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Leadership Change at ODC
VIDEO: Mazie Hirono Covers Up Sexist Harassment at UH
Regents to consider revisions to proposed Maunakea administrative rules after public hearings
ACEEE: Hawaii Scores Points for GEMS Scheme
Kiplinger: Hawaii Among Least tax-Friendly States
HPR Begins to Wonder if ‘Price of Paradise' Actually a Bad Thing
HPR: …Often referred to as paradise, Hawaii’s gorgeous weather, beauty, and relaxed lifestyle comes at a price. The median value of a single-family home on Oahu is now above $800,000. Is that upward trend just the inevitable “price of paradise” or can something be done to change it?….
read … Is the 'Price of Paradise' Actually a Bad Thing?
State seeks 44% fee hike for harbors—500% for Moorings
HNN: …tenants at the Ala Wai Boat Harbor, will see a 44 percent jump. Other types of offshore mooring fees could increase between 300 and 500 percent….
Longtime Ala Wai Boat Harbor resident Sam Monet said the states' financial figures are misleading because one of Ala Wai’s piers has vacant all year due to construction….
Land board member Stanley Roehrig also wants more financial information. He convinced other board members to defer a vote on the increase for two weeks.
Even if the board passes the increase, it still has to go to public hearings before coming back to the Land Board for final approval….
read … State seeks steep fee hikes for harbors
We May Finally Get To See Honolulu Police Salary Information
HPD: …A judge’s rejection of a police union challenge clears the way for the release of names and pay levels for hundreds of officers….
read … We May Finally Get To See Honolulu Police Salary Information
Soft on Crime: Judges sentence Kihei men to 18 months in jail for fatal beating—They’re already out on streets
MN: …For participating in a “horrific” beating that led to the death of a homeless man at Kalama Park, two Kihei men were each sentenced Friday to 18-month jail terms.
Kaniela Dutro, 22, and Kekaimalu Cacpal, 23, also were placed on probation — Dutro for four years and Cacpal for five years.
“This was a horrific case, a tragic case,” said Deputy Prosecutor Carson Tani. “No person should suffer this way and die in this way.”
Dutro, Cacpal and a third teenager were implicated in the killing of 44-year-old Michael Phillip Gray. He was found unconscious in a pool of blood at a park pavilion at about 9 p.m. March 15, 2014.
The first police officer on scene reported that Gray’s eyes were swollen shut and were the size of golf balls because of the beating….
Originally charged with second-degree murder, Dutro and Cacpal each had pleaded no contest to a reduced charge of first-degree assault….
Cacpal, who was sentenced Friday afternoon in another courtroom, was given credit for time he had already spent in jail exceeding 18 months.
Before being released on supervision in March, Cacpal had spent 1,269 days or about three years and six months in jail, said his attorney, Walter Vierra….
Both men also were ordered to complete anger management treatment…
A third suspect, who was 15 years old at the time of the attack, is under Family Court jurisdiction….
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One Homosexual Child Molester -- 130 Victims
AP: A retired priest accused in more than 130 sexual abuse lawsuits and who admitted to molesting children on Guam has died.
The Pacific Daily News reports the Archdiocese of Agana says Louis Brouillard, who was ordained on Guam in 1948, died Wednesday in his native Minnesota. He was 97….
Brouillard, in a 2016 interview with a Pacific Daily News reporter, stated "it's possible" he sexually abused boys while serving on Guam. He later signed an affidavit admitting to abusing 20 or more boys on the island….
read … Homosexual Child Molester
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