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| Saturday, March 2, 2019 |
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March 2, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:12 PM :: 3643 Views
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- HB210: House Republicans Unanimously Oppose Ranked-Choice Voting
- Leis Banned in South Dakota
- WAM BAM $250M GE Tax Hike Passes Senate Committee
- Kim proposes budget hike, 35 new police positions
- Special interests driving up housing costs
- Dairy: Food Sustainability takes a Hit
- Six Steps to Universal Heath Care in Hawaii
- OCCC inmate attempting to escape is fatally shot
- 3rd Try at Medical Excuse for Katherine Kealoha
- Ethics complaint targets Puna councilwoman over Bottling Plant
- Hawaii Decides Again Not to Legalize Marijuana
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| Friday, March 1, 2019 |
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March 1, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:25 PM :: 4899 Views
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- Hawaii tops nation for rise in pedestrian fatalities
- Honolulu Rents 12th Highest in USA
- Help People Save by Cutting Their Taxes
- HCR31: Remove Oxy Dealer's Name from Smithsonian
- UHERO: Hawaii Economy slows markedly. Is more in store?
- New report urges 'building out' to ease housing crisis
- Gut And Replace Bills Repeal Rail Audit Requirements
- Whistleblower Lawsuit: HART Purposefully Mishandled More Than 100 Change Orders, Threatened Claims Managers
- HART Board says no to request for an independent audit of rail
- Feds Will Pry Open HART’s Secrets
- Caldwell Proposes Massive Tax Hikes to Pay for Rail and ‘New Positions’
- Federal authorities: Katherine Kealoha used cocaine while she was deputy city prosecutor
- Sex workers and the Honolulu Police: FBI reacts to more allegations about HPD officers
- Gabbard Caught Filing False Financial Disclosure Reports (again)
- LG Green’s Program—Massive Festering Homeless Tent Cities Everywhere
- Kauai Floods Exploited to Limit Tourist Numbers
- A Real Company is Building a New Terminal at Keahole—Why is the Legislature Funding a Fake Competitor Led by Drunk Rave Promoter Jon Riki Karamatsu?
- HB307: State House Sneaks in Revived Use of Undefined Definitions
- Pension Reform for Kauai
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| Thursday, February 28, 2019 |
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February 28, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:18 PM :: 4282 Views
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- Poll: Gabbard at 0% in New Hampshire and Iowa
- What do the FBI, OHA, and Kauai Have in Common?
- OHA Must Do More to Solve the Hawaiian Home Lands Problem
- Oahu: 12% More Homeless Refuse Shelter
- Housing Instability and Crowding a Hardship for Hawaii Babies
- Feds Bust Labor Law Violators at Hawaii Malls
- Mortgage debt-to-income ratio crushing in Hawaii
- SB1009 Negates Public Health Benefits of Vaping
- January: More Tourists--Less Spending
- With Hanabusa Gone, Old Boys See Kahele as Opportunity to Regain Grip on Congressional Delegation
- Lawmakers Propose Fixes For A Broken Psychiatric Care Law
- Penalizing REITs in Hawaii would cost state revenue, jobs
- HART’s ‘Bump In The Road’ Is Code For ‘We’re In Deep S#%* Here’
- A dismissed 2015 DUI is among the ways Kealoha allegedly helped her friends
- Violence against officers a troubling trend
- Police investigating whether shooting by undercover officers violated policy
- Do UH Grad Assistants Need a Union?
- How Many Kids In Hawaii Have Been Vaccinated? The State Doesn’t Know
- A royal flush: Some Ka‘u residents face hefty bills for mandated sewer connections
- Masterpiece or Mistake? A Hawaii Museum’s $7.5 Million Question
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| Wednesday, February 27, 2019 |
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February 27, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:00 PM :: 4938 Views
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- Hawaii Senators’ Favorite Mafia Hitman Loses Home to Foreclosure
- Gallup: Trump Approval 26% in Hawaii—Lowest in USA
- Hawaii Tops U.S. in Wellbeing for Record 7th Time
- Hawaii Small Businesses Speak out Against Minimum Wage Hike
- Conservationists Demand Half-Billion Reparations for Dead Hawaiian Tree Snail
- Hawaiian Electric Claims 27% Renewable Despite Loss of Geothermal Plant
- Allison Lee Wong: Meet Katherine Kealoha’s Imaginary Friend
- Bill to raise Hawaii minimum wage to $15 by 2023 advances
- SB557: Hawaii ‘sanctuary state’ status moves forward at Legislature
- Hawaii Senate moves closer to state retirement savings program
- Despite some big objections, bill to ban single-use plastics in Hawaii moves forward
- 5% water rate hike expected
- How effective is the city's park protection plan?
