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Oil prices hurting isle economy

By DAN NAKASO Honolulu Star-Advertiser Hawaii’s near-term economic outlook “has worsened noticeably” as the war with Iran continues to push oil and consumer prices higher, accordingto the latest economic forecast by the University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization, released Friday. In its second-quarter forecast titled “War brings more stormy weather to Hawaii,” UHERO said the state’seconomy “is facing a new wave of uncertainty as the war involving Iran drives up global…Read more

Snorkeling at Pearl Harbor?

By ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON and ADAM GOLDMAN NYTimes News Service Last summer, FBI Director Kash Patel capped a whirlwind South Pacific trip with a snorkel trip in Hawaii. There, Navy SEALs used two boats to transport and escort Patel and nine other people on what a Defense Department email called a “V.I.P. Snorkel” next to one of the military’s most sacred sites, the underwater tomb of the USS Arizona that holds the remainsof more than 900 Navy sailors and Marines who died at Pearl Harbor. …Read more

Hawaii AG defends Medicaid oversight

By ANDREW GOMES Honolulu Star-Advertiser Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez pushed back Thursday against claims leveled a day earlier by Vice President JD Vance that the state isn’t serious about combating Medicaid fraud. “Hawaii has not ignored Medicaid fraud,” Lopez said in a statement, suggesting that Vance presented an unfair assessment of results achieved recently by the state’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit under the state Department of the Attorney General. The unit is largely funded…Read more

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