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| 28.07.2024 | The Dance of Politics: Youth Engagement and Global Tensions | In the world of politics, the dance is intricate. It’s a blend of rhythm and chaos, where every step can lead to applause or discontent. Recently, two significant events have captured the attention of the American public: Kamala Harris’ ris... |
| 26.07.2024 | National Politics | Kamala Harris’ ‘coconut tree’ and ‘brat’ status engage young people — but will they vote? | Young people are never a reliable voting bloc, and some note that whatever momentum Harris gains from the online craze might not last until election day. Still, others worry that the memes are silly and undercut Harris’ real messages as she... |
| 25.07.2024 | Protests and politics as Israel's Netanyahu addresses US Congress | WASHINGTON: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be greeted by deep divisions among US lawmakers, a distracted US public and large protests on Wednesday (July 24) as he addresses the US Congress for a record fourth time.
The long-... |
| 12.06.2024 | Veterans Health Services Center in FSM Welcomes COFA Military Veterans | SNPHealth.org - Veterans Recovery Network - VRN Program Consultants - News Updates
Veterans Recovery Network & SNPHealth.org join forces to launch telehealth and outpatient programs on health services for Military Veterans in FSM, RMI, ... |
| 02.05.2024 | Bipartisan Group Of Senators Introduce New Terrible ‘Protect The Kids Online’ Bill | Apparently, the world needs even more terrible bills that let ignorant senators grandstand to the media about how they’re “protecting the kids online.” There’s nothing more serious to work on than that. The latest bill comes from Senators B... |
| 29.02.2024 | Kids Online Safety Act Faces Complications as Lawmakers Push for Alternative | Inno Flores, Tech Times 29 February 2024, 10:02 pm
A growing movement to establish federal safeguards for children on the Internet is encountering fresh challenges in the Senate. There's concern that efforts to combine various social media ... |
| 13.02.2024 | Preserving Heritage Hawaiian Language Through Proficiency | Avant Assessment and Hawaii Department of Education collaborate on 'Ōlelo Hawai'i language test.
The initiation of the Avant STAMP WS assessment in Hawaiʻi's endangered Indigenous language is an important step in efforts to revitalize the p... |
| 20.08.2023 | Identities of 5 more Lahaina victims released; death toll remains 114 | GEORGE F. LEE / GLEE@STARADVERTISER.COM
Survivors of the Aug. 8 tragedy on Maui take advantage of a Federal Resource Fair at the Ke Alahele Center in Kihei Saturday. The fair was organized, in part, to help those who lost official documents... |
| 20.08.2023 | Tokuda, Schatz work to fill gaps in Maui fire aid | GEORGE F. LEE / GLEE@STARADVERTISER.COM
U.S. Rep. Jill Tokuda helped Saturday to clarify a passport application for an attendee of the Federal Resource Fair at the Ke Alahele Center in Kihei.
Related Photo Gallery: U.S. Rep. Jill Tokuda org... |
| 19.08.2023 | Schatz provides guide to federal resources available after Maui disaster | STAFF SGT. MATTHEW A. FOSTER / U.S. ARMY NATIONAL GUARD
U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz, left, alongside Hawaii Army National Guard Brig. Gen. Stephen F. Logan, Assistant Adjutant General for the State of Hawaii, visits the Joint Task Force 50 (JTF-... |
| 28.06.2023 | Social Media Was Useful For Me, As An Ill, Nerdy Teenager | Lately, concerns about allowing minors to use social media have been front and center in the public discourse, but ways in which they use it productively have been absent from the conversation. My own anecdotal experience does not constitut... |
| 13.05.2023 | Utah bicycling groups and Democrats call on Mitt Romney to rethink his comments calling bike lanes 'the height of stupidity' | An amended city limit sign welcomes visitors to town including more than 1000 mountain bikers competing in the 2010 24 Hours of Moab on October 8, 2010 in Moab, Utah. Doug Pensinger/Getty Images
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| 24.04.2023 | Avoiding Mandatory Transparency’s Pitfalls in Online Safety Legislation | On April 19, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) introduced a new bill, the STOP CSAM Act (an acronym for “child sex abuse material”). It’s the newest in a line of recent bills that attempt to promote greater safety online, in part by demanding more ... |
| 05.02.2023 | Kokua Line: How can mom be recognized for 100th birthday? | Question: My mother is approaching her 100th birthday and I was wondering what official recognition (Hawaii and U.S.) she could get to help celebrate, and how to go about it.
