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Wednesday, December 14, 2011 |
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Household Electricity Bills Skyrocket as Green Energy Bubble Swells
By NCPA @ 12:00 PM :: 5273 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Electric bills have skyrocketed in the last five years, a sharp reversal from a quarter-century when Americans enjoyed stable power bills even as they used more electricity, says USA Today.
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 |
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Inouye Donors Score $99M in Earmarks with Only $166K in contributions—But He’s not #1 in Pork
By Selected News Articles @ 11:42 PM :: 8977 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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...media outlets and opposing politicians in other states have a tendency to start jumping up and down, hollering and pointing fingers when an incumbent’s contributor receives an earmark. Strange, but true....
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 |
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Government Says Hezbollah Profits From U.S. Cocaine Market Via Link to Mexican Cartel
By Selected News Articles @ 9:24 PM :: 8967 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Federal prosecutors Tuesday charged Ayman Joumaa, an accused Lebanese drug kingpin and Hezbollah financier, of smuggling tons of U.S.-bound cocaine and laundering hundreds of millions of dollars with the Zetas cartel of Mexico....
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 |
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As rooftop solar surges, states hit brakes
By Selected News Articles @ 4:25 PM :: 11294 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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When it comes to solar power, Hawaiians are in a race. And for a small but growing number, the competition is already over....
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 |
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Curtis: HECO has Failed to Look at Alternatives to Big Wind, Should be Denied Rate Hikes to Cover Costs
By Henry Curtis @ 2:25 PM :: 12960 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Life of the Land believes that HECO has failed to justify ratepayer recovery for any of the Big Wind studies. HECO was required to meaningfully look at alternatives. They failed to do so. HECO was required to examine comparative costs. They failed to do so.
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 |
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$149M: Inouye Makes Hirono #1 Sponsor of Earmarks in US House for 2010
By Selected News Articles @ 1:36 PM :: 9342 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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This proves that Inouye has been grooming Hirono to look like she’s actually doing something by letting her co-sponsor his earmarks for an entire year now.
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 |
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What to Do about Drug Shortages
By NCPA @ 12:42 PM :: 9179 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Attempts to solve drug shortages with more regulations could actually worsen the problem ... the only way to alleviate the drug shortage is to make generic drugs more profitable.
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 |
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Why Would Obama Veto Job Creation?
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:39 PM :: 4620 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Last week, President Obama announced his intention to veto the bill when he warned, "Any effort to try to tie Keystone to the payroll tax cut I will reject."
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 |
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Canada Quits Kyoto Treaty
By News Release @ 3:16 AM :: 6978 Views :: World News, Family
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“The Canadian Government’s decision to formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol is an important victory for common sense .... "
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Monday, December 12, 2011 |
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Iran Conducting Anti-U.S. Operations in Latin America
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:59 PM :: 5036 Views :: National News, Ethics
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The documentary showed a former Iran senior official accepting a plan to launch from Mexico a cyber war on the United States, one that would cripple U.S. computer systems, including the White House, the FBI, the CIA and several nuclear plants....
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Monday, December 12, 2011 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How They Voted December 12, 2011
By Congress.org @ 11:52 PM :: 6333 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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- Senate: Cloture on the Nomination of Richard Cordray to be Director, Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection
- Senate: Motion to Proceed; Middle Class Tax Cut Act of 2011
- Senate: Motion to Proceed; Temporary Tax Holiday and Government Reduction Act
- House: Regulations From the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act of 2011
- House: Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act of 2011
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Monday, December 12, 2011 |
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Supreme Court asks for Federal Input on Challenge to Hawaii Admission Act, Hawaiian Homes Commission Act
By Robert Thomas @ 3:13 PM :: 9040 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Today was the day we were to have found out whether the Supreme Court would review Corboy v. Louie....
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Monday, December 12, 2011 |
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Flood of Money Pours into Lingle Campaign
By Selected News Articles @ 3:00 PM :: 8398 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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“I’ve been to events that have already raised in excess of six figures for her,” Republican Jewish Coalition President Matt Brooks said. “This is going to be a real priority race for the organization.”
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Monday, December 12, 2011 |
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Poll of Hard-Core Hawaii Democrats gives Hirono 18-pt Lead over Case
By Selected News Articles @ 2:43 PM :: 9054 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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… and yet, oddly, Inouye & the AFL-CIO have been dead set against switching to a closed Democratic Primary ….
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Monday, December 12, 2011 |
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Need $15,000? OHA Giving Away More Cash
By Selected News Articles @ 1:20 PM :: 8168 Views :: Energy, Environment
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There will be a savings match component where families that save up to $2,500 will receive $15,000 in matching funds to help with purchasing a house anywhere in the state.
