1. Hawaii State Commission on Fatherhood Announces Awards, Scholarship Opportunities
2. Gabbard Resignation Demanded After Yemen Battle Plans Accidentally Leaked to Reporter
3. Honolulu City Charter Commission 100% Connected Insiders
4. DPP: Six Years to Get a Permit
5. Rail Ridership is about 3% of TheBus
6. It costs more to use an electronic medical device in Hawaiʻi than in any other state
7. Decision from Hawaii Supreme Court Amplifies Reasoning for its Prior Order in Maui Fire Cases
8. Federal actions impact $90M meant for Hawaiʻi and Pacific farmers, food organizations
9. $2.1M of Federal Funds Still Behind useless Hawai‘i County program aimed at collecting, washing, reusing takeout containers
10. DoE Retaliation Games: School Harassment Case Could Cost Hawaiʻi Taxpayers $150K
11. State To Open Prisons And Jails For Inspection Of Mental Health Services

1. Prince Kuhio's Fight to Americanize Hawaii
2. Maui judge rules Haleakala trail must be open to public access
3. The new live action Snow White movie should have been even MORE WOKE
4. Hawaii Post-COVID economic growth 2^nd Worst in USA
5. HB1369: Hawaii tax credits scrutinized by state lawmakers
6. Poor timing for a state official raise
7. Hawaiʻi vaccination rates fall short for herd immunity to measles
8. Honolulu Lawyer In Illicit Marshallese Adoptions Barred From Practicing
9. Committee and DOE might loosen student news publication rules
10. Homeless Boss Musical Chairs
11. It’s Your Money: Youth Facility Can Spend Up To $80,000 On Fast Food

• The new live action Snow White movie should have been even MORE WOKE
• The tax holding American shipbuilding back

1. SCR179 and SR149: LGBTQ Commission to Rewrite Entire Hawaii Legal Code with "Gender Neutral Language"
2. The New Tax Cuts Website
3. HB371: Covering Up Pay-To-Play Politics
4. 10 Things You Might Not Know About Hawaiʻi’s 2024 Election
5. DSA-Connection? Green Card Holder to be Deported?
6. COVID Vigilante now Promotes ‘Brain Health’ Remedies for ‘Long COVID’
7. County Council passes pilot program to allow mobile vendors along a stretch of highway in Kona
8. Camera system warning phase for speeders in urban Honolulu starts Monday

1. Proposed U.S. maritime trade sanctions would impact Hawaii
2. JSC Extends Deadline--Seeking Nominees for Chief Justice of State Supreme Court
3. About that Medical Freedom
4. The tax holding American shipbuilding back
5. Child abuse lawsuit filed against state over 10-year-old girl’s death
6. Doctors: HMSA ‘Prior Authorization’ impacts care and leads to burnout
7. How Much? Honolulu Rail Board Approves Settlement In $200M Howard Hughes Land Acquisition Lawsuit 
8. 19 Months Later: Maui Council passes bill allowing certain Lahaina structures to be rebuilt as they were
9. Kapolei: 655 ‘Undivided Interest’ DHHL Leases

1. Lahaina: "Feelings of conspiracy and mistrust"
2. Rep Gene Ward Retires from House--Republicans Must Nominate Successor
3. Hawaii LNG Proposal Could Save Hawaiian Electric fom Bankruptcy
4. Hawaii Parents Begin Freeing their Kids from Transsexual Agenda
5. SB1043: Bill to Eliminate GE Tax on Food and Medicine Gutted
6. Visitor ‘green fees’ bill passes Hawaii House committees
7. Campaign Reform Measures Are Dropping Like Flies
8. More Musical Chairs at HTA
9. Michaels Org Quits as Contractor for KPT Public Housing Overhaul
10. Maui Council Budget Committee questions unspent $12M from Affordable Housing Fund
11. 80% of Homeless Refusing Help

1. Open Letter to Governor Green: Construction failures at multiple state-funded facilities
2. FULL TEXT: State of the City Address 2025
3. Salem Media Sells Remaining Honolulu Radio Stations
4. Hawaii Worst State for Doctors
5. UH announces search committee for next athletics director
6. Hawaii legislative committee advances gun control measures
7. Doubling Down on Jones Act: Maritime trade sanctions apt to torpedo Hawaii’s economy
8. Not Fooled: Unanimous Maui Police Commission Declines To Put Police Chief On Leave Over Bogus Diddy Lawsuit
9. Hawaiian Electric Execs Pocketed Huge Raises Despite $1.4B In Losses
10. Hawaii Senate Panels OK $20/night Tax On Reward Points Bookings
11. HB302: Hawaii Lawmakers Vote To Let Doctors Recommend Medical Marijuana For Any Condition They Deem 'Appropriate'

