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Monday, August 31, 2015 August 31, 2015 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 2:32 PM :: 2802 Views Manufacturing a (Tax) Problem Honolulu: Mayor Caldwell Gives up $575,000 to aid Gun Manufacturers Court: Removal of Protest Signs OK After City Finally Figures out how to Seize Property DOE has no plan to boost students' college-readiness UH Defers Maintenance seeking $50M Grift to Contractors Star-Adv to Feds: We Built America's Largest Homeless Tent City--Where's Our Prize Money? How Cheaper Energy Could Change Our Lives Inmates on work furlough to don electronic monitors in Bid for more Funding BOE to Consider Milder Student Discipline Policy Tuesday Pop Warner Anti-Bullying Campaign Read More..

Sunday, August 30, 2015 August 30, 2015 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 8:18 PM :: 6626 Views What are Homeless Hawaiians Worth to OHA? Hawaii is Worst State to Start Post-College Life Taxing Digital Goods State Workers Obstruct Tech Upgrades so they can Milk Overtime System DoTax' Next Tech Disaster Takes Page from DoT's Last Tech Disaster OHA Subcontractor Nai Aupuni Repeats Debunked Claim it is Independent of OHA Challenge the constitutionality of Hawaii's Act 195 Homelessness Industry Plans Shelter Space Shell game NextEra Rebuttal to Ige Due Monday Caldwell Now Claims no Sewage Pumps Were Offline Getting browned off by dirty water, murky politics Group of Kauai voters want to know AG’s intentions for criminal prosecution of Rep. Tokioka Chronicle of a reporter and his pet politician Tainted soil found at Makalapa Elementary School KSBE to Redevelop Hotel as 'Education Center' Borreca: GOP risks losing everything with Trump Read More..

Saturday, August 29, 2015 August 29, 2015 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:42 PM :: 3707 Views Feds Secretly Threaten to Revoke UH Manoa Biolab Permits UH Manoa Army ROTC named one of the best in the nation Ignacio to hit Big Island Monday, Jimena Following State, feds to waste another $3.3M and $2.8M on Hawaii Health Connector Rail: Oh now you hire an Accounting Expert Union Hospital Status Quo is Unsustainable Jones Act: Why it's so Expensive Caldwell Coverup: Environmentalist criticizes city for not testing for sewage in Waikiki on day of spill Caldwell Sets New Record for Sewage Kakaako homeless Have Plenty of Excuses for Refusing Shelter Local developer: public private partnership key for affordable housing to end homelessness Water Bills Drop 21% Due to Lower Electric Rates The Student-Loan Siphon Caldwell to Remove Lane from South Street Soft on Crime: 36 Priors and Does it Again, Gets 6 Years 75 foot Hose to be used to Spray Haleakala with Roundup--Protesters Silent  Read More..

Friday, August 28, 2015 August 28, 2015 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:13 PM :: 5314 Views Moody's Downgrade: Is Ige's LNG Edict a Poison Pill Defense? Excise Taxes: Hawaii Ranks #5 Federal Judge Blocks Federal Grab for Control of Waterways Marcia Tagavilla Appointed Executive Director of Hawaii GOP Hawaii Supreme Court Preparing Excuses to Reject Telescope Hallmark of the Ige administration: the lack of an explanation Ige's LNG Decision Will Lead to Rate Hikes Hawaii electricity cost drop 23 percent after oil price fall North Shore Unanimously Rejects sea wind farm Unfunded Liabilities: Billion Down, Ten Billion to go Hanabusa Postures on $9M Ansaldo Giveaway Kakaako homeless to be removed from only One Street OHA Still Hoping to Score Megabucks off Homelessness Crisis Soft on Crime: 22 Priors, Out on the Street, Stabs Another Honolulu Is the Nation’s Most Expensive City for Singles Kauai: Influx of Mainland Progressives Causes Inequality With Cane Smoke Suit Looming, HC&S Seeks to Eliminate Requirement to Provide 'Firm Power' to MECO Civil Beat: Lets Find New and Amazing Ways to Stick it to Fishermen and Consumers Read More..

