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| Saturday, December 13, 2014 |
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UH Hilo Highlighted in New Report: Most U.S. Colleges Violate Students’ Free Speech Rights
By News Release @ 1:36 PM :: 7321 Views :: First Amendment, Higher Education
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...ordered by the college administration to stop handing out copies of the Constitution on Constitution Day....
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| Saturday, December 13, 2014 |
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90 Candidates File for Neighborhood Board Elections
By News Release @ 1:22 AM :: 5826 Views :: Honolulu County
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2015 Candidates List As of December 11, 2014....
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| Friday, December 12, 2014 |
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FBI Names Paul D. Delacourt Special Agent in Charge of Honolulu Division
By News Release @ 2:51 PM :: 5616 Views :: Law Enforcement
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From 2009 to 2011, he served as the FBI liaison officer to a counter-narcotics task force at U.S. Pacific Command at Camp Smith, Hawaii. In 2012, he was promoted to assistant special agent in charge of the Honolulu Division....
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| Friday, December 12, 2014 |
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National Report: Hawaii Ranks 5th in Protecting Kids from Tobacco
By News Release @ 12:22 PM :: 5431 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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according to a national report released today by a coalition of public health organizations....
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| Friday, December 12, 2014 |
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Hawaii Republicans Should Follow Lingle's Path to Victory
By News Release @ 3:57 AM :: 5142 Views :: Republican Party
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It was done in 2002 and 2006 and it can be done again....
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| Friday, December 12, 2014 |
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Smart Growth v. Suburbanization Score is 0-1
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 2:37 AM :: 7289 Views :: Development, Rail
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...urban trends are driven more by the masses and less by the political, academic and "environmental" elites that love to dictate how the hoi polloi should live....
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| Friday, December 12, 2014 |
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Hawaii 4th-Worst State for Small Business
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:45 AM :: 6179 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business
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Low Ranking on Small Business Policy Index Points to Need for Economic Reform....
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| Friday, December 12, 2014 |
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Is the HECO-NextEra Merger a Done Deal?
By Video @ 12:24 AM :: 6103 Views :: Energy
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Deal after deal has fallen through...The Entergy Merger Failure....The Constellation Energy Merger Failure....
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| Thursday, December 11, 2014 |
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Obamacare Increasing Coverage, but Not Access to Health Care
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:10 PM :: 4432 Views :: Health Care
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...there’s a big difference between insurance coverage and access to health care services....
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| Thursday, December 11, 2014 |
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Active Lifestyle? Honolulu Ranks 24th
By News Release @ 2:06 PM :: 4323 Views :: Hawaii Statistics
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WalletHub ranked the 100 most populated U.S. cities to find the ones that offer the most cost-effective and accessible fitness and sports facilities....
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| Thursday, December 11, 2014 |
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House Briefing to Look at UH Budget Request
By News Release @ 3:43 AM :: 5029 Views :: Higher Education
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DATE: Thursday, December 18, 2014
TIME: 8:30 a.m. until completion
PLACE: Conference Room 309 State Capitol
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| Thursday, December 11, 2014 |
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Senate Briefing on ERS Financial Status
By News Release @ 3:33 AM :: 4840 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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DATE: Thursday, December 11, 2014
TIME: 9:00am
PLACE: Conference Room 211, State Capitol
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| Wednesday, December 10, 2014 |
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Top Chicago Labor Law Firm Takes Aim at Illegal Appointment of Brian Schatz
By Selected News Articles @ 10:09 PM :: 7610 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Office of Elections
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The Geoghegan firm successfully represented plaintiffs in Judge v. Quinn involving related Seventeenth Amendment issues resulting from the temporary appointment to the US Senate of Roland Burris....
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| Wednesday, December 10, 2014 |
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Video: Do Right-Wingers Support a Free Hawaii?
By Video @ 5:46 PM :: 6620 Views :: Akaka Bill, OHA
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FreeHawaii looks at Kelii Akina's interview with Leon Siu....
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| Wednesday, December 10, 2014 |
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Hawaii DoH: Significant Increase in E-Cigarette Use among Public School Teens
By News Release @ 4:37 PM :: 5797 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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“Evidence suggests that e-cigarettes are being used by students who are not cigarette smokers....”
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| Wednesday, December 10, 2014 |
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Is it wasteful or watchful government spending?
By Rachelle Chang @ 4:03 PM :: 7321 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Hawaii Statistics
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...the “2014 Congressional Pigbook,” published by the Citizens Against Government Waste identifies federal government “pork” spending in the millions of dollars in Hawaii....
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| Wednesday, December 10, 2014 |
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Hawaii Ranks No. 1 Among All U.S. States in Overall Health
By News Release @ 3:30 PM :: 5662 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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Hawaii’s strengths include low prevalence of obesity and low rate of preventable hospitalizations; state’s challenges include high prevalence of binge drinking and high incidence of infectious disease....
