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Friday, June 30, 2017 June 30, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 7:33 PM :: 4266 Views Travel Ban: AG Chin Asks Obama Judge to Redefine Supreme Court Ruling, Let More Muslims In Video: Roth vs Anderson on GE Tax Hike APL to inaugurate new foreign flag Asia / Hawaii container service in August UH Law School Looks at Sharing Economy Matson Strike ‘Unlikely’ Hawaii Visitor Spending up 8.7% in May 2017 SB410: Public union power grab goes too far OHA Announces $6M in Grants Institute for Astronomy celebrates 50 years of discovery Micronesia: US Officials Lift Suspension on Compact Public Infrastructure Grant Funding Kim: Trade Telescope Approval for OHA Control of Mauna Kea HART Chair: We’re Not Telling Feds Anything GOP Medicaid Reform Will Give State Choices Caldwell Finds Way to Make Affordable Housing Even More Scarce Sand Mining Since 1980s, Now OHA wants to Sue Outlook dim for 3 proposed charter schools Aloha Stadium offers UH plan to share revenue Enviros Still Crying Over Lost Chance to Gut Fishing Industry Honolulu May Allow Transportation Companies To Regulate Waikiki Streets 5 Years Late, DoT Finally Completes Backup Power Project at Airport Homeless Camp: TVs, Laptops, Generators, Dogs and Fighting Chickens 144 Convictions: Lifelong Criminal Gets 5 Years Law requires officials be alerted when gun permits are denied HB1488: Wanna Feel Medicated? Now More Excuses are Available Matson Unions Threaten Strike If There Is No Contract Deal By Tonight HMSA Experiments With Hawaii Children For Profit Biki Designed to Reward the 1% Bikeshare Part of Kakaako Condo Sales Pitch City Council looks to ban plastic bags Read More..

Thursday, June 29, 2017 June 29, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:21 PM :: 3700 Views Can Hokulea Crew Save Telescope? OHA: Hot Air vs Fresh Air Akina: Change OHA’s Current Spending Policy DMV Computer Fixed After Phone Call to Bulgaria Honolulu rail clearly a fiasco Legislators should scrap idea of 'basic income' and just lower taxes Greenmail Fail: Time Running out for Telescope HB165: Sunshine Law Modernized State Supreme Court says subs, part-time teachers aren't entitled to back pay Maui officer pleads guilty over witness-tampering Homeless Drug Addicts Threaten to Burn Down Building Tweekers Breed Puppies in Homeless Camp Bike sharing hits Oahu roads (and not everyone is happy about that) Citing liability, HEMIC cancels worker's comp plans for 7 marijuana dispensaries Usual Suspects: Hawaii Would Collapse Without Illegal Aliens Kauai: Hanabusa, Gabbard Block Immediate Deployment of Aegis Ashore Read More..

Wednesday, June 28, 2017 June 28, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 8:03 PM :: 6534 Views Grassroot: Feds Should Audit Rail Food Evolution Not Satisfied With Merely Taking Land For Rail, Now The City Wants Blood Trump Appoints Doug Domenech Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas Hirono Second Surgery: Gabbard, Hanabusa Jockey for Position Special Permits Near Honolulu Rail Line Attract Proposals For Big Juicy Hotels Only 9% of Honolulu renters can afford median-priced home—Worst in USA Telescope: Hawaiian cultural park would reflect traditional use of mountain Lawsuit: Mainland Anti-Ag Activists Target ANOTHER Hawaii Diary Farm Incompetent Caldwell Administration Crashes Computers Statewide, May Take All Week to Correct Homeless Meth-Heads dumping raw sewage at Diamond Head Residents of former plantation village in Ewa fed up with redevelopment plan delays Soft on Crime: Alleged Criminal Takes 160 Selfies and Still Walks HSTA Member Actually Gets Fired—Solicited a Minor for Prostitution Governor Must Follow Through On Intent To Veto Union Giveaway Lawmakers Got Ethics Awards For Not Breaking The Law Read More..