1. The last time Congress created a new state
2. Hawaii climate change bill shelved amid federal cutting spree
3. State Public Charter School Commission Votes to Not Renew Kamalani Academy Charter Contract
4. 43% of HECO Customers now have solar--but Hawaii Energy Remains 90.8% Fossil Fuel
5. Surfing the environmental permitting bureaucracy in Hawaii
6. Former Maui police chief defends Pelletier amid 'Diddy' lawsuit allegations—Mayor Flees State
7. Maui Prep Academy dumps transsexual agenda
8. Council Vote: Big Island to Become Sanctuary for Illegal Aliens?
9. ‘Affordable’ Housing is Fake: Units Sell for $685K
10. High Court Releases Formal Ruling Against Insurers
11. Hawaii Senate committees slashes DHHL’s $600M request to $50M
12. State considers bio-control to fight coconut rhinoceros beetles—Ag Dept wants to make it into a Capital Improvement Project

1. Hawaii 204 Condo Projects Blacklisted by Fannie Mae
2. Caldwell's Duckbill Helps Global Warmers Exploit Mapunapuna Flooding
3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation--How they Voted March 15, 2025
4. Hawaii Highest Union Membership in USA
5. Governor vs Feds: UH Manoa not Protecting Jewish Students from Anti-Semites?
6. JSC Announces Five Nominees for Chief Judge, Intermediate Court of Appeals
7. Comments Open: Nominees for Oahu District Judge
8. Nominees for Two Oahu First Circuit Court Judgeships
9. HB 412: Void state contracts if there are violations of state lobbying laws
10. SB1396: Hawaii Lodging Taxes Could Hit 20% As New Fees Loom
11. SB15 would redefine what’s a ‘historic’ building in Hawaii
12. Maui police chief fires back against ‘false and baseless’ allegations in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs lawsuit
13. Hawaii County reaches agreement with UPW over COVID hazard pay
14. UH Hilo enrollment falls another 4%
15. SB1042: Study how to legalize Shrooms

1. Persistent income, employment, housing challenges for Maui’s fire-impacted households
2. Lahaina Housing: ‘Yes in God’s Backyard’
3. Grassroot Bills Alive After Crossover
4. Senators Pour Another $50M into Aloha Stadium Boondoggle, Defer Bill That Would Have Killed Project
5. Canadian Tourism Drops by Half
6. State House lawmakers defer hate crime bill
7. ‘Climate Change’ Emergency Declaration to be Expanded?
8. Amid Concerns About Campus Violence, Police To Come To Oʻahu Schools
9. Teachers want DOE’s new immigration enforcement policy to include more than just administrators
10. Senate Bill 106 presents an opportunity to modernize our pedestrian laws.
11. Aloun Farms Revitalization plan in works for milk production on Kauai

1. SB1434: Universal Vax for Hawaii
2. SB1278: Legislature poised to fix a state wrong?
3. Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
4. “It’ll be the same old suspects — just in better suits.”
5. Lawmakers Likely To Let Big Pay Raises Take Effect Without Public Hearings
6. As Usual, Ethics Reform Bills Die in Committee
7. Lava buyouts program is winding down

1. We Were Scammed:  NZ Lawsuits Expose Fraudulent Hawaii Geothermal Developer
2. “After a decade-long battle against public corruption in Hawaii, we have successfully brought numerous cases to a close."
3. UH Manoa Next? Columbia Expels Anti-Semites After Trump Cuts Funding
4. 9th Circuit Rules Hawaii Gun Registration Unconstitutional
5. State Let Felon Back out on Streets--but now the Feds Have Got Him
6. Mexican Illegal Deported Six Times--Comes Back to Kauai for #7
7. Illegal Caught with 5lbs of Methamphetamines
8. Army Deletes Web Page Devoted to 442nd Regiment
9. HART Insiders believe Trump Administration Hasn’t Noticed Them—expect to waste $968M this year
10. Maui Police Commission to meet March 19 to discuss whether to put Chief Pelletier on leave due to ridiculous Diddy lawsuit allegations
11. Costs of running interisland ferry service for Maui County clearer as study completed, could come up in budget talks
12. Donald Trump coming to Hilo to End Global Warming?

1. Grassroot: Highs and Lows of 2025 legislative session at halfway point
2. HB300: House Passes Budget Bill
3. HB422: Let’s close the book on school impact fees
4. Tax bills suggest obliviousness to our daily struggles
5. STR advocates assess landscape in wake of law unleashing counties
6. Study: Hawaii's roads and bridges rank 48th for condition and cost-effectiveness
7. Hawaii One Step Closer to Legalizing Sports-Betting and Expanding Gambling Addiction
8. AG Launches New Child Support Payment App
9. Hawaii AG Urges Supreme Court to Keep Medicaid Dollars Flowing to Planned Parenthood
10. Hanabusa to meet Legislators Privately to ‘Discuss’ how to fake outrage over their 48% Raise
11. Oʻahu Social Worker Accused In Daughter's Death Continued To Work at Kahuku HS until Day she was Arrested
12. Schoolmate arrested in Hawaii girl's 1977 murder released from Utah jail as prosecution stalls
13. DoE Wants to Keep Taxing Housing
14. Two New Ways to Make Affordable Housing Harder to Build and Operate
15. Hawaii Legislature Debating HECO Merger Conditions
16. Oahu cameras capture 80,000 speeders per month
17. New process for truckers could bring traffic relief to drivers on Nimitz