Answer: Achieving centenarian status is a milestone that many ele... |
| 08.11.2022 | Democratic incumbent Sen. Brian Schatz faces off against Republican state Rep. Bob McDermott in Hawaii's US Senate election | Al Drago/AP Photo; Bob McDermott's campaign; Insider
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| 07.02.2022 | Sen. Brian Schatz secures $100M in federal funding to drain Red Hill fuel facility | ASSOCIATED PRESS / JUNE 9
Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, speaks during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing in June on Capitol Hill in Washington. Schatz announced today that his office had secured $100 million in new federal funding ... |
| 09.12.2021 | WhatsApp begins testing currency payments with Novi wallet | --> -->
Meta has not stopped developing its digital wallet, Novi, despite opposition from some senators in the United States.
Meta’s e-payments and bitcoin banking unit Novi, headed by Stephen Kasriel, announced this week that WhatsAp... |
| 20.10.2021 | Facebook Launches Digital Wallet Novi, Lawmakers Urge The Company To Stop It | Facebook has started testing its digital currency wallet Novi. David Marcus, the head of F2 (Facebook Financial), Tuesday announced that that company is rolling out “a small pilot” of the wallet app in two countries — the US and Guatemala. ... |
| 20.10.2021 | Сенат США потребовал у Facebook остановить тестирование криптокошелька Novi и отказаться от Diem | Американские сенаторы выразили обеспокоенность работой Facebook над внедрением криптовалюты Diem и цифрового кошелька Novi. По их словам, компании нельзя доверять управление криптовалютной платёжной системой и цифровой валютой в целом, что ... |
| 20.10.2021 | Democratic senators say they don't trust Facebook with digital currency and urge the company to stop Novi launch | Democratic senators on Tuesday called on Facebook to stop the launch of Novi, its new crypto wallet.
Novi was launched earlier in the day for users in the US and Guatemala.
"Facebook cannot be trusted to manage a payment system or digi... |
| 20.10.2021 | Facebook’s Digital Wallet Cryptocurrency ‘Novi’ Caught Senate Attention, Wants it Taken Down | Isaiah Richard, Tech Times 20 October 2021, 01:10 am
Facebook has revealed "Novi" earlier today, and it is a digital wallet platform for a cryptocurrency that the social media company would be managing for a new way to pay and tra... |
| 19.10.2021 | US Lawmakers Push Back on Facebook’s Novi Wallet Launch | WASHINGTON, D.C. – A group of U.S. lawmakers say Facebook cannot be trusted to launch a digital currency.
In a Tuesday missive, U.S. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Elizabeth Warren (D... |
| 19.10.2021 | Democratic senators say they don’t trust Facebook with digital currency and urge the company to stop Novi launch | Democratic senators on Tuesday called on Facebook to stop the launch of Novi, its new crypto wallet.
Novi was launched earlier in the day for users in the US and Guatemala.
“Facebook cannot be trusted to manage a payment system or digital c... |
| 25.09.2021 | Democrats are sick of dealing with the debt ceiling and regularly staving off economic catastrophe: ‘We should get rid of it’ | Clouds form above the Capitol in between rain showers on the National Mall on March 28, 2021 in Washington, DC. Al Drago/Getty Images
Some Democrats want to kill the debt ceiling as the limit nears a critical mid-October deadline.
