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Monday, October 31, 2016 October 31, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 1:04 PM :: 4400 Views Hawaii Family Forum General Election Voter Guide Kenoi Scandal Stains Journalist, Too Astronomer Cross Examined 11 Hours at Telescope Hearing HSTA Indoctrinates Members to Hate Matayoshi Abortion Pills by Mail for Hawaii Aha Moku Advisory Council Gives DLNR a New layer of ’Advice’ Big Island Short 170 Doctors Bicycle Bill Would Drive up Cost of Construction Lunatic Escapes Asylum—Nobody Notices for Hours Read More..

Sunday, October 30, 2016 October 30, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:07 PM :: 4042 Views 55% Hike in Harbor Fees: Transportation Department Grabs for More of Your Money Do Some Benefits For State Retirees Still Make Sense? Does Hawaii Need a "Property Ownership Fairness Act" Lower Oil Prices Benefit Hawaii Most of All Obamacare 2017 Premium Hikes 25 Percent. What's Next? Judge Posner: Cab Companies Were Chumps To Rely On Govt Monopoly to Protect Them From Competition Rail: The client is in panic mode Carlisle: Ethics Comm. Can’t be Trusted to Investigate The Caldwell Star-Adv: A vote for Caldwell is a Vote for a GE Tax Hike ‘Get more, pay less’ sure works for our elected elite HMSA scrapping fee for service: New Plan Saves HMSA Money by Cutting back on Medicine, Treatments Lo: Defeat of Maui Second Hospital a Pyrrhic Victory Ige uses Board of Education to get rid of superintendent Hawaii DoE: 50% Teacher Turnover Every 5 Years Make public-private partnerships the norm Plaintiffs still await state data in Hawaiian homestead suit Hawaiians Protest DOI Rule That Would Give Them Tribal Status Not all the Standing Rock Sioux are protesting the pipeline Anti-Pesticide Hawaii County Still Debating Whether to Stop Using Herbicides Read More..

Saturday, October 29, 2016 Letters to the Editor, October, 2016 By Letters to the Editor @ 11:10 PM :: 7615 Views Rail: The client is in panic mode Rail: How could such exceptional and reliable people so fail this community? Exodus at OHA Read More..

Saturday, October 29, 2016 October 29, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 9:25 PM :: 5198 Views Clean Energy Fraud: Puna Geothermal Operator Settles with Feds Caldwell Duped? Rail: How could such exceptional and reliable people so fail this community? Countering Chinese Inroads into Micronesia National Disability Employment Awareness Month Visitor Spending Increased 10.4% to Record $1.2 Billion for September Kenoi will be Able to Run for Governor in 2018 After Stacked Jury Acquits Him Kenoi: ‘I’m Offended Even Being Accused’ Tough on Crime: Let Judges Set Minimum Sentences The crisis is here; Panelists urge consumers to get involved in health care cost discussion Maui Windfarm: One Down, Seven to Go Economist questions Ige’s goal of doubling state’s food production Hawaii Convention Center expects first profit ever UH Athletics Losing $2.2M to $2.4M a Year DOE sees big drop in homeless students after Free Lunch Rules Change Push is on for More Childcare Subsidies Prosecutor: Homosexual Child Molesters Using Online Dating Apps to Rape Boys in Hawaii Soft on Crime: Long Rap Sheet out on the Streets Does it Again HPD Crime Mapping—Half-Truth 5% More Dopers Than 2015 Read More..

Friday, October 28, 2016 October 28, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 7:22 PM :: 4232 Views Hanabusa Flees HART, is Replaced by Contractor Kelii Akina for OHA Launches new Radio Ad Hawaii Health Insurance Premiums Growing Faster than Most States OHA is State’s 170th-Largest ‘Business’ Two Finalists named for UH Manoa chancellor City acquires 24-unit apartment building to house homeless OHA Races Offer Stark Choices Star-Adv Publisher Claims He Was Listed as Caldwell Supporter by Mistake Hawaii Permanent Political Class: Democrats Prepare to Elect Son of Broken Trust Tweeker One Party State: 25 Legislators Unopposed 32% of UH Students Graduate in 4 Years Obama Vacation May Have Contributed to Deadly Marine Helo Crash Overwhelming Majority of Hep A cases Ate Scallops at Genki Sushi After Four Years State-Owned Ag Project Finally Produces Some Watermelons Hawaii Anti-GMO Activist Leaving State Hawaii's Crazy War Over Zombie Cats Top Animal Liberation Nut Tied to Hawaii, Samoa, Palau Punatic Stops Using Deodorant, Gets Writeup in ‘Elite Daily’ Program for mentally ill inmates   Read More..

