Entries for December 2019

1. State Auditor Suspends OHA Audit Over Refusal to Release Records
2. US shipbuilding costs takes toll on national security
3. Exodus from Hawaii continued in fiscal 2019 
4. DLNR, TPL Buy Forest Surrounding OHA's Waimea Valley
5. Legislature Accepting Grant-in-Aid Applications
6. DoTax Changes for 2020
7. Rebounding Hawaiian Hawk Removed From Endangered List
8. Fistfights Break out Among Hawaii County Officials as AG Investigators work Police Corruption Case
9. 35% Of Hawaii Community Health Clinic Patients Have Used Meth
10. Hawaii joins a growing number of states enacting ‘Red flag’ gun law
11. Enviros Will Push for Even More Plastic Bag Bans
12. Hawaiian Hale destroyed by copper thief

1. Will Red Flag Laws Stop Gun Owners Seeking Medical Care?
2. DBEDT: Hawaii Losing 13,200 Civilians Per Year
3. TMT: How We Got Here
4. The Brutality of the Museum Market
5. Honolulu:  Nothing more than a collection of scandals waiting to be exposed
6. Barbers Point air museum files suit to stay in business
7. Ed Case Renews His Crusade Against The Jones Act
8. PUC Audit: Why isn’t Green Energy Producing Lower Electric Rates?     
9. Star-Adv:  Review permits for giant turbines
10. Jan 1: Massive Tax Credit Giveaways for Solar Ending  
11. Legislative Agenda: Bail reform (coming soon to Hawaii) is setting suspects free after string of anti-Semitic attacks
12. Legislative Agenda:  Use Vaping as Excuse to Raise Tobacco Taxes
13. Full Plastic Bag Ban Starts in 2020 With More Restrictions On The Way
14. Jan 1: Beverage changes on the way
15. Federal lawsuit challenges city rejection of electronically-signed petitions
16. $30 million in ‘ohana zone’ funding has led to multiple state projects
17. Kaimuki residents: City isn’t doing enough to rein in monster home builder
18. Like College, Tourism Becomes an Exercise in Brainwashing 

1. Don't Sweep OHA Audit Under the Rug
2. Red Flags at OHA
3. Caught: OHA Audit Report Secrets Revealed
4. WSJ: Aloha Increasingly Means Goodbye Thanks to High Taxes
5. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted December 28, 2019
6. Rep Case Calls on FAA to Tighten Regulations After Deadly Helicopter Crash
7. Harry Kim Deal Allows Telescope Protesters to Move to the Mainland
8. Ige Supplemental Budget: Jail Plan Designed to Fail
9. Honolulu Dance Craze: The Perp Walk
10. Hawaii County GET increase to take effect Jan. 1—Another $25M taken from taxpayers to feed Government Unions
11. Hawaii Electric Car Registration Fee Jumps by $50
12. Hawaii Roadsides Too Junk-Filled for Homeless?
13. Government contributes to problem of illegal dumping in Waimanalo
14. Squatters Take Over Wahiawa Homeless Shelter Site While DPP Dithers

1. Will 2020 be the year of an Hawaii Airport Corporation?
2. Let's unite to reform Jones Act
3. Auditor: Insurers Already Cover Rape Victim Support
4. Hawaii 5th Highest Champagne Taxes in USA
5. Mauna Kea Total: 8,324 Tickets, 78 arrests
6. Rep Saiki: Nothing has been Resolved by Kim’s Deal with Protesters
7. The price of protest: one Hawaii Island company's experience
8. Congressman calls for stricter regulations on tour helicopters amid third fatal crash this year
9. Maui County Council overrides Victorino’s property tax veto
10. Maui Council Mishandling of Lahaina Injection Wells Case a Key Issue in 7-2 Ouster of King
11. Cane Smoke Activists Launch Maui’s year of fire
12. Hawaii's first mobile homeless center has helped 40 people find shelter, mostly families
13. Josh Green, ACLU: Stop Forcing the Homeless to Accept Shelter
14. Child Molester Gets Second Chance—Does it Again

