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Thursday, March 2, 2017
March 2, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:22 PM :: 4605 Views
  1. HPD, FBI Investigate Threat to Honolulu Jewish Preschool
  2. New Study Details Driving Forces of Hawaii's Unfunded Liability Crisis
  3. OHA Ethics Complaints Ignored—Until Now
  4. California Company Helps Hawaii Marijuana Dealers Plan Sales to 9M Tourists
  5. City schedules meeting to update community on O‘ahu General Plan
  6. Senate Judiciary and Labor Passes Assisted Suicide Bill Out of Committee
  7. Memorial Service for Former State Rep Mark Moses
  8. Trump Should Rescind Obama’s Hawaiian Government Rule
  9. Grand Jury Investigation Needed to Get to Bottom of HPD Toddler Abuse Case
  10. Caldwell Budget Designed to Justify Tax Hike
  11. Hawaii Moves Too Slow On Asset Forfeiture Reform
  12. Bitcoin Shutdown related to Hawaii Marijuana Dispensaries Tax Evasion System?
  13. Your state is soaking you for beer money
  14. Hawaii: Why Wait—We can Already Announce the Worst Appellate Decision of 2017
  15. Kakaako Homeless Refuse Shelter, Dogs Attack Parkgoers
  16. HB790: Sacrifice Agriculture to the Hysterical Demos
  17. Another step back for dairy – State orders Restart of EIS
  18. Planning panel gives city OK to use the landfill till it’s filled
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Wednesday, March 1, 2017
March 1, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:23 PM :: 3401 Views
  1. POTUS Rescinds WOTUS: Hawaii Waters to be Freed of Federal Control
  2. Best States? Government Drags Hawaii Down to 27th
  3. Full Text: President Donald J Trump Speech to Joint Session of Congress
  4. First Month of Trump Economy: Visitor Spending up 10.1%—Arrivals Jump 4.9%
  5. Senate Devises Property Tax Bait n Switch to Help $500M HSTA Slush Fund Pass Vote
  6. SB1129: Senate to Vote on Assisted Suicide
  7. Airbnb bill calls to collect taxes from vacation rental owners
  8. Prescribe-a-Home Bills Amended
  9. Hawaii Bill Targeting Commercial Fishing Industry in Danger
  10. Why Weren’t Other Parents Told About Day Care Toddler Abuse?
  11. 15 Years Later, UH Athletics Dep’t Finally Figures out it Might Need a Marketing Partner
  12. Moral Outrage Is Self-Serving, Say Psychologists
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Tuesday, February 28, 2017
February 28, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:57 PM :: 4825 Views
  1. Hawaii 2nd-Toughest State for First Time Homebuyers
  2. DCCA Chases Bitcoin Provider out of Hawaii
  3. Corporate Income Tax—50-State Comparison
  4. Victory!  Rail tax hike fails Senate Ways & Means committee
  5. HB1518: Citizens Asking too Many Questions—Lets Shut them Down
  6. Hospitals Support Housing Prescription for Homeless
  7. Fail: Cool Schools AC in only 54 Classrooms
  8. HPD Chief: We’ll Learn More when Federal Indictments Come Out
  9. Honolulu Transit Ridership Drops 3.2%
  10. Senate to vote on bill boosting TAT funds for counties
  11. DHS Reports $51.7M in Welfare Overpayments
  12. Libertarian author Steven Greenhut talks public employees at Maui County Club
  13. HPD has millions of unspent dollars in rarely-used forfeiture account
  14. Suspicious call prompts evacuation of Jewish temple and preschool
  15. Sierra Club OK if Paid: Wind farms killing more bats and nene than expected
  16. SB376: Repeal Big Cable
  17. Anti-GMO Activists Celebrate 98.4% Net Loss of Biofuel
  18. Zuckerberg officially drops Hawaii 'quiet title' actions—Except the One Involving an Actual Owner
  19. Trump Defeating Liberals by Making them Mentally Ill
  20. Maui: Homeless Drunk Bites off Finger
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Monday, February 27, 2017
February 27, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:38 PM :: 5403 Views
  1. Study: Wind Turbines Could Make This Endangered Bat Go Extinct
  2. Anti-Telescope ‘Circus’ Nearly Over? – Doubtful
  3. Hawaii Wind Turbines Not Bolted Together Correctly—One Collapses
  4. Retired HPD Officer was Sought in ‘Felony Investigation’
  5. $3 million sought for Housing First effort on Sister Isles
  6. HB783: Force Businesses to Give Free Electricity to Electric Car Moochers
  7. We Came Here for the Lifestyle—Now Change It
  8. Ige a Traitor? Meets with National Republicans
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Sunday, February 26, 2017
February 26, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:11 PM :: 5019 Views
  1. HB1297: State-Recognized Indian Tribe for Hawaii
  2. Hawaii Legislature Obamacare Heavy
  3. Lassner: In Spite of Trump’s Reversal, UH Remains Committed to Putting a Tranny in Every Bathroom
  4. DPS Report: UPW Has Been Shielding Child Molesting Prison Guards since 2003
  5. Prisons Have Become De-Facto Lunatic Asylums
  6. Souki’s Suicide Run: I only Have 28 Votes for Killing off Expensive Oldsters
  7. Cool Schools: 791 Units Short of 1,000
  8. Ala Moana TOD pushes affordable housing aside to expand tourist area
  9. SB419: Require draft sign-up for UH Admission
  10. Zuckerberg Shakedown: Star-Adv Wants Greenmailers to Appreciate its Reporters More
  11. Anti-GMO Crony Capitalist: That which You call sacred is not, That which We call sacred is
  12. ‘Indivisible’ Obama Operatives Finally Corner Trump Lovin’ Gabbard
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Saturday, February 25, 2017
February 25, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:27 PM :: 3259 Views
  1. It Doesn’t Always Pay to Make More
  2. Legislators Order Pregnancy Centers to Promote Abortion: Assisted Suicide Next
  3. 62% Hike in Minimum Wage Hike Will Hit Consumers, Small Business Hard
  4. SB221 Money Spinner: Legislators Vote Red Light Camera Ticket Fiasco (again)
  5. After One Year of Daily Outreach, Less Than 1% of Homeless Agree to Accept Shelter
  6. Flaws in protective order system leave abuse victims vulnerable
  7. Judge: Kauai police body cams don't violate union agreement—SHOPO to Appeal
  8. SB603: DPS Too Tough on the Few Criminals we Actually Send to Prison

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Friday, February 24, 2017
February 24, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:33 PM :: 4055 Views
  1. 532 Candidates for Honolulu Neighborhood Board
  2. SB898: Anti-Gun Legislation Passes Committee
  3. SB1137: Return Control of HMSA to its Members
  4. Honolulu Most Unaffordable State Capital
  5. HB462: Billion Dollar Scheme to Place Prisoners Back under Control of Corrupt, Expensive UPW-Controlled Prisons
  6. Tuition: Packed with Administrators, UH Now More Expensive than Mainland Schools
  7. Taxi companies accuse Uber, Lyft of not paying $20M GE Taxes
  8. Uneducated Schatz Pushing DHHL to Build Rentals, not Leaseholds
  9. Team Ige Superintendent Questionnaire Designed to support whatever the decision-makers have already decided
  10. How the military impacts rent prices in Hawaii
  11. Wind Farm Asks permission to Murder More Bats, Nene
  12. Star-Adv: Because Trump is President We Should Screw Agriculture
  13. Agnotology: The Study of Anti-GMO Activism
  14. HB1518: Block ‘Vexatious’ UIPA Requests
  15. SB7: Use Medicaid funds to house homeless
  16. Security Guard Loses Finger in Fight with Homeless Drunk
  17. NYT: Hawaii is #2 for Teenage Trannies
  18. Star-Adv Gives Eric Ryan Space to Rant About Fukumoto

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Thursday, February 23, 2017
February 23, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:34 PM :: 4550 Views
  1. Why OHA Fears a Forensic Audit
  2. DLNR Still Paying Rapist Cop—Claims HGEA President Had Nothing to do with Hiring
  3. DLNR Introduces Birth Control for Mosquitoes
  4. HART Ridership Projections - Fantasies, Fairytales and Alternative Facts
  5. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted February 23, 2017
  6. GE Tax Hike Grabs Another $800/year from family finances
  7. Oahu drivers could get triple taxed
  8. PUC starts public hearings on $100M Hawaiian Electric rate hike
  9. Some customers asked to pay thousands to connect with solar
  10. Hawaii County Affordable Housing Rents to go up 36%
  11. Now That Maui Memorial is to be Privatized, Legislators Act to End Multi-Million Dollar Waitlisting Scheme
  12. Push for paid sick time rankles Hawaii eateries
  13. To Be A Honolulu Police Commissioner, First Be A Political Insider
  14. Honolulu Ethics Commission finds no conflicts in legal campaign support from special interests
  15. Anti-Fishing Activists Already Trying to Deflect Blame for ‘Crippling’ Hawaii Fishing Fleet
  16. Water Grab: Anti-Agriculture Activists Run  into Opposition from Upcountry Maui 
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Wednesday, February 22, 2017
February 22, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:38 PM :: 4378 Views
  1. Earn $50K? Hawaii Takes More From Your Paycheck Than Any Other State
  2. Local business owners speak out about the minimum wage
  3. Governor Ige’s ‘cuts’ still result in big spending increases
  4. Underreported: How Gun Silencers Became a Health Issue
  5. Full circle about single-payer health insurance
  6. Kauai Dairy Farm Withdraws Final EIS
  7. Caldwell: My Latest Appointee Helped Deliver Lots of Muslims to Europe
  8. OHA Insiders Plan to Neuter Audit
  9. Jury finds HGEA President’s Son guilty of sex assault
  10. Trump Admin has no Time to Talk to Hawaii Legislators About Rail
  11. Inter-Island Cables and Rate Hike Hearings Today
  12. Next Big Hawaii Tax Credit Scam Will Ban Gasoline, Diesel Vehicles
  13. DLNR Scam-- Plans to Sell Carbon Credits
  14. 50% Failure Rate: Solar Installations ‘Falling Like Dominoes’
