Entries for July 2022

1. We Need an Emergency Declaration for Health Care
2. Emergency orders our newest emergency
3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted July 30, 2022
4. Rail Mafia News: PRP Mud-Slinging In Hawaii’s Primary Is Getting Ugly
5. All 3 Top Candidates For Hawaii Governor Have Lucrative Side Jobs
6. Voters crave clean government before pols clean us out
7. Hawaii Visitors Spending 40% More, But Enjoying It Less
8. Wealthy beachfront homeowners turn to the courts to avoid Hawaii environmental laws
9. Above the Law: Police release Aikau family suspect accused of beating elderly man in apparent road rage attack in Laie

1. 27 Candidates Fail to File Financial Disclosures
2. Bill to Address Disparities in Data Collection for U.S. Territories
3. Industrial toilet paper supply issues resulting in park bathroom modifications
4. Maui: 'Yes In My Backyard'
5. Affordable Housing: Bribery Has Been Going on For Years
6. Jewish leaders condemn Kahele campaign’s use of ‘Mr. Men’ meme, citing it resembled Hitler
7. Kalima case lawyers calculate damages for Native Hawaiians in $328M settlement with the state
8. Catch n Release: Maui Meth Heads Stealing 41% more cars this year
9. Homeless ‘Do Not Want’ Housing--threaten more crime
10. Hawaii students finally returning to classrooms without COVID-19 restrictions

1. Confucius Institutes Rebrand to Circumvent U.S. Policy, Report Finds
2. Hawaii -- Fewest Guns Per Capita Traced to Crimes
3. Tourist Count 89% of Pre-Pandemic, Spending hits 112.3%
4. State Extends Deadline for Applicants for Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority
5. Kiddie Porn: Federal Court Hands Down 10 Year Sentence
6. Star-Adv Endorses: Sam King brings new ideas to Office of Hawaiian Affairs
7. No, we don’t need to coddle the sovereignty fringe
8. Target date for new Aloha Stadium is now 2026 (and counting)
9. SHOPO Continues to Attack ‘Outsider’ Maui Police Chief
10. Campaign finance deadline missed by 30 Hawaii candidates, incumbents
11. NIMBY worsening Hawaii’s housing crisis   
12. Were Dangerous 'Forever Chemicals' Released in the Red Hill Fuel Spill? The US Navy Isn't Saying
13. In handwritten note to court, Katherine Kealoha asks that her conviction be overturned
14. Two Brun associates sentenced

1. VIDEO: Cayetano, Kahele Hold Joint Press Conference to Question Green Finances
2. Hawaii 2nd Highest HOA Fees in USA
3. Branco Illegally Coordinating with Dark Money Groups?
4. After All the Hype, only 50% of DoE Students Apply for College Aid
5. Rolling Blackouts Coming in September: Hawaiʻi’s only coal-fired power plant receives final shipment of coal
6. City appeals decision it must pay attorney fees of convicted police chief
7. Kaua‘i Police Department Deputy Chief Olsen forced out by SHOPO
8. DHHL official: New funding could result in 3,000 to 6,000 homesteads
9. 6% of Job Applicants are Dopers

1. Russian Spies at Barber's Point for 28 years?
2. Tulsi Gabbard Placed on List of Russian Propagandists by Ukraine
3. DoH Disapproves Red Hill Defueling Plan
4. Poll: To Know the Jones Act is to Oppose It
5. VIDEO: Why Hawaii should consider the ‘Tokyo model’ for housing
6. HART: Cracking Could Require Building More Piers Under West Oahu Stations
7. Poll: 81% Know Hawaii Legislature is Corrupt
8. Star-Adv: HD26 -- Get Rid of Belatti Aug 13
9. Ritte: If I am Elected, Rich Mainlanders will buy Molokai Ranch and Give it to me so I can Eliminate Paniolos
10. Does US Sen. Brian Schatz Have ‘A Job For Life?’
11. Hawaii police get 21% pay hike with new contract
12. Josh Green: Throw More Money at Teachers
13. Doctor Shortages Lead To Health Care Delays In Hawaii
14. Hawaii reports 4,075 new COVID-19 cases statewide
15. Public support for Aloha Stadium replacement plan is shaky
16. Honolulu City Council considering suspending bus fares for 5 Days
17. Hawaiian Airlines loses $36.8M but sees uptick in global travel
18. Hu Honua Injection Wells -- Hawai’i Department of Health Seeks Public Comments
19. A Navy Captain Was Faulted For His Red Hill Response. But He’s Still Working There
20. Neo-Nazi Marine Plotted Mass Murder, Rape Campaigns with Group, Feds Say
21. Librarian: Homeless encampments at Oahu public libraries bring ‘compassion fatigue’

