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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
July 29, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:29 PM :: 188 Views
  1. Corruption Lawsuit: Another Hawaiian ‘8a’ Defense Contractor in Court
  2. FBI Director Kash Patel visits Honolulu field office
  3. Spain Offers €400M to Bring TMT to Canary Islands
  4. Honolulu Lawsuit on the Cutting Edge of Climate Hysteria
  5. Growing Feud Between Public Utilities Commission and Solar Industry
  6. Kīlauea community to look at site layouts in next town expansion project meeting
  7. Manhattan NFL shooter identified as Shane Tamura, has Hawaii connection
  8. Almost 7 vehicles stolen daily on Oahu, church becomes latest victim
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Monday, July 28, 2025
July 28, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:28 PM :: 267 Views
  1. $40M Rate Hike for Hawaii American Water
  2. How 'Big Beautiful Bill' Affects UH Student Loans and Research Grants
  3. Trump Forcing UH to Dump Useless Programs?
  4. New Hawaii Fees Starting in 2026
  5. Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting dumps 27-year-old computer system
  6. Maui Food Bank Raises $77M After Lahaina Fire
  7. Hawaiʻi’s Clean Energy Future Can’t Ignore LNG
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Sunday, July 27, 2025
July 27, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:21 PM :: 761 Views
  1. Affordable: Green Signs 'Shot Clock', other pro-development bills
  2. Baked to order: New cottage food rules
  3. Pay for No Work
  4. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted July 25, 2025
  5. Trump: “Tulsi’s the hottest person in the room”
  6. Police: State AG has Kamehameha Schools theft case
  7. Hawaii’s Pathetic State Judiciary: Baby Killer out on work release after 13 years
  8. We're Being Watched And We Don't Care
  9. Displaced Lahaina fire survivors eager to rebuild with help from $1.6 billion federal grant  
  10. So far, looks like Green light for gov reelection
  11. Formby: How The Mayor Would Appoint New Police Chief
  12. Mufi: HTA’s Greatest Achievement was Getting Funding from Legislature
  13. Predictably, Hundreds oppose Haleiwa housing project
  14. Here’s How The Legislature Is Slow-Walking move to Full-Time
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Saturday, July 26, 2025
July 26, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:55 PM :: 906 Views
  1. Chiefess Kapiolani: The greatest student of Batimea Pua’aiki (Blind Bartimeus)
  2. SHOPO leader to Quit: Retires hours after eligible, citing lack of incentives, burnout
  3. Hawaii’s homeless encampment crackdown in line with President Trump’s executive order
  4. Publisher sues Hawai‘i prisons for censorship
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Friday, July 25, 2025
July 25, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:17 PM :: 3380 Views
  1. Energy companies seek dismissal in Hawaii climate lawfare case
  2. Trump Executive Order: Clear Homeless Drug Addicts from Streets and Put them in Treatment Centers
  3. Schatz: National Housing Shortage Is A Problem The Government Has Created; We Can Fix It
  4. How to Apply for Honolulu Property Tax Credit
  5. First Read: Maui council committee approves bill to phase out vacation rentals -- ‘with reservations’
  6. Meth, Tats, and Murder: Gang Controls Guards at OCCC
  7. Media executives, police chief spar over access to scanners
  8. Hawaiʻi crisis: State ranks highest for unsheltered, homeless youth
  9. Alarming increase in Honolulu police shootings
  10. Hawaiʻi ranks as 7th most dangerous US state for motorcycle riders
  11. Crucial Insurance Deadline Looms In Two Weeks For Maui Fire Victims
  12. Lawsuit Claims Housing Authority Broke Promises To Displaced Tenants
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Thursday, July 24, 2025
July 24, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 12:52 PM :: 1331 Views
  1. Hawaii Attorney General Releases Annual Firearm Statistics
  2. Each Iron Worker pays George Paris $811 per year
  3. Maui's Bill 9 close to getting a vote
  4. City wages climate lawfare against Big Oil at cost of residents
  5. Decarbonization proposal raises eyebrows at Council meeting
  6. Proposed Ala Wai Watershed District raises concerns
  7. Lawsuit alleges sex assault, climate of fear at Youth Challenge Academy
  8. Working group set to meet to discuss bringing nuclear energy to Hawaii
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Wednesday, July 23, 2025
July 23, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:35 PM :: 1029 Views
  1. DoE Ready to Resume Most School Bus Routes
  2. $350M Aloha Stadium Funding Illegally Extended
  3. Army secretary aims to move quickly on leasing training land in Hawaii
  4. Lahaina ‘historic guidelines’ to produce ‘stop work’ orders against fire victims
  5. Trump’s school voucher law raises questions in Hawaii
  6. Affordable Housing Scam: Convicted Felons Still Practicing Law
  7. IDG/Waika Lobbying Presentation Full of Outdated Info
  8. Maui fires class-action settlement to be disbursed
  9. Council Chair sends out Maui County-wide mailer on Bill 9
