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| Thursday, February 11, 2016 |
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February 11, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:49 PM :: 6611 Views
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- HB1829 Makes it Easier to Divert Dispensary Weed to Black Market
- US Senate Votes to Permanently Ban Hawaii's Tax on Internet Access
- The Last Farmer Standing
- Grassroot Asks Legislature to Stop Using the GET as a Fundraising Tool
- Gabbard: Obama, Kenoi show Leadership on Dengue—Where’s Ige?
- UHERO: Recent Trends in Hawaii's Green Economy: Agriculture, Energy and Natural Resource Management
- DBEDT: Residential building permits jump 67.5 percent
- Legislators Advance 50% Hike in GE Tax
- Utility Taxes Rerouted to Reward HSTA for Supporting Ige
- AirBnB to Become State’s Tax Collector
- Huge Progress? After Kicking Most Hawaiians Out, Nai Aupuni Aha Decides to … Adopt Roberts Rules of Order
- Thirty-Meter Telescope officials reviewing sites outside of Hawaii
- Hounded by Protesters, Geothermal Company Quits HELCO RFP
- Hawaii Needs All Types Of Farms, Including Industrial Operations
- Marijuana Application Process ‘Stinky’
- Leader of Charter School Oversight Agency Hounded out of Office By Corrupt Charter School Operators
- Kenoi’s Crony Ethics Board Continues to Obstruct
- Political Insiders Panic over Possibility of Elected Judges
- Committee begins search for new Kamehameha Schools trustee
- Honolulu Prosecutor Takes over Prosecution of Cult Boat operator
- HB2740: Legislators consider tough medicine for HMSA
- UH Rape Politics Enters Legislature
- Victims wait for justice as hundreds of rape kits go untested
- SB2316: HPV Vaccine Mandate
- WaPo: Obama has Failed, North Korea May Nuke Hawaii
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| Wednesday, February 10, 2016 |
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February 10, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:01 PM :: 5380 Views
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- Hawaii: Two Anti-Gun Bills Scheduled for Hearing Feb 10
- Kenoi Declares Dengue Emergency, Ige Refuses
- Hawaii ANG Unit Deploys to Fight ISIS
- Irony: GMO Marijuana Growers Threatened by Pollen Drift from Organic Hemp Farms
- Coop Proposes Alternative Power Generation Plan for Big Island
- Nai Aupuni Brainwashing
- Judge Throws out UPW Suit Against Hospital Privatization
- Crazy Idea: DOE could try more efficiency
- Unions Push State Subsidies for Failing, Bankrupt HHSC
- Panel, process for giving Cronies pot licenses to remain secret
- SB2753--Term limits for state legislators
- Feudal System Saved from Souki
- New HPD Assist Chief Has Long History of Trouble
- NextEra-HEI hearings likely to be extended again
- Monsanto is getting tired of being everybody's whipping boy
- Anti-GMO Airhead Ing -- ban genetically-modified salmon in Hawaii
- 95 Lose Jobs--Sugar plantation layoffs announced
- Brower: Turn Sand Island into Gigantic Homeless Tent City for 1,500
- Kahele’s Son to Seek Senate Nomination
- Election-Related Bills Before Legislature
- Senators Unanimously propose creation of new airport authority
- Push for victims’ constitutional right-to-know renewed at State Capitol
- Report--Escapee Shot by Hawaii County Police
- Push Hawaii lawmakers for pesticide buffer zones—but only for agriculture, not golf courses or other big pesticide users
- Humane Society Sticks up for Cat-Obsessives
- Solar Contractor Pleads Guilty to Tax Cheating—May Get Prison
- Waipio: 308 Acres Bulldozed for Bankrupt, Incomplete Solar Farm
- Talia's Bill To Curb US Military Child Abuse Passes House
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| Tuesday, February 9, 2016 |
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February 9, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:28 PM :: 5547 Views
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- HB868 Gut n Replace: DoE Sneak Attack on Special Ed Students
- Fee Simple Conversion Bills Killed after KSBE Protests
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted March 8, 2016
- Are Electric Cars Really Green?
- State Individual Income Tax Rates and Brackets for 2016
- HB1675: Gay Control of Religion
- State Looking For A TMT Hearing Officer–Deadline 430pm Today
- Bridge Aina Lea: Hawaii ‘Takings’ Case in Federal Court
- HB1886: Oshiro v Friedrichs to Save HGEA from Open Shop?
