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Saturday, April 30, 2016 April 30, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 9:41 PM :: 3818 Views Caught 'Borrowing' Museum Funds, Bishop Museum CEO Quits Who’s Running: Candidates Pulling Papers as of April 29, 2016 House Democrats: Ballot Photos, Gun Restrictions and Sex Change Operations After Making a Mess of Rail, HPD—Top County Execs in Line for 5% Pay Hike Kealoha: The Real Problem is Will Espero HB1581: Fast-track contested case appeals Ca-Ching! Solar Schemers Get $100M Cool Schools Contracts and Keep their GEMS, too Solar Contractors Kill Geothermal Bill in Conference Committee Senators: Let Homeless Avoid Shelter on State Land Proposal: Tear Down park Restrooms to Get Rid of Homeless Drug Addicts Lesbian Harassment: Video shows off-duty Maui cop yelling, pushing sign-wavers Kauai: UK Guardian Spins More Utopian Anti-GMO Ignorance Read More..

Friday, April 29, 2016 April 29, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 8:09 PM :: 4097 Views Parents charged in 1997 death of ‘Peter Boy’ DoH Announces Eight Marijuana Dispensary Licenses Hiding the Failure: DoE Gets Another Testing Waiver for Hawaiian Language Immersion Schools Status of Bills in Conference How a Bill Becomes a Law Part 3 Duke Aiona Legislative Update April 28, 2016 Audit: DHHL Hides Loan Delinquencies from Commissioners Carlisle: I want Rail to go to Hawaii Kai Budget: Yes to Wahiawa, Mental, Rentals, Homeless, and mini-Dole Deal – but no more for UH Cancer Center HB2740: Will Legislators Protect Patients Against HMSA Greed? 'TMT bill' would eliminate silly lower courts from appeals process How TMT Bill Would Affect NextEra Merger Council acts to widen input on wind projects Honolulu’s construction costs still the highest in the United States Students not fooled by Administrators’ tuition hike sales pitch City ethics body handles anonymous complaints Borreca: Ala Moana Upgrades Could be Excuse for Tax Hike Read More..

Thursday, April 28, 2016 April 28, 3016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:39 PM :: 4933 Views Big Island 30 Days Without Dengue Hawaii: Two Anti-Gun Bills Enrolled to Governor Hawaii 3rd Most Expensive Home Health Care in U.S. City auditor accuses rail officials of intimidation The Hawaii House: Roadmap to Political Factions Telescope: Kashmir Being Evaluated as TMT Site HPD Chief Louis Kealoha Claims to Know Nothing About Investigation into ethics, corruption allegations Prosecutor Retaliates on HPD Officer Believed to be Behind Leaks HB2391: Legislators Approve Plan to Let Lots and Lots of Criminals Back out on Streets After Months of Wheedling, TAT Remains Exactly Where it Started East Hawaii Hospitals Next to Privatize? State Aims To Develop 22,500 Affordable Rental Housing Units in Decade Homeless Drug Addicts Dumping More dirty syringes in Oahu parks Enviros Becoming Dimly Aware that Wind Energy is a Fraud Guardian: Hawaii Agriculture to be Replaced with ‘Political Statement’ Read More..

Wednesday, April 27, 2016 April 27, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:57 PM :: 3507 Views Federal Recognition: How ‘Super 8A’ Companies Make $800M by Doing Practically Nothing Hawaii: “The only state in which both legislative and executive branches are perceived to be very corrupt” Hawaii Lowest Property Taxes in USA HB2084: Your Insurance Rates Will Be Going up to Pay for Trannies Report: Hawaii Among Best in College Affordability Oshiro: Hi Tech Schemers Grab for Control of Wahiawa Hospital Good News! Legislators Reject High Tech Demand for $5M Cash HMSA Red Tape Sends Cardiac Patient to Emergency Room Solar Contractors Salivate over Cool Schools Plan Blank Geothermal bill moves to conference committee Adjusting low-income renters credit long overdue How Hawaii’s tax structure is hurting small businesses Farming inspires fantasies but requires viable funding Water Diversions: Resurrecting the Past DoH Website reveals 25 percent of Hawaii restaurants received yellow, red cards Read More..

