Hawaii Tea Party Updates: 100s at Capitol, 250 at Kahului, 300 on Big Island

KITV Exclusive: City Workers Accused Of Bogus OT

Hannemann says rail route won't be altered to bypass 'Banana Patch'

Hawaii foreclosures soar 503% in March

GGP Bankruptcy: Ala Moana Center and Ward Centers will continue operating

SB: Budget showdown demands sane deal

HR: Honolulu City Council Proposes Substantial Tax and Fee Hikes

Maui: County preps for loss of TAT

Hawaii Legislature passes $4 Billion in new taxes and fees ($13,000 per family of four)

Card check bill goes forward at Capitol

Maui Proposal includes some fee increases

EPA wants Honolulu to change rail route to save tiny community ('Banana Patch')

Hawaii Retail Vacancy Highest Since 2007

Lawmakers Debate Limiting Funds To Abstinence-Only Programs

Head of Hawaii homeless shelter put on leave amid complaints

Kauai Council debates solid waste strategy

Election financing delay sought

State rejects notion that special law was written solely for the Superferry

Borreca: Abercrombie anxious for campaign Swan Song to begin

Spending way up in race for Honolulu council:  Felix, Holmes, Anderson top list

Movement to possibly ban herbal hallucinogen

Oahu: Hawaii land fund may conserve 5,700 acres

Hawaii Co: Second hearing on new housing impact fee held

Kauai: Council questions Planning Dept.’s planning progress

Tax hike on 'inevitable' track

Economy puts seniors on edge

WHT: SB1622 card-check upends level playing field

Advertiser: Stimulus requires reform (Obama tougher than NCLB!!!!  BoE/DoE squirming)

Don't block preschool funds

Unhappy Hour: Chinatown residents try to shutter a bar they say is ground zero for the area's crime woes

Maui: Ray of hope in gloomy isle real estate

Effort to get docs hangs in balance 

PUC considers Sierra Club Plan to quadruple cost of electricity

OHA Water grab: Plan could strangle last sugar plantation

Borreca: Legislature meets Lingle in a battle of the budgets

Price of Obama: Hawaii should be a gathering place, even in recession

Volunteers overcome Government (again): Hana dialysis center dedicated 

MMMC gets $10 million loan from state

MMMC expands heart options:  (Socialism: Capital consumption to fund operating expense)

Pork Dreams: Land prices for Hawaii rail route jump $100 million since 2006

Campaign signs: Lawmakers Outdoor Circle can't contain themselves

Cataluna: Cayetano memoir a candid tell-all

Mauna Kea plan is approved (years to go until activists can be bought off)

GMO bill sidelined by Mike Gabbard (legislature chooses to allow Counties to attack the fastest growing sector of Hawaii Agriculture...for now)

Lingle-Aiona Dividend: Child welfare system gains have cut foster-care numbers

Proposed budget includes funds for emergency center  ($19.2M to backup computers???)

Price of Obama: Bishop Museum cutting hours, laying off and furloughing staff

Maui police officer describes beating outside his home

Soft on Crime: Makiki man is charged in second shooting

Honolulu takes steps to clean up Chinatown crime problem

End of a Column: Church people worthy of regular coverage

Election fund plan in peril

Police block sign waving by Honolulu City Council candidates

Advertiser: Hawaii civil unions bill, hike in sales tax unlikely to pass (Tort Reform also dead)

SB: Sales tax proposal a way for legislators to pass the buck  (No GE increase, but .....)

