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Sunday, October 16, 2011 |
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Lawsuit Challenges Kaiser’s Non-profit Status: Money funneled to For-Profit Entities?
By Selected News Articles @ 12:57 PM :: 9884 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Kaiser Foundation Health Plan's former Chief Administrative Officer claims she was fired for protesting that the putative nonprofit was "funneling funds to related for-profit Kaiser entities ... (and) using its fraudulently obtained tax-exempt status to fuel its market expansion/dominance."
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Sunday, October 16, 2011 |
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Kalapa: The Trouble with Borrowing is Repaying the Loan
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 1:42 AM :: 11179 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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The bulk of the $14 trillion debt the nation has borrowed is from other nations.
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Saturday, October 15, 2011 |
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Djou Campaign reports $243K Cash on Hand
By News Release @ 10:01 PM :: 4492 Views
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Djou for Hawaii campaign raised $81,410 in the first 6 weeks of the campaign. The campaign had 411 donors and the average contribution was just under $200. 91% of the money raised was from Hawaii donors and 99% came from individual donors. The campaign has $243,931.70 on hand.
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Saturday, October 15, 2011 |
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Lingle takes Senate Campaign to Big Island
By News Release @ 1:15 AM :: 8771 Views :: Hawaii County , Akaka Bill, Energy, Environment
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Saturday Oct. 15 Kona, Sunday Oct. 16 Hilo
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Friday, October 14, 2011 |
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Rail Transit on Oahu: Real Estate Investment Opportunity or Urban Blight?
By Selected News Articles @ 10:40 PM :: 9989 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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If rail transit becomes a reality, what will be its effect be on Hawaii real estate?
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Friday, October 14, 2011 |
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Honolulu Rated 5th Most Dangerous US Airport
By Selected News Articles @ 4:30 PM :: 8945 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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We averaged the Runway Incident Rate-the total number of runway incidents divided by the total number of runway operations (takeoffs and landings)-over the five years covered in our survey period.
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Friday, October 14, 2011 |
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Research Ship Finds Tsunami Debris Half-Way to Hawaii
By News Release @ 1:36 PM :: 7873 Views :: Maui County, Energy, National News, World News
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This is a map of Pallada’s route through model-projected debris field as of September 25.
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Friday, October 14, 2011 |
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Tax on ‘Tax-Free’ Bonds still alive in Congress: Hawaii Public Housing At Risk
By Selected News Articles @ 12:07 PM :: 10888 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Residents of Hawaii’s largest public housing facility began returning to renovated units this month. They enjoyed the fruits of a public-private partnership that supporters worry will not be replicated in the future because of threats to the status of tax-exempt bonds that underpinned the project’s financing.
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Friday, October 14, 2011 |
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Moody’s Downgrade Adds Pressure to sell off Honolulu Rail Contractor
By News Release @ 2:29 AM :: 5620 Views
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Moody's notes particular concern with respect to recent financial results, with evidence of accelerating adverse trends in the company's Defence Electronics and Aeronautics business lines now also negatively impacting margins and exacerbating longer-term restructuring needs related to its Transport rolling stock operations.
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Thursday, October 13, 2011 |
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Jobs Plan Fails, but Obama Doesn't Get the Message
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:45 PM :: 4684 Views :: National News, Ethics
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The President proposed permanently raising taxes by $1.5 trillion over 10 years....
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Thursday, October 13, 2011 |
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Cook: Hawaii Senate Race a toss-up
By Selected News Articles @ 7:06 PM :: 7579 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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...with former Gov. Linda Lingle’s announcement this week that she would run for the seat being vacated by Democratic Sen. Dan Akaka, this race moves from the Solid Democratic column to Toss Up....
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Thursday, October 13, 2011 |
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Defeat of Obama Jobs Bill Saves Honolulu Rail Millions
By Andrew Walden @ 3:14 AM :: 9448 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Little noticed outside financial circles, a tax increase in the bill would have sharply increased the cost of borrowing for state and local governments nationwide.
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Thursday, October 13, 2011 |
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Hawaii: Second Highest Taxes on Earth?