Thursday, August 27, 2015 August 27, 2015 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 7:44 PM :: 4610 Views Caldwell 'Running from Controversy', 'Wasn't Around' During Crisis, 'Not the First Time' Same Sex Marriage: Another “Fundamental Right” Inapplicable in U.S. Territories? ACT: Hawaii Scores Lowest in USA, Again Nai Aupuni: Whose Hidden Hand at Work? Telescope Hearing Today Gridlock: Honolulu Commuters Waste 50 Hours/year in Traffic HTA: July Tourist Arrivals Up 5.6%, Spending Up 4% Full Text: Ige Speech Renouncing LNG Ban on School Travel Offers--HSTA vs Ethics Comm Ethics: Conflict of Interest Between Charter Schools, Profitable Nonprofits Forbes: Fracking Is Our Clean Power Plan 9th Cir. Rips Guam for Keeping Tax Refunds Abigail Kawananakoa: Invalidate 11 Key Rail Votes or I'll Sue CNN: Science and religion fight over Hawaii's highest point Magical Thyristors, Flywheels Key to Ige's Energy Plan NAN Tried to Weasel out of Low Rail Construction Bid HGEA Sick leave abuse hurts patients HPH, Kaiser Make their Case at Grassroot Forum Queen’s Health is urging partnership with Kona hospital Wahiawa Homeless Count Doubles Ahi: Enviros Scheme to Stick it to Fishermen, Consumers Homosexual Kiddie Porn Editor Allegedly Caught Breaking into Sacred Hearts School Office Ex-HPD officer indicted over cocaine, other drugs Read More..

Wednesday, August 26, 2015 August 26, 2015 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:12 PM :: 4759 Views Hawaii: Tech Still Receiving Massive Business Tax Subsidies After Lying, Caldwell Admin Finally Admits Waikiki Flooding is Purely Due to City's own Incompetence Telescope Case Goes Before Supreme Court Aug 27 Ige Leadership Big Announcement: 28 Shelter Spaces Open Up Rep McDermott and Darryl Vincent Discuss Veteran Homelessness in Hawaii Hope Street: New Teacher Leadership Growth in Hawaii Planned Parenthood Baby Parts Buyer Wants “Another 50 Livers/Week” Leftover Inouye Cronies Dysfunctional, Weak LNG: Ige Nukes Hawaii--How Much Damage? Rate Hikes Coming: Solar Scammers Cheered by Ige's Rejection of LNG PUC Faces Oct 1 Deadline to Kill Off Hee's Scam Company AG files campaign reporting violation charges against Kauai Rep Tokioka What the state is looking for in a Maui hospital private partner Slow Section 8 Inspections Blamed for Lack of Subsidized Units, Homelessness Anti-GMO Leader Peddles 'Chemtrails' Conspiracy Theory Hawaii DLNR Official Hired, Fired Virginia Shooter Air Force Worried about N Korean Missiles Hitting Hawaii, Deploys B-2 Bombers to Guam Jones Act Lobby Gets Panicky over Puerto Rico Read More..

Tuesday, August 25, 2015 August 25, 2015 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 3:39 PM :: 11036 Views Smoke-Belching 'Biomass' Project Tops Hawaii 'Clean' Energy Leaderboard Affordable Retirement? Honolulu Ranks 145th Mainland Homosexual Pleads No Contest to Murdering Boyfriend in Waikiki, Chopping up Body Increased Incarceration Reduces Hawaii Crime Rate Sharply Kaiser Permanente Hawaii and Hawaii Pacific Health vie for Maui hospital merger HHSC Privatization: Maui, Hawaii Co, Kauai Next? Chun Oakland's Reelect Me Event in danger of falling over ethics cliff Star-Adv, HNN Agree Homeless Do Not Need Permanent Housing (!) Ige Comes out Against LNG for Hawaii Customers would save $400 over five years under NextEra plan, exec says Lanai Windfarms--31 Months of Secrecy The Players: Meet Linda Lingle, Superstar Illinois COO Kauai: Guardian's Anti-GMO Piece Debunked Guam: Jones Act Reform an Alternative to Federal Handouts Bill 20 Would Chip Away at Housing Shortage Star-Adv Printing Press Still Fried Flooding, Sewage Spills Across Oahu Read More..

Monday, August 24, 2015 August 24, 2015 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 2:18 PM :: 3393 Views Tulsi Gabbard Running for Vice President Federal Prosecutors Fight Back After Judge Orders Return of $167K Seized from Maui Resident OHA Funded Waikiki Anti-Telescope March, Contributed Red Nai Aupuni Shirts Star-Adv: Homeless Crisis Should be Milked for COFA Money First-Ever Head of Hawaiian Education Foresees ‘Revolutionary’ Changes Bike-sharing program is Excuse for More Lane Eliminations Council Opposes HART Use of Eminent Domain to Seize Blood Bank for Rail Lawyer: Homosexual Dismembered Boyfriend's Body Before Fleeing to Mainland Read More..

