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					| Sunday, September 30, 2018 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 30, 2018 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 5:12 PM :: 4877 Views 
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 - Guess Which Agency Can Impose State Tax?
 
 - Hirono: When I do it, it’s not Hypocrisy
 
 - Rail: HART, city face tight deadlines
 
 - Rail: Hanabusa People Complain About P3
 
 - What’s a Hawaii election without a trick question?
 
 - Puna Sovereignty Councilmember Case Really an Oahu Foreclosure Scam
 
 - Kauai: Ousted BNB Owner Has His Revenge on Kagawa
 
 - Kauai – 200 Mental Patients Being Cut Off
 
 - Hurricane Danger?  Give More Ratepayer Money to Solar Scammers and Windfarms
 
 - Puna: FAA Sued Over Helicopter Noise
 
 - Hawaii Convention Center Starts Losing Money Again—And Making Excuses
 
 - Maui: What it Takes to Fly One Homeless Dude Back to Mainland
 
 - Soft on Crime: Criminal with Multiple Convictions Arrested After Father killed in Haleiwa 
 
 - Soft on Crime: 16 Priors Out on The Streets Does it Again
 
 - Hawaii has long history of strict firearms laws
 
 
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					| Saturday, September 29, 2018 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 29, 2018 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 7:14 PM :: 3462 Views 
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 - Hirono Fundraising Email Sent During Blasey-Ford Testimony 
 
 - HSTA Rent Tax: 14 Groups Support Counties Appeal to Supreme Court 
 
 - Stop Digging Deeper Pension Debt
 
 - Years Later KOLEA System Still not 100% Compliant with Obamacare Requirements
 
 - Audit of State DoD Accounts 
 
 - Hawaii Construction Forecast: After Pullback, Construction Prospects Firm
 
 - Financial Literacy: Hawaii Ranks 44th
 
 - Unconstitutional Law Keeps Dues Money Flowing to Hawaii Public Employee Unions
 
 - Case, Cavasso Debate Jones Act, Rail, Akaka Tribe
 
 - Doped Up Sovereignty Activist Councilmember Calls Queens Hospital War Criminal or Something
 
 - Brown Water: Windfarm a ‘Total Calamity’ for Reef -- $25K daily fine?
 
 - 'Trust is being built’: Special police unit charged with helping homeless to expand islandwide
 
 - Cost of long-delayed Iwilei homeless center skyrockets
 
 - Avoid becoming a 'poverty paradise'
 
 
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					| Friday, September 28, 2018 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 28, 2018 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 4:21 PM :: 3552 Views 
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 - Janus: Hawaii union law potentially unconstitutional
 
 - New international maritime cabotage study released
 
 - American Samoa Airline Cabotage Reform Coming
 
 - DBEDT Report: Top 20 Occupations in Hawaii 
 
 - DoE Passes Buck While Girl has Seizure
 
 - UH’s New Rules Would Bring Big Changes Atop Mauna Kea
 
 - New Program to Keep Homeless Criminals out of Jail
 
 - HPD Retiree Charged with Sex Assault
 
 - Stolen Truck Chase and Crash—Multiple Felonies Got out after one year so he could have Another Chance to do it again
 
 - Psycho Slasher Out After 4 years
 
 - Hawaii’s Andria Tupola Speaks at NYU
 
 - Can Hawaiian Activists Collect Rent from Salesforce.com?  
 
 
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					| Thursday, September 27, 2018 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 27, 2018 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 8:05 PM :: 3699 Views 
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 - Business Tax Climate--Hawaii Ranks 38th
 
 - Hawaii Visitor Spending Increased 1.4 Percent to $1.41 Billion in August 
 
 - Kauai We Have a Problem
 
 - Usual Suspects File Briefs Supporting Hawaii Open Carry Ban
 
 - Hawaii Finance Commissioner Calls for Congress to Allow Marijuana Banking
 
 - UH System Enrollment Down 1.2%
 
 - Ige accepts TV debate, Tupola not yet
 
 - HART dragging its feet on rail audit, Les Kondo says
 
 - Honolulu rail board approves ‘public-private partnership’ plan for project’s last segment
 
