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Thursday, January 31, 2019 January 31, 2019 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 1:16 PM :: 3486 Views Lyon Bribes: Caldwell Appoints Crook to Zoning Board After Receiving $16.5K Medicaid Fraud: DHS Still Not Doing the Real Work Republicans Call for Testimony on Bills Rep Thielen: Power, Drugs and Imminent Danger Top Concerns Third Circuit Seeking Applicants for Independent Grand Jury Counsel Applicants Wanted for State Ethics Commission Board of Agriculture Chair Resigns After Two Weeks on Job Ige Launches 5-Year Plan for Early Childhood Education Broken Trust Flashback: Rep Holt Pushes Thru Increased Funding for OHA Critical reporting needed on self-proclaimed sovereigns Some Question Calls For Tougher Penalties On OHA Takeover Group Pre-K: Who Will Control Cash Flow, Positions? Key Lawmakers Are Trying To Water Down Inspection Rules For Elder Care Homes Are Illegal Rentals Causing Property Tax Increases in Hawaii? Communities Challenge Some Hawai`i Renewable Energy Projects Kauai County audit reveals accounting backlog, purchase card misuse A rescue boat that cost taxpayers $118K sits mostly idle in a Kewalo Basin yard Bishop Museum Agrees Not to Sell Waipio Valley Lands The number of unvaccinated kindergartners grew again in Hawaii last year Soft on Crime: Tranny has 8 Priors—out on Street Does it Again Read More..

Wednesday, January 30, 2019 January 30, 2019 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 3:28 PM :: 3842 Views Tulsi Gabbard campaign in disarray Honolulu Council Dist IV: Ige Signs Proclamation Calling for Special Election Hawaii receives mixed grades on tobacco prevention and cessation House Republicans Call on DHS to Reverse Philippine H-2 Visa Ban Lyon Bribery: $240K to Buy DHHL Contract? Explain why Hawaii didn’t get DOT funds        Shakedown: Opponents of Thirty Meter Telescope travel to California to appeal to key funder Dozens Of Proposed Bills Could Change The Way We Vote Quit Stalling On The New Police Standards Board DUI Driver: Another Recidivist Criminal on the Streets – 3 Dead, 5 Injured Soft on Crime: 12 Priors out on the Streets-Now He’s Dead Because he wasn’t in Prison Still no plan for helping homeless who don’t want help Blackouts and Rate Hikes Coming: HECO Warns Against Banning Coal Too Quickly Global Warmer Owns Private Jet, Oceanfront Mansion in Hawaii In Effort to Shut Down Cattle Ranching, Animal Liberation Nuts Harass Big Island’s Only Slaughterhouse Read More..

Tuesday, January 29, 2019 January 29, 2019 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 3:54 PM :: 4913 Views Auditor Slams DoT--$112M Illegally Hidden from Legislature Who Should Regulate Drones in Hawaii? Shark Bites: Hawaii Still #2 in USA Bullying, Safe Places: 2019 Keiki Caucus Package Economic Impact of Immigration by State Former Cocaine Dealer: We Forced Judiciary to Reverse Decisions by Threatening Budget Senate president’s son is new lobbyist for Chamber of Commerce Pushing $350M Redevelopment Scam: Aloha Stadium Deploys Fake Rust Report House Adopts New Sex Harassment Rules HB1529: Reduce Censorship of HS Journalists SB1421/HB1289: New Plan to Let Lots of Criminals Run Free Again and Again Legislators: Third Gender Coming to Hawaii Drivers Licenses UH Tuition Hikes Behind Flagging Enrollment Honolulu City Council now required to temporarily fill City Council District 4 seat City clerk has no details yet on special Council election rematch No Right on Red—Another Piece of Caldwell’s Anti-Car Agenda Trendy Nonsense: Straw Ban Bill Introduced Hawaiian Humane Society Director a Trophy Hunter? For Homeless, Dog are an All-Purpose Excuse DLNR sued over officer’s aggressive handling of 2017 ‘flotilla’ boat seizure Read More..