  10. Private initiative propels effort to bring new fire station to West Maui
  11. Bill would restore some media access to HPD radio communications
  12. Surfing the Nations brings business and redemption to Wahiawā
  13. Mark Zuckerberg’s expansive Kauai compound means money
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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
July 22, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:22 PM :: 549 Views
  1. Teenagers’ Climate Plan to be 'Handed Down' from Above? House Leaders Call for Extended Public Testimony
  2. Hawaii's Only Oil Refinery Inks $100M 'Renewable' Fuels Deal
  3. Search is on for a new KSBE Trustee
  4. DoH: COVID Activity on the Increase in Hawaii
  5. Election Conspiracy Nuts Finally Get a Report on the Elections Commission Agenda
  6. Drastic changes could be coming to Hawaii's cruise industry
  7. The Insane Keep Dying in Jail Because We Closed the Insane Asylums
  8. Felon Gets (another) Federal Case
  9. Police leaders under pressure to allow media scanner access
  10. Hawai‘i Supreme Court rules on 7 years of "BS"
  11. Pandering Relentlessly, Hawai‘i County Council to discuss resolution asking military to end bombing at Pōhakuloa Training Area
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Monday, July 21, 2025
July 21, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:01 PM :: 808 Views
  1. Sovereignty Activists team up with Chinese Communist Front Group
  2. TWO YEARS LATER: Lahaina Emergency Housing Village finally nears completion
  3. Audit Finds State Has Fallen Short On Driver Ed Programs
  4. Ala Wai Watershed Improvement District has new trick—Hide the Tax Hike
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Sunday, July 20, 2025
July 20, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:12 PM :: 883 Views
  1. Hawaii climate policy going overboard on cruise ships
  2. Nonprofit Blankety Blank
  3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted July 18, 2025
  4. Green: ‘We’re totally fine’ –Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ ‘doesn’t hurt us right now’
  5. Case Only Votes with Hard Left 92% of the Time
  6. Lee Cataluna: Survival Sex In Lahaina? Says Who?
  7. Honolulu Charter Commission Begins Hearings
  8. No Confidence: We Need To Force Legislative Leaders To Clean Up Their Own Houses
  9. Maui enforcing overgrowth rules, warning violators of potential fines, jail time
  10. Two Miske associates to appeal their sentences
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Saturday, July 19, 2025
July 19, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:01 PM :: 2893 Views
  1. So Many Pools, So Little Truth: Inside Maui’s Water Crisis Theater
  2. Fraud and Misrepresentation: IDG Geothermal Schemers Get Cold Reception from Hawaii County Council
  3. Maui lawmakers give green light to food trucks and kitchenettes
  4. Green Issues Emergency Proclamation for Wildfire Season
  5. Student Jones Act Essay Contest
  6. Maui County Clears Out Homeless Meth Addicts (again)
  7. Need $600K? Maui County Launches New Federally Funded Fire Recovery Program 
  8. Hawaiʻi State Workers Must Answer for Taking Girl from Her Mother
  9. Trial run for rail’s airport extension delayed, HART says
  10. Another Phony ‘Water Scarcity’ Story
  11. Native Hawaiian family moves into first DHHL home on Maui in 17 years
  12. Hawai‘i County Police Commission appoints Reed Mahuna as interim chief – activists seek leverage against ICE
  13. Hawaii's speed calming device data shows it works
  14. Trump cuts not enough to wipe out Hawaii Public Broadcasting
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Friday, July 18, 2025
July 18, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:17 PM :: 1465 Views
  1. Two Indicted for Fraudulent FEMA Claims for Lahaina Fire
  2. Transportation barriers impacting Hawaiʻi rural health care
  3. Trump Admin Takes Back $30M that Hawaii Never Got Around to Spending
  4. Maui: Usual Grifters Grabbing for Control of Water
  5. Kauai Council Begins Process of Destroying Oceanfront Properties
  6. SB15 signed into law to ease affordable housing crisis
  7. 'A huge win,' Larger police presence heading to West Oahu
  8. Filipino teachers arrive in time for school
  9. 15 Years Later, Kauai Foreclosure Case Still Bumbles thru Courts
  10. Independent audit into kauhale deals needed
  11. Amala Place Sweep Pushes 23 Bums into Shelter
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Thursday, July 17, 2025
July 17, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:58 PM :: 1288 Views
  1. Insurance Companies Dumping Single-Wall Homes
  2. Scott Saiki Appointed Insurance Commissioner
  3. NIMBY: ‘Overhyped, overused, inaccurate, simplistic and selfish’
  4. Hawaii Gov. Green 63% Approval Rating
  5. Case Fundraising Is Going Just Fine
  6. HIDoT Plan: Eliminate all Hawaii Cruise Ship Travel by 2040
  7. Mountain West leader: Permanent stadium part of Hawaii’s membership deal
  8. How Amazon and Maui pineapples could help diversify Hawaii’s economy
  9. Mauna Loa Observatory – Lynchpin of Global Warming Hysteria --Is One NOAA Site That Could Close Because of Budget Cuts
