Entries for July 2026

1. Hawaii Voters to Receive Primary Election Ballots by July 21
2. APA Applauds New Prescribing Psychologist Law in Hawaii
3. Bill Collectors Cheer as Hawaii Enacts Medical Debt Relief Program
4. HGEA Campaigns Against Senator Mercado Kim
5. Kaua‘i Mayor's Race: Rapozo Leads Carvalho In Campaign Cash
6. Honolulu City Council mulls lowering vehicle weight tax fees
7. Lahaina homecoming planned; Front Street to reopen in near future
8. Judge Shuts Down Turtle Bay Resort Plans After Enviros ‘Find’ New Bees
9. Meth Addict was from Multi-Generational Crime Family
10. Beyond Bounty Hunters: The Bigger Conversation About Pretrial Justice

1. Act233 Another Massive Pay Hike for Teachers
2. Next Kakaako: City Buying up Property in Iwilei
3. Act222: Hospital ERs to Provide Real-Time Disease Data to DoH
4. Luke Campaign Reporting ‘Errors’: Criminal Intent?
5. OHA Insiders: Mind your own business, Just Let us do what we want
6. Hawaiʻi County Council Candidates Rake In Thousands Ahead Of Primary
7. Congress passes housing bill to aid Hawaii's affordability crisis
8. The luxury tourism myth
9. ‘Shocked’: carjacking victims want stiffer charges for alleged thief

1. Honolulu Charter Commission considering vague ‘empty homes’ tax ballot measure
2. Maui: Getting Away with Hammer Attack?
3. Miske Pal Ozawa Not Getting Many Campaign Contributions
4. Bill 18 to Extend Bill 7 affordable housing?
5. UH Manoa begins Hale Noelani demolition
6. Kauai Finds New Way to Increase Cost of Construction
7. Punatics Waste $3M on ‘Reusable’ Stainless Steel Bowls
8. Election Commission Clown Show Continues
9. Waianae homeless community shrinks as permanent homes arrive

Maui: Getting Away with Hammer Attack?

1. SD18: Democrats Send Three Nominees to Green
2. Act 225 Extends Statute of Limitations for Bribery
3. Empty Homes Tax Won’t Go Away
4. Planting the seeds for progress
5. Lawsuit: Bissen Fired Me to Cover up his own wrongdoing after Lahaina Fire
6. Hawaii’s policies on sea level rise too strict, ease up
7. Implausible ‘RCP8.5’ climate scenario dead –What this means for Hawaii
8. See Who's Getting, And Giving, Millions In Campaign Funds This Year 
9. Bribery: HGEA Shames Kawakami into Losing Tainted Campaign Cash
10. Hawaii’s new ‘millionaire tax’ rivals top tax rate among other states
11. CNBC: Childcare Cost Drags Hawaii Down
12. Landmark bill gives Native Hawaiians larger public lands role
13. HPD sends Aliamanu fireworks case to prosecutors

1. Disqualify Dentons, Alston from OHA Litigation?
2. Act 11 won’t stop wealthy individuals from financing campaigns
3. Act 220: State to buy up Medical Debt
4. Maui’s Next Mayor not Missen: “Things are looking extremely good for Suginuma”
5. OHA Dissenters Won't Recant Retaliation Claims
6. HPD changes its stance on medical marijuana cards and guns
7. ‘Every aspect’ of Pacific island damaged or destroyed by Super Typhoon Bavi
8. EPA worker fired after requiring microplastics monitoring on Hawaii firm’s project

1. Line-by-Line: State Energy Office Debunks UHERO Solar Report
2. After Wrecking Telescopes, DeFries Quits as Mauna Kea Exec Director 
3. Useless Grifters Replace Astronomy: Maunakea access road to summit could become a toll road
4. Weak Excuses from Kauai PD -- Kīlauea community says it has ‘lost trust’ in Kauaʻi police after lack of action resulted in deadly shooting
5. SD18 Appointment: Democrats Send Three Names to Green
6. Maui Council committee advances bills re-rezoning dozens of Kīhei, West Maui ‘apartment complexes’ back to hotels
7. Fuel-price shock hits Hawaii’s visitor industry as Iran conflict continues
8. Cash Cow? Ritte, Rawlins Protest Kalaupapa Tours
9. Hawai‘i's fraudulent vape ban

1. CNBC: With Sylvia Luke Under Investigation, Hawaii becomes Worst State for Business in 2026
2. Shipping Thrived After Trump Waived the Jones Act
3. AG Nabs Three Sex Offenders
4. Auditor Gives Up: Homeless CORE Program too Chaotic to Audit
5. Under Federal Investigation, 8a Still Landing Fat Federal Contracts
6. Luke campaign violations referred to AG for possible prosecution 
7. Honolulu Council Slashes Useless Economic Recovery Office Over Mayor's Objections
8. Frippery: Google Co-Founder Funds Push to make Hawaii 100% Solar
9. DEA moves to ban ‘gas station heroin’ sold openly in Hawaii
10. Red Hill Plaintiff Went Scuba Diving After Allegedly Drinking Jet Fuel

1. 'That Study was Baloney': UHERO Withdraws Report co-written by Paid Solar Activist
2. A career of serving America and Hawaii
3. Green Signs Act 189 and Act 190: Most Vapes to be Outlawed
4. 'No Firearms Allowed?' Think before you post
5. Before We Re-Elect OHA Trustees, We Should Examine Their Record
6. Honolulu City Council poised to override mayor’s vetoes
7. State ‘millionaire tax’ might backfire
8. HECO warned the Iran war would raise costs. Here’s how much bills rose
9. Chinese Communist Party member arrested in Hawaii on visa fraud charge
10. Reality of Crime in Hawaii Breaks Thru Media Blackout
11. Honolulu street psychiatrist nationally recognized for his care, compassion
12. Oahu's homeless deaths double in the past decade
13. Trump Administration Sends Threatening Letter To Hawaiʻi Elections Chief

