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Sunday, May 31, 2026
May 31, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:49 AM :: 1435 Views
  1. Federal Justice: Hawaii County ‘affordable’ housing official took $1.9M Bribes--sentenced to nearly 4 years in prison
  2. Lawmakers choose innovation over red tape
  3. Hawaiʻi Funding Project: Making the Flow of Tax Dollars into Hawaiʻi Visible
  4. Legislative Wrapup: Two wins for housing
  5. Our Big Tax Bill Act
  6. Bill 88: Maui Council Pretends to Undo Bill 9 Theft of TVRs
  7. 'Deferred Maintenance' Hawaii's Billion-Dollar Challenge
  8. PRP Floods Zone with Kawakami Ads
  9. Hawaii Democrats select new party chair, as ordered
  10. 2022 Republican Gubernatorial Candidate BJ Penn found mentally fit to stand trial
  11. Honolulu Ethics Comm finds new way to Skirt Ethics Law
  12. Octogenarian sues Honolulu over $600,000 fines
  13. Civil Beat Runs Fluff Piece on Maoist Professional Protester
  14. UH commits $5M in student-athlete pay despite failure at Legislature
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Saturday, May 30, 2026
May 30, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:18 AM :: 1198 Views
  1. Election 2026: 391 Candidates Pull Papers to Run--239 File  -- Deadline Tues June 2
  2. Stay Informed with Ballot Notifications
  3. Longshot Democrat Congressional Candidate Pulled Gun On Maui County Workers
  4. Hawaii Democratic Party convention underway in Waikiki
  5. Kula Hospital patients evacuated -- scramble to relocate
  6. Hawaii DOTAX Targets short-term rentals over TAT
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Friday, May 29, 2026
May 29, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 10:47 AM :: 1187 Views
  1. Monopoly Gatekeepers: HMSA, Kaiser Sneak Back onto Prepaid Health Care Advisory Council
  2. OHA Trustees Reject Plan to Buy KITV
  3. Vassilis Syrmos recommended as UH Mānoa chancellor
  4. April 2026 Visitor Spending Increased Despite Fewer Visitor Arrivals
  5. Belatti Drops Bid For Congress To Run For Lieutenant Governor
  6. Puna Murders Raise Questions About Restraining Order Process
  7. Druggies Denied Gun Permits Over Medical Marijuana In Hawaii
  8. End to Solar Tax Credits Makes Solar Lobby Scream
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Thursday, May 28, 2026
May 28, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 9:27 AM :: 4290 Views
  1. Hawaii’s “Paper Bag” Corruption Case - Keli’i Akina interviews Alexander Silvert
  2. Hawaii AG decides against joining Medicaid fraud roundtable at White House
  3. Hawaii AG Leads Opposition to 'Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act'
  4. Star-Adv: "Stop this investigation before you catch more crooks!” 
  5. Push for renewed look at legislative corruption petition
  6. Why Housing Affordability Progress Stalls Out In Hawaiʻi
  7. Hawaii's Wildfire Liability Cap— A High Bar That Protects No One — and Who's Whispering in the PUC's Ear?
  8. Hawaii bill quadruples tax-deductible savings for first-time homebuyers
  9. State to execute master development agreement around stadium
  10. Teens Suing Kamehameha Didn’t Have Scores To Get In, Lawyer Says
  11. ‘Disproportionate Punishment’ for Tourist Who Threw Rocks at Endangered Seal in Hawaii?
