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Wednesday, January 10, 2024
January 10, 2024 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:03 PM :: 1055 Views
  1. Mizuno News: Dems send Green Nepotistic Nominee for HD29 Vacancy
  2. Rolling Blackout Hits Within Days After Kapolei Battery Farm Goes Online
  3. Americans Moved to Low-Tax States in 2023
  4. Hawaii Isle property tax bill could penalize owners of ohana units
  5. Let’s try a bottom-up approach to more homebuilding
  6. $4.5M: The Real Cost of Smoking in Hawaii
  7. Lahaina: More kama'aina leaving the islands for better opportunities
  8. Burn zones in Lahaina have reopened, but scores of residents still can’t sift their properties
  9. Burn More Billions: Council panel votes to support Rail to Ala Moana Mall
  10. Amid worrisome surge, Queen’s West sees more ER visits than state’s largest hospital
  11. Proposed new gun permitting process draws passionate testimony on both sides
  12. Trio of Repeat Offenders charged in Oahu Country Club burglary
  13. Navy glitch sends 2 million gallons of sewage into Hawaii waters
  14. Next Tech Debacle will Cost $60M-- Josh Green
  15. Honolulu Nears Settlement In Case Of Man Who Says He Was Wrongfully Jailed For Months
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Tuesday, January 9, 2024
January 9, 2024 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:01 PM :: 1207 Views
  1. Lack of Solar: Rolling Blackouts for Oahu
  2. $600M: Saiki Announces Act 279 DHHL Working Group
  3. Mizuno News: Dems send Green Three Nominees for HD29 Vacancy
  4. Top Three Slush Fund Surges for Wave of Retirees
  5. Hawaii To Get $250M More In Tax Collections Than Expected   
  6. Miske Trial Day 1
  7. Corrections head: Screenings, x-rays failed to prevent fatal jail overdose
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Monday, January 8, 2024
January 8, 2024 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:47 PM :: 2345 Views
  1. Housing regulations add up to solid brick wall against homebuilding
  2. The Miske Case: A Few Friends In High Places?
  3. Convention Center Usage Down by 33%
  4. Escape the DoE: Hawai‘i School Choice Week lays out options
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Sunday, January 7, 2024
January 7, 2024 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:20 PM :: 2014 Views
  1. RNC Tells Hawaii Republicans: No Caucus, No Delegates
  2. Lahaina Senator Slams Housing Plan
  3. Tax Word Find
  4. 30% More Locals to Flee Hawaii in 2024
  5. Sand Island Rehab Recycles Ex-Cons to Work for Miske
  6. The witness list for the Miske trial has grown
  7. Average Penalty on Oahu STRs -- $160K
  8. Kauai Protesters, Eco-Lawyers Kill Green Energy Project
  9. DAGS Bumbling Capitol Security Rollout
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Saturday, January 6, 2024
January 6 2024 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:36 PM :: 1377 Views
  1. As new year dawns, old maritime law still a problem
  2. 2024: A chance to ‘accomplish great things’
  3. OHA Trustees Working Together: From One Year to the Next!
  4. City buys up expensive real estate in Iwilei--43% Profit for Kobayashi
  5. Hawaii Attorney General Writes Bill to Legalize Recreational Marijuana
  6. No Nukes: Green Announces $500M “Maui Interim Housing Plan”
  7. Target List: Judge refuses to protect juror identities in trial of Michael Miske
  8. Darwin News: Fatal overdose in Hilo jail possibly linked to Kona couple fentanyl bust  
  9. A new study finds Hawaiʻi has a hit-and-run epidemic
  10. Hawaii named ‘most dangerous state’ for two-wheeled vehicles
  11. The Supreme Court will decide if Donald Trump can be kept off 2024 presidential ballots
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Friday, January 5, 2024
January 5, 2024 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:16 PM :: 2206 Views
  1. ‘Defects’ Have Already Been Found Along Honolulu Skyline’s Tracks
  2. Connected Developers Cash in While Others Are Blocked
  3. HART Lawyers Feast: $23.3M Legal Fees in $200M Dispute over 2 Acres in Kakaako
  4. Maui short-term rental owners say they need answers on looming moratorium
  5. How to pay for make-work programs called ‘climate change mitigation’? Green proposes another tax hike
  6. HPD corporal’s 2016 DUI case faces new scrutiny amid questions about how recent crash was handled
  7. More Unionized Public Employees! Yippieeee --  Labor board says UH graduate assistants have right to collectively bargain
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Thursday, January 4, 2024
January 4, 2024 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:07 PM :: 2692 Views
  1. Trump to be Removed from Hawaii Republican Ballot--or vice versa
  2. Lahaina: Who they’re Getting Rid Of
  3. Female Strip Search News: Crooked Jail Guards and Airport Employees Team up to Steal State Vehicles
  4. Bissen Campaign Worker Awarded $150,000 Contract For Maui County Recruitment
  5. The task force has five containers with illegal fireworks in its possession as evidence, Lowe said no arrests have been made yet.
