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    Political Tittle-tattle: News and Entertainment from Hawaii's Political Arena

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    ”King of Regulation Legislation With Big Bucks in Campaign Contributions Wants Mo’ Money, Less Regulations for Him”

    It is truly ironic. The Senator most known for his desire to regulate Hawaii residents — even down to the way they cross the street (he authored a bill that demands pedestrians make eye contact with any driver near a crosswalk before crossing) — now wants to loosen regulations restricting his own personal political fundraising ability.

    Sen. Cal Kawamoto, D-Waipahu, who typically has the most money of any state senator in his campaign war chest, apparently wants to make it easier to get more money from more people for his campaign. Or so it seems from reading his transparent bill — SB 459. Though he writes the bill as if he is tightening campaign contribution restrictions, the reality is the bill does quite the opposite and in fact creates gigantic loopholes in Hawaii’s campaign spending law where there were none before.

    Kawamoto, who diluted and tried to kill legislation last year that could have impacted his fundraising capabilities because it prevented those who assign state contracts from receiving campaign donations from contractors with state business, is the lead introducer of the bill. However, following close behind Kawamoto are Sen. Norman Sakamoto, D-Moanalua, and Sen. Willie Espero, D- Ewa, who co-signed the legislation.

    ”Highlights of Kawamoto’s proposed legislation:”

    *He wants to “limit” the aggregate contributions by any person or entity to not more than $25,000 in any calendar year (right now for state Senators the maximum amount by any person is $4,000 per campaign cycle);

    *He wants to repeal the requirement that contributions from separate entities be treated as a contribution from a single entity if one entity finances or controls the activities of another contributing entity. (This is what many company owners are doing to make larger contributions to candidates –

    Political Tittle-tattle: News and Entertainment from Hawaii’s Political Arena

    Hawaii Reporter
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    “Malia headshot Image”

    ”King of Regulation Legislation With Big Bucks in Campaign Contributions Wants Mo’ Money, Less Regulations for Him”

    It is truly ironic. The Senator most known for his desire to regulate Hawaii residents — even down to the way they cross the street (he authored a bill that demands pedestrians make eye contact with any driver near a crosswalk before crossing) — now wants to loosen regulations restricting his own personal political fundraising ability.

    Sen. Cal Kawamoto, D-Waipahu, who typically has the most money of any state senator in his campaign war chest, apparently wants to make it easier to get more money from more people for his campaign. Or so it seems from reading his transparent bill — SB 459. Though he writes the bill as if he is tightening campaign contribution restrictions, the reality is the bill does quite the opposite and in fact creates gigantic loopholes in Hawaii’s campaign spending law where there were none before.

    Kawamoto, who diluted and tried to kill legislation last year that could have impacted his fundraising capabilities because it prevented those who assign state contracts from receiving campaign donations from contractors with state business, is the lead introducer of the bill. However, following close behind Kawamoto are Sen. Norman Sakamoto, D-Moanalua, and Sen. Willie Espero, D- Ewa, who co-signed the legislation.

    ”Highlights of Kawamoto’s proposed legislation:”

    *He wants to “limit” the aggregate contributions by any person or entity to not more than $25,000 in any calendar year (right now for state Senators the maximum amount by any person is $4,000 per campaign cycle);

    *He wants to repeal the requirement that contributions from separate entities be treated as a contribution from a single entity if one entity finances or controls the activities of another contributing entity. (This is what many company owners are doing to make larger contributions to candidates –

    Time Bomb in the Middle East: A Long Time Ticking

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    As the Christmas season of peace and brotherhood passes, Americans again shift their attention back to the pressing concerns of war. Debaters fall into various camps, two of which are:
    *1) Americans have a government that must protect us from people abroad who would do us harm; and
    *2) there are people abroad who would do us harm because our government has interfered in their affairs.

    There is validity in both arguments. They are intertwined. To dismiss either view is to invite greater national risk.

    In the aftermath of such a tragic crisis as 9/11, people must clamor for protective measures against terrorists who have demonstrated their horrible capacity for evil. In doing so, however, we must be careful to gain real and lasting protection, not just a temporary pause in an ever-escalating conflict.

    The Investors Business Daily reported last October that the U.S. government now spends about half of the world’s total military expenditure (1), yet Americans still feel greatly threatened. If half of the world’s military expenditure has not left us secure, then there must be some other factors to consider.

    The primary function of the U.S. government is to provide security. Yet most officials in Washington D.C. will acknowledge that there have been severe shortcomings in performance. Government intelligence and security agencies, with the abundance of wealth, personnel, and technology at their disposal, came up short in a decades-long effort to root out a terrorist network with global tentacles that probably originated in some of the poorest nations of the world.

    The villains had long said they wanted this attack. The villains had attempted attacks before, even on the same target. The villains are reported to have been within the U.S. government’s grasp on earlier occasions, but were not pursued. (2)

    If we are to have real security, not just assurances from politicians, then we have to examine the historical context of this mess to see what kind of behavior has left us vulnerable. The seeds of a genuine solution begin with holding individuals accountable, whether they be foreign or domestic. Indeed, one may find that the interventionist behavior of some of our own politicians was a betrayal of American security and of the very principles for which this country stands.

    ”Entangling Alliances”

    Our founding fathers were quite sound on foreign policy matters. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson had it right two centuries ago when they advised against entangling alliances. Jefferson declared in his 1801 inaugural address, “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none.”

    Why warn against “entangling alliances”? Jefferson worried about the trouble that comes with such alliances. What alliances in recent years might Jefferson have warned us against?

    He would have warned against alliances with the very Middle Eastern nations that Americans currently consider to be the most serious threats in the war on terrorism. The two nations that top the list are Iran and Iraq, nations with which U.S. politicians have been intimately involved for many decades.

    These nations are now considered the “Axis of Evil,” vehemently opposed to the U.S. Thus, the fortune spent to promote the interests of U.S. politicians in those nations was obviously not money well spent. At least not for the interests of the average U.S. citizen. (3)

    Equally conspicuous is the complete absence of Saudi Arabia from this list of threatening nations. Of the 19 terrorists who attacked the US on 9/11, 15 were from Saudi Arabia. Yet the Saudi government continues to receive the greatest measure of U.S. government support in the Middle East. Why? We all know the answer to that.

    Thirty years ago the U.S. offended the Saudis by supporting Israel in the 1973 war. The Saudi’s turned off the oil spigot, and no one wants that to happen again — especially now that the U.S. is so much more dependent on imported oil than in 1973.

    What was the US intervention in Iran and Iraq? It isn’t a secret. The masterminds wrote books about it. Yet fewer people in the US than in the Middle East are aware that the CIA, in a 1953 mission code-named Operation Ajax, overthrew the first democratically elected leader of Iran. (4)

    In 1953, the popularly elected Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh had asked the British government’s oil concessionaires for a larger share of revenues, a share that American oil companies had already granted in Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. When the British government refused this split in revenues, Mossadegh did to Iranian oil what the British government had long before done to British oil: he nationalized it. In response, and worrying that Mossadegh would cozy up to the Soviets, western intelligence agencies engineered his overthrow and replaced Mossadegh with Shah Reza Pahlavi.

    Iran’s oil revenues were then evenly split between U.S. and British oil companies. Ah, nice for them! And Shah Pahlavi maintained his dictatorial rule for the next quarter century through the support of the CIA. The CIA even trained SAVAK, the Shah’s secret police who were responsible for torturing or killing as many as 10,000 Iranian political dissidents. Not nice for U.S./Iran relations and not so nice for the dead.

    The same U.S. government schools that neglected to teach students how to locate Iran and New Jersey on the map, also neglected to reveal to American students much of what U.S. politicians were doing over the decades since World War II. If government schools had been doing an effective job of preparing America’s youth, they might have paused on this question: Would America’s George Washington have approved of overthrowing the first democratically elected leader of another country, the “George Washington” of Iran?

    ”Hostilities”

    After 25 years of U.S. supported dictatorial rule, Shah Pahlavi was finally overthrown by a fundamentalist revolution in 1979 in Iran. Understandably, suspicion and hostilities were then very great between the governments of the US and Iran. Soon thereafter, the governments of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait feared the spread of religious fundamentalism against their own autocratic regimes and provided as much as $20 billion of support to Saddam Hussein in his 8-year long Iraqi invasion of Iran. The war left more than a million people dead on both sides.

    The U.S. usually condemns such invasions, but not this one. On the contrary, the U.S. supplied at least a billion dollars of military support to Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Iran. (5) In those days, Saddam Hussein’s murderous tactics were known and excused.

    When the Iranians tried to block the oil trafficking that was financing Saddam’s war machine, the US sent a naval fleet to guarantee “freedom of the seas,” a policy that even resulted in an airborne Iraqi attack that killed 37 American sailors on the USS Stark.

    The killing of American sailors was excused because, at that time, Saddam Hussein was the ally of US politicians and their desire to crush Iran. Now, American sailors are being asked to risk their lives to enforce a blockade against Iraq, the opposite task for which the 37 American sailors died in the 1980s. It was also during this time that the U.S. government was secretly supplying the Iranians during the infamous Iran-Contra affair.

    Saddam Hussein was “America’s ally,” like Noriega, Mobutu, Suharto, Papa Doc, Samosa, Pinochet, Marcos, and others before him. It is doubtful that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson would have approved of any of these alliances. Why? Not only were these alliances immoral, but they increased, not diminished, the risk to American security. It brings to mind the quip of Will Rogers: “When you get into trouble 5,000 miles from home, you’ve got to have been looking for it.”

    ”On the Brink”

    So now what? Isn’t it all water under the bridge? No. Many Americans are in denial about the messy role their own politicians have played in foreign policy with their tax money. It is important to realize that seemingly benign foreign policy actions on one day can have dangerous repercussions for Americans twenty or thirty years down the road.

    It isn’t a “blame America first” conspiracy to challenge these policies. It is holding politicians accountable for their own behavior because they are the ones who claim to act on our behalf, as our representatives, spending our money, endangering our security. Americans must be as skeptical of politicians on foreign policy matters as they are of politicians on domestic matters.

