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Monday, July 8, 2013
Tsutsui to Sign Six Bills While Abercrombie Enjoys Taiwan Junket
By News Release @ 11:11 PM :: 6000 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Tax Credits

Tsutsui will sign the following bills passed by the 2013 Hawaii State Legislature....

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Monday, July 8, 2013
Mayor picks new Honolulu Chief Medical Examiner
By News Release @ 9:00 PM :: 5655 Views :: Honolulu County, Law Enforcement

Dr. Christopher B. Happy has been selected as Honolulu’s Chief Medical Examiner....

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Monday, July 8, 2013
Health Exchange Could 'Solve' Hawaii's Unfunded Liability by Sticking Retirees with Inferior Coverage
By NCPA @ 6:04 PM :: 4529 Views :: Health Care

turning to President Barack Obama's health care overhaul could become a road map for cash-strapped cities....

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Monday, July 8, 2013
Obamacare’s Dirty Dozen Implementation Failures
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:49 PM :: 3626 Views :: Health Care

Even Democrats have admitted the law has turned into a massive “train wreck,” with delays, glitches, and problems aplenty....

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Monday, July 8, 2013
FBI Still Hasn't Contacted IRS-Targeted Hawaii Tea Party Groups About Investigation
By Selected News Articles @ 4:56 AM :: 6054 Views :: TEA Party

"The Director continues to assert that this is a priority for the Bureau, but at this point, there's little evidence to suggest that this probe is on the fast track."

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Sunday, July 7, 2013
Surprise: Entire OHA Trust Fund Frozen by Gentry Pacific Boondoggle
By News Release @ 9:14 PM :: 9037 Views :: OHA

On April 12, 2013, OHA Trustees were surprised to learn that the loan we got from Bank of Hawaii was not a secured loan and that it had to be backed by Trust dollars....

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Sunday, July 7, 2013
JULY 7: Hawaii Annexed by USA
By News Release @ 5:53 PM :: 4211 Views :: Hawaii History

On this date 115 years ago, the U.S. began absorbing an island paradise....

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Sunday, July 7, 2013
Other Questionable Subsidies Provided by Highway Users
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 5:01 AM :: 4244 Views :: Taxes

...some of the ways the highway user is tapped to fund what is obliquely related to the construction, repair and maintenance of state and county roads....

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Saturday, July 6, 2013
Acts 225, 226 Protect Pharmacy Choice, Patient Privacy
By News Release @ 9:40 PM :: 7375 Views :: Health Care, Small Business

...prevent Hawaii residents from having their private medical information used as a marketing tool by drug middlemen known as pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), some of which also operate mail-order pharmacies....

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Saturday, July 6, 2013
Feds: Some 'Preferred Pharmacy' Plans Cost More
By News Release @ 9:29 PM :: 5241 Views :: Health Care, Small Business

A community pharmacist in the Northern Mariana Islands reports that his Medicare patients' closest preferred pharmacy is nine hours away by plane in Hawaii....

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Saturday, July 6, 2013
FBI, Police Investigate: Homeless Tent City Operators Shake Down City
By Selected News Articles @ 3:09 AM :: 5661 Views :: Homelessness

To pressure political decision-makers for more resources, SHARE has hosted mandatory camp-outs on council members’ lawns, at the mayor’s home and at the King County Administration Building....

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Saturday, July 6, 2013
Bill 65 Will Destroy Historic Oahu Railway
By John Bond @ 2:02 AM :: 5517 Views :: Development

...several roads will be crossing the historic National Register Hawaiian Railway, including directly through their historic rail yard....

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Friday, July 5, 2013
UH Manoa: False Harassment Claim Can Lead to Eviction
By Selected News Articles @ 11:10 PM :: 7149 Views :: First Amendment, Higher Education, Law Enforcement
...students falsely accused could see their lives upended and possibly destroyed....
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Friday, July 5, 2013
Hawaii is #1 for Per-Capita Hepatitis Caused by Organic Food: 140 Infected Nationwide
By News Release @ 10:27 PM :: 6583 Views :: Environment, GMOs
Organic food is disgusting.  And it costs more.
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Friday, July 5, 2013
An Insight on the Cost of Paradise
By UHERO @ 1:57 PM :: 59745 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
While the US average for April 2013 hovered at 12 cents/kwh, Hawai‘i paid 37 cents/kwh for electricity....
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Friday, July 5, 2013
Gettysburg and the Future of Freedom
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:49 AM :: 4316 Views :: National News

One hundred and fifty years ago, the fate of America was decided at Gettysburg....

