Entries for September 2017

1. Will Courts Defend Free Speech -- Or Forced Speech To Promote A Political Agenda?
2. Sen McCain Introduces Bill to Exempt Puerto Rico from Jones Act
3. Judiciary: Collaborative Effort to Reduce Truancy Launched
4. DBEDT Community Forums on Electric Utility Ownership Models
5. Hawaii to Feds: Let us use Medicaid to house the homeless
6. How each of the HPD Chief finalists were ranked after their assessments
7. War on Agriculture: Kauai Anti-GMOs intend to Force EIS on All Farm Operations
8. Resolution asks for Legislature to also be governed by state’s open meetings statutes
9. Calls for mental health reform after rash of Halawa suicides
10. City Wastes a lot of Time Storing Junk so Worthless that Homeless People Don’t Want it 
11. Oahu Dope Pushers Expect 25,000 Users
12. Fire department fined over Marco Polo blaze
13. Solar Farm Stripped of Panels Again and Again
14. Arkansas Calls for Jones Act Repeal
15. Trump and Pence Coming to Hawaii
16. Todays Child Molesters in Hawaii Education

1. US Senate Investigating Hawaii's Soaring Medicaid Costs
2. Housing ASAP: 714 Homeless Families Placed in Permanent Housing
3. Financial Literacy--Hawaii Ranks 42nd
4. Feds Sue Guam Over 'Chamorro Land Trust'
5. Puerto Rico needs more than temporary Jones Act waiver
6. Hawaii Visitor Spending Grows 6.1 Percent in August 2017
7. Why is Hawaii so Healthy? Gallup vs Bloomberg
8. UHERO: Economy Slowing, Despite Arrivals Boom
9. Telescope Shakedown: Next Stop Court
10. Ige: North Korean Nuclear Attack ‘Not Likely’
11. Thanks to President Donald J Trump, Hirono Suddenly Calls for Jones Act Waiver
12. Blue Planet Pushes for More Rate Hikes to Support  Billionaire Elon Musk
13. 2 years after Accessory Dwelling Units law passes – Only 67 Units Built
14. Another Homeless Camp Fire Under H-1 Freeway
15. HGEA Mental Hospital Pretends to make Changes after Latest Two Escapes
16. DoE HSTA Brainwash Students to become Professional Activists

1. Audit: Honolulu Homeless Programs Subject to Corrupt, Incompetent Department of Community Services
2. Girl Scouts Rank Hawaii 23rd for girls' well-being
3. Hawaii Excise Taxes: $885 per Capita--3rd Highest in USA
4. White House waives Jones Act for Puerto Rico -- For Just 10 Days
5. BLNR Approves Telescope 5-2
6. Strive HI: How did your School do?
7. FBI: Violent Crime up 24% in Hawaii
8. Picking the Next Corrupt Police Chief: Members of Secret Local Panel Identified
9. Akaka supports Mauna Kea telescope in new book
10. National attention on Jones Act 'good for Hawaii'
11. Caldwell Loses Federal Funding for 1000s of Oahu Seniors
12. Big Island Homeless Summit Discusses Ways to Keep Shelter-Refusers Nice and Comfy on Streets 
13. Plan would redevelop public housing, add 11,000 rental units along Honolulu rail route
14. Hawaii Among 20 most expensive places in America to die
15. State Agency Proposes Tripling Fees For Access To Public Records
16. Judge Blocks Release Of Names Of Former Undercover Cops — For Now
17. Adopting Republican Tax Reform For Hawaii
18. Are Hawaii’s Nursing and Senior Care Homes Prepared For Disasters?
19. Planning officials OK Os Stender’s Maunawili Valley rezoning request

1. Hanabusa Blocks Missile Defense for Hawaii
2. DoE Touts AP Test Results
3. TOTE to Challenge Pasha for Hawaii trade?
4. Trump says NO to Puerto Rico Jones Act waiver
5. Hawaii schools not prepared to shelter children in event of nuclear strike
6. Keep HPD Corruption Alive: Secret ‘local’ panel being used to narrow down list for Honolulu's next police chief
7. Civil Beat: Doing Away With The Jones Act May Help Puerto Rico — And Hawaii
8. Homeless Program Focuses on Families with Children
9. Busted: Kenoi Operative Resigns as Hawaii County HR Director--Slips out Side Door
10. Urine and Marijuana Smoke: City Planning Commissioner Hosts Rave Party in Kakaako
11. Caldwell Tickets Makakilo Residents for Planting Flowers in Yard
12. Top 5 in USA: Hawaii Taxes Suck up More GDP than Most
13. Tobacco: 2017 State Legislative Summary
14. Beer Tax is Regressive
15. HGEA Against HDOT Police for Airport
16. Some Honolulu High Rises Don’t Need Sprinklers, Fire Safety Panel Says
17. Big Island Rep has Cancer