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:04 AM :: 8481 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Latest "millionaire surtax" proposal would put Hawaii tax rates above Denmark, Sweden, California, and New York....
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Thursday, October 13, 2011 |
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DoE Releases Public and Charter School Enrollment Numbers
By News Release @ 1:35 AM :: 7835 Views :: Energy, Environment
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The DOE public schools enroll 172,104 (+2,117 from last year) students, about 95 percent of the total; while charter schools have 9,109 (+907), or 5 percent of the total.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011 |
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Hanabusa: Lingle resonates with voters
By Selected News Articles @ 5:41 PM :: 8808 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Hanabusa calls Lingle an "extremely good politician" and a "formidable candidate" with an uncanny ability to connect with voters.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011 |
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Are Suicide Activists Already Killing People in Hawaii?
By News Release @ 11:55 AM :: 8325 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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"Because assisted dying is legal, it won't be a clandestine practice any longer. Physicians will be able to openly discuss the best practices.... Hawaii is a prohibition-free state.”
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011 |
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Obama's Failure to Confront the Iranian Threat
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:35 AM :: 7249 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Yesterday, America learned that Iran conspired to launch a terrorist attack in Washington, D.C., with a planned assassination of the Saudi ambassador and bomb attacks on the Saudi and Israeli embassies.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011 |
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Iranian Assassination Plot Busted
By IPT News @ 2:05 AM :: 8720 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Two men have been charged in what law enforcement officials say was a bombing plot in the United States approved by senior members Iran's Revolutionary Guard Quds Force.
The plot targeted the Saudi ambassador to the United States for assassination and may have included other targets including the Israeli embassy,...
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011 |
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Lingle Hits Moderate, Bipartisan themes in Campaign Rollout
By Selected News Articles @ 1:34 AM :: 7968 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Lingle stressed that one of her strengths is getting people to work together regardless of party affiliation, a concept that she believes is in short supply in Washington.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011 |
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Failing, DoE seeks waiver from federal No Child Left Behind law
By News Release @ 12:28 AM :: 6069 Views :: Energy, Environment
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“Hawaii is taking another bold step forward to accelerate education reform, raise accountability, and ensure all students graduate college- and career-ready,” Superintendent Kathryn Matayoshi said in a news release, displaying her ability to say exactly the opposite of the truth with a straight face.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 |
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 |
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AUDIO: Lingle Announces Senate Bid
By Selected News Articles @ 12:14 PM :: 10271 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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A Lingle-Hirono campaign would be a rematch from their 2002 gubernatorial face-off. Lingle, who outraised Hirono in that contest, won that race by five percentage points.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How They Voted October 11th
By Selected News Articles @ 1:21 AM :: 7201 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act - H.R.3080

The House is scheduled to vote on implementing a trade pact with South Korea.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 |
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Who Is Responsible for Protecting America?
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:24 AM :: 5971 Views :: Military
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Today, as America continues its worldwide fight against terrorist forces, it is vital to remember who is ultimately responsible for America's security, what the Constitution provides, and what the Founders intended.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 |
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Abercrombie, HTA Leave Tokyo
By News Release @ 12:11 AM :: 10708 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Abercrombie and officials from the Hawai'i Tourism Authority (HTA) ... met with representatives of various Japanese agencies that are key partners in the visitor industry.
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Monday, October 10, 2011 |
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Obama Sends South Korea Free Trade Agreement to Congress
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:43 PM :: 10739 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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it's vitally important to quickly enact the three pending U.S. trade agreements with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea. These FTAs have been sitting on the President's desk since 2007 for no good reason. President Obama has finally made them a priority by sending them to Congress last Monday night....
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Sunday, October 9, 2011 |
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Hawaii Christian Coalition salutes Kaauwai, Plans Community Meetings
By News Release @ 12:35 PM :: 6935 Views :: Energy, Environment
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The Hawaii Christian Coalition would like to thank Jonah Kaauwai for his dedicated service to the Hawaii Republican Party. Although we accept the party's change of leadership, we hope that their platform of honoring life and families will continue....
