Entries for April 2014

1. DBEDT Hawaii Refinery Task Force Calls for Jones Act Waiver
   
2. PUC Orders HECO to Cut Costs, Integrate More Solar
   
3. Lawsuit: Bungling UH Construction Management Behind Delays, Change Orders, Cost Overruns
   
4. Legislature Passes State Budget
   
5. VIDEO: House Republicans Speak out on State Budget
   
6. McDermott helps land $2.3 million for Campbell High Air Conditioning
   
7. VIDEO: Is the Jones Act Impacting Domestic Oil?
   
8. Djou on Obama Asia Visit: Congress Should Pass Asia-Pacific Free Trade Pact Now
   
9. Leapfrog: Hawaii Among Top 5 States for Hospital Quality
   
10. Effects of Pension Plan Changes on Retirement Security
    
11. Repeal Jones Act Before Exporting Oil
    
12. Pigs at the Trough: Hawaii Anti-GMO activists Celebrate Arrival of Mainland Money Group
    
13. Senate Confirms Tamamoto, Wooley Appointments
    
14. HHSC faces $48M shortfall for state's public hospitals
    
15. Funding held up on Turtle Bay preservation deal
    
16. Progressives vs Hanabusa Over Pohakuloa Development
    
17. Hawaii Independent Party Brings Many Hannemann Supporters into its Fold
    
18. With Lassner's Job on the Line, UH-Manoa Suddenly Decides to eliminate several management positions (sort of)
    
19. Operator of state's largest landfill indicted
    
20. TAT Falls Short Honolulu Salary Commission Goes Long
    
21. Kauai: What a Shame
    
22. Hawaii lawmakers extend time for sex abuse cases
    
23. Homeless building tree houses in Honolulu
    
24. 23% Would Leave Hawaii if they Could--Lowest Percentage of Any State
    
25. Windward school teaches students to help autistic classmates

1. Lingle to Chair Djou Campaign Team
   
2. Special Interest Groups Can Hijack Hawaii's Elections if Late Voter Registration Bill Enacted
   
3. CATO: Minimum Wage Increase Not the Answer in Hawaii
   
4. Full Text: Taskforce Report Plans 'Refinery Closure Scenarios'
   
5. Kakaako: Ige Will Oppose Appointment of Kobayashi VP to HCDA
   
6. $52.4M CIP for Public Housing Renovation, DHS IT Planning
   
7. OHA Fails at 'Land and Power' Game
   
8. HHSC Privatization Bill Killed by HGEA/UPW Controlled Legislators
   
9. DoE Sup't Pay Hike Bill Revived, Rules Violated for Re-Opened Conference at State Capitol
   
10. Today's Agenda: Nobody Wants  Wooley, Tamamoto
    
11. Dela Cruz Sabotages His Own Bill
    
12. Office of Healthcare Transformation to take lead role in Obamacare innovation waiver
    
13. Counties' haul of hotel taxes--A Piddling $10M Split 4 Ways
    
14. Contractor Lawsuit: UH Procurement Office Unprofessional, Causes Massive Construction Delays
    
15. Solutions to Tribal-Brained Inhumanity on Kauai
    
16. Kauai: Nude Beaches at the 'Precipice of Death'
    
17. Maui Meadows study finds that smart meters are safe
    
18. Harassed by Crackpots, Kauai County May Seek Higher Signature Count for Ballot Initiatives
    
19. Ethically Challenged Developer Claims Vindication on Affordability at $699K
    
20. State to pay $190,000 in suit over abuse of schoolgirls
    
21. After Decade-Long Legal battle, Everybody Grabs for Slice of Substitute Teachers Backpay
    
22. Leapfrog: Hawaii Among Top 5 States for Hospital Quality

1. Marriage and Religious Freedom: Heritage Foundation Events May 6-8 Oahu, Maui, Kona, Hilo
2. Duke Aiona, Elwin Ahu to Headline Maui Republican Rally May 3
3. Daily KOS: Don't Be Surprised When Abercrombie Wins
4. LA Times Liberal Columnist Names Abercrombie hero of Obamacare
5. OHA Still Looking for Ways to Slip Kakaako Development Thru
6. Luke Retaliates Against Rock Climbers, State Liability Continues
7. Autism Coverage Mandate Gutted at last Minute
8. Same-day voter registration measure to get final hearing
9. Bill Bans Smoking of "Any Plant Product" at Public Housing
10. Honolulu Officials' Salaries Lag Behind Bankrupt Detroit, California Cities
11. Hawaii graduations among nation's most equitable
12. Kauai Anti-GMO Petition Demands Farmers 'Prove Its Safe' or Shut Down
13. Will the GMO Debate Fuel Campaign Donations?
14. New Solar Rules Require Electricians
15. A Reduction in Hawaii's Vast Elevator and Boiler Inspection Backlog
16. Running for Senate, Hanabusa Writes DOA Bill Designed to Increase Military Presence in Hawaii

