Next Tulsi? Mrs Kaniela Ing Finally makes the Big Time--with the Trump Administration!
Visitor Industry Grows Again in April 2025
Trump’s Plan to Land SpaceX Rockets on Johnston Atoll Naturally Spurs Eco-Lawsuit
Hawaii Loses TMT: Trump Budget Redirects Telescope Funding to Chile, Where Science is Appreciated
CB: … The controversial Thirty Meter Telescope planned for the summit area of Mauna Kea has lost the critically important support of the National Science Foundation, which plans to direct major funding to the Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile instead of TMT.
The Trump administration’s proposed new budget for the NSF suggests pushing ahead with the Magellan project, and says the TMT “will not receive additional commitment of funds from NSF.”
“Given the unaffordability of continuing funding two different multi-billion dollar telescopes, NSF will advance the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) into the Major Facility Final Design Phase,” according to the budget proposal. “The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) will not advance to the Final Design Phase and will not receive additional commitment of funds from NSF.”…
Big Q: What do you think of the Thirty Meter Telescope being defunded by the National Science Foundation? 84% - ‘Bad: TMT was worthwhile project’
2020: Ethics Board: Harry Kim Violated 'Fair Treatment' Rules by Letting Telescope Protesters Violate Laws
May 30, 2025: Thirty Meter Telescope - Environmental Compliance | NSF - National Science Foundation
SA: National Science Foundation defunds long-stalled controversial Thirty Meter Telescope | Honolulu Star-Advertiser BEST COMMENT: “Tulsi Gabbard, a member of Trump's Cabinet, was the second politician to stand alongside the Protectors on Mauna Kea. ... (Josh Green was the first politician and Sen. Mazie Hirono, the third).”
GCR: Hawaii’s $2.4bn telescope scheme axed for lack of funds - Global Construction Review
ASD: Astronomical loss: Federal science cuts threaten Hawai‘i observatories
KHON: Hawaii's TMT project on chopping block amid federal cuts
HNN: New federal budget proposal cuts funding for Thirty Meter Telescope
read … Funding Cuts May Doom The Long-Stalled Thirty Meter Telescope - Honolulu Civil Beat
Hawaii Extends Green Energy Fees Lunacy to Ocean
NM: … The new total is $33.00/night on the $300 bill.
USA Today — a liberal hotbed of climate alarmism and propaganda — also claims, "The bill came as a response to the growing frequency of natural disasters exacerbated by climate change, specifically the 2023 Maui wildfires, the deadliest wildfire in the country in over a century that decimated the community of Lahaina."
This is simply a lie.
Even the legacy media propagandists at ABC admit, "Broken power lines caused deadly Maui wildfire."…
"The new fee is expected to generate $100 million annually.
The funded projects are to be confirmed next legislative session but will span environmental stewardship, climate and hazard resiliency, and sustainable tourism.”
All these terms — "stewardship," "resiliency," and "sustainable" are fuzzy greenie buzzwords with no real definition except using the money to hire more left wingers in government patronage jobs.
And the terms have the added benefit of no metrics to measure progress in fighting an imaginary threat.
Which is all to the good for the propagandists….
read … Hawaii Extends Green Energy Fees Lunacy to Ocean
Car dealers frustrated by city’s 8,000 title, registration backlog
HNN: … Aloha Auto Depot in Kakaako sells used cars and says typically it would take two to three weeks for car’s title and registration to come in from the city.
But for months, wait times have been to five to six weeks.
The city told Hawaii News Now it has 8,000 outstanding car registration packets, a 40% increase from a year ago.
Car dealers say the backlog is stalling business….
Cervantes said some who are waiting for their documents are driving around without proper documents.
“It means you have a good change of getting a ticket. They are not going to be lenient on you that’s for sure,” he said.
He thinks to speed up the process, car dealers should be allowed more than one in person appointment of two applications per day….
read … Car dealers frustrated by city’s 8,000 title, registration backlog
Big island covered playcourt cost $1,545 per square foot
SA: … The 12,300 square-foot covered playcourt will offer a place to play sports including volleyball, basketball and pickleball for people of all ages in the area….
Nakashima introduced a successful bill that year requesting $5 million in state funding that was then matched by former Mayor Mitch Roth’s administration. In addition to that, Kimball said she was later able to secure an additional $9 million in county capital improvement funds….
(DO THE MATH: $5M + $5M + $9M = $19M / 12,300 sqft = $1,545 per sq foot!)
read … Hawaii island rural community breaks ground for much-anticipated playcourt
Only FBI has what it takes to Clear Homeless Meth Addicts from Mapunapuna
KHON: … Several Mapunapuna businesses are breathing a sigh of relief after the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided a warehouse on Kilihau Street on May 29….
“It’s been a long time coming,” said one nearby business owner Chris Waidzunas. “It just needed to happen, the homeless thing was really bad for quite a few years.”
(CLUE: The homeless are 100% meth addicts.)
Businesses said they’ve dealt with break-ins, dog attacks, thefts, fires and cleaning up feces for years….
(CLUE: The homeless are 100% meth addicts.)
“A lot of it was coming from the dive shop which was the catalyst and center for drugs,” said another business owner. “People were buying and selling stolen items 24-hours a day, people were dropping off stolen items.”…
(CLUE: The homeless are 100% meth addicts.)
“People have died in the last six months over here, and it’s all connected with dive shop and that group of people,” the business owner continued….
(CLUE: The homeless are 100% meth addicts.)
…court documents show DHHL started efforts to evict the tenant in October 2024 for not paying rent.
(CLUE: The homeless are 100% meth addicts.)
The following month, HPD told DHHL they suspected an illegal gambling room on the property, and in February 2025 the fire department requested the property be secured as people were tapping into the power lines.
(CLUE: The homeless are 100% meth addicts.)
In March 2025, DHHL enforcement officers posted a cease and desist on the door but court documents say the tenant and others continued to access the property.
(CLUE: The homeless are 100% meth addicts.)
“It’s not a safe environment for us where we have bodies showing up, crazy people yelling, abusing our workers, throw things at vehicles, people throwing bricks at people the other day,” the business owner added.
(CLUE: The homeless are 100% meth addicts.)
According to HPD crime mapping, there have been 15 crimes reported on this corner in the last four months including stolen cars, theft, burglary, weapons, aggravated assault and property damage….
(CLUE: This would be a really good opportunity to acknowledge the homeless are 100% meth addicts.)
read … Mapunapuna FBI raid ends with state eviction notice for tenant | KHON2
Pearl City Graves Being Robbed by Homeless Meth Addicts AGAIN
KHON: … Friends for Sunset Memorial Park president Larry Veray said police removed squatters off the property on May 21. He even found three urns that were stolen and stashed by one individual.
“And I really believe that the squatter that’s been in the cemetery, he’s been breaking the doors out and pulling the urns out. And that’s where he’s selling them, from there,” Veray said. “And shame on recyclers and anybody that would take urns that have nameplates. All those three urns, nameplates were taken off but one, it was engraved in there.”
Veray is in the process of installing a security camera system and said there is now a zero tolerance policy.
“Nobody is going to squat anymore into the cemetery and spend the night and no drug activity or loitering. I’m going to be monitoring this, and I can enforce it. And the other thing is, I got volunteers are going to help me enforce it,” he said….
(CLUE: The homeless are 100% meth addicts.)
read … Overgrown weeds choking Oahu graves: 'I can not find him'
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