Hawaii Daily News Read

Wednesday, November 11, 2026

November 11, 2026 News Read

By Andrew Walden @ 7:37 AM :: 579 Views

"Serving Those Who Serve” -- Hawaii Among the Worst

DCCA Tech Fail Caused by Politically Connected Bumblers -- business registration backlog hits 40,000

OIP Proposes 100% Fee Waiver for 'Public Interest' UIPA Requests

Public Land Trust Working Group Formed to Give OHA More Money

OHA to Spend $100K for Trustee 'Investiture'

'Space for the middle' -- Senate Republicans Respond to Sen Awa's Resignation from Party

Nazi Spy Ohana

Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted Nov 9 2026

Kalihi Man Sentenced to Over Nine Years in Prison for Gunpoint Game Room Robbery

Hawaiʻi House Republicans’ heavy election losses

HPR: … The blue wave that swept the country on Election Day last week helped topple four House Republicans in Hawaiʻi, leaving the GOP with only six seats in the seat chamber.

This means fewer Republicans in committees because the House speaker allocates those spots by the percentage of seats each party holds. And Republicans will still be short of the 11 members they need, assuming all 51 representatives are present, to force roll call votes on the House floor….

(CLUE: Republicans in Hawaii lost 33% of Senate seats with Sen Awa leaving GOP. They lost 40% of House seats going from 10 to 6. And they lost the Gubernatorial race by the largest margin ever. That is a ‘Blue Wave.’)

KHON: Hawaii Republicans may shift policy focus after Awa's exit

CB: Neal Milner: No Blue Tsunami In Hawaiʻi. Just Listless Kona Winds - Honolulu Civil Beat

Read … Hawaiʻi House Republicans: We'll 'fight for the people' despite heavy election losses | Hawai'i Public Radio

After Blocking Rebuild, Hawaiian Council Takes Control of Front Street

SA: … The first storefronts returned to Lahaina’s commercial core Tuesday as the ‘Ulu o Lele Marketplace opened on the former Outlets of Maui site, marking a major milestone in the town’s recovery more than three years after the Aug. 8, 2023, wildfire devastated the community.

Developed by Hawaiian Council with support from its Kako‘o Maui Fund and a $4 million grant from the Hawaii Community Foundation’s Maui Strong Fund, the interim marketplace is opening with 17 storefronts and six food trucks. The project, which represents one of the largest concentrations of returning businesses in Lahaina’s wildfire burn zone, is designed to help wildfire-affected entrepreneurs rebuild while restoring the community’s gathering place.

Hawaiian Council CEO Kuhio Lewis said the project will have an initial two-year run and opportunities will extend from individual storefronts to food truck operators, pop-up vendors, local crafters, and artists through planned entertainment….

(TRANSLATION: First, activists block Front Street from rebuilding. Then activists take control of the new Front Street to make money for themselves. See how this works?)

ASD: ‘Ulu O Lele opens in Lahaina

Read … New Lahaina marketplace restores businesses by Front Street | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Framed for Rape: Trial scheduled in federal lawsuit against Big Island Prosecutor, Police

HTH: … Then a 31-year-old deputy public defender, McGuire was charged by complaint on Jan. 22, 2020, and indicted by a Hilo grand jury on Jan. 29, 2020, on charges of first-, third- and fourth-degree sexual assault for what prosecutors alleged was an acquaintance rape of a then-27-year-old woman on Jan. 19, 2020, at McGuire’s Hilo home.

The charges were dismissed with prejudice — which means they can’t legally be refiled — on July 16, 2021, by then-Third Circuit Chief Judge Robert Kim. The dismissal was in response to a motion filed by Perazich on July 13, 2021. According to the motion, the request that the charges be dismissed was made “in the interests of justice.”

Among the allegations in the suit are that the complainant — the daughter of a police sergeant/detective — had consensual sex with McGuire, but lied to police and the grand jury both about the nature of the sex and about having had sex with McGuire the previous night, as well….

Read … Trial scheduled in federal lawsuit against Roth, Waltjen, others | Hawaii Tribune-Herald

Honolulu voted blue, ranked choice voting lost

ASD: … Hawai‘i already uses ranked choice voting in some special elections. But Question 5 would have taken it much further, making ranked choice voting part of the regular process for electing Honolulu’s city officers. Honolulu said no.

They were not voting no for sport. Other charter amendments passed. The one that rewires the election did not.

You can like Josh Green and dislike this. You can wish more people showed up in August and still refuse an election system where some ballots stop counting before the count is over. Honolulu did both.

Congratulations, Honolulu….

Read … HERITAGE: Honolulu voted blue, ranked choice voting lost

This Kāneʻohe Couple Hopes To Resolve Permit Issues Before They Die

CB: … Dick and Noreen Van Horn, both 86, just wanted to resolve some minor permit issues with their family property so they could pass it on to their children. But that endeavor has turned into a two-and-a-half year waiting game with the Honolulu permitting department.

The dispute centers on a deck they installed in 1984 at their property along the Kāneʻohe Bay shoreline. Forty years later, the Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting said it was unauthorized, and the homeowners needed to demolish it. The couple requested a contested case hearing to resolve the disagreement, but a hearing date never came. Now the case is in limbo.

“We started all this crap to sort the stuff out so we can leave it to our kids,” he said, but the couple is still waiting and say they’re being met with silence from DPP about the status of the appeal. “At 86, we get the impression SMA is waiting for us to pass.”…

Read … This Kāneʻohe Couple Hopes To Resolve Permit Issues Before They Die - Honolulu Civil Beat

Who Speaks at the PUC -- Hawaiʻi’s Leading Intervenors and the Interests Behind Them

IM: … Life of the Land is by far the most prolific intervenor in Hawaiʻi Public Utilities Commission (PUC) proceedings. Its participation is critical in the dockets where the long-term physical footprint of the energy system is decided: power purchase agreements, fuel supply agreements, and transmission lines.

