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Tuesday, June 21, 2011 |
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Meet your new Defense Secretary: Leon Panetta's War on Reagan's Defense Policies
By Selected News Articles @ 5:06 PM :: 9504 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Senate conservatives proudly call themselves “Reagan Republicans” because of Reagan’s “Peace Through Strength” military policies. But in Leon Panetta, whose nomination comes up for a full Senate vote for Secretary of Defense on Tuesday, they are being asked to endorse a man whose Congressional career was dedicated to fighting Reagan’s defense build-up and anti-communist policies.
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011 |
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VIDEO: Former Utah Governor Huntsman Announces Presidential Campaign
By Selected News Articles @ 3:10 PM :: 4075 Views :: National News, Ethics
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"I respect the President of the United States. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help a country we both love."
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011 |
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Hirono, Akaka: Pension’s Perks for Members With a Past
By Selected News Articles @ 1:57 PM :: 7917 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Rep. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) ... received $45,000 from her state's pension program in 2010.
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011 |
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Developer sues LUC for downzoning affordable homes already built
By Robert Thomas @ 2:25 AM :: 11427 Views :: Hawaii County , Akaka Bill, Energy, Environment
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...the Land Use Commission changed the land use boundaries from "urban use to agricultural use while affordable housing was being constructed on the property."
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Monday, June 20, 2011 |
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Abercrombie signs 15 bills into law
By News Release @ 11:47 PM :: 6065 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Starting with HB953, a big fat raise for DoE bureaucrats.
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Monday, June 20, 2011 |
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Consumer Advocate: Public Hearings Required on HECO Biofuels Rate Increase
By Henry Curtis @ 9:08 PM :: 10344 Views :: Hawaii County , Akaka Bill, Energy, Environment
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the HECO Companies' proposed Biofuel Surcharge Provision clearly results in an increase in rates that triggers the contested case and public hearing provisions of HRS §269-16(b).
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Monday, June 20, 2011 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 20
By Selected News Articles @ 3:56 PM :: 7240 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Recent Congressional Votes
- Senate: Ethanol subsidies amendment
- House: Military Construction-Veterans Affairs Appropriations, FY2012
- House: Agriculture Appropriations, FY2012
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Monday, June 20, 2011 |
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VIDEO: Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks to Republican Leaders
By Video @ 1:53 PM :: 4872 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Here is complete video of Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaking today at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans. When he finished, the crowd was on their feet chanting, "Run, Rick, Run!"
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Sunday, June 19, 2011 |
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Voice Recorder confiscated during Closed Meeting of Reapportionment Commission
By Andrew Walden @ 9:18 PM :: 8362 Views :: Energy, Environment
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When Hawaii Reapportionment Commission members went into closed executive session during their June 15th meeting at the State Capitol, they discovered something rather disconcerting. A small recording device had been left on a chair and it was turned on, recording their every word.
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Sunday, June 19, 2011 |
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Big Projects in Hawaii - Why Are They Stuck?
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 12:06 PM :: 8554 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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There are 10 basic dimensions that account for the reasons that big projects succeed or fail....
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Sunday, June 19, 2011 |
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Fathers Matter: Involved Dads Impact Children’s Lives and Civil Society
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:25 AM :: 6376 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Given the tremendous personal, social, and economic costs of broken families, national leaders should seek ways to promote the importance of marriage so that more children can grow up in a stable household and experience the unique benefits of a married mother and father.
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Saturday, June 18, 2011 |
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One-Step-Up Housing: Berg to hold Makaha Town Meeting July 12
By Tom Berg @ 12:38 PM :: 7033 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12
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Our next town hall meeting will be July 12, 2011 at Makaha Elementary School from 6-9pm. We will discuss the one-step-up housing feature as is contained in my resolution 11-54 CD1. The Nanakuli Neighborhood Board will also discuss this resolution at their meeting next week.