Tuesday, April 26, 2016 April 26, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:09 PM :: 4239 Views Ewa Beach House Campaign: Stolen Signs, Bolt Cutters, and Confrontations with Police Hawaii Preschool Costs More Than College DBEDT: Housing Gobbles Up Hawaii Consumers Income Ige Signs Bill Requesting Obamacare Waiver for Hawaii Hawaii Supreme Court Dismisses ‘Birther’ Challenge To Ted Cruz Eligibility Hawaii ICA Bungles Hanalei River Eminent Domain Case? Problem Gambling? Hawaii 2nd-Worst in USA New Schools? Zero Guidance from DoE Lawmakers can’t hide their Jeff Stone connections Two months later, no action on Kahele leasehold Fevella: School construction should be based on student needs, not politics Without Knowing Which Cronies They are Rewarding, Legislators Mull Amendments to Marijuana Dispensary Law Legislators to Ige: Here’s $12M, the Homeless are Your Problem Now Patients Caught In The Crossfire Of HMSA’s ‘War On Doctors’ Rail does not comply with flood-risk standards, group alleges Meet the Anti-GMO Scammers Homosexual Child Molesters Held Positions of Power and Influence for Decades in Hawaii Read More..

Monday, April 25, 2016 April 25, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:59 PM :: 3359 Views Sec 280E: How the IRS Becomes Senior Partner in Marijuana Dispensaries Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted April 25, 2016 Star-Advertiser Suddenly Decides to Notice that A&B Buys a Lot of Influence Two Election Reform Bills Near Approval Battery Scammers: We Want Tax Credits for us Not Rebates for our Customers Hawaii Salaries Low Compared to Other High-Cost Locations Prison Officials Quietly Move To Extend An Out-Of-State Contract Psychologist Debunks HB1072 Agency to Hawaii Residents: Don't Hate on Tourists Read More..

Sunday, April 24, 2016 April 24, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:35 PM :: 5731 Views Organically Growing Tax Credits EXPOSED: Another Hawaii State Senate President Owned and Operated by Jeff Stone Kenoi Lied About Pledge to Give Salary Increase to United Way At City Hall, lots of dancing around, less actual running Lease agreement approved for Maui hospitals Bernie Sanders is Democrats Donald Trump Jim Dooley Working on Second Book ACLU: Hawaii Police body-camera bill the best in the U.S. HPD: Officer didn’t get preferential treatment Read More..

Saturday, April 23, 2016 April 23, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 4:08 PM :: 3881 Views Who’s Running: Candidates Pulling Papers as of April 22, 2016 Ilagan: Petition Against Hawaii County GE Tax Hike Hawaii Anti-Gun Bills Moving Through Conference Committee Process What is Hurting Hawaii’s Investment Climate? Privatization May Drive Down Costs on Maui The Ideology War: UH Law School Debates GMOs DoE Seeks Public Input on Strategic Plan Ige Extends Homelessness Emergency Hanabusa to use Rail as Political Stepping Stone? Rail to Start Digging up Dillingham in Late 2016—Massive Bus Delays Expected HECO Wants Ratepayers to Pay for Smart Meters A Decade Of Influence: A&B Has Given More Than $600K To Politicians Greenmailers Find New Way to Delay Telescope Hearing Soft on Crime: Six Felonies, Backpack full of Meth – 1 Week in Jail Homeless Use Iolani Palace as Outdoor Latrine Homeless Vandalize Church, Harass Preschoolers 500 Inquiries about Homeless’ Psychotic Behavior HCDA to Score Massive Windfall from ‘Affordable’ Housing Kahuku Wind Scheme – 656 foot Towers of Rusting Wind Junk Anti-GMO Activists Drench Environmentalism in Ignorance Kahoolawe Trust fund being depleted $4 Million OK’d For Fancy Waikiki Enviro Confab KCC: Another Univ Administrator Faces ‘No Confidence’ Read More..

