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| Wednesday, June 8, 2016 |
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June 8, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:47 PM :: 5355 Views
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- Full Text: Ben Cayetano Endorses Charles Djou for Mayor
- Duke Aiona Endorses Charles Djou for Mayor
- Federal Transportation Network to Include Jones Act Reform?
- FINAL DEADLINE: Candidates Filing
- GOP Chairman Welcomes Party Switch by Rod Tam
- Are Jones Act ships really 'made in the USA'? Well, sort of
- Djou Could Win Mayoralty on Primary Day August 13
- Duke Aiona Announces He Will Not Seek Office
- Schatz, Gabbard have no big rivals
- 16 Legislators Unopposed
- Hawaii County Mayor a Three-Way Race?
- Maui Mayor Tries to go into Solar Business
- PUC: NextEra ruling coming soon, draft decision in hand
- EIS Debunks Anti-Dairy Farm Protesters
- State sides with KPD Chief on body cameras
- Mental health care for youths lacking in isles
- Condom Ban in Place as Trannies Party with Hawaii DoE Students on Orders from The Obama Himself
- Slow City Permit Approvals Allow Homeless to Take Over Abandoned Building, Make it into Drug Den
- Hawaii Among Very Last States to Ease Access to Anti-Overdose Drug
- Fail: After 6 Years, Civil Beat finally Gives up on Trying to Sell Subscriptions
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| Tuesday, June 7, 2016 |
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June 7, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:11 PM :: 6314 Views
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- Keli’i Akina Launches OHA Campaign
- Back to the 9th Circuit: Akina v. State of Hawaii
- New Federal Rules May Hurt Small Farmers in Hawaii
- 10 Free Market Solutions for Agriculture in Hawaii
- Unanimous SCOTUS: You Can Judicially Challenge A Clean Water Act Jurisdictional Determination
- Mayor’s Race: Ernie Martin Chickens Out
- Campaign chaos: Caldwell, Schatz Try to Break into Locked Election Office
- Gabbard Featured at Atheist Rally in Washington, DC
- So-Called Consumer Advocate Opposes Lower Rates, Cleaner Energy
- DoTax Running Five Weeks Slow on Check Processing
- State DOE proposes ‘transgender student guidelines’ to Allow Dressup and Bathroom Play
- Fires, Shootings at Seattle Homeless Tent City Which Serves as Model for Honolulu
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| Monday, June 6, 2016 |
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June 6, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:41 PM :: 3828 Views
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- HCR29: Legislators Vote to Abolish ERS, End Free Speech for Star-Advertiser
- Auditor: City Computers Remain Vulnerable to Hackers
- Aloha, Puerto Rico
- Quick, low-cost traffic fixes Make $8.1B Rail System Look Even More Wasteful
- Rail annual operating costs pegged at $100M—Mostly Electricity
- Government Contracting Explained: Two Years of Bungling on Playground Renovation
- Rising budget tells a story of increasing spending
- Steered by Crafty Lawyers--Homeless settling in, in Iwilei
- Civil Beat: Homeless Must be Returned to Waikiki
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| Sunday, June 5, 2016 |
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June 5, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:31 PM :: 5080 Views
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- Telescope: Nobody can remove all fears of reversal
- Former Hawaii Superferry en route to Maine
- What Will We Do Next for Maui Hospital Workers?
- Weird Legislative Proviso Part of Kobayashi-Mitsunaga Fight over UH Contracts?
- Charter Commission Recommends Abolition of Neighborhood Boards
- Council Creates $18M Slush Fund—Uses Homeless as Excuse
- Kakaako Makai: OHA’s First Move is to Tear Down Revenue-Generating Building
- Kauai Pesticide Report: “Obvious Disconnect”
- Will Ige Sign Fishing Ban? “This is our ice box, not a playground for the rich”
- Hawaii Only State Which Does not Report Hate Crimes
- Hu Honua: Just Another ILWU Crony Capitalist Disaster
- Feds Demand End to Hawaii Ag Building Code Exemptions
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| Saturday, June 4, 2016 |
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June 4, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:20 PM :: 4655 Views
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- Who’s Running: Candidates Pulling Papers as of June 3, 2016
- Telescope: BLNR Sticks With Judge Amano
- Hawaii Taxes the Spirit at $5.98 per Gallon
- Hawaii Taxpayer-Funded Hi Tech Future: Cookies? Chopsticks?
