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Friday, October 11, 2013
Audit: City Lets Elite Avoid $1.8M in Property Taxes on 'Historic' Homes
By News Release @ 2:10 PM :: 6129 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Taxes

The audit objective was to evaluate the RPAD processes related to the classification, reclassification, valuation, and assessment of real property for taxation purposes....

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Friday, October 11, 2013
How Much Is Your Health Insurance Going Up?
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:31 PM :: 3342 Views :: Health Care

Have you gotten a letter from your insurance company about your premiums going up? 

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Friday, October 11, 2013
VIDEO: Charles Djou Talks to Grassroot Institute
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:43 AM :: 5468 Views :: Politicians, Republican Party
Hawaii is a combination of Louisiana and Japanese politics, hosting one of the last remaining examples of machine politics in the U.S....
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Friday, October 11, 2013
Groundbreaking Discovery by the Babes Against Biotech!
By Selected News Articles @ 12:09 AM :: 5016 Views :: GMOs
If they actually did a bit more detective work before posting this, they would realize that there is no such thing as a GMO melon ....
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Thursday, October 10, 2013
HI lawmakers question Obamacare exchange delays
By Malia Zimmerman @ 11:43 PM :: 4372 Views :: Health Care

The web site went live Oct. 1, but those seeking health care coverage haven’t been able to review pricing or coverage information....

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Thursday, October 10, 2013
Hawaii churches ask court to dismiss atheists’ baseless lawsuit
By News Release @ 5:49 PM :: 6779 Views :: Education K-12, First Amendment, Religion

“These churches have not only faithfully paid all of their rent, they’ve sacrificially given much more in service and funding to the schools and communities they love,” added co-counsel James Hochberg....

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Thursday, October 10, 2013
Rep. McDermott asks Speaker Souki for state-wide hearings on marriage bill
By News Release @ 5:42 PM :: 4551 Views :: Family

McDermott formally asked Speaker of the House Joe Souki to conduct a series of House Judiciary Committee hearings on the subject of same-sex marriage....

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Thursday, October 10, 2013
Gay Marriage Debate Cancelled After Attempt to Stack Meeting Fails
By News Release @ 4:01 PM :: 10540 Views :: Family

...organizers only wanted panelists to talk about the proposed religious exemption, not things he believes are missing from the draft....

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Thursday, October 10, 2013
Hickam: Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command held 'phony' ceremonies for MIAs, using planes that can't fly
By Selected News Articles @ 2:39 PM :: 4735 Views :: Military

...the Pentagon acknowledged Wednesday that no honored dead were in fact arriving, and that the planes used in the ceremonies often couldn't even fly....

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Thursday, October 10, 2013
Liver Let Die
By Video @ 2:19 PM :: 5305 Views :: Health Care

...this shady industry is trying to recover from a pretty good licking it received today from the FDA....

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Thursday, October 10, 2013
Obamacare: Hawaii Only State Which Still Has Not Launched
By Selected News Articles @ 2:06 PM :: 4095 Views :: Health Care

Hawaii, President Barack Obama’s birthplace, has the only online health insurance marketplace that has not yet launched....

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Thursday, October 10, 2013
Hawaii Health Connector Built by Same Contractor Responsible for Federal ACA Failure
By News Release @ 1:17 PM :: 7341 Views :: Health Care

The Hawaii Health Connector’s failed website was built under a $53M contract with the same CGI which has made a mess of the federal ACA signup website....

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Thursday, October 10, 2013
A Letter to President Obama
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:25 PM :: 3466 Views :: Health Care

As the temporary slowdown in government operations enters its second week, I write to explain why conservatives have insisted on making the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act the prime source of contention....

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Thursday, October 10, 2013
Rail: Let Them Eat Cake
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 12:28 AM :: 5793 Views :: Rail

Honolulu's public is starved for traffic congestion relief. The power elite has responded with let them have rail....

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Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Report: Hawaii Ranks 30th in Business Tax Climate
By News Release @ 9:27 PM :: 5332 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
The Tax Foundation’s 2014 edition of the State Business Tax Climate Index  enables business leaders, government policymakers, and taxpayers to gauge how their states’ tax systems compare....
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Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Grading character in school
By Rachelle Chang @ 7:36 PM :: 4489 Views :: Education K-12

Today, Hawaii public elementary schools have a three-part report card that evaluates attendance, six general learner outcomes (GLOs), and academic proficiency, with a section for teacher comments. Only one of the GLOs is based on character....

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Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Still Not Open, Hawaii Health Connector Apologizes for Being so Sorry
By News Release @ 6:21 PM :: 3648 Views :: Health Care

We won’t stop working until the doors to HawaiiHealthConnector.com are wide open.....

