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Entries for June 2025
| Saturday, June 21, 2025 |
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June 21, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:18 PM :: 190 Views
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| Saturday, June 21, 2025 |
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Letters to the Editor June 2025
By Letters to the Editor @ 3:00 PM :: 2148 Views
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- Let Moszkowicz Go
- Sigh of Relief After Mostly Peaceful Protests
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| Friday, June 20, 2025 |
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June 20, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:27 PM :: 275 Views
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- AG Terminates Lahaina Investigation
- Priced out: The growing challenge of teacher pay and housing costs
- Bubble: Investors Flood into Hawaii Housing Market
- UH Grad Student $6.7M Settlement in 2016 Lab Explosion
- Hawaiʻi Wants More Geothermal Power Plants but Dela Cruz Rewards Campaign Contributors Instead
- Governor Should Sign Mental Illness Treatment Legislation
- Threats to Hawaii Judiciary officials on pace to double
- ‘We want closure’: Oahu family waits for justice more than two years after deadly crash
- Homeless Camp Burns Under H-1 Freeway
- Mayor Blangiardi signs new laws targeting illegal game rooms
- Fishing council to ask Trump to lift fishing ban in Papahanaumokuakea
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| Thursday, June 19, 2025 |
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June 19, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:54 PM :: 329 Views
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- Hawaii Democrats Outraged Over Ban on Juvenile Sex Change
- Wahiawa Veteran Wins in Class Action Lawsuit Against Iran
- HMSA: 2nd Worst Health Insurance Company in USA
- Maui residents’ recovery sees gains, but health and housing challenges persist
- Trump ‘incensed’ – Gabbard “on the brink of nuclear annihilation.”
- Rade Vanic picked to serve as interim Honolulu police chief
- Honolulu's Effort to Fast-Track Affordable Housing Projects Hasn't Worked
- Queens Urologist: ‘There’s No Wrong Way To ‘Delete’ Zionists’
- BJ Penn back in the courtroom, jury trial set
- Testimony continues over bill to ban thousands of Maui vacation rentals
- What if the 100% Renewable Energy Law is the Wrong Goal
- New Homeless Drug Addict Behavior: Laying in Road and Walking on Freeway
- Oʻahu Wants To Crack Down On Homeless Bus Riders
- Shakedown: Another Bogus Surfrider Beach Pollution Report
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| Wednesday, June 18, 2025 |
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June 18, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:16 PM :: 415 Views
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- Lawsuit by State Hospital Medical Director Details How Retaliation Games Keep Hospital Understaffed
- Why Hawaii lawmakers should adopt interstate telehealth
- Eight apply to serve as interim Honolulu police chief
- Honolulu City Council Votes To Shake Up Its Leadership
- Update: Stories from the ‘Encyclopedia of Ethical Failure’
- Trump contradicts Tulsi Gabbard’s assessment on Iran’s nuclear program
- It’s Not Just Tourists: Hawaiʻi Residents Drown At Alarming Rates
- After Master Lease is Signed, UXO Cleanup to Become Big Business for 8a Contractors
- Drones Could Be Dispatched As First Responders To Crime Scenes In Hawaiʻi
- State survey reveals workforce housing would keep Hawai‘i educators in classrooms
- Happy News: State Spends no Money to Stop Feral Chickens
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| Tuesday, June 17, 2025 |
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June 17, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:34 PM :: 414 Views
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- Matt Elliott approved by BOR as next UH Mānoa athletics director
- HMSA’s ‘Take-it-or-leave-it’ Contracts ‘Fundamentally Unfair’
- Honolulu City Council leadership changes proposed
- After Engineering the Woke Ouster of Isaac Choy, CNHA is back at HTA for ‘Mo Money
- Union COVID Cash Bonanza Continues: $124.4 Million In Pandemic Hazard Pay For Prisons
- Affordable Housing Fraud? ‘Still working on it’
- Lawsuit Asks Court To Halt Haʻikū Stairs Demolition, Citing State Flip-Flop
- BYU-Hawaii alum killed as Utah ‘No Kings’ protesters shoot at each other
- ICE agents arrest Russian woman at Marine Corps Base Hawaii
- Hawaii DOH could seize unregulated THC products in 2026
- Heated moments at Makaha meeting on transitional homes project
- Fiber cut causes outage in Windward Oahu
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| Monday, June 16, 2025 |
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June 16, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:01 PM :: 373 Views
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- Sigh of Relief After Mostly Peaceful Protests
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 14, 2025
- Affordable Housing Scam was Easy to Pull Off
- City seeks developer for Iwilei transit-oriented housing
- Report: Honolulu Inflation Among Worst In Nation
- Investigators: High Winds, Rotor Flap Caused Fatal Kauaʻi Helicopter Crash
- Kidnapper Issac Pascua arrested in Texas after escape from Hawaii jail
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| Sunday, June 15, 2025 |
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June 15, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:19 PM :: 749 Views
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- A blue wave is helping rock the boat on Jones Act reform
- Intent to Veto
- Supreme Court decision makes it easier for disabled students to sue school districts for bias
- How To Protect Politicians from Ethics Investigations? Eliminate Staff
- No Robots Day: Ed Case Thinks for Himself on Defense, Immigration
- Army to Trade Oahu Leases for Pohakuloa Renewal?