 - Counties Ask Supreme Court To Invalidate Ballot Measure For School Funds   
 
 - Proposed rules for managing Maunakea lands draw fierce criticism
 
 - Hawaii receives $120 million in disaster relief, more to come
 
 - Pension problems
 
 - Maui: Non-Existent Sea Level Rise is Excuse to Seize 200’ of Your Oceanfront Property
 
 - Judge: NOAA can’t regulate fish farming under fisheries law
 
 - 9th Circuit to Hear Guam Plebiscite Case at UH Law School
 
 - Chuuk to Vote on Secession from FSM
 
 - Still no news from AG’s office on now-retired Hawaii County PD Detective Allegedly Stealing Drugs from Evidence Locker
 
 - ‘Chaos At Kamalani’: Why It’s So Hard To Run A Charter School
 
 - Court deals major setback to condominium associations, attorneys
 
 - Game Room Robber Release on Bail TWICE
 
 - Anti-GMO Leader Quits Drinking After Sex Assault by Hawaii Liberal Activist
 
 - Hirono catches heat for sending fundraiser email during hearing
 
 
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					| Wednesday, September 26, 2018 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 26, 2018 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 4:46 PM :: 4384 Views 
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					| Tuesday, September 25, 2018 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 25, 2018 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 6:56 PM :: 4723 Views 
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 - Secret Report Ties Hawaii Youth Suicide Rate to HSTA Grab for HGEA Positions
 
 - 'Education Tax' -- $21K per House 
 
 - Financial State of the States--Hawaii 45th--$31,600 Debt per Person
 
 - Climate Action Plan: Preconceived Outcome Set for Public Meetings
 
 - BWS to Subsidize Affordable Housing
 
 - Property tax credit for homeowners with income under $60K
 
 - Hawaii Cauliflower coral could be listed as endangered
 
 - Hirono Uses Kavanaugh Accusation to Fundraise for Group Founded to 'MoveOn' from Monica Lewinsky Claims 
 
 - FTA tells HART to find extra $134M for rail
 
 - Hawaii Union Law Probably Unconstitutional under Janus Decision
 
 - Gun pointed at police registered to embattled Honolulu attorney tied to Kealoha Coverup
 
 - Suspect in Kalihi game room fight was out on bail awaiting retrial for murder of cab driver
 
 - Gay Prostitute Makes Excuses for Threats Against State Women's Commission
 
 - FBI: Violent crime ticked up in Hawaii last year, while number of property crimes declined
 
 - No Fear of Confined Spaces: Blasey-Ford Flew to Hawaii and Back
 
 - Hurricane Lane: Napili resort facing violations for unpermitted rock wall work
 
 - Several Hawai`i Renewable Energy Projects Under Negotiation
 
 - Maui Injection Wells Before US Supreme Court
 
 
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					| Monday, September 24, 2018 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 24, 2018 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 3:07 PM :: 3283 Views 
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 - Senator Hirono Didn’t Always Tell Men to ‘Shut Up’ and Believe Accusers
 
 - Maunakea Administrative Rules Public Meetings
 
 - No way new tax won’t cost us
 
 - Hawaii: Worst State for Teachers 
 
 - Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted September 23, 2018
 
 - Cayetano: There Are Many Reasons To Oppose The Proposed ‘Education Tax’
 
 - HSTA ‘Give us money because we are unqualified’
 
 - Kauai Residents mull term limits for councilmembers
 
 - Legal Weed Dealers Push Paltry 135lbs for June
 
 - Homeless Drug Addicts Take over Ala Wai Community park
 
 - Hawaii Obamacare Subsidy Worth a Pathetic $300K
 
 
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					| Sunday, September 23, 2018 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 23, 2018 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 6:30 PM :: 3897 Views 
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 - Say It’s a Tax!
 