  12. TROs Denied Before Puna Killing Spree, Manhunt
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Wednesday, May 27, 2026
May 27, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 9:24 AM :: 1803 Views
  1. Choi: Pay to Play is Issue in Lt Gov Race
  2. Catch and Release: 0.2% of HPD Misdemeanor Arrests held after 72 hours
  3. DPP Average Delay on Affordable Housing Projects -- 661 Days
  4. Hawaii Transsexual Activists Get a Grip on 800 Children—offer ‘real connection with adult’
  5. Gays Frustrated over Choice for Democratic Party Chair
  6. Just as County begins Forcibly Removing Lunatics from Streets, Legislature Eliminates Funding for Place to Put Them
  7. LNG is best viable clean energy option
  8. Low response to questionnaire plagues Hawaii fuel spill registry
  9. State Farm ending hurricane coverage for single-wall rental homes
  10. Department of Education new cell phone policy
  11. Hawaii AG snubs Vance's White House anti-fraud roundtable
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Tuesday, May 26, 2026
May 26, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:37 AM :: 1863 Views
  1. Hawaii Joins the Brigade of Blue States Socking It to the Rich
  2. Privacy protections are key to establishing public trust in mileage-based user fees
  3. KIUC 2nd Highest in State in Renewable Generation for 2025
  4. $110K Pay Cut: HMSA Whipsaws Doctors to Push Them into HPH
  5. Oahu traffic cameras would increase under bill before Green
  6. City-owned plantation homes crumbling in Ewa Villages
  7. Chronic No Shows And Tardiness Plague Hawaiʻi County Council
  8. Hawaiʻi Ranchers Selling Cattle to Mainland In Record Numbers
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Monday, May 25, 2026
May 25, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:15 AM :: 1534 Views
  1. Spy v Spy: Gabbard Bumbling Led to Ouster, or …
  2. Half-Baked ‘Stop Corporate Personhood’ Bill will have to be Amended Next Year
  3. Anti-ICE Measure for November Ballot Pointless?
  4. SB903: OHA Renews Progress Towards Big Pile of Money
  5. Value of private building permits decreases 33.5%
  6. Health Officials Are Perplexed By Hawaiʻi Snorkeling Deaths
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Sunday, May 24, 2026
May 24, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 12:04 PM :: 6904 Views
  1. Children's Rights: Hawaii Ranks 48th
  2. A good lesson in curtailing government growth
  3. Case, Tokuda Introduce Measure To Crack Down On Interstate Trafficking Of Illegal Fireworks
  4. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted May 22, 2026
  5. Changes to the Solar Credit
  6. Hawaii Among First to Adopt 'Trump IRA' Accounts
  7. Addressing Hawaii’s affordability crisis
  8. County Councils: Taxes on Agenda Right Now
  9. Corruption: Thickening Plot Closes in on Green
  10. Green Claims ‘No Involvement’ in Crooked COVID Testing Contracts
  11. Leadership Turmoil – With Yamane Chased out by COVID Crookedness, Four Top Execs gone from Child Welfare System
  12. Keith Kaneshiro Demands City Pay Cost of his Criminal Defense
  13. OHA to buy KITV?
  14. Veterans want a voice in lantern floating ceremony
  15. Political Pundits Pontificate On The 2026 Elections
  16. Sand Island: The Multi-Billion Dollar Question
  17. Honolulu Ethics Commission Violating Ethics Law?
  18. North Shore homeowners fined nearly $2M for shoreline barriers
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Saturday, May 23, 2026
May 23, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 10:14 AM :: 2636 Views
  1. Election 2026: 353 Candidates Pull Papers to Run--171 File
  2. Bayan-USA Activists Died Fighting for Filipino Communists
  3. $35K Bribe: AG Issues Another Update
  4. Legislature: 22 bills affecting small businesses the most
  5. BLS: Business Employment Dynamics in Hawaii
  6. Passed over for HPD chief, Mike Lambert says he will not be Lazar’s Deputy Chief—ready to return as beat cop
  7. “What makes Lazar so ‘special’?”
