1. Case Dismissed—For Now
2. Walk back our tax cuts? That would be a shame.
3. ALICE REPORT: 37% of Households Consider Leaving Hawaii
4. 14% of Hawaii Healthcare Jobs Vacant
5. Deport Illegal Thieves? Hawaii Congressional Delegation Votes 'Nay'
6. Debate: Jones Act Reform a Winning Topic
7. OIP: New Law and New Opinions for New Year
8. Salary Squabble after years of Dysfunction: Is Hawai‘i Tourism Authority Boss Worth $300K/yr?
9. Gov. Green becomes Dr. Green to oppose Kennedy
10. Anti-telescope Activist Enthused by Recent Developments
11. Months after a deadly Waianae Valley rampage, an illegal party structure is being dismantled
12. Social Security pay boost for 33,000 retirees in Hawaii
13. Nuggets of wisdom found in speaking wit to power

1. Hawaii Democrats Talk a Big Game on the 'Climate Crisis.' They're Also Shielding an Oil Company Whose Execs Backed Their Campaigns
2. Is another great year too much to ask?
3. Not Everybody is Leaving: COVID fraud helps one family move to Kapolei
4. OHA Legislative Agenda: Kakaako 400 Foot Towers (again)
5. OHA Trustees Swear to Uphold Two Constitutions
6. Hawaii attorney general questions Walmart's retreat from DEI
7. Judiciary Seeks Nominees for Big Island, Maui
8. Hawaiʻi Supreme Court Finds Pierick Won House Race by 11 votes
9. Law enforcement department looks to upgrade technology nearly five years after evidence deleted
10. Key leader in Waianae cockfighting case pleads guilty, two others also changing their pleas
11. Front Street Recovery: Generational landowners launch initiative to rebuild Lahaina Town
12. Lahaina Underground power lines put on hold, says Hawaiian Electric
13. Hawaii State fireworks laws misaligned with Honolulu City ordinances
14. Honolulu City Council ‘reaffirms’ opposition to landfill over aquifer
15. I can braid hair, but Hawaii will not let me work

1. VIDEO: Vaccination Drive Saves Samoa from RFK's Deadly Antivaxxer Propaganda
2. 21% of Students Short on Vaccinations
3. The growing crisis in the insurance market further exacerbates Hawaiʻi’s cost of living crisis
4. State Senate Democrats Outline Priorities for Legislative Session
5. Hawaiian Electric to close Shift and Save time-of-use rates program to new enrollments
6. NRA Grassroots Meeting set for Oahu
7. Hawaii Abortions Down 11% for 2022
8. Maui Eviction Moratorium Ends
9. SURPRISE!  Sale Puts 89% of American Savings Bank Shares in Hands of Mainland Owners
10. 100% Fake: After 14 years of Green Energy Initiative, Hawaii Energy Still 90.8% Fossil Fuel
11. No Surprise: Tulsi Gabbard Flip-Flops on Spying in Desperate Bid to Save Nomination
12. Fake Representative: Mr Kim Coco Iwamoto Calls OHA Development Plan ‘A Good Start’
13. Fake Affordability: DHHL to Evict 57 Households from their affordable condos on Kauai—Suggests They Move to Mainland
14. Real Graft: Legislators rush to hold campaign fundraisers before opening gavel
15. No Surprise: Honolulu Police Commission has been chronic violator of the state’s Sunshine Law
16. Phoney Baloney: Mayor Fooled by Vegas Meth Wholesaler who Hollers ‘Jesus’
17. Fake Food Goal: DOE Gets An F: Hawaiʻi Schools Miss Their First Local Food Target
18. Real Results: Hawaii vacation rental demand drops dramatically

1. Busted in Ibiza: Bumpy Kanahele's Fake 'Diplomat'
2. Hawaii doctor under investigation for murder in woman’s euthanasia death
3. Honolulu Traffic 19th - Worst in USA
4. Schatz: With $1.6B in federal funds, rebuild Lahaina homes now
5. I Moved to Hawaii but Would Return to Oregon Due to the Cost of Living
6. Miske’s ‘Defend Hawaii’ co-defendant sentenced
7. Honolulu Rail Supposed to Reach Airport, Middle Street in 2025
8. Feasibility of a Red Hill Pumped Storage Hydro Facility
9. State Sees A Rare Surge In Death Taxes
10. OHA asks lawmakers for more than $2M to ‘fund positions’
11. Illegal Fireworks Won't Stop Until Neighbors Take Action
12. Solemn procession in downtown Honolulu honors firefighter killed in McCully fire
13. DLE Proposal to create Hawaii highway patrol gets mixed reactions
14. Alternative to Suicide: Hawaii Hospice Collaborative Launches Into ‘New Era’ of Care Delivery
15. Maintenance cited as possible cause of Kamaka crash