1. VIDEO: "We Don't Want Your Phony Roll"
2. The Power of the Money Committees
3. The Kobayashi Group is not a “Small Business” as Defined by the HCDA Law
4. 'Surveillance System' Looks at Hawaii Residents Sugary Beverage Drinking Pattern
5. Do You Know the Meaning of ‘Temporary’?
6. COFACAN: Advocates Plan Next Steps to Defend Healthcare Access
7. Kakaako: Last-minute shenanigans on full display
8. Borreca: Reopen the Search for UH president
9. Maui News: Mufi Helps Neil Get Reelected
10. Centrifugal Forces Tearing Hawaii Democratic Party Apart?
11. OHA: One More Chance for Kakaako Makai Development Scheme?
12. OHA Reiterates Plan to Exclude 77% of Native Hawaiians from 'Hawaiian Governing Entity'
13. Spurned by a federal court, Pacific migrants seek justice through politics
14. Excellent News! Opposition imperils nomination of Wooley
15. After 12 Years, Failed Solar, Wind Systems Close Haunama Bay Night Programs
16. Honolulu Residents Lack Trust in City Government
17. Arakawa: Non Need for property Tax Increase
18. Kauai Scores $5.4M Overtime

1. Quo Warranto Fu: Is Calvin Say a Qualified Voter in his District?
2. Voting Rights Denied: What Hawaii Can Learn from Davis v Guam
3. April 25, 2014: Election Commission Releases Updated Candidate List
4. Complete List of Bills up for Final reading in House and Senate
5. Ige's Dirty Deal With HSTA: Phony 'Procedural Mixup' Dooms Key Education Measures
6. Lawmakers reject OHA's bid for Kakaako towers
7. Galuteria Angered by His Failure to Stick His Constituents With Kakaako Makai Development Scheme 
8. AJ Musto, Inouye, Shiseki back retired general for UH president
9. Legislative Wrap-Up: The Status of Energy Bills
10. State legislature passes bill to increase minimum wage after Hee Capitulates
11. Key committee approves $1.5M for Hawaii exchange
12. Voter Registration on Election Day Gets OK from Hawaii Legislators
13. Attention All Lawyers: State Department of Housing Illegally Harassed Tobacco Smokers for One Year
14. Pine's illegal-dumping plans earn approval
15. DLNR Boosts Concession Fees to $200/mo

1. Lawsuit: Students Ordered to Stop Handing Out US Constitution at UH Hilo
   
2. Panos: Sopogy's Demise is a Huge Victory for Honest Engineering and the Taxpayer
   
3. Djou: Cook Political Report has CD1 Moving Our Way
   
4. States make wild claims about the effectiveness of their tourism promotion campaigns
   
5. Volunteers Wanted to Investigate, Discipline Lawyers
   
6. Analysis: 13% of Hawaii Bridges 'Structurally Deficient'
   
7. Ige: Pay for Turtle Bay by Refinancing Hawaii Convention Center
   
8. UPDATE: Do We Really Want Another ‘Waikiki’ in Kakaako-Makai?
   
9. Full Text: Hannemann Announces Campaign for Governor
   
10. Kakaako: 8 New 400' Towers KSBE, OHA, State to Split Billions
    
11. Precisely as Predicted: Abercrombie Uses Turtle Bay as Political Set Up Job
    
12. State budget agreement trims $300M from Abercrombie's spending request
    
13. Kenoi: Hotel tax dispute not impacting county budget
    
14. Ikaika Anderson Still Shut out of Dem Convention
    
15. Public schools civil rights director under probe; is she a scapegoat?
    
16. Conrow: Kauai Anti-GMO Initiative Unconstitutional
    
17. Judge Rules Farmer ‘John Doe’ Can’t Remain Anonymous
    
18. House-Senate Panel Passes Sunshine Law Exemption for County Councils
    
19. Rail exec gets second yearly bonus
    
20. UH Law prof sees ways that government can improve its procurement policies
    
21. Mufi: Duke will be perceived "to the extreme right of me"

1. Evaluations? DoE Claims Principals' Arbitration Award "Aligns with DoE Goals"
   
2. UHERO: Managing a Grid with Green Energy
   
3. Cost Implications of GHG Regulation in Hawai‘i
   
4. DoE 2014 Graduation Dates
   
5. Solar Scammers Push Poll, Claim 94% Support Them
   
6. Hannemann Announces Campaign for Governor
   
7. Schatz Supporters Younger, Whiter, More Ideological
   
8. Appeals Court: Calvin Say Must Prove He Lives in the District He Represents
   
9. Anti-Agriculture Amendment to Kauai Charter Pushed
   
10. Star-Adv: Hold Principals to High Standards
    
11. New pre-school program funded in DoE budget, not Gov's Office
    
12. TAT: Conferees Negotiate Split with Counties
    
13. Horner breezes through Senate confirmation vote 25-0
    
14. In Wake of Lawsuits Against Homosexuals, Extension of Child Molester Law in Doubt
    
15. Abercrombie Appointee Sued for Sexual Abuse of Girl
    
16. $150M Special Purpose Revenue Bonds for Gas Co Waste to Energy Scheme on Maui
    
