Entries for April 2026

1. Complete Debunk: UHERO Tries and Fails to Make the Case Against LNG
2. AG Releases Hawaii Firearm Registration Numbers
3. Green:  I cannot leave Hawaii with Luke as LG
4. Cost of Living vs Income: “When you adjust for prices Hawaiʻi is sitting right alongside West Virginia and Mississippi.”
5. Legislators Bicker Over How Much to Raise Taxes
6. Airports Division Gets Another $7 Billion to Play With
7. Coconut Island Becomes $20M Boondoggle And Years-Long Plan
8. Honolulu City Council to OK $17M COVID-era hazard pay for bus workers
9. Lawmakers moving to slash city vehicle tax by 75%?
10. State agribusiness agency to vote on acquiring Wahiawā dam and spillway
11. SB2140: Help Carpenters Union Get Tighter Grip on Contractors
12. Hawaiʻi Police Union Officials Got Pay Raises Without Approval
13. Laie woman pleads guilty to assault in adopted daughter’s death—could get ‘time served’
14. Hawaii A+ program registration to open with new fees
15. PGA Tour’s 2027 Season to Skip Hawaii?
16. HECO Hiding Solar Failure During Kona Low Storms

1. Youth activists try to revive suit over Trump fossil fuel policies
2. Finalists named for 2026 Hawaiʻi Island appointment to UH Board of Regents
3. Green Appoints Ratcliffe for HD28
4. Will Lawyers get 33% of Maui wildfire settlement?
5. SB1166: Screwed out of Subrogation, Let Lahaina Fire Insurers ‘Sue Big Oil’
6. Appeals court questions Hawaii’s climate tax on cruises
7. Hawaii off-site construction bill advances toward final passage
8. HECO’s $1 Billion Power Project Is (suddenly) In A Flood Zone
9. Still Pretending Thirty Meter Telescope could be built on Mauna Kea
10. Kauaʻi Voters Mandated A Watchdog. Auditor Seat Has Sat Empty For 11 Years
11. Lahaina’s Lessons For Kona Low Recovery
12. Hawaii's Kona low storm damage becomes excuse for tax hikes
13. $111M Boondoggle: Progressives trying to brainwash Little Kids into Thinking there is Such a thing as a Free Lunch
14. Scofflaws Ignore $15M of Parking Tickets
15. Hawaii's Aviation Fuel Problem: A Fragile Lifeline We Can't Afford to Ignore
16. Six-time loser allegedly pointed laser at FBI aircraft

1. Eminent Domain: State Owes $7M and Counting for Maalaea Boatyard
2. Worst Place to Start a Business? Six Hawaii Towns Ranked
3. Better Consumer Protection needed regarding the disposition of surgical implants following cremation in Hawaii
4. Soft on Crime:  Cock Fight Shooter free on the street with Ankle Monitor – busted with ghost gun during Club Brawl
5. Fatal Work Accident Exposes Illegal Immigration in Hawaii
6. Precisely as Planned, Bogus Water Moratorium Kills Maui Housing Project
7. SB3218 / SB3219: ‘Tax Increment Financing’ to Pay for Aloha Stadium Infrastructure?
8. Residency bottleneck drives exodus of doctors
9. More Hawaiʻi Students Are Prepped For College. Will They Attend?
10. What's in a chee hoo?

Better Consumer Protection needed regarding the disposition of surgical implants following cremation in Hawaii

1. What the New “Family Structure Index” Reveals About Hawai‘i
2. How building new homes benefits everyone
3. Storm Damage Not a Valid Excuse for Tax Hikes
4. Change Energy Policy to Improve Hawaii's Economy
5. Conveyance Tax Fright
6. Lawsuit Coming over Long Lines on Election Day?
7. Schatz Ranks #6 for political f-bombs
8. SB3028: Legislators ‘Affordable’ Housing Idea—A Tax on Housing
9. HB1769:  Boost Overcrowding of Hawaii’s prisons to Bring Federal Intervention
10. Ready for Storms? The unctuous sheen of make-good publicity for city and state leaders
11. 16 Years Later: Reps Belatti and Souza Still Pretending to Try to ‘Abolish Corporate Personhood’
12. Green Names Two to UH Board of Regents
13. BETA reaches deal for electric aircraft in Hawaii

