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| Monday, April 30, 2012 |
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April 30, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:26 PM :: 11444 Views
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- As Legislators Consider Mass Release of Hardened Criminals, Lawsuit Challenges Half-Way House Supervision
- Last Day for Legislation: Hospitals Medicare Fix, Early Release of Criminals, Gay Unions in Your Church, Tax Credits for Solar Scammers, and More
- Honolulu Banquet Salutes Opening of Aloha Pregnancy Center Osaka
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How They Voted April 30, 2012
- Hawaii Christian Coalition Annual Prayer at the Capitol May 3
- Hanabusa Sued over Beating by Sheriffs at Capitol
- Cayetano: Push Polls Backed by Pacific Resources Partnership
- Honolulu bus cutbacks will hit the already disadvantaged
- State’s Top Paid CEO, Big Landowner Say You Can Afford to build Railroad
- As Rail Heads towards Burials Central, State Historic Preservation Division May Lose Federal Certification
- Teacher Evaluations Immediately Become HGEA Make-Work Program
- Legislature voting on charter school omnibus bill
- Off to clumsy start in landfill site pick
- Poll: Why do Hawaii Voters Vote—or Not?
- Hawaii Banks top Nation Again
- Andrew Rosen Named President/CEO of Hawaii State Federal Credit Union
- Audit: Aloha Stadium Authority Mismanages Swap Meet
- Hawaii's Insurance Commissioner Subject to Political Influence
- Arakawa Rejects Proposal to Lift Cap on Maui Hostess Bars
- Hydropower developer gets Koke‘e License
- Barack Obama's mother 'was secretly in contact with his estranged father during his entire childhood without his knowledge'
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| Sunday, April 29, 2012 |
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April 29, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:44 PM :: 18519 Views
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- Zero in on Details to Figure Out True Story Behind Bills
- Soldiers, Community restore Kaena Point
- The History of Natural Gas in Hawaii
- Honolulu Attorney Named to Board of Owners Counsel of America
- AUDIO: Rick Hamada interviews Michael Hansen of Hawaii Shippers Council
- Borreca: Cayetano Victory Will Signal Serious Loss of Face for Inouye
- Over 200 Rail Jobs go to Mainland Workers
- Solar Scammers May Yet get Legislative Reprieve
- Monday is Deadline for Bill to Release 1,195 Criminals on Streets of Hawaii
- Hawaiian Electric CEO ‘Earns’ $5.3M, Top 5 HEI Execs Pull Down $12.65M
- Natural gas is cheap, but Jones Act rules it out for Hawaii
- SA: Start laying groundwork for Marines
- State Senator "Appalled" by Newspaper Lobbying Tactics
- Cataluna: New Dump? Lets just Make the Peasants Follow our Garbage Rules
- Why Does Abercrombie Have anything to do with Van Jones?
- Demise of Pro Bowl Political Karma for Abercrombie
- UHH added execs during crunch
- Sewer moratorium impacts planned senior facility
- AG, Large Landowners Block Oahu Burial Council Function
- Hawaii Co Voters Consider Blocking Reapportionment Commission Members from Running
- Kenoi Again Refusing to Fund Hawaii County Workers Pension
- Bronster Seeks Dismissal of NMI Pension Fund Bankruptcy Petition
- Remember PREL? Meet McREL
- Officials Request Permission to Shoot Endangered birds to Save Endangered Salmon
- Nature Conservancy Scientists Challenges War on Invasive Species
- Adopted in 1977 Honolulu, Philadelphia Man Finds Himself on Missing Children Website
- Godfather of local surf a legend
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| Saturday, April 28, 2012 |
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April 28, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:15 PM :: 22465 Views
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- GOP Lincoln Day Dinner Draws Hundreds
- Lingle: Americans Losing Trust in TSA
- Hotel Workers Sue Local 5 Over Political Use of Dues Money
- Sa-i-gu: Koreans wrestle with aftermath of LA riots
- Green Energy? Do The Math
- After Soaking Taxpayers for $63M on Bailout, Central Pacific Financial Corp. Reports $13.5 Million Net Income
- Audio: Rick Hamada Interviews Congressional Candidate Matt Di Geronimo
- DHS Grabs 12% of Nursing Home ‘Provider Fees’, Hospitals Soaked for 7%
- Pork: The House wanted $300M, the Senate wanted $500M so they compromised on $825M
- Senate Approves Bill Exempting State Projects from Environmental Regs, Approves Amended Hospital Deals
- Civil Unions Mandate Passes, Deadline Extended Until Monday
- Bill Grandfathers Pension Spiking Rights for All Existing Employees
- Last Ditch Effort for Movie Moguls to Score Megabucks from $500M Senate ‘Accelerator’ Plan?