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| 25.03.2021 | At least one member of Congress thinks we need a government agency to regulate social media companies | How can Congress best regulate the monstrosity that is Facebook? At a House Energy and Commerce committee hearing on social media, extremism, and misinformation on Thursday, Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) offered a creative suggestion: a new gover... |
| 02.03.2021 | Back to the Future for Section 230 Reform | Reform of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is on the agenda for both Congress and the Biden administration this year—all the more so after the renewed discussion around technology platforms sparked by the U.S. Capitol riot and ... |
| 17.02.2021 | Janet Yellen Should Focus On Fiscal Policy, Not Environmental Activism: Part 2 | WILMINGTON, DELAWARE - DECEMBER 01: U.S. Secretary of the Treasury nominee Janet Yellen speaks ... [+] during an event to name President-elect Joe Biden’s economic team at the Queen Theater on December 1, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. Biden... |
| 13.02.2021 | How Congress Might Upend Section 230, the Law Big Tech Is Built On | Change is likely coming for Section 230, the law that protects online platforms from being held liable for things users say on them. As one of his last acts as president, Donald Trump attempted to strike down the law. President Biden has al... |
| 03.11.2020 | Twitter predicts the US Department of Energy Secretary in a Joe Biden administration | David Roberts (@drvox) asked Twitter for its “Dream Biden/Harris cabinet” for the U.S. State, Defense, Treasury, EPA and Energy departments. Twitter, the brilliant and wrong social network, then weighed-in on who Joe Biden, the Democrat can... |
| 22.09.2020 | Is Joe Biden On Top Of The Climate Agenda When It Comes To Agriculture? | 1
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Fires rage in the West as storms, hurricanes, and floods hit the rest of the country. Progressives are pushing Biden to transform the food system and manage and mitigate the effects of the climate crisis.... |
| 11.09.2020 | Federal VA team headed to Hilo to help contain COVID-19 outbreak at veterans home | ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Yukio Okutsu Veterans Home was dedicated in Nov. 2007. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has mobilized a team of health care professionals to help contain a COVID-19 outbreak at the Yukio Okutsu State Veterans Hom... |
| 31.08.2020 | Fighting Hate Speech Online Means Keeping Section 230, Not Burying It | At Free Press, we work in coalition and on campaigns to reduce the proliferation of hate speech, harassment, and disinformation on the internet. It’s certainly not an easy or uncomplicated job. Yet this work is vital if we’re going to prote... |
| 24.08.2020 | Twitter predicts the US Department of Energy Secretary in a Joe Biden administration | David Roberts (@drvox) asked Twitter for its “Dream Biden/Harris cabinet” for the U.S. State, Defense, Treasury, EPA and Energy departments. Twitter, the brilliant and wrong social network, then weighed-in on who Joe Biden, the Democrat can... |
| 29.07.2020 | What’s Next for Section 230? A Roundup of Proposals | Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has long provided internet platforms like Twitter and Facebook with immunity from claims based on third-party content that appears on their platforms. The statute, codified at 47 U.S.C. § 230, f... |
| 29.07.2020 | Some Reservations About A Consistency Requirement For Social Media Content Moderation Decisions. | The recent proposals from the Department of Justice for reform of Section 230 of the Communications Decency would require social media companies, as a condition of receiving the Section 230 immunity from liability for user content, to publi... |
| 26.06.2020 | The Justice Department’s Good Ideas for Platforms Needn’t Be Done Through Section 230 Reform | The Justice Department’s recently released plan to reform Section 230 has drawn predictably partisan reactions. Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal, for instance, rejected it, saying, “I have no interest in being an agent of Bill Barr’s spee... |
| 24.06.2020 | PACT Act takes on internet platform content rules with ‘a scalpel rather than a jackhammer’ | The PACT Act is a new bipartisan effort to reform Section 230, the crucial liability shield that enables internet platforms to exist, approaching the law’s shortcomings “with a scalpel rather than a jackhammer,” as Senator Brian Schatz (D-H... |
| 17.06.2020 | Schatz and Hirono introduce legislation to protect skydiving, air tour passengers | ASSOCIATED PRESS
National Transportation Safety Board investigator Eliott Simpson briefs NTSB Board Member Jennifer Homendy at the scene of a skydiving crash on Oahu in 2019.
