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| Tuesday, April 30, 2019 |
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April 30, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:44 PM :: 4323 Views
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- Contract Reopener: HSTA Gets Another $45.6M
- DoE Changes Teacher Evaluations: De-Emphasizes Student Performance
- EPA Imposes $425K fine for Waimanalo Gulch Spill
- Legislators Vote to Spend Millions More on Electric Vehicles
- Trump, the Jones Act and LNG
- Video: Akina and Roth Talk Rail
- Hawaii 2nd Worst State for Nurses
- Donovan Dela Cruz Plays Hardball With Foes Of The Airbnb Tax—and it works
- Honolulu City Council committee passes 2 vacation rental bills
- Special Purpose Revenue Bonds: More Millions for Navatek Front Company
- Maui Council Approves $17.7M Property Tax Hike
- Hawaii County Charter Commission rejects ballot measure abolishing minimum property tax
- Asset Forfeiture Reform Measure On Ige’s Desk
- Rep Chris Lee Killed Sex-abuse bill
- Kaneshiro ‘top of the food chain’? Katherine Kealoha says she was ‘ordered’ to tell officer to ‘stand down’ in Miske Case
- McCartney’s DBEDT nomination heading to Senate
- Last-Ditch Effort to Save Cheap Electricity Source-- HECO Proposes New Way of Calculating Greenhouse Gas Limits
- Monday’s crash is latest for Robinson model
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| Monday, April 29, 2019 |
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April 29, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:06 PM :: 4187 Views
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- ERS Invested Millions With Alleged Fraudster
- HB1552: Conference Committee Approves New System to Keep Criminals on Streets
- Proposed Hawaii Carbon Tax -- $66,000 per Person?
- Ala Wai Canal: Flood Control Project Will Do Little To Clean Up the Polluted Waterway
- Might Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund Disappear?
- Star-Adv Claims Jones Act Needed for Reliable Service
- Kealohas Lied About Mailbox Value to Make Theft a Felony
- Inside Deal: Mel Rapozo to Grab Kauai Auditor Position
- Plea Deal: Another Alleged Child Molester gets Probation
- Hawaiian salt could evaporate under federal ban
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| Sunday, April 28, 2019 |
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April 28, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:24 PM :: 3545 Views
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- OHA CFO Ousted to Block 'Fair Treatment' of Grant Requests?
- HB172: Legislature Denies Funding for OHA and LLCs Unless Audit for Fraud, Waste and Abuse is Completed
- OHA’s LLCs: The Noose Is Tightening
- Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
- Public urged to participate in next round of hearings on proposed Maunakea rules
- Growing demands for more government money sure to pick pockets of Oahu taxpayers
- Legislators pitch savings but who’ll save us from them?
- Hospital liaison program offers help and hope for homeless
- Owner Fined $124K for Building Affordable Housing ‘Monster’
- Hawaii gun group aims to sue over ‘red flag’ law
- State officials worry low vaccination rates in some Hawaii schools may cause health risk
- Maui: Where the Anti-Vaxxers Are
- Sunscreen Hysteria: Lab Admits Skewing Oxybenzone Measurement
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| Saturday, April 27, 2019 |
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April 27, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:14 PM :: 4422 Views
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- Let’s End ‘Gut and Replace’ at Legislature
- SB1353: Industrial Hemp Heading to Governor's Desk
- Legislators Send Three Anti-Gun Bills to Governor
- A Jones Act conversation with Rick Hamada and Mike Hansen
- OHA Releases Aina Summit Report
- City Releases 2019 Annual Sustainability Report
- Victory: Changes would make it easier to force homeless with severe mental illnesses to get treatment
- Bill to raise minimum wage appears dead for this year
- REIT Tax Passes Legislature
- Hawaii tax broker bill for Airbnb, vacation rental platforms fails on final vote
- Happy News: Climate Change Bills Died in Conference Committee
- Hawaii Legislature Botches Energy Legislation
- Hawaii lawmakers poised to approve proposal to reform state’s criminal justice system
- Poorest in Honolulu see greatest increase in housing costs, report says
- Roadside panhandling and fundraising could be outlawed
- Trash and tally: Numbers from recent state, county homeless cleanup initiatives
- 5 former Hawaii scouts among victims in growing Boy Scout sex abuse scandal
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| Friday, April 26, 2019 |
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April 26, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:58 PM :: 3784 Views
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- Charlie Wade Sex Complaint Filed Over Year Ago
- 20 Gut and Replace, Frankenstein Bills in Conference Committee
- 40 Legislators, Insiders Set for Singapore Junket After Session
- More studies show Jones Act harmful to Puerto Rico
- Conference Committee Agrees on $3.4B CIP Grab Basket
- Conference Committee Approves Remaining Executive Budget
- Q1: Tourism Up, Spending Down
- A Flurry Of Deal-Making At The Hawaii Legislature As End Of Session Looms
- Hotel workers to council: Proposed property tax rate hike for resorts ‘punitive’
- Deferred Maintenance: Cost of repairing convention center soars to $50M -- or $77M? – or $91.6M?