Tuesday, June 27, 2017 June 27, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:26 PM :: 4427 Views Universal Basic Income Is A Lazy Solution To The Oncoming Labor Crisis Drug Money: DoTax to Receive $400K/mo Cash—What Could Go Wrong? What Does it Take to Transfer one HGEA Member? Rep Chris Lee: If you don’t want to talk about putting everybody on Welfare, You Do Not Exist Ige Admin Claims Healthcare bill could cost Hawaii $200M/yr Medicaid funding Ige Veto May Save Hawaii From Wasting Millions on New Stadium Don’t Veto HB1414: Demand Audit of State’s Latest IT Debacle SA: Ige Right to Consider Veto of Aquarium Bill Ige Skips Chance to Name WESPAC Board Members Anti-GMO Activists Project and deflect Union for some Matson workers threatens to strike over labor dispute Chin: Hawaii Doomed because 6000 Muslims Might not Come Here Democrats Make Trump More Popular Among Republicans  Attorney John S. Carroll asks to resign to avoid disciplinary action House bill presses for plan to protect Hawaii against North Korea missiles Read More..

Monday, June 26, 2017 June 26, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:46 PM :: 5375 Views Supreme Court Allows Travel Ban To Take Effect What a Wounded Veteran Thinks of Trump’s VA Reform Peruta Concealed Carry: Supreme Court Allows 9th Circuit Decision to Stand Cost-disbenefit analysis of rail SB1240: Science Beats Anti-Aquarium Hysteria Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 26, 2017  Most Expensive Place to Live in U.S.? Hawaii, Where Toilet Paper Costs More Than Anywhere in the World No Incentive: HMSA Puts Pediatricians on Welfare Progress Slow on Affordable Housing Ige: “Quiet But Ineffective.” Kealohas Tried to Discredit Police Commissioner In Corruption Probe Read More..

Sunday, June 25, 2017 June 25, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:08 PM :: 5792 Views Hawaii named 'worst state to make a living' (again) Washington Holds Guam Back, Despite Not Knowing Where It Is Offshore Wind Turbines Blamed For Killing Whales Anatomy of Epic Fail on Rail Pay to Play: Navatek Contributes $120K to Legislators, Gets $8.75M in Tax credits and Grants  Middle Street Station: HART Pays Millions More so First Hawaiian can Profit from TOD Blood Bank: HART Acts in Bad Faith – Reckless push to take land for rail Legislators need excuses to Hike taxes another $1.3B  for more rail Rail: Why Learn from Your Mistakes? Rail: 100% Personnel Turnover as Rats Jump Sinking Ship Shakedown: After Ignoring it for Years, Squatters Suddenly Claim Coco Palms Site Maui: Audit the Transportation Department Hawaii County: Audit the Hele On Bus System Mom blames court delays in the killing of 7-year-old Reef Aikau The People Who Sold us Obamacare now Pretend to Speak Authoritatively Against Trumpcare—Who could be fooled? Read More..

Saturday, June 24, 2017 June 24, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 3:30 PM :: 3382 Views Ige to Veto 15 Bills DoE to Open Military Transition Centers BoE Approves ESSA Plan Submission to Feds Celebrate Hokulea Return, Oppose Telescope? BoE Handing out Cash to top DoE Execs Hawaii County Council pumps up fuel tax by 261% DOBOR New Fishing Fees – $0.25 per square foot? Homeless: “There’s lots of crazy people on ice around here,” Star Adv: Gays are Racist, Need to Evolve Read More..

