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Hawaiʻi Schools Continue To Lose Students (opens the original)
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Investigative stories and local news updates. Award winning in-depth reports and featured on-going series. Get the week’s news delivered straight to your inbox. State leaders are grappling with how to handle shrinking school enrollment amid low birth rates and families moving out of state. Hawaiʻi schools have fewer students for the eighth year in a row as lawmakers push for campus closures and consolidations by the end of the decade, according to recent data from the state education department.
Hawaiʻi Should Remember The Injustice Of Forced Unionism (opens the original)
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This Labor Day workers deserve the protection of a Right to Work law. This Labor Day workers deserve the protection of a Right to Work law. This Labor Day we celebrate the men and women whose hard work keeps the country running. But in Hawaiʻi, many of those same workers face a real threat: pay union dues or lose their jobs. That’s because Hawaiʻi is one of the minority of states that lacks a Right to Work law. Right to Work laws ensure union membership and financial support are fully voluntary,
The Sunshine Blog: How Do They Do It? GOP Candidates Surge In General (opens the original)
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Short takes, outtakes, our takes and other stuff you should know about public information, government accountability and ethical leadership in Hawai‘i. The Sunshine Blog is reported and written by Ideas Editor Patti Epler and Politics Editor Chad Blair with contributions from Civil Beat staff. Short takes, outtakes, our takes and other stuff you should know about public information, government accountability and ethical leadership in Hawai‘i. Numbers game: The Sunshine Blog was perusing the Aug.
Neal Milner: We Need More Insurgencies In Hawaiʻi Elections (opens the original)
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Upstart candidates are great motivators for voter turnout and make us think about what we’re voting for. Upstart candidates are great motivators for voter turnout and make us think about what we’re voting for. Thanks mainly to critics of the Democratic Socialists of America, “insurgency” has gotten a bad name. In this narrow view, insurgency is bad, a radical fringe disrupting the political process, subversive, threatening our basic values. “A secular religion,” a DSA critic called it, and she d
6 In 10 Lost Power During Lala. It May Take A State Inquiry To Learn Why (opens the original)
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Investigative stories and local news updates. Award winning in-depth reports and featured on-going series. Get the week’s news delivered straight to your inbox. HECO has spent millions of dollars to strengthen its electric grid in recent years. Lala still wiped out power for most of the state. In the days after Hurricane Lala swirled near the islands leaving 6 in 10 Hawaiʻi households in the dark, one question loomed large: Why did the state’s electrical grid fail so badly? Many residents who we
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