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Sunday, December 11, 2011 |
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Duke Aiona Undecided About 2014
By Lt Gov Duke Aiona @ 7:56 PM :: 9284 Views :: Energy, Environment
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I don’t want to say, ‘I told you so’ but the person in office (Abercrombie) right now, leading our state, I believe that he fooled a lot of people. The thought they saw a heart in this guy, but that wasn’t true.…
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Sunday, December 11, 2011 |
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KOS: The perception of Occupy Honolulu is Universally Negative
By Selected News Articles @ 4:06 PM :: 12536 Views :: Homelessness
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The occupiers were flown in from the mainland. This is the perception that everyone in Honolulu has ....
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Sunday, December 11, 2011 |
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Sunday, December 11, 2011 |
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Verifying the Numbers a Challenge for Tax Department
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 6:53 AM :: 6724 Views :: Energy, Environment
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...forecasts made by the tax department weren’t very reliable. In fact, it was pointed out that the department’s numbers included revenues from taxing the sales of sugar from independent sugar growers, sugar growers who have not been around for nearly two decades....
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Sunday, December 11, 2011 |
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"Accretion," Hawaii Style
By Robert Thomas @ 12:39 AM :: 10306 Views :: Hawaii County , Akaka Bill, Energy, Environment
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Who owns the new land created when lava flows over private property and into the sea and hardens into fast land?
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Saturday, December 10, 2011 |
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Colette Machado: I look at Kalaupapa--Native Hawaiians will fight against Assisted Suicide
By Andrew Walden @ 6:35 PM :: 14723 Views :: Life, OHA
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"...as a native Hawaiian how can I accept that this will be a (suicide) state like Oregon and Washington?"
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Saturday, December 10, 2011 |
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Saturday, December 10, 2011 |
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Saturday, December 10, 2011 |
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Gone with the Wind Subsidies
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:33 AM :: 8625 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The federal renewable energy production tax credit, which allows wind producers to take a 30 percent investment tax credit or receive a 2.2-cents-per-kilowatt-hour production tax credit, has been around since 1992. The tax credit expires at the end of 2012 ....
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Saturday, December 10, 2011 |
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China’s Startling Strategic Play in Micronesia
By Selected News Articles @ 12:03 AM :: 16784 Views :: World News, Military
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It is because — not despite — that massive and misguided nature of U.S. assistance to Micronesia that China has initiated a startling series of economic and infrastructure projects and proposals across the islands of Micronesia....
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Friday, December 9, 2011 |
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Florida Marlins Holding Baseball Clinic at Schofield
By News Release @ 11:46 PM :: 7797 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12
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Sunday, Dec. 11, 3-4 p.m. at Ralston Field, Schofield Barracks. Members of the Miami Marlins, featuring one of baseball's best young sluggers Mike Stanton, will conduct a baseball clinic in support of Army youth ....
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Friday, December 9, 2011 |
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Hirono Camp: Case Unworthy of the People of Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 3:08 PM :: 7558 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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“It’s just unfortunate, and unworthy of the people of Hawaii, that Ed Case lets those frustrations with his own candidacy get the better of him,” Nielsen said.
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Friday, December 9, 2011 |
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Osawatomie: Whitewashing History, Obama Style
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:05 PM :: 4564 Views :: National News, Ethics
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If U.S. history is a painting on giant canvas, President Barack Obama's speech this week in Osawatomie, Kansas, is a thick coat of whitewash layered all over it, and the failure of the last three years lies underneath.
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Friday, December 9, 2011 |
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The Root Cause of Market Failure in Higher Education
By NCPA @ 1:58 PM :: 4496 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Any program in which 60 percent of the graduates failed to find work for two consecutive years would face funding reductions ....
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Friday, December 9, 2011 |
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It Begins: Army to Cut 8,700 Civilian Jobs in 37 States
By News Release @ 1:20 PM :: 7272 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Thirty seven states will be affected by these reductions with the majority of personnel cuts occurring in those states with the largest military and Army civilian populations.
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Friday, December 9, 2011 |
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Pay to Play Fines Unpaid: Hirono for Governor Campaign Closes Owing State Elections Fund Over $98,000
By Andrew Walden @ 11:00 AM :: 21084 Views :: Democratic Party, Ethics, Development, Politicians
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The assessments were levied after the Campaign Spending Commission investigators uncovered thousands of dollars in illegal campaign contributions, contributed to Hirono as a part of Hawaii's extensive "Pay to Play" scandal....
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Thursday, December 8, 2011 |
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Thursday, December 8, 2011 |
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Ed Case: “Mazie's been selling her candidacy to DC insiders”
By Selected News Articles @ 2:49 PM :: 7254 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Case fired back. "While Mazie's been selling her candidacy to the DC insiders, I've taken mine straight to Hawaii's voters, who aren't too interested in Washington telling them how to fix Washington."
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Thursday, December 8, 2011 |
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State Sues to Get Back $39M Looted from Graves by John Waihee
By Selected News Articles @ 2:18 PM :: 16432 Views :: Akaka Bill, Ethics, Politicians
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"Waihee was instrumental in planning, facilitating, and effectuating the misappropriation of funds from the trusts...."