  15. Sen J Kalani English Accepted Junket From Turkish Opposition Group
  16. BOE approves findings from special review of charter school panel
  17. HB407: Health Savings Accounts for Hawaii?
  18. Honolulu Airport Crasher was Brother of Convicted Murderer
  19. Open Borders Activists Come Up With New Argument: Hawaii Man Should be Granted US Citizenship BECAUSE He is Convicted Meth Dealer
  20. Peter Boy Case Solved When Competent Prosecutor Elected
  21. DAGS Doubletalk Collapsing Ceiling at Capitol
  22. Kalihi, Iwilei Stripped of Copper: Sit-Lie Expansion to Force Bums Westward
  23. Anti-GMO Activists Squabble Over Celebrutard Access
  24. Molokai Finally Runs out of Answers
  25. Hawaii Eco Hypocrisy--Trump Will Let us be the Phonies That We Are
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Tuesday, February 21, 2017
February 21, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:04 AM :: 5461 Views
  1. Forbes: Taxes Make Hawaii One of 10 Worst States for High Earners
  2. OHA and HART Auditor Admits Fraud, Embezzlement
  3. HB1549: Don’t Tax Affordable Housing to pay for Affordable Housing
  4. Airbnb tries again on Hawaii tax broker bills
  5. Counties Won’t Stand up to NIMBYS and Legalize TVRs – But They Want TAT!
  6. Marijuana Just Another Excuse for a Tax Hike
  7. SB173: Marijuana Candies are ‘medicine’
  8. Audit Finds a House Worth of Unrecorded Lumber at Hawaii County baseyard
  9. HB1277 Add 1,200 More Unionized Public Employees
  10. SB1298: Will Police Commission be Allowed to Hire Outsider as Chief?
  11. Star-Adv: Time for Greenmailers to get Serious About Extorting MegaBux from Zuckerberg
  12. Heroic Coast Guard Protects Whales from Money-Hungry Anti-Superferry Activists 
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Monday, February 20, 2017
February 20, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:03 PM :: 4057 Views
  1. The Cost of Public Employment
  2. HPD Toddler Abuse Cover-up Unraveling
  3. Still no A/C for schools
  4. Caldwell Imposes 100% Fare Hike on Bus Transfer Riders
  5. Incompetent DoTax a Month Late with Tax Forms
  6. Soft on Crime Policy Kills Another Criminal: On the outside after 35 Raps in 14 Years—Bashes Through Airport Security and Dies
  7. Maui Program Puts Homeless to Work Sweeping Streets
  8. Who Will be Fooled?  Anti-GMO Activists Blame Trump for Pesticide Bill
  9. HCDA Changing Affordable Housing Rules
  10. KSBE Trustee Search Begins Again
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Sunday, February 19, 2017
February 19, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:49 PM :: 3919 Views
  1. The Need for Tax Vigilance in 2017
  2. Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
  3. Utopian Nonsense on the Move in the Legislature
  4. With Sam Slom Gone, Legislators weigh more than a dozen tax proposals
  5. A clear money grab by politicians
  6. HB1586: Council Will refuse GE Tax Hike Even if TAT is Taken Away
  7. 27 Rail Cars to Be Ripped Apart and Rebuilt in Desperate Attempt to Salvage Them
  8. SB591: $2B State Bonds for Housing Construction
  9. Medically assisted death: Wariness is warranted
  10. Star-Adv Pushes for Red Light Camera Ticket Machines
  11. Telescope: Lawyers Make Megabucks
  12. House Bill 1571, only attacks agriculture and will destroy farming
  13. Will British Petroleum Junk Hawaii Windfarm or Repower Before Federal Corporate Welfare Goes Byebye?
  14. Hawaii Residents Suffer the Most from Sleeplessness
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Saturday, February 18, 2017
February 18, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:43 PM :: 3878 Views
  1. OHA Insiders Plan to Neuter Audit
  2. 516 Candidates Register for Honolulu Neighborhood Board Elections
  3. Hawaii pro-life centers fight abortion referral mandate
  4. Hawaii Ranks Fourth for Millionaires
  5. SB898: Anti-Gun Bill Scheduled for Committee Hearing Next Week
  6. Hawaii Military Commissaries Offer 32.6% Savings—Highest in USA
  7. Caldwell Goes on Vacation While Legislators Expected to Vote on Rail Tax Hikes
  8. Incompetent Airport Division Wants Fee Hikes But Can’t Fix Leaky Roofs
  9. Star-Adv: Greenmail Shakedown of Zuckerberg is a Good Idea
  10. Diamond Head: Social Workers Chased out of Homeless Tent City By Knife Wielding Bum
  11. Soft on Crime: 20 Priors Gets ‘Supervised Release’—Then Shockingly, He does it Again
  12. HPD Toddler Beating Gets National News Attention
  13. State says hotel illegally pumped storm water into ocean for more than a decade
  14. SJWs Scream Blasphemy after Maui mayor says 'No such thing' as sacred rocks
  15. So-Called Farmers Union Joins With Anti-Dairy Farm Activists
  16. Hordes of Anti-Agriculture Activists to Descend on Maui Public Hearing to Take A&B Water
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Friday, February 17, 2017
February 17, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:12 PM :: 3927 Views
  1. State Procurement Office Launches Investigation into OHA Professional Services Contracts
  2. Honolulu Neighborhood Board Elections 430 Candidates Register with One Day to Go
  3. Hawaii Motor Vehicle Deaths Jump 27%
  4. DOH: Dairy Farm EIS Decision Coming Feb 24
  5. Will HSTA Report Expenses for 6,000 Lobbyists?
  6. Caldwell to Build Affordable Housing With Same Efficiency as Rail
  7. Blackmail: HECO Scores $61M, Free Trucks Thanks to Rail Tax Payers
  8. First Lateral: Several Energy Bills Survive Hawaii Legislature Deadline
  9. Target Legislators who fail to introduce bills
  10. SB107 Minimum Wage Vehicle Focuses Debate on Tip Credit
  11. Incompetent DoE Payroll: Two Months to get Your First Paycheck
  12. Sheriffs Refuse to Stop Auto Burglar
  13. Two Months of Canvassing Diamond Head – Only 6 Homeless Accept Shelter
  14. Eager to Use Homeless for Political Agit-Prop
  15. TVRs Account for 1/3 of Hawaii Visitor Accommodations
  16. Greenmail: Bill aims to create and Profit from disputes over trail on Kauai
  17. When it Comes to ‘Sanctuary Cities’ Hawaii is all talk
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Friday, February 17, 2017
Letters to the Editor February, 2017
By Letters to the Editor @ 12:23 AM :: 9704 Views
  • Will HSTA Report Expenses for 6,000 Lobbyists?