1. UH Law Prof Antolini: Mrs Brian Schatz’ North Shore Shopping Plaza is Not News – Stop reporting it
2. Supreme Court Justices Cancel Travel Ban Hearing
3. Problems ahead for Pasha Hawaii and TOTE despite Gov Ige’s terminal announcement
4. Does the Jones Act Endanger American Seamen?
5. Missed deadlines leads the city to lose millions in federal housing funds
6. Resignation May Allow Corrupt Chief Pick to be Blocked
7. The Big Island’s First Legal Homeless Camp: Safe Zone Or Shanty Town?
8. More ‘safe zone’ follies in Kakaako
9. HEI denies creating new subsidiary to get around state regulators
10. Lower taxes better than ‘basic income’
11. Police Commissioner Resigns Before Chief Picked
12. Draft ethics rules to be discussed next week
13. HART: Rail, Tech are Part of Scheme to Force You Out of Your Car
14. Tourism Drops to 17% of Economy

UH Law Prof Antolini: Mrs Brian Schatz’ North Shore Shopping Plaza is Not News – Stop reporting it

1. Hawaii Pregnancy Centers Go to Court Over Law Requiring They Promote Abortions
2. Congresswoman calls for yearlong Puerto Rico Jones Act waiver
3. Hawaii Lowest Teacher Salaries in USA
4. Unions Stood by as Kenoi Violated Civil Service Laws—100s Illegally Bypassed to hire ‘POI’
5. Chief: Police Commission to Winnow out Non-Corrupt Contenders This Week
6. DoE Starts Semester with 531 Teacher Vacancies
7. Doctor shortage worsens
8. Revitalizing Mayor Wright Homes could cost $1 billion
9. Tax Review Commission: A $700M Money Grab 
10. Hawaii Electric Rates up 9% in Year
11. Sierra Club Still Working Hard to Destroy Farmers
12. Nuclear attack sirens? Try wait

1. GOP Obamacare Repeal Deal Would Boost Hawaii Medicare and Medicaid
2. Harbors Division Soaking the Taxpayer – Again and Again
3. Brian Schatz Praises NFL Players who Kneel During National Anthem
4. Morale a major problem at embattled police department, some say
5. Big Island Strive HI test scores overall still below standard
6. How Honolulu Strip Clubs Get Away with Liquor Law Violations
7. No more cuffs in court? New policy says suspects can appear without shackles

1. DLNR wants to triple fees for commercial marine licenses
2. Senator: Lets Build a Massive Festering Homeless Tent City Downtown Where There’s Lots of Copper 
3. 41 Tons of Trash Removed from Pearl City Homeless Camp
4. Solar Panels About to Get More Expensive
5. 35 Years Late: Honolulu Leftist Churches Finally Decide to get Around to Becoming ‘Sanctuaries’
6. Investigator will explore contention over Kawananakoa’s estate

1. Hawaii Pregnancy Centers Ask Court to Stop Law Forcing Them to Promote Abortions
2. Hurricanes Blow Jones Act Out of the Way
3. Ige Assigns Dock Space to Pasha, TOTE
4. How High Are Property Tax Collections Where You Live?
5. Oahu Construction Boom Ending: What Excuse Will HART Use Next?
6. If N. Korea attacks Hawaii, you'll have minutes to prepare
7. More Tax Hikes Coming? Rail’s last segment fraught with risk to Taxpayers
8. OHA Trustees to Reconsider CNHA Contract at Sept 27 Meeting
9. Criminals Stealing More Thanks to Legislature
10. Council Considers New Scheme to Keep Criminals on the Streets
11. Marijuana Stores Move 57lbs of Dope in First Month
12. City continues to clear out items along the Pearl City bike path
13. With No Chief to Collect Payoffs, HPD Raids Illegal Gambling Sites Island-Wide
14. Police: Non-Profit Loses $5.8M to Embezzler

