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Thursday, February 10, 2011 |
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What the Collapse of Marriage Means for Children
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:21 PM :: 5488 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Thankfully, there are ways that individuals, community leaders, and policymakers can help alleviate childhood poverty. By encouraging marriage in low-income communities, teaching adolescents and young adults the economic and social benefits of marriage, and reducing policy disincentives to marriage, more children can avoid the pain of poverty.
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Thursday, February 10, 2011 |
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SB1425: Legislative Committee to discuss banning all Oahu Landfills
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:53 PM :: 7154 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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According to Senate Bill 1425, relating to banning the acceptance of solid waste in landfills, no landfill in a county with a population greater than or less than 500,000 residents, will be allowed to accept deliveries of municipal solid waste - beginning July 1, 2012, for Honolulu, and for the smaller counties, a date to be determined by their councils.
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Thursday, February 10, 2011 |
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HB12: Ag theft bill before Ag Committee Friday
By News Release @ 12:13 PM :: 5234 Views :: Energy, Environment
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HB12, a bill introduced by State Representative Cynthia Thielen (R, 50th District) which establishes monetary restitution to property owners who have been victimized by plant thefts, will be heard by the House Committee on Agriculture this Friday, Feb. 11, at 9 a.m. in Conference Room 312 at the State Capitol.
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011 |
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House GOP Caucus leads successful effort to Keep Prayer in Daily Sessions
By News Release @ 9:35 PM :: 5351 Views :: Energy, Environment
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The House Republican caucus has led the effort to keep invocations a part of the daily legislative sessions in the Hawai`i State House following the ending of the practice in the State Senate.
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011 |
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Abercrombie appoints Don Horner to BoE, plans to appoint Horner to New BoE
By News Release @ 4:32 PM :: 7915 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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In November 2010, Hawai‘i voters approved a Constitutional Amendment that gives the Governor the authority to appoint members of the BOE. Governor Abercrombie is encouraged that the State Legislature has been moving expeditiously to establish the appointment process for BOE members. When that legislative process is complete, Governor Abercrombie intends to name Horner among his first appointments.
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011 |
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US House to vote on blocking Obamacare funds, Senate Dems may revolt
By Selected News Articles @ 2:25 PM :: 3679 Views :: National News, Ethics
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The U.S. House of Representatives is likely to vote to block funding for President Barack Obama's signature healthcare overhaul when it takes up a budget plan next week, House Republican Leader Eric Cantor said on Tuesday.
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011 |
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Transcript: Greta Van Susteren, Tucker Carlson on Hawaii Toy Gun Ban
By Selected News Articles @ 1:19 PM :: 6202 Views :: Energy, Environment
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First, it usurps rights that belong to parents, not the state. Parents get to choose what kind of toys their play with -- A. B, there's no evidence at all that the sale or use of toy guns by children leads to gun violence in later life. There's no study that affirms this. There's no longitudinal effort to look into this at all. This is clearly legislators acting out of their own unproved neuroses.
Three, the law completely overreaches. The Hawaii statute specifically calls for jail time for people who violate it.
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011 |
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House Bills would end Hawaii’s practice of Counting Blank Ballots as ‘no’ votes
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:32 PM :: 3844 Views :: Energy, Environment
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This session, 3 bills introduced by Republicans and Democrats, are seeking to not count blank votes, over votes or spoiled votes when it comes to the outcome of proposed amendments to the Hawaii constitution.
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011 |
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How They Voted: Civil Unions passes House Judiciary 11-2
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 12:20 PM :: 3957 Views :: Energy, Environment
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The civil unions bill (SB 232) was passed in the House Judiciary Committee by a vote of 11 (yes) to 2 (no) while 3 were excused.
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011 |
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The Overhauling of Straight America
By Selected News Articles @ 12:04 PM :: 23187 Views :: Family
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In the early stages of any campaign to reach straight America, the masses should not be shocked and repelled by premature exposure to homosexual behavior itself. Instead, the imagery of sex should be downplayed and gay rights should be reduced to an abstract social question as much as possible. First let the camel get his nose inside the tent--only later his unsightly derriere!
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011 |
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First Morita, now Hooser: Abercrombie appoints another anti-Superferry protester
By News Release @ 3:41 AM :: 10242 Views :: Honolulu County, Democratic Party, Energy, Environment
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Honolulu – Governor Neil Abercrombie today announced appointments for the following positions: Chief Negotiator, Department of Human Resources Development (DHRD) Deputy Director, and Director of the Office of Environmental Quality Control.
