WASHINGTON — Current economic conditions and Trump administration policies could lead to “a widespread collapse of American agriculture,” a bipartisan coalition of former Agriculture Department officials and leaders of farm groups warned in a letter Tuesday.
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Segment 3 work on the long-delayed Skyline project is chugging along, but amid a contentious legal battle between the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation and its main contractor, Hitachi Rail Honolulu JV. Hitachi is suing HART for $320 million, claiming “gross mismanagement” led to costly delays; HART countersued, calling Hitachi’s claims “substantially unfounded” and that the contractor is knowingly making false statements.
Lire l'article →Less than three months ago we published “The Trillion Dollar War Machine,” which chronicles and laments the enormous amount of money the U.S. was set to spend on “defense” this year —– money that enriches special interests, but offers little real security to most Americans. Today, the federal government is preparing to double-down on this folly.
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Mina Morita’s op-ed is disappointing but not surprising (“Allies can firm up fragile energy grid,” Star-Advertiser, Island Voices, Jan. 18). A brief review of public records shows that she supported the failed 2014 HECO merger with Florida-based company NextEra, a pro-liquefied natural gas (LNG) corporation.
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Walmart crossed above $1 trillion in market value Tuesday, becoming the first traditional retailer to hit the milestone and joining a small club mostly made up of technology giants such as Apple and Microsoft.
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The Hawaii County Department of Public Works announces that paving work has begun on Kawili Street in Hilo and will continue through Feb. 27.
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American Savings Bank has awarded $135,000 to nine winning student teams from seven Hawaii public schools through its annual Bank for Education KeikiCo Business Plan Contest, a statewide student business competition that equips public and charter school students in grades 3-12 with practical financial and entrepreneurial skills.
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President Donald Trump said his administration was seeking $1 billion from Harvard to settle probes into school policies, after a news report that said Trump had dropped his demand for a payment from the Ivy League school.
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The new Green Fee Advisory Council had to choose from among more than $2 billion worth of funding requests to help Hawaii respond to climate change, but will only have $100 million or so annually to recommend through the first statewide tax of its kind in the country, which has been collecting revenue since Jan. 1.
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A lawsuit the federal government filed against Michigan over fossil fuels has been thrown out — prompting Hawaii to use that case to bolster its own of efforts to hold private companies accountable for their role in climate change.
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