1. Al Hee Minion Robin Danner Grabs for Control of Crooked Sandwich Isles Scam Company
2. Surprise: CNHA Charter School Scheme Twice as Large as Previously Reported
3. Record setting applications for UH Manoa--But Enrollment Still Drops
4. City Fines Go Away for N Shore ‘Shopping Center’ Planned by Mrs. Brian Schatz
5. OIP Rules Designed to Cut off Access to Public Records
6. BLNR Hears Arguments Over Control of Mauna Kea Telescope, Land
7. How Some Hawaii Officials’ Paychecks Compare To The Mainland
8. Ige Confuses Renewable Energy with Low Climate Impact Policies
9.  Hawaii and other Liberal States Single-Handedly Saving Planet from Global Cooling or Warming or a Big Monster
10. DOH: Honey Butane Oil is ‘Medicine’ Now
11. HPD Officer Points out that Chief Selection Process is Corrupt
12. Kealoha’s Quest For City To Pay His Legal Fees Takes A Nasty Turn
13. Hawaii Housing Authority -- Kupuna ordered to pay $800 rent increase
14. Hawaii Co Council Votes to Ban Foam Containers
15. Study: $30B of Hawaii’s Economy based on Obamacare

1. Hawaii is #1 in Teacher Absenteeism at 79% 
2. Hawaii 6th Most Indebted State
3. Hawaii: 10,464 Student Loan Debtors Over Age 60
4. 'Pono Policy Academy' to Begin Candidate Training Classes
5. Got Anxiety? DoH begins adding new excuses for Medicated Marijuana
6. Greenmail: OHA, UH Team up to Hire More Lawyers
7. Nuclear Blast Preparations: Inside Legislators’ Secret Meeting
8. HART: We Overestimated Last Tax Hike by $600M
9. Ige’s School Reform:  Kaiser HS Football Team Collapses Season Cancelled After Threats
10. Special Education Parents: More Lawsuits Coming
11. 29% Property tax Hike for Maui TVRs
12. $4M Effort Forces 42 Homeless Drug Addicts to Accept Shelter
13. Kauai PD Raids Homeless Camps Forces 8 to Accept Shelter in Jail
14. Hawaii Co: In a few years we may buy some Igloos, until then we will have massive festering homeless tent cities
15. Abused Toddler’s Mom Seeks Federal Help With Her Son’s Case Against ‘Friend of the Police’
16. HFD: We Know cause of Marco Polo Fire
17. Lanai Celebrates Death of Big Wind

1. Ige Sends out Secret Memo on Information Practices
2. Caldwell: Now That Legislature Has Done the Hard Work of Raising Taxes, I Urge HART to Not Do Nothing
3. Data vs Hype: Honolulu NOAA Chart Shows Sea Level Rise is a False Crisis
4. Residents of U.S. Territories Ask Court to Expand Voting Rights
5. Survey: Texas More Diverse Than Hawaii
6. Rail ’Recovery’ Magically Drops Cost by $1B and Plans $429M per Year in New Tax Hikes
7. Rail critic calls HART’s financial recovery plan shallow
8. Telescope: Result of BLNR Hearing will be Appealed to Supreme Court
9. Overflowing With Homeless Drug Addicts, Emergency rooms struggle with long waiting times
10. Homeless Pour into Waianae Tweeker Camp
11. Soft on Crime: Cohort of Alleged Waikiki Shooter Released from Death Row in Delaware Thanks to Liberal Lawyers

1. Report: Hawaii Health Insurance Jumps by Avg of $341
2. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted September 18, 2017
3. Shelter? Most of Hawaii ‘On Their Own’ to Deal with Nuke Fallout
4. DoI Recommends Opening Some Pacific Monuments to Fishing
5. These Big Oahu Schools Got Bigger
6. Hawaii Co Police struggle with overtime, vacancies
7. Wait For Drug Treatment On Big Island Can Stretch Months
8. State Caregiver Aid Program Takes Shape—How Much will FACE Get?
9. Shipping companies’ expansion in isles could go bust for some

1. Why America's Missile Defenses Might Not Work Against North Korea
2. Legislature with U R Missing
3. Carbon Tax Heads $700M in Tax Hikes Proposed for Next Legislative Session
4. HART Submits Rail Recovery Plan after 16 Months of Chaos Produces Massive Tax Hike
5. New documents reveal state system that failed abused boy
6. Media bring legal challenge to Police Commission secrecy
7. City Fees Add to the High Cost of Sprinkler Retrofit
8. Ige Spews CO2 from Here to NYC—Meeting with Tax Credit Schemers to Talk ‘Warming’
9. Crony Capitalist Kelly King Plans to Spend $1.5M to Attract More Homeless to Kihei
10. ACLU: We will Push Hawaii Counties to become 'Sanctuaries’ for Illegal Aliens
11. Big Island: Donald J Trump Scares Seven Liberals Away from Voting
12. Aquarium fish: Let science guide decision-making
13. Brian Schatz Can’t Distinguish Between Weather and Climate
14. Sale of Apartments Will Profit HHFDC, Reduce Affordable Housing