1. Mayor Kim, Protesters Agree to Remove Last Tent from Mauna Kea Access Road -- Until End of February
2. Worst Drivers: Hawaii #1 State for Drunk Driving
3. 56% of Hawaii Smokers Tried to Quit Last Year
4. HawaiiLifeSmarts: HS Teams to Compete
5. November Tourist Arrivals up 4.2%
6. State DHS Tries Lawyer Trick to Evade Responsibility for Peter Boy’s Death
7. Free Lunch From A Contractor Is Annual Tradition at Honolulu Hale
8. Buy Petroleum to Reduce Climate Change

1. Mauna Kea Protest Shows Need for a Return to Elected County Sheriffs
2. The Decade of Getting Priced Out
3. Deadline arrives for TMT protesters to remove structures at Mauna Kea
4. Ala Wai: Height Restriction Behind P3 Failure
5. You will now become Hysterical About Waste from Nuclear Weapons Testing

1. How Christmas Came to Hawaii
2. Feds: State Historic Preservation Division now only Medium Risk
3. DLNR: Only 3 Bums Ticketed in Latest Napali Coast Sweep
4. City report claims housing shortage will end in 2028, but experts are skeptical
5. Give everyone a raise by lowering the cost of living
6. Both sides downplay likelihood of confrontation on Maunakea Access Road
7. After Helping Destroy Hawaii, Anti-Telescope Councilmember Moving to Virginia
8. Cost of Not Enforcing Law: Hawaii County PD $3M Over Budget
9. Summit tours to resume? Companies cautiously optimistic; Maunakea VIS to reopen
10. Kahuku Wind farm opponents take fight to zoning board
11. Hawaii Carbon Offset Report is Released
12. More Homeless Mayhem: Suspected arsonist now accused of kidnapping, sexual assault
13. Prosecutors keep up manslaughter quest against U.S. agent Christopher Deedy

1. How Christmas Came to Hawaii
2. Honolulu 3rd Most Expensive Homes Per Square Foot
3. November 2019 Hawaii Vacation Rental Performance Report
4. Contradiction: While Funding Telescope Protests, OHA Gives UH $1.1M for Science Scholarships
5. Doing the Job the State Won't Do--Feds Lock up Domestic Violence Offenders
6. DPP: Anti-Monster Home Hysteria based on Lies and Ignorance
7. Crime Wave Caused by use of Parole and Probation
8. Because Feds on Job, Suspect is Held Without Bail instead of being ‘Released Pending Investigation’
9. In Between Grand Jury Appearances, Nadamoto finds time to form campaign committee
10. Hawaii’s Doctor Exodus Grew In 2019
11. Turning Around An Oahu Rural Hospital
12. Kahele Campaign Co-Chair Neil Abercrombie calls on Tulsi Gabbard to resign from Congress

1. How Christmas Came to Hawaii
2. 120 Homeless Die on Honolulu Streets This Year Because They Were Not Forced to Accept Shelter
3. Sweep at Ala Wai Small Boat Harbor uncovers hundreds of violations
4. Hawaii Island leads state in population growth, despite some towns seeing declines
5. Low Pay, Reputation Of Corruption Hinders Hiring at Honolulu Liquor Commission
6. Big Island Solar Schemer Goes for Giant Feed-in-Tariff Payoff 
7. Case throws liability for Hawaii charter schools in doubt
8. Protesters: Telescope is ‘Colonial Violence’ or Something
9. New pot law goes into effect Jan. 11
10. Trump Praises Gabbard for Not Voting to Impeach: “I Give Her a Lot of Respect”

1. Ed Case Innovative Approach to Jones Act Reform
2. Hawaii 'Ghost Guns' Already Illegal
3. HUD: West Coast is Source of Growth in Homelessness
4. Hawaii: State Tax Changes for 2020
5. Ninety-One Hours in a Work Week?
6. Mauna Kea Showdown Set for Dec 26
7. Revolving Door: Brandi Higa leaves KITV to join Caldwell’s office
8. Green New Deal: Trump Mocks Hirono, Airplane Ban
9. More Homeless Mayhem: High court reverses manslaughter conviction
10. Sovereignty Activists Cause Homelessness—Then Pretend to Have Solution
11. How Trump is filling the liberal 9th Circuit with conservatives
12. Group shows interest in opening new Ookala dairy (after tourism industry chased last dairy out)

