• Paramilitary Group Takes over anti-Telescope Protest Site

1. Is Hawaii is being run for tourism at the expense of locals?
2. Do Outside Buyers Drive up Hawaii Real Estate Prices?
3. Bill: Outlaw Nepotism in Legislature After Cullen Crime Family Scores Primary Win
4. Hawaii has issued 1 gun carry permit since high court ruling
5. Residents of Hawaii Army base face weekend power outage, with more to follow
6. Hospitals working on overdrive forcing officials to search for solutions

1. Hawaii Ranks #1 for Student Loan Deadbeats
2. Aiona, McDermott urge water treatment system for Red Hill
3. Liliʻuokalani Trust Selling Off Legacy Lands
4. Hospitalized And Gravely Ill, Abigail Kawanakoa’s Stuff is Being Auctioned Off
5. Another Miske co-defendant decides to plead guilty
6. Damning Report Unlikely To Affect Honolulu Ethics Director’s Job
7. Hawaii, Maui counties revise permit process for license to carry firearms
8. Teacher Housing to Cost Over $1M Per Unit--And State Already Owns Land
9. DPP Delays Snag Affordable Housing Project
10. In Hawaii’s SPED classrooms, teachers and students alike are still playing catch-up
11. Star-Adv Front Page News: Eric Ryan Attacks Republicans

1. The cost of employment in each state--Hawaii 7th Highest
2. Chief Justice Seeks Public Comment on Oahu Judicial Nominees
3. Ige Seeks Comment on First Circuit Court Nomination
4. Hawaii County Police Update Permitting Process for License to Carry Firearms
5. Antivaxxer Election Suit Paves Way for Elimination of Republicans from General Election Ballot
6. Signature issues on Hawaii primary ballots left thousands of votes uncounted
7. Aloha to the coal plant, but are we ready for the transition?
8. Katherine Kealoha Accuses Feds Of Ruining Her Three-Way ‘Marriage’ With Cocaine Photo Allegation       
9. Blueprint For Hawaii Housing? UH Project For Students And Faculty Is Going Up At Relatively Little Cost
10. Setbacks in the plan to monitor wastewater for Covid-19 show that it's still business as usual at the DOH.
11. The New 988 Mental Health Hotline Is Off To A Busy Start In Hawaii

1. New report removes divisive distraction
2. Delusional Kai Kahele Thought Andy Winer Would Make Him Governor
3. How Insiders Got Rid of the Last Auditor
4. Historic?  Honolulu Council Finds New Way to Make Housing More Expensive
5. Stadium officials dither, so UH acts
6. After end of Roe v. Wade, broad coalition seeks to expand abortion access in Hawaii
7. Honolulu City Council authorizes lawsuit against owner of 'FCKBLM' license plates
8. Documentary features Caldwell Cronies’ Hawaii airport COVID-19 testing site
9. Oahu Tax Advisory Commission Recommends Massive Property Tax Increase on Historic Properties
10. City considering increasing Oahu parking costs
11. Coco Palms Plans Explode In Bizarre, Emotional Hearing
12. State pension fund overcomes hurdles to secure fiscal-year gain
13. Hawaii Antivaxxer Sues to Overturn Primary Election Results

1. Hawaii Taxes are 2nd Largest Household Expense
2. COVID: Hawaii Lifespan Drop Lowest in USA
3. Alleged Russian spies in Hawaii to remain in federal custody until September trial
4. Honolulu City Lights display application deadline is September 9th
5. Wastewater Company At Center Of Bribery Scandal Won Big Maui Contracts
6. Hawaii's last outdated mainframe computer system shut down
7. Kauai 8th graders confront Vice President Kamala Harris over Red Hill 
8. Keeping the Lights On? Hawaii is about to get rid of coal power for good
9. Defeated Branco Seeks Gig in Green Administration
10. Amid severe shortage, Hilo hospital to hire nurse aides with no experience and train them
11. Kaiser’s mental health shortage puts patient safety at risk, national agency finds
12. Several West Maui routes canceled due to school bus driver shortage
13. Distributor sues HPD over damage to dozens of sweepstakes machines

1. To Tax or Not to Tax Sale of Food and Medicine
2. Tax Evasion News: Hunt sells Palamanui property to Nan at Deep Discount Price
3. $15 million approved for teacher-focused affordable housing on Maui
4. The No. 1 Reason Maui Residents Call 211? They Need Help Buying Food
5. Unvaccinated Pilots & Flight Attendants Hope for Return to Work
6. Supreme Court Ruling Gets Firearms charges dismissed against Paia man
7. False claims about royal land patents still have followers
8. Deep-Sea Mining Is Close to Reality Despite Environmental Concerns