Monday, January 28, 2019 January 28, 2019 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 10:46 AM :: 4083 Views Naming Names: Hawaii Politicians Profit from Sub-Minimum Wage Sweatshops for the Disabled Conflict of Interest? Judiciary Debunks Ozawa Public pension crisis? We're on it! Judicial Vacancy: Family Judge, First Circuit, Oahu UH to Cut Tuition Rates A New Public Corruption Scandal Looms For Hawaii Ige Opposed School Choice Vouchers for Preschools WSJ Editorial: Tulsi Gabbard Could Force Democrats to have a Foreign Policy Atooi Attack: Honolulu Prosecutor Making Way for State AG to File Charges? Star-Adv: PUC Should Put Palehua Windfarm on Hold Civil Beat: Real Carbon Tax to Pay for Fake Sea Level Rise It Begins: $130K Fine for Illegal TVR Gangrene and Maggots Before one Mentally Ill Homeless Finally Accepts Shelter Read More..

Sunday, January 27, 2019 January 27, 2019 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:19 PM :: 3775 Views Ask Not for Whom the H-1 Tolls… FSM Government Responds to Lyon Bribery Charge HDOT Wants Gas Tax Hike – But Can’t Be Bothered to Spend Money it Already Has State Pays $585K Settlement After Giving Foster Boys to Mainland Child Molester After Gabbard Attacks Hirono, Hawaii Media Suddenly Rediscovers Hare Krishna Cult "Dirty politics": City Council candidate Trevor Ozawa considering legal action after Supreme Court ruling UH System Grubs for Money (as always) SB1530/HB1497: Burn $350M for a Smaller Stadium Lava: More Lawsuits Against Lloyds of London Hard-Core Homeless Criminals Refuse Shelter, Occupy Tourism Areas Read More..

Saturday, January 26, 2019 January 26, 2019 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:22 PM :: 4197 Views Full Text: Supreme Court Invalidates Ozawa Win--Orders New Election Plaintiffs to Appeal 'Gut-n-Replace' Ruling Hawaii: Five Anti-Gun Bills Introduced Auction: Omidyar Dairy Liquidating? Video: Origins of the Opioid Crisis  Who's Running in My District? 2019 Neighborhood Board Elections Kawananakoa Estate: Lawyers Squabble over Million Dollar fees and Tax Evasion Will Lyon Bribe Recipients Get Away With It? Supreme Court Ruling Challenges Vote-by-Mail Procedures Homeless Drug Addicts Learn New Trick from PIT Questions: Pretend to be Lava refugees  Health care program for veterans to change this year Volcano? Puna Vacation rentals Wiped out by New Law Read More..

Friday, January 25, 2019 January 25, 2019 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:20 PM :: 3917 Views OHA: Authorities Should Take Atooi Threats Seriously Full Text: State of the Judiciary Speech – 2019 Video: Gabbard Officially Launches Presidential Campaign HDOT: Uber/Lyft Eligible to Begin Sister Isle Airport Pickups Felony Tax Violations: Honolulu DUI Attorney Pleads Guilty Shakedown: Wannabe Congressman Kahele Demands Money from TMT Developers Petition seeks halt to Council decision-making Honolulu sells bonds to finance rail project Three Carbon Tax Bills Introduced Maui Council: New Anti-GMO Majority Tries to Sneak Big Fat Pay Raises for Their Staff Will Hawaii Co Salary Comm Allow More Public Input? Workplace Environment: Number of DoE Teachers Returning to Mainland Spikes Lawmakers: Buy Federal Detention Center to Replace OCCC Tough reforms needed at DAGS Bill Would Make it Illegal for Homeless Sex Offenders to Register Park as Address Hawaii Co Council approves measures adding disaster recovery projects to budget     Judge Dismisses Suit Challenging Gut-And-Replace Legislation Financial Audit of the Hawai‘i Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund Firearms Open Carry: Consequences for Hawai'i Read More..