  10. SpaceX Rocket Splashdown Site Approved near Necker Island—Enviros want you to freak out
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Wednesday, July 16, 2025
July 16, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:25 PM :: 851 Views
  1. House Committee Approves East-West Center Funding
  2. After Latest Fire at Sea, Matson Begins Refusing Shipment of Electric Cars
  3. Ousted HPD Chief Logan demands $460K – sound familiar?
  4. State land board shuts down Maui water rights petition
  5. Cause of Maili wildland fire classified as undetermined
  6. Correcting Lahaina Fire Road Deathtrap Could Take Seven More Years
  7. Honolulu DPP to launch new permitting software (This time they will really reduce the backlog.  Really.)
  8. Hu Honua Federal Lawsuit Temporarily Put on Hold
  9. What If HOAs, Not Government, Enforced Wildfire Prevention Rules?
  10. ICE Is Moving Immigrants Arrested On The Mainland To Honolulu
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Tuesday, July 15, 2025
July 15, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:23 PM :: 2564 Views
  1. Hawaii gang enforcer gets 30 years, ending landmark case
  2. State Job Growth? 'Health Care and Food Services'
  3. HDoT Awards Contract for Removal of 'Falls of Clyde'
  4. Honolulu Rewards City Employee for Alleged Stealing – Five Years Paid Vacation
  5. Ousted Kahuku head football coach sues DOE, former team captain, and player’s father
  6. Hawaii Pushes Back on Anti-Tourism Sentiments in New Maui Campaign
  7. Man charged in meth money-laundering scheme
  8. Developer Loses Court Fight To Build Luxury Homes On 'Anthrax Graveyard'
  9. Kahala oceanfront condos face looming deadline
  10. TheBus considering pushing West Oahu riders to use Skyline to get to town
  11. Two ex-HPD officers indemnified in wrongful death suit
  12. This Common Precursor To Murder Is Too Rarely Prosecuted On Maui
  13. Investigator: Vocal Red Hill Whistleblower Faced Pushback For Speaking Out
  14. Staff shortage hinders Navy program in Hawaii tasked with cleanup of contaminated sites
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Monday, July 14, 2025
July 14, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 12:16 PM :: 1176 Views
  1. LGBTQ Commission Pushing Green to Sign Executive Order Making Hawaii Sex-Change Kidnapping Sanctuary
  2. Discovery of unknown publications by Batimea Pua’aiki (Blind Bartimeus of Hawaii)
  3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted July 11, 2025
  4. Keohokalole, Tokuda Whine About Difficulties of Being in Congress
  5. State Sued for Playing Fast and Loose With Special Funds  
  6. New ownership unlikely to quench conflict over Maui water
  7. HPD: Number of illegal game rooms down in 2025
  8. ʻEwa Developer Settles Marina Case For $40 Million
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Sunday, July 13, 2025
July 13, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:51 PM :: 1506 Views
  1. SNAP Cliffs Are Coming
  2. Permitting progress prevails
  3. Judicial Nominees Sought for Oahu, Maui, Big Island
  4. FBI Interfered in Legislature and ‘Let’ A Dirty Lawmaker Get Reelected  
  5. Who Framed Chief Pellitier? – no answers yet
  6. What’s Next for “Hammah”? Lance Bermudez, key Miske associate, to be sentenced
  7. Green: No Special Session Needed to Deal with Trump Cuts
  8. ‘Green fee’ questions needs answers
  9. Federal Solar Subsidies Coming to an End
  10. Hu Honua Pushing Power Deal Before ‘Clean’ Energy Subsidies Expire
  11. Shapiro: Let Hawaii voters have real choices—Knock Republicans off General Election Ballot
  12. Homeless Meth Addicts on Amala Place must leave by next week, Maui County says (again)
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Saturday, July 12, 2025
July 12, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:15 PM :: 989 Views
  1. HTA Board Positions Open
  2. VIDEO: HFD Chief Hao on the Māʻili wildfire
  3. 42 More Homeless Beds Available in Iwilei
  4. SHOPO Bags Three Chiefs—Swing and a miss on Maui
  5. Hawai‘i County Police Commission to discuss appointment of interim chief at next meeting
  6. Could this Hawaii community be the next Lahaina? Some residents fear a similar wildfire fate
  7. To Clear Out Zombies, City Council considers ‘Downtown Honolulu Business Improvement District’
  8. Maui Council advances bills for agricultural tourism and food trucks in ag districts
  9. Hawaii homeowners face hurricane insurance challenges
  10. Honolulu regulators decide not to issue any violations for railing collapse at Moana Surfrider
  11. Jury selection to begin in civil trial over fatal police shooting in Nuuanu
  12. Hawaii wannabe Trumpshooter Ryan Routh offers himself for prisoner swap with US adversaries in letter shared by judge
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Friday, July 11, 2025
July 11, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:58 PM :: 1678 Views
  1. Chinese Naval Vessel Spotted Off Hawaiian Coast
  2. Green Signed 313 Bills Into law
  3. Prosecutors Win on Appeal -- Maui Hate Criminals to get more time in prison after beating white man with a shovel
  4. Lahaina Strong Helping Trump Abolish FEMA--Administration Pretends to Take Mrs Kaniela Ing’s Sex-for-Food Stories Seriously
  5. Moszkowicz Forced out as Big Island Chief (now he can try for HPD Chief)
  6. Blangiardi Blindsided by Rade Vanic’s Interest in Top Job
  7. Lawmakers' Plan To Give $50M To Nonprofits May Be Unconstitutional
  8. Solar Scammers Gather on Maui for More Self-Serving Rhetoric
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Thursday, July 10, 2025
July 10, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:59 PM :: 1725 Views
