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Tuesday, May 17, 2016
May 17, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:50 PM :: 3718 Views
  1. Full Text: FTA Statement on Rail—$8 Billion Dollars and 8 More Years
  2. Rep Gene Ward Seeks Reelection to State House—Slom to File for Senate
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  4. Audit: DoE Claims to be ‘Financially Responsible’
  5. Auditor: HTA Lacks Cohesive Marketing Plan
  6. Big Q: When it comes to your health insurance, what’s been the most notable change?
  7. Rail: Does Colbert Matsumoto Have Conflicts of Interest?
  8. Charter Proposal Would Keep HART Away from Rail Operations and Maintenance
  9. Political Insiders Can begin Selling Marijuana July 1
  10. Kealohas mailbox: “A frame-up of a defendant for a specific reason”
  11. TMT Pre-Hearing Generates Excuses for Supreme Court to Use
  12. Another Secret UH budget Proviso: Moves Film Studio to UH West Oahu Campus
  13. Hawaii Supreme Court hands Privatization a setback with garbage UPW ruling
  14. Oahu’s Future: 757 square miles of Rusting Wind Junk
  15. Obama’s Gift to Honolulu: 282 More Mentally Ill, AIDS infected Homeless on the Streets
  16. Hawaii schools struggle to help growing number of homeless students
  17. Crushed by Political Correctness, In Hawaii and nationally, boys falling behind in school
  18. New analysis looks at San Francisco housing costs
  19. Ag Shipments Down Statewide
  20. Hawaii County: Lunatics Attack Styrofoam Again
  21. Military Prosecutors Charge Bisexual: Murdered Wife, Worked as Gay Prostitute, Collected Kiddie Porn
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Monday, May 16, 2016
May 16, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:26 PM :: 4863 Views
  1. $10 Billion Is the Ultimate Price Tag for Honolulu's Rail Boondoggle
  2. Full Text: Interior Department Issues Rule on Procedures to Amend Hawaiian Homes Commission Act
  3. Study: Feds Grip on Hawaii Tightens 41%
  4. Report: Hawaii State-Funded Pre-K Serves only 365 Students
  5. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted May 16, 2016
  6. Hawaii Veterans Treatment Court Celebrates 15 Successful Graduates
  7. Big Q: Should transgender students in public schools be allowed to use bathrooms matching their so-called gender identity?