  • Falls of Clyde: Ige Ignores Call from British Parliament
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Thursday, February 16, 2017
February 16, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:47 PM :: 3881 Views
  1. OHA: The Mystery of the Disappearing Money
  2. Hawaii 64 Structurally Deficient Bridges Identified
  3. Hawaii Supreme Court Oral Arguments: When Is Election Law Admin Appeal "Brought?"
  4. Economic Impact of Immigration by State—Hawaii 10th
  5. HB1595: Involuntary Commitment for Mentally Ill
  6. How They Voted: Assisted Suicide Bill Passes First Committee
  7. Ward Poll: Hawaii Residents Reject Tax Hikes
  8. GE Tax Hike -- SB 1183 a “multi-headed hydra of bad ideas”
  9. Ernie Martin: If Legislators Hike GE Taxes, I’ve got several Ideas on How Councilmembers can avoid putting skin in the game
  10. HB1586: Income Tax Hike on the Rich -- Counties could lose hotel subsidy
  11. Bills on short-term rental tax collection advance
  12. SB221: Red-light cameras bill advances
  13. Caldwell Affordable Housing Plan: Convert HART HQ to Condos 
  14. SB1129: Senators Vote to Boost Insurance Company Profits, Kill off Expensive Patients, Enable Elder Abuse
  15. Candidate chosen for UH chancellor turned position down
  16. Police Chief Orders Full Review Of Toddler Assault Case
  17. Deedy Case: Time To Let Go Of A Case That’s Gone Nowhere
  18. SB173: Let Convicted Felons Sell Legal Weed
  19. Trump draft order would make welfare recipients deportable
  20. Criticism of Gabbard-Assad Meeting Gives Muslims Political Opening 
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Wednesday, February 15, 2017
February 15, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:49 PM :: 4917 Views
  1. How to give teachers a pay raise … without raising taxes
  2. Three Days Left: 371 Candidates Register for 437 Neighborhood Board Seats
  3. Maunakea Observatories award Nānākuli and Kapolei students with research time
  4. Transform the Bureaucracy and Achieve Justice for John Sosa
  5. No Joke: UH Pres Lassner to assist search for DoE superintendent
  6. UH Abandons Search for New Manoa Chancellor
  7. Chief Justice Seeks Public Comment on Judicial Nominees
  8. OHA Pays Criminal Tens of Thousands of Dollars for Nothing
  9. Hush Money? HTA Calls Waikai’s Bluff
  10. Corruption: DOBOR Boss Fails in Effort to retaliate Against Hawaii County Prosecutor
  11. State May Owe $101M to Developer After LUC Steals Land Equity
  12. HB1586: Cut counties out of 'room tax' revenues
  13. REIT Tax Bill advances in House
  14. Legislators: Acute Care is Too Expensive so Eliminate it
  15. Legislators: Oldsters are Too Expensive so Eliminate Them
  16. Autistic student raped Pearl City classmate TWICE while HSTA Member napped, lawsuit says
  17. Homeless to Pick up Litter, Clean Graffiti
  18. SB221: Stop Light Camera Tickets Back Again
  19. Minimum Wage Hike Clears Hawaii Senate Committee—Deferred in House
  20. HB1282: Laughing Legislators Run Anti-GMO Morons thru Maze (again)
  21. Anti-Aquarium Obsessives Pin Hopes on Two Bills and a Lawsuit
  22. Will Latest Round of AP Lies Sink Hawaii Fishing Fleet?
  23. Batteries undercut benefits of rooftop solar, says new study
  24. $10,000 Fake News -- HECO Style
  25. HB793: Force Everybody to Install Electric Car Chargers
  26. SB1121: Force Everybody to Use Solar Water Heaters
  27. Denied: Feds Fail Again in Kona Water Grab
  28. Feds Sue: Homosexual Harassment of Male Employees
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Tuesday, February 14, 2017
February 14, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 9:17 AM :: 7278 Views
  1. HSTA Rallies for $500M Tax Hike on Renters—House Approves on 2nd Read
  2. Anti-Fishing Lies Exposed: Attorney General Releases Point by Point Debunk of Kaniela Ing
  3. HPD Acting Chief Supports Naming of Suspended Officers
  4. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted February 13, 2017
  5. Falls of Clyde: Ige Ignores Call from British Parliament
  6. DLNR Cop Accused of Raping Girl—My Mommy is HGEA President
  7. Students Starve While HSTA Demands Massive Tax Increase
  8. Caldwell Bank Job: Measure To Stop Mayors From Moonlighting Shelved
  9. Drivers May Face $100M Higher Taxes, Fees To Lard HIDOT Coffers
  10. PUC to Consider $300M HECO Rate Hike
  11. Doctors hui opposes assisted-death bill
  12. Are Hawaii’s Wind Farms Killing Too Many Hoary Bats?
  13. How Housing Shortage caused by City of Honolulu Regs
  14. HB778: “Thousands of B&Bs on Ag Land”
  15. Hundreds seek help from state rent assistance program
  16. Four Sneaky Bills Would give counties the authority to regulate pesticide use
  17. Hooser Wants to Legalize Genetically Modified Marijuana
  18. Homeless Drug Addicts -- 1 million dirty syringes collected statewide in 2016
  19. After 19 Years Convention Center Finally Gets Around to Booking Sporting Events
  20. Age 33 - 6 Felonies: Criminal Dead Because of Soft on Crime Policies
  21. McDermott: Travel Ban Needed
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Monday, February 13, 2017
February 13, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:42 PM :: 3385 Views
  1. SB1183: Rail Tax Hike Bill is Alive in Legislature
  2. How Ige Plans To Cut a Piddling $220 Million From His $28.5B Budget
  3. DoE fails to fix problems with its 17,000 casual employees
  4. The Impending Honolulu Rail Ridership Debacle
  5. Bill to make judges repeat confirmation is advanced
  6. Chemophobia: Legislators Advance Polystyrene Ban
  7. Politics is About Winning
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Sunday, February 12, 2017
February 12, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:01 PM :: 5836 Views
  1. Most 2016 GEMS Loans Went to One Insider
  2. UHERO Slams the Skim
  3. Skin in the Game? Mayor Harry Kim says higher taxes not an option
  4. Senator’s Wife Refuses Hush Money
  5. Ige Blames Judicial Selection Commission for Appointment of Campaign Manager
  6. Ige: Get Rid of Matayoshi so HSTA can Achieve Nirvana
  7. HGEA Strategic Incompetence Means Former state workers face long wait for payouts
  8. SB534: $70/day, Then Organize Kupuna Caregivers into Union
  9. Feds Still Grabbing for Control of Kona Water
  10. Tulsi Gabbard Syria Trip Just Like Patsy Mink Meeting with Viet Cong?
  11. Years Later—Still More Whining About Depleted Uranium
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Saturday, February 11, 2017
February 11, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:10 PM :: 4036 Views
  1. HIDOT Mileage Fee: Meet Big Brother the Taxman
  2. SB1129: Senate CPH Committee Schedules Assisted Suicide Bill
  3. Neighborhood Board Elections: 327 Candidates Register for 437 Seats With One Week to Go
  4. Demanding a Tax Hike, HSTA to Rally at Capitol
  5. Jones Act and Maritime Security Program
  6. Home Ownership: Hawaii Most ‘Equity Rich’ Properties
  7. Justice Ginsburg at UH Law School: “We have a Dysfunctional Congress”
  8. Study: 72 Convicted Terrorists Came From Countries Covered by Trump Vetting Order
  9. Hawaii needs self-managed pension plan for public-worker retirees
  10. Overtime Abuse? Ige’s Been Watching it Happen for Years
  11. HB209: Progressive Democrats Demand Massive Income Tax Hike on Small Business Owners
  12. Expensive Tickets? House votes to nix one of the HIDOT Money Grab Bills
  13. TAT: Political Insiders Milk Cash Cow
  14. Energy Excelerates Flow of Tax Dollars to Crony Capitalists
  15. Ing Rent Control Bill Deferred Amidst Laughter, Ridicule
  16. Condos in Your Future: Anti-Agriculture Activists Grab for Last of HC&S Water
  17. Hilo Attempts to Free Itself from DLNR Indolence
  18. DLNR Police Harass Christmas Boat Parade Organizer
  19. U.S. Transportation department executive approved grant days before taking job with rail contractor
  20. Trump Backs Privately Funded high-speed rail projects
  21. Shipyard Freeze Gives Schatz, Hirono Chance to Pretend that They Matter 
  22. Should U.S. be preparing for a North Korean nuclear strike on the West Coast?
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Friday, February 10, 2017
February 10, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:56 PM :: 8682 Views
  1. OHA Old Guard Retakes Power: Machado Selected as Chair
  2. Crabbe Contract: Abigail Kawananakoa Sues OHA
  3. Ige Appoints Campaign Manager Circuit Court Judge
  4. HTDC Gives Away $9.8M of Your Tax Dollars to Six Tech Companies
  5. Senate Committee Turns Rail Tax Bill into Christmas Tree
  6. HIDOT Money Grab: Proposed fines for texting, speeding, seat belts, drunken driving may put motorists in poor house
  7. Star Adv: GE Tax on Internet Sales to Take Away Rare Perk
  8. $36M REIT Tax is Back (again)
  9. HSTA Announces Contract Demands
  10. Anti-Fishing Nuts Come Up with New Trick to Shut Down Fleet
  11. Maui: Homeless Flood Emergency Room
  12. Lawmakers puzzle over how to allow pot to be carried inter-island
  13. Honolulu police commissioner injured in domestic assault
  14. Hundreds of corrections officers call in sick during NFL championship game
  15. $11.5M to Make UH Education Free to Low Income Students
  16. Hawaii—Fewest Uninsured in USA
  17. Muslims Pleased by 9th Circuit Court
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Thursday, February 9, 2017
February 9, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:59 PM :: 5149 Views