1. Report: Hawaii Housing Deficit Increases 98% Since 2012
2. How Hawaii GE Tax Squeezes Private Practice Doctors
3. Four Charged in Big Island Affordable Housing Corruption Scheme
4. Applicants Sought for Hawaii Elections Commission 
5. Sam King Leads OHA Fundrace
6. Hawaii County to audit housing credits at issue in federal probe?
7. High inflation is top issue for Hawaii voters
8. Majority of Hawaii voters think homelessness has increased
9. HSTA getting unnegotiated $130M raise
10. Rail project satisfies audit recommendations
11. Land board OK’s updates to Maunakea plan
12. Officials to consider restrictions for stun guns in Hawaii
13. Maui Memorial Responds to Petition
14. Book Club discussion of “The Mailbox Conspiracy” on Wednesday
15. Ige’s about-face on air tour bill creates challenges for industry

How Hawaii GE Tax Squeezes Private Practice Doctors

1. How to take politics out of housing
2. Affordable? Maui Price Fixing Bill 'Recommitted'
3. The Scramble for Influence in the South Pacific Intensifies
4. Hawaii hospitals seek emergency order, citing DCCA Red Tape
5. Josh Green Affordable Housing Plan--Use ‘Emergency Power’ to build 42,000 Imaginary Units
6. ‘No fares til 2025’: Big Island Bus Service remain free for another two years with COVID Money
7. Poll: Guns, Drugs, Gambling

1. Picking apart the $50 fee
2. Hawaii: Pain in Paradise
3. COVID Unemployment Recovery -- Hawaii 48th 
4. With Long COVID Comes Long Emergency Powers
5. Poll: Green 55%, Cayetano 19%, Kahele 16%
6. Poll: Aiona 48%, Penn 26%, Tsuneyoshi 9%
7. Hawaii lieutenant governor’s race deadlocked
8. Voters give Ige and Biden approval boost, Hawaii Poll shows
9. Hawaii Carpenters Union Owns Ikaika Anderson
10. Gubernatorial candidates promise relief from state’s general excise tax on food, medicine
11. ‘Our business is literally rooted to the ground’: Veto of ag lease extension bill draws ire
12. Misdemeanor probe into Honolulu police union leadership forwarded to state Attorney General
13. Honolulu Police Department vacancies increase
14. Hawaii Will Soon Have A Women’s Court In An Effort To Let More Criminals out of Jail

1. Ige Renews COVID Emergency Declaration for Food Stamps
2. Biden misses opportunity to cut fuel costs via Jones Act waiver
3. ‘Liar’ vs ‘slum lord’: Democratic Gubernatorial Debate
4. Case pending before Hawaiʻi Supreme Court to look at Kealoha legal fees
5. Rent Increase Coming: Hawaii Dep’t of Taxation Cracking Down on landlords not paying GE Tax
6. Fraudulent Solicitation? Transsexual Show for Kids a Surprise to Nonprofit
7. Waianae Small Boat Harbor Methamphetamines Camp Still pretending to Develop Land in Waianae Valley
8. Hawaii Water Commission presses Navy to shut down its only well