1. July 7, 1935: Moscow orders first Communists to Hawaii
2. Tax Credits: Green Signs $60M give away to Movie Moguls
3. Trump admin can't duck blue states' suit over canceled clean energy grants
4. Military-Related Urgent Needs Now Qualify for Hawaii Family Leave
5. Official ballot drop boxes begin arriving across O‘ahu
6. OHA Trustee Divisions Spill out into Open After Chair Illegally Deposes CEO
7. With Third Telescope Closing, UH calls on Maunakea oversight authority to extend leases
8. Ex-city worker in food bank case is ‘not a thief,’ attorney says
9. DoE Strangling Robotics Programs
10. Oahu home sales jump 10.4%: Median price hit record $1,242,500 in June
11. Windfarms Can’t Handle the Wind
12. Bill 170: Nobody Proposing a Data Center in Hawaiʻi County, but Council wants to ban them (whatever they are) just in case
13. Bissen Fails: Four Years Later, Still no parking for Maui Safe Parking project; no overall homeless plan
14. Which Incumbents Get to Send Taxpayer-Funded Mailers Right up to Election Day?

1. Open the Books: Transsexual Agenda Being Forced out of DoD Schools
2. Half of Oahu residents say transportation costs hurt their access to daily life
3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted July 2, 2026
4. Maui Tomorrow Sues to Block Lahaina Front Street Rebuild
5. Court Clears The Way For $81M Affordable Rental Project In Kona
6. Wespac Again Blocks Enviros from Stacking Board

1. Let freedom ring
2. AG: $35K Bribe investigation "broader and more complex than initially anticipated"
3. UHERO: Honolulu remains among nation’s least affordable
4. Pandering to protesters: UKIRT is third Maunakea telescope decommissioned
5. Hawaiʻi patients spent $230M+ on out-of-state cancer care, 2021–2023
6. SNAP Disaster Imminent
7. Corruption: AG Sacrifices Three Politicians to Save System
8. SD18 Democrats have ‘til Thursday to Nominate
9. Grassroot Institute Aims To Keep Growing Its Political Influence
10. Hawaii employers develop housing to fill workforce gaps
11. AI Robot clouds proposed healthcare alliance
12. Open PUC Proceeding is 6,650 Days Old

1. Two Worlds, One Foundation: Hawaiian and American Ideals of Freedom
2. The Verified Complaint In Equity: The Declaration Of Independence
3. Green: Hawaii will be First to Enroll Foster Kids in Trump Accounts
4. Affordable Housing?  Still on the Rent Treadmill After 26 Years of ‘BS’
5. NIMBY News: Legislators Leap into action to … ban gondolas and funiculars

1. Two Worlds, One Foundation: Hawaiian and American Ideals of Freedom
2. Professionalism, Respect, and Our Responsibility to the Lāhui
3. University of Hawaii officials win personal immunity after professor criticized Black History event
4. Medicaid Fraud: Hawaii AG Joins Another 'Global' Settlement
5. Auditor: Maui Fraud Risk Assessment identifies millions of dollars in ‘direct pay’
6. 10 years later, DoE Suspends principal over $2.5M recording studio built at Washington Middle School
7. David Lazar sworn in as Honolulu Police Department’s 13th chief
8. Dude gets measly 30 days for assaulting police—but it’s too much for State Supreme Court
9. Man avoids jail after no-contest plea in illegal explosive device case
10. Lahaina Stores Can Reopen—but only if ‘Hawaiian Council’ is Your Landlord

1. 14 Missing Children Recovered on Oahu
2. AG Amesty for Delinquent Charities
3. DPP Launches Priority Review to fast-track permits using CivCheck
4. State Senate District 18 Special Election Proclamation
5. Top Officials from HPH, HMSA, PUC, Matson charged in 39-page CSC complaint against Sylvia Luke  
6. Young Brothers’ rate increase begins July 1, along with repayment of nearly $30M in back fees to state
7. Honolulu Rail Riders Face Persistent Station And Elevator Closures
8. DHHL opens applications for first-ever high-rise rental units in Honolulu
9. NIMBYs win ‘temporary’ pause to 148-unit Kōloa housing development until court hears appeal
10. Eco-Group Could Score Megabucks from Sewage Delays
11. Hawaii's Syringe ‘Exchange’ Program: Adapting to Changes as Junkies Switch to Smokables and Pills
12. Kauaʻi, Big Island Poised To Let Psychologists Prescribe

1. Complete Debunk: UHERO Fakes Findings to Benefit Solar Lobby
2. Hawaii Day Care Cost: 39% of Median Single Parent Family Income
3. Lahaina: Rebuilt Affordable Apartments Immediately Fill Up
4. Small Business Regulatory Review Board Elects officers for FY26-27
5. May 2026 Tourism Stats: More Visitors; Shorter Stays
6. 8a Corruption: Dawson Changes Name to 'Laukoa'
7. DOJ grand jury investigates Marxist tech tycoon Singham for alleged fraud
8. Hawaii's PUC Brain Drain -- Senior Staff Departures Threaten the State's Energy Future
9. HPD officer vacancies near record levels as new chief David Lazar takes over
10. ‘I’m sorry’: Hawaii Island police officer keeps job after unlawful search case
11. Carjacking: After 9 useless State prosecutions, Lifelong Criminal finally catches a Federal Case
12. DelaCruz Pushing ADC to buy $5M land for Egg-Cracker?
13. Hawaii raises Individual Housing Account cap to $20,000
14. Waimanalo kauhale faces community pushback over planned expansion to 600 units
15. Residents blast STVRs legislation; commission defers action