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Entries for August 2025
| Wednesday, August 27, 2025 |
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August 27, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:54 PM :: 330 Views
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- City Accepting Bids for Kalihi Rail Station TOD Development
- Matson still refusing EV shipments to Hawaii
- Legal Fake Biofuel: Hawaii Can Have 100% ‘Renewable’ Electricity This Year and it will be 99% Diesel
- Judge dismisses $324M Hitachi lawsuit against HART, city
- OHA to profit as Hawaii governor approves $1.6B Iwilei infrastructure upgrade plan
- Blangiardi: $100M to fix Waikiki natatorium?
- Term Limits? City Council chair announces run for reelection
- Proven Loser: Corey Rosenlee will run for Hawaiʻi House seat held by Rep. Elijah Pierick (again)
- Honolulu firefighters push for COVID hazard pay
- Overcrowding in Maui classrooms forces redistricting plan
- Less Than Half Of Hawaiʻi Teachers Went To High School In-State
- Can ‘Improvement District’ Save Downtown Honolulu's Small Businesses?
- Ex-HPD officer seeks reduced prison time for child sex crimes
- Kauaʻi Man Died On His Birthday After Airport Staff Encounter
- CNHA ‘Council’ Leaves Hawaii Again
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| Tuesday, August 26, 2025 |
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August 26, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:39 PM :: 401 Views
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- Second Amendment: “These arbitrary restrictions in Hawaii are unique and burdensome with no parallel in other states."
- DLE Creates Virtual Reality Capitol Security Cordon
- Before State Acquittals, Leader of “Murder Inc” street gang quietly plead guilty to federal charges
- Acid attack suspect pleads not guilty to charge some say is too light
- Army and governor’s response to leases ‘framework’ deadline gets pushback
- Lahaina: Lawyers Still Pushing ‘Toxins’ Scare
- Maui STRs keep Hawaii economy strong
- Sinking Optimism Among Hawai‘i Business Leaders
- State continues push to hire federal workers impacted by budget cuts
- Two Members Quit Just Before Elections Panel To Meet On Disputed Vote Count
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| Monday, August 25, 2025 |
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August 25, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:55 PM :: 796 Views
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- Supreme Court restores parental opt-out from LGBTQ Propaganda
- Waikiki Predator: 551 Criminal Citations and Still on the Streets
- Climate Change ‘Professionals’ Imaginary Problem Means Coping With Imaginary Death
- ADUs – City Uses Familiar Sabotage Techniques to block affordable housing
- Hawaiʻi is Increasingly Relying on Unlicensed Teachers to Fill Vacancies
- Former Maui police officer pleads guilty to federal civil rights violation
- What do judges do all day?
- Atmos Rewards Just Gutted Hawaii Flyers
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| Sunday, August 24, 2025 |
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August 24, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:16 PM :: 1400 Views
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- Are you ready for another boondoggle?
- Classroom Heat
- Hawai’i Aloha: How Rev. Lorenzo Lyons helped save the Hawaiian language
- Aloha Stadium project ‘may cost $5 billion to $6 billion and span 25 years’
- “The County of Maui will be sued if it passes the unconstitutional Bill 9”
- Belatti, Awa Call for More Election Day Polling Places
- Civil Beat Questions Your Right to Live in Hawaii
- HNL Build: ‘DPP Going Backwards’
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| Saturday, August 23, 2025 |
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August 23, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:14 PM :: 2747 Views
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- The Worst Transit Projects
- $100M Green Fee Slush Fund: Green Appoints Advisory Council
- Maui County releases 2025 human services assessment report
- Chinatown suspect paid $290K by the City just before acid attack
- Hawaiian Electric Company Rates Increases Are Expected
- Why opening a restaurant in Hawaii can be a bureaucratic and financial nightmare
- Judge in Hawaii considers legality of restrictions on access to abortion medication
- Hawaiʻi County Police Commission explores strategies for filling police chief vacancy
- Navy cleaning Red Hill pipelines in preparation for … what?
- Will Congress Rescue Fish Farms from Hawaii State Regulations?