1. Help Stop CNHA Grab for Charter School Funds
2. Hawaii GOP Calls on Schatz to Return Money
3. Nominees Sought: Four UH Regents
4. Hawaii Uninsured Rate Drops 4.36% Since 2010
5. HART: Feds Freeze Rail Spending on Land Buy
6. Concern grows after construction workers unearth 2 sets of iwi
7. Honolulu to consider paying homeowners to house homeless
8. Rep Tupola: Sex trafficking is a big problem in Hawaii
9. How one Hawaii school is helping kids succeed by making sure they get to class
10. Solar installation warranty died with Honolulu company
11. Today’s Police News: Assault, Road Rage, and Cyberstalking

1. Is Hawaii Safe in Light of North Korea's Missile and Nuclear Tests?
2. BLNR Telescope Hearing Set for Sept 20
3. Census: Hawaii Highest Rents in USA
4. Bloomberg: After Irma, America Should Scrap the Jones Act
5. GAO: Pearl Harbor Shipyard in Bad Shape
6. AG Chin: How a lobbyist for Corrections Corporation of America became the Left’s darling
7. Pension Spiking Costs Taxpayers $25M per year
8. HART puts finishing touches on rail recovery plan on eve of deadline
9. State’s records request rules changing
10. Welfare, Medicare and Marijuana: Internet Billionaire has a Plan for Your Life

1. Hawaii GE Tax Highest Sales Tax in USA on Per Capita Basis
2. Council yanks ‘forensic’ from rail audit
3. Am Samoa: Feds Settle with StarKist
4. Harassed by Attorney General, Parents of Autistic Child Flee State
5. Honolulu Rail 3x More Expensive than Mainland Systems
6. Four Months and Still no State Tax Refund
7. Will Police Commission Hearings be Opened by Judge?
8. Is Hawaii’s government corrupt?
9. National Democrat Donors Fly AG Chin Around World
10. Peter Apo: “I should have declined the offer to be a paid Civil Beat columnist”
11. High-ranking Maui police officer investigated for sexual assault

1. Mauna Kea: It All Came Down to Money
2. Hawaii Weed Stores to Go Cashless Oct 1 (sort of)
3. AG Chin Defeats Parents of Disabled Children (again)
4. DoE SPED: 24% Absenteeism, 40% Do Not Graduate
5. State's failure to conduct random checks on probationers puts public at risk
6. Hawaii Spends $2M/yr flying Criminals to Arizona and it’s still Waaaay Cheaper than our Corrupt UPW-Controlled Prisons
7. HHFDC: Operating Affordable Housing Not Our Job 
8. Retaliation Games; Parole chief back at job after investigation
9. Kim Plans Massive Festering Homeless Tent City for Hilo
10. Preschool In Hawaii: Expensive And ‘Ridiculously Hard to Find’
11. City Issues 49 Violations for TVRs
12. White Nationalist Leader: Tulsi Gabbard Understands Us

1. Hawaii Risks Loss of Federal Funds to Force Abortion on Churches
2. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted September 11, 2017
3. Audit Exposes Illegal System to Bypass Civil Service, Hire 100s of Kenoi Cronies
4. Lawsuit: Hawaii County Police Used Stun Gun On Wrong Man—Tried to Cover it up
5. Republican Opposition To The Rail Special Session
6. News Outlets Challenge Honolulu Police Commission Secrecy
7. Star-Advertiser staff cuts follow lower earnings by parent company
8. Hawaii adds Only Four Shelters from Cat 2 Hurricane

1. 9-11 We Will Never Forget
2. Rail Taxtrophe
3. How to fix health care in Hawaii
4. Hawaii DoE Sued over Sept 11 "Lockdown Drill"
5. Travel Ban: Supreme Court Slaps Down 9th Circuit
6. Retaliation from NextEra Supporters behind Hanabusa Campaign Announcement
7. Ige’s Failed Housing Deal
8. Hawaii Legislature: The Trappings of Respect and Trust Without the Real Thing
9. Civil Beat Needs to Come Clean on Peter Apo Scandal
10. Two more names emerge as candidates for HPD's next police chief
11. Another Day in the DPS: Penis Grabber Gets Back Pay

1. CNHA 'Hoodwinks' Native Hawaiian Charter Schools out of $225K
2. The Power of School Choice
3. How Much Does Your State Collect in Corporate Income Taxes Per Capita?
4. Rail: Heads We Win, Tails You Lose
5. Counties Begin Pushing for more Tax Hikes in 2018 Legislative Session
6. Waikiki: A never-ending parade of emergency vehicles that cater to the health problems of the homeless
7. What is being done to alleviate Hawaii’s physician shortage
8. Hawaii Civil Defense: "It is very difficult. We do not know."