Sunday, August 23, 2015 August 23, 2015 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:41 PM :: 5980 Views IRS, Could You Please Answer the Phone? Will PUC Finally Shut Down Al Hee's Scam Company? -- Bishop Estate Trustee Implicated Housing adviser’s strength should be policy, not politics Too much time has been wasted while homeless children live on the street Profitable: OHA Demands 'Fair Market Rent' to Allow Massive Oceanfront Homeless Shelter Maui Solar Telescope Benefits 350 Students at UH Maui Campus NextEra Beat Down Continues Appeals court upholds authority of State Ethics Commission to enforce ethics laws Chatter About Gabbard Running for VP Continues into Fourth Day Kauai: UK Guardian Sprays Island With Anti-GMO Ignorance Eco-Morons Want to Construct 60-mile Lay net in Mid Pacific Activists Push for Family Leave Law--Unfunded Employer Mandate BoE Begins Lobbying Legislature for More Money Read More..

Saturday, August 22, 2015 August 22, 2015 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:49 PM :: 3594 Views Hawaii & The USA: A Union Worth Celebrating! Jones Act Reform to be Part of Puerto Rico Relief Package? VIDEO: Abortion Dealers Laugh About Shipping Whole Baby Cadaver Federal Judge Orders EIS for Windfarms When Windfarms Fail, Oahu Risks Blackouts Sick Leave Abuse: Hospital Must Replace 40-50 HGEA, UPW Members Daily SA: Link UH raises to performance Council committee OKs bill allowing second homes on lots Proposed Charter Amendment Would Take Hawaii Co Ethics Comm Away from Mayor Study: Oahu Rising from the Sea for Next 1.5M Years Sen. Slom holds national distinction Read More..

Friday, August 21, 2015 August 21, 2015 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 7:08 PM :: 5151 Views Hawaii Statehood: Tiny 1959 opposition was anti-Japanese, not anti-American Hawaii Senate Minority Celebrates 56 Years of Statehood It was 56 years ago today we added the 50th state Light Wind, Worthless Windfarms Leave Oahu at Risk for Blackouts TS Kilo Emergency Declared Feds Congratulate Hawaii: Kakaako is Nations' Largest Homeless Tent City--First Place Prize Money Coming City Council Fills New, $84K Housing Position With Political Operative A governor who acted on homelessness? See Lingle Faster Permitting Urged for State Public Housing Work Should Hawaii Public Housing Make Homeless Children a Higher Priority? Micronesian Immigration an ‘Important Civil Rights Issue’ Facing Hawaii Judge Rushing Mauna Kea Case so Telescope Protesters can Celebrate ... Equinox Senator Chun Oakland violated ethics code for years Gabbard continues to Talk Up Vice Presidential Run NextEra hires former Inouye aide to Twist Arms NextEra Big Cable project--Spend $800M to Save $423M 19 Priors Since 1998: Out on the Streets, now Charged with Attempted Murder Some Honolulu police officers using personal body cameras Regents Reward Incompetence: Approve $1M raises for University Administrators Court Upholds Self-Dealing Ruling Against School Employee Ex-Certified Hawaii exec pleads no contest to Nine Years of theft of townhouse funds Read More..

Thursday, August 20, 2015 August 20, 2015 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:29 PM :: 6913 Views Jeff Stone Wants to be Your Cannabis Connection Hale Mauliola construction contract awarded: Caldwell Vetoes One Sit-Lie Bill, Signs Another DBEDT: Hawaii Growth Up but Still Short of 5% Dream Key Rail Contractor owned by Felon--Tangled Up in Fraud Allegations in Hawaii Courts Mauna Kea Suit will be Heard in Environmental Court Police arrest 8 in telescope protest at Crater Road site Telescope Protester "a sorry white girl who needed help” Hilo Hospital to Partner With Castle, Adventist? Consumer Advocate seeks subpoenas for utility CEOs Listening Sessions set to discuss NextEra HECO bid Large class sizes, teacher shortages linger into school year HSTA may take legal action against new educational travel rule BOE wants time limits in inquiries of alleged misconduct Homeless encampment along Keehi Lagoon growing Ex-prison guard locked in federal pen Council Panel Agrees to Nearly $1M Subsidy for Mainland Recycling Company Tulsi Gabbard Running for Vice-President Maui County Republican Picnic set for Labor Day Read More..