Thursday, October 27, 2016 October 27, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:05 PM :: 4354 Views BoE Moves to Dump Matayoshi Hawaii fourth and eighth graders show improvement in science Grassroot Backs Suit Against 10% Rail Skim The People v. The Powerful - Summarized in a Caldwell Ad Ewa Homeless up 98% since 2015 Homeless migrating to East Oahu Obama Admin: N Korea can Nuke Hawaii—and we should just accept that With Formby Fleeing, HART board selects interim executive director HART defends rail property purchases years ahead of construction Star-Adv: Get Rid of Brower City acquires 24-unit building on Beretania St. to house homeless Pandering to Anti-GMO Morons? Gabbard, Schatz and Hirono are Tops  Without Challengers, Money Still Rains Down upon Hawaii Congressional Candidates Former Big Isle Man Punished for Failing to Show Proper Obsequience to The Hillary Why Bill Clinton Encouraged Donald Trump to Run Read More..

Wednesday, October 26, 2016 October 26, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 7:04 PM :: 5229 Views Walk-In Early Voting Open Now How Much Does OHA Spend on Chair’s Friends? Hale Mauliola Moves 105 Homeless into Permanent Housing Homelessness—Family Matters Fewer DoE Students Require Remedial Instruction in College DoE to Tax New Housing from Kalihi to Ala Moana? Brewbaker: The Future of Agriculture on Maui U.S. Attorney Appoints Election Officer for Hawaii Star-Adv: Reelect Sam Slom Senate Kenoi Trial: Old Boys Yuk it up In Front of Stacked Jury Doomed: TMT hearing may last months with 85 witnesses Obamacare Driving Doctors out of Business—Many Become Hospital Employees Sand Island homeless complex seen as a success Caldwell Pays $287K per Unit to Buy Existing ‘Affordable’ Units Caldwell Lets Oahu Bridges Rot Anti-Dairy Activists Come up With New Trick Iao Valley Flood Seen as Opportunity to Attack Water Diversions Ancient ways of managing island water not hands-off Read More..

Tuesday, October 25, 2016 October 25, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 4:09 PM :: 3640 Views Walk-In Early Voting Begins Today Hawaii Obamacare Premiums Going Up 32% for 2017—Unless You Get a Tax Credit Ethics: UH Dean Fined for “Improper Use of State Resources for Campaign Purposes” in American Samoa Congressional Race Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Home-Sharing Pay for Performance: Budget Busting "Incentives" in Medicare Reform Not Jammed Enough: Caldwell Publishes New Lane-Elimination Manual Gabbard Does Not Endorse Caldwell Hawaii State Senate May Soon Be All Democrats HIDOT Latest Tax Hike Trick—Hold H-1 Hostage Wealthy Enviros Pushing $3000 Smog Check for Hawaii—Real Goal is more Electric Car Tax Credits Anti-Telescope Activists: ‘We Control the Hearing Room” Kenoi Trial Will Focus on Five Felonies HPD circumvents community efforts to gain crime data Defense Bar Polluting Star-Adv Rape Kit Coverage Cat Obsessives Controlling Sierra Club Endorsements? Will Anti-Fluoridation Nuts Hold the Line in 2017? Read More..

Monday, October 24, 2016 October 24, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 2:24 PM :: 3350 Views “Your Voice!” – Discover the Public's Power in the Legislative Process! Meet Hawaii’s OTHER Self-Dealing Bank Director/Politician Survey: 47% of Oahu MDs Refusing New Medicare Patients Guide to 20 Honolulu Charter Amendment questions Rail Tax Hike: Will Council Take a Position? Next Session: Push is on for LTC Insurance (Again) DoE Pares Down Rubber Room Discipline the Homeless DLNR ‘Management’—35 Years of Habitat Loss Poll: 69 Percent Of Voters Want Feral Cats Removed From Hawaii Criminal gets 20 years after fleeing Maui Drug Court Read More..

