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| Tuesday, February 4, 2025 |
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February 4, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:43 PM :: 3616 Views
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- VIDEO: Tulsi's New Age Guru and the Source of Her Mysterious Wealth
- Greatness
- Hawaii Gun Ban Bills Scheduled for Public Hearings this Thursday
- 2024 Homeless Report showed many underutilized housing programs
- Wheat Retires, Corruption Investigations Over: Its Party Time Again -- Sweet Deal for Former city officials Guilty in police chief payoff conspiracy
- Senate panel advances Tulsi Gabbard nomination for DNI after Trump, Musk Flip Votes
- SB534: OHA’s Crooked Kakaako Deal
- Council members question effectiveness of homeless-related grants
- As Usual, Penalty Reduced in Arbitration For HPD Officers
- Ethics Bills on the Move (for now)
- Multifaceted writer Cliff Slater dies at 91
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| Monday, February 3, 2025 |
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February 3, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:31 PM :: 1946 Views
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- Legislature: Grassroot Institute sifts through onslaught of bills
- 2024: Tourist Count Up--Spending Down
- Honolulu Egg Prices up 52%
- Hawaii AG Claims Victory--Sued to Overturn Trump Funding Freeze
- City touts 'bold initiative' to expand affordable housing
- SB1618 'Patently Unconstitutional'
- Small business struggles highlighted in new UHERO report
- SB1618: Donna Mercado Kim bill would Abolish Freedom of the Press
- SB311: State Constitutional amendment would Abolish Freedom of the Press
- Legislature ‘mulls’ multiple insurance bills
- Intervention Window Opens for Reviewing HECO`s Wildfire Mitigation Plan
- Maui's Historic Restaurants Get Help From National Trust
- 24,000 in Hawaiʻi Call Federal Government Their Boss
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| Sunday, February 2, 2025 |
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February 2, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:10 PM :: 2888 Views
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- Hold On to Our Gains!
- Proposed "green fee" a reason for red flag
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 31, 2025
- ‘Snowed-in’ -- Trump Rattled by Gabbard’s Poor Performance at Hearing
- Pay Hikes: Legislators make bank as their electorate suffers
- Hawaiʻi Lawmakers At Work Year Round? Nightmare Scenario That's Becoming A Real Possibility
- OHA CEO, Chair tied to Sen Dela Cruz
- Hawaii Supreme Court considers fate of $4B wildfire settlement
- House bill advances to speed up historic preservation reviews of development projects
- More Delays for Front Street: State official says ‘community’ needs time to ‘decide future’ of Lahaina’s Historic District
- KSBE Can Get Away With Anything: Kahala Hotel beach access lawsuit
- Don’t raise hotel tax while Hawaii tourism still struggles
- Vague Laws, Big Consequences: As Intended, Uncertainty Chokes Maui Vacation Rentals
- HART board discusses next evaluation for CEO Kahikina
- DoT Wants 187 Speeding Cameras to ticket drivers
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| Saturday, February 1, 2025 |
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February 1, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:29 PM :: 6772 Views
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- HB900: Lawyers for Abused Foster Kids?
- 'Severe Housing Problems' Drag Down Hawaii Health Rankings
- DoE Tries to Spin Latest Batch of Failing Test Scores
- What happens When UH Hires a Disbarred Ex-Con as Law Professor?
