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Entries for February 2024
| Thursday, February 29, 2024 |
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February 29, 2024 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:13 PM :: 3326 Views
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- EXTENDED: Applicants Wanted for State Ethics Commission
- Hawaii Worst State to Be Middle Income from a Tax Perspective
- Climate Activist And Liberal Billionaire Quietly Gobbles Up Rural Land In Hawaii
- Major Energy Companies Ask SCOTUS To Intervene In Hawaii Climate Lawsuit
- BS Busted: Green Caught Lying About Number of Vacation Rentals
- Structural, Intractable, Pervasive: The Ali’i Trust Agenda
- Council adopts ‘monster homes’ measure
- Judge Denies Defendant Request to use Alleged Hit Contract to Generate Delay Trial In Kaneshiro Case
- ‘That’s A Lot Of Money’: Maui Council Signs Off On Funding For Private Security In Lahaina Burn Zone
- Senate Bill Would Boost Salary Cap For Hawaii Schools Chief To $300K
- Shoplifter? Thank a Legislator
- Witness Intimidation: Buntenbah to forfeit house?
- Hawaii Legislators: QUEST should buy drugs for the Homeless
- Honolulu's On The Hook For Another $100K Defending Ex-Cops Sued Over Makaha Crash
- Chronically polluted beaches in Hawaii continue trend, Surfrider report finds
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| Wednesday, February 28, 2024 |
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February 28, 2024 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:03 PM :: 2647 Views
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- Green Launches Compensation Fund for Lahaina Dead, Injured
- Unlicensed Midwives Sue State
- Bills increasing costs for tourists moving through Hawaii Legislature
- Lahaina: State Senators Push for 1,000 Permanent FEMA Units
- Not so Smart: Affordable Housing Loss Study Debunked
- Lahaina: Army Corps of Engineers Transfers Temporary School to DoE
- SB3196: Senate Committee Waters Down Gun Control Bill
- Global Warming Solution: Convince Tourists to Stay Longer in Hawaii
- State Grabs for Rail Tax Money
- Maui family forced to move away claims landlord displaced them to house fire survivors
- Senate Panel Rejects Confirmation Of Interim UH Regents Chair
- 2 teens arrested following alleged sex assault of special needs student at Oahu middle school
- Assault Rifles And Shotguns Would Still Be Allowed In Hawaii Under Amended SB3186
- Kalaupapa Tours Remain Shut Down 4 Years After Pandemic Closure
- Kakaako: Complete Streets a Complete Mess
- Arson? Kauai Fire Deals $20 Million Blow To Affordable Housing
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| Tuesday, February 27, 2024 |
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February 27, 2024 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:39 PM :: 3450 Views
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- Hawaiʻi educators urged to take part in presidential selection process
- SHOPO & Maui County Reach Agreement on COVID Hazard Pay
- The real cost of returning to the office in Hawaii
- COVERUP: HART has never been audited and will now cancel next audit
- Affordable if you make $186K per Year
- Almost 12,000 affordable homes in Hawaii could be lost over next 20 years, study says
- These Billionaires Own 11% Of Hawaii's Private Land
- Donna Mercado Kim Meets UH Regents. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
- Puna 2005: Another Girl Almost Tortured to Death
- Alleged Kakaako Killer Was Convicted of Rape One Year Ago--and yet was out on the street
- Judge to decide if high-profile case should be delayed because of murder-for-hire probe
- Miske allegedly threatened a girlfriend’s ex: Like so many others, he ‘declined to prosecute’
- Honolulu police fire 3 officers in Makaha crash case
- $58K to Dry out a Bum
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| Monday, February 26, 2024 |
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February 26, 2024 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:26 PM :: 3890 Views
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- How do criminals become foster parents in Hawaii?
