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| Monday, February 11, 2019 |
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February 11, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:09 PM :: 5151 Views
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- Senate Committee Refuses to Recognize Hundreds of Emailed Testimonies
- Janus: UH Employee Sues HGEA
- Legislative Preview: This Week's Bills on the Move
- Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted February 11, 2019
- Known But Overlooked Side Effects of Carbon Taxes
- Another Victory for Pro-Tourism Activists: Loss Of Slaughterhouse Cripples Specialty Meat Industry
- City audit shows ban on foam containers won’t achieve much
- Three Bills Would Create Statewide Sanctuary for Illegals
- Potential flaws in new city laws aimed at homeless prevent enforcement
- Hawaii County Buses Stay on Hilo Side Because it Costs Too Much for Tow Back from Kona
- Snow Falls at Lowest Elevation Ever Recorded in Hawaii as Hemi-Global Cooling Grips Planet
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| Sunday, February 10, 2019 |
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February 10, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:16 PM :: 3517 Views
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- Lyon Bribe: DHHL Releases Suspect Contract Docs
- Creativity Abounds at our Legislature, Pt. 2
- Wanna Buy a House? No Problem Just Save $946 a month for 12 years
- Another Saint for Hawaii?
- Counties get taste of GET and want bigger portion of tax
- HART’s public-private partnership effort faces more delays
- Rules of Logic No Longer Apply in State Legislature
- SB568: Transsexual Drivers Licenses for Hawaii
- SB1524: Employers May not Fire Stoned Drivers
- SB527: Senate committee rejects sale of marijuana edibles (for now)
- Bills to Rebuild Banyan Drive—Because Nobody Believes in Sea Level Rise
- Who Will Lose if Kawananakoa Rewrites Will?
- Maui Anti-GMO Activist Cashes in With Cush Job at Strategies 360 Farm
- ‘Ultraright Pure Evil KKK’ Local Democratic politicians quiet on Tulsi Gabbard presidential run
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| Saturday, February 9, 2019 |
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February 9, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:12 PM :: 4011 Views
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- Final Week to Register as Candidate: 2019 Neighborhood Board Elections
- Plasma Arc Gasification—Clean Energy for Hawaii
- Hawaii Lawmakers Propose Public-funded Anti-gun Firearm Factoid Factory
- PRP App Reveals Web of Political Connections
- Wiretaps? HPD Doesn’t Do Them
- VOA: Native Hawaiians Divided on Federal Recognition
- Dollar Signs Light Up: Red Bull Behind Mauna Kea Skiers
- PUC Proposes New Scheme to Hike Rates, Send Money to Elon Musk
- Proposed 52-MW Oahu Solar Farm Use of Prime Ag Land is Currently Illegal
- Sales Pitch for New Stadium: Claim ‘There is no Choice’
- Legalization Will Bring Surge of Mainland Potheads into Hawaii
- Homeless Drug Addicts Demand Cops be ‘Swept’ from Oneula
- Soft on Crime: Meth Dealer Gets out after 1 year—goes right back to dealing
- SB522: Ban All Plastics from Hawaii Food Establishments
- Unshackle Maui taxis to help them compete
- U.S. appeals court to revisit open carrying of guns in Hawaii
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| Friday, February 8, 2019 |
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February 8, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:28 PM :: 3787 Views
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| Thursday, February 7, 2019 |
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February 7, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:20 PM :: 4175 Views
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- Ethics: Rowena Akana Fined $23K--Trouble Began with OHA-Funded Scheme to Dig Up Kawaiahao Church Graveyard