Thursday, January 24, 2019 January 24, 2019 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 4:43 PM :: 4872 Views Finance Committee Passes Base Budget Who's Getting Really Scared at OHA? Small Business Poll: 88% Say 'No' to Minimum Wage Hike Bum Patrol: City Extends Park Security Contract HB939: State Ag Bill Restricts Hemp Growers More Than Feds Do Hawaii 6th Highest Tax Collections Per Capita Ige wants $40M -  33% Hike in gas tax, vehicle fees Was Leong Sabotaging Police Commission with Purposefully Bad Legal Advice? – Friends of Leong Oust Levinson 4-3 Foster Care: State DHS to Delete Child Abuse Database Administrative costs of ‘value-based’ health care too high Proposed wind farm meets with opposition Why a private-public prison makes sense Honolulu construction costs 4th highest in the world, RLB report shows Republicans propose tax exemptions on food, medical services, feminine hygiene products Women’s Caucus Introduces Legislative Package Proposal to Tear Down Aloha Stadium to Build a Smaller one and a Museum to Remember the Stadium they tore down How Plastic Cleanup Threatens the Ocean’s Living Islands KIUC#1 in Battery Farming: “Don’t expect bills to drop anytime soon” Read More..

Wednesday, January 23, 2019 January 23, 2019 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 4:07 PM :: 3663 Views Full Text: Ige's State of the State Address Bipartisan Women's Legislative Caucus Elects Leadership for 2019 Pre-K: Ige’s HSTA Make Work Program Will Cost Millions TAT Formula: ‘Opportunity to Levy Taxes’ Hawaii Energy Office May Face The Budget Ax Local businessman admits he bribed state officials as part of a plea deal Kealoha Wants Police Commission to Pay Lawyer Sumida After Buying off all the Activists, Mahi Pono says land ‘partnerships’ on other islands a possibility County nixes purchase of parcels from former Supreme Court Justice UH System Benefits from Land Holdings What is a Living Wage in Hawaii? Hawaii State Senate: Climate Change Bills to Drive up Cost of Living Even More PIT Counts Homeless Criminals in Chinatown Bills Would Let Hundreds of Criminals Roam Streets HB703: Harsher Penalties for Drunk Drivers Keep the People Doped up so They Don’t Notice: Numerous bills tackle marijuana-related issues City Council debates fate of Oahu's short term rentals (again) Animal Liberation Nuts, Legislators Harass Diver Who Touched Shark Gen Z: We’re too busy to Register—so do it for us Read More..

Tuesday, January 22, 2019 January 22, 2019 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 3:08 PM :: 3661 Views School Choice Week--Activities in Hawaii Hawaii Most Unionized State We The Excluded vs Mazie Hirono  High Costs Make Hawaii Worst State for Drivers Old Boys, Republicans Rally Behind Kahele for CD2 Community wants stiffer charges thrown at group behind OHA attack Feds Say Hawaii Is Too Quick To Approve Wind Power Turbines Hawai`i Community-Based Renewable Energy Projects Delayed Hanalei Rebuilding: Nobody Believes in Sea-Level Rise 35% of Hawaii ‘Nonprofits’ Depend Entirely on Government Handouts  The same sort of rhetoric appeals to people both on the far left and far right Confessions Of A Bill Hijacker Hawaii eyes lottery and gaming revenue with new state lottery bill Raising senior fare 340% for bus harmful No turn on red? Honolulu mayor wants to change a traffic law on Oahu Health risk from Drug Addicted Shelter-Refusers at Diamond Head Read More..

Monday, January 21, 2019 Letters to the Editor January, 2019 By Letters to the Editor @ 9:29 PM :: 4018 Views We The Excluded vs Mazie Hirono Congress Must Approve Decent Funding for the Wall Read More..

Monday, January 21, 2019 January 21, 2019 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 2:06 PM :: 2890 Views 1959: Martin Luther King Jr Salutes Hawaii Statehood Lesson for UH and DoE--How P3 Can Eliminate Deferred Maintenance Gabbard: No regrets about meeting Syria's Assad Hawaii Statehood Was Part of Civil Rights Movement Did Kealoha’s CIU Protect Politicians From Being Busted for Corruption? Halawa prison project delays cost millions Soft on Crime: 22 Priors out on Streets Does it Again Gabbard shouldn’t be part-time member Read More..

Sunday, January 20, 2019 January 20, 2019 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:19 PM :: 3021 Views Hawaii’s Failed Campaign Finance Law: The Case of the Star-Advertiser’s Missing Front Page Ad Disclaimer HR25: Prohibit Possession of Firearms and Ammunition in Hotel Rooms Tulsi wants Money to Fight 'BS' Party Insider Howard Dean DOE’s Repair Backlog Is How Much Again? Legislature changing state elections to Solidify Democrat Control Gabbard Implosion a Reminder that Gays Control Democratic Party State pension fund shortfall climbs to $13.4B ACLU: Hawaii is a Launching pad for Our Agenda Opioid prescriptions down in Hawaii Hawaii County is Ground Zero for Opium Political Correctness Erasing Kauai’s Russian History Space Aliens Defending Jones Act Read More..

