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Hakim Ouansafi. Hakim Ouansafi is a volunteer chairman for the Muslim Association of Hawaii. He is also a volunteer board member for the Hawaii chapter of the federal law enforcement foundation and is a civil service commissioner with the city and county of Honolulu. [1] Ouansafi is the executive director of the State of Hawaii Housing Authority.
The governor of the State of Hawaii is the head of government of Hawaii, [1] and commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. [2] The governor has a duty to enforce state laws; [2] the power to either approve or veto bills passed by the Hawaii Legislature; [3] the power to convene the legislature; [4] and the power to grant pardons, except in cases of treason and impeachment.
Coinciding with other 1960s and 1970s indigenous activist movements, the Hawaiian sovereignty movement was spearheaded by Native Hawaiian activist organizations and individuals who were critical of issues affecting modern Hawaii, including the islands' urbanization and commercial development, corruption in the Hawaiian Homelands program, and appropriation of native burial grounds and other ...
The overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom was a coup d'état against Queen Liliʻuokalani that took place on January 17, 1893, on the island of Oʻahu, and was led by the Committee of Safety, composed of seven foreign residents (five Americans, one Scotsman, and one German [ 5]) and six Hawaiian Kingdom subjects of American descent in Honolulu. [ 6 ...
The Republic of Hawaii ( Hawaiian: Lepupalika o Hawaiʻi) was a short-lived one-party state in Hawaiʻi between July 4, 1894, when the Provisional Government of Hawaii had ended, and August 12, 1898, when it became annexed by the United States as an unincorporated and unorganized territory. In 1893, the Committee of Public Safety overthrew ...
Budget. $2.5 million. Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite is a concert starring Elvis Presley that took place at the Honolulu International Center and was broadcast live via satellite to audiences in Asia and Oceania on January 14, 1973. The show was presented with a delay in Europe. In the United States, to avoid a programming conflict with Super ...
2019 Hawaii cannabis legalization proceeded with SB 686 / HB 708, introduced January 2019. The bill was listed as a "top priority" for the 2019 legislative year, President of Hawaii Senate Ron Kouchi, [1] [2] and supported by the Hawaii Democratic Party chairperson Keali'i Lopez. [3] It was opposed by Governor David Ige.
The following is an alphabetical list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Hawaii. For chronological tables of members of both houses of the United States Congress from the state (through the present day), see United States congressional delegations from Hawaii. The list of names should be complete (as of ...