1. Supreme Court: Aquarium Fisheries Sacrificed on Altar of Tourism
2. Enrollment: DoE Down 1% -- Charter Schools up 5%
3. Hawaii taxes block prosperity
4. Hurricane Irma: Hawaii Red Cross Volunteers Heading to Florida
5. Honolulu to hold 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony
6. U.S. waives Jones Act before Hurricane Irma hits
7. Caldwell to Meet With Rail Car Manufacturer
8. BLNR Approves Boating Rule Changes
9. Hirono Spews Anti-Catholic Bigotry in Senate Hearing
10. Rail Operations Timed to Provide Excuse for Next Tax Hike
11. Names: Five Local Candidates for HPD Chief
12. Homeless Male Dies on Freeway Because he was not Forced to Accept Shelter
13. Soft on Crime: Lifelong Doper Gets Another Joke Sentence
14. Gary Hooser Admits: ‘Harsh and Ugly Rhetoric’
15. More Rat Poison Hysteria on Kauai

1. Hawaii Braces for High Costs of Renewable Energy Mandates
2. Travel Ban: 9th Circuit Court Rules Against Trump (again)
3. Reso 17-199: Will Honolulu Council Back Rail Audit?
4. Rumors and Rage: When Good Conservation Sounds Bad
5. DoH Cancels Flu Vaccinations at Dozens of Oahu Schools and All Private Schools
6. Ponzi Scheme: Rep Beth Fukumoto’s ex-Husband Under FBI Investigation
7. Rail: Tax Hike Bill may Have Unconstitutional Provision
8. Neighbor islands feel railroaded by Legislature
9. Ige: I Have More Experience Running State than Hanabusa
10. Honolulu police chief candidates whittled down to top 9 after written test
11. HCDA Admits Developer Scored Kalaeloa Solar Farm Without Public Input or Open Bidding
12. Ige’s Incompetent Housing Dep’t Blows Deal for Hundreds of Affordable Units
13. Contract dispute spurs 'chaotic' move of mentally ill youth from Queen's
14. Hawaii County Foam container ban moves forward
15. Experts raise state revenue forecast—State Taxes Suck $6.62B out of Economy

1. 2017 Hawaii ACT Scores 4th Worst in USA
2. Dropping college enrollment shows Americans are no longer buying the college lie
3. AG Chin to Run for Congress?  Wes Machida for LG?
4. 8-0 Honolulu Council approves Rail GET surcharge extension
5. HART Cancelled Rail Contract to Ala Moana in August—Didn’t Tell Legislators – Already Planning to Fail on Latest Deadline
6. AG Chin Refuses to Prosecute: Slap on Wrist for PRP over campaign against Cayetano case
7. State Supreme Court Finds Excuse to Shut Down Aquarium Fisheries Statewide
8. Honolulu police body cam pilot on hold
9. Hirono Spews Anti-Catholic Bigotry in Senate Hearing
10. SHOPO Sues to Block Release of Police Officer Names For Salary Database
11. Soft on Crime: 10 Convictions Gets 18 Months, Will be out in Two
12. Hawaii County Spending $833 per Month per Bum for Homeless Tent City

1. Another OHA Trustee Caught Red-Handed
2. Ige Signs $2.4B Rail Tax Hike Bill
3. HDOT Sitting on $505M of Unspent Federal Funds
4. UH: Only 13 DACA Students in UH System
5. Hawaii Sues Trump over DACA
6. Jones Act industry attacks Mercatus paper
7. Best Place to Raise a Family? Honolulu Ranks 62nd 
8. 93% of Hawaii Dams at 'High Hazard Risk'
9. Abercrombie: Hanabusa is Toast
10. Cataluna: Ige is the Mafia Candidate, not Hanabusa (LOL!)
11. Legislators Admit They Used Caldwell as ‘Foil’ While Passing $2.4B Tax Hike
12. Three Hawaii Energy Fallacies
13. HGEA Member Uses State Funds for Cattle Ranch
14. Honolulu Prosecutor Bungles Grand Jury Investigation, Case Against Alleged Shooter Tossed
15. Attempt to Prevent Investigation of Kunia plane crash
16. Anti-GMO Whack-Jobs Use Maui Council to Waste Farmers Time
17. Foam containers have value; ban wouldn’t curb sea debris
18. Cesspool alternatives expensive
19. Charter School Leader Going The Extra Mile
20. Some Bums Went East—Will Be Swept West

