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Tuesday, January 26, 2010 |
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Panos Prevodouros will run for Honolulu mayor
By News Release @ 2:43 AM :: 6504 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12
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I am pleased to inform you that today, on the Rick Hamada show, I announced my intent to become a candidate for mayor of the City and County of Honolulu when the office becomes vacant.
As you know, the regular election for mayor is not until 2012 but Mufi Hannemann has declared an interest in the race for Governor. However, unlike U.S. Representative Neil Abercrombie who declared his intent to resign, Mayor Hannemann has not declared any such intent, thus today I am simply saying that if he resigns then I will run for mayor.
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Monday, January 25, 2010 |
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Chamber of Commerce: House Bill before Committee Tuesday not enough to reduce Unemployment "tax shock"
By News Release @ 3:26 PM :: 7470 Views :: Energy, Environment
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A hearing has been scheduled on two unemployment insurance bills for this Tuesday, January 26 at 9:00 a.m. at the State Capitol in Room 309. Chair Rhoads did not put the Chamber’s bill on the agenda, only his and Vice Chair’s Kyle Yamashita’s bill because he probably prefers to use one of these as a vehicle.
Although the bills provide some tax relief, the Chamber believes they do not provide enough assistance to help reduce the "tax shock" and safeguard the statewide unemployment rate. Therefore, we are asking the committees to amend the bills.
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Monday, January 25, 2010 |
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State of the State: Make DoE a cabinet department; fund STEM, robotics
By News Release @ 2:46 PM :: 6979 Views :: Energy, Environment
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GOVERNOR LINGLE PROPOSES STRUCTURAL REFORM OF PUBLIC EDUCATION SCHOOL SYSTEM GOVERNANCE
GOVERNOR LINGLE AUTHORIZES $2.8 MILLION IN FEDERAL STIMULUS FUNDS TO ENHANCE ROBOTICS EDUCATION IN HAWAI‘I SCHOOLS
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Monday, January 25, 2010 |
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State of the State: Proposals to cut unemployment taxes, create jobs
By News Release @ 2:44 PM :: 7378 Views :: Energy, Environment
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GOVERNOR LINGLE INTRODUCES PROPOSAL TO SAVE BUSINESSES $497 MILLION IN UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE TAXES
GOVERNOR LINGLE PROPOSES HAWAI‘I CLEAN ENERGY INVESTMENT BONDS
GOVERNOR LINGLE ANNOUNCES INITIATIVES TO CREATE JOBS, GET RESIDENTS BACK TO WORK
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Monday, January 25, 2010 |
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Lingle: Divert 5% to create “fiscal stabilization fund”
By News Release @ 2:30 PM :: 5525 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Governor Linda Lingle announced in her State of the State Address she will propose a constitutional amendment to rename and revise the State’s Rainy Day Fund to create a Fiscal Stabilization Fund. This fund will shield Hawai‘i in future years from the need to raise taxes during periods when the economy is contracting and citizens can least afford to pay more.
The Fiscal Stabilization Fund will ensure that in years when tax revenues are growing, 5 percent of the general fund’s end of year balance will be placed in the Stabilization Fund prior to granting the currently mandated refund to taxpayers.
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Monday, January 25, 2010 |
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State of the State Address: Full Text
By Gov. Linda Lingle @ 2:25 PM :: 8835 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Full Text of Governor Lingle's 8th State of the State address -- delivered to joint session of Hawaii Legislature 10 AM Monday January 25, 2010. Title: "Reaffirmation and Rededication".
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Friday, January 22, 2010 |
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Gay Civil Unions Bill passes Senate: Hawaii Family Forum re-focuses on House
By News Release @ 9:47 PM :: 10465 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Action will now be focused on the House which has to agree to the amendments made by the Senate. If they agree, then all House members will need to vote to approve. If the House disagrees to the amendment, it will then be given to a Conference Committee made up of members of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees.
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Friday, January 22, 2010 |
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5-4: Supreme Court rejects FEC bans of books, movies critical of candidates
By Selected News Articles @ 8:05 PM :: 10139 Views :: National News, Ethics
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A decision characterized by Democrats as opening the door to “corporate” funding of election campaigns stems from a 2007 Decision by the Federal Election Commission to ban advertising and promotion of “Hillary the Movie” because it referenced a candidate for federal office.