1. Can We Sack the GET?
2. More Cleavage: HSTA Cheers Gay-Friendly Dress Code
3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted August 20, 2022
4. Hawaii Construction Employment Down 6.6%
5. Hawaii: Which Counties have the longest commute?
6. Hawaii Community Colleges Ranked
7. Union Members May Opt-out of Political Contributions
8. Carpenters Game Plan: Green Will Sign Bill Extending GE Tax for Rail, Luke Won’t be in Legislature to Stop it
9. Nonprofit’s non-bid COVID contract was a lucrative ‘sweetheart deal’ for Caldwell Cronies--and Milton Choy
10. “It is a known fact that MPD was and is full of corruption” -- SHOPO, ‘Corrupt’ Cops Work to Fire Maui’s ‘Outsider’ Chief
11. Affordable housing fraud: Finance Committee approves downsized audit request
12. Mauna Kea: If Protesters aren’t Bought off by 2027, All Telescopes will be Removed
13. Your Tax Money at Work: Schatz climate activism produces $370B Money Shower
14. Put further sunscreen bans on pause
15. Kauai finds new way to Make Houses Even More Expensive -- Putting Them On Stilts
16. Vice President Kamala Harris arrives on Kauai for vacation, greeted by Red Hill protestors

1. Ninth Circuit Sends the Hawaii Concealed Carry Challenge Back Down to District Court
2. HART to give Nan another $500M for work on Dillingham 
3. Patients Line up Overnight for Dialysis while ‘CON’ Red Tape Blocks New Clinics 
4. 2 deputy superintendents added to Hawaii Department of Education amid concerns about bureaucracy
5. CNHA in Insurance Business Thanks to Biden
6. EPA Investigation Finds Flaws In Pearl Harbor Water Systems
7. Honolulu police chief’s son arrested after failing to appear in court   
8. US retracts statement that alleged Russian spies in Hawaii used additional aliases
9. Complaints pour in about Honolulu Liquor Commission as critics call for overhaul

1. Hawaii Statehood: Tiny 1959 opposition was anti-Japanese, not anti-American
2. Polls Showed Solid Support in Run-up to Hawaii Statehood
3. Kaiser mental health worker strike expands to Hawaii
4. Hawaii Unemployment Rate 4.1% for July, 2022
5. Chinese Navy intel ship spied on RIMPAC
6. Coal Plant Saved Oahu Consumers $2 Billion Dollars --It will be replaced by Rolling Blackouts
7. Hawaii Condo Fees Are Among Nation’s Highest. And They’re Squeezing The Middle Class
8. Costs, Prices, Customers: Everything’s Up at Hawai‘i’s Restaurants
9. Hawaii County: A little tax relief for kupuna
10. Kauai Council Sets Stage for More Property Tax Hikes
11. State water commission considers ability to act during emergency situations
12. Usual Suspects Whine About Geothermal Plant
13. Waikiki Crime: Lets do everything except enforce the law

1. Out-of-state buyers don't drive Hawaii home prices, report shows
2. DoH Survey: Just as Many Concerned about COVID as in 2020 
3. Hawaii Guns: Concealed Carry OK, Open Carry Banned?
4. The Public May Never Know Who Did The Bribing In The Honolulu Permitting Scandal
5. Airport theft probe exposes possible wider public corruption scheme
6. Miske co-defendants who flip are not getting off scot-free
7. Ige: COVID Policy Designed to Acquire Federal Funding
8. Hawaii reports 13 COVID deaths, nearly 2,700 cases in past week
9. Expert: Worrisome rates of drug abuse among Hawaii’s youth could fuel surge in crime
10. Sen. Fevella calls for emergency declaration over rising electricity costs in Hawaii
11. DoE Red Tape slows teacher hiring
12. Visitor paid parking program to start in 2023
13. City (again) preparing design documents to renovate storied Waikiki Natatorium
14. Oahu churches have become targets for crime
15. Soft on Crime Activists fight over Which Rapist to Free

1. How to reduce permit delays for Hawaii homebuilding
2. GAO Study Looks at Shipping Rates to Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, and other noncontiguous U.S. lands
3. Hawaii Homicides Double Over Last Decade
4. Death Rate for Hawaii Police Officers 13th-Highest in USA
5. 5 arrests tied to theft, fraud probe at Honolulu airport--State AG Keeps Feds out of So-Called Investigation
6. Rail: Ige Outraged by Carpenter’s Election Takeover
7. Differences emerge between Aiona and new running mate
8. Committee postpones emergency management bill: Questions surround media suspension and civil disturbances
9. Ex-councilman sues county to recoup legal fees
10. Sandwich Isles Communications Goes On War Path Against PUC and Consumer Advocate
11. Honolulu Police Department reviewing results of personnel survey
12. Officers suspected in brutality case retain attorneys ahead of anticipated federal charges
13. Dialysis clinics unable to keep up with demand as kidney disease grows in Hawaii
14. Latest Attack on Fishing Fleet Fails