- SHPD Recent Debacles
- CNHA/Hawaiian Council Becomes Green Energy Schemer
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| Friday, August 22, 2025 |
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August 22, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:08 PM :: 939 Views
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- Army to Green: 'We cannot wait'
- Little-Known Law Makes Hawai‘i Flights More Expensive
- Maui Police Release Bodycam Video Surrounding Officer Death
- No, Surviving Lahaina Fire Doesn’t Give You License to Kill
- Bill 9: Maui Council panel recommends Temporary Investigative Group on vacation rentals
- Puna Geothermal Venture moves forward with long-awaited upgrades
- New Hawaii county property tax credits for subdivision property owners
- 20% of 911 calls Homeless-related
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| Thursday, August 21, 2025 |
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August 21, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:17 PM :: 2707 Views
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- Hawaii Becomes The 50th State – This Day In History
- Green Unveils 2025 Policy Priorities
- Cost of Living: Hawaii 82% Higher Than US Average
- Hawaii average annual tax cuts under 'Big Beautiful' Bill
- Emotions run high as police officer recounts shooting that killed fellow officer
- Honolulu Police Chief search could stretch into 2026
- No Charges Against Officers In 2024 Waiʻanae Police Shooting
- Acid victim lost his vision in 1 eye, needs surgery on arm and shoulder
- Murder trial begins in Samoa over death of Gabbard Aunt and Cult Critic
- As Step towards abolishing prisons, Hawaiʻi Expands Effort To Keep Women Out Of Jail
- Hawaii attorney general’s budget increased by $4M to cover 27 Trump lawsuits
- How does city count rail ridership?
- Hawaii State Energy Office Sees LNG as Bridge Fuel to … Green Hydrogen Storage
- Vacasa Bought Out-- Largest Hawaii Vacation Rental Company Faces Major Shake Up
- Work paused on sewer pump station repairs in Lahaina
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| Wednesday, August 20, 2025 |
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August 20, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:03 PM :: 1856 Views
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- UH, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency sign partnership agreement
- Honolulu Least Pet-Friendly City in USA
- Is CO2 a Pollutant?
- Another Glorious Triumph for the State Judiciary! Three Alleged Gang Leaders Found Not Guilty in Jail Beating Death
- Green Energy? Oahu Ratepayers Paying $1,500,000,000.00 More to Burn Dirtier Fuels
- What will Kawakami do now?
- Song and Dance: Hawaii County Council Grifts 8a Money from DoD
- Insanity: Homeless get Really Expensive Medivac Flights, but are not forcibly incarcerated in drug treatment facilities
- Big Island judge to rule next month on state subpoena requesting files of disciplined police officers
- Hallucinating Robot Trips up Another Local Lawyer
- Hawaiʻi primarily votes by mail. Here's how a proposed Trump order could change that
- Future Of Commercial Fishing In Protected Pacific Waters In Courts' Hands
- Empire-Builders Want $25M to Tell us Fire Victims feel bad about their homes burning down
- COVID lawsuit against state DPS dismissed
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| Tuesday, August 19, 2025 |
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Letters to the Editor August, 2025
By Letters to the Editor @ 11:04 PM :: 1591 Views
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- Is CO2 a Pollutant?
- Bill 59 Could Have Stopped Homeless Panhandling in Traffic
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| Tuesday, August 19, 2025 |
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August 19, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:56 PM :: 1525 Views
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- Palacios' death leaves NMI vulnerable to China
- ‘New’ HTA board taking off with same old baggage
- Hawaii Basketball Coach Sentenced to Over 33 Years for Child Exploitation and Harassment of 10 Victims
- DBEDT Releases 2024 State of Hawaii Data Book
- Hawaii Named Least Affordable State for College Grads
- Green Smoking Something: “Another $500M will fall from sky--Aloha Stadium to be ready in 2028—will seat 38,000”
- After years of pie-in-the-sky promises, UH and its supporters have learned they only can believe in themselves
- Hawaii plans $1.4B transit-oriented development in East Kapolei
- Pushback Against ‘Affordable’ Housing
- Kapalua Sues Maui Land & Pineapple Over West Maui Water Shortage
- Nearly 1 In 5 Warning Sirens On Oʻahu Were Broken During Tsunami Scare
- Lawsuit: Another Murder Inc Murder in Halawa
- Acid attack suspect made civil rights, hate crime allegations
- Hawaii Solar Lobby Loses $61M Subsidy
- Hawaii County, ex-R&D director sued for favoritism
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| Monday, August 18, 2025 |
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August 18, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:16 PM :: 2001 Views
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- Hawaii Community Colleges Ranked
- DEI for HPD: Sneaking in Biden’s Former Border Chief as Next Honolulu Police Commissioner
- Round 2 for Pohakuloa Training Area resolution – Hawaii County Council wants UXO money for 8a Corps
- City Council pushes pair of bills to ease homeowner tax burdens
- First-time homebuyer program most popular among Maui fire survivors seeking aid from $1.6 billion federal grant
- Immigrant Sent Cash To Family In Mexico; ICE Used That To Nab Him
- Two Lawsuits Demand More Hawaiian Immersion Programs
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| Sunday, August 17, 2025 |
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August 17, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:09 PM :: 2805 Views
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- UPDATE: Maui Police identify officer killed in line of duty
- No Tax on Overtime
- From Koko Crater to Wahiawā: The long fight over Oʻahu’s trash
- PRC National Sentenced to 55 Months in Federal Prison for Trafficking Methamphetamine
- Kouchi Changes Mind—Will serve one more term as Senate President
- Army’s ‘Much More Aggressive Model’: Wrap-up Master Lease Negotiations in 60 Days
- Steaming in the classroom and fleeced at the ballpark
- Aloha Stadium: New chapter in wishful thinking
- TVR law goes into effect soon
- HPD clarifies concealed carry permit process at meeting
- Marine monument eco-rhetoric overwrought
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| Saturday, August 16, 2025 |
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August 16, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:25 PM :: 1294 Views
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- Maui police officer killed in line of duty
- UHERO: Hawaii has less inequality because nobody can get ahead
- Hawaiʻi County Reduces Permitting Backlog
- Lahaina rebuild could move along faster if ...