- Jail escapee says guards asleep
- Internal affairs case opened after Public Safety’s head trainer accused of puffing up resume
- OJ Simpson Innocence Project: ‘It’s Easy to Find Criminals are Innocent’
- Second Hawaii Superferry Joins Navy Fleet
- Judge freezes Trump abortion rule on Title X funding
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| Thursday, April 25, 2019 |
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April 25, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:53 PM :: 8471 Views
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- Will the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Go Broke?
- SCR204: OHA Insiders Exploit Aloha Poke Controversy to Grab Ownership of Hawaiian Culture for Themselves
- Neighborhood Board Voting Begins Friday
- HB720: Ige Signs Firearm Reporting Bill
- Problem Gambling? Hawaii #2 in USA
- Poll: Ige Among Most Unpopular Governors, Again
- Profitable Nonprofit: Sand Island Rehab Exec Scores $500K Salary and a Slightly Used Miss Hawaii
- HDOT: If you really Believe in Global Warming You Must Give Us $15B
- State Senate poised to accept a proposal to allow vacation rental platforms to collect Hawaii taxes
- Effort to impeach Kaneshiro hits new roadblocks
- Lawsuit: Officers Conspired to Coverup Domestic Abuse
- DOCARE Officers Use Illegal GPS Jammers to Cover up Overtime Abuse
- Hawaii Senate votes to reconfirm Nolan Espinda to lead Public Safety Department
- Lawmakers decline to issue budget surplus refunds
- Maui Council, Mayor Propose $140M Property Tax Hikes
- Raises get green light
- Are Medical Costs Dropping Under HMSA's New Doctor Payment Plan?
- Honolulu leads state in population loss, Census finds
- HB1165: Trannies to get ‘X’ on Drivers License
- State To Housing Applicants: Sign Up Online Or Lose Your Spot On Wait List
- Kalihi Valley Homeless’ Lower Stolen Piano in Riverbed Tent City
- No Sex Trafficking found at Brothel
- Trump spurs an uptick in politicians leaving GOP
- ‘Hawaiian Day’ Controversy Spurs SD Legislature to Act on Free Speech
- State-Run Presidential primary election would be good for Hawaii
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| Wednesday, April 24, 2019 |
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April 24, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:30 PM :: 3782 Views
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- Will Trump waive the Jones Act for Domestic LNG shipments?
- Waimea and Hanapepe Property Owners to be Forced to Buy Flood Insurance?
- Legislature Votes to Fund Suicide Prevention
- DHS Audit: Significant Weaknesses and Deficiencies
- State of the Air: Hawaii Among the Cleanest
- After Problems with East Oahu Vote—Lawmakers still approve statewide mail-in voting
- REIT CEOs outline specific costs to Hawaii tax bill
- OHA to Get 20% Cut of Kailua-Kona Homeless Village?
- Neighborhoods Are Really Angry At The Feds’ $345 Million Ala Wai Project
- Maui Council looks to have final say over injection wells settlement
- Office of Information Practices says ad hoc budget panel could violate state Sunshine Law
- What’s The Holdup On A Bill That Targets Child Sex Abusers?
- Deputy Sheriffs, corrections officers using guns and ammo that violate state policy
- Criminals Whine About Jail Conditions after Riot
- HPD officer with troubled past arrested for felony abuse
- Honolulu looking for a new City Auditor
- Snobby Hanalei Elitists Try New Excuse to Keep Hoi Polloi Out
- Another plan for pedestrians?