 - Hawaii GOP: Our Ticket is United
 
 - Video: Hirono Left Twisting in Wind as Blasey-Ford 'Witnesses' Refuse to Back Story
 
 - Crippling Tribalism has Nation on Road to Ruin
 
 - Ige: Four More Years of Nothing 
 
 - Running mates at odds as Hawaii GOP kicks off campaign
 
 - Tulsi Gabbard encouraged to run for president in 2020
 
 - HART’s P3 Secret: Lots of Market-Rate TOD 
 
 - Bullying: DOE dodging responsibility at every opportunity
 
 - BoE Member: Supporting HSTA Agenda IS Empowerment 
 
 - 1975: How Legislative Corruption Pushed Voters to Call  for Con-Con
 
 - Homeless Outreach Court: 46% Accept Housing
 
 - THC and newborns
 
 - Judge dismisses suit against Hu Honua, county
 
 
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					| Saturday, September 22, 2018 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 22, 2018 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 1:58 PM :: 3527 Views 
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 - Rail in Default? Feds Give HART 60-Day Warning
 
 - Strive HI -- How Did Your School Do?
 
 - Can Aloha Poke Be Trademarked? 
 
 - Lawyer: Bisexual Guard Raped Prisoners at Halawa for Years
 
 - FBI investigating officers over beating death of Big Island man, lawyer says
 
 - Tourism (but not much else) is booming in Hawaii. Here's why that's a problem
 
 
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					| Friday, September 21, 2018 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 21, 2018 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 5:58 PM :: 3352 Views 
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 - Hawaii district court strikes down law targeting pro-life pregnancy centers
 
 - GOP surrogates rally at UH event for Trump and right-wing ideas
 
 - Democrat Lawyers Tag Tulsi Gabbard 'CWILF'
 
 - Hirono Took Money From Democrat Who Admitted to Hitting Wife
 
 - Hawaii Student Debt Averages $25,125
 
 - UHERO: Hawaii's Growth Down, But Not Out
 
 - Bullying App to Bring Students into DoE Retaliation System?
 
 - Competitive Elections?  Hawaii Dead Last
 
 - HSTA chief should stick to the facts
 
 - Government Spending Will Not Solve Affordable Housing Problem
 
 - Hawaii County Vacation rental bill gets nod from panel
 
 - Second Amendment: George Young Heading for US Supreme Court
 
 - Hawaii County Resists transparency for reservoir evacuations
 
 - Feds Impose Big Fines over safety violations at Maui Community Correctional Center (again)
 
 - Foreign homebuyers buy only 375 units in first half of 2018
 
 - Finding farming matches for old cane fields not so simple
 
 - Salary Database Now Includes Hundreds Of Hawaii County Employees
 
 
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					| Thursday, September 20, 2018 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 20, 2018 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 4:01 PM :: 3764 Views 
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 - UH Manoa Socialists Threaten to Throw Poop
 
 - Hirono: FBI Should Investigate Witness Tampering Against Alleged Kavanaugh Accuser
 
 - Expected: Hawaii Files For Ninth Circuit En Banc Ruling On Right To Bear Arms  
 
 - Auditor: RCUH Goes 11 for 11
 
 - KITV4 Island News to host first General Election governor's debate—8 Days Before Election Day  
 
 - HSTA: HGEA and UPW Hypocrites Should Share With Us
 
 - DoE Spends $5000 per Student on SPED?  -- And Doesn’t Ask for Federal Funds
 
 - Report: Hawaii students stumble in math
 
 - Hawaii County Council reallocates GET surcharge proceeds to help pay for damages from Hurricane Lane
 
 - Vacation rentals bill: City Panel Demands Greater Political Sacrifice by Councilmembers
 
 - Pressure Pays Off -- Waianae Homeless to Abandon Tent City?
 