Friday, June 23, 2017 June 23, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 7:26 PM :: 4064 Views HART Cancels Audit: "It's not my intent to figure out what we did wrong” Trump nominates retired Admiral Buzby to be MARAD Administrator Meet the Jones Act: A 97-year-old regulatory law that's costing you money Transforming Military Impact Aid into Education Savings Accounts HART Incompetence: Rail station strategy proves costly Supreme Court could reveal action on travel ban at any time Hirono to undergo second cancer surgery Newly hired teacher faces two month delay in pay Can HGEA and its Legislature Stop Airport Security Privatization? GEMS: How Many Legislators Does it take to Change a DoE Lightbulb? Honolulu Is Paying Back $1.45 Million In Federal Housing Funds Kauai Council Will not Bow to Mayor’s Demand for Tax Hikes  Walter Ritte Thug Gets Six Months for Attack on Fishing Boat DLNR Urges Ige To Veto Bill Phasing Out Aquarium Fishing In Hawaii Global Warmers Hope King Tide Will Generate More Propaganda Photos (again)  Men Systematically Excluded from College Education Battery Schemers Demand More Tax Credit Giveaways—Elon Musk Needs Another Billion Biki is Really Just a Politically-Connected For-Profit Business Wahiawa Meth Addicts Take over Foreclosed Home, Assault Neighbors Read More..

Thursday, June 22, 2017 June 22, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:53 PM :: 3801 Views Military Industrial Complex Compromising Hawaii Missile Defense for Profit Honolulu rail project most expensive in the world NFIB Hawaii Small Business End-of-Session Report The Greatest Journey Didn’t Start with a Protest HDOT: 2002 Airport Agreement with Sheriff is Out of Date OCCC Jail Siting Study Released Hawaii Homes Lowest Average CO2 Production in USA How High Are Spirits Taxes in Your State? Navy’s partnership with Polynesian Voyaging Society After Getting Rid of Citizen-Advisors  Police Commission finds Way to Dump Consultant Leading Police Chief Search Performance-Based Contracts Drive Housing First Progress in Hawaii Meth Addicts Like Being Homeless, Don’t Want Shelter Harry Kim Wants Homeless Tent City, May Lose Federal Funding UH Prof: Break up the DoE to Solve Teacher Shortages Hawaii businesses struggle to find workers If Hawaii Was Really Serious about Global Warming, We Would Shut Down Tourism Industry Jones Act Keeps Clean LNG out of Hawaii PUC Orders HECO to Give More Money to Green Energy Scammers Soft on Crime: Pimp, Child Rapist to Get Early Parole—Sues Because Prison was Unpleasant Jonesing Dopers Deploy Sob Story Campaign calls to 'relocate the turtles' as frustration grows over Laniakea gridlock Honolulu Residents Get Raw Deal With Bikeshare Read More..

Wednesday, June 21, 2017 June 21, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:34 PM :: 5122 Views After Pushing Bogus Coral Sunscreen Bills, Hawaii Surfrider Collects Payoff from Manufacturer Pasha to Buy Four Mystery Ships? 10 Buildings With the Highest Honolulu Property Taxes in 2016 How Economically Independent is Hawaii? Hawaii to Supreme Court: No need to review travel ban ‘Food Evolution’ movie could mark turning point in public GMO discussion Mother Jones: World Health Organization called RoundUp a “probable carcinogen,” but it didn’t have all the facts FBI probe investigating police chief now zeroing in on city prosecutor, too Lawyers Begin Pretending Kealoha-Kaneshiro Ghost Ticketing Investigation is Real Universal Basic Income: Tax Hike to Pay Mainland Homeless to Come to Hawaii Lawsuit dismissed, clearing the way for transfer of hospitals Ige to Sign GEMS Rip-off Bill—Electric Ratepayers to Subsidize Failed Cool Schools Scam DoE Fails to Develop Even one Parcel of Land BoE Forwards HSTA-Ige ESSA Plan to Feds Emergency hires fill 38% of Leeward Teaching Positions Student Loan Repayment Steers 25 MDs, Nurses to ‘Underserved Areas’ HIDoT: Firing Sheriffs is Negotiating Tactic Soft on Crime Crowd Saddened to Learn that Criminals do not Have Eternal Life Opioid Overdoses Cost $110M/year in Hawaii Domestic Abuse Felony Cases Clog Courts Aquarium fishing limits wrong for Hawaii Surfrider to DoH: Give Us the Power to Shut Down Beaches, Farms Military Industrial Complex Compromising Hawaii Missile Defense for Profit Read More..