Sunday, October 23, 2016 October 23, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:53 PM :: 3106 Views Caldwell a No-Show for Olelo -- Djou Debates Empty Chair What Californians Found Out about Hollywood Credits Wind a Bigger Boondoggle than Ethanol False Dichotomy: Hanabusa Does Her Part to Force GE Tax Hike Star-Adv: A Crook Like Clinton is a Perfect Match for Hawaii’s Business and Political Elite Hazmat Suit Needed to Vote Options for primary care doctors are shrinking Amendment 7 Establishes Office for High Priest of Eco-Religion Gun Control Nuts Explore New Angle to Attack Hawaii Gun Stores Another 3rd World Politician Flaunts Fake Hawaii PhD Read More..

Saturday, October 22, 2016 October 22, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:32 PM :: 4287 Views Ethics Complaint: Caldwell Hides Millions in Stock Options After 10 Years and Recusal of Entire Supreme Court, State Finally Wins Flexibility on Retiree Health benefits Hawaii Proves Solar Power’s Dependence on Subsidies HECO Touts Wholesale Solar Rates Higher than Mainland Retail Rates TRO, Drunk Driving, and Criminal History Divide HD41 Candidates Will Hawaii be First State to Have One-Party Senate? FBI to Investigate Attack on Kauai Hydro Dam? -- Anti-GMO Activists Implicate Themselves DUI, Hit n Run: Prosecutors Trick Helps Cop Get Off Read More..

Friday, October 21, 2016 October 21, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 7:55 PM :: 4541 Views Djou Launches New Ad as Absentee Ballots Arrive in Mailboxes Professor Used UH Email System to Harass Rival New Commuting Data: Same Old Trends Video: The Town That Privatized Everything Reduce Poverty and Homelessness by Creating Wealth California Homeless Man Gets Flown to Live With Family in Hawaii Rail tax Hike Resolutions Set up Legislative Battle Precisely as Planned: Telescope Hearings Slowed by 16 Cross-Examinations Per Witness Brandt: OHA Will be Bankrupt in 10 Years Kenoi proceedings reveal slippery slope of ‘lomi-ing’ Feds: Foreign Fishermen Have No Complaints Working On US Boats Constitutional Amendment—No More Tax Refunds for Taxpayers Poll Measures Support for Five Honolulu Charter Amendments Nightmare Charter Amendment Would Give Caldwell Another Term Irony: Campaign Spending Commission probes anti-Caldwell PAC Cancer Center Wants $15M Brower’s Sledgehammer Pandering Comes Back to Haunt Him Again  Due to Lack of Lunatic Asylums, 100 mentally Ill in OCCC Daily Union holds medical marijuana training and certification seminar in Waikiki MPD Explains Why So Many Rape Kits Untested HPD Officer Finds Way to Beat DUI Rap Some residents double-billed for online motor vehicle payments Kauai: Regressive Leftism Storms the Beach Read More..

Thursday, October 20, 2016 October 20, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:02 PM :: 8395 Views Court: Caldwell’s Property Tax Scheme Illegal Republican Party: Vote ‘No’ on all 20 Honolulu Charter Amendments Hawaii Democrats Move to New HQ Transportation Department Ripping Down Campaign Signs Time-of-Use Rates Punish Evening Consumers with 55% Rate Hike on Oahu Council Committee Resolution Demands Permanent GE Tax Hike Poll: How to use False Dichotomy to Sell Tax Hike Testimony: Honolulu Star-Advertiser Reporter Handled Years-Long Coverup of Kenoi P-Card Purchases Star-Adv: Vote No on 7 “Office of Climate Change, Sustainability and Resiliency” Police Commission’s newest member questions whether it would use additional authority Honolulu police working to reduce backlog of untested rape kits Corrections Officer Forgets Gun in Jail Bathroom Soft-on-Crime: Multiple Thefts on Maui gets 6 Months for Burglar from Mainland Hawaii One of Only 4 States to Charge Sales tax on Legal Fees Hawaii Children’s Discovery Center to Close Due to Harassment by Homeless? DLNR Hands Diamond Head to Homeless Drug Addicts Fishing Slavery? Legislators Still Pandering Mayor Wright Rebuild – 1,136 More Units Reptilian Candidates Produce Low Turnout  Duterte bids U.S. goodbye with embrace of China and Russia Read More..

