1. Hawaii Tax Structure Uniquely Anti-Manufacturing
2. Police Impersonators Attack OHA Offices, Most Escape Scot-free
3. $10 Maui Oceanfront Parcel? Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Case
4. OHA’s Own Audit Is Being Blocked — By People At OHA
5. State Unemployment Rate Increasing
6. Old general excise tax hike resurfaces on Hawaii County council agenda
7. Climate Change DLNR’s Latest Excuse for More Money—Going for Millions
8. Rail Project Director Doesn’t Fully Meet Expectations — But Still Gets A Bonus
9. City, Kealohas battle over secrecy of ethics investigation evidence
10. Businessman charged with bribing state workers to land $2.5M contract
11. School Board votes to extend Superintendent's contract
12. Not too late for Big Isle to lead way on vacation rentals
13. Maui Taxis Picket Airport Against Uber/Lyft

1. Ige Sends McCartney to DBEDT, Fuchigami now Chief of Staff
2. Math Goes PC: First-in-the-world UH ethnomathematics program approved by Hawaiʻi Teacher Standards Board
3. Honolulu, Maui Among Least Affordable Rental Markets
4. 'The untouchables: Out-of-control prosecutors and the system that protects them'
5. Will Feds Target Caldwell Next?
6. State Senate president: The time is now to prepare for a recession in 2020
7. Ige Lame Excuse:  Claims Old Tech an Obstacle to Zero Based Budgeting
8. Kealoha Lawyer Attempts to Exploit Government Shutdown to Delay Case
9. Recount?  City Lawyer Challenged on Conflict of Interest
10. Councilmember Kobayashi continues to question Hawaii Supreme Court recount case
11. Charles Djou’s Self-Serving Electoral Reform Idea
12. Government shutdown holding up recovery funds for lava-ravaged Big Island communities
13. Activist Gets Himself Arrested to Push for Hawaiian language policing
14. 578 Homeless Visit ‘Rest Stop’ in First Week
15. Failed Ocean cleanup device heading to Hilo

1. Ed Case: "I'm an Asian Trapped in a White Body"
2. UPDATE: Ige Sends McCartney to DBEDT, Fuchigami Chief of Staff
3. Opening Day Speech: What is a Loyal Opposition?
4. Opening Day: Be an Effective Citizen-Activist
5. Harassed by Drugged-out Shelter–Refusers, Iolani Palace to close earlier—Children’s Center may Shut Down
6. DoH Reports 23,479 Medicated Dopers Statewide
7. Racial Progress? Hawaii 2nd-Worst Health Disparities
8. Ige Announces More Second Tier Appointments
9. DoE Keeping Child-Molester Teacher Records Secret
10. Contract Reopeners: More Raises on Tap for Public Employee Unions
11. Bad News: The Hawaii State Legislature to open Today
12. Hawaii Carbon Tax --- Coal, Oil, Plastic, and Greenhouse Gases
13. Lawmaker wants to replace Presidents Day with Hawaiian Independence Day
14. Revote possible in contested Honolulu City Council race
15. Supreme Court questions process of mail-in ballot collection
16. Election Recounts, Vote by Mail Back on Legislative Agenda
17. Campbell High gets funds to begin planning a much needed athletic facility
18. Overrun by Homeless Shelter-Refusers, Children’s Discovery Center to be Closed
19. How EPA Forced Hawaii to Stop Covering up Dirty Water  
20. Microsoft Censors News at Hawaii Public Libraries
21. Democrats Plant all their Problem Children on House Financial Services Committee
22. Tulsi Gabbard’s presidential fantasy: “A remarkably bad launch”