- Poll: Ige Even Less Popular than Caldwell
- HB1913: Small businesses in Hawaii could be exempt from G.E.T.
- State pension could face ‘volatile’ future
- Hawaii is a Sinking Ship
- Telescope: Will Investors Give Up?
- House Chairman Blocks Speaker’s Lease Conversion Bills on Orders from KSBE
- HB2571: Legislature Considering New HECO Business Model
- Proposals would expand after-school care for middle schoolers
- Hawaii law to limit tenants' stay in public housing advances
- Homeless find permanent housing during ‘successful’ start to Hale Mauliola
- Ernie Martin Obstructs Affordable Senior Housing project
- Firearms Bills At Hawaii Legislature
- Soft on Crime: New Ways to Let Criminals Roam Free
- Escapee Wanted for Shooting
- SB3016: Will the Hawaii Legislature finally allow the public to see the names of bad cops?
- Instead of immediate DUI arrest, HPD sergeant got ride home
- Airport security guards accused of bribery plead not guilty
- Karen Awana Running For Office?
- Disgusting Organic Mac Nuts Infested with Salmonella
- Atheists, Devil-Worshippers Renew Push to Drive God off Kaneohe Base
- Which is More Sacred: Crony Spawn or Albatross?
- Accused of Rape at UH? Women’s Center Wants to Talk You into Admitting Guilt
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| Monday, February 8, 2016 |
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February 8, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 12:49 PM :: 5249 Views
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- Pirate Video from Aha: Bumpy Kanahele Shouted Down, Walter Ritte Thrown Out
- HB1902 Sex Trafficking Reform Passes Judiciary
- DLNR Issues, Revises Kailua Bay Boating Incident News Release, Then Withdraws It
- HART Errors – Lack of Acknowledgement is Troublesome
- DLNR Sweeps Na Pali Coast--One Arrested, 70 Cited, Tons of Trash Airlifted Out
- Senate Superferry Bills on the Move
- Hawaii voters believe most misconduct is due to a few bad cops
- GE Tax Hike to Fund Bankrupt HHSC
- Where Are The Highest Paid State Workers? Public Health
- Only 19% Trust Aloha United Way With $5M for Homeless Projects
- Hawaii Energy Excelerator Funds Phony Wind Turbine Scheme
- Another Green Energy Scheme Goes Bankrupt
- Mauna Kea Telescope is Key Scientific Project for Indian Government—Will Tulsi Gabbard Step Up?
- Eco-Hypocrisy: Pandering, Selling Votes and Trashing the Aina
- HB686: Anti-GMO Morons Attack Fish without Explanation
- HPV: Legislators Bow to Anti-Vaxxers
- UH Grad Students Union Gets Hearing in House, Senate
- HB1802: Abusive Condo Associations
- Oahu 40 years Behind in Road Maintenance
- 27 Years: ‘Roads in limbo’ compound upkeep problems on island
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| Sunday, February 7, 2016 |
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February 7, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:39 PM :: 4408 Views
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- Campaign 2016: Dozens of Politicians Pull Papers in First Week
- Legislative Update: Death, Taxes, and Extracurricular Activities
- As Farms Close, Reps Ing and Lee Jump on Anti-GMO Bandwagon
- GEMS to Cool Classrooms?
- Indian Casinos for Hawaii? Karl Rhoads Awaits Instructions from Political Bosses
- Aha: First week of convention Focuses Push for Fake Indian Tribe
- Republican Primary Season for All Players
- Panicky Airhead Schatz Struggles to Appear Senatorial
- Term limits for Hawaii legislators and initiatives could revive isle politics
- Ferry plans face big hurdle in swelling culture of ‘no’
- HB2638: Make Public Housing a Ladder to Home Ownership
- Lawyers Salivate at Chance to get Money for Convicts
- SB2313: Field Day for Lawyers
- Senate committee approves bill imposing tax on E-cigarettes and E-liquids
- Cigar Tax Cut on Agenda for 2016?
- Marijuana Bills – Ban Home Grown?
