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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 :: 4465 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 :: 7596 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 :: 6091 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 :: 7632 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 :: 3856 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 :: 7662 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 :: 7855 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 :: 6361 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 :: 6089 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 :: 5752 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 :: 3319 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 :: 5899 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 :: 4467 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 :: 9865 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 :: 6005 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 :: 4595 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 :: 5899 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 :: 6692 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 :: 5261 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 :: 5866 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 :: 4062 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 :: 5561 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 :: 5998 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 :: 5739 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 :: 6813 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 :: 5947 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 :: 5909 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 :: 4620 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 :: 4189 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 :: 4244 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 :: 4863 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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Monday, June 2, 2014 |
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Harry Reid’s Crusade Against the Koch Brothers Threatens Your Free Speech
By Heritage Foundation @ 6:00 AM :: 3916 Views :: National News
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...Reid, D-Nev., has promised the Senate will take up a proposed constitutional amendment this year that would radically alter the First Amendment.....
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Sunday, June 1, 2014 |
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NIOSH: Distant Water Tuna Fleet Workers at High Risk
By News Release @ 3:34 PM :: 5619 Views :: Jones Act, Labor
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... compared to most other fishing fleets in the U.S., workers in this fleet are at high risk of suffering a fatal injury ....
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Sunday, June 1, 2014 |
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Am Samoa: Will Faleomavaega Join the Old Bulls Leaving Congress?
By Selected News Articles @ 2:51 PM :: 6868 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Politicians
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...we will have to keep a close eye on our election office to see if and when he or someone on his behalf picks up a packet containing the petitions that must be circulated....
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Sunday, June 1, 2014 |
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The Hawaiian Tribe--Taxes
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 4512 Views :: Taxes
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We certainly hope that no one is thinking that the citizens of the reconstituted Kingdom living on state lands, and taking advantages of the benefits and services offered by the state and federal governments, will then claim they don’t have to pay for them....
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Sunday, June 1, 2014 |
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Moody's: US state debt growing at slowest pace in years--but Hawaii Still Tops
By News Release @ 12:53 AM :: 3056 Views
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Moody's state medians show Connecticut, Massachusetts, Hawaii, New Jersey and New York have the highest net tax-supported debt per capita....
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Saturday, May 31, 2014 |
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Ige on Kakaako: ‘Too much, too fast’
By News Release @ 10:16 PM :: 6101 Views :: Development, Politicians
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...We need to abide, throughout Hawaii, by the environmental and cultural regulations our state has enacted....
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Saturday, May 31, 2014 |
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Child Support Enforcement Abuse: Hawaii Parents Org. Scores Victories in Legislature
By Selected News Articles @ 5:56 PM :: 7057 Views :: Family, Judiciary
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This year National Parents Organization of Hawaii introduced several bills related to addressing abuses of the Child Support Enforcement Agency....
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Saturday, May 31, 2014 |
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Djou: Allow vets to bypass VA for health care
By Rep Charles Djou @ 3:14 PM :: 6191 Views :: Military, Politicians
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"Sec. Shinseki's resignation, however, does not fix the underlying failures at the VA."
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Saturday, May 31, 2014 |
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Carroll Cox: Exposing the Dark Side of Paradise
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:39 PM :: 11975 Views :: DHHL, Environment, Ethics, First Amendment, Law Enforcement
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Cox tells how he has literally risked life and limb in the pursuit of the truth behind crime and cover-ups in Hawaii government....
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Saturday, May 31, 2014 |
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HSDC Gives Away Another $4.5M in 'HI Tech' Corporate Welfare
By News Release @ 5:40 AM :: 5525 Views :: Tax Credits
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...HSDC today announced the State of Hawaii’s $4.5 million commitment to Startup Capital Ventures II....
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Saturday, May 31, 2014 |
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Hawaiian Sovereignty by Fiat? Feds 'advance notice' not a serious proposal
By Selected News Articles @ 5:12 AM :: 7684 Views :: Akaka Bill, OHA
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...there is no Constitutional theory which endorses an executive agency alone to conduct foreign relations with existing (and for that matter, former) sovereign nations....
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Saturday, May 31, 2014 |
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IDG Geothermal Scammers Could Score $0.195 per Kwh Sandwich Profits
By Selected News Articles @ 5:03 AM :: 8798 Views :: Energy, Ethics, OHA, Cost of Living
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“In New Zealand we are trying to make new geothermal power stations work, competing with other forms of generation at probably 7.5 cents per KWh."
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Friday, May 30, 2014 |
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Appeals Court Rules: Hanabusa a Big Loser on Waimanalo Gulch
By Andrew Walden @ 11:29 PM :: 5954 Views :: Honolulu County, Politicians
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Today the Intermediate Court of Appeals ruled on Hanabusa v Honolulu, Colleen Hanabusa's fake effort to fight to close Waimanalo Gulch Landfill....
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Friday, May 30, 2014 |
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Today in 1984: SCOTUS Upholds Hawaii Land Redistribution Eminent Domain Plan
By Robert Thomas @ 5:52 PM :: 6860 Views :: Hawaii History, Land Use
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It was on this day in 1984 that the U.S. Supreme Court issued its 8-0 decision in Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff....
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Friday, May 30, 2014 |
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America's Veterans Deserve Better: 5 Priorities to Fix VA
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:41 PM :: 4336 Views :: Military
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Washington is ever fixated on who’s in and who’s out. But the most important question here is: How can we build a more effective and efficient Department of Veterans Affairs?
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Friday, May 30, 2014 |
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Keli’i Akina to Run for OHA Trustee-at-Large
By News Release @ 7:40 AM :: 5155 Views :: OHA
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Pledges to oppose race-based nation plans and meet real needs of Hawaiians....
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Friday, May 30, 2014 |
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OHA now claims no meeting took place in Washington
By Selected News Articles @ 5:27 AM :: 5768 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...I wrote to OHA on May 15 asking for a copy of the agenda and minutes of the meeting. They had 10 working days to reply....
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Friday, May 30, 2014 |
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HTA: Visitor Spending Down 2.9%
By News Release @ 3:06 AM :: 4615 Views :: Tourism
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For the first four months of 2014, total visitor expenditures fell 2.9 percent to $4.9 billion and total arrivals dropped 2.6 percent to 2,720,760 visitors....
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Friday, May 30, 2014 |
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Am Samoa: Faleomavaega Losing Touch With Reality
By Selected News Articles @ 12:52 AM :: 6655 Views :: Military, OHA, Politicians
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If anyone is looking for evidence that Faleomavaega really has lost his mind, perhaps his reaction to the growing Veterans Affairs crisis is providing it....
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