1. UHERO: Hawaii economy enters soft patch
2. Legislative Agenda: CSC Behind Seven Bills for Campaign Finance reform
3. Busted: Josh Green Hiding Out of State Contributions--Out $13K
4. Campaign Spending: John Carroll Declines to Seek Criminal Charges Against Eric Ryan
5. Confused about GMOs and pesticides? Here’s a science-based handbook for combating anti-biotech fallacies
6. Property Tax Onslaught Looms
7. Mauna Kea: “While we were waiting for things to happen, inactivity is putting out the message that the police are weak”
8. Maui Anti-GMO Circus Ends:  Kelly King Ousted —Alice Lee to be new Council Chair 
9. HPD to propose ban on so-called ‘ghost guns’ amid increase in gun violence
10. Homeless Dude from Connecticut Charged in Volcano Golf Club Arson

1. Timeline: Hawaii County Council Abandons TMT--Ige Abandons Mauna Kea—Confusion Reigns
2. VIDEO: Ige pulls state law enforcement from Mauna Kea
3. TMT: State and County have not Demonstrated they are able to Provide Safe Access to Mauna Kea
4. Hawaii Grade F for Business Subsidy Transparency
5. Hawaii Unemployment Insurance System Ranks 28th in USA
6. Kalapama Container Terminal Enters Phase 2
7. DoH raids Two Unlicensed Care Homes
8. Ed Case Introduces Three Jones Act Reform Bills
9. U.S. Attorney believes group behind violent crimes on Oahu
10. Breiner and Nadamoto summoned again to the federal grand jury in widening public corruption probe
11. Locks and lawsuit: fight continues for Naval Air Museum Barbers Point  
12. Ala Wai: Why Some Are Fighting a Massive Flood-Control Project
13. Opponents of controversial Waimanalo development claim project has been scrapped
14. Citing taxpayer confusion, Maui Mayor vetoes property tax bill
15. Complaint: ‘Enhanced’ Maunakea traffic enforcement is unconstitutional
16. Justice: Anti-Cane Smoke Activists Suffer from Dust

1. Why You Should Mahalo OHA Trustee Keli'i Akina
2. State Supreme Court to Hear Gut n Replace Appeal
3. ​Impeachment: Gabbard Votes 'Present'
4. Grassroot: Ige’s fiscal 2021 budget ‘unsustainable’ 
5. Barbers Point Air Museum Sues Airports Division to Block Eviction, Destruction of US Navy-owned Planes
6. Alleged Synagogue Vandal Arrested in Kailua-Kona
7. Ige plans to pull state law enforcement from Mauna Kea
8. Majority of HGEA  Positions Unnecessary—Could be Eliminated Easily
9. Hawaii County Council rejects agreement with state on cost of policing TMT protests
10. State Agribusiness Dev Corp land a haven for criminal activity for years—ADC Spokesman: “We don’t want to do a sweep”
11. 2 suspects fatally shot by police were both on probation—Now Dead Because They Weren’t Jailed
12. 13 Convictions in 7 Years: Out on Street Doing it Again
13. More Homeless Mayhem: Lifelong Criminal Gets 5 Years after Pleading Down Rape, Kidnapping Charge
14. Big Island paramedicine program targets Frequent 911 Callers
15. $350M Stadium Designed to Subsidize Development of ‘Entertainment District’

1. Keli'i Akina: The Jones Act and Hawaii
2. Legislative Agenda: UH Budget Request for 2020
3. Revolving Door: Andrew Pereira leaving City for 'new opportunity in private sector'
4. Gabbard to Introduce Censure Alternative to Impeaching Trump
5. Land Use: Hawaii Supreme Court Creates New Procedural Hoop to Jump Through
6. Unique Accomplishment: Kauai Runs on 100% 'Renewable' for a Few Hours
7. Feds: Since Soft on Crime State Won’t Lock up Criminals, We Will
8. Another Criminal Killed by Soft on Crime Policies—Who will Save Hawaii Criminals from Do-Gooders?  
9. Police Re-arrest 12-time loser after Judiciary Sets Him Free
10. In astounding confession, Hawaii child porn suspect claims 100 victims
11. Maui Council brings back county manager debate
12. Hawaii Co Energy code changes heading to council
13. City officials say homeless ruling won’t derail enforcement in Honolulu

