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Monday, January 4, 2010 |
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Mufi chases Neil Abercrombie out of Congress
By Andrew Walden @ 12:45 PM :: 15263 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Abercrombie has handed his ally Ed Case an advantage over Hanabusa in that she will be required to attend to legislative business during the abbreviated campaign and Case has previous experience with the 2003 special election. On the other hand Case is despised by his own Party after challenging Dan Akaka for US Senate in 2006. With two hogtied Democrat frontrunners, the advantage shifts to Honolulu Councilman Charles Djou.
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Monday, January 4, 2010 |
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Forewarned but not forearmed: Obama Admin knew name and technique of panty bomber
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:44 AM :: 5053 Views :: National News, Ethics
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This past weekend the American public learned that not only was the Obama administration briefed about the bombing technique attempted on Flight 253, not only did the United States have information that a Nigerian was being prepared for a terrorist attack by al Qaeda in Yemen, but our government also knew that an “Umar Farouk” was involved.
Following these revelations, the Obama administration again took to the Sunday shows to defend their national security record. Last week Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano tried to convince Americans that “the system worked”. She failed. This Sunday, Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John Brennan did admit that the system failed on Christmas Day but still insisted: “Every other day the system has worked this year….The system is working.”
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Sunday, January 3, 2010 |
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AlQaeda celebrates New Year with failed axe-attack on Danish cartoonist
By Andrew Walden @ 7:56 PM :: 10770 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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September 30, 2005 cartoon drawn by Westergaard became focal point of manufactured controversy starting in February, 2006.
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Sunday, January 3, 2010 |
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New for 2010: Unemployment benefits to be taxed
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:40 AM :: 8322 Views :: National News, Ethics
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While millions of Americans are more than ready to put 2009 behind them, they should know that Congress failed to reauthorize dozens of tax breaks for individuals and businesses before the Members scurried home for the Holidays. These “expiring provisions” affect every American in one way or another as individuals or businesses. By allowing them to lapse, Congress has enacted tax increases at time when these taxpayers can least afford it.
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Saturday, January 2, 2010 |
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Your picks: Our Top Stories from 2009
By Selected News Articles @ 2:30 AM :: 9373 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Here is a complete list of all 38 Hawai`i Free Press stories with unique hit counts over 1000 views. These are YOUR picks for the most interesting stories of 2009--unedited and in reverse chronological order. Of these, 28 are Hawaii state or local news stories and 10 are national news stories.
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Friday, January 1, 2010 |
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UPDATE: Limbaugh released from hospital, holds news conference
By Andrew Walden @ 1:00 AM :: 11661 Views :: Maui County, Energy, National News, Ethics
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AP Photo
Limbaugh holds New Year's Day news conference at Queens' Medical Ctr with Dr Joanne Magno, chief of the Dept. of Cardiovascular Diseases.
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Thursday, December 31, 2009 |
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Hawaii: Obamabot wrecks car after flipping off protesters
By Andrew Walden @ 3:00 AM :: 12448 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Lining the streets outside the President's Kailua vacation home Saturday, protesters hoped to send Obama a message against the funding of abortion services in health care legislation now under consideration in the House and Senate. Many passing drivers honked their horns in support, but some devotedly pro-Obama motorists had a markedly different reaction.
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Thursday, December 31, 2009 |
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Drudge Report, Time Magazine point to Hawai`i Free Press
By Andrew Walden @ 2:05 AM :: 13135 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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The one church in Hawaii with which Obama does have a family connection is unlikely to be the place where the First Family would worship on Christmas Eve. As a child, Obama occasionally attended Sunday school classes at the First Unitarian Church of Honolulu, and his family held a memorial service there for his grandmother last Christmas. Conservative critics were quick to point out that the First Unitarian Church has a controversial history — in 1969, the church offered sanctuary to servicemen who refused to go to Vietnam. The refuge was brief, however, as military police invaded church grounds to arrest the soldiers.
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009 |
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Hanabusa: "Ed Case not forgiven, should bow out"
By Andrew Walden @ 1:50 PM :: 16428 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The fight continues over whether Democrats have forgiven former Rep Ed Case (D-HI) for implying Sen Dan Akaka (D-HI) was a feebleminded, ineffectual, ultra liberal during Case's failed 2006 primary campaign.
