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Tuesday, July 2, 2024
Makawao meth trafficker gets nine years in federal prison
By Selected News Articles @ 11:59 AM :: 132 Views :: Maui County, Drugs

... Kitashima's associates helped him buy, ship, and transport methamphetamine between California, Oregon, and Hawaii ....

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Monday, July 1, 2024
Christian Good News Clubs Win Equal Access in Hawaii Schools
By News Release @ 9:02 PM :: 163 Views :: Education K-12, First Amendment, Religion

... after school Bible clubs must be given equal access ....

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Monday, July 1, 2024
‘You’re Nothing!’: Hawaii Black Cop Was Belittled and Racially Bullied By Colleagues, Leading to Four Officers Arrested, Nine Others Placed on Paid Leave
By Selected News Articles @ 8:58 PM :: 280 Views :: Ethics, Police

... put Horton’s life at risk by ordering the man to rush into traffic at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport to stop a moving vehicle while on foot ....

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Monday, July 1, 2024
Veto? Hawaii governor under fire over authority to suspend electronic media transmission
By Selected News Articles @ 8:34 PM :: 159 Views :: First Amendment

... a ‘blank check’ to shut down all electronic media ....

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Monday, July 1, 2024
Five candidates are running for Hawaii’s two U.S. House districts—the fewest in the last 10 years
By Selected News Articles @ 8:28 PM :: 156 Views :: Hawaii History, Office of Elections, Politicians

... This is the only election cycle in the last 10 years in which a district is not open ....

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Monday, July 1, 2024
RIMPAC 2024 Kicks off in Hawaii
By News Release @ 8:21 PM :: 126 Views :: Military

... Approximately 29 nations, 40 surface ships, three submarines, 14 national land forces, over 150 aircraft and more than 25,000 personnel will train and operate in and around the Hawaiian Islands ....

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Monday, July 1, 2024
Federal Court Whittles Down Hawaii Voter Roll Lawsuit
By Selected News Articles @ 8:02 PM :: 159 Views :: Office of Elections

... NVRA requires statewide voter rolls to be accessible to the general public ....

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Monday, July 1, 2024
Supreme Court rules for broad presidential immunity in Donald Trump election subversion case
By Court House News @ 10:45 AM :: 167 Views :: National News, Ethics, Office of Elections

... but no immunity for unofficial acts ....

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Sunday, June 30, 2024
Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 29, 2024
By GovTrack .us @ 9:09 PM :: 189 Views :: Congressional Delegation

... bills introduced and votes cast in Congress ....

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Sunday, June 30, 2024
Green Signs 35 Bills Into Law
By News Release @ 8:50 PM :: 296 Views :: DHHL, Hawaii State Government

... SB 3109 tackles the long-standing waitlist to provide housing to DHHL beneficiaries by extending a $600 million special fund ....

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Sunday, June 30, 2024
Green Announces Appointments, Creates Insurance Task Force
By News Release @ 8:39 PM :: 468 Views :: Maui County, Hawaii State Government, Cost of Living

... The positions and appointees are listed below; House and Senate appointees also are included ....

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Sunday, June 30, 2024
Update development standards to allow more apartment housing
By Grassroot Institute @ 7:54 PM :: 241 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Land Use

... if Honolulu were to revise upward all the other development standards as well — the minimum setbacks, the height limits, the maximum lot coverage and minimum lot widths and depths — the number of newly legal units could skyrocket ....

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Sunday, June 30, 2024
Intent to Veto: Budget Drama Continues
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 292 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor

... Intent to Veto: HB 1800, which is the state’s budget bill, and HB 40, which is the bill that puts $300 million into our rainy day fund and $135 million into the pension accumulation fund .... 

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Sunday, June 30, 2024
Supreme Court overrules landmark 'Chevron' precedent on government authority
By Court House News @ 3:39 AM :: 346 Views :: Environment, Health Care, Labor, Land Use, Law Enforcement, Small Business

... For 40 years, the Chevron precedent has been the backbone of administrative law, limiting judicial decision-making in favor of agency 'expertise' ....

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Sunday, June 30, 2024
Freedom in Hawaii is having a moment
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:24 AM :: 306 Views :: Development, Health Care, Small Business, Taxes

... This year our freedoms were expanded with the passage by our state lawmakers of important legislation. Those expansions covered taxes, housing and healthcare ....

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Saturday, June 29, 2024
Biki Bikeshare abandoned by owners, operation handed over to City
By News Release @ 5:40 PM :: 665 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail, Tourism, Drugs

... as of Monday, July 1, 2024, Bikeshare Hawaiʻi has turned over its oversight role of the Biki bikeshare system to DTS ....