- Trump Executive Order Mandates School Choice for Military Families
- Taxpayers Buy State Rep Poepoe an Oceanfront 300ac
- Mitsunaga Money Laundering Convict Wesley Segawa confirmed 6-3 as director of Hawaiʻi County’s Department of Environmental Management – immediately identifies ‘contract’ opportunities
- Lahaina housing: Former tenants eager to return, daunted by four-year wait
- ‘Resident preference’ housing bill unanimously OK’d
- HB1308: Online sports betting in Hawaii moves ahead in state House
- HB790/SB589: Reach in Your Pocket to Pay More Solar Subsidies
- Easy Pander: Honolulu Council opposes landfills over Oahu’s aquifer
- Grim memories resurface after DNA advances lead to arrest of suspect in Hawaii teen’s 1977 murder
- Federal prosecutors sue to get Miske’s $25M in assets after criminal case upended by his death
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| Friday, January 31, 2025 |
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January 31, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:40 PM :: 2637 Views
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- Save Kakaako Makai: Friends of Kewalo Invites the Public to its Information Gathering Potluck BBQ
- Thieves: Senate Judiciary Committee Passes Wealth Asset Tax Bill for Assets Above $20M
- HB1246: Legalize Marijuana Edibles
- Puna Man Arrested in Alleged Neo-Nazi Child Molestation Ring
- HB1494: ‘Stop all Procurement’ for Aloha Stadium Boondoggle
- Trump Admin a Threat to CNHA Cashflow?
- SB1170: Exempt from SMA permitting five specific affordable housing complexes destroyed in Lahaina fire
- Hawaii vacation rentals only about half full in 2024
- Hawaiʻi's ‘new energy strategy’ opens door to liquefied natural gas imports
- Hawaii Legislators Target Generational Tobacco Ban
- No charges filed against officers involved in New Years Day pursuit
- Four More Arrested In New Year’s Fireworks Explosion
- Did crews clear homeless camps along streams before storm?
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| Thursday, January 30, 2025 |
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January 30, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:37 PM :: 2139 Views
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- WSJ: Hawaii 'Down to Earth' Markets Tied to Ponzi Scheme
- VIDEO: Gabbard's 'Frosty' Confirmation Hearing
- Gabbard Attended Pro-Russia Conference in Rome--then invented story about Terror Watchlist
- Jail Guard Pleads Guilty to Importing Illegal Fireworks--via jail mailroom
- Hawaii AG Sues to Overturn Trump Funding Freeze
- '50,000 Batteries' -- Green Signs 'Renewable' Energy Executive Order
- Schatz, Cruz, Murphy, Britt Introduce Bipartisan Legislation To Keep Kids Safe, Healthy, off Social Media
- ‘He’s a liar.’ Green calls out Kennedy’s bullsh*t
- OHA Salary Commission Approves 62% Trustee Pay Raises
- OHA’s Kakaako Makai Bill On The Move
- Lahaina Fire: Last-Minute Deal Prevents Class Action Lawyers from Airing Dirty Laundry
- Lahaina Rebuild: Maui plumbing rules headed for much-needed update
- 8 Criminals on Oahu are detained in immigration crackdown
- Bills would Block Local Police Cooperation with Immigration Enforcement
- Kratom: Will Hawaiʻi ban 'Gas Station Heroin'?
- Harmful Sewage Continues To Pollute Kailua Bay Despite CIP Projects
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| Wednesday, January 29, 2025 |
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January 29, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:19 PM :: 2080 Views
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- Lahaina Fire: How Maui Emergency Operations Center Lost 'Situational Awareness'
- Red Hill moms organized by Antivaxxer RFK—in DC to Attend Confirmation Hearing
- Hawaii Governor, a Doctor, Blames R.F.K. Jr. for Measles Deaths in Samoa
- A $4B settlement for Hawaii wildfire victims is in legal limbo as an unusual trial starts
- Fireworks patient in Arizona dies, raising Aliamanu death toll to 5
- Relief from soaring Hawaii property insurance costs is elusive
- SB214 End of Tip Credit Could Put Restaurants out of Business
- Not all recyclables are recycled on Oahu; what happens to all those blue bin items
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| Tuesday, January 28, 2025 |
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January 28, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:38 PM :: 3745 Views
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- Lahaina Rebuild Obstruction May Cause Fire Victims to Reject Green’s ‘Settlement’
- COFA Migrants win Second Amendment Rights in Hawaii Suit
- 56% Pay Raises for Legislators, 61% for Governor
- Insiders Looted Kamalani Academy Before State Opted To Shut It Down
- UH likely to take big hit from federal grant funding halt
- Enviros sue governor over water commission appointee
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| Tuesday, January 28, 2025 |
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Letters to the Editor January, 2025
By Letters to the Editor @ 12:48 AM :: 2813 Views
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- Lahaina Rebuild Obstruction May Cause Fire Victims to Reject Green’s ‘Settlement’
- Celebrities Come Home!