    At this moment in time, it seems that nothing can be said in this forum that will have any affect on the likelihood of war in Iraq in the near future. I would say that the outcome, on the side of either war or peace, is beyond our immediate control.

    God-speed to those brave soldiers who are called upon to disarm this time-bomb. If only that tyrant Saddam Hussein had not been so generously armed in the first place. If only wiser policies over the past half century had made it less likely to place those good soldiers in harm’s way.

    And, of course, good luck to the innocent civilians who may well fall as “collateral damage,” as in all such wars. Good luck at tracking down that former U.S. ally of the 1980-88 war in Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden and his terrorist comrades. And may wiser policies not contribute in any way to a generational wave of terrorists in the future…as seems to be the case in Palestine/Israel today.

    If we are to be a part of a long term solution, however, it is critical that we expose the folly of past foreign policy alliances. Good luck to us at holding all the responsible parties accountable, at least in the history books if in no other way, for their role in this sorry mess.

    ”The Long View”

    How could the future find a new course? What would Washington and Jefferson do? What innovation might be considered?

    1) Announce that the provisions in the U.S. Constitution for Letters of Marque and Reprisal would be activated to bring privateers and bounty hunters to hunt down Osama bin Laden and his entourage. (6) This would engage the full force of market innovation and efficiency in supplementing the nation’s security measures.

    2) Prepare to repeal U.S. taxpayer subsidies for companies operating abroad. If, for example, oil companies have to bear the full insurance and protection costs of operating abroad, they will be much more careful where they operate and with whom they do business. By building the full insurance and protection costs of these products into the price of oil, consumers will have incentives to use alternative foreign and domestic sources of energy.

    3) Announce that U.S. interventionism in the affairs of foreign nations would come to an end. This would not only end the perpetual manipulation of foreign governments by skullduggery and bribery, but would also bring nations the prosperity of open trade.

    4) The above measures would increase domestic security while making possible the announcement of a grand reduction in both government expenditures and taxes — just the medicine an ailing economy needs.

    Regardless of the specific proposals, our nation would do well to hold firm to the fundamental principles freedom and responsibility. Jefferson’s advice is still sound: “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none.”

    ”References”

    (1) “World Defense Spending,” Investor’s Business Daily, October 18, 2002

    (2) Ijaz, Mansoor, “Clinton let bin Laden get away,” Honolulu Advertiser, December 7, 2001

    (3) “How Americans See The ‘Axis of Evil’,” Investors Business Daily, February 13, 2002

    (4) “Iran coup mastermind Kermit Roosevelt dies,” Honolulu Advertiser, June 11, 2000, see also, Solberg, Carl, Oil Power, pp. 196-7

    (5) Representative Henry Gonzales, Chairman of the House Banking Committee, made these revelations in a televised interview, “The Chairman,” 60 Minutes, CBS, November 11, 1992, Also, Dobbs, Michael, “U.S. Had Key Role in Iraq Buildup Trade in Chemical Arms Allowed Despite Their Use on Iranians, Kurds,” WashingtonPost.com, December 30, 2002

    (6) Gvosdev, Nikolas K. & Cipriano, Anthony, “Patriotism and profit are powerful weapons,” Honolulu Advertiser, July 21, 2002, also see the Fred Foldvary article on this at: https://www.progress.org/archive/fold232.htm

    ”’Ken Schoolland is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Individual Liberty. See its Web site at:”’ https://www.ISIL.org

    Honolulu Advertiser Columnist Disrespectful to Hawaiian Culture, Beliefs-She refers to the Brady Bunch Tiki Episode Like an Ignorant, Annoying Mainlander

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    In the Jan. 28 Honolulu Advertiser, columnist Tanya Bricking, in a dismissive manner, alludes to the Hawaiian Goddess of Fire, Pele, and Pele’s domain, after she received a collection of Lava Rocks on her desk returned to the islands by a concerned visitor.

    Her “Mystic bad luck lava rock” story reminds one of the slowly eroding respect, knowledge and appreciation toward the Hawaiian culture that is resultant of the influx of disrespectful outsiders to the islands.

    It’s the californication of Hawaii.

    Sounding like a fresh-off-the-boat haole tourist, she alludes to the respect for Pele and her aina as superstition, and is sure all her other “colleagues” would throw the rocks in the trash.

    Ms. Bricking says she would return the rocks to the Big Island of Hawaii where the rocks came from, not out of respect for Pele, but simply because she doesn’t want to take any chances of experiencing bad luck.

    (Editor’s Note: The Hawaiian belief is Pele, the Goddess of Fire and keeper of the Hawaiian volcanoes, will seek vengeance against anyone who takes rocks from the places she guards, and they will experience bad luck or even death as a result.)

    To add insult to injury, Ms. Bricking says she has always been intrigued by real life “bad luck rock stories” since watching the “Brady Bunch cursed tiki episode.”

    If Ms. Bricking were really interested in these “stories” as much as she implies, she would study and read through her own newspaper’s archives or page through any number of books on Hawaiian Culture, including those by Hawaii Author Glen Grant.

    Then she might possess the appropriate degree of respect for the subject, and author no columns making light of Pele and the returning of “bad luck” lava rocks.

    ”’Allen StJames is a resident of Honolulu and can be reached via email at:”’ mailto:tiki@tikitrader.com

    Grassroot Perspective – Jan. 29, 2003-Remembering King's Dream; Auto Competitive Transit Service? Not Even in a Snowstorm

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    Remembering King’s Dream

    It is fitting that the legal challenge to the University of Michigan’s affirmative-action admission policies arrived around the anniversary of the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

    King’s stirring “I have a dream” speech, delivered Aug. 28, 1963, signified the highest ideals of the civil rights movement. Invoking the promise of the Declaration of Independence — and reminding all of the terrible injustice of America’s failure to make good on that promise — King took the high ground and set a moral tone that could not be ignored.

    Yet, more than three-and-a-half decades later, things still seem amiss. The problem, according to author Shelby Steele (A DREAM DEFERRED and THE CONTENT OF OUR CHARACTER, winner of the National Book Critic’s Circle Award in 1990), is due largely to a shift in character of the civil rights movement. What began as a noble struggle to secure a basic American right — the free pursuit of individual happiness — was replaced by the ideals of collectivism and policies of interventionism, much to the detriment of African-Americans. Too much of what has been done since the Great Society in the name of black rights — including race-based preferences — has far more to do with the “moral redemption” or self-satisfaction of whites than with any real improvement in the lives of blacks, Steele argues.

    Those who heard Steele discuss A DREAM DEFERRED at the Independent Policy Forum a few years back were treated to the eloquence of an independent thinker passionate about issues close to his heart — and close the hearts of everyone in America who shares Martin Luther King’s dream that our children “will one day live in a nation where they will be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

    See Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech.

    Above article is quoted from https://www.independent.org Lighthouse 1/20/03.

    ”Roots (Food for Thought)”

    Auto Competitive Transit Service? Not Even in a Snowstorm

    By Wendell Cox

    It began snowing in St. Louis on Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 22, 2003. I was due to leave from Lambert International Airport at just before 8:00 pm for a trip to Raleigh-Durham to speak to a business group on urban sprawl, so-called “smart growth” and urban rail. Usually, I allow 45 minutes for the 35 mile trip, but since St. Louis drivers are only slightly better adapted to snow than Los Angelenos, I left an hour early. On the way, it struck me that the inclement weather might be the very condition that make for a quicker journey on Metrolink, the area’s light rail line. Metrolink is one of the fastest urban rail systems in the country (San Francisco’s BART and the Los Angeles Green Line are faster). If I had taken Metrolink from the eastern-most College Station (in Belleville, Illinois), the total trip time, from my house (a few miles beyond the station), the trip would have taken nearly two hours.

    But first some background on the challenges of driving in St. Louis. St. Louis is a special place. As brides-maid to the world record on population loss, St. Louis lost 60 percent of its population from 1950 to 2000. Not since the Romans sacked Carthage has a city shed so much of its population (a 100 percent loss between 149 BC and 146 BC). In keeping with this tradition, St. Louis seems to have adopted a policy of conscious infrastructure neglect. The 2.5 million population urban area is divided by the Mississippi River, with more than 2/3 of the people living to the west, in Missouri, and the balance to the east in Illinois. Today, two downtown highway bridges are open over the Mississippi — two of five. The MacArthur Bridge was closed to highway traffic when part of the deck gave way in the 1960s. No one ever bothered to fix what was then a city owned bridge. Then there is the McKinley Bridge, which was closed a year ago when inspectors thankfully found structural problems before there was a deck collapse. The third is the historic Eads Bridge, a marvelous stone architectural structure built in the 1860s. and closed since the 1980s, except for the light rail line that runs on the lower deck. But there is progress. Recalling the drawn-out construction schedules of medieval cathedrals, work has been underway for some time to re-open the Eads. But that would do me little good tonight.. It is no simple task to cross the Mississippi on a roadway system that seems to have been underdesigned for the very purpose of hindering such a crossing.

    Two decades in Los Angeles had taught me that arterial streets (signalized surface streets) can be better than freeways in the worst congestion. They can be faster, and they surely are less stressful. Indeed, my press conference statement to the effect that this strategy had prevented me from being caught in serious traffic congestion in Los Angeles baffled a map-challenged Atlanta Constitution editorialist, who apparently rarely ventured off a road with a blue and red shield interstate sign.

    But back to St. Louis. Within a few miles of home, I looked at Interstate 64 and it failed the test — it was time for the “arterial strategy.” Following along city streets, I checked the freeway from time to time, and at one point entered for three miles. As I approached the Poplar Street Bridge, which carries Interstates 55, 64, 70 and US 40 across the Mississippi River, I feared that my luck might have run out, so diverted to the only other choice, the lower volume Martin Luther King Bridge, which had been taken away from the city of East St. Louis, Illinois to avoid MacArthur/McKinley fate some years before. Soon I was across the river and downtown and heading directly toward the airport on Natural Bridge Road, never again to see or even cross a freeway. The traffic, frequent signals and driving snow made travel slow. But, one hour and twenty minutes after leaving home I arrived at a satellite parking lot, and another 10 minutes later (1:30 after leaving home), the shuttle bus dropped me at the main Lambert terminal (which is also the end of the light rail line). This is nearly 30 minutes faster than would have been possible by Metrolink, assuming that the weather had not slowed it down. But all was not lost — travel by car gave me some extra time in the airport lounge on the Internet.