 - Waimanalo NIMBYS -- After Finally Getting the Tweekers out of our Neighborhood, we don’t Want their Homeless Camp Disturbed
 
 - Hawaii homeowners see average home equity gain of $30K
 
 - Honolulu rail authority files condemnation suit against Kakaako business
 
 - Honolulu airport considered one of the worst in the country
 
 - Why Aren’t There More Women Judges In Hawaii? – Because They Don’t Apply
 
 - Hawaii’s Soft-on-Crime Policy Leads to Child Death in Puerto Rico
 
 
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					| Wednesday, September 19, 2018 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 19, 2018 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 6:51 PM :: 3278 Views 
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 - Hirono: SCOTUS Seat Could Stay Vacant for Two Years   
 
 - Mazie Hirono Needs to Shut up, Stand Up and Name Names of Hawaii Democrat Sex Harassers she is Covering For
 
 - Grassroot Institute to Host Congressional District 1 Candidate Forum
 
 - Hawaii State Taxes $6,084 per Capita 
 
 - Special Session Decision ‘Imminent’ – No Buyout for Lava Zone 1&2 Residents
 
 - Poverty Persists Among Hawaiians Despite (or is it because of) Cultural Nationalism
 
 - How Hawaii is Faking Carbon Neutrality
 
 - Ige’s not hiding, but he’s totally dodging
 
 - Maui: Ex-county official fined for theft of vacation time
 
 - Mauna Kea: DHHL Orders Shutdown of Activists Checkpoint
 
 - 15% of Hawaii's young men aren't registered with Selective Service
 
 - Mental Health: Insurers Cut Back on Psychiatrists Pay
 
 
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					| Tuesday, September 18, 2018 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 18, 2018 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 5:12 PM :: 4278 Views 
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 - Green Energy Mandates a Tax on Poor People
 
 - Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted September 16, 2018
 
 - New Thinking for Hawaiian Homes
 
 - Union proposal would require $400M hike in property taxes
 
 - DOE Proposes $100K Salary Increases For 19 Executives
 
 - Council to discuss call for audit of DOE
 
 - Four Years of ‘Disruptive’ -- Middle Street-to-Ala Moana phase of Honolulu rail project moving ahead
 
 - Tax credits will be issue for film industry
 
 - Amendment 1: Transparency in Pay Hikes for Public Officials
 
 - Katherine Kealoha resigns as deputy prosecutor
 
 - Authorities aim to thwart sex traffickers by reuniting high-risk teens with families
 
 - Hawaii: 66% of Lunatics Untreated
 
 - Swing and a Miss:  ACLU Tries Another Trick to Keep Homeless out of Shelters
 
 - State Sheriffs searching for homeless man that caused Saint Andrew's Priory to go on lockdown
 
 - New Service Helps Public Access Public Records
 
 
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					| Monday, September 17, 2018 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 17, 2018 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 4:27 PM :: 3364 Views 
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 - Lawsuits Close in on Hawaii’s Largest Carbon Credit Scheme
 
 - Hawaii v Trump: House Judiciary Committee Moves to Ban Nationwide Injunctions
 
 - Obamacare: Hawaii loses 51 full-time doctors as physician shortage continues
 
 - Trading Padded Cells for Concrete Cells—The Price We All Pay for Closing the Lunatic Asylums
 
 - Brace for constitutional amendment campaigns
 
 - By Purposefully Deferring Maintenance, UH Admin Builds $1.6B Capital Improvement ‘Ask’
 
 - Gene Ward On ‘Broken Promises’ For Hawaiians
 
 - Caldwell Attempts to Impose IAL Designation on Landowners
 
 - Roadblocks to relicensing push some drivers to illegal behavior
 
 - Banning Fossil Fuels is Complicated
 
 - FDA Should Declare Anti-GMO Labeling Illegal
 
 
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					| Sunday, September 16, 2018 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 16, 2018 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 5:29 PM :: 3293 Views 
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 - Historic Homes--$2M Tax Exemption Gift to 342 Households
 
 - Ray L’Heureux and Randy Roth: Schools’ problem is dysfunctional DOE
 
 - Passive-aggressive ‘school tax’ proposal could turn out more aggressive than it seems
 
 - HSTA Tax Hike: Rosenlee Schooled, Readers Not Fooled 
 
 - Rail: Ansaldo Holds P3 Solution Hostage?
 