- Caldwell’s Potholes Repaired with ‘Least Durable Method’
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| Saturday, February 6, 2016 |
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February 6, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 9:46 PM :: 4377 Views
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- DoH Releases Full List of Marijuana Dispensary Applicants
- Hawaii Superferry Eyed for Maine-Nova Scotia Route
- Anti-Family Bills Before Hawaii Legislature
- VIDEO: Planned Parenthood Uses Accounting Gimmicks to Hide Baby Parts Sales
- HSTA Pushes $750M GE Tax Hike
- HB1713: HSTA Bill Will Gut Ethics Law in Hawaii
- Feds: Caldwell’s Homeless Tent City is Distraction—Path to Failure
- NextEra’s ‘Unreasonable’ Plan: Windmills Everywhere and Undersea Cables to Connect Them
- 9th Circuit court to hear Maui GMO moratorium case
- Bad Day in Court for Burning Anti-Agriculture Activists
- Hi-Tech Scammers: Tax Real Companies to Pay for our Fake Companies
- Hi Tech Scammers: We don’t need to Develop any real Companies in Hawaii But You Must Give Us Money
- Chief Being Investigated by FBI, New Assistant Chief was arrested on a first-degree felony charge for terroristic threatening
- SHOPO files complaint over use of police body cameras on Kauai
- HB1525: Legislators Maneuvering to keep Homeless on the Streets
- Maui County Council Dithers as Ige Homeless Emergency Ticks Down to Feb 26 Expiration
- DLNR Removes 71 Homeless and Tons of Trash from Napali Coast Camps
- Obamacare: COFA Has until Feb 15 to Sign up
- DoE School Cancels Honors Classes in Effort to Promote ‘Equality’
- HMSA Imaging Ban ‘A Lawsuit Waiting to Happen’
- Child Molestation: HB1782--Erin’s Law for Hawaii
- Soft on Crime: Shot at a Cop, out on Parole, Does it Again, and Again
- State seeks proposals for secured privately-run mental patient facilities
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| Friday, February 5, 2016 |
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February 5, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:33 PM :: 4245 Views
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- SB2179: Decriminalize Methamphetamines, Heroin, Cocaine
- Gallup: Hawaii Conservatives Outnumber Liberals—State Ranks #3 in Moderates
- Cult Busted: Gabbard Financier Charged with Killing, Injuring Divers with Speedboat
- Nai Aupuni Aha Illegally Blocks Protesters from Walking on Stolen Hawaiian Kingdom Road
- Final Report: Only 14,564 Apply for Obamacare in Hawaii—Lowest in USA
- Ige Admin Denies Proposing Superferry Revival
- Business in Hawaii: Regulatory barriers and crippling tax rates
- KSBE: We Will Fight Leasehold Conversion Bills
- Oahu: 596 Homeless Veterans Permanently Housed
- Inspector General: Honolulu VA Hospital Fails on Suicide Prevention
- Hawaii Union Membership Slips to 20.4%
- Western States try again at Freeing Themselves from 9th Circuit Court
- Army announces decision on ‘biofuel-capable’ diesel electric plant
- Judge sends TMT back to Land Board
- Poll: Only 16 Percent Of Voters Feel Good About Honolulu Rail
- Kauai Plan to Hike GE Taxes ‘Flawed’
- Superferry idea worth vetting
- Romy Cachola’s Dream Ends Badly
- Feds: Soapy Water Pleases Hippies, but Doesn’t Kill Mosquitoes
- Governor works with developer on plan to build more affordable rentals
- Cronies Pour Money into Congressional Delegation
- Committee approves HB2193—Let lawmakers veto UH tuition hikes
- Faculty Members Sue UH Over Claims Of Broken Promises, Retribution
- UH Admin Let Kaimuki Properties Sit Empty for 39 Years
- UH coaches will continue to be HGEA members
- HMSA Imaging Ban Crowds Emergency Rooms
- SPED: DoE ‘Inclusion’ Policy Does not Include Education
- Legislature: Anti-Vaxxers Win a Big Victory for Germs
- Legislators Pander to Anti-Pesticide Hypocrites Before Killing Bill
- Committee OKs Bill Granting Public Access To Police Misconduct Records
- Super Bowl Looms, And A Lot Of Prison Guards Feel Colds Coming On
- High-ranking HPD promotion surrounded by controversy
- Defense Bar uses Continuances to Get up to 1/3 of DUIs Dismissed
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| Thursday, February 4, 2016 |
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February 4, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:20 PM :: 6890 Views
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- Presidential Race: Santorum Endorses Rubio--Huckabee, Paul, O’Malley Drop Out
- Hawaii ERS vs Petrobras: $98 Billion Bribery Case
- Ill-conceived ivory-ban legislation based on lies and deceit
- State Corporate Income Tax—Hawaii Competitive?