    Indeed, had I lived within walking distance of the College Station, the train would have taken longer than the car — on arterial streets and in a snowstorm. And light rail would have taken about twice as long the more than 99 percent of the time that it is not snowing in St. Louis.

    What all of this demonstrates is the most fundamental problem with transit — that it does not provide automobile competitive service. Yes, there are places where transit can compete with the automobile, such as the large downtown districts of New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Boston, where 50 percent or more of work trip travel is by transit. Even to smaller downtown areas, such as St. Louis, Portland and Houston, express bus and rail services can be competitive with automobile. But there is a big “if” — if the rider lives close to the transit line. For the vast majority of urban travel in both the United States and Western Europe, transit simply cannot compete with the automobile except to or within the urban core, because it is either far slower or isn’t even available. Metropolitan transit authorities and regional transit authorities would be more properly titled “downtown transit authorities.” A recent survey of suburb to suburb commuting in Chicago found average work trip travel times to be five times average automobile travel times — two hours and 40 minutes each way. This is in an urban area with one of the western world’s best transit systems.

    Recently, an Atlanta area chamber of commerce commissioned a study to find out why people don’t ride transit to suburban employment locations. There, huge edge cities — suburban employment centers, such as Buckhead and Perimeter — rival downtown for area dominance. They should have saved their money. The answer is that people will not ride transit unless it is competitive with the automobile. It is as simple as that. Suburban employment centers do not have the network of express bus and rail lines that radiate throughout the urban area from downtowns. Moreover, the transit system that could provide automobile competitive service to areas outside downtown at a price that could be afforded by any electorate has not been invented (and is not likely to be).

    It is time to discard the “teacup” theory of commuting. People ride “teacups” and other rides at Disneyland, because they are there for the very purpose of riding amusement park rides. Commuters are not in the market for amusement park rides, though they probably would ride teacups if they were competitive with the automobile. They aren’t, and neither is transit, whether cost-obese new rail systems or more modest (and often quicker) express bus lines. Meanwhile, I still don’t know whether the freeway would have been faster. Either way, it surely would have been more stressful.

    Wendell Cox is principal of Wendell Cox Consultancy, a demographic and transport firm in the St. Louis area. He is a visiting professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers in Paris and served on the Amtrak Reform Council and the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission.

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    Grassroot Perspective – Jan. 29, 2003-Remembering King’s Dream; Auto Competitive Transit Service? Not Even in a Snowstorm

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    ”Shoots (News, Views and Quotes)”

    Remembering King’s Dream

    It is fitting that the legal challenge to the University of Michigan’s affirmative-action admission policies arrived around the anniversary of the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

    King’s stirring “I have a dream” speech, delivered Aug. 28, 1963, signified the highest ideals of the civil rights movement. Invoking the promise of the Declaration of Independence — and reminding all of the terrible injustice of America’s failure to make good on that promise — King took the high ground and set a moral tone that could not be ignored.

    Yet, more than three-and-a-half decades later, things still seem amiss. The problem, according to author Shelby Steele (A DREAM DEFERRED and THE CONTENT OF OUR CHARACTER, winner of the National Book Critic’s Circle Award in 1990), is due largely to a shift in character of the civil rights movement. What began as a noble struggle to secure a basic American right — the free pursuit of individual happiness — was replaced by the ideals of collectivism and policies of interventionism, much to the detriment of African-Americans. Too much of what has been done since the Great Society in the name of black rights — including race-based preferences — has far more to do with the “moral redemption” or self-satisfaction of whites than with any real improvement in the lives of blacks, Steele argues.

    Those who heard Steele discuss A DREAM DEFERRED at the Independent Policy Forum a few years back were treated to the eloquence of an independent thinker passionate about issues close to his heart — and close the hearts of everyone in America who shares Martin Luther King’s dream that our children “will one day live in a nation where they will be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

    See Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech.

    Above article is quoted from https://www.independent.org Lighthouse 1/20/03.

    ”Roots (Food for Thought)”

    Auto Competitive Transit Service? Not Even in a Snowstorm

    By Wendell Cox

    It began snowing in St. Louis on Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 22, 2003. I was due to leave from Lambert International Airport at just before 8:00 pm for a trip to Raleigh-Durham to speak to a business group on urban sprawl, so-called “smart growth” and urban rail. Usually, I allow 45 minutes for the 35 mile trip, but since St. Louis drivers are only slightly better adapted to snow than Los Angelenos, I left an hour early. On the way, it struck me that the inclement weather might be the very condition that make for a quicker journey on Metrolink, the area’s light rail line. Metrolink is one of the fastest urban rail systems in the country (San Francisco’s BART and the Los Angeles Green Line are faster). If I had taken Metrolink from the eastern-most College Station (in Belleville, Illinois), the total trip time, from my house (a few miles beyond the station), the trip would have taken nearly two hours.

    But first some background on the challenges of driving in St. Louis. St. Louis is a special place. As brides-maid to the world record on population loss, St. Louis lost 60 percent of its population from 1950 to 2000. Not since the Romans sacked Carthage has a city shed so much of its population (a 100 percent loss between 149 BC and 146 BC). In keeping with this tradition, St. Louis seems to have adopted a policy of conscious infrastructure neglect. The 2.5 million population urban area is divided by the Mississippi River, with more than 2/3 of the people living to the west, in Missouri, and the balance to the east in Illinois. Today, two downtown highway bridges are open over the Mississippi — two of five. The MacArthur Bridge was closed to highway traffic when part of the deck gave way in the 1960s. No one ever bothered to fix what was then a city owned bridge. Then there is the McKinley Bridge, which was closed a year ago when inspectors thankfully found structural problems before there was a deck collapse. The third is the historic Eads Bridge, a marvelous stone architectural structure built in the 1860s. and closed since the 1980s, except for the light rail line that runs on the lower deck. But there is progress. Recalling the drawn-out construction schedules of medieval cathedrals, work has been underway for some time to re-open the Eads. But that would do me little good tonight.. It is no simple task to cross the Mississippi on a roadway system that seems to have been underdesigned for the very purpose of hindering such a crossing.

    Two decades in Los Angeles had taught me that arterial streets (signalized surface streets) can be better than freeways in the worst congestion. They can be faster, and they surely are less stressful. Indeed, my press conference statement to the effect that this strategy had prevented me from being caught in serious traffic congestion in Los Angeles baffled a map-challenged Atlanta Constitution editorialist, who apparently rarely ventured off a road with a blue and red shield interstate sign.

    But back to St. Louis. Within a few miles of home, I looked at Interstate 64 and it failed the test — it was time for the “arterial strategy.” Following along city streets, I checked the freeway from time to time, and at one point entered for three miles. As I approached the Poplar Street Bridge, which carries Interstates 55, 64, 70 and US 40 across the Mississippi River, I feared that my luck might have run out, so diverted to the only other choice, the lower volume Martin Luther King Bridge, which had been taken away from the city of East St. Louis, Illinois to avoid MacArthur/McKinley fate some years before. Soon I was across the river and downtown and heading directly toward the airport on Natural Bridge Road, never again to see or even cross a freeway. The traffic, frequent signals and driving snow made travel slow. But, one hour and twenty minutes after leaving home I arrived at a satellite parking lot, and another 10 minutes later (1:30 after leaving home), the shuttle bus dropped me at the main Lambert terminal (which is also the end of the light rail line). This is nearly 30 minutes faster than would have been possible by Metrolink, assuming that the weather had not slowed it down. But all was not lost — travel by car gave me some extra time in the airport lounge on the Internet.

    Indeed, had I lived within walking distance of the College Station, the train would have taken longer than the car — on arterial streets and in a snowstorm. And light rail would have taken about twice as long the more than 99 percent of the time that it is not snowing in St. Louis.

    What all of this demonstrates is the most fundamental problem with transit — that it does not provide automobile competitive service. Yes, there are places where transit can compete with the automobile, such as the large downtown districts of New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Boston, where 50 percent or more of work trip travel is by transit. Even to smaller downtown areas, such as St. Louis, Portland and Houston, express bus and rail services can be competitive with automobile. But there is a big “if” — if the rider lives close to the transit line. For the vast majority of urban travel in both the United States and Western Europe, transit simply cannot compete with the automobile except to or within the urban core, because it is either far slower or isn’t even available. Metropolitan transit authorities and regional transit authorities would be more properly titled “downtown transit authorities.” A recent survey of suburb to suburb commuting in Chicago found average work trip travel times to be five times average automobile travel times — two hours and 40 minutes each way. This is in an urban area with one of the western world’s best transit systems.

    Recently, an Atlanta area chamber of commerce commissioned a study to find out why people don’t ride transit to suburban employment locations. There, huge edge cities — suburban employment centers, such as Buckhead and Perimeter — rival downtown for area dominance. They should have saved their money. The answer is that people will not ride transit unless it is competitive with the automobile. It is as simple as that. Suburban employment centers do not have the network of express bus and rail lines that radiate throughout the urban area from downtowns. Moreover, the transit system that could provide automobile competitive service to areas outside downtown at a price that could be afforded by any electorate has not been invented (and is not likely to be).

    It is time to discard the “teacup” theory of commuting. People ride “teacups” and other rides at Disneyland, because they are there for the very purpose of riding amusement park rides. Commuters are not in the market for amusement park rides, though they probably would ride teacups if they were competitive with the automobile. They aren’t, and neither is transit, whether cost-obese new rail systems or more modest (and often quicker) express bus lines. Meanwhile, I still don’t know whether the freeway would have been faster. Either way, it surely would have been more stressful.