  8. Obama's Hiroshima visit may open Pandora's box
  9. Hospital Privatization: Vested Employees Score $366,500 each in Freebies
  10. Cronyism: Contractors ‘Pre-Qualified’ for $100M Cool Schools Bonanza
  11. Is Hanabusa Competent to Clamp Down on HART Spending?
  12. HAWAIIANS OPPOSE U.S. PUSH TO CREATE HAWAI`I TRIBAL NATION
  13. Ahakuelo sold IBEW HQ, Used Money to Buy Beach House
  14. Kauai Council to discuss GE Tax Hike Wednesday
  15. Dedication and first service held at Hawaii Law Enforcement Memorial
  16. Anti-GMO Hysteria Drives up Cost of Cane Sugar
  17. Schizophrenic from California Chooses to Live Homeless in Kailua-Kona
  18. Nonprofits seek funding to keep Homeless AIDS Patients housed
  19. The ‘Brutal Reality’ Of Owning A Condo In Hawaii
  20. Capitol Pools Reflect Accurately on Legislature
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Sunday, May 15, 2016
May 15, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:56 PM :: 3819 Views
  1. Hawaii Republicans–Political Kingmakers?
  2. Telescope to Avoid "Death By A Thousand Days?"
  3. Organically Grown Tax Credits on Way to Governor
  4. Video: The Jones Act, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii
  5. Who’s Running: Candidates Pulling Papers as of May 13, 2016
  6. Feds:  Honolulu’s rail line could cost $8.1B
  7. Given a chance to raise tax, county officials back away
  8. Questioning Caldwell’s campaign theme
  9. Provisos: Secret and Anonymous Legislation for Hawaii
  10. Legislators cast lot with pot for isles’ medical care woes
  11. Hawaii Marijuana Regs Designed “to replace one Cartel with Another”
  12. Homeless ranks swell, frustrate business sector in Kona Old Industrial Area
  13. Hawaii Needs Mental Health Emergency Rooms
  14. Na Wai Ola faces possible loss of charter
  15. Charter-Time Warner Cable merger gets final OK, heads to closing
  16. Hawaii AIDS Cases from Mainland
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Saturday, May 14, 2016
May 14, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:33 PM :: 3176 Views
  1. Obama Admin Orders Hawaii Schools to Let Trannies Hang out in Bathrooms
  2. How much do federal regulations cost Hawaii?
  3. When Classrooms Get Too Hot, Laie Parents Take Matters into Their Own Hands
  4. State of Hawaii Files First Lawsuit Relating to Faulty Takata Airbags
  5. UHERO: How State Shares Transient Accommodation Tax With Counties
  6. Kaiser Names New Leadership for Privatized Maui Hospitals
  7. Taxpayer Funded Hawaii Tech Maven Pitches Abject Failure to Silicon Valley Investors
  8. No timetable for TMT sublease review
  9. Sanders Supporters Urge Hawaii Superdelegates to be more … uh … Democratic
  10. Memorial For Fallen Officers Defaced
  11. Maui Council Considers Gas, Biodiesel Tax Hike
  12. Maui Corporation Counsel Discloses Thousands in Gambling Winnings
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Friday, May 13, 2016
May 13, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:14 PM :: 4437 Views
  1. Full Text: IBEW International Details Charges Against Ahakuelo
  2. Elections: Supreme Court to hear Green Party Suit Against Scott Nago
  3. McDermott calls for special session to address Campbell HS construction funds
  4. Mediator Peter Adler appointed to serve on Caldwell’s Ethics Commission
  5. E-Scrips: New York First to Adopt Common Sense Solution to Opioid Abuse
  6. Rusting Wind Junk off Waikiki? Feds Coming to Honolulu for Public Hearing
  7. Dollar Worth only $0.86 in Hawaii, the most expensive state
  8. Nepotism?  ‘Its Part of What We Do’
  9. “You Lied to Us Again” – Rail Costs Jump Another $350M
  10. Rail Governance is now on Charter Commission Agenda with Lobbyist at Helm
  11. Caldwell's Double Standard: Let Kealoha Keep his Job After Admitting he is Under Investigation
  12. Kealoha Lawyer Targets Officers Testifying Against Chief
  13. Carlisle Announces Pro-Rail Mayoral Candidacy
  14. How HECO Power Supply Study Designed to Promote Inter-Island Cable
  15. NYT: Keaau Plant Helps Biofuel Industry Cover Up Environmental Damage
  16. Acting Skills Pry Money out of Legislature
  17. Park marred by homeless? Let’s spend a jillion dollars!
  18. $50,000 Per Toilet for Homeless
  19. HCDA Giveaway to Developers: Reduced Parking Space Requirements for Condos
  20. Blood Bank Tries To Prepare For Potential Zika Outbreak
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Thursday, May 12, 2016
May 12, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:55 PM :: 4067 Views
  1. Energy: Banking on Wind and Solar Keeps Hawaii Dependent on Oil
  2. Act 48: Enviro Disputes Go Directly to Supreme Court
  3. Open letter to Greenpeace: Jones Act Behind Lower Environmental Standards in US
  4. Lockheed under Navy scrutiny for troubled Littoral Combat Ship program
  5. After 50 Years of Empty Promises, Democrats Finally Let a Few Filipino WW2 Vets Bring Family into USA
  6. Marijuana Legalization and State Taxes
  7. Police chief's newly-hired defense attorney Finally admits there is an investigation: 'We expect indictment'
  8. Embattled local IBEW leader rescinds retirement
  9. Hawaii AG Investigated Auditor’s Office Before Recent Shakeup
  10. Chun-Oakland Chased out of Senate by Lobbying Laws
  11. Judge allows workplace case against Duckworth to go to trial
  12. Kauai GE Tax Hike opposition rises
  13. Greenmail: OHA Gaining More Control Over Geothermal Royalties
  14. Geothermal to Solar Scammers: You Cut us, we cut your Battery Subsidies
  15. Hawaii Lawmakers To Obama: Don’t Grow Marine Monument for OHA
  16. Kauai Activists Discuss Illegal Action Against Dairy Farm
  17. TMT: Embracing A Future Not Defined By Our Past
  18. Worthless Hawaii Co Council considers extending term limits to 10 years so they can get lifetime Pensions
  19. Report: Honolulu's middle class has grown since 2000, bucking national trend
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Wednesday, May 11, 2016
May 11, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:53 PM :: 4876 Views
  1. Wikileaks: Japan refused Obama Hiroshima Apology
  2. Danner Sisters in DC to Lobby for Fake Indian Tribe Based on Nai Aupuni ‘Constitution’
  3. The Plan to Rescue Hawaii’s Birds with Genetic Engineering
  4. Obesity Rate Lowest in Hawaii, Highest in West Virginia
  5. Honolulu has 3rd-Lowest Mortgage Write Off Rate Nationwide
  6. Hawaii Ranks Third in Nationwide Access to Justice Study
  7. Telescope turmoil expected to restart Monday
  8. Will Feds Withhold a Third Year of Financing Before HART Gets Around to Writing Financial Plan?
  9. Obama cuts funds to programs for homeless with HIV/AIDS, mental illness
  10. Planning to Dump Matayoshi: Ige Blocks State Superintendent from education task force
  11. Lawsuit: Nepotistic Union Boss Tried to Hire Hit-man to Kill Critics
  12. Hawaiian Electric Stockholders Betting on Approval of Merger
  13. State could close fiscal year with retirement fund deficit
  14. Ethics? Kenoi Cronies Continue to Stall for Time
  15. Priced Out of Paradise: Rising college tuition leaves more grads with big loan debt
  16. Hawaii Law Enforcement Memorial finished, six years in making
  17. Soft on Crime: Maui Man accused of slashing wife's throat was arrested after 1991 shooting, but never prosecuted
  18. Hawaii public schools struggle to provide athletes with top-rated helmets
  19. Lifeguards: Maui Council vs. HGEA
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Tuesday, May 10, 2016
May 10, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:24 PM :: 4059 Views
  1. Laughable: HB2085 Would Have Banned Gasoline-and Diesel-Powered Vehicles
  2. Survey: Hawaii #1 for Road Rage
  3. Getting Old? Hawaii 7th Best Place to be
  4. Variable Electric Pricing: What a Difference a Rate Makes
  5. UHERO: Hawaii Innovation Matters
  6. BYUH One of 20 Best Education Schools in US
  7. After more than a decade of West Coast disruptions, shippers are wising up
  8. 43% of State Legislators Unchallenged in Election
  9. Kauai, Maui Power Grab Would Abolish Mayor Put Council in Control
  10. Will Ige Veto Gut n Replace Giveaway to Anti-GMO Activists?
  11. Legislator’s Anonymous Proviso Pushing UH School of Education off Manoa Campus?
  12. Bishop Museum Run into Ground by Lazy, Incompetent Directors
  13. UH researchers frustrated by biolab's lengthy closure
  14. Future of Oahu's biggest and most efficient power plant in limbo
  15. Ahakuleo Family Drew $527K in Annual Salaries from Local 1260 IBEW
  16. Financial probe underway at IBEW Local 1260
  17. Medicated Dopers Tinker With Marijuana Laws
  18. 22,677 Warnings for Homeless who Continue to Refuse Shelter
  19. HUD Cuts Hawaii Homeless Funding
  20. Gay Inc Leaves Homeless Hawaii AIDS Patients in Lurch
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Monday, May 9, 2016
May 9, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:03 PM :: 3240 Views
  1. Complete List: All Bills that Passed the Legislature in 2016
  2. Hawaii Family Forum: Final Report for 2016 Legislative Session
  3. HB1689 Gut n Replace: $2M in Tax Credits for ‘Organic’ Pretend Farmer/Activists
  4. DHHL gets its funding; now it must deliver
  5. KCC hullaballoo comes to an end, until next time
  6. Funding anti-geothermal hype study?
  7. What’s The Honolulu Board of Water Supply Trying Hide?
  8. Union Organized Kauai Monopoly Marijuana Dealer Expects to Hire 40
  9. Audit to focus on state’s civil forfeiture program that some pan as property ‘ransom’
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Sunday, May 8, 2016
May 8, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:54 PM :: 4387 Views
  1. SEC Freezes Code Rebel: Yet Another Hawaii High Tech Tax Credit Implosion
  2. Global shipbuilding depression appears on horizon for 2017; what are implications for Jones Act shipbuilding?
  3. Transient Oriented Schools: Impacting Housing Costs
  4. Seven Political Parties on Hawaii Primary Ballot
  5. Kouchi Tried Again and Again to Give $5M Deal to His Employer
  6. TMT contested-case choice could doom process again
  7. Look over measures that failed or passed at Capitol
  8. 5 bills that change the business of health and hospitals in Hawaii