  1. OHA Audit Passes Committee Vote
  2. What is Kaniela Ing’s Hidden Agenda?
  3. 2017 Honolulu Rail: Advice to the Legislature
  4. Economy: DBEDT Drops 2017 Growth Projection to 1.8%
  5. An informed opinion on GMOs
  6. Buffer Zone Bozos Descend on Capitol (again)
  7. Assisted suicide: Hawaii bills push envelope
  8. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted February 8, 2017
  9. Caldwell announces more Cabinet Appointments
  10. HB1589: Pro-Hunter Bill to be Heard
  11. KIUC Board Sets Renewable Energy Goal of 70 percent by 2030
  12. Streetlights: Kauai First to Complete LED Conversion
  13. Hawaii State Ethics Commission 2016 Annual Report
  14. UH Law Review Sharing Economy Symposium
  15. Murthy: HART Looking at Alternatives to Tax Hike
  16. At-grade option offers a way out of Honolulu’s train wreck
  17. Raid Rail Funds for Fake $2B Housing Scheme?
  18. After Chief’s Lawyer Taken off Her Defense, Accused Suddenly Starts Telling Stories About Crooked Cops and Prosecutors
  19. Ige Administration Conspires with Hawaii Mosque to get More Muslims In
  20. Tough Times: DoE Gets a Measly $40M Increase This Year
  21. Senator rips tourism agency on finances—Take $6M as Vengeance
  22. If wealthy can get tax breaks, why not low-income earners?
  23. Report: Public Records Agency Slower Than Ever With Appeals
  24. Sen Keith-Agaran Grabs for Control over Judiciary
  25. Kaneshiro’s New publicly-funded secure Women’s housing complex in Makiki nearly empty
  26. Hospitals Paying $1500 per Day per Patient for Homeless Long Term Care
  27. Homeless Drug Addicts Take Over Big Island Subdivision
  28. Libraries Overrun by Homeless?  A Sales Pitch to Fund Another Vacant Position
  29. Ige Admin Debunks Homeless Tent City Nonsense
  30. Anti-Urine Bill Becomes Easy Foil for Homeless Tent City Proponents 
  31. HB1267: Failed Rent Control Proposal is Back Again
  32. Ing Pounding Nails into Agriculture’s Coffin
  33. Anti-Agriculture Activists Pave Way for Developers
  34. Small Business Leaders Debunk Anti-Styrofoam Hysteria
  35. Caldwell Leaves Kids in the Dark
  36. The Toxic Language of Hawaii’s One Party State
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Wednesday, February 8, 2017
February 8, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:08 PM :: 8344 Views
  1. US Supreme Court to Consider Hearing Hawaii Democrats Closed Primary Suit
  2. White House Calls Travel Ban ‘a Lawful Exercise’ of Authority
  3. Congress Considers Bill to Break up 9th Circuit Court
  4. Shell Game: Short Form Bills on the Move
  5. Trump Confusing Both Liberals and Conservatives
  6. Cost of Living: Only Manhattan is More Expensive than Honolulu
  7. Honolulu Neighborhood Board Elections 308 Candidates for 435 Seats
  8. Lawyer-Enrichment Bills on the Move—Require Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers to Promote Abortion
  9. Murthy: I Can Complete Elevated Rail Without Tax Hike
  10. Skim: Caldwell Reaches New Level of Insanity
  11. OHA, HART Auditors Didn’t Notice Embezzlement Until Company Ran Out of Cash
  12. Telescope: State files appeal over TMT sublease hearing
  13. Hawaii lawmakers mull short-term rental Taxes
  14. Terrified by Drop in Tobacco Sales, Lawmakers propose 70% tax on some e-cig products
  15. Hawaii Lawmakers May Triple Fines For Speeding, Cell-Phone Use, DUI
  16. HSTA Operative: Matayoshi Must Go Because We Think Matayoshi Must Go
  17. Charter School Commission Fighting Back Against Corruption
  18. Audit: Some DOE Employees Still Start Work Before Being Cleared
  19. Kenoi Rush Job Adds $280K to Cost of Gym, Golf Course
  20. Legislators Try to Establish Homeless Tent Cities AGAIN
  21. Honolulu Toddler Nearly Died In An Assault But No Charges Filed
  22. State House committees pass anti-Agriculture pesticide bills
  23. Garden Isle: Gabbard Right to Urge End to Obama’s Policy of Giving Money and Arms to Al Qaeda
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Tuesday, February 7, 2017
February 7, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:18 PM :: 6134 Views
  1. County Employees in Hawaii make double what private sector workers make
  2. Hawaii government growing faster than private sector
  3. OHA and HART Financial Advisor on Trial for Embezzlement
  4. It goes to the Top: Ige Education Policy Based on Underage Drinking and Football Recruiting Trips
  5. $500M Union Slush Fund Passes Committee Vote—HSTA Strips out Promise of ‘Quality’ Education
  6. $80M online sales tax hike
  7. Rail Tax Hike—Legislators Kill Two Bills, Vote on Third Set for Wednesday
  8. Will President Donald J Trump De-Fund California Hi Speed Rail Boondoggle?
  9. Hawaii v Trump: Trump Wins Round One
  10. Silicon Valley Billionaire: Hawaii Should want Unlimited Supply of Muslims more than it Wants Rail Funds
  11. Akana drops OHA lawsuit against CEO Crabbe
  12. Hypocrite Rep Ing Targets OHA Trustee Akina
  13. Neighborhood Board Voting to be Internet Only?
  14. Hawaii Buyout Hall of Fame
  15. Should the State Borrow $2B to Pretend to Build Housing?
  16. SB1109: Statewide Styrofoam Ban Pushed by Chemophobes, Eco-Obsessives
  17. Bats vs. Blades: A Quixotic Struggle
  18. DLNR: Sell Carbon Credits to pay for Helicopters to Kill More Sheep, Goats and Pigs
  19. Maui physician against physician-assisted suicide
  20. Sovereignty Activists Push their way into Arizona Prison
  21. Illinois Homeless Dude Allegedly Kills Wife, Buys Ticket to Hawaii
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Monday, February 6, 2017
February 6, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:22 PM :: 5182 Views
  1. Fluoridated Water Reduces Gender Pay Gap by 4%
  2. Hawaii Bills Would Legalize Industrial Hemp; Foundation to Nullify Federal Prohibition
  3. Matayoshi Dismissal -- Retaliation for Investigation of Kaiser Principal?
  4. Charter schools’ agency hit by report
  5. Green Grifters Fight over $150M in GEMS 
  6. HMSA plan won’t cover most costs
  7. One Way to Kill Rail--Trump Will Cut Off Federal Funds if Hawaii Becomes ‘Sanctuary State’
  8. HOPE Probation: “Nothing Works” in Corrections Replaced by “Nothing Works Well?”
  9. Making Things Easy for Antis
  10. Hawaii Muslims: Now is not the time for Terror Attacks
  11. How Islam Is Gaining A Foothold In Micronesia
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Sunday, February 5, 2017
February 5, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:50 PM :: 3895 Views
