1. Lahaina Fire Caused by Anti-Cane Smoke Activism
2. Educating children hailed as key to preserving principles of liberty
3. Think small to help resolve Kaua‘i’s housing crisis
4. Unlocking the Potential of the Public Land Trust
5. DHHL Goes on Land-Buying Spree
6. Transsexual flag flying outside the Fasi Municipal Building
7. Molokai Reefs: DLNR Listening to Walter Ritte
8. Pohoiki: Zendo Drops a Bombshell
9. Lahaina Tourism return may bring ‘explosion of anger’
10. Weasel Words: County ‘looks to’ speed up Lahaina reentry process
11. Maui Fires: PUC Finally Gets Around to Considering Plan to ‘Harden’ Power Lines
12. Lack Of Money And Staff Is Hindering Wildfire Code Enforcement In Hawaii
13. Occupancy for Hawaii vacation rentals dropped to 54% in August
14. Game Rooms Average 5 Years Between fake raids--City Council to mull anti-gaming room measure
15. $13K Junket: City Council Members Are South Korea Bound
16. “Data comparisons between 2020 Census and 2010 Census detailed race data should be made with caution”
17. Military’s plan to stop using fresh drinking water on Oahu golf course halted by DOH

Pohoiki: Zendo Drops a Bombshell

1. New Shelter Built to Keep Lahaina Homeless out of Burn Zone
2. LahainaFires: 600 families put out of Hotels
3. Lahaina fires prompt questions about state water policy
4. BLNR Member: Criticism of Official who Withheld Water for Firefighting is ‘Racist’
5. Families are faced with hard decision to leave Lahaina or stay
6. Charter School Quickly Sets up Lahaina Campus
7. Next stage of the Miske case–Motions to suppress evidence
8. Affordable Housing Fraud: Two Hilo attorneys under investigation by state office
9. Soft on Crime Crowd Finds Another Excuse to Block Oahu Jail Construction
10. Decade long water leak being fixed after millions of gallons wasted

1. Let the Donor Beware
2. 2A Victory: Hawaii County Concealed Carry Rules Rejected by Court
3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted September 30, 2023
4. Before the Disaster: Hawaii Unemployment 3.1%  
5. Make sure to claim additional property tax relief in Honolulu
6. LahainaFires: HHFDC Pretends Insurance does Not Exist--Wants you to believe Act of Congress needed to replace Low-Income Housing
7. HART’s endless games--Still Trying to Scam Feds After All These Years
8. Hirono Political Rhetoric Isn't Helping Maui Fire Survivors
9. The Need For Legislative Reform Can Be A Matter Of Life And Death
10. Hawaii Wildfire-Fighting Force Eyes Eightfold Increase In Funding

1. Multiple Murder Counts After Deadly Cockfight
2. EPA Consent Decree: Pollution Violations at Kailua Wastewater Treatment Plant
3. 600 evacuees in West Maui hotels to be locked out?  Safe Harbor program expires
4. When Kula needed water to stop wildfire, it got a trickle
5. Pearl Harbor Military Terminated Community Oversite Boards Monitoring Toxic Contamination Cleanups
6. Efforts underway to smooth out COVID vaccine insurance issues

1. RIP Leinaala Teruya Drummond
2. EPA: Civil Beat Publisher Profits from Sale of Illegal Pesticides
3. Real Value of $100 in Honolulu $87.15
4. New dashboard highlights areas of Hawaiʻi housing crisis
5. Maui Tourists Shift to Other Islands
6. Yes, in God’s Backyard
7. Move to Vegas: How Lahaina Lockdown Designed to Block Insurance Payouts to Homeowners
8. HECO’s Slimy Answers Don’t Play Well Before Congress 
9. Lassner setting goals for final 15 months as UH president
10. High Water Bills Surprise Kula Residents Who Helped Fight Wildfires
11. Minimum Qualifications Proposed For Honolulu Emergency Manager
12. Micronesian Tenants Fight Back Against ‘Terrible’ Apartment Conditions
13. Half-Pound of Meth: Out on Bail, Does it Again

