1. Ige, Ballard, Legislators Agree: Mentally Ill Must be Forcibly Committed to Treatment Centers
2. Eliminating Barriers to the Treatment of Mental Illness -- HRS Evaluated Law by Law
3. Cost of Living: Hawaii Per Capita Income 4th-Lowest in USA
4. Full Text: State of the State Address
5. Doctors Agonistes: Paradise Lost
6. Hawaii School Choice Week: Education Celebration and Resource Fair
7. Why Be Pro-GMO?
8. Senate Updates Sexual Harassment Policy
9. Gabbard Sues Clinton Over ‘Russian Asset’ Remark
10. Federal Charges for 7-11 robberies, UH carjacking
11. Feds Seize Real Estate Connected to Illegal Game Rooms
12. Mauna Kea: Politicians Form Circular Firing Squad
13. Ige still believes TMT can be resolved peacefully
14. Telescope Protest: Hawaii AG Seeking KAHEA Bank Records –to be Stripped of Nonprofit Status?  
15. Shady Tactics Of Gut And Replace Mar Legislative Process  
16. Hawaii Should Welcome New Defense Radar
17. Instead of Dealing with Mental Health, Lawmakers consider ban on lending of guns
18. Pension reforms would boost state

1. India, co-builder of Hawaii telescope, wants it shifted out of proposed site
2. Making Prescriptions More Available
3. DoE Releases Annual School Quality Survey
4. Sen Taniguchi Blocks Bill Mandating Pension forfeiture after felony     
5. Psychiatric Review Court Needed to Incarcerate Lunatics in Lunatic Asylum
6. Involuntary Hospitalization Task Force Proposes a Few Timid Reforms 
7. Dispelling myths about prison overcrowding
8. Severe Doctor Shortage On The Big Island
9. For 5th Year Running, Lawmakers Consider Giving Airports More Autonomy
10. DoT Proposing Laniakea Turtle Traffic Realignment
11. Taxpayer Ripped off For Years—Denied Refund
12. UH Releases Pay Levels For Hundreds Of Graduate Assistants, Lecturers
13. Dude Allegedly Breaks in to Fasi Building, Starts Fire
14. Meth Bust reveals Multi-Generational Family of Tweekers at Kahului Library Homeless Camp
15. Protesters Finally Shamed into Partially Cleaning up Mauna Kea

1. 1959: Martin Luther King Jr Salutes Hawaii Statehood
2. TMT Supporters Help Clean Up Protest Camp After Photos Expose Messy Mauna
3. DoTax: State Tax Collections up $380M
4. Auditor: DBEDT Hides $6.5M from Legislature
5. Attorney general seeks funds to fight corruption
6. Cop Killer was Mental Case -- Second Barricade at House 
7. HOPE probationers have been linked to some of Oahu’s most violent crimes
8. Arson case opened after Homeless Drug Addicts cause 2-alarm house fire in Aiea
9. Paddlers say homeless ruining bays

1. Don’t Let Them Double Up!
2. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 18, 2020
3. 2 police officers killed in shooting near Diamond Head; multiple homes up in flames
4. Target Letter?  No Problem!  Caldwell, Amemiya Attempting to Bring Donna Leong Back to Work in Administration
5. 99-year-lease housing plan is bleak future
6. Legislators’ cost-of-living ideas try to stave off voters’ growing discontent before elections
7. Poll: 69% Say Complete TMT
8. TMT supporters pick up litter left on Mauna Kea by Telescope Protesters
9. Maui Mayor Wants to Raise GE Tax
10. Big Island Bus system ‘meltdown’ leaves schoolchildren, working poor stranded—Tax Hike was Supposed to Solve Transit Problems
11. Using a new law, Hawaii goes after scofflaws and drafts rules for new B&Bs—But Will Any Apply?
12. Many Hoops to Jump Through--Law nets no new lease extensions — so far
13. Liability issue clarified for Hawaii charter schools
14. HPD Busts Crime Ring ‘Uncle’ – Hand him over to Feds Because Soft on Crime State Kept Giving Him Bail
15. Police open murder investigation at Oahu Community Correctional Center