    Wendell Cox is principal of Wendell Cox Consultancy, a demographic and transport firm in the St. Louis area. He is a visiting professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers in Paris and served on the Amtrak Reform Council and the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission.

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    Transcript of Democrats' Response to State of the Union Address

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    WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (UPI) — Good evening. I’m Gary Locke, the governor of Washington state. It’s an honor to give the response to President Bush on behalf of my family, my state, my fellow Democratic governors, and the Democratic Party. Tonight, I’d like to offer our view of how to strengthen America.

    My grandfather came to this country from China nearly a century ago and worked as a servant. Now, I serve as governor just one mile from where my grandfather worked. It took our family a 100 years to travel that mile — it was a voyage we could only make in America. The values that sustained us — education, hard work, responsibility and family — guide me every day. I want every person to have the chance this country gave our family.

    But like many of you, I am concerned about the challenges now before us.

    Tonight, President Bush spoke about the threats we face from terrorists and dictators abroad.

    Many of the young Americans who fought in Afghanistan, and who tonight are still defending our freedom, were trained in Washington state. We are so grateful to them, to all the members of our armed services and their families, and we pray for their safe return.

    But the war against terror is not over. Al Qaida still targets Americans. Osama bin Laden is still at large. As we rise to the many challenges around the globe, let us never lose sight of who attacked our people here at home.

    We also support the president in working with our allies and the United Nations to eliminate the threat posed by Saddam Hussein and Kim Jong Il of North Korea. Make no mistake: Saddam Hussein is a ruthless tyrant, and he must give up his weapons of mass destruction.

    We support the president in the course he has followed so far — working with Congress, working with the United Nations, insisting on strong and unfettered inspections.

    We need allies today in 2003 just as much as we needed them in Desert Storm and just as we needed them on D-Day in 1944, when American soldiers — including my father — fought to vanquish the Nazi threat.

    We must convince the world that Saddam Hussein is not America’s problem alone — he’s the world’s problem. We urge President Bush to stay this course for we are far stronger when we stand with other nations than when we stand alone.

    I have no doubt that, together, we can meet these global challenges.

    But to be strong abroad we need to be strong at home. And today, in too many ways, our country is headed in the wrong direction. We are missing the opportunity to strengthen America for the future.

    Democrats have a positive, specific plan to turn our nation around.

    Today, the economy is limping along. Some say it’s a recovery, but for many people there’s no recovery in our states and cities. There’s no recovery in our rural communities. There’s no recovery for working Americans and for those searching for jobs to feed and clothe their families.

    After gaining 22 million jobs in eight years, we’ve now lost two million jobs in the last two years since President Bush took office — 100,000 jobs lost last month alone.

    Two years ago, the federal budget was in surplus. Now, this administration’s policies will produce massive deficits of over a trillion dollars over the next decade.

    These policies have powerful and painful consequences. States and cities now face our worst budget crises since World War II. We’re being forced to cut vital services from police to fire to health care, and many are being forced to raise taxes. We need a White House that understands the challenges our communities and people are facing across America.

    We Democrats have a plan to restore prosperity — so the United States once again becomes the great job engine it was in the 1990s. It’s rooted in three principles. It must give our economy an immediate jumpstart; it must benefit middle class families rather than just a few; and it must be fiscally responsible, so we have the savings to strengthen Social Security and protect our homeland.

    Our plan provides over a $100 billion in tax relief and investments, right now:

    *Tax relief for middle class and working families — immediately.

    *Incentives for businesses to invest and create jobs — this year.

    *Substantial help for cities and states like yours and mine — now.

    *Extended unemployment benefits — without delay — for nearly a million American workers who have already exhausted their benefits.

    *And all without passing on the bill to our children and grandchildren through exploding budget deficits for years to come.

    Now, as you heard tonight, President Bush has a very different plan. We think it’s upside down economics: it does too little to stimulate the economy now and does too much to weaken our economic future.

    It will create huge, permanent deficits that will raise interest rates, stifle growth, hinder homeownership and cut off the avenues of opportunity that have let so many work themselves up from poverty.

    We believe every American should get a tax cut. That’s the way to create broad based growth. But we shouldn’t spend hundreds of billions of dollars on a plan that helps neither the economy nor the families that need it most — while making it harder to save Social Security and invest in health care and education.

    Think about it: Under the President’s proposal to eliminate taxes on stock dividends, the top 1 percent — that’s people who earn over $300,000 a year — would get more tax relief than the bottom 95 percent of taxpayers combined. That’s wrong. And it’s irresponsible, and it won’t create jobs.

    Let’s choose the right course — the successful and fair course — for our economy.

    We have another urgent priority: homeland security. In this unprecedented fight against terror, the frontlines are in our own neighborhoods and communities.

    This one hits home. In 1999, an al Qaida operative tried to enter my state with a trunk full of explosives. Thankfully, he was caught just in time. Now, a year and a half after September 11th, America is still far too vulnerable. Last year Congress authorized $2.5 billion in vital new resources to protect our citizens — for equipment for firefighters and police, to protect ports, to guard against bioterrorism, to secure nuclear power plants and more. It’s hard to believe, but President Bush actually refused to release the money.

    Republicans now say we can’t afford it. The Democrats say: If we’re serious about protecting our homeland, we can and we must.

    Now, to strengthen America at home, there’s much more to do.

    You and I know that education is the great equalizer, the hope of democracy, and the key to the information economy of the future. In my state we have raised test scores, cut class sizes, trained teachers, launched innovative reading programs, offered college scholarships even as the federal government cut its aid to deserving students. Democrats worked with President Bush to pass a law that demands more of our students and invests more in our schools. But his budget fails to give communities the help they need to meet these new, high standards. We say we want to leave no child behind, but our schools need more than kind words about education from Washington, D.C. — we need a real partnership to renew our schools.

    Tonight, we also heard the president talk about health care. Too many seniors can’t afford the remarkable new drugs that can save lives — some are even skimping on food to pay for needed medication.

    On this issue, the contrast is clear. Democrats insist on a Medicare prescription drug benefit for all seniors. President Bush says he supports a prescription drug benefit — but let’s read the fine print: his plan only seniors who leave traditional Medicare. Our parents shouldn’t be forced to give up their doctor or join an HMO to get the medicine they need. That wouldn’t save Medicare — it would privatize it. And it would put too many seniors at too much risk, just when they need the security of Medicare.

    And, finally, let’s talk about the environment and energy. Environmental protection has been a tremendous bipartisan success story over three decades. Our air and water are cleaner. In communities in my state and yours, conservation is a way of life.

    But the administration is determined to roll back much of this progress. Our nation should lead global efforts to promote environmental responsibility — not shun them. And instead of opening up the Alaskan wilderness to oil drilling, we should be committed to a national policy to reduce our dependence on oil by promoting American technology and sustainability.

    Yes, the Republican Party now controls the executive branch and both houses of Congress. But we Democrats will hold the administration and congressional leaders accountable.

    We will work to create jobs and strengthen homeland security. We will fight to protect a woman’s right to choose and we will fight for affirmative action, equal opportunity and diversity in our schools and our workplaces. Above all, we will demand that this government advance our common purpose and not pander to narrow special interests.

    That’s the vision of the Democratic Party — in statehouses, in Congress, and in the homes of millions of Americans. We believe it’s the best course for our nation. It is the vision we will work for — and stand for — in the coming year.

    This is not an easy time. But I often think about my grandfather, arriving by steamship a hundred years ago. He had no family here; he spoke no English. I can only imagine how he must have felt as he looked out at his new country.

    There are millions of families like mine — people whose ancestors dreamed the American Dream and worked hard to make it come true. They transformed adversity into opportunity. Yes, these are challenging times — but the American family, the American Dream, has prevailed before. That’s the character of our people and the hallmark of our country. The lesson of our legacy is, if we work together, and make the right choices, we will become a stronger, more united and more prosperous nation.

    Thank you for listening, and God Bless America.

    Copyright 2003 by United Press International. All rights reserved.

    ”’To see the president’s speech, go to:”’ “State of the Union Address – Jan. 28, 2003”

    Transcript of Democrats’ Response to State of the Union Address

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    WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (UPI) — Good evening. I’m Gary Locke, the governor of Washington state. It’s an honor to give the response to President Bush on behalf of my family, my state, my fellow Democratic governors, and the Democratic Party. Tonight, I’d like to offer our view of how to strengthen America.

    My grandfather came to this country from China nearly a century ago and worked as a servant. Now, I serve as governor just one mile from where my grandfather worked. It took our family a 100 years to travel that mile — it was a voyage we could only make in America. The values that sustained us — education, hard work, responsibility and family — guide me every day. I want every person to have the chance this country gave our family.

    But like many of you, I am concerned about the challenges now before us.

    Tonight, President Bush spoke about the threats we face from terrorists and dictators abroad.

    Many of the young Americans who fought in Afghanistan, and who tonight are still defending our freedom, were trained in Washington state. We are so grateful to them, to all the members of our armed services and their families, and we pray for their safe return.

    But the war against terror is not over. Al Qaida still targets Americans. Osama bin Laden is still at large. As we rise to the many challenges around the globe, let us never lose sight of who attacked our people here at home.

    We also support the president in working with our allies and the United Nations to eliminate the threat posed by Saddam Hussein and Kim Jong Il of North Korea. Make no mistake: Saddam Hussein is a ruthless tyrant, and he must give up his weapons of mass destruction.

    We support the president in the course he has followed so far — working with Congress, working with the United Nations, insisting on strong and unfettered inspections.

    We need allies today in 2003 just as much as we needed them in Desert Storm and just as we needed them on D-Day in 1944, when American soldiers — including my father — fought to vanquish the Nazi threat.

    We must convince the world that Saddam Hussein is not America’s problem alone — he’s the world’s problem. We urge President Bush to stay this course for we are far stronger when we stand with other nations than when we stand alone.

    I have no doubt that, together, we can meet these global challenges.

    But to be strong abroad we need to be strong at home. And today, in too many ways, our country is headed in the wrong direction. We are missing the opportunity to strengthen America for the future.

    Democrats have a positive, specific plan to turn our nation around.

