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Saturday, June 25, 2011
Ka Pua Makaha: Multi-million dollar giveaway of DHHL assets disguised as “gift”
By Andrew Walden @ 10:14 PM :: 16389 Views :: DHHL, Development

For over a year most of Hawaii’s pliant and un-inquisitive media have gone along with the ridiculous story that Koolina developer and Broken Trust player Jeff Stone was donating 300 Makaha acres to Hawaiian Homelands and Kamehameha Schools as “a gift from the heart….”

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Saturday, June 25, 2011
Abercrombie plans more forums: I’m on a mission to change the direction of Hawaii
By News Release @ 1:33 PM :: 7455 Views :: Energy, Environment

The new fiscal year begins on July 1st with a mission to change the direction of Hawai'i....Last night we held a community forum at Washington Middle School.... Stay tuned for details about more upcoming forums around the state.

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Saturday, June 25, 2011
Full Text: City Rejects Rail Bid Protests
By News Release @ 1:25 PM :: 10745 Views :: Ethics, Rail

The City’s Department of Budget and Fiscal Services (BFS) has rejected two bid protests regarding the awarding of the core systems contract for the Honolulu Rail Transit Project. BFS found “no procedural or legal violations in any aspect of the procurement” for the contract.

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Saturday, June 25, 2011
Berg: $1.4B Rail Contract upheld by City
By Tom Berg @ 1:24 PM :: 9779 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

I have introduced resolution 11-109 to start the bidding process over again that could result in saving the taxpayers $250 million and put 150 residents here on Oahu to work building the rail cars.

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Saturday, June 25, 2011
Hawaii Kai: One Supermarket for 92,000 people
By Video @ 12:52 PM :: 8878 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12

The demographics for the zip codes 96821, 96822 and 96825 shows approximately 92,000 people.  "It's insane to think that Safeway and Costco can sustain a community and just Hawaii Kai...."

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Saturday, June 25, 2011
VIDEO: Fontaine Factor interviews HECO’s Rosegg on Clean Energy
By Video @ 12:10 PM :: 11710 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment

Representative George Fontaine, HD 11, Kīhei, Wailea, Makena, talks with Peter Rosegg with the Hawaiian Electric Company and Maria Tome, Renewable and Transportation Energy Program Manager /Hawaii State Energy Office about Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative.

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Friday, June 24, 2011
VIDEO: Homeless Tent City at Keaau Beach Park
By Tom Berg @ 3:33 PM :: 11068 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

We were doing a cleanup of Kea`au Beach Park along the Waianae coastline when past Councilman John DeSoto of this area gave a tour of what you see in the video....

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Friday, June 24, 2011
How Much Would a Fully Funded Pension System Cost?
By Selected News Articles @ 10:57 AM :: 6315 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

Without policy changes, contributions to state and local pension systems in the United States would have to immediately increase by a factor of 2.5, reaching 14.2 percent of the total own-revenue generated by state and local governments (taxes, fees and charges).

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Friday, June 24, 2011
President Obama Abuses Nation's Oil Reserves
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:54 AM :: 5170 Views :: National News, Ethics

This morning, in a scathing editorial entitled "The wrong reason for depleting the strategic oil reserve," the Post argues the White House is likely more focused on a "political emergency" and "the government should not tap the reserve absent a genuine crisis."

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Thursday, June 23, 2011
Progressive Network touts Hawaii tax increases and State-owned Bank proposal
By Selected News Articles @ 10:07 PM :: 9019 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

Three Progressive schemes Hawaii legislators are trying to implement--and ten more they haven't thought of yet....  

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Thursday, June 23, 2011
Pension Reform: Abercrombie raises Retirement Age
By News Release @ 9:41 PM :: 9442 Views :: Energy, Environment
  • Raising the retirement age for certain new employees from 55 to 60 years old, and for most others from 62 to 65 years old
  • Increasing the number of years for state employees to be “vested” to receive retirement benefits from five years to 10 years.
  • Raising the employee and employer contribution rates
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Thursday, June 23, 2011
Cash Flow Problem: Honolulu Council to borrow $100M for Rail
By Tom Berg @ 9:17 PM :: 9629 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

Substantial discussions took place at the marathon June 3rd Council meeting concerning the borrowing of more than a hundred million dollars (Bill 40) for the rail system due to offset cash flow problems with the rail project and sagging tax revenues. 

