1. Minimum Wage Hike? You can be replaced by a Robot
2. Full Text: State of the State Address
3. Hawaii Unemployment Drops to 5.7% for December
4. DHHL?  Rainy Day?  Minimum Wage?  Most of the Big Splashy Legislative Proposals are just Negotiating Positions
5. Minimum Wage Hike -- Big Contract Boost for UPW?  
6. Proposed short-term rental ban is not the ‘solution’ we need
7. 8 Years Of Fighting The Police Union In Court And What Did We Get?
8. More Homeless Mayhem: Police shoot man, 48, who allegedly charged at them with knife in Ala Moana area
9. Navy to withhold full Red Hill fuel leak report
10. Maui Commission Wants Public’s Feedback On 40 Reforms To Local Government
11. UH Football Coaches And The Culture Of Hawaii

1. Where People from Hawaii Are Moving to the Most
2. UH Football Coach Selection Process Illegal?
3. DoH: 69% of Seniors are Boosted
4. Honolulu’s Culture Of Corruption: It Takes a Village
5. Federal grand jury probes Hawaii campaign donations
6. Let's Back Those Trying To Earn An Extra Buck Instead Of Blocking Them
7. Drinking water quality test results will be made public faster
8. SB2057: Rush Windfarms Past Community Opposition
9. Victorino, Bissen, Molina Dive In Early To Maui Mayor Race
10. How Many Murders does one Criminal Need to Commit Before Being Locked up?
11. Legislator’s Sports Betting Bill Proposes Staggering 55% Tax Rate

1. DBEDT: Hawaii Family of Four Must Earn $85,372 to Stay off Welfare
2. GOP: Reopen the State Capitol
3. Report: Hawaii Worst State to Drive in
4. Free Needles for Addicts: Hawaii Grade B for Hepatitis Elimination
5. Short-term rentals a convenient scapegoat?
6. Spotlight on Retirement Income
7. $600M Didn’t Solve Hawaiian Homelands Problem Last Time
8. DHHL: $600M Here, $600M There, and $200M for OHA
9. Pension Cash Still Flowing to Kealoha
10. Effort to Revitalize Hilo sinking into DLNR morass
11. Carbon Tax Would Drive More People out of Hawaii
12. DoE Program Designed to Prevent Kids from Ever Becoming Republicans

1. Ing Tells Russia US Military Not Wanted in Hawaii
2. Honolulu Rate Commission seeks input on TheBus, HandiVan fare changes
3. June Jones turns down Hawaii job: 'I wasn't offered a job that was conducive to winning'
4. Trapped Rat: Roy Amemiya Wants to Expose other ‘Severance Agreements’. The City Says No
5. Red Hill: Legislators see Dollar Signs
6. Term limits for Hawaii legislators would help shorten the long game
7. PUC Says No to Secret HEI Investments
8. Report: Gun Control Nuts Like Hawaii, California
9. Maui Police 25% short staffed
10. Hawaii public school teacher absences ease following omicron surge
11. Blood Bank of Hawaii: Critically low blood supply a matter of ‘life and death’
12. Rep. Val Okimoto To Seek Honolulu City Council Seat
13. FAKE FAKE FAKE--Resorts find Loopholes in Maui ‘Moratorium’
14. Kakaako: HHFDC Quietly Evaporates School Plan
15. Bum Magnet: River Of Life Mission Is Leaving Chinatown

1. UH Regents approve new Maunakea Master Plan
2. Rep Kai Kahele Doubles Down on COVID Lockdowns
3. Star-Adv: Down with Freedom--Hawaii is only for the Elite
4. Federal prosecutors not finished--interview Hanabusa
5. The Squatter House That Miske Bought
6. City lawyers’ ouster from Iremamber Sykap case sought
7. Storing jet fuel a complicated task
8. Hawaii public-school student absences up dramatically in latest COVID-19 surge, report says
9. Retention rate of Hawaii public school teachers after 5 years of employment just over 50%
10. Advisory panel formed to help find next DOE superintendent
11. Plan to ban rentals under 90 days moves through City Council despite some opposition
12. Mayor Taps Former Fire Chief To Join Honolulu Police Commission
13. Laughing at the Judiciary: Criminal Racks up 161 Convictions in 18 Yrs

1. VIDEO: Day One Speeches at Hawaii Legislature 
2. Hawaii Communities Bring Hope, Can-Do Spirit to School Choice Week Celebrations
3. Max Sword Points Finger at Amemiya, Leong--Caldwell Next?
4. ‘Round 3, I’m out’: Hawaii Restaurant Association worries new COVID rules could turn away business, customers
5. Hawaii House leaders vow to clear Hawaiian Home Lands backlog, raise minimum wage and decommission Red Hill
6. Sales Pitch for Next Boondoggle: Ala Wai Today 1pm
7. More families file claims against Navy as attorneys plan for class-action lawsuit
8. Lawsuit: UPW Elections Botched
9. Staffing shortages leave scores of Hawaii hospital patients ‘waitlisted’ for long-term care beds
10. Substitute Teachers Are In High Demand But Short Supply In Hawaii
11. $30K Mortgage help for Oahu residents
12. HTA Demands $60M to Find ‘Mindful’ Tourists