  9. High Tech Tax Credit Scammers Get ‘Only’ $1M
  10. SD13 Open, HD29 Open—Karl Rhoads Running for State Senate
  11. Thanks to Sierra Club, Koa Ridge Houses will Cost $700K – $900K
  12. State to explore utility Co-op options
  13. LNG: Green Energy Profiteers Order Minions to Protest Planned Reduction in Electric Bills
  14. HECO: Wind, Solar Means More Blackouts
  15. Trump, Clinton, Sanders United Against Federal Land Transfers to States
  16. Fukumoto-Chang: “In Hawaii we stand for something different”
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Saturday, May 7, 2016
May 7, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:07 PM :: 4347 Views
  1. BLNR Refuses to Replace Telescope Hearing Officer
  2. Rail: Taxpayers Robbed of $1.88B and Counting
  3. Who’s Running: Candidates Pulling Papers as of May 6, 2016
  4. Homelessness: U.S. VETS selected for Honolulu Housing First initiative
  5. Feds withhold a half-billion dollars for rail over stalled financial plan
  6. Engineering experts raise quality concerns over Honolulu’s rail construction
  7. Vote by Mail Bill Dies in Conference
  8. Contested Case Hearings Go Directly to State Supreme Court
  9. Kauai Council Rejects Tax Hikes
  10. Maui County Wants AirBnB to Enforce TVR Ordinances
  11. IBEW 1260 Union Boss Thrown Out by International
  12. Peter Savio Among those not Running for For Honolulu Mayor?
  13. Kalihi: Homosexual Child Molester Gets 20 Years for Kiddie Porn
  14. Politicians, Sierra Club Help Schemers Sell Overpriced Batteries to Unwary Consumers
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Friday, May 6, 2016
May 6, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:05 PM :: 4442 Views
  1. Did Caldwell Illegally Launch Reelection Campaign On County Time?
  2. Rep Beth Fukumoto Chang: “Aggressively Redefine What it Means to be a Minority Member”
  3. Health: Hawaii Lawmakers Struggle to Define Direct Primary Care
  4. Judge Awards EEOC $7.6M in Case Against Farm Labor Contractor Global Horizons
  5. Ige Signs ‘Cool Schools’ Bill
  6. Feds: After Losing Millions, Hawaii Medicaid Fraud Control Finally Improving
  7. Matson Stock Drops 12.5% due to Faltering China Trade
  8. Did Jones Act contribute to EL FARO loss?
  9. Jones Act: The Plot Against Puerto Rico
  10. Three Anti-Gun Bills on Ige’s Desk
  11. New FDA Regs May Shut Down 95% of E-Cig Industry
  12. Moody’s: Hawaii #3 in State Debt
  13. Government Contracting Explained: How Air Conditioning Costs $100K Per Classroom
  14. Government Contracting HART vs HECO:  Don’t-rock-the-boat concealment and avoidance of the hard facts
  15. TMT: What Are They Doing?
  16. Legislators Budget $2M for an Imu
  17. OHA Grabs for Control of NW Hawaiian Isles Monument
  18. China Still Invited to RIMPAC
  19. UH Tuition Hikes Used to Fund Capital Improvements for Crony Contractors
  20. Priced out of Paradise: Covering costs of college takes planning, flexibility
  21. Money approved for Super ferry study
  22. Greenmailers, Punatics Maintain Control of Geothermal Resources
  23. Vermont Copies Hawaii Land Use Laws—Exempts Wind Farms
  24. A&B after sugar: Lots and Lots of Condos, Subdivisions
  25. Prosecuting Peter Boy Parents a Gutsy Move
  26. Hawaii 3rd Highest Homeownership Rate in USA
  27. Housing First $2.2M to Get 100 Chronics Permanently off Streets
  28. Hawaii: Anti-Vaxxers Multiply 13-Fold Since 2011
  29. Map: 40,000 Auto Accidents in Hawaii, 2015
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Thursday, May 5, 2016
May 5, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:27 PM :: 4521 Views
  1. Who Dreamed up this Billion Dollar Fed Wreck Scheme?
  2. SB2659: Legislators Pass ‘Industrial Hemp Bill’
  3. Farming Entrepreneurs
  4. Maui Dancing Law Update
  5. Chief Justice Seeks Public Comment on Judicial Nominees
  6. Taxpayers Bear the Burden of the State's Promises 
  7. Ige: Legislative Session ‘Successful’
  8. Midweek Liberal Lovefest
  9. 9th Circuit Court Hears Hawaii Democrats Lawsuit for Closed Primary
  10. Bishop Museum CEO Allegedly Ran up $60K Personal Expenses on Museum Credit Card
  11. HEI Shareholders: How Much to Buy the Governor?
  12. Hawaii Legislators Need To Stop Hiding in The Dark
  13. Rail Contractor Gets Apology in Fight over 8A Money
  14. Greenmailers: No Geothermal Measurements on Hualalai
  15. Money-Grubbing Anti-GMO Activists Want Second Bite of Apple
  16. State Sports and Entertainment Authority Bill Misses Cut
  17. Caldwell: ‘I Want To Keep This Job’ (and nobody serious is in my way)
  18. Tranny Caught Lying About Graduation ‘Walk’
  19. HS Counselor Arrested for Soliciting a Minor for Prostitution, Still on Payroll
  20. State ethics panel probes Puna charter school
  21. Lack Of School Facilities ‘Crippling’ Many Charters
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Wednesday, May 4, 2016
May 4, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:38 PM :: 3837 Views
  1. Disgusting: Another Massive Recall of Hawaii Organic Food Infested with Listeria
  2. Experimental Drugs for Terminal Patients? Ige Vetoes SB2181
  3. Time For Fake Indian Tribe Running Out, Abercrombie Says
  4. ‘Rare Move’ Keeps Jeff Stone’s Millions in Play
  5. Legislators Send $13.7B Budget Bill to Ige
  6. Thinking Big Thoughtlessly
  7. Hawaii County GE Tax Hike Loses 7-2
  8. Hawaii Republican leaders respond to shakeup in the race for the White House
  9. Hawaii Teacher: Why Most Of Us Ignore Our Union
  10. Mainland Eco-Lawyers Find New Way to Shut Down Agriculture on Kauai
  11. State seeks applicants for ethics commission executive director
  12. Trannies Push to Get into your Daughter’s Locker Room
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Tuesday, May 3, 2016
May 3, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:38 PM :: 3775 Views
  1. Cruz Campaign Announces Hawaii Delegates to Republican National Convention
  2. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted May 2, 2016
  3. Homosexual Child Molesters: 150 Hawaii Victims Sue
  4. CQ Roll Call: Top 5 Issues in Hawaii 
  5. HTA: Visitor Arrivals Set New Record
  6. Ige Didn’t Get Much, but he Did Pay off HSTA
  7. Ige Helps Unions Kill Off Health Savings Account Plan
  8. Busted Trying to Sneak Jeff Stone a Few Million, Senators Settle for Resolution Instead
  9. Caldwell Cronies on Ethics Commission Retaliate against Totto
  10. Hanabusa New Excuse for HART Cost Overruns
  11. Holding Breath: Rail More Like a Roller Coaster, or Climbing Mt Everest
  12. Honolulu Charter proposal bars lobbyists’ gifts
  13. Clean Energy signs LNG contract in Hawaii
  14. High Cost of Doing Business: Marijuana Dealer Expects to Lose Money for Years
  15. Anti-GMO Activists Can’t Figure out how to become Fake Farmers
  16. Now that Cronies are in Charge of Selling Marijuana, The debate shifts to decriminalization
  17. Mentally Disabled Girl Raped in Hawaii School’s Unisex Bathroom
  18. Targeting Your Children: Trannies Wanna Play Dress-up at School Graduation
  19. Communist Acquitted Killer and Billionaire’s Pet Senator to Address UH Manoa Grads
  20. Authorities struggle to curb drag racing at historic Ewa Field
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Monday, May 2, 2016
May 2, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:54 PM :: 3852 Views
  1. Renegades, Risks and Rewards of the Napali Coast
  2. How Protesters cause decline in Hawaii agriculture
  3. SB3024: Lobbyist Ethics Task Force Killed off in Smoke Filled Room
  4. Honolulu Ethics Commission: And Then There Were None
  5. HGEA Too Busy Playing Solitaire on Computer to Certify New Dialysis Facility
  6. Lawsuit Alleges Kauai’s Monopoly Pot Dealer is a Thief
  7. Homeless Transportation Plan: Attack Bus Driver, Break in to Car, Steal Bicycle
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Sunday, May 1, 2016
May 1, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:53 PM :: 4078 Views
  1. Much Ado About Nothing – The Hawaii Legislature Edition
  2. FBI, TSA, HPD: Counterterrorism in Hawaii
  3. ‘ESSA Team’ Begins Writing ‘Blueprint for Public Education in Hawaii’
  4. Mainland Gay Activist Set to Defeat Labor Leader, Take Over Hawaii Democratic Party?
  5. Morita: Ratepayers will Pay Billions More for ‘Renewables’
  6. Rail consultants brushed off issue over utility lines—Nobody at HART Smart Enough to question them
  7. Frights and horrors abound as Caldwell and Hanabusa Look in Mirror
  8. Harbor privatization, body cameras killed by Legislators
  9. AZA: No Evidence That Anybody at Zoo Knows What They are Doing—Elephants tested for lead after Eating Battery
  10. Kauai: $100M Vehicle Weight Tax Considered
  11. Vermont’s Obamacare Disaster to be Dismantled by Same Company Which Dismantled Hawaii’s Obamacare Disaster?
  12. Going Through Motions with Doomed Telescope Hearing Officer
  13. Telescope: Hawaii’s loss may be Kashmir’s gain
  14. Steam building for Obama to visit Hiroshima—Last Chance to Undermine US Japan Alliance with Apology
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Saturday, April 30, 2016
April 30, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 9:41 PM :: 3698 Views
  1. Caught 'Borrowing' Museum Funds, Bishop Museum CEO Quits
  2. Who’s Running: Candidates Pulling Papers as of April 29, 2016
  3. House Democrats: Ballot Photos, Gun Restrictions and Sex Change Operations
  4. After Making a Mess of Rail, HPD—Top County Execs in Line for 5% Pay Hike
  5. Kealoha: The Real Problem is Will Espero
  6. HB1581: Fast-track contested case appeals
  7. Ca-Ching! Solar Schemers Get $100M Cool Schools Contracts and Keep their GEMS, too
  8. Solar Contractors Kill Geothermal Bill in Conference Committee
  9. Senators: Let Homeless Avoid Shelter on State Land
  10. Proposal: Tear Down park Restrooms to Get Rid of Homeless Drug Addicts
  11. Lesbian Harassment: Video shows off-duty Maui cop yelling, pushing sign-wavers
  12. Kauai: UK Guardian Spins More Utopian Anti-GMO Ignorance
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Friday, April 29, 2016
April 29, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:09 PM :: 3928 Views