1. Ige Unveils Supplemental Budget--Massive Spending Hike
2. 2020 Federal Spending Plan Includes Lots of Hawaii Pork Projects
3. Hilo Panel Discussion: Culture and Science can Coexist on the Mauna
4. Ed Case Finally Gets Around to Announcing he will Vote for Impeachment
5. Homelessness: Ige Signs Seventh Emergency Proclamation
6. Audio: Trustee Keli’i Akina talks about the Office of Hawaiian Affairs recent audit
7. Why Corrupt Public Employees In Hawaii Keep Their Pensions
8. Rail Launch to be Matched by Gigantic Bus Fare Hikes
9. Technicality means the Kealohas could get less prison time in mailbox case
10. Telescope Protesters to halt sit-in at UH-Manoa campus After Launching Witchhunt
11. Ige: State spends $15 million on Maunakea access
12. Climate-change lawsuits bad for environment, Hawaii residents
13. Caldwell signs bill creating new B&B tax hike class
14. 3 Months After New Law, Oahu Vacation Rental Numbers Drop 5% on Oahu
15. Prosecutors, others (who are responsible for soft-on-crime policies, pretend to) call for tougher consequences as crime wave highlights repeat offenders
16. Hawaii Law Enforcement Standards Board Wants More Money, More Time
17. Soft on Crime: 7 Time loser caught trying for #8—gets released 
18. Honolulu police officer pleads guilty to forcing homeless man to lick urinal
19. Waipahu Flaw: Homeless Being Swept instead of being Arrested
20. Pie in Sky: Ige wants the state to buy federal jail to replace Oahu Community Correctional Center
21. Legislative Agenda: Hawaiian Immersion May Get More State Support After Years of Community Activism
22. Legislative Agenda: Youth Vaping

1. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted December 14, 2019
2. Homelessness: Kauai LEAD Program Launches
3. HART Secretly Fired Spokesman After Union Corruption Conviction
4.  Mayor signs Plastic Ban into law
5. Agenda: Residential Property Tax Hikes to Pay for Rail
6. Fake state or fake history?
7. How Hawaii Tax Dollars Keep Lunatics on the Streets
8. State budgets $2.5M to replace state Capitol’s carpeting
9. Aiea Board Gives Its Blessing To Preliminary Plans For A New Jail
10. Public comment workshop set for new stadium project
11. Georgia Adoption Consultants Helped Honolulu Lawyer Place Marshallese Babies
12. Avoiding Carbon Offset Scams

1. OIP Strips Back OHA Censorship
2. Ranking Property Taxes on the 2020 State Business Tax Climate Index
3. “Piling On” to Transient Vacation Rentals
4. Election Year Makes Telescope Action Unlikely
5. Effort to improve policy on sexual harassment in limbo in the Senate
6. Massive Property Tax Hike Planned for Kauai
7. Hawaii County Building Code: How to Drive Construction Costs Higher
8. Creagan: The Legislature Didn’t ban Herbicide but The County Council Should
9. Lanes on Nimitz are getting smaller as rail moves closer to town

1. Samoa Rep Aumua Amata: Disappointed in Citizenship Ruling
2. HPD Settles Employment Discrimination Suit
3. Maui on $10K per day: New Vacation Rental Fines
4. 'Gut and replace' has got to go
5. Senators Think UH Regents Are ‘Too Cozy’ With Officials
6. 5-year window for state to reimburse Hawaii county for Mauna Kea law enforcement
7. Waipahu temporary homeless structure gets an early occupant
8. Hawaii Obamacare Signup Deadline 10PM Sunday
9. Was landmark EV growth a milestone or Fake News?
10. Honolulu businesses have until the end of the month to switch from using plastic bags
11. Legislative Agenda: After Wasting Millions on Failed ‘Green’ Air-conditioning Units, DoE wants Legislature to Pony up for Real ACs
12.  Suspects arrested in Waipahu manhunt are no strangers to run-ins with the law
13. Soft on Crime: ‘Time Served’ for Killer—Out After 14 Mos
14. Meanwhile at the Parole Office … State employees say supervisors are spying on them with taxpayer-funded cameras