Business leaders oppose raising excise tax, check card, bankruptcy jobs rules

(Trial lawyer) Legislators Kill Bills Requested By Law Enforcement (Leg refuses to overturn Supreme Court's 1998 Con-Con vote counting trick)

Hawaii unemployment fund in good shape despite high demand

Advertiser: Ceded-lands pact can help defuse conflict

Midweek's Bob Jones blasts HRA

Maui: Nonprofits ask to keep pieces of pie

Lingle vows veto on taxes

Senators aim to cut pay from top

Bertram, GOP spar over child abuse ad

SB: Maui legislator has entrapped himself in online sex issue

Mauna Kea plan draws mixed reactions: OHA backs CMP

HB 444 - Civil Unions Bill- Dead for The 2009 Legislative Session

Settlement proposed in battle over Hawaii ceded lands

HMSA seeks major rate hike

SB: Sonar's effect on dolphins minimal

Water rate hikes on Molokai 

Laupahoehoe considers Charter School status 

Parents urge panel to save small school

Hawaii County Council delays action on GMO bill

Kona: Target expects flood of applicants

Maui: Off-duty detective was struck 19 times with baseball bats

Layoffs and Taxes -- Senate budget proposal raids hotel tax, foresees counties imposing sales levy

Chances weaken for passage of altered civil union measure

LA Times: Hawaii, suffering tourism drop appeals to Obama

Be careful in listing tax delinquents' names online

Pork Dreams: More than $100M in earmarks for Hawaii sought in U.S. House

Broken Trustee still not going to jail: Lanikai man (Jervis) gets probation for car chase of Hawaii teen vandals  (soft on crime)

Land fund raid step closer to reality

Hidden tax increase on outsiders?--New value allocation approach applied to Kaua‘i condominiums

Parents rally to preserve Wailupe Valley school

Hawaii civil-union bill revision is proposed

Lingle: Stick with me to keep TAT (option 1)

Transient accommodation tax payment bill sent to Senate (TAT increase offered as option 2)

Legislators Consider Internet Sales Tax Collection

KITV Report Shows 9 Transit Jobs Make More Than $100,000/Year

Police Union will not sway Correa's evaluation, panel leader says

Residents on Kauai work for free to fix road to Hawaii state park

February occupancy rate for Hawaii hotels worst since 1991

Shakedown: Future of aquaculture discussed in Kawaihae (activists keeping Hawaii's economy in the tank)

State-funded clubhouse centers for Hawaii's mentally ill are at risk (push for tax increase, rinse, wash, repeat)

Honolulu hiring for rail transit division (why taxes are increasing)

SB/Haugen: Akaka Bill: Hawaii could become No. 1 in Native American population (If Hawaiians become reservation Indians)

Ceded Lands OHA, DHHL: Heen vs Kawananakoa

ACLU to defend school drug pushers again--as Schools chief may get more power (to close your school)

SB: 150 Kaneohe Marines leave for Iraq

AP: GOP legislators struggle with little political clout

Kaneohe man arrested after attempted rendezvous with 14-year-old girl

NK missile launches: Not shot down (Obama calls for US disarmament)

Omnibus tax measure likely unless public employees give

SB: Ceded Lands commentary

Colorado groups fund both sides in Civil Unions debate (SB headline only calls attention to anti-civil unions funding)

Extinction crisis?  East Maui survey finds unknown plant species

Hawaii will post list of biggest tax scofflaws on new state Web site

Honolulu's Chinatown residents want more police to cut violence

Sentenced to 20 years; Thief to serve at least 40 months (24 priors)

N. Korea set for launch

Hawaii Lawmakers Consider New Sales Tax (this is where they've been aiming all along)

Hawaii governor urges pay cuts for herself, lawmakers, judges

Oshiro apologizes for deleting disability board

Hawaii drug gang dispute linked to Chinatown murder

Zippy's lays off 47 workers on Maui amid recession

SB: Instructions to Democrats,"Place Stevens' cloud over Bush prosecutors"

Gang Cesspool violation hamper home financing

U.S. on alert to protect Isles

AP: More on Rep Joe Bertram (D-Maui) defending molester

Damage done to Hawaii by Obama: $97.6 million--and counting

SB: Legislator offers proposal to raise taxes on the rich

UH cuts may jeopardize jobs (case for tax increase)

School board opposes governor's budget plan

Bottom? Oahu home prices continue to slide, down 4.5% in March

HMSA, Medicare squeeze suppliers

Civil union supporters hopeful despite failure

Woman, 35, shot after allegedly threatening police in Pawaa

Audit finds state IT department lacking

Rep Joe Bertram in court supporting Maui child molester

Supreme Court asked to clarify Superferry ruling

North Korea Fueling Long-Range Rocket

SB: Raid Hurricane fund, raise taxes (global cooling?)