1. Lawsuit: Hawaii Breaks Law on Voter Rolls
2. Will HECO be Saved? JSC Unveils Choices for Two Supreme Court Seats
3. Blangiardi statement in opposition to ACLU Lawsuit
4. HECO Stonewalls House Committee Investigators
5. Reps. Sonny Ganaden and Jeanne Kapela are a couple.
6. Tourism Executives Campaign To Bring Needed Visitors To Maui
7. Saint Louis School to join settlement talks in sex assault case against 2 high-profile athletes
8. Council’s Tulba seeks more film studios for Oahu

1. Time for Action, Mayor Bissen
2. FBI Forensics Lending a Hand in Lahaina
3. HI-EMA Clarifies Siren-Activation Rules
4. Lahaina Fundraiser Spouts Conspiracy Theories, Quickly Raises $1M
5. HECO ‘May not be Forthcoming’  to US House Committee
6. Hawaii Agencies Flout The Law By Ignoring Maui Fire Records Requests
7. Mike Miske survived three previous investigations without criminal charges
8. Former Civil Defense council chair: Officials failed to heed key warnings ahead of Lahaina disaster
9. Lahaina Fires: Blame KSBE or HECO?
10. Furloughs, layoffs mounts on Maui as economic headwinds continue
11. Lawsuit Accuses Kauai Chief Judge Of Sexually Harassing His Assistant
12. Toughen penalties for illegal gambling

1. Lahaina Fires: Where are the students?
2. Earthjustice Files Lawsuit to Clean Up Kealakehe Wastewater Treatment Plant
3. Green Updates Lahaina Emergency Price Controls
4. HECO Postpones Time-of-Use Rate Hikes
5. ​India abolishes its ‘Jones Act,’ could be role model for U.S.
6. Eminent Domain News: Criminal Kaniela Ing writing the ‘New Urbanist’ blueprint for Lahaina
7. Ing News: ‘Some may be outright frauds’
8. A Major Power Outage In Lahaina The Day Of The Fire Likely Saved Lives
9. Soft on Crime Crowd Finds Another Way to Stop Jail Construction
10. Did A Ransomware Attack Take Down KITV News?
11. SD1: Little Miss Impeachment to be Defeated Again
12. Multiple ambulances offline over the weekend amid EMS staffing shortage
13. DoE ‘Security’ Cameras Peep into Bathroom Stalls

1. Hawaii Ranks 4th for Homeless per Capita
2. Kealoha Case: Fentanyl Dealing Ex-Cop is Getting Record Wiped Clean
3. Roseanne Barr Considering Running for Governor of Hawaii as Republican
4. Toxic? Antivaxxer Lorrin Pang Tries to Scare Lahaina Homeowners Away from their own Properties
5. Solar Batteries High on List of ‘Hazardous’ Materials being used as Excuse to Keep Homeowners Away
6. Two Cost Increasers: How ‘Planners’ Make Ala Wai Pedestrian Bridge into a $63M Harp
7. MECO Conditionally Offers Financial Compensation for Outages

1. Lahaina fire lawsuits hamstring release of information
2. The secret to reaching the next generation
3. Governor’s revised housing proclamation caves to NIMBYs
4. Lahaina Scammers
5. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted September 23, 2023
6. Honolulu Architect Is Headed To Prison For Bribery But Still Working Permits at DPP
7. Lassner was one weird dude 
8. Before Lahaina Burned, Hawaiian Electric Was Slow to Replace Poles That Posed Fire Risk
9. Don’t blame climate change for fires
10. Caltech telescope removed from Maunakea summit--Will be Moved to Chile where Science is Appreciated
11. AAR? Where Were Maui Police During The Fires?
12. Rents Could Double For Some Ewa Beach Tenants In Affordable Housing Complex