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Friday, January 22, 2010 |
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Star-Bulletin/KITV gubernatorial, congressional polls larded with 210% more Democrats
By Andrew Walden @ 2:53 PM :: 14882 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The poll included 486 “likely Democratic primary voters”—61% of the 800 registered voters sampled. This is 210% of the 29% of registered voters who participated in the 2008 Hawaii Democrat primary ....
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Friday, January 22, 2010 |
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Conservatives Deserve a Voice Toward Real Health Reform
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:36 PM :: 5767 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Tuesday's election in Massachusetts sent shockwaves across Capitol Hill as voters rejected the idea that the only true course for health reform was to raise taxes, raise spending, raise premiums and put the federal government in charge of yet another unpaid-for entitlement crisis. Campaigning as the 41st vote against Obamacare and the fiscally-irresponsible policies of the Obama administration, Senator-elect Scott Brown (R-MA) seized on the frustration Americans feel toward the direction Washington is heading. But saying 'no' to Obamacare is only a first step. It's also critical that conservatives continue to offer alternative solutions to the health care and entitlement problems that our nation faces.
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Thursday, January 21, 2010 |
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Hawaii Legislators’ pay tops nation
By Andrew Walden @ 11:46 PM :: 18814 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics
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Whoever said “you get what you pay for” must have meant it ironically.
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Thursday, January 21, 2010 |
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Hawaii Family Forum calls for action: Senate to hear HB444 Gay Civil Unions Friday
By News Release @ 2:58 PM :: 10433 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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THE SENATE IS READY TO PASS HB 444 SD1 ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 22
(SENATE GALLERY OPENS AT 11:30 AM)
WE NEED YOUR ACTION AND COMMITMENT NOW!
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Thursday, January 21, 2010 |
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Obama forms “fig leaf” commission to propose tax increases
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:47 PM :: 5655 Views :: National News, Ethics
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From the President who brought you unaccountable, constitutionally-questionable czars comes the latest innovation in pass-the-buck leadership: a White House executive commission designed to solve the behemoth of a spending problem plaguing the federal government. Members of Congress have described the commission as a “nothing burger,” a “fig leaf” and “something that is put in place to kind of cover [President Obama’s] rear end." Colorful critiques aside, it’s an executive commission tasked with making policy recommendations aimed at reducing the country’s projected $1.4 trillion deficit.
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010 |
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Americans Call for Change As U.S. Becomes Less Economically Free
By Heritage Foundation @ 6:57 PM :: 5920 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Scott Brown’s shocking victory in Massachusetts on Tuesday was a shot across the bow of the liberal ruling class in Washington and declared one clear message: Americans do not like the direction the country is heading, and they’re not going to stand for it, even in the solidly-blue Bay State.
The United States’ direction today is a dangerous one, even when compared to the country’s state of affairs just one year ago, as revealed in the 2010 Index of Economic Freedom, which we are releasing this morning in a joint project with The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal. The Index analyzes just how economically “free” a country is, and this year America saw a steep and significant decline, enough to make it drop altogether from the “free” category, the first time this has happened in the 16 years we’ve been publishing these indexes. The United States dropped to “mostly free.”
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010 |
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POLITICO: Charles Djou – the next Scott Brown?
By Selected News Articles @ 1:43 PM :: 12328 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Here’s the next potential Scott Brown, or at least a candidate who will spark a debate over whether the national GOP should look at him that way—Charles Djou in Hawaii.
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010 |
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DANGER Hawaii Legislature in Session: Tax increases, Raids on special funds, Gay Civil Unions—and 275 new bills introduced
By News Release @ 1:00 PM :: 5684 Views :: Energy, Environment
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"We can't fix our economic problems by increasing the taxes on businesses. Businesses don't have more money to give to the government especially during these times. Small businesses are the engine of economic growth. Shirokiya's recent announcement of laying off 71 employees in anticipation of the increasing unemployment insurance tax serves as powerful evidence of what businesses will and must do when taxes are increased." -- House Minority Leader Lynn Finnegan
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010 |
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GOP: “Hawaii voters will be next”
By News Release @ 8:33 PM :: 8560 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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“Sen.-elect Scott Brown’s come-from-behind victory, in a solid Democrat state like Massachusetts, clearly shows the American people want different leadership in Congress. Like Sen.-elect Brown, I am troubled by Congress’ multi-trillion dollar budget deficit that recklessly mortgages our children’s future, a multi-billion dollar stimulus package that has done little to alter unemployment and a health care plan that is too expensive and won’t work,” stated Djou.