    Today, the economy is limping along. Some say it’s a recovery, but for many people there’s no recovery in our states and cities. There’s no recovery in our rural communities. There’s no recovery for working Americans and for those searching for jobs to feed and clothe their families.

    After gaining 22 million jobs in eight years, we’ve now lost two million jobs in the last two years since President Bush took office — 100,000 jobs lost last month alone.

    Two years ago, the federal budget was in surplus. Now, this administration’s policies will produce massive deficits of over a trillion dollars over the next decade.

    These policies have powerful and painful consequences. States and cities now face our worst budget crises since World War II. We’re being forced to cut vital services from police to fire to health care, and many are being forced to raise taxes. We need a White House that understands the challenges our communities and people are facing across America.

    We Democrats have a plan to restore prosperity — so the United States once again becomes the great job engine it was in the 1990s. It’s rooted in three principles. It must give our economy an immediate jumpstart; it must benefit middle class families rather than just a few; and it must be fiscally responsible, so we have the savings to strengthen Social Security and protect our homeland.

    Our plan provides over a $100 billion in tax relief and investments, right now:

    *Tax relief for middle class and working families — immediately.

    *Incentives for businesses to invest and create jobs — this year.

    *Substantial help for cities and states like yours and mine — now.

    *Extended unemployment benefits — without delay — for nearly a million American workers who have already exhausted their benefits.

    *And all without passing on the bill to our children and grandchildren through exploding budget deficits for years to come.

    Now, as you heard tonight, President Bush has a very different plan. We think it’s upside down economics: it does too little to stimulate the economy now and does too much to weaken our economic future.

    It will create huge, permanent deficits that will raise interest rates, stifle growth, hinder homeownership and cut off the avenues of opportunity that have let so many work themselves up from poverty.

    We believe every American should get a tax cut. That’s the way to create broad based growth. But we shouldn’t spend hundreds of billions of dollars on a plan that helps neither the economy nor the families that need it most — while making it harder to save Social Security and invest in health care and education.

    Think about it: Under the President’s proposal to eliminate taxes on stock dividends, the top 1 percent — that’s people who earn over $300,000 a year — would get more tax relief than the bottom 95 percent of taxpayers combined. That’s wrong. And it’s irresponsible, and it won’t create jobs.

    Let’s choose the right course — the successful and fair course — for our economy.

    We have another urgent priority: homeland security. In this unprecedented fight against terror, the frontlines are in our own neighborhoods and communities.

    This one hits home. In 1999, an al Qaida operative tried to enter my state with a trunk full of explosives. Thankfully, he was caught just in time. Now, a year and a half after September 11th, America is still far too vulnerable. Last year Congress authorized $2.5 billion in vital new resources to protect our citizens — for equipment for firefighters and police, to protect ports, to guard against bioterrorism, to secure nuclear power plants and more. It’s hard to believe, but President Bush actually refused to release the money.

    Republicans now say we can’t afford it. The Democrats say: If we’re serious about protecting our homeland, we can and we must.

    Now, to strengthen America at home, there’s much more to do.

    You and I know that education is the great equalizer, the hope of democracy, and the key to the information economy of the future. In my state we have raised test scores, cut class sizes, trained teachers, launched innovative reading programs, offered college scholarships even as the federal government cut its aid to deserving students. Democrats worked with President Bush to pass a law that demands more of our students and invests more in our schools. But his budget fails to give communities the help they need to meet these new, high standards. We say we want to leave no child behind, but our schools need more than kind words about education from Washington, D.C. — we need a real partnership to renew our schools.

    Tonight, we also heard the president talk about health care. Too many seniors can’t afford the remarkable new drugs that can save lives — some are even skimping on food to pay for needed medication.

    On this issue, the contrast is clear. Democrats insist on a Medicare prescription drug benefit for all seniors. President Bush says he supports a prescription drug benefit — but let’s read the fine print: his plan only seniors who leave traditional Medicare. Our parents shouldn’t be forced to give up their doctor or join an HMO to get the medicine they need. That wouldn’t save Medicare — it would privatize it. And it would put too many seniors at too much risk, just when they need the security of Medicare.

    And, finally, let’s talk about the environment and energy. Environmental protection has been a tremendous bipartisan success story over three decades. Our air and water are cleaner. In communities in my state and yours, conservation is a way of life.

    But the administration is determined to roll back much of this progress. Our nation should lead global efforts to promote environmental responsibility — not shun them. And instead of opening up the Alaskan wilderness to oil drilling, we should be committed to a national policy to reduce our dependence on oil by promoting American technology and sustainability.

    Yes, the Republican Party now controls the executive branch and both houses of Congress. But we Democrats will hold the administration and congressional leaders accountable.

    We will work to create jobs and strengthen homeland security. We will fight to protect a woman’s right to choose and we will fight for affirmative action, equal opportunity and diversity in our schools and our workplaces. Above all, we will demand that this government advance our common purpose and not pander to narrow special interests.

    That’s the vision of the Democratic Party — in statehouses, in Congress, and in the homes of millions of Americans. We believe it’s the best course for our nation. It is the vision we will work for — and stand for — in the coming year.

    This is not an easy time. But I often think about my grandfather, arriving by steamship a hundred years ago. He had no family here; he spoke no English. I can only imagine how he must have felt as he looked out at his new country.

    There are millions of families like mine — people whose ancestors dreamed the American Dream and worked hard to make it come true. They transformed adversity into opportunity. Yes, these are challenging times — but the American family, the American Dream, has prevailed before. That’s the character of our people and the hallmark of our country. The lesson of our legacy is, if we work together, and make the right choices, we will become a stronger, more united and more prosperous nation.

    Thank you for listening, and God Bless America.

    Copyright 2003 by United Press International. All rights reserved.

    ”’To see the president’s speech, go to:”’ “State of the Union Address – Jan. 28, 2003”

    From Control Issues to Sibling Rivalry

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    Dear Readers:

    As an added resource, over the next few months I will supplement my responses with references to self-help materials. Supplemental reading for today’s answers can be found in my book “Welcome Home. A Book About Overcoming Addictions” (pp. 11-12 relates to Answer No. 1; pp. 13-15 relates to Answer No. 2). For more information visit my Web site at https://www.DrGelbSays.com

    ”Control — Why Can’t I Just Let Things Happen?”

    Dear Dr. Gelb:

    I am a hard-working student and mom. But I feel like I am always “on.” I think it is a good thing to be hard working, but I don’t really know how to plant a seed, so to speak, and just let it grow. I compulsively fuss with it, because of my uncertainty about whether I’m doing enough. My excessive responsibility causes me to sometimes “kill the plant,” if you know what I mean. My friends say I need to trust that things will work out. I don’t understand. To me, sitting back and waiting for life to work out, is irresponsible. Do you have any thoughts on this?

    Control

    A: Dr. Gelb says . . .

    Dear Control:

    Right on. I appreciate the sense of responsibility you appear to have toward yourself and your loved ones. I hope you can shake the attitudes of those irresponsible friends who appear to be trying to coerce you into believing that it is positive to just kick back and let it all hang out. In my opinion, that is bad advice. Reality is about being focused, making positive choices and of course, behaving responsibly. Reality need not be tiring or threatening if one realizes that experiences are by choice and not motivated by do-gooders who think they know it all. Believe me, backyard therapy can be misleading.

    Regarding the compulsiveness you describe, that type of behavior tends to cause people to continually take the plant out of the soil to inspect the roots to see if it is growing. Such people invariably find it difficult to leave well enough alone. This behavior is somewhat different to the responsible behavior I just discussed. From that perspective, your friends may very well be trying to suggest that you stop excessively doing things that can be prioritized for another time.

    ”Comparisons – Why do Others Always Seem Better Than Me?”

    Dear Dr. Gelb:

    I was raised in a family of five. My siblings live all over the globe, but we keep in touch and I feel close to them. We are different in many ways, but I love them. I don’t feel in competition with them, and don’t remember feeling that way growing up, so I was wondering why I feel that other people are better at things than I am, and that I need people to help me if I am to be successful in life?

    Always Less Than

    A: Dr. Gelb says . . .

    Dear Less Than:

    If I were you, I would take my head out of the sand and stop pretending that there was not a problem with my siblings when growing up. Sibling rivalry invariably conditions the growing child. This conditioning can sometimes be negative, exposing the young child to unhealthy attitudes, which then tend to unconsciously motivate behavior. Consider picking up a good book on sibling rivalry so that you can learn about the effect on siblings of their position in the family.

    ”’Suzanne J. Gelb, Ph.D., J.D. authors this daily column, Dr. Gelb Says, which answers questions about daily living and behavior issues. Dr. Gelb is a licensed psychologist in private practice in Honolulu. She holds a Ph.D. in Psychology and a Ph.D. in Human Services. Dr. Gelb is also a published author of a book on Overcoming Addictions and a book on Relationships.”’

    ”’This column is intended for entertainment use only and is not intended for the purpose of psychological diagnosis, treatment or personalized advice. For more about the column’s purpose, see”’ “An Online Intro to Dr. Gelb Says”

    ”’Email your questions to mailto:DrGelbSays@hawaiireporter.com More information on Dr. Gelb’s services and related resources available at”’ https://www.DrGelbSays.com

    Legislative Hearing Notices – Jan. 29, 2003

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    The following hearing notices, which are subject to change, were sorted and taken from the Hawaii State Capitol Web site. Please check that site for updates and/or changes to the schedule at https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/docs/hearing/hearing2.asp?press1=docs&button1=current Go there and click on the Hearing Date to view the Hearing Notice.