The next four most active intervenors are a different kind of participant. Two are industry trade groups — the Hawaiʻi Solar Energy Association and the Hawaiʻi PV Coalition. Two are philanthropy-backed clean energy advocates — Ulupono Initiative and Blue Planet Foundation. All four are overseen by corporate boards of directors, and their advocacy centers on business conditions, utility policy and electric rates….

Read … Who Speaks at the PUC -- Hawaiʻi’s Leading Intervenors and the Interests Behind Them | Ililani Media

Repeated Anti-Semitic Vandalism Results in Criminal Conviction On Kauaʻi

CB: … Eden Peart … (was) sentence(d) in a Līhuʻe District Court on Tuesday morning, facing the possibility of up to four months in jail for misdemeanor property damage charges. The gallery was packed, standing room only. ..

The 64-year-old … was found guilty in August of placing stickers on a Kapaʻa falafel truck menu sign owned by a local Israeli man. The rectangular stickers show a black fist raised in the air with the words: “This company’s funds support the Palestinian genocide. Free Palestine.”…

Peart’s targeting of the food truck, Shakalafel, owned by Uriel Churgin, was an act of antisemitic vandalism, something that historically has been a precursor to violence against Jews.

To Peart and her supporters, placing the stickers was a relatively minor act (because targeting Jews is the minor act before the major act) ….

Judge Michael Scarbo sentenced Peart to 100 hours of community service. He told the court that the right to freedom of speech allows you to express your beliefs on your property, not plaster them on the property of someone else.

“This was not a sticker that was a butterfly or that said “Live, Laugh, Aloha,” he said. “This was a sticker intended to draw attention to someone because of their racial, ethnic, religious beliefs and a series of assumptions based on those beliefs. It was done with intent.” ….

Shortly after 9 p.m. on Dec. 18, 2025, surveillance cameras at Churgin’s food truck captured Peart placing two 5×3-inch stickers on his menu board out front, court documents show.

It was not the first time Peart had vandalized his business, Churgin said. Another time, a worker had seen her place a similar sticker on the board during the day and called Churgin, who rushed over to the business. He said he found Peart a few blocks away charging her electric car and pulled over to take a photo of her license plate.

Between October and December, Churgin said he peeled the stickers from his business’s signage dozens of times only to have them reappear the next day….

Jews are an extreme minority in Hawaiʻi, making up less than 1% of the islands’ population, according to the Pew Research Center.

There have been 12 anti-Jewish hate crimes reported since 2021, according to a dashboard run by the Hawaiʻi Attorney General’s office, which tracks hate crimes. The majority of hate crimes recorded in Hawaiʻi are anti-white, with 128 reported since 2021, according to the dashboard.

Some high-profile cases of antisemitism have rocked the community in recent years, including a series of bomb threats emailed to synagogues around the state in 2023 and Montana man who recently pled guilty to sending antisemitic death threats to Gov. Josh Green. …

Read … 'Free Palestine' Stickers Get Librarian Criminally Convicted On Kauaʻi - Honolulu Civil Beat

Maui Quacktivists see Water as Latest Excuse to Target Military Data Center

CB: … Kelly King, who will return to the Maui County Council after winning the South Maui seat last week, said the newly elected council will provide greater scrutiny of projects (other than her own biofuel business)….

The nearly $100 million facility at Līpoa, the mixed-used development formerly known as the Maui Research and Technology Park, is intended to consolidate some of the military’s operations on the island into one location. It is being engineered to meet high federal energy and water-efficiency benchmarks, according to a 2022 environmental assessment….

according to a department statement provided Monday by county spokesperson Lila Lawrence. The military’s data center project was granted a federal exemption, so the department has not reviewed the subdivision since December 2022 — when there were no proposed buildings or other permit plans — and the water meter reservation was determined based on the lot’s square footage, according to the department…

(Translation: There is nothing unusual about the water consumption of this project. As usual the quacktivists are hyping nothing.)

At least some of the new facility’s hardware will be cooled using a permanently sealed system that continuously recirculates the same water, and there is projected to be a minimal increase in water demand compared to the military’s current leased facility in Kīhei, according to information provided by U.S. Space Force spokesperson Bradley Sturk.

“This slight difference is solely due to additional standard restroom space required to consolidate personnel from multiple commercial leased buildings into a single building,” according to the department statement emailed by Sturk….

(Translation: There is nothing unusual about the water consumption of this project. As usual the quacktivists are hyping nothing.)

Water is already limited in South Maui, which receives almost all of its water from the ʻĪao and Waiheʻe aquifers in Central Maui. The Central-South Maui water system has for years been operating dangerously close to capacity, and Kīhei residents are often subjected to water conservation advisories due to dry conditions and issues related to the region’s aging infrastructure. Projects like the nearly 1,000-unit Ledcor South Maui Properties, the 652-unit Mākena Mauka project and the 1,150-unit Honua‘ula project — also known as Wailea 670 — have come under ~~fire in part because of~~ (greenmail attack by grifters seeking money purporting to have) ‘concerns’ about the availability of potable water.

Given those challenges, no building project’s anticipated water consumption should be hidden from the public, said Hina Kneubuhl, an organizer with Protect Haleakalā, a ~~collective~~ (gaggle) of Hawaiian ~~cultural practitioners~~ (cos-players), ~~environmentalists~~ (quacks), ~~community leaders~~ (grifters) and others working to ~~protect culturally significant landscapes~~ (come up with excuses to oppose the US military) ….