1. Fireworks: Culture and Traditions?
2. Electricity-Caused Wildland Fires: Costs, Social Fairness, and Proposed Solution
3. Hawaii #1 -- lost greatest share of population to other states
4. OHA’s new Kakaako housing scam: Give 500 ‘Affordable’ Units to Political Insiders
5. Hearing Blocked: Gabbard blames ‘snow’ for delays in ethics disclosures and FBI background check
6. DLE Makes Excuses for Lack of Fireworks Arrests
7. Fireworks Come To Hawaiʻi On Passenger Jets 'Almost Daily'
8. Kauai police have not made any cockfighting-related arrests in the past five years.
9. Family of man killed by dogs says petty misdemeanor charges are ‘insufficient’
10. Trump promises to end new wind farms
11. City, Legislators Kabuki Theater Inexorably Leads to Continued use of Waimanalo Gulch
12. NIMBYs Block Mililani Teacher Housing Project
13. ACLU Court Win Helps Keep the Homeless, Homeless on Maui

1. US Atty Connors Resigns After Successfully Stopping Hawaii Corruption Prosecutions
2. Oil industry seeks end to climate change lawsuits
3. Kaiser Nurses and Healthcare Workers on Maui and Lanai Ratify New Contract Without Strike
4. RFK Killed 83 in Samoa—How Many Would He Kill in USA?
5. SCAM: Sewer Rate Hike Plan Violates Federal Consent Decree
6. Honolulu Airport: “The millions spent on renovations went into the pockets of dishonest contractors and politicians.” 
7. Do Maui Wildfire Lawyers Deserve $1 Billion In Fees?
8. HECO Proposes Utility-Friendly Wildfire Recovery Fund
9. Honolulu firefighter dies; 5 people injured in McCully building fire
10. ‘They have no skin:’ Phoenix doctors treating victims from Hawaii fireworks explosion
11. Boy, 3, dies from injuries in New Year’s fireworks explosion
12. Fireworks Produce 500% Profit for Criminals
13. A closer look at Miske’s reputation for violence
14. Oahu's housing market “affordability challenges remain a significant hurdle”
15. A New Tax for the New Year: Hawaii's new Transient Accommodations Tax
16. New mayor’s support reignites TMT debate
17. Hawaii Eggs increase to a whopping $10
18. Rules are for the little people: New House Speaker Makes it up as She Goes Along

1. Hawaii Congressional Delegation--How they Voted January 3, 2025
2. Political Connections Pay Off: Some ‘affordable’ housing subsidies are a lot fatter than others
3. Double your sewer fees to fund $12.6B boondoggle as big as Rail -- Calvin Say’s last Hurrah
4. Council Members Travel on Your Dime
5. Whale ‘Amakua Censorship: New Age woo-woo stuff masquerading as Hawaiian culture
6. Kapolei HONU moves 104 bums into Shelters
7. Hawaii buys 1-way trips to Guam for homeless?
8. Eco-Activists Thrilled by Opportunity to Shut Down Catamaran Tours
9. The US Spent Billions ‘Fighting Pacific Climate Change’. Where Did It Go? (LOL!)

1. Tax Word Find
2. Assisted Suicide? Murder investigation launched after 88-year-old woman given lethal prescription
3. 51 Assisted Suicides in 2023
4. Schatz: “There’s nothing progressive about preventing people from being able to live in Hawaii.”
5. HTA Declares ‘Tourism Emergency’ (again)

1. Not Even Beautiful Hawaii Is Immune to ‘Tax Flight’
2. Report: CWS Hurts Rather than Helps
3. Aging and Hawaii’s Generational Economy
4. Budget: House Finance Committee Sets First Informational Briefings
5. Legislators to Hold Hearing on Oahu Landfill
6. Gabbard Nomination ‘In Limbo’
7. Specialized Burn Care: One Night of Honolulu Fireworks Exceeds Maui Wildfires
8. 6 fireworks explosion survivors transported to mainland for further treatment
9. Collapsing Hawaii Vacation Rental Giant Signals Market Shake-Up
10. Another Hawaii Inmate And Guard Are Attacked At An Arizona Prison

1. Can New Legal Angle Beat Jones Act in Court?
2. Green to Testify Against RFK Nomination: ‘Uninformed and Dangerous’
3. Will Tragedy Change How Hawaiʻi Polices Illegal Fireworks?
4. Lawsuit threatens Kaanapali ocean permits
5. Act 91: Teens Eligible for STD Prescriptions without Parental Notification
6. Housing assistance was top request for 211 resource hotline in 2024
7. How many homeless pedestrians were run over?