Views on school funds unchanged (DoE fears accountability)

SB: Accused Chinatown gunman was free on bail at time of shooting

The Price of freedom: $10 a week

Tourist numbers and spending down

Economic recovery for Hawaii may depend on tourism

Economist: Hawaii Tourism 'In Crisis Mode'

Hawaii health centers brace for rise in uninsured patients

SHOPO Finds More Officers Want Chief Ousted

Sovereignty activists disrupt Maui ATV park meeting

Ruling leaves state among defendants in Kaloko suit

Charley Foster: Ceded Lands Debate - What Next for Hawaiians?

Ted Hong: Hawaii v. OHA We’re All in This Together

OHA's Ceded lands grab shifts to Legislature

SB: HGEA demands Tax Increase: Legislators reject Lingle's bid to cut salaries of state workers

Advertiser: Higher taxes, massive layoffs would be the alternative (HGEA busted lying again)

Taking sides on superstore ban

Police get to weigh in on chief

County departments could be cut

Hawaii Medals of Honor remember 23 troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan

Report: Chinese kill weapon can destroy aircraft carrier

North Korean missile-launch news

Expert: North Korea has several nuclear warheads

Union power play: 4 mayors oppose state pay cuts

SB: No quick fix from Asia in tourism promotion

Hawaii State Hospital faces budget shortfall

SB: Cigarette tax hike comes at right time during recession

(Old-boy managed) Hawaiian Telcom's bonuses opposed by U.S. trustee

Deadbeats rejoice: Bill would block credit checks by employers

Soft on Crime:  Felony charges dismissed for 6 of 7 arrested in Iolani Palace takeover

Chinatown Murder Suspect in Police Custody

Rivals fight to fill Aloha void

Transit Brings In High-Paid Positions

Rail stations may be short on parking

Lehman Brothers bankruptcy plagues Kau development

Car agencies cut fleets with tourists on decline

Gates: US may shoot down missile if headed for Hawaii, says probably not nuclear

Lawmakers reluctant to rely on assumed cuts to labor costs (would rather rely on assumed revenues from tax increase)

Proposal would put drug-sniffing dogs in Hawaii's public schools

HGEA backing Anderson for Council

Fukunaga: Hawaiian Telcom service is vital; it cannot be allowed to fail (old boys still milking it)

Ex-manager: Life is good outside Aloha

Bills would ax business-related agencies

State's next hurdle is working with Procurement Code

SB: Who won and who lost in battle over civil unions

Case announces latest bid for Congress

SB: Legislators should stop their assault on Hawaii business

Advertiser: Tax hikes would strain a weak economy

Alakai leaves Hawaii to find job

Interisle shipper seeks big rate hike

More than 8,000 Turn Out for Pearl Harbor Job Fair

Big Islands Kona Blue Water Farms Cuts Production

Earth Hour: Dim bulbs at Honolulu Hale

Election results: KIUC heads in new direction

‘No HUD’ OK: Discrimination bill fails

Hawaii Card Check Bill Advancing

Lingle: ‘No possibility' of public schools shutting down early  (Liar Hamamoto busted second day in a row)

Superferry workers, supporters hold rally in Kahului

Alakai heading for Alabama

Hawaii joblessness at 30-year high: 6.5%

OHA, Enviros vs Water for Maui residents

Hawaii mayors oppose proposal to divert all hotel tax to state

Experts Gather to Save (take control of) the Ocean

Molokai Dispatch: On health and safety, GM foods’ record speaks for itself

Shuttle astronauts stimulate students

Case's email to disclose his plans