- Retired Officer Sues: Right to Concealed-Carry
- Multinational Solar Company Targets Hawai`i Prime Agricultural Land
- Thanks to Trump, Courts No Longer offer Enviros Path to Glory
- SPLC Hate Map Names Five in Hawaii
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| Tuesday, February 26, 2019 |
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February 26, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:22 PM :: 3823 Views
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- This Week's Legislative Agenda
- 47 Years After Title IX Becomes Law--Kalani HS Finally Gets a Girls Locker Room
- City unveils pedestrian safety measures
- HART Threatens to Defy Federal Subpoena
- Two Police Corruption Cases transferred out of Honolulu prosecutor’s office amid federal investigation
- Cellphone Records Trace Kealoha Mailbox theft?
- Decision on Kaneshiro’s attorney should be made in public
- OCCC mistakenly frees 26-year-old inmate
- Hawaii Criminal Stupidly Commits Assault while in Federal Detention Center—Gets 8 Years
- HB488 Silence for Sex Harassment Victims?
- SB1503: Let Thousands of Incarcerated Felons Vote
- SB1374: State-Controlled Retirement System for Private Sector Businesses?
- Hawaii Land Use Law Violates Fair Housing Act
- Hawaii Gas files motion after Enviros Find One More Way to Jack up Housing Costs
- Fresh Hawaii milk production may be doomed after Tourism Industry Sponsors Protesters to Attack
- Tourism Industry Enviros to Target Fishermen Next
- No more free parking for all legislators on UH Manoa campus
- Rural Schools Take A Big Hit In Hawaii’s Funding Formula
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| Monday, February 25, 2019 |
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February 25, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:20 PM :: 3529 Views
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- Double Trouble: Lyon Also Offered Cash to Son of FSM President
- Aloha Stadium Scheme Exploits Federal Tax Breaks
- Hawaii Nursing Homes Highest Quality in USA
- Federal Investigation Prevents Ige from Talking to US DoT about Rail
- New Budget Process Cracks Down On State Agribusiness Development Corp
- Former sex worker speaks out claiming police officers pressured her to perform sexual acts
- Retaliation: Another Complaint Against Hawaii County Fire Chief
- No Housing Available for Mentally Ill
- SB980: Secular Takeover of Catholic Schools?
- Food Safety Modernization Act Could Put Kamuela Farmers out of Business
- January Hotel Occupancy Drops to Four-year Low
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| Sunday, February 24, 2019 |
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February 24, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:03 PM :: 4186 Views
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- Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
- False Missile Alert: CDC Analyses 38 Minutes of Tweets
- Gallup: Hawaii 2nd-Most Liberal State
- Individual Development Accounts, Version 2.0
- New Tactic to Grab Rail Money from Feds—Cry Racism
- Not Fooled by Claim that Federal Investigation Won’t Interfere with Rail
- Star-Adv: To Get past Middle Street, Rail Needs FTA Funds and P3
- Next Boondoggle: $350M Downpayment for Unnecessary New Stadium
- Tax Credits: Hollywood Movie Moguls -- $35M is Not Enough!