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Saturday, June 18, 2011 |
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June 23 Washington Middle School: Abercrombie to hear from public on Pro Bowl
By News Release @ 12:32 PM :: 9040 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Please be sure to join us for a public forum on June 23, 6 to 7:30 p.m., at Washington Middle School. In addition to words from and Q&A with the Governor and Lt. Gov., there will be brief presentations from Bruce Coppa on our efforts to improve the economy ....
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Saturday, June 18, 2011 |
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NASA-Funded Group Doctors Sea Level Data
By News Release @ 1:21 AM :: 11556 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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what happens when sea level in the real world does not rise nearly as much as alarmists predict? If you are a NASA-funded gatekeeper of sea level data, you merely doctor the data....
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Saturday, June 18, 2011 |
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Feds: U.S. travel and tourism industry on pace for record-setting year
By News Release @ 12:37 AM :: 8161 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The U.S. Department of Commerce has announced international visitors spent an estimated $12.3 billion on travel to, and tourism-related activities within, the United States during April. This represents a 19 percent increase from April 2010. Travel and tourism-related exports have increased, on average, nearly $1.4 billion a month in 2011.
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Friday, June 17, 2011 |
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A Summer of Robots: Fueling innovation for the New Economy
By News Release @ 11:29 PM :: 12294 Views :: Hawaii County , DHHL, Maui County, Energy, Environment
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The Robotics Organizing Committee (ROC) will host the events in coordination with robotics supporters and community partners throughout the state, beginning on June 21 and running through August 28, 2011.
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Friday, June 17, 2011 |
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Hawaii Government Impact: The High Cost of Land Use and Housing
By News Release @ 11:09 PM :: 10826 Views :: Hawaii County , Akaka Bill, Energy, Environment
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Sunday 26 June, 2:00pm at the Naniloa Hotel's Polynesian Room in Hilo. Featured speakers are UH School of Law Prof. David Callies, author of the definitive book “Regulating Paradise” and Big Island real estate broker David Turner.
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Friday, June 17, 2011 |
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Greek Crisis: Moody’s warns of possible First Hawaiian Bank downgrade
By News Release @ 9:24 PM :: 12799 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Moody's Investors Service placed the stand-alone bank financial strength rating of First Hawaiian Bank on review for possible downgrade....
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Friday, June 17, 2011 |
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Hot Water Restored At Mayor Wright Housing
By News Release @ 9:21 PM :: 8641 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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The hot water backup system installation is a first step towards ensuring a permanent solution. The state budget for fiscal year 2012 includes $5.6 million in capital improvement funds for a long-term solution to the water heating system at Mayor Wright Homes.
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Friday, June 17, 2011 |
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Free Trade Agreements Deliver More Trade
By Selected News Articles @ 9:56 AM :: 9001 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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the agreements appear to boost manufacturing exports above the overall trend while having no discernable impact on manufacturing imports....
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Friday, June 17, 2011 |
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Do Film Tax Credits Live Up to Their Promises?
By Selected News Articles @ 9:53 AM :: 5276 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Film tax credits fail to live up to their promises to encourage economic growth overall and to raise tax revenue....
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Friday, June 17, 2011 |
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Health Insurance Doesn't Mean Access to Health Care
By Selected News Articles @ 9:51 AM :: 5405 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Expansions of Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) are designed to extend access to high-quality medical care to all U.S. children. However, evidence suggests that the 37 million children covered by Medicaid-CHIP are less likely to receive specialty care than children covered by commercial insurance....
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Friday, June 17, 2011 |
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PUC Approves New Maui Windfarm
By News Release @ 2:04 AM :: 10279 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment
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The Hawaii Public Utilities Commission has approved a 20-year contract for Maui Electric Company to purchase 21 megawatts (MW) of wind power from Sempra Generation's Auwahi Wind project on the Ulupalakua Ranch in southeastern Maui.