1. Crackpot Lawsuit is all it takes--Maui Mayor and SHOPO make Complete Fools of Themselves Trying to get rid of Chief Pelletier
2. Hawaii Gun Ban Bills Scheduled for Hearing in House Judiciary Committee
3. Gov. Josh Green on Trump wanting states to run education: “I’ll take it”
4. Man arrested in Utah nursing home may not be extradited for 1977 McKinley HS murder
5. SB1043: Eliminate GE Tax on Groceries, Medicine
6. HB740: Bill to construct more ohana units passes Senate committee 
7. Just in time for Budget Bill--COR Shrinks Growth to a measly 5%
8. $76M COVID-19 hazard pay settlement finalized with 2 city unions
9. Tax Hikes on Honolulu Council Agenda Again
10. City considers selling rail station naming rights to offset costs
11. DoE Eliminating School Libraries—only one left on Big Island

1. Calculate your Savings from Hawaii's Historic Income Tax Cut
2. Silicon Valley Billionaires Order Hawaii Legislators, AG to Target Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers
3. Six Years Later: Hilo's Singing Bridge Still Needs Emergency Repairs
4. Construction Defect Litigation, Housing Affordability, and Homeownership in Hawai‘i
5. Hounded by Enviros, Rodrigues Withdraws as Water Nominee
6. Hawaiian Electric Sells off Another Asset--Hamakua Power
7. Appeal period set to begin for updated FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Maps
8. Hawaii among 10 least desirable states
9. DHHL leaders face tough questions as they request additional $600 million
10. Hawaii governor says President Trump told him of criticism: ‘Have at it as long as you’re leaving me out of it’
11. Two Republican Senators Vote ‘No’

1. Feds: UH Manoa not Protecting Jewish Students from Anti-Semites
2. Pacific Biodiesel Occupies ADC Land In Keaʻau; No Lease, No Rent
3. Crackpot Lawsuit is all it takes--Maui Mayor Calls for Chief to be Suspended
4. HB476: Hawaiʻi could raise its capital gains tax to 9%
5. HB1494: There is Still Time to Save Hawaii from Aloha Stadium Boondoggle
6. 'You mean to tell me they beat her to death and now we're standing here with them and her dead body?'
7. SB281: ‘We want to have every tool available to prosecute them’: Lawmakers to hear bill that would make torture a felony
8. After the Foster Care Disaster: Mental Patient Ends up Being Shot by Police
9. Why Does UH’s New President Need A $250,000 Adviser? 
10. HB818: Community Development District to Save Banyan Drive from DLNR Mismanagement?
11. HB1260: Hawaiʻi Lawmakers Are Pushing For Car-Free Roads
12. Lahaina fire survivors await electrical infrastructure as HECO hits delays
13. Trump cuts target an office in Hilo vaguely connected to greenhouse gas observatory

1. How Much House Does $300K, $400K and $500K Buy You in Every State? In Hawaii it's about the size of a shipping container
2. Lawsuit Exposes Details of 2017 Kewalo Basin Kidnapping by Miske associates
3. Study: 47% of State Prison Inmates were Under-Sentenced by Soft-on-Crime Judges
4. School Enrollment Down 13% as Families Flee Hawaii
5. Pacific Biodiesel Occupies State Land In Keaʻau; No Lease, No Rent
6. SB1396: Another Massive TAT Hike to Create Green Make-Work Jobs
7. HB286: Tax-free Individual Housing Accounts
8. City ‘Climate Resiliency Fund’ Raided for Cesspools, Sewers
9. Activists Want to Turn Hawaii County into Sanctuary for Illegals
10. SB614: Sovereignty Activist Holiday for State Employees

1. The Unity House Scandal Never Really Ended — decades later, it might bankrupt Hawaiian Electric
2. Spreading Aloha Through Saying Goodbye
3. Lien on Me
4. Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
5. Planned Parenthood Hawaii Begins Promoting Sex-Change Telehealth
6. Hawaii Needs Constitutional Convention to Smash Administrative State
7. Child Care Cost Pushes Parents out of Hawaii
8. HB1494: There’s Still Time to Kill Aloha Stadium Boondoggle
9. Bills To Loosen The Grip Of Special Interests Are Still Alive — So Far
10. Make Spot The Robot Dog Earn Its Keep
11. OHA home ownership program attracts interest

1. Social Worker Arrested in Torture Death of Foster Girl
2. 19 months later: Maui Council gives initial approval to bill to rebuild Lahaina disaster-impacted properties as they were  
3. State Had Earlier Reports Of Abuse In Kapolei Household Where Girl Starved
4. Law change behind challenge to criminal case against police officers in near-fatal crash

1. “It’s becoming harder and harder for the working person who doesn’t own a home yet just to rent a place to live”
2. Seven Gun Bills Moving Fast at Half-Way Point in Legislative Session
3. Hawaii AG Celebrates Injunction Against Trump Funding Cuts
4. Maui County Spools up $7.7B Ask for ‘Wildfire Recovery Plan’
5. Crossover: 765 Bills on the Move
6. Still no clear answer for combating Hawaiʻi physician shortage
7. Ed Case among 10 Democrats joining with Republicans to censure Rep. Al Green for Trump speech protest
8. Will Maui County Expedite Lahaina Historic District Rebuild Permits?
9. State Department of Education receives nearly 11% of its annual funding from the federal government
10. An Oahu inmate was murdered in his cell. Was a housing error to blame?