1. Caldwell Coverup: Mayor Hid Target Letter from Public--Feds Raid Fasi Building
2. Audit: HART Board Hands Control to Contractor with Little Oversight
3. FCC Slaps Down Sandwich Isles Again--Orders Company to Continue Serving Customers
4. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 14, 2019
5. DCCA: Shop and Compare Insurance Options
6. Ige Announces More HDoT Appointments
7. Ige Appoints Three to Board of Regents
8. Irwin to be UH Hilo Chancellor?
9. Hawaii Student Loan Debt Doubles in Decade
10. Senators: Some Cabinet Nominees Won’t Make It
11. Honolulu Will Pay Train Maker $160 Million To Cover Rail Delays
12. Carbon Tax Hustle: Rail Promoter Keynotes State Climate Change Confab
13. Hawaii Climate Conference: To Carbon Tax or Not to Carbon Tax
14. AG Opinion Will Lead to More County GE Tax Hikes
15.  Honolulu City Council chooses interim chairwoman
16. Can Pre-K Help DoE Evade Responsibility for Poor Test Scores?
17. Son sentenced for killing and dismembering mom in Waikiki –Plans Already Afoot to Let Him Out
18. Arrogant Tweekers Refuse and Resist Shelter in Kailua-Kona
19. Gabbard Receives Lesson About Switching Sides on Gay Marriage   

1. Birth Control: Judge Blocks Religious Freedom in Hawaii
2. Carbon Tax on Legislative Agenda
3. They Never Learn: Replicating Abject Failure, Hawaii County to Open New Homeless Tent City
4. Man with ax should not have been freed
5. Raising Hawaii’s Minimum Wage Is No Quick Fix
6. Bill to Propose Automatic Recount for close elections
7. DoE Hindered by Decades-old Tech
8. Here’s Another Busy Highway Where The Crosswalks Have Been Removed
9. Puna Claims: Lloyd’s of London insists "Only a small number have been declined"
10. Big Island: First Marijuana Store slated to open
11. Dimwits from Kauai, Gabbard, Begin Protesting Against Nonexistent Oil Drilling Off Hawaii

1. Zero-Based Budgeting
2. Local Media Makes Issue of Gabbard’s White Supremacist Support (two years late)
3. Democrats Trust Hirono Because She Apologized for not Being Gay
4. Budget: HDoT Chickens Out on $15B Climate Change Scam
5. Recreational Marijuana to top of Senate President’s List of Ideas
6. Recreational Marijuana to top of Progressives’ List of Ideas
7. Hawaii County Council: Longer Terms on Ballot?
8. Judge blocks Trump birth control coverage rules in Hawaii
9. Progressive: Storing your cars a waste of my urban space
10. Lawsuit filed over Schatz-Connected Development of Oahu’s Shark’s Cove
11. HCDA to fine owner of Kakaako streets for Insufficient potholes
12. Malfunctioning ocean cleanup boom to arrive in Hilo today

1. Candidates Already Lining up to Run for Gabbard's Congressional Seat
2. Who's Running in My District? 2019 Neighborhood Board Elections
3. ‘Singapore model’ doesn’t sing for Hawaii housing
4. Hawaii Ranks 49th for Federal Aid
5. Budget: Hawaii Scores 'D-' for Legacy Costs
6. 40-70 planned suicides in 2019?
7. HPD Officer has info on Fenatyl Bust Allegedly Covered up by Kealoha   
8. Abercrombie Defends Gabbard on Religious Bigotry
9. Ozawa-Waters Case Could Affect Vote by Mail Statewide
10. Sex Harassment: Confidentiality Lessens Effectiveness of Proposed House Policy
11. Lawsuit Filed Against Honolulu Police Over Beach Park Shooting
12. This is not a drill: Lessons from the false Hawaiian missile alert
13. Schatz, Gabbard Take Kauai Anti-Agriculture Hysteria National

