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• Waiahole Valley preservation pact frays as state considers remedies to homestead issues

  24-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  No lookouts have been posted, no roads have been blocked and no warning siren has been rigged in a tree. But a Windward Oahu community has gone on alert again.
  
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• Volcanic Ash: Hawaii deal for federal jail could be win-win solution

  24-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  We so seldom see fresh ideas from local government that it’s a shame when a good one goes to waste.
  
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• Review: Diamond Head Theatre’s ‘Something Rotten!’ is ripe with humor

  24-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  “Something Rotten!” — with an apt exclamation point — is a blissful and bountiful mashup of Shakespeare and Broadway musicals.
  
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• Pier removal closes Maunalua boat ramp

  24-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  The Maunalua Bay boat ramp will be closed this week from Monday to Friday as contractors remove the condemned pier there.
  
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• Lee Cataluna: Local luminaries get caught reading

  24-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  In one video clip, Police Chief Susan Ballard reads from the Dr. Seuss classic “Horton Hears a Who”: “I’ll just have to save him, because, after all, a person’s a person, no matter how small.”
  
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• Kewalo Basin operator wins discrimination case against state

  24-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  The private operators of a state-owned boat harbor in Kakaako have prevailed over allegations they tried to evict two low-income tenants to boost profits.
  
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• Homelessness, schools are top issues in a survey commissioned by HawaiiKidsCAN

  24-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  A poll commissioned by HawaiiKidsCAN found strong support for boosting spending on public education, but homelessness ranked as the top voter priority by far.
  
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• Historic Waiahole Valley preservation pact fraying as state considers remedies to homestead issues

  24-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  No lookouts have been posted, no roads have been blocked and no warning siren has been rigged in a tree. But a Windward Oahu community has gone on alert again.
  
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• Hawaii harbor’s private operator prevails in a discrimination case

  24-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  The private operators of a state-owned boat harbor in Kakaako have prevailed over allegations they tried to evict two low-income tenants to boost profits.
  
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• Cost grows for delayed upgrade at Halawa Correctional Facility

  24-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Gov. David Ige’s administration has requested an additional $4.3 million to house Hawaii prison inmates on the mainland while contractors finish a long-­delayed overhaul of the electronic locks and video surveillance systems at Halawa Correctional Facility.
  
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• Case exposes flaws in Hawaii’s child-abuser registry, critics say

  24-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  For the past seven years, Courtney Bird, 38, has been trying to get off Hawaii’s registry for child abusers, a confidential list that includes about 40,000 names.
  
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• Big Island murder suspect in prison for 2 years acquitted in retrial

  24-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  KEALAKEKUA >> A Big Island man incarcerated for two years while charged with murder was acquitted last week after a retrial.
  
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• Woman suffers major burns, loses home in Maui fire

  24-03-2019 06:30 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  LAHAINA >> A 47-year-old woman was in critical condition from burns after a fire destroyed her home in Kahoma Valley near Lahaina today.
  
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• Ticket-buying frenzy for NFL contest attributed to fan demand

  23-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Don’t blame “bots” for the quick sellout of tickets for the Los Angeles Rams game with the Dallas Cowboys.
  
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• State lawmakers announce spending agreement

  23-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  House and Senate lawmakers unveiled a budget agreement Friday that provides for more than $16 billion in general treasury spending over the next two years while acknowledging the state could end up spending substantially more on as-yet unbudgeted costs such as homeless programs, college scholarships and pay raises for public workers.
  
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• Restricted parking zone bill becomes law

  23-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  A bill allowing residents to restrict others wishing to park on their streets was signed into law Friday by Mayor Kirk Caldwell.
  
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• On the Move: Unlu, Ben-Yossef, McMillan

  23-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  >> Armstrong Builders has announced that Yigit Unlu has been promoted to project manager. He has 12 years of industry experience, including having recently served as a project engineer. Prior to 2017 when he joined Armstrong Builders, Unlu worked as a project engineer for Culp Construction on Maui and held project management positions with KSK Construction Group and JT Magen in New York and Toll Brothers in Virginia.
  