Case just before Christmas called upon Senate President Colleen Hanabusa (D-Koolina) to drop out of the race and called her "clueless". Hanabusa has responded in a December 26 interview with The Hill by calling on Case to drop out and calling him "not forgiven", "not a team player" and "not a consensus builder."
Hanabusa has drawn Rep Neil Abercrombie into the melee, claiming that he is distancing himself from Case.
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Monday, December 28, 2009 |
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Lingle: HSTA/DoE furlough plan "not credible"
By News Release @ 11:39 PM :: 8728 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Today’s proposal being floated in the media would use more than two-thirds of the $50 million offered by the Governor and would only restore five days of instruction. “This arrangement is not a credible plan, it is not fiscally responsible and it is not sustainable,” Governor Lingle stated.
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Monday, December 28, 2009 |
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Pelosi enjoys privacy at Hualalai after Palin is hounded off Maui
By Andrew Walden @ 5:55 PM :: 136208 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy, National News, Ethics
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Guarded by US Capitol Police bolstered by officers on loan from the Hawaii County PD, Pelosi is enjoying what Hollywood Reporter calls: "...a picture-perfect stretch of beach on the Big Island's chic Kona Coast....a private Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course and Pahu'ia, an award-winning oceanfront restaurant, $40 million worth of enhancements...20 new suites and ... its lauded Hualalai Spa."
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Monday, December 28, 2009 |
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Heritage: Napolitano's "Idiocy" at heart of Obama's War on Terror
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:21 PM :: 8183 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Yet despite the facts that PETN is easily detected and Mr. Abdulmutallab’s father warned the U.S. embassy in Nigeria about his son this November, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano had the audacity to go on television yesterday and say “the system worked” and that the suspect was properly screened. The “system worked?” The 278 passengers on flight 253 could be dead today but for a faulty syringe and the Obama administration considers that a success? That is pure idiocy. Idiocy that is a direct threat to the security of this country and that goes to the heart of the Obama administration’s approach to the war on terror.
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Monday, December 28, 2009 |
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NYT Exposes Obama's secret war in Yemen
By Selected News Articles @ 12:02 PM :: 10359 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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WASHINGTON — In the midst of two unfinished major wars, the United States has quietly opened a third, largely covert front against Al Qaeda in Yemen. A year ago, the Central Intelligence Agency sent several of its top field operatives with counterterrorism experience to the country, according a former top agency official. At the same time, some of the most secretive Special Operations commandos have begun training Yemeni security forces in counterterrorism tactics, senior military officers said.
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Monday, December 28, 2009 |
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Confronting the Reality of Homegrown Jihadist Terror in 2009
By IPT News @ 11:25 AM :: 11648 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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In 2009, homegrown American Islamist terror became impossible to ignore. Two fatal attacks on the U.S. military – one killing an Army recruiter, the other a mass murder of soldiers; an intercepted plot considered the biggest domestic threat since 9/11 and a series of conspiracies to blow up synagogues, office buildings and other targets made 2009 the year homegrown American Islamist terror became a clear, serious threat.
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Monday, December 28, 2009 |
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Legislative Report: Convert HHSC to non-profit, dump civil service (full text)
By Andrew Walden @ 12:07 AM :: 28735 Views :: Maui County, Health Care, Labor
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Stroudwater didn't pull punches: "HHSC is in a financially perilous condition. It received a 'Going Concern' finding as part of its 2008 independent audit report, calling the future financial viability of the organization into question. Its liquidity is at dangerously low levels with barely enough current assets to meet current liabilities. It is far behind in its payments to vendors (80+ days). The age of its facilities and other physical assets are well above national averages. Its future viability is at risk, particularly if the State is unable to provide increasing levels of operating subsidies for HHSC going forward."
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Friday, December 25, 2009 |
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Jumped by passengers while lighting fuse: Islamist fails to blow up Detroit-bound flight Christmas Day
By Selected News Articles @ 6:06 PM :: 12817 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Syed Jafry of Holland, Mich., a U.S. citizen who had flown from the United Arab Emirates, emerged from the airport and said he was a passenger on the flight. He said people ran out of their seats to tackle the man.
Jafry was sitting in the 16th row when he heard "a pop and saw some smoke and fire." Then, he said, “a young man behind me jumped on him.”