Friday, April 22, 2016 April 22, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:07 PM :: 3917 Views SB2301: Legislators Vote $10M for Drunk Driver to Promote Rave Parties Hanabusa Named Chair of HART Ira Einhorn, Earth Day's Dirty Secret Crichton: Environmentalism is a religion Zika: Pregnant Women Should Avoid Travel to American Samoa Tulsi Gabbard Turns 35--Running for Vice President? 42-in Water Main? Hanabusa Caught Flatfooted on First Day as HART Chair Rail: Short Another $82M, Feds Threaten to Take Back $1.55B Hawaii’s Criminal Class ‘Embattled’ Ethics chief must be independent Urgent?  Six Months later, UH regents remain undecided on a Cancer Center plan Caldwell Cracks Down on Crime in Chinatown:  Drugs? Prostitution? Gambling?  --  Nope, Its Illegal Gardening Outreach workers see growing number of homeless living in cars 19% of isle households not linked with internet Read More..

Thursday, April 21, 2016 April 21, 2015 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:23 PM :: 4270 Views Ige’s Secret Proclamation Used to Promote War on Other Side of the World HART Board: Colbert Matsumoto Appointed, Hanabusa Reappointed SunEdison Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy McDermott, Fevella: Building a New School for Ewa Beach Supply Chain Optimization – Shipping Systems in Hawaii HB2501: A&B To Restore Eight Streams in East Maui Air Quality: Honolulu Makes ‘Cleanest Cities’ List The day when America moved toward becoming a global power HECO Milking Rail Project for Money? Blood Bank Milking Rail Project for Money? Council, Mayor Use Homeless as Budget Football Kakaako Sweeps Force 230 Homeless to Finally Accept Shelter  DoE Teacher Turnover 37% Judiciary’s Illegal Lobbying Machine Was Hidden in Plain Sight The Usual Procedural Grounds Underlie Challenge to Telescope Hearing Officer Public hearing on Maui property tax rates set for Wednesday Krazy Kauai: Ex-Prosecutor Iseri Threatens to ‘Expose’ Councilman Read More..

Wednesday, April 20, 2016 April 20, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:44 PM :: 3936 Views Auditor: At First Only Hawai’i Free Press Noticed our Mauna Kea Report Chevron Signs Deal to Sell Hawaii Refinery, Stations The Fuzzy Accounting Behind Renewable Energy’s Falling Prices State Accepting Applications for free Pre-K classes SB2954: Anti-Gun Bill Scheduled for Conference Committee Hearing Wednesday Jones Act and Enviro Regs Blessing and Curse for California Refiners Federal Rail Audit Coming Soon Don Horner Scapegoat Ernie Martin Pulls Papers to Run for Mayor Rail: Only Aiona can Claim Purity Hawaii County GET hike draws more fire Larded With Cronies, Hawaii County Council Refuses to Discuss Kenoi Another HPD Officer Arrested DoE: Honolulu Rail Can be a Money-Spinner for Us Tokuda: We Save the Cookies Until the End Banks Rack Up Megaprofits on Affordable Housing Tax Credits Wisdom: Church would house homeless in Individual Hard-Wall Shelters Ignorance: Council, Mayor Agree on Plan to Set up Two Festering Tent Cities for Homeless  PHOCUSED: Just Give Us Money 1 In 8 Hawaii Middle Schoolers Say They’ve Attempted Suicide Transsexual Agenda for Hawaii Schools Homosexual Child Molesters Seek Special Homeless Shelter to Keep Their Victims Clean and Fresh Schizophrenic Policy: City Denies Grant To Program Helping Mentally Ill Homeless People Trial starts in suit alleging girl raped at Oahu high school A Hawaii Uber Driver Has Been Charged With Raping a Teenage Passenger The Rescue Game Read More..

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 April 19, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 4:03 PM :: 3269 Views US News & World Report: Best High Schools in Hawaii DoE 2016 Graduation Dates Guam Justice--34 Years After Mayor’s Land Grab Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Could End Disease Transmission America’s First Freedom: Trouble In Paradise Kenoi recommends general excise tax hike House, Senate Set To Negotiate Budget Mauna Kea Anti-Telescope Protesters Re-use Successful Haleakala Strategy ESSA gives Ige (HSTA) a new way to push education agenda Hawaii lawmakers look to audit civil asset forfeiture unit Looming Fight Over Importing LNG into Hawaii What really happened at the ʻAha, part V Calvin Say: Taxpayers Subsidize Tourism with $143M Each Year When Anti-Superferry Protesters are in Charge,  Snorkelers Die Read More..