"From those I've spoken to at the 4,000 doors that I've knocked on in the last two weeks, and from the 1,100 donors to my campaign, it is clear that Hawaii’s voters feel just as frustrated. Hawaii needs a voice from outside the system to fundamentally change the status quo.”
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010 |
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GOP's Brown WINS in Mass. -- Coakley Concedes -- Webb calls for delay on Obamacare vote
By Selected News Articles @ 7:38 PM :: 5948 Views :: National News, Ethics
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THE BOSTON TEA PARTY... (99% of precincts counted)
52% SCOTT BROWN (R) 1,153,808
47% MARTHA COAKLEY (D)D: 1,052,391
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010 |
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Health Care in the Balance as Ground Shifts Under Obama
By Heritage Foundation @ 7:07 PM :: 5571 Views :: National News, Ethics
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One year ago, President Barack Obama delivered his inaugural address at the foot of the Capitol, laid out an agenda of “big plans” for his administration, and chided “cynics” who “fail to understand that the ground has shifted beneath them.” One year later, as voters head to the ballot box in Massachusetts, it seems that the ground very well may have shifted under President Obama.
And that ground shift might spell trouble for the President’s health care magnum opus.
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010 |
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Monday, January 18, 2010 |
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Feds: "City will need a stronger financial plan" before moving forward with Rail Transit
By Gov. Linda Lingle @ 7:16 PM :: 6588 Views
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I want to thank the American Institute of Architects – Honolulu Chapter for being willing to share their information and point of view with the broader public. The members of the AIA are pro-transit. They are pro-development. They make their living off of development. But they have some concerns about the project as it’s proposed and they wanted to present them to me and now, to the public. They have nothing to gain personally by making this presentation and I believe they have a lot to lose when it comes to future contracts with the City. I admire them for being willing to step forward in this fashion.
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Monday, January 18, 2010 |
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Rallies on Oahu, Maui, Kauai: 15,000 against Gay Civil Unions
By Andrew Walden @ 3:17 PM :: 23977 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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An estimated 15,000 Hawaii residents rallied Sunday at the Capitol against passage of House Bill 444 which would enact gay civil unions into law. They were backed by another 500 protesters gathered at the Wailuku State Building on Maui.
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Sunday, January 17, 2010 |
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UPDATE Oahu, Maui Protests January 17th: Gay Civil Unions HB444 poised for passage in 2010
By News Release @ 12:05 AM :: 17632 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Attend the Rally at the State Capitol on Sunday, January 17th (2:00 pm – 3:30 pm) to support traditional marriage and other pro-family policies. AND MAUI -- Wailuku State Building, Wailuku, Maui Sunday, January 17 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
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Saturday, January 16, 2010 |
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Pact with Gaia: Danny Glover--Haiti Quake caused by Copenhagen failure (VIDEO)
By Selected News Articles @ 8:06 PM :: 8812 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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VIDEO: “When we see what we did at the climate summit in Copenhagen, this is the response, this is what happens, you know what I’m sayin’?”
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Saturday, January 16, 2010 |
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Over $400K raised: Djou announces fundraising totals
By News Release @ 7:19 PM :: 14559 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Djou's Dec 31 fundraising figures released this afternoon (below) are more than double Ed Case's Dec. 15 figures. Djou's Dec. 31 cash on hand is 263% of Case's Dec. 15 cash on hand. Hanabusa is a very distant third.
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Saturday, January 16, 2010 |
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Governor disappointed by arbitrator's UPW "split decision"
By News Release @ 11:31 AM :: 7338 Views :: Energy, Environment
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“This is a split decision as far as I’m concerned,” said Governor Lingle. “The arbitration panel went along with our request for pay cuts for employees of some of the most important 24/7 operations at the State Hospital, the prisons, and the youth correctional facility, but ignored the same request for others.
“We are very disappointed that the panel chose to implement furloughs for employees of the Hawai‘i Health Systems Corporation. A straight pay cut for these employees would be better than furloughs because the nature of the work and the people they serve requires 24/7 attention,” the Governor added.
