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Kauai Police Chief Will Appeal Ruling Allowing Mayor to Override Police...
Kauai Mayor Bernard Carvalho BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - Kauai’s mayor and police chief have been battling publicly since last February over whether the mayor or the police commission has the authority to...
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Hawaii's Powerful Senior Senator Shows He Still Has Control of Island Politics
Congresswoman Colleen Hanabusa with U.S. Senator Inouye and Congresswoman Mazie Hirono, now a U.S. Senator. Both were elected with Inouye's endorsement BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - Hawaii’s powerful Senior...
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PRP Hawaii/Hawaii Carpenters Union Files Motion to Move Libel Case Filed by...
Ben Cayetano BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - Pacific Resource Partnership, also known as the Hawaii Carpenters Union Market Recovery Fund, has filed a motion in U.S. District Court to transfer the libel and...
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Elections Commission Moves Up Meeting After Public Complains About Management...
Voters wait in line at Holy Trinity after the precinct runs out of paper ballots BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - The Hawaii Elections Commission has moved up its meeting from December to the last week of November...
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After Problems at 24 Oahu Polling Sites, Governor Asks Attorney General to...
Gov. Neil Abercrombie (courtesy of his web site) BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - Gov. Neil Abercrombie has asked his appointed attorney general, David Louie, to investigate problems that arose during the November...
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Senate Vice President, Former Attorney General, Critical of Millions of...
Senate Vice President Donna Mercado Kim BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - University of Hawaii management has been under fire in recent months for wasting millions of dollars on outside law firms and public...
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Residents Alerted to Obamas' Hawaiian Holiday Plans
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - KAILUA, OAHU - Residents living near the beachfront homes where President Barack Obama and First Family vacation with their friends every year since 2008 were alerted on Monday to...
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Federal Lawsuit Claims Jones Act Violates the U.S. Constitution
Matson ships in 67 percent of the goods to Hawaii from the Continental United States. Photo: Emily Metcalf BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - Most Hawaii residents haven’t heard of the Jones Act, but one Hawaii...
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President's Decision to Return to Hawaii Will Cost Taxpayers Another $3 Million
President Barack Obama arrives with first lady Michelle Obama, top, and daughters Malia, top left, and Sasha, bottom right, at Honolulu Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Honolulu, for the start of...
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Appeals Court Upholds State's $4 Million Fine Against Kauai Landowner James...
James Pflueger BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - A Kauai landowner who caused a catastrophic mudslide on November 26, 2001, which destroyed a rare coral reef and polluted a pristine bay at Pilaa, Kauai, must pay a...
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New Hawaii Lt. Governor Sworn Into Office After Political Musical Chairs
Shan Tsutsui sworn in as Lt. Governor of Hawaii on January 3, 2013 - Photo by Mel Ah Ching BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - With his wife and three daughters by his side, Shan Tsutsui was sworn in as Hawaii's 12th...
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Oahu Firearms Owners Wait as Long as Nine Hours Over Three Visits to Obtain...
Those trying to register their firearms and obtain a permit on December 23 wait hours in line at HPD headquarters BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - Oahu firearms owners are increasingly frustrated with long lines...
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Keeping Angry Taxpayers at Bay
Graphic illustration by Emily Metcalf By Lowell L. Kalapa - The recently released report of the Tax Review Commission balks at the criticism that the repeal of the lesser one-half percent general...
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Online Travel Companies Will Appeal Multimillion Dollar Ruling Levied by...
Photo: Emily Metcalf BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - Travel Technology Association, a trade organization that represents the nation’s top online travel companies including Amadeus, Expedia, Hotels.com, Hotwire,...
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Gilligan’s Island? University of Hawaii Finds $200,000 After It Went Missing...
Coconut Island (photo courtesy of UH) BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - State Senators were stunned on Thursday when University of Hawaii officials admitted during a Ways and Means hearing that some $200,000 went...
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Senate President: 'Bloated' Bureaucracy at University of Hawaii is Making...
Senate President Donna Mercado Kim and Senator Will Espero question UH officials about expenditures (photo by Mel Ah Ching) By Malia Zimmerman - Michael Dahilig may be one of the state University’s...
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Hawaii Teachers Taking a Stand … for a Tax Hike
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - Hawaii has among the overall highest tax burdens in the nation, and the Department of Education gets a good chunk of the revenue - nearly 50 percent of the state general fund...
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Unfunded Liabilities are Putting Hawaii Taxpayers in Dire Financial State
Lt. Gov. Shan Tsutsui sits behind Gov. Neil Abercrombie at the 2013 state of the state address (photo by Mel Ah Ching) BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - Connecticut and Illinois are ranked worst in the nation when...
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Aerosmith's Steven Tyler Bares All on 'American Idol' But Wants the 'Steven...
Steven Tyler BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - Steven Tyler, the outrageous rock star of Aerosmith fame, exposed his bare bottom on not just one, but two episodes of American Idol. On February 24, 2012, when Tyler...
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Proposal to Tax Marijuana at 15 Percent is Opposed by Some Legalization...
Photo courtesy of Reason BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - "Kona Gold" ... "Maui Wowie" - these are just some of the nicknames for locally-grown Marijuana that island residents grew up with. Hawaii, like most...
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