1. Sunscreen: BASF Chemical is laughing at you from the homepage of the National Academies of Sciences
2. Foreclosure Rate up 94% in Hawaii
3. Audit: Maui County Zoning ‘Heavily Politicized’
4. DBEDT Releases 2021 Hawaii Data Book
5. Another state worker arrested, probe into theft at Honolulu airport’s baseyard broadens
6. Miske Investigated for 24 Years
7. Mauna authority faces rough road
8. Slim margins trigger primary election recounts in 6 races
9. Counties taking steps to cure ballots and finalize voting count
10. Procedures at Maui’s only voter service center cause headaches for last-minute voters
11. Hawaii is seeing a steady growth in the cost of running for office
12. In reversal, state says military training at Big Island range not compatible with conservation land
13. Cost of Government Commission finding departmental feedback a challenge
14. 7 child sex trafficking victims located in Hawaii, FBI says
15. Spy or Not? Attorneys seek lift of no-bail order in theft case

1. Hawaii Primary Election Results 2022
2. Caldwell Bribery:  $10K in Contributions ‘Captures’ $19.5M COVID test Contract?
3. Housing study cites government barriers
4. Hawaii has 850,000 registered voters. Barely 40% voted in the primary
5. Kahele, Cayetano Skip Democrats’ ‘Unity Breakfast’
6. Big Island Prosecutor’s Alleged Harassment Dates Back Years
7. Judge releases redacted document from Ireland case

1. Hawaii Primary Election Results 2022
2. Plague, Frogs, Fire and Cracks: Eleven Years of HART Excuses
3. Honolulu announces free week of fares for TheBus
4. A GE Tax Exemption for Food
5. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted August 13, 2022
6. Carpenters Own Josh Green -- but Smear Job Against Luke Fails
7. Voting is easier than ever, yet democracy fights to live on
8. Another Miske co-defendant wants out of detention
9. Federal law could lead to more Solar Subsidies on Kaua‘i
10. Oahu farmland protection ruling heads to state court
11. City proposes more than $11.67 million in upgrades to Waikiki Shell

1. It was 124 years ago today: Hawaii Becomes US Territory
2. How to increase Hawaii’s healthcare capacity
3. Hawaii Cockfighters Continue Shipping Fighting Birds to Guam, Enabled by Territorial Department of Agriculture
4. Honolulu: Highest Tourist Taxes on Earth
5. Court Martial Coming After Tulsi Gabbard fills in on Tucker Carlson Tonight?
6. Rolling Blackouts Coming: Realities sink in as Hawaii ditches coal  
7. Aloha Petroleum Sues AIG Insurance Company re Honolulu & Maui Climate Suits
8. Firefighters union: Prescribed burn could have contributed to huge Big Island wildfire

1. Rolling Blackouts Coming in September: Hawaii ends use of coal for power generation
2. Ige Approves Emergency Rules to Hire Out-of-State Nurses
3. Honolulu Inflation Lowest in USA
4. How the Foreclosure Rate in Hawaii Compares to the Nation
5. EPA: Kaneohe Marine Base to Upgrade Stormwater Runoff Controls
6. Two from Hawaii Appointed to Advisory Committee on Reconciliation in Place Names
7. Sue and Settle: ​Lawsuit Seeks Protected Habitat for 49 Endangered Hawaiian Species
8. Green Targeted by Anti-Semitic Anti-Vaxxers
9. Phoney Baloney: Branco waits until two days before primary to call on Super PAC to take down ‘sensational’ ads against opponent
10. 234,000 Ballots Cast So Far
11. COVID: No More Quarantine, No More 6 Feet
12. West Oahu Charter School Finances Expansion Through Municipal Bonds

1. Can Sam King Win for OHA At-Large Trustee?
2. State Having Hard Time Giving Away Internet Discounts
3. Act 183: C-PACE in Hawaii
4. Navy, UH, DoH Agree to Use EPA-Certified Water Testing Protocols
5. BJ Penn for Dictator: ‘I will End TMT’
6. Campaign Spending Commission investigates ‘ghost PAC’ supporting Cayetano
7. Outside Spending Reaches Historic Levels In Race For Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District
8. Maui Measure to cap hotel units spurs debate
9. Hawaii Department of Health reports 3,189 new infections, 14 coronavirus-related deaths
10. Hawaii hospitals still at full capacity despite declining COVID-19 case counts
11. The long-awaited opening of Kīhei High School is planned for January, but will it happen?

1. Public Hearings re TMT All this Week
2. Hawaii Gun Permits Down 10.8%
3. Opioid Settlement: How will Hawaii Waste $78M?
4. $100M Tax Hike: City to hold virtual public meetings for new Storm Water Strategic Plan
5. Emergency Management Bill raises eyebrows over power to suspend media coverage
6. 4 Days Before The Primary, More Than 186,000 Hawaii Voters Have Already Turned In Their Ballots
7. Redacted Navy Red Hill log shows ‘critical’ system warnings began hours before May 6, 2021 fuel spill
8. Keith Kaneshiro trial is pushed back to March
9. Rising concrete prices to impact Hawaii construction and development
10. The Most Expensive Gas in the US Is in Hawaii, Not California

