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Friday, December 2, 2011 |
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$800M Borrowed to Sit Money in Hurricane, Rainy Day Accounts
By News Release @ 1:41 PM :: 5700 Views :: Energy, Environment
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The $1.28 billion in bonds included $800 million in new debt.... The Bond transaction now allows the State to recapitalize the Hurricane Relief and Rainy Day Funds ....
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Friday, December 2, 2011 |
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Bankers, Wall Street Pleased by Abercrombie's Willingness to Raise Taxes
By News Release @ 1:27 PM :: 5510 Views :: Energy, Environment
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“Governor Neil Abercrombie’s willingness to implement aggressive solutions, totaling $1.32 billion, to balance the fiscal 2011-2013 biennial budget .... "
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Friday, December 2, 2011 |
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Abercrombie Refusing to Accept Responsibility for his own Wreckage, Fiscal and Otherwise
By Selected News Articles @ 12:26 AM :: 6399 Views :: Energy, Environment
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It is unfortunate that Governor Abercrombie finds it more expedient to cast blame for his failures, missteps and inability to effectively manage the state's fiscal situation in his first year in office than accept responsibility or accountability for his own failings....
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Thursday, December 1, 2011 |
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Lihue TSA Worker Sues, Claims Sex Assault
By Selected News Articles @ 11:46 PM :: 11584 Views :: Kauai County, Labor, Tourism
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Marugame claims a TSA investigator (TSI) "sexually assaulted her" on Aug. 26, 2009....
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Thursday, December 1, 2011 |
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Men’s Health Mag ranks Honolulu Happiest Town in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 11:37 PM :: 9621 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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We calculated suicide rates and unemployment rates. Then we tapped SimplyMap for the percentage of households that use antidepressants....
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Thursday, December 1, 2011 |
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Thursday, December 1, 2011 |
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Will the President Protect Religious Rights?
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:15 PM :: 4176 Views :: National News, Ethics
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...the mandate requires religious employers to provide coverage for birth control methods that could result in abortion....
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Thursday, December 1, 2011 |
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OHA Announces Public Meetings to discuss Tentative Land Deal
By Selected News Articles @ 2:05 AM :: 5820 Views :: Energy, Environment
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OHA will be holding a series of public meetings to hear from the public about Abercrombie’s proposed Kakaako land deal ....
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Thursday, December 1, 2011 |
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Backed by Federal Loan Guarantees, Merrill Lynch Finances $1B in Military Solar Projects
By Selected News Articles @ 12:44 AM :: 8899 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The project, called SolarStrong, aims to install these projects over five years. SolarCity has already begun installations at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii....
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Thursday, December 1, 2011 |
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Quality of Living: Honolulu #29 in World, right behind ... Stuttgart
By News Release @ 12:20 AM :: 10828 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Honolulu (29) and San Francisco (30) are the highest-ranking US cities....
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Thursday, December 1, 2011 |
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Report: Hawaii Ranks 3rd in Protecting Kids from Tobacco
By News Release @ 12:05 AM :: 5445 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Hawaii ranks 3rd in the nation in funding programs to prevent kids from smoking and help smokers quit, spending $10.7 million a year on tobacco prevention and cessation programs, which is 70 percent of the $15.2 million recommended by CDC ....
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011 |
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PUC Breaks 15% Limit on Solar Systems
By News Release @ 11:53 PM :: 8657 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Instead of 15% of peak, the limit is now 50% of noontime usage....
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011 |
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Visitor Spending breaks $1 Billion per Month
By News Release @ 11:42 PM :: 6402 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Total expenditures by visitors who came to Hawaii in the first 10 months of 2011 grew 14.8 percent, compared to the same period in 2010, to $10.3 billion....
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011 |
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National Journal: Lingle Best Positioned for Victory Next Year
By Selected News Articles @ 2:21 PM :: 8185 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Republicans have landed prominent women candidates too, with former Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle and former New Mexico Rep. Heather Wilson best positioned for victory next year....
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011 |
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Healthcare: Do We Really Spend More and Get Less?
By John Goodman @ 1:17 PM :: 6410 Views :: National News, Ethics
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This judgment is repeated so often and so forcefully that you will almost never see it questioned. And yet it may not be true....
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011 |
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Humanities Research: The Glass Bead Game
By Selected News Articles @ 1:09 PM :: 5121 Views :: National News, Ethics
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In Hermann Hesse’s final novel, The Glass Bead Game, the reader encounters a fanciful society in which the best and brightest citizens are groomed to become masters of an exceedingly complex game....
