Tag archive for Gov. Linda Lingle
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The Year in Review
Is life like football or is football like life? Let’s see: one involves unnecessary roughness, revolves around money and encourages gambling and excessive drinking—and the other is played on Sunday. Another similarity between life
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Hawaii GOP Activist To Party Leaders: ‘You Should Be Ashamed’
We’ve had a Republican Governor for the last eight years, so it’s easy, and understandable, for outsiders to conclude that the party has some clout. It doesn’t. In fact, you’d be hard-pressed to find
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Lingle to Hawaii Kids: Vote
The Kids Are All Left… Last week, Gov. Lingle visited Oahu’s Aikahi Elementary and encouraged students to participate in the statewide Kids Voting Hawai‘i program. It was an especially magnanimous move, considering that in 2008 Hawaii’s
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Akaka Bill Update
The Akaka Bill—also known as the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act—has endured a number of setbacks and false starts since it was first introduced 10 years ago. But it’s actually close to becoming law—perhaps
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Lingle Points Finger On Stimulus
Last week, Congress passed and President Obama signed a $26 billion stimulus bill aimed at funding state-level Medicaid programs and reducing teacher and other non-federal public employee layoffs. Here’s what Gov. Lingle had to say
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Parsing the Judge Leonard Saga
In Which We Wonder If 14 Hawaii Senators Are Really Raving Sexists… The strange saga of Judge Katherine Leonard came to a close last week, as the state Senate rejected Gov. Lingle’s Supreme Court Chief
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Governor Lingle Sinks to a New Low With Civil Union Veto
It’ll provide cold comfort at best to the thousands of couples still mourning Gov. Linda Lingle’s eleventh-hour veto of civil union bill HB444, but it’s a fact nonetheless: eventually, gay people will be able
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Governor Lingle Vetoes Civil Union Bill HB444
A few hours ago, Gov. Linda Lingle announced she will veto civil union bill HB444. We’ll explore her reasoning (or lack thereof) in much more depth soon, here, at mauitime.com and in our print
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Anti-Lingle Facebook groups need to get together!
Searching for Gov. Linda Lingle on Facebook, I discovered three competing anti-Lingle groups (none pro): Impeach Linda Lingle!!! (31 members); Impeach Linda Lingle (less exclamation points and less members–10); and Anti-Linda Lingle Group (84
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Parents protest furlough Fridays in Wailuku
Pissed off parents converged in Wailuku yesterday to protest “furlough Fridays” (which is nearing catch-phrase status, by the way). The Maui News estimated there were about 60 people in attendance, a decent turnout for
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