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Tuesday, April 20, 2021 |
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Survey: Best Hawaii Towns to Start Small Business
By Selected News Articles @ 7:21 PM :: 2886 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business
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... Hilo is the best, Waipahu is the worst ....
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Tuesday, April 20, 2021 |
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HSTA Outlines Plan to Promote Identity Politics in K-12
By News Release @ 6:40 PM :: 2962 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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" ... Free virtual event aims to shift views .... "
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Tuesday, April 20, 2021 |
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HB200: Final Budget Deal Approved by Conference Committee
By News Release @ 6:17 PM :: 2328 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... $31.17 billion through all methods of funding (MOF) for the fiscal biennium beginning July 1, 2021, and ending June 30, 2023 ....
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Tuesday, April 20, 2021 |
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Ige releases $278M for infrastructure projects
By News Release @ 6:02 PM :: 2304 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... the state released more than $278 million for Capital Improvement Projects (CIPs) in the month of March ....
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Monday, April 19, 2021 |
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Hawaii Highest Electric Rates in USA
By News Release @ 9:54 PM :: 3612 Views :: Energy, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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“...When the government inserts itself into markets, taxpayers often foot the bill....”
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Monday, April 19, 2021 |
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Hawaii State-Funded Preschools Score 10 of 10
By News Release @ 9:23 PM :: 2369 Views :: Education K-12
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... This is what happens when the DoE is not involved ....
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Monday, April 19, 2021 |
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Statewide Vax for Age 16+ Begins
By News Release @ 1:12 PM :: 3509 Views :: COVID-19
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... “This is a great opportunity for residents 50 and older on O‘ahu to register before vaccine eligibility opens to everyone 16 and older on April 19...”
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Sunday, April 18, 2021 |
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Is the Pacific Ocean now “ceded land?”
By Andrew Walden @ 11:46 PM :: 4427 Views :: OHA, Small Business, Taxes, Tourism
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... HB1019, creating a new OHA revenue stream at the expense of small dive-tour businesses, is quietly heading to conference committee ....
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Sunday, April 18, 2021 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted April 17, 2021
By GovTrack .us @ 5:55 PM :: 2246 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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... bills introduced and votes in Congress for week ending April 17, 2021 ....
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Sunday, April 18, 2021 |
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DHHL Offers Rent-With-Option-To-Purchase Homes on Hawaiʻi Island
By News Release @ 3:46 PM :: 3421 Views :: Hawaii County , DHHL
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... Sixty homes initiated the project within the Villages of Laʻi ʻŌpua in Kealakehe, Hawaiʻi Island ....
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Sunday, April 18, 2021 |
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State Auditor Facing a Whack Job?
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 5031 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, OHA
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... the report spends lots of time reviewing the Auditor’s recent actions involving the Office of Hawaiian Affairs ....
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Sunday, April 18, 2021 |
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COVID-19 infections, vaccines, and economic recovery
By UHERO @ 3:25 AM :: 3844 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, COVID-19
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... As business activity contracted, the state quickly shed more than 150,000 jobs, and the unemployment rate jumped from 2% to 22% ....
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Sunday, April 18, 2021 |
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Simon Shares Vision for Future as Astronomy Institute Director
By News Release @ 3:12 AM :: 2391 Views :: Higher Education
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... Simons’ appointment as the leader of one of the world’s premier astronomy programs became official at the Board of Regents April 15 meeting ....
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Sunday, April 18, 2021 |
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HSTA Complains About Summer School Plan
By News Release @ 2:58 AM :: 2892 Views :: Education K-12, COVID-19
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... Hawaii Board of Education Thursday approved a plan to spend up to $58 million in federal pandemic aid funds on summer learning loss programs ....
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Sunday, April 18, 2021 |
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HGEA Demands Negotiations over Telework
By News Release @ 2:52 AM :: 2702 Views :: Labor, COVID-19
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"...to provide workplace flexibility for employees who are having to balance work and family responsibilities...."
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Saturday, April 17, 2021 |
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Time to get state out of tourism promotion?
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:06 PM :: 2483 Views :: Tourism
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... Since the launch of the Safe Travels program in October 2020, Hawaii’s tourism industry has been making a comeback ....
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Saturday, April 17, 2021 |
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Hawaii Students Vying for Lifesmarts National Championship
By News Release @ 4:48 AM :: 2080 Views :: Education K-12
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... DCCA is rooting for two Waipahu High School teams as they compete virtually in the LifeSmarts National Championship this weekend ....