U.S. Sens. Brian Schatz and Mazie Hirono today introduced new leg... |
| 03.06.2020 | Many Think Internet Privacy Is Lost, But That's Because You Can't Sue Anyone Who Violates It | Over 90% of Americans feel like they have no control over their online privacy. It is not hard to understand why so many of us feel so powerless when it comes to using the Internet, nor is the solution to such a pervasive feeling all that c... |
| 01.06.2020 | Congress Should Investigate the Trump Administration’s Coronavirus Response | Congressional investigations can make a world of difference in humanitarian crises. In 2008-2009, I led the staff of a bipartisan Senate investigation of the federal government’s response to Hurricane Katrina, probing the government’s failu... |
| 08.04.2020 | VIDEO: U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz joins the COVID-19 Care Conversation | U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz joined the COVID-19 Care Conversation to take viewer questions about the federal response to the coronavirus, specifically regarding the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
The senator says the... |
| 01.04.2020 | Small businesses can apply for special loans in April; Chamber of Commerce asks state to suspend taxes | ASSOCIATED PRESS / MARCH 3
Sen. Brian Schatz released information on a loans program for Hawaii small businesses and the self-employed today.
Small businesses as well as the self-employed in Hawaii can apply for newly created loans in the w... |
| 18.02.2020 | Schatz joins call for appointment of health security expert at White House amidst coronavirus outbreak | COURTESY U.S. SENATE TV
U.S. Sen Brian Schatz spoke on the Senate floor, Feb. 3, to announce that he would be voting for the conviction of President Donald Trump on both counts in the impeachment trial. Schatz is one of more than two dozen ... |
| 09.12.2019 | Hawaii loses out on $17M in federal funds | Hawaii lost out on $17 million in federal funds over the past five years after federal agencies undercounted the number of Compact of Free Association citizens residing in Hawaii in 2013 and 2018.
The funds should have gone to support healt... |
| 26.10.2019 | US Senators Want Spotify and Netflix to Issue Emergency Warning Broadcasts | Staff Reporter, Tech Times 26 October 2019, 07:10 am
On one typical Saturday morning in January 2018, in the state of Hawaii, everything seemed normal. But then, citizens received a very alarming message. Allegedly, there's a ballistic miss... |
| 20.09.2019 | How 3 guys turned renting air mattresses in their apartment into a $31 billion company, Airbnb | Strategy How 3 guys turned renting air mattresses in their apartment into a $31 billion company, Airbnb
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| 21.05.2019 | Andrew Yang: The U.S. government is 24 years behind on tech | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 21.05.2019 | Andrew Yang: The U.S. government is 24 years behind on tech | Of the 20-some-odd public figures gunning for the Democratic presidential nomination this U.S. election cycle, Andrew Yang stands left of center for his decidedly progressive views. The New York native’s signature policy — one inspired by f... |
| 19.03.2019 | The White House launches ai.gov | The White House today launched an ai.gov website to share AI initiatives from the Trump administration and federal U.S. agencies. Featured initiatives include a National Institutes of Health (NIH) biomedical research project using AI and a ... |
| 19.03.2019 | The White House launches ai.gov | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 18.12.2018 | Schatz wants pesticide banned near schools | Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story!
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| 17.12.2018 | U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz introduces bill to ban chlorpyrifos near schools nationwide | CRAIG T. KOJIMA / APRIL 5
U.S. Senator Brian Schatz’s bill was praised by Earthjustice’s Healthy Communities Program and the Healthy Children Project at the Learning Disabilities Association of America.