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| Wednesday, December 10, 2014 |
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Hawaii Supreme Court In Aina Lea: The Rationales Behind The Opinion
By Robert Thomas @ 4:23 AM :: 6986 Views :: Judiciary, Land Use
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...the LUC violated petitioners’ constitutional rights....
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| Tuesday, December 9, 2014 |
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Oahu churches seek dismissal of atheist lawsuit
By News Release @ 10:43 PM :: 7520 Views :: First Amendment, Religion
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“The only thing these churches have done is serve the schools and bring great benefit to their surrounding communities. They don’t deserve to be dragged through court any longer by two people who are seeking financial gain by attacking these congregations.”
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| Tuesday, December 9, 2014 |
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Made in China Solar Panels Costly for Planet
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 10:02 PM :: 7055 Views :: Energy, Environment
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“It takes a lot of energy to extract and process solar-grade silicon,” says co-author Seth Darling. “And in China, that energy tends to come from dirtier and less efficient energy sources...."
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| Tuesday, December 9, 2014 |
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OHA Trustees Elect Robert Lindsey Chair
By News Release @ 9:30 PM :: 8402 Views :: OHA
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...Robert K. Lindsey Jr. is the Trustee who put Sen Brickwood Galuteria on the payroll of Peletron Inc while Galuteria was pushing against his own community for OHA's Kakaako Makai schemes....
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| Tuesday, December 9, 2014 |
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Man gets 33 months in prison after threatening to decapitate congresswoman
By Malia Zimmerman @ 2:35 PM :: 5593 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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...On Aug. 3, 2013, Sherbow sent an email to the FBI and the media with the headline “Cutting Off Tulsi Gabbard’s Head.”....
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| Tuesday, December 9, 2014 |
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Legislation Lets States Cut Ties Between Common Core and Federal Grants
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:55 PM :: 5133 Views :: Education K-12
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...legislation to prohibit the federal government from “mandating, incentivizing or coercing” states to adopt the national education standards known as Common Core....
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| Tuesday, December 9, 2014 |
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73 Candidates File for Neighborhood Board Elections
By News Release @ 3:04 AM :: 4681 Views :: Honolulu County
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List of candidates who have filed as of Dec 7, 2014....
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| Monday, December 8, 2014 |
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Education Reform: Kelii Akina Interviews Darrel Galera, Roberta Mayor
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:34 PM :: 6650 Views :: Education K-12
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Grassroot President Keli’i Akina speaks with Darrel Galera (President) and Roberta Mayor (Board Member) of the Hawaii Center for Instructional Leadership about their work to reform education in Hawaii....
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| Monday, December 8, 2014 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted December 8, 2014
By Congress.org @ 2:57 PM :: 4471 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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House: Executive Action on Immigration - Passage
House: Fiscal 2015 Defense Authorization - Motion to Concur
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| Monday, December 8, 2014 |
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Honolulu 31st Lowest Concentration of Disadvantaged
By News Release @ 12:21 PM :: 6063 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Homelessness
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...2014’s Cities with the Highest and Lowest Population in Need....
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| Sunday, December 7, 2014 |
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End Run Around Nexus
By Tom Yamachika @ 4:01 AM :: 5088 Views :: Taxes
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We continue our series of pending U.S. Supreme Court cases....
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| Sunday, December 7, 2014 |
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Ethics Commission Fines Non-Profit for Illegal Lobbying
By News Release @ 3:28 AM :: 4846 Views :: Ethics
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...a nonprofit organization was lobbying at the State legislature, but had not filed lobbying expenditures and contributions reports with the Commission....
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| Sunday, December 7, 2014 |
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Pearl Harbor, Civil Rights, and Hawaii Statehood
By Selected News Articles @ 12:30 AM :: 21758 Views :: Hawaii History, Military
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Today, after two decades of "political correctness", nursing grievances has become a primary theme of the popular culture. But in the 1940s, the opposite choice was made by thousands of young Japanese Americans in Hawaii. They stood up, volunteered to join in the war effort and proved the doubters wrong.
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| Saturday, December 6, 2014 |
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HECO Sends Six New Solar Projects for PUC Approval
By News Release @ 2:26 AM :: 6158 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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The average price of the seven new solar projects is 14 cents per kilowatt-hour....
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| Friday, December 5, 2014 |
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Report: 63% of Hawaii Charter Schools Fall Below Academic Performance Standards
By News Release @ 5:38 PM :: 4889 Views :: Education K-12
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Notably, five of the eleven highest performing public high schools in the state and two of the four highest-performing middle schools, as measured by Strive HI, are charter schools....
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| Friday, December 5, 2014 |
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Audit: AG, DBEDT Did Not Report Millions in Funds
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 4:40 PM :: 4439 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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Nineteen funds and accounts did not meet criteria....
