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Honolulu Symphony Files For Bankruptcy
Source: KITV.com

HONOLULU -- The Honolulu Symphony Society Board of Directors announced on Friday that it has decided to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Pilots union wants cargo ban on lithium batteries - Yahoo! News
Source: Yahoo! News

The world's largest pilots union said Tuesday it wants bulk shipments of lithium batteries and products containing the batteries immediately banned from passenger and cargo planes because they can start a fire.

Punahou sails away with ILH title
Source: The Honolulu Advertiser

President Obama's high school alma mater wins an Interscholastic League of Honolulu Sailing championship

Urinating on a Woman during Flight the Man get Jailed
Source: gmanews.tv

A man who could not stand the urge to answer the "call of nature" urinated on a 66 year old woman while they were on the flight to Honolulu. Of course,he was jailed.

22 Hawaii Representatives Sign Resolution asking FDA to Rescind Approval for Neurotoxic Aspartame
Source: prlog.org

This is an enormous step forward in Consumer Protection, thanks to Rep. Mele Carroll, of Molokai and East Maui. Consumer protection/FDA article in Japan re: Aspartame maker, Ajinomoto, found in 6000 food and medicines! ________________________________________________

Protecting Obama When the Lights Go Out
Source: TIME

What happens when the President-elect is vacationing in your state and suddenly a major electrical outage occurs?

Obama's grandmother's memorial at First UU in Honolulu
Source: UU World

President-elect Barack Obama and his family attended a memorial service for his maternal grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, on Tuesday at the First Unitarian Church of Honolulu.

Obama attends memorial for his grandmother
Source: msnbc.com

President-elect Barack Obama has attended a memorial service for his grandmother, who helped raise him in his native Hawaii.

Ho heirs dispute settlement
Source: The Honolulu Advertiser

More legal turmoil among the survivors of entertainer Don Ho surfaced in state court yesterday.

Graft in Honolulu
Source: The Honolulu Advertiser

A state employee was arrested for excepting bribes in Honolulu, Ha. It just goes to show you, that bribes are still alive and well. Most of the other DMV employee were honest but there is always a bad seed somewhere! The comments were very good!

Obama Comes Home

Senator Barack Obama has returned to Honolulu for the first vacation he's had since he announced his candidacy for president of the United States.

Political Tittle-tattle: News and Entertainment from Hawaii's Political Arena - July 1, 2008
Source: Hawai'i Reporter

Supporters Rally for Panos for Mayor; Former Governor, Mayor, Battle Over Rail; Stop Rail Now Signature Collection On the Rise; Mayor Hannemann Creates a New Political Classification? U.S. District Chief Judge Weighs in on Rail; Endorsements Already Coming Into DraftPanos.com

Honolulu Rail, Its the Campaign Contributions, Stupid!
Source: Hawai'i Reporter

Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann is intent on undermining the citizens effort to enable a vote on the rail transit proposal.

Toilet-paper wedding dress wins contest
Source: msnbc.com

The fashionable white frock made by Katrina Chalifoux of Rockford, Ill., wiped out the competition at the Cheap-Chic-Weddings.com contest, winning the top prize of $1,000.

Toilet-paper wedding dress wins contest
Source: msnbc.com

The fashionable white frock made by Katrina Chalifoux of Rockford, Ill., wiped out the competition at the Cheap-Chic-Weddings.com contest, winning the top prize of $1,000.

Scoundrel Watch: Some of Hawaii's Lawmakers Need a Swift Kick in the Tuckus (and a New Job)
Source: Hawai'i Reporter

Hawai'i Lawmakers' failure in serving the people of Hawai'i.

And the winner is... Honolulu's #1! Greenest city, and number 2 is... L.A.?
Source: The Economist

FROM the air, Los Angeles hardly looks like an environmental paragon. It sprawls heroically, seeming to begin well before passengers from the east are told to fasten their seatbelts. On warm days a thin brown haze hangs over the city.

U.S. Marine Throws Puppy Off Cliff in Iraq
Source: local6.com

The Marines on Monday responded to a video clip on YouTube.com showing what appears to be a Kaneohe-based Marine throwing a puppy while in Iraq.

Tasers with Video Cameras in Honolulu - [Newsvine Poll]

The police tasers in Honolulu, according to the Honolulu Advertiser, will begin getting equipped with video cameras in response to increasing controversy over how tasers are being used.

At OpEdNews: Hawaii Senate Health Committee
Source: OpEdNews.Com Progressive

A raw analysis of corporate lobbyists, medical professional ignorance, and legislators deferring such decisions to the phoney "experts" at the United States Food and Drug Administration, so this neurotoxic carcinogenic poison will continue to maim, kill, give children brain tumor …

Two Sleeping Pilots, One Plane?
Source: ABC News

Flight 1002 left Honolulu around 9 p.m. local time on what was scheduled as a 30-minute flight, said Ian Gregor, spokesman for the FAA's Western-Pacific Region.

Baby held in locked room by immigration officials at airport dies
Source: The Honolulu Advertiser

A 14-day-old infant traveling here for heart surgery died at Honolulu International Airport on Friday after he, his mother and a nurse were detained by immigration officials in a locked room, a lawyer for the boy's family said.

At OpEdNews: Very Personal Testimony on Aspartame for Hawaii Legislators, particularly on fraudulent testing used for approval
Source: OpEdNews.Com Progressive

A horrifying analysis by a surgeon of what aspartame/methanol/diketopiperazine did to him, as well as the entirely fraudulent "research" and so called testing that went before its being forced through the FDA by Donald Rumsfeld, then CEO of the patent holder, G.D. Searle.

At OpEdNews: Hawaii Aspartame Battle: House Health Committee Decision Friday
Source: OpEdNews.Com Progressive

An analysis of how we must get a Do Pass in the Hawaii House Health Committee for Legislation to continue to Ban Aspartame (dba Methanol/Formaldehyde), the neurotoxic and carcinogenic artificial sweetener; with contact information for the committee members for those who wish to p …

Hawaii Legislature Considers Ban of Neurotoxic Artificial Sweetener, Aspartame
Source: University of New Mexico Daily Lobo

Please take the time to share this with your friends in Hawaii, asking them to contact their state legislators. Otherwise, we are likely to be routed again by nefarious corporate lobbyists who are paid to destroy consumer protection bills like this one....Thank you!

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