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Today’s Front PageSports betting bill advancesBy MICHAEL BRESTOVANSKY Hawaii Tribune-Herald A proposal to legalize sports betting in Hawaii remains alive, despite mixed opinions among lawmakers and citizens. The Hawaii Senate committeeson Commerce and Consumer Protection and on Economic Development and Tourism recommended on Thursday the passage of House Bill 1308, which would establish regulations for betting on sports and specify that “legal sports wageringand fantasy sports contests” would not be considered gambling. The measure…Read more Judges order reinstatement of fired federal employeesBy DANIEL WIESSNER Reuters Federal judges in California and Maryland on Thursday ordered U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to reinstate tens of thousands of probationary federal workers who lost their jobs as part of mass firings carried out across multiple agencies. The back-to-back rulings were the most significant blow yet to the effort by Trump and top adviser Elon Musk to drastically shrink the federal bureaucracy. Government agencies face aThursday deadline to submit plans…Read more State tax revenue outlook is gloomyBy ANDREW GOMES Honolulu Star-Advertiser A gloomy new forecast is depressing the amount of state tax revenue Hawaii’s Legislature has available to finalize its budget for the next two fiscal years. The state Council on Revenues on Wednesday unanimously decided to drop its general fund tax revenue growth forecast to 5% from a prior 6.4% in the current fiscal year ending June 30 and expects such revenue to contract 2.25% in the fiscal year beginning July 1. A 2.25% revenue decline would…Read more Download the Hawaii Tribune Herald App
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