Wednesday, August 19, 2015 August 19, 2015 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 4:39 PM :: 3701 Views Kauai Republican Presidential Straw Poll Results Enviro Wars Episode IV: A New Court Rep Tupola Hosts Mauna Kea Info Session at Kealakehe HS Study: Hawaii is the Best State for Women’s Equality Second Senate Democrat Comes Out Against Iran Nuclear Deal CNHA Takes Reins of DBEDT 'Community Development Accelerator' VIDEO: Planned Parenthood Customizes Late Term Abortions for Superior Product PBN: Who do you support for the 2016 Republican Presidential Nomination? Where are we with rail? Way over budget, as predicted Caldwell: Ige's Leadership Keeping Homeless in Kakaaako Star-Adv: How Did Hee Get Away With if for all Those Years? Hawaii County P-Card Bill Postponed Hypocrites: Hawaii County Council Keeps Roundup Maui telescope convoy, protesters face off again Making Mauna Kea Sacred DOE investigations into alleged employee misconduct $40M spent thus far on major Central Oahu agriculture initiative and .... ? A Growing Consensus that the Hawaii State Hospital Must Expand Homeless Bills: Caldwell to Sign one, Veto Other City Pays $15K/week to Provide Trash Hauling Service to Homeless Camps Drugs: How 'Educated Woman' Ends up Homeless Soft on Crime: Child Rapist Gets 1 Year Another Bogus Study Claims Low Injury Rate Shows Gun-Control Laws Work Read More..

Tuesday, August 18, 2015 August 18, 2015 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 7:12 PM :: 3966 Views Profiting from Homelessness: Publicist, Lobbyist Take Control Survey: 78% of Homeless Willing to go to Shelter--Yet Don't Video: Tulsi Gabbard praises her Guru Chris Butler on 50th Anniversary of Hare Krishna in USA Most Educated Cities? Honolulu Ranks 24th Legislative Agenda: Sex, Drugs, and Suicide Travel Technology Industry Applauds Maui's Proactive Approach to Short-term Rentals Campaign Spending: A-1 A-Lectrician Appeals to US Supreme Court Star-Adv: Nai Aupuni 'Not giving equal access to voting to all Native Hawaiians' Borreca: OHA Set up a Tortured Process Document: Kenoi Flunkies Lied to Ethics Committee--Mayor signed off on hiring campaign manager Can We Un-corner Markets in Our Over-Priced State? North Shore to hear about ocean-based wind farm scheme Kauai: Tourism Operators Attack Agriculture Again Big Island: 30% of Babies Born to Drug Addicts In the shadow of hazy marijuana laws, Hawaiian 'patients' rely on a network of hush-hush growers Homelessness team begins Pretending Homeless are on Street due to Lack of Shelter Space Homeless Criminals Stealing Lots of Bicycles Homeless Break in to Olelo Offices at Waipahu School Air Conditioning: DOE didn't ask for much and Lawmakers funded just one third of requests UH raises for Admin would cost $1M Castle Resorts, Oahu Publications form partnership Read More..

Monday, August 17, 2015 August 17, 2015 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 7:05 PM :: 3907 Views Accused of Self-Dealing, UH Foundation Makes Inconvenient HNN Story ‘Disappear’ Desperate, Nai Aupuni Claims Not to be Controlled by OHA Suing to Preserve the Aloha Spirit Failed Obamacare State Exchange May Cost Taxpayers Millions More NRA: Honolulu's Shame Sex Ed: Hawaii School Board decision is concerning If Planned Parenthood Loses Government Funding, Here’s a Map of Health Clinics That Could Take Its Place NextEra Would be 'Major Player' in Hawaii Politics--But Will they Comply With One Party System? Can Sanity Win an Election in Puna? Abercrombie's Justice Reinvestment Goes Nowhere Newly hired instructors staying put longer here Should children stay with their parents if they are homeless? After Bickering Over 75 Cents, Maui County Plans to Post List of Lobbyists Online PBS Newshour: 'Ugly Moments' after Solar Contractor Tricks Oahu Consumer NZ Geothermal Developer Ends Relationship with IDG, Maori Get only 6% Ownership HPD officer faces drug charges, released after posting bail Soft on Crime: 116 Priors, Now Wanted for Number 117 Homeless Criminals Overrun Nimitz Businesses Primary fishing grounds for bigeye tuna close early Council Continues to Harass Bird Owners Chronic kidney disease takes heavy toll in Hawaii Read More..