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011 |
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American Airlines Latest Victim of Obama's Big Union Onslaught
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:00 PM :: 6142 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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American was forced into bankruptcy when the airline pilots union refused to budge on its demands for massive signing bonuses and wage increases.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011 |
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Finmeccanica Trumpets Honolulu Rail Deal
By News Release @ 10:10 PM :: 13407 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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ROME: Finmeccanica: signed a contract worth USD 1,334 million for Honolulu driverless metro.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011 |
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IBEW to Vote on New Offer from Hawaiian Tel
By News Release @ 9:55 PM :: 7113 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Hawaiian Telcom announced today that, through the efforts of a federal mediator working with bargaining representatives of both the Company and the Union, the Company made an updated collective bargaining agreement offer to the Union....
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011 |
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Nominations Sought for State Water Commission
By News Release @ 9:29 PM :: 6052 Views :: Energy, Environment
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The State Commission on Water Resource Management is seeking nominations for two positions on the Commission....
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011 |
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Lingle calls for Delay in Federal Grab for Control of Hawaii Shorelines
By Gov. Linda Lingle @ 3:28 PM :: 10090 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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"... the seals are doing better in the main islands without a habitat designation .... "
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011 |
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Lucky Hawaii: Bond Sale Benefits as Investors Flee Europe
By News Release @ 2:22 PM :: 11144 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Treasury and municipal bonds rallied Thursday as fears of European contagion spread ... Yields on the Hawaii bond deal were lowered as much as nine basis points, compared with levels offered earlier in the morning....
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011 |
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Sex, Equality, and the Paleolithic Era
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:32 PM :: 11373 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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...perhaps this will mark the rise of the paleolibs?
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011 |
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EPA to "Regulate Cars Priced Under $15K out of Existence"
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:24 PM :: 4812 Views :: National News, Ethics
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The government says it would cost automakers $8.5 billion per year to comply, which means a spike in sticker prices of at least $2,000 to $2,800, according to official projections....
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011 |
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Is the Occupy Wall Street Movement Occupied?
By IPT News @ 12:04 PM :: 8324 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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"The movement is inspired by popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, and aims to expose how the richest 1 percent of people are writing the rules of an unfair global economy that is foreclosing on our future."
There has been an ongoing debate about the depth of anti-Semitism within the OWS movement....
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011 |
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011 |
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Abercrombie's Medicaid Cuts based on Obamacare Requirements
By Selected News Articles @ 11:04 AM :: 7954 Views :: Health Care
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...states are already responding to Obamacare’s “maintenance of effort” clause and the anticipated 2014 expansion by cutting services....
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011 |
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US Civil Rights Commissioner to speak on End of Victimology
By News Release @ 8:29 AM :: 9160 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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- UH Richardson Law School- Classroom 1
- Wednesday, November 30, 2011 11:45am-1:15pm
- Free Lunch & Speaker, Hon. Peter N. Kirsanow
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011 |
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US Supreme Court to Decide Whether to Hear Lawsuit Challenging DHHL, Admission Act
By Robert Thomas @ 1:43 AM :: 7953 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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At its December 9, 2011 conference, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether to review Corboy v. Louie....
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011 |
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Postal Service Announces Hawaii Christmas Mailing Deadlines
By News Release @ 12:24 AM :: 9990 Views :: Energy
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Below are the dates that the Postal Service suggests Hawaii residents mail their letters, cards and packages to give them the best chances of reaching their destinations by Christmas....
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Monday, November 28, 2011 |
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US Micronesia Aid Crowds out Private Investment, Local Decision Making
By Selected News Articles @ 11:57 PM :: 11450 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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The problem is not the size or scope of U.S. support, the problems lay within the ways that money is structured, allocated and managed....
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Monday, November 28, 2011 |
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Booted from Big Island, DoE Now Seeks to Force Carlisle to Collect its Impact Fees
By News Release @ 11:44 PM :: 11472 Views :: Hawaii County , Honolulu County, Education K-12
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Matayoshi said the county has a legal obligation to deny building permits to applicants who haven't paid impact fees the Board of Education ....
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Monday, November 28, 2011 |
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Obama Admin Rejects 65% of Gulf Oil Drilling Applications
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:19 PM :: 5496 Views :: National News, Ethics
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... the Obama administration is approving just 35 percent of the oil drilling plans for the Gulf of Mexico so far this year ....