Tuesday, June 20, 2017 Letters to the Editor June, 2017 By Letters to the Editor @ 8:09 PM :: 7712 Views Oahu Homeowners Get Railroaded Rail vs Neil Blaisdell Center Renovations Audit The Rail Read More..

Tuesday, June 20, 2017 June 20, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:17 PM :: 3831 Views Rail Tax Hike: Legislators Promise Special Session, but Cannot Agree on Date or Funding Mechanism Global Warming: UH Professors Say Everybody in Hawaii Will Burn to Death. Soon. Real soon. Cool Schools? DoE Working to Avoid Installing Air Conditioners Rail vs Neil Blaisdell Center Renovations IT: Hawaii Spends the Most, Gets the Least DoTax: Another Big IT Project Collapse—$ Millions Wasted Enough is enough: Cut losses, end rail project Tourism Industry is Proof of Hawaii Democrats’ Climate Hypocrisy How HART Tried — And Failed — To Keep Rail Records Secret Rep Marilyn Lee to Appeal Against Admission of Fukumoto? Homeless Drug Addict’s Dogs Attack Jogger  Hawaii Judge Amends Travel Ban Injunction Read More..

Monday, June 19, 2017 June 19, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 4:16 PM :: 4258 Views Democrats Vote to Allow Fukumoto In Medicaid Expansion States Saw ER Visits Go Up, Uninsured ER Visits Go Down Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 19, 2017 Panos: Statewide Surface Transportation Challenges and Opportunities Half of Hawaii Medicaid Funds Pay for Homeless Emergency Room Visits With Government out of the Way, Privatized Maui Hospital Hiring Hundreds, Investing Millions Put Everybody on Welfare: Omidyar, ACORN, and Richard Nixon All Agree—What Could Go Wrong? Hawaii County Moves to Shut Down Affordable Housing Development Honolulu Ethics Needs ‘Complete Overhaul’  Global Warming: UH Professors Say Everybody in Hawaii Will Burn to Death.  Soon.  Real soon. Read More..

Sunday, June 18, 2017 June 18, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:26 PM :: 6418 Views Closing an Estate Tax Loophole? New Sup’t Kishimoto set up to be Main Course of Political Feeding Frenzy Lawsuit: Sex, Lies and Retaliation in Maui County LG Candidates have no enthusiasm for Ige Another IT Disaster: Legislature Cuts off Funds for Tax System Modernization Public school spending in Hawaii is above U.S. norm Renters Hit by 10% Property Tax Hike on Affordable Housing How Homeless Attack Workers, Get Away with it Medicated Marijuana Drenched in Pesticides Read More..

Saturday, June 17, 2017 June 17, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 9:23 PM :: 4494 Views Caldwell to Legislators: City will not put more ‘Skin in the Game’ With Obama Out of the Way, HMSA Rate Hike Much Smaller Expensive Wind Energy Makes Maui Electric Bills Jump $15 in Month What do Illinois and Hawaii have in common that's causing residents to flee? Decisive Endorsement? Gay Thief Approves Fukumoto for Democratic Party membership Sovereignty Lawyer Disbarred Its Summer Again so Ige, DoE Pretend to Scramble to Cool Schools While Diverting Money to Line Green Energy Scammers Pockets Legislator: Housing Authority Money Demands Lack Specifics State DOT says deputy sheriffs no longer needed at Honolulu airport DOCARE Proposes $11,000 Fine for Teaching Kitesurfing at Beach Kauai Mayor Refuses to Sign Budget After Council Rejects Tax Hike Maui Hospital: 97% of HHSC Staff Accept Employment Read More..

