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September 06, 2008 Long-awaited Bellows cleanup nears
Dennis Oda / doda@starbulletin.com A blessing and ceremony marked the start of the cleanup of an old landfill adjacent to the beach at Bellows Air Force Station yesterday. Participants in the groundbreaking included Todd Lanning, Andrew Jamila Jr., Col.
Source: Honolulu Star-Bulletin
September 02, 2008 Lingle tapped to tell Palin's story
Andy Winer, Obama's state director, said Akaka was in Nevada on Saturday and that he hopes to have US Rep. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawai'i, at a ho'olaule'a in ...
September 02, 2008 Lingle tapped to tell Palin's story
ST. PAUL, Minn. Gov. Linda Lingle, whose political background is similar to that of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin the GOP's vice presidential choice is being deployed at the Republican National Convention to tell Palin's story to delegates and the news media.
Source: The Honolulu Advertiser
September 01, 2008 Letters
Do-nothing Rep. Mazie Hirono's criticism of the McCain VP choice - "Palin brings the same out-of-touch conservative thinking of the past eight years ... nothing maverick about either one of them" -is hilarious (Star-Bulletin, Aug 30). John McCain's
Source: Honolulu Star-Bulletin
August 30, 2008 Palin pick for VP has pros, cons
STORY SUMMARY | READ THE FULL STORY Gov. Linda Lingle was with Palin in Dallas at a governors meeting in April when Palin went into labor. Palin went back to Alaska to give birth. ASSOCIATED PRESS Sarah Palin was named yesterday by GOP presidential
Source: Honolulu Star-Bulletin
August 29, 2008 American dream message resonates
DENVER U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, drawing on his diverse family history in accepting the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, said last night that it is ordinary men and women who find the courage to rescue the American dream when it is threatened.
Source: The Honolulu Advertiser
August 27, 2008 Clinton is facing unrealistic expectations, Hanabusa says
US Rep. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawai'i, a superdelegate who backed Obama, said Clinton shared a unifying message last night. "She made it really clear that we're ...
August 27, 2008 Clinton is facing unrealistic expectations, Hanabusa says
DENVER U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton last night asked the women who stood by her during her presidential campaign, whom she affectionately called "my sisterhood of the traveling pantsuits," to work as hard for U.S. Sen. Barack Obama. "Whether you
Source: The Honolulu Advertiser
August 26, 2008 Mauians hoarse but happy at partyâs party
"She said 'Hawaii' twice, so we all cheered," US Rep. Mazie Hirono said with a laugh as she left the convention hall. Mauians in the delegation said they ...
August 26, 2008 Soetoro-Ng talks ohana
STORY SUMMARY » DENVER » It was Barack Obama family night at the Pepsi Center yesterday, with wife Michelle and brother-in-law Craig Robinson speaking. "With a little imagination, we could dream the improbable, that through hard work, we could
Source: Honolulu Star-Bulletin
August 24, 2008 Duo's 'Koana' captures D.C. audience
He sees Hawaii's win as part of the exponential growth of the youth spoken-word scene over the 11 years that the poetry slam festival has been in existence. In workshops with their peers, the teens are shown "the potential of the spoken word in
Source: Honolulu Star-Bulletin
August 21, 2008 Development of shingles can be serious heath problem in seniors
In April, Rep. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, introduced a bill (HR 5877, Shingles Prevention Act) to have the shingles vaccine covered in Medicare Part B, ...
August 20, 2008 State apology finally reaches Kalaupapa community
English recommended that all complaints go directly to the US Department of Transportation and to US Rep. Mazie Hirono's office. Members of the community ...
August 18, 2008 Congress should OK Kalaupapa memorial
Ed Case, and it approved it again this February under the sponsorship of his successor, Rep. Mazie Hirono. A similar bill introduced by Sen. ...
August 17, 2008 Hawaii rail transit a presidential issue
Honolulu's $3.7 billion mass-transit project, whether it makes the November ballot or not, will likely be a measuring stick in the mayor's race and could spill into many City Council and state House and Senate campaigns this fall. But what about the
Source: The Honolulu Advertiser
August 17, 2008 Hawaii rail transit a presidential issue
US Rep. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawai'i, who serves on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, said the president could help set the tone. ...
August 17, 2008 Volunteers Spend Saturday Cleaning Public Housing
... of Hawaii as part of the whole community project to basically get eight units in this project ready for occupancy for seniors," said Rep. Mazie Hirono. ...
August 13, 2008 Newswatch, Police/Fire
Big Island Mayor Harry Kim was released from a Honolulu hospital yesterday after suffering an apparent heart attack over the weekend. A ceremony to bid aloha to some 1,700 soldiers of the 29th Infantry Brigade Combat Team leaving for Kuwait also
Source: Honolulu Star-Bulletin
August 12, 2008 Newswatch, Police/Fire
LOS ANGELES » Federal officials said yesterday they were investigating whether oxygen masks and an emergency chute deployed properly during last week's emergency landing of a Honolulu-bound American Airlines jet at Los Angeles International
Source: Honolulu Star-Bulletin
August 08, 2008 Bus route links Lahaina, beyond
They include primary healthcare and dental care, substance-abuse counseling and chronic disease management. US Rep. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawai'i, said Kaua'i is ...
August 07, 2008 Mr. Green
... Kalani English and Gary Hooser, US House Rep. Mazie Hirono, and staff members from the offices of US Senators Daniel Inouye and Dan Akaka. ...
August 01, 2008 Frosh Head Deep Into Debt To Win
... City, Ind. * Rep. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, spent $1.4 million on her 2006 campaign in a district that has never elected a Republican to Congress. ...
July 31, 2008 Big Isle a disaster area
Two weeks ago, US Rep. Mazie Hirono announced that the 2008 Farm Bill allows uninsured farmers who have lost money because of a natural disaster to buy ...
July 29, 2008 Future uncertain for Maui pineapple workers
Workers at Maui Land & Pineapple Co.'s Honolua plantation will lose their jobs as part of the company's reorganization, but exactly what that will mean for the future of the plantation remained unclear Monday. ML&P spokeswoman Teri Freitas Gorman
Source: The Honolulu Advertiser
July 29, 2008 ML&Pâs Honolua workers out of job
Daniel Inouye and Rep. Mazie Hirono to see if Congress can lend a hand. Gorman said the company was "looking hard" at returning pineapple cultivation to ...
July 29, 2008 Future uncertain for Maui pineapple workers
Daniel Inouye and Rep. Mazie Hirono to see if Congress can lend a hand. Gorman said the company was "looking hard" at returning pineapple cultivation to ...
July 25, 2008 Maui clinic for veterans adds doctor and assistant
Daniel Inouye and Daniel Akaka and US Rep. Mazie Hirono. About 3000 veterans receive medical services on the Valley Isle, according to the Maui County ...
July 22, 2008 Deadline for Candidate Filing is Tommorrow
Congresswoman Mazie Hirono also making her re-election bid official. No major challenger so far but she still ready to run a million dollar campaign. ...
July 22, 2008 Panel to examine Maui's high gas prices Thursday
... Joshua Wisch, representing US Rep. Mazie Hirono; and Stuart Zinner of the Hawaii PhotoVoltaics Coalition and Maui Community College.
July 22, 2008 Hirono seeks second term
US Rep. Mazie Hirono is seeking her second term in office after filing nomination papers for this year's general election yesterday at the state Office of ...