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011 |
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Flashback: Hooser, Hanabusa predict HB444 will bring gay marriage back before Courts
By Andrew Walden @ 12:55 AM :: 14383 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Pro-gay-marriage Senator Gary Hooser (D-Kauai), speaking on the Senate floor March 25, 2009 said:
“…it may very well be likely that this law would be challenged in court….”
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011 |
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Sen. Gary Hooser campaign website linked to Holocaust deniers
By Andrew Walden @ 12:28 AM :: 21635 Views :: Democratic Party, Kauai County, Politicians, GMOs
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Hooser invites readers to look at his campaign website www.GaryHooser.com. Listed on the right column of his site are links to other websites described as “Senator Gary Hooser’s Regular Reading Regime.” The 25 links include the Kailua, O`ahu-based anti-Semitic 9-11 conspiracy website www.WhatReallyHappened.com (WRH).
At WRH “Regular Readers” like Hooser may peruse an article from a Holocaust denier publication asserting: “(only) two to three hundred thousand Jews perished in Nazi concentration camps, but none in gas chambers.” Another WRH article touts a 1928 communist scheme to send Russian Jews to Siberia. There are literally hundreds of such articles interspersed between a selection of articles about Jewish child molesters, Jewish swindlers, and any other—mostly Jewish or “Israeli”--wrongdoing.
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011 |
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Rep Pine introduces 18 bills
By News Release @ 12:05 AM :: 7219 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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- Bills to Decongest Traffic
- Bills to Cut Taxes & Make Government More Responsive to the People
- Bills to Solve Problems within Homeowner Associations
- Bills to Stop Elder Abuse
- Bills to Solve Problems for Our Schools
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011 |
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Fifteen Election-related Bills awaiting consideration
By News Release @ 11:50 PM :: 5271 Views :: Energy, Environment
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House Judiciary Committee Feb 1 acted on over a dozen election-related bills....
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011 |
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White House: Desperation sets in over failure of Obamanomics
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:49 PM :: 4366 Views :: National News, Ethics
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In what Politico is calling “the first whiff of the desperation inside the White House about the slowness of the economic recovery,” President Barack Obama spoke to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce yesterday, claiming: “I understand the challenges you face. I understand you are under incredible pressure to cut costs and keep your margins up. I understand the significance of your obligations to your shareholders and the pressures that are created by quarterly reports. I get it.” No. No, he doesn’t.
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011 |
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Abercrombie Admin. Blacklist: “It’s a SECURITY ISSUE to invite some media like eTN to a media conference”
By Selected News Articles @ 10:03 PM :: 6122 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Steinmetz said: “This is the most outrageous comment eTN has ever received from a public official in our more than 10 years of being in business.
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011 |
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Next Fight: Obama vs Inouye over Line Item Veto
By Selected News Articles @ 3:35 PM :: 5253 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The Hill: Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) has said he will soon distribute to senators his definition of what he considers an earmark....
“The new pork mechanisms will depend on how Inouye has decided to define pork/earmarks,” Wheeler said. “The loopholes will be there; he and his staff know how to make them. Once the ‘definition’ is set, the workarounds will only be limited by the human imagination.”
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011 |
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The transsexual agenda for Hawaii schools
By Andrew Walden @ 12:39 PM :: 24195 Views :: Education K-12, Family
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Here's the long history behind the new anti-bullying policy being proposed for Hawaii schools.
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011 |
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SB803 Assisted Suicide Killed in Committee
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 2:26 AM :: 6687 Views :: Energy, Environment
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After Senator Josh Green stated that public sentiment was overwhelmingly opposed to the issue, he made a motion to hold the bill in committee.
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Monday, February 7, 2011 |
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Could Djou Challenge Akaka?
By Selected News Articles @ 11:19 PM :: 9176 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Former Rep. Charles Djou (R-Hawaii) all but swore off elective politics in his recent farewell address, but the former congressman recently penned an article that is sure to ignite speculation among the state's political observers over whether a 2012 bid against Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) is in the offing.
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Monday, February 7, 2011 |
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Feb 7, 2011: How Hawaii’s Congressional Delegation Voted
By News Release @ 3:57 PM :: 6643 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Health Care Repeal - Vote Rejected (47-51, 2 Not Voting)
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Monday, February 7, 2011 |
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Feb 18 deadline to Neighborhood Board Candidates to file for election
By Selected News Articles @ 3:09 PM :: 6990 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12
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Candidates have until Friday February 18 to file nomination papers for Oahu’s upcoming Neighborhood Board elections. Up for grabs, all 439 seats on 33 Neighborhood Boards.
