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Judge rules in favor of lesbians suing Hawaii bed and breakfast

Diane Cervelli and Taeko Bufford
HONOLULU — A judge has ruled a Hawaii bed and breakfast violated the law when two women were denied a room because they're gay. Read More

USF men's basketball goes cold in loss to Mississippi

Cody Doolin
Murphy Holloway scored 23 points and grabbed 13 rebounds Sunday to lead Mississippi to an 85-78 win over USF in a Diamond Head Classic consolation-round game. The Rebels (9-2) rallied from a 13-point deficit in the first half to advance to Tuesday’s fifth-place game. Holloway, a senior forward, was 9-of-15 from the field and made five of seven free throws. He had 16 points and 13 rebounds on Saturday in the Rebels’ 87-85 overtime loss to Indiana State. Read More

Hawaiian news source says Leland Yee unfit for San Francisco mayor

A Hawaiian news source says state Sen. Leland Yee is a questionable mayoral candidate because of his shoplifting arrest in 1992. Read More

Trump: President Obama might be one of the greatest scams in history

In an interview with NBC, Donald Trump revealed that he has investigators in Hawaii tracking down Obama's birth certificate.   "I have people that have been studying it and they cannot believe what they're finding," Trump said Read More

Blacks fleeing blue states

Like me, Walter Russell Mead has been studying the 2010 Census figures with the aid of this excellent interactive graphic by the New York Times. Read More

Surfer who died at Maverick’s was passionate about big waves

Sion Milosky
Hawaiian big-wave surfer Sion Milosky was not seen for up to 20 minutes after he wiped out at the famous Maverick’s surfing break Wednesday, authorities said Thursday. Read More

Democrats exiting the sinking ship: Part 2

One of the Senate’s oldest members, Democrat Daniel Akaka of Hawaii, announced yesterday he will not seek reelection in 2012. He was elected with 54% of the vote in 1990 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Spark Matsunaga, and was reelected in 1994, 2000 and 2006 with 72%, 73% and 61% of the vote. His toughest race was the 2006 primary, when he was challenged by Rep. Read More

In Hawaii, a dispiriting glimpse of one-party rule

HONOLULU - In Hawaii, there are 25 members of the state Senate. Twenty-four are Democrats. And then there is Sam Slom. Slom, the lone Senate Republican in the state of President Obama's birth, has represented East Honolulu since 1996. He hasn't always been the only GOP senator; in the last session, there were two. Read More

Census shows states with low taxes have higher growth

Since the official 2010 Census numbers were released last week, political number crunchers have compiled all sorts of stats about who the big winners and losers have been. Read More
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