1. There’s still time to counter higher property taxes
2. Full Text: 2023 State of the Judiciary Address
3. Feds May Seek Change of Venue: After Drug Bust, Lawyer Otake Met Miske, Malone in Parking Lot
4. Renters suffer when Hawaii property assessments increase
5. 1,300 Jobs Culled At Largest Hawaii Vacation Rental: Shocks Industry
6. Revising ‘outdated’ law to curb Hawaii emergency powers       
7. Ex-HPD chief Ballard takes stand in defamation trial, blames misquoted online news article
8. Authorities arrest former prison guard accused of sexually abusing inmates
9. Cost Comparison of Hawaii Solar Projects
10. MEO clears disputed site of future housing project in Waiehu
11. Oahu aims to clear blocked sidewalks near schools

1. Preventing the Next Foster Care Disaster--Bills Mandate Court-Appointed Attorneys for Biological Parents
2. Schweitzer Exonerated of Dana Ireland Murder After 25 Years
3. Could this be a good year at the Hawaii Legislature?
4. 30 Years Later: Will Court Toss Out $150M Grift Against Bank of America?
5. Hawaiian Electric issues call for projects to significantly expand renewable energy generation on Oahu, Maui
6. US Department of Justice Orders Handi-Van to Answer Phones, Book Rides
7. Feds: Female Guard Gave Miske associate access to cell phone, drugs while detained at OCCC
8. DoE Enrollment will Soon be at 65-Year Low
9. Hawaii legislators want to expand program to keep drug dealers out of jail if they act crazy 
10. New Park Rangers to Hunt down small businesses
11. Former Kamehameha Schools CEO appointed as new interim leadership for Bishop Museum
12. Hawaii had a total of 1,440 millionaires in 2020
13. Eco-Religion Children's’ Crusade to be tossed out of Court?

1. Green's State of the State: What's to like?
2. Green Signs Homeless Emergency Proclamation
3. December Unemployment 3.2%
4. Proposed Hawaii State Privacy Laws
5. Hawaii ranked as most expensive state to buy eggs
6. Kouchi: Tax Cuts are Dead on Arrival, but we’ll make it look good
7. Attorney General launches cover-up of illegal fireworks delivery to Guards at Oahu jail
8. Decision forthcoming to fill 2 state House vacancies
9. Don’t be a Fool: Hydrogen is Just Oil Company Greenwashing
10. Hawaii Lawmakers Seek Shields Against Supreme Court Rulings On Abortion, Guns
11. HSTA-Owned Legislators Plan to Kill Preschool Plan by Requiring Fully Credentialed Teachers
12. 3 decades after Dana Ireland’s murder, innocence project attorneys ask judge to vacate conviction
13. Statewide four year delay to receive birth and death certificates

1. VIDEO: State of the State Address
2. Supreme Court: Election Officials moved office furniture instead of ‘curing’ hundreds of invalidated ballots
3. HB132 Would Eliminate Election Auditing
4. U.S. Marine runs toward gunfire, applies lifesaving aid in Waikiki shooting
5. Perruso: Republicans Will Take Wahiawa if Dems Don’t Pretend to Clean up Corruption
6. Experts: Hawaii’s economy poised to slow down ‘significantly’
7. School Choice Week: Our keiki deserve an education fitting their unique needs
8. State Regulators Gratuitously Orders Shut Down of Octopus Farm
9. Hawaii Highways Closed For Accidents, Infuriating Residents and Visitors

HB132 Would Eliminate Election Auditing

1. Should We Lower Taxes?
2. Hawaii AG Backs NY Gun Control Laws
3. Feds award Hawaii $15.8 million to offset COFA costs
4. Hawaii has the most honest guns in USA
5. 2023 Hawaii Gun Law Tracker
6. Counties with the most emergency shelters in Hawaii
7. Hawaii #1 for multigenerational households
8. Census: For First Time, Majority of Native Hawaiians live outside of Hawaii 
9. Calvin Say: What I said before about HGEA Fraudulently Boosting Assessments to Line their own pockets is …uh… ‘Ridiculous’
10. Will Legislators Finally Abolish HTA This Session?
11. Will HSTA Kill Pre-K Again?
12. Local Government Was No Sure Thing In Hawaii — Until Prince Kuhio Got Involved
13. Miske trial could take as long as five months
14. Tiny Coolant Leak on Mauna Kea Should Spark Another Wave of Activist Histrionics
15. Hawai‘i kupuna watchdog head says program in need of expansion
16. Sales of Delta-8 THC go on in Hawaii amid murky legal status