1. Red Hill Registry opens pre-enrollment for impacted community members
2. Gabbard Third Trump Nominee to be Rejected?
3. ‘Enough is enough’: Hawaii leaders pledge change after deadly illegal fireworks explosion
4. Evidence from the fatal blast
5. State moves forward with more cameras to crack down on red-light runners
6. Green Energy Drives Foreign Purchases of Hawaii Land

1. Insider Giveaway? Hawaiian Electric Announces Sale of American Savings Bank
2. VIDEO: Honolulu Fireworks Explosion Kills 3, Injures 22
3. City announces next two town hall meetings on proposed sewer fee increases
4. November Tourist Count up 5.3%
5. Hawaii 7th Hardest Gun Control Laws
6. Hawaii Top Officials Quietly Grabbing for COVID Pay Hikes
7. Honolulu City Council salary set for annual automatic raises forever
8. New year begins with lower state taxes for all
9. Hawai‘i Has Been Arguing Over Tourist Tax since 1929
10. The rise in mail voting comes with a price, as mismatched signatures lead to ballot rejections
11. Miske Case: Fentanyl Mostly Arrives by Inmate Mail
12. Civil Beat: Trump Good For Police
13. Recycling is 100% Fake -- Reynolds Recycling Still Shipping Overseas

1. Green Signs Executive Order Protecting Medicated Marijuana 'Co-ops'
2. Feds Sue CVS for Selling Opioids to Addicts
3. Hawaiian Electric Announces Sale of American Savings Bank
4. Lahaina: 350 Building Permits ‘stuck in limbo’
5. Water commission leader seeks ‘emergency’ power to block new developments, force people to move to Vegas
6. Legislative Plan Save HECO from Bankruptcy – Higher Electric Bills
7. Maui Wildfire Settlement -- Hawaii Supreme Court Sets Oral Arguments
8. Macquarie Considers a Potential $5 Billion-Plus Sale of Former Cincinnati Bell
9. Usual Suspects ‘Concerned’ About Navy Mine Training

1. Why is inflation higher in Hawaii?
2. Shoo-in Legislators Vacation on Your Dime During Campaign Season
3. How to Force a Mass-Release of Hardened Criminals: Soft-on-Crime Crowd Previews Rhetoric to be Deployed in 2025 Session
4. OIP Slams Police Commission Executive Session Abuse
5. Maui Adds 600 Construction Jobs
6. Accidental overdose? Mike Miske had no known history as a hard drug user

1. Hoarding More School Impact Fees
2. Judicial Vacancy Kauai Fifth Circuit
3. Antivaxxer Kennedy Nomination: How many Lives will be Lost?
4. Honolulu rail agency requests eminent domain on 7 KSBE properties
5. New Oahu correctional facility long overdue
6. Local 5 hopes contract gains set standard for all Hawaii hotel workers

1. Two Unconvincing Defenses of Tulsi Gabbard
2. Telescope: Report Moves NSF Closer to Choosing Chile over Hawaii
3. Hawaii worst state to work in 2024
4. Hawaii Laws to Take Effect in New Year
5. Schatz: I will exceed Inouye
6. Questions still remain in Mike Miske’s death
7. Maui's wildfires contribute to 18% rise in homelessness across US, federal officials say

1. Supreme Court Upholds Tom Cook Victory over Kelly King
2. Senate Ways and Means Sets Informational Briefing Schedule
3. Rail Mismanagement Leads to $324.1M Lawsuit
4. “It’s easier to grow two humans than it is to get a building permit!”
5. Kamehameha Schools plan for fire scarred Lands Above Lahaina?  Two Ulu Trees
6. Maui County Refusing to Allow Lahaina Harbor to Reopen
7. Still Blaming COVID: DoE Failures on Legislative Agenda
8. Nurses at Queen’s Medical Center vote on potential strike amid contract dispute