  6. Column: To improve schools, expand DOE system that works
  7. Rail construction is slowly killing these businesses. Relief has been slow to come
  8. Judge rejects injunction in ACLU case against Oahu homeless sweeps
  9. In alarming trend, Hawaii saw multiple overdose deaths in 2023 involving horse tranquilizer
  10. Hawaii GOP’s disputes linger into next legislative session
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Wednesday, January 3, 2024
January 3, 2024 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:59 PM :: 1073 Views
  1. Saiki Updates House Committee Assignments
  2. House Finance Announces Hearing Schedule
  3. While Locals Flee, Useless Hawaii Make-Work Projects Will Require Workers From The Mainland
  4. Housing panel makes first development decision
  5. HPD Car-Chase Cut-off Rules Make Chases More Dangerous, not less
  6. Soft on Crime: Gunman killed by Honolulu police was free on bail
  7. Big Island Woman Killed Despite A Restraining Order Against Ex-Boyfriend
  8. UH president won’t say if he was drinking before crash
  9. Gender-neutral terms, not ‘mom’ or ‘dad’
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Tuesday, January 2, 2024
January 2, 2024 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:26 PM :: 1370 Views
  1. Trump to be Removed from Hawaii Republican Ballot--or vice versa
  2. New information suggests link between Miske group and a North Shore drug gang
  3. “We are considering moving to Mexico,” Government proposals worry Maui short-term rental owners
  4. Horse Tour Operator Being Fined to Death
  5. Tourist Count Up but tourist income in real terms hasn’t grown in the past 30 years
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Monday, January 1, 2024
January 1, 2024 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 9:00 PM :: 838 Views
  1. FBI Illegal Disruption of Hawaii Republicans?
  2. Maui Economy will get Worse in 2024 
  3. Ige Admin Tries to Destroy Digital Records of Governorship
  4. Hawaii DOE Faces Roadblocks, Delays In Spending $2 Billion For School Facilities
  5. Mental hospitals warehoused the sick. Congress wants to let them try again.
  6. Hawaii Prisons Need More Thorough Internal Investigations, Commission Says
  7. State of Hawaii Moves Closer to Disposing of Historic Sailing Tanker
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Sunday, December 31, 2023
December 31, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:21 PM :: 1074 Views
  1. Restaurants Getting Cooked
  2. Bissen Picks New Administrator for Maui Emergency Management Agency
  3. It might be called Hawaiian, but it isn’t Hawaii-owned
  4. VIDEO: Tulsi Gabbard Slams Maine’s ‘Dangerous’ Removal of Trump from Ballot
  5. Plea Deal By Miske’s Ex-Business Partner Leaves Only 3 Defendants In Upcoming Trial
  6. Customers could feel impacts of minimum wage increase
  7. 100% renewable for Oahu is bad law
  8. Here’s The Forecast For Legislative Reform in ’24
  9. Hawaii’s COVID-19 death toll surpassed 2,100 in 2023
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Saturday, December 30, 2023
December 30, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:36 PM :: 977 Views
  1. Keeping Honolulu Jammed: 2023 Complete Streets Progress Report
  2. Pinata: Legislature opens GIA application processes
  3. Mobile Homes for Lahaina?  “We could have them set up within 48 hours”
  4. Law enforcement makes third big bust of illegal fireworks in two weeks
  5. Tentative Settlement Reached In Lawsuit Over Fatal Shooting By Honolulu Police
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Friday, December 29, 2023
December 29, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:18 PM :: 1170 Views
  1. HPD: No Gun Permits for Next 40 Days
  2. Minimum wage jumps to $14 January 1st
  3. DBEDT: Tourist Count Up--Spending Down
  4. Task Force makes another large seizure of illegal fireworks
  5. No Water-No Build: Kaleo Manuel finally figures out he is ‘an obstacle’
  6. Climate Change not cause of Lahaina Fire
  7. Maui Arrival Requirements Revealed for Visitors In 2024
  8. Attorney Michael Green sued for alleged sexual harassment
  9. 5 years and 13 delays: Mother of infant who died in babysitter’s care desperately awaits trial’s start
  10. 4 Oahu Inmates Face Manslaughter Charge In Fellow Prisoner's Death
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Thursday, December 28, 2023
December 28, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:22 PM :: 795 Views