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• Ocean Watch: Sorting fact from fiction in fluid lives of clownfish

  23-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  When I was snorkeling with masses of anemones in the Indian Ocean last month, my friends were calling all species of anemonefish that we saw clownfish. I explained that only the orange-and-white Nemo is a clownfish. The other are anemonefish with various common names such as pink anemonefish, Clark’s anemonefish and so on.
  
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• Oahu residents can restrict vehicles from parking on their streets under new law

  23-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  A bill allowing residents to restrict others wishing to park on their streets was signed into law Friday by Mayor Kirk Caldwell.
  
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• Kumu Kahua restages local comedy classic from ’90s

  23-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  It’s been almost 23 years since Kumu Kahua premiered “The Watcher of Waipuna,” Keith Kashiwada’s adaptation of Hawaii author Gary Pak’s short story of the same name. The issues both addressed in their time are relevant today. The opening-night audience laughed often — and in all the right places — at Thursday’s opening night show.
  
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• Federal judge wants city reimbursement for Louis and Katherine Kea­loha case

  23-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  A federal court judge wants the city to pay back the U.S. government for the court-appointed legal fees accrued by former Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kea­loha on conspiracy and obstruction charges.
  
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• Federal judge wants city reimbursement for Kealoha case

  23-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  A federal court judge wants the city to pay back the U.S. government for the court-appointed legal fees accrued by former Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kea­loha on conspiracy and obstruction charges.
  
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• Empty-handed fans blame ‘bots’ for sellout of Los Angeles Rams vs. Dallas Cowboys game

  23-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Don’t blame “bots” for the quick sellout of tickets for the Los Angeles Rams game with the Dallas Cowboys.
  
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• Emotions flare at Kauai auction for land near Mark Zuckerberg estate

  23-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  LIHUE >> A kamaaina family land battle on Kauai partly driven by Facebook’s billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg was tentatively decided Friday at a public auction punctuated by shouts of disgust.
  
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• Emotions flare at Kauai auction for land near Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s estate

  23-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  LIHUE >> A kamaaina family land battle on Kauai partly driven by Facebook’s billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg was tentatively decided Friday at a public auction punctuated by shouts of disgust.
  
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• Age-related ailments claim Honolulu Zoo’s cheetah

  23-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Oringo, the Honolulu Zoo’s 14-year-old male cheetah, was euthanized Thursday due to health compli­cations associated with aging.
  
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• California man gets 10-year sentence for sexually assaulting minor on Kauai

  23-03-2019 04:36 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  A 56-year-old California man was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old child while on a trip to Kauai in May.
  
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• 61-year-old man found this afternoon with serious stab wound in Chinatown

  23-03-2019 01:00 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Emergency Medical Services personnel treated a 61-year-old man this afternoon in Chinatown for a single stab wound.
  
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• State Sen. Donna Kim drops plan to cut 121 UH-Manoa faculty positions

  22-03-2019 21:40 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  State Sen. Donna Mercado Kim has reversed her decision to eliminate 121 faculty positions at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, which had sparked an uproar at the university and beyond.
  
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• UH hosting panel on cannabis for cancer

  22-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  The University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine and University of Hawaii Cancer Center is hosting a panel on medical cannabis for cancer from 1-3 p.m. Saturday at 651 Ilalo St.
  
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• Tickets for Rams-Cowboys game at Aloha Stadium selling fast

  22-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Los Angeles Rams President and Chief Operating Officer Kevin Demoff had just about finished his media interviews at the Hawai‘i Convention Center on Thursday morning when an incoming text suddenly seized his attention.
  
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• Tickets for NFL preseason Los Angeles Rams vs. Dallas Cowboys game at Aloha Stadium selling fast

  22-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Los Angeles Rams President and Chief Operating Officer Kevin Demoff had just about finished his media interviews at the Hawai‘i Convention Center on Thursday morning when an incoming text suddenly seized his attention.
  
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• Supreme Court rejects lawsuit over rail tax skim

  22-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  The Hawaii Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit challenging the state’s practice of “skimming” 10 percent of the excise tax surcharge set aside for the rail project and depositing the money into the state treasury.
  