1. $35K Bribe: AG Runs Down Clock with Another Useless Biweekly Update on 'Investigation'
2. Election 2026: 263 Candidates Pull Papers to Run
3. Otake Camp Evacuation Ordered Again
4. Jones Act waiver is ‘tacit admission’ law needs to be reformed
5. Property tax changes would help Kauai farmers and ranchers
6. Mass Transit Killed by COVID:  Ridership stuck at 81% of 2019
7. Campaign Spending Commission trying to find an investigator to look into Lt. Gov. Luke’s 2022 accounting
8. Storm prep pays off in Waialua on Oahu's North Shore
9. Tax Hike News: Green Claims Hawaii Tourism Revenue off $300M Following Kona Low Storms

1. Progressives in Washington, California, and Hawaii want to squeeze the wealthy
2. Military families argue injuries from Hawaii jet fuel water crisis weren't service-related
3. Senate Approves Nominees for Three District Judgeships
4. City Council raises run amok
5. Legislators to Increase Taxes on Housing?
6. Hawaii ‘Green Fee’ Case to Test Limits of Federal Involvement
7. SR111: Working Group to Help Eco-Shysters Rack up Big Fees Suing Big Oil
8. California Greenies Drive Profit for Par Pacific Refinery
9. PGA Tour restructuring threatens pro golf events in Hawaii
10. HB1618: Zombie Bill To Help Hawaiʻi Convert Cesspools?
11. COVID-19 fraud case is possibly resolved

1. FEMA Outlines Procedures to Evict Lahaina Fire Survivors
2. Trump Approves Kona Low Disaster Declaration
3. How to Find Stream Gauge Levels Across Hawaii
4. WAM Approves Senate Version of Budget
5. Cut State Jobs, Keep (some) Tax Cuts? Hawaiʻi Senate Makes Budget Pitch for a Smaller Tax Hike
6. HPH-HMSA deal seeks regulatory approval
7. Hawaiʻi Law Enforcement Director Wants To Return To HPD after being screwed by Sen Elefante
8. Honolulu firefighters ratify $11.7M COVID hazard pay
9. HB1769: Legislators want other criminals brought back to Hawaii in scheme to force mass releases of thousands of criminals onto the streets

1. Hawaii climate litigation drives higher utility bills
2. Destruction of Evidence: Convicted Hawaiʻi Lawmaker's Emails Were Deleted When He Left Office
3. Kona Low 3: Will DEM get it right on the 3^rd Try?
4. SBA Targets 8(a) Fraud in Latest Audit Plan
5. Sugimura, as Council Budget Committee chair, calls for fiscal discipline amid rising costs of living
6. Legislators Tinker With ‘Affordable’ Housing Rules
7. HB1645: Hawaiʻi Child Welfare Nonprofits Say It’s Too Easy To Sue Them
8. Military firearm policy shift raises questions for Hawaiʻi bases
9. Honolulu victim comes forward against former Tripler OBGYN facing criminal charges

1. Hawaii joins states suing to force EPA to continue CO2 regulation
2. How 'Progressives' Took Over House to Reverse Tax Cuts
3. SB2602: UH System Hoards $429M in Special Funds
4. Salary Commission advances 4.7% pay boost for city officials, Council
5. Lifelong Criminal Caught Again in Ocean View—already released
6. SB2721:  Keep more Meth-heads out of jail and on the streets
7. Early Education Bill Gutted, Replaced With School Leadership Restrictions
8. Campaign Spending Commission questioned over enforcement
9. The Biggest Renewable Energy and GHG Lies Aren't Denials— It's the Math
10. Join Employers Working to Make Hawai'i Affordable
11. Vacation Rental Owners Could Face New Hawaiʻi County Rules

1. Hawaii Ranks Worst for School Bus Safety
2. HB2413: Bail reform bill will let most criminals right back out again and again
3. Kauai County: Building Homes with an Eyedropper
4. SB2024: P3 to reduce Hawaii School Construction Costs?
5. Maui oceanfront condo damaged by 2025 flood did not survive 2026 storm. Owners association blames county inaction
6. HB1655: Legal Representation for Foster Kids?
7. Hawaii:  State With The Most Expensive Cup Of Coffee By A Long Shot
8. Hawaiʻi Banned Plastic Foam Food Containers. Are Bodyboards Next?
9. DoE: 200 cafeterias without budgets, cost controls, reliable financial data, or accountability