  1. FBI Illegal Disruption of Hawaii Republicans?
  2. Bearing brunt of housing crisis, Hawaii’s youth are speaking up for the future: ‘I don’t want to leave’
  3. Food insecurity rises in Hawaii amid increasing costs
  4. DoE Names new Person to Screw up CIP Projects
  5. Public Safety Department Changes Name
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Wednesday, December 27, 2023
December 27, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:53 PM :: 899 Views
  1. State Senate Announces Leadership, Committee Assignments
  2. Hawaiʻi State Legislature Announces 2024 Legislative Timetables
  3. Kaleo Manuel to depart the Commission on Water Resource Management
  4. ‘Makes me angry’: Lahaina family marks bittersweet holiday as they prepare to leave Hawaii
  5. This Lahaina senior complex used to be a refuge. Now it’s a ‘cemetery’
  6. Businesses In Lahaina May Face Significant Barriers To Reopening
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Tuesday, December 26, 2023
December 26, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:25 PM :: 1435 Views
  1. EMS lost $33M after failing to bill patients?
  2. Hawaii slowest to recover pandemic job losses
  3. High School Teams to Compete in the 2024 Hawaiʻi LifeSmarts State Competition
  4. Maui County diverts UIPA requests to 'online portal'
  5. Maui: Unemployment drops to 6.5%
  6. “I lost it all”--Small Businesses Survive Lahaina Fires--but not aftermath
  7. Conflict Of Interest Has Clouded This Big Island Judge's Family Court Cases
  8. CD5: Will Calvin Say Run for Reelection?
  9. It’s Time To Take Meaningful Action Against Cockfighting
  10. New Database Tracks Millions In Donations And Government Funds For Maui
  11. State Hospital Workers are totally at the mercy of criminal insane ‘patients’
  12. The Insane Die on Hawaii Streets because They Are Not Forced into Treatment
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Monday, December 25, 2023
December 25, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:04 PM :: 837 Views
  1. How Christmas Came to Hawaii
  2. Find common ground to foster holiday cheer
  3. Public Corruption In The Land Of Aloha
  4. Hawai‘i County leading state in tackling housing shortage
  5. X-Mas Surprise: 27% raises for county execs
  6. Seven years since the fatal shooting at Ala Moana Center
  7. Trial in missing girl’s murder delayed
  8. Military fuel supplies could be targets in a Pacific conflict
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Sunday, December 24, 2023
December 24, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:58 PM :: 939 Views
  1. How Christmas Came to Hawaii
  2. Find common ground to foster holiday cheer
  3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted December 23, 2023
  4. Merry Wet Christmas for Honolulu BWS
  5. Hawaii's outward migration confirmed in U.S Census Bureau's report
  6. Debt: Hawaii Ranks #1
  7. The More Green Talks About Homelessness, the Less He Does
  8. Hawaii lags in preparing kids for kindergarten, state DOE report shows
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Saturday, December 23, 2023
December 23, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:44 PM :: 1535 Views
  1. State Pays Down Student Debt for 492 Medics 
  2. Telescope Removed from Mauna Kea--Will be Shipped to Chile where Science is Appreciated
  3. Soft on Crime: Kidnapper twice not arrested, he then kills victim
  4. Lahaina: Home Ownership is Key to Success
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Friday, December 22, 2023
December 22, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:57 PM :: 1433 Views
  1. Existing short-term Hawaii rentals may remain in operation, judge rules
  2. Help Maui fire victims, but not by abusing STR owners
  3. Could fixing our housing crisis really be so simple?
  4. Air Tours to be Restricted over Volcanoes National Park
  5. Ways to make it easier for private homebuilders to build more homes
  6. Long-term rental tax relief should include mixed-use properties
  7. Judge denies ex-city prosecutor’s last ditch effort to have public corruption case thrown out after lawyer indicted as co-conspirator
  8. Lawyers have a lot of work before the Miske trial starts
  9. Hannemann: “We have an opportunity to use this crisis”
  10. Maui Starts Building Temporary Landfill For Wildfire Ash And Debris
  11. With $2B in unspent construction money, schools superintendent pretends to pledge to overhaul process
  12. Fuel found in some homes on Navy water system, new EPA report finds
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Thursday, December 21, 2023
December 21, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:11 PM :: 1659 Views
