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Saturday, June 7, 2014 |
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Ethics: City Employee Processes Dozens of Permits for His Own Contracting Company
By News Release @ 6:25 PM :: 5584 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics
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2012: Commission staff received a complaint that Employee was using city work time to stand in line to process residential building permit applications....
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Saturday, June 7, 2014 |
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55% of Maui anti-GMO Signatures Worthless, but Petition on Ballot Anyway
By News Release @ 5:16 AM :: 4530 Views :: GMOs
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...4,342 registered voters in the County of Maui have signed the petition, while 5,284 signatures have been deemed invalid....
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Friday, June 6, 2014 |
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Full Text: DoE Report Takes Pono Choices ‘Off the Shelf’
By News Release @ 11:21 PM :: 7119 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Health Care
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"I see that several of the points that we made in our January 31st McDermott Report are being addressed," said McDermott....
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Friday, June 6, 2014 |
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Video: Proud Hawaiians, Loyal Americans
By Grassroot Institute @ 9:34 PM :: 8265 Views :: Akaka Bill, Hawaii History, OHA
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Grassroot President Keli’i Akina interviews a young man and young woman who share what it means to them to be both Native Hawaiian and a proud American....
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Friday, June 6, 2014 |
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OHA Trustee: Hawaiian Nation "an attention-grabbing public policy issue"
By Selected News Articles @ 6:41 PM :: 5333 Views :: Akaka Bill, OHA
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The question of Hawaiian nationhood ... seems to be approaching the fish or cut bait stage....
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Friday, June 6, 2014 |
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WaPo: Abercrombie is 'Schatz's Biggest Headache'
By Selected News Articles @ 5:52 PM :: 5642 Views :: Democratic Party, Politicians
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The governor has gotten in some hot water for remarks seen as insensitive....
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Friday, June 6, 2014 |
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Thai workers get multimillion-dollar EEOC settlement
By Malia Zimmerman @ 4:28 PM :: 5751 Views :: Agriculture, Labor
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Mac Nut Farms of Hawaii LLC will pay the most, $1.6 million; Kauai Coffee Co. Inc. will pay $425,000; Kelena Farms Inc. will pay $275,000; and Captain Cook Coffee Co. Ltd. will pay $100,000....
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Friday, June 6, 2014 |
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Military families file lawsuit; say housing project made them sick
By Malia Zimmerman @ 4:25 PM :: 5019 Views :: Military
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Ohana Military Communities and Forrest City Residential Management are named as defendants in a lawsuit filed April 3....
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Friday, June 6, 2014 |
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UHERO: The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Watershed Management
By UHERO @ 4:22 PM :: 4093 Views :: Environment
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The removal of and protection against “bad” and "ugly" natural capital such as invasive plants and feral animals....
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Friday, June 6, 2014 |
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Revolution of ‘54? Inequality Increases Since Statehood
By UHERO @ 4:14 PM :: 6499 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics
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...the share of income going to the “Dominant Class” increases while the share going to the “Lower Class” decreases steadily from the mid 1950s up to the present....
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Friday, June 6, 2014 |
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Surprise! The Government Now Can’t Even Guess How Much Obamacare Ultimately Will Cost
By Heritage Foundation @ 4:05 PM :: 3327 Views :: Health Care
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Many of the “savings” and “revenue” (read: mandates and tax increases), whether Medicare cuts or employer mandates, have been waived, stalled or simply not implemented, making a defensible revised forecast impossible....
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Friday, June 6, 2014 |
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Waitlisted patients cost Hawaii Hospitals $62.7M
By News Release @ 2:55 AM :: 5295 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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Nearly one in five of Hawaii’s waitlisted patients — that is, those remaining in a hospital after the need for acute care ceases — have an infectious disease....
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Friday, June 6, 2014 |
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Food, Flowers, Furniture: Ethics Commission to Look at Legislators Million Dollar Slush Fund
By News Release @ 2:41 AM :: 4519 Views :: Ethics
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...and the allowance was used to buy a sledgehammer for Rep Tom Brower to attack the homeless....
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Friday, June 6, 2014 |
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VIDEO: Rough Seas for Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie's Obamacare Exchange
By Video @ 1:41 AM :: 5463 Views :: Health Care, Politicians
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...Rough Seas for Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie's Obamacare Exchange....
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Friday, June 6, 2014 |
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130th troops wrap-up mission as lead engineer element in Afghanistan
By News Release @ 12:14 AM :: 4198 Views :: Military
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More than 100 Soldiers from the 130th Engineer Brigade's headquarters reunited with their families here yesterday....
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Friday, June 6, 2014 |
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Will State Lose $800M in Fed Funding Due to Governor Abercrombie?
By News Release @ 12:03 AM :: 6087 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Politicians
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Since Abercrombie’s tenure as governor, hundreds of millions of dollars that should have been used to repair deteriorating highways and bridges have set untapped....
