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| Tuesday, September 8, 2015 |
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September 8, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:07 PM :: 6025 Views
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- Hawaii: $100M in Tech Fraud in Just one Year
- Ige's DoT Slaps Down Takai's $100M Rail Bailout Scheme
- Lawmakers will have more money to fritter away
- Tax cheat Al Hee asks for a new trial, blames the IRS
- Hospital Privatization Marks Shift from Public Sector Labor to Private Sector Labor
- Can Consumers Use NextEra Chaos to Get Better Deal on Rates?
- Malia Zimmerman asks state court to order sale of Sen. Slom’s house
- 71 Empty Beds as Homeless Continue to Refuse Shelter
- Agreement with HCDA allows all sidewalks in Kakaako to be cleared
- Hawaii's Useless Congressional Delegation Still Dreams of Using Kakaako Camp to Score Federal Funds
- Bizarre News: Honolulu Among Top Cities Showing Improved Livability
- Time for New Approach to Fast-Rising Heroin Addiction
- UH Med School Built Child Care Center, Forgot About it for Decade
- Kindergartner goes to ER for dehydration, police reports filed
- HPD internal affairs probes deaths of 2 dogs left in van outside cell block for 24 hours
- Shortage of Dock Space Leaves Hawaiian Sailing Canoe Adrift
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| Monday, September 7, 2015 |
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September 7, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:35 PM :: 3759 Views
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- Autism: Federal Judge Orders DoE to Pay for Special Education in Private Schools
- 9 Years of Hawaii Law Blogging
- Mayor’s 9-11 Remembrance Walk held Sunday
- Telescope: Major delay and added costs coming
- Charges for medevac flights soar
- Waikiki condo manager frustrated by homeless woman who refuses help
- Star-Adv: Oppose Bike Lanes? Sit down and shut up
- Obama: Federal Contractors must pay for sick leave
- The Grinch is about to give back Christmas
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| Sunday, September 6, 2015 |
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September 6, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:15 PM :: 6062 Views
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- New UH Policy: Rape is just another Violation of Political Correctness
- The State of Fathers in the State of Hawai‘i
- Hawaii Free Market Solutions to Homelessness & Affordable Housing
- Statewide immunization rates for HPV lagging
- What Should We Be Asking of the HECO Merger?
- Revealed: How Telescope Fits in to OHA's Ceded Lands Cashflow
- DLNR Expects Mauna Kea Land Transfer before Legislature Convenes
- State lawsuit weaves a tale of graft, political cronyism
- Public Favors Electric Co-op, Opposes Government-Owned Utility
- Coop? Public Ownership? Former PUC Chair Speaks Out
- Borreca: Ige, NextEra Not Listening to Each Other
- 'Value-based' payment a threat to Hawaii health care
- Organizers cancel Children and Youth Day event at state Capitol
- Child-abuse list at heart of a lawsuit filed against state agency
- Oahu Beset With Commuter Chaos
- Researchers are trying again to help you take your medicine
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| Saturday, September 5, 2015 |
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September 5, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:53 PM :: 3938 Views
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- Hawaii Republican Presidential Caucus Set for Tuesday March 8, 2016
- Supreme Court to take up case involving alleged retaliation by powerful state senator
- Governor Touts 13 Kakaako homeless moved to shelter--but 6 Return to Street after One Night
- Honolulu Gun Destruction Reveals Radical Gun Control Agenda
- Drillers Unleash 'Super-Size' Natural Gas Output
- Deadline to File as Candidate for 'Aha is September 15
- Former top UH budget exec qualifies for retirement nine months after being replaced
- Maui Gives State Utility Regulators an Earful on NextEra Deal
- NextEra Energy underestimated challenges in Hawaii during HECO sale process, exec says
- DoT to Waste $2M Studying 'Water Recycling at Airports'
- Hawaii County 'Ethics' Commission to Pretend to Question Kenoi Crony
- Kakaako Homeless Refuse Shelter, 51 Empty Beds in Waipahu Available
- Criminal With Lengthy Rap Sheet Violated TRO Got Probation Before Home Invasion
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| Friday, September 4, 2015 |
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September 4, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:49 PM :: 3872 Views
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- Auditor: DoTax allows $2B in Tax Credits Without Checking
- Obama Push for Federal Recognition is On
- Lawmakers Call for Exploration of Publicly Owned Utilities for Hawaii
- Ward: Coop Does not Mean Lower Rates
- Report: Hawaii 1st in solar energy per capita
- Bridge Aina Lea: Federal Court Dismisses Most of Case
- A Mom on a Mission for Science
- Omidyar’s EBay urged to Stop Selling Illegal Drugs
- Call for nominations for University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents
- Moody's Downgrades UH as System Burns Cash Reserves
- DoTax Wastes $87M on Failed Tech Upgrades, Wants $30M More
- Morita: Utility ownership models a distraction
- Wrong Species: Caldwell Spokesman says Sewage Flooding Claims are 'Bullshit'
- 13 More homeless moved out of Kakaako and into shelters
- CoR: More Money for 2016, But Hawaii’s Fiscal Forecast Less Certain Later
- iLEAD Charter School denied second time
- Legislators: We Gave DoE $258M for AC--Where is it?
