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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Schatz Proposes $180 Billion Carbon Tax
By News Release @ 3:16 PM :: 7266 Views :: Environment, Taxes

What is the appropriate price per ton for 'polluters' to pay? The draft contains alternative prices of $15, $25, and $35 per ton....

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
How Hawaii Minimum Wage Workers Earn $24.24 per hour
By Selected News Articles @ 4:34 PM :: 11692 Views :: Labor, Cost of Living

The average wage when adding in tips for the front of the house is $24.24 per hour....

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Sequester Cuts Highlight Government Inefficiency
By NCPA @ 4:04 PM :: 4402 Views :: National News

...the public is supposed to believe that public agencies are so inefficient that a 1 percent cut in resources would trigger horrendous consequences but a 1 percent increase in taxes on individuals would be inconsequential....

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
First Look at the 2014 Ryan Budget
By Andrew Walden @ 3:55 PM :: 4585 Views :: National News

The Ryan budget achieves an important improvement over last year by balancing the budget within 10 years....

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
A Defining Moment for Marriage and Self-Government
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:47 PM :: 5509 Views :: Family

Family is and will always remain the building block of civil society....

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Medicare Advantage Cuts under ObamaCare Will Affect Low-Income Seniors Most
By NCPA @ 3:44 PM :: 5281 Views :: Health Care

Low-income seniors will see an estimated 7 percent to 8 percent reduction in their Medicare Advantage benefits in 2014....

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Honolulu Pavement Condition: Is Your Street Serious?
By Selected News Articles @ 1:41 AM :: 5755 Views :: Honolulu County

Does your street show up on the alphabetical list of  “failed” or “serious” streets? Find out here ....

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Sunlight: Hawaii Scores 'C' for Transparency
By News Release @ 1:22 AM :: 7257 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics

...six criteria on which each state could be evaluated, based on six of the Ten Principles for Opening Up Government Information....

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Organic Profiteers: 15% Sales Boost from Anti-GMO Hype
By News Release @ 12:46 AM :: 8566 Views :: GMOs

"Some of our manufacturers say they’ve seen a 15 percent increase in sales of products they have labeled."

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Hawaii: Gun Registration Bill Passes the Senate
By News Release @ 12:28 AM :: 6237 Views :: Second Amendment

The bill has been referred to the House Public Safety, Judiciary, and Finance committees....

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Monday, March 11, 2013
RFP: Hawaii Health Connector Seeks Seamless Customer Experience
By News Release @ 7:28 PM :: 5436 Views :: Health Care

The nonprofit State-based Exchange is seeking a customer service partner that knows how to service Hawai‘i’s residents, and that can bring strong capabilities that will enable a seamless customer experience....

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Monday, March 11, 2013
Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How They Voted March 11, 2013
By Congress.org @ 7:15 PM :: 5638 Views :: Congressional Delegation
  • Senate: Committee Funding Resolution – Amendment Vote
  • Senate: CIA Director Nomination – Confirmation
  • House: Disaster Response and Preparedness – Suspension
  • House: FY 2013 Continuing Appropriations
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Monday, March 11, 2013
Naming Names: Big Pharma Pays $3.2M to Hawaii MDs
By Selected News Articles @ 4:46 PM :: 8459 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Drugs

Drug companies have long kept secret details of the payments they make to doctors and other health professionals for promoting their drugs....

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Monday, March 11, 2013
Fracking Could Reduce Budget Deficit
By NCPA @ 4:34 PM :: 5379 Views :: Energy, Economy

America is set to become a net natural gas exporter by 2020 and virtually self-sufficient in energy by 2035....

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Monday, March 11, 2013
SEC Charges Illinois for Misleading Pension Disclosures
By News Release @ 3:24 PM :: 6982 Views :: National News

Question: Is Hawaii providing this information to investors?

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Monday, March 11, 2013
China Debates Whether to ‘Keep or Dump’ North Korea
By Selected News Articles @ 2:47 PM :: 8589 Views :: World News, Military

Delegates to the conference talked about whether to “keep or dump” North Korea and debated whether China, as a major power, should “fight or talk” with the North....

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Monday, March 11, 2013
6 Things the Next U.S. Budget Should Do
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:37 PM :: 4223 Views :: National News

It’s been four years since the U.S. had a real budget. While the House of Representatives has passed budgets, the Senate has stopped each one....

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Sunday, March 10, 2013
Knock Off the Theatrics and Get Down To Business
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 5:11 AM :: 6059 Views :: Taxes

For the last two months, taxpayers heard time and time again that the “sky is falling, the sky is falling”....