1. Elderly Tourists Forced off Road to Hana, Stranded for Hours
2. Bribery and Fraud: ‘The Public is Angry’
3. Perfectly Good Telescope to be Removed from Maunakea--Will be Installed at Chilean University where Science is Valued
4. HART to Open ‘Mid-2023’?
5. DHHL Spending delayed by State’s Grab for $412M COVID Money?
6. State’s highest court rules incumbent Maui councilmember won seat in key race
7. Federal Judge Grants Broad Order Protecting A Honolulu Reporter
8. ‘Just like Marco Polo’: 77-year-old man killed in large blaze at Aiea highrise
9. Medical clinic for homeless at Punawai opens for patients

1. Who is Running for Neighborhood Board in Your Community?
2. City accepting applications for Chief of Treasury
3. Kauai Democrats Nominate Replacements for Rep Tokioka HD16
4. Corruption at every level: Why I left Hawaii
5. Sister Isles Among Worst Doctor Shortage in USA
6. Slashing tax rates best way to offset higher property assessments
7. John Waihee’s Favorite Trump-era influence peddler sentenced to prison
8. DoE Names Four New Complex Superintendents
9. BLS: Hawaii Most Unionized State in USA
10. National coalition including Hawaii legislators urges states to enact 'wealth' taxes
11. Gov. Josh Green Blocks New Jail: Says We Need to Let Lots and Lots of Criminals Back out onto the Streets
12. Alm: Prosecutors will Stop Asking HPA to Deny Parole to ‘Heinous’ Criminals
13. Hawaii Paroling Authority Releasing Lots of Criminals Early--Especially the Crazy Ones
14. Hawaii’s homeless criminals take a toll on local restaurants
15. Homeless Village Planned Next to Existing Meth Camp Across from Middle Street Bus Terminal
16. Hawaii Visitor $50 “Green” Fees ‘Dead on Arrival’
17. ‘It’s Horrendous’: The Deaths Of 2 Doctors Deepen The Void In Rural Health Care Access
18. State’s highest court considers call for new election in key Maui Council race
19. DPP Claims Wait Time reduced to Four Weeks
20. Traffic violators owe Hawaii taxpayers tens of millions in unpaid fines, records show
21. Officials warn of more traffic during Honolulu rail work
22. Hawaii House GOP: Government Reform Is A Priority
23. Senate GOP: Brenton Awa Admits he is an Idiot

1. Coast Guard Tracking Two Russian Vessels off Hawaiian Coast--one towing the other
2. Palau, Marshall Islands Sign MOU to Extend Compact of Free Association
3. ODC: Green Energy Lawyer Paid Kickback to get $1000/hour legal fees
4. Four Hawaii Correctional Officers Sentenced for Abusing Inmate and Conspiring to Cover Up Abuse
5. A lively conversation about the Jones Act, pro and con
6. Let the sun shine in
7. Opening Day: Former Chief Investigator Sues Hawaii Attorney General’s Office for Refusing to Prosecute Corruption
8. Opening Day: John Waihee’s Favorite Trump-era influence peddler sentenced to prison
9. Opening Day: Ex-Navatek CEO Pleads Not Guilty To Mortgage Fraud In Hawaii
10. Opening Day: Miske Lawyer Still on the Case--For Now
11. Hawaii Gov Signals He'll Sign Ethics Reform Bills--But Only if They Land On His Desk
12. Bill: 100% Tax on Home Price Increase
13. Bill: 25% TAT on Short Term Rentals
14. Senate Bill 125 would increase the “tip credit” amount to match 20% of the Hawaii minimum wage
15. Opening Day: Makaha Beach Thug Interrupts Speaker’s Remarks--“You guys talking about money--We First”
16. Water Board Says EPA is Slowing Red Hill Shutdown
17. Over 400 citations issued from Oahu red light cameras
18. Suit against Boy Scouts: ‘Pattern of failures’ led to fatal shooting of 11-year-old at Hawaii campsite
19. HB64: Confiscating Guns
20. Rich Liberal Democrats support affordable housing in principle but go all NIMBY when it comes to their own neighborhoods
21. HSTA News: Former Waimea Teacher Victor Aguilar sentenced for sexual assault
22. Ex-airline worker indicted in COVID fraud