Jafry said there was a little bit of commotion for about 10 to 15 minutes.
He said the way passengers responded made him proud to be an American.
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Friday, December 25, 2009 |
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Christmas 1776: The Providential Gift of America
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:51 PM :: 5666 Views :: National News, Ethics
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On Christmas Day, 1776, a small band of colonial forces under the command of Gen. George Washington, having retreated all the way from New York, again crossed the Delaware River and brought battle at Trenton, New Jersey. Washington not only won the battle but regained the initiative and turned the war in the patriots’ favor. One week later, Washington defeated the British at Princeton and forced the enemy to withdraw, preventing its advance on Philadelphia, seat of the Continental Congress.
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Friday, December 25, 2009 |
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Exterminated: Ft Hood shooter's favorite Imam?
By IPT News @ 12:18 AM :: 11472 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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KELLY WRIGHT: Well, two sources telling Fox News that U.S. intelligence believes a radical Muslim preacher with ties to the suspected Fort Hood shooter is likely dead after an airstrike this morning on Yemen. Yemeni authorities still working to confirm what took place and that Anwar Al-Awlaki was killed along with 29 other militants at a suspected Al Qaeda hideout.
The American-born imam [is] believed to have corresponded with suspected Fort Hood shooter, Nidal Hasan, before the mass shooting at Fort Hood back on November 5th.
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Thursday, December 24, 2009 |
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Kona Coffee for Christmas in Afghanistan
By Andrew Walden @ 1:30 PM :: 9381 Views :: Hawaii County , National News, World News
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Kona Coffee for the Marines of HMLA-367-Scarface -- 'somewhere' in southern Afghanistan.
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Thursday, December 24, 2009 |
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Senate's Gift to America: A lump of Obamacare
By Andrew Walden @ 12:15 PM :: 7513 Views :: National News, Ethics
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This morning just after 7 AM EST, the United States Senate passed, again on a straight party-line vote, President Barack Obama’s health insurance bill. Originally scheduled for a 9 PM vote tonight, the bill’s Senate passage is a welcome Christmas gift for a beleaguered White House. However, as the First Family jets off for Hawaii, the American people, liberals, moderates, and conservatives are all saying this bill is closer to a lump of coal in their stocking than real health care reform.
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Thursday, December 24, 2009 |
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Furlough settlement: HSTA-DoE to submit new ransom demands to Legislature
By Andrew Walden @ 2:06 AM :: 9668 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Without re-opening the HSTA-DoE Master Agreement, teacher planning days cannot be eliminated. So it would appear that the HSTA and DOE have simply agreed to grab the $50M--or more--and use it to cut out some of the furlough days without any sacrifice on the HSTA's part. The hostage-takers have gotten together and are presenting a new ransom demand.
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009 |
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Obamacare’s Constitutional Problems Proliferating: Senate vote today lays groundwork for court challenge
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:19 PM :: 5526 Views :: National News, Ethics
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The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) wrote in 1994: “A mandate requiring all individuals to purchase health insurance would be an unprecedented form of federal action. The government has never required people to buy any good or service as a condition of lawful residence in the United States.”
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009 |
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DJOU: GOP Pick-up in Obama Country? (Human Events)
By Selected News Articles @ 11:22 AM :: 12611 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The first special U.S. House election of 2010 will be held in the 1st District (Honolulu) of the state that claims Barack Obama as a native son. And this is what makes the upcoming contest most interesting: It could well be won by a Republican.
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009 |
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Six Key Issues the House Must Cave On Before Obamacare Becomes Law
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:44 AM :: 5683 Views :: National News, Ethics
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This morning at around 8 AM, the Senate passed, again on a straight party-line vote, Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) manager’s amendment to the Senate’s version of Obamacare. This keeps the Senate on pace to pass the bill at 9 PM on Christmas Eve despite the fact that Americans overwhelmingly opposed the legislation. But even after the Senate gives President Barack Obama his $2.5 trillion Christmas present, the bill, assuming it is to be considered in regular order, still must go through a House and Senate conference.
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Monday, December 21, 2009 |
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Ed Case announces candidacy -- for SENATE: Calls Hanabusa clueless
By Andrew Walden @ 10:04 PM :: 15459 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Interviewed by The Hill, December 18 Case says: "I’ve never ruled out the Senate. If there is that opportunity, I’m not going to sit here at the end of 2009 and say I’m not going to be a candidate.”
