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| Tuesday, June 10, 2014 |
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Arizona Grapples With Humanitarian ‘Disaster’ as Unaccompanied Immigrant Children Fend for Themselves
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:58 PM :: 5088 Views :: National News
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Undocumented immigrant children, some as young as 5 years old and traveling with no parent or adult, are being dropped off by the busload in Arizona....
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| Monday, June 9, 2014 |
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Court: No EIS Required For Haleakala Telescope
By Robert Thomas @ 9:12 PM :: 6701 Views :: Environment, Higher Education
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...In Kilakila O Haleakala v. University of Hawaii the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals rejected a challenge under Hawaii's environmental review statute....
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| Monday, June 9, 2014 |
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Hawaii Rated Worst State to Make a Living 2014
By Selected News Articles @ 5:26 PM :: 7425 Views :: Labor, Cost of Living
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...a cost of living more than 50 percent higher than the norm makes it very difficult to make a decent living....
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| Monday, June 9, 2014 |
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Stevie Wonder ‘blunder’ case takes Hawaii law enforcement to Spain
By Malia Zimmerman @ 2:31 PM :: 6205 Views :: Higher Education, Law Enforcement
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Two of Hawaii’s top law officers are headed to Palma Mallorca, Spain, this week for the so-called “Stevie Wonder Blunder” case....
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| Monday, June 9, 2014 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 9, 2014
By Congress.org @ 1:55 PM :: 4813 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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Upcoming Congressional Bills--House: Fiscal Year 2015 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act
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| Monday, June 9, 2014 |
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The Surprising States That Have Greater Income Inequality
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:25 PM :: 6722 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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The income gap between rich and poor tends to be wider in blue states than in red states....
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| Monday, June 9, 2014 |
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9th Circuit Demands Briefing on Bridge Aina Lea Suit
By Robert Thomas @ 5:30 AM :: 10733 Views :: Hawaii County , Development, Judiciary, Land Use
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...several members of the State of Hawaii Land Use Commission were sued by the property owner in their individual as well as official capacities....
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| Sunday, June 8, 2014 |
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What Happens in Vegas...Moves to Vegas
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 5258 Views :: Taxes
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...between 1995 and 2000 roughly 12,000 people moved from Hawaii to Nevada, and about 1,850 moved from Nevada to Hawaii....
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| Sunday, June 8, 2014 |
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Dave Bateman Announces for House 5
By News Release @ 4:08 AM :: 6958 Views :: Politicians, Republican Party
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"...our elected leaders continually disrespect the voters by passing laws that the people have clearly said they do not want,” Bateman said....
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| Sunday, June 8, 2014 |
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Ige Goes Wobbly on GMOs
By News Release @ 4:07 AM :: 7692 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 :: 16546 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 :: 6492 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 :: 5265 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 :: 8619 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 :: 9698 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 :: 6291 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 :: 6566 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 :: 7001 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 :: 5853 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 :: 4752 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 :: 7666 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 :: 3911 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 :: 6155 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 :: 5101 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 :: 6468 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 :: 4971 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 :: 7025 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 :: 5420 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 :: 4549 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 :: 5037 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 :: 8839 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 :: 6929 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 :: 8860 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 :: 4312 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 :: 8630 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 :: 9680 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 :: 7178 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 :: 7073 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 :: 6685 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 :: 3784 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 :: 6815 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 :: 5100 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 :: 10775 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 :: 6825 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 :: 5211 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 :: 6974 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 :: 7659 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 :: 6136 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 :: 6791 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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