17. Crackpot Tries for Five Congressional Races, Plans to Be in Hawaii After Losing Georgia
    
18. Sopogy's assets being liquidated, Act 221 'Capital' is Consumed
    
19. CEO, Two Others Embezzle Nearly $500K from The Bus Credit Union

1. UPDATE: Do We Really Want Another ‘Waikiki’ in Kakaako-Makai?
   
2. Gasoline: Jones Act Costs $0.15 per Gallon at the Pump
   
3. HB849 Will Compromise Civil Liberties
   
4. VIDEO: Grassroot Institute Looks at One Party States Idaho and Hawaii
   
5. Abercrombie Capitulates, Allows Ige to Speak
   
6. Leak: UH Presidential Search Down to Lassner or Ret Gen Wiercinski
   
7. Mainland Anti-GMO Activists Funnel Rockefeller Money to Hawaii
   
8. Star-Adv: Council Needs to Get its Act Together on Homelessness
   
9. Hawaii Out Of Clout? Seniority Ain't What It Used To Be
   
10. State takes action against Big Island doctor with 12 complaints
    
11. Sopogy: After a Decade of Hype, Act221 Wunderkind Goes Bust
    
12. Green Energy Scammers Miffed at HECO Plans
    
13. Lind: Lawyer Luke's Legislative Lift to Litigators Legal 
    
14. Four Hawaii public high schools in U.S. News & World Report rankings
    
15. Why Do Hawaii's Private Schools Pay Teachers Less Than Public Schools?
    
16. New FEMA maps may hit homeowners in wallet
    
17. Planned Parenthood closes Kauai office
    
18. China Defies Obama’s Slow Asia Pivot With Rapid Military Buildup

1. Contradictory Responses on Hawaii Health Connector Investigation: Pat Saiki Calls on US House to Guide GAO
2. Ira Einhorn, Earth Day's Dirty Secret
3. Crichton: Environmentalism is a religion
4. Which kills more: ideology or religion?
5. No New Taxes! Maui County Budget Hearing April 24
6. Do We Really Want Another ‘Waikiki’ in Kakaako-Makai?
7. Parties Reach Agreement in Na Wai Eha Water Flow Case
8. $335M Airport CIP Released
9. HGEA Principals gets 18% pay raise, After 10 Years Still No Agreement on Evaluations
10. Democratic Party always finds a way to stifle speech
11. Turtle Bay a Set up for Ige?
12. $150M in GEMS for Green Energy Scammers
13. Hee: "We threw Minimum Wage Bill in Rubbish Can"
14. City can't afford 8 percent raise for top Execs
15. Hawaii Suits Filed Against Three More Alleged Hollywood Homosexual Child Molesters
16. Attorneys: 2491 provides Target list for eco-terrorists
17. Hippie Commune Zoning Bill to Reward Ruderman Contributors Advances
18. Feds Sue Hawaii Oil Supplier for 'Energy Market Manipulation'
19. After Kakaako, Aiea is Next
20. UNITE HERE Pushes Council to Repress Timeshares
21. Maui Council Looks to Trim Budget, not Raise Taxes
22. Staffing shortage at EMS reaches critical level
23. UH Presidential Selection Nominees to be Announced April 28
24. Probe into college's fees allegedly led to retaliation
25. NELHA seeks new lease for geothermal site
26. 'Libertarian' Runs Tax-Credit Funded Business

1. Kana’iolowalu Roll Meetings “Tumultuous people, extreme displeasure at OHA’s new scheme”
   
2. Abercrombie Donors Buy: "The right priorities... the right values... the right Governor"
   
3. Earth Day status report: Mafia Wind, FACE, and PRP Team Up to Grab More of Your Money
   
4. Now is not time to increase tax on hotel owners
   
5. Money Floods Campaign Coffers in CD1 Race
   
6. Hawaii Tax Department Wants Help In Modernizing Computer System
   
7. Hawaii Community Colleges Graduate Few
   
8. Oahu ambulance units close due to overnight staff shortage
   
9. New Suits to be filed against Alleged Homosexual Child Molesters
   
10. Star-Advertiser Owner Behind BC Oil Refinery Project
    
11. Biofuel Dirtier than Gasoline--Study

1. Five Months Later Hawaii Health Connector Follows up on Incomplete Application
2. C’mon, Mr Producer, Do You Even Know What All The Laws Are?
3. Cam Cavasso Launches Republican Campaign for US Senate
4. Historic Preservation: Public Denounces Amended Drafts of SB2633 and HB1678
5. Hawaii-Focused Legal Blogs
6. Honolulu Council Proposals That Affect You and Your ‘Ohana
7. Shapiro: Obamacare fiasco bursting with officials' incompetence
8. Waikiki is becoming an overpriced Beverly Hills slum of the Pacific
9. Oshiro: OHA understood restrictions on development in Kakaako Makai
10. Abercrombie Saves Turtle Bay Developers from Condemnation, Lets them Build Hotels, Houses
11. North Shore land agreement not a done deal
12. For Borreca, Helping Hanabusa Campaign Imperative
13. Maui Co Gov't  expansion will require increased taxes
14. Hawaii Counties Brace for Legislature's Decision on Hotel Tax Revenue
15. Kauai Blogger Bewilders anti-GMO crowd
16. Arrested First Degree Terroristic Threatening

1. Tulsi Gabbard Helps Republicans Shadow Obama in Asia
2. Gallup: Hawaii Public Schools Still Rank Among Worst in USA
3. April 17, 2014: Election Commission Releases Updated Candidate List
4. Gill: I only Want to Close the Democrats' Primary
5. Blocking Ige from Democratic Convention Platform, Abercrombie Cowers Behind Carpenter
6. UH Insiders Try to Buy Favor of Kim, Takai
7. Star-Adv Very Excited as Obamabots Play Wordgames over Hawaii Obamacare Investigation
8. Medicare's flaws Presage National Health Care? Run for the Hills
9. Hawaii Is Genetically Engineered Crop Flash Point
10. New Department Chair Promises to Politicize Fisheries Rules
11. Senate to probe security and escapes at Hawaii State Hospital
12. Criminal Wife Beater filed TRO Against HPD Major
13. Soft on Crime: Just out of Prison, Three Felonies Gets Measly 10 months jail