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Saturday, June 29, 2024
Scheme to Remake Lahaina as Touristy Water Park Advances in Congress
By Andrew Walden @ 5:12 PM :: 1408 Views :: Maui County, Environment, Development, Hawaii History, Land Use, Tourism

... The remade Lahaina will be a tourist-oriented animation of the pre-plantation era when the economy was based on slaughtering lots of whales ....

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Saturday, June 29, 2024
Criminal Alleges Ariel Sellers Buried at Bumpy Kanahele’s Waimanalo Compound 
By Andrew Walden @ 5:55 AM :: 2254 Views :: Akaka Bill, Honolulu County, Family, OHA

“HPD is taking this seriously and attempting to determine whether Branco may have indeed been able to contact Kalua while in jail.”

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Saturday, June 29, 2024
Can Hawaii afford climate change lawsuit settlement?
By Selected News Articles @ 4:33 AM :: 363 Views :: Energy, Environment, Taxes, Cost of Living

"...There's going to be some pain...."

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Friday, June 28, 2024
How Mexican cartels target Hawaii with meth, fentanyl
By Selected News Articles @ 7:04 PM :: 789 Views :: Law Enforcement, Drugs

... Sinaloa and its rival, the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación, known as CJNG — run drug pipelines through California and Nevada to flood Oahu with meth and other drugs, including fentanyl ....

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Friday, June 28, 2024
Did Hawaii just pave the way for court enforcement of California's climate promises?
By Selected News Articles @ 6:12 PM :: 288 Views :: Environment, Cost of Living

... The settlement provides benchmarks for a greenhouse gas reduction plan that will be overseen and enforced by a court through 2045 ....

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Friday, June 28, 2024
Homeless people can be fined for sleeping outside, Supreme Court rules
By Court House News @ 5:21 PM :: 402 Views :: Homelessness

...Gorsuch said “a handful of federal judges” couldn’t “begin to ‘match’ the collective wisdom of the American people” in deciding policy solutions for homelessness....

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Friday, June 28, 2024
Hawaii Water Wars: If you don't claim a 'taking' you lose
By Robert Thomas @ 12:01 AM :: 364 Views :: Environment, Land Use

... those standards only apply where there's a takings claim present. And there's no takings claims here ....

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Thursday, June 27, 2024
Senate Special Session Rubber Stamps Four Oahu Circuit Court Nominees
By News Release @ 6:00 PM :: 3039 Views :: Judiciary

... Rebecca A. Copeland, Brian A. Costa, Dyan M. Medeiros, and Steven R. Nichols to the Circuit Court of the First Circuit .... 

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Thursday, June 27, 2024
May 2024: Tourism Declines Again
By News Release @ 5:59 PM :: 362 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Tourism

... tourist count down 4.8%, spending down 4.0% ....

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Thursday, June 27, 2024
State Supreme Court: Is Gov't Imposed "Church Purposes" Deed Restriction Void?
By Robert Thomas @ 3:36 PM :: 364 Views :: Hawaii County , First Amendment, Land Use, Religion

... the Hawaii Supreme Court hears oral arguments ....

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Thursday, June 27, 2024
Government says Red Hill plaintiffs are asking for too much in damages
By Selected News Articles @ 3:01 PM :: 316 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military

... Seventeen plaintiffs are asking for $7 million ....

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Thursday, June 27, 2024
Fate of Hawaii’s ‘Stairway to Heaven’ hike hangs in balance at appellate court
By Court House News @ 2:55 PM :: 310 Views :: Environment, Tourism

... Advocates to keep the stairs told the court that demolishing them will threaten the state's official mammal, the Hawaiian hoary bat. ....

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Thursday, June 27, 2024
Hawaii officials argue for second chance to reinstate butterfly knife ban
By Court House News @ 2:41 PM :: 336 Views :: Second Amendment

... After a federal court struck down the ban, the Hawaii Legislature approved an amendment to the ban that prohibits only the concealed carry of bladed weapons ....

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Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Kauai Island of Retaliation: Year in Jail After Putin Dupe Passes Along ‘Threat’ from Schizophrenic
By Selected News Articles @ 10:23 PM :: 879 Views :: Kauai County, GMOs

... Cowden had made the entire incident about herself ....

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Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Maui TVR phase-out plan unconstitutional
By Grassroot Institute @ 8:01 PM :: 647 Views :: Maui County, Development

... The county cannot ignore the constitutional rights of Maui property owners in its race to address its housing problems ....

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Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Maui TVR phase-out wrong means for good goal
By Grassroot Institute @ 7:45 PM :: 337 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use, Small Business, Tourism, Cost of Living

... virtually all local economists realize the main cause of Hawaii’s housing crisis is the state’s extremely high number of land-use and other housing-related regulations that have hindered homebuilding ....