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Thursday, December 8, 2011 |
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Former State Administrators: Abercrombie’s Bond Sale Like setting up savings account by charging credit card
By Selected News Articles @ 2:03 PM :: 7251 Views :: Energy, Environment
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...public finance experts agree that general obligation bond issuance should be invested in capital construction projects....
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Thursday, December 8, 2011 |
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Full Text: Holder Letter Basis for New Hawaii Same-Sex Marriage Lawsuit
By Selected News Articles @ 1:45 PM :: 5601 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Two women claim Hawaii unconstitutionally denies them the right to marry, in violation of Attorney General Eric Holder's February letter to Congress stating that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act "is unconstitutional as applied to same-sex couples married under state law".
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Thursday, December 8, 2011 |
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Pearl Harbor, WWII, and a Lesson for Today
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:26 AM :: 8090 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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On this day 70 years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed a joint session of Congress and requested a declaration of war against Japan following the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor the day before.
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Thursday, December 8, 2011 |
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Hawaii Physicians Rally Against Assisted Suicide
By Selected News Articles @ 5:42 AM :: 11916 Views :: Health Care, Life
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There will be a panel presentation on the current status of PAS in Hawaii at the Capitol auditorium on December 8th from 7:00 to 9:00 PM.
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011 |
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Hawaii's Second Saint: Blessed Marianne Cope to be Canonized Next October?
By Selected News Articles @ 1:49 PM :: 10795 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment
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Only six years after Mother Marianne Cope was beatified, the New York-bred collaborator of St Damien deVeuster on Hawaii's Molokai leper colony has cleared the final hurdle to sainthood.
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011 |
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Another E-W Center Conference: Pearl Harbor Day at the NEH
By Selected News Articles @ 1:03 PM :: 9925 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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We have now filed a Freedom of Information Act request ... and will update this story as appropriate.
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011 |
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Obama cancels Hawaii trip after Romney hit
By Selected News Articles @ 12:44 PM :: 9894 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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...President Obama is not vacationing in Hawaii with his wife and children while the extension of the payroll tax holiday remains in limbo....
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011 |
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Petition hits Hawaiian Airlines 'Price Fixing', seeks return of Superferry
By News Release @ 12:31 PM :: 6069 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Hawaiian Air doubled the price of inter-island tickets since Aloha Airlines and the ferry was forced out of business. There are no longer discounted kama'aina, senior, or youth rates, and no more coupon books for frequent travelers....
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011 |
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What Is a Progressive?
By John Goodman @ 12:17 PM :: 5417 Views :: National News, Ethics
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To many people, the term “Progressive Era” evokes fond caricatures of Teddy Roosevelt and such reforms as safe food, the elimination of child labor and the eight-hour work day. Yet real progressivism was far more sinister....
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011 |
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The Last Incarnation of Barack Obama
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:05 PM :: 4667 Views :: National News, Ethics
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If there was any doubt where President Barack Obama's ideological heart lies, yesterday he let it be known loud and clear in a wide-ranging speech in Osawatomie, Kansas....
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011 |
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Defense Budget Cuts Will Devastate America’s Commitment to the Asia–Pacific
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:57 AM :: 9299 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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These cuts have been put forth with little consideration for their long-term impact....
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011 |
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Sneak Attack: Re-write of Pearl Harbor History Awaits Death of WW2 Veterans
By Selected News Articles @ 6:41 AM :: 30012 Views :: Hawaii History, Higher Education, Military
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...it is the role of academics to "correct" ... history. As one organizer commented, this will be more easily accomplished once the WWII generation has passed away. Another wrote, "America's nostalgic war memories are beginning to fray around the edges"....
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011 |
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Feds Force DHS to Streamline Food Stamp Processing
By News Release @ 3:34 AM :: 6163 Views :: Energy, Environment
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The goal is to review and determine applicant eligibility within the federally-mandated period of 30 days.... “Families arriving at our offices need help now, not months down the road.” (And we don’t want to lose federal funding just because of the HGEA.)
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011 |
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A Primer on the Federal Court Challenge to the Honolulu Rail Project
By Selected News Articles @ 2:32 AM :: 10005 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Mr. Yost expressed the plaintiffs’ concern that an "irrevocable commitment" of resources may occur if construction takes place, with significant impacts and no prudent alternatives, before the case is heard on the merits ....
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011 |
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011 |
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Ewa Field Event to Mark 70th Anniversary of Attack
By John Bond @ 12:54 AM :: 8732 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12
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WHEN: The event runs from 9 AM to 5 PM on Saturday, December 10, 2011.
WHERE: Part of it will be outside and part of the event will be in a large WW-II hangar – all at Barbers Point - Kalaeloa Airport.
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