- Aquarium Fishing and Hawaiian Culture
- Hawaii: Highest Sales Taxes Per Capita in USA
- Exposed: Meet the Activist Groups Organizing Drug Addicts into Homeless Tent Cities
- SA Editorial: OHA must improve to justify funding
- Legislature Seeks to Reform OHA Elections
- Louisiana Jungle Primary Dead: Statewide Romy Cachola Vote by Mail Plan on the Move
- Hawaii Lawmakers Unanimously Approve Marijuana Legalization Bill In Committee
- Caldwell: The city could do a better job running schools than the state
- House committee to decide whether funding for Kupuna Caregivers Program should continue
- Judge denies Hawaii’s move to get Airbnb host records
- Lawmakers again take up legalized gambling issue
- Asset forfeiture bill clears committee hurdle
- Legislators Plan to Let Lots of Criminals out on Streets
- $350,000 pact reached in MPD Sex discrimination suit
- Rate increase 4.3% for interisland service
- City seeks landowner incentives to build hundreds of affordable rentals
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| Wednesday, February 6, 2019 |
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February 6, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:27 PM :: 3423 Views
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- SOTU: "America will never be a socialist country"
- Tulsi Wins David Duke KKK Endorsement (again)
- Hawaii: Anti-Gun Bills Scheduled for Hearings This Thursday
- The Simon Abundance Index: Population growth equals greater resources
- County of Kaua‘i celebrates one year of Electronic Plan Review services
- Up 30%--Hawaii Second-Highest Per Capita Expenses for Higher Education
- ICA Throws out Case Against Vacation Rental
- JEFS Fail: Judiciary Electronic System Leaves Lawyers in the Dark
- There’s insufficient evidence your sunscreen harms coral reefs
- Bans are so easy, reform is too hard
- It Shouldn’t Take Audits And Lawsuits For Government To Be Transparent
- Cesspool: Hawaii Co Council advances 300% sewer fee increase
- Judge: Force Hilo Residents to Buy Useless Solar Hot Water Systems
- Senate May Invoke Rarely Used Subpoena Power For Hearing On Prison Chief
- Bill to decriminalize pot use criticized
- AG: Court Should Force Air BnB to Hand over TVR Hosts’ Records
- Taxpayers should pay for Kaneshiro’s attorneys, committee says
- Number of registered firearms in Hawaii unknown, study finds
- Like HART and Kakaako Developers, HECO Does Not Believe Sea Level Rise Hype
- Robbins should pause rail transit at Middle Street, then take stock
- Anti-Agriculture Activists Cut Seed Industry in Half
- News of OHA “takeover” shows shallowness of reporting on Hawaiian issues
- After Hiring Russian Agent to Attack Hawaii Media, Gabbard Claims to have had no Contact with Russians
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| Tuesday, February 5, 2019 |
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February 5, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:53 PM :: 4442 Views
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- HB1184: Infant Born Alive Protection Bill to be Heard
- Volcano Homeowners Face New Threat—From Government
- Hawaii's dangerous idea: Allowing people to smoke is equivalent to killing them
- Restaurant Closures Correlate to Minimum Wage Hikes
- Hirokazu Toiya named Director of Emergency Management
- Police prepare for TMT protests
- Council: Formby to Be Nominated—Will Keep Ozawa Staff in Place
- LoPresti asks court to reconsider his election challenge
- GET hike clears committee
- Maui Council Reaffirms Secretive Midnight Pay Hikes for Anti-GMO Staffers
- Disabled Workers Often Paid Far Below Minimum Wage
- Helicopter Tour Operators Seek Multi-Million Dollar Tax Break
- Ala Wai Flood Control Project under fire
- Civil Beat Sues To Get Teacher Misconduct Records
- These Lawmakers Think The State Should Charge $20 To Unblock Porn Sites
- Rep. Richard Creagan declares cigarette sales the moral equivalent of slavery and murder.