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Sunday, October 9, 2011 |
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Solar Tax Credits: Cash from General Fund Lines Pockets of Mainland Companies
By Andrew Walden @ 4:26 AM :: 11486 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits
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“Free Solar” may sound like music to the ears of low-income Hawaii homeowners and non-profits, but to the General Fund it sounds more like a vacuum cleaner....
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Sunday, October 9, 2011 |
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Taking a Step Back on Nation’s Economic Path
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 12:02 AM :: 6392 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Here we go again with another round of spending in an attempt to convince voters that the national leadership knows what they are doing.
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Saturday, October 8, 2011 |
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Climate Change and Regulatory Takings in Coastal Hawaii
By Robert Thomas @ 11:26 PM :: 7141 Views :: Energy, Environment
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The Center for Island Climate Adaptation and Policy (“ICAP”) at the UH Sea Grant College Program has prepared this paper to examine the interactions among climate change, the regulation of shoreline development in Hawai‘i, and Constitutional law regarding unpermitted takings of private property for public benefit
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Saturday, October 8, 2011 |
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Spin Doctors try to blame Staff for Abercrombie being Abercrombie
By Andrew Walden @ 4:11 PM :: 7867 Views :: Energy, Environment
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According to senior Democrats, Abercrombie has been getting almost every single thing wrong—”batting 1.000”—but can get his act together by firing his staff and placing the Fifth Floor under the control of old-boy political operator Bruce Coppa.
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Saturday, October 8, 2011 |
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VIDEO: Pilot ditches Cessna, rescued by Coast Guard off Hilo
By Video @ 12:28 PM :: 8827 Views :: Hawaii County
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Pilot climbs onto wing after ditching 13 miles off Hilo.
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Friday, October 7, 2011 |
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Epiphany leads to Mass Resignations: Abercrombie Administration Incompatible with Family Values
By Andrew Walden @ 11:59 PM :: 9131 Views :: Energy, Environment
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... The news is all the more shocking because Levinson is the son of ex-Justice Stephen “Broken Trust” Levinson, the inventor of gay “marriage”. Sporting a newly-trimmed Mohawk, Rep Blake Oshiro remains in denial ....
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Friday, October 7, 2011 |
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Just back from Paris, Abercrombie flees to Japan
By News Release @ 9:29 PM :: 9738 Views :: Energy, Environment, World News, Family
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Abercrombie will travel to Asia from October 9 – 21, 2011 ....
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Friday, October 7, 2011 |
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Still Jobless After All These Years
By Heritage Foundation @ 8:29 PM :: 4292 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Yesterday at the White House, President Barack Obama faced the media to once again plug the American Jobs Act--his plan for more stimulus spending, paid for with even more taxes on America's job creators. And this morning, not a day later, America received a reminder of why a continuation of the President's tried-and-failed policies is not a prescription for success....
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Thursday, October 6, 2011 |
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ALA: 1909 Law Does Not Allow Assisted Suicide
By News Release @ 8:51 PM :: 6761 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Suicide law proponents are using a 1909 Hawaii law as a basis for their assertions, claiming the law allows doctors to administer lethal drugs upon patient request. In fact, this law was written to allow doctors to administer non-traditional/herbal drugs in battling such illnesses as Hansen's Disease (leprosy), tuberculosis, and asthma.
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Thursday, October 6, 2011 |
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Inouye Slams Ed Case: “I don’t want to deal with a person like that”
By Selected News Articles @ 8:16 PM :: 8333 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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“What I am going to do? Am I going to just sit around and do nothing? I was hurt,” he said of his reaction to Case’s challenge to Akaka.
“He hasn’t given me any explanation, and if that’s the way he’s going to deal with me, I don’t want to deal with a person like that.”
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Thursday, October 6, 2011 |
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State of Hawaii to SCOTUS: Protect Property Rights from "Overreaching Federal Regulation"
By Robert Thomas @ 7:42 PM :: 10217 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Precluding pre-enforcement judicial review buttresses a regime where EPA has assumed the authority to enjoin development by issuing unreviewable compliance orders. Such a result is repugnant to the core principle in the Due Process Clause that "[n]o person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law."