Wednesday, October 19, 2016 October 19, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:54 PM :: 4283 Views Profitable: $22M Funneled to ‘Nonprofit’ Tied to OHA Chair Six More Fined for HI-5 Violations Poll: Caldwell 48%-Djou 41% Poll: Clinton 56% – Trump 25% on Oahu No on 19 – Don’t Let One Party System Control Reapportionment Kaiser Joins Plan to Begin Hiring at Maui Hospital Hawaii Will Pay a Price for Rejecting Telescope to Appease OHA As Trial begins, Kenoi Sends in Flurry of Nominations Report: 7 DOE employees placed on leave since July Former officer charged in 2014 assault of in-custody man dies ahead of change of plea Former HPD sergeant gets 60 days for accidental shooting Fight Over Papahanaumokuakea Expansion Isn’t Over Judge: Crackpot Democrat-Republican Congressional Candidate Stays on Ballot Leftists Plan ‘Hawaii Peoples Congress’ Kauai Flooded with Pilgrims of the Eco Religion Read More..

Tuesday, October 18, 2016 October 18, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:57 PM :: 4182 Views Broken Trust Levinson Set up for Gay Marriage Revenge Round with SHOPO Analysis: One Party System Leaves Hawaii Voters Among Least Powerful in 2016 Election Life Changers Ige Appoints Darrel Galera to BoE Doomed: Telescope Being Drowned in Delaying Tactics and Gratuitous Charges Designed to Create Excuse for Appeal 2,100 Cracked Shims – Full Overhaul of Railbed Ordered—Who Will Pay for HART’s Idiocy?  Honolulu Can See Its Rail Line Finished Without Raising Taxes Jury Stacked: Kenoi Will Escape Justice  Maui Hospital: Ige Signs Secret Agreements with HGEA, UPW After 30 Years Hawaii High Tech Tax Credit Scammers Becoming Weary Dopers Frustration Due to State’s Antique Computers After 10 years New classroom building delayed (again) at crowded Maui school While DoE Dawdles, Volunteers install 32 AC Units at Waikiki Elem School Letters from state violate federal law HPD responds to criticism of officers' actions before Kunia shooting 13 Acre Site Could House 20% of Oahu Homeless Housing Advocates Divided On Proposed Honolulu Charter Change Get the Popcorn: Monk Seal Deaths Pit Animal Liberation Nuts Against Cat Obsessives Star-Adv Cuts Borreca Down to One Column a Week Read More..

Monday, October 17, 2016 October 17, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:54 PM :: 4009 Views Constitutional Amendments and Honolulu Charter—Pro and Con City accepting Grants in Aid applications Complete list of 500 Medical Marijuana Dispensary Applicants Published Caldwell: Elect Me and I Will Raise Your Taxes by $1.8B OHA Trustee: We Buy Favor with Lots of Money Retaliation Nation: Will Clinton Continue to Seek Vengeance Against Tulsi Gabbard? Charter Amendment Asks Voters To Clear Up Public Records Law HPD map omits violent crimes City Spending $1 Million to Plan for Electric Buses That May Have Nowhere To Go Plan to Privatize Affordable Housing Projects Anti-GMO Activism Endangering Unborn Babies Lame Duck Anti-GMO Councilmember Makes One Last Push for Styrofoam Ban Kauai Enviros: More Hikers Must Die Read More..