1. Bill 41 Could Squash Short-term Rentals
2. Best Cities for Remote Workers? Honolulu 2nd Worst
3. Marketing: Hawaii Resorts Score 'Green Business Awards'
4. Rep Bob McDermott Announces Campaign for US Senate
5. How Kealoha settlement was rushed past Honolulu Police Commission
6. Military-Industrial Complex, Congressional Delegation Pushing Unwanted Missile Radar for Kauai
7. Hawaii County Councilman criticized for Anti-Vax social media posts   
8. 50 Years After Title IX, Hawaii DoE Still Doesn’t Have Female Locker Rooms
9. ‘Broken Windows’ Enforcement?  Only if you smash the windows in Police Station

1. 1959: Martin Luther King Jr Salutes Hawaii Statehood
2. Punatics to get the House seat stolen from Oahu by Disenfranchising Military personnel?
3. Gov. David Ige seeks to create new law enforcement agency
4. Got $123.9 Billion? -- Abercrombie-Connected Group pushes Hawaii political candidates for more ‘investment’ in brainwashing young children
5. Bringing Down Costs Is More Important Than Raising Wages
6. Restrictions hurt Hawaii’s stake in cryptocurrency market
7. Navy Gives New Dates For Families Displaced By Water Crisis To Return Home
8. Sales Pitch for Next Boondoggle: Public can attend virtual meeting discussing Ala Wai Flood Risk study
9. Honolulu airport improvements become homeless camp--rash of car thefts
10. Shortage of volcanic black cinder in Hawaii

1. Unemployment insurance mess back to haunt us
2. Under the Big Top
3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 15, 2022
4. Before UH Hired Him -- Graham Got $12.8M Buyout from Arizona State U
5. Big Pile of Your Money: Legislature Prepares to Light Bonfire
6. What did Kealoha have on Caldwell?
7. How did handcuffs become Honolulu’s new jewelry craze?
8. Miske Lawyers Ask Hawaii Supreme Court to block sealing of old case and gag order issued by state judge
9. Water at Aliamanu Military Reservation was 3 times state’s safe limit
10. Living costs, lack of housing hurt medical recruiting locally
11. More Homeless Mayhem: State librarian asks for $1M security boost against COVID pandemic crime wave
12. Chinatown: 100 Homeless Drug Addicts Arrested
13. Caltech Submillimeter Observatory on track to be removed later this year

1. Commission Hears Complaints on Election Integrity
2. No Buyout:  Todd Graham resigns as University of Hawaii head football coach
3. UH regents to consider new Maunakea Master Plan
4. Hawaii public school teacher absences hit 2,159 amid omicron surge
5. State gets OK to once again streamline food stamp application, renewals process
6. How The Victim Of Mistaken Identity Was Finally Let Out Of The Hawaii State Hospital
7. HPD says 20 of the city’s security cameras in Chinatown don’t work

1. Put state budget on a diet, Akina says on ‘Perry & The Posse’ show
2. Al Hee's Hawaiian Homelands Monopoly Broken
3. Community invited to help shape spending of federal recovery funds
4. Which County has the Most Small Businesses?
5. VIDEO: TANF Hoarding
6. Former council members expect to be witnesses against indicted ex-city officials
7. Lawmakers: Red Hill Fuel Leaked Into Well Through A Pipeline Navy Didn’t Know Existed
8. DOE Officials Preview Budget Priorities To Hawaii Lawmakers
9. Honolulu Police Chief Search Expected To Take At Least 6 More Months    
10. Annual Statewide Count Of Hawaii’s Homeless Population Postponed
11. Will This Bureaucratic Tug Of War Over Hawaii’s Ag Lands Finally End?

1. Navy to Congress: Future of Hawaii Red Hill Fuel Facility Uncertain
2. Hawaii Tax Foundation to Host 2022 Legislative Briefing series
3. Hawaii: Cost Per Tobacco Smoker $2.8M
4. SHOPO Statement on Federal Indictment of Three Honolulu Officials
5. State budget windfall should be shared with taxpayers
6. Feds: Ali'i Security Rips off 171 Guards for $1.54M Overtime
7. Caldwell Next to be Arrested?
8. New map proposed for Hawaii’s state, congressional lawmaker districts
9. Hawaii Voter database - 100,000 bogus registrations?
10. Hawaii's Capitol Can Be Opened Safely
11. 42 Hawaii public schools have not reported their COVID-19 case counts since before winter break
12. Head of nurses union: Severe staffing shortage at hospitals is impacting patient care
13. UH Buyout: $1.2M for a Dr Pepper
14. COVID: People Earned Less from Work--But Got Free Money from the Sky
15. Antivax Mayoral recall effort fails Miserably in second attempt to collect signatures
16. Poll - Hawaii Voters Want To Access State Agencies and Services Online

1. How Many Legislators Were Partying With Sharon Har During COVID Shutdown?
2. Money and Power: HSTA Priorities for 2022 Legislature
3. DoH Reduces School Quarantine Requirements, HSTA Complains
4. DOH/CDC health survey expanded to include all Navy water system users
5. Kealoha Payoff Illegal: Top Caldwell Administration Officials Arrested by FBI
6. ‘The judge got it wrong’: City prosecutor rails against lawmaker’s acquittal in DUI case
7. Civil Beat Law Center intervenes again opposing unnecessary secrecy in Miske case
8. Reality: As it pledges to empty fuel tanks, Navy says cost of crisis now tops $250M
9. Illusion: Elected officials advance bill pretending to propose city regulate Red Hill fuel farm
10. Is The Hawaii Legislature Ready To Give Teachers Yet Another Raise Outside of Collective Bargaining?
11. Hanabusa Gravy Train: Honolulu Rail Board Members Signal Strong Satisfaction With Kahikina’s Job So Far
12. Bill 41: Neighborhoods need rentals of 30+ days
13. The Maui Charter Commission Is Weighing 85 Changes To County Government
14. CNMI House Votes To Impeach Governor Torres