- Start School Cool--After Labor Day
- Trifling over field trips does disservice to teachers, kids
- Soft On Crime: Multiple Felony Convictions, out on the Street Does it Again
- Cops in Court
- Anti-GMO Activists Hold Back Progress
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| Thursday, September 3, 2015 |
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September 3, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:34 PM :: 5307 Views
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- Djou: "I don't care for Mr Trump"
- State Sues Tech Firm for Buying Influence with Abercrombie Administration
- Big Solar's Subsidy Bubble
- Former World Bank Chief Economist: Jones Act Very Costly
- Honolulu Recycling Plan Needs Revisions
- Apo: Failure of Akaka Bill Creates Power Vacuum
- Chang: Telescope Gonna Lose at Supreme Court
- Council re-vote on rail measures considered
- New Proposal Means More Questions for Hawaiian Electric?
- Does Health Connector Ineptitude Mask Wrongdoing?
- State officials want to Build Homeless Housing on Waianae Coast
- Kailua residents concerned with growing number of aggressive homeless
- Kakaako homeless camp attracting flies
- Assault reported on another worker at State Hospital
- Oahu teacher sent to ER due to heat exhaustion in classroom
- Council approves mayor’s bill for accessory dwelling units
- Refined Oil is Hawaii's Largest Export
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| Wednesday, September 2, 2015 |
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September 2, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:30 PM :: 5053 Views
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- Closing the DoE achievement gap: "Inadequate Progress Made"
- Maui Hires Consultant to Study Utility Takeover Options
- Video: Baby Parts dealers “funding places in Hawaii for themselves”
- Telescope Prediction: Hawaii Supreme Court Will Rule for Challengers
- Morita: "Very expensive energy transformation done on the backs of those who can least afford it"
- NextEra Pushes Back Against Utility Coop Model
- NextEra Energy's initial HECO sale application doesn't apply anymore, exec says
- When Cops Become Criminals: Arrests of HPD Officers Point to a ‘Culture of Corruption’
- Honolulu earns a C grade for small business friendliness, Thumbtack survey finds
- DOE’s budget to air-condition schools Debated
- Hawaii Board of Education Passes Student Discipline Policy
- BoE Seeks Ethics Workaround on Free Travel
- Councilmembers vote to override veto of sit-lie ban expansion
- Schatz: Housing First Is Solution to Hawaii’s Homelessness Problem
- Homeless Taking over Kewalo Basin
- Hawaii County Council Grudgingly Votes to Raise Ethics to Kenoi's Level
- Residents petition DOH for stricter cane burning rules
- First Plea in Molokai Fishing Attack
- Fishing Dispute Muddies Already Confusing State of Sovereignty Claims
- Why one naturopath quit after watching her peers treat cancer patients
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| Tuesday, September 1, 2015 |
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September 1, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:25 PM :: 8389 Views
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- VIDEO: Suit Gives Voice to the Silent Majority of Hawaiians
- Full Text: NextEra Makes its Case for Merger
- Auditor: Hawaii Health Connector Sent $21.6M to a House in Virginia
- Hawaii Community Colleges Ranked
- Auto Theft, Fuel Cost, and Commute Time Make Hawaii one of Worst States for Drivers
- Eight Legislators to Face Criminal Charges--Rep Tokioka agrees to plea deal
- Renewable? 100% Does not Really Mean 100%
- Anti-Cane Burning Activists: We are Planning A&B's Future
- Takai Plan: Loot Highway Funds to pay for Rail
- Millionaire Eco-Hypocrite to Co-opt Public Land on Diamond Head?
