Entries for June 2020

1. Big Brother coming soon to Honolulu Airport
2. Tax Like an Egyptian: The wholesale rate, the retail rate, and tax “pyramiding”
3. List of Routes: Bus Driver Worked Sick with COVID for a Week
4. Clinical healthcare professionals needed to become full-time contact tracers
5. TVR Control: Kauai County Signs Agreement with AirBnB, Expedia
6. COVID Count: 2 new cases out of 588 tests
7. Hawaii Attorney General Sues E-Cigarette Giants JUUL and Altria
8. Hawaii AG: For The Hearing At Which I Will Argue That Indoor In-Person Gatherings Are Dangerous, Let's Gather Indoors In-Person!
9. Ige Nominee to re-Shape Hawaii Supreme Court?
10. Aug 1 Reopening Details: “We’re working on that” 
11. HSTA-DoE Agree to More Fake ‘Distance Learning’
12. HSTA Pres: My Members Will Get Paid for Work from Home Days this Fall—We Will Block Standardized Testing Again Next Year
13. Honolulu Star-Advertiser To Lose 12 Journalists
14. Racial Disparities Emerge In HPD Enforcement Of Stay-At-Home Violations
15. Department of Retaliation: Honolulu Fire Department Infighting Places Rescue Units in Moldy Basement
16. Funding could save a program helping women transition to post-prison life
17. SB2206: Gut n Replace Bill would permit festering homeless tent cities on all state land
18. SR159: Make Sovereignty Activists into a Protected Class so they Can’t be Prosecuted for their Criminal Activities
19. HB2035/SB2012: Bills pending at the Hawaii Legislature would aid local ranchers and farmers.
20. Honolulu Bill 2 Would Unbundle Parking
21. Felony child pornography charges filed against an Oahu little league coach

1. HSTA reaches school reopening agreement with state of Hawaii
2. Hawaii--Biggest Health Improvement During COVID-19
3. Aggressive contact tracing by state identifies new COVID cases
4. Some of Abigail Kawananakoa’s items are going up for auction. That’s raising concerns
5. Debating Christopher Deedy, again

1. Future of the Aloha Stadium
2. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 27, 2020
3. Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
4. State Education Systems with the Most Racial Equality -- Hawaii 16th
5. COVID Count: 27 new cases out of 1,677 tests
6. Honolulu police chief says department doesn’t need reforms despite recent spike in fatal shootings by officers
7. Distance Learning? Students MIA
8. Pandemic or not, legislators open vault for public workers
9. Honolulu city bus driver tests positive for coronavirus
10. Time will tell if Gov. David Ige’s slow-steady style proves wise against COVID-19
11. Union expresses concern about hotel worker safety
12. Cruise Ships Heading for Hawaii in October
13. Work from home era may leave rail behind
14. ‘It was hamajang’: East Oahu residents sue the city over shoddy road work
15. Who is going to pay for Aloha Stadium’s health and safety repairs?

1. Facial Recognition: Legislature appropriates $90 million for airport COVID-19 screening
2. Letter: Legislators 'Concerned' About DoE Plan to Continue 'Distance Learning' Scam
3. Note to Legislature: Focus!
4. COVID Count: 17 new cases out of 1,296 tests
5. COVID Count: Six new cases out of 1,177 tests
6. DoH Survey: Many Hawaii residents no longer see COVID-19 as threat
7. COVID: Half of Households with Children have lost income
8. Video: "Lockdown, Testing and Tracking: Are They Really Legal?"
9. Hawaii 2nd Highest Tax Burden in USA
10. Tourism Industry Kept 33% of Hawaii Households on Edge of Poverty—and that was before COVID
11. Lawmakers, schools superintendent trade blame for lack of preparation ahead of school reopenings
12. Hawaii vacation rentals see low occupancy, demand amid Covid-19 restrictions
13. Hawaii Attorney General victimized by identity thieves who targeted unemployment program
14. Legislators Allocate $7M to Remove Homeless Trash, ACLU Whines About it
15. COVID Tourism Control: State set to reopen Hana Highway to public
16. High court rules in favor of county on timeshare taxes