1. Affordable Housing: $2940 for 2br Apartment
2. Ala Moana Satellite City Hall temporarily halts HOLO card service Because they Have too Many Customers
3. Bill 22 Better Buildings Benchmarking
4. State Seeks Applicants for Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority
5. Hawaii Unemployment Rate Increases to 4.3%
6. CNHA Money Spinner:  “Mandatory certification in Native Hawaiian culture for all hospitality industry employees”
7. Iwi Repatriation trips planned around Pearl Jam concerts
8. Kunia land occupation: ‘Duped into believing otherwise unbelievable things’
9. Hospitals ask for emergency proclamation   
10. Molokai’s unemployment rate rises to 13.9 percent
11. Glitches in state’s victims notification network leaves rape survivor in the dark

1. ERS Hides $96.75M of So-Called ‘Tech’ Investments--Losses Begin to Mount
2. Hawaii’s NASED -- Another sports venue that fails to generate promised revenue
3. While Patients Wait, Hawaii Plays Favorites in Health Care
4. Cullen Crime Family Nepotism is Legal: Ballot for state House seat includes familiar Cullen name
5. Taxpayers funded millions in contracts for troubled engineering firm at center of federal probe
6. Hawaii Senators Collected Big Bucks From Energy Interests At June Fundraiser
7. Nine years later, Pimp gets 40 years
8. Hawaii's jails to get security upgrades
9. Beyond the glitter, an uneasiness with the direction of Hawaiian music

1. National Science Foundation to Launch EIS Process for Mauna Kea Telescope
2. Army Conducts Review of Facility Use by Political Entities
3. Oahu primary election ballots mailed out today
4. Laughing at You: Hawaii Lawmakers Took $500k In Campaign Cash This Session Despite Pleas To Ban Campaign Cash During Session
5. Hawaii Gov. David Ige’s Empty Promises On Government Accountability
6. Hawaii reports 13 additional COVID deaths, over 4,000 new cases in past week
7. The End Of Hawaii Tourism As We Know It
8. Landowner accuses paramilitary Hawaiian sovereignty group of forcing him off his land
9. Weaponizing Meth Camps: Maui Council Threatens to Designate Parking Areas for Homeless
10. Affordable Housing Once Blocked by OHA: Kaiaulu o Kuku‘ia has taken over 30 years to bring to fruition, governor says 
11. 88,000 cesspools dump 53 million gallons of raw sewage into Hawaii waters each day
12. Pandering Relentlessly, State lawmakers blast Navy on ‘incomplete’ plan to defuel Red Hill

1. SHOPO Endorsing Duke Aiona for Governor
2. Maui Council on verge of worsening housing crisis 
3. Kaiser Hawaii Mental Health Accreditation Threatened
4. Ex-Hawaii County housing official pleads guilty to taking $2M in kickbacks
5. Rep Kapela Outraged Over Cancellation of Transsexual Show for Kids
6. Rep LoPresti pleads not guilty to drunk driving
7. New policy cracks down on release of arrestees
8. For food security and resilience, cut isles’ most regressive tax
9. Rolling Blackouts Coming: Three More Solar Plus Storage Projects Are Dead After $140M Ratepayer Shakedown Fails
10. Trend continues of non-competitive legislative races
11. Insiders Want You to Help Them Get COVID Money from Feds
12. Why Hawaii Schools Are Doubling Down On Vocational Training

1. CNBC: America’s Top States for Business--Hawaii 46th
2. Kahele Admits to criminal past.  Says he will release his fellow criminals from prison if elected Governor
3. Absenteeism 31% at DoE Schools--20% Failing
4. Rolling Blackouts Coming Sept 1: DPP-Solar Industry Blame Game
5. Marco Polo is the only building to retrofit with sprinklers since the tragic fire
6. Abortion: The Key is to make Sure Women Have no Other Alternative
7. ‘Too Much for us to Handle’-- Homeless Criminals Chase Beach Boys off Waikiki Beach