Saturday, January 19, 2019 January 19, 2019 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:26 PM :: 4412 Views Unanimous: US Senate Rebukes Anti-Catholic Bigot Mazie Hirono City Auditor: HART Cost Overruns Will Continue Hawaii Construction Employment Down 4.8% for 2018 How we can keep our children in Hawaii? Video: Gabbard's First Week Ends With Apology to Gays   Ige Announces More Second Tier Appointments  Video: Marshall Resigns After Fake Atooi King Teams up With Developer to Chase Protesters Off Land It Begins: Sen. Kai Kahele challenges Tulsi Gabbard for her seat Property tax bill could help some Oahu homeowners Corrupt Lyon Contract with DHHL at Anahola? Bribery: Will Caldwell Remove Federal Felon from Zoning Board? Labor Board: Police Chief Did Nothing Wrong When She Transferred SHOPO President Judge rejects Katherine Kealoha’s request to postpone trial Hawaii Police Department releases discipline report New proposal would ban hotel guests in Hawaii to bring firearms or ammunition into rooms West Maui hospital ‘on hold’ Hawaii DOE to explore redevelopment sites Only 50 Years behind the Times--DMV Adopts Take-a-Number System Shook Up: Women’s March Splits over Muslim Anti-Semitism, Misogyny Read More..

Friday, January 18, 2019 January 18, 2019 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 2:05 PM :: 3134 Views Hawaii Tax Structure Uniquely Anti-Manufacturing Police Impersonators Attack OHA Offices, Most Escape Scot-free $10 Maui Oceanfront Parcel? Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Case OHA’s Own Audit Is Being Blocked — By People At OHA State Unemployment Rate Increasing Old general excise tax hike resurfaces on Hawaii County council agenda Climate Change DLNR’s Latest Excuse for More Money—Going for Millions Rail Project Director Doesn’t Fully Meet Expectations — But Still Gets A Bonus City, Kealohas battle over secrecy of ethics investigation evidence Businessman charged with bribing state workers to land $2.5M contract School Board votes to extend Superintendent's contract Not too late for Big Isle to lead way on vacation rentals Maui Taxis Picket Airport Against Uber/Lyft Read More..

Thursday, January 17, 2019 January 17, 2019 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:34 PM :: 3543 Views Ige Sends McCartney to DBEDT, Fuchigami now Chief of Staff Math Goes PC: First-in-the-world UH ethnomathematics program approved by Hawaiʻi Teacher Standards Board Honolulu, Maui Among Least Affordable Rental Markets 'The untouchables: Out-of-control prosecutors and the system that protects them' Will Feds Target Caldwell Next? State Senate president: The time is now to prepare for a recession in 2020 Ige Lame Excuse:  Claims Old Tech an Obstacle to Zero Based Budgeting Kealoha Lawyer Attempts to Exploit Government Shutdown to Delay Case Recount?  City Lawyer Challenged on Conflict of Interest Councilmember Kobayashi continues to question Hawaii Supreme Court recount case Charles Djou’s Self-Serving Electoral Reform Idea Government shutdown holding up recovery funds for lava-ravaged Big Island communities Activist Gets Himself Arrested to Push for Hawaiian language policing 578 Homeless Visit ‘Rest Stop’ in First Week Failed Ocean cleanup device heading to Hilo Read More..