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Sunday, February 6, 2011 |
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Abercrombie: Some Retirees do not “make positive contributions in our community”
By Andrew Walden @ 11:52 PM :: 9648 Views :: Energy, Environment
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As a candidate, Neil Abercrombie said over and over again, “We Will Not Be Raising Any Taxes."
But as Governor, Neil Abercrombie has a different message for many of Hawaii’s seniors—you’re not contributing, you’re escaping your responsibilities and, as Governor, I will force you to “make positive contributions in our community.”
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Sunday, February 6, 2011 |
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Harvard Study explains how Inouye’s pork kills business
By Selected News Articles @ 1:28 PM :: 7049 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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In the years that followed a congressman's ascendancy to the chairmanship of a powerful committee, the average firm in his state cut back capital expenditures by roughly 15 percent, according to their working paper, "Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?"
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Sunday, February 6, 2011 |
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Hawaii's Governor Manipulates Birthers
By Andrew Walden @ 1:48 AM :: 8299 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Hawaii's newly elected "DSA-er Democrat" Governor Neil "I am not a socialist" Abercrombie is the birthers' best friend -- and many commentators in Hawaii and across the nation are becoming increasingly annoyed by his antics.
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Saturday, February 5, 2011 |
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Tea Party Revival author Leland Baker to speak at Maui Event
By News Release @ 8:54 PM :: 8304 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL
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Location: Kalama Heights Retirement Home, Garden Room
Date: Friday, February 18th, 2011, 6:30pm
Cost: Free and open to the public!
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Saturday, February 5, 2011 |
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VIDEO: 100th Birthday of Ronald Reagan
By Heritage Foundation @ 8:29 PM :: 6037 Views :: National News, Ethics
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This Sunday is President Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday.
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Saturday, February 5, 2011 |
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Djou: Hawaii bets on Machine Politics for the 21st Century
By Rep Charles Djou @ 7:50 PM :: 9965 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The Obama-style politics and the youthful 2010 class of freshmen Republicans in the U.S. House might be a passing fad or it might become a lasting trend. Hawaii has sent a congressional delegation that is betting the modern movement toward a much quicker internet dominated system of governing, based on transparency rather than pork, is temporary and our nation will eventually return to the 20th Century seniority centric system of quiet machine based power-dealing. The American people will render the verdict on Hawaii’s bet in the next couple of years.
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Saturday, February 5, 2011 |
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Sen Schumer Demands Investigation: Reusable Bags Contain Harmful Chemicals and Harbor Bacteria
By News Release @ 10:33 AM :: 17667 Views :: Hawaii County , Akaka Bill, Honolulu County, Democratic Party, Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Senator Charles Schumer and other congressional leaders have called on government safety agencies to investigate why such elevated levels of lead are coming into contact with our food and leaching into the environment. Perhaps even more alarming, a University of Arizona study found fecal coliform bacteria and E. coli in some of the bags.
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Saturday, February 5, 2011 |
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KTA, Safeway, Walgreens: Excessive Amounts of Lead Found in Reusable Grocery Bags
By News Release @ 10:29 AM :: 20816 Views :: Hawaii County , Akaka Bill, Honolulu County, Democratic Party, Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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EPA standard for lead in packaging materials is 100ppm. Safeway tests 6.72 times the EPA limit. Walgreens is 2.98 times, KTA Superstores 2.85 times, and Defense Comissary Agency tests 2.35 times the EPA standard.
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Saturday, February 5, 2011 |
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U.S. Supreme Court Requests a Response from Hawaii in Nader Ballot Access Case
By Selected News Articles @ 1:28 AM :: 7078 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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When the U.S. Supreme Court asks for a response from the side that had won the case in the lower court, that is a sign that the Court is thinking that it might possibly take the case. The response from Hawaii is due March 2.
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Friday, February 4, 2011 |
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Bachmann visit shows there is hope for the left after all
By Gilia Rethman @ 10:25 PM :: 8246 Views :: Republican Party
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... 200 people who filled the ballroom at the Ala Moana hotel to hear congresswoman Michele Bachmann speak ....
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Friday, February 4, 2011 |
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Inouye introduces Felony Fishing Bill
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:10 PM :: 7518 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Certain violations of S. 52 would subject a person to up to five years in prison, a fine of $500,000, or both.
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Friday, February 4, 2011 |
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SB 197: Senate Committee to debate Dim Bulbs Feb 8
By Grassroot Institute @ 9:53 PM :: 5468 Views :: Energy, Environment
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With this energy efficiency bonus however comes the problem of disposing of fluorescent and CFL bulbs in landfills. Enter 2 more bills – which put mandates on disposing the CFL bulbs by retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers. Senate Bill 197 mandates companies that sell the CFL bulbs submit a plan to the Legislature by 1/1/2012 on how to manage the waste. And then there’s House Bill 1527 that requires retailers and wholesalers to accept used light bulbs for recycling from customers.