- ILind: Rep. Choy credited with blocking expanded film industry tax credits
- Hawaii Budget Bills Getting ‘Final Touches’
- JRI: 50% Will Offend Again, so We Must Let these Criminals Out Now
- Rail Vacuums $8 million more out of Taxpayers’ Pockets
- Grabauskas Promises Not to Tear Down One Pillar
- Okabe: BoE Gives Too Much Power to Governor
- Laura Thielen Quits Carlisle Admin to Run for Senate
- Federal Communications Commission votes to make political TV ad spending more transparent
- Unions Back Loser: ILWU's endorsement of Caldwell makes him No. 1 in union support
- HMSA Pays for nearly 2,000 medical flights from Big Island
- Mainland Realtors Score Rail Redevelopment Contract
- Star-Adv: Honolulu Bag Ban Gives Us 3 Years to Impose Bag Tax
- Rooftop Solar Limited to 15%, But Industrial Wind Project claims 16% of Maui’s total
- Maui favored as site for smart-grid testing
- Uncovering the Truth About the Undersea Cable
- Nearly Bankrupt, Horizon Lines Pledges to go to the Bottom With the Jones Act
- Endangered Birds Eat Endangered Taro
- U.S. Marshals arrest Maui teacher for multiple counts of sex assault of 8th Grader
- ‘Scientists’ Change Counting Technique, Find 90% Fewer Sharks
- Rep. Marumoto address SCR 97 - Uninsured Motorists
- GOODWILL FOR GOOD JOBS: GOODWILL INDUSTRIES TO HOLD JOB FAIR MONDAY, APRIL 30
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| Friday, April 27, 2012 |
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April 27, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:59 PM :: 15740 Views
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- Seven Hawaii High Schools Compete in World Championship of Robotics
- US, Japan Reach $8.6B Deal on Transfer of 9,000 Okinawa Marines
- Marumoto: Plan to Release 1,195 Criminals is 'Kapakahi'
- KITV Video: Euro Socialist working for UHERO Peddles Plastic Bag Tax Proposal
- Leaked Democrat Emails: “Emotional Chickens” Bicker Over Laura Thielen Candidacy
- 6PM Today is Deadline for Bills to Clear Conference Committee
- Plan to Release Hardened Criminals onto Streets of Hawaii May Be in Trouble
- Poof! The tax credits to Hollywood are up this a.m.
- SB3003 Streamlines Permitting for Geothermal Exploration
- Excellent News: Tsuji Amends Phony ‘Food Self-Sufficiency’ Bill to Prevent another HCEI-type Disaster
- New Hearing Officer in UH Telescope Case is Also UH President's Attorney
- Photos: Bulldozers Rape Earth to Construct Mammoth Tax Shelters
- Ag lands approved for solar farms
- State Evicting Haleiwa Farmers Market On Two Weeks Notice
- Two Projects Already Blocked: Carlisle Admin Announces Sewer Hook-Up Moratorium Until 2018
- Time Warner/Oceanic Cable in broad attack on public access media
- Public housing getting modern renovations with private help
- Hannemann Supports Jones Act
- ILWU Backs Loser Caldwell
- Union Lawyers Score $250K Payoff from Hotel
- Pot-Head Abercrombie Signs Law Banning Spice
- Dopers Push Dolan for Hawaii County Prosecutor
- Oahu travel agent tells school band he lost $267,500 for Hawaii trip
- Council passes anti-bullying resolution
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| Thursday, April 26, 2012 |
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April 26, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:53 PM :: 12714 Views
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- Hilarious Video: I Aloha Molokai Rips Civil Beat ‘Fact’ Check
- Hawaii is #2 in Nation for Mortgage Scams
- HMA Warns Against 'Imminent Storm' Caused by Obamacare Implementation
- Feds Begin Forcing Hawaii Island MDs into 'Medical Homes'
- NMI Medicaid Cases “Circulate in Hawaii Like Hot Potatoes”
- Hatch Act Violation: Scandalous GSA Official Starred in Inouye Campaign Ad
- City 'Error': Kahuku is #1 Landfill Site, not Ameron
- Dog the Bounty Hunter, Wife Lobby Against Hawaii Justice Reform Initiative
- Star-Adv: Legislators Should give Cronies $300M in Pork Projects, not $500M
- SB2858: Freedom Of Information At Stake In Legislature
- House to vote on Senate's version of highway safety bill
- $25 million for student transit still falls short of Colluding Bus Contractors Wishes, Matayoshi Searches for Pain Plan