1. Anti-bullying campaign marks its 10th year
2. Will Trump Admin approve Jones Act waivers in wake of Hurricane Harvey?
3. Hawaii Small Business in Facts and Figures
4. Hawaii Global Warming Commission Suggests Abandoning Waikiki
5. HART Could Cause Power Surges in Waipahu, Ewa
6. $205M Smart Meter Program Designed Entirely to Help Solar Schemers Make More Money
7. Will Kalihi Redevelopment Push Out Current Residents And Businesses?
8. Caldwell Finds Way to Jam up Traffic even more in Kailua
9. Council to Hold Hearing on Fire Sprinklers
10. 45 Homeless in Waipahu Refuse Housing After Decades on Streets

• Honolulu Republicans: On Labor Day Celebrate Entrepreneurship
• Letter to Hawaii DoE: Trump overturns Obama Policy on Trannies in Bathroom
• Tupola: Hawaii Needs a Change from Career Politicians
• HGEA-UPW Job Trust Maintained Despite Fewer Juvenile Inmates
• Star-Adv: Modernize work rules, benefits for state’s future
• Reforms helping more teens stay out of jail
• Rash of inmate suicides raise concerns over mental health services
• Another Inmate Scores: Sex With Prison Guard worth $100K
• Medevac services could become monopoly in isles
• Internet Billionaires Deploy Yet Another Fluff-Piece on Universal Basic Income
• Bill to ban styrofoam again heads to Honolulu council

• King Tide Floods? City Installed Valve Makes Them Worse
• AG Chin Defeats Parents of Disabled Children
• North Korea Tests H-Bomb For New ICBM
• Rail:  I Dunno About TAT
• Rail: Nationally known concrete monument to the incompetence of Hawaii’s Democrats
• Caldwell Preparing Excuses for More Tax Hikes
• In 2030 GE Tax will be Raised to 4.5%—Permanently
• Legislators Put Themselves on HART Board
• ‘Somebody tell me how it’s right’ Big Island officials trying to make sense of rail bill’s passage
• Maui: Legislature Should Have Taxed TVRs Instead
• AG Chin Asks 9th Circuit to Force Churches to Promote Abortion
• Sen Waklai Retaliation Game Puts HTA 6 months Behind Processing Vendor Payments
• Con Con to be on 2018 Ballot

1. Ige Appoints Pro-Rail Thug to HCDA
2. $2.4B Tax Hike: How They Voted
3. Risky, Overused Medications Prescribed Far Less Often in the Aloha State
4. Hawaii is woefully vulnerable to a North Korean nuclear attack
5. Mafia Hanabusa announces 2018 governor run
6. Sens. Green, Espero announce runs for lieutenant governor in 2018
7. Rail: Caldwell begins Making Excuses for Property Tax Hike
8. Lawmakers join the fight for more details on HPD officer's firing
9. UH Finally has ‘Incentive’ to Field Winning Football Team
10. Solar Scammers Scrounge for More Tax Credits
11. Homeless Drug Addicts Run ‘Notorious’ Gaming Room under Nimitz Fwy

1. Rail: Republicans Propose 'Forensic Audit' Amendment
2. Rail: FTA is open to shortening the route
3. Obamacare Could Bankrupt ERS
4. Profiting from Telescope Protests and Kakaako Development, OHA Trustee Fined $25K
5. Cool Schools: Ige Claims Success
6. Hawaii Crime Index Drops to New Low
7. Bill Before Congress: Claim--Hawaii Allows 'horrific legal market' in Dog Meat
8. Oahu GE Tax Adds 9% to Sister Island Grocery Bills
9. Rail bill permanently shifts hotel tax $$ away from neighbor islands
10. After Years, City Suddenly Pretends to be Interested in private partnerships for troubled rail project
11. Ige Buys Oshiro out of House with $120K HLRB Gig--Gets to Make Appointment
12. Homeless Tweeker Camp under Nimitz a 'hot spot' for crime
13. Homeless Bombard Queens Until Hospital Ponies Up