- Homosexual Dumps Boyfriend: Hawaii Supreme Court to Decide Parental Rights over Child
- New Chair Announces Plan to Abolish Hawaii Democratic Party
- Hawaii Democratic Party ‘Extremely Hypocritical’, Says Party Chairman
- Thanks to UPW, HGEA, and 9th Circuit Court, its not a good time to get Sick on Maui
- Honolulu Rail Built on the Crony Plan not the Urban Plan
- Caldwell Has New Excuse for Full-Length Rail
- Newest appointee to police commission calls for more transparency
- UH Talks up Next Golden Parachute-$200K
- PUC to Vote on NextEra this Month—Has Secret Staff Recommendation
- June 30: Hawaii Supreme Court Seeks Way to Control of HC&S Electricity to Sierra Club
- Anti-GMO Realtor Pollutes Beach
- Locus of Hysteria: Hawaii County Polystyrene food container measure dies on 4-4 vote
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| Friday, June 3, 2016 |
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June 3, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:10 PM :: 4337 Views
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- NYT: Obama Admin Puts Hawaii AIDS Patients out on Street--as Punishment for Sit/Lie
- HECO Customers Keep Paying On Unused $144 Million GEMS Fund
- Maui: 55.8% Bogus Signatures on Ballot Petition to Seize Farms from Owners
- DBEDT: Housing, Transportation, and Food Cost $46,700/year
- Hanabusa: My Heart wasn’t Really in that Rail Thingy
- On Cue: Old Boy Media Starts Flacking for Hanabusa
- Court Rejects Attorney General Appeal of Maui Hospital Privatization Stay
- Caldwell: Rail Ridership won’t be as Much as We Claimed
- Honolulu Charter Commission Sees ‘Urgent’ Need For Rail Changes
- Real Traffic Solutions Don’t Cost $8.1B--H1 Zipper Lane to Double in August
- Anti-Telescope Lawyers Identify Another Excuse for Supreme Court to Use
- City prosecutor called back to testify in case against police chief
- Police union endorses Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell as Reward for Supporting Kealoha
- Star-Adv: We Think Ping Pong is Good Replacement for Pro Bowl
- Cancer Center Donors Demand Incumbent UH Admin Get its Act together
- Twelve years to Get Permits to Build Playground in Niu Valley
- Homeless Medical Programs Measures Reduction in Emergency Room Visits
- Fishermen to protest against recent restrictions on fishing grounds
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| Thursday, June 2, 2016 |
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June 2, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:57 PM :: 6112 Views
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- It’s not just for the birds--GM mosquitoes could stave off Zika in Hawaii
- Financial Solvency: Hawaii Ranks 45th
- Nailed for Cronyism, DoE forced to Reopen Bidding on $100M Cool Schools Bonanza
- Education Week: Hawaii DoE Graduation Rate 82%
- ESSA 2016 Hawaii Education Summit
- Deconstructing the Kaka‘ako Makai Parks Master Plan
- New Judges Appointed for Oahu, Big Island
- Caldwell ‘Disappointed’ With Council Budget
- Former Lt. Gov. Aiona pulls papers for three different races
- Lei Ahu Isa For Congress
- Hanabusa Should Resign From HART Board
- City Council approves $6.8B cap on rail spending
- Budget Funds Massive Tent Cities in Every Council District
- Homeless Tent City Grows Along Ala Wai Canal
- Sen Jill Tokuda Drives 1000s of Homeless Back out onto Streets – Will Ige Sign SB2559?
- Victory: Tax Hikes Fail on Kauai
- Maui Organic Initiative Undermines Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness
- Kahuku Wind turbines murder 29 rare bats – want permission to kill more
- 2-Year Average Wait for Sunshine Law
- Hawaii’s lack of mental health care forces teens from state
- Obamacare: Hawaii residents' protected health information stuck in limbo for months
- Pro Bowl: Bumbling HTA Wishes for Do-Over
- NextEra Deadline Tomorrow and PUC Couldn’t Care Less
- HECO Customers Keep Paying Vig On Unused $144 Million in GEMS Fund
- UH Prof of Medicine Debunks Kauai Pesticide Study
- Ag Department Bureaucracy Slows Zika Research
- Hawaii Holds 29 Trannies in Prison
- Kealoha’s Failure to Act Caused $6M Lawsuit
- State Spends $3.1M on Toilet Paper
- After 22 Years of Abject Failure, County-Owned Ag Park May have First Tenant
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| Wednesday, June 1, 2016 |
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June 1, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:22 PM :: 4549 Views
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- Duke Aiona Legislative Wrapup
- Petition: Save Hawaii Fisheries
- Interior Dept. Worsening Bad Situation for COFA Migrants
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted May 31, 2016
- Honolulu Third-Fastest Construction Job Growth
- Take The Robin Danner DC Tour
- Will Hawaii Democratic Party let itself be ruled by witch-hunting vigilantes?