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Saturday, March 9, 2013
Hawaii Legislative Watch: People vs. Government
By Rachelle Chang @ 3:41 PM :: 10348 Views :: First Amendment, Hawaii State Government, Second Amendment, Small Business

...10 issues, large and small, in which government is intruding more into our lives and our businesses....

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Friday, March 8, 2013
Governor Releases $46.39 Million for Capital Improvement Projects Statewide
By News Release @ 10:07 PM :: 5827 Views :: Hawaii State Government

“Many of these priority projects require matching state funds to access federal dollars, secured before sequestration...."

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Friday, March 8, 2013
The Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative: Watt, Me Worry?
By Selected News Articles @ 6:36 PM :: 7612 Views :: Energy

Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative (HCEI) fails to satisfy all three pillars of sustainability....

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Friday, March 8, 2013
Airlines Bet Big On Hawaii With 275,000 Additional Seats
By Selected News Articles @ 6:35 PM :: 8091 Views :: Economy, Tourism

...direct flights to Hawaii will exceed 2.6 M for the three month period between February and April 2013. This is an increase of more than 11%....

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Friday, March 8, 2013
Honolulu Ranked 8th-Worst City for Drivers
By Selected News Articles @ 4:42 PM :: 7409 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Rail

We analyzed the data to bring you a list of the ten absolute worst U.S. cities to drive a car according to the following three questions....

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Friday, March 8, 2013
ObamaCare Insurance Plans Will Be Bare Bones – And Expensive
By NCPA @ 2:26 PM :: 4008 Views :: Health Care

In the 1990s, insurance schemes pushed managed care and restricted networks. Some evidence suggests that insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act will be equally restrictive and paltry....

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Friday, March 8, 2013
Sequestration: Army Tuition Assistance Ends Today
By News Release @ 2:08 PM :: 7121 Views :: Higher Education, Military

Students using Army Tuition Assistance (TA) must register in GoArmyEd before NOON Hawaii Standard Time (HST) Friday, March 8 at which time it will be suspended....

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Friday, March 8, 2013
Welfare Reform Is Back
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:05 PM :: 5371 Views :: National News

Last summer, the Obama Administration gutted the successful 1996 welfare reform law by offering to waive its work requirements. Now the debate is back, as several Members of Congress are trying to restore the reforms that helped so many out of poverty....

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Thursday, March 7, 2013
GAO Jones Act Report to be Released Next Week
By Michael Hansen @ 5:40 PM :: 5916 Views :: Jones Act

GAO is now indicating that they will issue their long awaiting report on the economic impact of the Jones Act on Puerto Rico, on Thursday, March 14, 2013....

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Thursday, March 7, 2013
Enviro Lawyers Off Target With Criticism Of Callies, Says Callies
By Robert Thomas @ 4:33 PM :: 9083 Views :: Environment, Judiciary, Land Use

...the environmental lawyers upped the ante by calling Callies a liar and a sell-out....

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Thursday, March 7, 2013
Email tells feds to make sequester as painful as promised
By Selected News Articles @ 4:10 PM :: 5701 Views :: National News

"...however you manage that reduction, you need to make sure you are not contradicting what we said the impact would be....” 

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Thursday, March 7, 2013
Kalaeloa: Hawaiian Burial Caves to Be Bulldozed for Solar Farms?
By John Bond @ 3:32 PM :: 13689 Views :: Energy, Environment, OHA

A federal consultant says this area likely contains hundreds if not thousands of Hawaiian burials ....

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Thursday, March 7, 2013
Spy Network? Former Hawaii Planned Parenthood Director Installed 500 Security Cameras on Maryland County Offices, Buildings
By Selected News Articles @ 3:11 PM :: 6948 Views :: Ethics, Life

Leopold served in the Hawaii State legislature 1970-78.  He was also the State Director for Planned Parenthood while in Hawaii.  He then relocated to MD....

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Thursday, March 7, 2013
60 Minutes Video: China's 'Ghost Cities' -- Biggest Bubble Ever?
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 2:33 PM :: 9617 Views :: World News, Economy, Tourism

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Thursday, March 7, 2013
Akaka Tribe Could Receive Legal Jurisdiction Over Non-Tribal Members
By News Release @ 2:13 PM :: 7064 Views :: Akaka Bill

“In a tribal court, Constitutional protections and the Bill of Rights do not apply. Under the bill, a non-Indian citizen tried in a tribal court has no right to appeal to a federal court, lacks the guarantee of due process, has no right to an impartial trial by jury of one’s peers, and more."