1. DBEDT Reduces Hawaii Economic Growth Rate to 1.7%
2. Kewalo: Gather to celebrate the death of bill SB 534
3. $21.19B: House Finance Committee Approves State Budget
4. SB350 Fakes Contraceptive Protection in State Constitution
5. Kaluas Allegedly Spent Month Dissolving Ariel Sellers’ body in Acid
6. Hidden Links Exposed: Hawaiʻi Fireworks Bust Tied To Mainland Suppliers
7. Carr: New Aloha Stadium Just a Black Hole
8. Hawaiʻi pays 64% above national average for electricity
9. Mountain View man was free on bail when he allegedly slayed ex-girlfriend’s sister
10. Armed security coming soon to select Hawaii schools
11. Honolulu Will Allow Some Architects and Engineers To OK Their Own Projects
12. ‘Calculation error’ discovered in Skyline audit – Rail Ridership Down ‘only’ 44%
13. Hawaii County, HGEA reach 15% Bonus COVID compensation agreement – Honolulu Next

1. LIVE: Trump Address to Congress
2. Lawsuit Filed Against State After Latest CWS Child-Torture Death
3. Applicants Wanted for State Ethics and Campaign Spending Commissions
4. Will Kōloa Rum Co. lawsuit be the nail in Jones Act coffin?
5. How the century-old Jones Act is hurting Hawaii’s economy
6. Senate Fireworks Bills on the Move
7. Despite apology, Hawaii mobster gets 9 years for role in crime syndicate
8. HB1118 Vaccination Bill Dead
9. Salary Commission Approves 48% Raises For Legislators, State Officials
10. Hawaiʻi House Advances Sports Betting Bill
11. Mafia Thugs Suffer as Hawaii film industry down nearly 50%
12. Honolulu Hasn't Prosecuted A Single Ghost Gun Case Since 2020 Ban

1. Blangiardi Fiscal Year 2026 budget--Spending up 8.4%, CIP up 15.8%
2. Hawaii defense contractor exec must face some campaign finance conspiracy claims
3. Hawai‘i students turn local ingredients into unique products through entrepreneurial program
4. City adds three more town hall meetings on proposed sewer fee increases
5. Hawaii Assisted Living Costs Highest in USA
6. OHA Scam Fails Again: Senators kill bill lifting residential ban on Kakaʻako Makai
7. Misdemeanor Plea Deal: Honolulu officials charged in Kealoha retirement payout case
8. Teachers union preps Hawaii college officials to respond to ICE inquiries
9. CNHA: Native Hawaiian Convention Coming to Tulalip Indian Casino
10. Hawaii vacation rental occupancy drops nearly 20 percentage points compared to 2019
11. Protectionist Jones Act Actually Encourages Hawaiʻi Reliance On Foreign Energy
12. Pricey Honolulu Police Robot Dog Is Out Of Service

1. Grassroot Institute Legislative Week in Review
2. Is ACLU Worth $1B? Report Shows how ACLU Artificially Inflates Hawaii Jail Construction Costs
3. Hoteliers push back on proposed tax hikes
4. Trump Effect on Legislature: “I don’t think you’ll see any gigantic programs spooling up this year”
5. Military Lease Renewals: OHA, CNHA in DC to Lobby the Pentagon for Money
6. Hawai‘i education then and now: A 50-year view on soaring costs and declining enrollment
7. In Shipbuilding, the U.S. Is Tiny and Rusty
8. Larry Ellison’s Half-Billion-Dollar Quest to Change Farming Has Been a Bust
9. Honolulu’s Airport Flawed Layout Nearly Caused Airline Disaster
10. Decades-old city-state spat afflicts community in Oahu’s ‘Second City’

1. Gabbard Lahaina Charity Spends only 34% on Fire Victims
2. HB202: A Stealthy Unemployment Insurance Tax Hike
3. Hawaii End Meth Summit
4. Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
5. SB1269: Mililani Trask’s Geothermal Scam Comes Back for More Millions
6. HB141: Stop Republicans from Appointing Sovereignty Activists to Election Commission
7. SB1618: Repent, journalists, repent or face senatorial payback
8. Billionaires Behind Hawaii News Sites
9. SB1553: Hawaiian Home Lands looks to factory-built housing for projects
10. Young Bros Rate Hikes Kill off County Fairs

1. Audit: Poor Design of Honolulu Rail System Contributes to Low Ridership
2. UHERO: Federal job cuts raise risk of Hawaii downturn
3. Hawaiʻi Cost Of Living Is Creating A Mental Health Crisis For Workers
4. Hawaii AG wants pharmacy benefit manager lawsuit in state courts
5. Safety cameras to begin sending warnings for speed March 1
6. Shelter for Mentally Ill Homeless at Center of Iwilei TOD Plan
7. State housing program expanded to support more City Employees
8. Hawaii Gun Ban Bills Advance Out of Senate Committee
9. Trump Cuts Stop US-Funded Transsexual Activism in Pacific, Asia
10. Rate Hike Coming: PUC Will Open a Consolidated HECO-MECO-HELCO Rate Case
11. Bill 63 Approved by City Council -- ADUs to bolster housing supply
12. State claims it will quickly rebuild affordable housing projects in Lahaina