  1. Mizuno Quits House to Become Homeless Czar--who will the Carpenters Union Appoint Next?
  2. Lahaina Tourism Industry Factions Fight: ILWU, UNITE HERE Demand Their Competitors be Shut Down
  3. DoE Non-Spender to Work for Senate WAM this Session
  4. Senators Grill DOE Officials For Failure To Spend Project Money Before Deadline
  5. No House Investigation into Alcos
  6. Fear: Applying The Smell Test To CWS
  7. As Lahaina burned, resort safety officer’s satellite phone proved a critical connection to outside world
  8. Mauna Kea lands on Hawaii Register of Historic Places
  9. UH Regents on Track to Pick Next Dobelle
  10. $0.329/kwh not enough?  Solar Industry Appeals
  11. HPD investigating bizarre break-in at Oahu judge's home
  12. Should Oahu Have Armed Police Officers Inside Its Schools?
  13. Large shipment of illegal fireworks seized in Honolulu
  14. Mililani Shooting Another Joseph Family Hit
  15. Convicted Child Predator Gets Manini Sentence After Long Delay In Standing Trial
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Wednesday, December 20, 2023
December 20, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:51 PM :: 1771 Views
  1. Displaced Lahaina residents will be placed in Short-Term Rentals for Years and Years to Come
  2. Hawaiian Airlines Open To Other Merger Offers
  3. Legislative Agenda: GE Tax Hike, TAT Hike, State-Run Bank
  4. Honolulu Fireworks Cases Almost Always Get Dismissed
  5. Court document: HPD brass ignored sex harassment, retaliation complaints against embattled major
  6. Police and Courts Find Way to Get DUI case dismissed against former UH football coach June Jones
  7. One Homeless Alcoholic May Move Back to Mainland
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Tuesday, December 19, 2023
December 19, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:47 PM :: 1082 Views
  1. DCCA Makes It Hard To Find Information On Political Insiders
  2. Governor looks again to climate impact fee — this time aimed at vacation rentals
  3. HPD chief says he’s ‘not aware of all the facts’ in alleged mishandling of crash involving officer
  4. Sue and Settle: Hawaii Governor Proposes Additional Funds to Pretend to Fight Youth Climate Lawsuit
  5. Hawaii Federal Court Denies Motion To Certify Covid-19 Vaccination Class Action
  6. Benioffs donate 282 acres for Self-Help Affordable Housing to Hawaii Island nonprofit
  7. FBI Busts Hilo Satanist-Anarchist on Kiddie Porn
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Monday, December 18, 2023
December 18, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:56 PM :: 948 Views
  1. Cost-free ways Hawaii can increase its housing stock
  2. Voluntary tax incentives could encourage landlords to house displaced Lahaina residents
  3. Public asked to participate in survey on next UH President
  4. Drugs Behind 50% of Traffic Fatalities
  5. Lahaina: “Impatient to move back onto the property”
  6. Lahaina: ‘We want to return to work’
  7. Hawaii State Hospital Workers Were Assaulted More Than 1,700 Times Over The Past 11 Years
  8. Another Day in the DoE: Autistic student beaten at Kailua-Kona high school, mother speaks out
  9. Corrections Panel Crumbling
  10. Is Miske somehow behind recent shooting deaths?
  11. State firework drop off doesn’t spark much interest
  12. EMS staffing shortage leaves one-third of Oahu’s rigs out of service for 12-hour period
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Sunday, December 17, 2023
December 17, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:56 PM :: 1298 Views
  1. More moving away as Hawaii dream gets costlier
  2. Millions for Fake ‘Toxic’ Cleanups but County Noncommittal as Maui developers seek subsidies to alter projects and help fire evacuees
  3. Homeless Drug News: Hepatitis epidemic hits Hawaii harder than other states
  4. ACLU Suits Could Help Expand Gigantic Festering Homeless Tent Cities
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Saturday, December 16, 2023
December 16, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:55 PM :: 1798 Views
  1. We’re #1: Hawaii has highest rates of chronic homelessness, youth without shelter
  2. Total Fail: After Closing Sole ‘Kauhale’, Green’s Homeless Coordinator Is Leaving Post
  3. More Bluster: Gov. Green again threatens moratorium on short-term rentals
  4. City measures pave way for transit, stadium development
  5. BLNR grants protesters right to occupy Coco Palms leased-land parcel--Squatters to buy land?
  6. Military concludes ‘gravity defueling’ at Red Hill -- 60,000 gallons remain
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Friday, December 15, 2023
December 15, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:00 PM :: 1296 Views
  1. Lahaina Recovery: Convicted Felon Wants Another $50M
  2. Renters Fear Unintended Consequences Of Cash Incentives To Help House Maui Fire Survivors
  3. Only 3,200 People Ride Rail on Average Weekday
  4. HART Reaches Nearly $60 Million Settlement With Rail Contractor STG--but don’t worry, it won’t impact overall price of project, LOL!