- Hawaii’s medical marijuana program on the rise, and out-of-state patients are on horizon
- 150 Children Forced to be Homeless by Their Drug Addict Parents
- Hospitals Post Prices—But Only Computers Can Read Them
- Cult Owned Stores use Artificial Intelligence to Catch Thieves
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| Monday, February 4, 2019 |
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February 4, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:18 PM :: 3394 Views
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| Sunday, February 3, 2019 |
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February 3, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:03 PM :: 3834 Views
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| Saturday, February 2, 2019 |
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February 2, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:44 PM :: 3561 Views
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- Gabbard Cult Hires Scientology Lawyer to Intimidate Hawaii Media
- Abortion Rich: Hawaii Planned Parenthood Buys up Mills in Indiana, Kentucky
- The Inequality of the Equality Act: Concerns from the Left
- 14 candidates nominated to temporarily fill Council seat
- Commission: Squeeze $1.3M out of 20,000 Property Owners
- New jail a consultant’s paradise
- HPD misconduct report reveals multiple officers found driving under the influence of alcohol
- Mokulele to Fly First Commercial Electric Planes
- Hu Honua Faces Another Lawsuit
- Tulsi Gabbard Kicks Off 2020 Campaign With $2 Million In The Bank
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| Friday, February 1, 2019 |
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February 1, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:13 PM :: 4787 Views
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- Hawaii GE Tax Hits 105.08% of Personal Income
- UH Regents Reject Plan to Cut Tuition Rates
- Kauai Dairy Quits: "No Regulatory Path Forward"
- City steps up approach to control feral cat population
- Tourist Arrivals up 5.9% for 2018
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 27, 2019
- Birth Tourism Bust: Hawaii Easier to Clear Customs
- Looking for housing in all the wrong places
- Monsanto, Blue Planet, Exxon Mobil, 350 Hawaii -- Support Carbon Taxes
- Unintended Consequences of Clean Energy Initiative
- Environmentalists plan to rally against proposed Big Island bioenergy plant
- No to Regressive Fuel Tax Hikes
- How Oahu Road Supply is Purposefully Restricted to Create Traffic Jams
- Kim Asks Legislature for GE Tax Hike Flexibility
- Star-Adv: It Takes Real Political Skill to Stick it to Seniors, Disabled
- Caldwell the only Permanent Staff on Rail Project
- Airbnb criticizes Hawaii attempt to subpoena host records
- Airbnb in Honolulu has high demand, low return on investment, study finds
- Almost Half The Senate Signs On To Bill To Legalize Recreational Marijuana
- Ban on (tobacco) cigarette sales proposed for Hawaii
- Auditor to look at DPP building permitting delays
- SA Editorial: Election system needs reforming
- Stadium Authority Deploys Fake Rust Report
- Council Give First Approval to Plastic Straw Ban
- Make example out of trouble-making homeless
- HUD renews homeless funding for Hawaii and Guam
- Gabbard has 16th-Highest Staff Turnover in Congress
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| Thursday, January 31, 2019 |
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January 31, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:16 PM :: 4719 Views
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- Lyon Bribes: Caldwell Appoints Crook to Zoning Board After Receiving $16.5K
- Medicaid Fraud: DHS Still Not Doing the Real Work
- Republicans Call for Testimony on Bills
- Rep Thielen: Power, Drugs and Imminent Danger Top Concerns
- Third Circuit Seeking Applicants for Independent Grand Jury Counsel
- Applicants Wanted for State Ethics Commission
- Board of Agriculture Chair Resigns After Two Weeks on Job
- Ige Launches 5-Year Plan for Early Childhood Education
- Broken Trust Flashback: Rep Holt Pushes Thru Increased Funding for OHA
- Critical reporting needed on self-proclaimed sovereigns
- Some Question Calls For Tougher Penalties On OHA Takeover Group
- Pre-K: Who Will Control Cash Flow, Positions?
- Key Lawmakers Are Trying To Water Down Inspection Rules For Elder Care Homes
- Are Illegal Rentals Causing Property Tax Increases in Hawaii?
- Communities Challenge Some Hawai`i Renewable Energy Projects
- Kauai County audit reveals accounting backlog, purchase card misuse
- A rescue boat that cost taxpayers $118K sits mostly idle in a Kewalo Basin yard
- Bishop Museum Agrees Not to Sell Waipio Valley Lands
- The number of unvaccinated kindergartners grew again in Hawaii last year
- Soft on Crime: Tranny has 8 Priors—out on Street Does it Again
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| Wednesday, January 30, 2019 |
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January 30, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:28 PM :: 4760 Views
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- Tulsi Gabbard campaign in disarray
- Honolulu Council Dist IV: Ige Signs Proclamation Calling for Special Election
- Hawaii receives mixed grades on tobacco prevention and cessation
- House Republicans Call on DHS to Reverse Philippine H-2 Visa Ban
- Lyon Bribery: $240K to Buy DHHL Contract?