1. Mental Health Pandemic for Youth
2. EPA fine leads to Hawaii DLNR acting on illegal cesspools
3. Campaign Spending Commission investigates COVID testing company that got big city contract
4. District Two Campaign Money Flows to Crime Families
5. Armed Robber Running for State House 14 - Lahaina
6. Bribery: 31 Hawaii lawmakers return $142,000 from besieged executive
7. Political attack ads draw the attention of the state Campaign Spending Commission
8. Total Fail: After Giving Millions to HSTA, Teacher shortage in Hawaii could reach up to a thousand vacancies
9. Rolling Blackouts: Wakai says, ‘I told you so’
10. Honolulu businesses wait eight months or more for building permits
11. Why can’t EUTF process my enrollment?
12. Fueled by doubts, hundreds of Hawaii Republicans sign up as election observers
13. Deadline to mail election ballots
14. RIMPAC: Tankers central as military looks beyond Red Hill
15. Skin Cancer News: Hawaii County joins Maui with passage of law banning nonmineral sunscreens
16. Sources: Gun scare in Waikiki may have stemmed from drug deal

1. How to Ensure Better Budgeting for a Better Economy
2. It's too late for now for Hawaii, but evidence against minimum-wage hikes keeps piling up
3. House Maui initiative aims to identify and reduce homebuilding restraints
4. $70M COVID Money Backs CNHA Grab for Tourism, Mauna Kea
5. Maui Bill will Create Massive Festering Homeless Tent Cities Islandwide
6. Consultant hired to help fix EPIC

1. HSTA Forced to Stop Enrolling Hawaii Teachers in Illegal For-Profit Education Scheme
2. Addressing the Tax Crisis in Health Care
3. When bureaucracy grows, housing does not
4. Hawaii is the most difficult state to buy a home
5. Honolulu Average Studio Apartment Rent $2,705
6. States Where Unemployment Claims Are Decreasing the Most--Hawaii 45th
7. Kauai: Highest car rental rates in Hawaii
8. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted August 6, 2022
9. Blangiardi: “I can’t imagine going to jail right now, and nor do I want to go to jail.”
10. Lawmakers Don't Seem Interested In Doing Anything About Corruption
11. Hey Oahu, Your Electric Bill Is About To Go Up 7%
12. To curtail dirty political campaigning, don’t help it succeed
13. Votes trickling in with one week left: Here’s what you need to know
14. 40% of HIDOE students being taught by unqualified educators
15. Navy divers describe conditions within the contaminated Red Hill well and how the mission affected them
16. Affordable homes over a new stadium
17. Council Bill Proposed to Restore The O‘ahu Historic Preservation Commission
18. CNMI indigenous groups back controversial Insular Cases
19. Hawaii Governor Candidate’s Hawaiian Homelands Remark Touches A Nerve With Some
20. Another Book About Trannies--And Yes, It’s Aimed at Children Age 4-8
21. Third-party audit critical of Kauai County’s Roads Division
22. Excuses Homeless Meth Addicts Make

1. This Day in History: Truman Announces Hiroshima Bombing
2. 1853 Hawaiian Mission to Marquesan Cannibals
3. Another Public Defender Becomes a Judge
4. Maui Mineral-based sunscreen ordinance goes into effect October 1
5. Maui Disposable Bodyboard Ban takes effect
6. Bribery Convict Ty Cullen Funds Two Candidates
7. Big Island Deputy Prosecutor and ‘Massage Therapist Known as Isis’ Ordered To Stop Alleged Harassment
8. SHOPO Infighting: ‘Fraud, misrepresentation, and deceit’
9. Bribery? Maui County Council Advances Investigation Into Developer’s Monster House
10. Full Text: Ousted Bishop Museum CEO Rips Board
11. BoE Holds First ‘Community Forum’ Since COVID
12. Man, 31, indicted for producing child pornography and cyberstalking minors in Hawaii, other states
13. Efforts ramp up to push out homeless criminals from Waikiki
14. Suspect charged after allegedly sexually assaulting woman at knifepoint--was Domestic Violence Intern

1. Deconstruction of Maunakea telescope set to begin
2. Ikaika Anderson Owned and Operated by Pro-Rail Super PAC
3. Trial pushed back for former Honolulu city officials charged with conspiracy
4. Board of Water Supply detects petroleum contamination in Moanalua Valley monitoring well
5. No charges will be made against officers involved in Kaka’ako shooting
6. Woke Mob Targets ‘Chinaman’s Hat’ (again)

1. Maui’s New Water Bureaucracy
2. Accused Russian spies in Hawaii are set for trial
3. Early Education: Hawaii Pays the Most Per Pupil
4. UH to Require COVID Masks for Fall Semester
5. Psychics and Recreational Drugs: SEC Charges Hawaii SemiSub with Fraud
6. Blangiardi: Concrete Cracking Could Push Honolulu Rail’s Opening To Next Year
7. Staffing shortages trigger temporary closures at some Oahu EMS stations
8. It takes 6 months to hire someone at the city. The mayor wants to slash that in half
9. Hawaii Department of Health’s COVID-19 wastewater monitoring program hit by delays
10. AOC Campaign Sets Up PAC In Hawaii
11. Have you voted yet? State has received more than 100,000 ballots so far
12. ‘We have no choice’: As inflation rises, plate lunch prices are ticking up and up
13. Kona Homeless Magnet Lease Renewed
14. Soft on Crime: 4 arrested and released on Kauai for fake jewelry scam
15. Walter Ritte is Grifting Again to Seize Molokai Ranch--Will it Work?
16. Kunia land occupiers’ claims of harassment and threats dismissed as “frivolous” by court
17. Maui Council Committee rejects settlement with former prosecuting attorney