  1. Auditor Dings Hawaii ERS Annual Comprehensive Financial Report
  2. Green Signs SB933, HB420, HB431
  3. Katherine Kealoha’s Dope Dealing Brother Schemes to Get out of Prison
  4. Deed Restrictions to Create Locals-Only Housing Market?
  5. Maui Fires Settlement: Kamehameha Schools Poised To Pay $872 Million
  6. Maui County Slow to Correct Fire Death-Trap Lahaina Roadways
  7. Lawsuit to Challenge $50M Legislative Slush Fund?
  8. Burden For Preventing Drownings In Hawaiʻi Falls On Counties — And Residents
  9. Downtown property owners willing to pay for sanitation, safety improvements
  10. Nanakuli residents want more access to emergency road
  11. Trump De-Funds One Tiny Piece of UH Manoa Global Warming Hysteria Generation System
  12. Global Warmers Claim Waikiki Stormwater Drainage System Will Fail
  13. Military watching Chinese naval ship near Hawaii
  14. Usual suspects gin up ICE Controversy
  15. Controversial CEO of Domestic Violence Action Center Steps Down
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Wednesday, July 9, 2025
July 9, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:29 PM :: 1405 Views
  1. Green Signs $4B Lahaina Settlement Bill
  2. SB933CD1: Shell Bill Gives Legislators $50M to Dole out to their Friends
  3. Maui County Sewer Rates Jump 9%
  4. Paid in full. Trust? Still pending.
  5. Carpenters Union Announces Plan to Harass Non-Union Contractors
  6. Good Jobs Hawaiʻi participants see significant wage gains, UHERO finds
  7. Firearm Permits Subject of Hawaii County PD Hearing
  8. Maui Bill 76: Restore Farmers' Food Truck Rights
  9. Green Signs SB1231 Giving Gays More Opportunity to Get Children
  10. ‘Wheeling’ Means UH Will Clutter West Oahu Ag land With Solar Farms
  11. Will Solar Incentives Impact Non-Participants?
  12. ‘Affordable’ Housing $2,500 / Month
  13. ‘Affordable’ Housing $556K per unit
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Tuesday, July 8, 2025
July 8, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:59 PM :: 1048 Views
  1. 79.1% of Homeowners in Hawaii Will Face a Hidden Home Equity Tax If They Sell
  2. Green Signs Condo Insurance Stabilization Law
  3. OHA-Connected DTL Selected to Handle Iwilei Master Planning
  4. Feds seek forfeiture of luxury Kahala home tied to fraud conviction of former defense contractor
  5. HELCO will File New Hu Honua Power Purchase Agreement
  6. 94-year-old woman, critically injured in Maili wildfire, dies
  7. Island of Retaliation: Kauaʻi Police Chief Job Posting Gets 42 Applicants
  8. DMV promises end to registration delays in 'next few weeks'
  9. ICE agents stationed at Marine Corps Base Hawaii
  10. Green Signs Electric ‘Wheeling’ Law
  11. The 25 best high schools for athletes in Hawaii
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Monday, July 7, 2025
July 7, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:07 PM :: 718 Views
  1. Hawaii’s Police Corruption Scandal: Cash Flow to Crooks Continues
  2. July 7, 1935: Moscow orders first Communists to Hawaii
  3. Building New Schools
  4. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted July 3, 2025
  5. Only 48% of Hawaiʻi HS Seniors Apply for College Financial Aid –Sharply Down After COVID
  6. Maui County Gears Up For Legal Challenges From Former Employees
  7. Happy News: With No Federal Halfway House in Hawaiʻi, Inmates Remain Far From Home
  8. Maili wildfire –Many did not receive Evacuation Notice
  9. Waianae lunch turns into fast exit as diners flee from Maili wildfire
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Sunday, July 6, 2025
July 6, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:14 PM :: 1531 Views
  1. Green signs bills aimed at alleviating Hawaii’s housing shortage
  2. Blue State Blues: One-Party Control? In Hawaiʻi Its More Like No-Party Control
  3. What Did Green Veto?
  4. Police chief to face commission on Thursday
  5. With old ‘leaders’ ousted, Hawai‘i Tourism Authority finally resolves late invoices, interest payments
  6. Third Parties Petitioning for Hawaii Ballot Access
  7. Air Force suspends SpaceX project on Pacific atoll
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Saturday, July 5, 2025
July 5, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 11:44 AM :: 713 Views