Sunday, October 16, 2016 October 16, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:15 PM :: 3070 Views Lessons from the Farm OHA Candidate Forum Kapolei Middle School Monday The Health Financing Crown Wears Heavy on the Insurers’ Heads Auditor: HART, Sludge, Grants, and P-Card Investigations Sidelined DBEDT Launches Small Business Regulatory Review DBEDT: Real Estate Investment Trusts in Hawaii--Analysis and Survey Results No On 15--City Charter change would lock grip of political elites OHA Chair Supported Geothermal Scheme he now Campaigns Against Will Low Turnout Save Sam Slom? HGEA: Gimme Gimme Gimme Decades of waiting end for 44 families awarded Hawaiian homestead lots Expensive: Homeless Person Refuses Shelter but Calls Ambulance Again and Again for Ride to Queens Emergency Room to Have His Diaper Changed Ethics panel seeks public input on how best to achieve goals How Hawaii Was Used to Bring Lots of Abortions to America More Attacks on Trump Supporters in Hawaii Clinton: I’m Keeping Hawaii—Will Give China a Red State Read More..

Saturday, October 15, 2016 October 15, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 8:49 PM :: 4444 Views Its Not Too Late to Register for 2016 General Election How much money are we "tipping" the government? Charter Amendment #4 on Rail – What’s Not in the Booklet DLNR: Fishing Fleet Labor Law not our Kuleana Better Off? Caldwell Mocked at Mayoral Forum Djou: Cut Property Taxes, Eliminate ‘Residential A’ Here's a look at the 20 proposed charter amendments before Oahu voters Legislative Races Will be Decided by Handful of Votes State Approves Enron-Connected Windfarm for Kahuku Board rejects a petition to change fishing licensing rules Prosecutor: Another Prison Guard Nailed Selling Drugs Soft on Crime: No Additional Prison Time for Furlough Violator Hawaii ranks low in accidental shootings involving children Makua Beach closed to campers as major clean-up kicks off Sec 8: Who Applied? Legislative Candidate Charged with Child Molestation Read More..

Friday, October 14, 2016 October 14, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:13 PM :: 3585 Views Rep. McDermott Files a Class Action Lawsuit on behalf of Campbell HS Children Djou: My Plan To Create More Affordable Housing HD34: Jaci Agustin Recognized as a Race To Watch in 2016 HIDOT Touts $548M Unspent Federal Money as 'Significant Accomplishment' Am Samoa Tuna Canneries Shutting—Again Caldwell excels in shifting blame for woes of the city HART Borrows Another $20M, City May Need to Issue Rail Bonds Plan to Kill Telescope by Creating Chaos in Hearings Thanks to Enviros, Hawaii Small Farmers Will Not Get water permits Maui Wind Turbine Disaster Photos Hawaii Farmers Daughter Testifies Media Should Ignore Drunken Parties at Secret Planning Conference Housing Homeless to Knock Down Medical Costs After Free Electricity Cut off Three Homeless Accept Shelter Harry Kim Returns Old boys to Hawaii county government Tampering With Evidence: Ex-Officer Charged in Cyclist’s Death Hillary tells Goldman Sachs: ‘Chinese said they would claim Hawaii’ Hollywood Clinton Moneybags Take Aim at Gabbard Republican House Candidate, Green Energy Consultant Charged with Sex Assault UH professor sued for alleged attack on Disabled Veteran Read More..

Thursday, October 13, 2016 October 13, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:26 PM :: 5166 Views “Your Voice!” – Discover the Public's Power in the Legislative Process! Robin Danner Seizes Control of Nai Aupuni Constitution, Seeks Millions for Fake Tribe Condescending Harry Kim Lectures Telescope Supporters Caldwell mismanaged and misspent affordable housing funds State says extra Zipper Lane shaves minutes off commute Hospitalist trend puts pressure on access to doctors ‘Only’ 226 Criminals Put Back on Streets—Soft on Crime ‘Pixies’ Very Disappointed Homeless Dude Sentenced in Bumfight Killing Medicated Dope Stores Could Open as Early as January Green Energy Schemers: If People will Stop Living and Watch TV, We’d Save Millions Hawaii agency opposes rule change for foreign fishermen Enviros in Desperate Bid to Kill off Hope for Fish Farms Residents of 5 States May be Banned from Flying to Hawaii Hillary Tried to Move Illinois Primary Date in Bid to Help Trump Win Republican Nomination Read More..

