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Hawaii’s Optics Problem: A Travel Hotspot Struggles With Meetings Business

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An example of the backlash: Hawaii’s sunny optics hurt attendance at at least one recent conference. In May, hundreds of public pension employees stayed away from the National Conference of Public Employee Retirement Systems’ annual meeting in Honolulu. There are 50 states in this country.”. I can assure you that.”

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Months Before 2020 Census Gets Underway, State Nonprofits Boost Campaigns

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The Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement, for example, is spending $800,000 to work on encouraging Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders to fill out the census. “If Beyond awareness, organized Census campaigns are at times taking on an advocacy angle.

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News Revenue Hub Expands as Journalism Membership Programs Grow

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” The first five members of the group were InsideClimate News , NJ Spotlight , Honolulu Civil Beat , The Lens , and PolitiFact. In the first three weeks of the Trump administration, for example, PolitiFact raised $105,000. In some cases, local events for members sweeten the deal.