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Friday, April 16, 2021 |
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Mauna Kea Hui: 'Hawaiians are not a Tribe'
By News Release @ 8:54 PM :: 12989 Views :: Akaka Bill, DHHL, Congressional Delegation, OHA
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"...letter to Secretary of Interior, Deb Haaland, in advance of a congressional proposal for Hawaiian reparations...."
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Friday, April 16, 2021 |
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How to make lemonade out of the rail project
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 8:19 PM :: 2582 Views :: Rail
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"... Uno said he has come to the conclusion that the rail is neither a construction project nor a transportation project. Instead, it is “a political project” — one in which all concerns about costs, waste and transparency are subordinate to political goals ...."
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Friday, April 16, 2021 |
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Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 8:15 PM :: 3564 Views :: Family, Life, COVID-19
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... Governor Ige Signs Abortion Expansion Bill ....
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Friday, April 16, 2021 |
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Hawaii: Anti-Gun Bills Go to Governor
By NRA ILA @ 5:39 AM :: 2538 Views :: Second Amendment
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... Earlier this week, the Senate voted to pass House Bill 1366 and House Bill 31. The bills will now be transmitted to Governor David Ige for his consideration....
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Friday, April 16, 2021 |
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Hawaii Unemployment Drops to 9.0%
By News Release @ 4:24 AM :: 2983 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor, COVID-19
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... compared to 9.2 percent in February ....
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Thursday, April 15, 2021 |
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Mobility Data Shows Fewer Residents Staying at Home
By UHERO @ 10:21 PM :: 2626 Views :: Tourism, COVID-19
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... A potential cause of the recent virus spread is the decline in the share of people staying at home and a rise in gatherings ....
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Thursday, April 15, 2021 |
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VIDEO: Should Government Account for Long-Term Liabilities?
By Grassroot Institute @ 9:36 PM :: 2131 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... the private Government Accounting Standards Board is considering rule changes that would make it easier for governments to ignore long-term liabilities when crafting short-term budgets ....
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Thursday, April 15, 2021 |
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2021 UH Legislative Update, including proposed budget cuts
By News Release @ 6:42 PM :: 3338 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Higher Education, COVID-19
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... Many of the reductions are hopefully made up with federal stimulus funding ....
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Thursday, April 15, 2021 |
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After Kaka'ako Makai Debacle: 'OHA Shall Seek Decision Making Influence over All Land in Hawai'i'
By Andrew Walden @ 6:08 AM :: 5054 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Development, Land Use, OHA
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... OHA shall promote the idea that every property in Hawai'i is sacred and pursue initiatives that help achieve a broad acceptance of this truth ....
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Thursday, April 15, 2021 |
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Honolulu $1 billion-a-mile rail boondoggle a warning to Biden ‘Build Back’ plan
By Selected News Articles @ 3:10 AM :: 2937 Views :: Rail
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... “This rail service began as one of those ‘shovel ready’ projects funded by the Obama-Biden stimulus program a decade ago. While never completed, it’s still digging a deeper money pit for taxpayer dollars” ....
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Thursday, April 15, 2021 |
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Hawaii 2nd Best State for Children’s Health Care
By Selected News Articles @ 3:09 AM :: 3276 Views :: Family, Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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... 2021’s Best & Worst States for Children’s Health Care ....
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Thursday, April 15, 2021 |
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Hawaii State and Local Taxes $7,332 per person
By Tax Foundation @ 2:59 AM :: 3011 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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... Hawaii taxes 5th highest in USA ....
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Thursday, April 15, 2021 |
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Fourth Hawaiʻi Commercial Rent Survey Shows Some Recovery
By News Release @ 2:52 AM :: 2824 Views :: Small Business, COVID-19
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... 40 percent of businesses did not pay rent in full versus 50 percent in the third survey ....
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Wednesday, April 14, 2021 |
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Aipoalani: Being banned never stopped him
By Selected News Articles @ 2:14 PM :: 2903 Views :: Ethics
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he “...had previously attempted to divert federal grant funds to his bank account”....
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Tuesday, April 13, 2021 |
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Mokuleia Crash: A Nest of Incompetents Surrounding 11 Deaths
By News Release @ 11:05 PM :: 4979 Views :: Small Business, Tourism
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... Accident Involving Inadequately Trained Pilot Leads to Call for Better Monitoring of Flight Instructors ....
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Tuesday, April 13, 2021 |
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SB1350: Hawaii House Votes to Suspend Pay Raises for Legislators
By News Release @ 9:13 PM :: 3433 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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... The House voted for a suspension running through December 31, 2022 ....