- Tobacco tax clears final Senate committee
- Doubled: Hawaii Co Council approves 100% sewer fee hikes
- Lawsuit filed over burials on Maui project site
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| Saturday, February 23, 2019 |
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February 23, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:52 PM :: 5566 Views
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- Impeach Kaneshiro: Yoshimura Pushes Back Against McCorriston tactics
- House Finance Committee Passes Dozens of Bills
- UH: Tuition Hikes Set for Next Year After Regents Reject Freeze
- $350M GE Tax Hike on the Move
- House bill to increase Hawaii's minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2024 passed finance committee
- Man shot by deputy sheriff at Capitol Weighed 102 lbs and was physically disabled
- Maui County Prosecutor Ousted
- 9th Circuit Reverses Dismissal: Kauai Warden to Face Trial for Political Incorrectness
- Decision on Ala Wai flood control project bill is delayed
- California rail drama doesn’t raise fears about HART project
- 46-year–old Jones Act Ship Matsonia Hull Cracks Open, Oil Leaks out
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| Friday, February 22, 2019 |
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February 22, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:55 PM :: 3862 Views
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- Surprise: HART Subpoenaed TWICE by Feds
- "Everyone" cannot afford another GET surcharge
- Hawaii State Income Tax 9th Highest Collection Per Capita
- DOBOR Sets Hearings for Massive Fee Hikes
- Anti-Sunscreen Hysteria Designed to Force New Products Past FDA
- 'Hold on to your pocketbooks!' says city council chair after second subpoena to HART
- Katherine Kealoha Lawyer Tried to have her Declared Incompetent
- Kaneshiro denied access to officer-involved shooting scene
- Four Days, Three Shootings
- Homeless Drunk IDed as Man Shot by Deputy Sheriff at Capitol
- Legislators Answer to Homelessness: ‘Build a Wall’
- 7 arrested in Year-Long opioid crackdown on Hawaii health care providers
- Soft on Crime: School Assault Suspects have long rap sheets
- HB421: Tax Credit for Helicopter Tour Operators
- Global Warmers: Hawaii Must Destroy Billions in Shoreline Real Estate
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| Thursday, February 21, 2019 |
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February 21, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:05 PM :: 3820 Views
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- A Change at OHA That Changes Everything
- Kakaako Drunk Driver Busted for Palau Alcohol Theft
- Report: Hawaii Greenhouse Gas Emissions Drop After Aviation Emissions Reclassified as 'International'
- Honolulu’s transit authority receives second grand jury subpoena
- Opponents of proposed GET surcharge hike voice concerns; Council advances measure
- A law meant force mentally ill into Treatment is not being used Four Years Later
- SB652: Senate WAM Votes to Give Drunk Rave Promoter $50M
- Maui Council to Get More Raises?
- Drug Court: 15% Recidivism Rate
- Sex workers say Honolulu police officers are customers, study says
- Arizona Co-Author Defends Hawaii Sex Trafficking Study
- Public Records Chief Is Still Trying To Make It Harder To Get Public Records
- U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Boosts Hawaii Effort To Limit Property Forfeiture
- HB497: Total Ban on Fireworks
- SB663: Lawmakers advance red-light cameras bill
- Lawsuit: Disgusting Organic Food Gives Wailuku man rat lungworm disease
- Honolulu Auditor Retires
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| Wednesday, February 20, 2019 |
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February 20, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:56 PM :: 4109 Views
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- Ige Names Leo R. Asuncion, Jr. to Public Utilities Commission
- After 21 Years, City Nearly Finished Installing Wheelchair-Friendly Curb Ramps
- City launches new performance dashboard
- Poor and Young People Are Fleeing Public Transit
- Hint to Honolulu: Feds Demand California Give Back Federal Funds for Failed Rail Project
- Sheriff’s Deputies not Given Tasers—Deputy Fatally shoots man at state Capitol after ‘extreme struggle’
- Judge: HPD Must Release Arbitration Report On Officer Who Beat Girlfriend
- Police Union Goes To Court Stop Exposure of Corruption
- Prostitutes Release Drawing of Kaniela Ing on Leash as Jabola-Carolus Grabs for Power
- Hawaiian Leadership: Many are in the News for Corruption Charges
- Affordable Housing: OHA Demands a 20% Cut of Revenue
- Millennials Dream of Moving to Koa Ridge, Hoopili—Projects Fought by Sierra Club, Clayton Hee
- Priced Out: Immigrants Quit Hawaii for Alaska
- Tourist Count Up 3M in Decade
- Hawaii Fish Farmers Tied up in Red Tape
- Scare Tactics: House Democrats Pretend Wall will Result in Hawaii Cuts
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| Tuesday, February 19, 2019 |
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February 19, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:17 PM :: 3487 Views
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- Halbert-Lyon Indictments: Timeline of Corruption in FSM
- Legislative Preview: This Week's Bills on the Move
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted February 18, 2019
- Solar Fail: EnSync Going Bankrupt 'Very Short Term'
- Hawaii: Anti-Gun Bills to be Heard in Committees of Both Chambers
- Hawaii: Sanctuary State?