    Hearings notices for both House and Senate measures in all committees:

    Hearing

    ”Date Time Bill Number Measure Title Committee”

    1/29/03 8:30 AM HB155 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR PINEAPPLE RESEARCH. AGR

    1/29/03 8:30 AM HB159 RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. AGR

    1/29/03 8:30 AM HB283 RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. AGR

    1/29/03 8:30 AM HB293 RELATING TO THE FARMERS’ MARKET. AGR

    1/29/03 8:30 AM HB315 RELATING TO AGRIBUSINESS INCUBATORS. AGR

    1/29/03 8:30 AM HB453 RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LAND PRESERVATION. AGR

    1/29/03 8:30 AM HB480 RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL PARKS. AGR

    1/29/03 8:30 AM HB522 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO ENHANCE AGRICULTURAL TOURISM VENUES. AGR

    1/29/03 8:30 AM HB523 RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL TOURISM. AGR

    1/29/03 8:30 AM HB542 RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES. AGR

    1/29/03 8:30 AM HB543 RELATING TO THE AGRIBUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. AGR

    1/29/03 8:30 AM HB546 RELATING TO THE STATE WATER CODE. AGR

    1/29/03 8:30 AM None Informational Briefing WAM

    1/29/03 8:30 AM None Informational Briefing Summary WAM

    1/29/03 8:30 AM HB178 RELATING TO LAND USE. WLH

    1/29/03 8:30 AM HB179 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PURCHASE OF LAND IN NORTH KONA. WLH

    1/29/03 8:30 AM HB295 RELATING TO THE PUBLIC LAND TRUST. WLH

    1/29/03 8:30 AM HB426 RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS. WLH

    1/29/03 8:30 AM HB427 RELATING TO HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS. WLH

    1/29/03 8:30 AM HB428 RELATING TO PUBLIC LAND LEASES. WLH

    1/29/03 8:30 AM HB524 RELATING TO LANDOWNERS’ LIABILITY. WLH

    1/29/03 8:30 AM HB526 RELATING TO HOME OCCUPATIONS WITHIN AGRICULTURAL DISTRICTS. WLH

    1/29/03 8:30 AM HCR10 REQUESTING THAT THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS RECOGNIZE AN OFFICIAL POLITICAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AND THE HAWAIIAN PEOPLE. WLH

    1/29/03 8:30 AM HR10 REQUESTING THAT THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS RECOGNIZE AN OFFICIAL POLITICAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AND THE HAWAIIAN PEOPLE. WLH

    1/29/03 9:00 AM SB442 RELATING TO THE RIGHTS OF VICTIMS. JHW

    1/29/03 9:00 AM SB932 RELATING TO ABUSE OF FAMILY OR HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS. JHW

    1/29/03 9:00 AM SB933 RELATING TO STALKING. JHW

    1/29/03 9:00 AM SB934 RELATING TO TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP OF FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION. JHW

    1/29/03 9:00 AM SB935 RELATING TO ORDERS FOR PROTECTION. JHW

    1/29/03 9:00 AM SB937 RELATING TO ABUSE OF FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS. JHW

    1/29/03 9:00 AM SB962 AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE CHILDREN’S JUSTICE CENTER. JHW

    1/29/03 9:00 AM SB972 RELATING TO TORT LIABILITY. JHW

    1/29/03 9:00 AM SB996 RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY. JHW

    1/29/03 9:00 AM HB55 RELATING TO THE IN-BOND CONCESSION AT STATE AIRPORTS. TRN

    1/29/03 9:00 AM HB137 RELATING TO HIGHWAY SAFETY. TRN

    1/29/03 9:00 AM HB145 RELATING TO HIGHWAYS. TRN

    1/29/03 9:00 AM HB149 RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. TRN

    1/29/03 9:00 AM HB203 RELATING TO THE TRANSFER OF JURISDICTION OVER HIGHWAYS TO THE COUNTIES. TRN

    1/29/03 9:00 AM HB218 RELATING TO TERMINABLE RENTAL ADJUSTMENT CLAUSE VEHICLE LEASES. TRN

    1/29/03 9:00 AM HB440 RELATING TO FEASIBILITY OF CONSTRUCTING AN EXERCISE PATH ALONG THE WAIANAE COAST. TRN

    1/29/03 9:00 AM HB456 RELATING TO TOWING. TRN

    1/29/03 9:00 AM HB457 RELATING TO TOWING. TRN

    1/29/03 9:00 AM HB459 RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE. TRN

    1/29/03 1:00 PM SB10 RELATING TO COUNSELING. EDU

    1/29/03 1:00 PM SB13 RELATING TO EDUCATION. EDU

    1/29/03 1:00 PM SB16 RELATING TO EDUCATION. EDU

    1/29/03 1:00 PM SB17 RELATING TO EDUCATION. EDU

    1/29/03 1:00 PM SB18 RELATING TO EDUCATION. EDU

    1/29/03 1:00 PM SB60 RELATING TO SCHOOL ASSESSMENT LIAISONS. EDU

    1/29/03 1:00 PM SB80 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR SCHOOL SAFETY RESOURCE OFFICERS. EDU

    1/29/03 1:00 PM SB350 RELATING TO EDUCATION. EDU

    1/29/03 1:00 PM SB701 RELATING TO EDUCATION. EDU

    1/29/03 1:00 PM SB816 RELATING TO SAFETY RESOURCE OFFICER PROGRAM. EDU

    1/29/03 1:30 PM None Informational Briefing WLA

    1/29/03 2:15 PM HB593 RELATING TO REAL ESTATE. CPC

    1/29/03 2:15 PM HB594 RELATING TO THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION. CPC

    1/29/03 2:15 PM HB595 RELATING TO CHECK CASHING. CPC

    1/29/03 2:15 PM HB655 RELATING TO CREDIT CARDS. CPC

    1/29/03 2:15 PM HB736 RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL LICENSES. CPC

    1/29/03 2:15 PM HB929 RELATING TO CONDOMINIUM PROPERTY REGIMES. CPC

    1/29/03 2:15 PM HB1025 RELATING TO CIGARETTE RETAILERS AND MANUFACTURERS. CPC

    1/29/03 2:15 PM HB1098 RELATING TO THE UNIFORM INFORMATION PRACTICES ACT. CPC

    1/29/03 2:15 PM HB1099 RELATING TO THE UNIFORM INFORMATION PRACTICES ACT. CPC

    1/29/03 2:15 PM HB1100 RELATING TO THE UNIFORM INFORMATION PRACTICES ACT. CPC

    1/29/03 2:15 PM HB1102 RELATING TO PROCUREMENT CARD PAYMENTS. CPC

    1/29/03 2:15 PM HB1103 RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. CPC

    1/29/03 2:15 PM HB1114 RELATING TO TOBACCO. CPC

    1/29/03 2:15 PM HB1160 RELATING TO THE EXAMINATION FOR LICENSURE AS A CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT. CPC

    1/29/03 2:15 PM HB1161 RELATING TO PSYCHOLOGIST LICENSING REQUIREMENTS. CPC

    1/29/03 2:15 PM HB1162 RELATING TO INSURANCE FRAUD. CPC

    1/29/03 2:15 PM HB1163 RELATING TO DENTAL INSURANCE. CPC

    1/29/03 2:15 PM HB1165 RELATING TO BUSINESS REGISTRATION. CPC

    1/29/03 2:15 PM HB1166 RELATING TO THE UNIFORM LIMITED PARTNERSHIP ACT. CPC

    1/29/03 2:15 PM HB1171 RELATING TO CONCILIATION PANELS. CPC

    1/29/03 2:15 PM HB1172 RELATING TO THE UNIFORM SECURITIES ACT. CPC

    1/29/03 2:15 PM HB1259 RELATING TO THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE. CPC

    1/29/03 2:15 PM HB1339 RELATING TO CONDOMINIUM PROPERTY REGIMES. CPC

    1/29/03 2:45 PM SB96 RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. HMS

    1/29/03 2:45 PM SB401 RELATING TO EARLY CHILDHOOD. HMS

    1/29/03 2:45 PM SB486 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HANA YOUTH CENTER. HMS

    1/29/03 2:45 PM SB494 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE MAUI ADULT DAY CARE CENTER. HMS

    1/29/03 2:45 PM SB504 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE MAUI FOOD BANK. HMS

    1/29/03 2:45 PM SB514 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR QUEST ORTHODONTIC SERVICES. HMS

    1/29/03 2:45 PM SB697 RELATING TO CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES. HMS

    1/29/03 2:45 PM SB786 RELATING TO ADOPTION. HMS

    1/29/03 2:45 PM SB865 RELATING TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A STATE FOOD SECURITY COUNCIL. HMS

    1/29/03 2:45 PM SB867 RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. HMS

    1/29/03 2:45 PM SB44 RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. TMG

    1/29/03 2:45 PM SB45 RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. TMG

    1/29/03 2:45 PM SB47 RELATING TO WHARFAGE FEES. TMG

    1/29/03 2:45 PM SB91 RELATING TO HIGHWAYS. TMG

    1/29/03 2:45 PM SB578 RELATING TO HIGHWAY SAFETY. TMG

    1/29/03 2:45 PM SB671 RELATING TO SCHOOL ZONES. TMG

    1/29/03 2:45 PM SB723 RELATING TO HIGHWAYS. TMG

    1/29/03 2:45 PM SB732 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENTS. TMG

    1/30/03 8:30 AM HB21 RELATING TO CORPORATE DISCLOSURE. EDB

    1/30/03 8:30 AM HB131 RELATING TO TAXATION. EDB

    1/30/03 8:30 AM HB152 RELATING TO TAXATION. EDB

    1/30/03 8:30 AM HB521 RELATING TO AN ANNUAL GENERAL EXCISE TAX HOLIDAY. EDB

    1/30/03 8:30 AM HB643 RELATING TO GENERAL EXCISE TAX. EDB

    1/30/03 8:30 AM HB650 RELATING TO TAXATION. EDB

    1/30/03 8:30 AM HB719 RELATING TO TAXATION. EDB

    1/30/03 8:30 AM HB1066 RELATING TO THE TELEVISION INDUSTRY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. EDB

    1/30/03 8:30 AM HB1353 RELATING TO INCOME TAX CREDITS. EDB

    1/30/03 8:30 AM HB1394 RELATING TO TAXATION TO STIMULATE THE ECONOMY. EDB

    1/30/03 8:30 AM HB2 RELATING TO SMOKING. HLT

    1/30/03 8:30 AM HB4 RELATING TO THE REGULATION OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS. HLT