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| Tuesday, April 23, 2019 |
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April 23, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:02 PM :: 5802 Views
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- Full Text: Espinda Promises No Retaliation Against PSD Dissidents
- Hawaii's Best & Worst Small Cities to Start a Business
- Lavish salaries, perks focus of federal theft investigation into union boss
- Pattern for Unions? Hawaii firefighters get 4% plus bonuses
- Anti-Trust Violation? Capacity Payments’ Designed to Hide Real Cost of Solar, Biomass
- Hawaiʻi's Small Independent Doctors May Be Struggling Under New Payment System
- Charter Schools: Where the Anti-Vaxxers Are
- Trapped on the streets: Law stymies efforts to help homeless with severe mental illness
- Good News! Climate Activists whine Hawaii Legislature ‘Wasted An Entire Year’
- Petition to impeach city prosecutor prompts legal debate: Are e-signatures legal?
- Ethics: Councilmember was PR Agent for Water Bottler
- Memorial honoring law enforcement officers vandalized
- Historic Maui church hit by vandals for second time in a month
- Leeward Coast Parks: Human waste, buckets of needles
- Homeless Criminal Charged in Iwilei Rape
- ‘Strong Evidence of Guilt’ – But State’s highest court reverses murder conviction in 2009 Chinatown shooting
- HPD officer arrested at Honolulu airport on suspicion of domestic abuse
- Hawaii hotels report lackluster first quarter
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| Monday, April 22, 2019 |
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April 22, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:11 PM :: 6529 Views
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- Crichton: Environmentalism is a religion
- Ira Einhorn, Earth Day's Dirty Secret
- Activist Attacks Destroy 15% of Hawaii Agriculture
- Budget battle: Nonprofit seeks financial data on Hawaii public schools
- Electricity: Nobody Pays More for Less
- Quack! Charter Schools Have By Far The Highest Rates Of Unvaccinated Kids
- Quack! Anti-Sunscreen Hysteria Debunked
- A city proposal to give people more options to get around could mean losing some parking
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| Sunday, April 21, 2019 |
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April 21, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:59 PM :: 3430 Views
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- OHA's Crabbe out of the Bucket?
- HIDOE Achieves Success with Job Order Contracting
- Financial and Compliance Audit of the Department of Education
- Organizer asks supporters to re-sign Keith Kaneshiro petition
- Ozawa Loses: Pro-development forces flex muscle in Hawaii politics
- Bills Down to the Wire: Last Week for the Legislature
- HB673: Police to be allowed to smoke Marijuana—Potheads to be hired as Ambulance Drivers
- Political Correctness: Kahana homeowners defaulting on state loans
- Big Island Mass Transit mismanagement could hurt entire state’s federal funding
- What makes Tulsi Gabbard run? Maybe it’s about the perks
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| Saturday, April 20, 2019 |
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April 20, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:55 PM :: 4926 Views
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- Audits, subpoenas and more: What's next for Honolulu Rail?
- Are Hawaii officials paid too much or too little?
- Hawaii residents voting with their feet
- Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
- Kealoha Lawyer Flees to Canada, Again Delays Grandmother Deposition
- 1980s Honolulu Developer Busted in Ponzi Scheme
- Some homeless play the charity cycle
- University of Hawaii to hold 2nd round of public hearings on proposed rules for Mauna Kea
- The state wants to redevelop the Ala Wai Boat Harbor. That’s got boaters worried
- Honolulu City Council OKs $70 annual tax break for Oahu homeowners
- Public Utilities Commission approves $12.1M MECO rate hike
- Self-Dealing Leads to Another delay for Hawaii Co building permits
- Snorkel Rentals Kill
- Soft on Crime: Hawaii Criminal Kills Girl in Ohio
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| Friday, April 19, 2019 |
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April 19, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:30 PM :: 5652 Views
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- Hawaii's Good Friday Holiday - What's Up With That?