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| 12.12.2018 | Senators aim to give internet companies doctor-like duties to protect our data | Consumers are increasingly entrusting online services with all kinds of personal data — but that trust has been repeatedly abused or taken for granted. If a doctor or a lawyer did that, they’d be kicked to the curb, because they have a lega... |
| 16.08.2018 | Schatz resolution affirms press ‘is not the enemy of the people’ | ASSOCIATED PRESS
From left, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii and Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., spoke following a weekly strategy session, on Capitol Hill in Washington, ... |
| 18.07.2018 | Senate wants emergency alerts to go out through Netflix, Spotify, etc. | An emergency alert goes out, trying to let you know about incoming bad news — a missile, a tsunami or something else terrifying. Your phone starts shouting… but it’s downstairs. A warning ticker pops on TVs, if you’re watching cable… but yo... |
| 10.09.2017 | Money for military and veterans, plus energy and technology | PIXABAY
“Hawaii hosts the Pacific Command, as well as key bases, installations and training areas for all our military branches. That makes our state critical to the rebalance to the Asia-Pacific region…” writes U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz.
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| 31.05.2017 | Senators want FBI to find out who attacked net neutrality comment system | Enlarge
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| 31.05.2017 | Senators ask FBI to look into FCC’s cyberattack claims | The FCC claimed earlier this month that the comment system by which people can weigh in on the proposal to kill net neutrality had been on the receiving end of a distributed denial-of-service attack. Today, a group of Senators asked that th... |
| 18.05.2017 | The FCC officially proposes to end net neutrality rules (but it’s not over yet) | Today the FCC voted 2:1 to officially propose an order that would eliminate net neutrality rules as we know them. To be clear, the rules are not being adopted today — that vote will be about three months from now, during which time the prop... |
| 18.05.2017 | PATCH: Debating Codification of the VEP | Today a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced in both the House and Senate a bill that would formalize the Vulnerability Equities Process (VEP) into law. The proposed legislation, the Protecting our Ability To Counter Hacking (PATCH) Act... |
| 21.09.2016 | The internet belongs to the world, not to Ted Cruz | Brian Schatz Contributor
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| 05.10.2015 | Non-disparagement clauses vs. your right to leave negative reviews online | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 05.10.2015 | Non-disparagement clauses vs. your right to leave negative reviews online | Last month, the U.S. took a big step toward safeguarding consumers’ right to leave honest online reviews without fear of retribution. Senators John Thune (R-S.D.), Brian Schatz (D-HI), and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) introduced S. 2044, which will... |
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| - | EGEB: Wind/solar saving lives/$billions; Miami spending $1B wrong; SolarEdge +Eclipse; more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
Health benefits of wind and solar offset all subsidies – Berkeley environmental engineer Dev Millstein and his colleague... |
| - | Editorial: Help’s here to deal with this month’s mortgage and rent, but plan now for next cycle | PIXABAY
Hawaii housing costs are especially high, but this is the same pain being felt by families across the country.
Hawaii has been consigned to stay at home, or most residents have, for as much of each day as they can. It’s the tragedy ... |
| - | From pushback on Facebook’s digital wallet to iris scanning for free coins: 6 things that happened in crypto this past week | The top cryptocurrencies by market value are starting the week in the green after a few major industry milestones.
Bitcoin hit an all-time high on Wednesday, topping $66,000 after the first U.S. bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund made its... |
| - | Sen. Brian Schatz, fellow senators propose free masks to reduce spread of coronavirus | U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz is convinced that face masks work in helping to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and wants Americans to be convinced, too.
Schatz, along with U.S. Sens. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), today i... |
| - | Sen. Brian Schatz backs bill that targets college students with financial needs and aims to offset tuition and living expenses | With student loans spiraling upward, U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz is sponsoring the Debt-Free College Act, which aims to ensure low-income students can attend public colleges without going into debt.