    1/30/03 8:30 AM HB136 RELATING TO MEDICALLY ACCURATE SEX EDUCATION. HLT

    1/30/03 8:30 AM HB244 RELATING TO HEALTH. HLT

    1/30/03 8:30 AM HB263 RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE REIMBURSEMENTS. HLT

    1/30/03 8:30 AM HB273 RELATING TO PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS FOR CHILDREN. HLT

    1/30/03 8:30 AM HB343 RELATING TO TOBACCO PRODUCTS. HLT

    1/30/03 8:30 AM HB731 RELATING TO WORKERS’ COMPENSATION. HLT

    1/30/03 8:30 AM HB853 RELATING TO ACUPUNCTURE. HLT

    1/30/03 8:30 AM HB877 RELATING TO TEMPORARY HEALTH INSURANCE FOR UNEMPLOYED PERSONS. HLT

    1/30/03 8:30 AM HB1168 RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH. HLT

    1/30/03 8:30 AM HB1412 RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS. HLT

    1/30/03 8:30 AM None Informational Briefing WAM

    1/30/03 8:30 AM None Informational Briefing WAM

    1/30/03 8:30 AM None Informational Briefing Summary WAM

    1/30/03 9:00 AM HB197 RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES. EEP

    1/30/03 9:00 AM HB470 RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT. EEP

    1/30/03 9:00 AM HB737 RELATING TO CLEAN WATER. EEP

    1/30/03 9:00 AM HB866 RELATING TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY. EEP

    1/30/03 9:00 AM HB943 RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS. EEP

    1/30/03 9:00 AM HB1032 RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. EEP

    1/30/03 9:00 AM SB98 RELATING TO NATIVE HAWAIIAN HEALTH. JHW

    1/30/03 9:00 AM SB98 RELATING TO NATIVE HAWAIIAN HEALTH. JHW

    1/30/03 9:00 AM SB381 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PAYMENT OF DAMAGES FOR HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS TRUST INDIVIDUAL CLAIMS. JHW

    1/30/03 9:00 AM SB381 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PAYMENT OF DAMAGES FOR HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS TRUST INDIVIDUAL CLAIMS. JHW

    1/30/03 9:00 AM SB382 RELATING TO HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS. JHW

    1/30/03 9:00 AM SB383 RELATING TO HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS TRUST INDIVIDUAL CLAIMS. JHW

    1/30/03 9:00 AM SB383 RELATING TO HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS TRUST INDIVIDUAL CLAIMS. JHW

    1/30/03 9:00 AM SB476 RELATING TO CEDED LAND REVENUES. JHW

    1/30/03 9:00 AM SB477 RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS COMMISSION ACT. JHW

    1/30/03 9:00 AM SB478 RELATING TO THE PRIMARY AND GENERAL ELECTIONS OF THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS. JHW

    1/30/03 9:00 AM SB610 RELATING TO INDIVIDUAL CLAIMS RESOLUTION UNDER THE HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS TRUST. JHW

    1/30/03 9:00 AM SB610 RELATING TO INDIVIDUAL CLAIMS RESOLUTION UNDER THE HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS TRUST. JHW

    1/30/03 9:00 AM SB615 RELATING TO SPECIAL ATTORNEYS GENERAL. JHW

    1/30/03 9:00 AM SB638 RELATING TO HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION. JHW

    1/30/03 9:00 AM None Informational Briefing PSM

    1/30/03 1:15 PM None Informational Briefing ECD

    1/30/03 1:15 PM SB82 RELATING TO ENTERPRISE ZONES. ECD

    1/30/03 1:15 PM SB358 RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. ECD

    1/30/03 1:15 PM SB659 RELATING TO ENTERPRISE ZONE. ECD

    1/30/03 1:15 PM SB836 RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. ECD

    1/30/03 1:15 PM SB1253 RELATING TO ECONOMIC DATA. ECD

    1/30/03 1:15 PM SB1254 RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. ECD

    1/30/03 1:15 PM SB1250 RELATING TO NEW ECONOMY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. ECD/LBR

    1/30/03 1:15 PM SB33 RELATING TO TAXATION. TSM

    1/30/03 1:15 PM SB38 RELATING TO THE HAWAII TOURISM AUTHORITY. TSM

    1/30/03 1:15 PM SB377 RELATING TO TAXATION. TSM

    1/30/03 1:15 PM SB673 RELATING TO TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS TAX. TSM

    1/30/03 1:15 PM SB826 RELATING TO TIME SHARING. TSM

    1/30/03 1:15 PM SB828 RELATING TO TIME SHARING PLANS. TSM

    1/30/03 2:00 PM HB316 RELATING TO UNIVERSITY PROJECTS AND PURPOSES. HED

    1/30/03 2:00 PM HB317 RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES’ RETIREMENT SYSTEM. HED

    1/30/03 2:00 PM HB318 RELATING TO HUMAN RESOURCES. HED

    1/30/03 2:00 PM HB319 RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. HED

    1/30/03 2:00 PM HB320 RELATING TO RISK MANAGEMENT. HED

    1/30/03 2:00 PM HB321 RELATING TO AUTHORIZING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SEPARATE CIVIL SERVICE SYSTEM FOR EMPLOYEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. HED

    1/30/03 2:00 PM HB322 RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. HED

    1/30/03 2:00 PM HB1093 RELATING TO HIGHER EDUCATION. HED

    1/30/03 2:00 PM HB1238 RELATING TO UNIVERSITY PROJECTS AND PURPOSES. HED

    1/30/03 2:00 PM HB1240 RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII RISK MANAGEMENT SPECIAL FUND. HED

    1/30/03 2:00 PM HB1241 RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES’ RETIREMENT SYSTEM. HED

    1/30/03 2:00 PM HB1335 RELATING TO TUITION WAIVERS. HED

    1/30/03 2:25 PM SB319 RELATING TO COUNTIES. ENE/TMG

    1/30/03 2:25 PM SB490 RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. ENE/TMG

    1/30/03 2:25 PM SB492 AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN STATE FACILITIES. ENE/TMG

    1/30/03 2:25 PM SB1290 RELATING TO PRODUCT PROCUREMENT PREFERENCES BY STATE AGENCIES. TMG/ENE

    1/30/03 2:25 PM SB1474 RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES. TMG/ENE

    1/30/03 2:30 PM SB354 RELATING TO ENERGY. ENE

    1/30/03 2:30 PM SB431 RELATING TO CLEAN FUEL VEHICLES. ENE

    1/30/03 2:30 PM SB487 RELATING TO A GEOTHERMAL-TO-HYDROGEN TAX CREDIT. ENE

    1/30/03 2:30 PM SB503 RELATING TO CLEAN WATER. ENE

    1/30/03 2:30 PM SB506 RELATING TO GEOTHERMAL ROYALTIES. ENE

    1/30/03 2:30 PM SB558 RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES. ENE

    1/30/03 2:30 PM SB595 RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS. ENE

    1/30/03 2:30 PM SB596 RELATING TO ENERGY CONSERVATION TAX CREDIT. ENE

    1/30/03 2:30 PM SB708 RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS. ENE

    1/30/03 2:30 PM SB709 RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST PROJECTS ON THE ISLANDS OF MAUI AND HAWAII. ENE

    1/30/03 2:30 PM SB713 RELATING TO CLOSURE OF MUNICIPAL FACILITIES. ENE

    1/30/03 2:30 PM SB722 RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. ENE

    1/30/03 2:30 PM SB815 RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS. ENE

    1/30/03 2:30 PM SB819 RELATING TO CONSERVATION. ENE

    1/30/03 2:30 PM SB840 RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS. ENE

    1/30/03 2:30 PM SB841 RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT. ENE

    1/30/03 2:30 PM SB848 RELATING TO THE ISLAND OF KAHOOLAWE. ENE

    1/30/03 2:30 PM SB855 RELATING TO ENERGY. ENE

    1/30/03 2:30 PM SB909 RELATING TO REQUIRED GREASE INTERCEPTORS. ENE

    1/30/03 2:30 PM SB1292 RELATING TO THE ENERGY CONSERVATION INCOME TAX CREDIT. ENE

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB658 RELATING TO EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTIVES FOR SEX ASSAULT SURVIVORS IN EMERGENCY ROOMS. HTH

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB658 RELATING TO EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTIVES FOR SEX ASSAULT SURVIVORS IN EMERGENCY ROOMS. HTH

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB658 RELATING TO EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTIVES FOR SEX ASSAULT SURVIVORS IN EMERGENCY ROOMS. HTH

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB661 RELATING TO SEXUAL ASSAULT. HTH

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB661 RELATING TO SEXUAL ASSAULT. HTH

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB661 RELATING TO SEXUAL ASSAULT. HTH

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB739 RELATING TO ANATOMICAL GIFTS. HTH

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB739 RELATING TO ANATOMICAL GIFTS. HTH

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB739 RELATING TO ANATOMICAL GIFTS. HTH

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB741 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES. HTH

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB741 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES. HTH

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB741 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES. HTH

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB747 RELATING TO INSURANCE. HTH

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB747 RELATING TO INSURANCE. HTH

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB747 RELATING TO INSURANCE. HTH

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB893 RELATING TO MANDATORY HEALTH COVERAGE FOR EXAMINATION FOR SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES. HTH

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB893 RELATING TO MANDATORY HEALTH COVERAGE FOR EXAMINATION FOR SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES. HTH

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB893 RELATING TO MANDATORY HEALTH COVERAGE FOR EXAMINATION FOR SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES. HTH

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB894 RELATING TO OSTEOPOROSIS. HTH

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB894 RELATING TO OSTEOPOROSIS. HTH

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB894 RELATING TO OSTEOPOROSIS. HTH

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB963 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE POISON CENTER. HTH

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB963 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE POISON CENTER. HTH

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB963 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE POISON CENTER. HTH

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB1241 RELATING TO CANCER EXAMINATIONS. HTH

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB1241 RELATING TO CANCER EXAMINATIONS. HTH