1. UH dashboard provides public, officials with Red Hill water crisis data
2. Hawaii Skin Cancer Rates up 14%
3. Rolling Blackouts Coming in September: Insiders Still Claim Power expected to be reliable (but pricey) after coal-plant shutdown
4. Exempt food and medicine from GET
5. Saga of Hawaii ‘Spy’ Couple Pictured in KGB Garb Gets Even Weirder in Court
6. Staffing shortages, reinfections: The year of living with COVID isn’t going as planned
7. Hawaii reports 3,689 new COVID-19 cases statewide
8. City outlines ambitious plan to build 1,000 affordable units
9. Lawyer claims road rage attack on elderly driver was … uh … ‘self-defense’
10. 7 Oahu schools identified for poorest air quality
11. Hawaii Is The Only State Not Seeking Federal Buyouts To Move Residents Away From Floods
12. Hawaii County Council Squelches Affordable Housing Audit

1. FDA: Puberty Blocker Side Effects Include Brain Swelling, Blindness
2. DHHL Opens Comment Period for Draft General Plan
3. Can Patrick Branco’s Mainland Backers Buy Him A Seat In Congress?
4. After Forcing DoE to Spend Millions on Air Conditioning, HSTA Now Wants Natural Ventilation
5. Crime Pays: COVID Lawsuit Seeks $5000 Each For Inmates
6. How A Messy Divorce Case Led To A Legal Battle Over Press Freedom In Hawaii
7. Hawaii nonprofit helping to relocate homeless to the mainland
8. Ex-HPD officer charged with child sex trafficking denied bail as he awaits trial
9. ADC transition can advance economic success of agriculture
10. New rules curbing Hawaii beach barriers are further delayed
11. Hawaii doctors seek to maintain injunction allowing telemedicine abortion services on Guam

1. 1853 Hawaiian Mission to Marquesan Cannibals
2. Empowering Native Hawaiians to Own Homes
3. Hawaii Gas Acquired By Argo Infrastructure Partners
4. How Hawaii Tourism Authority Rigged Procurement for CNHA
5. Six years since Johnny Fraser was kidnapped and murdered    
6. Convicted Felon Keanu Sai to Start Off United Church of Christ Workshops to Promote Latest Schemes
7. Rolling Blackouts: What Happens When The Last Coal Ship Leaves Hawaii?
8. Cruise ship COVID reporting program ending
9. Should Maui County Take Over Privately Owned Water Systems?

1. We Need an Emergency Declaration for Health Care
2. Emergency orders our newest emergency
3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted July 30, 2022
4. Rail Mafia News: PRP Mud-Slinging In Hawaii’s Primary Is Getting Ugly
5. All 3 Top Candidates For Hawaii Governor Have Lucrative Side Jobs
6. Voters crave clean government before pols clean us out
7. Hawaii Visitors Spending 40% More, But Enjoying It Less
8. Wealthy beachfront homeowners turn to the courts to avoid Hawaii environmental laws
9. Above the Law: Police release Aikau family suspect accused of beating elderly man in apparent road rage attack in Laie

1. 27 Candidates Fail to File Financial Disclosures
2. Bill to Address Disparities in Data Collection for U.S. Territories
3. Industrial toilet paper supply issues resulting in park bathroom modifications
4. Maui: 'Yes In My Backyard'
5. Affordable Housing: Bribery Has Been Going on For Years
6. Jewish leaders condemn Kahele campaign’s use of ‘Mr. Men’ meme, citing it resembled Hitler
7. Kalima case lawyers calculate damages for Native Hawaiians in $328M settlement with the state
8. Catch n Release: Maui Meth Heads Stealing 41% more cars this year
9. Homeless ‘Do Not Want’ Housing--threaten more crime
10. Hawaii students finally returning to classrooms without COVID-19 restrictions

1. Confucius Institutes Rebrand to Circumvent U.S. Policy, Report Finds
2. Hawaii -- Fewest Guns Per Capita Traced to Crimes
3. Tourist Count 89% of Pre-Pandemic, Spending hits 112.3%
4. State Extends Deadline for Applicants for Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority
5. Kiddie Porn: Federal Court Hands Down 10 Year Sentence
6. Star-Adv Endorses: Sam King brings new ideas to Office of Hawaiian Affairs
7. No, we don’t need to coddle the sovereignty fringe
8. Target date for new Aloha Stadium is now 2026 (and counting)
9. SHOPO Continues to Attack ‘Outsider’ Maui Police Chief
10. Campaign finance deadline missed by 30 Hawaii candidates, incumbents
11. NIMBY worsening Hawaii’s housing crisis   
12. Were Dangerous 'Forever Chemicals' Released in the Red Hill Fuel Spill? The US Navy Isn't Saying
13. In handwritten note to court, Katherine Kealoha asks that her conviction be overturned
14. Two Brun associates sentenced