- Hawaii Open Budget Celebrates One Year Online
- Latest Solar Scam: Kauai Coop Warns Consumers
- On Peak Solar Days, Kauai Momentarily Hits 90% Renewable Energy
- Public Health Expert: Spread of Dengue, Zika Caused by Environmentalists
- Not Just Cane--Burning Lawsuit Impacts 140 Farming Operations in Hawaii
- Acquittal of Telescope Protesters Give Them Heckler’s Veto
- Ige Admin floats proposal to bring back ferry service -- then denies it (?)
- Kauai Council: $250M GE Tax hike won’t cure congestion
- HART Responsible for Pro-Bowl Parking Mess
- ‘Club Being Assembled’: Kenoi Cronies Stack ‘Ethics’ Commission, Prepare Whitewash
- Poll: Ige, Caldwell Failing On Homelessness
- Ige’s Hardest Job Is Just Making State Government Work
- HB2575 Renewable Energy: Will 100% Really Mean 100%?
- Storage Hype and Getting to 100%
- Bill would lower Hawaiian ancestry rule for homesteads
- Homosexual Child Molesters at Catholic Churches and Kam Schools Worked Together
- Lawsuit claims teachers kept autistic boy strapped to chair
- Resignations allow HPD to Hide Police Misconduct
- HB2335: Get Rid of Bad MDs from other States
- Reality Check: Hawaii Tourism on a 30 Year Decline
- Boom Goes Bust? Hughes Delays Construction of Two Luxe Towers
- Bike lane study to block lanes, jam traffic in Kailua
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| Wednesday, February 3, 2016 |
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February, 2016 Letters to the Editor
By Letters to the Editor @ 7:40 PM :: 5173 Views
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Ill-conceived ivory-ban legislation based on lies and deceit
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| Wednesday, February 3, 2016 |
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February 3, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:03 PM :: 6334 Views
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- Sovereignty Activists’ Declaration Protesting Na’i Aupuni, Federal Recognition
- Time To Elect Hawaii's Judges? Maybe Not Such A Bad Idea
- Renewable Energy: How the 100% Mandate Hurts Hawaii
- DraftKings Quitting Hawaii After Prosecutor Issues Cease-and-Desist Letter
- Experts split on rail’s options
- Mainland Homosexuals Target First Amendment, Children, Bathrooms in Hawaii
- HB1701: Hawaii First State to Introduce ‘Safe Child Act’
- HSPAN: Hawaii Capitol On Demand Video
- Looking back at the 2015 Hawaii Legislature
- Video: Anti-GMO Crackpot Peddles ‘Molecular Hydrogen’ Tablets
- Communist Acquitted Killer Named Inouye Professor at UH Manoa
- HB2712: Will Legislators Save Telescope with Zoning Change?
- Committee OKs Bill To Shield UH Regents From Revealing Financial Info
- An audit of UH?