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Thursday, June 5, 2014 |
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Hawaii Candidates: Beware of the Hawaii Center for Food Safety Questionnaire
By News Release @ 8:32 PM :: 4822 Views :: GMOs
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Here’s a copy of the questionnaire that they have been sending candidates....
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Thursday, June 5, 2014 |
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NFIB Hawaii 2014 Legislative Wrap-up
By News Release @ 8:29 PM :: 3963 Views :: Small Business
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...NFIB helped defeat three bills negatively affecting small business before the Legislature adjourned May 2....
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Thursday, June 5, 2014 |
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Eligible? Hawaii Ranks 49th in Welfare Participation
By News Release @ 8:15 PM :: 4344 Views :: Hawaii Statistics
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...Hawaii ranks 49th among all states in accessing SNAP benefits with one out of every three eligible individuals not enrolled....
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Thursday, June 5, 2014 |
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Kauai Audit finds 'Favoritism' in Furloughs
By News Release @ 4:56 PM :: 7424 Views :: Kauai County, Ethics, Labor
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The public and the employees were told that county offices needed to be shut down because the county was in financial difficulty. This was not true....
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Thursday, June 5, 2014 |
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Civil Beat 'Tried to Throttle and Censor' Pritchett
By Sen. Sam Slom @ 4:14 PM :: 5941 Views :: First Amendment
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Civil Beat tried to throttle and censor the work of Pritchett who has penned many stinging independent political pieces....
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Thursday, June 5, 2014 |
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Hawaii Ranks #4 in Gasoline Taxes
By Selected News Articles @ 4:01 PM :: 7417 Views :: Energy, Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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California is in 1st place with the highest rate of 52.89 cents per gallon, and is followed closely by New York (49.86 cents/gallon), Connecticut (49.3 cents/gallon), and Hawaii (48.05 cents/gallon)....
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Thursday, June 5, 2014 |
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ACLU Rejects Amendment to Corral Campaign Spending
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:34 PM :: 3756 Views :: First Amendment
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it would “...lead directly to government censorship of political speech...."
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Thursday, June 5, 2014 |
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Takai, Cabanilla Inside Azerbaijan’s Bizarre Hawaii Lobbying Push
By Selected News Articles @ 4:10 AM :: 7483 Views :: Politicians, Religion
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Azerbaijan has launched an unusual campaign to win influence among U.S. lawmakers, teaming up with a Turkish guru in exile and the sister of Texas Gov. Rick Perry....
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Wednesday, June 4, 2014 |
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Hawaiians Are Not A Tribe
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:37 PM :: 7645 Views :: Akaka Bill, Hawaii History, OHA
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In 2000, the Supreme Court ruled in the landmark Rice v. Cayetano case that Native Hawaiian is an ethnicity (like, for example, Portuguese or Hispanic) and not a tribal or political category....
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Wednesday, June 4, 2014 |
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Hawaii Obamacare: Do you Pay for Other People's Abortions?
By Selected News Articles @ 4:17 PM :: 6187 Views :: Ethics, Family, Health Care
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...when the Bracy family investigated their options they couldn’t find any plan that didn’t both cover elective abortions and require a surcharge solely for that purpose....
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Wednesday, June 4, 2014 |
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Encouraging ohana housing in Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 3:16 PM :: 5929 Views :: Family, Tax Credits
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Over 11% of Hawaii households are multigenerational, the largest percentage in the United States....
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Wednesday, June 4, 2014 |
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Am Samoa: Falomavaega Rips Obama, Clinton, Kerry
By Selected News Articles @ 3:13 PM :: 5587 Views :: National News, Politicians
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...even as the ailing, 13-term delegate was having his statement inserted into the Congressional Record, freshman U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) was upstaging him....
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Wednesday, June 4, 2014 |
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Ethics Complaint Targets Harry Reid for Abuse of Power
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:08 PM :: 3249 Views :: Ethics
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Reid has purposely tried to damage the names of Charles and David Koch, prominent conservative donors....
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Wednesday, June 4, 2014 |
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Djou Officially Files for Congressional Race
By Rep Charles Djou @ 1:47 AM :: 5724 Views :: Politicians, Republican Party
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In Hawaii, despite almost 60 years of one-party rule, we see our quality of life declining....
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Wednesday, June 4, 2014 |
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Richardson is fifth least expensive among top law schools in the U.S.
By News Release @ 12:30 AM :: 4315 Views :: Higher Education
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The report found that the 2013 graduates who borrowed to attend Richardson carry an average debt load of $70,263....
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014 |
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June 3, 2014: Office of Elections Releases Candidate List
By Andrew Walden @ 9:34 PM :: 9656 Views :: Office of Elections
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...twelve candidates have no challenger....