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Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Hurry, Hurry, Sign Up for Obamacare!
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:58 PM :: 3893 Views :: Health Care

...sign up for Obamacare before this hot introductory offer expires....

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Wednesday, October 9, 2013
The UHERO Dashboard Project Jobs Explorer: Occupations in Hawaii
By UHERO @ 12:31 AM :: 5688 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor

The Hawaii Jobs Explorer, the first interactive tool to be released as a part of the ongoing UHERO Dashboard Project, is now available for public use....

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Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Defending Marriage: HIRA Action Super PAC Launches Statewide Radio Ads
By Tito Montes @ 10:23 PM :: 4944 Views :: Family

“HIRA Action” is sponsoring a campaign of radio advertising on multiple stations during October 2013 to educate and mobilize Hawaii citizens....

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Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Photos: Organizers Estimate 1000 at Kickoff Rally Against Gay ‘Marriage’
By Andrew Walden @ 9:33 PM :: 2801 Views
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013
"Oxyelite Pro" Dietary Supplement Linked to Death, Liver Failure
By News Release @ 7:51 PM :: 5553 Views :: Health Care
Hawaii State Department of Health (DOH) is alerting local retailers and requesting the voluntary removal from sale of the product OxyElite Pro pending an ongoing investigation of cases of liver failure and acute hepatitis....
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Consumer LifeSmarts: DCCA Launches 10th Annual Statewide Student Competition
By News Release @ 7:45 PM :: 5078 Views :: Education K-12, Cost of Living

...a FREE consumer education competition open to teens in grades 6-12....

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Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Comparing Economies: Hawaii and Greece -- The Writing on the Wall
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 3:13 PM :: 8573 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Cost of Living
Recently UHERO presented a detailed inforgraphic of jobs in Hawaii. The inforgraphic answers questions like: What type of jobs, how many and how much do they make?
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013
AG Louie the Grinch: Subs Won’t get Back Pay for Christmas
By News Release @ 3:08 PM :: 5145 Views :: Education K-12, Labor

In September, Plaintiffs’ counsel was informed that the State anticipates that the earliest date on which payments can be made will be the March 5, 2014 pay date....

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Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Why Is Obama Needlessly Scaring Seniors?
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:21 PM :: 5051 Views :: National News, Health Care

President Obama is needlessly scaring seniors by suggesting that their Social Security benefit checks may not arrive....

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Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Hawaii Drug Overdose Deaths Soaring -- Now Kill More than Auto Accidents
By News Release @ 1:50 AM :: 7458 Views :: Health Care, Law Enforcement

Prescription drug related deaths now outnumber those from heroin and cocaine combined, and drug overdose deaths exceed motor vehicle-related deaths....

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Monday, October 7, 2013
Hawaii Congressional Delegation How they Voted October 7, 2013
By Congress.org @ 4:26 PM :: 3564 Views :: Congressional Delegation
  • Senate: Continuing Appropriations Conference Request – Motion to Table
  • House: Veterans Program Funds- Continuing Resolution
  • House: Women’s and Children’s Nutrition Funds – Continuing Resolution
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Monday, October 7, 2013
HI House leader steps down amid campaign spending investigation
By Malia Zimmerman @ 3:13 PM :: 6529 Views :: Democratic Party, Ethics, Politicians

State Rep. Karen Awana is out as Democrat House majority leader....

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Monday, October 7, 2013
United States Becomes Largest Oil-and-Gas Producer
By NCPA @ 1:15 PM :: 3480 Views :: Energy

The United States is overtaking Russia as the world's largest producer of oil and natural gas, a startling shift that is reshaping markets and eroding the clout of traditional energy-rich nations, says the Wall Street Journal....

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Monday, October 7, 2013
Family Doctor: I Want to Take Care of My Patients
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:10 PM :: 3578 Views :: Health Care

The biggest problem with Obamacare is that there are going to be layers and layers of government bureaucracy that will try to tell me how to treat patients I’ve helped for over 25 years....

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Sunday, October 6, 2013
Raising Debt Ceiling, Cutting Spending is Crux of Issue
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 5:01 AM :: 4146 Views :: Taxes

Last week’s partial shutdown of the federal government broke records on the airwaves of twitter and other social media with much of the criticism....

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Saturday, October 5, 2013
Secret Chart Reveals HMSA Individual, Family Rates-- $873 Per Person for Non-Smokers
By Andrew Walden @ 10:48 PM :: 11726 Views :: Health Care
HMSA, Kaiser, and the Hawaii Health Connector continue to refuse to make these rates public, but we've got them here....
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Saturday, October 5, 2013
US Commission on Civil Rights Seeks Nominees for Hawaii Advisory Committee
By News Release @ 9:30 PM :: 6889 Views :: Akaka Bill, Ethics, First Amendment

The Commission is an independent, bipartisan agency established by Congress....