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Thursday, June 23, 2011
Abercrombie signs budget, asks Departments to identify programs for elimination
By News Release @ 3:22 PM :: 7051 Views :: Energy, Environment

"I have asked all departments to work together in a deliberate and thoughtful process that will identify programs that may be affected. In recent weeks, our administration began discontinuing financial support of programs that are valuable but can no longer be sustained, such as Vanpool Hawai'i and the State Pharmacy Assistance Program. These cuts and others that follow will be difficult but the financial constraints we face allow for no other course of action."

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Thursday, June 23, 2011
Berg: Hundreds attend town hall meeting on Rail in Ewa
By Tom Berg @ 3:12 PM :: 9344 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

Our office held the meeting on rail because I believe the public has not had an adequate forum to sound off on the project’s blunders. 

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Thursday, June 23, 2011
Study: Hawaii Economic Outlook Ranks 46th
By News Release @ 12:31 PM :: 8483 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

This new study explains how states can most effectively drive economic growth, create jobs, and improve the standard of living for their citizens.

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Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Ethics Violation? NASA Chief allegedly paid off by Global Warmers
By Selected News Articles @ 9:46 PM :: 4962 Views :: National News, Ethics

 A shared $1 million prize from the Dan David Foundation for his "profound contribution to humanity."

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Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Life Without Subsidies: Vanpool Hawaii Announces New Group Rate
By News Release @ 9:43 PM :: 7949 Views :: Energy, Environment

Vanpool Hawaii has announced a new monthly rate of $985 per vanpool group, effective Aug. 1. For a vanpool group of 6 or 7 passengers, that equals a per-person cost of approximately $164 or $141 per month, respectively, or less if shared between more participants.

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Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Broadband to be Trojan Horse for Big Wind Cable?
By Andrew Walden @ 3:35 PM :: 14691 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment

Why the sudden addition of broadband to the Big Wind cable?

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Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Rationing by Waiting: Medicaid eligibility hiked to $64,000/year for early retirees
By Selected News Articles @ 1:56 PM :: 5361 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

President Barack Obama's health care law would let several million middle class people get nearly free insurance meant for the poor, a twist government number crunchers say they discovered only after the complex bill was signed....

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Wednesday, June 22, 2011
The Truth About Tax Cuts
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:16 AM :: 5311 Views :: National News, Ethics

All you are likely to hear about low tax rates from liberals and their echo chamber in the media is that they don't work—that they fail to gin up economic or job growth. Exhibit A for this preposterous proposition is the Bush tax cuts. The left wants you to accept it as conventional wisdom that the policy was a bust.  Don't believe it....

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Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Pictures of America's Fiscal Nightmare
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:13 AM :: 4363 Views :: National News, Ethics

There's urgency in Washington to fix a problem that's been a long time coming: America's fast track to fiscal implosion. In The Heritage Foundation's just-released, expanded 2011 Budget Chart Book, you can see just how bad the country's spending problem is and how America racked up so much debt.

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Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Did HSTA boycott Race To The Top Meetings?
By News Release @ 1:29 AM :: 7539 Views :: Energy, Environment

In the below Abercrombie Administration news release—which we have annotated for clarity--there is no mention of any union officials meeting with the US DoE representatives here to evaluate Hawaii’s alleged progress towards RTTT benchmarks.

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Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Governor signs bill to exempt Broadband Cables from Permitting Requirements
By News Release @ 9:02 PM :: 8033 Views :: Energy, Environment

The key provisions of this act exempt broadband infrastructure improvements from state or county permitting requirements for five years.