Friday, June 16, 2017 June 16, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 2:23 AM :: 3778 Views June 14, 1900: The Abolition of Slavery in Hawaii State Recycling Program: A Decade of Fraud (Part 6) Auditor: 2017 Legislature Batting .000 -- 65 Bogus Special Funds Ige: Legislators Aren’t Getting Answers on Rail Costs Doomed: Affordable Housing Plan Depends on Rail Obamacare repeal will Barely be Noticed in Hawaii Hawaii workers 2nd in the nation using vacation time Preschool Pricing Hawaii families out Bogus Sand Study Claimed Maui would Run out in 2011  Organic Brainwashing in a Sea of Ignorance Scientists Want Papahanaumokuakea All to Themselves NRC Laughs at Big Island Depleted Activists Lawsuit: Staff Covered up Homosexual Rape Inmate lawsuit claims severe beating by HCCC guards; ‘repeated, systemic use of excessive force’ alleged Read More..

Thursday, June 15, 2017 June 15, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 4:13 AM :: 4066 Views Audit The Rail State Labor Negotiators partly to blame for counties’ tax hikes No Jones Act tankers are capable of carrying liquid natural gas Takings: Bridge Aina Lea Suit Dismissed Wine Taxes: Hawaii Ranks 12th The Economic Security of Older Women and Men in Hawaii Audit: Informal Procedures by HPD, Prosecutor Hinder Domestic Violence Cases Audit Catches Maui County Finance Directory Abusing P-Card–Exposes Hostess Bar Loophole Soon-to-be HIDOE superintendent at the center of nearly $1M controversy TMT returns to high court: State justices to hear sublease appeal Property Taxes to Quadruple for 8,000 Condos GE Tax Payments up 1.1%, TAT up 14.9% Legislature’s Latest Idea: Put Everybody on Welfare and Call it ‘Universal Basic Income’ Vampire Rail Cuts into Hawaii Blood Supply Hawaii Fastest Rising College Tuition in USA Hawaii Home Health Care Costs Rising Faster Than 48 States Anti-GMO Activists Sue State to Force EIS for Farming Operations Big Money Behind Anti-GMO Read More..

Wednesday, June 14, 2017 June 14, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 4:03 AM :: 4434 Views Homeless Housed A third marine carrier in Hawaii? Honolulu 2nd-Lowest Average Internet Speed Kishimoto Contract Guarantees Big Fluffy Golden Parachute New proposals to legalize vacation rentals, hike taxes and fines Housing market beyond reach for many locals Rail: Unanswered Questions Telescope case in judge’s hands City to pay for detective’s attorney in Kealoha civil case New ethics complaint, attorney general investigation into DOBOR Former Maui official claims her firing was retaliatory Former Big Island clerk's law license suspended for 150 days Soft on Crime: Privileged Criminal finally Does a Little Time After Being Arrested by Fake Cops Iwilei: Drug Addicts Refuse to Accept Shelter Fight Police for Right to Live in Piles of Garbage Gerrymandered Enterprise Zones Benefit Wealth y Neighborhoods, Leave Waianae Behind State Pesticide Rules Advancing to Board of Agriculture Good News: Offshore wind farms face slew of challenges Hawaii's Worthless, Incompetent Congressional Delegation Loses Native Hawaiian Funding Mentally Ill Sanders Voters on the Rampage-3 Dead, Several Wounded Read More..

Tuesday, June 13, 2017 June 13, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 3:59 AM :: 3353 Views Oahu GOP: No Rail Tax Hike Special Session Hawaii GOP: Ige Paris Accord Grandstanding will Cost Hawaii Consumers Message to OHA: ‘Clean up your Act’ The saga of fishing vessel ‘America’s Finest’ continues Kids Count: Hawaii Ranks 17th in Child Well-being Big Island Republicans Asleep as Democrats Scramble for Senate Opening Legislative Scandals Repeat Themselves: State grants-in-aid Skinning the Taxpayers: Mayor and other city officials get pay increases Tax and Spend: Hawaii County Budget $36M Bloat Enviros Push $760M Carbon Tax on Hawaii SB1240: Government Prepares to Kill Off More Small Businesses The problem with the Ninth Circuit’s decision striking down Trump’s Travel ban Rat Lungworm, the Tropical Parasite that took Hawaii by Surprise After Diamond Head Sweep, only Seven Bums Accept Shelter Homeless sweep set for Iwilei along Nimitz Hwy. Rape Kit Testing Yields Results Medical Bills Exceed $1 Million For Woman Accidentally Shot By Cop Arcadia: Pay a Surcharge and Your Electricity will be Blessed by Gaia New missile and new radar might gird isles Read More..