1. Legislature's "Gut-And-Replace" Procedure Violates Hawaii Constitution Three Readings Requirement
2. 17 Weeks on Mauna Kea: 8,031 Tickets, 74 Arrests
3. Vote by Mail Plan ‘A Recipe for Disaster’
4. Kaneshiro impeachment effort suffers setback
5. Prosecutor Candidate Steven Alm Backs Parole of Wanna-be Cop Killer
6. Soft on Crime: Killer Gets Third Trial
7. What a Surprise! Three Arrested in Police Shooting Case were Already Wanted
8. AG Investigating Embezzlement at Kauai PD
9. Hawai`i Confusion -- Renewable Energy Definitions
10. Homeless seniors check out city-backed apartments 
11. Tweeker Camp needs $4.5M to Move into Waianae Neighborhood
12. Legislative Agenda: Outlaw Rental Security Deposits
13. What To Know About Oahu Real Property Assessments Coming To Mailboxes Soon
14. Kim vetoes herbicide bill—Rules are for Farmers, not Government
15. Anti-Vaxxer Hype Costs Lives in Samoa, Philippines
16. Insiders: Gill Family Still Pushing Waianae Wind Scheme
17. U.S. should recognize American Samoans as citizens, judge says

1. VIDEO: Mauna Kea Defining Sacred
2. Hawaii Credit Rating Upgraded to Highest Level Ever
3. Hawaii GOP First in Nation to Bind Delegates to Trump
4. Anti-Vaxxers Target Samoa with Disinformation Campaign
5. Ethics Board asks if ongoing blockade of Maunakea Access Road is allowed under county ethics code
6. After Decades of Allowing Homeless Drug Addicts and Lunatics to Overrun Cities--Has Honolulu Found Way to Enforce Vagrancy Laws?
7. Robberies up 50%--Because State Judiciary is Soft on Crime, HPD will Seek Federal Charges on Purse Snatchers
8. Soft on Crime Crowd: Criminals Should Oversee Hawaii Prisons 
9. AG Opens Criminal Investigation into Top DPS Training Officer
10. Following The Money At The Hawaii Legislature
11. Tear Down Hawaii’s Contractor Licensing Walls
12. Ritte: Automatic Voter Registration will Make Sovereignty Activists Vote
13. Another HSTA Member Arrested for Child Molestation
14. Samoa measles outbreak triggers concerns over anti-Vaxxer idiocy at Hawaii schools
15. Homeless Lunatic from Connecticut Wanted in Volcano Country Club Arson
16. Homeless Sweep: 3 arrested at Salt Pond

1. TMT: Time to Reassess Viability of Hawaii Telescope Project
2. Auditor: Zoo Loses Track of $658K
3. Impeachment? Ed Case 'Not There Yet'
4. Audit should set off alarms at OHA—But Trustees don’t seem to care
5. In going green, the devil is in the details
6. Eco-Religion Jousts with the ‘Wicked’
7. Mitch Roth running for Big Island Mayor
8. Oahu property tax assessments up 1.7%
9. City to introduce roving tents to force homeless into shelter
10. Soft on Crime: Homeless Tweeker Gets 1 Year for Child Molestation, Burglary
11. Homeless Drug Addicts and Lunatics Squat in Empty KSBE Buildings—Burglarize Neighbors
12. Suit: Kauai police failed to monitor woman who took an hour to kill herself with blanket
13. Regulations coming soon for bikeshare companies --  but not Biki, they have insiders on payroll
14. US Ramps Up Attention On Micronesia To Curb China’s Expanding Influence
15. Paid Family Leave Likely For Nearly 20,000 Federal Workers In Hawaii