1. State Water Commission Holds Marathon 12 Hour Meeting
2. Hawaiian Electric begins restoration work in Lahaina
3. DoE: Charter School Enrollment Up, Non-Charter Enrollment Down (again)
4. Applications now open for Kapolei City Lights parade
5. Biden Amends Hawaii Disaster Declaration
6. Move to Vegas: Mayor Tells Fire Survivors Wait 2 Years Before Rebuilding Lahaina Homes
7. Eminent Domain Coming: Officials tell Lahaina property owners to ‘put personal gain aside’
8. ‘We’re gonna rebuild’: Residents brace for emotional return to Lahaina
9. Reentry Procedures Designed to Scare Property Owners into Giving up Land
10. Native Hawaiian churches urge investigation into missionary role in federal boarding schools
11. Kaimuki retail group supports city's homeless sweeps; critical of ACLU Hawaii lawsuit
12. State Capitol library covered in tarps to protect against leaking pools

1. Can One Government Official Really Hold Up Necessary Water Uses? The Hawaii Public Water Trust In Action
2. Senators Push to Restore Official who Denied Firefighting Water for Lahaina
3. Census Bureau: Detailed Look at Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander Groups
4. RedCross: 78% of Lahaina Staying in Shelters
5. Kauai homeowners could save $150 each from higher exemption
6. Wildfires deliver heavy blow to Maui economy
7. Finding Someone to Blame for the Lahaina Fires
8. HART Caught Lying Again: Stalls Bidding Deadline For Next Major Honolulu Rail Contract in Hope of Getting Federal Money before Costly Truth Revealed
9. How a Maui PD officer worked with community to open an evacuation route
10. Police Comm gives Fluffy Eval to Honolulu Police Chief
11. Blind, disabled, denied: Handi-Van issues persist

1. Lahaina Residential Reentry Begins Monday
2. New Bill from Guam Delegate to Legalize Cockfighting in U.S. Territories
3. “The cost of disasters may be allocated to all HECO ratepayers”
4. In wake of devastating wildfire, experts propose new sources of water for parched West Maui
5. Deputy Prosecutor Blows Cases? Fired After Using Confidential Crime Scene Photos
6. Multiculturalism Is Tourism
7. Who’s Behind UHERO?
8. Legislators Fly Around on Your Dime
9. ‘A sign of hope’: New tactic shows promise in shutting down game rooms permanently
10. After 164 Violations, Driving Scofflaw May Finally Get jail
11. ‘This has got to end’: Pipes leaking millions of gallons of water a month at Dillingham Airfield still not fixed
12. City in high-stakes talks with military over proposed new landfill site

1. Can BJ Penn tap out broken zoning code?
2. Green Backtracks on YIMBY Emergency Order
3. Attorney Calls for Three Year Mortgage Deferral and Foreclosure Moratorium for Lahaina Homeowners
4. Trump on Ballot for Hawaii Republican Presidential Caucus
5. UH President Lassner announces plans to retire
6. Lahaina Fires: Chinese Disinformation Circulates at State Capitol
7. EPA deems about 40% of burnt Maui land parcels safe for residents to return
8. Propaganda Saturates Media as ‘The Wildfire Litigation Industry’ Takes On Hawaiian Electric
9. New Maui Evidence Helps HECO Avoid Bankruptcy: Fire Gained Unstoppable Momentum While Firefighters Were on Lunch Break
10. Here is a narrative that works Against HECO in Litigation
11. Three Weeks:  Maui’s mayor steers clear of spotlight and avoids news conferences
12. Plan Working: Lahaina Residents Leave Maui for Good
13. Civil Beat: Eminent Domain is just a ‘Conspiracy Theory’ -- Nothing to see here, just move along
14. Maui Activists Urge Return Of DLNR Water Official To Former Job so He Can Refuse Firefighters Water Again
15. Show me the money: Where Red Cross and Maui Strong donations are going
16. HECO Exploits Federal Infrastructure Funds to Squelch PUC Fire Investigation
17. Wildfires drag down Maui’s August hotel performance
18. Even with School Open, Hardly Anybody Rides Rail
19. ‘Outrageous’: Red Hill suit plaintiffs accuse government of destroying cell phone evidence
20. Insurance lag results in wait for COVID-19 vaccine
21. Dems To NOAA: Hold Wespac Accountable For Misspending Nearly $1 Million
22. Hawaii judge rejects settlement in Jayden de Laura sexual assault civil case