1. COVID Suits: One Case Dismissed, Judge Blocks Feds from Other
2. The Separation of Powers Limitation on Hawaii’s Emergency Authority
3. DLIR: Fraudsters Stole $15.8M Unemployment Benefits
4. Ige Defers Harbor Tariff Hike
5. COVID Count 16 new cases out of 1,070 tests
6. HB285: Legislative Conference Committee Passes Police Reform Bill
7. Kauai DoE Pilot Program to Continue 'Distance Learning' Scam with no Evaluations Until Fall of 2021
8. COVID vs Sunshine: Supreme Court Order Opens Planning Commission Meeting
9. Reopening Means Spying: State-County Database to Track Your Movements ‘In Real Time’ 
10. HB460 Spying: State senators to introduce bill that would require Hawaii's visitors to document where they'll be staying
11.  As tax revenues drop, Honolulu’s rail project faces $450M funding shortfall and new delays
12. Gut and Replace Hawaii Supreme Court Oral Argument
13. HB2502: Lawmakers pare back quarantine-powers bill after public concern
14. Union organizes mass COVID-19 testing for hospitality workers, it calls on employers to follow suit
15. Different Kind of Tourist?  Under Quarantine only Cheap Hotels have any Occupancy
16. Steep Drop in Real Estate Prices Coming?
17. Supreme Court declines to hear appeal in Christopher Deedy trial—Prosecutors will Try ‘Plan C’
18. Charlatans Whip Up Big Island Mob over missing children—Councilmember Warns Against Vigilantism
19. Thousands of Mainlanders sign petition calling for the removal of 1874 Hawaiian Kingdom Era Captain Cook monument
20. Trump wants federal hiring to focus on skills over degrees
21. Condo associations again face liability for past “wrongful foreclosures”
22. "Renewable Energy” is easy to grasp and slippery to define

1. HB2502: 'Gut and replace' bill would give emergency powers to health director
2. Will Hawaii COVID Lawsuits be Consolidated?
3. Constitutional Law and States of Emergency: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
4. Hawaii Fisheries Down 80%
5. Surprise: Public Employee Wage Hikes Total $150M
6. Group drops lawsuit against Gov. Ige's emergency proclamation
7. Hawaii Economic Chief: Tourism Is ‘Who We Are’ And Must Be Rebuilt
8. Hawaii Ready to take more COVID so Bring It
9. Hawaii lawmakers advance police reform bill that’s been obstructed for years   
10. Police Shootings Soar Under Ballard
11. Bill expands state powers on quarantine and health emergencies
12. Ala Moana Towers Designed to Create Rail Route?
13. Child abuse bill advances

1. Ige: Tourists Can Skip Quarantine with COVID Test Starting Aug 1
2. US DoJ Backs Hawaii Lawsuit Against Ige COVID Orders
3. Dead in Conference Ctte: HB220 would expand Department of Health emergency powers
4. AirBnB Occupancy Bounces Back – But Not in Hawaii
5. Pandemic EBT: $360 Extra SNAP Benefits For Families of 93,000 Students
6. COVID Count: Three new cases out of 1,199 tests
7. COVID Count: 16 new cases out of 1,396 tests
8. ​20 Years Of Honolulu Police Misconduct Summaries Document Serious Bad Behavior
9. Laughing at Your Sacrifice: Lawmakers give preliminary approval to $70M public-worker raises
10. Chamber of Commerce Hawaii urges Ige to create a ‘definitive plan’ for reopening transpacific travel
11. Oahu restaurants ask for delay in starting plastic-ban law
12. State Cutting Lifeguards—Will Counties Pick Up Expense?
13. Sacrifice: Maui County to Create Entire New Department? 
14. 20 Years Of Honolulu Police Misconduct Summaries Document Serious Bad Behavior
15. Facial recognition surveillance to screen for COVID-19 at Hawaii airports in July
16. Lawmakers call on state to give all 14,000 seniors at Hawaii care homes a COVID-19 test
17. NTSB to investigate loss of 21 shipping containers from barge off Big Island
18. DLIR Effort to Transform Uber Contractors into Employees delays unemployment payments for drivers
19. Stanford Carr to turn Honolulu bowling alley site into affordable rentals under $137M DHHL contract
20. Gangster Shot Dead in Pearl City