1. Hawaii's Good Friday Holiday - What's Up With That?
2. Health Connector Under Investigation--One More Reason to Defeat Abercrombie
3. Guam Legislature passes Jones Act reform resolution
4. Abercrombie Inks Turtle Bay Plan: Give Developers $48.5M, Let them Build Two Hotels
5. VIDEO: Big Island Hippie Guru Alleged Homosexual Child Molester, Boys Supplied by DHS
6. Al Gore in Hawaii: Carbon Polluters 'Immoral, Unethical, Despicable'
7. "What Are the Races to Watch in the Upcoming Election?"
8. City Seeks Input on Transit-oriented Development, Affordable Housing
9. Caldwell releases quarterly road repaving progress report
10. Hawaii House proposes delaying minimum wage hike for small businesses
11. Aiona Begins Fundraising
12. Depth of Hawaii health exchange probe unclear
13. Abercrombie talks politics, Ige talks spreadsheets
14. House, Senate Confereees Grind Thru Hawaii Budget
15. Tony Gill seeking to overturn Hawaii's open primary election
16. Will the FCC Split Up Hawaii's TV News Market?
17. UH BoR Narrows List of Presidential Candidates
18. Tourism Industry opposes Caldwell's Latest Tax Hike Proposal
19. Panel suggests 8% raise for city officials
20. Turtle Bay Agreement Allows for 625 New Hotel Rooms, 100 Homes
21. GMO and proud of it
22. Get students to college sooner
23. DoE Settles: Abuse of Autistic Children
24. Suspected nepotism at state hospital will be investigated by ethics agency
25. After Fire Boat Shutdown, fire union says 'no confidence' in fire chief
26. HPD Major Stripped of Police Powers after Daughters Boyfriend Gets TRO
27. Queerty: 'Damning Evidence' Against Hollywood Homosexual Leader
28. Mainland Homosexual denied bail in Dismemberment Murder Case
29. Ex-Hilo woman gets life for killing son, 4, in Oregon
30. Wilson sworn in as Hawaii Supreme Court associate justice
31. 19.8% Raise Sought for Hawaii Co Mayor

1. GAO to investigate Hawaii’s Obamacare exchange
2. Finmeccanica CEO Ousted as Effort to Dump Honolulu Rail Contractor Ansaldo Collapses
3. House Republican Leaders Address Budget Negotiations
4. Hawaii basil farm ‘deplorable,’ ‘unsafe,’ judgment says
5. Nakamoto Appointed Big Island Judge
6. Mayor Caldwell to hold a new round of town hall meetings around O‘ahu
7. VIDEO: Resistance builds to OHA nation building plan
8. Abercrombie Polling Stubbornness, Argumentativeness as Campaign Issues?
9. Ige barred from Delivering Hawaii Democratic Convention Speech
10. State in danger of losing $800 million in federal highway funds
11. Riding the Arch of Hysteria: Mainland Anti-GMO Operatives Set up Honolulu Office
12. After Miserable Failure: Obama's Cancellation of Insurance Plans to be Postponed 'til 2016?
13. DHS,  Connector Squabble over $4.9M Owed
14. Millions in taxpayer money requested to waste on climate study
15. VICE News Chases Alleged Hawaii Homosexual Child Molester Thru Streets
16. Hollywood Producer 'Big Dem Donor' Accused of Homosexual Child Molestation in Hawaii
17. Pflueger's company pays $350,000 fine for 7 counts of manslaughter under controversial plea deal

1. July, 2013: Neil Abercrombie Conspiracy Theory Claims Inouye Letter Conspiracy
   
2. Health Connector Extends Enrollment Grace period to April 30
   
3. GMO Paranoia: Knowledge is the Key to Fighting Fear
   
4. Obamacare Punches $150M Hole in ILWU Contract
   
5. All Eyes Should be on the First Wind – PUC Affair
   
6. Pine: Habitual Dumpers Could Go to Jail and Face $10,000 a Day Fine
   
7. "Modern" Light Rail: Worth the Investment?
   