- Trump Sued by Hawaii Over Emergency Declaration
- New report urges 'building out' to ease housing crisis
- WOTUS: Lahaina Injection Wells Case to be Heard by US Supreme Court
- Kirk Caldwell’s Side Job At The Bank Would Be Outlawed Under This Bill
- FBI: Kealoha sent emails from coworkers’ computers to mislead probes. HNN got one
- SB637: Hawaii to Get 3-Strikes Law—But Only for Waikiki
- SB12/SB114: $500/mo Raise--Voucher Program for Teachers
- Deputy sheriff fatally shoots man at Hawaii State Capitol
- Should State Chip in to Send Homeless Back to Mainland?
- Urine, Drugs, Theft: Homeless Harass Students at Kaimuki HS
- Auction set for kuleana on Zuckerberg estate
- Waters Campaign Worker Says Ozawa’s behavior disrespectful, unprofessional
- Enforcing the Oligopoly: Raids hit Unlicensed Weed Dealers
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| Monday, February 18, 2019 |
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Letters to the Editor February, 2019
By Letters to the Editor @ 11:21 PM :: 4424 Views
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- Hawaii: Sanctuary State?
- Plasma Arc Gasification—Clean Energy for Hawaii
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| Monday, February 18, 2019 |
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February 18, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:44 PM :: 4171 Views
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- Fear is not Sustainable
- Public hearing set for general excise tax hike
- MECO: Force Customers to Pay for Useless Solar
- Bills call for building condos on state land
- Bill aims to decrease drugged-driving by redefining "drugs"
- Red light camera bill passes judiciary and transportation committee
- HB1311 Deferred: Was Latest Attack on Judicial Independence
- HB1326: Seven Years before OHA, Enviros Gain Control of Your Water
- After 17 Attempts, Psychologists Think Criminal may be ‘Malingering’
- Homeless Camp Dog Attacks Cyclist
- Hawaii Is ‘Definitely and Imminently’ Filing a Lawsuit Against Trump’s Emergency
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| Sunday, February 17, 2019 |
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February 17, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:08 PM :: 3541 Views
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- SB652: Will Legislators Give Drunk Rave Promoter $50M?
- Hawaii Highest-Risk for Cyberattack
- Four Bills for Hawaii Government Technology Transformation
- Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
- Squirreling Away Money at the Dept. of Transportation
- Rail, Lyon, Kaneshiro, Kealoha, Leong: Local Authorities too Gutless to Root out Corruption
- Term Limits for City Prosecutor
- OHA LLCs in Waimea Valley Land Deal
- Marijuana Could put Big Tobacco Back in Growth Business
- Kauai Taxis Lose 50% of Business after Uber Allowed into Airport
- HGEA Finds Way to Milk 2% Land Fund
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| Saturday, February 16, 2019 |
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February 16, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:25 PM :: 5339 Views
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- FULL TEXT: Federal Subpoena of HART Records
- Board of Agriculture Chair Resigns After Two Weeks on Job
- Hawaii Construction Industry: Wood Looks Good for 2019
- Fantasy Land: Federal funds appear to be safe after subpoena, HART CEO says
- Hawaii Supreme Court gives Keith Kaneshiro 20 days to respond
- Lawmakers advance red light camera bill
- Hawaii lawmakers move to ban cigarettes -- eventually
- SB686: Oligopoly Weed is Legal for Everybody
- What Could Possibly Go Wrong With a Hawaii Carbon Tax Study?
- Mililani: Underage Children Targeted by Transsexual Propaganda Story
- Former Kamehameha Schools faculty member gets prison time for sexual assault of student
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| Friday, February 15, 2019 |
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February 15, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:00 PM :: 4900 Views
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- Last Day to Register as Candidate: 2019 Neighborhood Board Elections
- U.S.-build rule deters ocean cargo service to Hawaii
- Honolulu GOP Chair Brett Kulbis Running for Reelection
- 12,000 Leave Hawaii: Five Can Bring Them Back
- INRIX: Honolulu Traffic Congestion Costs $1282 per Driver
- Charting a New Course For Hawaii Tourism
- Feds subpoena Honolulu rail authority for construction documents
- Federal subpoena could affect rail funding
- Impeach Delay: Businessman Launches New Petition Drive To Oust Kaneshiro
- Fasi Case Gives Precedent for AG’s actions on Kaneshiro
- Hawaii rights group upset over hundreds of missing pieces of testimony
- When it comes to measures that might affect their power, lawmakers won’t even hold public hearings.