1. Ige's philosophy: Spend, spend, spend
2. Hawaii GE Tax Hits 105.29% of Personal Income
3. 2020 Legislature: Gun Bills Introduced
4. 10 Hawaii Robotics teams qualify for 2020 VEX Worlds
5. HECO Reports 21% jump in solar generation capacity
6. Young Brothers Rate Hike Proposal Based on Fraudulent Numbers
7. Salary Increases Drive $14B ERS Pension Shortfall
8. HSTA’s Newest Raise Would Cost $46M
9. Sen Taniguchi Blocks Bill Mandating Pension forfeiture after felony
10. Drunk Hit-and-Run Former State Senator Actually Gets Arrested for DUI (this time)
11. Will Judiciary Block Affordable Housing Plan?
12. Ige pledged to end homelessness in Hawaii by 2020. What happened?
13. Bum fights at Hawaii state library leave library patrons injured, damage building
14. Jail Diversion Plan Diverts One Criminal
15. Lack of information in Hawaii inmate’s death is questioned
16. Wiping out Hawaiian History: Caldwell administration again pushes to rename Thomas Square

1. Ed Case: Why Was VFR Helicopter Pilot Flying in Fog?
2. Hawaii Cost of Smoking $2.2M per Smoker
3. Hawaii 2nd-Most Integrated State
4. Reforming Inefficiencies Begins With Government Employees
5. Hawaii County Council Rushing a $1.45M Insider Cash Give-Away
6. New measure at state capitol looking to do away with HI-5 recycling
7. Hawaii found to be only partially compliant with federal child abuse laws
8. Pro-life advocates rally at state Capitol to ‘honor the lives lost to abortion
9. Will DOE Slash Weighted Student Formula to Pay $10M to HSTA?
10. Board of Education shelves plans to move Kaahumanu Elementary School to Make Way for Condos
11. Fake: City sues disgraced ex-police chief in Pretend bid to recoup $250,000 payout
12. New Prison Oversight Commission Trying to Release as Many Criminals as Possible
13. More sex assault allegations against former Kamehameha Schools psychiatrist and ACLU Board Member
14. Two Weeks of Steady Rain—74 Homeless Decide to Accept Shelter
15. Kauai: Tax hike proposed for part-time TVRs
16. Is This Any Way To Run An Airport?
17. Technology helps provide accurate measure of sea level

1. DBEDT: Family of 4 Needs $80K for a frugal lifestyle—But only $67K on Big Island
2. Homeless deaths increase on O‘ahu Because They are not Being Forced into Shelters
3. Vote-by-Mail Reminder Coming to Your Mailbox
4. Make OHA Pay for Mauna Kea Protest Expenses
5. Time For The Taxpayers to PROTEST
6. Hawaii’s aging inter-island submarine fiber-optic cables
7. Silicon Valley Greenies On Verge of Taking over HECO?
8. Hawaiian protests move to state Capitol “uncertain about what they were trying to accomplish”
9. Tents, other items remain on Mauna Kea—Protesters Still Making Excuses
10. Trying to Tax You Out of Your Car: Caldwell proposes study of traffic congestion pricing
11. Details needed to add early-learning hubs
12. Fewer criminal cases taken to court statewide
13. Consumer Advocate Analysis: Hu Honua will increase greenhouse gas emissions and electricity costs
14. Honolulu residents outspend most of the country on food expenses
15. Nick Rolovich contract calls for $425,004 penalty for early departure
16. New General Manager for HNN Named
17. Lawsuit: Organic Store Spread Rat Lungworm to Customers

• Make OHA Pay for Mauna Kea Protest Expenses
• Time For The Taxpayers to PROTEST
• Hawaii’s aging inter-island submarine fiber-optic cables 