1. Cryptocurrency in Hawaii at a crossroads
2. DHHL Releases EA for Isenberg Street Rentals, Kalaeloa Solar Project
3. Drunk With Power: Sharon Har DUI case ends in acquittal
4. Witch Hunt Continues: House May Ask AG To Probe Alleged Criminal Conduct By State Auditor
5. COVID Excuse: Higa sentencing delayed
6. SB666: Hawaii’s Legislature Will Use Climate Change as Excuse for Tax and Fee Hike
7. Rolling Blackouts Coming: Oahu renewable energy suffers setback
8. Prioritize COVID testing, transparency to keep schools going
9. First cruise ship to Hawaiʻi in 2 years arrives with positive COVID-19 cases in isolation
10. U.S. military tracking Russian military vessel near Hawaii
11. HPD And DOE Sued For Allegedly Handcuffing 10-Year-Old Girl Over Drawing
12. New suits filed against housing project on Navy water line as flushing effort continues
13. Hospitals report ‘critical’ shortage of staffed beds with 1,400 frontline caregivers out due to COVID
14. Quack? Maui Hospital Goes After Antivax Doc

1. 1959: Martin Luther King Jr Salutes Hawaii Statehood
2. Navy Has Underground Fuel Tanks on Kauai, Too
3. Legislature: Wooden Stockade to Keep Public Out
4. SHOPO Leader Wants Faster Progress In Finding A New Honolulu Police Chief
5. Rate Commission seeks public input on Bus, Handi-Van fares
6. Hele-On riders offered free Bikeshare use

1. Red Hill: BWS Smokes out Congress?
2. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 8, 2022
3. Hotel moratorium bill: Maui Council Overrides Veto 
4. TANF Hoarding
5. Aloha Stadium Gravy Train: Tickets on Sale Now $25
6. Rail Operating Cost may be $150M per Year
7. Pandemic-caused shutdown of state Capitol hurts public participation in our Legislature
8. One of Miske’s Hawaii Kai Homes Is For Sale, But He’s Unlikely To Get The Proceeds
9. Hawaii’s high housing costs can be lessened
10. Flushing of water system at Aliamanu and Red Hill to continue, Army says
11. Some Central Maui residents may see different voting districts
12. Interest is high now that electric guns are legal to buy and carry in Hawaii
13. Young Brothers suspends some cargo shipments to Maui
14. Shapiro: Lesson from WWII: Fix democracy with more democracy

1. Anti-Gun Bills Expected
2. Hawaii population continues to dwindle
3. UHERO: ​Effects of COVID-19 vaccine mandates in Hawai‘i
4. PUC Chair James Griffin to Step Down
5. Curbing emergency power
6. Public schools are in-person, but COVID is keeping hundreds of students away
7. Hawaii public school officials report 1,800+ teacher absences; Chaminade joins shift to virtual classes
8. Navy wants to release millions of gallons of treated water a day from tainted well into Halawa Stream
9. Ige Proposes Statewide Law Enforcement Agency
10. Next Big Fat UH Buyout: Todd Graham Allegedly Called Hawaii A ‘Third World Country’ Because The Vending Machines Didn’t Have Dr. Pepper

1. House subcommittee to take up Navy fuel cleanup in Hawaii
2. TANF: Hawaii Hoards $364M Federal Welfare Money
3. Hawaii offers $25 to inmates who get COVID booster
4. COVID: Hawaii Shutdowns Among Harshest in USA
5. National Community Survey for O'ahu Residents
6. UH: Solar Installations are Killing Birds
7. UH: Ocean plastic is creating new communities of life on the high seas
8. Hawaii Republicans: January 6 Investigation 'Targeting Good Americans'
9. Peter Savio: ‘I Like Trump’ -- Considers Run on Republican Ticket
10. Miske associate ‘Harry Boy’ Kauhi details Hawaii murder-for-hire in plea deal
11. Missing HSTA Members Include 1,969 Anti-Vaxxers--Schools Shifting Back to Fake ‘Online’ Classes
12. Decision on military population means 100,000 Oahuans Disenfranchised so Big island can Seize Control of Undeserved House Seat
13. Hawaii Tax Collections Are Projected To Top $8 Billion For The First Time Ever
14. First cruise ship in nearly two years slated to arrive in Hawaii next week
15. Best feature of Maui comprehensive affordable housing plan is at risk
16. Commission rejects ‘flawed’ effort to preserve Oahu farmland
17. Monsanto pleads guilty to pesticide-related crimes in Hawaii
18. 6 in 10 Oahu homes on the market sold over asking price in 2021: Report
19. Hawaii Should Prepare Now For The Next Drug Scourge