Wednesday, January 16, 2019 January 16, 2019 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:54 PM :: 5909 Views Ed Case: "I'm an Asian Trapped in a White Body" UPDATE: Ige Sends McCartney to DBEDT, Fuchigami Chief of Staff Opening Day Speech: What is a Loyal Opposition? Opening Day: Be an Effective Citizen-Activist Harassed by Drugged-out Shelter–Refusers, Iolani Palace to close earlier—Children’s Center may Shut Down DoH Reports 23,479 Medicated Dopers Statewide Racial Progress? Hawaii 2nd-Worst Health Disparities Ige Announces More Second Tier Appointments DoE Keeping Child-Molester Teacher Records Secret Contract Reopeners: More Raises on Tap for Public Employee Unions Bad News: The Hawaii State Legislature to open Today Hawaii Carbon Tax --- Coal, Oil, Plastic, and Greenhouse Gases Lawmaker wants to replace Presidents Day with Hawaiian Independence Day Revote possible in contested Honolulu City Council race Supreme Court questions process of mail-in ballot collection Election Recounts, Vote by Mail Back on Legislative Agenda Campbell High gets funds to begin planning a much needed athletic facility Overrun by Homeless Shelter-Refusers, Children’s Discovery Center to be Closed How EPA Forced Hawaii to Stop Covering up Dirty Water   Microsoft Censors News at Hawaii Public Libraries Democrats Plant all their Problem Children on House Financial Services Committee Tulsi Gabbard’s presidential fantasy: “A remarkably bad launch” Read More..

Tuesday, January 15, 2019 January 15, 2019 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 3:59 PM :: 3394 Views Caldwell Coverup: Mayor Hid Target Letter from Public--Feds Raid Fasi Building Audit: HART Board Hands Control to Contractor with Little Oversight FCC Slaps Down Sandwich Isles Again--Orders Company to Continue Serving Customers Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 14, 2019 DCCA: Shop and Compare Insurance Options Ige Announces More HDoT Appointments Ige Appoints Three to Board of Regents Irwin to be UH Hilo Chancellor? Hawaii Student Loan Debt Doubles in Decade Senators: Some Cabinet Nominees Won’t Make It Honolulu Will Pay Train Maker $160 Million To Cover Rail Delays Carbon Tax Hustle: Rail Promoter Keynotes State Climate Change Confab Hawaii Climate Conference: To Carbon Tax or Not to Carbon Tax AG Opinion Will Lead to More County GE Tax Hikes  Honolulu City Council chooses interim chairwoman Can Pre-K Help DoE Evade Responsibility for Poor Test Scores? Son sentenced for killing and dismembering mom in Waikiki –Plans Already Afoot to Let Him Out Arrogant Tweekers Refuse and Resist Shelter in Kailua-Kona Gabbard Receives Lesson About Switching Sides on Gay Marriage    Read More..

Monday, January 14, 2019 January 14, 2019 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 2:49 PM :: 2735 Views Birth Control: Judge Blocks Religious Freedom in Hawaii Carbon Tax on Legislative Agenda They Never Learn: Replicating Abject Failure, Hawaii County to Open New Homeless Tent City Man with ax should not have been freed Raising Hawaii’s Minimum Wage Is No Quick Fix Bill to Propose Automatic Recount for close elections DoE Hindered by Decades-old Tech Here’s Another Busy Highway Where The Crosswalks Have Been Removed Puna Claims: Lloyds of London insists "Only a small number have been declined" Big Island: First Marijuana Store slated to open Dimwits from Kauai, Gabbard, Begin Protesting Against Nonexistent Oil Drilling Off Hawaii Read More..

Sunday, January 13, 2019 January 13, 2019 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 7:45 PM :: 3374 Views Zero-Based Budgeting Local Media Makes Issue of Gabbard’s White Supremacist Support (two years late) Democrats Trust Hirono Because She Apologized for not Being Gay Budget: HDoT Chickens Out on $15B Climate Change Scam Recreational Marijuana to top of Senate President’s List of Ideas Recreational Marijuana to top of Progressives’ List of Ideas Hawaii County Council: Longer Terms on Ballot? Judge blocks Trump birth control coverage rules in Hawaii Progressive: Storing your cars a waste of my urban space Lawsuit filed over Schatz-Connected Development of Oahu’s Shark’s Cove HCDA to fine owner of Kakaako streets for Insufficient potholes Malfunctioning ocean cleanup boom to arrive in Hilo today Read More..