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Thursday, October 6, 2011 |
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Asselbaye, Aoki Resign from Abercrombie Administration
By News Release @ 7:32 PM :: 7851 Views :: Energy, Environment
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... Coppa was chief operations officer of Communications Pacific and executive director of Pacific Resource Partnership, an organization representing contractors and the carpenters union. Unlike Asselbaye, he's well connected in the local community, especially with labor ....
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Thursday, October 6, 2011 |
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KIUC: In Race for Tax Credits, Solar Beats Wind, Biofuel
By News Release @ 7:11 PM :: 10094 Views :: Honolulu County, Democratic Party, Energy, Environment
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A Request for Proposal to contractors to build the PV facility was released this week. “We are on a very short timeline to qualify for the federal incentives,” said Brad Rockwell, KIUC manager of production.
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Thursday, October 6, 2011 |
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Hawaii has lowest level of Serious Mential Illness in US
By News Release @ 2:08 PM :: 4132 Views
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...among adults aged 18 or older, the rate of serious mental illness in the past year ranged from 3.5 percent in Hawaii and South Dakota to 7.2 percent in Rhode Island....
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Thursday, October 6, 2011 |
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Steve Jobs and American Exceptionalism
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:52 PM :: 8442 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Steve Jobs, who died yesterday at the too-young age of 56, was a living refutation of all what liberals constantly tell us about our country ....
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Thursday, October 6, 2011 |
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Rep Pine: Pass HB1465 to Stop Elder Abuse
By Councilmember Kymberly Marcos Pine @ 1:33 AM :: 12853 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Rep. Pine introduced HB 1465, relating to powers of attorney, which is still alive in the legislature. HB 1465 requires that anyone seeking power of attorney for an elderly person must have at least two signatures.
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011 |
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First 100 Residents move into Renovated Kuhio Park Apartments
By News Release @ 4:04 PM :: 10774 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Each of the two high-rise towers at the Kuhio Park property, which together include 555 units, is expected to be renovated in 12 months. During renovations, residents moved into an “on-site hotel” at Tower B.
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011 |
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Waihee: Mass murderer Zhou Enlai is a hero of mine
By News Release @ 3:50 PM :: 8115 Views
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Former Governor John Waihee will serve as "Goodwill Ambassador" at the event. He was invited to represent the original Hawaiian people, and all Hawaii's diverse communities, for the cause of peace and aloha. He said, "Zhou Enlai is a hero of mine. I did a lot of studying about China, and he was the person that I admired. He was the kind, progressive face of China. I was always interested in his life."
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011 |
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Is the Postal Service Doomed?
By Heritage Foundation @ 6:16 AM :: 4430 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat is supposed to stop the United States Postal Service (USPS) from delivering mail, but can it be saved from mounting debt, plummeting volume, and the not-so-slow-motion postal train wreck coming quickly down the road?
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011 |
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VIDEO: Lingle at Djou Fundraiser in Manoa
By Dylan Nonaka @ 11:03 PM :: 10766 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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In case you missed it, the campaign got some great media coverage on Sunday. Governor Lingle helped us with a successful fundraiser and Stacey shared an update on what Charles is doing in Afghanistan.
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011 |
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Back to the Future: Hilo Girl leads 12 Army Cooks replacing 84 Contractors in Iraq
By News Release @ 10:41 PM :: 11700 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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As the United States Army's mission in Iraq winds down, soldiers find themselves giving up progressively more of their creature comforts. At Contingency Operating Station Garry Owen, Iraq, Soldiers from 215th Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division are “getting lean” in preparation for that day.
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011 |
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Special Education Vouchers reduce Over-Diagnosis of Learning Disabilities
By NCPA @ 2:33 PM :: 4668 Views :: National News, Ethics
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...why has the incidence of disability diagnosis increased so drastically in 25 years? Several studies suggest that this increase has occurred because schools are incentivized to do so....
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