1. Turmoil at the Top: HECO Gets Temporary New CFO
2. Green Orders 24-Hour Bum Patrol at Uncle Billy's Hotel
3. Hawaii 3rd Worst State for Teachers
4. VIDEO: Green Addresses UN About Global Warming or Something
5. Kona Seniors Locked Out and Need Help
6. Ing’s Phony Lahaina Charity Behind OHA Scheme to Develop Kakaako Makai?
7. Hawaii Public Utilities Commission vs Albert Hee
8. Ahead of tourism reboot in West Maui, some Lahaina fire victims are told they’ll have to move
9. Lahaina Residents Can Return To Their Burned Properties Soon. But Maybe We Can Scare Them Away by Questioning Air Safety?
10. Their homes and businesses were destroyed in Lahaina, but mortgage payments are still due
11. Maui Residents Speak Up as Council Develops Wildfire Recovery Plan
12. Ivanka Trump's secret trip to Maui to give meals to families devastated by wildfires
13. Prosecutorial misconduct cited in move to throw out charges in gruesome Oahu gay on gay murder
14. Honolulu Council: $625 to Park Your Own car in Front of Your House

• Kona Seniors Locked Out and Need Help
• Empty Rental Better than Bad Tenant
• Half-Ass Voters

1. Hawaii Republicans Elect New Party Chair
2. For ‘Progressive’ Criminal Kaniela Ing Lahaina Fires are Just Another Grift
3. Thousands push back against Oct 8 West Maui re-opening
4. Falck pledges to maintain current services in Maui County
5. 50% Water Rate Hike for Oahu Homeowners And Businesses
6. Beth Fukumoto: How My 15 Minutes of Fame Destroyed Me

1. Challenging the Housing Czar
2. Has HART gone off the rails again?
3. Building Permit: A Six-Year Odyssey
4. Maui devastation will worsen statewide housing crisis
5. Rebuild? Give More Rights to Lahaina Property Owners
6. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted September 16, 2023
7. Lahaina: The price list
8. Challenging the Housing Czar
9. Hawaii Republicans complain about one-party rule, but offer few credible candidates
10. SD22 Waianae: Alfred “Braddah Al” Keaka Medeiros vs Maile Shimabukuro
11. Politicians have been Pretending to Solve Housing Crisis For Generations
12. LOL! HART claims $580M surplus awaits at Civic Center--Immediately begins spending for Ala Moana
13. Blangiardi Claims FTA Paying $744M to HART
14. DLIR: No COVID-Style Logjams for Lahaina
15. Service Declines After Mokulele Bought by Electric Seaplane Promoters
16. Kidnapping in Progress: Officers did not Pursue

1. Lahaina Death Toll Lowered from 115 To 97
2. Green Revises Housing Emergency Proclamation--calls it 'affordable'
3. New 2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccines offers enhanced protection
4. Six House Working Groups Investigate Lahaina Fires
5. How Biden’s Approval Rating in Hawaii Has Changed Since Taking Office
6. Lawyer: New housing proclamation ‘still unlawful’
7. More Unconstitutional Tax Ideas: Governor Suggests Charging ‘Climate Impact Fee’ To Visitors
8. Maui County Council considers bill on post-fire cleanup options
9. Lahaina condos could trigger broader insurance woes
10. Former employee alleges discrimination by ACLU Hawaii