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Thursday, July 4, 2013
Hawaii Family Forum Call to Action to Defend Natural Marriage
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 1:19 PM :: 5446 Views :: Family

...pressure has been placed on our state legislators by the local and national gay rights lobby....

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Thursday, July 4, 2013
The Words That Started It All
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:46 PM :: 4200 Views :: National News

In celebration of Independence Day, we are rereading the Declaration of Independence....

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Thursday, July 4, 2013
US Islamist Leaders Back Egypt's Deposed Muslim Brotherhood Dictator
By IPT News @ 2:57 AM :: 8011 Views :: World News, Religion

American Islamists, like the American Stalinists before them, are unwilling to question the Muslim Brotherhood's ideology....

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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Abercrombie Signs 9 Bills: Wind Farms Must Pay for Decommissioning
By News Release @ 10:34 PM :: 5641 Views :: Energy, Hawaii State Government

HB1149 (Relating to Wind Energy Facilities) requires a wind energy facility owner to be responsible for facility decommissioning and provide evidence of financial security....

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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Hawaii GOP Promotes Recycling, Raises $5000
By News Release @ 10:27 PM :: 4988 Views :: Republican Party

Several hundred people visited the sale over this 2-day period to browse and purchase items and get acquainted with the HRP....

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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Clinic Owner: With Medicare and Medicaid, ‘Your Practice May Not Last Long’
By Jose Reque Martinez @ 10:06 PM :: 5790 Views :: Health Care, Small Business

...if your population of patients is heavily inclined to Medicare and Medicaid then your reimbursements are low....

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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Mental Health Top Cause of Hawaii Hospital Admissions
By News Release @ 9:48 PM :: 7172 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care

...mental health causes accounted for 5,180 hospital visits in Hawaii in 2011. That's well above the next highest cause, heart failure, with 2,954....

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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
UPDATE: Puerto Rico Jones Act report needs public review
By Michael Hansen @ 8:00 PM :: 7429 Views :: Jones Act

If the Alliance wants their report to become a basis for public policy making, we must insist that the Alliance report become part of the public domain....

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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Analysis of Kauai County Anti-GMO Bill #2491
By Selected News Articles @ 5:11 PM :: 8355 Views :: GMOs

testimony outlining the scientific, legal, and economic issues....

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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Kailua HS, Kealakehe HS Winners at International Underwater Robotics Meet
By News Release @ 4:29 PM :: 3995 Views :: Education K-12

Two Hawaii high schools won major awards, while one Hawaii student took away a top award at the Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center’s 12th Annual student Underwater Robotics Competition, held in Federal Way, Wash....

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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Anti-biotech activists would the let Hawaiian papaya go the way of the Dodo
By Selected News Articles @ 4:05 PM :: 5066 Views :: GMOs

Biotechnology innovators rescued the Rainbow papaya in Hawaii from extinction. Now activists want to strangle this innovation....

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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Performance Contracts Strengthen Charter School Accountability
By News Release @ 1:42 PM :: 4102 Views :: Education K-12

all 32 charter schools and the State Public Charter School Commission...completed the execution of the first charter school performance contracts in the state’s history....

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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
So Which Part of Obamacare Works, Then?
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:14 PM :: 3495 Views :: Health Care

the Administration is delaying the employer mandate, which would force businesses with 50 or more full-time workers to provide government-approved insurance, until 2015....

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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Hawaii Electric Vehicle Fuel Cost Nearly the Same as Gasoline
By UHERO @ 4:08 AM :: 4989 Views :: Energy

both of the objectives mentioned by the US Energy Secretary are harder to achieve in Hawai‘i....

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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
UHERO: Is Hawaii Losing Its Middle Class?
By UHERO @ 4:04 AM :: 6288 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living

rising food and housing costs, a challenged public school system and few professional opportunities in a tourist-driven economy....

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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Medicare Fraud: Queens Hospital Forced to Pay $1.05M
By News Release @ 2:26 AM :: 5663 Views :: Health Care

overcharged Medicare for a back procedure known as "kyphoplasty" using a fraudulent billing scheme first exposed by two whistleblowers....

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
State Historic Preservation Director Quits Under Fire from Feds
By News Release @ 11:54 PM :: 7728 Views :: Development, OHA, Rail

The announcement follows the release last Thursday of a report by the National Parks Service (NPS) that was critical of the division’s efforts....

