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Utah-based Overstock.com Inc. was first to reinstate Hawaii affiliate advertisers who had been shut out by pending legislation seeking to collect tax from out-of-state online retailers.

The University of Hawaii campus at Manoa is preparing for a 4 percent cut in its programs to deal with the state's budget shortfall.

Overstock.com yesterday reinstated its relationship with Hawai'i-based affiliate advertisers following Gov.

The 2010 landscape lost a great Southern name when Sue Bell Cobb, the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, announced she's not running for governor.

Overstock.com today reinstated its relationship with Hawaii-based affiliate advertisers following Gov.

Linda Lingle from ordering thousands of their members to take three unpaid days off each month.

It was a monster rally for rights as thousands of Hawaii union employees invaded the state capitol Tuesday evening to fight Governor Linda Lingle's furlough plan, which amounts to 72 unpaid days off the next two years The atmosphere was electric, but also among the crowd was a feeling of urgency, as together thousands plead with the governor to ...

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A faucet that gushed millions of dollars into Hawaii's economy has been shut off as Amazon.com terminated its Hawaii affiliate program yesterday because of uncertainty over House Bill 1405, which is awaiting the governor's action.

Thousands of state employees rallied at the state Capitol Tuesday afternoon to denounce Gov.

On Wednesday Gov. Linda Lingle, faced with continued union opposition, decided to forge ahead with her furlough plan, issuing an executive order to carry it out.

Taking the first official step of her weeks-long promise, Gov. Linda Lingle signed yesterday an executive order to force tens of thousands of state employees to take three unpaid days off each month, starting in July.

Talks between Hawaii's four public worker unions and the state are stalled. After Tuesday's four-hour bargaining session arranged by federal mediator Ken Kawamoto, the two sides have been on call, with no meetings scheduled.

Two state-employee unions asked a judge yesterday to block Gov. Linda Lingle from unilaterally ordering thousands of state workers to take three unpaid days off per month, starting in July.

A judge on Tuesday set July 2 as the date for a court hearing on a lawsuit by two unions asking for an injunction against the state's plan to furlough workers while unions hope to gain public support.

A showdown in court over Gov. Linda Lingle's planned furlough of thousands of government employees has been set for July 2, the day after the governor's plan is set to take effect.

Dear Governor Lingle,...I am hereby requesting, in the legal sense, 'demanding' to know the factual eligibility of Barack Hussein Obama to serve as President of the United States under the provisions of Article II Section 1 of the Constitution of the United States of America.

With the help of federal mediator Ken Kawamoto, the four public employee unions and the state and counties bargained for four hours yesterday, but no agreements were reached.

West Maui state Rep. Angus McKelvey said he wants the Legislature to go into an emergency special session to deal with the state's $2.7 billion revenue shortfall and Gov.

This week's incoming could have a real bang as we 'flASHback' on the news that amused and confused: North Korea will fire a long-range ballistic missile toward Hawai'i in the next few weeks, a Japanese newspaper says.