1. Ige, Legislators Announce "Joint Economic Package"
2. DoH Forced Dairy Farmer to Give $87K to Anti-GMO Group
3. DoH Orders Shutdown of Unlicensed Drug Treatment Centers
4. Family of Murdered Woman Demands Action Against Homeless Criminal Camp Near Whitmore Village
5. Powerful Hawaii defensive radar is delayed
6. Teacher pay differential plan comes under fire by lawmakers
7. HSTA Operative in Three Way Race for Manahan’s Old Council Seat
8. Big Island Doctor Shortage—Some Specialists Do Not Exist on Island
9. How Much Will Legislators Pony Up to hire a UH football coach?
10. UH Law Ex-Con Concerned About Number of Criminals Being Killed
11. Soft-on-Crime Activists Complain About Difficulty Using Kids to Smuggle Meth to Inmates
12. Waikiki Health opens a new homeless shelter in Moiliili
13. The Misunderstood End of Coal in Hawai’i 
14. Opening Day--Millions of Dollars Demanded

1. HSTA Pushing ANOTHER Massive Pay Hike with No Accountability
2. Ige Approves Mauna Kea Administrative Rules
3. 9 Years of CWS Failure Ends only with Death: Starved Hilo girl repeatedly returned to abusive family
4. The Usual Election Year Attempt to Shift Protest Movements into Get out the Vote Efforts is Back for 2020
5. CD2: Kai is not the guy
6. City Officials, Protesters Do Deal on Sherwood Forest Park—Build Same Thing with Different Name
7. Anti-GMO Lobbyist: Legalize Magic Mushrooms and Establish Meth Camp in Waianae
8. Not enough assisted death?
9. HPD 250 Officers Short—Another 268 Could Retire
10. Public Safety Department Wants to Add 15 More Vacant Positions
11. Amemiya Reports Nearly $1M In Mayoral Campaign Contributions
12. Enviros Instructed to Make Hawaiian Hawk A Political Pawn
13. Hold on to your Wallet—The Legislative Session is About to Begin

1. Common Cause Announces Legislative Agenda for 2020
2. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 12, 2020
3. Legislators: We’re Not Corrupt Enough—Need More Unions
4. Insiders Continue to Buy Favor from Kai Kahele
5. Legislature 2020: Making Hawaii Even More un-Livable
6. The legislative session starts this week, hearings underway
7. Global Warmers Claim HART has Waterproofed Rail Against 6’ Sea Level Rise
8. Biofool: Hawaii Legislature’s ‘Big Idea’ Kills Orangutans
9. Mandatory Report On Hawaii Trash Disposal Hasn’t Been Filed In 4 Years
10. Tourism Industry Group Begins Hyping Anti-Aquarium Hysteria (again)
11. Oahu Is Overhauling How It Counts The Homeless to Boost the Numbers

1. What Really Is a Minimum Wage?
2. 27 Vacant Seats on Honolulu Neighborhood Boards
3. Mauna Kea: Removal of Perfectly Good Telescopes is on schedule
4. Next Boondoggle: Burn Taxpayer Money to ‘Boost Construction’
5. Legislative Agenda: Advocates rally at the Capitol to demand higher minimum wage
6. Lawmakers should advance ethics bills
7. 30 years later, it’s the last session for Rep. Cynthia Thielen
8. Opening Day: Maybe save the party until the work is done
9. New names, familiar faces raise interest in Honolulu’s high-stakes mayoral race
10. Stolen Car and Murder in Homeless Camp Chop Shop Owned by Agribusiness Development Corp
11. Released Inmates Become Homeless Drug Addicts in Hilo Neighborhood Near jail
12. Soft on Crime: Felon with 4 Guns Gets 3 Months
13. 5 Alkies Wearing Ankle Bracelets to Detect Alcohol

1. Pine: High Profile Ousters Cast Shadow on Government Transparency
2. State spending cap is useless
3. Schatz Bill: Funnel Tax Credit Money to Pono Shim's LLC
4. Hawaii Family Advocates 2020 Public Policy Priorities
5. 'Rest Stop' Serves Homeless 68,000 Times--Only 92 Accept Housing
6. Mayor Kim: Exempt Health Care from GE Tax
7. ‘Affordable’ Housing on a Jail with Free Land and Tax Credits – $1,539/mo
8. In trial for 4 arrested at Mauna Kea protest, prosecutors call TMT blockade ‘unjustified’
9. Kelly King Installed Secret Spy Cameras in Council Chambers
10. Maui Council Chair King’s downfall was putting community over money
11. Dead Duckbill: Abandoned flood project in Hauula cost taxpayers $146K ... and flooding is still a problem
12. Soft on Crime: Gets Away With Murder, Kidnapping Because of ‘Major Depression’
13. Lawsuit: Police Beat up Legal Gun User