- Reports show assisted suicide continues to grow in Hawaii
- Recreational Marijuana Bills on the Move
- Taxes, Housing, Energy: High Costs Driving People out of Hawaii
- Hawaii Democrats Presidential Caucus Set for March 6
- Hawaii needs better budgeting for Maui recovery
- You Will Pay for Maui Fire Property Damage: Look out for $5B 'Fund 2'
- Converting Maui vacation rentals to longer-term housing causing frustration for owners
- Biden Administration: New Federal Money for More Useless Rail
- School Facilities Administration was Just a Scam to Grab Federal Funds
- DHHL changes $600M spending plan to prioritize land purchasing over home construction
- FBI Threatens Politically Incorrect Mid-PAC Basketball Players
- House bill preventing a mayor or governor from suspending electronic media transmissions
- SB3159 / HB2470: Stop Vexatious Litigants
- Most insurance-related bills to help those in Lava Zones 1, 2 have stalled
- Kapalama Container Terminal is almost built; that only took about 30 years
- Chemical attacks described by witnesses in Miske trial
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| Sunday, February 25, 2024 |
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February 25, 2024 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:16 PM :: 2426 Views
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- The Department’s Quest to Nullify Evidence
- DoTax: State Tax Credits You Can Claim
- City Demands Energy Use Data on Apartments and Commercial Buildings
- 15% State Budget Cut Threatened by Hawaii’s Failure to Build Housing
- Hawaii has done poorly with grandiose cannabis authorities
- Column: Crackdown on short-term units will hurt isle people
- DHHL Plan: More Paper Leases
- Ethics Reform: After two Bribery Arrests, Legislators Set to do Nothing (again)
- SB2322: Money for Surfrider’s Fake Bacteria Counts
- County to Set up Massive Festering Homeless Tent City in Hilo?
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| Saturday, February 24, 2024 |
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February 24, 2024 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:37 PM :: 3022 Views
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- Ninth Circuit to rehear Hawaii butterfly knife ban
- Green Kills off 'Affordable' Housing Group, Hands Authority to HHFDC
- 133 Candidates Pull Papers Statewide
- After Wrecking Tourism Industry, DeFries to Take Over as Executive Director of Mauna Kea Oversight Authority
- Schatz points to ‘paralysis by analysis’ in Maui housing debate
- M Nightclub photos invite questions about Miske’s hidden ownership
- Hawaii Will Pay $60K To An Inmate Who Suffered A Broken Jaw In 2019 Maui Jail Riot
- HB1601 Stop Arresting Wife Beaters and Drunk Drivers
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| Friday, February 23, 2024 |
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February 23, 2024 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:38 PM :: 6026 Views
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- Kennedy on Hawaii Ballot with 'We The People Party'
- Hawaii committee to discuss $25 tourism tax Friday
- UHERO: Hawaii Economy Slowing
- Hawaii Insiders Plot: Kill Seabright and Wheat?