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• State jobless rate remains at 2.7%

  22-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Hawaii’s gradually rising unemployment rate paused in February amid a slowing growth trend that local economists have been forecasting for the state.
  
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• Small group of homeless digs in on Young Street

  22-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Honolulu police officers Thursday morning rolled into the Walgreens parking lot on Young Street and ordered three homeless people to leave the private property — part of an ongoing effort to remove a particularly stubborn group of five to 10 chronically homeless people from the area.
  
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• Resolution rejects Navy plan for fuel tanks

  22-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  State lawmakers advanced a resolution this week urging environmental regulators to require the Navy to do more to safeguard its massive, underground fuel tanks near Pearl Harbor or relocate them entirely.
  
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• Rearview Mirror: Pat’s at Punaluu evoked ‘driftwood and dreams’

  22-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  ‘An institution on the Windward side.” That’s what some called Pat’s at Punaluu restaurant, which was there from 1951 to about 1994.
  
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• Rearview Mirror: Elvis Presley, Don Ho and other stars performed at Pat’s at Punaluu restaurant

  22-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  ‘An institution on the Windward side.” That’s what some called Pat’s at Punaluu restaurant, which was there from 1951 to about 1994.
  
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• Ozawa-Waters battle heating up

  22-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  With the special election for City Council District 4 fast approaching, Trevor Ozawa and Tommy Waters are seeking to draw voters’ attention to each other’s perceived weaknesses.
  
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• Micronesian official to plead guilty in bribery scandal

  22-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  A government official from the Federated States of Micronesia is scheduled to plead guilty in U.S. District Court next month to conspiring to launder bribe money he solicited from a Honolulu engineering contractor.
  
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• Lee Cataluna: Taking a long time to park in exchange for quick exit

  22-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  No, really. You just go right ahead and take all the time you need to back into that parking stall. No problem. It is actually an honor and a privilege to idle and wait and watch your amazing 1-inch-forward, 1-inch-
  backward technique for reversing your Ram 1500 with the quad cab, or whatever that big shiny shipping-container-on-
  wheels is called, into a stall barely big enough for a Biki.
  
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• Kokua Line: Follow ‘acceptable’ list for upcoming drive-thru recycling event on Oahu

  22-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Question: With recycling in flux, are they still doing those community collection events?
  
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• Kokua Line: Follow ‘acceptable’ list for drive-thru recycling event

  22-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Question: With recycling in flux, are they still doing those community collection events?
  
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• Honolulu City Council seat battle intensifies between Trevor Ozawa and Tommy Waters

  22-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  With the special election for City Council District 4 fast approaching, Trevor Ozawa and Tommy Waters are seeking to draw voters’ attention to each other’s perceived weaknesses.
  
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• Hawaii car racing fans push for a racetrack at Barbers Point

  22-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  A state Senate committee will hold a hearing today on a resolution “expressing support” for a racetrack on 220 acres at the former Barbers Point Naval Air Station that backers want initially for coned-course driving but could expand to quarter-
  mile, oval and dirt bike racing.
  
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• E-buses get lower charging rates

  22-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  The Public Utilities Commission on Thursday approved a pilot program offering special time-of-use charging rates for up to 20 Hawaiian Electric Co. electric bus fleet customers.
  
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• Coast Guard suspends search for boater

  22-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  The Coast Guard on Wednesday evening suspended its four-day search for missing mariner Matthew Moribe.
  
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• Car racing fans push for a track at Barbers Point

  22-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  A state Senate committee will hold a hearing today on a resolution “expressing support” for a racetrack on 220 acres at the former Barbers Point Naval Air Station that backers want initially for coned-course driving but could expand to quarter-
  mile, oval and dirt bike racing.
  
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• Bill to boost excise tax for education dies

  22-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  A proposal to increase the state excise tax to boost funding for Hawaii public schools and the University of Hawaii will not get a hearing in the state House and appears to be dead for this year.
  
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• Battle for Honolulu City Council seat intensifies between Trevor Ozawa and Tommy Waters

  22-03-2019 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  With the special election for City Council District 4 fast approaching, Trevor Ozawa and Tommy Waters are seeking to draw voters’ attention to each other’s perceived weaknesses.
  
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