  1. Parents charged in 1997 death of ‘Peter Boy’
  2. DoH Announces Eight Marijuana Dispensary Licenses
  3. Hiding the Failure: DoE Gets Another Testing Waiver for Hawaiian Language Immersion Schools
  4. Status of Bills in Conference
  5. How a Bill Becomes a Law Part 3
  6. Duke Aiona Legislative Update April 28, 2016
  7. Audit: DHHL Hides Loan Delinquencies from Commissioners
  8. Carlisle: I want Rail to go to Hawaii Kai
  9. Budget: Yes to Wahiawa, Mental, Rentals, Homeless, and mini-Dole Deal – but no more for UH Cancer Center
  10. HB2740: Will Legislators Protect Patients Against HMSA Greed?
  11. 'TMT bill' would eliminate silly lower courts from appeals process
  12. How TMT Bill Would Affect NextEra Merger
  13. Council acts to widen input on wind projects
  14. Honolulu’s construction costs still the highest in the United States
  15. Students not fooled by Administrators’ tuition hike sales pitch
  16. City ethics body handles anonymous complaints
  17. Borreca: Ala Moana Upgrades Could be Excuse for Tax Hike
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Thursday, April 28, 2016
April 28, 3016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:39 PM :: 4762 Views
  1. Big Island 30 Days Without Dengue
  2. Hawaii: Two Anti-Gun Bills Enrolled to Governor
  3. Hawaii 3rd Most Expensive Home Health Care in U.S.
  4. City auditor accuses rail officials of intimidation
  5. The Hawaii House: Roadmap to Political Factions
  6. Telescope: Kashmir Being Evaluated as TMT Site
  7. HPD Chief Louis Kealoha Claims to Know Nothing About Investigation into ethics, corruption allegations
  8. Prosecutor Retaliates on HPD Officer Believed to be Behind Leaks
  9. HB2391: Legislators Approve Plan to Let Lots and Lots of Criminals Back out on Streets
  10. After Months of Wheedling, TAT Remains Exactly Where it Started
  11. East Hawaii Hospitals Next to Privatize?
  12. State Aims To Develop 22,500 Affordable Rental Housing Units in Decade
  13. Homeless Drug Addicts Dumping More dirty syringes in Oahu parks
  14. Enviros Becoming Dimly Aware that Wind Energy is a Fraud
  15. Guardian: Hawaii Agriculture to be Replaced with ‘Political Statement’
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Wednesday, April 27, 2016
April 27, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:57 PM :: 3366 Views
  1. Federal Recognition: How ‘Super 8A’ Companies Make $800M by Doing Practically Nothing
  2. Hawaii: “The only state in which both legislative and executive branches are perceived to be very corrupt”
  3. Hawaii Lowest Property Taxes in USA
  4. HB2084: Your Insurance Rates Will Be Going up to Pay for Trannies
  5. Report: Hawaii Among Best in College Affordability
  6. Oshiro: Hi Tech Schemers Grab for Control of Wahiawa Hospital
  7. Good News! Legislators Reject High Tech Demand for $5M Cash
  8. HMSA Red Tape Sends Cardiac Patient to Emergency Room
  9. Solar Contractors Salivate over Cool Schools Plan
  10. Blank Geothermal bill moves to conference committee
  11. Adjusting low-income renters credit long overdue
  12. How Hawaii’s tax structure is hurting small businesses
  13. Farming inspires fantasies but requires viable funding
  14. Water Diversions: Resurrecting the Past
  15. DoH Website reveals 25 percent of Hawaii restaurants received yellow, red cards
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Tuesday, April 26, 2016
April 26, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:09 PM :: 4068 Views
  1. Ewa Beach House Campaign: Stolen Signs, Bolt Cutters, and Confrontations with Police
  2. Hawaii Preschool Costs More Than College
  3. DBEDT: Housing Gobbles Up Hawaii Consumers Income
  4. Ige Signs Bill Requesting Obamacare Waiver for Hawaii
  5. Hawaii Supreme Court Dismisses ‘Birther’ Challenge To Ted Cruz Eligibility
  6. Hawaii ICA Bungles Hanalei River Eminent Domain Case?
  7. Problem Gambling? Hawaii 2nd-Worst in USA
  8. New Schools? Zero Guidance from DoE
  9. Lawmakers can’t hide their Jeff Stone connections
  10. Two months later, no action on Kahele leasehold
  11. Fevella: School construction should be based on student needs, not politics
  12. Without Knowing Which Cronies They are Rewarding, Legislators Mull Amendments to Marijuana Dispensary Law
  13. Legislators to Ige: Here’s $12M, the Homeless are Your Problem Now
  14. Patients Caught In The Crossfire Of HMSA’s ‘War On Doctors’
  15. Rail does not comply with flood-risk standards, group alleges
  16. Meet the Anti-GMO Scammers
  17. Homosexual Child Molesters Held Positions of Power and Influence for Decades in Hawaii
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Monday, April 25, 2016
April 25, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:59 PM :: 3230 Views
  1. Sec 280E: How the IRS Becomes Senior Partner in Marijuana Dispensaries
  2. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted April 25, 2016
  3. Star-Advertiser Suddenly Decides to Notice that A&B Buys a Lot of Influence
  4. Two Election Reform Bills Near Approval
  5. Battery Scammers: We Want Tax Credits for us Not Rebates for our Customers
  6. Hawaii Salaries Low Compared to Other High-Cost Locations
  7. Prison Officials Quietly Move To Extend An Out-Of-State Contract
  8. Psychologist Debunks HB1072
  9. Agency to Hawaii Residents: Don't Hate on Tourists
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Sunday, April 24, 2016
April 24, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:35 PM :: 5502 Views
  1. Organically Growing Tax Credits
  2. EXPOSED: Another Hawaii State Senate President Owned and Operated by Jeff Stone
  3. Kenoi Lied About Pledge to Give Salary Increase to United Way
  4. At City Hall, lots of dancing around, less actual running
  5. Lease agreement approved for Maui hospitals
  6. Bernie Sanders is Democrats Donald Trump
  7. Jim Dooley Working on Second Book
  8. ACLU: Hawaii Police body-camera bill the best in the U.S.
  9. HPD: Officer didn’t get preferential treatment
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Saturday, April 23, 2016
April 23, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:08 PM :: 3735 Views
  1. Who’s Running: Candidates Pulling Papers as of April 22, 2016
  2. Ilagan: Petition Against Hawaii County GE Tax Hike
  3. Hawaii Anti-Gun Bills Moving Through Conference Committee Process
  4. What is Hurting Hawaii’s Investment Climate?
  5. Privatization May Drive Down Costs on Maui
  6. The Ideology War: UH Law School Debates GMOs
  7. DoE Seeks Public Input on Strategic Plan
  8. Ige Extends Homelessness Emergency
  9. Hanabusa to use Rail as Political Stepping Stone?
  10. Rail to Start Digging up Dillingham in Late 2016—Massive Bus Delays Expected
  11. HECO Wants Ratepayers to Pay for Smart Meters
  12. A Decade Of Influence: A&B Has Given More Than $600K To Politicians
  13. Greenmailers Find New Way to Delay Telescope Hearing
  14. Soft on Crime: Six Felonies, Backpack full of Meth – 1 Week in Jail
  15. Homeless Use Iolani Palace as Outdoor Latrine
  16. Homeless Vandalize Church, Harass Preschoolers
  17. 500 Inquiries about Homeless’ Psychotic Behavior
  18. HCDA to Score Massive Windfall from ‘Affordable’ Housing
  19. Kahuku Wind Scheme – 656 foot Towers of Rusting Wind Junk
  20. Anti-GMO Activists Drench Environmentalism in Ignorance
  21. Kahoolawe Trust fund being depleted
  22. $4 Million OK’d For Fancy Waikiki Enviro Confab
  23. KCC: Another Univ Administrator Faces ‘No Confidence’
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Friday, April 22, 2016
April 22, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:07 PM :: 3761 Views