Sunday, August 16, 2015 August 16, 2015 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 7:38 PM :: 5545 Views Misrepresentation: Keanu Sai Again Ordered to Cease and Desist Survey Finds 38% of Hawaii Union Households Unaware of Right to Opt-Out of Union Membership Penny for Your Thoughts? No? How About 50 Million Then? PBS: Jones Act suffocating Puerto Rico Biotech supporters learn from campaign that turned tide on anti-vaxxers Feds Cut off $1.36M/month Subsidy to Criminal Al Hee--Will DHHL End Monopoly? Bumpy Kanahele seeks Takeover of Aha NextEra: "We were criticized for participating in the political process" Emails Show HART, PRP, Caldwell Coordinating Pro-Rail Message Push is on to Eliminate Polling Places, go to 100% Mail-in Housing First Delayed Until January For No Particular Reason Do-Gooders Working Overtime to Keep the Homeless on the Streets More Homeless Means More COFA Funds?  Federal Money Starts to Flow In, Enriching Nonprofits Ige's 'Plodding' Approach to Homelessness, Come up with Money by End of Year Waipahu Intermediate Overrun by Homeless Camp While State Dithers, City's Sand Island Center to House 83 in Containers Home Construction falls far Short of Population Growth Rate Hike Coming: Big Island FEMA Flood Maps to be Released Author spins colorful yarns but fails to tie up loose ends of Hawaii corruption Read More..

Saturday, August 15, 2015 August 15, 2015 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:55 PM :: 4525 Views Obama Administration to Propose 'Procedure' for Recognizing Fake Hawaiian Indian Tribe Maui's New Public-Private Partnerships--Panel Discussion on Possibilities and Challenges Ahead What Rep. Sylvia Luke, Sen. Brian Schatz, the City Council and the Mayor don’t know about solving Honolulu’s homelessness crisis Interior Grants $500,000 to Stand Up Micronesian One Stop Service Centers in Guam and Hawaii Hawaii Property Tax Rate Lowest in USA How Free Market Environmentalism is Transforming Parks Big Cable EIS to be Released Soon $60M More Needed to Upgrade DoTax Computers after Latest Tech Disaster State Employees Watch 300 hours of Netflix on the Job Kaiser blames ObamaCare for $4.3M Q2 loss Opponents of Haleakala telescope planning another Blockade Mainland Homeless Arraigned for Attempted Murder Sovereignty squatters arrested KPD Officer Faces Negligent Homicide Charge Hawaii Inmate Strangled: Was Alone in Cell With Homosexual Murderer Cabbies complain about kickback schemes After 15 Years, Molokai veterans finally celebrate opening of their own center Hospital Training of Caregivers would be Lucrative for Lawyers Read More..

Friday, August 14, 2015 August 14, 2015 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 10:12 AM :: 5112 Views Governor, AG Oppose Proposed Federal DHHL Rules Marijuana behind OHA's push for Federal Recognition? Six DoE Sex Education Curricula Reviewed DBEDT Releases New Edition of Hawaii Data Book Marijuana Dispensary Licensing "Rigged, Headed Down Wrong Path" Hint Hint: As Cane Burning Case Approaches, Supreme Court Justice Wilson Says 'Environmental Court' will take care of "environmental problems that need to be addressed that aren’t being addressed" AG Subpoenas Hawaii County Officials in Kenoi pCard investigation Electric Rates Drop 2.5% on Lower Oil Prices DoTax Claims to be Modernizing, Begins Spending $32M State lawmaker requests emergency funds for 24/7 security in Kakaako Lawyers Eager to Keep Homeless on Street PHOCUSED Plan: Keep Homeless on the Street to Rack up Federal Money Asset Forfeiture -- HPD's $15M stash of cash Honolulu Police officer arrested again, this time in SWAT raid Air Conditioned Portables for Campbell, Kealakehe School parking lot project delayed five months, cost rises 25% Tarnas to Challenge Evans for HD7 Read More..

Thursday, August 13, 2015 August 13, 2015 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:50 PM :: 6044 Views Lawsuit Challenges Kanaiolowalu, Na'i Aupuni, OHA How transparent is your state's lobbying disclosure? CIO: State Computers Slow Because Employees Watching Hulu, Netflix all Day 'Old' HPD Computer System Crashes for Several Days Temp inside Kailua classroom measured 108 degrees Teachers Union Says No Homework Special Education Is Backsliding in Hawaii, Teachers and Advocates Say Bullying: Homosexual Sues to Impose Gay Agenda on DoE Homosexual Child Molester Finally Gets Jail Term More jail space long overdue ‘Shady Characters’ Tell a Spicy History of Hawaii State Energy Office Works Against LNG to Keep Electricity Expensive Obama Forcing Closure of American Samoa's Largest Private Employer Rich Eco-Hypocrite Busted for Stealing State Conservation Land Anti-GMO? How 3% Manipulate 70% Crime up Everywhere Around Kakaako Tent City Med Students Terrified Because HGEA Taking over Security at JABSOM Wide cost disparity revealed as Hawaii law enforcement agencies replace guns Hawaii District Court seeks new federal Magistrate Judge Read More..

