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BY KEKOA MCCLELLAN - In two recent Hawaii Reporter articles submitted by the Richard Turbin Campaign, claims of threats, overt partisanship and negative tactics were made against me and the Friends of Stanley Chang campaign – nothing could be further from the truth. See the reports here: Turbin Campaign Receives Threatening Text Message from Stanley [...]
BY KEELEY BELVA - NOAA Fisheries scientists onboard NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer are collecting plankton samples from Hawaii to the U.S. West Coast and collecting floating plastic debris from the so-called “great Pacific garbage patch,” a concentrated area of marine debris in the North Pacific Ocean. Marine debris, mainly small bits of plastic, collects in [...]
BY MICHAEL BOWMAN - The White House says a plot to ship powerful, hidden explosive devices to the United States from Yemen is an ongoing threat, and that more such devices may exist beyond the two that were discovered in Britain and the United Arab Emirates. President Barack Obama's counter-terrorism advisor, John Brennan, says a [...]
Campaigning is in its final days before Tuesday's U.S. election, in which voters will cast ballots for candidates for the U.S. Congress, more than half of the nation's state governors and local officials. Because of voter discontent with the economy and high unemployment, pre-election opinion polls indicate Republicans will gain seats in both houses of [...]
BY DANNY DE GRACIA II - With November 2nd just right around the corner, you can’t go anywhere these days without hearing at least one person crow about how millions of dollars of “mainland money” has been pouring into our islands to influence the upcoming elections. The Star Advertiser’s Sunday October 31st cover story bemoaned [...]
BY MICHAEL R. FOX PHD - On October 21, 2010, Vaclav Klaus President if the Czech Republic, made the Inaugural Annual Lecture to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) in England (http://tinyurl.com/27tajv3). He addressed the global totalitarian aspects of the global warming proponents. He, along with many others, had noticed the lack of scientific evidence [...]
BY JACK DINI - As a desert tortoise in San Bernardino County’s panoramic Ivanpah Valley I am scared, nervous, and jealous. More than 100 biologists and contract workers have been rounding up my fellow species because we were blocking construction of the first major solar energy plant to be built on public land in Southern [...]
BY MAZIE HIRONO - Aloha. I feel privileged to serve as Hawaii’s representative for the Second Congressional District. I am running for reelection because I want to continue to fight for the people of Hawaii on issues that matter to them—to keep jobs and create new ones for our families, to move Hawaii towards energy [...]
BY JON MILTIMORE — Cash is flowing into campaigns on ballot initiatives, some of which will determine how billions of taxpayer dollars are taken and spent. For details on ballot issues in all 50 states, check ballotpedia.com Interest groups are spending lavishly on ballot initiatives this election season. Campaign contributions to ballot proposals eclipsed the [...]
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