- DoE 1,100 Homeless Families Send Kids to Schools
- UH Admin Racks up $18M in Deferred Maintenance to Justify Awarding $50M to Contractor
- DoTax to Hire Private Bill Collector to Chase down Tax Debtors
- Bills would extend help to businesses coping with rail construction
- Christians Help Kakaako Homeless into Apartments
- Maui County Council Hides Minutes from OIP
- $173M Proposal to Wall off Ala Wai Canal
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| Monday, August 31, 2015 |
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August 31, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:32 PM :: 3346 Views
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- Manufacturing a (Tax) Problem
- Honolulu: Mayor Caldwell Gives up $575,000 to aid Gun Manufacturers
- Court: Removal of Protest Signs OK After City Finally Figures out how to Seize Property
- DOE has no plan to boost students' college-readiness
- UH Defers Maintenance seeking $50M Grift to Contractors
- Star-Adv to Feds: We Built America's Largest Homeless Tent City--Where's Our Prize Money?
- How Cheaper Energy Could Change Our Lives
- Inmates on work furlough to don electronic monitors in Bid for more Funding
- BOE to Consider Milder Student Discipline Policy Tuesday
- Pop Warner Anti-Bullying Campaign
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| Sunday, August 30, 2015 |
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August 30, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:18 PM :: 8115 Views
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- What are Homeless Hawaiians Worth to OHA?
- Hawaii is Worst State to Start Post-College Life
- Taxing Digital Goods
- State Workers Obstruct Tech Upgrades so they can Milk Overtime System
- DoTax' Next Tech Disaster Takes Page from DoT's Last Tech Disaster
- OHA Subcontractor Nai Aupuni Repeats Debunked Claim it is Independent of OHA
- Challenge the constitutionality of Hawaii's Act 195
- Homelessness Industry Plans Shelter Space Shell game
- NextEra Rebuttal to Ige Due Monday
- Caldwell Now Claims no Sewage Pumps Were Offline
- Getting browned off by dirty water, murky politics
- Group of Kauai voters want to know AG’s intentions for criminal prosecution of Rep. Tokioka
- Chronicle of a reporter and his pet politician
- Tainted soil found at Makalapa Elementary School
- KSBE to Redevelop Hotel as 'Education Center'
- Borreca: GOP risks losing everything with Trump
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| Saturday, August 29, 2015 |
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August 29, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:42 PM :: 4447 Views
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- Feds Secretly Threaten to Revoke UH Manoa Biolab Permits
- UH Manoa Army ROTC named one of the best in the nation
- Ignacio to hit Big Island Monday, Jimena Following
- State, feds to waste another $3.3M and $2.8M on Hawaii Health Connector
- Rail: Oh now you hire an Accounting Expert
- Union Hospital Status Quo is Unsustainable
- Jones Act: Why it's so Expensive
- Caldwell Coverup: Environmentalist criticizes city for not testing for sewage in Waikiki on day of spill
- Caldwell Sets New Record for Sewage
- Kakaako homeless Have Plenty of Excuses for Refusing Shelter
- Local developer: public private partnership key for affordable housing to end homelessness
- Water Bills Drop 21% Due to Lower Electric Rates
- The Student-Loan Siphon
- Caldwell to Remove Lane from South Street
- Soft on Crime: 36 Priors and Does it Again, Gets 6 Years
- 75 foot Hose to be used to Spray Haleakala with Roundup--Protesters Silent
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| Friday, August 28, 2015 |
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August 28, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:13 PM :: 6207 Views
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- Moody's Downgrade: Is Ige's LNG Edict a Poison Pill Defense?