Wednesday, October 12, 2016 October 12, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:07 PM :: 3908 Views PR Disaster: Stryker Wiener Behind New OHA Policy Gagging Trustees Hawaii Republican Party Endorses Akina for OHA Caldwell Hypocritical -- Ducks Another Debate Pension Reform? Fiscal responsibility is key to improving state's economy Hawaii Cellphone Tax 14.32% 2016 Hawaii elections: proposed amendments, part 2 How not to turn a ferry system into a rail boondoggle Why did Governor Ige get an F for fiscal policy? CNHA to Adopt Nai Aupuni Constitution, Apply for Tribal Recognition? Wurdeman withdraws from TMT case after Failed Effort to Stall until January Isle charter schools do well but resources still lacking Program helps house 860 homeless veterans Onishi asks Hawaii County’s Joke Ethics Board for Permission to Begin Consulting for county right away Defense Bar Very Happy About Storage of Rape Kits Camera found in staff restroom at Kapolei Middle School UH Coddles 683 Deadbeats How much of your tax dollars keep Hawaii jails, prisons pest-free Green Energy Schemers Prepare to Wheedle Legislators for More Tax Credit Giveaways Read More..

Tuesday, October 11, 2016 October 11, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:51 PM :: 4846 Views Honolulu Rail: From $4.6 B to $8.6 B In Eight Years. Now What? Caldwell Lays an Egg Kapolei & Pearl City HS advance to 2017 VEX World Robotics Championship Maui Hospital: Ige Proposes Changes to Pension Formula Jury Stacking Begins in Kenoi Trial 2016: Hawaii Sets New Records for Voter Registration and Voter Apathy How easy is it to rig an election? Danner Using Homeless in Latest Scheme to Take over Hawaiian Homelands Who serves the public better, bureaucrats or entrepreneurs? How Hawaii Companies Pay To Party It Up With Public Officials Delphi Technique Used to Manipulate Kalihi Community Planning Meetings Civil Beat: Lets Flood Hawaii With Newest Opiate Report: Thousands of Hawaii runaways in danger of being trafficked Presidential Vote?  You Have Alternatives DoT Orders Falls of Clyde to be Sunk Honolulu firefighter injury report rate higher than national average and rising Read More..

Monday, October 10, 2016 October 10, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 2:07 PM :: 4091 Views Do Hawaii's special-interest-controlled politicians really want a hospital on Maui? Does the Electorate Reflect the Population? Hawaii Ranks 43rd 2016’s Fastest Growing Cities—Honolulu Ranks 467th Dog Parks: Djou on Creating Livable Communities Clinton: Phony Anti-Fracking Groups are Russian Plot Maui Hospital to Be ‘Little More than Conduit to Oahu’ Former Drug Dealer Billy Kenoi Trial Begins Today  Lies Make Federal Transit Administration Complicit in Rail Disaster Who gives Palikapu Dedman the right to speak for me? Cost of Living: HSTA, DOE Stake out Negotiating Positions  Hospitals sap private practices Star-Adv: Homeless Chronics Must be Forced to Accept Shelter Chumming Behind Recent Shark Attack? Pathological, Narcissistic Activism Civil Beat Attacks Fishing Industry -- Again Audit: UH Housing Branch Lets Deadbeats Walk to tune of $1.2M Read More..

Sunday, October 9, 2016 October 9, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 3:31 PM :: 5417 Views DHHL: Can’t Spend $60M, Asks for $500M Ideological Diversity? Honolulu Ranks 295th As Kenoi Heads for Trial, Mafia Murderer Malu Motta Suddenly Demands Pardon Bank Job Makes Caldwell #1 in Corruption Democrats Decide not to Throw out HD44 Candidate Can you stand it? So much drama on Kauai Council Dopers Still Working on Getting Marijuana into Candy New policy would bank $680M in state rainy day fund Read More..

Saturday, October 8, 2016 October 8, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 4:20 PM :: 4755 Views Exodus at OHA OHA Chair’s Charter School Gets Seven Times More Than All Other Charters Combined No, the Bee-Pocalypse Isn’t Here Yet Can a feasibility study make or break the inter-island ferry? Today is Deadline to Mail-In Voter Registration Djou Happy to Debate Again Kaneshiro Going Down With Kealoha in Ticket fixing scandal? City, veterans group launch $2M-plus Housing First program UH--Next Golden Parachute Packed & Ready to Deploy Maui Council Ideas for Affordable Housing Read More..