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| Monday, January 27, 2025 |
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January 27, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:06 PM :: 3368 Views
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- Hawaii’s failed wildfire rebuild should not be a model for California
- Case: Boosting Long-term U.S. Engagement in the Pacific
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 24, 2025
- HIDOE releases after-action report on Maui wildfire response and recovery efforts
- Tulsi Gabbard will be rejected by Intelligence Committee
- Prosecutors agree Miske indictments must be set aside
- SB6: How much power should the Maunakea Authority have?
- Office of Hawaiian Affairs Trustees In Line To Get Big Pay Raises
- Absolute Secrecy Thwarts Understanding And Reform Of Child Welfare Services
- Housing pressures increase on Maui as assistance ends
- AIG, Gas Company Lock Horns in Hawaii Climate Change Dispute
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| Sunday, January 26, 2025 |
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January 26, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:34 PM :: 2988 Views
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- Lowering our cost of living is worth cheering
- Those Nickels Add Up!
- Oahu Man Sentenced to Over 16 Years in Federal Prison for Drug Trafficking and Illegal Gambling Charges
- Kapolei Woman Indicted for COVID Fraud
- Hawaii taxpayers could benefit from new IRS Direct File system
- Squeeze on Honolulu rail -- GE Tax Surcharge Diverted
- ALICE families in dire straits in Hawaii
- Accusations of misconduct, theft, exclusions -- Hawaiʻi County nonprofit funding
- BLNR Makes Another Oceanfront Hotel Worthless
- Billionaire Boat Stops at Molokai Without Paying off Walter Ritte—guess what happens next
- SB1618: Donna Kim Dreams of State Controlled Media
- House ‘Social Media Policy’ designed to Censor Legislators
- Republican Caucus: The Hawaiʻi First Agenda
- Major Reform Bills Are Still On The Table (again)
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| Saturday, January 25, 2025 |
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January 25, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:36 PM :: 2582 Views
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- Tulsi Gabbard’s performance in Jan. 30 hearing could ‘make or break’ her chances
- How to use Control of Water to Block Lahaina Rebuild
- Butterfly Knife Ban: 9th Circuit’s Devious Maneuvers Against 2nd Amendment
- HIFICO: Hawaii Gun Bill Tracker
- 2024 Check Register: OHA Spending up 9.6%
- MEMA After-Action Report on Maui wildfires released
- GE Tax Hike on the move in the legislature
- GE Tax Hike: Green Wants To Extend Excise Tax Surcharge On Neighbor Islands
- How UPW Negotiating Team Set up Overtime Games Responsible for toxic environment in Hawaii jails
- Bill proposes Some SMA permit exemptions for rebuilding in Lahaina historic district
- 2 arrested in connection with deadly fireworks explosion
- Federal Government Seeks To Seize Mike Miske's Assets After His Death
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| Friday, January 24, 2025 |
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January 24, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:36 PM :: 3789 Views
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- 18 Months After Wildfires Destroyed Some 2,000 Homes on Maui, Only 3 Have Been Rebuilt
- 18th Homeless Kauhale Opens in Waianae
- Hawaii AG: Local Law Enforcement Cannot be Commandeered by Trump
- VIDEO: 2025 State of the Judiciary Address
- ACLU, Judiciary Plot to Release Hundreds of Criminals onto the Streets
- Robotics teams to compete in the 2025 Hawaii VEX Regional Championships
- Hawaii offshore wind farm plan frozen by Trump order
- HB109/SB184: Double Hawaii bottle tax to feed corrupt ‘recycling’ program
- Lawmakers looking for answers from UH athletics department
- Charter Commission Votes To Close Down Kamalani Academy In June
- Oahu Group cracks down on 'predators;' posts meet ups on social media
- Hawaiʻi Finally Revokes Professional Licenses Of Registered Sex Offender
- Months after announcing retirement, embattled KPD chief won’t reveal departure date
- COVID Free Ride Over: DoE Starts Charging for Summer School Again
