, and network with other leaders.”
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015 |
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LNG for Hawaii? Russian Oil Money Funds Sierra Club anti-Fracking Campaign
By Selected News Articles @ 9:21 PM :: 4973 Views
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...millions went to some of the nation’s most prominent and politically active environmentalist groups. The Sierra Club, the Natural Resource Defense Council, Food and Water Watch, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Center for American Progress....
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015 |
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City to hold second Airport Area TOD community meeting
By News Release @ 6:46 PM :: 8052 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Rail
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...Monday, Feb. 2, at the Aliamanu Middle School Cafeteria, 3271 Salt Lake Blvd., from 5:30-7:30 p.m....
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015 |
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Hawaii 'Deep Ecology' Activist Joins White Supremacists
By Selected News Articles @ 5:37 PM :: 9586 Views :: Environment, Hawaii History
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...he eventually became the Sea Shepherd regional director in Hawaii....
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015 |
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Rail Fail: Hawaii Ranks 49th--Lost 4.5% of Construction Jobs in Last 12 mos
By Andrew Walden @ 3:06 PM :: 8119 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Rail
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Making excuses for price-gouging rail contractors, HART Director Daniel Grabauskas points to the “red-hot construction market” as the cause for HART cost overruns....
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Monday, January 26, 2015 |
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State of the State Fails To Endorse Robust Economic Reform
By Grassroot Institute @ 8:46 PM :: 5992 Views :: Economy, Hawaii State Government
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...the measures proposed stop short of what is needed for long-term reform and robust development of the Hawaii economy....
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Monday, January 26, 2015 |
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Duke Aiona's 808 State Update
By News Release @ 8:19 PM :: 6445 Views :: Politicians
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...moving to a new time slot of 4-6 p.m....
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Monday, January 26, 2015 |
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Pat Saiki Reports on Republican National Committee Meeting
By Pat Saiki @ 8:01 PM :: 8966 Views :: Energy, Military, Republican Party
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Senator Jeffrey Flake from Arizona, who attended BYU will keynote our evening. He knows our state, our people and our customs. He sits on important committees in the U.S. Senate which affect our state.....
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Monday, January 26, 2015 |
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$100M Penalty? Federal Court Again Finds Maui County in Violation of Clean Water Act
By News Release @ 7:42 PM :: 6917 Views :: Maui County, Environment
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Maximum penalties in this case already exceed $100 million, and the meter is ticking at a rate of over $100,000 per day....
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Monday, January 26, 2015 |
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Over 20 Groups Oppose Ige's DNLR Nominee
By News Release @ 5:45 PM :: 7574 Views :: Environment, Development, Hawaii State Government
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Over twenty environmental groups are asking the Governor to withdraw his nomination of Castle & Cooke lobbyist Carleton Ching to head the Department of Land and Natural Resources and to drop any plans to weaken or eliminate the Land Use Commission....
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Monday, January 26, 2015 |
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Electric Co-op for Big Island?
By Selected News Articles @ 5:07 PM :: 7846 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy
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“Both Ha and Ishibashi were reluctant to disclose who sits on the co-op steering committee.”
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Monday, January 26, 2015 |
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Full Text: State of the State Address
By News Release @ 4:30 PM :: 4916 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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Governor David Ige today delivered his first State of the State address....
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Monday, January 26, 2015 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 26, 2015
By Congress.org @ 3:08 PM :: 4805 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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- Senate: Keystone XL Pipeline - Climate Change
- Senate: Keystone XL Pipeline - Energy Efficiency Standards
- House: Gas Pipeline Permit Deadlines – Passage
- House: Federal Abortion Funding Ban – Passage
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Monday, January 26, 2015 |
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HB92: Terminal Patients 'Right to Try' Legislation Introduced in Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 12:33 PM :: 5994 Views :: Health Care, Life
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...more than 20 states have introduced so-called "Right to Try" bills in the hopes of allowing terminally ill patients to access experimental—and potentially life-saving—treatments more easily....
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Monday, January 26, 2015 |
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Is $5 a Gallon Gas on Its Way? This Expert Thinks So
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:35 AM :: 6568 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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“The next round of high prices is likely to start later this year, as crude rebounds to the $80s and $90s, perhaps pushing to the $100 level by late in the year or early next.”
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Sunday, January 25, 2015 |
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Chamber of Commerce Hawaii: State of the Economy Presentation
By UHERO @ 4:25 PM :: 4889 Views :: Economy
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Carl Bonham presented this 2014 economic recap and 2015 forecast on January 20, 2015 at an event hosted by the Chamber of Commerce Hawaii....
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Sunday, January 25, 2015 |
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How Progressive Is Our System?
By Tom Yamachika @ 4:01 AM :: 6264 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) has released a report. ranking the states in terms of how progressive their tax systems are....
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Sunday, January 25, 2015 |
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OHA Hides Secret Budget from Legislators: $2.3M for 'Consortium' to Push Fake Indian Tribe
By Andrew Walden @ 1:49 AM :: 9536 Views :: Akaka Bill, OHA
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In total, Crabbe's memo budgets $2,598,546 for "Consortium" and another $407,332 for the Native Hawaiian Roll Commission. None of this is mentioned in HB209....
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Saturday, January 24, 2015 |
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286 Candidates file for Neighborhood Board Elections
By News Release @ 7:35 PM :: 4368 Views :: Honolulu County
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“Serving on your Neighborhood Board presents the opportunity to create real change in your community, build a legacy, and network with other leaders.”