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Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Meet your new Defense Secretary: Leon Panetta's War on Reagan's Defense Policies
By Selected News Articles @ 5:06 PM :: 9882 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family

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
VIDEO: Former Utah Governor Huntsman Announces Presidential Campaign
By Selected News Articles @ 3:10 PM :: 4216 Views :: National News, Ethics

"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
Hirono, Akaka: Pension’s Perks for Members With a Past
By Selected News Articles @ 1:57 PM :: 8312 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

Rep. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) ... received $45,000 from her state's pension program in 2010.

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Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Developer sues LUC for downzoning affordable homes already built
By Robert Thomas @ 2:25 AM :: 11802 Views :: Hawaii County , Akaka Bill, Energy, Environment

...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
Abercrombie signs 15 bills into law
By News Release @ 11:47 PM :: 6334 Views :: Energy, Environment

Starting with HB953, a big fat raise for DoE bureaucrats. 

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Monday, June 20, 2011
Consumer Advocate: Public Hearings Required on HECO Biofuels Rate Increase
By Henry Curtis @ 9:08 PM :: 10759 Views :: Hawaii County , Akaka Bill, Energy, Environment

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
MISSION HOUSES MUSEUM JULY FOURTH WEEKEND PA`INA
By News Release @ 8:31 PM :: 8564 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

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Monday, June 20, 2011
Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 20
By Selected News Articles @ 3:56 PM :: 7614 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

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
VIDEO: Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks to Republican Leaders
By Video @ 1:53 PM :: 5036 Views :: National News, Ethics

 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
Voice Recorder confiscated during Closed Meeting of Reapportionment Commission
By Andrew Walden @ 9:18 PM :: 8821 Views :: Energy, Environment

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
Big Projects in Hawaii - Why Are They Stuck?
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 12:06 PM :: 8942 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

There are 10 basic dimensions that account for the reasons that big projects succeed or fail.... 

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Sunday, June 19, 2011
Fathers Matter: Involved Dads Impact Children’s Lives and Civil Society
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:25 AM :: 6699 Views :: National News, Ethics

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
One-Step-Up Housing: Berg to hold Makaha Town Meeting July 12
By Tom Berg @ 12:38 PM :: 7301 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12

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
June 23 Washington Middle School: Abercrombie to hear from public on Pro Bowl
By News Release @ 12:32 PM :: 9388 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

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
NASA-Funded Group Doctors Sea Level Data
By News Release @ 1:21 AM :: 12044 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family

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
Feds: U.S. travel and tourism industry on pace for record-setting year
By News Release @ 12:37 AM :: 8596 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

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
A Summer of Robots: Fueling innovation for the New Economy
By News Release @ 11:29 PM :: 12771 Views :: Hawaii County , DHHL, Maui County, Energy, Environment

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
Hawaii Government Impact: The High Cost of Land Use and Housing
By News Release @ 11:09 PM :: 11257 Views :: Hawaii County , Akaka Bill, Energy, Environment

 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
Greek Crisis: Moody’s warns of possible First Hawaiian Bank downgrade
By News Release @ 9:24 PM :: 13180 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family

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
Hot Water Restored At Mayor Wright Housing
By News Release @ 9:21 PM :: 8990 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

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
Free Trade Agreements Deliver More Trade
By Selected News Articles @ 9:56 AM :: 9334 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family

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
Do Film Tax Credits Live Up to Their Promises?
By Selected News Articles @ 9:53 AM :: 5464 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

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
Health Insurance Doesn't Mean Access to Health Care
By Selected News Articles @ 9:51 AM :: 5620 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

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
PUC Approves New Maui Windfarm
By News Release @ 2:04 AM :: 10725 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment

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
VIDEO: Final statement of Geert Wilders in his free speech trial
By News Release @ 11:12 PM :: 5852 Views :: World News, Family

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
Al-Qaeda hit list names US writers, generals
By IPT News @ 7:53 PM :: 13333 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family

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
Money released for school construction projects
By News Release @ 11:36 AM :: 12446 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment

"$36,000 for improvements of reconfiguration to the cafeteria stage at Mililani Uka Elementary School"

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