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Tuesday, July 20, 2021 |
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Asset Forfeiture Audit: After 30 years Program Finally Gets Administrative Rules
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 11:20 PM :: 2755 Views :: Ethics, Law Enforcement
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... the program was unable to accurately account for forfeited property ....
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Tuesday, July 20, 2021 |
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DHHL Seeks Recommendations for 2022 DHHL Legislative Package
By News Release @ 10:54 PM :: 2358 Views :: DHHL
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... Every year, the Department prepares and submits legislative proposals for inclusion in the Governor’s Administrative Package for the next session of the Hawaiʻi State Legislature ....
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Tuesday, July 20, 2021 |
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Mayor Victorino vetoes hotel construction moratorium bill
By News Release @ 10:48 PM :: 3239 Views :: Maui County, Development, Tourism
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"... concerned about unintended consequences such as pushing hospitality developments into communities outside of Maui’s resort areas ...."
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Tuesday, July 20, 2021 |
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Trumpster Anti-Vaxxers Target BYUH
By News Release @ 5:40 PM :: 5639 Views :: Higher Education, COVID-19
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... Within 2 days of receiving this response from BYUH, Sandor's case was being highlighted on TPUSA. Five days after that she was on the Hannity Show ....
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Tuesday, July 20, 2021 |
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$34M rate hike to pay rich people to get discount solar battery program
By News Release @ 4:33 PM :: 3576 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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... “This is exciting,” said Rocky Mould, executive director of the Hawaii Solar Energy Association ....
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Tuesday, July 20, 2021 |
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Guam shows value of competition in U.S. shipping
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:00 PM :: 2479 Views :: Jones Act
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... The territory’s exemption from the U.S.-build mandate of the Jones Act should apply to all U.S. ports to boost competition and lower costs ....
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Tuesday, July 20, 2021 |
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$50B: State Climate Commission Helps Grifters Cash In on Climate Change Hype
By News Release @ 1:04 AM :: 2348 Views :: Environment
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... As federal funds are readied for disbursement, Hawaii insiders need to be poised to receive ....
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Monday, July 19, 2021 |
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COVID School Closures: Who are we trying to protect?
By Selected News Articles @ 11:58 PM :: 2919 Views :: Education K-12, COVID-19
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... We say it’s for the safety of your children, but it is clear that the decisions Hawaii is making in regards to COVID policies are for the sake of some adults ....
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Monday, July 19, 2021 |
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Next Boondoggle: USACE, City of Honolulu Sign Agreement for Ala Wai Flood Study
By News Release @ 11:02 PM :: 4115 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Development, Military
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... The signing allows USACE and the City and County of Honolulu to develop a salespitch that appears to balance costs and environmental impacts ....
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Monday, July 19, 2021 |
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Ha'ena 'Adaptive Tourism' Plan Starts with Lots of Expensive Parking Tickets
By News Release @ 10:47 PM :: 3263 Views :: Kauai County, Law Enforcement, Tourism
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... The HSP Master Plan caps daily visitation at Hāʻena to 900 people ....
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Sunday, July 18, 2021 |
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Aalto’s Conflicts of Interest Disqualify Him for HART Board
By News Release @ 10:06 PM :: 3705 Views :: Ethics, Rail
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... Aalto's movies given major funding by rail supporters ....
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Sunday, July 18, 2021 |
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Miske News: Union Boss Gets Greedy -- Almost Pays Price in Blood
By Andrew Walden @ 7:44 PM :: 8205 Views :: Labor, Law Enforcement, Drugs
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... Akau said the problem involved hiring for jobs on the docks, and that removing Victim 12 “would help the flow of jobs onto the docks.”…
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Sunday, July 18, 2021 |
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All public school students to receive free meals throughout school year 2021-22
By News Release @ 3:09 PM :: 2461 Views :: Education K-12, COVID-19
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... thanks to a nationwide waiver from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The waiver aims to minimize the possible spread of COVID-19 at schools across the country by eliminating meal payment transactions in school cafeterias ....
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Sunday, July 18, 2021 |
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Shoring Up Water Transportation
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 3666 Views :: Jones Act, Small Business, Cost of Living
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... On July 9, 2021, President Biden issued the “Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy.” There wasn’t much media coverage ....
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Saturday, July 17, 2021 |
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Ethics: COVID Profiteering by DoH Employee
By News Release @ 9:50 PM :: 3125 Views :: Ethics, Health Care
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... used his state computer and state email account to send an email to the Chief Executive Officer of a private health care facility in which he solicited the CEO to purchase personal protective equipment from a private company, M&W Suppliers ....
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Saturday, July 17, 2021 |
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Coalitions are the key to change
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 9:16 PM :: 2725 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Jones Act
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... Put together a coalition of voices behind one cause and you instantly become “strong,” worthy of attention ....