Saturday, January 12, 2019 January 12, 2019 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 4:04 PM :: 4204 Views Candidates Already Lining up to Run for Gabbard's Congressional Seat Who's Running in My District? 2019 Neighborhood Board Elections ‘Singapore model’ doesn’t sing for Hawaii housing Hawaii Ranks 49th for Federal Aid Budget: Hawaii Scores 'D-' for Legacy Costs 40-70 planned suicides in 2019? HPD Officer has info on Fenatyl Bust Allegedly Covered up by Kealoha    Abercrombie Defends Gabbard on Religious Bigotry Ozawa-Waters Case Could Affect Vote by Mail Statewide Sex Harassment: Confidentiality Lessens Effectiveness of Proposed House Policy Lawsuit Filed Against Honolulu Police Over Beach Park Shooting This is not a drill: Lessons from the false Hawaiian missile alert Schatz, Gabbard Take Kauai Anti-Agriculture Hysteria National Read More..

Friday, January 11, 2019 January 11, 2019 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:04 PM :: 3546 Views CNN: Tulsi Gabbard says she will run for president in 2020 Gabbard Standing up Against Anti-Catholic Bigotry Within Democratic Party BoE Will Re-Do Sup’t Vote—May Have Acted Illegally on Other Executive Hires  Caldwell, Green Bless Iwilei Homeless Magnet New Hi-Tech Payroll System Reveals 4,589 State Employees Paid for 'Multiple Positions' Hawaii's coming recession--Are legislators Listening? Ed Case Appointed to Appropriations Committee Third Chief in Three Years for DOCARE Hirono: Gabbard Getting Support from ‘Alt-Right’ City stands by election process in Trevor Ozawa-Tommy Waters vote Democrats Only: Luke Plan Would Knock Republicans, Greens, Libertarians off the November Ballot Details released in latest plea deal in public corruption case against Kealohas State lawmaker to reintroduce bill to ban plastic straws, Styrofoam containers Trump’s Border Wall Could Save Hawaii from Unnecessary, Expensive $345M Ala Wai Canal Flood Control Project Homelessness Coordinator Touts Progress As Lawmakers Criticize Homeless Camp to Move to 1100-ac Waianae Valley Ranch? Star-Adv: Lets Put 1000s of Criminals Back onto the Streets  'Unbelievable.' Outrage after HPD releases man accused of striking bus rider in head with hatchet Jail blunders in shooting case again: HCCC warden back in court Worst-Ever Cases of Super Gonorrhea Are Here There Will be no Warning: HI-EMA says 'ballistic missile alarms have been shelved’ Read More..

Thursday, January 10, 2019 January 10, 2019 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 4:41 PM :: 3822 Views State Supreme Court Declares Fevella the Winner Auditor: Internal Docs Show HART Lied to Public About Rail Costs 'The untouchables: Out-of-control prosecutors and the system that protects them' Disabled: Hawaii Ranks 6th for Service, 49th for Opportunity What Should OHA Really be Doing? The Misinformed, Ineffective War on Styrofoam DoH cites Maui Land & Pineapple for wastewater violations Viral 2019: Ten Second Fireworks Video RIMPAC: Navy Quietly Fires 20 Hyper Velocity Projectiles Through Destroyer’s Deckgun Hawaii Smokers Lose $48K Per Year Maui: Key Activists Bought n Paid for By Strategies 360 Farm  BoE Will Re-Do Sup’t Vote—may Have Acted Illegally on Other Executive Hires Telescope Already Improving Science Education Statewide CoR Knocks $55M out of Projected Revenue Base Global Warmer: Hawaii Will Raise Taxes and Utility Rates to Oppose Trump Marijuana-Infused Legislators Complain Governor is Bifurcated Council Approves 92.5% Sewer Rate Hike—$17M to ‘Create Positions’ New Public Works Director: “Lack of innovative thinking, lack of vision, lack of communication and lack of rapport” (but creating 22 new ‘positions’) On Kauai, walk-in voting will (mostly) be a thing of the past in the 2020 election Revolving Door: Two Reporters Join Victorino Administration Activists May Loses Ability to Organize Circuses at Maui Council Meetings Soft on Crime: Murderer Accused of Attempted Rape, Kidnapping Read More..