  1. SB1056: Seawater Air Conditioning to Become New High Tech Tax Credit Scam?
  2. Vacation Rentals: Tax Hike Bills on the Move in the Legislature
  3. Hawaii Union Membership #2 in USA–21.7%
  4. SB938: End the State Rail Tax Skim
  5. Unfunded Pensions – Tip of the Iceberg?
  6. 276 Candidates Register for Honolulu Neighborhood Board
  7. Don’t mug taxpayers to pay for Hawaii’s high cost of living
  8. Condo Justice - The Ball's Now In Your Court
  9. Save $4.2B, No Tax Hike: Ground-level rail reaches Legislature
  10. Mayor’s plan brings rail to new level of insanity
  11. Rate hike proposals abound this year, PUC chair says
  12. Being driven from GOP is rite of passage for many local successful Democrats
  13. Legislature tackles rising opioid abuse
  14. Poor Gary Hooser. He just can't accept the fact that Kauai voters rejected him
  15. Kauai: Ala Loa Trail Could be Real Money Spinner
  16. Beachcombing Becomes Act of Penance in Eco Religion
  17. Longline association slams AP article claiming slavery
  18. DLIR, DCCA Hound Construction Industry with Millions in Fines
  19. 40 Years Later Nanakuli Getting a Library
  20. Learning to change: Education program putting Kulani inmates on right course
  21. Use Community Colleges to Save Gifted Students from DoE
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Saturday, February 4, 2017
February 4, 2017 News Release
By Andrew Walden @ 11:57 AM :: 5676 Views
  1. UHERO: ‘Discriminatory’ HSTA Property Tax Plan hits Renters Hardest
  2. Audit: Rep Kaniela Ing Does His Part to Hide OHA Corruption
  3. Hawaii Attorney General to Sue Trump to Keep Muslim ‘Refugees’ Flowing Into Country
  4. Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
  5. Hawaii: Trannies Drive Push to Legalize Prostitution
  6. Kidani: I want to Double Your Property Taxes to Create Massive Union Slush Fund 
  7. Push to Hike E-Cig Tax
  8. Legislators Take Another Run at Judiciary 
  9. Anti-GMO Hysterics Trying to Buy Politicians—But Voters Punish
  10. Anti-Sunscreen? Hysteria Attracts Quacks, as Usual
  11. Energy ‘Green’: Hawaii Legislature Explores New and Exotic Ways to Give Money to Silicon Valley Billionaires
  12. SunEdison: Billions Of Dollars In Taxpayer Money Hidden In Solar Scammer Bankruptcy
  13. 10 violations, 2 firings on annual review of Hawaii Co Police Department
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Friday, February 3, 2017
February 3, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:58 PM :: 4443 Views
  1. Hawaii public employee benefits rise 5 times faster than private sector
  2. UHERO: The Exorbitant Cost of Collecting Honolulu’s Rail Surcharge Tax
  3. Hawaii GE Tax Bites into 99.21% of personal income
  4. OHA Board Sets Audit Vote
  5. OHA: Akana Ousted, New Chair to be Elected at Next Board Meeting
  6. Choke or Head Fake? Ige Doesn’t Appoint Campaign Chair to ICA
  7. Mixture of Pro and Anti-Gun Bills Introduced in the Hawaii Legislature
  8. Hawaii Did Not Issue Any Gun-Carry Permits to Private Citizens in 2016
  9. Hawaii Bill Would Legalize Recreational Marijuana, Nullify Federal Prohibition in Practice
  10. Deadline to Apply for State Ethics and Campaign Spending Commissions Extended
  11. Basing decisions on evidence, not politics
  12. HB1595: Urine Free Zones
  13. Telescope Cuts off Funds to OHA
  14. Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa has registered as a Democrat
  15. Hawaii Democrats Hope President Donald J Trump Appoints Gabbard to Something, Anything
  16. Fake Issue: Shipyard at Pearl Harbor not part of feds’ hiring freeze
  17. Hawaii AG finally gets around to suing Trump over immigration ban
  18. Hawaii: President Donald J Trump becomes excuse for Letting Nurses do Abortions
  19. Chemophobia: Nature Challenges Anti-Sunscreen Coral Damage Claims
  20. Judge: Blacked-Out Health Department Reports Are Worthless
  21. Acting Chief Outmaneuvered: Chief’s severance paid out of police payroll funds last week
  22. Go West, Young Bum: Sit-Lie expansion into Iwilei, Kapalama
  23. EIS Approved for Dante Carpenter’s Garbage-to-Money Plant
  24. Dole Street: Manoa Neighborhood Board Tells SJWs to Get Lost
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Thursday, February 2, 2017
February 2, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:15 PM :: 3687 Views
  1. OHA LLCs—A License to Self-Deal
  2. Support OHA Forensic Audit
  3. Full Text: OHA Chair Sues to Force Crabbe Out
  4. Hawaii: Anti-Gun Bills Scheduled for Hearing
  5. Zuckerberg Steps In It In Hawaii
  6. Hawaii Tops Gallup Well-Being Index for 6th Year Straight
  7. Hawaii: The State of Tobacco Control
  8. One Party Justice: Republican Faces Criminal Charges Because he did not put Name on Two Mailers
  9. Recycling Company Cited for Water Pollution
  10. Future Oahu Community Correctional Center Down to Four Sites
  11. Taxing The Poor: Will Legislators Ever Enact Working Family Tax Credit?
  12. GEMS and Batteries: Revenues from Ratepayer Fee to be Given to Silicon Valley Billionaires
  13. Another Tax Hike: State considers targeting online shoppers
  14. Caldwell’s City Hall: Blood, Feces and Broken Windows
  15. 5 Reasons To Oppose Physician-Assisted Suicide
  16. Let Psychologists Pass Out Crazy Meds?
  17. Lynch Mob: Hawaii Supreme Court to hear arguments over 3rd Deedy trial
  18. HPD fired, tried to fire 25 officers in 2016
  19. Police Reform Bills Before Legislature
  20. Sunshine Law Amendments Before Legislature
  21. Hawaii Environmental Council Wants to Change Human Nature, Reorganize Economy
  22. Idaho Republican Launches Bid to Split 9th Circuit
  23. California Liberals Begin Castrating Prisoners
  24. Will President Donald J Trump Keep 1,250 Unwanted Muslim ‘Refugees’ Out of Hawaii?
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Wednesday, February 1, 2017
February 1, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:22 PM :: 4130 Views
  1. Rep Kaniela Ing: Tickets, Lies, and Bin Laden
  2. After Speaking at Anti-Trump Rally, Rep Beth Fukumoto Prepares to Quit GOP
  3. ‘Challenging and exciting times’
  4. SB938: Eliminate DoTax 10% Rail Skim
  5. HB663 and SB501: Force Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers to Promote Abortion
  6. DOH fights lawsuit on their non-posting of inspection reports even as two bills in the Legislature again fund the posting
  7. HECO Solar Deal: Wholesale Rate Finally Equals Average Mainland Retail Rate
  8. BLNR Approves Big Island Carbon Credit Scam 
  9. DLNR Seeks Applicants: Commission on Water Resource Management
  10. Parents asked to provide feedback on their child’s public school
  11. How Many Tourists is Too Many?
  12. Report: A Decade of Human Trafficking in Hawaii
  13. Information sessions for Oahu Neighborhood Board Candidates
  14. Peter Pakemai, Master Canoe Carver
  15. GE Tax Hike: Legislature ‘Very Upset’ at Rail Lies -- Caldwell Offers Bribe 
  16. Nightmare: Just When You Thought You Were Free of Obamacare, Hawaii Legislature Decides to Keep It
  17. HPD Refuses to Pay Kealoha’s $250K Golden Parachute:  Payoff Agreement in Default Feb 2
  18. Maui: In Effort to Create More Homelessness, Soft on Crime Crowd Pushes for Mass Release of Criminals
  19. TMT contested case hearing slated to continue through February
  20. Bill would lower blood quantum requirement for Hawaiian Homestead successors if Congress Agrees
  21. Duke Aiona: Tracking Assisted Suicide in Legislature
  22. Chemophobia: Bill Banning Many Sunscreen Products Advances In House
  23. Anti-GMO Bills Pass Mike Gabbard Committee
  24. Gabbard’s trip to Syria tied to pro-Assad group
  25. Advice for Muslims in Hawaii: Don’t (ahem) ‘Blow Up’ the Situation
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017
January 31, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:22 PM :: 3178 Views
  1. County workers in Hawaii make highest wages in the nation
  2. Call for a Forensic Audit at OHA
  3. Robert Lindsey: OHA Trustees Must “Walk on Water, Be Holier Than Thou”
  4. Trump Immigration: UH Administrators Pander Relentlessly
  5. VIDEO: UH Manoa Chancellor Candidates Public Forum
  6. New Tourism Record for 2016 -- 8.9 Million Arrivals
  7. High-Speed Internet: Hawaii Schools #1 in USA
  8. 2016 National Citizen Survey for the City and County of Honolulu
  9. Former Hawaii GOP Chair Joins National Rifle Association Board
  10. ‘Natural’ Toxins for your Baby: ‘Homeopathic’ Profiteers Refuse Recall Order
  11. HSTA: Amend State Constitution to give us Half-Billion-Dollar Slush Fund 
  12. Getting The Chronic Homeless Into Housing
  13. Rep Kaniela Ing is a Liar
  14. Hawaii one of only Six States for which Amazon Does not Collect Taxes
  15. Lawmakers aim to hold homeowner associations accountable for lost, stolen money
  16. Waihee Golf Course Tries to Shut Down Public Access to Hawaiian Kingdom Trail
  17. With vacancy at the top, high-level promotions at HPD raise eyebrows
  18. Correctional center designed for 127 has 174 inmates
  19. Change Orders, Cost Overruns picked up in Billy Kenoi’s Last two years
  20. Two Iraqi Refugees Slated to Come to Hawaii
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Monday, January 30, 2017
January 30, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:55 PM :: 5024 Views