  5. Driver falsely arrested at DUI checkpoint claims statistics — not drunk drivers — motivate arrests
  6. New law enforcement department is a ‘force multiplier’ with new ‘Training Center’ in its Crosshairs
  7. Erosion: State Prohibits Homeowners from Saving Their Homes--State may get land ‘donated’
  8. As deep-sea mining ship arrives in Honolulu, Hawaiians and environmentalists speak out
  9. ACLU Helps Maui Meth-heads Stay on Beach
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Thursday, December 14, 2023
December 14, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:22 PM :: 3282 Views
  1. Hawaii Democrats New Interim Chairman Supported Primary Candidate Against Speaker Saiki
  2. Kauai: Eco Lawyers Block Green Energy Project
  3. Hawaii Traffic Fatalities Down from 2022
  4. Mafia News: Miske’s Lawyer Takes over Law Practice of New Supreme Court Justice
  5. CNHA News: HTA Gets Hannemann After Grifters Rampage Leaves them Without Budget
  6. For Maui wildfire survivors seeking long-term housing, a new concern: Scammers
  7. Sheriff’s Top Training Officer with fake Credentials arrested for DUI late Tuesday night
  8. Maui County moves towards settlement in lawsuit alleging ‘kidnapping’ of officer under former MPD chief
  9. Gun safety, concealed carry permits highlighted in West Oahu town hall
  10. Nurses Union: Healthcare Shortage helps us get Better Contract
  11. Ambulance services --new RFP Coming Soon
  12. Nearly 600 EBT cardholders in Hawaii victimized by fraud
  13. Hawaiian Airlines Workers Denied Class Status in Covid Vax Suit
  14. Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Top-Secret Hawaii Compound
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Wednesday, December 13, 2023
December 13, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:12 PM :: 1212 Views
  1. Four Months Later: Final Group of Homeowners Allowed to Reenter Burn Zone
  2. $1B Ala Wai flood mitigation plan faces harsh criticism
  3. Military Land Leases: OHA Insiders Smell the Money
  4. Maui Fire Victims Fight To Keep Lawsuits On Maui
  5. Hotel metrics a mixed bag after tourism reopened in West Maui
  6. Mayor: Credibility of HPD ‘on the line’ as officers are being investigated for mishandling crash probe
  7. Spike in violent crime involving youth triggers after-hours security concerns for school campuses
  8. Hawaii’s first homeless ‘medical respite’ site closing, never to be rebuilt
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Tuesday, December 12, 2023
December 12, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:29 PM :: 1267 Views
  1. Swastikas Cover 10 Miles of H1 Freeway--Eleven Hawaii Jewish Sites Targeted with Bomb Threat
  2. Fire Destroyed This California Town's Water System. But That Didn't Slow The Effort To Rebuild
  3. Law enforcement: Illegal fireworks sales are fueling organized crime
  4. Puna standoff suspect out on bail, under indictment
  5. Prosecutors In Keith Kaneshiro Case Did Not Step Over The Line, Judge Rules
  6. Honolulu Homeowners: Property Assessments Are Coming Soon
  7. City Ends Contract With Private Security Company Hired To Help HPD Make Waikiki Safer 
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Monday, December 11, 2023
December 11, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:45 PM :: 1494 Views
  1. The Adults are the Cheaters: Hawaii Teachers Learning how to use AI to Fake Student Success
  2. Wildfires: Sonoma County Achieves 98% rebuild-- What About Lahaina?
  3. Water Rate Hikes: Why didn’t Green Speak up BEFORE they were approved?
  4. Lahaina school replacement 2-3 months away
  5. Scare Tactics: Toxic elements found in collected ash last month from Lahaina fire
  6. Maui looking at up to $100K for ohana unit construction
  7. Ordinary Citizens Can Get Laws Passed In Hawaii. Here's How
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Sunday, December 10, 2023
December 10, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:59 PM :: 2998 Views