1. VIDEO: Cayetano, Kahele Hold Joint Press Conference to Question Green Finances
2. Hawaii 2nd Highest HOA Fees in USA
3. Branco Illegally Coordinating with Dark Money Groups?
4. After All the Hype, only 50% of DoE Students Apply for College Aid
5. Rolling Blackouts Coming in September: Hawaiʻi’s only coal-fired power plant receives final shipment of coal
6. City appeals decision it must pay attorney fees of convicted police chief
7. Kaua‘i Police Department Deputy Chief Olsen forced out by SHOPO
8. DHHL official: New funding could result in 3,000 to 6,000 homesteads
9. 6% of Job Applicants are Dopers

1. Russian Spies at Barber's Point for 28 years?
2. Tulsi Gabbard Placed on List of Russian Propagandists by Ukraine
3. DoH Disapproves Red Hill Defueling Plan
4. Poll: To Know the Jones Act is to Oppose It
5. VIDEO: Why Hawaii should consider the ‘Tokyo model’ for housing
6. HART: Cracking Could Require Building More Piers Under West Oahu Stations
7. Poll: 81% Know Hawaii Legislature is Corrupt
8. Star-Adv: HD26 -- Get Rid of Belatti Aug 13
9. Ritte: If I am Elected, Rich Mainlanders will buy Molokai Ranch and Give it to me so I can Eliminate Paniolos
10. Does US Sen. Brian Schatz Have ‘A Job For Life?’
11. Hawaii police get 21% pay hike with new contract
12. Josh Green: Throw More Money at Teachers
13. Doctor Shortages Lead To Health Care Delays In Hawaii
14. Hawaii reports 4,075 new COVID-19 cases statewide
15. Public support for Aloha Stadium replacement plan is shaky
16. Honolulu City Council considering suspending bus fares for 5 Days
17. Hawaiian Airlines loses $36.8M but sees uptick in global travel
18. Hu Honua Injection Wells -- Hawai’i Department of Health Seeks Public Comments
19. A Navy Captain Was Faulted For His Red Hill Response. But He’s Still Working There
20. Neo-Nazi Marine Plotted Mass Murder, Rape Campaigns with Group, Feds Say
21. Librarian: Homeless encampments at Oahu public libraries bring ‘compassion fatigue’

1. Report: Hawaii Housing Deficit Increases 98% Since 2012
2. How Hawaii GE Tax Squeezes Private Practice Doctors
3. Four Charged in Big Island Affordable Housing Corruption Scheme
4. Applicants Sought for Hawaii Elections Commission 
5. Sam King Leads OHA Fundrace
6. Hawaii County to audit housing credits at issue in federal probe?
7. High inflation is top issue for Hawaii voters
8. Majority of Hawaii voters think homelessness has increased
9. HSTA getting unnegotiated $130M raise
10. Rail project satisfies audit recommendations
11. Land board OK’s updates to Maunakea plan
12. Officials to consider restrictions for stun guns in Hawaii
13. Maui Memorial Responds to Petition
14. Book Club discussion of “The Mailbox Conspiracy” on Wednesday
15. Ige’s about-face on air tour bill creates challenges for industry

How Hawaii GE Tax Squeezes Private Practice Doctors

1. How to take politics out of housing
2. Affordable? Maui Price Fixing Bill 'Recommitted'
3. The Scramble for Influence in the South Pacific Intensifies
4. Hawaii hospitals seek emergency order, citing DCCA Red Tape
5. Josh Green Affordable Housing Plan--Use ‘Emergency Power’ to build 42,000 Imaginary Units
6. ‘No fares til 2025’: Big Island Bus Service remain free for another two years with COVID Money
7. Poll: Guns, Drugs, Gambling

1. Picking apart the $50 fee
2. Hawaii: Pain in Paradise
3. COVID Unemployment Recovery -- Hawaii 48th 
4. With Long COVID Comes Long Emergency Powers
5. Poll: Green 55%, Cayetano 19%, Kahele 16%
6. Poll: Aiona 48%, Penn 26%, Tsuneyoshi 9%
7. Hawaii lieutenant governor’s race deadlocked
8. Voters give Ige and Biden approval boost, Hawaii Poll shows
9. Hawaii Carpenters Union Owns Ikaika Anderson
10. Gubernatorial candidates promise relief from state’s general excise tax on food, medicine
11. ‘Our business is literally rooted to the ground’: Veto of ag lease extension bill draws ire
12. Misdemeanor probe into Honolulu police union leadership forwarded to state Attorney General
13. Honolulu Police Department vacancies increase
14. Hawaii Will Soon Have A Women’s Court In An Effort To Let More Criminals out of Jail