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Monday, November 28, 2011 |
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Sunday, November 27, 2011 |
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Duke Aiona to Address Pro-Life Group
By News Release @ 11:02 PM :: 10166 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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WHEN: Wednesday, December 7, 2011, 11:30am until 1:00pm
WHERE: Dave & Buster's, 1030 Auahi St, Honolulu
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Sunday, November 27, 2011 |
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Lowell Kalapa to Address Kona TEA Party
By News Release @ 10:19 PM :: 9590 Views :: Hawaii County , Akaka Bill, Energy, Environment
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WHEN: Friday December 2, 2011, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm HST
WHERE: Kona Vistas Community Pavilion (just mauka of Kuakini Chevron)
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Sunday, November 27, 2011 |
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Kalaeloa Solar: Hawaii Ratepayers to Bankroll 'Green Fiesta'
By Andrew Walden @ 5:14 PM :: 10747 Views :: Energy, Environment
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So where does a discredited tax-scam go when California dreamers and Euro-socialists turn their backs on its profligacy? Why Hawaii, where “decoupling” and “Feed-in-Tariffs” mean that ratepayers are forced to bankroll the “Green Fiesta.”
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Sunday, November 27, 2011 |
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Kalapa: Ubiquitous General Excise Insures Accountability
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 12:15 PM :: 5969 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Because of its broad application, any attempt to raise the general excise tax rate alerts the entire population to that possibility....
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Sunday, November 27, 2011 |
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Forced by JSC, Abercrombie Grudgingly Releases Names of Judicial Nominees
By News Release @ 12:04 PM :: 6711 Views :: Energy, Environment
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...in light of the changed circumstances with the Commission's actions, judicial applicants will no longer have any expectation of confidentiality. Consequently, the following lists are now being released....
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Saturday, November 26, 2011 |
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Hawaii Supreme Court to Consider Limit of Parental Discipline
By Robert Thomas @ 4:52 PM :: 7199 Views :: Energy, Environment
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...what standards govern the Family Court's evaluation of an application for a civil TRO in light of a parent's fundamental right to discipline his or her children (which includes the right to use reasonable corporal punishment)....
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Saturday, November 26, 2011 |
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Abercrombie Wins Approval to Take $1.06M from Pre-School, Sister Isles spend it on Central Office Bureaucrats
By Andrew Walden @ 3:46 PM :: 10711 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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These positions will be supported by $454,366 in unused year 1 personnel costs due to late hiring and $351,401 from pre-kindergarten subsidies ....
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Saturday, November 26, 2011 |
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Oahu Democrats Fail in Effort to Break up Hawaii News Now
By Andrew Walden @ 2:54 PM :: 12162 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The Media Council Hawaii, joined by the Oahu County Democrat Committee, has been rejected by the FCC in the effort to push back on control of Honolulu media outlets by a non-Democrat company Raycom Media.
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Saturday, November 26, 2011 |
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Hint to Hawaii: Google Abandons Concentrating Solar Power Project
By Selected News Articles @ 12:16 AM :: 8935 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Google said it is dropping development of “solar thermal” electricity because solar thermal cannot keep pace with the rapid price decline of another solar technology – photovoltaics. The solar thermal cut came as part of Google’s decision to axe its 4-year old Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal initiative....
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Friday, November 25, 2011 |
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Suspended Attorney Says 'Vindictive' Navy Purposely Sows Intimidation & Fear in Civilian Counsel
By Selected News Articles @ 1:57 PM :: 10589 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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In his federal complaint, Partington says the conflict with JAG began in 2006 when he represented Stewart Toles in a Navy general court-martial for allegations of violating the "video voyeurism" statute....
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Friday, November 25, 2011 |
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Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:52 AM :: 4969 Views :: National News, Ethics
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In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign states to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere, except in the theater of military conflict ....
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Friday, November 25, 2011 |
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Taxpayer Losses on GM Bailout Are Going to Be Massive
By NCPA @ 3:13 AM :: 7536 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, National News, Ethics
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Last week the Treasury Department revised its loss estimate for the General Motors (GM) bailout from $14.33 billion to $23.6 billion....
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Friday, November 25, 2011 |
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Green Energy Push Drives Outsourcing to China
By NCPA @ 3:08 AM :: 6323 Views :: World News, Family
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Indeed, costly emission cuts in Denmark and elsewhere are likely to lead to a partial relocation of CO2 emissions to more lenient countries, such as China ....
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Friday, November 25, 2011 |
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USA Today: Stimulus Funds Helped Some Stocks Soar
By NCPA @ 3:03 AM :: 6678 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Companies involved in developing smart electric grids -- nine big tech firms that are also in many other businesses -- have risen 54 percent....
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Friday, November 25, 2011 |
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American Shipper: Effort Underway to Loosen Jones Act Restrictions
By Selected News Articles @ 2:56 AM :: 10649 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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“a broad array of economists in Puerto Rico have expressed concern that the Jones Act hinders the island’s economic growth...."
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