- DoE Slashes $6M from Adult Ed Classes
- Abercrombie Scores Big Victory -- Pro Bowl Likely Ending
- DoE TA Pleads Guilty to Sexting, Stalking 12-yr old Girl
- Made Desperate by Hirono’s Weakness, National Democrats Target Lingle
- HART: Nearly Half of Rail Jobs Have Gone to Mainlanders
- Gabbard Votes for $450M Rail Debt
- Plastic Bag Ban: Honolulu Council votes to Cut Lots of Timber for Paper Bags
- After 58 Years of Democrat Rule, Hawaii Women Suffer 20% ‘Pay Gap’
- Obamacare Bribes Distributed in Swing States: Hawaii Gets Nothing
- Obama Admin Redirects $8.3B to Put off Collapse of Medicare Advantage Until After the Election
- Hawaii Gets OK to Reduce Medicaid Income Eligibility
- Hawaii Politicians Received $2.2 Million in Illegal Campaign Contributions
- Big Island Newspaper Publisher Was Actually Coke Dealer Eugene Esposito—Escaped from Lompoc
- Ethics: Secret Target of Secret Commission Gets Anonymous Reprimand
- Old Geothermal Site Up For New Lease
- Anti-Geothermal Meeting in Pahoa
- Big Island Tea retails for $4800/lb at Harrods
- Lower foreclosure rate helps Honolulu rise in U.S. ranking
- Civil Beat Bases Evaluation of Hawaii ERS on George Berish’s Opinion
- Sen. Hee, Rep. Jordan Hold Fundraisers During Session
- Hawaii's Chief Securities Enforcement Lawyer Resigns
- Hawaii Senate confirms Krieg as state Department of Human Resources and Development director
- Students get a sneak peak at hospitality industry through lens of development program
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| Wednesday, April 25, 2012 |
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April 25, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:30 PM :: 24662 Views
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- Full Text: Plaintiffs' Motion for Preliminary Injunction Against Reapportionment Plan
- Clinton’s chief economist supports Jones Act reform for Hawaii
- Relativity Media Using Hollywood Accounting to Sell Hawaii Film Incentive
- DoD IDs Hawaii Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan
- 2,700 Okinawa Marines Coming to Hawaii
- Planning Commission Set to Decide on 15-year Extension for Waimanalo Gulch Landfill
- House Democratic Blog: OE Seeks Funds to Prepare for Possibility of Another Reapportionment Plan
- Court Asked to 'Remedy Extraordinary Wrong'
- Say: SB755 Transfers Control from Environmental Council to Governor’s Office
- SA: Resist limiting public input
- House, Less Pork with More Control
- Cash Call! Rep. Herkes Raises Money During Session
- Rail Contractors Illegally Using Ag Land for Construction Yard
- $80M PM Contra-Flow Plan Will Cut Commutes by 20 minutes
- Federal Judge Voids HGEA Make-Work Fee on Air Cargo
- HB2659: Forces Churches to host Gay Union Ceremonies
- Civil Beat Considers a Gay Marriage with Grabuskas
- Another Bogus Civil Beat Fact Check -- Attacks I Aloha Molokai
- Hawaii now Has 10,000 Medicated Pot-Heads
- More Medicated Drug Pushers Busted
- Big Isle Newspaper Publisher is Escaped Coke Dealer
- Pot-Heads, Group Led by Convicted Drug Dealer Harass Hawaii Co Council over Geothermal
- Psychos Obsess over Radiation Dangers on Kauai
- Kauai’s Troubled Prosecutor Gets Appointment From Abercrombie
- Shapiro: Landfill Plan Kills Jobs, Wastes Money
- Honolulu Salaries 2012 — The City's Big Earners
- EMS Director Questions Merger with Fire Department
- Humane Society Pushes for Conferees on HB108
- House Bill 2703 would commit the Aloha State to doubling the amount of food we grow in the islands by 2020
- Feds Investigate Fourth Killing of Monk Seal
- 9%: Hawaii has Most Multi-Generational Homes in Nation
- Business group donates iPads for DOE teacher evaluations
- Gingrich to leave presidential race next Tuesday, sources say
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| Wednesday, April 25, 2012 |
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Letters to the Editor, April 2012
By Letters to the Editor @ 12:44 AM :: 20370 Views
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- Transit: Make Better With What We Have
- Tripler Suicide: Army Less Stressful than Bad Marriage
- Does Assisted Suicide Reduce Murder Rate?