- Teenagers' Climate Plan Just a Scam--Proposed 75% cut to cruise ships designed to force more tourists into hotels
- Honolulu rail construction to close downtown lanes for 5 to 6 years
- NYT: Modulars provide ‘dignified’ havens for Lahaina wildfire survivors
- Permits sought for ongoing Kaheawa Wind Power operations in West Maui
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| Friday, August 15, 2025 |
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August 15, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:28 PM :: 1789 Views
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- Hawaii Statehood: Tiny 1959 opposition was anti-Japanese, not anti-American
- Racists in Congress fought against statehood for Hawaii
- Polls Showed Solid Support in Run-up to Hawaii Statehood
- 'Ready To Die Boys?' Multiple Oʻahu Shootings Linked To Gang
- AG Demands Files on Four Disciplined Hawaii County Officers
- HECO Plays Monopoly with Hu Honua
- True Colors Show: Maui Council Minority Votes Against Massive Affordable Housing Development
- Maui suffering from severe lack of mental health workers
- Waialua Fresh Eggs boosting local production
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| Thursday, August 14, 2025 |
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August 14, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:45 PM :: 1985 Views
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- 12 New Members Appointed to HTA Board
- Tariffs Drive up Non-Residential Constuction Costs
- Aloha Stadium Shrinks, completion date for slips to 2029, demolition to begin without all contracts in place
- Hawaiʻi Sex Abuse Case Shows How Predatory Teachers Can Go Undetected
- Misleading stats obscure health care provider shortage woes
- Last-ditch efforts to kill Honuaʻula project amendments fail amid bickering; controversial development passes final vote
- Sacred Cows: Should Homeless be exempt from Fire Safety Rules?
- Attorney facing criminal charges is sued by a former associate
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| Wednesday, August 13, 2025 |
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August 13, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:03 PM :: 1607 Views
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- Cool Schools: How Solar Scammers Looted $120M
- Hawaii Red Hill Water Contamination Lawsuit Expands
- John Honoli’i ‘First Born’ of the Hawaiian Church
- Feds Investigating At Least One Prison Guard's Actions In OCCC Killing
- Witness fear dominates jail killing trial as testimony continues
- Secret Aloha Stadium Contracts Are Set For Final Vote
- New stadium needs new appropriation
- Planning panel OKs rebuild of smaller Front Street home after forcing aesthetic changes
- FAIL: Empty-homes tax destroyed by its own contradictions after $150M illusion vanishes
- Building Permit Failures to be Foundation for New Bureaucratic Empire?
- Why This Honolulu Housing Strategy Is Not A 'Super Successful' Program
- Hawaii part of 4-layer Golden Dome missile defense network
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| Tuesday, August 12, 2025 |
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August 12, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:25 PM :: 1474 Views
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- How special interests keep bad laws on the books: The case of the Jones Act.
- Two Years After Wildfire, Maui Homeowners Face A New Threat: Foreclosure
- Consumer Advocate -- HECO`s Wildfire Mitigation Plan has Significant Deficiencies
- Goal-line fumble on new stadium decision?