  1. Testimony: Bill 9 Debunked by Former AG David Louie
  2. Over 400 building permits have been issued for Lahaina rebuilds so far
  3. Honolulu rail project streamlines stations and tactics to save money
  4. ACLU Very Excited to Learn Honolulu’s Federal Detention Center to house ICE detainees
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Friday, July 4, 2025
July 4, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:30 PM :: 907 Views
  1. The Verified Complaint In Equity: The Declaration Of Independence
  2. The 1840 Hawaiian Constitution and the Fourth of July
  3. Green Finalizes Veto Decisions
  4. Green: 'Big Beautiful Bill' Cuts MedQuest and EBT Cards
  5. Hawaii prison guard gets eight years for sexually abusing inmates
  6. Homeowners Association Harasses Foster Family
  7. DPP to Launch New On-Line Permitting System
  8. Shakedown: How Can Hawaii insiders get money out of US military training lease renewal talks?
  9. New law cuts retirement benefits for judges
  10. City ‘struggling to keep up’ with car registration backlog, impacting thousands on Oahu
  11. Former Oahu prison guard sentenced to 8 years in prison for sexually abusing inmates 
  12. Retired MFD battalion chief reindicted for sexually assaulting minor
  13. Police not helping with immigration arrests –but ACLU Still Trying to Turn ‘No’ into ‘Yes’
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Thursday, July 3, 2025
July 2025 Letters to the Editor
By Letters to the Editor @ 2:42 PM :: 1027 Views

Homeowners Association Harasses Foster Family

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Thursday, July 3, 2025
July 3, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:11 PM :: 830 Views
  1. In Chile, where science is appreciated, UH Telescope discovers visitor from outside solar system
  2. Maui Council panel recesses secret vacation rental deliberations until July 23
  3. Leadership overhaul continues at the Hawaii Tourism Authority
  4. Hawaii solar companies say Trump’s proposed tax credit cut is a blow to business
  5. Big Island soda theft case highlights mental health treatment gaps
  6. Crime On Oʻahu Is Down Except In One Category — Murder
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Wednesday, July 2, 2025
July 2, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:19 PM :: 965 Views
  1. Lawsuit Settlement will Impose ‘Big Expense’ on Your ‘fuel, groceries, and airfare’
  2. Red Hill: BWS Sues Navy for $1.2B
  3. Hawai‘i’s state road usage charge begins for electric vehicles on July 1
  4. After Much Gnashing of Teeth, OHA Trustees Approve Amended Budget
  5. The Only Real Strategy for Tourism is to Make it Cost More
  6. After threatening $2.19M fine, DOH admits East Hawaii Urgent Care clinics have resolved paperwork issue
  7. Green Line-Item Vetoes $90M in Bogus DoE ‘Maintenance’
  8. How Oahu Lawsuit Settlement Neuters Law Against Vacation Rentals
  9. 86 drown on the North Shore of Oʻahu in Decade
  10. Maui Council advances Honuaʻula project amendments with a slim 5-4 vote in marathon session
  11. Lahaina Is Rising Slowly
  12. Girl Scouts of Hawaii's new plan to put a troop at every public elementary school in the state
  13. Maui Police arrest new MPD employee for sex assault allegations
  14. Hawaii Governor Signs Medical Marijuana Expansion Bill, After Calling One Of Its Provisions 'A Grave Violation Of Privacy'
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Tuesday, July 1, 2025
July 1, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:28 PM :: 2869 Views
  1. Obscure federal laws could preserve birthright citizenship in Alaska, Hawaii, and Territories
  2. Lawsuit Challenges “Dam Special Fund” Used to Undermine Constitutional Expenditure Controls
  3. Aloha Stadium FAIL: NASED Lists Latest Excuses
  4. May Tourist Count up 1%
  5. Puna Meth Lab Busted
  6. HECO Preps Power Safety Shutoff System for Dry Season
  7. Green Signs State Budget
  8. Visitors Donated Millions To Maui. Where Did It Go?
  9. Senate GOP scrambles to save Alaska/Hawaii SNAP carveout
  10. More Than $100 Million Cut From Hawaiʻi State Budget
  11. ‘Dehumanizing Chaos’: OHA budget pits CEO against Chair of the Board
  12. Immigration: Ed Case Thinks for Himself
  13. Prosecutors want ex-prison guard to serve 7 years
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Monday, June 30, 2025
June 30, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:28 PM :: 1408 Views
  1. Ethics Complaint Exposes Ties Between Maui Councilmembers, Lahaina Charity Fraud, and Lobbyists
  2. July Fourth: Freedom should include your choice of doctor
  3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 27, 2025
  4. Maui Police Launch Digital Firearms Registration System
  5. The Lahaina Fire is Proof that ‘Performance Based Regulation’ of HECO is a Failure
  6. Questions during Senate hearing deftly sidestepped PUC whistleblower’s allegations
  7. After 20 Years of Bumbling--Kauaʻi's Embattled Drug Addiction Treatment Center For Youth Is No Longer Empty  
  8. Kai Kahele’s OHA Spending Plan Filled With Bizarre Cuts, Changes  
  9. Fish Farm Sues State for Crippling its Business
  10. Usual Fruitcakes Freak out over Proposed Big Island Plastic Recycling Plant
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Sunday, June 29, 2025
June 29, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:04 PM :: 937 Views
  1. Twenty Years of Nickels
  2. Japan buys Gulf Coast oil, Hawaii doesn’t, thanks to 1920 Jones Act
  3. Interstate telehealth to boost local medical care
  4. Gays Rewrite State Constitution, State History, and Language
  5. Legislators make appetizer of state tourism overseers
  6. Police Commission: Problem is too much Mayoral Control, not too little
  7. Taxpayers Keep Paying For Disgraced City Officials
  8. University of Hawaiʻi’s telescope dedicated in 1970 now honored for enduring impact on space exploration
  9. Hawaii Got the Slowdown It Asked For. Now It's Running Scared.
  10. Pinata: Eco Groups Start Grabbing for Green Fee Money
  11. REMEMBER?  Tulsi Gabbard was once Hawaii’s Most Popular Politician
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Saturday, June 28, 2025
June 28, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:36 PM :: 1074 Views