Monday, April 18, 2016 April 18, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:20 PM :: 3591 Views Pine: Star-Advertiser Wrong on Makaha Realignment Senate Passes more than 250 Bills on Second Crossover House Passes More than 100 Senate Bills on Final Crossover Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted April 18, 2016 ‘Rail Is The Issue’ In Mayoral Election, Says Kirk Caldwell HNN: Rail Audit Doesn’t Connect the Dots Mainstreaming  Creates Lots of HSTA Jobs Hi Tech Scammers Want Another $6M from Taxpayers Ethics director poised to take over as state auditor Mediator’s Biases Behind Collapse of Pesticide Panel SB2196: Independent Review Panel for Police Killings Police allegedly ignore rules in colleague’s DUI Will medical marijuana be ready to sell? Victory for Local Food: Hawaii Longliners Buy NMI Quota – Will Keep Fishing Read More..

Sunday, April 17, 2016 April 17, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 7:14 PM :: 3923 Views Who’s Running: Candidates Pulling Papers as of April 15, 2016 Shadow Boxing with Jones Act Strawmen Handgun Ban: Northern Mariana Islands Flout Court Ruling Second Crossover—Bills Head for Conference Committee Haseko Bills before Honolulu Council Planned Parenthood Resolution Passes Last Committee Begging for a Piece of the Hotel Room Tax Pie Shady Dealings DLIR: Construction Industry’s 12.1 Percent Projected Growth Leads Expansion Billy Kenoi Held up as Role Model for Teens Caldwell should be blamed for sugarcoating rail costs Dirty: Ernie Martin Faces off Against Voters Who Aren’t Fooled by Homeless Tent Cities Rep Chris Lee, Solar Contractors Behind Blank Geothermal Bill Green Energy Schemers Upset over Cool Schools Plan Geothermal energy from Kona, Maui, Oahu? There’s nothing simple about Airbnb’s proposal Read More..

Saturday, April 16, 2016 April 16, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:45 PM :: 3625 Views Full Text: Honolulu Audit Report on Rail Government Spending Transparency: Hawaii Ranks 45th Honolulu Average Monthly Rent Jumps 7.28% Hawaii: Four Anti-Gun Bills Heading for Conference Committee Does the EITC Reduce Savings Among the Poor? Hawaii Republican State Convention Set for May 21 Rail: Project planners engage in “strategic misrepresentation” Lawmakers May Replace State Auditor With Ethics Director TMT opponents seek hearings officer’s removal Thoughtlessly Signing ‘Organic Farmland Initiative’ OHA to Obama: Expand Tuna Monument HD14: Teacher Running as Republican High cost of doing business in Hawaii expected to drive up pot prices HECO Pressures Solar Customers to Buy Batteries HOPE Probation for 24-Time Loser Leads to Double Stabbing Former state worker indicted for embezzlement Sex Harassment Training Ordered At DOT Read More..

Friday, April 15, 2016 April 15, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:11 PM :: 8021 Views IHS: City-Funded Homeless Programs Meeting Goals Duke Aiona Legislative Update April 13, 2016 States Employ Temporary Workers, But Often Know Little About Them Grassroot Institute Event Highlights Need to Support Maui Agriculture Ward: Firearms Bill Violates Federal Law IHS: City-Funded Homeless Programs Meeting Goals Brown Hands Ige Appoints Task Force on ‘Every Student Succeeds Act’ DBEDT Profiles Hawaii Non-English Speaking Population Flustered Grabauskas’ Rambling Diatribe: A Ridiculous Joke – Lots of Violations The Sovereignty Divide: Waihee vs Cayetano After Running Hospital into Ground, HGEA Demands $40M Severance Package Cool Schools Becomes Christmas Tree for Green Energy Schemers Con-Jobs and Scams Heading for Conference Committee Hawaii Is One Step Away From Taking a Close Look at Decriminalizing All Types of Drugs Ranchers have expressed interest in HC&S Land, but farmers are few Anti-GMO Candidate Rosenstiel Against ‘Dumb Locals’ Zika Findings Require Immediate Federal, State Response Obama Gives Hawaii DoE, HSTA New Way to Evade Accountability HuHonua: High Tech Schemers Jump on Board Failed Biomass Burner Read More..