- Hawaii Senate to Vote on Anti-Gun Bills
- 80% of Oahu Residents Don't Have REAL ID
- HPD investigating reported kidnapping of attorney tied to Kealoha probe
- Honolulu rail authority now plans to open Middle Street segment in late 2023
- Water officials mull options as session wanes
- Ige Assures Caldwell Of Ala Wai Flood Control Financing Plan
- Hollywood Movie Moguls Want More of our Money—But Won’t Tell us Who is Getting it
- Unlikely Allies United to Oppose a Carbon Tax
- Kauai has only One Homeless Shelter—19 Beds
- Kihei: DoE has a Plan to Build … an Administration Building
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| Thursday, April 18, 2019 |
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April 18, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:39 PM :: 5157 Views
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- Candidates Hirono, Case, Gabbard Refused to Release their Tax Returns
- DLNR: Another Step Towards State-Run Carbon Credit Scheme
- Kids Oral Health--Hawaii Ranks Dead Last
- $17 Minimum Wage Cost $1.456 Billion per year
- HDOT Launches Accelerated Hiring System
- State Launches Aquaculture Accelerator
- Ige: Failure of Water Bill will Kill Agriculture
- State revokes convicted Hawaii PKF accountant's license
- Two Ethics Reform Measures Clear House-Senate Conference Committee
- Can OHA Cash in by Claiming Native Title to Hawaiian Words?
- Honolulu City Council passes bill to crack down on affordable home monsters
- Short-Term Rental Regulation Advances at Honolulu Hale
- Hawaii lawmakers push to reduce number of unnecessary hospital visits from homeless
- Homeless Tweeker from Mainland Convicted in Crime Spree
- Soft on Crime: Alleged Child Molester Gets 6 Days in Jail
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| Wednesday, April 17, 2019 |
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April 17, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:15 PM :: 3972 Views
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- Why Farm?
- The Unintended Hazards Of Red-Light Cameras
- Tax Foundation Hawaii: Motion for Reconsideration Rips Rail-Skim Decision
- Is lack of funding the real problem in the Department of Education?
- Auditor: AG's Child Support Fund Still Running Deficit
- Lahaina Injection Wells: EPA won't regulate pollution that moves through groundwater
- Economist: Regulations Add 24% to Home Construction Costs
- Beating agriculture to death in Hawaii
- Honolulu Salary Commission Approves Pay Raises For Top City Officials
- Abercrombie Forced Micronesians onto Obamacare
- Politicians Tour MCCC After Riot, Spend $8M
- Latest DoE Grift: $11B for New Schools or Something
- Red Hill Tank Relocation Pricetag—$1.6B
- Meth Addict Who Dies After Being Tased was Son of American Samoa Police Commissioner
- 8 homeless shelters don’t meet new standards, but will be funded anyway
- Busting prostitution businesses is a priority for the prosecutor's office
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| Tuesday, April 16, 2019 |
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April 16, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:24 PM :: 4589 Views
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- Ethics: DOBOR Kauai Employee Quickly Begins Taking Stuff
- Caldwell’s Rubber Stamp Council will Tax and Spend
- UIPA Request: DoE Refusing to Release Check Register
- HDOT still seeking your thoughts on a proposal to tax drivers by the mile
- Community members come together to rally against crime and corruption in Hawaii
- Katherine Kealoha’s grandmother forced to pay over $100K in legal fees in corruption case
- Old Boys Line up Behind “Only Candidate’ Running for CD2—Kahele
- Gabbard Second to Last in Democrat Presidential Fund Race
- The High Price Of Luring The Movies To Hawaii
- HB1093: Proposed Bill Regulating Uber, Lyft Is Biased Against Taxis
- Recycling numbers are down but costs are up
- HIDOT Removes 14 Truckloads of Trash—All Seven Homeless Refuse Shelter
- Recovering Drug Addict ‘was homeless downtown for many, many years’
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| Monday, April 15, 2019 |
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April 15, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:17 PM :: 5728 Views
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- Senate: OHA Must Complete Audit of LLCs
- Unlucky and Unclean: How Not to Steal House 13
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted April 14, 2019
- Rich States, Poor States: Hawaii Ranks 45th
- $100M Hawaii tax hike bills -- Job Loss and Lawsuits
- SB1000: Use EV Mandate to Make Housing Even More Unaffordable
- Do you believe in coincidences?
- Details lost in reporting election-by-mail results
- Vacation Rentals On Oahu May Face Tough Enforcement And New Limits
- Where Hawaii Renters Spend Half Their Incomes On Housing
- Kakaako Makai Celebrates Ten Years as Homeless Tent City
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| Sunday, April 14, 2019 |
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April 14, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:28 PM :: 6986 Views
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- Special Election: Waters Beats Ozawa by 1,004 Votes
- Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
- JSC Seeks Nominees for Maui Circuit Court
- 30 Years Late: DoE Discovers IDIQ -- ‘Job Order Contracting
- Blankety Blank
- Hawaii Smallest Firearms Industry in USA
- Ethics: How Interest Group Can Plant its own People on State Payroll to Solicit Money
- How Kealoha, Kaneshiro Retaliated Against Officers After Miske Arrest
- Council Leadership Change This Week?
