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[ci src=”/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/students-demonstrate-opening-day-legislature.jpg” title=”Flying the Colors” caption=”Students, some of them waving Hawaii state flags, occupy the Capitol rotunda on Wednesday morning.” fontsize=”14px”]

[ci src=”/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/malama-aina-opening-day-legislature-Ritte.jpg” title=”A Day of Messages” caption=”Kaloku Ritte, 3, stands with mother Mercy Ritte and helps hold signs at the Capitol, including one urging legislators to care for the land.” fontsize=”14px”]

[ci src=”/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/capitol-demonstration.jpg” title=”No Aloha for Seed Companies” caption=”Anti-GMO demonstrators wear gas masks on the first floor of the Capitol during opening ceremonies.” fontsize=”14px”]

[ci src=”/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/opening-day-legislature-2015.jpg” title=”Rotunda Scenes” caption=”Various groups stake out territory in the Capitol rotunda on Opening Day.” fontsize=”14px”]

[ci src=”/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/senator-donna-kim-teleprompter-.jpg” title=”With a Little Prompting” caption=”Laptops scroll Senate President Donna Mercado Kim’s speech on teleprompters as she addresses the floor and the gallery.” fontsize=”14px”]

[ci src=”/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/legislature-Senate-President-Donna-Kim-Senate-.jpg” title=”Presiding Over Senate” caption=”Senate President Donna Kim delivers her Opening Day address, in which she called for the elimination of the state Land Use Commission.” fontsize=”14px”]

[ci src=”/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/money-demonstrator.jpg” title=”Protesting Big Money” caption=”A masked demonstrator waves an oversized $100 bill on the first floor of the Capitol near anti-GMO signs.” fontsize=”14px”]

[ci src=”/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/house-hula.jpg” title=”House of Hula” caption=”Hula dancers perform in the House chambers during Opening Day ceremonies.” fontsize=”14px”]

[ci src=”/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/ways-means-committee-opening-day-legislature1.jpg” title=”Smaller Turnout for Real Work” caption=”Chair of the Senate Ways and Means Committee Jill Tokuda opens a sparsely attended meeting on the financial challenges facing lawmakers Wednesday afternoon in the Capitol auditorium.” fontsize=”14px”]

[ci src=”/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/senator-sam-slom-opening-legislature-2015.jpg” title=”A Minority of One” caption=”Sam Slom, the only Republican member of the state Senate, reacts after Senate President Donna Mercado Kim introduces him Wednesday.” fontsize=”14px”]

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Cory Lum is a fourth generation, Japanese, Chinese, Korean local boy who went to Lunalilo Elementary, St. Louis School and is a proud graduate of the University of Hawaii Manoa. GO BOWS! Cory first picked up his camera in 1980s and had one of his first gigs at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Cory has seen...