- Excise Taxes: Hawaii Ranks #5
- Federal Judge Blocks Federal Grab for Control of Waterways
- Marcia Tagavilla Appointed Executive Director of Hawaii GOP
- Hawaii Supreme Court Preparing Excuses to Reject Telescope
- Hallmark of the Ige administration: the lack of an explanation
- Ige's LNG Decision Will Lead to Rate Hikes
- Hawaii electricity cost drop 23 percent after oil price fall
- North Shore Unanimously Rejects sea wind farm
- Unfunded Liabilities: Billion Down, Ten Billion to go
- Hanabusa Postures on $9M Ansaldo Giveaway
- Kakaako homeless to be removed from only One Street
- OHA Still Hoping to Score Megabucks off Homelessness Crisis
- Soft on Crime: 22 Priors, Out on the Street, Stabs Another
- Honolulu Is the Nation’s Most Expensive City for Singles
- Kauai: Influx of Mainland Progressives Causes Inequality
- With Cane Smoke Suit Looming, HC&S Seeks to Eliminate Requirement to Provide 'Firm Power' to MECO
- Civil Beat: Lets Find New and Amazing Ways to Stick it to Fishermen and Consumers
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| Thursday, August 27, 2015 |
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August 27, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:44 PM :: 5153 Views
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| Wednesday, August 26, 2015 |
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August 26, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:12 PM :: 5285 Views
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- Hawaii: Tech Still Receiving Massive Business Tax Subsidies
- After Lying, Caldwell Admin Finally Admits Waikiki Flooding is Purely Due to City's own Incompetence
- Telescope Case Goes Before Supreme Court Aug 27
- Ige Leadership Big Announcement: 28 Shelter Spaces Open Up
- Rep McDermott and Darryl Vincent Discuss Veteran Homelessness in Hawaii
- Hope Street: New Teacher Leadership Growth in Hawaii
- Planned Parenthood Baby Parts Buyer Wants “Another 50 Livers/Week”
- Leftover Inouye Cronies Dysfunctional, Weak
- LNG: Ige Nukes Hawaii--How Much Damage?
- Rate Hikes Coming: Solar Scammers Cheered by Ige's Rejection of LNG
- PUC Faces Oct 1 Deadline to Kill Off Hee's Scam Company
- AG files campaign reporting violation charges against Kauai Rep Tokioka
- What the state is looking for in a Maui hospital private partner
- Slow Section 8 Inspections Blamed for Lack of Subsidized Units, Homelessness
- Anti-GMO Leader Peddles 'Chemtrails' Conspiracy Theory
- Hawaii DLNR Official Hired, Fired Virginia Shooter
- Air Force Worried about N Korean Missiles Hitting Hawaii, Deploys B-2 Bombers to Guam
- Jones Act Lobby Gets Panicky over Puerto Rico
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| Tuesday, August 25, 2015 |
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August 25, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:39 PM :: 11761 Views
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- Smoke-Belching 'Biomass' Project Tops Hawaii 'Clean' Energy Leaderboard
- Affordable Retirement? Honolulu Ranks 145th
- Mainland Homosexual Pleads No Contest to Murdering Boyfriend in Waikiki, Chopping up Body
- Increased Incarceration Reduces Hawaii Crime Rate Sharply
- Kaiser Permanente Hawaii and Hawaii Pacific Health vie for Maui hospital merger
- HHSC Privatization: Maui, Hawaii Co, Kauai Next?
- Chun Oakland's Reelect Me Event in danger of falling over ethics cliff
- Star-Adv, HNN Agree Homeless Do Not Need Permanent Housing (!)
- Ige Comes out Against LNG for Hawaii
- Customers would save $400 over five years under NextEra plan, exec says
- Lanai Windfarms--31 Months of Secrecy
- The Players: Meet Linda Lingle, Superstar Illinois COO
- Kauai: Guardian's Anti-GMO Piece Debunked
- Guam: Jones Act Reform an Alternative to Federal Handouts
- Bill 20 Would Chip Away at Housing Shortage
- Star-Adv Printing Press Still Fried
- Flooding, Sewage Spills Across Oahu
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| Monday, August 24, 2015 |
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August 24, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:18 PM :: 3973 Views
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- Tulsi Gabbard Running for Vice President
- Federal Prosecutors Fight Back After Judge Orders Return of $167K Seized from Maui Resident
- OHA Funded Waikiki Anti-Telescope March, Contributed Red Nai Aupuni Shirts
- Star-Adv: Homeless Crisis Should be Milked for COFA Money
- First-Ever Head of Hawaiian Education Foresees ‘Revolutionary’ Changes
- Bike-sharing program is Excuse for More Lane Eliminations
- Council Opposes HART Use of Eminent Domain to Seize Blood Bank for Rail
- Lawyer: Homosexual Dismembered Boyfriend's Body Before Fleeing to Mainland
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| Sunday, August 23, 2015 |
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August 23, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:41 PM :: 6909 Views
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- IRS, Could You Please Answer the Phone?