Monday, June 12, 2017 June 12, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 3:50 AM :: 3197 Views Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 12, 2017 GEMS: Ige Redirects Tax on Electric Ratepayers to Cover Cool Schools Failure HSAC: Property Taxes Going Up Because We Are Afraid to Legalize TVRs and Tax Them Parks: Caldwell Spends Money on Kakaako, Abandons Westside Caldwell Admin slammed over delays on landfill Study: Homosexual Child Molesters Abuse up to 40% of Homeless Youth Hawaii Paris Accord Signature – Fake, Fake, Fake UH Profs: We’re All Gonna Die Because of Trump Star-Adv: Legislators Should Make Polystyrene Ban Statewide Read More..

Sunday, June 11, 2017 June 11, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 10:35 AM :: 2852 Views Kamehameha: The Founding of the Hawaiian Kingdom Hilo: DLNR Land Lease Ends with Demolition of Hotel Reaching Back into the Past Old Boys Give $605K Grant to Some Guy in Hilo Hawaii’s environmental strides are more smoke than substance Increases in bus fares, vehicle taxes and meter parking Leeward GOP silence over rail missteps is deafening Honolulu Homeless improve under Housing First program Doomed: ESSA Plan Requires Kishimoto to ‘Eliminate Achievement Gaps’ by End of Her 3-yr Contract Vexatious?  Hawaii County Shuts off Contact with Community Activist Maui’s Only Neurosurgeon Unable to Leave Island Red tape could delay permits for hemp seed project Upside Down Flag Flies at Hawaii Community College Read More..

Saturday, June 10, 2017 June 10, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 10:31 AM :: 2667 Views Rep Thielen: Bring Rail Down to Earth TVRs: No Taxation Without Legalization! CyberStates: Hawaii Lags Global Warmers: Waikiki Sea Level Rise Will Drown Trump Hotel VIDEO: Lawyers Want Your Help to Keep the Homeless, Homeless Eco-Lawyers Help North Korea Reach Targets Contractor Begins Rail Work at Airport Hawaiian Health: Victimhood or Empowerment? Regulations May Make Marijuana Sales Unprofitable Neighborhood sit in stops Biki installment Kauai: Venomous Hatred of Republicans Illegal Alien was Leader of Punatic Circus Read More..

Friday, June 9, 2017 June 9, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 10:35 AM :: 2616 Views Hawaii: To Afford 2BR Must Earn $73K GE Tax Hike Cornerstone of McDermott Plan to Rescue Rail Beer Taxes: Hawaii 5th-Highest in USA Ships Under Construction for New Cargo Liner Service for the Hawaii Trade? Governor to explore possibility of special session for rail   Did Council Really Put Skin in the Game? People Who Have The Most to Gain From Rail Are Still Skeptical Why Teachers Leave—One Word ‘Housing’ Precisely as Predicted: Schatz, Civil Beat use King Tides for Global Warming Propaganda Bill signals beginning of the end for aquarium fishing Plastic Bag Ban: Feel Good Fakery Read More..

