ANALYSIS: No silver lining in Gold Circle junkets for health insurance salesmen

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Insurers fight rules to limit admin costs while spending lavishly on junkets for salesmen

Excerpts from this story referencing "Hawaii":

"… rk sent me a copy of the program for the April 2002 Gold Circle meeting in Hawaii.“Congratulations!” the program exclaimed. “In recognition of your ou …"

"… 2002 Gold Circle meeting at The Orchid at Mauna Lani on the Big Island of Hawaii. You will be visiting one of the most outstanding vacation resort location …"

"… their significant others could set sail “on a sea of adventure on one of Hawaii’s premier luxury catamarans.” Then they could go on a Waipio Waterfall …"

"… e hired a yacht to take everybody on a cruise around all eight of the main Hawaiian Islands.One of the reasons insurers have been spending less and less of …"

Food safety labs may not have capacity to handle a crisis like Japan's

By Aaron Mehta and Laurel Adams

IG criticizes agencies charged with protecting American food safety as unprepared and understaffed

Excerpts from this story referencing "Hawaii":

"… levels of radiation in milk from cows in California, Washington, Arkansas, Hawaii and Vermont. Officials have said the radiation levels are not harmful, as …"

Fact Check: Obama releases long-form birth certificate to try to satisfy critics

By FactCheck.Org

FACT CHECK: Obama releases long-form birth certificate to quell birthers

Excerpts from this story referencing "Hawaii":

"… ited States. The White House said he received a special exemption from the Hawaii Department of Health, which keeps the long-form documents confidential.The …"

"… raphed the "certification of live birth." That short-form document is what Hawaii releases to citizens who request a copy of their birth certificate, and we …"

"… as born in the U.S.A. just as he has always said."If that wasn’t enough, Hawaii newspapers had run birth announcements in August 1961, shortly after Obama …"

"… r Obama’s birth.And on top of that, Chiyome Fukino, the then-director of Hawaii’s Department of Health, released a statement in 2008, saying she had see …"

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Do Trump's assertions about Obama's birthplace add up?

By FactCheck.Org

Donald Trump renews unsubstantiated claims about whether President Obama was really born in the United States

Excerpts from this story referencing "Hawaii":

"… rough a translator: "He was born in America."He claims that no hospital in Hawaii has a record of Obama’s birth. Hospital records are confidential under f …"

"… f State uses "birth certificate" as a generic term to include the official Hawaii document, which satisfies legal requirements for proving citizenship and o …"

"… etails.He says newspaper announcements of Obama’s birth that appeared in Hawaii newspapers in 1961 "probably" were placed there fraudulently by his now-de …"

"… had much to say lately about the sort of bogus claims that Trump repeats. Hawaii’s top official in charge of vital records stated long ago, for example, …"

Climate change lobbying dominated by 10 firms

By Marianne Lavelle and Matthew Lewis

Hundreds of lobbyists are cramming into Room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building this week for the House Energy and Commerce Committee

Excerpts from this story referencing "Hawaii":

"… s minority Deputy Staff Director under Senator Daniel Inouye, Democrat of Hawaii. …"

Senate chairs: Democrats have deep ties to industries they oversee

By Josh Israel and Aaron Mehta

Though the Democrats lost six of their 59 Senate seats in the November election, they still enter the 112th Congress in control of the upper

Excerpts from this story referencing "Hawaii":

"… ding committees not examined in this report are chaired by a man of Native Hawaiian decent (Daniel Akaka) and a woman (Mary Landrieu) respectively.Chairs ra …"

"… in the House report, as Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye of Hawaii does double-duty as chair of that subcommittee.Unlike the House chairmen, …"

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Whistleblower bill close to winning Senate approval

By Laurel Adams and Aaron Mehta

A landmark bill to protect government whistleblowers is expected to win U.S. Senate approval this month, according to two advocacy groups, e

Excerpts from this story referencing "Hawaii":

"… lower rights.”The bill was introduced by Democratic Sen. Daniel Akaka of Hawaii in early 2009, and approved by the Senate Homeland Security and Government …"

California Republican lampooned in tropical ad

By Josh Israel and Aaron Mehta

As election ads paid for by third-party groups begin to flood U.S. airways, one group seeking campaign finance reform is running an ad blast

Excerpts from this story referencing "Sacramento":

"… lampoons Dan Lungren, now seeking his 9th term representing the suburbs of Sacramento, California, as a bathing-suit-wearing-fatcat using a legal loophole to ge …"

Developers in the driver's seat on transportation

By Matthew Lewis

Unfocused transport policy leaves real estate industry eager to give Congress directions

Excerpts from this story referencing "Hawaii":

"… ltiple federal lobbyists for nationwide projects from Washington, D.C., to Hawaii, and between individual donations and its political action committee, Fore …"

Republican allies pour money into ads targeting 50-60 House races

By Peter H. Stone

Four Republican-allied groups are targeting between 50 and 60 House races in a new coordinated round of hard-hitting television ads....

Excerpts from this story referencing "Norm Coleman":

"… candidates are not at a fundraising disadvantage,” former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman, now the chief executive of the American Action Network, told the Center. …"

"… RRECTION — In a previous version of this story, we said that former Sen. Norm Coleman’s group was going to spend about $25 million on a few dozen ads for Hous …"

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