1. Lobbyists Welcome--But Legislature will Continue to Exclude Public
2. California Global Warmer Returns to Hawaii, Quickly Named to BLNR
3. Capacity at larger indoor gatherings temporarily restricted through January in response to Omicron
4. Statewide Historic Preservation Plan to be Updated
5. Hawaii COVID Hospitalization Count Artificially Inflated by 20%
6. Gov. David Ige’s emergency powers face challenges
7. Hanabusa Gravy Train: HART Board Rewards one of its own with $170K Salary
8. The Navy told this military family they were safe from toxic water. Then both their children ended up in the ER
9. Unemployment Tax Spike For Employers?
10. Lawmakers: Spend $1 Billion In Rainy Day Funds to Create HGEA ‘Positions’
11. This Year HTA Wants $150M, and a Convention Center Roof
12. ‘Working families’ Group of Hawaii lawmakers formed
13. Hawaii DOE superintendent: Over 1,600 teachers statewide have called out sick    
14. McDermott Leaving Hawaii House, Daughter-In-Law To Seek Seat
15. Maui Purports to Have 4,311 ‘Affordable’ Units ‘in pipeline’
16. Survey: Anti-Tourism Sentiment Strongest Among New Arrivals 
17. Anti-TVR Bill 41 to be Heard Jan 13
18. Ex-death row inmate accused of raping another prisoner at Halawa facility
19. Hawaii 'Proud Boys' leader's case still active year after Jan. 6 Capitol attack
20. Displaced military families will have to wait longer until water is safe to return home
21. ‘It’s a mess’: Some Kula residents still boiling water 1 month after powerful storm
22. With electric guns legal in Hawaii, police warn misuse comes with consequences

1. Schatz: 'January 6 was round one'
2. Hawaii budget needs lifestyle change in 2022
3. DoT: Hawaii Harbors Reopen to Cruise Ships
4. Federal CDC to Survey Red Hill Health Impacts
5. Congressional Delegation: Navy Must Comply With DOH Emergency Order To Defuel Red Hill Tanks
6. Judges, Grand Jury Counsel Needed on Big Island
7. Hawaii’s Population Drain Outpaces Most States — 10,358 flee
8. Lower Income Families May Face Extra Hardships In 2022
9. Hawaii is forecast to reach nearly 10 million tourists in 2024
10. Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi announces 50% capacity limit on large indoor events on Oahu
11. Hawaii COVID-19 hospitalizations mount
12. Hospital workers shortage worsens with more than 1,000 frontline caregivers out due to COVID  
13. Some Hawaii public schools face staffing shortage as COVID-19 infections rise in the state
14. Pressures of the pandemic delay environmental protection efforts
15. Hundreds of domestic violence, DUI cases at risk after state Supreme Court ruling
16. State offering inmates $25 incentive to get booster shot
17. Alleged Game Room Shooter Has Lots of Priors
18. HFD investigating blaze in Kakaako that triggered evacuation at homeless shelter
19. Hawaii Council committee advances fare-free bus
20. $250 tax credit for homeowners? Council members mull proposal, vote to table it for now
21. Hawaii Avoids Port Backups But Some Goods Are Scarce

1. New Ethics Comm Exec Director a Pro-Rail Corporate Lawyer and Lobbyist
2. Senate Budget Briefings Begin
3. Let's Play Make Believe: Hawaii DoH 'Orders' US Navy to Stop Fueling Ships, Planes
4. Sounds of war we wish to forget 
5. Removing Hawaii’s Barriers to Bitcoin
6. 7-Eleven Hawaii to Accept SNAP for Online Orders With Vroom Delivery
7. Hawaii Top Choice for Taiwan-National Guard Partnership: Report
8. Investigation underway: State probing vandalism of Captain Cook Monument
9. COVID Count Drops Sharply: Hawaii sees 1,592 new coronavirus cases
10. 100,000 Oahuans to be Excluded from Count so Big Island can get Another House Seat
11. Board of Water Supply says 3 Oahu wells may never reopen after latest Navy contamination
12. Clare Connors sworn in as U.S. Attorney for Hawaii
13. Students return to Hawaii public school classrooms amid omicron surge
14. Hawaii eliminates Safe Travels health questionnaire, reduces COVID quarantine for visitors to align with CDC guidelines
15. Hawaii County flooded with outreach requests from COVID-patients who have no place to quarantine
16. Honolulu Councilman Augie Tulba’s role in TV commercial raises ethics questions
17. Report: DOE Food Sustainability Goal Not Real

Sounds of war we wish to forget

1. 2022 State Business Tax Climate Index--Hawaii Ranks 41st
2. Hawaii could be more transparent about CARES Act spending, report says
3. Wages For Many On Oahu Fail To Keep Pace With Soaring Prices
4. Kaua‘i avoided ‘eviction tsunami’ as wealthy homebuyers drove up prices
5. Omicron 66%, Delta 33% of Hawaii COVID cases
6. Contractors play key role in Red Hill fuel storage operations
7. Soft-on-Crime Crowd Hopes to Give Tickets for Felonies
8. Helicopter Mapping Homeless camps for outreach, Point In Time Count