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Monday, December 21, 2009 |
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Heritage: The Health Care Fight Has Just Begun
By Heritage Foundation @ 8:36 PM :: 5890 Views :: National News, Ethics
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This bill will only make every single problem with our health care system worse: higher spending, higher deficits, and worse care. Former-Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean said on Meet the Press yesterday, “[This bill] simply sets us on a track in this country which is expensive and where we’re going to have lots more political fights.” Dean is dead on. President Barack Obama’s signature on this health care bill settles nothing: it is only the beginning of a much larger health care fight.
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Monday, December 21, 2009 |
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Fear of Failure: Candidate Hanabusa says "we cannot afford special election"
By Andrew Walden @ 8:22 PM :: 11676 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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In a bizarre email message to her supporters December 18, Senate President Colleen Hanabusa (D-Koolina) says there is "real concern" about ... "bankrolling a special election we cannot afford...." She suggests the other option would be "doing without representation in Congress for a year."
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Monday, December 21, 2009 |
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Lingle submits plan to close $1.23B Budget shortfall
By News Release @ 8:03 PM :: 10847 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Cost saving measures totaling $452.3 million for FY 2010 that have already been implemented include reducing specific appropriations, eliminating cash funding of capital improvements, debt restructuring and a comprehensive 13.85 percent restriction on operating budget appropriations. In addition, because 60 percent of the State budget pays for salaries and benefits of State employees, the Administration instituted payroll savings through furloughs and reductions in force.
However, these steps alone are not sufficient to close the expanding budget gap for FY 2010, which now totals $721 million.
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Monday, December 21, 2009 |
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Obamacare Medicaid expansion knocks $41M hole in Hawaii State budget--but Nebraska gets free ride
By News Release @ 2:48 PM :: 9034 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Senator Ben Nelson got an unprecedented deal to force federal taxpayers to pick up 100% of the cost of Nebraska's Medicaid expansion--forever.
(Medicaid expansion in Hawaii? Here's the cost >>> Obamacare punches $41M hole in Hawaii State Budget. Looks like Inouye and Akaka don't have the clout that Ben Nelson has. Too bad they're so liberal.)
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Monday, December 21, 2009 |
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One down, two to go: Obamacare passes first cloture vote 60-40
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:56 AM :: 14156 Views :: National News, Ethics
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A cloture vote limits debate to 30 hours. The next vote can be held as early as 7am (EST) Tuesday morning (2AM HST). A third vote would be held thirty hours later at 1PM (EST) Wednesday (8AM HST) followed by the final vote, which requires only a simple majority at roughly 7PM (EST) Christmas Eve (2PM HST). Each of the two remaining cloture votes requires that all 60 Democrats show up. If one Democrat misses the vote or changes his vote, the entire bill fails.
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Sunday, December 20, 2009 |
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Akaka Bill Preview: Tribes Boot Members Keep Loot
By Andrew Walden @ 12:12 AM :: 37057 Views :: Akaka Bill
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“From San Diego to Clear Lake, 57 tribes are cashing in on the annual $7.7 billion California Indian gambling boom, and some are throwing out many of their own members - all, critics say, so those remaining can pocket more cash. In many cases, that amounts to monthly allowances of up to $30,000 per person."
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Saturday, December 19, 2009 |
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Obamacare Senate Vote 1AM Monday -- Reid still short on votes?
By News Release @ 1:31 PM :: 5645 Views :: National News, Ethics
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FreedomWorks has learned that it is Reid's intention to bring up the decisive cloture vote for the Left’s proposed government takeover of America’s health care system at 1:00 AM (EST) Monday Morning (8PM HST).
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Friday, December 18, 2009 |
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UHERO Hawaii Quarterly Forecast Update: Recovery will not quickly yield tangible benefits
By News Release @ 5:19 PM :: 8034 Views :: Energy, Environment
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While there are now clearer signs of an imminent recovery, risks abound, including possible additional fallout from state and local government fiscal crises and a possible stall in the global upturn. The beginning of local recovery will not quickly yield tangible benefits for many local households. Jobs will still be hard to find for several years, social welfare needs will abate only slowly, and income losses for public and private sector workers will persist for some time.