- Explain why Hawaii didn’t get DOT funds
- Shakedown: Opponents of Thirty Meter Telescope travel to California to appeal to key funder
- Dozens Of Proposed Bills Could Change The Way We Vote
- Quit Stalling On The New Police Standards Board
- DUI Driver: Another Recidivist Criminal on the Streets – 3 Dead, 5 Injured
- Soft on Crime: 12 Priors out on the Streets-Now He’s Dead Because he wasn’t in Prison
- Still no plan for helping homeless who don’t want help
- Blackouts and Rate Hikes Coming: HECO Warns Against Banning Coal Too Quickly
- Global Warmer Owns Private Jet, Oceanfront Mansion in Hawaii
- In Effort to Shut Down Cattle Ranching, Animal Liberation Nuts Harass Big Island’s Only Slaughterhouse
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| Tuesday, January 29, 2019 |
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January 29, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:54 PM :: 5708 Views
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- Auditor Slams DoT--$112M Illegally Hidden from Legislature
- Who Should Regulate Drones in Hawaii?
- Shark Bites: Hawaii Still #2 in USA
- Bullying, Safe Places: 2019 Keiki Caucus Package
- Economic Impact of Immigration by State
- Former Cocaine Dealer: We Forced Judiciary to Reverse Decisions by Threatening Budget
- Senate president’s son is new lobbyist for Chamber of Commerce
- Pushing $350M Redevelopment Scam: Aloha Stadium Deploys Fake Rust Report
- House Adopts New Sex Harassment Rules
- HB1529: Reduce Censorship of HS Journalists
- SB1421/HB1289: New Plan to Let Lots of Criminals Run Free Again and Again
- Legislators: Third Gender Coming to Hawaii Drivers Licenses
- UH Tuition Hikes Behind Flagging Enrollment
- Honolulu City Council now required to temporarily fill City Council District 4 seat
- City clerk has no details yet on special Council election rematch
- No Right on Red—Another Piece of Caldwell’s Anti-Car Agenda
- Trendy Nonsense: Straw Ban Bill Introduced
- Hawaiian Humane Society Director a Trophy Hunter?
- For Homeless, Dog are an All-Purpose Excuse
- DLNR sued over officer’s aggressive handling of 2017 ‘flotilla’ boat seizure
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| Monday, January 28, 2019 |
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January 28, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 10:46 AM :: 4801 Views
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- Naming Names: Hawaii Politicians Profit from Sub-Minimum Wage Sweatshops for the Disabled
- Conflict of Interest? Judiciary Debunks Ozawa
- Public pension crisis? We're on it!
- Judicial Vacancy: Family Judge, First Circuit, Oahu
- UH to Cut Tuition Rates
- A New Public Corruption Scandal Looms For Hawaii
- Ige Opposed School Choice Vouchers for Preschools
- WSJ Editorial: Tulsi Gabbard Could Force Democrats to have a Foreign Policy
- Atooi Attack: Honolulu Prosecutor Making Way for State AG to File Charges?
- Star-Adv: PUC Should Put Palehua Windfarm on Hold
- Civil Beat: Real Carbon Tax to Pay for Fake Sea Level Rise
- It Begins: $130K Fine for Illegal TVR
- Gangrene and Maggots Before one Mentally Ill Homeless Finally Accepts Shelter
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| Sunday, January 27, 2019 |
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January 27, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:19 PM :: 4680 Views
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- Ask Not for Whom the H-1 Tolls…
- FSM Government Responds to Lyon Bribery Charge
- HDOT Wants Gas Tax Hike – But Can’t Be Bothered to Spend Money it Already Has
- State Pays $585K Settlement After Giving Foster Boys to Mainland Child Molester
- After Gabbard Attacks Hirono, Hawaii Media Suddenly Rediscovers Hare Krishna Cult
- "Dirty politics": City Council candidate Trevor Ozawa considering legal action after Supreme Court ruling
- UH System Grubs for Money (as always)
- SB1530/HB1497: Burn $350M for a Smaller Stadium
- Lava: More Lawsuits Against Lloyds of London
- Hard-Core Homeless Criminals Refuse Shelter, Occupy Tourism Areas
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| Saturday, January 26, 2019 |
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January 26, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:22 PM :: 5345 Views
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- Full Text: Supreme Court Invalidates Ozawa Win--Orders New Election
- Plaintiffs to Appeal 'Gut-n-Replace' Ruling
- Hawaii: Five Anti-Gun Bills Introduced
- Auction: Omidyar Dairy Liquidating?
- Video: Origins of the Opioid Crisis
- Who's Running in My District? 2019 Neighborhood Board Elections
- Kawananakoa Estate: Lawyers Squabble over Million Dollar fees and Tax Evasion
- Will Lyon Bribe Recipients Get Away With It?