  1. Anti-Semitic Hawaii ‘Peace’ Activists tied to Hamas, Iran, China
  2. The Two Gorillas Still Menace the Budget
  3. Why Hawaii costs so much — and what we can do about it
  4. More craziness caused by 1886 maritime law
  5. Support Victims of Condo Board Retaliation
  6. Empowering Food Entrepreneurs: Education, Policy Changes Needed
  7. The easiest way to increase tax revenues
  8. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted December 9, 2023
  9. 18 Years and Still not fixed: Reflecting Pool is DAGS Aloha Stadium Preview
  10. More Housing?  Gov. Green’s 1st year ends with less
  11. Thousands are leaving Hawaii. 7th Year in a Row.
  12. Will Maui wildfire litigation overwhelm courts?
  13. Vacancies In State Child Welfare Services Jobs Reach Their Highest Point In Over A Decade
  14. Miske: The evidence keeps piling up
  15. Email Threat To Jewish Temples In Hawaii Heightens Security Fears
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Saturday, December 9, 2023
December 9, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:41 PM :: 919 Views
  1. $83M Short: CNHA Program to convert vacation rentals to fire evacuee housing leads to high costs, profiteering
  2. With claims that elderly residents were abandoned, fire survivors prepare to file lawsuit
  3. Maui mayor’s enhanced security detail could be paid for using federal, wildfire fund
  4. Judge Refuses to Consider DNA evidence in 1978 Murder-Rape
  5. New Maui water diversion permit approved
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Friday, December 8, 2023
December 8, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:01 PM :: 2076 Views
  1. Toxins? What Toxins? Maui Air Monitoring and Sampling Shows Good Air Quality
  2. There's No Going Back To Lahaina For This Family
  3. Lease Expiration is Opportunity to Grift Money from DoD
  4. Drunk Cop lied after crash that seriously injured motorcyclist
  5. 2 HPD Officers Disciplined For Working An Unauthorized Side Job On The Clock
  6. School facilities executive departs after half-billion dollar in projects due to lapse
  7. DOE: 15 schools fire alarm non-functional--wants $41M
  8. Mitchel Miyashiro, charged in teen's hit-and-run death, turns himself in
  9. New law streamlines building permit process 
  10. Hawaii Lobbyist Pleads Guilty To Illegal Drug Possession At Vet Clinic
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Thursday, December 7, 2023
December 7, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 11:21 AM :: 1079 Views
  1. Forgotten Honouliuli: Jack Burns, Police Spy
  2. Bribe-Payers OK to keep Working: DPP building permits bill advances without criminal punishment parts
  3. DHHL in no Hurry to Build Lahaina Burn Zone Project
  4. Possible Scenarios For Hawaii's Republican Presidential Caucus
  5. Pay raise, expanded evaluation proposed for state schools chief
  6. Hawaiian Electric seeks federal trial amid dozens of Maui wildfire lawsuits
  7. Hawaiian Electric RFP Winners Are Currently Secret
  8. Despite previous settlement, city tries to deny liability in near-fatal crash involving 4 officers
  9. Hawaii Co PD detective pleads not guilty
  10. HPD: West Side down to only 14 Illegal Game Rooms--but they’ll be back
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Wednesday, December 6, 2023
December 6, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:41 PM :: 2069 Views
  1. Hilo Police Detective Arrested for Perjury and Tampering With a Government Record
  2. Trump Campaign Bulks up Hawaii Operations
  3. Green Speech Marks First year in Office
  4. Honolulu’s Building Permit Delays: A ‘Nightmare’ Decades In The Making
  5. Search for next UH president becoming a battle for control
  6. The DOE Is Giving Up $465M In School Construction Funds. What Happened?
  7. Man with 164 citations charged in hit-and-run death of McKinley student
  8. Maui’s mayor pitches tax incentive bill aimed at getting evacuees into vacation rentals, but not everyone is on board
  9. HOOSER: Hawaii Dems 2nd in USA to pass ‘cease-fire’ resolution
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Tuesday, December 5, 2023
December 5, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:43 PM :: 1790 Views
  1. Miske properties targeted for forfeiture by the government
  2. No Joke: 2043 is new Target date for Completion of New Aloha Stadium Entertainment District
  3. Tax Hikes Coming: Green, Legislators Vaporize $3.5B--want more
  4. Lahaina: “It’s gonna take six months to a year to remove the debris”
  5. State, feds offer $75M to reopen Halawa Shaft
  6. Hawaii BoE to Evaluate Hayashi Secretly?
  7. From Bad To Worse: Honolulu Airport Woes To Be Prolonged
  8. Study: Hilo had 20.2% decline in brick-and-mortar retailers from 2011 to 2021
  9. How A Hawaii Kai Community Ended Up Owing $38,000 In Delinquent Property Taxes
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Monday, December 4, 2023
December 4, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:16 PM :: 943 Views