1. TMT - Hawaii Owes You an Apology
2. Surfing the Nations - Transforming Wahiawa and the World
3. A Day in the Life of a Napali Coast Ranger
4. Witch Hunt: UH Manoa seeking nominations for commission to address racism and bias on campus
5. Office of Elections Retaliation Games: Seven Years Later Scott Nago Victims Still in Court
6. Ooops! So-Called Biodegradable Plastic Substitutes Can’t be Composted
7. 3 New Bills to Drive up Construction Costs: City Continues War Against Affordable Housing ‘Monster’
8. Honolulu City Council Voted On Company’s Project Then Let It Buy Lunch
9. Next Boondoggle:  HCDA set to take over Aloha Stadium redevelopment
10. Legislative Agenda: 0.05% Blood Alcohol?
11. Handi Van: Auditor’s Report Due Soon
12. GAO: Fixing Shoddy Military Housing In Hawaii And Elsewhere Won’t Be Easy
13. As Predicted: Ivory Ban Leads to Petty Harassment of Market Vendor
14. How Many Bird Species will go Extinct Because of Anti-GMO Activists?
15. Homeless Dude Poses for Insanity Plea After Murder of Acclaimed Artist

TMT - Hawaii Owes You an Apology

1. How OHA Lawyers Hid $200K Procurement Violation
2. Secretary Bernhardt Announces Hawaii’s state Bird is on the Road to Recovery
3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted December 8, 2019
4. $100K Retirement Fund? In Hawaii it will be gone in 14 months
5. OHA investigation identifies $7.8M of possible fraud
6. Look beyond pay to help teachers
7. Lawsuit: DOE Retaliated When Staffer Reported Misuse Of Federal Funds
8. Save The Barbers Point Naval Air Museum
9. Honolulu Council approves B&B property tax increase
10. Phase Two: Maui Council Preparations for Property tax Hike
11. Nonplastic foodware might cause problems
12. Will The Gas Company Plans To Fight A Bill Banning Gas Water Heaters?
13. Hawaii Lt Gov Says Samoa Medical Mission Won’t Be The Last
14. American Samoa declares measles outbreak, closes schools
15. After Decades of Rhetoric, ANOTHER Enviro Study FAILS to Connect Whale Beaching to Navy Sonar
16. How to Save a Dying Language

1. Naming Names: Meet the Political Insiders Behind Eviction of Barbers Point Air Museum
2. Let’s Not Tax Transportation
3. Legislators are Above the Law Because the Judiciary is So Politicized 
4. More ways to support teachers besides just increasing salaries
5. Hawaii ice cream maker fears meltdown in wake of Meadow Gold restructuring
6. Enough lollygagging on upgrading old Red Hill fuel tanks
7. Recycling is a Pipe Dream: Big Island Recycling Drops 17% in Decade
8. Attorney indicted for alleged forged deed, real estate theft
9. Five Welfare Fraud Cases in Kailua-Kona

1. Forgotten Honouliuli: Jack Burns, Police Spy
2. Liberate Hawaii Homebuilding
3. Two Judicial Vacancies on Maui
4. OHA offering $250,000 in grants to nonprofits
5. OIP: OHA’s PIG is a Dead Duck (UPDATED)
6. Gut-and-replace in court (again)
7. Hawaii medical team returns after 48-hour Samoa trip
8. Streak of Oahu record home sale prices may be coming to an end, report indicates 
9. Lanai: Overpriced Solar Farm to be Terminated?
10. Pearl Harbor Day

1. Forgotten Honouliuli: Jack Burns, Police Spy
2. Hawaii: 91 Hour Work Week to Live Comfortably
3. America's Health Rankings: Hawaii 3rd-Healthiest State
4. Hawaii Ranks Among Least Protection Against Elder Abuse
5. Honolulu Ethics Commission Presents Strategic Plan
6. Auditor--14 Years Later: Liquor Comm Still Working on 2005 Recommendations
7. Finalists for William S. Richardson School of Law dean announced
8. This Week on Mauna Kea: 436 Tickets, 2 Arrests
9. BoE Skeptical About Latest HSTA Pay Hike Scam
10. Hawaii County Council Chair: Sweep Mauna Kea or Withdraw Police
11. Blocked by OHA, Kauai Finally Gets Juvenile Drug Treatment Center Built
12. New HART Analyses Show Millions Of Dollars In Added Rail Costs
13. Paeahu Solar contested case wraps up before PUC
14. Real estate couple sentenced for Welfare Fraud
15. Involuntary Mental Hospitalization Task Force Report Due Next Week
16. Hawaii one of worst states in distracted driving deaths
17. Gas prices 4 cents higher than this time last year
18. Big Island: Council OKs Ban On Roundup And Other Herbicides On County Land
19. Census error in Hawaii to result in $12M compact funding loss for Guam?