1. It’s Tourism, Mooooo
2. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted July 16, 2022
3. Crime Families Rake in Lots of Campaign Contributions
4. Indicted Kealoha Conspirator is First to Donate to Ikaika Anderson LG Campaign
5. Corporate Money Flows to Kai Kahele PAC--buys him slot at Democratic Convention
6. Usual Inouye-Connected Suspects Give to Tokuda For Congress
7. MMA Fighter, Anti-Vaxxer Top GOP Fund Race
8. Grab for Tourism Contract Puts CNHA in Spotlight after COVID Growth
9. Fire code violation contributed to Red Hill fuel leak, report finds
10. Kaua‘i Police Department revising firearm application
11. Nine time loser Gets Probation: Promoting porn to minors charge dropped in plea deal

1. We are one step closer to TMT!
2. Maui’s sky-high home prices a ‘self-inflicted wound’
3. Bishop Museum Board: "Frustration, stress, and fear"
4. Seven Rail Stations Closed After Discovery of Cracks in Concrete Columns
5. Hawaii health officials will reject the Navy’s Red Hill defueling plan
6. Hawaii Has $200 Million To Spend on Pre-K. Who Gets The Money?
7. Here’s Who’s Pulling In The Most Cash In The Maui Mayor’s Race
8. City Rental and Utility Relief to be extended by $31 million
9. Police Brutality Caused by Soft on Crime System
10. Physician Spends 18 months House Hunting on Oahu, Decides to Move to North Carolina

1. DOH: Masking optional in updated school guidance
2. Governor comes through on ‘gut and replace’ but disappoints on emergency powers reform
3. Convicted Felon Sentenced to 80 Months in Prison for Firearm Possession During Drug Crime
4. $1.8M Bribes Net $10.9M affordable housing credits--Feds Bust Former County Employee
5. Hawaii law could break years-long astronomy impasse
6. Does Our State Government Have Too Many Boxes?
7. Media warned over 'drowning islands' climate change narrative
8. Board of Education approves superintendent’s $240,000 annual contract
9. Niu Valley man, 20, gets life in prison for attempted murder in Kahala Beach stabbing
10. Homeless Kick Beach Boys out of Waikiki Pavilion
11. Survey: Big Isle Needs Lots of Psychiatrists Badly

1. Kiribati 'cooking something with China' - former Kiribati president
2. DLNR Releases Ala Wai Small Boat Harbor Vision Report
3. Hirono: 'Who the heck would know what our Founding Fathers meant?' 
4. Ige: Navy Lied About lack of Video at Red Hill
5. Ige: Permits to carry guns in public will not be automatically granted in Hawaii
6. Rep LoPresti Charged in DUI Case
7. Crypto-Billionaires Spend $249K pushing Branco Campaign
8. Prosecutors Want Enhanced Punishment For Public Corruption
9. Will Enough Upcountry Maui White People Vote to Overcome Molokai Hawaiian Votes Against Walter Ritte?
10. Maui Council to consider homeowner exemption bills for principal home, long-term rental
11. ‘It’s an overkill’: Maui residents blast new proposal that would ban outdoor lighting
12. A Warning On Hawaii’s Housing Crisis — From 1970

1. Ige Vetoes 28 of 30 Bills on 'Intent to Veto' List
2. Hawaii’s love-hate relationship with tourism
3. DBEDT: More Taxpayer Money Going to High Tech Schemers
4. State Tax Receipts up 34.8%
5. HD44 Candidate Running Under Fake Name Hides Past
6. Rail Warning: Bus Ridership Off 41% from Pre-COVID Days
7. Honolulu Rail Whistleblower: Tracks, Wheels A Maintenance Nightmare And Potential Safety Issue
8. Bishop Museum president to resign amid internal flap
9. Judge continues trial for Honolulu's former top prosecutor, 4 others in alleged bribery scheme
10. Hawaii Health Department reports 4,464 new infections; 11 coronavirus-related deaths
11. Indoor masking optional at Hawaii public schools starting Aug. 1       
12. Judge: Man left homeless after wrongful prosecution can seek another civil claim against city
13. Court Rejects Anti-Telescope protester challenge of police presence at Mauna Kea