  1. SB2301: Legislators Vote $10M for Drunk Driver to Promote Rave Parties
  2. Hanabusa Named Chair of HART
  3. Ira Einhorn, Earth Day's Dirty Secret
  4. Crichton: Environmentalism is a religion
  5. Zika: Pregnant Women Should Avoid Travel to American Samoa
  6. Tulsi Gabbard Turns 35--Running for Vice President?
  7. 42-in Water Main? Hanabusa Caught Flatfooted on First Day as HART Chair
  8. Rail: Short Another $82M, Feds Threaten to Take Back $1.55B
  9. Hawaii’s Criminal Class ‘Embattled’
  10. Ethics chief must be independent
  11. Urgent?  Six Months later, UH regents remain undecided on a Cancer Center plan
  12. Caldwell Cracks Down on Crime in Chinatown:  Drugs? Prostitution? Gambling?  --  Nope, Its Illegal Gardening
  13. Outreach workers see growing number of homeless living in cars
  14. 19% of isle households not linked with internet

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Thursday, April 21, 2016
April 21, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:23 PM :: 4078 Views
  1. Ige’s Secret Proclamation Used to Promote War on Other Side of the World
  2. HART Board: Colbert Matsumoto Appointed, Hanabusa Reappointed
  3. SunEdison Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
  4. McDermott, Fevella: Building a New School for Ewa Beach
  5. Supply Chain Optimization – Shipping Systems in Hawaii
  6. HB2501: A&B To Restore Eight Streams in East Maui
  7. Air Quality: Honolulu Makes ‘Cleanest Cities’ List
  8. The day when America moved toward becoming a global power
  9. HECO Milking Rail Project for Money?
  10. Blood Bank Milking Rail Project for Money?
  11. Council, Mayor Use Homeless as Budget Football
  12. Kakaako Sweeps Force 230 Homeless to Finally Accept Shelter 
  13. DoE Teacher Turnover 37%
  14. Judiciary’s Illegal Lobbying Machine Was Hidden in Plain Sight
  15. The Usual Procedural Grounds Underlie Challenge to Telescope Hearing Officer
  16. Public hearing on Maui property tax rates set for Wednesday
  17. Krazy Kauai: Ex-Prosecutor Iseri Threatens to ‘Expose’ Councilman
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Wednesday, April 20, 2016
April 20, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:44 PM :: 3792 Views
  1. Auditor: At First Only Hawai’i Free Press Noticed our Mauna Kea Report
  2. Chevron Signs Deal to Sell Hawaii Refinery, Stations
  3. The Fuzzy Accounting Behind Renewable Energy’s Falling Prices
  4. State Accepting Applications for free Pre-K classes
  5. SB2954: Anti-Gun Bill Scheduled for Conference Committee Hearing Wednesday
  6. Jones Act and Enviro Regs Blessing and Curse for California Refiners
  7. Federal Rail Audit Coming Soon
  8. Don Horner Scapegoat
  9. Ernie Martin Pulls Papers to Run for Mayor
  10. Rail: Only Aiona can Claim Purity
  11. Hawaii County GET hike draws more fire
  12. Larded With Cronies, Hawaii County Council Refuses to Discuss Kenoi
  13. Another HPD Officer Arrested
  14. DoE: Honolulu Rail Can be a Money-Spinner for Us
  15. Tokuda: We Save the Cookies Until the End
  16. Banks Rack Up Megaprofits on Affordable Housing Tax Credits
  17. Wisdom: Church would house homeless in Individual Hard-Wall Shelters
  18. Ignorance: Council, Mayor Agree on Plan to Set up Two Festering Tent Cities for Homeless 
  19. PHOCUSED: Just Give Us Money
  20. 1 In 8 Hawaii Middle Schoolers Say They’ve Attempted Suicide
  21. Transsexual Agenda for Hawaii Schools
  22. Homosexual Child Molesters Seek Special Homeless Shelter to Keep Their Victims Clean and Fresh
  23. Schizophrenic Policy: City Denies Grant To Program Helping Mentally Ill Homeless People
  24. Trial starts in suit alleging girl raped at Oahu high school
  25. A Hawaii Uber Driver Has Been Charged With Raping a Teenage Passenger
  26. The Rescue Game
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Tuesday, April 19, 2016
April 19, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:03 PM :: 3136 Views
  1. US News & World Report: Best High Schools in Hawaii
  2. DoE 2016 Graduation Dates
  3. Guam Justice--34 Years After Mayor’s Land Grab
  4. Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Could End Disease Transmission
  5. America’s First Freedom: Trouble In Paradise
  6. Kenoi recommends general excise tax hike
  7. House, Senate Set To Negotiate Budget
  8. Mauna Kea Anti-Telescope Protesters Re-use Successful Haleakala Strategy
  9. ESSA gives Ige (HSTA) a new way to push education agenda
  10. Hawaii lawmakers look to audit civil asset forfeiture unit
  11. Looming Fight Over Importing LNG into Hawaii
  12. What really happened at the ʻAha, part V
  13. Calvin Say: Taxpayers Subsidize Tourism with $143M Each Year
  14. When Anti-Superferry Protesters are in Charge,  Snorkelers Die
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Monday, April 18, 2016
April 18, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:20 PM :: 3467 Views
  1. Pine: Star-Advertiser Wrong on Makaha Realignment
  2. Senate Passes more than 250 Bills on Second Crossover
  3. House Passes More than 100 Senate Bills on Final Crossover
  4. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted April 18, 2016
  5. ‘Rail Is The Issue’ In Mayoral Election, Says Kirk Caldwell
  6. HNN: Rail Audit Doesn’t Connect the Dots
  7. Mainstreaming  Creates Lots of HSTA Jobs
  8. Hi Tech Scammers Want Another $6M from Taxpayers
  9. Ethics director poised to take over as state auditor
  10. Mediator’s Biases Behind Collapse of Pesticide Panel
  11. SB2196: Independent Review Panel for Police Killings
  12. Police allegedly ignore rules in colleague’s DUI
  13. Will medical marijuana be ready to sell?
  14. Victory for Local Food: Hawaii Longliners Buy NMI Quota – Will Keep Fishing
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Sunday, April 17, 2016
April 17, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:14 PM :: 3775 Views
  1. Who’s Running: Candidates Pulling Papers as of April 15, 2016
  2. Shadow Boxing with Jones Act Strawmen
  3. Handgun Ban: Northern Mariana Islands Flout Court Ruling
  4. Second Crossover—Bills Head for Conference Committee
  5. Haseko Bills before Honolulu Council
  6. Planned Parenthood Resolution Passes Last Committee
  7. Begging for a Piece of the Hotel Room Tax Pie
  8. Shady Dealings
  9. DLIR: Construction Industry’s 12.1 Percent Projected Growth Leads Expansion
  10. Billy Kenoi Held up as Role Model for Teens
  11. Caldwell should be blamed for sugarcoating rail costs
  12. Dirty: Ernie Martin Faces off Against Voters Who Aren’t Fooled by Homeless Tent Cities
  13. Rep Chris Lee, Solar Contractors Behind Blank Geothermal Bill
  14. Green Energy Schemers Upset over Cool Schools Plan
  15. Geothermal energy from Kona, Maui, Oahu?
  16. There’s nothing simple about Airbnb’s proposal
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Saturday, April 16, 2016
April 16, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:45 PM :: 3481 Views