Friday, October 7, 2016 October 7, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:08 PM :: 4276 Views ‘Incredible’ 35% HMSA Hawaii Obamacare Rate Hike for 2017 OHA Illegally Contributing to Lindsey Campaign? Police Release Rape Kit Test Info 2016 Hawaii elections: proposed amendments, part 1 Victory: Hawaii Supreme Court Approves Haleakala Solar Telescope Outside OHA, Interior Rule Has Little Native Hawaiian Support Hospital: Arakawa ‘Fed up’ With Ige Caldwell, Djou should debate Ticket Fixing? -- High-ranking HPD officials go before federal grand jury Firefighters union calls on chief to step down over safety issues Kenoi trial requires massive jury pool Thanks to Fracking and Pipelines residential electricity prices decline Gigantic Oil Company Grabs for Hawaii Offshore Waters Lease UH-Manoa sees spike in drug-related violations on campus What do Aloha Stadium and OCCC Have in Common? EPA: Red Hill Leak Unlikely to Affect Water Supply Food Babe Whines About Failure of Hawaii anti-GMO activists Hawaii has fallen behind on ways to identify doctors who overprescribe as well as patients who shop around for opioid pain pills Read More..

Thursday, October 6, 2016 October 6, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 4:57 PM :: 4148 Views Hawaii House Leaders Agree—No Fake Indian Tribe Needed OHA to Silence Dissident Trustees? Does OHA Need a Watchdog? DoE HS Absenteeism 19% -- only 39% of 11th Grade Students Meet Benchmark CATO: Excessive Spending Earns Ige an ‘F’ Indiana Seed Producer Buys Kauai Seed Farm from BASF Politicians In Un-Contested Races Get More Contributions Supreme Court Hearing Hanalei Boatyard Case Today HIDOT: Mileage-based fee equivalent to 213% Fuel Tax Hike Feds Offer Hawaiians Far Less Than an Indian Tribe New Regs: Anti-Telescope Activists Must Get Permit to Make Pile of Rocks Kaiser Massive Medicare Advantage Rate Hikes HECO Signs Contracts with Companies Run by Former Executives Police commission grills HPD as 1,375 sex assault kits remain untested DoE Employee Charged with Homosexual Child Molestation Hawaii News Media Convinces Feds To Open ‘Fishing Slavery’ Meetings Locks on Cells at Halawa Prison Will Not Be Fixed until December, 2017—Kat Brady Admits Prisoners Prefer Arizona It’s So Hard To Find Serious Candidates For City Prosecutor Colorado Tourist Reminisces about Waikiki Homeless Homeless Tap into Utility Lines to Charge Their Cellphones, Tablets, and Laptops Anti-GMO Realtors Profit from Celebrutards Anti-Pesticide County Still Uses Pesticides Itself Papahanaumokuakea: Environmental Cleanup Makes a Mess New Russian Division: Tu-95 and Tu-22M3 Bombers to Patrol Airspace Between Hawaii, Guam, and Japan Read More..

Wednesday, October 5, 2016 October 5, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 3:38 PM :: 3928 Views Caldwell Campaign "Volunteer" Paid With Your Tax Money DoE Touts Improvement in ‘Smarter Balanced’ Test Results Draft rules for Maunakea lands moving towards formal public hearing process International Sex-Trafficking Bust Reaches into Hawaii 10,000 Acres on Mauna Kea?  Ige mum on land transfer Open Season for Corruption: City Ethics Commission struggles to meet mandate after Caldwell Leaves them without an investigator Mayoral Election: Keep the Crook  who got us into this Mess? Maui Windfarm Shut After Turbine Self-Destructs Clear TOD housing rules must be set LWV: We do not support Electronic Voting Oahu Registered Vehicles Down 60K—Nobody Notices Kaiser's Medicare plan changes prompt seniors to look for other options Soft On Crime: 10-Time Convicted Felon Gets 40 months Guam: Alleged Homosexual Child Molester Used Political Power to Block Lawsuits Read More..