- 3 adults accused of torture, starvation death of 10-year-old girl plead not guilty
- Habitual Violent Misdemeanor Bill Necessary For Community’s Safety
- Chinese Police on Patrol in Kiribati
- Maui Temporary Housing: State Games System to Milk FEMA for Every Penny
- Cost of Housing Lahaina Residents may Lead to ‘Furlough Fridays’ unless FEMA Ponies Up for Hotels
- Buttigieg visits Skyline while 0.3% of Oahu rides rail
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| Thursday, February 22, 2024 |
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February 22, 2024 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:23 PM :: 2800 Views
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- SB3381: Stop Lahaina Property Owners from Rebuilding
- VIDEO: Biological Parents of Ariel Sellers Speak
- Anti-Gun Bills Scheduled for Decision Making Hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee
- Pop-Up Village For 350 Maui Fire Survivors Has Been Blocked for Months by Red Tape
- Lawmakers Question Plans For Governor's Maui Wildfire Death Settlement Fund
- SB2475: Stop Recycling Child Molesters
- Republicans Fail to Oust Nago as Chief Elections Officer
- Man already serving life was sentenced in murder-for-hire case tied to the Mike Miske case
- Vehicle towing rates in Hawaii could more than double this year
- Hale Hookah co-owner pleads not guilty to drug charges
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| Wednesday, February 21, 2024 |
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February 21, 2024 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:04 PM :: 4806 Views
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- Trump: Tulsi Gabbard on Short List for Vice President
- More cost, More delay: Green Signs 'PLA' for Lahaina Rebuild
- Executive Order: Hawaii is a 'Trauma-Informed' State
- DoH: Exposing tobacco marketing to Hawai‘i’s youth
- Rule Forcing Corrupt Project Labor Agreements Will Face Legal Challenges
- FCKBLM? Censorship Leads to 23% Decrease in Personalized License Plate Requests
- Senate Approves Publicly Funded Election Bill
- Feds Obtain More Than $1.9 Million in Forfeitures from Hawaii Illegal Gambling Operations
- Water Activists Delaying Lahaina FEMA Trailers--Just Like they delayed firefighting water
- Lahaina Temporary Housing Delays Caused by Water Activists cost State $60M and counting
- Lahaina Homeowners Prohibited from Parking trailer on their Burned-Out property
- 44% of Residents Thinking About Leaving Hawaii
- Are Locals Happier on the Mainland?
- Short-term vacation rentals impact Hawaii’s housing market only 5%
- Honolulu ethics panel mulls gift prohibition for all city employees
- Kupuna testify against purchase of Kauai apartments for DHHL beneficiaries
- School bus driver shortage has lawmakers looking at other options
- Boyfriend of drowning victim claims inadequate response by police, fire
- Repeat Offenders Must be released so they can Repeat Again
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| Tuesday, February 20, 2024 |
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February 20, 2024 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:22 PM :: 2427 Views
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- Hawaiʻi’s future jobs: 70% require postsecondary education by 2031
- Cockfighting fans fight Northern Mariana ban at Ninth Circuit
- Tax Hike News: COVID giveaway to Public Employees plus Maui Fire Costs Could Top $1B This Year Alone
- Legislature Plans ‘Fundamental Change’ for HECO: Yes, its a Rate Hike
- How Green Amendment to Hawaii Constitution will make Fuel and Electricity More Expensive
- The Plan is Working as Intended: 1,500+ families believed to have left Maui since August wildfires
- Carpenters Union Illegally Voids Maui Mayor’s Nominees for Boards and Commissions
- House marijuana debate shows softening support for legalization in Hawaii
- Food prices increase at grocery stores and restaurants
- After 20 Years of Violations, Administrative order between EPA, Hawaii county demands improvements to aging sewage plants
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| Monday, February 19, 2024 |
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February 19, 2024 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:13 PM :: 3224 Views
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- True housing reform seems a strong possibility
- SB3196 Bans Many Types of Guns
- Wahiawa Child Abuse Death--Who Should Have Known?
- Bill requires teachers accused of sexual misconduct to surrender licenses
- UH Manoa: “So much antisemitism on campus”
- WSJ: Hawaii Wants Visitors to Pay a Tourist Tax to … uh … Help Prevent the Next Disaster, yeah that’s it
- Hawaii Legislators Seek To Outlaw AI-Generated Political Misinformation
- Can crowdsourcing improve reporting of the Miske Trial?
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| Sunday, February 18, 2024 |
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February 18, 2024 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:16 PM :: 4443 Views
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- Skimming Nuclear Munitions Contract? Lawsuit Alleges Dawson is Fake Hawaiian Company
- The ConAm Returns Again
- City May be Short on Sanitation Trucks for Months to Come
- Hawaii's high cost of living is due to “one little thing after another, just building on each other”
- 111 Candidates Pull Papers Statewide
- Lahaina Cleanup is Scam to Keep Owners off their own Properties
- Exodus of Hawaii residents cost state $185M in lost taxes since 2020
- Hawaii is the only U.S. state that taxes Medicare, Medicaid and TriCare insurance benefits
- FEMA housing far from burned properties in West Maui
- SB2693: Outlaw Kaniela Ing’s Lahaina Charity Scam
- Blangiardi’s biggest decision was to halt construction of the city rail line before reaching all the way to Ala Moana.