1. CNN: Tulsi Gabbard says she will run for president in 2020
2. Gabbard Standing up Against Anti-Catholic Bigotry Within Democratic Party
3. BoE Will Re-Do Sup’t Vote—May Have Acted Illegally on Other Executive Hires 
4. Caldwell, Green Bless Iwilei Homeless Magnet
5. New Hi-Tech Payroll System Reveals 4,589 State Employees Paid for 'Multiple Positions'
6. Hawaii's coming recession--Are legislators Listening?
7. Ed Case Appointed to Appropriations Committee
8. Third Chief in Three Years for DOCARE
9. Hirono: Gabbard Getting Support from ‘Alt-Right’
10. City stands by election process in Trevor Ozawa-Tommy Waters vote
11. Democrats Only: Luke Plan Would Knock Republicans, Greens, Libertarians off the November Ballot
12. Details released in latest plea deal in public corruption case against Kealohas
13. State lawmaker to reintroduce bill to ban plastic straws, Styrofoam containers
14. Trump’s Border Wall Could Save Hawaii from Unnecessary, Expensive $345M Ala Wai Canal Flood Control Project
15. Homelessness Coordinator Touts Progress As Lawmakers Criticize
16. Homeless Camp to Move to 1100-ac Waianae Valley Ranch?
17. Star-Adv: Lets Put 1000s of Criminals Back onto the Streets 
18. 'Unbelievable.' Outrage after HPD releases man accused of striking bus rider in head with hatchet
19. Jail blunders in shooting case again: HCCC warden back in court
20. Worst-Ever Cases of Super Gonorrhea Are Here
21. There Will be no Warning: HI-EMA says 'ballistic missile alarms have been shelved’

1. State Supreme Court Declares Fevella the Winner
2. Auditor: Internal Docs Show HART Lied to Public About Rail Costs
3. 'The untouchables: Out-of-control prosecutors and the system that protects them'
4. Disabled: Hawaii Ranks 6th for Service, 49th for Opportunity
5. What Should OHA Really be Doing?
6. The Misinformed, Ineffective War on Styrofoam
7. DoH cites Maui Land & Pineapple for wastewater violations
8. Viral 2019: Ten Second Fireworks Video
9. RIMPAC: Navy Quietly Fires 20 Hyper Velocity Projectiles Through Destroyer’s Deckgun
10. Hawaii Smokers Lose $48K Per Year
11. Maui: Key Activists Bought n Paid for By Strategies 360 Farm 
12. BoE Will Re-Do Sup’t Vote—may Have Acted Illegally on Other Executive Hires
13. Telescope Already Improving Science Education Statewide
14. CoR Knocks $55M out of Projected Revenue Base
15. Global Warmer: Hawaii Will Raise Taxes and Utility Rates to Oppose Trump
16. Marijuana-Infused Legislators Complain Governor is Bifurcated
17. Council Approves 92.5% Sewer Rate Hike—$17M to ‘Create Positions’
18. New Public Works Director: “Lack of innovative thinking, lack of vision, lack of communication and lack of rapport” (but creating 22 new ‘positions’)
19. On Kauai, walk-in voting will (mostly) be a thing of the past in the 2020 election
20. Revolving Door: Two Reporters Join Victorino Administration
21. Activists May Loses Ability to Organize Circuses at Maui Council Meetings
22. Soft on Crime: Murderer Accused of Attempted Rape, Kidnapping

1. Ill-Fated Ocean Cleanup Boom Collected only 2000kg Plastic
2. Ige Appoints New PUC Chair 
3. SPED Parents Asked to Sign up for Medicaid
4. Ige Reappoints Directors at Eleven Departments
5. Ige Appoints New Directors at Three Departments
6. Christian Brothers Oust Damien School President--Dispute Over Child Molestation Settlements
7. Tech Modernization Plans in the 2019-21 Budget 
8. Fact-Checking 5 of Trump’s Claims in Border Speech
9. After 23 Mistaken Prisoner Releases, DPS Experiments with Something Called ‘Email’
10. Caldwell’s Climate Change Commission Pushes ‘Congestion Pricing’ Tax
11. Hawaii County: More Tax Hikes Coming?
12. Solar Fail: HECO bills spike over unusually humid months
13. Hawaii County Lava Relief Package $155M
14. Suit against Big Island Dairy settled
15. Hawaii Supreme Court has more questions for election officials in challenge to Honolulu City Council race
16. City opens Iwilei homeless magnet—designed to keep ‘em comfy on the street