  1. Full Text: Honolulu Audit Report on Rail
  2. Government Spending Transparency: Hawaii Ranks 45th
  3. Honolulu Average Monthly Rent Jumps 7.28%
  4. Hawaii: Four Anti-Gun Bills Heading for Conference Committee
  5. Does the EITC Reduce Savings Among the Poor?
  6. Hawaii Republican State Convention Set for May 21
  7. Rail: Project planners engage in “strategic misrepresentation”
  8. Lawmakers May Replace State Auditor With Ethics Director
  9. TMT opponents seek hearings officer’s removal
  10. Thoughtlessly Signing ‘Organic Farmland Initiative’
  11. OHA to Obama: Expand Tuna Monument
  12. HD14: Teacher Running as Republican
  13. High cost of doing business in Hawaii expected to drive up pot prices
  14. HECO Pressures Solar Customers to Buy Batteries
  15. HOPE Probation for 24-Time Loser Leads to Double Stabbing
  16. Former state worker indicted for embezzlement
  17. Sex Harassment Training Ordered At DOT
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Friday, April 15, 2016
April 15, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:11 PM :: 7671 Views
  1. IHS: City-Funded Homeless Programs Meeting Goals
  2. Duke Aiona Legislative Update April 13, 2016
  3. States Employ Temporary Workers, But Often Know Little About Them
  4. Grassroot Institute Event Highlights Need to Support Maui Agriculture
  5. Ward: Firearms Bill Violates Federal Law
  6. IHS: City-Funded Homeless Programs Meeting Goals
  7. Brown Hands
  8. Ige Appoints Task Force on ‘Every Student Succeeds Act’
  9. DBEDT Profiles Hawaii Non-English Speaking Population
  10. Flustered Grabauskas’ Rambling Diatribe: A Ridiculous Joke – Lots of Violations
  11. The Sovereignty Divide: Waihee vs Cayetano
  12. After Running Hospital into Ground, HGEA Demands $40M Severance Package
  13. Cool Schools Becomes Christmas Tree for Green Energy Schemers
  14. Con-Jobs and Scams Heading for Conference Committee
  15. Hawaii Is One Step Away From Taking a Close Look at Decriminalizing All Types of Drugs
  16. Ranchers have expressed interest in HC&S Land, but farmers are few
  17. Anti-GMO Candidate Rosenstiel Against ‘Dumb Locals’
  18. Zika Findings Require Immediate Federal, State Response
  19. Obama Gives Hawaii DoE, HSTA New Way to Evade Accountability
  20. HuHonua: High Tech Schemers Jump on Board Failed Biomass Burner
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Thursday, April 14, 2016
April 14, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:39 PM :: 3560 Views
  1. Who’s Giving a Quarter of a Million Dollars to Nai Aupuni?
  2. Hawaii: Four Anti-Gun Bills Pass Floor Vote
  3. Chief Justice Appoints Darien W.L. Ching Nagata as Hawaii Island District Court Judge
  4. Jones Act: A new fight and a new argument
  5. Marijuana Dispensary Licenses Delayed
  6. Federal Grant Backs New Honolulu Homeless Court
  7. Appleseed: Hawaii’s Poor Need a Tax Cut
  8. Bloomberg: Hawaii Republicans Have Responsibility to Challenge Schatz
  9. Hawaii Democrats Closed Primary Case Before 9th Circuit May 4
  10. Kauai GE Tax Hike decision delayed
  11. Maui Budget: Rates, Fees, and Fuel Taxes Going Up
  12. HB1581: Since All Development Issues are Settled in the Courts, Lets Just Get to it Already
  13. What To Do With The Tax Sinkhole That Is Honolulu Rail?
  14. City Councilman wants to turn city's Sand Island homeless shelter into parking lot
  15. Health Beat: Cutting Corners with Primary Care Doctors
  16. Tax Credit Giveaway for Solar Battery Scammers
  17. City Charter Change Would Let Lobbyists Give More Gifts
  18. Don Horner Leaving Hawaii BOE
  19. Lawsuit: Homosexual Child Molester ‘Active in Gay Community’
  20. Soft on Crime: 24 Priors Out on Street Allegedly Kills Farrington HS Football Player
  21. In wake of promotion controversy, HPD to name new assistant chief
  22. UFCW Pitches Unionized Cannabis Dispensaries
  23. HNL #1 for Runway Incursions
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Wednesday, April 13, 2016
April 13, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:39 PM :: 3792 Views
  1. Full Text: Resigning Horner vs Martin–HECO vs HART
  2. Hawaii 2nd Highest Overall Tax Burden in USA
  3. Video: The Christian Heritage of the Hawaiian Kingdom
  4. Hawaii Featured in 2016 Congressional Pig Book
  5. Auditor: Kahoolawe Trust Fund Gone After 20 years Without a Plan
  6. State Revenues From Gambling: Short-Term Relief, Long-Term Disappointment
  7. After Horner Ouster, Rail Will Only Get Worse
  8. Hawaii High Taxes Killing the Poor—Literally
  9. Cigarette Tax Rejected
  10. GMOs: Trying to work with social justice warriors on the new left is like trying to wash your hands with crap
  11. DoE Siphons Ratepayers Taxes--Next Pot of Gold for Green Energy Schemers
  12. Batteries: Another $50M for Green Energy Schemers
  13. Scam Coming: House Passes Geothermal Shell Bill
  14. Legislators May Strip Millions Of Hotel Tax Dollars From Honolulu
  15. Lawmakers may soon create a task force to reform our grossly inadequate lobbying laws
  16. Billy Kenoi is a Sexist—Why Didn’t Anybody Say Anything Until Now?
  17. Bill Passes to Release 100s of Criminals so they can do it again
  18. The Wilding: Honolulu’s Last Experiment With Homeless Tent City Led to Stabbings, Robberies
  19. Homeless Refusing Shelter to be Cleared from State, HCDA Property
  20. English, Shimabukuro Push $95K Grass Huts for Homeless
  21. Airbnb Claims 10,000 TVRs in Hawaii
  22. Big Anti-Tobacco Bought off Hawaii County Council Chair?
  23. Hawaii product exports increase 31% in 2015
  24. Officer acquitted in trial is under review by HPD
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Tuesday, April 12, 2016
April 12, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:39 PM :: 3953 Views
  1. National Report Sees Hawaii Drop to 42nd in Economic Competitiveness
  2. Senator Sam Slom to Undergo Heart Surgery
  3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How They Voted April 11, 2016
  4. ACLU: Legal Tools to Keep the Homeless, Homeless in Honolulu
  5. Rep Takai Again Calls for Military in Hawaii Reapportionment
  6. Slom hits Bad Bills—Reckless, Wasteful Legislation
  7. Don’t Let the Opt-Out of Common Core Testing Movement Fool You
  8. Rail: What are we going to do with this Turkey?
  9. One Down, One to Go:  Caldwell, Hanabusa Take Aim at Grabauskas
  10. US Hedge Fund Sues over Hitachi/Ansaldo deal
  11. SB2816: Clear Homeless Drug Addicts Out of Boat Harbors, Freeways
  12. Supreme Court decision could impact Hawaii election districts
  13. Pesticide Report Group Unravels
  14. DOT backs ferry feasibility study
  15. FORMER OHA TRUSTEE -  DONʻT RATIFY THE NA`I AUPUNI CONSTITUTION
  16. HPD fires recruits, reassigns officers after cheating scandal
  17. Missteps with Arnold will guide UH on Ganot raise
  18. Governor extends emergency period to prevent mosquito-borne illnesses
  19. Honolulu Middle Class Life Expectancy 3 Years Less than US Average
  20. Will ‘pot’ become too pricey? Some fear dispensaries will limit access and be cost-prohibitive
  21. Hawaii drug treatment centers see opiate addictions soar
  22. Hawaii DoE Targeted:  Parent Demands 2nd-Grade Tranny be Treated as Female
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Monday, April 11, 2016
April 11, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:57 PM :: 2966 Views
