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Hawaii state is eight major islands and many smaller islets comprising the Hawaiian Islands surrounded by the Pacific Ocean. The eight major Hawaiian Islands are, from west to east, Niihau, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Lanai, Kahoolawe, Maui, and Hawaii. Hawaii is sometimes spelled: Hawai'i |
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HAWAII News:
 Gordon
Smith -  Illegal
- Immigration
-  Business
-  Food
-  Workers
-  Politics
-  Agriculture
-  Property
-  History
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"Señor Smith: Low-wage Latino workers keep [Oregon Republican Senator] Sen. Gordon Smith’s family business humming. Not all of them are legal." ... "Up on a hill overlooking this Eastern Oregon town of 701 people, Smith Frozen Foods turns raw produce from the surrounding fields into ready-to-eat products." ... "Smith’s goods appear in grocery stores under other brand names. But in tiny Weston [Oregon], a water tank emblazoned with the capital letters S-M-I-T-H sits like a sentry greeting travelers on nearby Highway 11." ... "Gordon Smith, a United States senator from Oregon and the only Republican senator representing a West Coast state, has owned the plant his grandfather founded in 1919 for nearly 30 years." ... "“Son,” father Milan Smith once said, according to Gordon Smith’s 2006 memoir, “you can sell ice to Eskimos and coals to Newcastle.”" ... "Today, Smith Frozen Foods generates millions in income for the senator, according to Smith’s 2007 financial disclosure report." ... "And in this town, Smith’s wealth looms large, even though the 56-year-old lawmaker seldom visits and calls nearby Pendleton [Oregon] his home. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Smith is the 12th-richest member of the U.S. [United States] Senate, with an estimated net worth between $8 million and $39 million—wealth that’s allowed him to buy a $3.5 million mansion in Bethesda, Md. [Maryland], property on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, a Park City, Utah, condominium and—more famously—four antique golf clubs worth $1.25 million." ... "The workers at Smith Frozen Foods, who clean the machinery, monitor production and pack upward of 50 million pounds of produce each year, earn about $80 a day, four or five days a week, 10 months a year—if they’re lucky." ... "One other thing—some of them appear to be illegal immigrants." ... "WW recently spent several days in Weston, and the nearby cities of Milton-Freewater [Oregon] and Walla Walla, Wash. [Washington], where most of Smith’s employees live. WW spoke to dozens of current and former Smith workers, Latino advocates, court personnel, public defenders, educators, police administrators, church officials, social service agents and business owners and determined that some portion of Smith’s workforce comprises undocumented immigrants." ... "It’s a revelation that may not be newsworthy around Weston, where most people this reporter interviewed knew, or assumed, that the agricultural processing plant hired illegal immigrants." ... "Additional interviews and review of public records reveal that Smith’s company appears to have employed illegal immigrants for decades, stretching back as far as the 1980s." -By Beth Slovic -WWeek.com 
 Barack
Obama -  Family
- Hawai'i
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-  Journalist
- Politics
-  Military
-  Sports
-  Illinois
- 2008
Election
"Akaka defends Obama's Hawaii vacation from ABC commentator: Journalist questions [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack] Obama's vacation in 'foreign' destination." ... "A group called Asian Americans for Obama sent out a media alert yesterday with the headline, "BREAKING: Hawai'i is a State," as U.S. [Unisted States Hawaii Democratic Senator] Sen. Daniel Akaka and others defended U.S. [Illinois Democratic Senator] Sen. Barack Obama's decision to spend a weeklong vacation in the Islands." ... "Obama had another casual day yesterday: Visit his grandmother at her Makiki apartment again, watch a movie at the Ward Complex theaters and go to dinner. But his choice of vacation destinations — his hometown of Honolulu — prompted [Disney TV's] ABC News' Cokie Roberts to twice call Hawai'i a "foreign" and "exotic" vacation destination for the man who wants to be president." ... ""I know his grandmother lives in Hawai'i," Roberts said on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos. "And I know Hawai'i is a state. But it has the look of him going off to some sort of foreign, exotic place. He should be in Myrtle Beach if he's going to take a vacation at this time."" ... "But Akaka didn't see any humor in Roberts' comments." ... ""Saying our 50th state is somehow 'foreign,' does a great disservice to the hardworking, patriotic Americans who call Hawai'i home," Akaka said. "For months, people have been asking me, 'When is Sen. Obama going to come home?' I'm so glad he found time to visit his sister and his grandmother, and for him and his family to bond and recharge in his home state. Hawai'i is a great U.S. destination; just ask the 5.5 million Americans who visited last year for business and pleasure."" ... "Akaka's press secretary, Jesse Broder Van Dyke, wants Roberts to see firsthand evidence of Hawai'i's history and its role in the country's future." ... ""I would love to take Ms. Roberts on a tour of O'ahu, with stops at the Arizona Memorial and Punchbowl, followed by a visit with Hawai'i Army National Guard soldiers training for their second deployment to the Middle East," he said. "Then I would take her to Eastside Grill to watch Team USA women's volleyball and Bryan Clay. I would introduce her to Hawai'i residents so she could witness our diversity and learn about the aloha spirit. Part of what makes America great is the unique contributions of all 50 states. Sen. Obama has every right to come home and visit his sister and grandmother."" -By Dan Nakaso -HonoluluAdvertiser.com 
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Political
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Free
Speech - History
- Hawaii
- Military
- "Flag
amendment fails by one vote: Compromise measure that
would have left Constitution unaltered also fails." ... "The 66-34 tally
in favor of the amendment was one less than the two-thirds required. The
House surpassed that threshold last year, 286-130." ... "The resolution
represented Congress' response to Supreme Court rulings in 1989 and 1990
that burning and other desecrations of the flag are protected as free speech
by the First Amendment to the Constitution." ... "Opponents said the amendment
would violate the First Amendment right to free speech. And some Democrats
complained that majority Republicans were exploiting people's patriotism
for political advantage in November's midterm elections." ... ""Our country's
unique because our dissidents have a voice," said Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii,
a World War II veteran who lost an arm in the war and was decorated with
the Medal of Honor." ... ""While I take offense at disrespect to the flag,"
he said, "I nonetheless believe it is my continued duty as a veteran, as
an American citizen and as a United States senator to defend the constitutional
right of protesters to use the flag in nonviolent speech.""
