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  • General Meeting Notice – Please join us in celebrating

    Please join the Environmental Caucus of the Democratic Party of Hawaii at its next General Meeting and Yearend Celebration Date:                        December 9, 2011 Time:                         6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Location:            The Kaka`ako Makai Community Cultural Marketplace                         (Take the Makai (Oceanside) exit at the corner of Ward Avenue and Ala Moana

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  • A must have tool for any legislative advocate

    The Hawaii State Legislature’s website (http://ow.ly/7njcJ) has been redesigned. For anyone who wants to advocate for legislation or oppose bad legislation this tool is a must have.  The Public Access Room November Newsletter will walk you through the changes.  Check it out.  If you need help contact the Public Access Room. Phone:  808/587-0478* TTY:  808/587-0749 Fax: 

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  • From Councilman Tom Berg

    If you want rail done right, please join me and submit testimony to stop the steel rail blunder and support Resolution 11-328 that allows HART to embark on the rail project – just not deploy steel-wheels-on-steel-rails. If the lawsuit to stop the rail is not successful, this reso is the best chance we got to

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  • REMINDER: GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING TOMORROW

    Aloha Members of the Environmental Caucus of Hawai’i, I wanted to remind you all that we have an important General Membership Meeting tomorrow, Sunday. We will be voting on a number of important issues, so please try to attend. Here are the details: Environmental Caucus’s next General Membership Meeting will be held: Date:             Sunday, September

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  • Comments on Oahu General Plan due 8/30

    FYI, submitted by Kione Dudley   “The current City administration thinks a nice four lane highway should be built around the island to accommodate all the fine new folks coming to the La’ie and Turtle Bay hotels.  They also think a beautiful Ho’opili development should line the freeway from Waipahu to Kapolei so that we can finally fill in those

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  • Coqui on Windward Oahu

    WAIMANALO (HawaiiNewsNow) – The coqui frog is tiny and tenacious. Its call in the wild has been heard all over Oahu. “There are a few sites on Oahu where they’re currently established. We’re working on that. I think there are three in Waimanalo and one in Hawaii Kai,” Neil Reimer said. He runs the state’s

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  • Kokua alert from one of our members

    One of our members, Marjorie Ziegler, asked us to pass on this public hearing information regarding Monk Seal Protection. Here it is. ********************* Aloha, everyone.  I hope you can attend the town hall meeting or public hearing to learn how we can all work together to save the critically endangered ‘ilioholoikauaua/Hawaiian monk seal.  Please learn

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  • Hope you are planning to join our final Energy Discussion

    Aloha Members of the Environmental Caucus of Hawai’i, Just wanted to send you a quick reminder about tomorrow night’s Energy Discussion, As always, the location is at Ward Warehouse in the main meeting room of Democratic State Headquarters, here is a link to the address in case you have never been there. We have a

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  • Kokua Alert from one of our members

    Aloha all, One of our members, Marjorie Ziegler, has asked me to pass the following Kokua alert along. ********* Aloha, everyone.  Please attend a public hearing and testify in support of proposed critical habitat for the endangered ‘ilioholoikauaua/Hawaiian monk seal.  You can also submit written comments, which must be received on or before August 31,

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  • Having trouble embeding the video, so here is a direct link

    Aloha all, So sorry, but this morning, my computer has been defeating me. I tried embedding the video onto our site twice, and both times I sent you dud links. Ah well, anyway, I decided to send you all a direct link to the site rather than keep sending you embed links that don’t work.

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