1. Native Hawaiian Access to Healthcare is a Symptom of a Statewide Problem
2. OHA’s 2022 Legislative Package
3. Act 90: 19,000 DLNR Acres Transferred to Agriculture Department
4. ​Honolulu Police Department Gun Registration Website Now Operational
5. Considering a Carbon Tax with Rebates
6. ‘Social License’: Buying Off Activists with Bundles of Money Is Essential For Large-Scale Projects In Hawaii
7. Critical Hawaii issues face deadlines, uncertainty in 2022
8. Wise quotables to help guide isle notables in the new year
9. Rain may delay US Navy’s timeline for flushing fuel-contaminated water out
10. New law allows Hawaii residents to legally purchase, carry stun gun for self-defense
11. Hawaii deputy sheriffs hoping for back hazard, overtime pay
12. Decision by Hawaii Supreme Court leads to dismissal of dozens of cases
13. Romantic ideas about locally grown food getting in the way
14. A Long Legal Battle Still Looms For Hawaiian Home Lands Beneficiaries
15. ‘Just hop on the bus’: Hawaii County Council bill would make bus rides free thanks to grants

1. Hawaii Ranks 12th for Property Crime
2. Hospitalizations ‘decoupling’ from COVID counts as severity is not surging with cases
3. Hawaii records 4 new coronavirus-related deaths, 2,710 additional infections
4. State senate to hold hearing on University of Hawaii football program
5. First class action lawsuit filed on behalf of residents affected by Navy’s tainted water crisis
6. Preview of Oahu Without Coal: HECO asks Oahu customers to conserve electricity after several generators go offline
7. Most Japanese nationals want to travel to Hawaiʻi after the pandemic
8. Star-Adv Editorial: How to Extract Money from Zuckerbergs on Kauai

1. A clear abuse of power: Auditor Rips Legislators 'Nonsense attempt to conjure up malfeasance'
2. Ige's Latest COVID Emergency Proclamation Does Only One Thing: Suspend Part of Sunshine Law
3. Maui Revises Definition of 'Fully Vaccinated'
4. DHS Waiver Makes Life Easier for Welfare Cheats
5. Honolulu Hale Multiple Resignations, Retirements
6. Making Tourism More ‘Woke’ Means Taxes, Fees, and Hassles
7. No Booster Shot Patients in ICU
8. Hawaii reports 5 new coronavirus-related deaths, 3,290 additional infections
9. Hawaii County Council Rejects In-Person Testimony                       
10. Maui Council to convene online as in-person meeting rules suspended
11. Hawaii Public Utilities Commission -- 2022 and Beyond
12. Oahu and Maui plastic bans postponed

1. HIDOE schools expected to resume in-person learning following winter break
2. COVID: HSTA Urges Sickout
3. DoH Eases COVID Quarantine Rules
4. DLIR Reports Seven Workplace fatalities in 2021
5. Here’s How Life Expectancy in Hawaii Compares to the Nation
6. Maui County Delays Plastic Disposable Foodware Ban
7. Hawaii sets new record with 3,484 new coronavirus cases -- no deaths
8. Blangiardi Defends Approach To Omicron Surge
9. New timeline of events sheds light on failures that led to Navy’s ongoing water crisis
10. The Army showed the Navy how not to mismanage the contaminated water crisis in Hawaii
11. DoH Still Delaying Flushing Process
12. Navy Again Points Out Health Department Lacks Power To Shut Down Red Hill
13. 3% TAT Hike Will Make TVRs More Attractive --- Cruise Ships Coming Jan 22
14. High court ruling in Maui case could be good news for Maunakea protestors
15. A quick look at some of what searches of Miske’s properties disclosed
16. Pace of occupancy loss slows for Oahu retail market

1. Tourist Spending Down 11.5% from 2019
2. The islands’ broken education system: Why I left Hawaii
3. Miske Lawyers Focus on Dead Ends for Witnesses
4. BWS: If Red Hill fuel tanks aren’t emptied, key wells may be permanently shut down
5. Ige’s Final COVID Emergency Order Expires Today
6. As cases soar, COVID staffing shortages force some Oahu ambulance stations to temporarily close
7. Omicron Takes Aim at Unvaccinated Children
8. Schools to resume full in-person classes despite highest surge in cases since the pandemic started
9. Ready to collect: New 3% hotel tax goes into effect Saturday
10. Legislative Agenda: New Jail at Halawa
11. Legislative Agenda: Ohana Zones
12. Public Utilities Commission Finalizes HELCO-Hu Honua Evidentiary Hearing

• The islands’ broken education system: Why I left Hawaii
• ‘I didn’t know how much better it is outside of Hawaii’

1. Maui No-shows leave COVID-19 test gaps
2. March of Dimes: Hawaii Grade 'C' for Premature Births
3. Miske Defense Demands More Time to get to Witnesses
4. DoH Has Another Opportunity to Artificially Extend Crisis by Making Navy Wait
5. Lets Play Make Believe: DoH Hearings officer says fake ‘order’ to drain Red Hill fuel tanks should stand
6. BWS test (again) shows no petroleum in water at Pearl City and Aiea wells
7. Hawaii Lawmakers Scheme to Work Around Gut-n-Replace Ban
8. Redistricting May be Kalihi’s only Chance to Replace Mizuno
9. Brian Taniguchi To Retire From Legislature After 42 Years
10. Chairperson resigns as Maui County Charter Commission wraps up review
11. COVID Hospitalizations Triple: Officials to discuss reducing healthcare workers quarantine, isolation period amid staffing shortages
12. Hawaii's Contact Tracing System Put to the Test
13. Health care group: It’s time to close nightclubs
14. It Begins: Hawaii airports see flight cancellations, scores of travel delays
15. COVID Retirements and Leaving State Account for 75% of Reduction in Labor Force
16. City working on enforcement for new North Shore beach commercial activity ban

