By Malia Zimmerman - KAUNAKAKAI, MOLOKAI — It’s a dream within reach, one that really may come true for Hawaii’s military veterans. Larry Helm, 70, a heavy combat Vietnam veteran who served with the 25th infantry based at Schofield Barracks from 1964 to 1966, has headed up the effort to build a center for veterans on the Hawaiian island of Molokai for the [...]
HONOLULU—Members of a local tea party group targeted by the IRS asked Congress Thursday to appoint a special prosecutor to determine whether the federal agency used its powers unfairly to target conservative groups. Tea Party Maui was the subject of a 26-month IRS investigation following the group’s application for a 501-c-4 tax-exempt status. In the process, the [...]
VOA News - The director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Robert Mueller, is vowing to take swift action against the former CIA analyst based in Hawaii who has confessed to leaking documents exposing a pair of top secret government surveillance programs. Speaking to lawmakers Thursday, FBI chief Mueller confirmed that a criminal investigation has [...]
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - HONOLULU — One dollar. That is the amount of compensation private contractor AC Kobayashi Inc. billed the University of Hawaii each month under a “Pre-Construction Services Agreement” to build the university’s new West Oahu campus. That’s $1, plus as much as $60,000 for reimbursable expenses over 18 months ending Dec. 31, 2010. The unconventional deal helped AC Kobayashi [...]
Kamehameha Schools has suspended its plans to develop a 4.5-acre property at the entrance to Hawaii Kai into a strip mall with Foodland grocery store as its anchor tenant. The property, known as “the Great Lawn,” is just across from the popular Maunalua Bay used by paddlers, fisherman and boaters, and on the edge of [...]
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - HONOLULU — The whistleblower who brought the NSA and PRISM into Americans’ living rooms is without a job. Almost as a postscript to the dramatic story, Booz Allen Hamilton, the federal contractor that employed 29-year-old Edward Snowden in the Hawaii office of the National Security Agency, announced Tuesday that the company had fired the [...]
Reuters - REYKJAVIK — The leaker who revealed top secret U.S. surveillance programs says he hopes to find shelter in Iceland, but he may be disappointed by the reception from a new government seen as less keen than predecessors to attract exiles and Internet renegades. The country of 320,000 people has served as the home base for [...]
Reuters- WASHINGTON — An ex-CIA employee working as a contractor at the U.S. National Security Agency in Hawaii said he was the source who leaked details of a top secret U.S. surveillance program, acting out of conscience to protect “basic liberties for people around the world.'' Holed up in a hotel room in Hong Kong, Edward Snowden, [...]
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - Wanted: Manager needed to handle 60,000 teenagers and young adults, 8,000 faculty and staff, outside investigators, financial scandal, catastrophic planning problems, students responding to skyrocketing tuition by turning to online sugar daddies, and a multi-billion dollar annual budget with gaping holes in it. Concert promotion experience a plus. Sound like an impossible job? University [...]
This list is provided by PAYCHECKS HAWAII, an independent, non-partisan political action affiliate of Smart Business Hawaii Each year since 1986, PAYCHECKS HAWAII, the private, independent, non-partisan political action affiliate of SmartBusiness Hawaii, rates each of the 76 state legislators on support for small business in collaboration with other small business associations, individuals, and those actively participating [...]
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