  1. Hawaii Attorney General to Sue Trump to Keep Muslim ‘Refugees’ Flowing Into Country?
  2. OHA 2016 Check Register: Money Flows to Lawyers, LLCs, Insiders and More
  3. Notice of Anticipated Judicial Vacancy – Circuit Court of the Third Circuit
  4. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 30, 2017
  5. Cancer: HMSA Puts MDs on Welfare--Begins Paying Oncologists to do Nothing
  6. Proposed tax hikes carry steep costs for drivers
  7. SB366/HB1283: Automatic Rate Hikes for Electric Utilities which Shovel Money to Green Energy Scammers
  8. Star-Adv: HTA should open financial records
  9. 20 Years on Diamond Head—Shooting Drugs and Panhandling in Waikiki
  10. Medical vans to aid homeless could cost state $1.4M annually
  11. Pot Decriminalization Has A Shot This Session, But Ige Wants To Wait
  12. Civil Beat: Report Trump Voters and Bloggers to Us
  13. Legislation on the Move
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Sunday, January 29, 2017
January 29, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:33 PM :: 4062 Views
  1. 239 Candidates Register for Honolulu Neighborhood Board Elections
  2. Duke Aiona: “What is Your Legislator Pushing?”
  3. Peek-A-Boo -- I See Your Tax Return
  4. Judge Throws Criminal Al Hee’s Company Out of Court
  5. Ige Campaign Manager Shows up on Fourth Judicial Nomination List
  6. 12 Caldwell administration cabinet members confirmed
  7. Rail: Taxpayers to be Skinned Alive -- Twice?
  8. Tourism Industry Wary of HSTA Tax Hike Scheme
  9. Bumbling DoTax Can’t Figure Out How to Collect online travel taxes
  10. Kealoha Settlement Allows Him to Continue Harassing Ethics Commission—City to Pay Lawyers Millions
  11. Will Trump Administration Kill Honolulu Rail?
  12. Consider this time-honored Hawaii option for rail problem: Just ignore it and let it linger
  13. UH hopes taxpayers will pony up if they claim it is for ‘free’ education to eligible students
  14. UH Wants Cut of the Action at Aloha Stadium
  15. Five Bills Introduced to Kill off Expensive Patients
  16. HMA Opposition to Suicide Neutralized by Political Pressure?
  17. Counting ‘Anti-Government’ Homeless Determines Flow of Government Money
  18. Legislative bill proposes ban on sunscreen chemical harmful to coral reefs
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Saturday, January 28, 2017
January 28, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:28 PM :: 4403 Views
  1. Trask: Trustee Apo uses OHA Resources for Private Business Deals
  2. VIDEO: OHA Board Protesters Throw Salt, Call for FBI Investigation
  3. FSMA: Unknown Regulatory Threat Leaves Agriculture in Limbo
  4. Third Circuit Seeking Applicants for Independent Grand Jury Counsels
  5. VIDEO: School Choice Dance 2017!
  6. HB71: Bill Would Force Caldwell Resignation
  7. Something to Hide? Will OHA Trustees Even Vote for Watered Down Audit?
  8. Toxic DoE Tries to Increase Teacher Retention Rate by Sacrificing Matyoshi
  9. Anti-Pesticide Claims are all Hype and Hysteria
  10. Senate asks attorney general to step in on HTA Secrecy
  11. UH Athletic Dep’t Grabs for HTA Pro Bowl Money
  12. Lawmakers grill DHS over long-delayed day care safe sleep policies
  13. After 11 years, school building might finally open
  14. Caldwell Lets Oceanfront Park Rot for Five Years until Community Volunteers Pay to Fix it up
  15. Soldier’s body found along freeway nearly 12 hours after motorcycle crash
  16. Ex-Cop Gets 2 Days for DUI
  17. Bill would ban cellphone use while crossing streets
  18. Another Hi Tech Tax Credit Failure
  19. Got Money?  Wanna Live in Hawaii?  We WILL Make You Pay Us – Just ask Zuck
  20. White Supremacists Cheer: Gabbard Talks Up Trump-Syria Unity
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Friday, January 27, 2017
January 27, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:56 PM :: 5080 Views
  1. Honolulu 7th Most Expensive Housing on Earth
  2. Governor says treat symptoms, not causes of our economic woes
  3. Homeless Community Outreach Court is Now Open
  4. OHA Audit: Trustee says it’s time to reassure beneficiaries
  5. Hawaii 8th Largest Educational Attainment Gap
  6. OHA Corruption: FBI, Hackers, and Botox 
  7. Money: Schatz Tentacles Reach into P-20, UH Administration
  8. Mrs Brian Schatz is ‘Project Manager’ for Illegal North Shore Commercial Activities
  9. Judiciary seems recent target of lawmakers, chief justice says
  10. Embattled tourism agency Hides Sports Entertainment Spending
  11. Settlement in polygraph suit may cost state $400K
  12. State opts not to send new funds to program that kept 1000s from streets
  13. Medicaid Funds Pay to Help Homeless Stay in Housing?
  14. Lawsuit: Police Commission Broke The Law With Secret Meetings
  15. SB1292: Save Hilo from Economic Decline Caused by State-Owned Land Management
  16. HECO Seeks Re-Start for Overpriced Solar Farms
  17. Senate Energy Chair: HECO Must Agree to Bills Before I Hear Them
  18. Phony Baloney: Will Lawmakers Change Feel Good ‘Renewable’ Energy Formula?
  19. Dozens of Energy Bills Introduced in 2017 Hawai`i Legislative Session
  20. Capitol sees renewed push to legalize marijuana in Hawaii
  21. Mega Prison to Bulk up UPW-Prison Industrial Complex 
  22. Suicide Squad Working to Kill off Expensive Patients, Save HMSA Millions
  23. Ige’s Food Goal: Two Times ‘I don’t know’
  24. City has no data on whether plastic bag ban has reduced litter or plastic bag waste
  25. SB18: DUI at 0.05%—Big Money Spinner for Lawyers
  26. Transportation Department Pushes for $1500 Speeding Ticket
  27. Gambling Measures Surface At The Hawaii Legislature
  28. Women’s Legislative Caucus targets health care, sex assault, pay gap
  29. Senator Brickwood Galuteria Loves Donald Trump
  30. Zuckerberg Media Circus
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Thursday, January 26, 2017
January 26, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:06 PM :: 7085 Views
  1. Who Covered up OHA Sex Harassment Settlement?
  2. Full Text: 2017 State of the Judiciary Address
  3. Farm Bureau: 12 Anti-Agriculture Bills Introduced to Legislature
  4. SB702 Would Punish Short-Term Rentals Like Sexual Assaults
  5. HB1367: Accountability and Involvement with Homeless Provider Agencies
  6. Medicare Overbilling: Hawaii ranks 16th
  7. Hawaii #2 in USA for Arrests of K-12 Students
  8. Study: More Corrupt States Have Higher Public Debt
  9. Haven of Aloha: Democrats Declare Hawaii to be a ‘Safe Space’ from The Trumpmonster
  10. Grassroot: Stop the Return of Earmarks
  11. Star-Adv: Independent Audit of OHA Needed
  12. OHA Trustees to Vote on Forensic Audit Monday
  13. HSTA pitches $500M/year State property tax, hotel surcharge
  14. Legislators: ‘Out to Get’ Ige
  15. Mrs Brian Schatz is ‘Project Manager’ for Illegal North Shore Commercial Activities
  16. Ing Admits he is a Liar
  17. After Four Years of Ignorance, Kauai Council “clear the books” of invalid law regulating pesticides, GMOs
  18. Laughed out of Court, Anti-GMO Activists Introduce Anti-Ag Bills in Hawaii Legislature
  19. HECO Pays Isles’ largest solar farm 40% More Than Mainland Retail
  20. Hawaii bill would classify homelessness as medical condition
  21. Homeless Court Gives Bums Chance to Get a Job  
  22. SB611—Jack Up Cost of Housing to Create Make Work for Plumbers Union
  23. Hawaii Legislators Follow Abortion Playbook
  24. SB677: Gambling Bill Dead on Arrival
  25. Got Albizia? Get a Tax Credit
  26. Hawaii Lawmakers Grab for Control Over Judiciary
  27. Same old BS from New HPD Interim Chief
  28. Judge Throws Kealoha’s Lawyer off Case 
  29. Gabbard Endorses Trump’s Position on Syria After Trip—Calls for End to Obama-Clinton Policy of Arming Al Qaeda
  30. Zuckerberg Media Circus
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Thursday, January 26, 2017
Letters to the Editor January, 2017
By Letters to the Editor @ 10:00 AM :: 6763 Views
  • Need for More Family Court Judges on Oahu
  • Vacant?  Planned Hires Normally Get Half-Year Funding
  • Split Honolulu into Two Counties
  • Advice to UH Manoa Chancellor Candidates--Run!