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Abercrombie Appoints Asselbaye, Halagao to BoE, Signs Gun Control Bill, Others
By News Release @ 11:33 PM :: 5883 Views :: Education K-12, Second Amendment

fingerprint, photograph and background checks for those bringing firearms into Hawaii....

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Hurricane? Honolulu 4th Most Overdue and Vulnerable
By Selected News Articles @ 6:56 PM :: 7010 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Hawaii Statistics

Evacuation time, 10 hours....

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
CNHA Questions OHA Geothermal 'Investment'
By News Release @ 5:46 PM :: 6241 Views :: Energy, OHA

Out of nowhere, all of sudden, OHA has an appetite for equity investments into high risk privately owned enterprises....

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
VIDEO: Occupy Activist NB Member Argues With Police
By Video @ 5:28 PM :: 6389 Views :: Homelessness, Law Enforcement
Question: What happened in the portion of the video edited out by Occupy?
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Hawaii freeway conditions and costs are ‘disgraceful’
By Malia Zimmerman @ 5:06 PM :: 6893 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics, Rail

The truly “big news,” Slater said: Hawaii’s ranking at No. 49 for administrative costs per mile....

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
HI First Amendment lawyer: ‘It is a terrible time to be a journalist’
By Malia Zimmerman @ 5:00 PM :: 4254 Views :: First Amendment

“It is a terrible time to be a journalist,” ...  Portnoy was referring to the Obama administration’s secret subpoenas for journalists’ phone and Internet records, as well as the US DoJ secret investigation into Associated Press and Fox News reporters....

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Kakaako Development and Honolulu's Trifecta of Failures
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 4:38 PM :: 6683 Views :: Development, Rail

Up to 5,000 new apartment and condominium units are being planned by the HCDA in Kakaako....

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Auto Insurance: Hawaii Teens Cheapest in Nation
By Selected News Articles @ 3:47 PM :: 6141 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living

five states, on average, showed the smallest percentage premium increase by adding a teen driver to an existing auto policy: Hawaii — 18%, North Carolina — 59%....

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Hawaii Highways Rank 48th in Nation
By Selected News Articles @ 3:38 PM :: 4681 Views :: Hawaii Statistics

At the bottom were Alaska, Rhode Island, Hawaii, California and New Jersey....

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
18 Agencies, 613 Forms: Paperwork Makes Veterans Wait Year for Benefits
By Selected News Articles @ 2:01 PM :: 4836 Views :: Health Care, Military

The number of veterans waiting more than a year to receive benefits jumped from 11,000 in 2009 to 245,000 by December 2012....

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Do Traditional Marriage Supporters Deserve to Be Treated with Dignity?
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:00 PM :: 5114 Views :: Family, First Amendment

Justice Anthony Kennedy argued last week that the only reason Congress had for passing the Defense of Marriage Act was to “disparage,” “injure,” “degrade,” “demean,” and “humiliate” others....

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
HECO to Shutter Plants, Refocus on 'Low Cost' Renewables
By News Release @ 12:47 AM :: 4434 Views :: Energy

"Lowering customers’ costs by accelerating development of low-cost, fast track utility-scale renewable energy projects...."

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
A-PLUS: A Conservative Alternative to NCLB
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:05 AM :: 3441 Views :: Education K-12

On Thursday, lawmakers in both the House and the Senate introduced a conservative alternative to No Child Left Behind (NCLB)....

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Monday, July 1, 2013
Governor Signs Bills Expanding Protections, Support for Women and Keiki
By News Release @ 11:04 PM :: 7288 Views :: Family, Labor, Law Enforcement

The Governor also signed bills that extend the voluntary foster care age to 21 as well as keep keiki safe from a parent who has been convicted of a sexual assault....

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Monday, July 1, 2013
The Real Arab Spring? Egyptians Ready to Overthrow Islamic Rulers
By IPT News @ 4:46 PM :: 8240 Views :: World News, Religion
"Theocracy failed here"
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Monday, July 1, 2013
As Pritzger Nomination Ratified, UNITE HERE, Hyatt Settle
By News Release @ 3:29 PM :: 4500 Views :: Labor

The agreement will go into effect upon the settlement and ratification of union contracts by Hyatt associates in San Francisco, Honolulu, Los Angeles, and Chicago.....

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Monday, July 1, 2013
Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted July 1, 2013
By Congress.org @ 2:15 PM :: 4511 Views :: Congressional Delegation
  • Senate: Pritzker Nomination – Confirmation
  • Senate: Foxx Nomination – Confirmation
  • Senate: Immigration Bill – Passage
  • House: Offshore Drilling Bill – Passage
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