1. ACLU: Hawaii COVID Facial Recognition Program 'Rife for Abuse'
2. Hawaii’s Army Of Karens
3. Survey: Teachers Report Low Participation in Online Learning
4. DoH Uses COVID as Excuse to Quarantine 51 Homeless Frequent Flyers
5. Koko Head Shooting Complex resuming regular walk-in operations
6. Group Admits COVID Testing Plan is Scheme to Shrink Tourism Industry
7. Rep Wildberger, Candidate, Judge Get $5000+Jail Tickets for Violating COVID Emergency Orders—Judge Already Walks Free
8. YB COVID Money Grab—Why did Containers Collapse on Barge in Calm Seas and Light Winds?
9. SB126 to be CARES Spending Vehicle
10. Negotiations Begin On Hawaii Police Misconduct Bill
11. Mayor: Only 30 to 35% of businesses have reopened
12. Kauai Mayor Having Fun as Dictator
13. Some families of around a dozen residents at Hale Nani nursing center have chosen to remove them
14. Federal census of isle homeless is rescheduled for September
15. Program for women inmates is cancelled

1. HB2500 Legislators poised to exceed state debt limit to avoid making cuts
2. Two Years Later: Kauai Mayor signs fifteenth supplementary emergency proclamation
3. Hawaii Legislators Announce Plan to use CARES Funds
4. COVID Impact on Micronesia
5. Hawaii Anti-Gun Bills Scheduled for Hearing
6. COVID Count: Four new cases out of 629 tests
7. Lawyer known for “sovereignty defenses” barred from future foreclosure assistance
8. Ige reportedly close to announcing testing protocol, loosened quarantine based on Alaska Model
9. Hawaii Currently Fastest Spreading COVID in USA
10. SB2629 Carbon Credits: House Committee Hearing Gut-and-Replace Legislation
11. Lawyer known for “sovereignty defenses” barred from future foreclosure assistance
12. Convicted Anal Rapist of Child Gets Lucky at Supreme Court 
13. Police transparency bill being considered in Hawaii
14. How 12 Teens Who’d Never Met Before Organized Honolulu’s Black Lives Matter Protest
15.  Three more people test positive for COVID-19 at Hale Nani; senior facilities are concerned
16. With thousands out of work, scammers are targeting the unemployment system
17. COVID Cuts: Hawaii's only halfway house for women is closing
18. Hawaii’s Cesspool Problem Continues To Bubble Up As EPA Cracks Down

1. Hawaii Worst Unemployment Recovery in USA
2. COVID Count: 14 New Cases out of 1,126 tests
3. COVID Count: 11 new cases out of 851 tests
4. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 20, 2020
5. ‘The Jones Act isn’t just inefficient, it’s failed’
6. Pitfalls of the Subcontractor Deduction  
7. Approving Public Employee Raises Top Legislative Focus
8. Up to 45K Hawaii renters on brink could fall into abyss after July
9. Rail: How Many Honolulu mayoral candidates will go to jail?
10. Does a lawsuit against Ige have grounds?
11. Department of Health: Masks in classrooms are "Not recommended"    
12. Hello! Anybody There At The D-L-I-R?
13. First installment: $40M in CARES funds hits Hawaii County coffers
14. Maunakea command plan again delayed
15. Honolulu City Council takes aim at new regulations against monster homes
16. Honolulu City Council defers decision on mall tower changes
17. Airlines to Shirk Dramatically After Oct 1

1. How to balance the budget in just a few clicks
2. COVID Count 27 new cases out of 990 tests
3. Senator Dela Cruz asks Governor to consider pooled testing for arriving travelers
4. UHERO forecasts dire scenarios for local government budgets
5. Mayor Victorino returns budget to Maui Council without signature
6. 86% of Parents want Return to Classroom Teaching—Kishimoto: “We don’t need books”
7. Lawmakers: $600 Million In Federal Relief Funds Will Now Go To Hard-Hit Residents, State Agencies  
8. Economic Development Officials Outline Recovery Plan
9. Widow of 28-Year-Old Kaneohe Man tells BLM to Back Off
10. Telescope Protester Arrested in Kalihi Game Room Shooting
11. HPA: We’re Working Hard to Get Criminals Back out onto the Street
12. Cluster of New COVID-19 Cases Found In Waianae Elderly Care Homes
13. Volunteer sleuths track down Hawaii’s quarantine scofflaws
14. Grove Farm Is ‘Disappointed’ In Planned Changes For Kauai Rehab Facility
15. China Could Be in Reach of Hawaii After Monday’s Election in Kiribati