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Friday, December 18, 2009 |
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Human Events: Only 34 Percent of Hawaii Supports Akaka Bill
By Selected News Articles @ 4:42 PM :: 10347 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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With President Bush no longer wielding a veto and a Hawaiian in the White House, Democrats would need to stumble badly to botch the passage of the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act. Fortunately for conservatives, that's exactly what's happening.
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Friday, December 18, 2009 |
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Show me the money: The Hugo Chavez Case for Cap and Trade
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:09 AM :: 7978 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Throughout the conference, one of the biggest obstacles to an agreement was the insistence of developing nations that rich countries sign a binding treaty that included a large transfer of wealth to the developing world. If there were any doubts that wealth distribution was at the heart of climate cap-and-trade agreements, President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Hugo Chavez put them to rest when he delivered his anti-capitalist diatribe that drew thunderous applause from the convention’s delegates Wednesday....
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Thursday, December 17, 2009 |
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Senate Indian Affairs Committee passes amended Akaka Bill--could exclude majority of Hawaiians from Tribe
By Andrew Walden @ 7:21 PM :: 11015 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Like the failed House amendments, the new version of S1011 creates a previously unknown category of "Qualified Native Hawaiian Constituents" which will exclude tens of thousands of Native Hawaiians from membership in the Akaka Tribe while at the same time opening the doors to people who are not ethnically Hawaiian. It is likely that the vast majority of Hawaiians living outside of Hawaii will be excluded from becoming the Akaka Tribe under the rules laid down in Section 12 of the S1011.
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Thursday, December 17, 2009 |
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Lt Gov Duke Aiona releases campaign video biography
By News Release @ 6:21 PM :: 9761 Views :: Energy, Environment
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This 10 minute video lays out the primary themes of Duke Aiona's campaign for Governor. See it here...
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Thursday, December 17, 2009 |
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Senate Indian Affairs Committee to hear Akaka Bill at 9:15AM HST
By Andrew Walden @ 11:31 AM :: 8368 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Will Dan Akaka introduce the existing version of S1011 or will he introduce a new version of S1011 modeled on the version of HR2314 which blew up in Neil Abercrombie's face yesterday?
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Thursday, December 17, 2009 |
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Obamacare: Conservatives, leftists unite against the Individual Mandate
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:09 AM :: 5632 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Explaining why he would vote against the Senate version of Obamacare if he were a Senator, former-Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean told MSNBC last night: “You’re going to be forced to buy health insurance from a company that is going to take on average of 27% of your money … and there is no choice about that. If you don’t buy that insurance you are going to get a fine.” For this heresy, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs suggested Dean was irrational....
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009 |
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Smith: HSTA seeks to limit after-school programs
By News Release @ 5:41 PM :: 7902 Views :: Energy, Environment
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HSTA has side-stepped the primary issue by proposing to reopen portions of the original contract unrelated to the furlough issue and is seeking changes that would compromise the safety of the children and limit their after-school programs. The HSTA is now saying they do not want teachers to participate in campus and playground supervision responsibilities during lunch hours. And they no longer want teachers to voluntarily participate in school-related activities after the regular school day – such as glee club, debate team, robotics, or prom night.
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009 |
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Howard Dean Is Right, This Is Not Health Care Reform
By Heritage Foundation @ 5:34 PM :: 5318 Views :: National News, Ethics
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This is essentially the collapse of health care reform in the United States Senate. And, honestly, the best thing to do right now is kill the Senate bill and go back to the House … You have the vast majority of Americans want the choices, they want real choices. They don’t have them in this bill. This is not health care reform and it’s not close to health care reform.
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009 |
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Rejected: Akaka rewrite blows up in Abercrombie's face--but original version passes
By News Release @ 4:21 PM :: 11838 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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At the outset of the hearing, Republicans expressed their fundamental constitutional concerns with this effort to create a separate governing entity for Native Hawaiians, and served full notice to Committee Democrats that we intended to use every House rule and parliamentary tool available to us to insist our concerns be heard. Until Representative Abercrombie stated his intentions to not push forward the proposed changes, Republicans demonstrated their dedication to using all tools available to them.