- Seek Truth in Response to Physician Assisted Suicide
- Well written and thoughtful letters from young Hawaiians
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| Tuesday, April 24, 2012 |
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April 24, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:19 PM :: 13229 Views
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- Contractor Scores Hawaii RTTT Assessment Contract
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted April 23, 2012
- Hawaii has no consumer advocates, national advocacy official says
- Justice Reinvestment Preview: Zero-Tolerance Probation Used as Excuse to Let Quadruple Rapist Walk
- 1195 Hardened Criminals to be released onto streets of Hawaii, 48.8% expected to Reoffend
- Teacher: Please Reject Race to the Top
- HART Addition: Spend $119M to Build and Tear Down Rail, Avoid $22M in Delay Claims, Total Savings $194M
- They’re Baaaack! Film company trying to resurrect huge new tax credits
- Solar Scammers Give One Last Push to Save their Illegal tax Credits
- Socialists Give One Last Push for State Bank of Abercrombie founded on Toxic Mortgages
- Meeting in Secret, Legislature Decides How Many HGEA Make-Work Jobs To Create
- Usual Crooks, Cronies Lineup to back Maile Shimabukuro
- Hawaii Lawmaker Voted on Bills Backed By His Employer — Oceanic Cable
- Accreditors want public input on HPD's adherence to policies
- Suffering Under Obama’s Earmark Ban, Inouye Delivers a Piddling $5.8M
- Inouye’s DoA $250M for Rail Cited as Earmark Work Around
- Honolulu Council to Vote on Bag ban or Bag Tax Wednesday
- City Moving On $10M H-POWER Sewage Burner
- Usual Suspects Attempt to Block Construction of Haleakala Solar Telescope
- Full List of Honolulu City Employees Published
- Hawaii Residential Electric Bills up to $847 per Month
- Hawaii’s Willoughby Eliminated in First Round of Utah GOP Voting
- Legislation on air quality could close Nuuanu crematorium
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| Monday, April 23, 2012 |
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April 23, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:45 PM :: 11649 Views
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- Full Text: 2012 HSTA Legislative Endorsement Questionnaire
- DHS Proposes Merging Medicare, Medicaid
- Health Exchange Launches First Stage of Computer Program to Control Your Health Care
- Senate Likely to Shift Republican Even Without Lingle Victory
- Waipahu Man Among Four Hawaii Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan
- Sierra Club: Unlike Lingle, Abercrombie Hasn’t Met a Farm He Doesn’t Want to Pave
- Carlisle Demands Council Approve $450M credit line for ‘Unforeseen’ rail ‘Catastrophe’
- SB2927 Contradicts Grabuskas’ Call for Rail Transparency
- Case Decries Sierra Club Endorsement of ‘Endless Partisan Warfare’
- Case Burns Money While Hirono and Lingle Save for Fall
- Green Energy Scammers Seek to Cover Ford Island Runway With Solar Panels
- HB2275 / SB2466: Hospitals Step Up to Make Medicare, Medicaid Work
- Patients pay Annual Fee to Get 30 minute Doctor Visits
- Four-Time Child Rapist Gets Probation
- Another man stabbed outside of Mayor Wright Homes
- Bugs, Snakes, and Mosquitoes Feature in This Year’s Pitch for More HGEA Make Work Jobs
- Techie Creates Online Campaign Finance Database
- State Audit Information Often Withheld from Public
- Louie takes a Slap at Clayton Hee, Borreca over Kakaako Deal
- Enviros Brag About Ending Traditional Hawaiian Cultural Practices
- Hawaii banks report more lending, Profits
- Hawaii teams win awards at world robotics meet
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| Sunday, April 22, 2012 |
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April 22, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:07 PM :: 17865 Views
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- Zip Needed in Public Decision Making
- Hawaii Court Ruling Challenges Gun Ban After Non-Violent Misdemeanor Conviction
- DHS Money Grab Threatens Hawaii Hospitals, Nursing Homes
- HSTA Candidates Bicker Over Who is Better at Killing Education Reform
- Senate Shows Little Interest in Environmental Exemption Bill
- Star-Adv: Hirono should debate Case more often
- Suzanne Case: Stop Global Warming Because I need to Get to My House on Round Top
- Sierra Club Endorses Hanabusa, Hirono, Gabbard
- Retail Giants Want to Make Sure they Get a Cut of the Bag Tax Action
- Kakaako advocates rally against OHA’s residential development
- Hawaii Should Demand Labeling of ‘Organic’ Foods
- Dispute reveals OHA Grant Funded Kawaiaha'o Disinterment
- Defense Lawyers Upset over Bill Protecting Animals
- AP: Hawaii College Grads Face Worst Job Prospects in Years
- KIUC smart meter rollout to begin
- Political Pressure, New Competition Bring New Cuts In Star Advertiser Ad Rates
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| Saturday, April 21, 2012 |
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April 21, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:38 PM :: 21677 Views
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- Selection Committee Proposes Kailua Site for New Oahu Landfill
- Utility Rejects "Expensive, High Risk" Undersea Power Cable Project
- Ward, Slom, Marumoto Talk Story at Maunalua Bay
- “Dumbest Decision in City’s History” Rail Construction to begin Monday
- Legislators Pressured by HSTA Legislative Endorsements During Session
- 93% Not participating in Earth Day activities this weekend
- Sovereignty Scammers’ Lawyer Scores $1.2M in Estate Settlement
- House, Senate Conferees Debate How Much Control Gays Should Have over your Church
- Billionaire Movie Moguls Could Still Get Hawaii Tax Credits
- Cash Call! Fundraisers for Reps. Evans, Awana, Mizuno
- Lawmakers working to iron out details of 'move over' bill
- SA: Fine on city an empty gesture
- Hawaii Tourism Authority Gives $1.1M to Profitable NonProfits
- Pflueger Federal Tax Case Split Into Three Trials
- Appeals court upholds labor ruling against Hilo newspaper
- DoH Harasses Farmer, Forces Destruction of Crops
- Kauai Administration pondering property tax increase
- The Dalai Lama isn’t a rock star
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| Friday, April 20, 2012 |
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April 20, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:59 PM :: 13751 Views
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- After Dumping Goldman Sachs, Hawaii ERS Quietly Seeks New Managers for $1.2B
- Jobs? Hanabusa Votes Against Tax Cut for 97% of Hawaii’s Employers
- Lesson from Hawaii: Is the GOP really the party of fiscal responsibility?