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Thursday, June 16, 2011 |
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VIDEO: Final statement of Geert Wilders in his free speech trial
By News Release @ 11:12 PM :: 5630 Views :: World News, Family
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Freedom of expression is the life source of our Western civilisation. Do not let that source go dry just to cosy up to a totalitarian regime.
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Thursday, June 16, 2011 |
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Al-Qaeda hit list names US writers, generals
By IPT News @ 7:53 PM :: 12934 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Columns and articles by several of the writers and researchers named by al-Qaeda have been and will continue to be posted on HawaiiFreePress.com.
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Thursday, June 16, 2011 |
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Money released for school construction projects
By News Release @ 11:36 AM :: 11942 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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"$36,000 for improvements of reconfiguration to the cafeteria stage at Mililani Uka Elementary School"
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Thursday, June 16, 2011 |
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Heritage: Victory in Wisconsin
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:19 AM :: 4505 Views :: National News, Ethics
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On Tuesday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled 4–3 in favor of upholding the state's new collective bargaining law, reversing a lower court decision that sought to stamp out the will of the people, the authority of the legislature, and a major movement toward fiscal reform. And at three this morning, following a nearly 13-hour floor debate, the Wisconsin Assembly approved a budget aimed at wiping out the state's $3 billion structural deficit.
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Thursday, June 16, 2011 |
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Fire from the Heartland: The awakening of the Conservative Woman
By Video @ 10:35 AM :: 3924 Views :: National News, Ethics
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The first-ever film to tell the entire story of the conservative woman in her own words, "Fire from the Heartland" is a powerful statement about America at a crossroads and the women who have awakened to the crisis.
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Thursday, June 16, 2011 |
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Are Electric Cars Really Green?
By Selected News Articles @ 1:21 AM :: 7877 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Electric cars could produce higher emissions over their lifetimes than petrol equivalents because of the energy consumed in making their batteries....
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011 |
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A Showdown over the War in Libya
By Heritage Foundation @ 8:25 PM :: 9560 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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...President Obama failed to consult Congress in an appropriately deliberate manner. The President has ill-served Congress, and there is no reason Congress should stand for it. As it responds, Congress should be mindful of its obligations: to uphold the Constitution, act in America’s interests, and not unduly put the lives of American allies at risk....
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011 |
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Honolulu Alliance forms to block Federal Control of Hawaii Capitol Area
By News Release @ 4:14 PM :: 9517 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The ahupua'a of Honolulu and Kapalama have been proposed as a future National Heritage Area (NHA) site, a permanent federal designation which was introduced in Congress as S. 359 and H. 1297.
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011 |
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After stock craters 64%, Feds to dump 5.6M shares of Inouye’s Central Pacific Bank
By News Release @ 1:00 PM :: 10089 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The Treasury acquired the shares this year as part of the Hawaii-based bank holding company's recapitalization. The stock was trading around $29 a share at the time of the Treasury's investment...and closed Tuesday at $14.13.... The stock is down 64% in the past year.
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011 |
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Fitch downgrades Hawaii, Cites Tourism Dependence
By News Release @ 12:12 PM :: 6545 Views :: Energy, Environment
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The downgrade reflects the state's minimal financial cushion against risks inherent in an economy dominated by the volatile tourism sector following the depletion of previously large balances as well as the state's significant and growing long-term liabilities.
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011 |
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Abercrombie signs bill hiking GE Tax $400M, Matson raises rates in response
By News Release @ 11:12 PM :: 7373 Views :: Energy, Environment
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...the state of Hawaii has temporarily suspended many general excise tax exemptions. The suspended exemptions include certain transportation and maritime support services such as stevedoring. This means that the state will tax carriers for a portion of the cargo costs that had previously been exempted, and the cost to carriers serving the state will increase. Effective July 10, 2011, Matson will implement a General Excise Tax Arbitrary to recover these extra costs.
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011 |
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Everything you've heard about fossil fuels may be wrong
By Selected News Articles @ 7:58 PM :: 4621 Views :: National News, Ethics
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As everyone who follows news about energy knows by now, in the last decade the technique of hydraulic fracturing or "fracking," long used in the oil industry, has evolved to permit energy companies to access reserves of previously-unrecoverable “shale gas” or unconventional natural gas.