  1. Rail Chaos in Honolulu
  2. Hawaii: Five Anti-Gun Bills Scheduled for Floor Votes This Week
  3. Legislative Deadlines: Second Decking, Third Reading
  4. First Head Rolls—Horner Resigns as HART Chair
  5. Rail Audit to be Released Friday
  6. Sand Island Homeless Center Moves Only 25 to Permanent Housing 
  7. ‘A Bum Job:’ Trust In Honolulu’s Police Commission Crumbles
  8. Institutionalized Fear: ‘Climate Change Office’ to be Written into Honolulu County Charter?
  9. Handy bill digest for Senate-side bills in Hawaii state legislature
  10. Money and Honorifics: Ige Gives Enviros What they Want
  11. Lawsuit: OSHA Office Overseeing Hawaii Buried Whistleblowers
  12. Lawsuit takes aim at HCC student fees
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Sunday, April 10, 2016
April 10, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:12 PM :: 4105 Views
  1. Hawaii Fuel Tax: Schizophrenia in Motion
  2. Another $800M Shortfall for Rail
  3. PUC is 2-1 In Favor of Next Era?
  4. Ige has failed to lead state out of homelessness pickle
  5. Homeless shelter occupancy rates a lousy measure of success
  6. Sierra Club: Land Use Policy Must Serve Needs of Tourism Industry by Packing the Little People into the Smallest Possible Spaces
  7. New HMSA Plan – Pay Doctors More for Doing Less
  8. With $1.7B on the Line, HSTA Cranks up Heat Hype Again
  9. HECO Renewable Plan: Ratepayer Funded Smart Grid, Taxpayer Subsidized Electric Cars
  10. Hawaii wind turbines kill petrel, shearwater, nene and bats
  11. Bill to allow legislators to take jobs at UH goes to senators
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Saturday, April 9, 2016
April 9, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:15 PM :: 3253 Views
  1. DoH: Marijuana Dispensary Selection May be Delayed
  2. NEM Lawsuits: Rooftop Solar companies will play only if the game is stacked in their favor
  3. 9th Circuit Says Hawaii Cannabis Church Bogarted Evidence
  4. Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
  5. City Council Chose near impossible Dillingham Blvd. rail route
  6. Does DHHL Know What it is Doing?
  7. Telescope Techs Visit Mexico, Spain After Hawaii Rejection
  8. Cocaine use on rise but pot still tops list
  9. Economist on Kauai: Poisonous debates rage around pesticides and those using them
  10. Isle solar industry could reach cap by 2017
  11. Hawaii Only State Without Excessive Lead in Water
  12. Four File for Open HD14 Seat
  13. Hawaii 5th Lowest In Fed Funding For Homeless
  14. Faculty No Confidence in KCC Chancellor
  15. Hawaii Air Guard and active-duty members are back from the fight
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Friday, April 8, 2016
April 8, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:30 PM :: 3720 Views
  1. 9th Circuit Judges Consider Blocking Maui Hospital Privatization
  2. Ilagan: I Oppose Hawaii County GE Tax Hike
  3. No Specific Reason
  4. Ige Announces Nominees for Board of Education, Land Use Commission
  5. Caldwell, Omidyar Pressure North Carolina, Mississippi to Allow Trannies into Womens’ Bathrooms
  6. Secret Rail Audit Shows $250M Cost Overrun at Just One Station
  7. Hawaii Carbon Trading Scheme: Double Counting, Excessive Profits
  8. Top-Level deputy sheriffs headed to class because they lack law enforcement training
  9. Hawaii Hospitals: The reality is mostly gloomy
  10. Obamacare Rules force Competitors to Pay HMSA $15M – One Goes Bankrupt
  11. State-Owned Agriculture Scheme Worth $107M? 
  12. With Gay Inc Focused on Marriage and Trannies in the Bathroom, Everybody is Forgetting about AIDS
  13. Drug Addicts’ Camp Harasses Cyclists
  14. Kauai Marijuana dispensary applicant partners with UFCW
  15. Communist Acquitted Killer to be Honored by UH Manoa Today
  16. Drivers frustrated with months-long wait at the DMV
  17. Schatz: I Have No Solution for High Cost of Living in Hawaii
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Thursday, April 7, 2016
Letters to the Editor, April, 2016
By Letters to the Editor @ 6:56 PM :: 4453 Views
Ilagan: I Oppose Hawaii County GE Tax Hike
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Thursday, April 7, 2016
April 7, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:32 PM :: 4346 Views
  1. Power Struggle: OHA Chair Robert Lindsey Hospitalized After Stroke
  2. Senator Sam Slom Undergoes Hospital Testing
  3. Full Text: State Supreme Court Decides to allow Koa Ridge to be Built
  4. What Does Evenwel v. Abbott Mean For "One Person, One Vote?"
  5. The Future of Farming on Maui
  6. Guam Can't Duck Suit Over Native Land Grab
  7. Does Legalizing Marijuana Mean You Can Drive Stoned?
  8. Hawaii Tax Freedom Day April 19
  9. GAO: Hawaii’s COFA migrant cost math inaccurate
  10. Honolulu Police Commission Explains How it Pretends to Not Know About FBI Kealoha Investigation
  11. Blue Flu: Police Sickout Protests Overtime Piggybacking Crackdown
  12. No Re-Branding the HPD’s Crazy Criminal Wrongdoing
  13. Sandwich Isles Can’t Shake Taint of Criminal Al Hee
  14. Pot of Gold: Caldwell, Council Continue to Grab for Homeless Funding
  15. A Cool Million Was Spent Lobbying Hawaii Lawmakers In Two Months
  16. English, Sakai Enjoy Communist-Funded Junket During Session
  17. Zika Coming: What Will Anti-Pesticide Activists Do Then?
  18. HB2707: Nurses Can Certify Dopers in Hawaii
  19. Why The Presidential Race Is Not That Relevant To Our Lives
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Wednesday, April 6, 2016
April 6, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:22 PM :: 3648 Views
  1. USDA on Dengue Mosquito Eradication -- Organic Farms Will NOT Lose Certification
  2. SB2954: Hawaii to Join FBI Biometric Database?
  3. UH Professors Banned from Sex with Students
  4. Rule Changes: DHHL Releases Beneficiary Consultation Report
  5. Rail officials: Tax extension may not be enough to cover project's rising costs
  6. Hawaii County Council Sets Hearing for GE Tax Hike
  7. Hawaii Needs State-Run Presidential Primary
  8. Telescope: Did State take Shortcuts or are the Judges Just Making it up as they go Along?
  9. HB2501 Secretly Amended to Strip Water from HC&S
  10. SB2559: Performance Contracts for Homeless Shelters
  11. Entire State Runs on Temporary Hires
  12. Honolulu Zoo Tangled up in Caldwell’s Red Tape
  13. Kenoi Speech to Kona Chamber-Nobody Asks about Criminal Charges
  14. Scheming to Grab More SPED Megabucks, DoE Pushes ‘Inclusion’—Claims Everybody Agrees
  15. DoE: $1.7B to Cover Hot Schools Hype
  16. Police reform measures Pass House Finance Committee
  17. Oahu judge will preside over case involving Hawaii County Mayor Billy Kenoi
  18. Star-Advertiser Sues to Keep Court Records Open to the Public
  19. Push is on For Massive Property Tax Hike

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Tuesday, April 5, 2016
April 5, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:49 PM :: 4530 Views