- Star-Adv: Socialists Take over Hawaii Democratic Party—Nothing to See Here
- Pesticide Report Written by ‘True Believers’
- Mufi: Loss of Pro Bowl Another Black Eye for Hawaii
- Dozens seek to intervene in TMT case
- Hawaii Superferry to Launch Service June 15—In Nova Scotia
- Multi-Billion Dollar Pension Lawsuit Heads for Supreme Court
- DHHL contract flap could cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars
- Your Tax Dollars at Work: Bankrupt Taxpayer-Funded Hi-Tech Site Taken over by Subsidized Solar Heating of Rocks
- Meth: Hawaii’s Ice Age Never Really Went Away
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| Tuesday, May 31, 2016 |
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May 31, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:55 PM :: 4621 Views
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- Nai Aupuni Dissolves Itself in Effort to Escape Lawsuit
- To Satisfy Protesters, UH Begins Decommissioning Three Perfectly Good Telescopes
- Multi-Year Deal: NFL moving Pro Bowl to Orlando
- Hawaii: 9th Best State for Military Retirees
- Report: Hawaii 5th-Healthiest Seniors
- Hawaii Democratic Party is Ticking Time Bomb
- Sanders Supporters: Easier to Win Control of Party if Trump is President
- Hanabusa Crazy to Take HART Job
- Lei Ahu Isa for Congress—Hanabusa to ‘Juggle’ Rail til June 30—Galuteria Chickens Out
- WaPo: If Sanders and Warren Drop off the Planet, Tulsi Gabbard has a 1/6 Chance of Being Significant Leader
- Why Is It So Hard To Pass Police Reform In Hawaii?
- Cancer Center Has Been Floundering for Years
- Interior Department bungling making COFA mess worse
- Old and on the street: The graying of the homeless
- Young Bros Monopoly Demands another 4%
- After Failing Worldwide, Floating Wind Farms Take Aim at Hawaii
- Hawaii Residents least Likely to file Medical Malpractice
- Scary News: Star-Advertiser is 12th Largest Newspaper in USA
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| Monday, May 30, 2016 |
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May 30, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:19 PM :: 3659 Views
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- Memorial Day Events Statewide
- Hawaii Bill Would Database Gun Owners For Special Scrutiny
- Local Principal Advocates for Private School Choice
- Report: Hawaii 5th-Healthiest Seniors
- Anti-Development Activist Takes Hawaii Democratic Chairmanship
- Power Mad Hanabusa Says She Will Chair HART and Campaign for Congress at the Same Time
- Bizarre: Takai Pledges to Support Progressive for Congress—then Endorses Hanabusa
- $8.1 Billion Funeral Train
- TMT Hearings: Paralyzed with Fear of Supreme Court
- Data Show 18% More Students Leaving Public Schools for Charters
- UH Sets Stage for next Golden Parachute
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| Sunday, May 29, 2016 |
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May 29, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:14 PM :: 5271 Views
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- Two Arrests: Corruption Bust Strikes at Heart of Drive for Fake Indian Tribe
- Republican Values and Hawaii - Building Through Balance
- Will They Come for You Next?
- Memorial Day Events Statewide
- Hawaii Regulatory Review Board Seeks Volunteers
- Sanders Voters Scare Democrats Fearful of Losing their Petty Little Power Positions
- Sanders Supporters Demand End to ‘Very Small Micro Aggressions Across the State’
- Rail: Hanabusa’s Nimitz Plan Even More Expensive than Her Dillingham Plan
- Template for Future: 20% Electric Rate Hike
- GMOS: No evidence they are unsafe for human consumption
- GMOS: “I told you so”
- Homeless Teen Parents Raise Babies on Street
- Homeless Tweekers Steal War Memorial Plaques from Barbers Point
- Purchasing a home on Oahu is about to get even tougher
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| Saturday, May 28, 2016 |
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May 28, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:30 PM :: 4139 Views
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- “Rap Back”: A New Federal Firearm Registry
- Who’s Running: Candidates Pulling Papers as of May 27, 2016
- 9 misdirected arguments against GMOs
- April 2016: Visitor Expenditures Decline 1.1 Percent
- Regents to Vote on New UH Cancer Center Director
- Shadow Boxing With the Supreme Court: TMT Joins In Call For New Contested Case Officer
- Mass Hysteria: Kauai group finds no harms tied to pesticide use
- Hawaii Democrats to Vote on Anti-GMO Resolutions
- Will Protesters Block Badly Needed Lunatic Asylum?