-AP via -MSNBC
Hawaii
- History
- 
Museum
- "Group
hides native Hawaiian artifacts: Judge jails leader,
holds three others in contempt of court." ... "Leaders of a Hawaiian group
vowed not to divulge the location of a cache of native artifacts obtained
from a museum and then buried, despite the jailing of their director."
... "One of the four, executive director Edward Halealoha Ayau, was taken
into custody after refusing [Chief U.S. District Judge David] Ezra's order
to reveal the exact location of the 83 artifacts from the Bishop Museum."
-AP via -CNN
Science
- 
California
- Los
Angeles - Hawaii
- "Man-Made
"Star" Illuminates Milky Way's Mysterious Center."
... "[...] even on the clearest night, the earth's atmosphere obscures
the true brilliance of our galaxy and astronomers have long struggled with
images blurred by its mix of gases and turbulence. Now researchers have
used a new laser-generated star to obtain the clearest pictures yet of
the Milky Way's center. " ... "Astronomer Andrea Ghez of the University
of California, Los Angeles, and her colleagues used the 10-meter Keck 2
telescope in Hawaii, which has a laser attached to it, to observe our galaxy.
The skywatchers employed the 14-watt laser to generate a fake star. By
continuously imaging this false star along with the real ones, they could
correct any fuzziness or other distortions introduced by the earth's atmosphere."
-By David Biello -ScientificAmerican
Hawaii
- Military
- 
Flying
- 
Intelligence
- "Stealth
engineer facing federal indictment." ... "A federal
grand jury in Honolulu has returned a six-count indictment against a B-Two
stealth bomber engineer already accused of selling U-S military secrets
to foreign countries." -AP
via KPUA
Hawaii
- Business
- "Hawaiian
Electric 3Q Income Slips." ... "Hawaiian Electric
Industries Inc. on Wednesday said third-quarter profit fell as customers
faced with more expensive electricity bills and higher fuel costs curbed
their electricity use." ... "Hawaiian Electric supplies power to more than
400,000 customers, or 93 percent of Hawaii's market through its three electric
utilities." -AP
via -Forbes
Political
- Business
- Hurricane
Katrina - Hurricane
Rita - Hawaii
- "Oil
Company Execs Defend Huge Profits." ... "The chiefs
of five major oil companies defended the industry's huge profits Wednesday
at a Senate hearing where they were exhorted to explain prices and assure
customers they're not being gouged." ... "Together the companies earned
more than $25 billion in profits in the July-September quarter as the price
of crude oil hit $70 a barrel and gasoline surged to record levels after
the disruptions of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita." ... "Democrats had wanted
the executives to testify under oath, but Republicans rejected the idea.
``If I were a witness I would demand to be put under oath,'' said Sen.
Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii. The soaring prices have sent shivers through a
Congress worried about political fallout." -By H.
Josef Hebert -AP
via -Guardian.co.uk
Hawaii
- Scuba
- 
Water
- Animals
- Business
- "The
Dangers of Hawaii's Fish Industry." ... "Every year.
more than half a million of the state's most beautiful fish are taken our
reefs and sent to aquarium tanks around the world. It's a multi-million
dollar industry that's been mostly unregulated. Now, some say it's time
for a radical change." ... "For decades now, the aquarium fishing industry
in Hawai'i has been basically a free-for-all. Get a boat, some dive gear
and a $50 permit and you're in business." ... "In the past 20 years, the
state's total catch of aquarium fish has quintupled. Last year, the industry
reported catching nearly 750,000 fish, grossing more than $3 million in
sales." ... "Aquatic biologist Bill Walsh of the Department of Land and
Natural Resources says that's not counting renegade fish collectors who
don't report their catches." ... "Walsh is recommending banning aquarium
fish collecting on at least 20 percent of all island coastlines. He's also
recommending statewide bans on a few specific fish and a possible limit
to the number of fish collectors." -By Keahi Tucker
-KGMB9