Thursday, June 8, 2017 June 8, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 10:28 AM :: 2912 Views Who Just Got Caught at OHA? From colonial navigation acts to the Jones Act BoE Puts ‘ESSA Team’ Principal in Charge, Temporarily Potholes Cost Hawaii Drivers $708 per Year Mindless Bureaucracy Detains Machine at Honolulu Airport for Lack on Non-Existent Form KOS: Poll Shows Tulsi Gabbard Vulnerable to Primary Challenge Bonds: HART Story Changes Again--Now Says it Has Money Thru End of Next Legislative Session   New ‘Interim’ Sup’t: A school’s success can’t be measured through rankings City budget ratchets up fees, Bus Fares Falling Out Amongst Thieves: City Council puts off action on retail bag fee Hawaii County Council Approves Massive Fuel Tax Hike Honolulu Median 1BR Rent $1590 HELCO: We will achieve 200% Renewable Energy in 2045 Global Warmers: Only Donald Trump’s Oceanfront Properties will be Inundated Discrimination Against Punatics? Hawaii's medical marijuana program among the nation's most regulated Read More..

Wednesday, June 7, 2017 June 7, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 10:24 AM :: 2675 Views Socrates Visits a Homeless Camp in Hawaii Hawaii: Most Expensive State to Put Your Kid Through College 90 mins to work: Hawaii Super-Commuters up 63% 2017’s Safest States in America–Hawaii 10th City seeks proposals for its third Housing First program Maui Mayor Signs Polystyrene Ban Hiding Failure: Schools board eliminates tests not required by Feds HART: With $350M Bonds, Rail Will Have Money for Construction Ige: Traffic Relief from Low Cost High Impact Projects – Like Shoulder Lanes Hawaii County Property taxes going up Hawaii County Council to Vote on Massive Fuel Tax Hike Next Caldwell Reaches into your Pocket: Street parking rates are set to double in Honolulu this summer  Suicide Squad Poll: Death Support by Ethnicity  Dope Stores Still Tied up in Red Tape Government Oysters: Delicious but we Promise not to Eat Them HPD: Unelected Thieves got away with millions of dollars in property crimes last year Sentencing delay likely for Kema Sr. as search for Peter Boy continues Read More..

Tuesday, June 6, 2017 June 6, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 10:46 AM :: 2814 Views VIDEO: Sam Slom, Hawaii's Opposition Voice Ige: Trump Can’t Stop Me From Jacking up your Electric Bill to Line Pockets of Green Energy Scammers Containership capacity in Transpacific trade increasing 2017’s Best State Economies–Hawaii 39th 16 State Coalition Backs Travel Ban Before Supreme Court Wikileaks: Omidyar Website Gave up Leaker to NSA Poll: Ige Loses to ‘Someone Else’ 20% to 57%  OHA staffer faces conflict of interest allegations over poi mill venture 74% Say NO -- Only Star-Adv Editors and Politicians Want 10-cent Bag Tax Iolani Palace Becoming Homeless Tent City Hawaii County Council Approves 100% Property Tax Hike on 50,000 properties Inside Dope: Top State Bureaucrats to Open Marijuana Store on Kapahulu Katherine Kealoha Sues Prosecutor To Keep Her Employment Records Secret Honolulu Prosecutor wants to Spend Last $75k Trump promises ‘cheaper, faster and safer travel’ with private air traffic control Tourism Keeps Hitting Records, But Trumphaters Convince Themselves it is Dropping   Read More..

Monday, June 5, 2017 June 5, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 10:43 AM :: 2878 Views Six Politicians Already Running for Lt Governor Years Later, Democrats Become Dimly Aware Tulsi Gabbard is a Joke Played on them State Bureaucracy: Marijuana Rots, Dope Dealers Lose $10K a Month Waiting to Open City sweeps homeless from state-owned Nimitz medians City Council bills would Impose 10-cent Bag Tax Richest islanders under the sun go with solar With NextEra Gone -- O`ahu May Get 100 Megawatts of New Solar $70/ Day for Elder Care—Unionization Next  Read More..