  8. What’s Gabbard’s Next Move?
  9. Solar/Diesel Industry Activists go crazy over plan to import liquefied natural gas to Oahu
  10. HECO installing sturdier replacement poles in Lahaina, with plans for limited underground lines
  11. How corrupt is Hawai‘i?
  12. Hawaii tax increment financing bills advance to ballot
  13. UH students and faculty speak out against 'time, place and manner' policies
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Friday, May 22, 2026
May 22, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 9:38 AM :: 2379 Views
  1. Green Signs Massive Tax Hike Into Law--Immediately Spends it to Boost Welfare Payments
  2. TikTok attempts to duck Hawaii child safety lawsuit
  3. Price-Rigging: Feds Bust Chinese Shipping Container Manufacturers
  4. Tulsi Gabbard resigns from Trump Cabinet
  5. Gabbard Obviously Quitting Because of Iran War
  6. Soft-on Crime Crowd Lying About OCCC Replacement
  7. Legislators Give HSTA Pay Raises Without Trading for Any Reforms to Crumbling DoE
  8. COR Sees Near-Term Boost in Hawaiʻi Tax Collections
  9. Hawaii Co Council holds public meeting on proposed property tax rates
  10. Hawai’i’s Working Families Need LNG for Lower Electric Bills
  11. Developer wading into regulatory waters for proposed Oahu LNG power plant
  12. Kalapapa Patient Dies, Only Two Left
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Thursday, May 21, 2026
May 21, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:35 PM :: 1817 Views
  1. Meet Your new Chief: David Lazar and Chesa Boudin—a timeline
  2. Anti-ICE San Franciscan Lazar to be Next Honolulu Chief
  3. Case closed: Hawaii officials pay up for unconstitutional censorship of political memes
  4. Hawaii AG Releases Firearm 'Concealed Carry' Statistics
  5. Hawaii Convention Center Bans Off-Duty Police Officers From Carrying Firearms
  6. Federal Jury Convicts Hanapepe Man of Producing, Receiving, and Possessing Child Pornography
  7. Green Signs Automatic Young Brother Rate Increases into Law
  8. Homeless solution starts with compassion, accountability (and it will be ended only by force)
  9. Point-in-Time Count 2026 shows Oahu homelessness shifting toward shelters
  10. New Homes — Even Expensive Ones — Help Everyone
  11. Family of man killed in Hawaii Island crash says death was preventable
  12. Planned Parenthood to Offer Abortion pills "just in case" in Hawaii, Washington
  13. The Trump Trap
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Wednesday, May 20, 2026
May 20, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 10:07 AM :: 2782 Views
  1. VIDEO: Hawaii COVID Schemers ‘Caught Inside’
  2. Feds Bust Guam Scammers--$10M Rip-off hit Shriners Hospital
  3. Another Big Fish: $35K Bribery Investigation Bags Ryan Yamane, Resigns as DHS Director
  4. Yamane Bribery Focused on $170M for COVID Testing in HB2392 of 2022?
  5. No Honor Amongst Thieves:  Solidum Fled Country with $7M owed to ‘Capture’
  6. HB2592: Maunakea authority has 2 years to fail—then telescope area goes back to UH control
  7. SHOPO: 90% Support Lambert for Chief
  8. Permitting Delays Squelch Solar
  9. Spotlight Now: Exploring Hawaii’s economy from strain to solutions
  10. “Nepotism, conflicts of interest and auditing” Council considers new requirements for profitable nonprofits
  11. DHHL Considers Tolls For Mauna Kea Access Road
  12. Charter Amendment Would Pull Power Away From Hawaiʻi County Mayor
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Tuesday, May 19, 2026
May 19, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 9:19 AM :: 2005 Views
  1. Sentry Tourney News: Free Private Jet to Green Bay for Bissen Admin Official?
  2. Maui County to Allow Some factory-built housing in Lahaina Burn Zone
  3. County to Buy West Maui Water System from ML&P
  4. ‘Criminal Organization’ vs ‘Gross Mismanagement’: Honolulu City Council OKs $350K to defend HART against Hitachi litigation
  5. Hawaii governor considers pausing gas taxes
  6. Crisis teams use new law to force 60 mentally ill homeless into treatment on Oahu
  7. Tour of problems at Oahu Community Correctional Center
  8. Failing Upwards: BoE Nominates Fired Principal for Charter School Commission
  9. Consolidated Water: $204M Kalaeloa Desal Project Delays Have Crushed Sentiment
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Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Letters to the Editor May, 2026
By Letters to the Editor @ 12:31 AM :: 3112 Views
  • SB2471 Abolishes Right to Form Political Parties
  • Pause Fuel Tax?