- SB931: Tourism Industry Prepares to Outlaw Aquarium Fishing
- Anti-Energy Bills Just Feel-Good Measures
- Dopers Drag Bag of Money Thru Legislature
- Effort to Include Trannies in Title IX will Have to Wait One More Year
- IHS: 1 in 10 homeless people in Hawaii just got here from somewhere else
- Queens Moves 1% of Expensive Homeless Patients into Housing
- Recidivist Criminals will not be Banished from Waikiki
- Hawaii Stops Buying Oil from Indonesia
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| Thursday, February 14, 2019 |
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February 14, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:16 PM :: 5527 Views
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- Disbar Dubin--Disciplinary Board
- Who Wants to Give OHA Millions More?
- UPDATE: FSM Government Responds to Lyon Bribery Charge
- Hawai‘i County Seeking Applicants for Boards and Commissions
- Katherine Kealoha a Drug Addict?
- Soft on Crime: Katherine Kealoha, brother released after pleading not guilty in drug case
- Prosecutors: Elect them, or appoint them?
- Carbon Taxes Debated at Hawai`i Legislature
- Legislature’s New Approach: Inspect Budgets In Bite-Sized Chunks
- Stop This End Run Around Hawaii Public Records Law
- HART Board Member: Stop Rail at Middle Street, Order Forensic Audit
- Mauna Kea draft rules don’t limit Hawaiian culture, university says
- Bill would let airports self-manage; not rely on state
- House Committee Advances Zipper Lane Tolls Bill
- Bill would abolish bus fare program for low income
- Honolulu Among Cities in Worst Fiscal Condition
- Jobs in solar industry declined 22% in Hawaii
- Maui Enviros Sue to Block Energy Saving LED Lights
- Hu Honua Final Approval Before Supreme Court
- Justice: Family of Underage Home Invader to Lose Home
- When a Criminal Croaks in Prison, Lawyers Have a Hard time Turning a Dollar on It—But Legislators Can Help
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| Wednesday, February 13, 2019 |
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February 13, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:42 PM :: 4469 Views
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- Final Week to Register as Candidate: 2019 Neighborhood Board Elections
- HB1180: $60M Lava Relief for Big Island
- More Anti-Gun Legislation Scheduled for Hearings This Wednesday
- Gabbard Hires Russian Agent--Story to go National?
- Screening Committee Selects Three KSBE Trustee Finalists
- Prosecutors seek no bail for Hilo doctor accused in multi-island drug ring
- Motive for Mail Box Frame-up: Prosecutors detail the Kealohas’ ‘house of cards’
- What's next if prosecutor goes on leave, quits or gets ousted
- SB674 / HB664: Senate Ctte Votes to Outlaw DSM-5 Psychiatric Care of Underage Transgenders
- Hawaii County’s $155 million disaster funding request is not dead yet
- Massive flood control project for Waikiki would gobble up schools’ outdoors space
- Hawaii’s Next Big Project Disaster: Aloha Stadium
- Cycle of Hype: Don’t Panic Over Rapid Ohia Death
- Homeless Emergency Decree—Allows for Festering Homeless Tent City to be Built in Kailua Kona
- Criminal Gets Probation for Beating up Homeless Dude—So he Robs the Disabled
- Sign up to run for your neighborhood board
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| Tuesday, February 12, 2019 |
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February 12, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:48 PM :: 3748 Views
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- FULL TEXT: Connors, Ballard ask Supreme Court to Remove Kaneshiro--Prosecutor Accused of Retaliating Against Witnesses
- Lyon Bribery Micronesia: Arrests Start at the Top
- Medical Care is a Right—Except When it isn’t
- Hearing: Should Auwahi Windfarm Be Allowed to Kill 140 Bats?
- HB1311: The continuing legislative attack on judicial independence
- Drug Charges Filed Against Katherine Kealoha And Her Brother
- Lawyer Announces Lunatic ‘Confession’: HGEA off Hook and May Help Saito Beat Rap
- City Councilwoman Calls For Forensic Audit Of Honolulu Rail Project
- Parking Meter Rates Double as Part of Anti-Car Agenda
- Makakilo wind farm getting opposition from an unusual source: Environmentalists
- SB571: Require PUC to Open Docket on Establishing Renewable Energy Requirements for Gas Company
- Ruggles: Hawaii County Council Tries for Four-Year Terms
- Wailuku parents pray, march in order to protest school bullying
- Storm that walloped state was so powerful it gave the North Shore some beach back (Enviros miffed)
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