1. Remembering Senator Fred Rohlfing, Republican Reformer
2. Sex Harassment: New House Rules "add another layer of silence"
3. Feds to PUC: Stop Approving Bat-Killing Windfarms without Endangered Species Permits
4. HECO Pushing Seven Giant Battery Farms
5. Hawaii 4th-Fewest Families with Young Children
6. Keli'i Akina Interviews Environmental Watchdog Caroll Cox
7. Rep Ward Calls for Second Trump-Kim Summit to be held at Waikiki
8. Auditor Follows up on Foundation for Culture and Arts
9. Hawaii Still Paying Out Millions for Act 215/221 Hi Tech Tax Credit Scams   
10. BoE Secretly Votes to Extend Kishimoto Contract
11. Teacher turnover at highest rate
12. DLNR funds mishandled, audit finds     
13. MADD’s New Target Is Drugged Driving           
14. Teen dies while scuba diving, company linked to a previous incident
15. Nearly 2,000 businesses affected by Maui's new foam container ban
16. Filmmaker Settles Lawsuit After Hawaii Grants Him Tax Credits
17. Trip to Hawaii reveals rusting wind turbines
18. Hundreds of volunteers still needed for homeless count
19. Got $1.3M? – Buy Kealoha Home (mailbox not included)
20. Obama, Pelosi Hype Birtherism Again
21. Un, Trump Coming to Hawaii Next?

1. Surprised by Wind and Waves in Pacific: Giant Plastic Eco-Boom Breaks up, Will soon wash up on Hawaii Beaches
2. VIDEO: Economic Cost of Jones Act to Koloa Rum Co
3. Stop legislative gut-and-replace
4. Rail Gets Another $7.5M More Expensive
5. Gov. Ige’s New Cabinet Is Still Almost Half Empty
6. Alaska Aerospace Proposed Kona Airport Spaceport Goes Nowhere in Four Years
7. Criminals Score Thousands on Claims paid out by state
8. City and state to suspend homeless sweeps during annual census
9. Obama Library Consolation Prize

1. Auditor: Conveyance Tax Money Misspent by DLNR
2. Anti-GMO? Regressive Left Just as Russian as Trump
3. Tulsi Gabbard is a Rising Progressive Star, Despite Her Support for Hindu Nationalists
4. So Did You Meet Your Goals This Year? -- Um, We Dunno
5. Agriculture is all Politics: Central Maui Farm Project to be Controlled by Strategies 360, Tsutsui
6. Secret Group Pushes to Make KSBE Trustees More Corrupt
7. Kauai: $25M Tax Hike
8. $6.8M Gas tax hike Survives with ‘Timely’ List
9. Senators ask why Hawaii passed on opioid suit while Suing Trump Again and Agian
10. Soft on Crime: Alleged Domestic Violence Stranglers walk out of Jail After Posting Mini-Bonds
11. Residents and police pair up to crack down on squatters
12. Wholesale Electric Rates about the Same as Mainland Retail Electric Rates
13. Hawaii Congressional Delegation: Words to the Unwise
14. Surprised by Wind and Waves in Pacific: Giant Plastic Eco-Boom Breaks up, Will soon wash up on Hawaii Beaches

1. Government-Funded Sweatshops: No Minimum Wage for Hawaii Disabled Workers
2. Congress Must Approve Decent Funding for the Wall
3. Video: Ship Burns 1,800 miles off Oahu
4. Team Hanabusa Grills Fuchigami
5. LoPresti: Election Recount Law Unconstitutional
6. Lawmaker: Judges made the ‘wrong call’ in letting suspect in assault case out again and again
7. Police standards board requesting more time, money
8. Softer on Crime: Task Force Wants to Let Even More Criminals out on Streets
9. City appeals fatal excessive force suit to Supreme Court
10. Inmates forced to stay in prison past their release date cost taxpayers
11. ‘Service Resistant’ Meth Addicts Camping out in Kakaako Again
12. High Cost of Shelter-Refusers Tearing up Parks
13. Hawaii Tourism Paradise has a Dark Side: 117 People Dead in 2018  
14. Mission Accomplished: Ulupono Destroys Dairy Industry, Prepares to Quit Kauai Dairy Plan
15. Judge denies dismissal of Leilani homeowner’s lawsuit