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Monday, May 18, 2026
May 18, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 9:07 AM :: 2088 Views
  1. DHS at Center of Secret Multi-Million Dollar Medicaid Fraud Case – sealed by Court
  2. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted May 15, 2026
  3. EPA Rejects Plan to Shut Power Plants in Kahului and Hilo
  4. SB2471 Doomed in Court: Undermines free Speech, freedom of Association
  5. Homelessness drops 91% as City Forces Bums out of Waikiki core
  6. SB2108: Make it even harder to try juvenile felons as adults
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Sunday, May 17, 2026
May 17, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:16 AM :: 2502 Views
  1. Tax Bills: Follow the Yellow Brick Road
  2. JSC Seeks Nominees for Supreme Court Justice
  3. Kauai Suit Challenges Delays in Gun Permits
  4. More housing reforms for Hawaii
  5. Priced Out of Paradise: The housing crisis in Hawaii
  6. Star-Adv: Hawaii Medicaid fraud enforcement ‘worst in the nation’—has been for years
  7. Property tax hikes eyed: Hawaii County faces $15 million budget deficit
  8. Corporate personhood bill just a distraction from latest Legislative Bribery Scandal
  9. HB1961: Abortion Clinic Protest bill raises free speech debate
  10. Retaliation:  Soft on Crime Rep Tarnas Gets Payback
  11. Only 3% of our housing has been built since 2010
  12. Hawaiʻi Republicans: We Need The 'Trump People' To Turn Out The Vote
  13. Mainland Honolulu Police Chief ‘Candidate’ Investigated In Georgia Over Conduct
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Saturday, May 16, 2026
May 16, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:00 AM :: 2302 Views
  1. Hawaii Ranks 44th for Financial Transparency
  2. Can Philip Morris blame smokers for addiction? Hawaii high court weighs in  
  3. Election 2026: 333 Candidates Pull Papers to Run
  4. Maui fire survivors to see settlement money, but ‘not better off,’ economist says
  5. $100M per Year Gravy Train Ending: Solar Industry Threatens Lawsuit
  6. SB3025: State to buy out Deadbeat Medical Bills
  7. Prosecutors: HPD Justified In Suicide By Cop Shooting
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Friday, May 15, 2026
May 15, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 10:46 AM :: 3084 Views
  1. AG: Feds Investigated our Medicaid Fraud Prosecutions in April
  2. Green Signs 'Corporate Personhood' Bill into Law
  3. Green: "A Vision for Hawaii's Future"
  4. Hawaiʻi outlook darkens amid oil surge, rising costs
  5. EBT users spend only $339K at Farmers Markets
  6. Lawsuit: Medicaid Fraud Prosecutor Forced Out by Connors
  7. Why Lahaina will not be rebuilt by 2033
  8. Mafia News: ILWU Endorses Drug Dealer’s Son for Legislature
  9. Hawaii 2025 drug overdose deaths: More Meth, Less Fentanyl
  10. Maui Council Races Could Reshape Power Balance
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Thursday, May 14, 2026
May 14, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 9:37 AM :: 2428 Views
  1. VP Vance: Hawaii has 'not taken Medicaid fraud seriously'
  2. Point-in-Time: More Sister-Isle Homeless on Streets as Fewer Accept Shelter
  3. Hawaii National Guard Closing Hilo Challenge Academy
  4. Lambert: I warned HPD about Fake DUI Arrests
  5. Geothermal to Provide Millions for DHHL?
  6. Hawaii vs. Citizens United - The Atlantic is fooled
  7. Hamada: Lawmakers saved the tax cuts with a "tax the rich" increase
  8. Agribusiness Development Corp. can use eminent domain for ag under new bill
  9. Emails show Patel trip included 'VIP snorkel' at Pearl Harbor memorial
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Wednesday, May 13, 2026
May 13, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 11:50 AM :: 2823 Views
  1. Green Raids GEMS to Fund Condo Association Loans
  2. DBEDT Releases New Report Highlighting Economic Ties with Japan
  3. SB2471: Free Speech Under Fire
  4. Navatek Fraudster's Hopes Lay with State Supreme Court
  5. Kapaa Woman Sentenced for COVID Fraud
  6. Kawakami vs Choi for Lieutenant Governor?
  7. HPD chief finalist Mike Lambert: “HPD doesn’t necessarily want to be something else. The officers want to get back to where they were.”