- HB212: ‘Return-to-Home program’ proposed for homeless people to return to their home states
- ‘Help us’: Public housing redevelopment forces 60 Kuhio Park Terrace tenants to relocate
- Falls of Clyde removal contract awarded
- Chinatown Fire Ended Bubonic Plague Epidemic
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| Thursday, January 23, 2025 |
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January 23, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:13 PM :: 5780 Views
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- Navy can’t dodge Clean Water Act claims over Honolulu fuel storage facility
- Hawaii K-12 Parent and School Expo to Highlight Learning Options and Family Fun
- Report: Hawaii Jail Guards Under Extreme Stress Due to Mandatory OT, Understaffing
- Trump Preparing to Dump Gabbard
- Bye-Bye DEI: OHA Cronies object to Trump’s ‘race-blind’ actions
- How Honolulu Crime Boss Mike Miske Fed The Illegal Fireworks Market
- It’s been 2+ years since a high-profile fireworks bust at OCCC. Where’s the accountability?
- Saiki returns to help control insurance coverage, costs
- A quick look into the financial disclosures of Honolulu city officials
- Buy HECO? Lose your Free Speech til 2040
- SB217: New bill paves the way for toll roads in Hawaii
- State’s 18th kauhale blessed in Waianae
- Hawaii should count homeless population
- Schatz denounces RFK Jr. nomination to head health department
- Trump Should Develop A National Strategy For COFA Nations
- The Eldercide Of The Pandemic
- "Discipline Will Be Forced" on Hawaiian, Says Alaska
- Brothers wrongfully convicted in Dana Ireland murder case file new lawsuit citing ‘botched’ investigation
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| Wednesday, January 22, 2025 |
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January 22, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:51 PM :: 3379 Views
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- Hawaii Residents See Largest Tax Cut in State History
- Record number of students helped by Hawaiʻi Promise scholarship
- Case, Moylan Reintroduce 'Affordable Shipping for All Act'
- Hawaii Worst State for Drivers
- Birthright Citizenship? Hawaii AG Joins Suit Challenging Trump's Executive Order
- Trump Directs Coast Guard 'Surge'
- Maui Police Officer Indicted for Deprivation of Civil Rights
- Timeline: Gabbard Lied to Congress About Syria Trip—spent hours alone with Assad
- Boozy Senators Vote to Keep Drinking on the Job
- Hawaiʻi Should Adopt New IRS Tool To Save Time And Money
- Geothermal Bills Introduced in Hawai`i State Legislature
- DNA Testing Leads to Arrest in 1977 Murder/Rape of McKinley HS Girl
- Fireworks Injuries, Deaths Reached 14-Year High On New Year's
- Cost Of 450 Temporary Homes For Maui Wildfire Victims: $411,000 Each
- Hawaii wildfire risks lead to demand for more sheep
- 78% of Waikiki Homeless 'Newly Arrived Individuals’
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| Tuesday, January 21, 2025 |
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January 21, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:58 PM :: 1780 Views
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- Gov Green 2025 State of the State Address Live
- Hawaii 7th-Worst State to Start New Business
- Court Rejects Biden's 'Project Labor Agreement' Mandate
- David K. Porter Named Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Honolulu Field Office
- Trump Orders Temporary Withdrawal of Offshore Areas from Wind Leasing
- President Trump pardons 2 Hawaii men involved in Jan. 6 Capitol riot
- Crisis fund access stirs feud between HTA and DBEDT
- STEM Education Begins to Draw Boys Back into Academia
- 200 Bums Removed from Chinatown: ‘Arresting can be a real answer to all of this’
- HB748: More Possible Locations for Honolulu Landfills
- DPP software upgrade delayed due to technical snag, city says
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| Monday, January 20, 2025 |
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January 20, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:41 PM :: 1927 Views
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- VIDEO: Trump Inaugural Address
- 1959: Martin Luther King Jr Salutes Hawaii Statehood
- Housing Affordability: Regulations or Spending?