- Goal of new partnership of hospitals: More specialty doctors for Big Island, fewer medical trips to Oʻahu
- Elliott expected to be confirmed as Hawaii AD on Monday
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| Saturday, June 14, 2025 |
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June 14, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:30 PM :: 2541 Views
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- June 14, 1900: The Abolition of Slavery in Hawaii
- $294K Income Needed for Family of Four in Hawaii
- Hawaii: Fewest Boat Owners Per Capita
- 37 Current and Former Hawaii Police Officers Call for ‘Military Government’
- BJ Penn Legal, Mental Issues Growing
- Moszkowicz rescinded resignation when he learned it’s the responsibility of the Honolulu Police Commission and not the mayor to select interim chief
- Kauai: Police Chief Todd Raybuck retires; Kalani Ke takes over leadership
- Maui: Meth-addled firebugs continue to accumulate on Holomua Road
- Tokuda Soft on Fentanyl
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| Friday, June 13, 2025 |
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June 13, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:34 PM :: 832 Views
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- DoH Coverup? Health Dep't Fines Hilo Medical Practice $2.19M for Minor Paperwork Violation
- Lawsuit: HTA bosses destroy Convention Center Roof in quest for retaliation
- House Announces New Assignments: Leadership, Committee Chair
- Against all odds, Hawaii’s children are returning
- HART Designs Final Six Stations to Be Harder Than Ever for Riders to Reach
- Who’s Really to Blame for Hawaii Overtourism? Airbnb Pushes Back
- DOE Called For 12 New Schools In ‘Ewa A Decade Ago. It’s Built Two
- New laws will soften criminal prosecution of juveniles in Hawaii
- After Nine Months in Kapolei, Homeless HONU returning to Old Stadium Park
- B.J. Penn arrested — again
- A Navy Plan To Develop Barbers Point Will Erase History
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| Thursday, June 12, 2025 |
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June 12, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:16 PM :: 640 Views
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- Cost of Bills Index: Hawaii 32% Above US Median
- Hawaii is a Leader for Preschool Quality But Last in Access Among Pacific States
- Hawaii 3rd-Highest Beer Taxes in USA
- Strategy: Make Tourists Pay More
- No Soda or Candy on EBT Card?
- Blangiardi on ICE: City to exercise "appropriate judgment" toward immigration law enforcement
- SHOPO Drives Search for new Kauai Police Chief
- Crime: Waianae a Sacrifice Zone for Decades
- Fentanyl overdose deaths drop in Hawaii as meth-related fatalities spike
- Burials Bring Kauai Jobsite to Screeching Halt—Fines and Lawsuits Begin
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| Wednesday, June 11, 2025 |
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June 11, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:30 PM :: 1171 Views
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- Hawaii justices examine doctors’ ability to challenge denied health insurance claims
- Kauai Sewer Rates a Model for Honolulu Council?