 - Rail board reaches critical point for public-private partnership plan
 
 - SMS Study: Barriers to Affordable Housing
 
 - Campaign Spending Commission fines Maui Council Anti-GMO Nut Alika Atay $2,700
 
 - Hawaii Sex Trade Mostly Locals, not Tourists
 
 - ‘Overtourism’ Complaints All About TVRs
 
 - TVR Owners Iced out by Proposed Hawaii County Vacation Rental Law
 
 - Jones Act waivers aren't a solution; they're a symptom of the problem
 
 
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					| Saturday, September 15, 2018 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 15, 2018 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 6:02 PM :: 4946 Views 
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 - UH campuses climb in U.S. News and World Report ranking
 
 - Lawsuit: Land Use and Environmental Regs Designed to Push ‘Minorities’ Out
 
 - Gay Sex and blackmail inside the Halawa Correctional Facility
 
 - St. Francis Medical Center Tries To Stop $80M Settlement For Abuse Victims
 
 - Soft on Crime: Child Molester Gets Probation
 
 - Soft on Crime: Lunatic OK for Release After Killing two
 
 - Federal judges agrees to sale of Kealohas' home, discusses jury selection for upcoming trial
 
 - ACLU: End Money bail So Criminals Can do it Again 
 
 - Second East Hawaii Homeless Shelter almost ready for families displaced by lava to move in
 
 - The number of pedestrians killed in Hawaii this year is 6 times the figure in 2017
 
 - Sen. Sullivan talks with Kavanaugh, says Supreme Court nominee recognizes unique Alaska Native rights
 
 - Obamacare Morphs into ‘Medicare for All’
 
 
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					| Friday, September 14, 2018 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 14, 2018 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 5:52 PM :: 2971 Views 
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 - AG Opinion: Hawaii Gun Laws Not as Restrictive as they Seem
 
 - Evacuate? 'High Risk' Nuuanu Reservoir--What is Caldwell Administration Hiding?
 
 - Council Passes Bill 53--Calls for Demolition of Affordable Housing 'Monsters'
 
 - Debt is the No. 1 source of financial stress in Hawaii
 
 - Paris Accord: Ige Promises to Keep Raising Taxes and Electric Rates
 
 - End 'gut and replace' 
 
 - VIDEO: 'Problematic' HSTA Rental Tax
 
 - Opposition rises to tax proposal
 
 - In Effort to Impose Gay Agenda via anti-Bullying Programs, ‘Gay Dad’ gets $10K Nuisance Money from DoE
 
 - Star-Adv: Keep teens from Vaping Tobacco-But Encourage them to Vape Marijuana
 
 - Damage to Hawaii county infrastructure caused by Lane totals about $20M
 
 - Enviros Renew Push for Garbage Tax
 
 - What New Census Data Says — And Doesn’t Say — About Hawaii
 
 - Soft on Crime: Triple Murder ’Schizo’ given Free Pass to Mental Hospital
 
 - Following Campaign Cash In Hawaii Just Got Easier
 
 
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					| Thursday, September 13, 2018 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 13, 2018 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 2:28 PM :: 3027 Views 
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 - July-Aug 2018: GE Tax Collections up 0.4%
 
 - Tropical Storm Olivia Moving Away from Hawaii
 
 - Ethics Commission Outlines Charges Against OHA Trustee Rowena Akana
 
 - Hawaii property owners so beaten down they don’t often go to court
 
 - Ethics Board punts on honesty policy
 
 - Council Rejects Big Bus Fare Hikes For Seniors And The Disabled 
 
 - Psychotic Criminal Sent to UH instead of Old-Style Asylum--Learns to Target ‘The Americans’
 
 - Peasants Must Be Made to Pay for the Electric Charging Stations Needed by the Eco-Priesthood
 
 - Mainland Homeless Hanging Around in Waikiki
 
 - What Has Happened To The American Dream in Hawaii?
 