  1. Taxpayer Return on Investment: Hawaii Ranks 48th
  2. Evenwel Ruling: States May, not Must, Count Everyone In Reapportionment
  3. Ige Boosts DHHL Funding to $23.5M–Still Short of Court Order
  4. Auditor: Every Special Fund Proposed in 2016 Legislature out of Compliance
  5. Full Text: Honolulu Issues 2016 Citizen-Centric Report
  6. College Readiness: How did your school Do?
  7. Report Shows City Ethics Director Suspended for Exposing Illegal Rail Votes
  8. Aiona, Carlisle, Martin, Caldwell for Mayor, 2016?
  9. Caldwell, Martin Pretend to be Concerned About Mounting Rail Costs
  10. Star-Adv: We Will Start Covering Kealoha Grand Jury Investigation
  11. Kauai: Anti-Antis Show up in Force
  12. HB2501: Bill Saving Maui Ag Water Heading for Conference Committee
  13. Students Not Fooled by UH Tuition Hike Sales Pitch
  14. Hawaii County Employees Rack up $13.2M Overtime as Retirement Approaches
  15. Hawaii Smart Grids: Smart Investments or a Smart Diversion
  16. Hawaii Bill would Allow Police to Clear Meth Addicts’ Camps off State Property
  17. Proposal would bolster mental health services for chronically homeless
  18. Visitor to women's prison beat up inmates when Guard Accused of Drug-Smuggling left post
  19. HPD Officer Accused of DUI Hit n Run
  20. Hawaii is Last ‘Easy’ State for Paid Family Leave
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Monday, April 4, 2016
April 4, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:48 PM :: 4802 Views
  1. Charges: Kenoi Tampering, Lying
  2. Criminal: Hee’s Company Asks DHHL to Certify it to Receive Federal Megabucks
  3. Evenwel Unanimous
  4. State Defense Department Salaries
  5. PR Hype on HECO $340M ‘Smart’ Grid Plan
  6. Hawaii Gas slashes LNG costs by a third
  7. Kauai Council Decides to Keep Island Traffic Jammed
  8. Hawaii’s Trifecta of GMO Cases May Be Heard By Appeals Court In June
  9. Surfrider Sewage Scheme to Stop Dairy Farm?
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Sunday, April 3, 2016
April 3, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:19 PM :: 4023 Views
  1. Low Real Property Tax Is a Bad Thing?
  2. State Saves $32M by refinancing general obligation bonds
  3. After Sanders: Will Progressives Re-Take Control of Hawaii Democratic Party?
  4. Sanders Vote: ‘A true cross-section of Kauai, heavily populated by healers, anti-GMO activists, anti-vaccine partisans’
  5. ‘Stop the Bleeding’: After Rail Tax Hike, Another $695M Shortfall Announced
  6. HART Schemes to Make Middle Street Cut off Impossible
  7. Superferry, Telescope, Next Era
  8. Telescope Protesters Protest Way Hearing Officer Selected
  9. PHOCUSED Using Homeless to Grub for Money in Legislature
  10. DLNR Backs Small Boat Harbor Privatization Bill
  11. Counties push to increase share of transient accommodations tax revenue
  12. Thanks to Rep Andria Tupola, DoT Finally Getting Around to Solving Nanakuli Traffic Jam
  13. Hawaii DoE Has Most Counselors Per Capita of Any School District
  14. Latest Eco-Hype for the Gullible: Radar Destroys Reefs
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Saturday, April 2, 2016
April 2, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:54 PM :: 3997 Views
  1. Who’s Running: Candidates Pulling Papers as of April 1, 2016
  2. DLNR Finally Gets Around to Appointing Mauna Kea Hearing Officer
  3. For California Teacher Taking on Unions, Supreme Court Ruling Isn’t the End of Her Case
  4. SB 2618: Ferry Feasibility Study
  5. HB2707: Last Chance to Testify on Marijuana Omnibus Package
  6. Economist: GE Taxes Favor Big Business
  7. Valuing the Jones Act Fleet
  8. Hawaii Family Advocates Legislative Week in Review
  9. Republican Appointments to Hawaii State Boards and Commissions
  10. Dubanoski Appointed to Judicial Selection Commission
  11. Northern Mariana Judge Strikes Down Last Handgun Ban in USA
  12. Hawaii Urged to Prepare for Zika at CDC Summit
  13. ‘Evidence of Corruption’ -- Federal grand jury looking at HPD chief, wife
  14. Embattled police department spending $100K to improve image
  15. Rally for Marsy’s Law
  16. Big Island judges won’t hear Kenoi case
  17. What really happened at the ʻAha, part IV
  18. HECO Pipedream: 21% of Renewables from Rusting Offshore Wind Junk
  19. Wahiawa Hospital hard-Hit by Medicare Pay Cuts, MD Shortage
  20. Anti-GMO Activists Exploit Parents of Autistic Children
  21. Will Hawaii’s Tuna Fleet be Shut Down Again?
  22. Road extension could bring historical Ewa train rides to an end
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Friday, April 1, 2016
April 1, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:42 PM :: 4154 Views
  1. Marsy’s Law for Crime Victims Rights: Rally at Capitol Friday
  2. The Biggest Fruit Ever Grown in Hawaii
  3. Feds Gain Control over 157,000 Acres in Maui County
  4. Interior Department Funding ‘Self-Determination’ in US Virgin Islands
  5. HTA: Visitor Spending up 1.2% for February
  6. Tutu Bert’s House to serve Homeless Discharged from Queen’s Hospital
  7. Jones Act Exemption Missing from Puerto Rico Relief Bill
  8. Hawaiian Electric Proposes $340M Rate Hike, Blames Smart Grids
  9. Honolulu officers testify before grand jury investigating police chief, wife
  10. State letting TMT slip away
  11. Borreca: After Ige Loses TMT, Big Island Will Turn Against Him
  12. Hawaii County Council to mull 12.5% GE Tax Hike 
  13. ASUH calls for Jones Act exemption
  14. Hawaii Democrats ‘Discover’ Yet Another Superdelegte to give to Hillary
  15. 80% of Maui Residents will get Zika
  16. 0.3% of Homeless Using Hygiene Center Accept Housing Referral
  17. Hawaii County: Next Era Merger Fails to Protect Ratepayers
  18. Another Act221 Tax Credit Company Failing
  19. Caldwell Plants to Fire TVR Inspectors, Blames Council
  20. “Kirk Caldwell, please sit down”
  21. On Leave With Pay After Sex Assault Charge, Maui Teacher Now Charged with ‘sexting’ to juvenile
  22. 385 Laid off as Yet Another Hotel Goes Condo
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Thursday, March 31, 2016
March 31, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:04 PM :: 3426 Views
  1. Hawaii Land Use Laws Violate Fair Housing Act
  2. Federal Recognition: How Robin Danner Made $11.9M
  3. Hawaii Anti-Gun Bills: One Down, Three to Go
  4. Willes Lee Succeeds Sharon Angle as President of National Federation of Republican Assemblies
  5. Honolulu's mayor, Hawaii's members of Congress may face no re-election opposition
  6. Lawyer: Kenoi Not Quite a Thief
  7. Transparency Could Have Saved Billy Kenoi from Himself
  8. Pflueger Kills 8 at Ka Loko, Legislature Giving Him $10M Buy Out
  9. Airport Authority Would Cut OHA out of Greenmail Action
  10. Queens Hospital: 639 Homeless Patients Last Year
  11. Lets Give Dope to Little Kids and Make Your Insurance Pay for It
  12. Legislators: Insurance Companies Must Pay $54M a Year for Trannies’ Hormones
  13. Big Island Farmer Quits After 30 Years—Wants to Grow Weed
  14. DoH Debunks Anti-Dairy Farm Hype
  15. Anti-Dairy Farm Protesters are Source of Pollution
  16. DoE Facilities Branch is Dysfunctional

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Wednesday, March 30, 2016
March 30, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:17 PM :: 3439 Views
  1. Photos: Hate-Fueled Attack on Mauna Kea Radio Telescope
  2. Beyond Political Sovereignty: Pathways for Native Hawaiian Advancement
  3. Solving Hawaii Housing Crisis Through Land Use Reform
  4. Ige releases $5 million for design of new West Oahu high school
  5. Presidential Caucus: Hawaii Republicans Show How it is Done
  6. It’s Time For Hawaii To Move To State-Run Presidential Primaries
  7. Ige Administration Does Nothing as Telescope Prepares to Leave Hawaii
  8. Affordable Housing Bills Inch Closer To Passage At Hawaii Legislature
  9. HCDA: Close Kakaako Makai to Drive out Homeless Tent City
  10. Pesticide Report:  No Harm to Human Health
  11. Soft on Crime: Former Drug Dealer Billy Kenoi Arrested and Released
  12. Will House Finance Committee Hear Crime victims rights’ bill?
  13. Obama’s Gift to Hawaii:  Early release for Pahala Meth Dealer
  14. Lunatic Acquitted Killer Denied Off-Ground Privileges For Now
  15. MPD cop arrested 5 times in 1 year, still on the force
  16. Three More Rusting Wind Junk Projects proposed for Waters off Oahu
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