8. Over 60 Staff Positions Vacant at Hawaii State Hospital
   
9. Star-Adv Lies About its own poll to Avoid Acknowledging Djou is #1
   
10. Campaigning for Schatz, Abercrombie: Gore Prances Around Stage before Slipping out for a Massage
    
11. Schatz keeps fundraising edge on Hanabusa as Donor Support Dwindles for Both
    
12. Aiona-Abercrombie-Hannemann Race Should Motivate Voter Turnout
    
13. Matsuda Health Connector Expects 9,000 Enrollments
    
14. HB 1700 -- Day 1
    
15. Pacific Resource Partnership, Schatz, Biggest Ad Buyers
    
16. Duncan, Abercrombie Tour Hawaii DoE as 'Rising Star'
    
17. Fewer Hawaii workers testing positive for marijuana, amphetamine use
    
18. Hilo Family Court Returned Boys to Bisexual Child Molester
    
19. Where’s The ‘Community’ In HCDA?
    
20. SCR38: No Student Fee Hikes
    
21. Reconstructed Car Owners Wait Months for Safety Inspection
    
22. Rail Buys, Wrecks Dillingham Shopping Plaza
    
23. Hawaii County Council Bows to Homelessness Industry
    
24. Depositions Detail Retaliation Attack Against Kauai Councilmember

1. WaPo: Brian Schatz’s biggest 2014 headache? The governor who appointed him
   
2. HCDA Restructuring Among Bills Landing on Abercrombie's Desk
   
3. Grassroot Institute 'Celebrates' Hawaii's Tax Freedom Day
   
4. Rich States-Poor States: Hawaii Improves its Economic Competitiveness Ranking
   
5. Kiplinger: Hawaii 5th-Least Tax-Friendly State
   
6. Genworth 2014 Annual Cost of Care Survey: At Home Care Costs Increase in Hawaii
   
7. Full Text: Hawaii Ranks 8th in Wellbeing
   
8. Now Hiring: Honolulu City Auditor
   
9. Apology? Abercrombie Blames Inouye Family for Controversy over Letter
   
10. Truth of Inouye's last wish becoming campaign issue
    
11. Former state Rep. Cavasso files for U.S. Senate seat
    
12. Tax Freedom Day Celebrated in Hawaii
    
13. Hawaii Lawmakers Use 'Transparency' to Attack Free Speech
    
14. Judge Lets Mainland Groups Attack Kauai Farmers in Court
    
15. Earthjustce Exploits Kauai for Fundraising, Publicity
    
16. Star-Adv on Dairy farm: Time for Enviros to Walk the Walk
    
17. County government should oversee land management, not DC bureaucrats
    
18. Hawaii County Park Workers Skip Out Early, Rip Off Taxpayers
    
19. First Wind Pushes Giant Solar Farm for Mililani
    
20. Job Security: After Letting them Get Established, State to eradicate Waimanalo little fire ants
    
21. How to Break the Catch and Release Cycle for Property Criminals

1. Notorious Hilo Dentist Licensed Thanks to Schatz, Baker, Oakland
2. Freedom in the 50 States? Hawaii Ranks 47th
3. Law would give Hawaii gov’t unprecedented emergency powers
4. NFIB Recruiting Hawaii Small Business Leaders
5. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted April 14, 2014
6. Abercrombie on TAT: Be Careful What You Wish For 
7. Environmental groups and tourism interests align against a cow farm
8. Mainland Bisexual Cult Leader Moves to Hawaii, Molests Boys
9. Maui Electric Asks for $8.9M Rate Hike Thanks to Solar
10. Honolulu sees continued solar energy permit decline
11. Audit: ML&P May go Bankrupt Soon
12. Rep. Fale To Announce Bid for Sen. Hee’s Seat