Wednesday, August 12, 2015 August 12, 2015 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 8:01 PM :: 3839 Views 117 years ago today: The U.S. becomes a global power Last Day to Comment on Proposed Hawaiian Homelands Rules Hawaii DoE to request School Improvement Grant Waiver Renewables Offer No Bang for Your Megawatt  NOAA Proposes New Monk Seal Rules Bids are in for the next rail section, but details are a secret Hospital partner selection imminent Now That Astronomy Conference is out of the Way, We Need to Solve Telescope Issues Feds Threaten to Take Away $100M the State can't be Bothered to Spend Burning of sugar cane should not be stopped Kakaako violence and vandalism: Human waste in mailbox Should City Provide Dumpster to Pearl City Homeless Camp? After Photographing Homeless People For 10 Years, She Discovered Her Own Father Among Them Should Care Homes Know When Inspectors Are Coming? NextEra Energy Claims Hawaiian Electric deal to bring $1B in customer savings, economic benefits Styrophobe Inveighs Against H-Power Honolulu Art Museum Scammed for $890K Read More..

Tuesday, August 11, 2015 August 11, 2015 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 4:55 PM :: 3791 Views Hilda expected to make closest approach to Hawaii Island late Wednesday Honolulu City Lights non-profit application deadline is August 31 Healthy, Affordable Retirement? Honolulu Ranks Near the Bottom Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted August 10, 2015 PHOCUSED Exec Appointed Governor’s Coordinator on Homelessness State Consumer Advocate Recommends Rejecting NextEra-HECO Merger Check out the Big Real Estate Money Behind 'Aloha Aina'  Phocused First Move: Leave Homeless on the Streets, Demand More Money from Legislature Poll: 74% of Oahu residents want Kakaako Tent City Gone Homeless Surround Dep't of Public Safety HQ, Guards Hired UPW Debunks its own Hospital lawsuit After All the Hype, Martin in no Hurry to Move on Rail Tax Hike UH Moves to Ban Sex Between Instructors and their Students Why Are Honolulu Rents Getting More Expensive? Electric vehicles park free for days, weeks at airports State pension fund manages meager 4% gain Read More..

Monday, August 10, 2015 August 10, 2015 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 2:48 PM :: 4378 Views Honolulu Police Department to Destroy Guns Worth $500,000 Hawaii 24th Best State for Children DLNR Sets Public Meetings on Wildlife Action Plan Big Telescope Protest in Waikiki -- 'This is about political Pressure' Hawaii County Police Commission Hears Complaint from Mauna Kea Protesters Poll: Politicians’ response to Homelessness rated poorly Poll: Everyone Would Support Homeless Shelter as long as it is Ewa, Leeward Martin: I will toy with Rail Tax Vote until Opportune Moment Presents Itself While Pushing Rate Hikes, Water Dep't Fails to Use $100M in Federal Drinking Water Funds HHSC: We're Already Bankrupt Pakalolo and Profits: Hawaii’s Emerging Medical Marijuana Industry Special agent has fought Medicare fraud for decades Read More..

Sunday, August 9, 2015 August 9, 2015 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 7:44 PM :: 3507 Views Relativity Media: E + mc = 0 Ige to hear Testimony on Maui Memorial Partnership Plan Tuesday Kelii Akina vs Kanaiolowalu: Next Steps HTA "Will Continue to Monitor the Jones Act" Video: New Allies for Jones Act Reform Friends of NRA Events Set for Kauai, Kona, Kaneohe Parallel Reality of Anti-Cane Burning Activists Hawaii Foster Care Class Action Lawsuit Hawaii Praised for Cancer-Fighting Public Policies Hilda Cat 3 -- Projected Hilo Landfall as Tropical Storm Randy Perreira: I am such a Pathetic Union Boss that many of My Members Could Qualify for Welfare New direction for Maui region hospitals Ian Lind: Ige Admin in Private Meetings on Mauna Kea Situation? Poll: Oahu residents believe the homeless problem is worsening State Orders Homeless Tweekers out from under Airport Viaduct Rail Wrecking Waipahu Businesses Kewalo Basin Development Scheme: Fancy restaurants, wedding venue, parking structures Legislators Work towards All Mail-In Voting Read More..

Sunday, August 9, 2015 Letters to the Editor, August, 2015 By Letters to the Editor @ 12:22 AM :: 3483 Views Parallel Reality of Anti-Cane Burning Activists Read More..

