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BY RICK HAMADA - In the 1992 movie, ‘The Distinguished Gentleman”, Eddie Murphy’s character capitalizes on the similarity of his name and the recently departed incumbent’s name to win a seat in Congress. A similar plotline is playing out in Hawaii politics. Two candidates are in the spotlight, primarily because they share a name with [...]
BY DON ROCHON - PEARL HARBOR - Using an existing design-build, multiple award construction contract (MACC), Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Pacific awarded an $86 million firm-fixed price task order today to Guam MACC Builders A Joint Venture of Honolulu for wharf improvements at Apra Harbor, Naval Base Guam. These essential wharf and utilities improvements [...]
Hawaii's best known investigative reporter, Jim Dooley, has joined the Hawaii Reporter news team. A print and television reporter in Hawaii since 1973, Dooley began as a wire service reporter with United Press International. He joined The Honolulu Advertiser in 1974, working as general assignment and City Hall reporter until 1978. While at City Hall, [...]
BY THE COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION -- New Health Insurance Exchanges Should Be Independent, Should Aim for a Level Playing Field for Plans Within and Outside the Exchange, and Should Reduce Administrative Costs of Insurance New York, NY, September 30, 2010—A new report from The Commonwealth Fund provides recommendations for state and federal policymakers as they design [...]
By Chester E. Finn, Jr., Michael Petrilli and Janie Scull -- Doug Lemov’s Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques That Put Students on the Path to College is a publishing phenomenon. Since its release earlier this year, it has hovered within or near the top 100 books on Amazon.com. What Lemov is selling—forty-nine nitty-gritty tips and [...]
This year will be Hawaii Reporter's 9th year of revealing Hawaii's breaking and investigative news stories. With the merger of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and the Honolulu Advertiser, it is now more important than ever to ensure that Hawaii continues to have in depth and investigative media outlets. This year's dinner and fundraiser will feature keynote [...]
BY MICHELE VAN HESSEN -- Representative Gene Ward (R-Hawaii Kai – Kalama Valley) today announced that his office is sponsoring a community forum on the constitutional amendment to have the Governor appoint the board of education rather than have it elected as is now the case. The constitutional amendment will ask voters to ratify or [...]
By Sam Slom President, Smart Business Hawaii and SBH Entrepreneurial Education Foundation The President signed legislation Monday that he says is designed to help small business. But will it? Not if you read the bill. Not if you listen to what small business needs and wants. It is yet another bureaucratic, big government attempt to [...]
(Foreword by Malia Hill for Grassroot Institute of Hawaii and 4hawaiiansonly.com.) Today, we have the final installment of Jim Marino's series on Indian casino gaming in California (originally published in the Santa Ynez Valley Journal). If you've been following the series, you've seen Marino build a case for the inherent problems of tribal gaming--from its [...]
BY HONOLULUTRAFFIC.COM - When the Honolulu city administration headed by Kirk Caldwell/Mufi Hannemann announced a year ago that Kiewit Pacific had been awarded the design-build rail transit contract for the 6.5-mile phase covering Kapolei to Pearl Highlands, they said the bid was $90 million less than estimated. However, we have just received from a highly [...]
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