1. Hawaii Families Seek to Boost Awareness of K-12 Options During School Choice Week
2. Opening Day for 2023 Legislature
3. Hawaii targets housing reform as Legislature returns
4. Green Names New Disaster Advisor and HI-EMA Administrator
5. Daniel Nāhoʻopiʻi Named Hawai‘i Tourism Authority Chief Administrative Officer 
6. Lawmakers Rushing To Hold Last-Minute Fundraisers Before Session Begins
7. Honolulu Permitting Inspector OK’d His Own Company’s Projects
8. A new witness for the prosecution appears to have created conflict of interest for Miske’s lead attorney
9. Will Anderson ‘Blowup’ $600 Million DHHL Spending Plan?
10. A year after construction wrapped up, red tape keeps city’s $17M housing project for the homeless empty
11. Maui Medical center’s patient census seasonally high
12. Ron Menor, longtime Hawaii politician, dies at 67
13. Hawaii gas price average finally below $5, but still higher than national trend

1. Hawaii Worst State to Drive In
2. How to fix Hawaii's SLOW permitting departments
3. The COVID Emergency Lives on in Food Stamps
4. House Democrats Outline Top Priorities for 2023 Session
5. News media turn a blind eye to attorney misdeeds
6. Hawaii's Zoning Laws Are A Self-Inflicted Wound. It's Hurting Our Housing
7. Green’s $100M Climate Fund based on Unconstitutional State Visitor Impact Fee
8. State to unveil ambitious preschool plan for Hawaii (again)
9. After 5 years in court, North Shore killing brings call for tougher murder law
10. Hawaii bill proposed to offer backpay to those terminated over vaccine mandates
11. Hawaii Renewable Energy Projects Are Back On Track After Chinese Companies Reroute Solar Panels Thru SE Asia to Evade Biden Administration Slavery Sanctions
12. Hawaii needle exchanges at record high--1.23M
13. Eternal Flame for Hawaii’s veterans burns again

1. 1959: Martin Luther King Jr Salutes Hawaii Statehood
2. Searching for a Side Job? In Hawaii you've got lots of company
3. Hawaii Smoking Costs $3.5M Over Lifetime
4. Transparency by Executive Order? Gov Green responds
5. How to avert the looming property tax crisis
6. Hawaii isn't the only place where homebuilding is virtually impossible
7. Legislators ‘Rough Up’ Ikaika Anderson, Prepare to reject Appointment
8. When the Legislature passed the Sunshine Law it exempted itself
9. Sen. Gabbard to push for Green Amendment
10. Red Hill task force takes full control of ‘all activities’ at Site
11. Will Council Vote to Clear Knife-Wielding Homeless Drug Addicts from School Grounds?
12. Captain Cook fire station illegally renamed without public input

1. More Temporary Tax Fixes Considered
2. Criminal Conspiracy behind Property Assessment Hikes
3. Only Republicans Support Tax Cuts
4. Hawaii Is Where People Spend The Most On Rent --42% of Income
5. Lawmakers not enthused about changing the way business is done at the Legislature
6. Saiki: Green’s $100M Climate Initiative DOA
7. DHHL Will Soon Have Three Plans to Spend $600M--Therefore the money will elapse unspent
8. More upgrades needed at State Hospital to handle demand for mental health services
9. Department of Health no longer wants 2 Oahu hospitals
10. Molokai health center closing, leaving a big hole in medical care on the 'friendly isle'
11. 456 Catch-n-Release Arrests in Waikiki, 575 Arrests in Chinatown do nothing to reduce Crime--Time to Call in National Guard?

1. Prioritizing lists
2. Kihei: Opening of Kūlanihākoʻi High School campus delayed
3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 14, 2023
4. Kuilei Place ‘Affordable’ Units Cost $800K
5. A loaf of bread for $10.99? Inflation might be easing but sticker shock is still real
6. 2 Miske Lawyers could be disqualified over Forged Character References  
7. Is MMA star BJ Penn running for something? It sure looks that way
8. Maui Lawmakers Wishy-Washy on Tax Cuts
9. Disused since 2007, Air Force Lease of DHHL Land on Molokai Finally Expires
10. Parking meter snafu totally avoidable