Thursday, April 14, 2016 April 14, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 3:39 PM :: 3696 Views Who’s Giving a Quarter of a Million Dollars to Nai Aupuni? Hawaii: Four Anti-Gun Bills Pass Floor Vote Chief Justice Appoints Darien W.L. Ching Nagata as Hawaii Island District Court Judge Jones Act: A new fight and a new argument Marijuana Dispensary Licenses Delayed Federal Grant Backs New Honolulu Homeless Court Appleseed: Hawaii’s Poor Need a Tax Cut Bloomberg: Hawaii Republicans Have Responsibility to Challenge Schatz Hawaii Democrats Closed Primary Case Before 9th Circuit May 4 Kauai GE Tax Hike decision delayed Maui Budget: Rates, Fees, and Fuel Taxes Going Up HB1581: Since All Development Issues are Settled in the Courts, Lets Just Get to it Already What To Do With The Tax Sinkhole That Is Honolulu Rail? City Councilman wants to turn city's Sand Island homeless shelter into parking lot Health Beat: Cutting Corners with Primary Care Doctors Tax Credit Giveaway for Solar Battery Scammers City Charter Change Would Let Lobbyists Give More Gifts Don Horner Leaving Hawaii BOE Lawsuit: Homosexual Child Molester ‘Active in Gay Community’ Soft on Crime: 24 Priors Out on Street Allegedly Kills Farrington HS Football Player In wake of promotion controversy, HPD to name new assistant chief UFCW Pitches Unionized Cannabis Dispensaries HNL #1 for Runway Incursions Read More..

Wednesday, April 13, 2016 April 13, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:39 PM :: 3947 Views Full Text: Resigning Horner vs Martin–HECO vs HART Hawaii 2nd Highest Overall Tax Burden in USA Video: The Christian Heritage of the Hawaiian Kingdom Hawaii Featured in 2016 Congressional Pig Book Auditor: Kahoolawe Trust Fund Gone After 20 years Without a Plan State Revenues From Gambling: Short-Term Relief, Long-Term Disappointment After Horner Ouster, Rail Will Only Get Worse Hawaii High Taxes Killing the Poor—Literally Cigarette Tax Rejected GMOs: Trying to work with social justice warriors on the new left is like trying to wash your hands with crap DoE Siphons Ratepayers Taxes--Next Pot of Gold for Green Energy Schemers Batteries: Another $50M for Green Energy Schemers Scam Coming: House Passes Geothermal Shell Bill Legislators May Strip Millions Of Hotel Tax Dollars From Honolulu Lawmakers may soon create a task force to reform our grossly inadequate lobbying laws Billy Kenoi is a Sexist—Why Didn’t Anybody Say Anything Until Now? Bill Passes to Release 100s of Criminals so they can do it again The Wilding: Honolulu’s Last Experiment With Homeless Tent City Led to Stabbings, Robberies Homeless Refusing Shelter to be Cleared from State, HCDA Property English, Shimabukuro Push $95K Grass Huts for Homeless Airbnb Claims 10,000 TVRs in Hawaii Big Anti-Tobacco Bought off Hawaii County Council Chair? Hawaii product exports increase 31% in 2015 Officer acquitted in trial is under review by HPD Read More..

Tuesday, April 12, 2016 April 12, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 4:39 PM :: 4082 Views National Report Sees Hawaii Drop to 42nd in Economic Competitiveness Senator Sam Slom to Undergo Heart Surgery Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How They Voted April 11, 2016 ACLU: Legal Tools to Keep the Homeless, Homeless in Honolulu Rep Takai Again Calls for Military in Hawaii Reapportionment Slom hits Bad Bills—Reckless, Wasteful Legislation Don’t Let the Opt-Out of Common Core Testing Movement Fool You Rail: What are we going to do with this Turkey? One Down, One to Go:  Caldwell, Hanabusa Take Aim at Grabauskas US Hedge Fund Sues over Hitachi/Ansaldo deal SB2816: Clear Homeless Drug Addicts Out of Boat Harbors, Freeways Supreme Court decision could impact Hawaii election districts Pesticide Report Group Unravels DOT backs ferry feasibility study FORMER OHA TRUSTEE -  DONʻT RATIFY THE NA`I AUPUNI CONSTITUTION HPD fires recruits, reassigns officers after cheating scandal Missteps with Arnold will guide UH on Ganot raise Governor extends emergency period to prevent mosquito-borne illnesses Honolulu Middle Class Life Expectancy 3 Years Less than US Average Will ‘pot’ become too pricey? Some fear dispensaries will limit access and be cost-prohibitive Hawaii drug treatment centers see opiate addictions soar Hawaii DoE Targeted:  Parent Demands 2nd-Grade Tranny be Treated as Female Read More..