1. OHA Trustees’ Illegal 2025 Rush to Upzone Kakaako Makai (again)
2. Mayor encourages Oʻahu residents to participate in annual Community Survey
3. DNA Solves a 2014 Jane Doe
4. Continued Hawaii airline seat reductions are expected
5. The usual ethics bills will again be proposed this session
6. Maui Renters Were Having A Tough Time Even Before The Fires
7. Activists Trying to Erase Everything non-Hawaiian from Hawaii

1. How Christmas Came to Hawaii
2. Miske Died of ‘Accidental’ Fentanyl Overdose in Jail
3. Bankruptcy Sooner: Top Three and Social Security Too!
4. The Contract that Just Keeps Giving:  Sixty Years Later, Designer of Leaky Capitol Pools is Recognized and Rewarded with the latest re-do contract
5. How Government Thinks: Where Is The Soap In Honolulu's Public Bathrooms?
6. ACLU Hawaii expands probe into HPD drunk driving arrests after more drivers come forward
7. Hawaii Jury Awards $91M in Trial Against RJR Over Man's Throat Cancer

1. How Christmas Came to Hawaii
2. Am Samoa, N Mariana Governors Switch to Republican
3. Long-Term Recovery Plan for Lahaina Does not commit to Rebuild Front Street
4. Maui County to receive more than $2B in federal disaster recovery funding
5. Native Hawaiian Contractor Chris Dawson Suicide as FBI Closes in
6. Another Honolulu Rail Contractor Demands More Money, Citing Years Of Delays
7. Permanent disaster relief for Lahaina?
8. Why won’t state automatically refund GET overpayment?
9. 2 local election challenges focus on rejected absentee ballots
10. Mindless Bureaucracy Blocks Office Conversion to Housing
11. AI could create virtual lunatic asylum for Homeless in Hawaii

1. UH: Hawaii 768 Doctors Short
2. Hawaii Congressional Delegation--How they Voted December 21, 2024
3. OHA Insiders Latest Money Scheme -- Soviet-Based Ground Effects for Hawaii
4. Maui County to receive another $2B in federal disaster recovery funding
5. Sea Level Rise Hype can Force Even More People to Move to Las Vegas
6. Budget Time: DOE must again pretend to make wise fiscal choices
7. Hawaii residents getting COVID vaccines are now the minority

1. My wish list for Santa
2. Ethics Comm Approves UH Employees' Technology Transfer Contracts
3. Does Jones Act really support jobs?
4. Deferral of 'empty homes' tax leads list of recent good news
5. Empty Homes Tax--Tug of War
6. 2025 Neighborhood Board Elections--Candidate Registration Begins
7. Plan: Block Jail Construction to Force Mass-Release of hardened Criminals via Federal Takeover of Hawaii Prisons
8. Federal COVID money still fills out State Budget  
9. Hawaii Ethics Commission plans penalty system akin to traffic fines
10. EPA says military violated Red Hill consent decree, issues fine
11. Hilo Morgue Overflowing with Bodies

1. House Passes Stopgap Government Funding Bill Including Lahaina Relief Funds
2. Hawaiʻi Taxpayers to See More Take-Home Pay Resulting from Historic Tax Cuts
3. After KPT Shootout, Meth-Head Finally Catches a Federal Case
4. State Farm not renewing Hawaii hurricane insurance for single-wall homes
5. Questions emerge about origin of GPS data Maui PD provided for AG’s wildfire investigation
6. City reports criteria for Honolulu Ocean Safety commissioners
7. DHHL Gives Free Land to Rapist
8. Honolulu YMCA Tenants Won’t Be Uprooted Thanks To The State

1. Hawaii Tax Changes Taking Effect January 1, 2025
2. HR6062 Passes Senate--creates process to Amend American Samoa Territorial Constitution
3. Hawaii Preferred Port of Entry for 'Birth Tourism' Scheme
4. ​Income tax cuts set to kick in
5. Maui Prep Dumps Trans Agenda: "Children should not be deciding if they want to change their gender”
6. “Historic Lahaina rebuild systematically stymied by Maui County officials”
7. HECO Files 95-Page Report to PUC on Lahaina Fire
8. Developers to build new Aloha Stadium on old foundations
9. NTSB: Mechanical issue after takeoff
10. TRO not Enforced before Killing
11. After Years for Purposeful Legislative Foot Dragging, Overcrowded Hilo Jail Gets 46 new beds
12. A booming problem: 0 illegal fireworks arrests in Hawaii this year
13. Conspiracy Nut News: Elections Commissioner Gets Kicked Out Of His Own Meeting