- Audit: Hawaii DoE Sped Programs ‘Marginal, Inefficient’
- Medicare: “Value-based” payment can encourage unethical behavior
- Dengue Emergency? Gabbard, Ige Jostle for Credit
- Anti-GMO Activists, Anti-Vaxxers: Dumb and Dumbest
- HPV vaccination bill spurs emotional debate
- Committee Defers Bill to Fly Homeless Back to Mainland
- On the Move in the Legislature
- Caldwell Has $1.6M For Re-Election
- Nearly 6,000 HMSA members did not reenroll in ACA plans, insurer says
- Hawaii Had a Master Plan for Prisons in the 1970s—It Didn’t Work Either
- SHOPO Claims to Support Heightened HPD Discipline
- Pro-Bowl: Total Frustration Four Hours in Traffic
- Hawaii is the top state for potential savings through mortgage refinancing
- Kauai: 62% oil Powered Electricity, Oahu 85%
- Ige Not very Interested in LNG Plan
- More NextEra Merger News
- Lawsuit: Hawaii man HIV-positive after blood transfusion
- Legislators Push Back Against Cesspool Ban
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| Tuesday, February 2, 2016 |
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February 2, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:33 PM :: 5215 Views
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- Incumbents Challenged on Day One--Candidates Begin Filing on Maui, Big Island
- McCain strikes at Jones Act to reform U.S. energy policy
- Report: Russian, Iranian Hackers Behind Honolulu School Bomb Threats
- HOPE Probation: Confronting America’s Drug-Overdose Epidemic
- BBB: Hawaii Ranks #2 for Scams
- Caldwell Raises GE Taxes $1.1 Billion
- Na'i Aupuni 'aha begins, protestors unite
- Nai Aupuni likely to broaden and deepen the mistrust
- Galuteria, Akana Double Dipping to Attend Nai Aupuni Oprah Aha – Ing Chickens Out
- After Clearing Kakaako, Caldwell, Martin Conspire to Build Gigantic Homeless Tent City in Wahiawa
- Legislature Mulls Fly-Homeless-Home Program
- 19,000 families on waiting list to get public housing
- Paradise? Real Suffering Ignored While Activists Babble About Imaginary Nonsense
- HB1778: Kill a Baby, Go to Jail? – Not in Soft on Crime Hawaii
- HPD reports firing of 17 officers, major increase in discipline
- Hawaii Ranks 29th for Gun Control Nuts
- Hilo Hospital Closing Down Long Term Care, Reducing HGEA Positions
- Can You Afford To Be A Teacher In The Islands?
- NextEra-HEI merger hearing resumes
- Feds Force Stations to Keep Selling Ethanol Gas, Despite State Law Repeal
- Fans Miss Pro-Bowl Due to Long Lines at Aloha Stadium
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| Monday, February 1, 2016 |
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February 1, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:02 PM :: 5483 Views
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- Golf Club Aha: John Waihee Returns to the Scene of the Crime
- Aha Participants Asked to Leave Weapons at Home
- Pirate Video from Aha: Bumpy Kanahele Shouted Down, Walter Ritte Thrown Out
- Oprah Aha Does Not Represent Hawaiian Public
- Complete List of 2016 Gambling Bills
- Labeling a Cop Out Mentality
- Rail’s Numbers – A Pattern of Errors and Inconsistencies
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted February 1, 2016
- The REIT Way Hawaii
- 772 Homeless Accepted Housing Last Year
- Drumbeat for More GE Tax Hikes
- REIT Tax is Back for 2016
- HB2638 limits Public Housing tenants’ stay to 7 years
- Breast Feeding Jurors on legislative agenda
- HB2005 Care Homes: More unannounced visits and licensing fees in exchange for more money
- $27M Hilo airport warehouse still vacant
- Must Hawaii be the State that just Cannot Plan?
- Civil Beat Kisses up to Ige Some More
- Civil Beat Kisses up to Takai Some More
- Fatal Boating Accident Linked to Tulsi Gabbard Cult
- Bullying on the Legislative Agenda
- Tom Brower is a Bully
- Human Papillomavirus Vaccine By 7th Grade?
- SB2158: No State Funds for Bottled Water
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| Sunday, January 31, 2016 |
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January 31, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:56 PM :: 6220 Views
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- Gambling on a Hawaiian Tribe
- UHERO: New Perspectives on Land and Housing Markets in Hawaii
- Hawaii Business Roundtable Announces Support for NextEra Energy and HEI Merger
- Apply Now for Vacant Seat: State Commission on Water Resource Management
- Delegates ‘Not Optimistic’ As Closed Aha Gathers at Luxury Golf Resort
- Threats arise ahead of Native Hawaiian 'aha
- Leaders dig into new round of frustration and frivolity
- Star-Adv: Start talking now about Using Rail as Excuse to Make GE Tax Hike Permanent
- GE Tax Hike Will Increase Suffering in Our Community
- Names surface for Kahele’s successor
- Ige’s 1,000 cool classrooms face a credibility problem
- Marijuana Dispensary license application period ends—Which Cronies Will be Picked?