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Friday, July 16, 2021 |
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Hawaii Unemployment Rate Drops to 7.7%
By News Release @ 11:12 PM :: 3383 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Small Business
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... Hawaii no longer has the nation’s highest unemployment rate ....
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Thursday, July 15, 2021 |
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It's not a mystery why so many people have been leaving the Aloha State
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:28 PM :: 5089 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... Over the past four years, Hawaii’s population has declined by more than 22,000 people, equaling the third-fastest population decline per capita in the entire nation ....
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Thursday, July 15, 2021 |
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No Vaccination Mandate for UH System
By News Release @ 10:42 PM :: 3055 Views :: Higher Education, COVID-19
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... More than 92% of University of Hawaiʻi students and 95% of UH employees of the 10-campus system have been vaccinated for the COVID-19 virus or plan to be, according to surveys administered in late June ....
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Thursday, July 15, 2021 |
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Ige: Eviction Moratorium Ends August 6
By News Release @ 10:34 PM :: 2625 Views :: Small Business, COVID-19
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... Ige today formally notified the Hawai‘i State Legislature and Chief Justice Mark E. Recktenwald that he will not be issuing any further eviction moratoria once the current moratorium expires on Aug. 6 ....
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Thursday, July 15, 2021 |
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DBEDT Projects Support Military Contracting
By News Release @ 10:20 PM :: 2799 Views :: Military, Small Business
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...“The emerging digital and clean energy in Hawai‘i is well aligned with the mission and purpose of Hawaii’s Defense Economy,” said Mike McCartney, director of DBEDT....
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Thursday, July 15, 2021 |
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How an 1886 maritime law is holding back U.S. tourism
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:00 PM :: 3006 Views :: Jones Act, Tourism
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... Some old laws have withstood the test of time. Some haven’t ....
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Wednesday, July 14, 2021 |
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VIDEO: How Jones Act complicates life in Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico and Guam
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:57 PM :: 2591 Views :: Jones Act
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... how the protectionist federal maritime law known as the Jones Act complicates life in the these outlying states and territories ....
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Wednesday, July 14, 2021 |
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HSTA Continues to Push So-Called 'Distance Learning' for fall term
By News Release @ 10:09 PM :: 3758 Views :: Education K-12, Labor, COVID-19
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... For every teacher the state dedicates to distance learning when students return to class in August, it would need to pull a teacher out of the classroom, state Schools Superintendent Christina Kishimoto said Tuesday ....
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Wednesday, July 14, 2021 |
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2021 Legislature: DLNR Scores Fees and Positions
By News Release @ 9:33 PM :: 3059 Views :: Environment, Taxes, Tourism
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... State lawmakers and DLNR leaders believe the 2021 legislative session was the most productive and effective for natural and cultural resources protection and support of any in recent decades ....
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Wednesday, July 14, 2021 |
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COVID Spying: CLEAR Health Pass Gains Access to ALL of Your Medical Records
By News Release @ 6:00 AM :: 6790 Views :: Tourism, COVID-19
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"... I was asked to release all my medical records from Kaiser Permanente to CLEAR, not just the results of the vaccination ...."
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Wednesday, July 14, 2021 |
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Kahele Introduces Legislation to Reduce DHHL Blood Quantum to 1/32nd
By News Release @ 5:32 AM :: 2714 Views :: DHHL
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... H.J.Res. 55, reduces the successorship qualification of a lessee’s spouse, children, grandchildren and brothers or sisters from one quarter to one thirty-second Hawaiian ....
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Wednesday, July 14, 2021 |
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Sue and Settle: Eco Group 'Sues' BLNR to Stop Aquarium Fishing
By News Release @ 5:11 AM :: 3264 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment, Small Business
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... Today’s complaint, filed in Hawai‘i Circuit Court in Honolulu, challenges the board’s failure to reject the latest environmental impact statement submitted by trade representatives, which the group says violates state environmental protection laws ....
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Tuesday, July 13, 2021 |
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Hawaii: Harshest penalties for underage drivers with DUI
By Selected News Articles @ 12:00 PM :: 2698 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Law Enforcement
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... The cost to insure underage and 30-year-old drivers increases by 214% on average after just one violation ....
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Monday, July 12, 2021 |
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Groundbreaking for New Women's Jail
By News Release @ 11:43 PM :: 2290 Views :: Law Enforcement
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“...This is the first major correctional facility construction project since the Halawa Medium Security Facility was completed in 1998....”
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Monday, July 12, 2021 |
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NASA: Moon Wobble to Cause Coastal Flooding
By Selected News Articles @ 11:02 PM :: 4967 Views :: Environment, World News, Development, Land Use
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... But don't worry. We are still going to blame global warming ....