 - Why Hawaii’s Last Constitutional Convention Was a Disaster
 
 - Hawaii’s commercial billfish industry loses vital protection
 
 
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					| Wednesday, September 12, 2018 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 12, 2018 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 6:05 PM :: 3101 Views 
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					| Tuesday, September 11, 2018 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 11, 2018 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 6:25 PM :: 3570 Views 
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 - Hawaii County Hires Katyal to Fight Against Second Amendment Ruling
 
 - Constitutional Amendment: Support for Public Education or Misguided Public Policy?
 
 - Tropical Storm Olivia Aims Directly at Maui 
 
 - Did the 9/11 attacks usher in the post-truth age?
 
 - 9/11 Truthers Meet the Birth Certificate Brigade   
 
 - Judge rules Abigail Kawananakoa unfit to change her $215 million trust
 
 - Judge rules to dismiss Former Unity House Scammers’ case against Dive Oahu and city
 
 - Future of Health Care in the Pacific Uncertain As End to Compact Funding Nears
 
 - FEMA Charters The World's Largest Jet To Rush Supplies To Guam
 
 - Another Hi-Tech Tax Credit Success Story--Algae biofuel company to sell All Equipment, Lay off all Workers
 
 - Bragging About Renewable Energy: Playing With Numbers
 
 - Soft on Crime Policy Leads to Lockdown at UH Hilo
 
 
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					| Monday, September 10, 2018 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 10, 2018 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 6:16 PM :: 3555 Views 
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 - Hurricane Olivia Aims Directly at Maui
 
 - Hawaii Happiest--and Most Sleepless State in USA
 
 - Climate Change: More Fuel Tax Hikes, Fewer Lanes, More Homeless on Streets
 
 - “We were Punatics.  But we were also Adults”
 
 - Usual Suspects: Don’t Build New Prison, Lets Release Lots and Lots of Prisoners Instead
 
 - Caldwell: Raise DMV Fees, Create more ‘Positions’—and Blame the Public 
 
 - New online tool tracks nearly $400 million in Hawaii IT-related project funds
 
 - Navy plan for Red Hill tanks
 
 
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					| Sunday, September 9, 2018 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 9, 2018 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 6:32 PM :: 3450 Views 
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 - If Everyone Farmed
 
 - Hurricane Olivia Aims Directly at Maui
 
 - Taking Exemptions Without Really Knowing
 
 - Special Session for Lava Recovery: October or Nothing
 
 - Alleged mail-in voting abuse demands deeper investigation
 
 - Mayor: Coco Palms Developer Does not Have Capacity to Conclude Project
 
 - Kahoolawe: New Center at Center of $29M Scheme
 
 - Hidden Oil Industry Fund Lines Environmentalists Pockets
 
 - Maui Mayoral Race--Criminal Short on Money
 
 - After success of Chinatown clinic for all, talk of 2nd location afoot
 
 - Molokai suicide rates are five times higher than the rest of the state
 
 - HandiVan Remains Unscathed as Oahu’s taxi cabs and ride-hailing firms on a collision course
 
 
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					| Saturday, September 8, 2018 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 8, 2018 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 6:48 PM :: 3993 Views 
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 - ‘Education tax’ a Pandora's box
 
 - How Much Does Your State Collect in Corporate Income Taxes Per Capita?
 