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014 |
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Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Kyo-ya Case
By News Release @ 8:54 PM :: 5846 Views :: Development, Tourism
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...the Hawaii Supreme Court announced it would consider the four-year legal challenge waged by a hui of environmental groups against the City and County of Honolulu....
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014 |
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Duke Aiona Welcomes Candidates to 2014 Election
By Lt Gov Duke Aiona @ 6:28 PM :: 4472 Views :: Politicians
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"...it’s all the more important the people of Hawai‘i have an electoral field that offers balance and choice...."
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014 |
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Star-Advertiser Poll Indicates a Lack of Enthusiasm for a Native Hawaiian 'Nation'
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:26 PM :: 5732 Views :: Akaka Bill, OHA
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Only 31% favored federal recognition, while 6% chose "independence."....
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014 |
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DBEDT: Obama Orders Mainland to Follow Hawaii's Expensive Energy Policies
By News Release @ 4:28 PM :: 6527 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits
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Other states are being ordered to follow Hawaii's example and give lots of money to green energy scammers who in turn give campaign contributions to the politicians who made their scams possible...
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014 |
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Representative seeks access to private medical care for vets
By Malia Zimmerman @ 3:36 PM :: 5115 Views :: Health Care, Military
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"...immediately allow our veterans to use their VA identification card to obtain medical care through the private health care system, with the VA paying the bill...."
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014 |
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Hawaii public school principals demand leadership change
By Malia Zimmerman @ 3:27 PM :: 5711 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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Some school principals are asking the State Board of Education to remove Superintendent Kathryn Matayoshi and her deputy, Ronn Nozoe....
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014 |
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Ignore the Pundits. 2014 Isn’t About Tea Party Vs. the Establishment
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:19 PM :: 3991 Views :: National News
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...what matters most is whether we end up with enough lawmakers in Congress willing to reign in the increasingly imperial Obama presidency in his final two years....
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014 |
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Council on Revenues: Tax Revenue Will Decline for 2014 as Movie Moguls Grab Tax Credit Millions
By News Release @ 4:58 AM :: 5391 Views :: Tax Credits, Taxes
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...The Act also increases the cap on the amount of the credit per production from $8 million to $15 million and moves the expiration date for the credit from January 1, 2016 to January 1, 2019....
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014 |
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Hawaii Refinery Converts to Lower Cost Mexican Oil
By News Release @ 1:54 AM :: 5836 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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“By the end of the first quarter, we had worked through the high-cost crude inventory...."
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014 |
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Honolulu Patients 2nd Happiest in USA
By News Release @ 1:36 AM :: 5576 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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...Vanguard derived its findings by developing special software to scour online reviews on Google+ and Yelp.com websites of 46,300 individual doctors....
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Monday, June 2, 2014 |
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Pentagon wrestles with false climate predictions as military funds shifted to green agenda
By Selected News Articles @ 2:34 PM :: 6636 Views :: Energy, Environment, Military
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Ten years ago, the Pentagon paid for a climate study that put forth many scary scenarios....
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Monday, June 2, 2014 |
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Obama's Cap-and-Trade to Worsen Poverty
By NCPA @ 2:33 PM :: 5795 Views :: Energy, Environment, Cost of Living
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...the EPA's new cap-and-trade regulations will make the poor a lot poorer....
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Monday, June 2, 2014 |
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Baron and Budd negotiate $3.7 million settlement for State of Hawaii
By News Release @ 1:42 PM :: 5756 Views :: Judiciary, Cost of Living
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...Baron and Budd negotiated a $3.7 million settlement on behalf of the State of Hawaii and a $1.6 million settlement on behalf of the State of Mississippi....
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Monday, June 2, 2014 |
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Danger: Waihee Launches 'Homeowners' Super-PAC
By News Release @ 1:42 PM :: 4498 Views :: Politicians
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The Super PAC will be promoting our unique Homeowners Bill of Rights and Wrongs ....
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Monday, June 2, 2014 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 2, 2014
By Congress.org @ 12:56 PM :: 4085 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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Recent Congressional Votes
House: Fiscal 2015 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Passage
House: Fiscal 2014-2015 Intelligence Authorization Passage
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Monday, June 2, 2014 |
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The Worst of Both: The Rise of High-Cost, Low-Capacity Rail Transit
By Selected News Articles @ 12:27 PM :: 4149 Views :: Rail
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Honolulu is building a 20-mile elevated rail line that costs well over twice as much as the average light rail. Yet those lines will be limited to little (or no) more than light-rail capacities....
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Monday, June 2, 2014 |
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WaPo: Hawaii Going Wrong Way on GMOs
By Selected News Articles @ 10:42 AM :: 4757 Views :: GMOs
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The prospect of helping to feed the starving and improve the lives of people across the planet should not be nipped because of the self-indulgent fretting of first-world activists....
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