“There’s something wrong with a society that s... |
| - | Sen. Brian Schatz says $4 billion in federal funding headed to Hawaii | ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2017
At least $4 billion in federal coronavirus relief funding is on its way to Hawaii, U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz announced today.
“That is a very conservative estimate because anything we could not nail down we booked at ze... |
| - | Chamber of Commerce Hawaii asks state to suspend taxes via online petition | The Chamber of Commerce Hawaii has launched an online petition asking the state to help businesses that are struggling financially due to COVID-19 disruptions.
In particular, the group, which has more than 2,000 members statewide, is asking... |
| - | Sen. Brian Schatz introduces act to protect scientists from politics, special interests | ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2017
Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, today introduced the Scientific Integrity Act to protect public scientific research and reports from the influence of political and special interests.
U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz introduced ne... |
| - | Bipartisan bill would require parental consent for minors to use social media | A new bipartisan bill unveiled Wednesday would require parental consent for minors to use social media.
The Protecting Kids on Social Media Act would also bar social media companies from using algorithms to feed content to minors and would ... |
| - | Congressional delegation welcomes voter feedback | Question: I’ve been reading in the newspaper about how our representatives vote in both the U.S. House and Senate, and most of the time I agree with them. On the few times I do not agree, is there a way I can contact them and ask them why t... |
| - | Sen. Schatz announces online resource guide to explain federal relief for Hawaii amid coronavirus crisis | ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, speaks to reporters about the coronavirus on Capitol Hill, on March 3 in Washington. Schatz today announced a new online resource guide to explain federal relief efforts for Hawaii.
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| - | Sen. Brian Schatz reintroduces legislation to cut cost of college | COURTESY SCOTT NISHI
Spirits were high during commencement exercises at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in May. U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz today pushed once again for debt-free college in an effort to make higher education more affordable and... |
| - | First Hawaiian Bank urges more SBA funding | First Hawaiian Bank said today it was informed by the SBA Paycheck Protection Program that funding has been depleted due to strong nationwide demand. The bank said it pushed through as many applications as possible, receiving confirmation o... |
| - | Sen. Schatz urges banks to take stand against gun violence | CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM
U.S. Senator Brian Schatz, a ranking member of the Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet, holding a hearing on the false missile alert in April.
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| - | Hawaii tourism gains momentum | Despite doldrums in January and February, Hawaii’s visitor industry has rounded the corner and taken off.
Jack Richards, Pleasant Holidays president and CEO, said that over the past two weeks, the company has seen Hawaii bookings and travel... |
| - | 2022 will be the ‘do or die’ moment for Congress to take action against Big Tech | Next year could be a pivotal one for tech legislation and regulation in the U.S.
But Congress must still jump some hurdles to pass new laws, and the upcoming midterm season leaves a short window for getting things done.
Proposals to update ... |
| - | Schatz’s first bill aims to add more national parks in isles | U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz introduced a bill Wednesday that seeks to expand Hawaii’s national parks while preserving the state’s special places and bringing in more tourism dollars.
Hawaii has seven national parks, but Schatz wants to add more.... |
| - | How IBM influences policy without spending big money on election campaigns | Following the U.S. Capitol riot, many large corporations announced they would suspend donations from their political action committees.
Some companies, like Apple and IBM, have never had a PAC, yet have cultivated strong relationships in Wa... |
| - | Hawaii unemployment could soar to 25% before recovery begins | BRUCE ASATO / BASATO@STARADVERTISER.COM
The State Unemployment Office has closed its front doors to the public but people continue to show up in person in an attempt to file for unemployment at 830 Punchbowl St, Rm 110 after unsuccessfully ... |
| - | Sen. Schatz releases guide for small businesses looking for relief in $2 trillion CARES Act | KAT WADE / MAY 28
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U.S. Senator Brian Schatz released a resource guide for small businesses in Hawaii to help them navigate new programs in the federal $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) ... |