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Friday, January 15, 2010 |
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Obama's Bank Tax Misses the Real Bailout Deadbeats in Detroit and DC
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:38 PM :: 5861 Views :: National News, Ethics
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The real deadbeats that are not giving us "our money back" are not the banks, but the union-backed car companies and failed government mortgage modification programs. But guess what? The White House has chosen not to include the car companies among the institutions that will pay this so called "Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee." Also exempted are Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored entities that helped create the crisis.
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Thursday, January 14, 2010 |
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HAITI QUAKE - How to help now
By Selected News Articles @ 7:47 PM :: 8488 Views :: National News, World News
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The impoverished nation of Haiti needs your help. Text "HAITI" to "90999" and a donation of $10 will be given automatically to the Red Cross to help with relief efforts, charged to your cell phone bill. Yele Haiti Wyclef Jean's grassroots org -- Text Yele to 501 501 to donate $5 via your cellphone
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Thursday, January 14, 2010 |
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Cook Political Report: Djou is "strong candidate" who has "gotten big break"
By Selected News Articles @ 6:05 PM :: 13211 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Even armed with a strong candidate, Republicans needed a big break to give them any hope of capturing President Obama's native district, which is 11 points more Democratic than the national average. They appear to have gotten one in the form of Abercrombie's early resignation to focus on a gubernatorial bid, which has set up an all-party special election that will likely take place in May. Honolulu Councilman Charles Djou, a Republican, will have the resources to seek a plurality as state Sen. Colleen Hanabusa and former Rep. Ed Case split the Democratic vote.
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Thursday, January 14, 2010 |
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Obamacare: Meeting Behind Closed Doors, Union Bosses Win, Taxpayers Lose
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:06 PM :: 6782 Views :: National News, Ethics
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And just what deals were Big Labor, the leftist majorities in Congress and the Obama administration making behind closed doors? How to pay for President Obama's likely $1 trillion health care plan without raising taxes on one of the President's most loyal constituencies: labor unions. Specifically, Big Labor reportedly has struck a deal with health care negotiators to exempt union members from the 40% excise tax on high-priced health insurance premiums. By some estimates, the tax would hit one in four union members. Now Big Labor will get all of the big government health care spending they always wanted, but they will not have to pay for it.
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010 |
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UPDATE VIDEO: Case vs Hanabusa vs Djou -- first AND SECOND Congressional Debates
By Selected News Articles @ 5:48 PM :: 16134 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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VIDEO: Watch the complete 30 minute January 12 debate from Honolulu Public Access TV here.
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010 |
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DoE's Charter Cap: Another reason Hawaii likely won't get RTTT funds
By News Release @ 2:07 PM :: 11590 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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This report is actually good news. Because of the DoE/HSTA efforts to crush Charter Schools, the DoE has already done enough to make sure that the RTTT funds--and the accountability requirements that come with them--won't be coming to Hawaii. So they no longer need to force furloughs onto instructional days in order to keep RTTT out.
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010 |
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Political porn: LA Times comes to Hawaii for a quickie
By Andrew Walden @ 1:44 AM :: 13547 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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Democrats across the nation are on the ropes as Americans turn against Obamacare, taxes, and failed "stimulus." Unemployment and debt race to the top as Obamanomics drives everybody else to the bottom. Terrorism is again rearing its ugly head and the President shows only weakness. Obama's numbers are in the tank and continue to decline. Congressional Democrats are jumping overboard like rats from the proverbial sinking ship and Democrat Congressional candidate recruits are dropping out as analysts debate how large GOP gains will be this November.
In these hard times, where could the liberal LA Times still find defeatist Republicans whose utter demoralization could provide its lefty readers a quick peep at a political porn show to numb their pain?
The small dissident group known as Hawaii Republican Assembly, that's where.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010 |
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$787 Billion in Stimulus, Zero Jobs "Created or Saved"
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:49 PM :: 5865 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Even where infrastructure spending has been spent, the hard evidence shows that there has not been any positive effect on unemployment. According to an Associated Press analysis reviewed by independent economists at five universities, the $20 billion spent nationwide on infrastructure so far "has had no effect on local unemployment rates."