1.  Feds Waste Another $250M on Rail
2. Hawaii is the 5th Worst State for New Business Survival
3. HECO’s Shaky Credit: Utility Insiders Writing Bill for Legislators --Taxpayers to Cosign Loans
4.  When will Hawaiian Electric pay damage claim?  
5. Kamaka Air faces lawsuit with former owner
6. Will This Be The Year Hawaiʻi Charges Visitors For Their Environmental Impact?
7. Tourism is down on other islands; experts say it’s the ripple effect following Lahaina wildfire
8. Public Utilities Commission Addresses Life of the Land`s "Threat of Litigation"
9. East Maui Water: BLNR decides not to turn Mahi Pono into Dust Bowl for 2025
10. Maui Council OKs new Landfill site on first reading
11. The Impossible Task Of Building A New Landfill On Oʻahu
12. Pasteurization Protects Milk Supply from Spreading Bird Flu
13. Kuawa Street homeless camp closes—14 agree to accept shelter   

1. FBI Honolulu Publishes 2024 Fiscal Year in Review Document
2. Hawaii AG Joins 18-State Coalition Targeting 'Ghost Guns'
3. ‘Lack of Significant Intelligence’ -- ‘Serious pessimism about whether Gabbard could secure the votes’
4. Council Votes Kahuku Wind Turbines to be Torn Down Starting in 2031
5. Board of Water Supply manager calls proposed landfill site ‘Red Hill Two’
6. Congress Is Poised To Approve Another $1.6 Billion For Maui Fire Aid
7. In Hawai‘i Congressional Fundraising, Tokuda Outraises Case 

1. Green Submits Biennium Budget
2. Tokuda: Sex-Change for Children More Important than Hawaii’s Military Construction Budget
3. Sovereignty Activist Whines About Grassroot Institute and King’s Cathedral Lahaina Advocacy
4. US Senate passes Lahaina heritage bill
5. Data Dive: Hawaiʻi Deportation Cases Hit Quarter-Century High
6. Dopers Demand More THC in Gummies, Vapes
7. Truck driving instructor explains recent Nimitz Hwy rollovers

1. Reply to ACLU: Fixing Hawaii Bail Problem Requires Return to Core Constitutional Principles
2. Hawaii Gun Control Issue 'Far from Resolved'
3. Honolulu: The Real Value of $100 -- $88.57
4. 2025 State Tax Competitiveness Index -- Hawaii Ranks 42nd
5. Hawaii Congressional Delegation--How they Voted December 13, 2024
6. Hawaii Airports Busiest Per Capita in USA
7. Kahele: I will redirect OHA cashflow to CNHA
8. Selection of Kamehameha Schools Trustees – Insiders Grab for Control
9. Lahaina School Enrollment drops by 1,000 After Fire
10. Donʻt Justify Public Preschools By Citing Dubious Studies
11. BLNR Tells Lahaina Condo Complex to Fall in Sea
12. Honolulu City Council Addresses Kahuku Windfarm Fiasco

1. "Empty homes" tax deferral shows your voice matters
2. PBS FRONTLINE documentary: ‘Maui’s Deadly Firestorm’ premieres Dec. 17
3. Lahaina Debris Clearing Nearly Complete
4. Qualified Charitable Distributions
5. Gov. Green 2026 reelection ‘Green Lighted’
6. Hawaii Supreme Court Just Like Trump
7. Queen’s plans new hospital in Kailua-Kona with helipad, housing

1. Feds do the Job the State Cannot: Molester Coach Pleads Guilty
2. DHHL Breaks Ground at Bowl-O-Drome Site
3. Kapaa Woman Indicted for COVID Fraud
4. Legislature Begins Accepting Grant-in-Aid Applications
5. UH lands $110M DoD contract for cutting-edge research
6. Too Bad, So Sad: With Trump in Office, Grifters Can’t Milk Hawai‘i’s Military-Leased Lands for Money
7. Hawaii's Population: Eight Years of decline
8. Senators:  Tulsi Gabbard ‘Shallow and Unimpressive’
9. Lawyers ‘Knife fight’ in court over Maui wildfire settlement fund
10. Briefing schedule set on motion to vacate Miske convictions and return seized assets
11. Manoa father cited for Christmas lights on public walkway
12. Bumflights: Hawaii Homeless influx expected before 2028 LA Olympic Games