- Miske Crime Family Will Keep Some of His Money? Prosecutors Agree To Negotiate Settlement Over Asset Forfeiture
- Next Scandal: City’s new housing agency a Ewa Villages Retread
- Hawaiʻi Foster System In Crisis: Kids Still Sleeping In Offices, Hotels
- HECO scheme dies whimpering death
- New policy ‘czar’ will coordinate Hawaii’s role in Red Hill fuel cleanup
- Mission Valley man beaten and left for dead by Bouncers during Hawaii vacation
- Protective order against former UFC champ B.J. Penn extended
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| Tuesday, June 10, 2025 |
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June 10, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:03 PM :: 918 Views
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- Lawsuit: Hawaii AG Accuses Trump of 'Distributing Machine Guns'
- How Maui Bill 9 Would Destroy TVRs – and still not Create any New Housing for Local Residents
- Case splits from Democrat vote on shipping bill
- State Republican lawmakers meet with the White House, federal officials
- Hawaiʻi County Council seeks more oversight with passage of vacation rental bill
- Hurricane insurance is getting more expensive, harder to find in Hawaii
- Hawaiʻi Agriculture Dep’t Moves To Broaden Allowed Agricultural Uses
- SB935: Dela Cruz Cuts Judges’ Pension Benefits
- Report shows use of Hawaiian language growing at home
- Girl Scouts, Teachers Union Headline Kauai Gay Pride Parade
- Twice-deported immigrant faces prison sentence
- Drones Deliver Millions Of Mosquitos to Prevent Bird Extinctions In Hawai‘i
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| Monday, June 9, 2025 |
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June 9, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:41 PM :: 945 Views
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- Lahaina: Hotel Unions, HSTA Join with Meth Gang to Demand Seizure of Vacation Rentals
- Hawai‘i children hit hard by high cost of housing
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 6, 2025
- In Hawaii Only Military Water Systems are Fluoridated
- DEI Is Alive and Well in Hawai‘i
- Legislature: “Not factions, they’re prison gangs.”
- Maui Council gears up for pivotal vacation rental phase-out bill hearing
- Green: Medical Marijuana Expansion Bill a 'Grave Violation Of Privacy'
- Hawaiʻi To Settle Teacher’s Claim He Was Fired Over False Abuse Allegation
- Hawaii’s ombudsman facing chronic issues
- Ridding state Capitol of water leaks will not be complete by 2027
- More Bogus Sunscreen: Fears and Lies
- Waianae Traffic enforcement “dissuaded criminal activity, and resulted in several notable arrests”
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| Sunday, June 8, 2025 |
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June 8, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:17 PM :: 671 Views
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- "Diversified ag" rhetoric doesn't match reality
- The Unseen Stopper Committees
- REPORT: Hawaii Math Instruction 'Unacceptable'
- Grassroot: Democratic Congressional Staffers focus on Jones Act
- Maui Council approves tax-rate hikes
- More Electric Rate Hikes Coming
- Council Leadership Shakeup After Sewer Fee Vote
- Will Police Commission Pick Next Chief?
- Officials expect federal funding to continue for Honolulu rail project
- Price of Wokeism: DAGS takes on convention center project despite ‘aggressive’ timetable
- 'NCIS Hawaii' Studio Empty, Overgrown by Weeds
- Beth Fukumoto: Holding Billions Of Dollars, These State Funds Need Scrutiny
- Maui Council approves staff pay raises after contentious debate on transparency
- Samoa US Nationals Illegal Voting in Alaska, Oregon, Hawaii
- Teachers at Hilo public charter school put on administrative leave after raising concerns about contract breaches
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| Saturday, June 7, 2025 |
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June 7, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:36 PM :: 643 Views
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- Governor Green Releases 'Intent-to-Veto' List
- Supreme Court to Decide: Are HMSA Physician Contracts “oppressive, unconscionable, and unenforceable”?
- Short-Staffed HPD 20-minute Wait for 911 Callers to Reach an Operator
- ACLU of Hawai‘i (again) asks county leaders not to collaborate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement
- City launches funeral assistance program for COFA families
- Oʻahu racetrack gets the green light
- Residents want sustained enforcement on Diamond Head homeless
- Remember the Office of the Ombudsman?
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| Friday, June 6, 2025 |
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June 6, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:55 PM :: 1856 Views
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- VIDEO: Rep Elle Cochran Calls for Trump Administration to Investigate Lahaina Corruption
- Hawaii’s energy future: Red tape is in the way
- Mystery: Is Kouchi Really Planning to Retire from Senate?
- How Much Say Should Gays Have Over What Your Kids Learn In Public Schools?