1. Broken Trust Gang Busted: OHA Admits to Secret Meeting With US Department of Interior
   
2. Conference Committee: Let the Games Begin!
   
3. What’s The Streamlined Sales Tax Project – And Should We Jump In?
   
4. Attacks on BOE chairman amount to religious bigotry
   
5. Kamuela:  Hawaiians Don't Trust OHA's "Nation Building"
   
6. Gore Greeted by Laughter, Derision before UH Manoa Speech
   
7. Star-Adv: Petty politics mustn't derail key measures
   
8. State Senate leadership caught in power struggle
   
9. Abercrombie Names Another Old Boy to BLNR
   
10. Council signs off on $290k Bynum settlement
    
11. Surfrider Self-Destruction: Anti-Dairy Farm Lies Wipe Out
    
12. How Maui Wind Farms Produce CO2
    
13. After Welching on Promise to Defend Anti-GMO Law, Mainland Luddites Seek Status as 'Intervenors'
    
14. Progressive Activist: Low Voter Turnout?  So what?
    
15. Meth Dealer Thinks He's Just Like Mandela
    
16. Maui County: 4th Lowest Residential Property Taxes as a Percent of Home Value

1. Did State cheat OHA out of $150M on Kakaako land transfer?
   
2. April 11, 2014: Election Commission Releases Updated Candidate List
   
3. Hawaii Independent Party Unveils Logo, Seeks Candidates
   
4. Farmers' Dust Fine Violates Hawaii Right to Farm Act
   
5. Abercrombie: Inouye Wanted Hanabusa but ... but ... but
   
6. HB1866 shifts HCDA's power Away from Governor
   
7. Experts: One-stop shopping of Mental health services could save lives
   
8. Hawaii Health Connector seeks approval to outsource individual enrollment to state Department of Human Services
   
9. Notorious Hilo Dentist Licensed Thanks to Brian Schatz
   
10. Murder on the Waterfront: Twenty Years HPD Coverup
    
11. State Auditor applauds Public Charter School Commission
    
12. Hawaii County to Enact Honolulu Sidewalk Ordinance
    
13. Thanks to Effete Snobs, Molokai Farmer Fined for 'Fugitive Dust'
    
14. Feds Release Draft EIS for Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative
    
15. HECO Uses 'Consumer Advocate' to Keep Real Consumers Out
    
16. Sylvia Luke's Make-Work Program for Lawyers 
    
17. Star-Adv: Chang, Manahan make wrong call on TV ads
    
18. Hilo community college collected $245K in fees for non-existent facilities and services, Ousts Complainers
    
19. Hickam phone project called $5M waste

Farmers' Dust Fine Violates Hawaii Right to Farm Act

1. Hawaii: More Mentally Ill in Jails than in State Hospital
   
2. Caldwell Unveils Scheme to make Traffic Even Worse
   
3. Pine Introduces Legislation to Combat Illegally Dumped Sludge
   
4. UHERO: The Costs and Benefits of installing PV solar
   
5. Sky's the Limit? Honolulu #1 City for Buying into Solar Hype
   
6. Private Schools with Public Purpose
   
7. VIDEO: OHA 'Nation Building' Meets Resistance on the Ground
   
8. Sen. Galuteria 'Incensed' at His Own District Over Kakaako Development Bill
   
9. Voter Participation: The People Who Show up Will Rule
   
10. GE Tax Revenues Drop 2.2%
    
11. At Behest of Hotels, Leading Enviro-Activists Continue to Protest Against Kauai Dairy Farm
    
12. HB849: Governor Emergency Powers to 'Prevent Hoarding'
    
13. Ethics Complaint: Rep Luke Amends Bill to Help Fellow Ambulance Chasers
    
14. Hawaii Gov Nominates Carpenters Union Rep to Land Use Commission
    
15. Parker Ranch Aims to Become HELCO Alternative for 75% of W Hawaii
    
16. PUC at Another Secret Mainland Conference
    
17. DoE Cries over Lost Laptop Funding
    
18. Group pitches tiny homes inside homes
    
19. OCCC: Inmates Getting Bedbugs from Work Furlough Jobs
    
20. The Path to Sainthood: Brother Joseph Dutton
    
21. Complaints against Big Island dentist grows to 12

1. VIDEO: Looking Back at Neil Abercrombie 'Highlights' as Governor
   
2. Friends of Kewalos Rallies as OHA Development Bill Heads to Conference Committee
   
3. Hawaii gets better marks for new online transparency system
   
4. Auditor Updates Progress on Public Housing, Charter Schools
   
5. Auditor's Annual Report
   
6. Horner Accused of Christianity, but Homosexuals, Atheists Fail to Oust BoE Chair
   
7. Hawaii Health Connector needs $4.7M next year
   
8. Department of Human Services might handle part of Health Connector sign-up work
   
9. Dems continue Closed primary fight
   
10. Gut n Replace Bills Listed
    
11. Acting state hospital chief lacks basic job requirements; responds to nepotism claims
    
12. Secret Meeting at Devil’s Thumb to shape Hawai’i Energy Policy
    
13. Hawaii in forefront of public-private education partnerships
    
14. Neal Milner: Getting Better Political Coverage
    
15. Star-Adv Uses Hawaii's Poor Voter Turnout to Promote Same-Day Registration Fraud
    
16. Ethics Board: Council Candidate can keep job Overseeing Elections
    
17. Maui PD: ‘I was a vice cop… and a meth addict’
    
18. City Claims Two way protected bike lane Won't Jam up South King Street
    
19. Hawaii LNG From Boron, CA
    
20. Group to discuss methods of making city Age 'friendly'

1. House passes over 150 measures on second crossover
2. Why Is ObamaCare a Rube Goldberg Contraption?
3. AG: Hawaii Will Continue to Provide COFA Benefits
4. JSC Seeks Nominations for Two Judicial Vacancies
5. Will IRS Targeting Send Someone to Jail?
6. Pro Bowl to Arizona in 2015, slated to make Hawaii return in '16
7. Report: Hawaii Government Transparency Improves
8. Obamacare Reimbursement Cuts Cost HHSC $4.6M
9. House Rejects McDermott Amendment to Dump Pono Choices
10. Star-Adv: Rail funding details needed before Massive GE Tax Hike Approved
11. House approves OHA's high-rises
12. 10 Gut n Replace Bills This Session
13. Crossover: Slom Votes 'No' 33 Times out of 176
14. Question: How Many Anti-GMO Signatures are Bogus?
15. Candidates in Ethical Grey Area in Unite Here Local 5 Ads
16. Hawaii Senators grill state hospital administrator
17. State House passes minimum wage bill
18. Cops fired in overtime abuse scandal getting jobs back
19. Prime state ag lot sits vacant for 6 years; could be home to little fire ants
20. Hawaii Kids Dental Health Scores Poorly
21. Hawaii State Salaries 2013: University Spends More on Fewer Employees
22. Water Fees to Jump?