1. Caldwell Signs Budget: Rail Faces ‘Hard Decisions’ due to Collapse of Economy
2. DHHL Expands COVID-19 Emergency Rental Assistance Program
3. Tax Credit Available for Low Income Homeowners
4. AG proposes COVID Spying Bills to Legislature
5. State says greater testing capacity, digital records on visitors needed to restart tourism      
6. Cluster of COVID-19 cases at state’s largest nursing home grows to 11 as testing continues
7. Lawmaker says Black Lives Matter protest likely contributed to spike in COVID-19 cases
8. DoE Reopening Plans Secret Until After Legislative Session Ends
9. Sacrifice: Public workers approved for 4.5% pay raises by city council
10. Report: ‘New normal’ could mean half of Hawaii families in financial hardship
11. Honolulu Police Chief Hopes Nationwide Reform Movement Skips Hawaii
12. Caldwell scraps Sherwood Forest plan due to protests
13. Maui Co Bill to help grant recipients get funding without accountability
14. Hawaii County Council to take up new construction code
15. Should Hawaiian Electric Company Receive Financial Incentives to Reduce Greenhouse Gases

1. COVID Count: Five New Cases out of 1,131 tests
2. COVID Count: 18 new cases out of 1,370 tests
3. Public input sought on decommissioning of Maunakea telescope
4. Hawaii 20.2% Unemployment -- 3rd Highest in USA
5. UHERO: Estimating the Need for Rental Assistance in Hawaii
6. Just in Time to Shut Down Session (Again) -- State House staff member tests positive for coronavirus
7. No, We Are Not All In The Same Canoe
8. Caldwell: Rail Faces ‘Hard Decisions’ due to Collapse of Economy
9. Window of Opportunity to Reopen Hawaii – Closing Quick
10. HART Gives Hi Tech Tax Credit Schemers $190K to Design Video Game
11. Hawaii Supreme Court asked to block opening of controversial wind project
12. Utility must get more efficient
13. Vote-by-mail might make it easier to vote, but it's not the fix we need to engage citizens in elections.
14. HB285: Open Records on Police Misconduct
15. Man dies after altercation with police in Kaneohe
16. Body cameras coming for Big Island police
17. As COVID-19 cases rise, family members say Hale Nani not doing enough to protect residents
18. Three employees at Doraku Sushi in Waikiki test positive for COVID-19
19. Hawaii Senators Introduce Bill To Close Air Tour Loopholes
20. Attorney faces threat of disbarment while trying to clear his record
21. COVID Excuse to Grab Control of Kauai Drug Treatment Center Facility

1. Council District Nine--Family Ties
2. Another Hawaii Lawsuit: Coronavirus Orders Violate Right To Travel, Equal Protection, Due Process
3. Trump’s Executive Order on Improving Policing Brings Welcome News in Troubled Times
4. HPD Policy on ‘Vascular Neck Restraint’ is Redacted
5. Corona Count: Four new cases out of 1,215 tests
6. Navy Calling Up Reservists to Fill in For Pearl Harbor Shipyard Workers Out for COVID-19
7. Saving coral reef fisheries with management areas
8. Ex-Legislator Who Lied About Police Misconduct Slimes Doug Chin in Grab for Police Commission Seat
9. Jabola the Carolus Having Difficulty at Home
10. 19 Police Killings Left out of HPD Reports
11. OCCC relocating to new facility at the animal quarantine station    
12. Hale Nani 5 Positive COVID, prompts mass testing of nursing home
13. Hawaii one of the worst places for businesses sued over COVID

HPD Policy on ‘Vascular Neck Restraint’ is Redacted

1. Former Governors Urge Alternatives to Star-Adv Layoffs
2. Settlement Improves Honolulu Gun Registration System
3. Young Case against Hawaii Carry Ban Finally Moving Forward
4. COVID Count: Eight new cases out of 554 tests
5. DoH Still Working on New Rules for Quarantine-Free Inter-island Flights
6. EPA orders the closure of 16 cesspools on Kauai
7. Contact Tracing, Testing Keep Recent Clusters in Check
8. Sen. Laura Thielen: Legislature Must Spend $632M on COVID Relief, not Public Employee Pay Hikes
9. Death Threats Convince 21 Cult Members accused of breaking COVID-19 quarantine to leave Hawaii
10. Law Profs: Hawaii can require testing for all coming in
11. Second Wave?  Hawaii Ready to handle it Without Return to Lockdowns
12. Hawaii Economy Faces ‘A Long Slow Road Back’
13. With some improvising, state agencies welcome thousands of workers back to the office
14. In Effort to Justify Do-Nothing ‘Distance Learning Scam, DoE Deploys Unworkable Summer School System 
15. Five Hotels Permanently Discharge Workers
16. Kauai: 57% of Households have lost a job
17. Star-Advertiser's plan to cut 30 newsroom staff may turn out to be a negotiating ploy
18. Short term vacation rentals allowed to reopen on Maui, Big Island and Kaua'i
19. Retailers report resistance to the in-store mask requirement
20. Soft on Crime: Spurned Woman Accused of Attempted Murder Walks Free without Bail
21. Soft on Crime: Homeless Car Thief Does it Again and Again Since COVID Release
22. 2 possible COVID-19 cases being looked at in state-run public housing
23. State: COVID Spreads to Resident at state’s largest skilled nursing facility