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010 |
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Aiona campaign announces "Grassroots Leadership Team"
By News Release @ 3:42 PM :: 21659 Views :: Hawaii County , Akaka Bill, Honolulu County, Democratic Party, Kauai County, DHHL, Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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HONOLULU – Duke Aiona today announced five county chairs and co-chairs and 13 regional chairs for his growing campaign. The leadership team will provide grassroots support to mobilize and turn out voters for Duke Aiona in the 2010 gubernatorial election.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010 |
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Gay marriage on trial: Stacking the Deck Against Proposition 8
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:08 PM :: 7652 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The much-anticipated trial to determine the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8 is scheduled to begin this morning in the case of Perry v. Schwarzenegger. What's at stake in this case, filed in federal district court in San Francisco on behalf of two gay couples, is not just the right of California voters to reaffirm the definition of marriage as only between a man and a woman, but also whether marriage may be otherwise defined in any state.
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Monday, January 11, 2010 |
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Hey Obama, Who's Freddy?
By Andrew Walden @ 11:40 PM :: 17935 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Is it possible? Did we miss one? With all the Marxists dug out from the very public -- yet very opaque -- story of President Barack Obama's life, could there be room for one more, hiding in plain sight on page 24 of Dreams from My Father?
A Japanese-American man who called himself Freddy and ran a small market near our house would save us the choicest cuts of aku for sashimi and give me rice candy with edible wrappers.
Who's Freddy?
I nominate the late Wilfred Mitsuji Oka, former proprietor of the Corner Liquor Store in Honolulu's Chinatown.
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Monday, January 11, 2010 |
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Case implies Hanabusa campaign is dirty and negative
By Andrew Walden @ 11:07 PM :: 17105 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Endorsing Colleen Hanabusa (D-Koolina), Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI) Saturday claimed "She's got integrity. She's a very principled woman." This may come as quite a surprise to readers of Governor Ben Cayetano's (D-HI) autobiography, in which he ties Hanabusa's Broken Trust connections to her dealings on behalf of Jeff Stone's Ko'olina project. But Ed Case's ire was raised to challenge Inouye's "recollection of the facts" on another matter.
In an email blast sent out this morning, Case claims, "There is and must be a better way forward than just more old-style control politics." Case challenges Inouye's recitation of the 2006 Case vs Akaka primary campaign
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Monday, January 11, 2010 |
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Cast Your ballot: Abercrombie nominated "2009 Porker of the Year"
By News Release @ 2:20 PM :: 10126 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Neil with his friends, Mr Broken Trust, and Brother Sandwich Isles.
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Monday, January 11, 2010 |
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The deciding vote on Obamacare: Will a Republican JAG Officer win Kennedy's former Senate seat?
By Selected News Articles @ 12:52 PM :: 6782 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Scott Brown is a Massachusetts State Senator running for the U.S.Senate as a Republican in a special election to fill the vacancy left by the death of Senator Ted Kennedy. The Massachusetts special election to fill the seat is less than two weeks away (January 19) and the polls indicate that the race is tightening. Scott Brown, who is a solid moderate Massachusetts Republican with a fiscally conservative record in the Massachusetts State House, stands poised to pull off what would be the upset of the century.
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Saturday, January 9, 2010 |
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Illegal aliens get past TSA, jet off to Hawaii with forged ID
By Andrew Walden @ 1:00 PM :: 27138 Views :: Law Enforcement
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Thousands of airline passengers on domestic US flights are using forged IDs to get past TSA screeners and board commercial flights under assumed names. Just days after the al-Qaeda Panty Bomber tried to blow NW Flight 253 out of the sky, evidence leading to acquittals in a Honolulu illegal alien smuggling case has exposed the US Transportation Safety Administration’s repeated failure to spot phony IDs.
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Friday, January 8, 2010 |
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FreedomWorks: Flip three votes and Obamacare fails in House
By News Release @ 6:50 PM :: 5374 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Pelosi barely held Democrats together in passing ObamaCare the first time. A narrow 220 to 215 margin means we can kill ObamaCare in the House by flipping just 3 votes!
FreedomWorks has identified 13 critical Democrat targets that we believe are the most likely to abandon Pelosi in her quest to socialize health care.
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Friday, January 8, 2010 |
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Lingle proposes new plan to eliminate Furlough Fridays
By News Release @ 6:45 PM :: 8511 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Under the Governor’s latest plan, up to $50 million from the Rainy Day Fund would be used to restore 12 furlough Fridays – five this semester and seven in the 2010-2011 school year.
