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The following opinion is from the Conservative Forum of Hawaii:

We would like to emphasize the single most important major concern about the recent County Council’s narrow decision (5 to 4) regarding building codes. Every citizen needs to be alarmed by this whole process.

The new law on building codes adopts entirely the 2006 International Building Codes and International Energy Conservation Codes, and now with criminal penalties for violations.

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An open letter to the Hawaii County Council Aloha e Chairman Yoshimoto and members of the Hawaii County Council, Bill 136 violates both the letter and the spirit of the Kona Community Development Plan (KCDP) ordinance. Bill 136 would remove 29 acres from Palamanui’s special Project District zoning district and into the MCX, commercial/industrial, zoning [...]

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Unanswered questions suggest that people within the Bush administration may have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, or were directly involved in 9/ll to create a pretext for a new perpetual war against “terrorism” to replace the cold war against “communism.

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by Sydney Ross Singer (Hilo) Hawaii’s first resolution to ban biocontrol was approved 6-3 by the Hawaii County Council on August 19th. The ban is on any use of biocontrol targeting relatives of the o’hia tree, the primary tree of our native forests, which includes the strawberry guava, paperbark trees, guava, eucalyptus, and other members [...]

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By State Sen. Josh Green June 15, 2009 Dear Friends, A major decision will be made about the future of Big Island this coming week at the County Council and it will give us absolute clarity about the character of the current Hawaii County government. The East Hawaii-dominated council is proposing to remove all West [...]

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