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Friday, July 12, 2013
GAO: Hawaii COFA Cost Estimates 'Inaccurate'
By News Release @ 1:37 PM :: 7198 Views :: Education K-12, Health Care, Homelessness

...some jurisdictions did not accurately define compact migrants, account for federal funding that supplemented local expenditures, or include revenue received from compact migrants....

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Friday, July 12, 2013
Why Does Egypt’s Turmoil Matter to Us?
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:52 AM :: 6632 Views :: World News, Military

Obama backed the administration of Mohamed Morsi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, who was just ousted by the protesters and the military....

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Thursday, July 11, 2013
FULL TEXT: Mollway Letter Blasts Rail for Skipping UH Campus
By Selected News Articles @ 10:06 PM :: 8274 Views :: Rail

Judge Susan Oki Mollway's letter to HART and federal transit officials....

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Thursday, July 11, 2013
Stop Rail Files Final Reply to FTA
By Honolulu Traffic @ 9:55 PM :: 6030 Views :: Rail

This is an excellent summary of our appeal and why the District Court's decision was in error....

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Thursday, July 11, 2013
Federal Court Rejects Challenge to Hawaii Reapportionment Plan
By Selected News Articles @ 9:45 PM :: 4776 Views :: Office of Elections

Full text of today's ruling....

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Thursday, July 11, 2013
Health Dep't Harasses Farmers for 'Fugitive Dust'
By News Release @ 9:21 PM :: 7762 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, Small Business

...for causing or permitting visible fugitive dust to become airborne....

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Thursday, July 11, 2013
Late-Night Shenanigans in the House
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:57 AM :: 6394 Views :: National News, Agriculture

It still goes out of its way to tax Christmas trees....

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Thursday, July 11, 2013
Ethics Investigation: Legislators Accepting "Significant Gifts and Prizes" from State Contractors
By News Release @ 2:50 AM :: 6837 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government

Some of the gifts are valued at up to $1,000....

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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
CNBC: Hawaii Is the Worst State for Business in the Country
By Selected News Articles @ 7:28 PM :: 7551 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Small Business

identify changeable policies so that Hawaii can move off the bottom of this list....

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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Senator Probes 'Corrupt' POW/MIA Program
By Selected News Articles @ 7:17 PM :: 5123 Views :: Military

Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., sent a letter to JPAC’s commander, demanding information about that internal report and the military’s efforts to suppress it....

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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Responsible Prison Reform
By NCPA @ 6:32 PM :: 4034 Views :: Law Enforcement

In 1979, around the time that imprisonment rates began their sharp uptick, 314,000 people sat behind bars in the United States. As of mid-2013, that number stood at about 2 million....

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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
U.S. Oil Boom Stabilizes Global Prices
By NCPA @ 6:27 PM :: 4889 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living

a thick new blanket of North American oil cushioning the markets....

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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Racially charged murder trial grips Hawaii
By Malia Zimmerman @ 5:35 PM :: 6696 Views :: Law Enforcement
DEEDY: The Virginia man faces second-degree murder charges..
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Hawaii DoH Finds New TB Test Supply, Restarts Testing
By News Release @ 4:19 PM :: 4475 Views :: Health Care

DOH has acquired an adequate supply of purified protein derivative solution used for tuberculosis skin testing and will resume providing the test....

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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Obama Admin Spoons out Money to Hawaii Free Clinics
By News Release @ 2:22 PM :: 4791 Views :: Health Care

to hire 21 additional workers, who will assist 21,516 people with enrollment into affordable health insurance coverage....

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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Sandwich Isles Communications: $12,371 per line annual subsidy
By News Release @ 2:07 PM :: 10514 Views :: DHHL, National News, Hawaii Statistics, Tax Credits
“Poster Child for Federal Waste”
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Decision Time on Immigration
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:45 PM :: 4367 Views :: National News

Today is a pivotal day in the immigration debate....

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Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Abercrombie Vetoes 3 Bills, 12 Become Law Without Signature
By News Release @ 8:40 PM :: 4623 Views :: Hawaii State Government

The Governor this year signed a total of 269 bills into law, and Lt. Gov. Shan S. Tsutsui this afternoon will sign seven as Acting Governor. Twelve other measures will become law without signature....

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Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Got Land? DLNR Wants to Give You Money
By News Release @ 7:44 PM :: 6679 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Land Use

DLNR is seeking new projects for its Hawai‘i Forest Legacy Program....

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Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Will Christians in Hawaii be Targeted Because of of their Religious Beliefs?
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 4:46 PM :: 5279 Views :: Family

Christians across the country are increasingly becoming targets because of their "intolerance."  In Hawaii, it is already happening and it could get worse....

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Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Marriage Evidence Disproves Empty Rhetoric of the Left
By News Release @ 4:28 PM :: 5615 Views :: Family

it is difficult to argue against empirical evidence....

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Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Sen David Ige to challenge Abercrombie for Governor
By Andrew Walden @ 2:04 PM :: 8040 Views :: Democratic Party, Politicians
Ige will not be running for reelection to the Senate....
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Things That Aren’t Inevitable
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:21 PM :: 6172 Views :: National News, Agriculture
Don’t you love it when the conventional wisdom gets turned on its head?
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Monday, July 8, 2013
Tsutsui to Sign Six Bills While Abercrombie Enjoys Taiwan Junket
By News Release @ 11:11 PM :: 6073 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 :: 5743 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 :: 4613 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 :: 3683 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 :: 6138 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 :: 9168 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 :: 4291 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 :: 4308 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 :: 7458 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 :: 5310 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 :: 5761 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 :: 5608 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 :: 7268 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 :: 6652 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 :: 59820 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 :: 4377 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 :: 5510 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 :: 4261 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 :: 8107 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 :: 5725 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 :: 5050 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 :: 5877 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 :: 7278 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 :: 7549 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 :: 8416 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 :: 4082 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 :: 5157 Views :: GMOs

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

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