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Thursday, March 7, 2013
Senators Bring Stirring Filibuster Against Obama CIA Nominee
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:08 PM :: 4638 Views :: National News

Brennan is being savaged for being the originator of and prime mover behind the overuse of drones and for ignoring the ideological basis (radical Islam) of the terrorists the U.S. is now facing....

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Thursday, March 7, 2013
Hawaii State Senate Passes 348 Bills Over to the House
By News Release @ 3:10 AM :: 5577 Views :: Hawaii State Government

Ahead of the First Crossover deadline, the Hawaii State Senate passed 348 bills during Tuesday’s session.  The bills now head over to the House for consideration....

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Thursday, March 7, 2013
Honolulu’s Poor Economic Growth and What to Do about It
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 3:03 AM :: 6396 Views :: Economy

Where does Honolulu rank among 300 cities? It ranks 284th for the 1993 to 2007 period, and 217th for the 2007 to 2011 period....

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Thursday, March 7, 2013
Federal Reserve to Hold Public Meeting on Samoa
By News Release @ 3:00 AM :: 7517 Views :: National News, Economy

The meeting is being held in response to public comments we have received regarding Bank of Hawaii's planned closure of its branch offices in American Samoa....

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Thursday, March 7, 2013
HSTA, DoE, HLRB Agree to Mediation
By News Release @ 1:15 AM :: 6424 Views :: Education K-12, Labor

The parties are negotiating a 2013-15 contract....

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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Chicken Manure Penny Stock Looks to Abercrombie for ‘Strategic Relationship’
By Andrew Walden @ 11:28 PM :: 12119 Views :: Environment, Ethics, Agriculture, Hawaii State Government

We have presented our technology to and proposed a strategic relationship with various state agencies in the State of Hawaii, which closely aligns itself with Governor Neil Abercrombie’s “New Day in Hawaii” initiative....

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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Tuition Increases: UH #2 in Nation
By Selected News Articles @ 9:19 PM :: 5671 Views :: Higher Education

UH boosted its annual bite on students 108%....

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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Forced Participation in Abortion: Nine Legislators Take a Stand for Religious Freedom
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 9:01 PM :: 8105 Views :: Ethics, First Amendment, Health Care

Both bills state in the preamble that the emergency contraceptive "is not an abortion pill" and "is not an abortifacient." That seemingly simple, and untrue statement, nullifies any protection that a federal conscience exemption might have provided....

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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Occupy Honolulu Points Finger at City over Deaths, Threatens ‘300 Instant Criminals’
By News Release @ 8:31 PM :: 9066 Views :: Honolulu County, Homelessness, Drugs

"HUD evictees will be made into instant criminals...."

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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Senate Ways and Means Rejects Beverage Tax
By News Release @ 7:58 PM :: 8076 Views :: Small Business, Taxes, Cost of Living

...we are one step closer to ensuring that the beverage tax is defeated for the third year in a row....

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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
SB894 Held as Turtle Bay Opens New Negotiations with State
By News Release @ 4:25 PM :: 9292 Views :: Environment, Development, Tourism

SB 894 would authorize the state to expend funds, swap land and explore other solutions to help preserve Turtle Bay lands.  This bill can be brought back next year, if negotiations fail, or to implement terms of an agreement....

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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
As Solar Backout Spreads HECO Unveils More Detailed Grid Map
By News Release @ 3:59 PM :: 7515 Views :: Energy

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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Former Rep Roland Sagum Charged With Stealing Stones from Heiau Site
By News Release @ 3:54 PM :: 7371 Views :: Kauai County, Ethics

Numerous truckloads of rocks with an estimated value of around $6,000 were allegedly removed from the property between June 27 and July 4, 2011, and were reportedly to be used to build a rock wall on Sagum’s property....

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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
House Moves Hundreds of Bills Over to Senate
By News Release @ 3:37 PM :: 5282 Views :: Hawaii State Government

See the full list of bills crossed over to the Senate ....

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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Why the Death of Hugo Chavez Matters
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:20 PM :: 5038 Views :: World News

Chavez’s death has far-reaching—and potentially dangerous—implications for the U.S. and the world....

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Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Lawsuit: Mainland Homosexual Adopts Boys, Molests Them in Hawaii
By News Release @ 3:16 PM :: 8711 Views :: Family

...Ram, who was involved in agricultural research with the University of Hawaii, used threats, coercion, physical force and psychological abuse to carry out his acts of sexual abuse and to keep John Doe No. 8, and his adopted brothers, from reporting the abuse....

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Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Busting 5 Myths About the Minimum Wage
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:29 PM :: 5780 Views :: Labor, Cost of Living

Do you think of teenagers flipping burgers? Or a single parent trying to feed several kids?

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