Monday, April 11, 2016 April 11, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:57 PM :: 3093 Views Rail Chaos in Honolulu Hawaii: Five Anti-Gun Bills Scheduled for Floor Votes This Week Legislative Deadlines: Second Decking, Third Reading First Head Rolls—Horner Resigns as HART Chair Rail Audit to be Released Friday Sand Island Homeless Center Moves Only 25 to Permanent Housing  ‘A Bum Job:’ Trust In Honolulu’s Police Commission Crumbles Institutionalized Fear: ‘Climate Change Office’ to be Written into Honolulu County Charter? Handy bill digest for Senate-side bills in Hawaii state legislature Money and Honorifics: Ige Gives Enviros What they Want Lawsuit: OSHA Office Overseeing Hawaii Buried Whistleblowers Lawsuit takes aim at HCC student fees Read More..

Sunday, April 10, 2016 April 10, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 4:12 PM :: 4284 Views Hawaii Fuel Tax: Schizophrenia in Motion Another $800M Shortfall for Rail PUC is 2-1 In Favor of Next Era? Ige has failed to lead state out of homelessness pickle Homeless shelter occupancy rates a lousy measure of success Sierra Club: Land Use Policy Must Serve Needs of Tourism Industry by Packing the Little People into the Smallest Possible Spaces New HMSA Plan – Pay Doctors More for Doing Less With $1.7B on the Line, HSTA Cranks up Heat Hype Again HECO Renewable Plan: Ratepayer Funded Smart Grid, Taxpayer Subsidized Electric Cars Hawaii wind turbines kill petrel, shearwater, nene and bats Bill to allow legislators to take jobs at UH goes to senators Read More..

Saturday, April 9, 2016 April 9, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:15 PM :: 3378 Views DoH: Marijuana Dispensary Selection May be Delayed NEM Lawsuits: Rooftop Solar companies will play only if the game is stacked in their favor 9th Circuit Says Hawaii Cannabis Church Bogarted Evidence Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review City Council Chose near impossible Dillingham Blvd. rail route Does DHHL Know What it is Doing? Telescope Techs Visit Mexico, Spain After Hawaii Rejection Cocaine use on rise but pot still tops list Economist on Kauai: Poisonous debates rage around pesticides and those using them Isle solar industry could reach cap by 2017 Hawaii Only State Without Excessive Lead in Water Four File for Open HD14 Seat Hawaii 5th Lowest In Fed Funding For Homeless Faculty No Confidence in KCC Chancellor Hawaii Air Guard and active-duty members are back from the fight Read More..

Friday, April 8, 2016 April 8, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 4:30 PM :: 3900 Views 9th Circuit Judges Consider Blocking Maui Hospital Privatization Ilagan: I Oppose Hawaii County GE Tax Hike No Specific Reason Ige Announces Nominees for Board of Education, Land Use Commission Caldwell, Omidyar Pressure North Carolina, Mississippi to Allow Trannies into Womens’ Bathrooms Secret Rail Audit Shows $250M Cost Overrun at Just One Station Hawaii Carbon Trading Scheme: Double Counting, Excessive Profits Top-Level deputy sheriffs headed to class because they lack law enforcement training Hawaii Hospitals: The reality is mostly gloomy Obamacare Rules force Competitors to Pay HMSA $15M – One Goes Bankrupt State-Owned Agriculture Scheme Worth $107M?  With Gay Inc Focused on Marriage and Trannies in the Bathroom, Everybody is Forgetting about AIDS Drug Addicts’ Camp Harasses Cyclists Kauai Marijuana dispensary applicant partners with UFCW Communist Acquitted Killer to be Honored by UH Manoa Today Drivers frustrated with months-long wait at the DMV Schatz: I Have No Solution for High Cost of Living in Hawaii Read More..

Thursday, April 7, 2016 Letters to the Editor, April, 2016 By Letters to the Editor @ 6:56 PM :: 4672 Views Ilagan: I Oppose Hawaii County GE Tax Hike Read More..