  8. SB2694: Hawaii lawmakers pave way for regular Young Brothers rate hikes
  9. SB2471 Just a Semantic Trick
  10. Will Hawaiʻi Consumers Benefit From HMSA-HPH Partnership?
  11. Hawaii Legislature passes laws creating infrastructure finance tool
  12. SB2061 could resume Hawaii's 99-year leasehold housing pilot
  13. Hawaii sticks with its mail-in voting system despite Trump’s (so-called) ‘order’
  14. HSTA, HGEA Bicker over $5M Apprenticeship Grant
  15. Bill 34: New Flood Zone Maps Set to Immediately Increase Cost of Construction
  16. Respite centers for sick, injured homeless could close after lawmakers cut funding
  17. Doctor Accused Of Fertility Fraud. In Hawaiʻi, No Law Prevents It
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Tuesday, May 12, 2026
May 12, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 10:09 AM :: 3413 Views
  1. Dope in Vending Machines? Complaint Alleges Honolulu Liquor Commission Does Nothing to Shut Down ‘ballsiest drug op in recent memory’
  2. SB2471 Abolishes Right to Form Political Parties
  3. Hawaiʻi County Issues RFP for West Hawaiʻi Cot Sleeping Program
  4. City Managing Director Michael Formby Quits
  5. Gay Divorce Exposes Hidden Insider Payoffs by State Homeless Housing Contractor
  6. SB2471: How the Clinton White House just bamboozled Hawai‘i
  7. Crash into Sea: Lawmakers back bill to speed Seaglider plans in Hawaii
  8. Hawaiian Electric begins $479M Maui wildfire settlement payments
  9. Five Hawaii Island early childhood education sites to close
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Monday, May 11, 2026
May 11, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 10:03 AM :: 2119 Views
  1. To Make Housing Affordable, don’t pave paradise to put up parking lots
  2. Political Dark Money Limits Clear Hurdles in Hawaii, Montana—“that’s the whole ballgame”
  3. After SB2698 Fails, Cruise Ship Green Fee in Hands of 9th Circuit Court
  4. ‘Renovation Aloha’ Again Proves Effective Real Estate Management is Illegal on Oahu
  5. HB1518: Help Criminals Get Back on Welfare Quickly
  6. NYT Praises Hawaii Judiciary for Letting Lots of Female Criminals Evade Prison
  7. New tourism strategy to tackle Hawaii's traffic woes
  8. Detained Immigrants Could Wait 19 Months For Their Day In Honolulu Court
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Sunday, May 10, 2026
May 10, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 10:38 AM :: 3107 Views
  1. 'Has The Army Made Any Actual Offers?': Tokuda Asks General About Leases In Hawaii