1. Hawaii AG Instructs Chiefs of Police to Broadly Grant Concealed Carry Licenses, but not Unconcealed Carry
2. Three Former Hawaii Correctional Officers Convicted of Assaulting Inmate and Attempting Cover Up
3. Whipsaw: Four Crypto Firms Quit Hawaii
4. Does Navatek Have A Business Plan Without Corruption?
5. Ikaika Anderson owned and operated by Carpenters Union
6. City rules on single-use foodware to take effect after long delay
7. Sunscreen ban becomes law: Roth lets bill become law without his signature
8. Hawaii Utilities Rely on a Wide Variety of Fossil Fuels

1. What the US Military Spends in Hawaii
2. Study: If Hawaii Tourism is Called 'Regenerative' Locals will Like Tourists
3. Poll: 2-1 Support Telescope, Rail Remains Unpopular
4. 75% of Incumbents Flee Honolulu Council
5. Let’s Not Wait Another Year To Fix Emergency Statute
6. Help Wanted: Honolulu Needs 3,000 Workers For City Jobs
7. Agribusiness Development Corp. splits from state Agriculture Department
8. Rolling Blackouts Will Be Replacing the AES Coal Plant 

1. Emergency powers reform tops ‘veto list’ discussion
2. Can the State Tax Itself?
3. UH Regents Evaluate Lassner, identify priorities for coming year 
4. Poll: Approval Ratings Improve for Ige, Slip For Green
5. Keith Kaneshiro’s refusal to cooperate in the Kealoha probe turned scrutiny on him
6. Star-Adv: Save foster care, open-records bills
7. Despite funding approval, new stadium’s timeline remains a question
8. Abercrombie, Waihee, Ariyoshi Endorse CNHA’s Crooked Steal of HTA Contract
9. Kai Kahele: just flamboyant, or a flameout?
10. Kleptoparasitism
11. 3 top officials at Bishop Museum placed on leave amid internal probe
12. Hawaii health officials question Navy’s Red Hill fuel spill findings

1. Ige Signs HB2171 Establishing State Department of Law Enforcement
2. Visitors Less Likely to Return
3. (Another) Chief Procurement Officer Flees HTA in Midst of CNHA Scandal
4. 3 former prison guards await verdict in beating of inmate at Hawaii Community Correctional Center
5. Oahu buildings may be required to publicly report energy use
6. Militia group files more ‘frivolous motions’ after arrests of members in Kunia

1. 9th Circuit: Honolulu and Maui 'Big Oil Climate Change' Lawsuits Stay in State Court
2. LG Poll: Luke Leads with 20%
3. Poll: Case, Tokuda Far Ahead In Democratic US House Races
4. Ige signs bill removing UH from Maunakea management, naming new authority
5. Outrage grows as basketball coach accused of sex abuse still working with minors
6. $400M Just the Beginning for new Aloha Stadium
7. Grove Farm Sues After Kauai County Attempts to Steal Drug Treatment Center and Use it for Bureaucrats’ Offices
8. Farmers Want Action From Hawaii Governor Candidates, Not Lip Service
9. Snorkel Safety Study Sheds Light On Unexplained Drownings In Hawaii

1. July 7, 1935: Moscow orders first Communists to Hawaii
2. Ige Announces Line-Item Vetoes--First Responder Tech Campus Slashed
3. How to ‘fix’ the Jones Act?
4. Chief Justice Seeks Public Comment on Judicial Nominees
5. In ‘amateur’ mistake, Kahele misses deadline to get matching public funds for governor’s race
6. Poll: Duke Aiona 27% , BJ Penn 24% in GOP Gov Contest
7. City Council Members Question Liquor Commission On Lack Of Internal Affairs Office
8. Oahu brewery closing due to building permit delays