Tuesday, October 4, 2016 October 4, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 7:35 PM :: 4124 Views Instead of Submitting Plan, HART begs Feds for Another Extension HR3764 is on the Move—Bill Blocks Recognition of Indian Tribes Without Congressional Vote Inclusion for the Disabled: Hawaii Ranks 5th Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted October 3, 2016 Hawaii Department of Transportation to study isle ferry services Sclerotic State: Elections Will Leave Legislature Virtually Unchanged HART ‘Interim Plan’ Just a Rehash of Caldwell’s Tax Hike Demands Contracts: Homelessness Profitable for Top Caldwell Aide New rule will help Native Hawaiians achieve political self-determination DHHL seeks to lower blood quantum requirement for homestead successors Waimanalo Homeless Tent City Cleared out after 17 Years Promoter pleads guilty in university concert scam in Hawaii Another DoE Employee Accused of Child Molestation Most Hawaii Organic ‘Farmers’ Don’t Want to Talk About Their Use of Slave Labor The Oahu commuter ferry con is on again Taxpayers, Ratepayers Fork out More Money to Political Insiders for Unproven Energy Storage Scheme Suboxone: Pushing the Next Oxycontin on Hawaii Duterte tells Obama ‘you can go to hell,’ warns of breakup Read More..

Monday, October 3, 2016 October 3, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 2:05 PM :: 3347 Views HIDOT Fails to Answer -- $78K Administrative Cost Per Mile Hawaii Insurance Commissioner one of only Two With Secret Financial ‘Disclosures’ Under Hawaii’s Starriest Skies, a Fight Over Rent Money for OHA Vote to enhance powers of Honolulu Police Commission Repeal Rail Tax! Some Upset Kenoi Video not Censored Charter schools might skirt panel Shelters Moving Homeless Families into Permanent Housing Honolulu Drops out of Top 10 Highest Rent Cities Federal funds will help state conduct study on new ferries Paniolo Power: A Grab for Energy Storage Resources? Read More..

Sunday, October 2, 2016 October 2, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 7:29 PM :: 5971 Views Fuel for Thought HART Board Heads for the Exits: Rail guideway cracking, snapping, and crumbling Charter Questions 4 & 15: Voters Asked to Give Caldwell a Third Term and Control of Rail Operations? Honolulu Mayoral Debate: Do you believe the city is better off than it was four years ago? No More Mayoral Debates Set Kenoi Criminal Trial Set for Oct 10 Hawaii seeks path from Obamacare Disaster back to Prepaid Maui: A broken, costly school system Big Island Schools: 2,433 Class A and Class B offenses Kaiser: 510% Rate Hike for ‘Basic’ Medicare Advantage DHHL Lessee to be Evicted – Not Hawaiian Enough Nonprofits learn how to gauge if efforts are paying off Water, funding issues delay Oahu farmland cultivation Hawaii Organic Farms Rely on Slave Labor Flood coverage rates expected to keep rising Federal OK paves way for redevelopment of Aloha Stadium site Bail Bondsmen Welch on Debts When Suspects Escape Read More..

Saturday, October 1, 2016 October 1, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 12:33 PM :: 4475 Views Voter Registration Deadline October 10 (sort of) As Rail Collapses, Caldwell Laughs All The Way to the Bank Hawaii's 2017 ranking for Business Tax Climate includes a lesson for the legislature Hawaii Roads are the Worst -- AND the Most Expensive More Regulation Won’t Make Housing Affordable US Census Report on Housing Affordability UHERO: Hawaii Growth Downshifting, Building Cycle Approaches Peak Tourism Hits New Record: 19 Consecutive Months of Growth in Arrivals DoH: Hawaii has highest rate of tooth decay among kids 9AM Virtual town hall forum between Caldwell, Djou PUC Refuses to Recertify Criminal Al Hee’s Scam Company Homeless vets connect with help over a cup of coffee Dopers Tell us Who They Are Lawsuit: Kauai County Secret Cat Meetings Soft on Crime: Out on Bail Does it Again Sailor’s Death Began with DOBOR Bureaucracy Drone Testing: What’s Not Happening in Hawaii Read More..