1. Retire in Hawaii: Got $1.48M?
2. Hawaii Hardest Hit by Omicron: 964% increase
3. Drain Red Hill?  Oil Company Response Exposes Empty Rhetoric
4. Ensure access to online meetings
5. Research Institute Faces Challenges Bridging Criminal Justice Data Gaps
6. Map is pau: New Hawaii County Council boundaries completed by Redistricting Commission

1. Can We Beat COVID Without Lockdowns?
2. Number of initial unemployment claims up in Hawaii
3. Hawaii Ranks #4 for Dental Health
4. Jones Act needs an update, and so does the Jones Act fleet
5. Take heart: We represent the mainstream
6. ‘Tourist tax’ surcharges threaten Hawaii recovery
7. More on 'Green Fees'
8. Legislators Want to Boost Spending Even More Than Ige
9. New laws to take effect Jan. 1
10. COVID Excuse to Keep Public out of Legislative Offices 
11. Hawaii sets new record with 2,205 new coronavirus cases
12. Honolulu restaurants relieved that City won't be shutdown amid new COVID surge
13. With COVID cases soaring, many turn to testing to keep their ‘bubbles’ safe
14. HTA: Maui County has largest vacation rental supply in state in November 2021

1. How Christmas Came to Hawaii
2. ‘A financial disaster’: Red Hill water crisis could prevent, even halt some construction projects
3. Red Hill Water Flushing from Military Housing Areas
4. Hawaii senator pushes for change at OCCC after hearing complaints
5. Hawaii enjoying relatively few canceled flights

1. How Christmas Came to Hawaii
2. HPD officer arrested after Niu Valley shooting
3. HTA: Fewer Tourists Paying More Money
4. Drug-Dealing Sovereignty Thug Arrested at Convenience Store after OHA Attack
5. Vacation rental supply down 41% from pre-pandemic times
6. Navy completes ‘System-Level’ flushing at Pearl City Peninsula
7. City offers employees paid day off for booster shots as dozens out sick with COVID
8. COVID:  Hawaii Bowl canceled on eve of game after UH pulls out
9. Kamalani Academy Public Charter School files appeal over enrollment decision
10. Rail News: Airport Industrial Area to be Bulldozed for Condos

1. 1,511 COVID Cases in One Day--12.64% of tests positive
2. State budget windfall opens way for tax cuts
3. Appeals court affirms federal authority to ban cockfighting in US territories
4. Maui County Plastic disposal foodware ban effective on New Year’s Day
5. Hawaii Roads 2nd Worst in USA
6. Redistricting: Big Island Democrats Sense Opportunity to Disenfranchise Oahu Voters By Excluding More Military Dependents from Count
7. Two Red Hill spills could be linked with one much larger than reported
8. City Attorney Kicked Off HPD Shooting Lawsuit For Creating A Conflict Of Interest
9. Renewable Energy Isn’t Necessarily Renewable or Energy
10. Hawaii Council passes glyphosate ban at county parks: ‘Emotion not Science’
11. A Memoir By A Former Hawaii AG Doesn’t Name Names
12. Hawaii Biden Popularity top in USA at 54%

1. Election Integrity? Hawaii Dead Last
2. Nine Years After Katherine Kealoha's Bungled Prosecution, Supreme Court Orders Return of Alleged Gambling Machines
3. UH funding priorities included in Governor’s 2022 budget
4. ‘I didn’t know how much better it is outside of Hawaii’
5. To Make the Red Hill Crisis Take Hold, Hawaii Congressional Delegation Stopped the Navy from Flushing Tainted Water Into Storm Drains
6. Closing arguments over Red Hill fuel tanks emergency order
7. Hawaii hospitals full of Non-COVID Patients
8. City jacks up property tax assessments
9. Chinatown merchants frustrated with ongoing crime, mental illness and politicians
10. More Homeless Mayhem: HFD investigating blaze at Aiea home that previously went up in flames    
11. Results from Kauai Prosecutor special primary election; general in February

1. Ige Releases Supplemental Budget--Boosts Spending 12.2%
2. DoD Inspector General to Investigate Red Hill
3. VIDEO: Trump and O'Reilly Denounce Anti-Vaxxers
4. DPP Online System to let Solar Contractors Bypass DPP Grifters
5. Feds Bust Two Restaurants for Failure to Pay Overtime
6. Honolulu: Largest percentage of homes with inadequate kitchens
7. Ban on Large indoor gatherings being discussed as COVID clusters continue
8. Ten Days Wasted: DoH Ordered Navy to Keep Oily Water in Lines rather than flush it out
9. DOH confirms eight Navy fuel tanks have not been inspected for over 20 years
10. Thousands reported illness after drinking contaminated water, BWS says
11. Should Hawaii Overhaul How It Investigates Police Shootings?
12. Nearly 1,400 Inmates Get Vax for $50 Incentive
13. Obama, daughters hit the water for annual Hawaii Christmas vacation