  1. UH to tear down 3rd Perfectly Good Maunakea Telescope
  2. Should Tulsi Beware India’s Spies?
  3. No Surprise: BLNR Rejects Another Army EIS
  4. Public Utilities Commission approves whopping 18.1% rate increase for Young Brothers
  5. Puna Geothermal Venture to start ‘Repower Project’ to boost production, lower prices
  6. Senate GOP adds SNAP waivers for Hawaii in new megabill text—if State can reduce 20% Error Rate
  7. How 13 teenagers and some California lawyers rule Hawai’i
  8. Hawai‘i interstate telehealth to solve doctor shortage
  9. Minimizing Utility Rates Starts With That Goal
  10. Let’s Not Confuse Lobbying With Influence-Peddling
  11. Another Delay in Kalua Murder Case
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Friday, June 27, 2025
June 27, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:01 PM :: 1881 Views
  1. Moszkowicz will not seek Honolulu Chief Position
  2. OHA Withdraws Maunakea Litigation
  3. Lahaina Maui HI - DRONE Update - June 2025 - Is there ANY Progress ???
  4. Lahaina Meth Gang Behind ‘Out of Control’ Debate over Vacation Rentals
  5. Maui Council set to begin deliberations on short-term rental phase-out bill
  6. DPP sorts through thousands of illegal rental notices, collecting only 2% of $90M in vacation rental fines
  7. FEMA housing units bring wildfire survivors back to Lahaina
  8. Tragically, Stadium project funding won’t be lost over delay
  9. Astronomers concerned by federal cuts
  10. Government Schools: Sen. Mazie Hirono teaches us a lesson—but not the one she intended
  11. Teachers say retaliation reason for job nonrenewal at Laupāhoehoe Community Public Charter School
  12. Hawai'i 'Blue' Fee: What does it take to actually get the State to do its job?
  13. HPD officer vacancies at 461 with twice as many retirement eligible than incoming
  14. Makaha Police Shooting Caused by use of probation instead of incarceration
  15. Hawaii County Police Bust Rare Meth Lab
  16. Court for homeless meth-heads now permanent
  17. Tulsi Gabbard in Trump’s ‘Line of Fire’
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Thursday, June 26, 2025
June 26, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:51 PM :: 1545 Views
  1. Inflexible policies continue to hinder Lahaina wildfire recovery
  2. HTA Hearing Uncovers an Old Story: The State Still Doesn’t Pay on Time
  3. Forgery, Fraud and Theft: Former Top Honolulu Attorney Charged with 22 Felony Counts
  4. 'Self-Certification' to Bypass DPP Delays
  5. Lawsuit Settlement will Impose ‘Big Expense’ on Your ‘fuel, groceries, and airfare’
  6. CNHA Erodes Public Trust in Tourism Management
  7. Legal fees for criminal former city officials total in the six figures
  8. HPD Chief: Officers Shot Man In Mākaha After He Rammed Their Police Car
  9. HPD seizes gambling paraphernalia from illegal game room
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Wednesday, June 25, 2025
June 25, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:44 PM :: 927 Views
  1. FULL TEXT: Whistleblower Exposes PUC Parties with HECO Execs--“We are setting ourselves up for the largest cost increase to consumers in history"
  2. Feds Rule on Campaign Spending Complaint Four Days after Hawaii Republican Convention tosses out Crazies
  3. Former CEO of Guam Helicopter Company Sentenced to 405 Months in Federal Prison for Criminal Aviation Violations
  4. Green Adds One More Bill to 'Intent-to-Veto' List
  5. Bills that passed the Lege now on the edge
  6. FAIL: State extends deadline for Aloha Stadium agreement (again)
  7. East Maui Water: Usual Suspects grift for control so they can force you to leave island
  8. School Choice Works Wonders: How Hawaiʻi's School Transfer System Allows Parents to Rescue Their Kids from Bad Schools
  9. Governor Says He May Veto Bill To Reduce Judges' Pensions
  10. Maui zoning code must serve residents
  11. Hawai‘i County sets cell tower regulations, despite outcry
  12. Honolulu Prosecutor: 2023 HPD Fatal Shooting In Pearl City Was Justified
  13. City of Honolulu hit with negligence lawsuit over crash at erased crosswalk
  14. Penn asks judge for ‘identity verification’ of his mother
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Tuesday, June 24, 2025
June 24, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:08 PM :: 1586 Views