1. Feds: Civil Beat Publisher's Security Detail Sends Pig's Head to Media Critic
2. COVID Count: Five new cases out of 1,152 tests
3. Maui Planning Commission sneaks Hawaiian burial group’s motion onto agenda
4. How SHOPO keeps public from seeing police misconduct records
5. Caldwell disagrees on extent of Police Commission’s authority
6. Recent spike in COVID-19 cases will test Hawaii’s preparations
7. California's starting to reopen hotels. Hawaii just extended its shutdown
8. Bankruptcies decline thanks to federal loan program
9. Bill could impact Aloha Stadium demolition, landfill operator says

1. June 14, 1900: The Abolition of Slavery in Hawaii
2. COVID Count 17 New Cases out of 984 tests
3. The Giant Sucking Sound
4. Sause ends Hawaii Barge Service after 54 years
5. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 13, 2020
6. Hawaii tax revenues plummet 49% in May as Covid impact comes into focus
7. Many Small Businesses Going out of Business
8. Honolulu County says how workers are deployed; Gov. Ige’s administration has yet to supply such information
9. Kishimoto: Academic Rigor Fell by Wayside and I want $87M to Do It Again this Fall
10. Momentum builds for police-linked reforms: stricter gun laws, opening discipline records
11. Ballard Dismissive of New Police Commission Nominees
12. Kauai Prosecutor Tries to Make Excuses for COVID Criminal Releases
13. COVID-19 case confirmed in Hale Nani rehab center employee
14. Maui Hotel workers rally Saturday for safe reopening
15. Opportunity Zones Eyed for P3 Projects
16. Hawaii County Fire Department and volunteers erect homeless shelters

1. List of Staff Being Laid off by Star-Advertiser
2. Regents to consider new Maunakea internal management structure
3. Oahu District Courts Reopen
4. This act needs a rewrite
5. VIDEO: Sen. Mike Lee on the Jones Act at 100: Time to chart a new course?
6. Bubbles? Corridors?  Ige announcement on reopening transpacific travel upcoming
7. HPD chief okay with releasing names of disciplined officers, but not for minor violations
8. Joyous News: 21 members of reported cult that violated 14-day quarantine plan to stay in Hawaii After Jail Sentence is up
9. Elderly Care Nurse Among Latest COVID-19 Diagnoses
10. BLNR grants contested case hearing over aquarium collection fines

1. Kamehameha: The Founding of the Hawaiian Kingdom
2. Constitutional Law and States of Emergency: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
3. Hearing Set for New Administrative Rules for Hawaii Elections
4. COVID Count: 15 new cases--10 in one family
5. Facial Recognition A Minefield, Could Evolve into Compulsory Program 
6. Hawaii’s largest daily newspaper cutting nearly 30 newsroom staff
7. Stop verbal, physical attacks on police
8. How Effective Is Hawaii’s Key Court-Sanctioned Drug Treatment Program?
9. Thanks to Bookkeepers, Young Brothers demanding $25M Cash and 25% Rate Hike   
10. “Were Hawaii’s lockdowns worth it?”
11. City Finally Finds A Replacement To Join The HART Board
12. Council Tinkers With Affordable Housing Rules (again)
13. MCCC population trimmed 41 percent during COVID-19
14. Cult leader among 21 arrested in Puna for violating quarantine order
15. Effort to dismiss hotel hearings officer fails
16. Pandering to Russian-backed Anti 5G Conspiracy Nuts, Hawaii Council Illegally Obstructs 4G Installers
17. A growing number of missing children on the Big Island is causing concern