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Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Building Benchmarking Report -- deadline extended
By News Release @ 7:12 PM :: 270 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy, Cost of Living

... requires large commercial and multi-family buildings to annually report aggregate energy and water utility data to the City and County of Honolulu ....

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Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Maui Short-Term Rentals, the Minatoya List, and Housing Supply
By UHERO @ 6:37 PM :: 448 Views :: Maui County, Small Business, Tourism, Cost of Living

... we would expect to see significant–possibly double digit–declines in condominium prices on Maui ....

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Tuesday, June 25, 2024
New Coffee Labeling Rules Take Effect July 1
By News Release @ 3:06 PM :: 394 Views :: Agriculture, Small Business

... will apply to all coffee product inventory sold to the public or displayed at retail stores in Hawai‘i ....

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Monday, June 24, 2024
500 Lahaina Victims Still in Hotels--Deadline June 30
By News Release @ 12:24 PM :: 463 Views :: Maui County

... to support the 200 households (more than 500 individuals) currently residing in Non-Congregate Sheltering (NCS) hotels, the NCS program has been extended until June 30, 2024 ....

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Sunday, June 23, 2024
Hawaii County moves toward greater freedom for beekeepers
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:14 PM :: 351 Views :: Hawaii County , Agriculture, Small Business

... The Leeward Planning Commission voted favorably on a bill that would make it easier for beekeepers to expand their businesses ....

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Sunday, June 23, 2024
Aloha Stadium Bidding Limited to One Gang of Insiders
By News Release @ 5:32 PM :: 1165 Views :: Ethics, Development, Higher Education

... Competitive bidding?  No need ....

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Sunday, June 23, 2024
What You Ask
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 454 Views :: Taxes

... Here are some of the traps I’ve seen ....

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Sunday, June 23, 2024
Your Input Inspires Us 
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:51 AM :: 324 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Cost of Living

... we don’t know what we don’t know ....

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Sunday, June 23, 2024
Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 22, 2024
By GovTrack .us @ 4:15 AM :: 327 Views :: Congressional Delegation

... bills introduced and votes cast ....

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Saturday, June 22, 2024
Sandwich Isles Communications: Twenty Years of Criminality
By Selected News Articles @ 6:19 PM :: 722 Views :: DHHL, Ethics, Hawaii History

... Al Hee was convicted was criminal tax fraud in 2016, which resulted in the FCC and HPUC stripping SIC’s ability to receive USF subsidies ....

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Saturday, June 22, 2024
Blangiardi signs City’s FY25 budget bills into law
By News Release @ 5:09 PM :: 331 Views :: Honolulu County, Labor, COVID-19

... increase the appropriation for the COVID hazard pay contingency to $115 million ....

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Saturday, June 22, 2024
Biden Approves Kauai Disaster Declaration
By News Release @ 5:06 AM :: 345 Views :: Kauai County

... affected by severe storms, flooding, and landslides from April 11 to April 14, 2024 ....

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Saturday, June 22, 2024
Green: 'Intent to Veto' 17 Bills
By News Release @ 3:11 AM :: 547 Views :: Hawaii State Government

... Governor Josh Green, M.D., notified legislative leaders and stakeholders of his intent to veto 17 bills passed by the Hawaiʻi State Legislature during the 2024 session ....

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Saturday, June 22, 2024
VIDEO: Condo Insurance Town Hall Meeting
By Video @ 2:56 AM :: 405 Views :: Cost of Living

... industry experts discuss the rising costs of condo insurance ....

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Friday, June 21, 2024
More Taxes and Fewer Lanes: Green, DoT, Eco-Lawyers 'Sue and Settle' Scheme
By News Release @ 4:33 AM :: 863 Views :: Energy, Environment, Taxes

... The young plaintiffs are more likely to move to Las Vegas because of this settlement ....

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Thursday, June 20, 2024
These Hawaii Cities Have the Highest and Lowest Cost of Living in 2024
By Selected News Articles @ 2:38 PM :: 731 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living

... Hilo vs Haleiwa ... or ... Kapolei vs Makawao ....

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Thursday, June 20, 2024
Will US Supreme Court Hear 'Spirit of Aloha' Gun Rights Case?
By News Release @ 7:14 AM :: 969 Views :: Second Amendment

... Wilson v. Hawaii, a prosecution for carrying a handgun without a license ....

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Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Finances of accused Hawaii crime boss examined during racketeering trial
By Court House News @ 5:49 AM :: 712 Views :: Drugs

... arson, armed robberies, drug trafficking, chemical attacks, and murder plots ....

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