- HSTA Lawsuit against Laupahoehoe Charter School Dismissed
- US News and World Report Ranks UH Manoa
- Akaka Co-Sponsors Bill to Protect Civil Rights of Military Personnel
- Federal Correctional Officer Charged with Sexual Abuse of Detainee
- Three Convicted in Looting of Am Samoa Non-Profit
- Abercrombie Appoints Jo Ann Uchida Takeuchi DCCA Deputy Director
- Abercrombie Releases $34.2 Million for CIP
- Listening Sessions for Ocean Resources Management Plan
- Well written and thoughtful letters from young Hawaiians
- Six University of Hawaii Regents named
- Stiglitz: Jones Act, Young Bros and High Electricity Cripple Hawaii
- SA: Reveal credit union executives’ pay
- Alcohol and Sign Printing at the Hawaii Co Elections Office
- Secret Budget Negotiations Continue Until Monday
- Tax Credits Don’t Pay Off but Bogus Last Minute ’Studies’ Sure Do
- Chong: Solar Tax Credits Siphon Money from State
- Rail contractor's request for $15.9M Change Order first of Many to Come
- $250 million for rail Likely to Die in US House
- HART vs. LIUNA: Whose Responsibility it is to Blackmail Council Candidates?
- School Busses: Legislators Push Back Against DoE’s “Irresponsible Fear-Mongering”
- Laura Thielen: “People think I am a Republican; I would have a tremendous amount of support in the Republican Party”
- Price: Is there an Upside to SB2858?
- State Demotes Securities Regulator
- State Agencies Ignore Auditor’s Reports
- First Honolulu Mayoral Debate Set
- Yoshioka Beginning to Choke on Bus Service Cuts
- Despite Warnings and Pleas, Honolulu Rail Headed for 'Burials Central'
- PUC Delinks Oil and Wind: Wind Scammers Lose $330,000/yr
- Eco-Faddists Demand Bag Tax to Harass People into Obeying Their Religious Dogma
- Double Header: Two Sheriffs On Trial This Month
- After Stabbing, Ouansafi Praises Security
- Stoned Drunk Driver Drives over Cliff, State to Pay $3M
- First Hawaiian Continues to Profit by Refusing to Lend to Deadbeats
- State Income Tax Due Today
- Senate confirms 3 Board of Education members
- Community school could turn into state's first adult charter school
- ‘Pregnant Man,’ Splits From ‘Wife’ Of 9 Years, Going Through ‘Rough Patch’
- Hawaii One of Few Places in US With No Licensed Aerial Drones
- Retirement Fund Bankruptcy: Worst time in CNMI history
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| Thursday, April 19, 2012 |
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April 19, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:57 PM :: 16160 Views
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- Legislators Voting to Release 1,100 Criminals on Streets of Hawaii
- HB425 Opens Door to Natural Gas, Mandates Diversity of Fossil Fuel Energy Sources
- Save Kakaako: Rally to Stop HB2819
- Hanabusa Scores $284,000 in special interest money
- DoE Announces Public School Graduation Dates
- US Energy Dep't: 300 Open Criminal Investigations of Green Energy Scammers
- Star-Adv Editorial: Census should guide election boundaries
- Hawaii Co Elections Office: Alcohol, Parties, and Sign-making Business
- Rail? Cayetano? Abercrombie Spokesperson Gives Non-Denial Denial
- Bus Ridership Jumps as City Considers Service Cuts
- Rail Project Cases Argued in Federal, State Court
- Desperate Green Energy Scammers Now Claim their Baksheesh Benefits Economy 44-1
- Legislature Voting to Let Lots of Criminals out of Prison
- Lawsuit Settlement Will Cover up Homosexual Rape Gang stretching back to 1970s at Blind-Deaf School
- Hawaii Kevorkian Taunts Police
- Pathetic Hawaii Supreme Court Gives Alleged Attempted Babykiller New Trial
- Hanabusa Pays Herself $51K from Campaign Funds
- ‘Buzzy G’ Coordinates Senate Democrat Fundraisers so Lobbyists Can Avoid Scheduling Conflicts
- Tsunami alert: Don't cut that program
- President Obama signs Hawaii disaster declaration
- Stimulated? Hawaii Burns Thru $1.5B in ‘Recovery’ Funds
- Business chiefs try to ride to the rescue of rail project
- Failure to Block: Hanabusa, Hirono Vote Against Small Business Tax Cuts