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011 |
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Boehner on Libya: Obama will be in Violation of War Powers Act in 5 days
By News Release @ 1:53 PM :: 7076 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Five days from now, our country will reach the 90-day mark from the notification to Congress regarding the commencement of the military operation in Libya, which began on March 18, 2011.
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011 |
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Google to fund Kuhio Park Terrace rehab project
By News Release @ 12:05 PM :: 11420 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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According to Christoph Gabler, Senior Vice-President for AEGON USA Realty Advisors, LLC, the Towers at KPT are the first phase of a 1,025 community being redeveloped by the Michaels Development Company in partnership with Vitus Group and the Hawaii Public Housing Authority.
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011 |
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Unemployment Is No Laughing Matter
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:16 AM :: 4401 Views :: National News, Ethics
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As President Barack Obama swung through North Carolina yesterday, he did all he could to show that he cares about the U.S. economy, its 9.1 percent unemployment rate, and the 13.9 million Americans who remain out of work. Well, that is, until he let a bit of honesty slip off his tongue....
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Monday, June 13, 2011 |
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VIDEO: I am an American, not a “bump in the road”
By Video @ 11:20 PM :: 4867 Views :: National News, Ethics
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...the unemployed are not just economic statistics, but are real Americans looking to support themselves and their families....
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Monday, June 13, 2011 |
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Renewable Energy and Hybrid Cars Still Only at 1%
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 7:39 PM :: 10628 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Despite governmental mandates for renewables, if their electricity production is converted to equivalent tons of oil, then their share is only 1.3% in 2010....
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Monday, June 13, 2011 |
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Survey: Fewer than 3% of Ewa residents plan to ride Rail
By Tom Berg @ 6:29 PM :: 8146 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Please join me this Wednesday evening, June 15th, from 7pm to 9pm, for a very important town hall meeting at the brand new Ewa Makai Middle School in Ewa Beach....
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Monday, June 13, 2011 |
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75% of Schools could lose Federal Funding in 2014
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:15 AM :: 6272 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Under the law, all children are required to be proficient in math and reading by 2014—a standard that could leave three-quarters of U.S. schools labeled as failures, leaving them at risk of losing federal funding.
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Monday, June 13, 2011 |
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Video: Sen. Sam Slom Legislative Wrap-up
By Video @ 11:11 AM :: 8559 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Senator Slom addresses a luncheon at the Hawaii Venture Capitol Association – May 26, 2011 at the Plaza Club, Honolulu Hawaii. The subject: State budget, deficit, spending, taxation, economy, more.
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Monday, June 13, 2011 |
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Ward: Abercrombie’s Pro Bowl attack continues short-sighted strategy
By Rep Gene Ward @ 10:56 AM :: 7977 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie’s statements against the Pro Bowl last Thursday revealed the severity of the vision deficit facing our state.
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Monday, June 13, 2011 |
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Fannie Mae ends use of non-judicial foreclosure in Hawaii
By News Release @ 10:02 AM :: 10248 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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- Effective immediately and until further notice, all new Fannie Mae foreclosures in Hawaii must be commenced as judicial foreclosures.
- Effective immediately, all pending Fannie Mae non-judicial foreclosures in Hawaii that have not proceeded to sale should be dismissed and converted to judicial foreclosures.
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Monday, June 13, 2011 |
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Pro-Bowl: Collateral damage in Abercrombie’s war on Mufi?
By Andrew Walden @ 12:02 AM :: 7410 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Abercrombie’s bizarre attack on the Pro-Bowl is part of Progressive Democrats’ ongoing war against Mufi Hannemann, Dan Inouye, and the “old-boy” Democrats. And this is not Abercrombie’s first attack on Mufi’s new base in the Hawaii tourism industry....
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