1. UHERO: 'Housing affordability continues to deteriorate'
2. Red Flag Warning Ends with No Safety Shutoffs
3. Exodus Depresses Hawaii Economy
4. Tariffs Will Drive Cost of Living Higher
5. Another Boondoggle: Mile-Long Pedestrian Bridge in Wahiawa
6. Can a US missile defense system shield Guam from Chinese threat?
7. The Long Crusade To Build A West Maui Hospital Hits Another Snag
8. Police officer arrested for felony crime at downtown apartment complex
9. Former basketball coach pleads guilty to child sex crimes against 10 victims
10. Crackpot Comment on Hawaiian being ‘dead language’ at council hearing draws widespread rebuke
11. Honolulu Restaurant Tip Theft Case Hardly The Only One In Town
12. Court ruling could halt boat operations at Kāʻanapali Beach in 2025

1. Honolulu City Council votes to defer Bill 46 Empty Homes Tax
2. Designed to Fail: City Pretends to Select Wahiawa Location for Dump
3. Biden Admin Begs SCOTUS to Ignore Honolulu Climate Suit
4. Face It, Theyʻre Not Moving Back to Hawaiʻi
5. Applause as Council postpones empty-homes tax bill
6. Manager of senior housing complex left injured resident to die on apartment floor, new lawsuit alleges
7. Star-Adv: City Must Make Ghetto Lottery Pay
8. More red light safety cameras and speeding cameras coming to Hawaii roads

1. Survey: 40% consider moving out of state
2. Mariana Islands a Center for Chinese Birth Tourism
3. Honolulu’s proposed “Empty Homes” tax: ‘Some people will lose their homes’
4. Blangiardi doubts plastic bottle ban bill
5. Rules of the House, up close and personal
6. Designed to Fail: City pretends to pick area northwest of Wahiawa to pretend to be Oahu’s next landfill
7. Maui County files for dismissal of election suit
8. 23-Time Loser Finally Catches a FEDERAL Case
9. Police subsidized vehicle reportedly involved in Aiea hit and run
10. Price increase expected for Oahu Transit Services
11. Cell tower bills head to council
12. Bill 156: Maui Council to Ban Vapes?
13. Frequent Complaints about bums using drugs, exhibiting signs of mental illness or continuously occupying spaces

1. ANOTHER ONE: Alleged CEO Assassin is Honolulu Resident
2. Hawaii’s continuous exodus could get a whole lot worse
3. Justice Thomas slams Hawaii’s gun permit laws in SCOTUS denial
4. Senators Urged To Examine Gabbard's 'Deep and Intense' Ties To Hawaiʻi Cult
5. The Miske Enterprise case is about to disappear
6. No Transsexual Agenda for Maui Prep after Board Member Ousted  
7. Hawaii Second Amendment case may be Eligible for Second Bite of Supreme Apple
8. City council to vote Wednesday on empty homes tax bill
9. ‘Empty Homes Tax’ will Drive Up Rents
10. Legislative Agenda: Yamashita to grab for County Revenues (again)

1. Supreme Court Passes On Chance To Correct Hawaii Ruling Finding ‘Spirit Of Aloha’ Trumps Second Amendment
2. Tulsi Gabbard as U.S. Spymaster?
3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted December 6 2024
4. ‘Monkey Business’ -- OHA too crooked to run Graveyard
5. West Oahu Has A Domestic Violence Crisis. The Cost Of Living Makes It Worse
6. City prepares to announce new landfill site; here’s what’s being considered

1. The Upcoming 2025 Session
2. Why Hawaii's housing costs are among the highest in the nation
3. Hawaii 3rd-Highest Pension Debt
4. Dream home in paradise leads to 'total dismay'
5. Insiders Scripting Next Legislative Session Right Now
6. Keiki Climate Change Settlement Behind Construction Projects
7. Public needs legislative transparency
8. Green Allocates $20M to Sue Trump
9. HPD looks to pull back West Oahu manpower
10. Legal Weed?  Tarnas Copying now-unpopular Maryland Law
11. Water Issues Strangle Troubled Residential Development in Rainy Hilo
12. General Plan meeting wanders into climate change discussion
13. Huge backlog for key business tax credit

1. Forgotten Honouliuli: Jack Burns, Police Spy
2. City announces next five town hall meetings on proposed sewer fee increases
3. Affordable Housing: City Touts 'Year of Progress'
4. Light tunnel and brand-new displays to commemorate 40th anniversary of Honolulu City Lights
5. Dec 15 Deadline for Maui Interim Housing Program
6. DOH Approve State's 25th Medicated Marijuana Dispensary
7. How 1898 Annexation of Hawaii upset Japan’s plans of occupation
8. Lahaina residents hopeful as momentum builds in burn zone
9. FEMA seeks vacant lots for temporary housing for Maui fire survivors
10. Miske’s death also ends an assault case against him in state court that was ready for trial
11. Aunt of missing Maui woman says she’s parting ways with rest of family
12. Input wanted on proposed Skyline, TheBus and Handi-Van fare changes
13. Blangiardi administration skeptical of bill to ban single-use plastic bottles