  • One-Way Streets to Alleviate Dangerous Walking Conditions? 
  • Lanai residents fed up with the awful service from Ohana Air
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Wednesday, January 25, 2017
January 25, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:16 PM :: 3443 Views
  1. Crabbes in the Bucket: Secret OHA Employee Surveys Reveal Distrust, Anger
  2. Trump infrastructure priority list focuses on Public-Private partnerships--does not Include Honolulu Rail
  3. Hawaii Non-Governmental Workers Receive Lowest Pay in USA
  4. Vacant?  Planned Hires Normally Get Half-Year Funding
  5. Split Honolulu into Two Counties
  6. Making property taxes less taxing
  7. Caldwell Pushes $65M Fuel tax, Vehicle Fee Hike
  8. Water pipe woes Mean More rate Hikes
  9. Few Crabbe Supporters Testify at OHA Board of Trustees Meeting
  10. Survey Finds Homeless Dude Using Heroin for 48 Years
  11. Will Police Reform Finally Gain Traction In The 2017 Legislature?
  12. Criminal Hee Company Loses in Court (again)
  13. HPD: City, not Department Should Foot Bill for Chief’s Golden Parachute
  14. Hawaii County Council: Keep Buying Booze on P-Cards
  15. Greenmail Activists Assert Right to Walk Through Zuckerberg Site
  16. Aloha Stadium redevelopment could soon begin with EIS
  17. Another High-Tech Tax Credit Flop--Hawaii fish farming company shuts down after 10 years in business
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Tuesday, January 24, 2017
January 24, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:18 PM :: 4659 Views
  1. Full Text: State of the State Address
  2. Ige Speech “Unfocused, Disappointing, Lacking in Details”
  3. Bill: Fund Rail by Sale of Development Rights
  4. Hawaii Celebrates School Choice Week at 79 Events Statewide
  5. Circuit Court Criminal and Family Court Criminal Cases Now Available Online
  6. Affordable Retirement? Not in Hawaii
  7. Government Mandates on Local Farmers
  8. Hawaii Bill Would Legalize Raw Milk Sales
  9. Caldwell: Hike Honolulu fuel tax, vehicle weight tax and parking fees to Convince Legislators to Hike GE Tax
  10. Ige warns of slowing economy—Promises Raises for Unions
  11. Pay for Improvements by Eliminating Bureaucracy, not Allocating Funds
  12. Trump, Day One: Hawaii Congressional Delegation Applauds Wildly as Obama-Clinton Legacy Erased
  13. Beware the echo chamber
  14. Voluntary EIS Provides Vehicle for Anti-Dairy Protesters
  15. Bill Banning Second Jobs For Mayors Would Affect Caldwell’s Bank Deal
  16. OHA trustees’ to Try to Get Rid of Crabbe Again
  17. Lunch Trucks Give up on OHA, Move to Park
  18. Bill Would Feminize Hawaii Public Utilities Commission
  19. Ige Pushes $10M for High Tech Tax Credit Scammers
  20. Death squeal of a subsidy pig: Green Energy Scammers Terrified that Trump will Lower electric Rates
  21. Legislation: Felony to Not Put Baby to Sleep on his Back
  22. What will Happen to Medicaid when Obamacare is Gone?
  23. Several marijuana measures introduced
  24. Family of man killed in violent arrest to get $1M
  25. Police Commission ‘Clarifies’ Terms Of HPD Chief’s $250K Deal
  26. Caldwell Very slow to replace Oahu’s aging water mains
  27. State kicks off annual homeless 'point-in-time' count
  28. Delay in 'Peter Boy' trial used to Pressure Legislators for Judicial Funding
  29. Private Developer offers to Solve Aloha Stadium Problems
  30. Zuckerberg's Quiet Title Actions: Reality vs Shibai
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Monday, January 23, 2017
January 23, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:14 PM :: 3252 Views
  1. OHA’s Hidden LLCs: Why Plead Guilty to Stealing $14M?
  2. My Conversation with OHA Sex Harassment Victim
  3. Legislators ‘GEMS Model’ for Future:  Spend $2B on ‘affordable’ Housing
  4. Legislators Introduce Two Gambling Bills, More to Come
  5. Meet OHA’s Newest Trustee
  6. Bill Seeks Privatization of State Small Boat Harbor
  7. Kauai Council to vote on anti-GMO repeal
  8. Protests a Distraction
  9. Assisted treatment law rarely used to help mentally ill in Hawaii
  10. $200K to Redirect Low-Level Offenders?
  11. High winds rip through Waianae homeless encampment—Tweekers Still Won’t Accept Shelter
  12. Trannies a Non-Issue in Kauai School Bathrooms
  13. Star-Adv: Expand scrutiny of wind turbines
  14. Caldwell’s Latest Water Main Collapse will Jam H-1 thru Thursday
  15. Potholes, Lost Inmate Property, Falling Ceiling Cost Taxpayers
  16. Civil Beat: All Arguments against Assisted Suicide are Religious and Therefore Must be Disregarded
  17. Assisted Suicide Won’t Necessarily Eliminate Lobbyist
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Sunday, January 22, 2017
January 22, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:04 PM :: 4546 Views
  1. Liberal TEA Party: Thousands March Against Trump in Hawaii
  2. Funding Nonexistent People
  3. UH System-Wide Survey to Amp up “Gender Violence” Hysteria
  4. State Environmental Council Releases ‘Sustainability’ Report
  5. Telescope Leaving? “Will Decide This Autumn”
  6. Rail: 145,000 Cracked Shims and Pads to be Replaced – 11 Miles of Re-Work
  7. Tokuda: Ige Has No Coherent Plan on Rail
  8. Assisted suicide does not fit Hawaii
  9. Trump’s victory creates uncertainty for wind and solar tax-credit scammers
  10. Lost Ag Jobs Excluded from Hawaii Unemployment Numbers
  11. Invasive Species a Real Money Spinner
  12. Corrections officials seek $1M to update fruitless master plan
  13. Caldwell’s Water Mains Keep Breaking—H-1 Jammed til Monday?
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Saturday, January 21, 2017
January 21, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:36 PM :: 8115 Views
  1. Obama’s Final Gift to Hawaii—Three Gun-Toting Meth Dealers
  2. Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
  3. Auditor: HART Audit Not Started
  4. Lost Jobs: Obamacare Impact on Hawaii
  5. Corporate Lobbyist Leads Hawaii Anti-Trump March
  6. Hawaii Republicans Celebrate Trump Inauguration
  7. AUW Pays Rent for 1,353 Families
  8. Honolulu's construction costs finally cool down, report says
  9. Ongoing renovation of state-owned building still behind schedule
  10. Lawyer: I’ll Pretend to be Incompetent if it Helps Convicted Murderer Get Off Easy
  11. Zuckerberg Quiet Title Gives Ing Another Opportunity to Pander and Posture
  12. Mindless State Bureaucracy Shuts Down Car Dealership for Three Weeks
  13. High Tech Tax Credit Schemers Try Agriculture as Excuse for New Round of Crony Capitalism
  14. Legislature Set to Ban Sunscreen After Coral Hype
  15. Kim Jong-un sets sights on nuking Pearl Harbor
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Friday, January 20, 2017
January 20, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:55 PM :: 4679 Views