Saturday, August 8, 2015 August 8, 2015 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:49 PM :: 4248 Views The Future of Hawaii Can’t Rest in a Protest CDC: Hawaii #1 for Drunk Driving New Catastrophic Hurricane Plan Signed By State, Federal Partners Honolulu Auditor Praises Himself for Undoing PKF Contract Months Before Embezzlement Case Became Public Hurricane Hilda Now Category 4--Winds 140mph Two John Carroll Cases Thrown out of Court in One Week Lawyers Scored $26.8M on Aloha Airlines Bankruptcy Council Ethics Blockade: Rail Becomes Unconscionable Political and Legal Morass Mauna Kea visitor station quietly reopens Hawaiian Electric, NextEra Plan $235M LNG project without Bulk Terminal HECO tries to oust solar industry lobby from proceeding on future of net metering Touring the Kauai Seed Fields Homegrown solution to teacher shortage Individual assessments planned in Kaka'ako homeless camp ahead of sweep 95% Criminals at State Mental Hospital Feds Make City spend millions on storm drain upgrades at police stations Cellmate of Waikiki Homosexual Murderer Dies in Arizona Prison Read More..

Friday, August 7, 2015 August 7, 2015 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:17 PM :: 4250 Views Audio: Native Hawaiian Attorneys Skeptical of Nai Aupuni, Kanaiolowalu Illegal Lobbying by Planned Parenthood behind New Sex Ed Program? CDC Report Claims Hawaii Schools' Early Starting Time Makes Kids Fat Drunks European Trade Negotiators Push Jones Act Reform $40M CIP Released Luke, Tokuda Against Housing First: "Placing Homeless in a Home is not Right Solution" Over 100 homeless vets receive immediate relief The Rules Homeless People Refuse to Follow Hawaii Republicans Host Debate Watch Party Rep Chris Lee Promises Bullying Bill to Mainland Homosexuals A&B says Sugar is Drain on Real Estate profits “Hawaii Astronomy: Past, Present, and Future.” After Wasting Millions Without a Plan, UH Cancer Center Hires Consultant Kohala NIMBY group opposes pot farms there Domestic use of plastic bags altered since law took effect Radford contamination investigation uncovered suspected ordnance Lava scare cost DOE millions in school moves Read More..

Thursday, August 6, 2015 August 6, 2015 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 7:07 PM :: 6088 Views UPW Sues to Block Maui Hospital Privatization Wikileaks: Japan refused Obama Hiroshima Apology This Day in History: Truman Announces Hiroshima Bombing Is Your Name Part of a Criminal Enterprise? HECO Uses Electric Vehicles to Introduce Time-of-Use Rates Public Hearings Set for NextEra Merger Cronies Try to Hide Marijuana License System to Grab Monopolies for Themselves Strange Union: Activists, Tourism Industry Join Forces Against Agriculture, Telescopes Ilagan seeks Senate seat Occupied by Worthless Anti-GMO Nut Ruderman Touring the Kauai Seed Fields Honolulu council expands ban after complaints about homeless Caldwell Paid off with $500K from Usual Suspects, Martin Grubs up only $116K Rate Hikes Coming as State Air Pollution Law Kicks in Saipan has no water, electricity in aftermath of powerful Typhoon Soudelor Former charter school principal accused of stealing $100,000 pleads guilty Hit and Run Suspect with 10 Priors on Lam After Being 'Released Pending Investigation' Overcrowding riles MCCC inmates Maui County might acquire power firm, it informs NextEra HECO Dumps Chevron, Issues RFP for Oil Supply HPD will destroy 2,300 perfectly good guns worth $500K Guillermo retains tropical storm strength, could pass over Oahu, Kauai UH Students: Polygamy is Next Read More..

Wednesday, August 5, 2015 August 5, 2015 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:07 PM :: 3987 Views Nai Aupuni 'Notice of Elections' Posted Online Track Takes Guillermo Northwest of State, Possibility of Heavy Rainfall Anti-Cane Burning Suit to be First Case Heard by Hawaii Environmental Court Hawaii Launches On-Line Voter Registration Site Fitch Affirms 'A' Rating on DHHL Bonds FACE: Let Homeless Stay on the Street and Give us Millions  Telescope protests at astronomy meeting Hawaii Schools Begin the Year Short on Teachers — Again Three Charter School Proposals Rejected Initial costs for Hawaii's transition to federal health exchange likely to reach $2.5M Restaurant ratings pass, tech fails UHERO Study Bought and Paid for by NextEra Will Former Legislator Turned Ethics Commissioner Toughen Up Enforcement? Hawaii County Council debates pCard reforms Partnering with a private company to replace Hawaii’s oldest prison? Chevron Hawaii Sale Still Simmering Rejection of TPP would hurt U.S., Hawaii Read More..