 - Congressman Hunter, the Jones Act and corruption 
 
 - Impacts of 'Janus' on public sector
 
 - Judge refuses to block ballot question on Hawaii constitutional amendment
 
 - Principal: I Took $83K from School Treasury Because I am HGEA Member
 
 - Baldwin HS band director placed on paid leave during investigation
 
 - Maui: Campaign spending fine proposed for Anti-GMO Nut Atay
 
 - Hawaii GOP shakeup
 
 - Mandatory evacuation pau: Leilani Estates residents being allowed to return starting today
 
 
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					| Friday, September 7, 2018 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 7, 2018 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 4:44 PM :: 4705 Views 
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 - Hawaii: Lowest Level of Food Insecurity in USA
 
 - Nov 6 Ballot: PAR Publishes Con Con Backgrounder
 
 - States with the Biggest Bullying Problems
 
 - Honolulu rail contractor seeks ‘mega-substantial’ settlement over construction delays
 
 - Hawaii sues for info on Airbnb owners who aren't paying taxes    
 
 - Hawaii County Planning Commission seeks stricter short-term rental rules
 
 - Board of Education To Wait On Approving New Student Discipline Code
 
 - Airlines servicing Hawaii continue to throw support behind independent airport authority    
 
 - Wood-Burning Power Plant Raises Environmental Concerns
 
 - In wake of park closures, homeless encampments pop up on nearby streets
 
 - That Long Line For A Driver’s License May Get Even Longer
 
 
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					| Thursday, September 6, 2018 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 6, 2018 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 7:24 PM :: 3683 Views 
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 - HSTA Rental Tax: Expedited Hearing for Counties Lawsuit 
 
 - Lawsuit Challenges Constitutionality of Laws Written by Gut n Replace Method
 
 - Climate Commission Grabs for Control of Waikiki
 
 - JSC Nominates Six for Appeals Court Vacancy
 
 - Hirono: Kavanaugh 'Critical' 8th Vote in Rice v Cayetano 
 
 - OHA Hires Auditor to Look at 'Fraud, Waste, and Abuse'
 
 - PAC Formed to Oppose HSTA Rental Tax
 
 - Legislators, Hawaii County Dicker over Relief Package
 
 - Mental capacity at core of Kawananakoa case
 
 - Caldwell TVR ‘Compromise’ Pleases Nobody at Hearing
 
 - Maui County Pays Contractor to Hunt Down Illegal TVRs Online
 
 - Large sums of cash help major candidates, but not necessarily those backed by super PACs       
 
 - Feds Force Hawaii DOE To Strengthen Its Student Discipline Code
 
 - Hawaii County Council: Keanu Sai Followers Show up to Support Absent Doper Ruggles
 
 - Homeless Leave Drug-Related Trash All Over Moiliili Park
 
 - Homeless Overrun Wahiawa Birthing Stones, Rob Visitors at Gunpoint
 
 - From Hawaii to Vermont, States Tackle Efficiency Standards
 
 - Kauai Scientists: Absence of Snorkel Rentals Leads to Restoration of our Reef
 
 - Pierre Omidyar’s Employee Glenn Greenwald says White House ‘Coward’ Behind Anonymous Op-ed Part of ‘Unelected Cabal’
 
 
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					| Wednesday, September 5, 2018 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 5, 2018 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 8:30 PM :: 4019 Views 
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 - Pearl City: Lowest Percentage of Families with Small Children in USA
 
 - Pension spiking cost Hawaii taxpayers $20.5M in FY 2017
 
 - Brett Kavanaugh: Office of Hawaiian Affairs a “naked racial spoils system.”
 
 - Maui Council and Mayor: School tax ballot proposal ‘A Blank Check to Come After County Funds’
 
 - Hawaii County anticipates $75M tax hit from ballot question
 
 - Hawaii Climate Commission – Make the Little People Feel Pain
 
 - Caldwell: Fine TVRs $100K Per Day Until The City Owns Their Property
 
 - 10 Years Later -- Hawaii Energy Plans Overtaken by Reality
 
 - 3 who lost homes in eruptions sue over denied insurance claims
 
 - Charter Amendment: Will Kauai Voters be Suckered into voting for Term Limit Repeal?
 