1. Bodycam Video Rep Matt LoPresti DUI Arrest
2. Ala Wai: Sales Seminars for Next Boondoggle
3. Rate Hike: HECO to burn $190M 'Hardening Grid' for Global Warming
4. Poll: Green 48% Kahele 16%, Cayetano 15%
5. Congressional District 2 Race: Anti Rail Tokuda Vs. Union Owned Branco
6. Record number of Hawaii election observers, new ballot tracking planned
7. Hawaii reports 20 additional COVID deaths, more than 4,000 new cases in past week
8. Hawaii schools issue warning to parents over embattled basketball coach
9. More terminally ill patients are choosing aid-in-dying, but experts say obstacles remain
10. City allows preschool atop deteriorating parking structure to stay put for a year

1. Former state Senate Majority Leader J. Kalani English sentenced to 40 months in federal prison​
2. Recent court activity in the case of Mike Miske and his co-defendants
3. Court’s EPA decision and AES plant
4. WATCH: Fuel Spewed ‘Full Blast’ Into Red Hill Tunnel In November
5. Officer who led Army’s Red Hill response is promoted to general
6. Overcoming regulatory barriers for Maui housing solutions
7. Property tax incentives for historic Oahu homes reexamined
8. University of Hawaii telescope a step closer to being removed from Mauna Kea

1. Ige right to veto bill OK’d via ‘gut and replace’
2. Support emergency powers reform in spirit of July 4th
3. The Verified Complaint In Equity: The Declaration Of Independence
4. The 1840 Hawaiian Constitution and the Fourth of July
5. Hawaii Schools consider effects of Supreme Court ruling on coach’s prayer
6. Redistricting: Some Incumbents will be Eliminated in Primary
7. Hawaii Will Add A Few Voter Centers For This Year’s Primary. Are More Needed?
8. UPW Endorses Kahele
9. Trust The People Of Hawaii To Carry Guns Responsibly
10. Hawaiian ‘Occupied Forces’ Group Ousted From Kunia Property By Police
11. Civil Beat Law Center Goes To Court To Make Prison Covid-19 Reports Public

1. Hawaii housing starts jump 28.2%
2. A Quick Guide to the OHA Elections
3. It’s the Economy, Mooooo
4. 50 Years of Pandering: Hawaii’s housing emergency has been going on for decades now
5. Nobody Cares About BJ Penn’s Criminal Record
6. Kauai Council Meth News: Brun distributor gets 2 years in prison
7. SHOPO: We Wish All Police Departments Were Like Big Island
8. Telescope: Mutual stewardship is the right approach
9. Ige’s Rationale To Veto The Public Records Bill Doesn’t Pass The Smell Test
10. State attorney general, Hawaii counties reviewing firearm laws in wake of SCOTUS decision
11. Jones Act News: China’s third carrier launch reflects a disturbing trend

1. Judicial Vacancy – Associate Judge, Intermediate Court of Appeals
2. Honolulu Auditor Releases Annual Citizen Centric Report
3. Ethics: Honolulu City Board Member Refuses to File Financial Disclosure
4. Governor tells HSTA he will OK $164.5M teacher pay funds 
5. English not Cooperating? Feds Want Lawmaker Who Took Bribes To Spend More Than 3 Years In Prison
6. Rolling Blackouts Begin Sept 1: Blame Legislature, DPP or Both?
7. BWS chief engineer: Navy’s proposed timeline for emptying Red Hill fuel tanks is ‘unacceptable’
8. Hawaii Tourism Authority and the gut-replace
9. 6 arrests made as authorities seek to evict paramilitary group from Kunia property
10. FBI investigating HPD officers accused of brutality that sent suspect to hospital

1. Second Amendment: Supreme Court win in Young v Hawaii
2. Ige appoints Leo Asuncion to lead Public Utilities Commission
3. Compared to 2019 Tourist Count Down 8.4% -- Spending up 10.6%
4. Full Text: DoD Releases Revised Red Hill Report
5. Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders flee Honolulu for Las Vegas and Sacramento
6. Hu Honua Attorneys Appeal To Hawaii Supreme Court
7. City fined $116,000 for safety violations after worker’s death at sewage plant