HTA Splits RFP for US: Marketing vs 'Stewardship'
Hawaii: House Judiciary Committee to Hear Anti-Gun Bills
HB1049: Avoiding disincentives in new affordability plan
Governor sends additional budget requests to Legislature
Hawaii GET Taxes 119% of Personal Income
Will Senate Committee Reject Union Owned DHHL Nominee Ikaika Anderson today?
SA: … The hearing, scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. at the state Capitol, is an especially weighty one because Green and Anderson want to alter a plan produced in 2022 for DHHL to spend $600 million appropriated by lawmakers with a three-year deadline to encumber the money in spending contracts aimed at helping DHHL beneficiaries.
(CLUE: If the plan is altered, DHHL will run out of time to encumber the $600M.)
“It will be contentious, I’m sure,” said Colin Moore, director of the University of Hawaii Public Policy Center. “There’s already been some pushback.”
Anderson in January had a bruising encounter with members of two Senate committees — Hawaiian Affairs and Ways and Means — at a budget briefing that included sometimes scathing comments about his understanding of DHHL’s budget needs and $600 million spending plan.
Anderson, who has been on the job since December, also faced criticism at a January meeting of the Hawaiian Homes Commission, which he chairs, over issues including the firing of Cedric Duarte, who had been DHHL’s information and community relations officer….
“I believe Ikaika is the right choice,” said Native Hawaiian sovereignty activist and DHHL beneficiary Dennis “Bumpy” Kanahele. “I’m going to back him full-on.”…
Green acknowledged that Anderson is a little controversial as someone who has tangled and butted heads with people in his capacity as a politician and City Council member….
UPDATE: Rejected for DHHL: 'Evasive' Anderson 'Misrepresents Commission'
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read … DHHL nominee Ikaika Anderson to face hearing today
City hopes to reopen Oahu’s only public shooting range by next month
HNN: … The city is hoping to reopen Koko Head Shooting Complex by next month.
The range has been closed down since September amid lead contamination concerns.
An investigation is also underway following confirmation that multiple workers at the range tested positive for elevated lead levels in their blood….
read … City hopes to reopen Oahu’s only public shooting range by next month
About the Occupied Forces Hawaii Army “warship”
ILind: … if you recall my article last April that described the “warship” of the group known as Occupied Forces Hawaii Army, under the command of a man calling himself “Colonel Sam Lilikoi.”
The reader asked: “Is it true that DLNR finally impounded Colonel Cuckoo’s dilapidated “warship” for nonpayment of mooring fees?”
I sent a query to the communications office of the Department of Land and Natural Resources and received a prompt response this morning from Dan Dennison, the department’s senior communications manager.
“We checked with both our boating and enforcement divisions and both report they have not seized Nelson’s vessel,” Dennison said.
So there you have it. The rumor that the “warship” has been impounded are not true….
read … About the Occupied Forces Hawaii Army “warship”
Court rejects appeal of Miske co-defendant’s 2018 conviction
ILind: … The Hawaii Supreme Court has affirmed the murder conviction of Dae Han Moon for the fatal shooting of 20-year old Stevie Feliciano at Ala Moana Center on Christmas 2016. The court’s majority opinion, filed in court on February 10, was written by Chief Justice Recktenwald, with Justice Michael Wilson dissenting….
In July 2020, Moon was arrested and charged along with former Kamaaina Termite and Pest Control owner Michael J. Miske, Jr., and nine co-defendants, with participating in a racketeering organization which Miske is alleged to have controlled and directed. According to the indictment, Moon was part what prosecutors call the Miske Enterprise, took part in a murder-for-hire plot targeting a Waimanalo man Miske suspected of cooperating with law enforcement, and being part of the group’s related drug trafficking conspiracy.
Moon has pleaded not guilty to the federal charges and is currently being held at the Federal Detention Center awaiting trial, now scheduled to begin in September….
read … Court rejects appeal of Miske co-defendant’s 2018 conviction
Soft on Crime: Killer Gets Two years--Shockingly, he is Wanted Again
KITV: … A man convicted of manslaughter in 2011 is being sought by police for violating the terms of his probation, according to Honolulu Police CrimeStoppers.
Honolulu Police are searching for 62-year-old Barney Kane. Kane was arrested for second-degree murder after hitting a man in A’ala Park in May 2011.
A witness to the 2011 incident said they saw Kane punch the victim, causing them to fall. The victim was found by police bleeding on the sidewalk. That person later died at the hospital from severe head injury.
Kane was eventually convicted of felony manslaughter and sentenced to serve two years in prison along with 10 years of probation.
A $20,000 bench warrant has been issued for Kane for violations of the terms and conditions of his probation….
read … Man convicted in 2011 Honolulu manslaughter case wanted for probation violation
Hawaii’s Innovative Plan To Manage Marine Resources Is Being Quietly Rolled Back
CB: … Top ocean resource officials under Gov. Josh Green have quietly scrapped the state’s ambitious yet vaguely defined “30×30” marine conservation goal.
Hawaii became a national leader in 2016 (IQ Test: Are you laughing?) when Gov. David Ige announced the state’s commitment to effectively manage at least 30% of the islands’ nearshore waters by 2030, coinciding with the international target of protecting 30% of the planet in the same time frame.
But Dawn Chang, Green’s controversial pick to lead the Department of Land and Natural Resources, said in a Jan. 30 letter that the Division of Aquatic Resources has listened to the community and is “adjusting accordingly” by ditching the “30×30” slogan as the stated target….
Fishers showed up en masse late last year at a trio of lively, DLNR-organized public meetings on Maui, the pilot island for Holomua. Many feared (knew) that the initiative would entirely ban fishing across 30% of the state’s waters. In reality, (They were not fooled by the usual eco-liars claiming) it would have kept those waters open to fishing but with new regulations such as gear and bag limits….
read … Hawaii’s Innovative Plan To Manage Marine Resources Is Being Quietly Rolled Back
Homelessness Industry Looks to City for Cash Flow
CH: …an entire article about homelessness which doesn’t mention drugs even once….
“There were people who felt menacing and there were others who were not all there all the time. But there was also quite a bit of sharing and generosity on the street.” It was a brief stay. He lasted less than a week before the summer heat and fights among newcomers to the camp persuaded him to leave….
(CLUE: They were all meth addicts.)
Koshiba’s great-great grandfather, Bunkichi Hotta, left Japan at the age of 15 to work on a plantation in Maui. Conditions on the plantation were harsh and Hotta ran away after only a few days, becoming a homeless teenager in a foreign land.
“Here’s my great grandpa, who checks off all the boxes for the least desirable demographic in society,” Koshiba said. “He’s homeless. He’s an immigrant. And he’s a teenage boy. He doesn’t know the language, doesn’t know the culture.”
It was 1890 — a time when many nations were implementing racist immigration policies. But on Maui, Hotta was quickly taken in by a Hawaiian-Portuguese family who sheltered him for a decade, until he was ready to go off and start his own family.
(CLUE: Grandpa was not a meth addict.)
(IQ Test: Do you see the difference?)
read … Propaganda
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