1. Hawaii--2nd Lowest Job Growth in USA
2. Kalani HS and Waipahu HS will compete in Hawaii LifeSmarts State Competition
3. 'Affordable Connectivity Program' to Subsidize Broadband for 100,000 in Hawaii
4. Another Miske Case Defendant Released--to Custody of ‘Miske Enterprise’ Family
5. Subsidized Mafia Filmmakers are Cheating on GE Taxes--So Legislators Want to Increase Their Subsidy
6. The Hawaii Legislature needs to reopen immediately for in-person interaction.
7. Hawaii State Legislators meet with Assistant Secretary of the Navy
8. TheBus Hackers from Russia?
9. Hawaii County Redistricting Commission continues tinkering with council districts
10. State’s pension fund 2.1% gain
11. Honolulu’s 911 diversion program panders to homeless lunatic drug addicts in effort to reduce 911 abuse

1. NYT Looks at Honolulu Rail: Why U.S. Infrastructure Is So Expensive
2. Gender Queer: DoE Makes Gay Blowjob Book Available in School Libraries
3. The New County TAT Earmarks Aren’t the Real Problem
4. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted December 18, 2021
5. Kauai Judicial Vacancy – District Judge, District Court of the Fifth Circuit
6. Rail: Next Step is to Con You into Allowing them to Build Backwards, thus ensuring full completion to Ala Moana at any cost 
7. Contested case hearing on state’s order to suspend operations at Red Hill planned for Monday
8. Guam, America’s Forgotten Territory, Is New Front Line Against China  
9. Hawaii records 2 new coronavirus-related deaths, 972 additional infections

1. Who will be left to pay OHA Rent? Legislators Recommend Removing All Observatories from Maunakea Permanently
2. State Closing COVID Quarantine Facilities -- Says Delta, Omicron too Fast
3. Navy has been Blocked from Flushing out Water Lines for Two Weeks  
4. Kahele: Fuel Spill Caused by Operator Error
5. Hawaii records 3 new coronavirus-related deaths, 707 additional infections
6. A media tidbit from the new book about the Kealoha corruption case
7. Former HPD recruit: Injury caused by embattled commander years ago was a red flag
8. 6 men accused of violent takeover of OHA headquarters indicted on multiple felonies
9. Data shows repairs to Koko Crater trail significantly reduced emergency rescue calls

1. COVID is back: 797 New Cases Today--None backlogged
2. VIDEO: SHOPO Elects new Leaders after Alm Endorsement Backfires
3. Hawaii Unemployment Drops to 6% for November
4. COVID: Hawaii 3rd Safest State
5. Kauai Judicial Applicants Sought
6. Honolulu most expensive car rental destination for Christmas
7. UHERO: Renewed international travel restrictions reduce near-term visitor outlook
8. Water system testing since Nov. 29 shows no contamination above acceptable standards: Navy & DoH agree  
9. DoE FAIL: Nearly 20% of Hawaii high school students not on track to graduate
10. Rats Jump Sinking Railroad: Two More Stepping Down From HART Board
11. SHOPO Elections End In Shake-up For Union Leadership
12. Soft on Crime Crowd Invents New Jail Price Tag in Effort to Keep Criminals on Street
13. Island of Retaliation: Former litigant responds to Iseri’s claims that lawsuits were planned to derail 2012 election
14. AntiVax Activism Consumes AntiGMO Movement
15. Impeachment Charges Filed Against CNMI Governor
16. Hawaii Planned Parenthood affiliate ousts CEO for use of N-word

1. DOH: All Water Tests Below DoH Action Level
2. Case: NDAA Mandates Repair of Red Hill Pipes
3. First Anniversary of COVID Vaccine in Hawaii
4. Fatal Drug Overdoses on the Rise in Hawaii
5. Soaring Unfunded Pension Liabilities Threaten Taxpayers
6. Honolulu--Lowest Charitable Giving in USA
7. Inmate set up to be Killed For ‘Being A Snitch’ In Miske Case
8. Pandering: Honolulu City Council pretends to defuel Red Hill
9. City Finalizing Deal With Consultant To Help Select The Next Honolulu Police Chief
10. Saiki Shut Down Rail Audit -- Now Seeks to Blame Kondo
11. The old stadium couldn’t support itself, so what makes people think this will be any different?
12. Teen defying odds after being paralyzed in crash blamed on HPD officers
13. Newly sworn in MPD chief, deputy chief must now tackle challenge of filling vacancies
14. Kauai Drug Addicts Rise from Dead 23 Times
15. A New Program To Help Homeless People On Oahu creates 30 positions
16. Green Energy Group Ranks Honolulu Among The ‘Most Improved’ Cities
17. As Usual, the Maui Council’s Latest ‘Affordable Housing’ Scheme is Illegal
18. Dentists Could Soon Find It Easier To Move To Hawaii Under Proposed Bill