Wednesday, January 9, 2019 January 9, 2019 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 4:23 PM :: 3262 Views Ill-Fated Ocean Cleanup Boom Collected only 2000kg Plastic Ige Appoints New PUC Chair  SPED Parents Asked to Sign up for Medicaid Ige Reappoints Directors at Eleven Departments Ige Appoints New Directors at Three Departments Christian Brothers Oust Damien School President--Dispute Over Child Molestation Settlements Tech Modernization Plans in the 2019-21 Budget  Fact-Checking 5 of Trump’s Claims in Border Speech After 23 Mistaken Prisoner Releases, DPS Experiments with Something Called ‘Email’ Caldwell’s Climate Change Commission Pushes ‘Congestion Pricing’ Tax Hawaii County: More Tax Hikes Coming? Solar Fail: HECO bills spike over unusually humid months Hawaii County Lava Relief Package $155M Suit against Big Island Dairy settled Hawaii Supreme Court has more questions for election officials in challenge to Honolulu City Council race City opens Iwilei homeless magnet—designed to keep ‘em comfy on the street Read More..

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 January 8, 2019 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:52 PM :: 3934 Views Remembering Senator Fred Rohlfing, Republican Reformer Sex Harassment: New House Rules "add another layer of silence" Feds to PUC: Stop Approving Bat-Killing Windfarms without Endangered Species Permits HECO Pushing Seven Giant Battery Farms Hawaii 4th-Fewest Families with Young Children Keli'i Akina Interviews Environmental Watchdog Caroll Cox Rep Ward Calls for Second Trump-Kim Summit to be held at Waikiki Auditor Follows up on Foundation for Culture and Arts Hawaii Still Paying Out Millions for Act 215/221 Hi Tech Tax Credit Scams    BoE Secretly Votes to Extend Kishimoto Contract Teacher turnover at highest rate DLNR funds mishandled, audit finds      MADD’s New Target Is Drugged Driving            Teen dies while scuba diving, company linked to a previous incident Nearly 2,000 businesses affected by Maui's new foam container ban Filmmaker Settles Lawsuit After Hawaii Grants Him Tax Credits Trip to Hawaii reveals rusting wind turbines Hundreds of volunteers still needed for homeless count Got $1.3M? – Buy Kealoha Home (mailbox not included) Obama, Pelosi Hype Birtherism Again Un, Trump Coming to Hawaii Next? Read More..

Monday, January 7, 2019 January 7, 2019 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 12:08 PM :: 3098 Views Surprised by Wind and Waves in Pacific: Giant Plastic Eco-Boom Breaks up, Will soon wash up on Hawaii Beaches VIDEO: Economic Cost of Jones Act to Koloa Rum Co Stop legislative gut-and-replace Rail Gets Another $7.5M More Expensive Gov. Ige’s New Cabinet Is Still Almost Half Empty Alaska Aerospace Proposed Kona Airport Spaceport Goes Nowhere in Four Years Criminals Score Thousands on Claims paid out by state City and state to suspend homeless sweeps during annual census Obama Library Consolation Prize Read More..

Sunday, January 6, 2019 January 6, 2019 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:04 PM :: 5036 Views Auditor: Conveyance Tax Money Misspent by DLNR Anti-GMO? Regressive Left Just as Russian as Trump Tulsi Gabbard is a Rising Progressive Star, Despite Her Support for Hindu Nationalists So Did You Meet Your Goals This Year? -- Um, We Dunno Agriculture is all Politics: Central Maui Farm Project to be Controlled by Strategies 360, Tsutsui Secret Group Pushes to Make KSBE Trustees More Corrupt Kauai: $25M Tax Hike $6.8M Gas tax hike Survives with ‘Timely’ List Senators ask why Hawaii passed on opioid suit while Suing Trump Again and Again Soft on Crime: Alleged Domestic Violence Stranglers walk out of Jail After Posting Mini-Bonds Residents and police pair up to crack down on squatters Wholesale Electric Rates about the Same as Mainland Retail Electric Rates Hawaii Congressional Delegation: Words to the Unwise Surprised by Wind and Waves in Pacific: Giant Plastic Eco-Boom Breaks up, Will soon wash up on Hawaii Beaches Read More..