- Rep. Pono Chong on SB 755, Environmental Protection & the Public Trust
- Bag Tax in Political Death Throes
- City Employees Travel to Germany to Oversee Sewer Pipe Manufacturing
- Council Spends on Travel and TVs
- GSA Watchdog Says Employees Are Reporting Abuse
- Hawaii Could Establish a Veterans Court modeled on Drug Court
- Act 208 Blocks Crazy Stupid Criminals from Working as Security Guards
- Bank Fees don’t Pass Legislature
- NELHA Aquaculture Pays Off
- City Council committee approves measure to Create Kayak Rental Monopoly in Kailua
- Lahainaluna HS to Celebrate David Malo Day
- NMI Retirement Fund Bankruptcy Goes to Court
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| Wednesday, April 18, 2012 |
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April 18, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:48 PM :: 9410 Views
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6. Legislators Begin Secret Budget Negations
7. Abercrombie Comes out Against Rail, Backs Cayetano
8. Judge invalidates Pay-to-Play Rule Under which Rail Contracts Awarded
9. Government Union Members Have no Effective Process to Report Corruption
10.US Sen. Daniel Akaka doing well after dehydration?
11."Fraud, waste, corruption:" Congress decries GSA culture
12. Lingle #1: Case's fundraising totals trail Hirono's by wide margin
13.LDS: Without Religious Freedom, Hawaii Civil Unions Law Likely Unconstitutional
14.Democrats Consider lawsuit to Knock Laura Thielen Off ballot
15.Cash Call! Reps. Kawakami, Shimabukuro Latest to Hold Fundraisers During Session
16.Water Board Nominees Approved over Hee’s Objections
17.More schools volunteer for teacher evaluation pilot program
18.TheBus uses half the energy that rail would use
19.Mainland Solar Contactors form Front Group to Save their Baksheesh
20.HECO, MECO in top 10 for Solar Penetration
21.Firearm registrations break records in Hawaii
22.ERS Dumps Goldman Sachs, Looking for New Equity Managers
23.Malu Mota Fundraiser Meets Convicted Killer in Kau
24.Report: Hawaii Women Make 80% of Males’ Income
25.Judge approves Univ. of Hawaii data breach class action settlement
26.Congressman alleges China helping North Korea with ICBMs
27.Dalai Lama eyes reform in China, fearing return to 'Cultural Revolution'
28.$1M to Bring Dalai Lama to Hawaii
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| Tuesday, April 17, 2012 |
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April 17, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:18 PM :: 20322 Views
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- Djou Outlines Strategy for Congressional Race
- Challenge to Democratic Party Bosses: Laura Thielen Launches State Senate Campaign
- No Natural Gas for Hawaii with Jones Act Ships
- Malulani Hospital seeks Mainland Partner
- Hawaii Bishop at Vatican, Prays for Courage to Defend Religious Liberty
- Hawaii Marines Lead Offensive Against Jihadi Dope Farms
- Election plans move ahead despite pending lawsuit
- Were Political Signs Printed at Hawaii County Elections Commission Warehouse?
- Akaka Hospitalized over weekend? Misses Key Vote
- KHON Retracts Story About Inouye Hospitalization
- Borreca: Solving Natatorium issue could be Governor's legacy
- Hannemann has $631K to Gabbard’s $465K
- State Refuses to Enact Tax Credits for the Poor
- Bill to speed development at rail depots moves ahead
- TEA Party Rally Draws few to Capitol
- Star-Adv: Haleiwa Farmers Market Should Move to make Way for State Paper Shufflers
- Hawaii Whistleblowers Not Protected from Retaliation
- EPA Working Hard to Make Sure Nobody Saves Money with Seawater Air Conditioning
- Waimanalo Gulch Hearing Today
- Enviros Sue Maui County over Wastewater Again
- Hawaiian Airlines Inaugural Flies Jewel Smugglers to Japan and back
- As City Cleans up Last Big Waianae Coast Homeless Camp, Some Finally Accept Shelter
- VIDEO: Homelessness Industry Activist Harasses Makaha Beach Cleanup Volunteers
- MD Busted for Selling Dope
- SB2579 Encourages Underage Prostitution?