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Saturday, October 5, 2013
Grassroot: Poll Favors Limited, Accountable Government
By Grassroot Institute @ 9:08 PM :: 4688 Views :: National News

Grassroot Institute has been spreading the word about the results of the Reason Foundation’s poll....

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Saturday, October 5, 2013
VIDEO: Aegis Ballistic Missile Intercept off Kauai
By Video @ 6:05 PM :: 4841 Views :: Military

A Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block 1B guided missile is launched from the USS Lake Erie, and successfully intercepted a medium-range ballistic missile target off the coast of Kauai....

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Saturday, October 5, 2013
Rail Burns Thru $256M in 12 months with no Construction
By Honolulu Traffic @ 1:39 AM :: 4471 Views :: Rail

Of that amount $166 million was for professional services and that was likely all for Parsons Brinckerhoff....

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Friday, October 4, 2013
"Rich States" Also Have Debts -- Hawaii Ranks #5
By Selected News Articles @ 5:19 PM :: 4961 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
The Taxpayer Burden for Hawaii, the 5th “richest state,” is $ 39,900 compared to its median household income of $66,259.
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Friday, October 4, 2013
Feel rich? Average Hawaii Resident needs to pony up $40K to pay off state debt
By Malia Zimmerman @ 5:10 PM :: 5713 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics, Taxes

Do you feel rich? The Wall Street Journal claims you are, as a fiscal watchdog group says the opposite, citing crushing amounts of government debt....

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Friday, October 4, 2013
UHERO: Furlough Fridays = Less Juvenile Crime
By UHERO @ 3:12 PM :: 5952 Views :: Education K-12, Law Enforcement

The authors attribute the reduction in crime to two factors. The first is a lack of "concentration" allowing for less opportunity to engage in criminal activity, and the second is possibly increased monitoring by parents....

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Friday, October 4, 2013
E-RAT-icate: Cost-effectiveness of Eradication vs. Control
By UHERO @ 3:02 PM :: 4852 Views :: Environment

Ecological non-use benefits and the costs of eradication and control programs are often difficult to quantify....

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Friday, October 4, 2013
Mr. President, You Can End the Government Shutdown
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:21 PM :: 3875 Views :: National News
Obama is so intent on protecting his unpopular, unworkable, and unfair health care law that he’d prefer to keep the government closed....
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Thursday, October 3, 2013
Hawaii Health Connector Secret Rates Revealed? HMSA Premium Jumps 44%
By Andrew Walden @ 11:59 PM :: 6666 Views :: Health Care

Under their current small-business group coverage they are paying $810.56 per month.  Their new price effective July 1, 2014 will be $1,166.24 per month....

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Thursday, October 3, 2013
ULI Fellowship: Caldwell to Select Land Use Challenge
By News Release @ 11:17 PM :: 7472 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Land Use

Past classes of Rose Fellows have tackled challenges including revitalization of Detroit’s Livernois Avenue....

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Thursday, October 3, 2013
Hawaii Health Connector: Six Legislative Committees to Discuss ‘Concerns’
By News Release @ 11:04 PM :: 5084 Views :: Health Care

The Insurance Commissioner will discuss concerns regarding new insurance requirements of the ACA and its impact on rates and populations groups ....

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Thursday, October 3, 2013
Sequestration Report: Reduced Funding is Just the Beginning of a New Reality for Hawaii
By News Release @ 8:07 PM :: 3168 Views

...reduced funding is likely just the beginning of a new reality of diminishing federal support for states and municipalities....

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Thursday, October 3, 2013
Honolulu Roads 13th Worst in Nation, Cost Drivers $598 per year
By News Release @ 7:15 PM :: 5785 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail

Forty-three percent of major roads in the Honolulu urban area are in poor condition, costing area drivers $598 each year....

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Thursday, October 3, 2013
KIUC Seeks PUC Approval for Monthly Meter Charges
By News Release @ 5:00 PM :: 4729 Views :: Energy

About 10 percent of the utility's 30,000 customers have opted not to use the smart meters. KIUC estimates the cost of reading and servicing those 3,000 meters to be about $340,000 a year....

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Thursday, October 3, 2013
Hawaii residents, lawmakers frustrated with health connector glitches
By Malia Zimmerman @ 3:25 PM :: 4025 Views :: Health Care
Hawaii lawmakers plan a briefing Wednesday to look into problems related to the Hawaii Health Connector services....
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Thursday, October 3, 2013
Panos: Ten Plus One Reasons Why I Do Not Support The Honolulu Rail Project
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 3:20 PM :: 7069 Views :: Rail
Among all travel options on Oahu, mass transit serves 6% of the travelers, just slightly above the U.S average of 5%....
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