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Sunday, June 8, 2014 |
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Ige Goes Wobbly on GMOs
By News Release @ 4:07 AM :: 7154 Views :: GMOs
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...Ige said he will review the recent Vermont GMO labeling decision as a possible solution....
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Sunday, June 8, 2014 |
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Report Exposes Scheme to Funnel Interior Department Money to Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement
By Andrew Walden @ 12:14 AM :: 15247 Views :: Akaka Bill, Ethics, OHA
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...even a failed grab for federal money has apparently been enough for CNHA to turn DHHL and OHA inside out....
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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 :: 5970 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 :: 4850 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 :: 7816 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 :: 8892 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 :: 5683 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 :: 6057 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 :: 6226 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 :: 5360 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 :: 4368 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 :: 6954 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 :: 3570 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 :: 5680 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 :: 4745 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 :: 5894 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 :: 4480 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 :: 6439 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 :: 5078 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 :: 4225 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 :: 4612 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 :: 7979 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 :: 6365 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 :: 8010 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 :: 3963 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 :: 7909 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 :: 8266 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 :: 6579 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 :: 6359 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 :: 5981 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 :: 3414 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 :: 6198 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 :: 4652 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 :: 10174 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 :: 6210 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 :: 4785 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 :: 6139 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 :: 6970 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 :: 5525 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 :: 6110 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 :: 4183 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 :: 5795 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 :: 6215 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 :: 5959 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 :: 7117 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 :: 6168 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 :: 6157 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 :: 4800 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 :: 4330 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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