- Do Lahaina recovery efforts hold lessons for LA?
- Hawaii Trump supporters journey nearly 5,000 miles for inauguration
- Guam Attorney General: Do not tolerate homeless encampments
- Bury all power lines or rebuild the town fast? In Lahaina fire recovery, it’s hard to do both
- A quick update on a few Miske co-defendants
- HPD officers to be deposed in connection with Jan. 1, 2024, beating of man who attempted to interfere in police chase
- Revenge: In-Laws Of Rep. Sue Lee Loy Claim She Doesn't Live In Her Hilo District
- Honolulu Has Been Struggling To Regulate Fireworks For More Than A Century
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| Sunday, January 19, 2025 |
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January 19, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:33 PM :: 2519 Views
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- Military Personnel 14% of Oahu Rental Market -- but nearly 0% of Sister Isle Rental Market
- Climate Resiliency
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation--How they Voted January 17, 2025
- Celebrities Come Home!
- Gabbard brought in over $1.2M as a MAGA celebrity, filings show
- Pandering to Antivaxxers
- Legislature Opens With Annual Ritual: Empty Talk About Housing
- Homeless ‘taxpayer-funded service fees’ -- $36,500 each
- How The Pandemic Shutdown Opened Up Public Access To The Legislature
- Hawaii National Guard Job Challenge Academy unveiled
- Plotting Banyan’s course: As razing of Uncle Billy’s finishes, officials mull future of area
- Parasitic wasps to help combat CBB; officials look to release them this spring
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| Saturday, January 18, 2025 |
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January 18, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:07 PM :: 3123 Views
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- Vigilance key to protecting historic state income tax cut
- Spending restraint tagged as best way to protect 2024 state tax cuts
- City partners with UHERO to launch Subsidized Housing Tracker
- Trump should bypass support for the protectionist Jones Act
- Shakedown: DelaCruz, Kim Torture Hensel for Four Hours
- Shakedown: Who will have final say over Mauna Kea decisions? State or stewardship authority?
- Shakedown: State lawmakers grill Hawaii agriculture officials over funding, contracts
- The $2 trillion home insurance nightmare is getting even worse
- MAGA Cashiers a Check on Tulsi Gabbard as DNI
- Lahaina Scheme to Quietly Demolish 1823 Spring House
- $3.75M to Rebuild 100’ of Waikiki Seawall and Walkway
- Cousin, enforcer of late crime boss receives 3-year federal sentence
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| Friday, January 17, 2025 |
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January 17, 2025 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:15 PM :: 1972 Views
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- Murdered Baby Related to HPD Deputy Chief, DHS Investigator
- OHA Trustees Never Approved $705K Hush Money Payment
- VIDEO: Hirono, Pam Bondi, and Sexual Harassment
- Interior Department Strengthens Native Hawaiian Consultation Policies and Procedures, Affirms Federal Trust Responsibility to Native Hawaiian Community
- Hawaii House Updates Rules for 2025 Session
- Illegal Vapes: AG Warns Retailers
- Voter Suppression: Bills Call for More Voter Service Centers on Oahu
- Target DelaCruz: Wahiawa Garbage Dump Part of Scheme to Pressure Legislature
- SB175: Bump up Soft-on-Crime Judges’ retirement age (again)
- New UH President Hensel expects to hire AD in summer
- DoE Budget Pressure Tactic: Hawaii public schools to see price hike for summer school programs
- Hawaiʻi Teens Less Likely To Drink Alcohol — Or Use Sunscreen
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