1. Djou: $100,000 in 100 Hours
2. Djou Running and Winning in Hawaii
3. Second Crossover: Complete List of House and Senate Bills
4. Alliance Defending Freedom asks court to dismiss renewed attack on Hawaii churches
5. Survey: 4,280 Hawaii Teachers Reveal Attitude towards Evaluation System
6. Maui Doctors Speak up on Obamacare
7. Honolulu 15th Most Expensive Long Term Care
8. Why Infrastructure Projects Cost Way More Than They Should
9. Video: Grassroot Institute Think Tank Talk
10. PEW: Hawaii Voter Participation Drops Below 45%--Worst in USA
11. Census: Hawaii Tax Revenue Jump 3rd Highest in Nation
12. Obamacare Responsible for HMSA 12.8% rate hike application
13. Don't play games with Housing First
14. HB1866: Only Surviving HCDA Reform Bill
15. Tax burden heavy on low income earners
16. Counties poised for boost in hotel room tax revenue
17. HSTA Gets Legislators to cut Teach for America Hawaii funding
18. Gallup: 57% Trust Hawaii State Government
19. Kim Releases Internal Poll Showing Lead
20. New and familiar faces in mix as candidates line up for election
21. Kauai Council Boosts Omidyar's Shoreline Development Scheme
22. Not Certified Yet: 11,000 Signatures for Referendum to Shut Down Farms on Maui?
23. Kauai anti-GMO Nuts Push Ballot Initiative
24. One man inspires thousands
25. Gay-Atheists Protest Senate Reappointment of Horner to BoE
26. 'Actual Maggots' -- USO Members on Hunger Strike
27. Ousted judge sits in his office during final three weeks as sub judge handles cases
28. Local homeless programs receive $10.7M in federal funds
29. University of Hawaii chancellor considers year-round school

1. Hawaii to be First State to Dump Obamacare Health Exchange?
   
2. HSTA Candidate Questionnaire Challenges Teacher Evaluations
   
3. All Those Obamacare Stories You Told Us Were Untrue
   
4. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted April 7, 2014
   
5. Teachers Paid $410 to Learn How to Make Teens Gay-Friendly
   
6. WAM Committee supports measure that would up county’s TAT take
   
7. HB1934: Homeless Omnibus Bill Hits Conference Tomorrow
   
8. Should Hawaii Pay Turtle Bay Resort to Not Develop Some North Shore Land?
   
9. AG Seeks Funding for DNA Swabbing
   
10. Waipahu Business Saves 20% on Insurance
    
11. Star-Adv: Put COFA Migrants on Medicaid
    
12. Kauai Cross Angers Secularists, Gets Blown Up

1. Occupy, Union Activists Organizing Homeless Tent Cities in Honolulu?
2. Tax Return Extensions – Not an Occasion to Punt on Working the Numbers
3. Djou's Biggest Obstacle Gone
4. Abercrombie: "We don't break the laws, we make the laws."
5. Commercial Solar Tax Credits Export Money to Mainland--Will Take Another $150M out of Budget
6. Rail Finances Fuzzy, Caldwell Pushes Massive GE Tax Hike
7. Law Student Gets Copy of Pono Choices, Disturbed by Multiple Partners
8. Medicaid red tape crippling good health care
9. Prison changes a hard sell with guards playing hooky
10. City food truck law spurs protests

1. Plaintiff Speaks out After Big Win in Hawaii Concealed Carry Case
2. April 4, 2014: Election Commission Releases Updated Candidate List
3. Abercrombie Rants, Raves About Investigation of Hawaii Health Connector
4. LA Times Looks at Prepaid, "A Health Care System Apart"
5. Mainland Millionaire Behind 'Clean Elections' Calls Hawaii Legislators 'Corrupt'
6. OHA, Legislators Join Global Cooling Believers
7. Larry Sabato on Djou Candidacy
8. Hawaii DHS Returned Child to Abusive Mother Before Death
9. SB651 May Make Tobacco Smokers Homeless
10. Caldwell Heads to DC to Discuss Rail, Homelessness
11. Kauai councilman settles lawsuit over political retribution
12. Maui Council: TagumaWatch Case is About Cyber Harassment
13. Neighbors Used to Seeing Escapees All the Time
14. Due to Homelessness, Honolulu Ambulances infested with bed bugs
15. DLNR vs Waikiki Beachboys
16. Obama's Weakness on Crimea Causes Japan to Doubt American Commitments
17. Waste Oil Recycling to Close on Maui--Due to Enviro Regs

1. Djou: I’m In!
2. Slom Slims Budget: "If we don't change our course, we are headed for fiscal disaster"
3. ‘Diverse’ population cited as factor in Hawaii’s failing health exchange
4. Hawaii State-Local Tax Burden Drops to 20th
5. HGEA to Do UPW’s Job While UPW Watches
6. This CEO Made a Political Donation, Then Lost His Job Because Liberals Didn't Like It
7. CB: 8 Reasons Why Djou Might Win
8. Hanabusa: Hawaii Should Get Obamacare Exemption
9. University Wins Funding for UHPA Contract After Settling With Mitsunaga
10. City Council Unveils Budget Priorities, Ernie Martin Moves to Kill 'Housing First'
11. HHSC partnership bill headed to committee
12. Job Security: Dept of Ag Hid Fire Ants for 3 Years
13. Romy Cachola Headed to Jail for Abuse of Council Expense Account?
14. Kakaako Buyers are Foreign or Mainland Investors
15. 173 Parcels: Buying the rail line is high priority for HART
16. Big Cable Electricity Costs 50% More
17. Hee, English Toy with Portnoy as Regent Nominations Considered
18. Term Limits Keep Honolulu Councilmembers on the Move
19. Star-Adv: Use ACLU Suit to Keep Religion out of Preschools
20. Inmates' religious rights suit is valid, judge rules
21. Life Without Limbs Founder Nick Vujicic Tells Kids to 'Stand Strong,' Find Their Purpose
22. Kauai New Age 'Energy Healer' Convicted of Rape
23. Juvenile Escapees Lead to Windward School Lockdowns
24. Timeline: Deliberate Fear-Mongering Behind Kauai Anti-GMO Bill
25. Mass Hysteria: 6 DoE Schools Evacuated This Year After 'Noxious Odors'

1. Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint in Honolulu May 8
2. UHERO: Why are Hawai’i’s Electricity Prices So High?
3. Hawai’i Health Connector Signs Up Only 7,861 People in 6 Months
4. Obama takes sides in Hawaii’s contentious Senate Democratic primary
5. Back from Afghanistan: 100 Soldiers from 536th Support Maintenance Co
6. Q&A on Supreme Court's New Campaign Finance Decision
7. Rally Against OHA Kakaako Development Scheme
8. Monsanto Employees Rally on Maui, Molokai, Deliver Report to Mayor
9. Hawaii Firearms Permits up 20% -- Hit New Record
10. Djou will seek Congressional seat
11. Kakaako: Keep eye on money and politics
12. HCDA's ties to condo developers highlighted
13. Abercrombie: Nonprofit Health Connector 'Fundamentally Flawed',  Should Become Part of DHS Medicaid Service
14. House Passes Minimum Wage Hike With Simplified Tip Credit
15. Kauai Teachers stand against state evaluation system
16. Funding early autism treatment will save money in the future, bill's advocates say
17. REITS Evade Property, Income Taxes
18. How Much Money Do Honolulu Agencies Really Want? Officials Won't Say
19. Snow Job: Ansaldo Claims Belgian Rail Settlement is "Entirely Different" from Honolulu Because it Doesn't Snow Here
20. Judge rules in favor of Thirty Meter Telescope project 
21. Selective Audit Targets Kauai Mayor
22. Salaries, benefits eat up county budget hike
23. Public safety department investigates sick leave abuse
24. Vending in Park or Religious Freedom?
25. Guam trying to go ‘shall issue’ a month after adopting Castle Doctrine
26. Diet Supplement Causes Nearly 100 Hepatitis Cases
27. Hollywood Hippie in Vermont Raising Money for Air-Powered Car to be Built in Hawaii
28. HEI Selling Caused by Inaccurate Analyst's Report

1. US House Examining ObamaCare’s Problem-Filled Hawaii Exchange at Hearing Thursday
   
2. ACLU Sues, Claims Pre-K Program Not Secular Enough
   
3. Full Text: Court Rules Hawaii not responsible for COFA Shortfalls
   
4. Stung by High Electric Rates, Parker Ranch launches Paniolo Power Company
   
5. UHERO Looks at Lanai, Molokai Windfarm Proposals
   
6. Pentagon Overhauls Effort to Identify its Missing
   
7. Major Tsunami not expected after Chilean Quake
   
8. Kids Doing Time for What's Not a Crime: The Over-Incarceration of Status Offenders
   
9. Maui: 8500 Signatures for Ballot Initiative ordering Shut Down of Farms
   
10. Grand Hyatt, Bionic Dread Team up to Protest Dairy Farm
    
11. HB1675: Hawaii Lawmakers Mull Reversal of Act 167 School Hours
    
12. Kauai HHSC Hospital funding runs dry
    
13. Solomon Gut n Replace Geothermal Resolution Pops Up
    
14. 'Life without limbs' minister enjoys a Hawaii beach vacation before the release of his inspirational book about defeating bullies
    
15. Tsunami Monitoring Technology Hits the Mark in Chile
    
16. Hawaii State Center for Nursing finds promising results from long-term care nursing project
    
17. Kenoi aides to get More raises

1. HCDA ‘Small Business’ Reps: Kobayashi & Mitsunaga
2. Hawaii’s troubled health-care exchange draws congressional attention
3. Legislative Playbook: Whack-a-Mole With Bad Bills
4. Pentagon Overhauls Effort to Identify its Missing
5. Auditor Releases National Citizen Survey of Honolulu residents
6. Full Text: Honolulu Service Efforts and Accomplishments Report
7. Hawaii Educational Results Broken Down by Ethnic Background
8. Arne Duncan: Hawaii DoE Can be Model for Nation
9. OHA Touts Pacific Business News Support for Kakaako Development Scheme
10. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted March 31, 2014
11. UH first state department to adopt electronic payroll statements
12. The Crazy Intense Hawaii Senate Primary Race
13. Senate Cuts $214M from Abercrombie's Bloated Budget
14. Miserable Failure: Obamacare Signs Up only 7% of Goal in Hawaii 
15. Connector is an Embarrassment
16. Desperate Hawaii Health Connector Now Blames Dep't of Human Services for Failure 
17. Hawaii Foster Child Returned to Abusive Parent, Dead at Age 4
18. Tax collector compiling vacation rental list
19. Voyager School Foundation files for Ch. 11 bankruptcy
20. Potheads Pleased with Amendments to SB2574
21. Don't Worry HPD You Can Still Rent Hoes from Us
22. Atheist Advertiser: Keep Charities out of Schools
23. Atheist Reporter Seeks Angle to Expel Christians from Capitol
24. Atheists: Hirono is Perfect Senator
25. Changes to sex assault bill set new limits on victims' recourse
26. Horizon Lines shows the creakiness in That Jones Act
27. Prepare for West Coast port disruption
28. Cheaper elections not always better, council says