An additional 12 instructional days – two this semester and 10 in the next school year – would be gained by using days when teachers are paid to be in their classrooms but do not teach students.
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Friday, January 8, 2010 |
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Two more Muslims, of all people, arrested in New York 9-11 anniversary bomb plot
By Selected News Articles @ 4:30 PM :: 8351 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Zazi, 24, an Afghan national was nabbed after sweeping raids on Queens apartment buildings in September. The raids turned up evidence of bomb-making materials, and Zazi was charged with conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction.
Medunjanin, 25, who is believed to have accompanied Zazi to an Al Qaeda training camp in Pakistan in 2008, fled in his car Thursday when he came home and saw agents swarming over his apartment, sources said.
He made it as far as Whitestone, Queens, where he crashed on the Whitestone Expressway about 4 p.m....
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Friday, January 8, 2010 |
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Obama "Kills the initiative and morale of our intelligence employees"
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:32 AM :: 9001 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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The President promised he would direct “our intelligence community immediately begin assigning specific responsibility for investigating all leads on high-priority threats so that these leads are pursued and acted upon aggressively — not just most of the time, but all of the time.” And he added: “In addition to the corrective efforts that I’ve ordered, I’ve directed agency heads to establish internal accountability reviews, and directed my national security staff to monitor their efforts.”
But this failure of our intelligence system was not just about lack of accountability. It was about empowerment - or more specifically the lack thereof. The system simply moved too slowly because there was a lack of urgency about the war on terror. Intelligence personnel were not empowered to employ their ingenuity and resourcefulness to connect the dots. Adding layers of “internal accountability reviews” will only make the bureaucratic stupor worse.
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Thursday, January 7, 2010 |
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Passenger taken off flight: "I'm Palestinian and I want to kill all the Jews"
By Selected News Articles @ 11:23 PM :: 8835 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Mansor Mohammad Asad, 43, has been charged with threats against a public servant, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after the incident aboard Delta Airlines flight 2485, according to the Miami-Dade Police Department.
Witnesses told investigators that Asad yelled anti-Semitic references such as, "I'm Palestinian and I want kill all the Jews," in Arabic. The pilot turned around as the plane was taxiing for take-off at 6:35 p.m., according to police.
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Thursday, January 7, 2010 |
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Governor nominates DCCA Dir Reifurth to Intermediate Court of Appeals
By News Release @ 6:25 PM :: 8454 Views :: Energy, Environment
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HONOLULU – Governor Linda Lingle today nominated Lawrence M. Reifurth to serve as a judge on the Hawai‘i Intermediate Court of Appeals. Reifurth would fill the vacancy created when Governor Lingle named Judge Craig Nakamura to serve as chief judge of the Intermediate Court of Appeals. Reifurth’s nomination is subject to confirmation by the State Senate.
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Thursday, January 7, 2010 |
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Democrats jump from sinking Congress after healthcare "mistake" -- Obama proposes third "stimulus"
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:16 PM :: 5595 Views :: National News, Ethics
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The Democratic Party was shaken to its core on Tuesday when Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT), Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) and Gov. Bill Ritter (D-CO) announced they would not run for re-election in 2010, all on the same day. The source of these Democrats’ fears in facing the American people at the polls is no secret: the American people believe the state of the economy is poor and getting worse. Responding to this dismal environment, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) told the Fremont Tribune on Tuesday: “I think it was a mistake to take health care on as opposed to continuing to spend the time on the economy.”
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Thursday, January 7, 2010 |
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Hamamoto's DoE resignation: To block Lingle's constitutional amendment?
By Andrew Walden @ 4:06 AM :: 12197 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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While Hamamoto said politics were not part of her decision to resign, she spoke out yesterday against a state constitutional amendment proposed by Lingle to make the DOE superintendent a Cabinet-level position, under the governor's control.
"Politics should not be part of what goes on in the school room," Hamamoto said. "The superintendent has to be able to advocate for what is right for the kids. You have to be apolitical in order to advocate for the children. That should be the first priority of a superintendent. The second priority is ensuring organizational stability. How do you ensure stability if teachers and administrators think they will be jerked around every four or eight years?"
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