Thursday, April 7, 2016 April 7, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:32 PM :: 4506 Views Power Struggle: OHA Chair Robert Lindsey Hospitalized After Stroke Senator Sam Slom Undergoes Hospital Testing Full Text: State Supreme Court Decides to allow Koa Ridge to be Built What Does Evenwel v. Abbott Mean For "One Person, One Vote?" The Future of Farming on Maui Guam Can't Duck Suit Over Native Land Grab Does Legalizing Marijuana Mean You Can Drive Stoned? Hawaii Tax Freedom Day April 19 GAO: Hawaii’s COFA migrant cost math inaccurate Honolulu Police Commission Explains How it Pretends to Not Know About FBI Kealoha Investigation Blue Flu: Police Sickout Protests Overtime Piggybacking Crackdown No Re-Branding the HPD’s Crazy Criminal Wrongdoing Sandwich Isles Can’t Shake Taint of Criminal Al Hee Pot of Gold: Caldwell, Council Continue to Grab for Homeless Funding A Cool Million Was Spent Lobbying Hawaii Lawmakers In Two Months English, Sakai Enjoy Communist-Funded Junket During Session Zika Coming: What Will Anti-Pesticide Activists Do Then? HB2707: Nurses Can Certify Dopers in Hawaii Why The Presidential Race Is Not That Relevant To Our Lives Read More..

Wednesday, April 6, 2016 April 6, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 4:22 PM :: 3773 Views USDA on Dengue Mosquito Eradication -- Organic Farms Will NOT Lose Certification SB2954: Hawaii to Join FBI Biometric Database? UH Professors Banned from Sex with Students Rule Changes: DHHL Releases Beneficiary Consultation Report Rail officials: Tax extension may not be enough to cover project's rising costs Hawaii County Council Sets Hearing for GE Tax Hike Hawaii Needs State-Run Presidential Primary Telescope: Did State take Shortcuts or are the Judges Just Making it up as they go Along? HB2501 Secretly Amended to Strip Water from HC&S SB2559: Performance Contracts for Homeless Shelters Entire State Runs on Temporary Hires Honolulu Zoo Tangled up in Caldwell’s Red Tape Kenoi Speech to Kona Chamber-Nobody Asks about Criminal Charges Scheming to Grab More SPED Megabucks, DoE Pushes ‘Inclusion’—Claims Everybody Agrees DoE: $1.7B to Cover Hot Schools Hype Police reform measures Pass House Finance Committee Oahu judge will preside over case involving Hawaii County Mayor Billy Kenoi Star-Advertiser Sues to Keep Court Records Open to the Public Push is on For Massive Property Tax Hike Read More..

Tuesday, April 5, 2016 April 5, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 4:49 PM :: 4699 Views Taxpayer Return on Investment: Hawaii Ranks 48th Evenwel Ruling: States May, not Must, Count Everyone In Reapportionment Ige Boosts DHHL Funding to $23.5M–Still Short of Court Order Auditor: Every Special Fund Proposed in 2016 Legislature out of Compliance Full Text: Honolulu Issues 2016 Citizen-Centric Report College Readiness: How did your school Do? Report Shows City Ethics Director Suspended for Exposing Illegal Rail Votes Aiona, Carlisle, Martin, Caldwell for Mayor, 2016? Caldwell, Martin Pretend to be Concerned About Mounting Rail Costs Star-Adv: We Will Start Covering Kealoha Grand Jury Investigation Kauai: Anti-Antis Show up in Force HB2501: Bill Saving Maui Ag Water Heading for Conference Committee Students Not Fooled by UH Tuition Hike Sales Pitch Hawaii County Employees Rack up $13.2M Overtime as Retirement Approaches Hawaii Smart Grids: Smart Investments or a Smart Diversion Hawaii Bill would Allow Police to Clear Meth Addicts’ Camps off State Property Proposal would bolster mental health services for chronically homeless Visitor to women's prison beat up inmates when Guard Accused of Drug-Smuggling left post HPD Officer Accused of DUI Hit n Run Hawaii is Last ‘Easy’ State for Paid Family Leave Read More..