1. Hawaii COVID Lawsuit: Emergency Rules Unconstitutional Beyond 60 Days
2. DLIR Updates Unemployment Claims Processing Numbers
3. Ige Extends Emergency Order Through July 31
4. ‘New normal’ requires long-term budget thinking
5. Lockdown victims include Hawaii healthcare providers
6. COVID Count: Seven new cases out of 1,284 new tests
7. Anderson and Kobayashi Block Forensic Audit of Rail—Use COVID as Excuse
8. Hawaii will utilize facial recognition in airports
9. Hotel security keeps tabs on quarantined visitors
10. Vacation rental owners claim discrimination, threaten lawsuit
11. COVID an Excuse to Gut TVRs on Maui, Lanai
12. Honolulu City Council moving forward with resolution pressuring state to test visitors before they board a plane to Hawai'i
13. COVID-19 patient was at Oahu game room hours before being hospitalized
14. Governor: I ‘ordered’ director handling unemployment claims to take time off
15. Pandemic's budget shortfalls push states toward automation
16. COVID $28M for Kauai County to Pass Around
17. This Kauai Doctor Is Helping Revolutionize Drug Treatment For Inmates

1. ​Legislature to Reconvene on June 22
2. Veterans’ Health Administration Health Care System Leadership Change in Hawaii
3. COVID Count: Six New Cases out of 699 tests
4. COVID Count: Four new cases out of 1,122 tests
5. Coronavirus Restrictions: Hawaii vs Alaska 
6. COVID-19 testing pre-departure may eliminate 90% of infectious passengers
7. Confronting Police Abuse Requires Shifting Power From Police Unions
8. 6 in 10 mainland travelers say they’d be willing to be tested for COVID-19 to visit Hawaii
9. CVS to Provide 1,200 Hawaii Tourist COVID Testing Sites on Mainland?
10. Gambling Charges go to top of Big Island PD -- refiled against retired police captain
11. Lt. Gov. Josh Green warns of uptick in COVID-19 cases from mass protests
12. Unemployment office in limbo along with thousands of filers
13. Just try reporting fraudulent unemployment payments
14. Hawaii DLIR pays out more than $594M in unemployment claims
15. Hawaii scrambles to prepare for all mail-in voting in primary election
16. In the first mass testing on Oahu, Arcadia nursing home tests about 550 of its health care workers
17. First Hawaii resident charged with violating traveler quarantine
18. Many who received assistance to return home didn’t plan to honor Hawaii quarantine, nonprofit says
19. Drastic drop in immunizations during COVID-19 pandemic
20. Hawai`i Supreme Court Issues Second Climate Change Ruling
21. Spouse of Abigail Kawananakoa among four seeking to become conservator

1. Rep Case Bill Would Allow States to Impose Air-Travel COVID Testing
2. Debate: Jones Act Necessary for National Security?
3. Dr. Tony Trpkovski -- Protecting Yourself & Hawaii from Coronavirus
4. PIT Count: Oahu Homeless Numbers Nearly Unchanged from 2019
5. Hawaii House Speaker Says Cop Misconduct Bill Is ‘On Our Radar’
6. Honolulu Police To Temporarily Halt Use Of Vascular Neck Restraints
7. Hilo judges recuse themselves from hearing former cop’s assault, abuse cases
8. Rail’s future hinges on P3 pact
9. DoH: Open Hawaii to Japan, NZ, Alaska
10. Gov. Ige asks protesters from weekend Black Lives Matter rallies to voluntarily self-isolate
11. No new cases of COVID-19 reported at Kalakaua Gardens
12. Doctors worry that patients are neglecting their regular visits as well as their health
13. Unions press government on COVID safety
14. Labor department sees more fraud activity connected to pandemic unemployment aid
15. Roth alarmed by release of suspect in violent home invasion
16. Dead Homeless Dude had 24 Criminal Convictions, Yet State Refused to Provide him with Long Term Housing in a nice safe Prison