- Point in Time Count—Need to Maximize Homeless to Maximize Federal Dollars
- Big Island Homeless Count – Hope for 2,000 This Year
- SB2464: Homeless Alkies Move from Mainland, Want Josh Green to Tax Your House to Buy Them More Beer
- Legislature again considering bill to make consumer complaints secret
- Maui Jail: Even the Planning Funds Eliminated from Ige Budget
- SB2778 Puts Airport Security Under Control of Sheriff
- HGEA: HC&S Layoffs are Opportunity for us to ‘Create Positions’
- HGEA, UPW: Dengue Fever is Opportunity for us to ‘Create Positions’
- MECO: Cheap Oil is Saving You Money on Electricity, but Don’t Worry, Were Getting Rid of It
- Feds Plan to Use Endangered Species Act to Shut Down Hunting in Hawaii
- Hawaii Mulling Mandatory Insurance For Gun Owners
- Obama Hawaii DoE a Model for Computer Science Success
- Parents say teen victims of cyber-assaults received little or no help from DOE
- Domestic violence #2 in arrests
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| Saturday, January 30, 2016 |
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January 30, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:29 PM :: 5003 Views
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- Reason: Conversion Therapy Is Bad, but Banning It Is a Form of Unacceptable Censorship
- The Drama of the Jones Act Follies
- HB1686: New standard for involuntarily commitment to psychiatric facility
- Sex, Drugs, Gambling and Suicide on Legislative Agenda
- Fact Sheet: Nelson v Hawaiian Homes Commission
- VIDEO: How a Bill Becomes a Law
- Advocates for Abused and Neglected Children Needed on Oahu
- Hi Tech Scammers: Tax Real Companies to Line our Pockets
- Vote by Mail on the move at Legislature
- No Joke: University of Hawaii seeks revenue bond authority again from Legislature
- Lawmakers consider UH salary cap
- HB1713: Reverse Ethics Ruling on Teacher Travel
- 10 Years Later—Sudden ‘Urgency’ on State Mental Hospital
- Once again, State promises change after losing more millions in another inmate-related settlement
- Usual Suspects Propose State Allow Homeless Tent Cities to Remain
- Dengue: Ige Still Inactive after Gabbard Demands Fever Emergency
- Intelligent Person Forced to Quit Pesticide ‘Fact-Finding’ Group
- District-Based Kauai Council Charter Amendment Popular
- Military? Voting is our right and responsibility
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| Friday, January 29, 2016 |
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January 29, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:34 PM :: 5084 Views
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- ‘Entire Process Corrupt’–Protests will Greet Nai Aupuni at Luxury Golf Resort ‘Aha
- Guam Governor Endorses Ted Cruz for President
- Where Do Americans Take Their Retirement Income?
- If the state legalizes any form of gambling, federal law would allow Native American tribes to then buy property in Hawaii and build a casino
- SB2938: Ige Pushes 19% Gas Tax Increase
- Grabauskas: $3.7B = $5.2B and the Additional $1.2B is My Enemies’ Fault
- Hawaii leaders are admitting that what used to be just problems are now catastrophes
- CDC: Hawaii Organics and anti-chemical feelings are ‘Unsurmountable obstacle’ to Dealing With a Zika Outbreak
- 77,000 installed solar PV systems across Hawaii
- HB2638 would limit tenants’ years in public housing
- Forbes: Restrictions on Hawaii Marijuana Dispensaries will Leave Black Market Intact
- Lawmakers Defer Lower Blood-Alcohol Limit For Drivers, Approve Car Smoking Ban
- Prisons officials seek private partnership for new jail
- Privatizing Honokohau Harbor floated
- Restore HMSA waivers ASAP
- DLNR officer faces possible 20 years in rape case
- Security guards indicted for taking bribes at airport
- FBI takes over theft, bribery case involving Maui officers
- Marines fired commander days before deadly helicopter crash in Hawaii
- Billy Kenoi’s Chief Crony Announces Run for Mayor
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| Thursday, January 28, 2016 |
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January 28, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:59 PM :: 4452 Views
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- 2016 Elections: Candidate Filing Begins Monday Feb 1
- Fraud Risk as HGEA, UPW Members Give Each Other Undocumented Vacation, Sick Leave
- State bank bill deferred
- Is HART's train factory a joke?