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| Monday, April 16, 2012 |
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April 16, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:37 PM :: 11841 Views
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- Dalai Lama Slams Beijing for Burnings
- Hawaii Bishop at Vatican, Prays for Courage to Defend Religious Liberty
- Honolulu TEA Party Rally April 16
- Case: Far Left Hirono is just as Bad as Limbaugh
- Rail Advertiser: Don’t Add 4th Lane to H-1
- Abercrombie Tries to Block HFF From Defending Marriage
- Blue Planet Foundation Legislative Agenda: Higher Utility Bills for the People, More Tax Credits for ‘Green’ Energy Scammers
- OSHA to Take Over Takamine’s Incompetent DoL?
- In spite of High Cost of Living, Hawaii Workers’ Earnings Below US Average
- Hawaii doctors offer patients 'choice' to die
- KHON Retracts Story About Inouye Hospitalization
- NHLC Shake-Down Lawyers Still Grabbing for Control of Public Water
- 13% of OHA Small Business Loans Default
- Kobayashi to Credit Unions: Disclose Exec Salaries, or Face Property Tax Hikes
- Congressional hearing on GSA's lavish spending begins Monday
- Politics: Leaders debate Micronesia impact in US areas
- Micronesia: Fishing days to dominate treaty talks
- Vacation Rental Legislation is Deceptive
- 90% of Hawaii Financial Disclosures Hidden from Public View
- Shoppers and farmers are dismayed over the state forcing the Haleiwa Farmers' Market from its site
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| Sunday, April 15, 2012 |
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April 15, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:29 PM :: 10922 Views
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- Lingle to Focus on Comprehensive Tax Reform
- Ed Week: Hawaii in Biggest Trouble, Feds Have Good Reason to Revoke Race to the Top
- UH: Hawaii Physician Shortage Could Grow from 600 to 1600
- SB3010: Sierra Club Threatens to Sue over Environmental Exemptions
- Zenith Reached in Earmarking of Unrelated Fund Sources
- QUEST Rationing: Hospitalization, Artificial Limbs Eliminated to Pay for ‘Preventative Services’
- Hee: OHA Must Go After More Land and Money
- SB2438: PUC to Rely on HECO-Controlled ‘Institute’ to Approve ‘Clean Energy’ Projects
- Bag Tax, Big Cable, and Kupuna Care Lead Star-Adv Editors Legislative Priorities
- Ihara: ‘Gut and Replace’ Hits New Peak this Session
- Will Natural Gas be Allowed to Lower Hawaii’s Electric Rates?
- State Capitalists Raise Money for Pro-Rail Propaganda
- Hanabusa Brings in $224,000
- DoH Bans Backyard Burning Statewide—$10,000 Fine
- Hawaii Would Be Hit Hard by Buffet Rule
- Akiona: Obama Budget Targets Independent Contractors
- Guam National Guard Teams to Deploy to Afghanistan
- UH Manoa Perfesser Predicts Future Census Questions: How many times have you changed your sex?