Monday, April 4, 2016 April 4, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:48 PM :: 4931 Views Charges: Kenoi Tampering, Lying Criminal: Hee’s Company Asks DHHL to Certify it to Receive Federal Megabucks Evenwel Unanimous State Defense Department Salaries PR Hype on HECO $340M ‘Smart’ Grid Plan Hawaii Gas slashes LNG costs by a third Kauai Council Decides to Keep Island Traffic Jammed Hawaii’s Trifecta of GMO Cases May Be Heard By Appeals Court In June Surfrider Sewage Scheme to Stop Dairy Farm? Read More..

Sunday, April 3, 2016 April 3, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 8:19 PM :: 4136 Views Low Real Property Tax Is a Bad Thing? State Saves $32M by refinancing general obligation bonds After Sanders: Will Progressives Re-Take Control of Hawaii Democratic Party? Sanders Vote: ‘A true cross-section of Kauai, heavily populated by healers, anti-GMO activists, anti-vaccine partisans’ ‘Stop the Bleeding’: After Rail Tax Hike, Another $695M Shortfall Announced HART Schemes to Make Middle Street Cut off Impossible Superferry, Telescope, Next Era Telescope Protesters Protest Way Hearing Officer Selected PHOCUSED Using Homeless to Grub for Money in Legislature DLNR Backs Small Boat Harbor Privatization Bill Counties push to increase share of transient accommodations tax revenue Thanks to Rep Andria Tupola, DoT Finally Getting Around to Solving Nanakuli Traffic Jam Hawaii DoE Has Most Counselors Per Capita of Any School District Latest Eco-Hype for the Gullible: Radar Destroys Reefs Read More..

Saturday, April 2, 2016 April 2, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 8:54 PM :: 4125 Views Who’s Running: Candidates Pulling Papers as of April 1, 2016 DLNR Finally Gets Around to Appointing Mauna Kea Hearing Officer For California Teacher Taking on Unions, Supreme Court Ruling Isn’t the End of Her Case SB 2618: Ferry Feasibility Study HB2707: Last Chance to Testify on Marijuana Omnibus Package Economist: GE Taxes Favor Big Business Valuing the Jones Act Fleet Hawaii Family Advocates Legislative Week in Review Republican Appointments to Hawaii State Boards and Commissions Dubanoski Appointed to Judicial Selection Commission Northern Mariana Judge Strikes Down Last Handgun Ban in USA Hawaii Urged to Prepare for Zika at CDC Summit ‘Evidence of Corruption’ -- Federal grand jury looking at HPD chief, wife Embattled police department spending $100K to improve image Rally for Marsy’s Law Big Island judges won’t hear Kenoi case What really happened at the ʻAha, part IV HECO Pipedream: 21% of Renewables from Rusting Offshore Wind Junk Wahiawa Hospital hard-Hit by Medicare Pay Cuts, MD Shortage Anti-GMO Activists Exploit Parents of Autistic Children Will Hawaii’s Tuna Fleet be Shut Down Again? Road extension could bring historical Ewa train rides to an end Read More..

Friday, April 1, 2016 April 1, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 4:42 PM :: 4296 Views Marsy’s Law for Crime Victims Rights: Rally at Capitol Friday The Biggest Fruit Ever Grown in Hawaii Feds Gain Control over 157,000 Acres in Maui County Interior Department Funding ‘Self-Determination’ in US Virgin Islands HTA: Visitor Spending up 1.2% for February Tutu Bert’s House to serve Homeless Discharged from Queen’s Hospital Jones Act Exemption Missing from Puerto Rico Relief Bill Hawaiian Electric Proposes $340M Rate Hike, Blames Smart Grids Honolulu officers testify before grand jury investigating police chief, wife State letting TMT slip away Borreca: After Ige Loses TMT, Big Island Will Turn Against Him Hawaii County Council to mull 12.5% GE Tax Hike  ASUH calls for Jones Act exemption Hawaii Democrats ‘Discover’ Yet Another Superdelegte to give to Hillary 80% of Maui Residents will get Zika 0.3% of Homeless Using Hygiene Center Accept Housing Referral Hawaii County: Next Era Merger Fails to Protect Ratepayers Another Act221 Tax Credit Company Failing Caldwell Plants to Fire TVR Inspectors, Blames Council “Kirk Caldwell, please sit down” On Leave With Pay After Sex Assault Charge, Maui Teacher Now Charged with ‘sexting’ to juvenile 385 Laid off as Yet Another Hotel Goes Condo Read More..