- Big Island Water Dept Pays $20M/Year for Electricity
- Solar Costs Ratepayers $38.5M
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| Friday, May 27, 2016 |
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May 27, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:27 PM :: 6195 Views
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- UH Report: 14,954 Homeless Seek Help – 24% from Mainland
- Who Runs Hawaii Democratic Party—Mafia or Hare Krishna Cult?
- Dumb and Dumber: Hanabusa vs Brickwood Galuteria for Congress?
- Who Will Ride Rail? How Do We Know?
- Star-Adv: Homelessness is Ige’s Problem -- Leadership MIA
- Legislature’s Multi-Million-Dollar Grant Program Remains ‘Mysterious’
- To Stop NextEra Iwase Has to Stall PUC for only 7 More Days
- Lawsuit: Another Hawaii Tech Company Accused of Fraud
- High costs hold back home-building activity
- DoE News: Head Lice Allowed, SPED Student Bruised by Principal
- Ige Discusses Various Mass Psychoses at Kauai Meeting
- Police stepping up drugged driving enforcement ahead of marijuana dispensaries
- HuffPo: Gay Buddafield Cult Moves to Hawaii
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| Thursday, May 26, 2016 |
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May 26, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:14 PM :: 4451 Views
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- After One Month as HART Chair, Hanabusa flees to run for Congress
- Ethics: Hawaii DoT Capital Improvements Director in Bed with Parsons Brinckerhoff–Literally
- Hawaii Most Unaffordable Rentals of Any State
- Billions of Dollars Later, Veterans Health Administration Still Failing
- Jones Act Worsens Puerto Rico’s economic crisis
- Hawaii Democrat Insiders Scheme to Block Sanders Supporters
- Djou still weighing potential run for Takai's seat, but party already all in
- Dillingham Rail: Hanabusa Caught Flatfooted (Again)
- HART Role a Liability to Hanabusa
- UH files motion to remove hearings officer in Thirty Meter Telescope case
- Kahuku Rallies to Stop Latest Wind Farm Scheme
- No Martin Mayoral Decision Yet
- Corruption: Will PUC Renew Sandwich Isles Certification?
- Pesticide Report Proves Anti-GMO Activists are Liars and Frauds
- Kauai Vehicle Tax Vacuums $5.5M from Consumers Pockets
- Hawaii is an absurdly expensive state to live in
- Solar Schemers Claim Hawaiian Electric could hit some rooftop solar caps next month
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| Wednesday, May 25, 2016 |
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May 25, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:19 PM :: 4211 Views
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- Ethics Ruling: Sen Josh Green Secretly Living in Honolulu Since 2005
- Election Office Admits ‘Mistakes Were Made’
- $500M: Obama Raids Zika Budget to Finance UN Climate Change Fund
- Hawaii GOP Chair Comments on Party Convention
- Connecting the dots between Jones Act and EL FARO sinking
- HART to Shift Rail to Nimitz?
- Supreme Court seems poised to order changes at the Office of Elections
- Who Raised Money During Session?
- Bloomberg: If Iwase Can Stall the PUC beyond June 3, NextEra More Likely to Walk Away
- 700 Comments on DoE Strategic Plan
- 25% of Hawaii Emergency Room Admissions Related to Methamphetamines
- HMSA to Pay Doctors to not See You
- Pesticide Report Calls For Monitoring, Cites Lack of Evidence behind anti-Pesticide Hysteria
- Trying to Spin the High Cost of UPW-Controlled Prisons
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| Tuesday, May 24, 2016 |
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May 24, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:08 PM :: 4765 Views
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- Charter Commission Proposal: Eliminate Neighborhood Boards
- If Ige Signs SB2954--Hawaii Could Be First to Put Gun Owners in Federal Database
- Full Text: Attorney General Asks 9th Circuit to Lift Stay on Maui Memorial Privatization
- Fukumoto Helps Her Reelection Chances by Loudly Denouncing Trump
- Hawaii Republicans Must Have Elected Leaders to Spare
- Superdelegates: Hawaii Democrats too stupid to decide who should be president
- Stanley Chang to Run for Congress?