- Supreme Court Ruling Challenges Vote-by-Mail Procedures
- Homeless Drug Addicts Learn New Trick from PIT Questions: Pretend to be Lava refugees
- Health care program for veterans to change this year
- Volcano? Puna Vacation rentals Wiped out by New Law
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| Friday, January 25, 2019 |
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January 25, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:20 PM :: 5017 Views
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- OHA: Authorities Should Take Atooi Threats Seriously
- Full Text: State of the Judiciary Speech – 2019
- Video: Gabbard Officially Launches Presidential Campaign
- HDOT: Uber/Lyft Eligible to Begin Sister Isle Airport Pickups
- Felony Tax Violations: Honolulu DUI Attorney Pleads Guilty
- Shakedown: Wannabe Congressman Kahele Demands Money from TMT Developers
- Petition seeks halt to Council decision-making
- Honolulu sells bonds to finance rail project
- Three Carbon Tax Bills Introduced
- Maui Council: New Anti-GMO Majority Tries to Sneak Big Fat Pay Raises for Their Staff
- Will Hawaii Co Salary Comm Allow More Public Input?
- Workplace Environment: Number of DoE Teachers Returning to Mainland Spikes
- Lawmakers: Buy Federal Detention Center to Replace OCCC
- Tough reforms needed at DAGS
- Bill Would Make it Illegal for Homeless Sex Offenders to Register Park as Address
- Hawaii Co Council approves measures adding disaster recovery projects to budget
- Judge Dismisses Suit Challenging Gut-And-Replace Legislation
- Financial Audit of the Hawai‘i Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund
- Firearms Open Carry: Consequences for Hawai'i
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| Thursday, January 24, 2019 |
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January 24, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:43 PM :: 5770 Views
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- Finance Committee Passes Base Budget
- Who's Getting Really Scared at OHA?
- Small Business Poll: 88% Say 'No' to Minimum Wage Hike
- Bum Patrol: City Extends Park Security Contract
- HB939: State Ag Bill Restricts Hemp Growers More Than Feds Do
- Hawaii 6th Highest Tax Collections Per Capita
- Ige wants $40M - 33% Hike in gas tax, vehicle fees
- Was Leong Sabotaging Police Commission with Purposefully Bad Legal Advice? – Friends of Leong Oust Levinson 4-3
- Foster Care: State DHS to Delete Child Abuse Database
- Administrative costs of ‘value-based’ health care too high
- Proposed wind farm meets with opposition
- Why a private-public prison makes sense
- Honolulu construction costs 4th highest in the world, RLB report shows
- Republicans propose tax exemptions on food, medical services, feminine hygiene products
- Women’s Caucus Introduces Legislative Package
- Proposal to Tear Down Aloha Stadium to Build a Smaller one and a Museum to Remember the Stadium they tore down
- How Plastic Cleanup Threatens the Ocean’s Living Islands
- KIUC#1 in Battery Farming: “Don’t expect bills to drop anytime soon”
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| Wednesday, January 23, 2019 |
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January 23, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:07 PM :: 4752 Views
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- Full Text: Ige's State of the State Address
- Bipartisan Women's Legislative Caucus Elects Leadership for 2019
- Pre-K: Ige’s HSTA Make Work Program Will Cost Millions
- TAT Formula: ‘Opportunity to Levy Taxes’
- Hawaii Energy Office May Face The Budget Ax
- Local businessman admits he bribed state officials as part of a plea deal
- Kealoha Wants Police Commission to Pay Lawyer Sumida
- After Buying off all the Activists, Mahi Pono says land ‘partnerships’ on other islands a possibility
- County nixes purchase of parcels from former Supreme Court Justice
- UH System Benefits from Land Holdings
- What is a Living Wage in Hawaii?
- Hawaii State Senate: Climate Change Bills to Drive up Cost of Living Even More
- PIT Counts Homeless Criminals in Chinatown
- Bills Would Let Hundreds of Criminals Roam Streets
- HB703: Harsher Penalties for Drunk Drivers
- Keep the People Doped up so They Don’t Notice: Numerous bills tackle marijuana-related issues
- City Council debates fate of Oahu's short term rentals (again)
- Animal Liberation Nuts, Legislators Harass Diver Who Touched Shark
- Gen Z: We’re too busy to Register—so do it for us
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