  1. Full Text: President Donald Trump Inaugural Speech
  2. Full Text: Police Commission Reasons for Removal of Chief Kealoha
  3. Financial Services: OHA Spire Contract Balloons 760% in Two Years
  4. Ward to Introduce ‘Tough Love Act’ for Homelessness
  5. Competition Matters … In Sports and Government
  6. Republicans Urged to Run for Neighborhood Board
  7. 188 Candidates File for Honolulu Neighborhood Board Elections
  8. Asset Forfeiture Transparency & Accountability—Hawaii Grade D+
  9. How Does Hawaii Score on Healthcare Access?
  10. Full Text: UH Sued over Biofuel Lab Explosion
  11. On Life Support? HECO Wants to Give You $20
  12. EPA Fines Matson $725K for Molasses Spill
  13. Auditor: How Will Hawaii Regulate Midwives?
  14. Rail: Murthy Finds $9M, Discovers HART Employees are Incompetent
  15. Rail: HART CFO Quits—Caldwell Covers it up for a Month
  16. Teachers union: State offer of 2 percent increase over 2 years is ‘unacceptable”
  17. Second try for New KSBE Trustee Search
  18. HMSA chief Wants Hawaii Regulators to Protect HMSA from Competition
  19. Corporate Welfare Queens Conspire to grab More High Tech Tax Credits
  20. How Legislators Evade Conflict of Interest Rules
  21. DoTax Hammered over bugs in $59M Computer Program
  22. Report shows millions budgeted for Honolulu Police Department left unspent
  23. Hirono at Interior Secretary Confirmation Hearings—Not One Word about the Fake Indian Tribe
  24. Star Adv to Trump: Don’t Roll Back Fake Indian Tribe 
  25. Obama’s Final Gift to Hawaii—Three Gun-Toting Meth Dealers
  26. OJ Simpson Innocence Project files motion to overturn conviction in Dana Ireland murder
  27. Lawmakers Push for Mass Release of Criminals onto Streets--Call Hawaii prisons expensive homeless shelters
  28. KPD Officer Charged with negligent Homicide
  29. Homeless Desecrate Cemetery
  30. Amid ongoing crisis, Maui homeless shelters face uncertain future
  31. Homosexuals Harass Waianae Church
  32. Unlike UH Manoa, KCC students aren’t protesting inauguration
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Thursday, January 19, 2017
January 19, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:56 PM :: 4571 Views
  1. OHA pays $50K: Sex harassment claim against Peter Apo
  2. Caldwell: Payoff for Police Chief is Best Use of Taxpayer Money
  3. Privatize: “Not one penny more for rail"
  4. Full Text: House Speaker Opening Day Remarks
  5. 48-Hour Fed Wreck Countdown
  6. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 18, 2017
  7. Hawaii Dead Last for Pass-Thru Businesses
  8. Best State to Raise a Family? Hawaii Ranks 33rd
  9. Scottish Nationalists Demand Ige Return Falls of Clyde
  10. Star-Adv: Raise Taxes and Kill off Expensive Oldsters
  11. High Cost: GE Tax Hike and Honolulu Property Tax Hike on Legislative Agenda
  12. One Party Senate: “I can say Anything”
  13. Again: Rep Chris Lee Bill to Outlaw Gasoline, Diesel Vehicles
  14. Chief Takes One Final Payoff – $250K Plus Full Pension
  15. Hawaii County Raises considered despite hiring freeze
  16. HPD Needs To Stop Shooting At Cars
  17. Keep the People Medicated: Hawaii marijuana numbers soar 17% in Year
  18. Police, Social Workers to Count ‘Hard Core’ Homeless
  19. Aiea Homeless Camp -- From Bad to Worse
  20. Hawaii 5-0 Profitable for Bumpy Kanahele, Fleeing Felons
  21. Gabbard won’t say who funded her controversial Syria trip
  22. Anti-GMO Movement Splits Wide Open—Dustin Barca Denounces ‘Con Artist’ Ashley Lukens
  23. Hawaii Dairy Farms submits unnecessary Final EIS
  24. Technicalities prevent Supreme Court from appointing TMT master
  25. Weigh in on where to put OCCC
  26. North Korean Attack on Hawaii Might Trigger US Response
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Wednesday, January 18, 2017
January 18, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:18 PM :: 4346 Views
  1. Hawaii Family Forum Prepares for Legislative Session
  2. Hawaii State Legislators join nationwide initiative to address opioid abuse
  3. Opening Day Remarks: House Minority Leader Beth Fukumoto
  4. Senate Democrats 2017 Legislative Program
  5. Danger: Legislature Begins 4 Month Run for Your Money
  6. FBI raids second city building in police chief investigation
  7. OHA settles sexual harassment claim against Peter Apo for $50K
  8. Counselor Involved In School Sex Case Now Works For State
  9. BoE Scrounges Around for Excuse for Matayoshi Firing
  10. Caldwell Conceals DPP Resignations For Nearly a Month
  11. Moving in the Right Direction? Housing for the Homeless in Hawaii
  12. Legislators Seek to Outlaw Lower Cost Private Insurance Plans
  13. Rep Kaniela Ing Wants to Steal Your Money, Shut Down Businesses which Employ the Poor
  14. Anti-GMO Losers Want Legislature to make them into Winners
  15. Green Energy Schemers Grab for More Tax Credits
  16. Lifeguard Immunity: Trial Lawyers vs Counties
  17. More Empty Talk About Hawaiian Health Care
  18. Charter School Commission Hides Funds from Legislators
  19. Kauai Reduces teacher turnover
  20. 15 Years Later UH Maui Building Falling Apart
  21. Quiet Title Actions a Great Opportunity to Shake down Zukerberg for some Serious Money
  22. Program to Let Lots of Criminals out of state’s jails has yet to launch
  23. Soft on Crime Policy Denies Free Room and Board to Homeless Criminal
  24. Soft on Crime: Criminal sought after officer-involved shooting was on work furlough
  25. Entire UH Manoa Campus to be Consumed with Anti-Trump Protest
  26. Honolulu: 6,000 Expected to Protest Trump on Saturday
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Tuesday, January 17, 2017
January 17, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:01 PM :: 3329 Views
  1. Hawaii residents most likely to live paycheck to paycheck
  2. Wind Turbines Are Killing Way More Bats Than Any Expected
  3. Hawaii Among Most Expensive States for Smokers
  4. Gun Deaths Per Capita: Hawaii ranks 49th
  5. Legislative Changes to Ensure Brokerage Compliance?
  6. Help Wanted: Deputy Solicitor General State of Hawaii
  7. Legislative Changes to Ensure Brokerage Compliance?
  8. City purchases undeveloped Kahuku Golf Course oceanfront lands
  9. Hawaii Gun Owners ‘Rap Back’ Fact Sheet
  10. Caldwell: Don’t Do Anything About Corruption in HPD
  11. Will President Trump Save Hawaii from Rail?
  12. Children can be eligible to use medicated marijuana
  13. Maui Anti-GMO Councilmembers Get Tired of their own Circus
  14. Do Condo Owners Need Some Help From Hawaii’s Legislature?
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Monday, January 16, 2017
January 16, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:42 PM :: 3302 Views
  1. 1959: Martin Luther King Jr Salutes Hawaii Statehood
  2. Akina: Make King’s dream a reality for Hawaii
  3. Legislature Opening Day Wednesday January 18
  4. Advice to UH Manoa Chancellor Candidates--Run!
  5. Oahu Veterans Treatment Court Celebrates 22 Successful Graduates
  6. Full Text: New report concludes Airbnb has ‘no material impact’ on Hawaii housing inventory
  7. Caldwell’s New Money-Making Scheme--Raise rents on ‘affordable’ housing
  8. Leaders of tourism bureau often opt for closed meetings—Claim They’re Talking About Cookies
  9. Green Energy Schemers Claim They Can go on Without Federal Subsidies
  10. Conference looks away from test scores for DoE
  11. Can Feds Save Hawaii From New Stadium Boondoggle?
  12. Public has 1 more chance to air concerns on ag lands
  13. Soft on Crime: Man who shot at police in Kahaluu is a repeat felon—Escaped in 2012, out on Street in 2017
  14. Two men suffer injuries in Koko Head shooting range mishap
  15. Obamacare Rally—300 Democrats Show up in Honolulu 
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Sunday, January 15, 2017
January 15, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:29 PM :: 3157 Views
  1. Architects: Put Rail on the Ground—Save $4.2B
  2. Obamacare? Nobody Wants it Less than Honolulu
  3. Obama Admin: Hawaii DOI Rule Part of ‘Renewed Era of Federal-Tribal Relations’
  4. UHERO Adjusts Economic Forecast Upward Thanks to Trump
  5. Michael, Row the Boat Ashore
  6. 2017 Legislature: Economy is Booming And They Still Want More Tax Hikes
  7. Budget: The Good the Bad and the Ugly
  8. Assisted Suicide to Help Insurance Company Profits-- Kill of the Disabled—They’re so Expensive!
  9. Tax Housing by $45 psf to make Housing Affordable?
  10. Vacation-rental tax: Hard to catch elusive funds
  11. Hee in Prison But Sandwich Isles Still Refusing to Pay $76M Federal Fines 
  12. Hospital transition still a high priority for Maui legislators
  13. Homeless at Old Kona Airport Park have ‘very few places to go’ (Except a Shelter)
  14. Homeless Camp Pollutes One Mile of East Oahu Beach
  15. Surfrider marks 400th victory for Dominant Paradigm
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Saturday, January 14, 2017
January 14, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:06 PM :: 4648 Views
  1. Ige: School system is simply not relevant to today’s students
  2. FBI Raids Honolulu Prosecutor’s Office
  3. Hawaii Wind Farms Kill 146 Bats, 50 Nene, 26 Petrels—and Counting
  4. Insiders Claim GEMS is About to Write $109M in Loans
  5. HTA must open financial books
  6. Marijuana Dealers Look forward to Selling to Tourists
  7. Homeless Drug Addicts Take over House, Burn it Down
  8. Citizens now called 'Hawaii residents' vs. 'Hawaiians' in federal paperwork
  9. DCCA is in No Hurry to Process Paperwork for Volvo Dealership
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