- Rail: All Fingers Point at Taxpayer
- Kill Rail Now and Waste $1.74B Less
- Star-Adv: Neighborhood boards are valuable
- Thompson Charter School: Criminal Charges Filed, AG Investigates Money-Laundering
- Nepotistic IBEW boss says he will retire (again)
- Secret Insurance Div Report Shows 71% of HMSA Policies Illegal
- HTA: We Have Plan to Keep the $5M Taxpayers gave us for Pro Bowl
- Rent, Subdivision Issues Confound Efforts To Fix DLNR’s Revocable Permit Mess
- Drunk-driving arrests, court cases decline Thanks to Hawaii Supreme Court
- Arcade owners re-indicted as prosecutors try again to get gambling convictions
- Hawaii`s On Bill Financing Program Killed off by Low Energy Prices
- HELCO Says Hu Honua “Woefully Inaccurate and Misleading”
- Kauai: Animal Liberation Nuts So Extreme Even PETA Doesn’t Want Them
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| Monday, May 23, 2016 |
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May 23, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:51 PM :: 4724 Views
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- Hawaii: Worst State to make a Living
- Hawaii Seniors’ Income: Say 'aloha' to a good retirement
- Video Sales Pitch Helps Convince Hawaii Patients to Die Cheaply
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted May 23, 2016
- Charter proposal: Abolish neighborhood boards on Oahu
- Hawaii Lawmakers Again Balk At Ethics, Lobbying Reform
- AG launches of criminal probe into alleged misspending by ex-Bishop Museum CEO
- Hawaii Supreme Court skeptical of Office of Elections
- Money from California Behind Hawaii Anti-GMO Activists
- Legislature to Ige: Homelessness is Your Problem, Now
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| Sunday, May 22, 2016 |
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May 22, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:02 PM :: 4159 Views
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- Djou ‘Thinking About’ Run for Congress as Republican Convention Meets
- HSTA announces recommendations for Hawaii State House and Senate primary races
- Honolulu Rail: It Just Keeps Getting Worse
- Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Big Island Council Candidate’s Eligibility
- Hawaii Supreme Court Rules on Big Cabbage Case
- How Taxes Work
- UHERO Releases County Economic Forecasts
- Staged? Rail Budget Blowout at core of case for More GE Tax Hikes
- Probate Court announces three Kamehameha Schools trustee finalists
- DoE: We’re out--Ige, HSTA Own School Accountability Issue
- Solar leasing worse than a barrel of oil
- Gangs of Homeless Vandalize Electrical Lines to Charge their Laptops, Phones
- Bumbling Anti-GMO Activists Can’t Figure out Which End of Plant to Stick in Ground
- Suicide Tops Hawaii Democrats Program for Kupuna
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| Saturday, May 21, 2016 |
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May 21, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:37 PM :: 4440 Views
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- PUEO Hawaiians Support Telescope
- Hawaiians Lobby DC Against Fake Indian Tribe
- The NFL Pro Bowl Is Moving to Orlando
- Hawaii Republican State Convention Set for May 21
- Who’s Running: Candidates Pulling Papers as of May 20, 2016
- Will Hanabusa Jump into CD1 Race to Escape HART Deathtrap?
- Prosecutor Kaneshiro Trying to Save Police Chief, and Deputy Prosecutor
- Pro-telescope Hawaiians seek hearing participation
- State attorney general files motion asking court to lift injunction on Maui hospitals
- Supreme Court Justices Slam Scott Nago: “Fundamental right to vote is being denied”
- HTA Incompetent Sports Management
- Iwase: I Will Stall PUC Until Merger Votes are Gone
- Child welfare social worker shortage leads to high caseload
- Family of autistic McKinley High School student sues over claims son is being forced to graduate
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| Friday, May 20, 2016 |
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May 20, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:34 PM :: 4327 Views
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- Floating Windfarm Electricity Costs More Than Double
- Full Text: Eric Gill Sued by Local 5 Dissidents
- Bankruptcy for Code Rebel: Yet Another Hawaii High Tech Tax Credit Implosion
- DoH: Marijuana Licensees Scored
- Auditor: Ag Department Still Not Checking Weights, Measures
- CD1: ‘Djou Would be a Great candidate’
- Three weeks before the regular candidate filing deadline
- Court order ‘devastating’ to transition
- State addicted to spending, and unions among enablers
- City prosecutor, police brass testify in FBI probe into police chief
- EMS Forced to Respond to Emergencies in Personal Vehicle Because Caldwell Won’t Fix Ambulances
- Could light rail help train reach Ala Moana and beyond?
- Maui: Arakawa Takes Stand Against Activists’ Latest Attempt at Seizure of Ag Land
- Study: GMOs not behind health woes
- County Manager: Council’s Secret Power Grab
- The NFL Pro Bowl Is Moving to Orlando
- Ganot’s contract extension: Regents Squirm to Avoid Responsibility for Next UH Debacle
- Nobody Applies to be State Ethics Director
- LNG Plan Would Reduce Oil Imports 80%, Cut Electric Bills
- Developer of unfinished $225M Hawaii biomass plant goes after HELCO
- Hawaii Supreme Court hears case involving 2012 ballot problems
- Star-Adv: Mega High School Needed for Kapolei
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