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB1241 RELATING TO CANCER EXAMINATIONS. HTH

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB890 MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR DENTAL SERVICES. HTH/HMS

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB890 MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR DENTAL SERVICES. HTH/HMS

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB890 MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR DENTAL SERVICES. HTH/HMS

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB891 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR ADULT DENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. HTH/HMS

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB891 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR ADULT DENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. HTH/HMS

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB891 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR ADULT DENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. HTH/HMS

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB426 RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. SAT

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB721 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A UNIFIED DATABASE SYSTEM OF ALL STATE AGENCIES. SAT

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB1251 RELATING TO A STATE CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER. SAT

    1/30/03 2:45 PM SB1334 RELATING TO THE STATE INTERNET PORTAL. SAT

    1/31/03 9:00 AM SB392 RELATING TO MANDATORY DRUG TREATMENT COURT QUARTERLY REPORTING. JHW

    1/31/03 9:00 AM SB632 RELATING TO TAXATION APPEALS. JHW

    1/31/03 9:00 AM SB635 RELATING TO TRAFFIC FINES. JHW

    1/31/03 9:00 AM SB729 RELATING TO THE DRUG COURT PROGRAM. JHW

    1/31/03 9:00 AM SB801 RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF INFORMATION PRACTICES. JHW

    1/31/03 9:00 AM SB802 RELATING TO GOVERNMENT RECORDS. JHW

    1/31/03 1:00 PM None Informational Briefing TMG

    1/31/03 1:15 PM SB58 RELATING TO SCHOOL REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE. EDU

    1/31/03 1:15 PM SB75 RELATING TO EDUCATION. EDU

    1/31/03 1:15 PM SB338 RELATING TO EDUCATION. EDU

    1/31/03 1:15 PM SB339 RELATING TO EDUCATION. EDU

    1/31/03 1:15 PM SB365 AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE OF STATE EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES. EDU

    1/31/03 1:15 PM SB631 RELATING TO EDUCATION. EDU

    1/31/03 1:15 PM SB631 RELATING TO EDUCATION. EDU

    1/31/03 1:15 PM SB752 RELATING TO TORTS. EDU

    1/31/03 1:15 PM SB832 RELATING TO THE HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM. EDU

    1/31/03 1:15 PM SB49 RELATING TO EMPLOYEES’ RETIREMENT SYSTEM. LBR

    1/31/03 1:15 PM SB765 RELATING TO THE RETIREMENT ALLOWANCE FOR PRINCIPALS AND VICE PRINCIPALS. LBR

    1/31/03 1:15 PM SB779 RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES’ RETIREMENT SYSTEM. LBR

    1/31/03 1:15 PM SB783 RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEE’S RETIREMENT SYSTEM FOR EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS. LBR

    1/31/03 1:15 PM SB797 RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES’ RETIREMENT SYSTEM. LBR

    1/31/03 1:15 PM SB799 RELATING TO VOLUNTARY EMPLOYEES’ BENEFICIARY ASSOCIATION TRUSTS. LBR

    1/31/03 1:15 PM SB1126 RELATING TO ALLOWANCE ON SERVICE RETIREMENT. LBR

    1/31/03 1:15 PM SB1155 RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS. LBR

    1/31/03 1:15 PM SB1309 RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES’ RETIREMENT SYSTEM. LBR

    1/31/03 1:15 PM SB1312 RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES’ RETIREMENT SYSTEM. LBR

    1/31/03 1:30 PM None Informational Briefing WLA

    1/31/03 2:00 PM HB289 RELATING TO EDUCATION. EDN

    1/31/03 2:00 PM HB333 RELATING TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. EDN

    1/31/03 2:00 PM HB416 PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII TO REQUIRE THE GOVERNOR TO APPOINT THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. EDN

    1/31/03 2:00 PM HB417 PROPOSING AMENDMENTS TO THE STATE CONSTITUTION TO ABOLISH THE BOARD OF EDUCATION AND GIVE THE GOVERNOR THE POWER TO APPOINT THE SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION AS THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM. EDN

    1/31/03 2:00 PM HB451 RELATING TO EDUCATION. EDN

    1/31/03 2:00 PM HB714 RELATING TO EDUCATION. EDN

    1/31/03 2:00 PM HB1082 PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE X, SECTIONS 2 AND 3 OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION TO CREATE ELECTED DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARDS. EDN

    1/31/03 2:45 PM SB297 RELATING TO CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES. TMG

    1/31/03 2:45 PM SB314 RELATING TO PUBLIC AGENCY MEETINGS. TMG

    1/31/03 2:45 PM SB314 RELATING TO PUBLIC AGENCY MEETINGS. TMG

    1/31/03 2:45 PM SB314 RELATING TO PUBLIC AGENCY MEETINGS. TMG

    1/31/03 2:45 PM SB522 RELATING TO TAXATION. TMG

    1/31/03 2:45 PM SB555 RELATING TO INSPECTION AND QUARANTINE. TMG

    1/31/03 2:45 PM SB562 RELATING TO TERMINABLE RENTAL ADJUSTMENT CLAUSE VEHICLE LEASES. TMG

    1/31/03 2:45 PM SB567 RELATING TO BRIBES. TMG

    1/31/03 2:45 PM SB693 RELATING TO STATE ETHICS CODE. TMG

    1/31/03 2:45 PM SB1046 RELATING TO ETHICS. TMG

    1/31/03 2:45 PM SB1056 RELATING TO GOVERNMENT ETHICS. TMG

    1/31/03 2:45 PM SB1094 RELATING TO THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE STATE ETHICS COMMISSION. TMG

    1/31/03 2:45 PM SB1153 RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS. TMG

    1/31/03 3:00 PM SB945 RELATING TO CHILDREN AND YOUTH. HMS/HTH/EDU

    1/31/03 3:30 PM SB882 RELATING TO MULTI-PURPOSE SENIOR CENTERS. HMS

    1/31/03 3:30 PM SB883 RELATING TO ADULT PROTECTIVE SERVICES. HMS

    1/31/03 3:30 PM SB923 RELATING TO ELDERS. HMS

    1/31/03 3:30 PM SB946 RELATING TO CAREGIVER CONSENT. HMS

    1/31/03 3:30 PM SB950 RELATING TO LANGUAGE ACCESS. HMS

    2/1/03 10:00 AM None Informational Briefing SEN-HSE

    2/3/03 9:00 AM None Informational Briefing INT

    2/3/03 9:00 AM SB361 RELATING TO THE WEED AND SEED PROGRAM. JHW

    2/3/03 9:00 AM SB611 RELATING TO COURT APPOINTED COUNSEL. JHW

    2/3/03 9:00 AM SB618 RELATING TO CRIME VICTIM COMPENSATION. JHW

    2/3/03 9:00 AM SB634 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR TWO COUNSELORS TO TREAT WOMEN INCARCERATED FOR DRUG-RELATED OFFENSES ON MAUI. JHW

    2/3/03 9:00 AM SB782 RELATING TO CORRECTIONS. JHW

    2/3/03 9:00 AM HB1 MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO PROVIDE FOR THE EXPENSES OF THE LEGISLATURE, THE LEGISLATIVE AUDITOR, THE LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE BUREAU, AND THE OMBUDSMAN. WAM

    2/3/03 1:15 PM SB22 RELATING TO MASTER TEACHERS. EDU

    2/3/03 1:15 PM SB23 RELATING TO EDUCATION. EDU

    2/3/03 1:15 PM SB342 RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS FOR HANAHAUOLI SCHOOL. EDU

    2/3/03 1:15 PM SB343 RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS FOR CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY. EDU

    2/3/03 1:15 PM SB360 RELATING TO REUSABLE RESOURCE CENTER. EDU

    2/3/03 1:15 PM SB395 RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS FOR HO’ALA SCHOOL. EDU

    2/3/03 1:15 PM SB397 RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS FOR MID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE. EDU

    2/3/03 1:15 PM SB656 RELATING TO SCHOOL-LEVEL MINOR REPAIRS AND MAINTENANCE ACCOUNTS. EDU

    2/3/03 1:15 PM SB954 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR FAMILIES FOR RESOURCES FOR EARLY ACCESS TO LEARNING. EDU

    2/3/03 1:15 PM SB965 AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF PRE-SCHOOL FACILITIES. EDU

    2/3/03 1:15 PM SB992 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT. EDU

    2/3/03 1:15 PM SB1002 PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE X, SECTION 2, OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION, TO ALLOW THE STUDENT MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION TO VOTE. EDU

    2/3/03 1:15 PM SB1183 RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS FOR ST. PATRICK SCHOOL. EDU

    2/3/03 1:15 PM SB1686 RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS FOR CALVARY EPISCOPAL PRESCHOOL AND DAY CARE CENTER. EDU

    2/4/03 8:30 AM SB1133 RELATING TO RULES OF COURT. JHW

    2/4/03 8:30 AM SB1134 RELATING TO COURT COSTS. JHW

    2/4/03 8:30 AM SB1135 RELATING TO COURT FEES. JHW

    2/4/03 8:30 AM SB1138 RELATING TO INTERMEDIATE SANCTIONS. JHW

    2/4/03 8:30 AM SB1139 RELATING TO FAMILY COURT. JHW

    2/4/03 8:30 AM SB1140 RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY. JHW

    2/4/03 8:30 AM SB1333 RELATING TO THE COMPENSATION OF OFFICIALS IN THE JUDICIAL BRANCH OF STATE GOVERNMENT. JHW

    2/4/03 1:15 PM None Informational Briefing SAT/ECD

    2/4/03 1:45 PM None Informational Briefing TSM

    2/5/03 8:30 AM HB1133 RELATING TO THE HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF HAWAII. EDB/HSH

    2/5/03 8:30 AM HB1577 RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND TOURISM. HSH/EDB

    2/5/03 8:30 AM HB1635 RELATING TO GOVERNMENT. HSH/EDB

    2/10/03 2:45 PM SB78 RELATING TO ELDER ABUSE. HMS

    2/21/03 1:00 PM None Informational Briefing TMG

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