- Hardships do not faze new BYUH student president
- Lawsuit: Waikiki Shooting Gallery Charged with Negligence
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| Saturday, April 14, 2012 |
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April 14, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:47 PM :: 25245 Views
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- Mazie Brings "Mr Fannie Mae" to Hawaii
- Hawaii Shippers Council Outlines Jones Act Reform Proposals
- Hawaii Economic Performance Ranks 15th, Economic Outlook 46th
- Hawaii Youth Link Assisted Suicide to Teen Suicide
- Makers of Promotional Products Rally to Defense of Rail
- SB2341: Would Allow Overnight Accommodations on Maui Ag Land
- SB2394: Would Allow Condemnation of Private Property to Bail Out Mortgage lenders
- VIDEO: Thielen, Rivere, Ward Rip SB755 Environmental Exemptions
- Case: Hirono Now Ducking 10 Debate Invitations
- Public Access TV Relegated to Digital Siberia
- Adrianne Heely Appointed Maui Judge
- North Korea's Rogue Missile Launch
- Redistricting case will be heard in May
- HSTA pressure kills class-time bill
- Educated Youth Flee Hawaii
- Waipahu Students Not Fooled by Rail Presentation
- Abercrombie’s Wife Endorses Tulsi Gabbard
- Legislature out of control on attacking Hawaii’s environmental protections
- Civil Beat’s “integrity investigation” questioned by Ian Lind
- Legislators Consider Giving Sex Workers Welfare, Labor Law Protections
- Honolulu TSA Screeners Acquitted of Catching too Many Illegals and Too Many Drug Smugglers
- GSA official to assert privilege to remain silent
- World Laughs at Incompetent Socialists in N Korea
- Illegal Dumping Settlement Dumps on taxpayers
- After Hee’s Bill Fails, Opihi Season Requested by Resolution
- Schatz traveling to Asia to discuss clean energy Scams
- Kauai electric utility will begin installing smart meters
- Horse Cruelty Case May Be Tossed Due to Bumbling Kauai Prosecutor’s Office
- Homeless Alcoholic Busted in Kauai Church Fire
- UH Manoa Perfesser Preaches His Atheist Religion at California Revival Meet
- Some Hawaii post offices offering late collections on Tax Day
- International Marketplace to Be Demolished
- Photo: First axis deer killed on Big Island
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| Friday, April 13, 2012 |
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April 13, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:31 PM :: 11099 Views
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- Lingle Campaign Raises $3.1M
- Not Aimed at Hawaii This Time: N Korea Rocket fails, falls in Ocean
- Celebrate Israel Day Hawaii, May 20
- Am Samoa Congressional Race: Radewagen, Lancaster Challenge Faleomavaega
- Salon: Am Samoa's Congressional Delegate Defends Dictatorship at Behest of Lobbyist
- Abercrombie Signs Kakaako Over to OHA, HCDA Maintains Development Control
- HB 108- Dog Fighting OK, Dog Breeding Illegal
- Payment Protection: State Sues Seven Mainland Credit Card Companies
- Akaka: Lingle is ‘Friendly’, Her Role Model is ‘Open-Minded’
- Tipping Point? Isle Democrats lead charge against the environment
- Abercrombie Dept of Corrections Appointee Flees State
- SA Editors Grasping at Straws Claim: Teacher evaluations within reach
- DOE seeks extra funds to preserve Colluding Bus Contactors
- Grabbucks: New HART Boss Pulls Down $300K / year
- Grabbucks vs TheBus: “Rail is the Gift that keeps on Giving”
- Inouye: The Only Thing That Will Stop Rail is World War III -- Carlisle: We Need to Build an Army
- Cayetano: "Carlisle prone to Making Stupid Statements"
- Caldwell: Carlisle “Crazy” To Build Rail Columns and tear them Down
- Honolulu Council Keep Rail Budget Intact
- Malama Solomon Scores Worst Senate Attendance Record
- House OKs charter school bill despite divisive ethics provision
- Senate Passes bill Requiring minimum sick leave
- State deputy sheriff accused of sexually assaulting female detainee
- April electric rates up on all islands except 1
- Crooks, Cronies Squabble over Geothermal Royalties
- Haleiwa Farmer’s Market to Stay open til end of Month
- DoH Harasses Local Businesses, Cane Fire Gets Fine
- Solar Telescope Construction May Begin Despite Permit Challenge
- SB2402: Dim Bulb Legislators Vote to Block State Use of Fluorescent Bulbs, Stadium Lighting on Edge
- Leading Theocrat Hailed by Billionaire as He Launches Four Day Hawaii Tour
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| Thursday, April 12, 2012 |
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April 12, 2012 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:35 PM :: 11350 Views
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- Lingle, Collins: "Bipartisanship is Leadership"
- VIDEO: Guam Senator Garners Support for Jones Act Exemptions
- The View from DC: No Sign Hawaii is Serious about Teacher Evaluations
- State Steals $200M from Hawaiians, Gives 30 Ac to OHA: Hee, Solomon Boycott Signing
- Matthew DiGeronimo to Run for CD2
- Linda Lingle's Role Model: Susan Collins of Maine
- Useless $75,000 Drone Traced to Waihee Cronies
- Boylan: Hawaii Dems Suspicious of Party-Switchers
- GSA Spends $330,000 to Relocate One Employee to Hawaii, Then He Quits
- Manoa Chancellor Candidates At the End of their Careers
- Number of police officers holding medical marijuana cards remains a mystery
- Police Warn Chinatown Shopowner not to Antagonize Meth Dealers, Threaten Him With Arrest
- City Council Would Create Bureaucracy to Track Plastic Bag Use
- Stanley Chang: Give Councilmembers $40K more to Play With
- State orders Haleiwa Farmer's Market to close
- Koa Ridge, Hoopili Last Big Master Plans?
- Profitable Nonprofits Lose 19%
- Few Hawaii Donors Support Presidential Super PACs
- Plan would squeeze 4th lane into Honolulu freeway
- Historic Kauai Church Vandalized on Easter Eve
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