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Tuesday, April 13, 2021 |
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Ige Signs Bill Allowing Nurses to Kill Babies in Abortions
By Selected News Articles @ 9:01 PM :: 2677 Views :: Life
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... House Bill 576, allows advanced practice registered nurses to do first-trimester abortions either with abortion drugs or by the surgical aspiration method ....
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Tuesday, April 13, 2021 |
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Could Compensation Smooth the Path for Jones Act Reform?
By Cato Foundation @ 8:56 PM :: 2539 Views :: Jones Act
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... This is the messy reality of politics that must be acknowledged ....
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Tuesday, April 13, 2021 |
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‘Plan C’ for rail?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 7:24 PM :: 2773 Views :: Rail
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... Joe Uno, HART Board member, speaks in his private capacity as a citizen to host Keli‘i Akina about whether a ‘Plan C’ may help salvage the troubled project ....
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Tuesday, April 13, 2021 |
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Auditor: Working Group Report "Slipshod and riddled with errors and omissions"
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 4:06 PM :: 4185 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, OHA
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... Scathing ‘audit’ of Hawaii state auditor Les Kondo is met with scathing rebuttal ....
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Monday, April 12, 2021 |
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Urban Transit After COVID-19
By Selected News Articles @ 7:00 PM :: 3086 Views :: Rail, COVID-19
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... it is premature to commit funding for major new rail transit projects before we have some idea of the extent of transit ridership in the first several years after nationwide vaccinations ....
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Monday, April 12, 2021 |
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Hawaii: 26.5% Expect to Lose Income
By Selected News Articles @ 6:39 PM :: 3133 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, COVID-19
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... The state where people are most likely to face an expected loss of employment income is Hawaii, at 26.5% ....
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Monday, April 12, 2021 |
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How Hawaii Can Waste More Federal COVID Stimulus Money--Biden has some ideas
By News Release @ 6:25 PM :: 3708 Views :: National News, Economy, COVID-19
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... Today, the White House released state-by-state fact sheets (crony dreambooks) that highlight the (allegedly) urgent need in every state across the country for the investments (pork projects) proposed by President Biden in the American Jobs Plan ....
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Monday, April 12, 2021 |
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Vaccine Passport: Hawaii vs Florida
By Selected News Articles @ 6:12 PM :: 4038 Views :: Tourism, COVID-19
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“...Requiring so-called COVID-19 vaccine passports for taking part in everyday life — such as attending a sporting event, patronizing a restaurant, or going to a movie theater— would create two cases of citizens based on vaccination....”
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Monday, April 12, 2021 |
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Hawaii Small Businesses Among Most Exposed to Pandemic Losses
By Selected News Articles @ 12:17 PM :: 2916 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business, COVID-19
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... States With the Most Pandemic-Proof Small Businesses -- Hawaii 50th ....
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Monday, April 12, 2021 |
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SB251 Favors Uber/Lyft at Expense of Local Companies
By News Release @ 12:03 PM :: 2145 Views :: Small Business
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... “The true intent of this effort is to create a façade of regulation that will allow the TNC’s to bypass all the current rules, regulations and taxes that Hawaii based operators must comply with.” ....
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Monday, April 12, 2021 |
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Financially Literate States -- Hawaii Ranks 39th
By Selected News Articles @ 4:14 AM :: 2149 Views :: Hawaii Statistics
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... After the Great Recession, it became clear that more people needed to learn financial literacy ....
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Monday, April 12, 2021 |
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U.S.-Taiwan Partnership in the Pacific Islands
By Heritage Foundation @ 4:07 AM :: 2275 Views :: Military
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... For the U.S., the Pacific Islands are critical to the Indo-Pacific strategy and its status as a resident power in the Western Pacific. ...
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Monday, April 12, 2021 |
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Trump campaign boosted by $1.7M Pass Thru via Hawaii GOP
By News Release @ 3:55 AM :: 2906 Views :: Ethics, Republican Party
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... Federal regulators are probing financial reporting discrepancies stemming from an effort to funnel $75 million through state Republican parties to the national GOP effort to reelect Donald Trump ....
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Sunday, April 11, 2021 |
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Bride of Frankenbill
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 2613 Views :: Taxes
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... our lawmakers are not stopping at just one Frankenbill ....
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Saturday, April 10, 2021 |
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Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
By News Release @ 8:50 PM :: 4744 Views :: Family, First Amendment, Life
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... Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act: We Need your Kokua ....
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Saturday, April 10, 2021 |
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Case Joins the Bipartisan U.S. House Problem Solvers Caucus
By Ed Case @ 4:05 PM :: 11134 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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...Equally divided between Democrats and Republican, the bipartisan group focuses on commonsense solutions to the country's toughest challenges....
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