- Aloha Aina Activists Holding their Own ‘Aha
- Hawaii Reclaims Top Spot in U.S. Well-Being
- 8.6M–Tourism Sets New Record for 2015
- Council Passes GE Tax Hike: Extending Rail to Manoa More Important than Affordable Housing
- Kobayashi: Rail Will go Bankrupt
- Hawaii County Council Considers Massive GE Tax Hike – Would Take $20M out of Consumers’ Pockets
- Kauai Council Considers Massive GE Tax Hike
- 10 Bills that would raise taxes
- Hawaii lawmakers file 2,000 bills on lottery, ferry, guns
- Hanabusa, HSTA Team up to Gut Hawaii Ethics Laws
- Governor Just another small voice in Union Orchestrated Chorus
- A proposed bill could cut salaries of 10 UH executive employees
- Don’t politicize medical licensure
- SB3022: Bring Back Superferry
- More Privileges for Electric Car Eco-Elites
- Bike share Program Has $2.5M Won’t do Anything Unless Legislature Wastes Another $8M
- Proposal would require gun insurance, firearm renewals every 5 years
- Making it easier to hospitalize the mentally ill could help ease homelessness
- Pensions at Risk: Bill Pushes for Oil and Coal Divestment
- Hawaii Bill Would Legalize Marijuana for Recreational Use
- HB1677: Oversee Dope Doctors, HB2455: Price Controls for Weed
- In Soft on Crime Hawaii, Bills Make it Even Easier to Let Criminals Roam Free
- State lawmakers push for new bill to expand public database of officer wrongdoings
- Kona police officer charged with assault
- Rod Tam to Run for State Senate?
- Confessions Of A Native Hawaiian Poster Child
- Inaccuracies sink report critical of Jones Act
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| Wednesday, January 27, 2016 |
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January 27, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:00 PM :: 3935 Views
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- Study: HTA Faking Pro Bowl Tourism Numbers
- Grassroot Budget Report Highlights Missing Element In Governor's Address
- Humpback Go Back: Feds Back off of Grab for Hawaii Waters
- The DoD Biofuel Scam Is Worse Than Solyndra
- 2015: Hawaii Adds Most Construction Jobs Per Capita
- Will Navy Buy More Foreign-Built Ships?
- Government IT Transformation: 2016 Legislative Priorities
- Sen Gil Kahele Dead at 73
- Charter Commission Defers Proposal to Repeal Affordable Housing Fund
- Ige’s already nervous. This is gonna be painful.
- Ige ‘Cooling’ Plan: $100K Per Classroom
- Legislators Propose Tax Hike on Workers to Pay others not to Work
- Criminal Escapes Lunatic Asylum Thanks to HGEA Members Leaving Gate Open
- Mainland Dopers Like Hawaii’s System for Selling Weed
- HB1675: Molester Can ‘Turn’ your Son and You Can’t Turn him Back
- Gay Panic: ‘Conversion Therapy’ Does Not Exist in Hawaii
- Bill would criminalize consensual sex between teachers and teens
- Hawaii per pupil spending is $11,743 rank 16th in USA
- DoE Double Pays 223 Teachers—May Try to Get $100K Back
- UH Manoa: Howling Lynch Mob of Perfessers Screaming ‘Racism’
- HB2156 Fund Campaign Spending Commission
- Should Hawaii Elect Its Judges And AG?
- Kauai: No GE Tax Hike
- Reps. Evans, Mizuno and Morikawa Raising Cash During Session
- More Legislative News:
- NextEra-HECO Hearings to Re-Start on Monday
- Micronesians ‘Younger, Sicker’ Than Other Hawaii Groups
- Isles rank near bottom for jobs in STEM fields
- What is WalletHub and why are we listening to them?