1. UH begins training COVID-19 contact tracers
2. COVID Count: One new case out of 327 tests
3. Two Months of Petty Bickering Sets Back Hawaii Recovery
4. 2,800 Visitors Pour into Hawaii as ‘Leaders’ Dither over Testing  
5. Attorney General Babysits Senate -- COVID-19 committee will not be "investigative"
6. Retaliation: HSTA Jumps into Mayoral Race After Counties Block Union Grab for Property Tax Funds
7. COVID Contracting: How A Major Campaign Donor Got A Million-Dollar Cleaning Contract In Honolulu
8. Kauai County Insiders use COVID Emergency to Steal Building from Residential Drug Treatment Facility
9. Doug Chin, Michael Broderick Nominated for Police Commission
10. These Kauai Cops Are Tired Of Racist Police Killings, Too
11. Maui Memorial to start rapid universal testing today
12. Personal Car Use Bounces Back in Hawaii
13. Hawaii Gas and Hawaiian Telcom Are on the Chopping Block
14. State moving to new public access data portal

1. Amemiya Joins Pack of Insiders Grabbing ‘Affordable’ Housing Units for Themselves
2. Hawaii Spending Cap Too Easily Ignored by Lawmakers
3. Is Our GET Too Soft on Sales to the Feds?
4. BLM Protesters Leave Signs at Hawaii GOP HQ
5. COVID Count: Nine new cases out of 798 tests
6. COVID Count: Two new cases out of 1,092 tests
7. State Finally Launches Digital Time and Leave System
8. Repeal Bill 40, Honolulu's discriminatory builder contracting law
9. Life in the time of lockdowns
10. Auditor Dings City Parks for Poor Management
11. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 6, 2020
12. Recovery Held Back by a Childish Snit playing out for all to see
13. Our police commissioners must be watchdogs, not lapdogs
14. BLM Protesters Back Esser for Honolulu Prosecutor
15. Graduate: DoE Online Learning Was a Sham
16. UH COVID Modelers Propose Tourist Quarantine Exemption With Negative COVID Test
17. Healing Hawaii responsibly must include the reopening of legal vacation rentals
18. Hannemann: You Should Elect me Now Because I lost to Abercrombie, Caldwell, and Ige
19. Oahu home sales decline 22% in May, condo sales drop 50%—but prices steady
20. Hawaii’s private schools brace themselves for a harsh economic reality
21. KPD Body-cam Footage Exonerates 87% of Officers Facing Complaints
22. BLM Rallies in Hawaii

1. Hawai'i Supreme Court Orders Maui Planning Commission To Answer Petition on Media Access
2. Jones Act 100th -- Happy Birthday, NOT!
3. Happy Birthday Jones Act. Let’s Hope it’s Your Last
4. Could “Tariff Man” Trump support Jones Act reform?
5. US Sen Mike Lee calls for Jones Act gas carrier exemption
6. Caldwell Announces New Plan to Jam up Traffic
7. Notice of Anticipated Judicial Vacancy – Circuit Judge of the Third Circuit
8. It Begins: 3 employees at Oahu senior living facilities test positive for COVID-19—One Location Secret
9. The Head Of Hawaii’s Unemployment Office Is On Leave After Getting Death Threats
10. New data on race shows that Native Hawaiians aren’t currently experiencing higher rates of COVID-19
11. 650 Criminals Released --- Hawaii Supreme Court ends its COVID Excuse inmate-release program
12. Employment numbers improve for Hawaii as businesses reopen
13. Maui: Only 10% of Students Engaged with distance learning
14. Kauai School Doing Everything Online—Except Teaching Classes
15. Impact of COVID-19 on UH-Hilo applications ‘nominal’
16. Sacrifice: Maui County Council cuts spending from $824M to $823M
17. HECO: COVID Making Electric Clocks Run Fast

1. UPW Prison Guard Busted Allegedly Smuggling Meth into OCCC
2. Honolulu’s Terrible Folly and a Transit Mystery
3. Land Use: Disparate Impact
4. Free Food Giveaways set to conclude
5. HD5 Rep Creagan Withdraws from Race for Reelection
6. ERS Risks $75M of Your Retirement Fund on Hawaii High Tech Startups
7. Honolulu 7th Largest Increase in Unemployment 
8. Kym Pine: ANTIFA Agitator Photos not Credible
9. COVID Count: Six new cases out of 921 tests
10. While 200K Unemployed Twist in Wind, DBEDT, Senators Feud over ‘Bullying’
11. Budget Chief: Deep Cuts Loom For The University of Hawaii
12. HSTA, DoE Still Pushing for Fake Online Classes so Teachers Can be Paid to do Nothing
13. HART Has Spent Millions On Rail Design Work That May Not Be Used
14. Hawaii Co Council approves budget with property tax hike
15. 24% Unemployment—but No County Workers Laid Off
16. Hawaii Does Not Reveal How Many COVID Deaths in Nursing Homes
17. If George Floyd Died In Hawaii, We’d Know Little About The Cop Who Killed Him
18. Stressed Due to no Tourists to Mooch, Homeless Killing Each Other in Bumfights
19. Mayor signs bills jacking up the cost of housing to subsidize electric cars
20. Anti-5G Conspiracy Nuts Waste Time in Hilo