  1. Alaska Airlines Buys Hawaiian Air for $1.9B
  2. Two types of corruption fuel cronyism in Hawaii — illegal and legal
  3. Hawaii to join more medical licensure compacts?
  4. Kaneohe: Navy Floats P8 Poseidon, Plans to Restore it to Service
  5. Hawaii governor’s emergency housing panel resumes work
  6. Our Insurance Crisis Is About To Get Much Worse
  7. Hawaii Charter Schools Say Test Scores Don’t Tell The Whole Story

 

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Sunday, December 3, 2023
December 3, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:24 PM :: 1713 Views
  1. Eight Candidates on Ballot for Hawaii Republican Presidential Caucus
  2. Population: Still Losing
  3. Use carrots, not sticks, to help Maui fire victims
  4. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted December 2, 2023
  5. Notice of Anticipated Judicial Vacancy – Chief Judge, Intermediate Court of Appeals
  6. Hawaii has the highest electricity prices in the U.S.
  7. Accounts in Distress? Hawaii Ranks 5th in USA
  8. A New Day for Hawaiian Homelands: Collaboration Between OHA and DHHL
  9. Lawsuit Targets Lawyer: Navatek Looted to buy Condo, House
  10. Honolulu City Council anti-bribery bill fades in committee
  11. Bill 131: Tax Incentives to Convert STR to House Lahaina fire Victims
  12. Japanese Travelers Are Steering Clear Of Hawaii
  13. Maui Is Still Searching For Someone To Lead Its Emergency Management Agency
  14. Volunteer firefighter sues Hawaii County
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Saturday, December 2, 2023
December 2, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:25 PM :: 3995 Views
  1. Message to Tourists: ”The blood is on your hands”
  2. Local parents express vaccine support amidst recent Hawaii kindergartner exemption increases
  3. Following council vote, Maui’s former emergency head may have to pay his own legal fees
  4. Restaurants Go Cashless as Thieves hit multiple Moanalua Shopping Center businesses
  5. Joseph News -- Feds Bust Another: Man allegedly bought 100 pounds of drugs from undercover agents
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Friday, December 1, 2023
December 1, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:14 PM :: 1362 Views
  1. After Four Months of ‘Toxic’ Hysteria--the Rains come to Lahaina and … nothing happens
  2. Lahaina Fire: 72 Lawsuits Against Hawaiian Electric
  3. Several Maui hotel contracts with Red Cross ending this week, aid agency says
  4. In win for activists, military says it will permanently end live-fire training at Makua Valley
  5. Surf schools granted restraining order on lottery
  6. Incomplete police report, differing accounts: ‘Red flags’ questioned in crash involving HPD officer
  7. Pilgrims yearn to visit an isolated peninsula where Catholic saints cared for Hawaii's leprosy patients
  8. Homeless Outreach Team Gets One Person off streets every two weeks
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Thursday, November 30, 2023
November 30, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:36 PM :: 3376 Views
  1. HPD Finally Fires One Cop--the One Who Arrested Michael Miske 
  2. Maui County Housing Solution?  A Tax Increase, of Course
  3. Short Term Rental Taxes Already High
  4. Waianae SD22: A Hand-Me-Down Senate Seat
  5. Hawaii state Capitol soaked due to leaking reflecting pool
  6. DPS Boycotting Prison Oversight Committee
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Wednesday, November 29, 2023
November 29, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:33 PM :: 1075 Views
  1. Red Hill Water Initiative Releases Final Report
  2. Navy Notifies Regulators of Groundwater PFAS Detection
  3. Hawaii Republicans Improve Party Finances
  4. Waianae Two Open Seats: Shimabukuro will not seek Reelection, Endorses Gates
  5. Hawaii Governor Wants To Entice Maui Property Owners To Rent To Fire Victims
  6. Honolulu BWS's decision to increase water rates sparks outcry from residents
  7. HART Talking Up Rail extension to UH, Kahala Mall
  8. First Major Rains Of Wet Season May Test Runoff Measures In Lahaina
  9. Retirement savings program unlikely to start before 2025
  10. ‘We’re Winging It Right Now’: Hawaii State Hospital Struggles Despite $160M Upgrade
  11. Special Education Teacher Accused In Sexual Abuse Case
  12. New trial date set for officers charged in 2021 Makaha crash
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Tuesday, November 28, 2023
November 28, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:41 PM :: 1367 Views