- Hawaii passes bill expanding insurer of last resort, revives hurricane fund
- Hawaii Expands Lobbying Law to Cover Procurement Activities
- City Attorney Delays Raise Price Tag In $3.25M UPW Garbage Settlement
- Man facing murder trial in death of daughter makes a plea offer
- Schizo tweeker caught smuggling pound-quantities of meth into prison—2 dead
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| Thursday, June 5, 2025 |
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June 5, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 11:48 PM :: 1136 Views
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- Babylon Bee challenges Hawaii law criminalizing political memes, satire
- Guilty on All Counts: Big Island Affordable Housing Fraudsters
- Lawsuit Alleges More Affordable Housing Fraud
- Matt Elliott selected as the next UH Mānoa athletics director
- Honolulu Sewer Fee Hike: How They Voted
- Mercado Kim News: Thomas Aiu Tries for Chief Again
- Honolulu City Council adopts HART’s $968M budget
- Key amendments proposed for vacation rental phase-out bill ahead of Council committee hearing
- Lahaina Front Street building manager fights looters again and again
- Blackmail: Dela Cruz, Kim Threaten UH Cancer Center (again)
- New jail: Green says he will not knuckle under to ACLU
- DAGS now part of project to repair Hawaiʻi Convention Center's leaky roof
- Capitol, Convention Center, Stadium Are All Great Landfill Sites
- HSTA Member Guilty of Child Molestation
- New Hawaii law aims to better protect children from torture
- Oahu jail on lockdown as officers search for contraband
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| Wednesday, June 4, 2025 |
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June 4, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:41 PM :: 2284 Views
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- UH: Feds Cut Funding for Sea Level Hysteria
- Hawaii Child Molester Caught by Feds -- gets 41 years
- Kapolei Video: Druggie Deported as Parking Lot Lawyers Interfere
- Lahaina Calls for Resignation of Absent Rep Elle Cochran
- SHOPO Bags 3 of 4 Police Chiefs
- 40% Astronomy Cuts - Beyond TMT Cancellation
- Maui Council ‘Affordable’ Homes Plan—Property Tax Increase on ALL rental homes
- Honolulu Council to review city’s proposed $5.14 billion budget for approval
- Community Solar: Total Fail – “We just want out”
- 252 Days to Get Residential Building Permit
- New Bill Could Offer Insurance Relief for Hawai‘i Condo and Home Owners
- Milestone agreement to strengthen health care in West Hawaiʻi
- EPA Terminates $14M Waianae Homeless Puuhonua Grant
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| Tuesday, June 3, 2025 |
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June 3, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:32 PM :: 1046 Views
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- HPD Chief Logan Quits--Moszkowicz to Return from Big Island
- Hawaii 3rd Worst Economy in USA
- Hawaii County Launches Community Survey
- Share your feedback on HPD's compliance with CALEA and more
- State Court Shakedown Extracts $700M over Mis-labeled Blood Thinners--oil companies next
- Who Killed TMT?
- Gay flag to fly over Hawaii State Capitol for the first time
- Cost of HECO Wildfire Safety Plan Suddenly Jumps to $350,000,000
- Hawaiʻi's First State Fire Marshal In Decades Has A Long To-Do List
- Hawaii's film incentives stay; Governor Green vetoes controversial bill
- We taxpayers won’t have a say in decisions on AD, stadium
- PUC Anticipates Explosive Growth in Shared Solar
- State Housing Czar Demands Church Return Housing For Homeless Elderly
- U.S. defends detention, deportation of military wife in Honolulu, noting ‘unusual activity’
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| Monday, June 2, 2025 |
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June 2, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:24 PM :: 632 Views
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- Auditor: HTA has been promising 'Destination Management' since 2005
- Twenty Years of Hawaii Recycling: 10th Audit Also Exposes Fraud
- Hawaii Driver Education: 59 Years Without a Plan
- Honolulu Sewer Rates Are Likely To Go Up — A Lot
- Maui Council Budget: Musk has left the building, and so goes our excuse for tax hikes and bloated spending
- Honolulu Police Can’t Spend Entire Budget Because It Can’t Fill Positions
- Following the evolution of Miske’s living trust
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| Sunday, June 1, 2025 |
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June 1, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:21 PM :: 774 Views
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- Red tape strangling Hawaii's energy future
- Tax Liens: Light at the End?
- Pearl Harbor to Commemorate 80th Anniversary of the End of WWII
- Some Hawaii Republicans try to Rationalize their Support for BJ Penn for Governor
- Senate WAM Chair Dela Cruz gets Defensive
- Green Fee Tip of a Half-Billion Dollar Pyramid
- Cataluna: Green Fee Doesn’t do enough to make Hawaii Like it was During COVID Shutdowns
- Legislators Push Gigantic Land Swap to Grift Luxe Alii Place Offices for Themselves
- Fully funded Olowalu fire station on hold over ‘iwi kupuna discovered 2 years ago in subdivision
- Media to Regain Access to Police Scanners?
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