- Josh Green Finally Abandons Tent Cities?
- Another CWS Fail: Parents sue over 3-year-old’s death in foster care
- Inmate: ‘This is crazy; we going die’
- HELCO seeks 3.4% increase
- Oh, yeah? Well, how’d you like an audit, punk?
- Proposals would reduce building permit fees
- Mufi: Counties have Acted on TVRs—Now it is up to Legislature
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| Saturday, April 13, 2019 |
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April 13, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:57 PM :: 7862 Views
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- Deadline: HART 'Pleased' that city received P3 submittals
- UH requesting second round of public hearings for Maunakea administrative rules
- City adopts new affordable housing rules
- Activists hurt farmers by fueling public’s disconnect with modern agriculture
- HART board chair under federal investigation — but it’s not about the rail project
- Hawaiʻi Farmers, Ranchers Lobby for Water Bill
- Administrator in charge of DPS training programs accused of lying on her resume
- Deputy Prosecutor Futa Says She Never Got Target Letter
- Trevor Ozawa vs. Tommy Waters: Round 3 of Honolulu City Council fight ends tonight
- 3 percent Maui council salary hike lacks the votes
- Councilman wants to make more clear what alternatives will be acceptable to polystyrene
- An old hospital in Hilo is being transformed into a haven for the homeless
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| Friday, April 12, 2019 |
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April 12, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:21 PM :: 4228 Views
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- ILWU Executive Charged with Embezzlement
- Hawaii Tax Freedom Day is April 23rd
- NRA Seeks 'Immediate Injunction' Against Hawaii Gun Laws
- Hawaii Butterfly Knife Ban Challenged on Second Amendment Grounds
- Hirono: If Conservatives Don’t Want Content Removed From Social Media ‘They Shouldn’t Post Lies’
- Want higher wages? Try economic freedom
- Honolulu Council Special Election Voting Ends Saturday April 13
- Feds Demand City Pony up $111M for Rail--No Money Beyond Middle Street Until P3 Settled
- Ige supports giving water permit holders more time
- Legislators Advance HB1248 as Vote-by-Mail Problems Multiply
- While Honest Citizens 2nd Amendment Rights are Restricted, Shooters Walk Again and Again—Here’s How
- Senate panel rejects reappointment of Nolan Espinda as Hawaii’s public safety director
- Kauai: Entire System Comes Down on Whistleblower
- State housing project combines juvenile offenders and affordable housing; raises concerns
- Ex-Maui inmate gets $10K in sex assault lawsuit settlement
- Substitute Teacher Will Study for Marriage Counselor License While in Jail on Revenge Porn Conviction
- Teacher in Ewa Elementary’s A-plus program indicted in sexual assault of former student
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| Thursday, April 11, 2019 |
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April 11, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:13 PM :: 4245 Views
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- OHA's $139 Million Dollar Question
- OHA Trustees Vote 8-1 to Extend Audit
- Hawaii Swamped by Carbon Dioxide Tax Bills
- HB217/HB218: Making Life Easier for Young Criminals
- Gabbard: US Health Care System Designed to 'keep people sick and on drugs'
- It’s April and Feds Still Aren’t Releasing $744 Million For Honolulu Rail
- Windfarm: Judge Approves Plan to Kill Lots of Bats
- HB1326: Will All the Water be Cut Off?
- Voting Rights Violation? Ranked voting could make its way to Hawaii
- Despite warnings, Kaneshiro continues to visit building that houses prosecutor’s office
- Carlisle Wants Embattled Prosecutor's Job
- Ala Wai: DLNR-DTL Scheme to Funnell Money to OHA will Damage Cultural Resources
- SB1000: Electric Vehicle Mandate Will Make Housing Even Less Affordable
- Aina Lea – After 10 Years in Court, Affordable Housing Project May Now Be Built
- Hawaii sees a significant increase in sexually transmitted diseases
- Pearl City intermediate school DoE Child Molester Gets Away With It—Then Foolishly Leaves Hawaii
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