1. Debt: Honolulu 4th Worst 'Sinkhole City'
2. Another CWS Hell House: Four Children Tortured, One Girl Starved to Death
3. SB281: Outlaw Child Torture
4. The Cost Of A New Aloha Stadium Is Now Up To $650 Million
5. Survey: Crime and safety, affordable housing, cost of living among top concerns for Hawaii residents
6. 1981-82: Hawaii No. 1 home-price yo-yo
7. HEI is selling Hamakua Energy
8. Hawaii May Get Four New Waste-to-Energy Facilities

1. VICTORY! SB1150 Child Sex-Change Kidnap Bill Deferred
2. Grassroot: State's school impact fees earn 'F'
3. SB933: Shell Bill with Blank Dollars to Make up for Federal Funding Freeze
4. Jury in ‘Moana’ copyright trial gets primer on Polynesian, Hawaiian culture on day 1
5. Comments Sought on Judicial Nominees for Maui County, Hawaii County
6. Affordable Home subsidy purchase program gives $10M to lawyers, activists
7. Critic of High Costs of Tiny House Villages Quits Top Homelessness Post
8. Trial set in affordable housing credits scam
9. Government workers who don't do much—is it worth the cost to fire them?
10. Oʻahu Public Housing Tenants Promised Relocation Help Hit Dead-Ends
11. Hawaii 20% SNAP Food Program Overpayment Rate
12. HECO Electricity not 60 cycles per second--Making Clocks Run Fast
13. Hawaiian Homes Commission Greenlights New Hilo Diesel Power Plant to charge Batteries—calls it ‘bio’
14. Homeowners in Aliamanu fireworks explosion case released pending investigation
15. Group of jewelry scammers being kicked out of the country
16. Movie to feature the war for control of Hawaii organized crime in the ’60s and ’70s

1. Leaving Hawaii: Over Half Immediately Able to buy Home on Mainland
2. Hawaii Gun Bills: Decision Making Hearings Scheduled
3. Defamation: UH Law School Dean Sues Ken Lawson
4. 2025 Wildfire Summit: 'Exploring our Wildfire Future'
5. Extradition to Hawaii ordered in 1977 murder case
6. Instant Results: Gabbard fires over 100 perverts from Intelligence Agencies
7. The NSA’s Secret Sex Chats
8. Smaller providers stepping in to ease Hawaii insurance crisis?
9. HNN Investigates uncovers apparent geographic oversight in national kidney allocation policy
10. California ‘body brokers’ offer to fly homeless zombies out of Hawaii
11. Defend Hawaii: Mainland Drug Dealer Comes to Hawaii—busted in only FIVE DAYS
12. Hawaiʻi Cost Of Living Is Creating A Mental Health Crisis For Workers
13. 150 laid off as DLIR Cuts off MEO, CNHA--Blames ‘Federal funding Issues’
14. Legislators Reject $20M ‘Green’ Subsidy for Oil Refiner
15. Rail Construction Damaged Honolulu Freshwater Springs
16. $275,000 For Heart Attack Caused By False Missile Alert 
17. Major Fireworks Seizure At Honolulu Port Points To Federal Failure

1. Jones Act Keeps Hawaii Energy Expensive
2. Hawaii Can Auction Off Your Car Without Ever Convicting You
3. UH Trump Watch: New website on federal policy updates
4. Kōloa Rum Company challenges Jones Act in court
5. Proposed tax on foreign ships could increase costs in Hawaii
6. HB1308: Contentious Hawaii Sports Betting Bill Reaches House Floor
7. TRO filed against Honolulu Fire Battalion Chief in rape case
8. Testifiers sound off on Hawaiʻi measure to ban non-medical vaccine exemptions in schools
9. Few Property Sales, High Prices in Lahaina As Victims Try To Recoup Losses
10. After DLNR Wrecks Banyan Drive, HCDA to Take Over?
11. People Have Been Waiting Most Of A Decade To Use This Bathroom

1. Study Identifies the Cities Where Residents Live Most Beyond Their Means--Honolulu 6th
2. HECO Plan: Collect $1 Billion From Customers
3. 18 Months Later: Electricity Still not Restored in Lahaina Burn Zone
4. Lahaina Harbor is fixed, why hasn’t it reopened?
5. Census Bureau Says Hawaii Population Increasing: Economist Skeptical
6. Hawaii fireworks injuries have risen over past decade
7. Half of Hawaiʻi Inmates Choose to Leave Prison Without The IDs They Need to Start Over

1. Political problems not the same as true emergencies
2. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted February 22, 2025
3. TAT Is Not Duct Tape
4. Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review Feb 21 2025
5. Rail Line to Terminate at Iwilei Station?  Hanabusa squabbles with engineers
6. Trump policies threaten University of Hawaii ethnic studies programs
7. Hawaii Undermines anti-Trump ‘Resistance’
8. Miske death certificate filed in court while sentencing of his associates continues
9. Jones Act Keeps Hawaii Energy Expensive
10. 240 Vacancies at Lunatic Asylum: State hospital employee says horrific conditions are putting everyone at risk
11. The Legislature’s Schedule Works Only For The Most Powerful Committees
12. Dead Or Alive? With A Week To Go, Some Sunshine Bills Are Teetering
13. Many Proposed Constitutional Amendments Dead
14. “Backend software” issue hides legislators’ connections to lobbyists
15. Hawai‘i Convention Center seeking $55M to reward contractors for campaign contributions
16. Apparent settlement reached in Honokohau Harbor sewage lawsuit