Sunday, June 4, 2017 June 4, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 10:39 AM :: 3319 Views VIDEO: The Right to Home Share in Hawaii Update on key initiatives at UH Mānoa, including enrollment management OHA releases report on the health of Native Hawaiian men Human Casualties at the Legislature, Part 2 Ige Has No Money:  2018 Scramble for Governor, CD1, CD2, Senate? Senators: Caldwell Asks for Blind Bailout, Will not Admit Problem Caldwell’s Latest Plan: Make the Handicapped Pay for Rail Massive Property Tax Hikes on Hawaii County Council Agenda Star-Adv: OHA must overcome Doubters to get Crony Cash Flowing from Fishermen’s Wharf (again) Parker Ranch Sues OHA-Funded Biofuel Schemer   Hawaii County Proposes Down-zoning Bridge Aina Lea (again) PUC: Wanna Sell Bottled Water, Then You are a Utility and we will Regulate You Dope Store Drops End Run Around Testing  Food Stamps: Who Will Buy Food for the Dopers? Catauna: Homeless Almost as Repulsive as Trump Supporters City plans Snap homeless sweep of state’s Nimitz Highway medians With NextEra Gone, Hawaiian Electric Begins Sending More Ratepayer Money to National Democrat Donors Read More..

Saturday, June 3, 2017 June 3, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 10:37 AM :: 2501 Views Conflict of Interest: OHA Audit Committee Member Secretly owns OHA’s Former Poi Mill Where Pro-Rail and Anti-Rail Voices Agree Matson charters foreign flag containership for Samoa service   Evans: Raises the reason for tax increase Halawa: All Locks Fail at Another Prison Module Tourism Setting Records, but Chin says travel ban 'chilling effect' hurting Hawaii's economy Star Adv: King Tides Prove Hawaii Must Keep Shoveling Tax Credit Money to Silicon Valley Billionaires  Food as a political weapon State’s Largest Biofuel Farm Produces Much Hype, Little Oil More Marijuana for the Kids Read More..

Friday, June 2, 2017 June 2, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 10:32 AM :: 3026 Views Hawaii: Lowest Pay in the USA Supreme Court to Hear Rail Skim Lawsuit Rat Lungworm: The Cost of Unintended Consequences Paris Protocol: Devastating Economic Costs, Essentially Zero Environmental Benefits Caldwell: I’m Building Rail Along the Waterfront—But We Should Ignore That and Just Pretend to Believe in Climate Change Anyway Trump Asks Supreme Court to Reinstate Travel Ban ‘Free’ Food for all Children at 63 Hawaii Public Schools Astronomers Are Coming to Grips With Moving Telescope From Hawaii to Spain Ige: Indecisiveness is a Strength HB665: Ige Declares War on Parakeets UH Vice-Chancellor Looking for Exit After Only Two Years Big Island of Retaliation: County Employees afraid to speak out Hype about king tides sounded all too familiar Hawaii Supreme Court To Rule On Secret Government Deliberations Act 18: HGEA, UPW Score $30M Payout for ‘Severance’ -- without Losing Jobs Maunawilli: Waihee’s Crooked Golf Club Tries to Parlay Trail Access Dispute into 100-unit Subdivision Approval Homeless Dude Moves to Hawaii, Jailed for Rape Hawaii Poll: Crack Down on Illegal Immigration More Popular than Trump Revolving Door: ‘Journalist’ goes Back to Openly Doing PR Work Read More..

Thursday, June 1, 2017 June 1, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 10:31 AM :: 2684 Views Sex Harassment: Only Victim Can Sue Peter Apo says Court Q-Mark Shreds its Own Reputation with Poll Claiming Anti-Aquarium Hysteria Reaches 90% VIDEO: ICBM Knocked out of Sky in Successful Test of Missile Defense Poll: Trump as Popular as Caldwell in Hawaii Testifiers reject Hawaii Co gas tax hike Ethics? Kauai County Council Eliminates County Auditor Office Community Based Solar: Set up to Fail Like GEMS Contested Case for Hu Honua Rate Hikes? Former Hawaii Legislators Lobby Without Registering Murderers among convicted criminals out on work furlough UPW Absenteeism Puts Guards at Risk City Finds Way to Make Construction Even More Expensive Enviros Delay Work to Prevent Massive Sand Island Sewage Spill—Demand Fealty to God of Global Warming  Read More..