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Friday, February 4, 2011 |
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SB602: Legalized Gambling to be heard Thursday Feb 10
By News Release @ 2:39 PM :: 6502 Views :: Energy, Environment
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SB602 proposes an amendment to the state constitution to legalize slot machines and video poker machines that are not visible from the street in designated resort areas within Waikiki.
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Friday, February 4, 2011 |
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HB1058: Buying Office Equipment with Capital Improvement Bonds
By Video @ 12:00 AM :: 11316 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Amends chapter 37, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to include agency-wide technology and computer systems with an estimated useful life of greater than seven years as capital investments to allow all costs to be financed with bond funds and depreciated as capital investments.
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Thursday, February 3, 2011 |
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SB803 Assisted Suicide to be heard Monday
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 11:42 PM :: 6342 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Physician Assisted Suicide Bill (SB 803) Scheduled for Hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee
Monday, February 7, 2011 2:45 p.m. State Capitol - Auditorium (bottom level of the capitol)
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Thursday, February 3, 2011 |
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Abercrombie names anti-Superferry protester Morita to head PUC
By News Release @ 9:17 PM :: 9794 Views :: Honolulu County, Democratic Party, Energy, Environment
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Governor Neil Abercrombie today announced the appointment of State Representative Hermina Morita as the chair of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC).
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Thursday, February 3, 2011 |
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CAGW warns Inouye against “Phonemarking or other underhanded techniques”
By News Release @ 9:11 PM :: 7127 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Hopefully, every member of Congress will recognize by then that earmarks are a wasteful, unnecessary part of the budget process that should never be restored. CAGW will also be monitoring how members of Congress may attempt to circumvent the moratorium, through ‘phonemarking’ or other underhanded techniques.”
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Thursday, February 3, 2011 |
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A Medicaid Rebellion? How states can work together to force changes in the program
By Selected News Articles @ 8:47 PM :: 5478 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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What would you call a health-insurance program that has worse health outcomes for cancer and heart disease than Medicare or private insurance, that pays doctors and specialists so little that they often refuse to see patients, and that’s driving state budgets into bankruptcy? If you’re the Obama administration, apparently, you call it a success and make it the cornerstone of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act....
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Thursday, February 3, 2011 |
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VIDEO: Fontaine “HB166 is an anti-business bill”
By Video @ 2:41 PM :: 11479 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Fontaine: “We heard from a Maui roofing contractor who said that if he received a $70K fine … he would have to earn $7M in additional business in order to make up the fine because his profit margin is so slim.”
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Thursday, February 3, 2011 |
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Heritage: Bringing back Marriage
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:46 AM :: 3654 Views :: Energy, Environment
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"It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but ... the marriage that sustains your love." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1943
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Thursday, February 3, 2011 |
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Obamacare: Will Obama obey Federal Court ruling?
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:38 AM :: 5671 Views :: National News, Ethics
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According to Heritage legal expert Robert Alt, Judge Vinson’s declaratory judgment binds the parties to the suit, which includes 26 states, the National Federation of Independent Business and the federal government. This means that, absent a court-issued stay, Obamacare cannot be further implemented as it pertains to these 26 states. So the White House now faces a simple choice: Will President Obama abide by a valid decision by a federal district court, or will he unilaterally ignore the rule of law? If the past is any indicator, the rule of law is in for a continued beating.
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Thursday, February 3, 2011 |
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Civil Unions Bills to be heard Tuesday
By Andrew Walden @ 10:57 AM :: 6618 Views :: Energy, Environment
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SB 232 SD1 Relating to Civil Unions is scheduled for hearing next week Tuesday. In addition to this bill, another civil union bill (HB 1453 Relating to Legal Relationships) will also be heard.
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011 |
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US Senate repeals part of Obamacare: Inouye, Akaka left out in cold among 17 bitter-enders
By Andrew Walden @ 10:42 PM :: 8493 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The US Senate voted 81-17 to repeal the Obamacare "1099-MISC" tax hike and information reporting requirement. Hawaii Senators Dan Akaka and Dan Inouye were among a rump group of 17 Obamacare bitter-enders.
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011 |
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Roll Call: Akaka offers no indication he will run in 2012
By Selected News Articles @ 10:09 PM :: 7306 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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…others on retirement watch, including Sens. Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii), Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) and Jim Webb (D-Va.), offered no indication they will run again in 2012.
Akaka, 86, raised less than $2,000 in the fourth quarter and had just $66,000 in the bank as of Dec. 31....
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