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| Friday, December 5, 2014 |
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Hawaiians Lost Land, Homes in Scam: Sovereignty Activist Ordered to Pay Reparations
By News Release @ 4:30 PM :: 4318 Views
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Hawaiiloa Foundation collected approximately $468,000 from approximately 200 individuals who went through the debt elimination process. Many of the individuals tried to use the bonds but ultimately lost their homes through foreclosure....
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| Friday, December 5, 2014 |
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National Right to Life President to Speak in Hawaii
By News Release @ 4:21 PM :: 5637 Views :: Life
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Friday, February 6, 2015 at the Pearl Country Club....
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| Friday, December 5, 2014 |
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Opportunities for International Trade and Internal Growth
By NCPA @ 10:05 AM :: 8038 Views :: World News, Economy
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Completing the agreement will create the largest free trade area, in terms of both goods and services, in which the United States participates....
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| Friday, December 5, 2014 |
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Ige's Commitment: 'No Hidden Agendas, Avoid Raising Taxes'
By News Release @ 5:22 AM :: 7891 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Politicians, Taxes
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"We will spend public funds thoughtfully and without waste to avoid raising taxes...."
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| Friday, December 5, 2014 |
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DoE Leaders Embrace Education Reform Proposals
By News Release @ 12:31 AM :: 6291 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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“Race to the Top was very prescriptive. It was tremendously important change, but now we have to ask ourselves, ‘How can we change more collaboratively?’”
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| Friday, December 5, 2014 |
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182 Days: BOE Adopts Teacher-Proposed School Calendar for School Year 2015-2016
By News Release @ 12:14 AM :: 6406 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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The BOE was set to approve a calendar submitted by the DOE until teachers presented their proposals....
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| Thursday, December 4, 2014 |
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The Jones Act’s Costly Impact
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:59 PM :: 5291 Views :: Jones Act
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U.S. law allows shippers to transport goods domestically on cars, trucks, aircraft, or rail cars built in other countries. Just not ships....
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| Thursday, December 4, 2014 |
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Hawaii-based unit final materiel recovery brigade in Afghanistan
By Selected News Articles @ 3:01 PM :: 4612 Views :: Military
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More than 100 troops from the 45th Sustainment Brigade’s headquarters met an emotional explosion of cheers as they marched into the Wheeler Gulch hangar....
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| Thursday, December 4, 2014 |
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Wall Street: Hawaii 12th Best-Run State in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 1:28 PM :: 4673 Views :: Hawaii Statistics
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... California, Colorado, Florida, and Hawaii all moved up by at least 10 positions on our ranking ....
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| Thursday, December 4, 2014 |
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VIDEO: You'll Never Hear OHA Say This
By Video @ 3:27 AM :: 4249 Views :: OHA
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What's The One Thing You'll Never Hear The Office of Hawaiian Affairs Trustees Say? ....
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| Thursday, December 4, 2014 |
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NextEra Buy May be Good for Rates, Bad for Distributed Generation
By Selected News Articles @ 3:08 AM :: 5363 Views :: Energy
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“Florida is not known for rooftop solar. It’s known for utility scale projects,” said Leslie Cole-Brooks, executive director, Hawaii Solar Energy Association....
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| Thursday, December 4, 2014 |
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Despite first lady’s vow to end veteran homelessness, VA fails miserably
By Selected News Articles @ 2:41 AM :: 4053 Views :: Military
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...27 percent were unable to reach a counselor and had to leave messages, 16 percent could not be referred to VA medical facilities because their messages were inaudible or lacked contact information, and 4 percent were not referred to VA facilities at all….
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| Wednesday, December 3, 2014 |
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30 years of Honolulu City Lights
By News Release @ 11:08 PM :: 8825 Views :: Honolulu County, First Amendment, Religion
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Honolulu City Lights will celebrate three decades of tree lightings and holiday fun on Saturday, Dec. 6, starting at 6 p.m. at Honolulu Hale....
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| Wednesday, December 3, 2014 |
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Ige Appoints Six More Cabinet Members
By News Release @ 10:48 PM :: 6113 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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...Ige today announced the appointments of six additional members of his Cabinet and two deputy directors....
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| Wednesday, December 3, 2014 |
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Caldwell Creates 'Office of Strategic Development'
By News Release @ 9:37 PM :: 7528 Views :: Honolulu County, Development
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The OSD was established to immediately address the lack of overall planning and management of the city’s real estate portfolio, which has existed since the Department of Housing was eliminated in 1996....
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| Wednesday, December 3, 2014 |
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Day Before Announcing Sale of Company, HECO Inks Biofuel Deal with Cronies
By News Release @ 8:29 PM :: 7822 Views :: Energy, Ethics
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“With this new contract, Hawaiian Electric will be purchasing approximately half our production volume...."
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| Wednesday, December 3, 2014 |
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State, Kauai County Select Mediator to Begin GMO Fact-finding Mission
By News Release @ 6:27 PM :: 4770 Views :: GMOs
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...the group will be composed of not fewer than nine knowledgeable individuals from Kauai....
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