  1. Lahaina fire rebuild will be complete in 2038 at current pace
  2. Bills, Backers, and Blocs: A Data-Driven Look at Lobbying in Hawai‘i
  3. Hawaii 2nd-Healthiest State
  4. Amended fuel contract expected to save Oahu households nearly $3 a month on electric bills
  5. Study: 60,000 Oahu property tax bills artificially inflated, due out in July
  6. Vote on Maui vacation rentals could come July 2
  7. The Lesson of the Maui Fires: Prioritize Recovery Before the Disaster
  8. Mayor expected to file revised $5B city budget today
  9. Daily Violence At State Hospital Triggers Workplace Safety Complaint
  10. Governor calls for HTA board resignations while lawmakers grill its leaders
  11. A Roadmap to Revive Hawai‘i’s Economy and Future
  12. House and Senate Allowances: Travel to LA for Movie Premier
  13. End of an era: Alexander & Baldwin transfers full ownership of East Maui Irrigation to Mahi Pono
  14. PUC to Consider: Should deadbeats get more free Electricity?
  15. Trial begins over proposed Kauai hotel project on alleged anthrax site
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Monday, June 23, 2025
June 23, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:37 PM :: 1369 Views
  1. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 21, 2025
  2. Miske Made Possible by “corruption or inaction within local law enforcement and city agencies”
  3. Will Maui County Waste $1.6B Buying Up TVRs?
  4. Hawaii tourism is 'significantly down,' and experts are worried
  5. State Buys $21M Food Processing Machine, it sits unused because Health Department ‘isn’t used to it’
  6. Firewise: Long before last week’s 330-acre blaze, Kahikinui community spent years preparing for fires
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Sunday, June 22, 2025
June 22, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:13 PM :: 1795 Views
  1. Trump: US Attacks Three Iran Nuke Sites
  2. Let Moszkowicz Go
  3. Dam Special Fund
  4. How Hawaii Democrats Escape Accountability Thanks to Useless Hawaii Republicans
  5. $77M HI-5 Fund--Mismanaged For 20 Years
  6. Senator Dela Cruz Didn't Disclose Possible Conflict of Interest Before Voting
  7. Hawai‘i Tourism Authority board in limbo as lawmakers call for briefing
  8. Make Fire Victims Pay $4,500/mo  for a 1br?  Say Anything to Kill TVRs
  9. White House Doctors Gabbard Video
  10. Former Honolulu attorney indicted in alleged probate fraud
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Saturday, June 21, 2025
June 21, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:18 PM :: 3093 Views
  1. Saving for a Home in Hawaii Takes 29 Years
  2. Navy faces key ruling in Hawaii fuel contamination case
  3. Barking Sands Land Leases Set to Expire 2027-30
  4. Jones Act keeps U.S. lagging in global shipbuilding output
  5. Mayor Signs Three Bills to Crack Down on Game Rooms
  6. City awards contract to continue construction on second floor of HPD’s Waiʻanae Substation
  7. County of Maui, HUD sign $1.6B grant agreement for disaster relief
  8. Moszkowicz Out as Hawaii County Chief?
  9. $324.1M Lawsuit: HART dysfunction caused cost increases to go off the tracks
  10. Lawmakers slash Hawaii school construction request
  11. Trial postponed for alleged driver in fatal McKinley hit-and-run
  12. Crime: Drones and License Plate Readers in Waikiki
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Saturday, June 21, 2025
Letters to the Editor June 2025
By Letters to the Editor @ 3:00 PM :: 2887 Views
  • Let Moszkowicz Go
  • Sigh of Relief After Mostly Peaceful Protests
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Friday, June 20, 2025
June 20, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:27 PM :: 1063 Views
  1. AG Terminates Lahaina Investigation
  2. Priced out: The growing challenge of teacher pay and housing costs
  3. Bubble: Investors Flood into Hawaii Housing Market
  4. UH Grad Student $6.7M Settlement in 2016 Lab Explosion
  5. Hawaiʻi Wants More Geothermal Power Plants but Dela Cruz Rewards Campaign Contributors Instead
  6. Governor Should Sign Mental Illness Treatment Legislation
  7. Threats to Hawaii Judiciary officials on pace to double
  8. ‘We want closure’: Oahu family waits for justice more than two years after deadly crash
  9. Homeless Camp Burns Under H-1 Freeway
  10. Mayor Blangiardi signs new laws targeting illegal game rooms
  11. Fishing council to ask Trump to lift fishing ban in Papahanaumokuakea
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Thursday, June 19, 2025
June 19, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:54 PM :: 1725 Views