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| Tuesday, January 26, 2016 |
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January 26, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 10:37 AM :: 5289 Views
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- GEMS: Electric Ratepayers Pay Millions for Nothing
- Full Text: State of the State Address
- Republicans on State of the State: 5 Things We Can Agree On, 5 Areas for Improvement
- Jones Act: “Diffuse costs and concentrated benefits”
- Video: Budget or Bust
- UH Cancer Center: E-Cigs are Cutting Deep into our Tobacco Tax Revenue—So We’re Hitting Back
- State of the State: Illusions, Unspent Money, and Zero
- State of the State: Ige Snatches Abercombie’s GEMS
- Progress? Ige Touts DoH Ability to Spend Money
- Busted: Hawaii Tax Credit Scammers Caught Lying About Failure Rate of Their Fake ‘Startup’ Companies
- Rail operations will raise taxes 9%—$90M per Year Forever
- Supreme Court Rejects Kam Schools Effort to Suppress Evidence in Other Child Molestation Case
- Hawaii Senator Wins Residency Appeal
- World’s Most Expensive Resort Ever To Be Built In Hawaii For $2 Billion by Jeff Stone
- Boom Over? The same thing happened in the last building booms. Each condo project sold fast, until one didn't
- Humpback: DLNR Opposes Federal Grab for Control of Hawaii Waters
- County Mayors Are Back With A Familiar Request — More Tax Money
- Souki Introduces Lottery Bill
- Lawmaker proposes Bellagio-like fountains at State Capitol
- Privatizing Building Permits
- Bill would let Hawaii pharmacists prescribe birth control
- Death Panels: HMSA Proves Sarah Palin Right
- HGEA and UPW Order Legislators to Raise Questions about HHSC long-term care facilities
- New bill proposes lowering blood-alcohol-content levels in Hawaii
- Bullying Professors Scream Racism (again) at UH Manoa
- Number of abused kids in Hawaii up slightly
- Airport Ceiling Collapse Generates $900K Contract
- Criminal Lunatic Escapes Again—Recaptured by Police
- UH researchers say Hawaii wildfires strongly linked to Abandonment of Ag Lands
- Obama Admin Gives HCDA Money for Local Food Production … in Kakaako
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| Monday, January 25, 2016 |
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January 25, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:24 PM :: 5365 Views
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- Crabbe: Plan is to Take Control of Hawaii’s Entire Economy and Hide Behind Tribal Jurisdiction
- Bishop Museum to ‘Focus on Disposition of Assets’
- Another Brand New Navy Ship Breaks Down
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 25, 2016
- Council Final Vote on massive GE Tax Hike & Rail Extension to UH Manoa Wednesday
- Ige Starting to Look Like a Weak Governor
- Politics At Play With UH Maintenance Backlog
- Dawn Ige Headlines Education Conference
- Business Top Priority: Stopping Tax Hikes
- County Councils’ Priorities: Gut Sunshine Law, Abolish First Amendment
- School-community councils Inactive at many Schools
- HB1680: Outlaw Non-Dispensary Marijuana
- Judicial system should keep child molesters off the street
- Body Cam Rules top Police Reform Agenda
- Grand jury to look into airport bribery allegations
- Frustration: Greenwell ‘Surprised’ By Sudden Bishop Museum Sale Announcement
- Analyst: LNG Likely Would Save Hawaii Billions
- Hawaii among the worst states for retirees
- Will barking Sands Defend Hawaii or Mainland?
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| Sunday, January 24, 2016 |
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January 24, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:21 PM :: 4603 Views
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- Hirono: Obama’s CIA Spied on Me
- Honolulu Rail Project Cost Approaching One Half of Boston Big Dig
- HB326: Bad Mortgages to be Foundation for Calvin Say State Bank
- Tax Is for the Birds
- Ige to Propose Massive Utility Tax Hike--use hot schools as excuse
- Ige Calls for More Spending Questioned After Departments Fail to Spend Federal Money
- Governor No Can Do
- HGEA Job Trust: 45 Years old Computers Churn out State Payroll
- SB2297: Allow Counties to take Over Utilities via Eminent Domain
- Maui News: County Has No Idea How to Run Utility
- Puunene Mill will no longer provide power to the island's electric grid—may cause blackouts
- State Seizes HC&S Water
- Anti-GMO activists endangering future of agriculture in Hawaii
- Barking dog law a sad sign of changing times on Kauai
- Combine ax-grinding masquerading as science with poor reporting, and what do you get?
- After Massive Rate Hikes, HMSA Now Refusing to Pay for X-Rays, CAT Scans
- Wednesday is Deadline for Legislators to Introduce Bills
- Bills: Campaign Spending, Ballots, Open Gov’t on the Agenda
- Hawaii Future Caucus Outlines Agenda
- Ballot-Photo law to be reconsidered this legislative session
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