1. GE Tax: Audit Shows Tourists Pay 14.1%--not 30%
2. HD37 Nominees to Replace Yamane: Ron Menor, Charlotte Nekota, Trish LaChica
3. Secret Report by Secret Author Used to Expel Top Execs of Bishop Museum
4. Soft on Crime: Man charged with attacking elderly woman in her home had murder conviction overturned on Technicality
5. Sen Favella: Shut Down UH Manoa
6. DPP Finally Processes Building Permit 5 Months After Chick-fil-a Opens
7. 99% of Medicated Dopers Say its for uh … ‘Pain’ or uh … ‘PTSD’

1.  Sovereignty Lawyer Dexter Kaiama Law License Suspended by Supreme Court
2. City accepting resumes for Executive Director, Office of Housing and Homelessness
3. Blangiardi will not cut Property Tax Rates
4. Honolulu Hale Keeps Stealing State Appointees To Keep HART Board Non-Functional--AG Refuses to Issue Opinion on Legality
5. Green proposes first biennial operating budget, says Homeless cost $80K per bum per year
6. Bill aims at minimum wage tip credits for Hawaii service workers 
7. Commission Fines Cayetano Campaign, Super PAC Over anti-Green Attack Ads 
8. Military housing rent hikes taking a toll on residents 
9. Kihei school missing legal requirement to open campus 
10. Victorino Vetoed Maui Historical Rules on last Day in Office  

1. Applicants Sought for Hawaiʻi Elections Commission 
2. Feds Collect $2M in Fines
3. Sneaky Oahu Democrats Meeting to Nominate Replacements for Rep Yamane HD37
4. Judiciary Uses ‘Prosecutorial Misconduct’ as Excuse to let 24 Gangsters Escape Justice--Now They Want to Go Further
5. Green Goes Wobbly on GE Tax Cuts
6. “I am so pissed off”--Carpenters Union Operative Ikaika Anderson Bumbles Through Senate Hearing
7. Former Maui senator (and cocaine dealer) has paid $75,000 of his $100,000 fine
8. Death Penalty Phase Begins For USO ‘Enforcer’ In Arizona
9. ‘USO Family’ inmate facing repeal of probation after Auto Break-ins at Makapuu Point
10. Hawaii Hospital Giant Reaches Tentative Deal With Nurses
11. DOE slow to assess schools’ vulnerabilities to violence
12. Crew members, air ambulance wreckage recovered from ocean

1. Another 'Clean Elections' Bill Introduced
2. 2022: Hawaii Had Largest Increase in Energy Costs
3. Mizuno, Holt Bill Would Legalize Gambling Parlors and restrict ownership to local criminals
4. Mainland Criminal Shot in Waikiki: Found not guilty in attempted murder case but foolishly did not leave Hawaii--now HPD Shows Little Interest in Catching Vigilantes
5. New Preschools Designed to Fail: DoE Assigns only Three People to Spend $200M
6. Hawaii Gov. Josh Green pledges $100M to line global warmers pockets
7. Handi-Van Delivers Dude with Firebomb to FBI HQ in Kapolei

1. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 7, 2023
2. Akina recaps victories, disappointments of 2022; is optimistic about 2023
3. Green tells HSTA he will propose new $500 teacher tax credit
4. $100M Affordable Housing Scam: HCDA to discount 501 Kakaako affordable housing units to insiders’ profitable nonprofits for a quick flip
5. Capitol gradually reopens with ‘hybrid environment’
6. Hawaii Increasing State-Leased Office Space
7. Reconsider The GET
8. Another Year, Another Gambling Bill
9. TMT environmental review delayed by voluminous comments
10. HMC overcrowding project: $50 million expansion would add 55 beds
11. Only a fraction of cemeteries on the island are licensed by the state and not all have a perpetual care fund

1. Hawaii Grade 'C' on Low Income School Funding Fairness
2. Most Expensive US Cities -- Honolulu 5th
3. Hawaii AG Asks Court to Allow Sex-Change 'Education' of 3rd-Graders
4. Tax Word Find
5. City Planning to INCREASE Property Tax Rates to Pay for Fattened HGEA, UPW, SHOPO Contracts
6. HGEA Job trust killing Sister Isle Health Care: Hefty subsidies continue for Hawaii’s state-run hospitals
7. Tracking Government Reform Proposals In Hawaii
8. What is Ron Kouchi’s Darkest Secret?
9. Kahele: A relatively new political face who just couldn’t put it all together
10. Kawika Crowley, Republican Congressional Nominee, Commits Suicide in Hilo