1. Liquor Comm. Insider Bails out as Federal Oversight Commences
2. Hawaii Among Worst States to Start a Business
3. Honolulu Next? U.S. Transportation Secretary Duffy Announces Review of California High-Speed Rail Project
4. Trump’s Federal Budget Cuts May Save Hawaii from Rail Tax Extension
5. HART board member challenges closed-door meeting policy
6. Fire burns Hawaiian Electric Industries with $1.4B loss
7. Wahiawā Charter School Accepts Permanent Closure
8. Maui Man Released After 30 Years In Prison For A Murder He Says He Didn't Commit

1. SB433: Hawaii Knife Ban Bill Stopped
2. Fire debris cleared from final commercial property in Lahaina
3. Island Flex Open Enrollment Period: March 1 through April 30, 2025
4. Hawaii-AG-Backs-Suit-Against-Closure-of-Consumer-Financial-Protection-Bureau
5. Three Bills Could Speed Up Rebuilding Of Lahaina's Front Street
6. Cochran absent from House Floor 80% so far this session
7. More Miske associates sentenced
8. Proposed pay hikes for state ‘leaders’ spark outrage
9. SB1553: A Pre-Fab Factory to Get More Native Hawaiians Into DHHL Homes
10. Mindless DPP Bureaucracy Makes 'Renovation Aloha' Illegal
11. Maui Council’s $300,000 vacation rental phase-out study strays off course
12. ‘Sustainable’ Aviation Fuel: $80M Subsidy to Refinery, Airlines
13. Hawaii Tax Revenues for January Down $171M From Last January
14. Lawsuit over Rail’s ‘Foul Miasma’ -- HART ‘flooded with sewage’
15. Police union approves COVID hazard pay settlement

1. Case and Ward ask Trump Admin to Ban Windfarms from Kaiwi Channel
2. Court ruling makes Miske indictments and convictions disappear
3. Gas Attack: Former associate of late crime boss Mike Miske sentenced
4. HB1307: Big Island’s Next Geothermal plant to be on DHHL Land next to Pohakuloa?
5. Investment Houses Salivate over Chance to Milk Passive Investors as Hawaii automatic retirement savings scam bills move forward
6. County vows to install cameras, lights after slew of thefts in Lahaina burn zone
7. Did Maui’s Vacation Rental Crackdown Hit A Wall?
8. Deadline Tomorrow: Candidate Registration for Neighborhood Board Elections
9. Honolulu Fire Battalion Chief released pending investigation in sexual assault case
10. Pentagon chief orders big cuts, but Indo-Pacific Command among exemptions
11. Trump order halts ‘community benefits plans’
12. To Rescue The Cliffs Below Diamond Head, This Group Went Rogue

1. 'Malicious Prosecution' Kaneshiro Tries to Beat Back Civil Suit
2. Indictment: Alleged Embezzler Busted at Hawaii Eco Group
3. Green Executive Order to Speed State Hiring?
4. UH: TRO Protecting DEI from Trump Executive Orders
5. Double the Fraud: SB184 100% fee hike for beverage container recycling
6. Consumers Sacrifice To Pay Hawaiʻi’s Record Electric Bills
7. $42.5M: UH students are on hook for COVID pay to employees
8. Leaks And Mold: Hensel Phelps’ 4-Year-Old State Hospital Needs New Roof
9. Hawai‘i Condo Owners Could Benefit From State Plan To Prop Up Insurance Market
10. Sanctuary County? Council members challenge Hawaii County PD cooperation with ICE, DHS, FBI
11. Auckland Airport cocaine bust: 100kg in bags smuggled on Hawaiian Airlines flight

1. Rising Costs on the Horizon: How Increased Tariffs on China Will Impact Hawaiʻi
2. City announces two more town hall meetings on proposed sewer fee increases
3. Abolish Salary Commissions?
4. Corruption:  First test of AG’s “Special Investigation and Prosecution Division” – How will she throw JL Capital case?
5. The Hawaiʻi State Capitol Could Be Closed For Years As Contractors Milk $100M Allocated To Fix Aging Systems
6. Coconut Rhinoceros Beetles Arrive in Waikiki, City will soon be stripped of all Coconut Palms
7. ​Transsexual files Lawsuit filed over 2020 COVID mask incident
8. Kauai, Island of Retaliation: Sex Harassment Claim Against Judge Could Cost Taxpayers $90K

Abolish Salary Commissions?