- HART to receive $112M state funding; the review before the reimbursement
- Phase 3 of Skyline Rail project breaks ground
- Hawaii County planning commissions to consider household hennery bill
- Paradise Story 1: Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani and agent accused of sabotaging $240M Hawaii real estate project
- Paradise Story 2: Hawaii County seeks dismissal of claims against officers
- Hawaii court hands lenders decades-long foreclosure power
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| Monday, August 11, 2025 |
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August 11, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:48 PM :: 1937 Views
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- Sen Ernst Targets Honolulu Rail for Elimination
- Life and Death in OCCC: “Drugs, phones, whatever they want.”
- Campaign Donations Plummeted During Legislative Session
- Maui County Reaches Grim Milestone In Fire Victim Identification
- Hawaii Theatre insurance premiums rise 4,500%
- Bus fares to rise?
- Running from Something? CNHA Changes Name to “Hawaiian Council”
- More of the “Fat Boy” story
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| Sunday, August 10, 2025 |
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August 10, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:31 PM :: 1838 Views
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- Encumbrance for the Stadium
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted August 9, 2025
- Two years later, too little rebuilding in Lahaina
- Hawaii’s ‘green’ transportation plan: Unrealistic, inchoate, and expensive
- Red Tape Slows Lahaina Rebuild, Blocks Statewide Tourism Recovery
- SHOPO — 'We Want A Leader, Not A Boss'
- If Joe Logan Can’t Stand up to Rick Blangiardi, How can he stand up to street thugs?
- Schatz, Hirono a Fundraising Machine for National Democrats
- State Human Services Director Ryan Yamane Giving $1,000s to Legislators
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| Saturday, August 9, 2025 |
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August 9, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:19 PM :: 1321 Views
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- Green: RFK Cuts to MRNA Vaccine Research 'A big mistake'
- Bill 59 Could Have Stopped Homeless Panhandling in Traffic
- Federal judge summary judgment against Trump permitting commercial fishing in Pacific marine monument
- U.S. Army releases land lease recommendations for training areas on Hawaii Island and Oahu
- Industry study says Hawaii’s timeshares generate hundreds of millions in taxes, thousands of jobs
- ‘We’re not going anywhere’: PBS Hawaii president, CEO addresses federal funding cut concerns
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| Friday, August 8, 2025 |
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August 8, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:48 PM :: 2068 Views
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- Lawsuit: Hawaii Sheriff Deputies Arrested on Charges Trumped-up by own Department—Top Brass infighting led to suicide of Deputy
- VA terminates union contracts for most bargaining-unit employees
- Two Years Later: Maui County Still Trying to Decide Whether to Let Front Street Businesses Rebuild
- 2 Years After Deadly Fire, Lahaina Homeowners ‘financially drowned’
- Four Big Island police officers under investigation for alleged misconduct
- Visits canceled at Hawaii Community Correctional Center's Hale Nani - Makai due to COVID-19
- A New Jail Is Critical For Hawaiʻi's Correctional System
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| Thursday, August 7, 2025 |
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August 7, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 11:50 AM :: 1789 Views
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- US, Cook Islands to Cooperate on Seabed Mining
- CEO and President of Hawaii Shipbuilding Company Sentenced for $29M Investment Fraud Scheme
- Mexican National Sentenced to 54 Months for Illegal Reentry After Ten Prior Removals and Three Illegal Reentry Felony Convictions
- Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum Launches Aircraft Mechanic Training Program
- Lahaina: “No commercial buildings have been rebuilt”
- Hundreds of Honolulu police officers weigh in on the qualities, experience their next chief should have
- Honolulu property tax exemptions could ease living costs for kupuna
- Boring Repetitive News: Haleiwa housing project stalls after lawmakers defer action on key measure
- Media access to HPD radio channels receives pushback
- EPA plans to claw back $62M awarded to Hawaiʻi for solar projects
- Mayor vetoes bill regarding roadside soliciting
- COVID-19 cases in Hawaii still on upward trend this summer
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| Wednesday, August 6, 2025 |
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August 6, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:15 PM :: 2590 Views
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- This Day in History: Truman Announces Hiroshima Bombing
- Schatz locks up whip race
- Lahaina: Four Ways to Speed Recovery
- Two years after disaster, Maui recovery inches forward
- 61% of Hawaii Homeowners Sitting on $250K Capital Gain
- UH sets extramural funding record for 4th consecutive year
- Trial over jail killing reveals alleged gang control of OCCC
- In newly released demand letter, former police chief seeks $784K citing retaliation, ‘emotional distress’
- Councilmember pushes to speed up hiring of new HPD chief
- Rebuilding progress: 90 Lahaina homeowners complete no-cost property surveys
- Mileage Fee: State DOT Caught Ripping off E-Car Owners
- Mentally Ill Model Dead Because she was not forcibly incarcerated in lunatic asylum
- Felon tied to baby’s death catches a FEDERAL Case
- Hawaiʻi Rarely Takes Guns From People In Crisis, Despite 'Red Flag' Law
- Federal judge questions merit of Trump permitting commercial fishing in Pacific marine monument
- Overstating Tsunami Threat May Lead Some To Ignore Warnings Next Time
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| Tuesday, August 5, 2025 |
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August 5, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:06 PM :: 2566 Views
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- Four New HART Board Members Appointed
- Reviving the Paniolo Spirit: A Path to Sustainable Economic Renewal on Molokaʻi
- Can Hawaiʻi get to 100% renewable energy?