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Sunday, July 11, 2021 |
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Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave?
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 2746 Views :: Taxes, COVID-19
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... Does our government overreach? Yes. Why does it do that? Because we let them ....
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Saturday, July 10, 2021 |
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Starting January 1st, 2022, law-abiding citizens will have the option of owning tasers and stun guns.
By News Release @ 9:20 PM :: 3077 Views :: Second Amendment
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... HB891, written by the Attorney General's office, makes tasers and other electric weapons legal in the state. The Governor did not sign the law but did not veto it either. This means the bill becomes law without his signature ....
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Saturday, July 10, 2021 |
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VIDEO: Hawaii Says Aloha to Gun Education & Kids SAFE Foundation
By Video @ 9:09 PM :: 2733 Views :: Second Amendment
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... leadership from Hawaii Rifle Association with the Hawaii Youth Livestock Association has teamed up with the Kids S.A.F.E. Foundation ....
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Saturday, July 10, 2021 |
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Hawaii Governor Signs Anti-Gun Bills
By NRA ILA @ 9:02 PM :: 3055 Views :: Second Amendment
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... Governor David Ige has signed House Bill 1366 and House Bill 31 into law ....
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Saturday, July 10, 2021 |
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Hawaii Joins Opioid Resolution against Sackler family and their company, Purdue Pharma
By News Release @ 8:55 PM :: 2207 Views :: Drugs
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... Purdue Pharma and the Sacklers must make public more than 30 million documents, including attorney-client privileged communications about the original FDA approval of OxyContin and the tactics used to promote opioids ....
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Saturday, July 10, 2021 |
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Chief Justice Names Maloian to Oahu Family Court
By News Release @ 10:25 AM :: 4882 Views :: Honolulu County, Judiciary
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... Maloian has been a Deputy Public Defender in Honolulu for the past 18 years ....
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Friday, July 9, 2021 |
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Police Corruption Scandals Revenge for Gambling Prosecutions?
By Andrew Walden @ 11:14 PM :: 11479 Views :: Hawaii County , Honolulu County, Ethics, Gambling, Police
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... What part of ‘mutually assured destruction’ did they not understand? ....
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Friday, July 9, 2021 |
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HB862: State Tourism Policy a Schizophrenic Mish-Mash
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 9:06 PM :: 2867 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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... If you want to find something that perfectly captures Hawaii’s schizophrenic tourism policy, you couldn’t do much better than House Bill 862 ....
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Friday, July 9, 2021 |
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Special Session Totals: Six Overrides, Three Amendments
By News Release @ 12:10 AM :: 2271 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... The Governor has until Thursday, July 22 to act on HB1299 and SB589. ...
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Thursday, July 8, 2021 |
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Hana Hwy: HTA asks visitors to travel with tour companies
By News Release @ 11:59 PM :: 2566 Views :: Maui County, Tourism
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... HDOT announced in a press release on June 10 that it has installed approximately 70 “no parking” signs on Hana Highway ....
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Thursday, July 8, 2021 |
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Ige Appoints Ethics Director Daniel Gluck to ICA
By News Release @ 11:00 PM :: 4812 Views :: Judiciary
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... Ige has appointed Executive Director/General Counsel of the Hawai‘i State Ethics Commission Daniel Gluck to the Intermediate Court of Appeals ....
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Thursday, July 8, 2021 |
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Hawaii Energy: Highest Cost, Lowest Usage
By Selected News Articles @ 10:56 PM :: 3344 Views :: Energy, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... 2021’s Most & Least Energy-Expensive States ....
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Thursday, July 8, 2021 |
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HB613: HGEA Cheers Veto of Teachers' Bonus
By News Release @ 10:14 PM :: 3148 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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"...Any changes to your salary and conditions of employment must be negotiated and it was wrong for the Legislature to interfere with the bargaining process...."
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Thursday, July 8, 2021 |
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COVID 'Hazard Pay': HGEA Scores 25% Pay Hike
By News Release @ 9:59 PM :: 4593 Views :: Honolulu County, Labor, COVID-19
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... to each individual HGEA bargaining unit member employed by the City who feels they have worked under hazardous conditions relating to COVID-19 exposure ....
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Thursday, July 8, 2021 |
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Kauai Drug Treatment Center to be Deeded to HHSC
By News Release @ 6:18 PM :: 3464 Views :: Kauai County, OHA, Drugs
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... 29 years after Iniki, will Kauai finally get a youth drug treatment center? ....
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Thursday, July 8, 2021 |
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Ige Nominates Canto to BLNR
By News Release @ 5:01 AM :: 2678 Views :: Maui County, Land Use
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"... Canto is currently employed as a processing assistant for Maui Grown Therapies ...."
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