Saturday, January 5, 2019 January 5, 2019 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:24 PM :: 3344 Views Government-Funded Sweatshops: No Minimum Wage for Hawaii Disabled Workers Congress Must Approve Decent Funding for the Wall Video: Ship Burns 1,800 miles off Oahu Team Hanabusa Grills Fuchigami LoPresti: Election Recount Law Unconstitutional Lawmaker: Judges made the ‘wrong call’ in letting suspect in assault case out again and again Police standards board requesting more time, money Softer on Crime: Task Force Wants to Let Even More Criminals out on Streets City appeals fatal excessive force suit to Supreme Court Inmates forced to stay in prison past their release date cost taxpayers ‘Service Resistant’ Meth Addicts Camping out in Kakaako Again High Cost of Shelter-Refusers Tearing up Parks Hawaii Tourism Paradise has a Dark Side: 117 People Dead in 2018   Mission Accomplished: Ulupono Destroys Dairy Industry, Prepares to Quit Kauai Dairy Plan Judge denies dismissal of Leilani homeowner’s lawsuit Read More..

Friday, January 4, 2019 January 4, 2019 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:27 PM :: 5737 Views Happy New Year, Hawaii, now pay up! Christian Brothers Oust Damien School President US Solicitor General Urges Supreme Court to Hear Maui Injection Wells Case Bum Patrol: Security Contract Expands to Windward, North Shore Parks Luke: DoE Lied to Legislature About Maintenance Backlog Attorney on Nude Pics: “Katherine Kealoha's apparent need to express herself in unusual ways’ Deputy AGs Urged Ige to Reappoint Suzuki Star-Adv: Legislature Should Pass Automatic Recount Law Police officer indicted in Kealoha corruption case to change plea Judge rules prison must accommodate Sovereignty Movement Recruitment Ballard Considers Allowing Lateral Transfers from Other departments Windfarm Approvals: Nonsense in a Rush for Expiring Subsidies 43 pedestrians died on Hawaii roadways in 2018. That’s more than the number killed in vehicles Elder Abuse Cases up 300% Soft on Crime: After 10 year Spree, Criminal Finally Gets Hard Time Tulsi Gabbard one of only Three to Vote Against PAYGO Read More..

Thursday, January 3, 2019 January 3, 2019 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 7:44 PM :: 3228 Views OHA Audit in Jeopardy A Stunning Revelation at OHA Ige Appoints Clare Connors Attorney General New Insurance Commissioner Appointed Ige Reappoints Directors at Ten Departments House Republican Package 'A Better Tomorrow' Hawaii Republican Chair Sums up 2018 Government Shutdown: Hawaii 4th-most Affected Insiders Try to Talk Down Zero-Based Budgeting Lobbyist Tries Legal Suicide by Text Message 8 Honolulu City Council members take seats without choosing a leader  More interesting legal cases re government secrecy Waikoloa Highlands Kim Admin Cancels Kenoi Development Deal Development Takes 20 Years--May Take Another 20 Thanks to SHPD Soft on Crime: Feds Step in Because State Just Can’t Get the Job Done Bum Patrol: After 600 Acts of Vandalism City to lock up 18 more Oahu parks at night starting Friday Price of Solar Energy in Hawaii Hard to calculate Thanks to ‘Lump Sum’ payment Newsflash: Marijuana Causes Global Warming Read More..

Wednesday, January 2, 2019 January 2, 2019 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 4:21 PM :: 3912 Views Hawaii Rankings: Either the Best or the Worst Feds say explicit photos led to Big Island firefighter in Kealoha case Wind farm impacts worry Leeward Oahu residents Lawmakers Must Resist Any Effort To Undercut Hawaii’s Public Records Law Hospitals to Become More Like Used Car Dealerships  Not Many Doctors Want to Prescribe Death Hooser Having Difficulty Rounding up Support for Minimum Wage Hike State attorney general opposes Abigail Kawananakoa trust changes Water bill spikes prompt warning from Pearl City residents Junk Cars: Can Technophiles Control the Little People? Addicted To Airbnb: Hawaii’s Tourism Economy Depends On Illegal Vacation Rentals Fireworks ban as ineffective as temperance Read More..

Tuesday, January 1, 2019 January 1, 2019 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 3:22 PM :: 3094 Views Photo: Ship Burns 1800 miles off Oahu Ige Reappoints Directors at Eight Departments Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted December 30, 2018 Will Supreme Court Act Before Council Sworn In? Doctors, Pharmacists to be Targeted: Eight Line up for Death in 2019 Maui Strategies 360: New Farm Operator Hires Activists (so nobody is protesting) Maui Anti-GMO King: We are Just Like Old Boys—but more Secretive Star-Adv: Marijuana Not a Cash Cow New Laws for 2019 Read More..