1. Red Flags: An Analysis of the Independent Audit of OHA and its LLCs
2. OHA Admits LLC Audit "observed indicators of potential fraud"
3. OIP: OHA’s PIG is a Dead Duck
4. Hawaii Owed $17M due to COFA Undercount?
5. Ige Appoints Craig Hirai Director of Budget and Finance
6. Star-Adv: Mail-In Election Plans ‘May Suppress Vote’
7. Council Passes Bill Restricting Single-Use Plastics On Oahu
8. Consumer advocate: PV power price too high
9. Why You Should Care About Wind Turbines In Kahuku
10. Medicare’s fee schedule inadequate for doctors in Hawaii
11. 14% of Molokai Population need to Get A Job to Keep Welfare Checks Coming In
12. Opponents become backers of West Maui development
13. Eruption did nearly $800M in damage
14. Feds: Chinese Industrial Spies Have Great Interest In Hawaii

1. Yet Another Campaign for HSTA Pay Hikes
2. It’s Way Past Time For Independent Analysis Of The Cost Of Legislation
3. Living with decision made 5 decades earlier  
4. Hawaii County Council Members Pretend to Question $10M State Reimbursement of Mauna Kea Costs
5. State AG to prosecute Meth-Head Kauai Councilman
6. Environmentalist Alchemy: Turn Broken Concrete into Jet Fuel
7. Lawmaker Wants Hawaii To Cap Prescription Drug Prices
8. New Hawaii County permit system delayed until March

1. Common Cause: Vote by Mail 'Will be a Disaster'
2. How to Defraud the DoD--GAO Publishes Handy Guide
3. Plastics ban proposals a disaster for Oahu food companies
4. Former UH regent sues state over ‘gut and replace’ maneuver to push him off board
5. Tax Hike Two-Step: B&B tax bill up for final vote
6. Hawaii County ready to prosecute old rape cases
7. Soft on Crazy: Suspect with checkered legal past assaults woman in own home because he was out on release
8. Time running out for those hoping to oust city prosecutor with special election
9. How to Use ‘Infrastructure Needs’ as Excuse for Lack of Affordable Housing
10. Hawaii lawmaker says letting lots and lots of criminals back out on street is key to easing overcrowding in Hawaii jails
11. What Will Happen If the Minimum Wage Goes Up?
12. Enviros Begin Looking for Ways to make Air Travel More Expensive
13. Maui: ‘Community Facilities District’ Allows Residents to Take Control of  Erosion Projects
14. Rehabilitation Hospital of Pacific Struggles In The Wake Of Sexual Misconduct Allegations
15. Massachusetts EBT cards used at posh hotels in Hawaii
16. Analysis: The average rent for a one-bedroom in Honolulu is down 10%

1. GAO: Ala Wai Flood Risk Estimates--More Transparency Required
2. GAO Report: Navy Plan to Upgrade Pearl Harbor Shipyard Falls Short
3. UH Manoa 4-Year Graduation Rate Hits 36%
4. Rail: 100 Days to Destiny
5. HGEA, HSTA Fighting over new DoE SPED Plan
6. Child abuse registry case to go before high court
7. Controversial Bill 40, banning single-use plastics, up for final vote Wednesday
8. More Mindless Anti-Plastic Hysteria
9. City Climate Change Commission Mulls Changes to Shoreline Setback Ordinance
10. Caldwell’s astrological sign is “For Sale.”
11. ‘Please Hold’: Disabled Handi-Van Users Face Long Waits To Book Rides
12. Seeking answers about abrupt lease cancellation of Barbers Point aviation museum

1. OHA Policy Should Not Discourage Trustees from Speaking Out
2. OHA Seeks Volunteer Board Manager to Oversee LLC
3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted November 30, 2019
4. TANF: $281M Federal Money We Haven’t Spent
5. Kaiser at risk of Bankruptcy?
6. Future Windfarm Proposals Doomed by Community Opposition?
7. Ige: Lets Give More Pay Hikes to HSTA
8. Counties Adopting 2020 Legislative Wish-List
9. Off-the-grid Maui DHHL homestead marred by conflict