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009 |
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Hearing stalls as Democrats attempt Markup of rewritten Akaka Bill
By Andrew Walden @ 1:19 PM :: 10222 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Over the years, they’ve both traveled here to Washington, D.C. and testified to Congress in favor of the original text of the bill. Now that the bill has been substantially rewritten behind closed doors, they’ve been compelled to send a five-page letter expressing opposition to the proposed changes the Committee is scheduled to consider today. The Attorney General and Governor have only had the full text of the proposed changes for a matter of, literally, hours. Postponing until February 24th will allow them time to fully review the changes and have their concerns understood and considered by this Committee.
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009 |
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FULL TEXT: Abercrombie's secret rewritten Akaka Bill
By Andrew Walden @ 12:10 PM :: 10534 Views :: Akaka Bill
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Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI) denies there is an "Akaka Bill Sneak Attack". He claims that the Akaka Bill process is "transparent." Yet only now--as the US House Committee on Natural Resources is debating Abercrombie's proposed Akaka Bill rewrite--has a complete copy of Abercrombie's proposed rewrite been made available to the public. Clcik here to read the full revised bill being proposed by Neil Abercrombie.
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009 |
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Live Webcast: House Natural Resources Committee hearings on the Akaka Bill
By Andrew Walden @ 2:17 AM :: 11483 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The live webcasts will begin approximately 10 minutes prior to the start of the hearing. Hearing begins at 5AM HST (10AM EST) Weds December 16.
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009 |
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Zogby: Majority of Hawaii voters against Akaka Bill
By News Release @ 8:15 PM :: 13071 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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A new poll of registered Hawaii voters, conducted by Zogby International, has found that a majority of those surveyed oppose the Akaka Bill. The poll was conducted from November 18 to 23, 2009. Zogby International surveyed more than 500 registered voters in Hawaii.
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009 |
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SHOCK: Lingle, Bennett denounce new version Akaka Bill (full text)
By News Release @ 5:53 PM :: 13055 Views :: Akaka Bill
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These changes, taken together, change the bill from one where the status quo and the relations between the United States, the State of Hawaii, and the Native Hawaiian governing entity can be changed only after negotiations and after passage of implementing legislation, to a model in which the status quo immediately changes, pursuant to an Indian law model.
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009 |
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Did Inouye Lie? National Review confirms "Akaka Bill Sneak Attack" claim
By Selected News Articles @ 5:43 PM :: 12134 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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For years (since 1999), Daniel Akaka has been trying to make the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act law. On Friday afternoon, the minority on the House Natural Resources Committee got word that there will be a mark-up on it on Wednesday. Apparently there's an agreement on the bill, but Republicans on the committee haven't seen it. The Hill rumor is that Democrats plan to attach Akaka to the Department of Defense funding bill before this session ends — basically, sneaking it in at a busy, contentious time of year to avoid full debate.
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009 |
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House Republicans call for Akaka Bill to be removed from Markup
By News Release @ 5:12 PM :: 12121 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Early last week, an agreement was reached with the Democrat Majority that Wednesday’s markup would consist of non-controversial bills that could be considered quickly. Democrats issued notice on Friday that the Native Hawaiian bill would be added. The Majority has had no communication with Republicans regarding this legislation since they canceled a markup on this bill without explanation in early July....
The magnitude of the changes being proposed deserve careful consideration and an opportunity for all those who may be impacted, especially the people and elected leaders of the State of Hawaii, to properly review the rewritten text. The proposed changes have only been available to the Republican side of the Committee for a matter of days, and the State of Hawaii has had the full text of the proposed changes for only a matter of hours.
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009 |
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HSTA playbook copied: NY Teachers unions also sabotage efforts to win "Race to the Top" dollars
By Selected News Articles @ 12:05 PM :: 11073 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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New York’s stubborn resistance to the data revolution not only harms the education our children receive; it leaves hundreds of millions of federal dollars on the table during a massive budget crunch. The Obama administration’s Race to the Top grant competition will distribute $4.35 billion to states that pursue modern education reforms. According to the competition’s rules, however, any state with a law that prohibits the use of test-score data to evaluate teachers is immediately disqualified from consideration. A state’s application also becomes more attractive under the guidelines if its data set matches students to teachers. Currently, New York fails on both counts.
And so does Hawaii....
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