1. Hawaii Ethics and Audit Function at Lowest Level in Years
2. Blangiardi signs bill to recover lost Transient Accommodations Tax revenue and give it to Rail
3. City Sends 2022 Real Property Assessments -- Average Increase 11.6%
4. Sierra Club Moves to Intervene in DoH Red Hill Hearing
5. FBI Investigating Cyber Attack Against TheBus and TheHandi-Van
6. Hawaii Proud Boys Founder Sued over January 6 Attack on Congress
7. Cato: Hawaii second least-free state in USA
8. How the Murder Rate in Hawaii Compares to the Rest of the Country
9. How Consumer Debt in Hawaii Changed During the Pandemic
10. COVID Funds Buy Buildings for Non-Profits
11. Rail Budget Could Buy a Tesla for Every Household on Oahu
12. Stadium proposals postponed: NASED too busy lobbying Legislature
13. Kalani Hao To Be Honolulu’s New Fire Department Chief
14. Antonov to Fly Giant Water Filters from Detroit to Hawaii
15. DOH to decide if BWS, Sierra Club can participate in Red Hill (pretend) contested case hearing
16. ‘Green Fee’: Star-Adv Pushing Unconstitutional Entry Tax for Hawaii
17. Legislative Maneuver Coming?  Proposed Sites For Oahu’s New Landfill Would Threaten Drinking Water, Officials Say
18. Military Families Who Sued Over Kaneohe Soil Contamination Get Another Day In Court
19. Honolulu tech officials on ‘extreme alert’ but say city’s computer networks are safe
20. Special election ballot processing begins on Kaua‘i

1. COVID: UH Faculty Win Six More Months of Telework
2. HSTA: Union Contract Supersedes COVID Emergency Orders
3. HSTA: Pandemic Relief Money Can Go Into Our Pockets
4. Blangiardi Says ‘We Don’t Have Enough Money’ To Take Rail To Ala Moana
5. BWS: Latest test results show no sign of contamination in public water system
6. Former HPD chief admits she had no evidence of overtime abuse against former union leader
7. Desperate to Save our Precious Incumbents, Protesters Attack Reapportionment Plan
8. Honolulu Board of Water Supply, Emergency Medical Services, Queens Hospital report cyberattacks on employee data
9. Tulsi Gabbard Fame Seeker
10. More Homeless Mayhem in Chinatown

1. Former University of Guam Professor Sentenced in Bid-Rigging Scheme
2. Navy gives inside look of cleanup efforts at Red Hill Shaft
3. Why So Many Hawaii Families Are Opting Out Of The Public School System
4. Honolulu police, FBI investigate cyberattack as TheBus, Handi-Van sites inaccessible
5. Independent Audit Alleges $2M Discrepancy In Hanauma Bay Funds
6. The Spigot Of Federal Broadband Funding Is About To Open For Hawaii

1. Foreign Trade Zone Kerfuffle
2. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted December 11, 2021
3. COVID Brings More Students to Hawaii
4. Red Hill: BWS Bargaining Position
5. TMT Top Project in Decadal Survey
6. Spying and Taxes: Proposal to charge environmental fee to come to Hawaii
7. DHHL Will Build 300-400 Homes Per Year
8. Anxiety And Depression: Youth Mental Health Got Worse During The Pandemic
9. Republican Party current leading faction increasingly embracing its Nazi fringe

1. Takings, PASH, and the Changing Coastal Environment
2. Omicron? DoH Investigating COVID Cluster at Gay Nightclub
3. DOH: Red Hill Shaft Diesel at 350 Times Limit
4. NextHealth Fined $58K for Conducting COVID Testing 
5. Maui: Property Tax Relief for Long-Time Families in SMA
6. Defendant in Miske racketeering case seeking release to Custody of former Miske Employee
7. Ala Wai Boondoggle Would Have Been Useless Against This Week’s Flooding
8. Rail Plan: Start Building from Ala Moana Mall
9. Anti-Vaxxers Fall Waaaay Short on Maui Mayor Recall Petition
10. Navy says fuel contamination at Red Hill Shaft from Nov 20 spill with no indications of long term problem     
11. BWS: Halawa shaft could be shut down for years, even permanently, amid water contamination crisis

1. COVID Recovery: Hawaii Ranks 45th
2. Biden: WHIAANHPI Will Save Hawaiians
3. Billionaire Helps Solar Developers Grab More Ag Land 
4. City launches first-ever chatbot with voice recognition for customer services
5. Monsanto Agrees to Plead Guilty to Illegally Using Pesticide at Corn Growing Fields in Hawaii 
6. UH regents schedule first meeting on new Maunakea Master Plan
7. How Does Hawaii’s DOE Deal With Child Molesting Teachers?
8. Congress wants Hawaii missile defense radar up and running by end of 2028
9. Boom in Housing Prices Helps Hawaii More Than Any Other State
10. Contaminated Water Complaints Spread to Pearl City 
11. Navy Challenges DoH Water Test Results
12. In wake of well shutdowns, BWS asks residents to use water wisely to avoid restrictions
13. GPS data now evidence against HPD officers accused of chasing car, fleeing crash scene
14. Juvenile Mental Health Patients Quadruple
15. New Hawaii County Council maps set for public hearings

1. Ige Appoints Holly T.M. Shikada Attorney General
2. City waives fees and allows storm damage work to begin immediately
3. Navy Discovers Contamination at a Second Shaft
4. Greenhouse Gas Loopholes Will Save Humanity
5. Usual Anti-Military Suspects Sense Opportunity
6. Honolulu rail new plan to repair gap between rail wheels and track
7. Hawaii Co Council passes 3% TAT: New hotel tax makes up for state cuts
8. How To Get The Honolulu Police Commission Moving On New Chief
9. Tour companies lose permits for Saturday tours on Wailua River
10. CSO one step closer to decommissioning
11. Possible cyberattack takes down TheBus, Handi-Van servers