- Will PUC Finally Shut Down Al Hee's Scam Company? -- Bishop Estate Trustee Implicated
- Housing adviser’s strength should be policy, not politics
- Too much time has been wasted while homeless children live on the street
- Profitable: OHA Demands 'Fair Market Rent' to Allow Massive Oceanfront Homeless Shelter
- Maui Solar Telescope Benefits 350 Students at UH Maui Campus
- NextEra Beat Down Continues
- Appeals court upholds authority of State Ethics Commission to enforce ethics laws
- Chatter About Gabbard Running for VP Continues into Fourth Day
- Kauai: UK Guardian Sprays Island With Anti-GMO Ignorance
- Eco-Morons Want to Construct 60-mile Lay net in Mid Pacific
- Activists Push for Family Leave Law--Unfunded Employer Mandate
- BoE Begins Lobbying Legislature for More Money
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| Saturday, August 22, 2015 |
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August 22, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:49 PM :: 4186 Views
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- Hawaii & The USA: A Union Worth Celebrating!
- Jones Act Reform to be Part of Puerto Rico Relief Package?
- VIDEO: Abortion Dealers Laugh About Shipping Whole Baby Cadaver
- Federal Judge Orders EIS for Windfarms
- When Windfarms Fail, Oahu Risks Blackouts
- Sick Leave Abuse: Hospital Must Replace 40-50 HGEA, UPW Members Daily
- SA: Link UH raises to performance
- Council committee OKs bill allowing second homes on lots
- Proposed Charter Amendment Would Take Hawaii Co Ethics Comm Away from Mayor
- Study: Oahu Rising from the Sea for Next 1.5M Years
- Sen. Slom holds national distinction
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| Friday, August 21, 2015 |
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August 21, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:08 PM :: 6216 Views
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- Hawaii Statehood: Tiny 1959 opposition was anti-Japanese, not anti-American
- Hawaii Senate Minority Celebrates 56 Years of Statehood
- It was 56 years ago today we added the 50th state
- Light Wind, Worthless Windfarms Leave Oahu at Risk for Blackouts
- TS Kilo Emergency Declared
- Feds Congratulate Hawaii: Kakaako is Nations' Largest Homeless Tent City--First Place Prize Money Coming
- City Council Fills New, $84K Housing Position With Political Operative
- A governor who acted on homelessness? See Lingle
- Faster Permitting Urged for State Public Housing Work
- Should Hawaii Public Housing Make Homeless Children a Higher Priority?
- Micronesian Immigration an ‘Important Civil Rights Issue’ Facing Hawaii
- Judge Rushing Mauna Kea Case so Telescope Protesters can Celebrate ... Equinox
- Senator Chun Oakland violated ethics code for years
- Gabbard continues to Talk Up Vice Presidential Run
- NextEra hires former Inouye aide to Twist Arms
- NextEra Big Cable project--Spend $800M to Save $423M
- 19 Priors Since 1998: Out on the Streets, now Charged with Attempted Murder
- Some Honolulu police officers using personal body cameras
- Regents Reward Incompetence: Approve $1M raises for University Administrators
- Court Upholds Self-Dealing Ruling Against School Employee
- Ex-Certified Hawaii exec pleads no contest to Nine Years of theft of townhouse funds
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| Thursday, August 20, 2015 |
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August 20, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:29 PM :: 7800 Views
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- Jeff Stone Wants to be Your Cannabis Connection
- Hale Mauliola construction contract awarded: Caldwell Vetoes One Sit-Lie Bill, Signs Another
- DBEDT: Hawaii Growth Up but Still Short of 5% Dream
- Key Rail Contractor owned by Felon--Tangled Up in Fraud Allegations in Hawaii Courts
- Mauna Kea Suit will be Heard in Environmental Court
- Police arrest 8 in telescope protest at Crater Road site
- Telescope Protester "a sorry white girl who needed help”
- Hilo Hospital to Partner With Castle, Adventist?
- Consumer Advocate seeks subpoenas for utility CEOs
- Listening Sessions set to discuss NextEra HECO bid
- Large class sizes, teacher shortages linger into school year
- HSTA may take legal action against new educational travel rule
- BOE wants time limits in inquiries of alleged misconduct
- Homeless encampment along Keehi Lagoon growing
- Ex-prison guard locked in federal pen
- Council Panel Agrees to Nearly $1M Subsidy for Mainland Recycling Company
- Tulsi Gabbard Running for Vice-President
- Maui County Republican Picnic set for Labor Day
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