  2. Hawaii Legislature passes first-in-nation bill targeting Citizens United ruling
  3. Tax Bills: Some Look Radically Different
  4. Hawaii Legislature Adjourns Sine Die, Marking Defeat of Several Anti-Gun Bills
  5. Historic 2024 tax cuts rescued for majority of Hawaii residents
  6. Judicial Vacancies in Maui, Kauai Counties
  7. Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
  8. Jones Act Waiver Makes Case for Permanent Reform
  9. Legislative Session Ends with No Answer from AG on $35K Bribe
  10. Will PRP Order Josh Green to Veto Anti Citizens United Bill?
  11. Lawmakers 2026 tax hikes–will they come back for the rest next year?
  12. Maui Council shakeup: Chair Lee won’t seek re-election to Wailuku-Waiheʻe-Waikapū seat
  13. Number of Oahu youth suicides in 2026 now match statewide number for entire 2023
  14. Hawaii shelters inadequate against hurricanes
  15. The Politics of Monk Seal Justice: Why a Hawaiian Senator Is Backing a Beach Vigilante
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Saturday, May 9, 2026
May 9, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:41 AM :: 2535 Views
  1. Hawaii constitutional amendment on resilient infrastructure for shelter and equity (RISE) bonds referred to November 2026 ballot
  2. $35K Bribe: AG Issues More Subpoenas
  3. Grassroot celebrates defensive wins as Hawaiʻi Legislature comes to close
  4. Election 2026: 316 Candidates Pull Papers to Run
  5. SB903: Now That Your Taxes have been increased, Legislators Give OHA $55M
  6. House Democrats Proud of Massive Tax Hike, but juvenile sex changes, not so much
  7. Rhoads: SB2471 will force PRP to Change
  8. Hawaii lawmakers end session after killing UH athlete payment plan
  9. Methamphetamines News:  ‘Clean Energy’ is Latest Money Scheme for Lahaina Strong
  10. Kauai doesn’t get much from making tourists pay for rescue expenses
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Friday, May 8, 2026
May 8, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:27 AM :: 2273 Views
  1. Hawaii Housing Costs 'Stabilize' at Extremely Unaffordable Level
  2. SB3001: Legislators Trying to Regulate AI
  3. Feds Bust Meth Gang Centered on Puuwai Momi Housing complex
  4. Feds Extend Native Hawaiian Education Funding One More Year
  5. Council Grabs for Control of $41M ‘Emergency Slush Fund’
  6. UH Athletics funding plan heads to final vote
  7. Skyline park-n-ride full at West Oahu rail station
  8. Power Has Been Out In These Oʻahu Classrooms For Months
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Thursday, May 7, 2026
May 7, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:12 AM :: 3060 Views
  1. Feds Investigating 562,000 Fraudulent COVID Loans
  2. Despite Flooding, Waialua Robotics Team has a Winning Season
  3. Legislature passes bills for automatic voter registration, DHHL, 'Corporate personhood'
  4. Lambert and Two Outsiders finalists for Honolulu police chief
  5. Honolulu Police Commission names 5 of 6 finalists for HPD chief
  6. Third Try: State awards $63 million contract to (again try to) upgrade 55-year old financial data system
  7. Automatic Annual 5% Rate Hikes for Young Brothers Among Dozens of Bills Passed at last minute
  8. 3% to 6% Annual Pay Hikes for HSTA Forever
  9. Plans for jail on Oahu continue to advance
  10. SB2140: Carpenters Union Scam Targets nonunion contractors
  11. Bissen Refusing to do anything to Prevent Future Kihei Floods
  12. The Governor And The Auditor Are Fighting. That's Great
  13. Military members lose Red Hill case against the federal government
  14. Par Pacific: Hawaii biorefinery begins commercial operations
  15. Now That taxes Have Been Raised, Isle ‘Non’-profits want More Funding so they can pay Fatter Salaries
  16. Matayoshi: Playing with Fire ‘Stop Corporate Personhood’ Bill could ‘further cement’ Citizens United Decision
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Wednesday, May 6, 2026
May 6, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 9:39 AM :: 7899 Views
  1. $255K Income Needed to Buy Home in Honolulu
  2. Pope Names New Bishop for Hawaii
  3. Young Brothers Swiped $26M in State Money (and it’s not the first time)
  4. After Raising Your Taxes, $50M deposit proposed for Hawaii’s state ‘rainy day’ fund
  5. After Burning COVID Money, Honolulu’s useless ‘Economic Revitalization Office’ faces defunding
  6. ‘Peter Boy’ lawsuit drags on: ‘What the state did was terrible. The liability is obvious’
  7. Ex-city administrator’s case in Kealoha payoff won’t be dismissed early
  8. Political influence in Hawai‘i by the numbers
  9. China: If Blangiardi wants Pandas, he must let us spy on INDOPACOM
  10. DHHL to hold public meetings on statewide geothermal energy exploration
  11. From flights to food, Hawaii residents feel the pressure of rising fuel costs
  12. County launches Molokai deed restriction pilot program
  13. Hawaiʻi Balks At Funding Maui Fire Victim Health Study
  14. First neighbor island kauhale is changing lives on Maui
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Tuesday, May 5, 2026
May 5, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 11:54 AM :: 2533 Views