1. Ige Renews COVID Emergency Declaration for Food Stamps
2. Biden misses opportunity to cut fuel costs via Jones Act waiver
3. ‘Liar’ vs ‘slum lord’: Democratic Gubernatorial Debate
4. Case pending before Hawaiʻi Supreme Court to look at Kealoha legal fees
5. Rent Increase Coming: Hawaii Dep’t of Taxation Cracking Down on landlords not paying GE Tax
6. Fraudulent Solicitation? Transsexual Show for Kids a Surprise to Nonprofit
7. Waianae Small Boat Harbor Methamphetamines Camp Still pretending to Develop Land in Waianae Valley
8. Hawaii Water Commission presses Navy to shut down its only well

1. Affordable Housing: $2940 for 2br Apartment
2. Ala Moana Satellite City Hall temporarily halts HOLO card service Because they Have too Many Customers
3. Bill 22 Better Buildings Benchmarking
4. State Seeks Applicants for Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority
5. Hawaii Unemployment Rate Increases to 4.3%
6. CNHA Money Spinner:  “Mandatory certification in Native Hawaiian culture for all hospitality industry employees”
7. Iwi Repatriation trips planned around Pearl Jam concerts
8. Kunia land occupation: ‘Duped into believing otherwise unbelievable things’
9. Hospitals ask for emergency proclamation   
10. Molokai’s unemployment rate rises to 13.9 percent
11. Glitches in state’s victims notification network leaves rape survivor in the dark

1. ERS Hides $96.75M of So-Called ‘Tech’ Investments--Losses Begin to Mount
2. Hawaii’s NASED -- Another sports venue that fails to generate promised revenue
3. While Patients Wait, Hawaii Plays Favorites in Health Care
4. Cullen Crime Family Nepotism is Legal: Ballot for state House seat includes familiar Cullen name
5. Taxpayers funded millions in contracts for troubled engineering firm at center of federal probe
6. Hawaii Senators Collected Big Bucks From Energy Interests At June Fundraiser
7. Nine years later, Pimp gets 40 years
8. Hawaii's jails to get security upgrades
9. Beyond the glitter, an uneasiness with the direction of Hawaiian music

1. National Science Foundation to Launch EIS Process for Mauna Kea Telescope
2. Army Conducts Review of Facility Use by Political Entities
3. Oahu primary election ballots mailed out today
4. Laughing at You: Hawaii Lawmakers Took $500k In Campaign Cash This Session Despite Pleas To Ban Campaign Cash During Session
5. Hawaii Gov. David Ige’s Empty Promises On Government Accountability
6. Hawaii reports 13 additional COVID deaths, over 4,000 new cases in past week
7. The End Of Hawaii Tourism As We Know It
8. Landowner accuses paramilitary Hawaiian sovereignty group of forcing him off his land
9. Weaponizing Meth Camps: Maui Council Threatens to Designate Parking Areas for Homeless
10. Affordable Housing Once Blocked by OHA: Kaiaulu o Kuku‘ia has taken over 30 years to bring to fruition, governor says 
11. 88,000 cesspools dump 53 million gallons of raw sewage into Hawaii waters each day
12. Pandering Relentlessly, State lawmakers blast Navy on ‘incomplete’ plan to defuel Red Hill

1. SHOPO Endorsing Duke Aiona for Governor
2. Maui Council on verge of worsening housing crisis 
3. Kaiser Hawaii Mental Health Accreditation Threatened
4. Ex-Hawaii County housing official pleads guilty to taking $2M in kickbacks
5. Rep Kapela Outraged Over Cancellation of Transsexual Show for Kids
6. Rep LoPresti pleads not guilty to drunk driving
7. New policy cracks down on release of arrestees
8. For food security and resilience, cut isles’ most regressive tax
9. Rolling Blackouts Coming: Three More Solar Plus Storage Projects Are Dead After $140M Ratepayer Shakedown Fails
10. Trend continues of non-competitive legislative races
11. Insiders Want You to Help Them Get COVID Money from Feds
12. Why Hawaii Schools Are Doubling Down On Vocational Training

1. CNBC: America’s Top States for Business--Hawaii 46th
2. Kahele Admits to criminal past.  Says he will release his fellow criminals from prison if elected Governor
3. Absenteeism 31% at DoE Schools--20% Failing
4. Rolling Blackouts Coming Sept 1: DPP-Solar Industry Blame Game
5. Marco Polo is the only building to retrofit with sprinklers since the tragic fire
6. Abortion: The Key is to make Sure Women Have no Other Alternative
7. ‘Too Much for us to Handle’-- Homeless Criminals Chase Beach Boys off Waikiki Beach

