“A very busy’ hurricane season, Council tweeks property tax rates, Republicans revolt over Trump’s $1.8B fund.”‘
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Today’s Front PageA ‘very busy’ hurricane seasonBy JOHN BURNETT Hawaii Tribune-Herald Be prepared for an unusually active and intense hurricane season. That was the message delivered Thursday by Gov. Josh Green, the National Weather Service, and state and county emergency managers. “We’re expecting a very busy hurricane season here in the Central Pacific – five to 13 cyclones. Anaverage year for us is four to five,” NWS meteorologist John Bravender said during a press conference in Green’s office at the state capitol in Honolulu. …Read more Council tweaks property tax ratesBy STEFAN VERBANO Hawaii Tribune-Herald The Hawaii County Council unanimously approved a resolution Thursday that would adjust property tax rates, but not without a profanity- sprinkled protest from one member who claimed her competing proposal was “blocked.” At issue was Resolution 574-26 – a measure authored by Chair Holeka Inaba which would increase tax rates for nonresidents and owners of second homes in a push to make up for an estimated $15 million county budget shortfall. …Read more Republicans revolt over Trump’s $1.8B fundBy RICHARD COWAN, DAVID MORGAN, BO ERICKSON and JACOB BOGAGEReuters WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans abandoned plans to vote on funding for immigrationenforcement onThursday in a revolt against one of PresidentDonald Trump’s priorities: a $1.8 billion fund for victims of government “weaponization,”including those convicted of violent crimes during the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. The Senate walked away from a $72 billion bill funding Trump’s massive migrant deportation…Read more Download the Hawaii Tribune Herald App
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