Tuesday, August 4, 2015 August 4, 2015 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:20 PM :: 4604 Views Krugman: Puerto Rico Crisis 'exacerbated by Jones Act' Obama Announces Carbon Emission Standards for Power Plants Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted August 3, 2015 Students in Debt: Hawaii 2nd Fewest in USA Jury Questionnaires to be Mailed Out for 2016 Leadership? Ige's Homeless Committee Says Moving Bums Back to A'ala Park 'has great promise' After 3 tries, advocates unable to get judge to force mentally ill woman into treatment Taxpayers provide Harding Avenue Homeless with Trash Removal Service VA Workers Sue Duckworth for Retaliation Downtown Law firm, Mainland Corporation Behind so-called Native Hawaiian Constitutional Convention Astronomers, Protesters Descend on Waikiki Next Era Still Delusional About Chances in Hawaii Voting Rights Act: Hawaii Celebrates Lowest Turnout 30 Years Ago Molasses Spill Was no Big Deal Honolulu May Spend $75K to Settle Case of Alleged Police Brutality Toxic Radford H.S. dirt sent to Kaneohe home PUC Approves Four Solar Farms Hawaii Need not Cut Emissions under Obama Plan Schatz Dodges Question About Dead Baby Sales Read More..

Monday, August 3, 2015 August 3, 2015 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:12 PM :: 4123 Views Hawaiian Homes Commissioners, KSBE Trustees and OHA Trustee not on Kanaiolowalu Roll 2015’s Best & Worst Large Cities to Live in -- Honolulu Ranks 17th NextEra Kicked out of Hawaii Because they are Republicans New law pushes treatment for the oft-jailed mentally ill Proportion of Mentally Ill HPD Arrestees Doubles Since 2010 Ige: Number of Hawaii Inmates Imprisoned in Arizona Will Go Up Kauai Dopers Plan for Legal Marijuana Monopoly Hawaii lawmakers tour Green Mile marijuana shops Recycle program in need of repair State Dumps Contractor for restaurant ratings system -- $158K Redo Hawaii mortgage closing costs top U.S. Arizona Memorial Shut Down 3 Days due to Presence of Endangered Turtle Read More..

Sunday, August 2, 2015 August 2, 2015 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:35 PM :: 3666 Views Prosecutor Defends Policy on Sex Trafficking You Can Have That Road, Alphonse…No! You Take It, Gaston! VIDEO: What’s the Future of Maunalua Bay? Comparing the occupation of Haiti to the supposed “occupation” of Hawaii Stopping TMT would be tragic for all in Hawaii Honolulu Rents up 14.8% In Year In Trade-Dependent Hawaii, Entire Delegation Panders to Anti-Trade Know-Nothings On state homeless crisis, governor is late to the table Police are pursuing mental health care, not arrests, for people who desperately need assistance Homeless Former DoE Teacher Will be tried for Murder of Homeless Man Being mindful of what the average folks want Luxury Realtors Could Shut Down HC&S, Build Condos--If they choose to Hype Public Over Maui Molasses Shipments End of the Imperium: Rainforest-Cutting Biofuel Company Assets Sold Maui Residents Blast NextEra Windfarm Lies--Lower Electric Bills? Not True! Read More..

Saturday, August 1, 2015 August 1, 2015 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:04 PM :: 3607 Views Over 80% of Hawaiians Excluded -- Tribal 'Notice of Election' to be Mailed Monday Travel Taxes: The Hidden Trifecta Assault: HPD Officer Pleads Not Guilty, Asks for Jury Trial DoTax Admits Manipulating Rail Tax Revenues, HART Promises New Financial Plan to justify more Tax Hikes Rail Conflict of Interest Votes? Caldwell's Pet Lawyer Claims Nothing to See Here Council on Revenues Boosts projection for personal income growth After Wasting $130M, Health Connector RFP for Dismantlement HECO Has Conflicts of Interest Everywhere Protesters mull next move after Arrests Great News: Mainland Anti-Telescope Protesters Promise not to Visit or Move to Hawaii Star-Adv: DLNR unwise to hide behind media blackout Robotics Competition Disrupted by Telescope Protests Farmers say Turtle Bay Ag 'Preservation Plan' Will drive them out of business Old technology blamed for more than $1M over payment to state employees and vendors New EMS Schedule Cuts Service to Ewa Kapahulu homeless to receive Waste Removal Service in August Military housing allowance and the rental market Hawaii County Council to Consider Ban on Pesticide Use on County Property Read More..