1. Sierra Club: Maui Mayor Exploits Corona Emergency Powers to Fast-Track Shoreline Development 
2. Ige Admin Places 'Reopening Strategy' Online
3. Young Bros: Another Jones Act Failure
4. COVID Count: Two New Cases out of 1,698 tests
5. Unemployment rate in Maui metro area highest in the nation at 35%
6. DLIR Stops Counting at 316K -- Hawaii’s Jobless Grow Desperate As Unemployment Approvals Lag
7. Alaska may be first state to ask visitors to pack a negative COVID-19 test — will Hawaii follow?
8. Honolulu will Have New Mayor, Council and Prosecutor
9. No Supervision: Police Commission Goes Back to Covering for HPD
10. State-regulated marijuana vape cartridges aren’t safe, doctor and whistleblower say
11. Council Boosts Spending, Raises Golf Fees
12. Those who violate mandatory quarantine order could end up wearing an ankle bracelet
13. Kaiser High School ranks No. 1 in the US in math, reading

1. 423 Candidates Pull Papers for Election--338 File
2. Republicans Contest Only About Half of Legislative Races
3. VIDEO: How to Save Lives in Hawaii, in 50 Seconds
4. Hawaiian Electric posts new battery projects’ details
5. COVID Count: One New Case out of 1,130 Tests
6. 200K Unemployed but Hawaii Recovery Plan held up Because Sen Wakai has Personal Beef with HTA
7. In only 60 days the 2020 primary election will essentially be over
8. Recovery: City Spends $19M on Office to Find More Free Money
9. HDOE: Fake ‘Distance Learning’ Scam will Continue into Fall Semester
10. Hawaii Law Enforcement Standards Board behind as nation turns focus on policing
11. Food demands in Hawaii increase as unemployment insurance complaints continue
12. Dentists struggle amid shortage of medical masks, mounting costs of doing business
13. More volunteers sought for state’s new contact tracing program
14. Judge issues $200 in fines to fish poacher

1. Kam Napier: How to strike the right balance in reopening Hawaii economy
2. US Supreme Court declines to lift restrictions on crowds at church services
3. COVID Count: No new cases out of 434 tests
4. COVID Count: One new case out of 587 tests
5. Applicants Sought for Disciplinary Board of the Hawaii Supreme Court
6. 417 Candidates Pull Papers for Election--303 File
7. New online system to assist with shooting range reservations
8. Ige lifting interisland quarantine Effective June 16 — May Join Aus/NZ Bubble
9. ‘No Fraud or Collusion’ Claimed as Land tied to criminal Al Hee’s company is bought by Another Al Hee Company
10. Hawaii could lose 30K in population in slow Covid recovery
11. How Many Will Die?  People Avoiding The Doctor Due To COVID-19 Fears
12. Let’s Put COVID-19 In Context
13. Study Estimates 30% to 50% Learning Loss for Students By Fall
14. Hawaii chambers of commerce petition urges governor to save small business
15. Hawaii short-term rentals remain on hold for virus recovery
16. PUC opens emergency investigation of Young Brothers
17. Local restaurant owner launches #SaveHawaiiBusinesses campaign
18. Bar owners awaiting governor’s plan for reopening
19. The Pandemic Is Proving Too Much For Some Big Island Businesses
20. Family of an abused Oahu toddler files suit for lack of child protection
21. Academy of Hawaiian Arts falls victim to rioters in Oakland
22. Tweeker Caught Stealing, Given Free Food

1. Hannemann: “I’m not implicated”
2. Sheehan, Levinson voice frustration as they resign from Police Commission
3. ‘It’s Going To Be Bad’: Federal Aid Will Soon Run Out For Many In Hawaii
4. Set the Date to Reopen Tourism
5. Taxpayers to Take Back Cable from Criminal Al Hee?
6. Homeless Criminals Turn Sand Island Park into Illegal dump