  1. Hawaii Democrats Outraged Over Ban on Juvenile Sex Change  
  2. Wahiawa Veteran Wins in Class Action Lawsuit Against Iran
  3. HMSA: 2nd Worst Health Insurance Company in USA
  4. Maui residents’ recovery sees gains, but health and housing challenges persist
  5. Trump ‘incensed’ – Gabbard “on the brink of nuclear annihilation.”
  6. Rade Vanic picked to serve as interim Honolulu police chief
  7. Honolulu's Effort to Fast-Track Affordable Housing Projects Hasn't Worked
  8. Queens Urologist: ‘There’s No Wrong Way To ‘Delete’ Zionists’
  9. BJ Penn back in the courtroom, jury trial set
  10. Testimony continues over bill to ban thousands of Maui vacation rentals
  11. What if the 100% Renewable Energy Law is the Wrong Goal
  12. New Homeless Drug Addict Behavior: Laying in Road and Walking on Freeway
  13. Oʻahu Wants To Crack Down On Homeless Bus Riders
  14. Shakedown: Another Bogus Surfrider Beach Pollution Report
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Wednesday, June 18, 2025
June 18, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:16 PM :: 993 Views
  1. Lawsuit by State Hospital Medical Director Details How Retaliation Games Keep Hospital Understaffed
  2. Why Hawaii lawmakers should adopt interstate telehealth
  3. Eight apply to serve as interim Honolulu police chief
  4. Honolulu City Council Votes To Shake Up Its Leadership
  5. Update: Stories from the ‘Encyclopedia of Ethical Failure’
  6. Trump contradicts Tulsi Gabbard’s assessment on Iran’s nuclear program
  7. It’s Not Just Tourists: Hawaiʻi Residents Drown At Alarming Rates 
  8. After Master Lease is Signed, UXO Cleanup to Become Big Business for 8a Contractors
  9. Drones Could Be Dispatched As First Responders To Crime Scenes In Hawaiʻi
  10. State survey reveals workforce housing would keep Hawai‘i educators in classrooms
  11. Happy News: State Spends no Money to Stop Feral Chickens
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Tuesday, June 17, 2025
June 17, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:34 PM :: 1897 Views
  1. Matt Elliott approved by BOR as next UH Mānoa athletics director
  2. HMSA’s ‘Take-it-or-leave-it’ Contracts ‘Fundamentally Unfair’
  3. Honolulu City Council leadership changes proposed
  4. After Engineering the Woke Ouster of Isaac Choy, CNHA is back at HTA for ‘Mo Money
  5. Union COVID Cash Bonanza Continues: $124.4 Million In Pandemic Hazard Pay For Prisons
  6. Affordable Housing Fraud?  ‘Still working on it’
  7. Lawsuit Asks Court To Halt Haʻikū Stairs Demolition, Citing State Flip-Flop
  8. BYU-Hawaii alum killed as Utah ‘No Kings’ protesters shoot at each other
  9. ICE agents arrest Russian woman at Marine Corps Base Hawaii
  10. Hawaii DOH could seize unregulated THC products in 2026
  11. Heated moments at Makaha meeting on transitional homes project
  12. Fiber cut causes outage in Windward Oahu
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Monday, June 16, 2025
June 16, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:01 PM :: 1279 Views
  1. Sigh of Relief After Mostly Peaceful Protests
  2. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 14, 2025
  3. Affordable Housing Scam was Easy to Pull Off
  4. City seeks developer for Iwilei transit-oriented housing
  5. Report: Honolulu Inflation Among Worst In Nation
  6. Investigators: High Winds, Rotor Flap Caused Fatal Kauaʻi Helicopter Crash
  7. Kidnapper Issac Pascua arrested in Texas after escape from Hawaii jail
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Sunday, June 15, 2025
June 15, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:19 PM :: 1085 Views
  1. A blue wave is helping rock the boat on Jones Act reform
  2. Intent to Veto
  3. Supreme Court decision makes it easier for disabled students to sue school districts for bias
  4. How To Protect Politicians from Ethics Investigations?  Eliminate Staff
  5. No Robots Day: Ed Case Thinks for Himself on Defense, Immigration
  6. Army to Trade Oahu Leases for Pohakuloa Renewal?
  7. Goal of new partnership of hospitals: More specialty doctors for Big Island, fewer medical trips to Oʻahu
  8. Elliott expected to be confirmed as Hawaii AD on Monday
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Saturday, June 14, 2025
June 14, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:30 PM :: 3066 Views
  1. June 14, 1900: The Abolition of Slavery in Hawaii
  2. $294K Income Needed for Family of Four in Hawaii  
  3. Hawaii: Fewest Boat Owners Per Capita
  4. 37 Current and Former Hawaii Police Officers Call for ‘Military Government’
  5. BJ Penn Legal, Mental Issues Growing
  6. Moszkowicz rescinded resignation when he learned it’s the responsibility of the Honolulu Police Commission and not the mayor to select interim chief
  7. Kauai: Police Chief Todd Raybuck retires; Kalani Ke takes over leadership
  8. Maui: Meth-addled firebugs continue to accumulate on Holomua Road
  9. Tokuda Soft on Fentanyl
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Friday, June 13, 2025
June 13, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:34 PM :: 1206 Views
  1. DoH Coverup? Health Dep't Fines Hilo Medical Practice $2.19M for Minor Paperwork Violation
  2. Lawsuit: HTA bosses destroy Convention Center Roof in quest for retaliation
  3. House Announces New Assignments: Leadership, Committee Chair  
  4. Against all odds, Hawaii’s children are returning
  5. HART Designs Final Six Stations to Be Harder Than Ever for Riders to Reach
  6. Who’s Really to Blame for Hawaii Overtourism? Airbnb Pushes Back
  7. DOE Called For 12 New Schools In ‘Ewa A Decade Ago. It’s Built Two
  8. New laws will soften criminal prosecution of juveniles in Hawaii
  9. After Nine Months in Kapolei, Homeless HONU returning to Old Stadium Park
  10. B.J. Penn arrested — again
  11. A Navy Plan To Develop Barbers Point Will Erase History
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Thursday, June 12, 2025
June 12, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:16 PM :: 929 Views
  1. Cost of Bills Index: Hawaii 32% Above US Median
  2. Hawaii is a Leader for Preschool Quality But Last in Access Among Pacific States
  3. Hawaii 3rd-Highest Beer Taxes in USA
  4. Strategy: Make Tourists Pay More
  5. No Soda or Candy on EBT Card?
  6. Blangiardi on ICE: City to exercise "appropriate judgment" toward immigration law enforcement
  7. SHOPO Drives Search for new Kauai Police Chief
  8. Crime: Waianae a Sacrifice Zone for Decades
  9. Fentanyl overdose deaths drop in Hawaii as meth-related fatalities spike
  10. Burials Bring Kauai Jobsite to Screeching Halt—Fines and Lawsuits Begin
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