- City auditor reviews building permit department
- More Empty promises on horizon for future Hawaiian homestead leases
- Taxpayers Are On The Hook For $1.25 Million After The State Failed To Provide Water To An Oahu Farmer
- Child welfare bureaucracy’s debilitating “cover your ass” mentality must be replaced
- HB1799/SB2670: Help Gays Access Fresh Schoolboys
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| Saturday, February 17, 2024 |
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February 17, 2024 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:37 PM :: 2897 Views
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- Hawaii is State With the Least Disposable Income
- Decision on advisory group for UH president’s search postponed
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted February 17, 2024
- Rail: Another GE Tax Increase on the Agenda
- Prosecutors seek forfeiture of Buntenbah’s House
- DHS: We do not inspects Guardian or Adoptive Homes Unless Credible Complaint is Made
- Hawaiian Airlines shareholders approve proposed acquisition by Alaska Air Group
- Remembering Sara Yara: Community comes together to sign wave
- Alleged Molester Allegedly Confessed to HPD in 2020--Four Years Later Finally Extradited to Texas
- Thousands of pounds of illegal fireworks seized
- Navy’s new $3.4 billion dry dock in Hawaii is most expensive project in service’s history
- Mayor Blangiardi OKs aid to rail-affected small businesses
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| Friday, February 16, 2024 |
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February 16, 2024 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:55 PM :: 2868 Views
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- Gun bills pass Hawaii Senate committee
- Debt: Honolulu 3rd-Worst Sinkhole City
- CNHA’s Latest Grift: “Something illegal on the side”
- Defendant In Kaneshiro Case May Pose Danger To Others, Probation Officer Says
- Hearing to unseal adoption, foster care documents in Isabella Kalua case set
- Criminal Mother Arrested While Beating Boys in Street
- WAM Chair Calls Private Meeting To Discuss Maui's Public Disaster
- Queens to Close Wahiawa General Inpatient Facilities
- Many Female HS Athletes without lockerrooms 6 Years After lawsuit
- Educational worker safety bill advances but removes increased harassment penalties
- State prevails in ‘reverting’ land under affordable housing project
- State receives green light on redevelopment of Mayor Wright homes (Again)
- After Four Years on Streets, One Homeless Person Finally Agrees to Accept Shelter
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| Thursday, February 15, 2024 |
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February 15, 2024 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:05 PM :: 3142 Views
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- Tulsi for VP? Trump talks with Gabbard about U.S. defense
- Rabbi Sues Hawaii County Over Mounting Fines for Hosting Small Religious Gatherings in His Home
- CWS Used Guardianship as Legal Loophole to Place Tortured Girl in Home with Convicted Felon?
- Will Property Owners be Allowed to Rebuild? Community Opposes HCDA Takeover of Lahaina
- Another Labor Cost for Business: Momentum Grows For Comprehensive Paid Family Leave In Hawaii
- Soft on Crime: Thugs Walk Free After beating Security Guard to Death
- Louis Kealoha Wants Reduced Sentence
- Testimony in Miske trial pivots to alleged chemical attack on rival nightclub
- The Packed Hawaii State Hospital May Soon See A Surge In Patients From A Private Facility
- 'Swarm team' investigates increasing chemical detections in Pearl Harbor's drinking water
- Still towing complaints 3 years after changes to state law
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| Wednesday, February 14, 2024 |
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February 14, 2024 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:46 PM :: 2218 Views
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- HPD: First Amber Alert in 19 Years Results in Safe Recovery of Two Boys
- Big Island: Low Winds Lead to Rolling Blackouts
- Three Anti-Gun Bills Scheduled to be Heard
- Liberation of crypto is win for Hawaii
- Hawaiian Electric 2023 Annual report: Still profitable except for Lahaina Litigation
- Advocates call for change of legal guardianship policies
- Lahaina Fire Death Toll Rises To 101 After Police Identify Remains Of Missing Person
- Survivors’ Monthly Hotel Bill: $15,000 paid by FEMA
- SB2762 Rent Control: After Rent Subsidies Create Crisis, Legislators prepare to Make it Worse
- Bills For UBER/LYFT Ride-Share Fee And A Climate-Impact Fee Advance
- Some Reform Bills Are Simply Ignored Until They Die — And They Start Dying Friday
- 65 Shell Bills on the Move
- Pension Scam behind Star-Advertiser bankruptcy?