  1. Hawaii 2nd-Worst State to be Police Officer
  2. State Transfers $89M More GE Tax Revenues to Pay for Rail
  3. Indictment: $647K Embezzled from Homeowner Associations
  4. March: Tourist Count and Spending Both Down
  5. After Raising Your Taxes, Conference Committee Gives $55M to OHA
  6. Honolulu police chief search down to six secret candidates
  7. Hawaii lawmakers head into final vote week with more than 270 bills still in play
  8. ‘Sue Big Oil’ Bill Fails
  9. Without Luke, What Happens to Preschool Initiative?
  10. Swimming in Money after Hiking Your Taxes, Legislators Consider Giving OHA $55M for no Particular Reason
  11. Cesspools: Hanalei Pushes For $19 Million Sewer System
  12. Fewer AAPI Adults Report Hate Incidents -- Poll
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Monday, May 4, 2026
May 4, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 9:42 AM :: 3842 Views
  1. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted May 1, 2026
  2. The ‘New Tourism’ -- More Money Spent at Hotels and Less at Small Businesses
  3. Kona Low Storm Damage: 260 Oahu homes ‘uninhabitable’
  4. Soft on Crime: Juvenile Killers Released to their Mommy—do it again
  5. Retaliation Games: Honolulu Forced To Rehire Fired Paramedic Supervisors Because Sleeping on Job is Legal
  6. Taxpayer funding to pay state legal claims tops $20M
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Sunday, May 3, 2026
May 3, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 11:24 AM :: 2631 Views
  1. Deciphering the Budget
  2. UHERO: The True Cost of Subsidizing Childcare
  3. Untangling occupational licensing rules
  4. Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
  5. Alleged Pimps Catch Federal Case
  6. Do Trump Budget Cuts Signal A New Challenge For Native Hawaiians?
  7. Last-minute Conference Committee Scramble
  8. “Sylvia Luke is still the lieutenant governor of this state”
  9. For youth, state must act on housing affordability
  10. City, State Hustle to Maximize Kona Storm Losses: Federal Taxpayers to Cover 75%
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Saturday, May 2, 2026
May 2, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 9:59 AM :: 3138 Views
  1. Mafia News: After Raising Your Taxes, Legislators Give More to Movie Moguls
  2. Divided There’s Nothing We Can Do; United Nothing Can Stop Us
  3. Grassroot announces legislative wrap-up tour
  4. Election 2026: 302 Candidates Pull Papers to Run
  5. West Maui Rep. Cochran leads House in floor no-shows — again, but not as much
  6. Judge denies motion to suppress statements in Geanna Bradley murder case
  7. Honolulu police officer indicted in alleged on-duty sexual assault
  8. SB2471:  ‘Stop Corporate Personhood’ bill collapses in on itself
  9. Hawaii Maoists Upset After Philippine Military Kills 19 Maoist Guerillas in Combat—wipes out Commander of ‘New Peoples Army’
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Friday, May 1, 2026
May 1, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 11:13 AM :: 4872 Views
  1.  After Raising Taxes, Conference Committee Approves $20B State Budget
  2. Auditor: Out-of-Control Homeless Program Puts Public Funds at 'Immediate Risk'
  3. 20-5: Senate Confirms Andy Winer's Law Partner as Chief Justice
  4. Onomea:  The Mystery of the Unknown Church
  5. VIDEO: The Jones Act and the 2026 Energy Crisis
  6. Team Bissen Stealing Money Immediately After Lahaina Fires
  7. $120M Green Fee Slush Fund Saved as Legislators Stab Taxpayers in Back
  8. Solar is Diesel: HECO Lied About Urgent Need for Maui (Diesel) Power Plants
  9. State Film Commissioner Donne Dawson retires
  10. FBI executes search warrant in Windward Oahu as part of ongoing investigation
  11. What the Jones Act waiver extension could mean for Hawaiʻi's maritime economy 
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