 - Proposed Maunakea rules – Keep the Peasants Off
 
 - Hawaii Elections 2018: General Election Ballot
 
 
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					| Tuesday, September 4, 2018 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 4, 2018 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 3:51 PM :: 3577 Views 
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 - Gun Control: What the Dalai Lama Tells American Students
 
 - Oxfam: The Best and Worst States to Work in America
 
 - All UH campuses make top 10 most diverse lists
 
 - Hawaii homeowners caught in limbo when insurers meet Kilauea
 
 - 526 Frauds Reported to DoE Hotline – Only One Employee Terminated
 
 - State asks for redevelopment pitches for 7 DOE parcels
 
 - Focus of federal corruption probe appears to turn toward city prosecutor
 
 - If You Really Believe the Eco Religion, Abandon Waikiki and Gimme $15.3B for Make-Work Projects
 
 - Vacation rental bill heads to Hawaii County Planning Commission
 
 - To beat Uber and Lyft, some taxi companies are trying to become them
 
 - 250 Homeless Accept Shelter in Lahaina
 
 - Why The Hawaii Elections Office Doesn’t Do More To Encourage Voting
 
 - Schatz Pumps Money into Democrat Senate Campaigns
 
 - Why Hawaii Is Burning Its Massive Mangrove Trees
 
 - It Takes Two: Faces of Hawaiʻi Workers With Multiple Jobs
 
 - F-22 alternative would save taxpayers money
 
 
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					| Monday, September 3, 2018 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September, 2018 Letters to the Editor
									 
									By Letters to the Editor @ 6:00 PM :: 3960 Views 
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 - Gun Control: What the Dalai Lama Tells American Students
 
 
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					| Monday, September 3, 2018 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 3, 2018 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 4:50 PM :: 3141 Views 
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 - Akina: Don't Give up on OHA Elections
 
 - Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How They Voted September 1, 2018
 
 - News media fails to call out bogus “war crime” concerns
 
 - Real Scientist Debunks Latest Anti-Pesticide Hysteria 
 
 - Homeless begin Destroying Thomas Square Again
 
 - Petitioners want Haseko’s Ewa Beach lagoon opened to ocean 
 
 - Star-Adv: Can Progressive Activism Replace Labor Unions?
 
 
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					| Sunday, September 2, 2018 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 2, 2018 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 3:50 PM :: 4142 Views 
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 - Arizona ruling shows Hawaii ballot question vulnerable
 
 - November Ballot: Understanding the constitutional amendment questions
 
 - P3? HART Hosts Forum with International Experts
 
 - Kauai Cash Grab: Long wait for Homeowners Property Tax Exemption
 
 - Be honest about HSTA rent tax before it goes on ballot
 
 - Star-Adv: Can Climate Change be Used to Wipe out Billions of Dollars in Shoreline Property?
 
 - Maybe this time a prison will be built
 
 - Activists: State Con-Con Needed to Fight Trump
 
 - Ruggles to skip meetings; Drug-Infused Councilwoman not satisfied with response to ‘war crimes’ claim
 
 - Joe Bertram: Kihei Rep Moves to Hilo, Likes Marijuana Edibles
 
 - Hawaii High Cost of Living Makes Workers into Zombie Task Rabbits
 
 
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					| Saturday, September 1, 2018 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 1, 2018 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 4:35 PM :: 3469 Views 
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 - Ethics: Lawyer Pays Off State Employees to Testify Against Their Own Investigation
 
 - Profitable Non-Profit: For Years, State Employee Paid Twice to Supervise Himself
 
 - State tax first of many?
 
 - Vote-by-Mail Fraud—Supreme Court Lets Romy Cachola Get Away
 
 - In Governor’s Race, Ige Has Huge Cash Advantage Over Tupola
 
 - Judge denies separate trials for Kealohas in case involving bank fraud, identity theft, obstruction
 
 - BWS Approves $60M Water Rate Hike
 
 - Star-Adv Flacks for ‘Cultural Property’
 
 - After 84 Criminals Arrested at one Homeless Camp, Moiliili parks to close for repairs
 
 - Hanalei: Homeowners to Score Megabux from Upcoming Lawsuit Against County
 
 - Hilo:  Elementary School Floods Because DoE Doesn’t Clean Drainage Culverts 
 
 
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