Congress Must Approve Decent Funding for the Wall

1. Happy New Year, Hawaii, now pay up!
2. Christian Brothers Oust Damien School President
3. US Solicitor General Urges Supreme Court to Hear Maui Injection Wells Case
4. Bum Patrol: Security Contract Expands to Windward, North Shore Parks
5. Luke: DoE Lied to Legislature About Maintenance Backlog
6. Attorney on Nude Pics: “Katherine Kealoha's apparent need to express herself in unusual ways’
7. Deputy AGs Urged Ige to Reappoint Suzuki
8. Star-Adv: Legislature Should Pass Automatic Recount Law
9. Police officer indicted in Kealoha corruption case to change plea
10. Judge rules prison must accommodate Sovereignty Movement Recruitment
11. Ballard Considers Allowing Lateral Transfers from Other departments
12. Windfarm Approvals: Nonsense in a Rush for Expiring Subsidies
13. 43 pedestrians died on Hawaii roadways in 2018. That’s more than the number killed in vehicles
14. Elder Abuse Cases up 300%
15. Soft on Crime: After 10 year Spree, Criminal Finally Gets Hard Time
16. Tulsi Gabbard one of only Three to Vote Against PAYGO

1. OHA Audit in Jeopardy
2. A Stunning Revelation at OHA
3. Ige Appoints Clare Connors Attorney General
4. New Insurance Commissioner Appointed
5. Ige Reappoints Directors at Ten Departments
6. House Republican Package 'A Better Tomorrow'
7. Hawaii Republican Chair Sums up 2018
8. Government Shutdown: Hawaii 4th-most Affected
9. Insiders Try to Talk Down Zero-Based Budgeting
10. Lobbyist Tries Legal Suicide by Text Message
11. 8 Honolulu City Council members take seats without choosing a leader 
12. More interesting legal cases re government secrecy
13. Waikoloa Highlands Kim Admin Cancels Kenoi Development Deal
14. Development Takes 20 Years--May Take Another 20 Thanks to SHPD
15. Soft on Crime: Feds Step in Because State Just Can’t Get the Job Done
16. Bum Patrol: After 600 Acts of Vandalism City to lock up 18 more Oahu parks at night starting Friday
17. Price of Solar Energy in Hawaii Hard to calculate Thanks to ‘Lump Sum’ payment
18. Newsflash: Marijuana Causes Global Warming

1. Hawaii Rankings: Either the Best or the Worst
2. Feds say explicit photos led to Big Island firefighter in Kealoha case
3. Wind farm impacts worry Leeward Oahu residents
4. Lawmakers Must Resist Any Effort To Undercut Hawaii’s Public Records Law
5. Hospitals to Become More Like Used Car Dealerships 
6. Not Many Doctors Want to Prescribe Death
7. Hooser Having Difficulty Rounding up Support for Minimum Wage Hike
8. State attorney general opposes Abigail Kawananakoa trust changes
9. Water bill spikes prompt warning from Pearl City residents
10. Junk Cars: Can Technophiles Control the Little People?
11. Addicted To Airbnb: Hawaii’s Tourism Economy Depends On Illegal Vacation Rentals
12. Fireworks ban as ineffective as temperance

1. Photo: Ship Burns 1800 miles off Oahu
2. Ige Reappoints Directors at Eight Departments
3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted December 30, 2018
4. Will Supreme Court Act Before Council Sworn In?
5. Doctors, Pharmacists to be Targeted: Eight Line up for Death in 2019
6. Maui Strategies 360: New Farm Operator Hires Activists (so nobody is protesting)
7. Maui Anti-GMO King: We are Just Like Old Boys—but more Secretive
8. Star-Adv: Marijuana Not a Cash Cow
9. New Laws for 2019

1. OHA CFO: We Keep Trustees in the Dark About LLCs
2. House Finance Committee Sets Budget Hearings
3. Auditor: Styrofoam Ban Doesn't Reduce Litter
4. Campaign Spending Violations? Eric Ryan Attacks Republicans Again
5. Disaster dollars: Hawaii County Council asked to add projects for eruption, hurricane damage to budget
6. Great New Year Resolution: City Forcing More Homeless to Accept Shelter
7. 10 Squatters Arrested--Residents of lava-ravaged Leilani Estates drop lawsuit
8. Hawaii Supreme Court rejects appeal in nonjudicial foreclosure case
9. Hawaii County Finally Figures out how to Open New Landfill—Call it ‘Organic’