1. Amended SB1150 Still Legalizes Kidnap of Children for Sex-Change
2. House Report: 60 Chinese espionage cases in three years
3. Hawaii GOP hopes era of cooperation leads to new laws
4. This Luxury Kauaʻi Hotel Is Housing Foreign Workers In Container Homes
5. High Cost of Living Means Being A Mom In Hawaiʻi Isn't Easy.
6. What happens to Miske’s Portlock luxury home and other assets?
7. DLNR Demands Money for Lahaina harbor rebuild

1. Candy Crush
2. LIST: Dozens of Bills That Could Affect Cost of Living
3. Policies that could help turn the tide of people leaving Hawaii
4. If we're not careful, nearly everything will become "historic"
5. California wildfire recovery lessons from Lahaina
6. This Week in Hawai'i: Freedom to Read, Gender Affirming Health Care, Marijuana & Gambling
7. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted February 14, 2025
8. SB492: 20 More Years of The Honolulu Rail Tax Being ‘Temporary’?
9. Let LNG flow for cheap, clean energy
10. Ethics Complaints up 552%
11. No Legislator Admits to Lobbyist Relationships, Given Extension to Correct their Lies
12. Prison Designer Hosts Indiana Fundraiser for Green
13. Those who lost loved ones in the Lahaina fire could receive some funds next month
14. Miske’s criminal case enters its final stage
15. Hawaii County Police discipline: Sex Offender Gets Job Back, Armed Robber and Bribe Taker Next
16. Maneuver: House ‘Recommits’ Marijuana Legalization Bill Forcing Senate to Take Lead
17. Federal job losses could be local government gains

1. Case, Moylan Introduce Jones Act Reform Bill
2. Honolulu Neighborhood Board Candidate Registration Ends Feb 21
3. 18 Months Later: Maui Council Begins to Loosen Rebuild Restrictions
4. Frustrations, ironies of ‘Princeville Market saga’
5. Report urges changes to cut review delays at State Historic Preservation Division
6. Releasing Mosquitoes to Help Kauai Forest Birds
7. Busted on Guam: Federal Juror Took Bribe from Dirty ex-Cop
8. How Zoning Ruined the Housing Market in Blue-State America
9. SB27 and SB28 advance to end county council obstructionism of state-funded housing projects
10. County bill advances to allow nonconforming structures in Lahaina to be rebuilt as they were before the wildfires
11. ‘I knew the truth.’ Red Hill whistleblower responds after inspector general report clears leaders
12. Game Room Enforcer with 50 Priors Gets Probation Again and Again
13. Death of neighbor sparks kauhale health concerns

1. Navatek ex-CEO Gets 87 Months for Fraud
2. Hawaii AG Sues to Stop Musk
3. Hawaii AG Wins Injunction Against Trump's 'Birthright Citizenship' Order
4. How to Maintain DEI Programs: Hawaii AG 'Guidance' for State Contractors
5. $550M Short, Stanford Carr might be forced to walk away from Aloha Stadium project
6. Another CWS Hell House: Three Babykillers Get Probation
7. SB897 to Facilitate Clean, Cheap Natural Gas for Hawaii?
8. HB982 Raise Rates Now to Pay HECO for its NEXT Disaster
9. Family Ties Could DQ Judge From Hawaii Wildfire Litigation
10. Hawaii lawmakers put end to casino gambling bill
11. SB1432: Dissolve Hawaii’s 5^th County--or make Molokai its own County?
12. Congresswoman demands answers after HNN investigation exposes one-sided kidney trade
13. Delayed teacher paychecks discussed at Hawaii Board of Education meeting (again)
14. Toxic Work Environment Concerns Derail Honolulu EMS Director Reappointment
15. Why can’t Hawaii taxpayers use IRS Direct File?

1. McConnell: 'Unworthy' Gabbard an 'Unnecessary Risk' to America
2. Honolulu 4th Highest Inflation in USA
3. Honolulu Bankruptcy Courthouse: Oral Argument at Ninth Circuit Against SEC’s Illegal Gag Rule
4. “You cannot run from the facts” Miske half-brother gets 20 years
5. Lahaina FEMA Housing: Rent to be collected starting March 1
6. Feds Release Red Hill Health Study
7. Hawai‘i’s Housing Crisis Was Decades in the Making
8. Testimony over transsexual child kidnapping bill gets heated
9. ‘Harm Reduction Ripoff?’ -- Kauhale Cost $103K per bum per year
10. Maui’s Vacation Rental War: A Crackdown or Engineered Uproar?
11. More than 600 Lahaina structures can be rebuilt faster with new permitting policy
12. Police to vote on $20K each COVID hazard pay settlement
13. SB1588: Nuclear power exploration legislation gains steam
14. HB661: Save Boat Tours from Eco Activist Obstructionism
15. Hawai`i State Legislature`s Third Attempt at Carbon Sequestration Scam
16. Hawaiʻi Algae Feed Project At Risk Amid Federal Funding Freeze
17. Trump executive order impedes funding for Native Hawaiian-led ‘climate’ work
18. Hawaii Couple's Energy Tax Credit Suit Gets Review by High Court