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Saturday, January 24, 2015 |
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Protest Rail Tax Hike Monday Jan 26
By News Release @ 4:38 PM :: 7017 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail, Taxes
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Monday, Jan 26, 2015, hearing starts at 2:30pm, State Capitol Auditorium
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Saturday, January 24, 2015 |
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Friday, January 23, 2015 |
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Ige Nominates Developer Carleton Ching to Chair DLNR--Petition Calls for Senate to Reject
By News Release @ 10:09 PM :: 8903 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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...he worked for Westloch, Inc., Castle & Cooke Kunia, Molokai Ranch and SSFM International. Currently he is the Vice President, Community and Government Relations, for Castle & Cooke Hawaii....
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Friday, January 23, 2015 |
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UHM Chancellor: We Administrators Have Got it Tough, Just like Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders
By News Release @ 9:42 PM :: 4989 Views :: Higher Education
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Teddy Roosevelt said, “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” And that is exactly what we are doing....
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Friday, January 23, 2015 |
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Hawaii Union Membership Slips to 21.8% -- 3rd in USA
By News Release @ 9:25 PM :: 6554 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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Hawaii union membership slips from 22.1% in 2013 to 21.8% in 2014 ....
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Friday, January 23, 2015 |
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Indian Eco-Goddess Vandana Shiva, charging $40,000 a speech, takes anti-GMO crusade to Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 8:34 PM :: 6176 Views :: GMOs
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She’s on a grand tour, marked by private fund-raising pitches to wealthy locals and wannabees from the mainland....
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Friday, January 23, 2015 |
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VIDEO: House Resolution Opposes Army Force Reduction
By Video @ 7:03 PM :: 4916 Views :: Military
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...a House Concurrent Resolution to strongly oppose the U.S. Army’s proposed force reduction of Schofield Barracks and Fort Shafter Bases....
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Friday, January 23, 2015 |
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Rep Thielen: HB1, 2, 3 Take Aim at NextEra Merger
By Rep Cynthia Thielen @ 6:58 PM :: 5818 Views :: Energy
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“It is critically important to address energy concerns and propose effective local solutions this legislative year because of HECO's acquisition offer from Florida-based company, NextEra,” said Rep. Thielen....
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Friday, January 23, 2015 |
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DLNR Imposes 3% Gross Receipts Fee on Ocean Recreation Vendors
By News Release @ 6:53 PM :: 6434 Views :: Small Business, Tourism
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Permit fees are $200 per month or 3% of gross receipts; whichever is greater....
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Friday, January 23, 2015 |
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Bridge Aina Lea: 9th Circuit Affirms State Supreme Court Ruling (sort of)
By Robert Thomas @ 2:28 PM :: 6661 Views :: Hawaii County , Land Use
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...we've been waiting for the other shoe to drop, and today it did....
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Friday, January 23, 2015 |
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House Democrats Introduce Package--But no Bills
By News Release @ 12:02 PM :: 5338 Views :: Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government
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Broad priorities take shape but details remain a mystery....
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Friday, January 23, 2015 |
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Up to $1.2 Billion Electricity Savings for Hawaii After Oil Prices Plummet
By UHERO @ 11:02 AM :: 6076 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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...if prices stay this low, it will take up to four months before electricity prices fully reflect the drop in oil prices....
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Friday, January 23, 2015 |
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Troop Reductions? Army to hold community listening sessions Jan. 27, 28
By News Release @ 10:13 AM :: 4654 Views :: Military
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...The Army is conducting two listening sessions in Hawaii this month to hear from communities about how potential troop reductions and restructuring could impact them....
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Friday, January 23, 2015 |
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Affordable Housing and Car Sharing on Council Agenda
By Councilmember Kymberly Marcos Pine @ 10:02 AM :: 4970 Views :: Honolulu County
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...in the Villages of Kapolei, the road approvals have not been processed in more than 10 years - since they were first built....
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Friday, January 23, 2015 |
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Improve Health Care Competition by Repealing State Laws
By NCPA @ 9:52 AM :: 4466 Views :: Health Care
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...Repeal certificate of need (CON) laws....
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Friday, January 23, 2015 |
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Mainland Homosexuals Plan to Use Anti-Bullying Campaign to Penetrate Hawaii Schools
By News Release @ 9:47 AM :: 6901 Views :: Education K-12, Family
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...we pursue a comprehensive bullying prevention bill and legislation to make it easier for trans folks to get proper (sic) birth certificates in the spring legislative session....
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Thursday, January 22, 2015 |
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VIDEO: Tulsi Gabbard on Fox News, Slams Obama Refusal to Identify Enemy as Islamic Extremism
By Video @ 9:22 PM :: 8942 Views :: Military, Obama
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"...unless you clearly identify your enemy, then you cannot come up with a very effective strategy to defeat that enemy...."
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Thursday, January 22, 2015 |
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VIDEO: McCain Rips Matson's Overpriced Ships on Senate Floor
By Video @ 9:08 PM :: 5755 Views :: Jones Act
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...Matson’s order at $209 million per ship is more than five times more expensive than those same ships were procured outside the United States....
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Thursday, January 22, 2015 |
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AARP Hawaii Supports Caregiver Bill
By News Release @ 8:50 PM :: 7125 Views :: Family, Health Care
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The CARE Act will help families by involving family caregivers more intentionally in the hospital discharge process....
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Thursday, January 22, 2015 |
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New Illinois Governor Appoints Linda Lingle as COO
By News Release @ 8:02 PM :: 8373 Views :: National News, Politicians
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...Illinois Gov. Rauner names Hawaii's former 'superstar governor' Linda Lingle as Illinois COO....
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