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Bump Stock Ban Passes Hawaii Legislature In Wake Of Las Vegas Massacre
A bill banning the possession of firearms modified with bump stocks is headed to Hawaii Gov. David Ige for his consideration. The state Senate on Wednesday unanimously approved legislation that...
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Neal Milner: Why So Many Kupuna Live In This Mainland Retirement Center
In 1963, four couples decided to celebrate King Kamehameha’s birthday. They reserved a table at a dining room that cooked them a Hawaiian meal served by waitresses whose outfits matched the room’s...
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Letters: Just Who Would Pay The New Education Tax?
Wary Of Tax On Investment Property Additional burden should not fall on owners of second homes (April 24, 2018) What constitutes a “residential investment property”? (“Voters Will Decide Whether To...
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Sharing Flood Stories Is Part Of Recovery For Kauai’s Kids
I spent the duration of the storm inside my home in Hanalei. With me was my closest friend, cut off from her home in Wainiha by Saturday afternoon’s landslide, my 16-year-old son, Owen, and two of his...
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Hospitality Industry Training Provides Valuable Lesson In Aloha
Over the last few weeks, over 1,000 students across the state have attended events as part of the LEI (Leadership, Exploration and Inspiration) program developed by ClimbHI in partnership with the...
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Floods Have Left Behind ‘A Different World’ On Kauai’s North Shore
WAINIHA, Kauai — From farming equipment to childhood photographs, Kehau Haumea lost everything when flood waters swept through her riverside home. What she salvaged amounts to little more than her...
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Killer Who Escaped From State Hospital Found Mentally Fit For Trial
(AP) — A man who fled from a Hawaii psychiatric hospital— where he was committed after being found not guilty by reason of insanity of a woman’s 1979 killing — is mentally fit to stand trial for an...
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House Halts Bill To Water Down Financial Disclosures Of Key State Leaders
Four years ago lawmakers unanimously voted to make public the financial disclosures of certain volunteers serving on some of the state’s most powerful boards and commissions. The Legislature appeared...
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Bill To Regulate Pesticide Use Coming Down To The Wire
Environmental protection legislation that has been the subject of an intense lobbying and public relations campaign still has no resolution in the final days of 2018 Hawaii Legislature. Senate Bill...
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Hawaii May Soon Join The Other 49 States In Setting Police Standards
The Legislature appears ready to make Hawaii the last state in the country to adopt minimum standards for law enforcement officers after Senate negotiators accepted a new proposal from their House...
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Banning Many Sunscreen Products Will Increase Skin Cancer Risk
Today, more than 70 percent of all sunscreens contain the critical ingredients oxybenzone or octinoxate for a good reason: they provide the vital broad-spectrum protection for high SPF sunscreens to...
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Some People, Unfortunately, Only Want the Good Stuff
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Letters: Why These Hawaii Retirees Joined The Oregon Migration
Choosing The Oregon Trail This couple spent five years researching its options (April 26, 2018) My wife and I decided to move to Oregon in 2015 (“Neal Milner: Why So Many Kupuna Live In This Mainland...
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Feds: Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander Kids Suspended Far More Often
Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander students are far more likely to be suspended and expelled in Hawaii than students of other ethnicities, causing them to miss more school days overall, according to...
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Will The Kealoha Case Be One Big Show Or Separate Trials?
When the federal government charged Louis and Katherine Kealoha in October 2017, the 42-page indictment included accusations of stunning malfeasance by two high-ranking officials in the criminal...
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Hawaii Lawmakers Want To Spend $30M On Legal Homeless Encampments
Hawaii legislative leaders promised in January that affordable housing and homelessness would top their priority list for the 2018 session. As the session nears its May 3 conclusion, those promises...
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Pesticide Compromise Reached As Conference Committee Time Expires
One of the most controversial measures of the Hawaii legislative session cleared a major hurdle Friday. Senate Bill 3095 calls for mandatory disclosure of pesticide use, a reporting and regulation...
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Students Create Visions Of Their Communities With Murals
What do a rooster, a young girl and water flowing next to a crater have in common? All are images that materialized recently on a Palolo Elementary School wall. It’s the latest in a series of murals...
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State Constitutional Convention Was Hijacked In ’96 — It May Happen Again
Hawaii’s Constitution mandates that once a decade, next on Nov. 6, the people of Hawaii be granted the right to call a state constitutional convention to propose democratic reforms for popular...
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Lawmakers Offer Hawaii Developers Big Tax Break To Build Apartments
If you’re a young professional in Honolulu scouring Craigslist for a place to live, more often than not you might end up finding a room in a house in Palolo or Makiki owned by a mom-and-pop landlord....
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