1. Feds Begin to Pull 'Project Labor Agreements'
2. Russian Bot In Charge of all US Intelligence Agencies: Gabbard Confirmed by Senate 52-48
3. SB1201: HECO Wants Rate Hikes to Cover Maui wildfire settlement
4. $5B Tax Hike: A 15-Year Extension Of Honolulu Rail Tax Advances In The Senate
5. Maui Fire ruling is a “lose-lose” for Hawaii residents—secret mediation underway
6. Half-brother of late crime boss sentenced as part of ‘Miske enterprise’
7. Sewage plant prompts emergency proclamation
8. Hawaii 'Stand your ground' laws could expand after killing
9. High risk, low pay: Dangers faced by Hawaii’s private security guards often underestimated, experts say
10. Acasio, 7 others sue state House
11. Return to Sender: Bills would deport bums back to Mainland

1. FULL TEXT: State Supreme Court Ruling Goes Against Maui Wildfire Insurers
2. Hawaii Supreme Court gives green light to $4 billion Maui fire settlement
3. Hawaii Anti-Gun Bills Scheduled for Public Hearings on Wednesday
4. What Lingle v Chevron Missed: Eminent Domain Pretext
5. Indictment: Developer Behind False-Name Contributions to Amemiya, Pine
6. Hawaii AG Joins Suit Against Trump administration for ‘indiscriminate’ public health research funding cuts
7. Hawaiian Electric claims to be 36% 'renewable'
8. ‘Russian Bot’ to be Director of National Intelligence: Senate tees up final vote on Tulsi Gabbard nomination
9. State officials could see big pay raises soon
10. Lahaina Disaster Still A 'Relentless Presence' In Fire Survivors' Lives

1. Federal Court Upholds Hawaiʻi’s firearm age restriction laws
2. Racism Is Common In Hawaiʻi Schools — And Often Goes Unaddressed
3. ACLU Cites 'Pattern Of Violence' After Murder At Oʻahu Jail--demands mass release of criminals so they can inflict the ‘pattern of violence’ on us
4. With massive flooding in Kīhei wreaking havoc every winter, community wonders: When will things change?
5. Suspected meth found at Guam AG's office
6. Congressional Delegation (again) Pretending to Reunite Filipino WW2 Veterans’ Families

1. Don't tax me, bro!
2. Dedicated Funding?!
3. ACLU, Judiciary Plot to Release Hundreds of Criminals onto the Streets
4. Feds Collect $1.7M in Hawaii Forfeitures
5. Hawaiʻi Water Safety Plan to address drowning crisis
6. Hawaii Congressional Delegation--How they Voted February 7, 2025
7. The Hawaii Contradiction: Is Sustainability Just A Price Hike?
8. Bananas prove slippery for former city officials
9. Hawaiʻi Foster Care Numbers Are Down. But Not Down Enough
10. Rep Gene Ward Missing from Legislature
11. What’s next now that the eviction moratorium has ended?
12. HB606: Hawaiian Home Lands seeks public support for a bill to increase, extend deadline on $600M spending plan
13. Fifty Years of Hawaii Lobbying Reform

1. SB1150 Would Legalize Child Kidnapping for Sex Change
2. Monday: Salary Commission to Hear Testimony on Salary Increases
3. Legislature Votes on Abortion, Vaccines and Marijuana--Sex Change Next
4. ‘Enough is enough’ says Case regarding Jones Act and Hawaii
5. First Christian Good News Clubs in Hawaii Schools after Court Victory
6. SB893: Casinos at New Aloha Stadium and Convention Center
7. Samoan tragedy kept in forefront of Kennedy fight
8. Bill Could Allow Maunakea Authority To Side Step Sunshine Law

1. PHOTOS: Lahaina Strong Leaders Show Off Luxe European and Asian Vacations
2. Honolulu Rate Commission seeks input on recommended fare hikes
3. Legislature Votes on Abortion, Vaccines and Marijuana
4. GE Tax Imposed on 119% of State Personal Income
5. Poll: Trump Favorability 28% in Hawaii—2^nd lowest in USA
6. HB959: 50% Hike in GE Tax
7. Supreme Court Hears Case for Robbing Insurers to Save Hawaii Political Insiders from HECO Bankruptcy
8. Lahaina seaside owners want accelerated rebuilding process
9. UH Cancer Center: Tax Hikes and Another Mercado Kim Shakedown
10. Family of fallen Maui firefighter demands $14M

1. California Home Insurance Crisis Provides Another Example of the Pitfalls of Government Intervention
2. Hawaii Attorney General Pledges to Continue Sex-Change Operations on Children
3. Proof of Concept Study Completed for New Oahu Jail
4. Lahaina Rebuild: Green's Latest Emergency Order Gives SMA Exemptions Mauka of Front Street
5. Maui Wildfire Settlement – Jack up Electric and Insurance Rates to Save HECO -- now before Supreme Court
6. How High Will Hawaii’s 18% Hotel Tax Go With Latest Proposal?
7. SB1124: A Per-Box Delivery Tax
8. What will Happen to Pacific Island nations as Trump Deports Criminals?
9. Hawaiʻi recycling program headed by 911 trooother says accounts frozen by Trump's executive orders
10. Red Hill community group says Trump memo is impacting talks with the Navy
11. HB1118: Eliminate Antivaxxers’ Religious Exemptions
12. SB1542: Parental Control Over Online Apps
13. HB371: Bill To Close Pay-To-Play Loophole In Hawaiʻi Moves To Full House