1. Additional Car Tax Dead for Now
2. Following the golden rule … of budgeting
3. USDA Announces SNAP Food Replacement for victims of KONA Low 2 Storm
4. Hawaii Woman Sentenced for Lahaina Fire Fraud
5. COVID Fraud: Former USDA Official Pleads Guilty to Receiving an Illegal Gratuity
6. Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
7. Hawaiʻi residents are simultaneously being priced out and left behind
8. HB1518: Help Criminals Get EBT Cards Fast and Easy
9. Aloha Stadium Project Run by Same Geniuses who kept the Capitol Reflecting Pool Leaking for all those years
10. Hawaii’s 2026 election includes few high-profile challenges
11. Is Tulsi next to be Fired? 
12. SB2471:  Just another stupid, unconstitutional ‘End Corporate Personhood’ Scam
13. The Department Of Justice is Suing Hawaii and other States For Sensitive Voter Data
14. SB2580: More than $50M annual film industry incentives
15. HB2033: Traffic cams to cite expired safety check, registration

1. WSJ: “Hawaii Democrats are trying to silence opponents so unions can coerce workers to keep funding progressive political causes”
2. Defacto Eminent Domain: Maui County prepares land buyback roll out for Lahaina
3. 2024 election question to be resolved after 2026 election
4. Loud rides create louder debate over Hawaii noise cameras
5. Drunk Driver sentenced to so-called ‘15 years’ for fatal crash that killed mother and daughter

1. Hawaii's Good Friday Holiday - What's Up With That?
2. Green Names Andy Winer's Law Partner Chief Justice
3. Honolulu DMV Recalls '4-MAGA' License Plate
4. Hawaii bill to ban commercial reef fishing stalls
5. Election 2026: 251 Candidates Pull Papers to Run
6. City Office of Economic Revitalization was just a Scam to Burn up COVID Money
7. HB2049: Another Massive Tax Increase on Housing
8. Honolulu City Council considers COVID-era hazard pay for bus workers
9. Hawaiʻi School Contract Failures Triggered Holdup Of $30M+ For Meals
10. Trump polled advisers about replacing Tulsi Gabbard as intelligence chief

1. HECO: Electric Bills Will Jump 30%
2. Pacific Air Force: $37M Fraud Scheme Paid 'Godfather'
3. When Healthcare Feels Like an Ocean Away
4. Complete List: 2026 High School Graduation Ceremonies
5. SB3055: Censor Union Opt-Out Efforts
6. After-the-Storm-The-Hidden-Threat-to-Hawaii’s-Homes
7. Floods – Just Like Lahaina: Calls to 911 Ignored by Emergency Operations Management
8. Convention Center Money Spins out of Control
9. With ‘Provider Tax’ Scam Ended by OBBBA, what next for Medicaid?
10. North Shore Oahu businesses urge visitors to return after storms
11. SB2761: Teen Social Media Bill Killed

1. SCOTUS Overturns Ban on so-called 'Gay Conversion Therapy'
2. Case: Jones Act Waiver 'shines spotlight on the crippling effects of the Jones Act on the cost of living'
3. EPA Concludes Drinking Water Has Been Free of Fuel Contamination Since 2022, in Wake of Red Hill Release
4. In Hawaii trial, Navy fights claim of ongoing fuel spill risk
5. Green Names Judges for Kauai, Maui
6. Hawaii Voters to Receive Voter Registration Notices Ahead of 2026 Elections
7. 30% Increase About To Show Up In Your Electric Bill
8. Solar Lobby Desperately Flails Away at LNG because LNG is cheap and clean
9. Hawaii officials eye lawsuit to overturn Trump Election Order
10. Carpenters Union Paying for Kawakami Commercials
11. Another 8(a) Bribery Scandal: Texas man charged in alleged military IT bid-rigging scheme in Hawaii
12. Missing Members and Muscle, Hawaiʻi County Ethics Board Struggles To Function
13. 9th Circuit rejects Stancil appeal
14. Maui Police Department employee arrested for alleged off-duty sexual assault
15. Hawaii still awaits word on Presidential Disaster Declaration request
16. Who says “Honolulu wants an anti-ICE police chief?”
17. The budget that doesn't grow
18. Hokulani Elementary moves to Palolo, Aliiolani for the rest of school year due to storm damage