1. It’s Tourism, Mooooo
2. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted July 16, 2022
3. Crime Families Rake in Lots of Campaign Contributions
4. Indicted Kealoha Conspirator is First to Donate to Ikaika Anderson LG Campaign
5. Corporate Money Flows to Kai Kahele PAC--buys him slot at Democratic Convention
6. Usual Inouye-Connected Suspects Give to Tokuda For Congress
7. MMA Fighter, Anti-Vaxxer Top GOP Fund Race
8. Grab for Tourism Contract Puts CNHA in Spotlight after COVID Growth
9. Fire code violation contributed to Red Hill fuel leak, report finds
10. Kaua‘i Police Department revising firearm application
11. Nine time loser Gets Probation: Promoting porn to minors charge dropped in plea deal

1. We are one step closer to TMT!
2. Maui’s sky-high home prices a ‘self-inflicted wound’
3. Bishop Museum Board: "Frustration, stress, and fear"
4. Seven Rail Stations Closed After Discovery of Cracks in Concrete Columns
5. Hawaii health officials will reject the Navy’s Red Hill defueling plan
6. Hawaii Has $200 Million To Spend on Pre-K. Who Gets The Money?
7. Here’s Who’s Pulling In The Most Cash In The Maui Mayor’s Race
8. City Rental and Utility Relief to be extended by $31 million
9. Police Brutality Caused by Soft on Crime System
10. Physician Spends 18 months House Hunting on Oahu, Decides to Move to North Carolina

1. DOH: Masking optional in updated school guidance
2. Governor comes through on ‘gut and replace’ but disappoints on emergency powers reform
3. Convicted Felon Sentenced to 80 Months in Prison for Firearm Possession During Drug Crime
4. $1.8M Bribes Net $10.9M affordable housing credits--Feds Bust Former County Employee
5. Hawaii law could break years-long astronomy impasse
6. Does Our State Government Have Too Many Boxes?
7. Media warned over 'drowning islands' climate change narrative
8. Board of Education approves superintendent’s $240,000 annual contract
9. Niu Valley man, 20, gets life in prison for attempted murder in Kahala Beach stabbing
10. Homeless Kick Beach Boys out of Waikiki Pavilion
11. Survey: Big Isle Needs Lots of Psychiatrists Badly

1. Kiribati 'cooking something with China' - former Kiribati president
2. DLNR Releases Ala Wai Small Boat Harbor Vision Report
3. Hirono: 'Who the heck would know what our Founding Fathers meant?' 
4. Ige: Navy Lied About lack of Video at Red Hill
5. Ige: Permits to carry guns in public will not be automatically granted in Hawaii
6. Rep LoPresti Charged in DUI Case
7. Crypto-Billionaires Spend $249K pushing Branco Campaign
8. Prosecutors Want Enhanced Punishment For Public Corruption
9. Will Enough Upcountry Maui White People Vote to Overcome Molokai Hawaiian Votes Against Walter Ritte?
10. Maui Council to consider homeowner exemption bills for principal home, long-term rental
11. ‘It’s an overkill’: Maui residents blast new proposal that would ban outdoor lighting
12. A Warning On Hawaii’s Housing Crisis — From 1970

1. Ige Vetoes 28 of 30 Bills on 'Intent to Veto' List
2. Hawaii’s love-hate relationship with tourism
3. DBEDT: More Taxpayer Money Going to High Tech Schemers
4. State Tax Receipts up 34.8%
5. HD44 Candidate Running Under Fake Name Hides Past
6. Rail Warning: Bus Ridership Off 41% from Pre-COVID Days
7. Honolulu Rail Whistleblower: Tracks, Wheels A Maintenance Nightmare And Potential Safety Issue
8. Bishop Museum president to resign amid internal flap
9. Judge continues trial for Honolulu's former top prosecutor, 4 others in alleged bribery scheme
10. Hawaii Health Department reports 4,464 new infections; 11 coronavirus-related deaths
11. Indoor masking optional at Hawaii public schools starting Aug. 1       
12. Judge: Man left homeless after wrongful prosecution can seek another civil claim against city
13. Court Rejects Anti-Telescope protester challenge of police presence at Mauna Kea

1. Hawaii AG Instructs Chiefs of Police to Broadly Grant Concealed Carry Licenses, but not Unconcealed Carry
2. Three Former Hawaii Correctional Officers Convicted of Assaulting Inmate and Attempting Cover Up
3. Whipsaw: Four Crypto Firms Quit Hawaii
4. Does Navatek Have A Business Plan Without Corruption?
5. Ikaika Anderson owned and operated by Carpenters Union
6. City rules on single-use foodware to take effect after long delay
7. Sunscreen ban becomes law: Roth lets bill become law without his signature
8. Hawaii Utilities Rely on a Wide Variety of Fossil Fuels

1. What the US Military Spends in Hawaii
2. Study: If Hawaii Tourism is Called 'Regenerative' Locals will Like Tourists
3. Poll: 2-1 Support Telescope, Rail Remains Unpopular
4. 75% of Incumbents Flee Honolulu Council
5. Let’s Not Wait Another Year To Fix Emergency Statute
6. Help Wanted: Honolulu Needs 3,000 Workers For City Jobs
7. Agribusiness Development Corp. splits from state Agriculture Department
8. Rolling Blackouts Will Be Replacing the AES Coal Plant