1. New report challenges common claim that 'Jones Act jobs' have been increasing
2. Missing Maui Woman Secretly Married in Green Card Scam?
3. Senate passes legislation for Maui fire survivors tax relief
4. UH Contract Specifically Hides President Search Details From The Public
5. Everybody is Screwed: Honolulu DPP Yanks ‘Renovation Aloha’ Permit After Civil Beat Exposes Illegal Work
6. State Worker Charged In Monk Seal Pup Death Repeatedly Let Dogs Off Leash
7. Controversy looms over potential sites for Oahu landfill
8. McCoy Pavilion Renovation—5 years and counting

1. DBEDT: Tax Reform Improves Economic Outlook
2. Insurance Emergency: Green Extends Proclamation Again
3. Court: DoE Must Allow Christian Good News Clubs in Schools
4. DOOMED: Senators Set to Reject Gabbard nomination – but first they want to expose her foreign contacts
5. Unconstitutional:  Empty Homes Tax bill up for final reading Dec. 11
6. Bogus UCLA Study Behind Empty-Homes Tax
7. OHA Leadership Shakeup Puts Kai Kahele In Charge, With An Eye on Kakaako Makai Development
8. House approves push to designate Lahaina a heritage area
9. COVID Cheating Over: Long Lines as SNAP Now Requires In-Person Recertification
10. Why Did Hawaii Democrats Link Electoral Votes To The Popular Vote?
11. Mike Miske autopsy produced no immediate answers about his cause of death
12. Honolulu police ‘justified’ in fatal shooting on New Year’s Day, prosecutor says
13. Judge dismisses sexual assault case against Maui firefighter
14. Damages to Kula fire survivors' driveways after debris removal have some feeling 'betrayed'
15. Biden Admin Seeks to End Hawaii Doctors' Challenge to Abortion Pill Regs
16. Hawaii Farmers Face Risk of Crime Daily. Is A Murder Enough To Spur Reform?
17. Data Dive: Hawaii Spends More On Takeout Than Any Other State

1. Miske’s death may terminate some criminal proceedings
2. Years Later, Kilauea lava flow disaster recovery efforts still haven’t started
3. 20% Kickback Legalized? Nan Scores $150M DHHL project by teaming up with Kali Watson Crony
4. My Battle with Tulsi Gabbard’s Cult Followers in Hawaii
5. For 'Renovation Aloha,' Permit Violations Are The Cost Of Doing Business
6. HPD corporal charged with making false reports to law enforcement goes before judge
7. Miske cause of death still a mystery
8. Will Miske Family Sue over Jail ‘Suicide’?
9. PUC: Justice = Free Electricity?
10. Kauai Council Sworn in Despite Election Challenge
11. How City Landfill Process is Designed to Continue Waimanalo Gulch

Years Later, Kilauea lava flow disaster recovery efforts still haven’t started

1. Legislators Announce 2025 Session Calendar
2. Tax and Trade issues top Taiwan Agenda during Hawaii Visit
3. How Family Got Justice Decades After Outgoing 19-Year-Old Was Killed in Her Hawaii Apartment
4. How to make Hawaii more livable
5. Hunting for a New Place in Renter’s Purgatory
6. $250M Later, Hawaii Kindergarten Readiness Remains Low
7. Green to Testify Before Congress on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s health secretary nomination
8. Roth announces $10.7 million savings for county from arbitration with Hawaiʻi Government Employees Association
9. 2.3% hike in SNAP benefits proposed by U.S. Ag Department to reflect Hawai‘i food costs 

1. ‘Empty Homes Tax’ Drives Rent up 37%
2. SF Judge Rules 'Empty Homes Tax’ Unconstitutional
3. Maui County Officials Plot to Eliminate Front Street
4. Tulsi Gabbard Through The Years: What A Long Strange Trip It's Been
5. Kennedy nomination could place our keiki’s access to vaccines in jeopardy
6. Newly Elected? Here's How Not To Be Corrupted

