An internal rule change at the state Department of Human Services will mean 13,000 to 14,000 Hawaii households will be eligible for another $40 million to $45 million — or an average of $3,200 a year — in SNAP benefits, commonly known as food stamps.
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For the past decade, Lassner has led a 10-campus system that touches Hawaii and its residents in ways unlike any other state department or agency.
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David Lassner said tensions with three state senators go back to his predecessor, M.R.C. Greenwood, and the so-called Wonder Blunder.
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Republican state Rep. David Alcos III — who is running for reelection Nov. 5 for his House District 41 seat — has been fined $12,500 by the state Ethics Commission for an unprecedented volume of campaign financial disclosure violations, including failing to report more than $3 million in liens against him by the IRS and state Tax Department.
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This fall’s preliminary 2023 enrollment of 20,012 — the highest since 2012 — represents a 4% increase over 2023 for UH-Manoa.
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There are currently 1,523 apprentices working in Hawaii, and 576 are between the ages of 18 to 24.
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House Speaker Scott Saiki will leave his position after 30 years on Nov. 5 — the same day as the general election.
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The two finalists were picked from 93 applicants and are scheduled to appear at community forums and before groups of campus leaders, faculty, staff and student leaders.
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Most of them were senior citizens but Tokuda — who represents the neighbor islands and rural Oahu — made a point of highlighting the ages of the three youngest victims.
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The turnover underscores the vulnerability of incumbents in districts where only a few hundred votes can determine the difference between victory and defeat, especially in a state with a history of voter apathy.
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State Rep. Diamond Garcia (R, Ewa-Kapolei) called the region Oahu’s new “Republican stronghold. … It used to be Hawaii Kai, Aina Haina and Kailua. Now Kapolei, Ewa, Waipahu, the Waianae Coast — they’re all switching.”
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State Attorney General Anne Lopez hailed a ruling of a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that Lopez said reinstates restrictions on where people can carry firearms in Hawaii.
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Through the HELP fund, Green said he hopes to make Hawaii the only state without a health care worker shortage.
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More than 160 insurance companies have paid out $2.3 billion in the year since the deadly wildfires and expect to pay another $1 billion. B
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Nakashima, who died July 11 at the age of 61, represented his district since 2008 and was assured of re-election again after running unopposed in this month’s primary election.
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The proposed $4.037 billion “global settlement” would resolve over 650 claims and lawsuits in the aftermath of the wildfire that killed 102 people and destroyed nearly 4,000 structures, most of them homes.
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Young voters could play a critical role in deciding who will be America’s next president, but as a new school year begins at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, there’s little enthusiasm in any big way ahead of Nov. 5.
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Objections to U.S. policy over the war in Gaza led six of Hawaii’s 31 delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago to withhold their support for Vice President Kamala Harris following internal debate.
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Organized labor continues to play an outsize role at this week’s Democratic National Convention with larger implications for the presidential election, Hawaii and the rest of the country to rebuild the middle class.
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Hawaii delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago donned light-blue, long-sleeved aloha shirts and dresses and wore green “Hawaii for Harris” buttons Tuesday as Gov. Josh Green pledged Hawaii’s support for Vice President Kamala Harris to become the next president of the United States.
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Delegates were to wear long-sleeved light blue aloha shirts and dresses, along with “Hawaii for Harris” buttons.
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