- E-Cars, Hybrids Banned from Kauai County Scrapyard
- Three Decades of Corruption: DelaCruz Geothermal Scheme Traces All the Way Back to Unity House
- Some Oahu residents shocked over skyrocketing property taxes
- Honolulu Is Canceling Its Empty Homes Tax Study. Will That Kill The Bill?
- State Boards Must Release Records Showing Hiring Decisions, Judge Says
- Trial set for Big Island brothers suing state over wrongful conviction compensation
- Some Hawaii families scramble for after school childcare
- Nonprofit still searching for COFA citizens on Oʻahu to apply for COVID funeral aid
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| Monday, August 4, 2025 |
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August 4, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:38 PM :: 1663 Views
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- China Building Airstrip in Micronesia
- Tariffs Unsettling Aloha Stadium Deal?
- Hale Kipa’s container farm program teaches youth shelter residents how to grow weed
- US could require up to $15,000 bonds for some tourist visas under pilot program
- Soft on Crime Crowd: We don’t need to fill HPD Vacancies
- Two years after wildfires, Maui Fire Department’s changes to staffing, fleet, fire code aim to prevent another tragedy
- When Hawaii Criminals Commit Crimes in Arizona Prison, they get charged under Arizona Law
- Trump May Stop Hawaii from Giving Away Free Needles to Addicts
- Half of Cesspools Pose No Direct Threat to Water Resources
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| Sunday, August 3, 2025 |
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August 3, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:22 PM :: 996 Views
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- Constitutional Expenditure Controls
- Grassroot views on housing reform going mainstream
- Case, Moylan: Stop Rebuilding Jones Act Ships in China
- Armed Felon Indicted After Barricading Himself in Home with Over Ten Pounds of Methamphetamine and Illegal Firearms
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted August 1, 2025
- Honolulu police, city, SHOPO try to tackle record vacancies
- Hawaii film industry collapsing
- Hope for Hawaii, Army on land leases
- ‘Last minute cop out’: Parents push back against carpool app amid bus driver shortage
- Waikiki dealer gets 10 years for selling fentanyl in Marine’s fatal overdose
- Hawaiʻi County reviving program to give victims of minor crimes a louder voice, reduce backlog of cases
- Hawaiʻi Elections Commission Targets Drop Boxes
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| Saturday, August 2, 2025 |
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August 2, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:15 PM :: 869 Views
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- Hawaii Sues Trump admin over juvenile sex-change
- Logan: Blangiardi Threatened my Family
- Interstate telehealth could be lifesaver for Hawaii
- Council on Revenues says personal incomes set to slightly increase for 2025
- Hawaii public media face big cuts as CPB funding ends
- Slow progress for city and state climate lawsuits this week
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| Friday, August 1, 2025 |
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August 1, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:30 PM :: 1614 Views
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- Mayor Pleased by Dismissal of Myeni Shooting Case
- Public Safety Power Shutoff watch: Hawaiian Electric monitoring wildfire risk conditions
- Brighter Futures, Stronger Ties: US Nonprofit Drives Educational Progress in Strategically Situated Micronesia
- Visitor Arrivals Down 1.8% for June 2025
- Wildfires: Maui PD Releases Final After-Action Report
- Numbers Show Beginning of Long-Term Tourism Slowdown
- Abercrombie Behind Challenge to Case
- Aloha Stadium demolition expected to start in late August
- Hawaiʻi Needs Lawyers. Now, Mainland Attorneys Can Practice Here
- Big Island Mayor Says State Won't Meet 2050 Deadline To Wipe Out Cesspools
- No charges for lifeguard who was arrested after stopping career criminal in Waikiki
- Thieves target business, homes during tsunami evacuation
- Socialists Love Hawaii’s Soft-on-Crime System
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