1. Taiwan President Lai visits Bishop Museum in Hawaii
2. ALERT: Stop the misguided "empty homes" tax proposal
3. Deferred Maintenance
4. ​Breaking: Mike Miske found dead at Honolulu’s Federal Detention Center
5. DNI? Gabbard set to lose 48-52, RFK will lose 45-55
6. Slush Fund News: OHA Fears Trump Will not Give Cash for Military Leases
7. After Losing to Pierick Again, Rosenlee asks Court for a Mulligan
8. Hopeful restaurant owners have to begin as ‘snack shop’ due to county’s permitting process
9. No Excuse for Rolling Back Historic Income Tax Cuts
10. Empty homes tax raises many issues
11. DHS Plan: Make foster kids wait four more years for help
12. Tarnas: Legalize Drugged Driving
13. News Rules for Legislative Committee Referrals?
14. Green Fee Still Unconstitutional, Legislators will waste time on it anyway
15. Honolulu rail’s failures overburden residents
16. Hawaii looks to ban sale of single-use plastics at city facilities
17. ‘Details a Little Fuzzy’ as Plastiphobes Mandate Stainless Steel Bento Boxes for Downtown Hilo
18. Dude Admits he was trying to Sneak into Womens Restroom at US Congress

1. Eight Names: Who will be the next ICA Chief Judge?
2. Hawaii’s Firearm Laws Challenged in Federal Court  
3. Lahaina Benefits Expire: Another wave of Locals Leaving Hawaii
4. Vote-by-Mail Produces More Election Challenges
5. Jury awards more than $2M to family of homeless man killed by deputy sheriff at Capitol
6. Cannabis caregivers and large grow sites will soon be illegal in Hawaii, impacting thousands

1. Green Approves THC Oils, Gummies and Drinks, calls it 'Hemp'
2. Nikki Haley: Russian Symp Gabbard Dangerous at DNI
3. When are the town halls on higher sewer fees?
4. Hawaii's Last Sugar Lobbyist
5. Bill 123 Is Good Housing And Climate Policy For Hawaii County
6. City postpones pretending to identify next landfill site
7. Report reveals disturbing details in monk seal death involving state employee’s dogs
8. Four Inmate Suicides this year

1. Senate Announces Leadership and Committee Assignments
2. House Committee Assignments and Leadership Announced
3. Green Appoints Kusch to HD1 Seat (again)
4. October Tourist Count up 5.4%
5. HECO Proposes Controlling Phony Biofuel Industry
6. Arbitrator rules 550 UH UPW workers to get 15% hazard pay for pandemic work
7. State, deputy sheriff disallowed from claiming self defense in Capitol shooting trial
8. County employees accused of stealing gasoline from police station pump

1. Hawaii Claims the Highest Median Rent in the U.S.
2. What Happens when Hirono Retires from US Senate?
3. Child Welfare Services is doing almost everything wrong
4. Maui Rents Jump 44%
5. Homeowner, 83, is first to rebuild in Kula after Maui wildfires
6. Who needs Collective Bargaining?  More Free Stuff for Teachers
7. Importing Clean, Cheap Liquefied Natural Gas Faces Enviros Opposition
8. Latest UH AD situation just long list of clown shows
9. Former State Archaeologist Faces Ethics Probe Into Revolving Door Allegation
10. Bird flu spreading in Hawaii for the first time
11. At least $100K in transit fare revenue lost from cyber attack

1. UHERO Grudgingly Admits ‘Uncertainties’ in Empty Homes Tax
2. Answers to Questions for Tulsi Gabbard about the National Socialists who directed her Syria Trip
3. DHHL Awards 68 Ag Lots on Big Island
4. Green: RFK responsible for 83 deaths in Samoa
5. After losing race, former Maui County council chair calls for new election
6. Instead of empty homes tax, release more land
7. Hawaii Nursing Home Deficiencies Among Highest In The Nation
8. Matson’s New Vessels Illustrate Jones Act’s Grip On Hawaii Shipping
9. Trask Geothermal Scheme back with Backing from UH
10. Life in Academia: New UH President Was Only Accused Of Discrimination Twice Before Hiring
11. The Unnamed Dead Of Honolulu May Be Revealed Through DNA Testing

1. Do Marine Protected Areas Really Help Fisheries?
2. Gay Marriage Amendment won by only 1.3%
3. First Families Move Into Temporary FEMA Housing For Maui Fire Survivors
4. Campaign Spending Reforms Back for 2025 Legislative Session
5. DHHL makes largest agricultural lot offering since the late 1980s – 68 lots
6. Dole's Wahiawa Dam Is A Hazard. Now The State Is A Step Closer To Buying It