  1. CBS: Maui County Uncooperative with Fire Investigation
  2. Fire: AG Subpoenas Maui County Officials
  3. Special Master: Presiding Judge Had ‘100s of Pages of Disqualifying Information’ in Kalua Case
  4. DLNR: Demolition of Uncle Billy's Hotel Begins Today
  5. HECO Evening Rates to Double under 'Shift and Save' Scheme
  6. Feds ending 9 year boycott of Honolulu Rail payments?
  7. Honolulu Board of Water Supply adopts rate hike of over 50%
  8. Hawaiian Electric Tries to  Quash Subpoena of Wildfire Whistleblower
  9. HECOs Fire Management Plan Bypasses Public Scrutiny
  10. Expand interstate licensure compacts
  11. Minimum wage to get boost: Hourly rate will rise to $14 in January under 2022 law
  12. Smuggling Illegal Fireworks Thru OCCC--Jail Guard Finally Quits
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Monday, November 27, 2023
November 27, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:54 PM :: 1230 Views
  1. "500 Mines Needed" to Make Green Energy Possible
  2. How High Are State and Local Tax Collections in Your State?
  3. Coverup: CWS Gives baby to Schizophrenic Drug Addict--Baby ‘Drowns’
  4. Stats Show Hawaii Lunatics Are Very Violent
  5. Homeless Drug Addicts Stab two at Makaha Beach
  6. Water Board to vote on rate hike of over 50%
  7. Attorneys say Miske not involved in 2016 home invasion robbery in Kaneohe
  8. Aquarium fishing ban sought: Groups urge DLNR to draft new rules
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Sunday, November 26, 2023
November 26, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:46 PM :: 1111 Views
  1. Latest plan for Ala Wai flood control boondoggle reaches $1B
  2. Top Leadership Of Hawaii School System Continues To Grow — And So Does Their Pay
  3. Isles’ road to president election starts with parties
  4. Editorial: State’s budget priorities: Maui, and much more
  5. Ethics: Legislators Could Change Their Own Rules--But Don’t
  6. Will Hawaii Ethics Commission Increase Oversight Of Judges?
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Saturday, November 25, 2023
November 25, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:24 PM :: 932 Views
  1. Public comment open on Ala Wai Flood Risk Management Study
  2. UH Assessing Hawaiʻi’s Geothermal Potential
  3. Pinata: Unions Grab for $80M leftover COVID funds
  4. Near-fatal stabbing just the latest in a string of homeless drug addicts’ crimes at Kapolei park
  5. County of Kaua‘i aims to recoup search and rescue costs
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Friday, November 24, 2023
November 24, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:26 PM :: 1165 Views
  1. For Rail to Work, All we have to do is force 85% of the public to give up their cars
  2. Toxic Hysteria: Chemophobia campaign scaring Lahaina residents Away
  3. Maui fire relief -- 575 families had been placed in housing
  4. ‘Bad actor’ nurseries targeted by officials over little fire ant infestations
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Thursday, November 23, 2023
November 23, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:35 PM :: 2442 Views
  1. Suuurrrprise! New Supreme Court Justice Devens Concealed his role as Carpenters Union Operative
  2. Hawaii Will Be Stuck With Its Outdated Unemployment System At Least 3 More Years
  3. Small chance Hawaii residents move home after fires: Gov. Green
  4. Data: Thousands of Hawaii residents continue to migrate to other states
  5. West Maui vacation rentals plunged in October
  6. Hawaii’s law enforcement community opposes attorney general’s plan to legalize use of marijuana
  7. "We Want to Get To The Root of It" | HPD shifts strategy to address sex trade in Honolulu
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Wednesday, November 22, 2023
November 22, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:09 PM :: 2305 Views
  1. Confirmed: Union Lawyer Appointed to Supreme Court
  2. BWS files $1.2 billion claim over Red Hill damages
  3. DOBOR: We Knew Surf School Bidding Was Rigged
  4. Hawaii Most Expensive Turkey in USA
  5. Green Socks are Expensive: $40M 'Stormwater Capture System' for Lahaina
  6. The hidden story of the third Thanksgiving: 1623--giving thanks for freedom
  7. Alleged Miske links to North Shore gangs
  8. Hawaii lobbyist wants her DEA statements suppressed
  9. Critics incensed as Navy continues to pump 5M gallons of water into Halawa Stream daily
  10. CNHA Behind Scheme to Seize Condotels, Boost ILWU Controlled Hotels
  11. More Money for CNHA: Lawmakers Discuss Draft Report On Maui Business And Jobs Recovery
  12. Maui Wildfire Lawyers Try To ‘Manage The Unmanageable’
  13. Crews fixing numerous leaks at Hawaii State Capitol
  14. Hawaii State Hospital records show murder suspect Tommy Carvalho posed serious threat before his discharge
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