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| Tuesday, February 13, 2024 |
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February 13, 2024 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:57 PM :: 4480 Views
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- SB3381: HCDA will use Eminent Domain to Take Over Lahaina Make it in to High End Resort Area
- Bribe-Taking Cocaine Dealer J Kalani ‘Powdernose’ English to get Early Release
- Lahaina Fire Charity Scam News: Kaniela Ing Faces More Charges Of Campaign Spending Violations
- Torture House Foster parent Requests Release -- Denied
- Miske was Child Abuser, got Probation
- Labor Trafficking: Getting Away With It
- Lahaina Death Trap: The Day Fire Engulfed Kuhua Street
- Secret Hawaii Energy Cabal Fades Away
- Why an M&A swoop in Hawaii is a big bet on the yen
- Gov. Green calls new Hawaii housing bill ‘unconstitutional’
- Hawaiʻi to build out housing services with Medicaid under new federal program
- Driver Chose Which Cop would Administer DUI Test
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| Monday, February 12, 2024 |
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February 12, 2024 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:39 PM :: 2909 Views
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- 9th Circuit To Hear Oral Argument in Absentee Voting Case for Citizens in U.S. Territories
- Kaheohe 'comprehensive' homeless solution houses only 34 people
- Blangiardi announces Andy Sugg as new Chief of Staff
- Miske trial picks up after a week of Witness Intimidation
- Green Pushing Tax Hikes
- Tourism: Another Year of Stagnation
- HB1611: Stop Recycling Bad Cops?
- Local Food? DoE has a solution--‘give us more money’
- 2023: A Year of Hawaiian Spyin'
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| Sunday, February 11, 2024 |
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February 11, 2024 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:42 PM :: 2774 Views
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- Father: DHS and Catholic Charities both involved in Geanna Bradley Placement in Torture House
- Nearly 5,000 Maui fire victims remain in hotels
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted February 10, 2024
- SB3196: More Gun Control on the Agenda
- Hawaii energy policy bedeviled by price, reliability tradeoffs
- Hoarding School Impact Fees
- 93 Candidates Pull Papers Statewide
- SB3381: HCDA to Control Lahaina Redevelopment?
- HB2762: OHA to Build Casino at Kakaako Makai?
- Mafia News: SHOPO Lawyer Devens Planted on Supreme Court to Block Release of Police Disciplinary Records
- LOL: Hawaii Version of ‘Three-Strike’ bill for repeat violent offenders -- Prosecutors will actually be allowed to charge a felony
- Hawaii teens report persistent mental-health problems
- A ‘Shockingly Broken System’: Hawaii Failing To Meet ANY Child Care Safety Regulations
- BJ Penn for … Council?
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| Saturday, February 10, 2024 |
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February 10, 2024 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:04 PM :: 4094 Views
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- AGAIN: Family Court Gave Another Girl to Another Convicted Felon, She was also starved and tortured to death
- Naming Names: Which Honolulu Lawyers are Helping Miske Catch Informants?
- Wahiawa Foster Girl Tortured, Murdered
- Article misrepresents status of Hawaii ballot bill
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