1. In Hawaii $100 Buys Only $84 Worth of Goods
2. Governor's budget exceeds spending cap — again
3. Audit: Handi-Van Phone System May be ADA Violation
4. Audit: Property Assessments Inconsistent and Inequitable
5. A Native Hawaiian’s response to SACNAS letter implying Native Hawaiian culture opposes TMT
6. Shakeup at Honolulu Police Commission -- Anti-Kealoha Chair Ousted by Pro-Corruption Forces
7. Meth-Head Convicted, Still Employed as Prison Guard—will be allowed to retire with pension soon
8. Telescope Protesters Leave Mountain of Trash on Mauna Kea  
9. Island ranchers, businesses oppose 34% hike to YB shipping rates
10. Will Feds Save us from Hawaii’s Failed Effort to Solve Homelessness?
11. Money to Burn: Hawaii government might collect an additional $74M in taxes
12. Waimea Middle Will Get Back Withheld Settlement Money
13. 3 years Late Oahu Finally Gets Its Joint Traffic Management Center
14. After months-long delay, EPA to begin removing toxic soil under Kalihi street this month
15. Soft on Crime Policies behind recent violent crime wave in Hawaii
16. Waiwa: Kamehameha Schools project looks to develop 11,000 homes and cost $4B
17. DOBOR vs County – 16 Years Spent Deciding Who Regulates Surf Schools

1. Lawsuit: Hawaii AG David Louie Conspired with Money-Grubbing Trial Lawyers to Gin up $8B Case
2. OHA's First Cover-up of 2020
3. Hawaii Female Salaries 82.6% of Male
4. Auditor Rips DPP--Permits Delayed due to Poor Management
5. HART: Rail May be Ready to Run in October—But City May not Have Money to Run It
6. Hawaiʻi County Mayor Meets With TMT Officials About Mauna Kea's Future
7. There aren’t enough ankle bracelets to monitor all inmates on work furlough
8. Homeless Criminal from Mainland Comes to Waipahu, Slashes Woman at Times Market
9. Eco-Phonies: Hawaii Co Council fails to override mayor’s herbicide veto
10. Legislative Agenda: Suicide Squad Wants to Give out more Death Pills
11. Hawaii Lawmakers Pushing For A Tax On Vaping
12. Investigation reveals violations at Molokai Community Health Center
13. Citing State Supreme Court Ruling on ‘Obstruction’, judge dismisses cases for 28 arrested at Waimanalo park protest
14. Homeless Court Reports Progress in Moving Homeless off Streets
15. Hawaii County Homeless Shelters ‘Always Full’
16. Hawaii: Nobody Votes Because there is Nobody to Vote For

1. Crooks Cry Racism: Debunking OHA’s Audit Excuses
2. Former HUD employee sentenced to 66 months in prison for fraud and identity theft
3. Hawaii Attorney General Approves Asset Forfeiture Rules
4. Insider Helps Astronomers Learn How to make Payoffs to Hawaiian Community Leaders
5. Stand-down counts as a victory for Mauna Kea ‘protectors’
6. TMT: ‘Wish COUNTY Can Find a Way Through’
7. Property buyouts mulled: Hawaii County will use HUD funds to purchase land from those wanting to leave areas impacted by eruption
8. Tourism Industry, Billionaire Snowbirds Pushing to halt all aquarium fishing
9. Hawaiʻi’s Future Liabilities are Expected to Cost $88 Billion
10. Get Ready For An Economic Slowdown, State Economist Says
11. If you’re not rich or if your parents aren’t well connected, the Hawaii you live in is different
12. Four Mayoral Candidates Raising Money
13. Another Assistant Superintendent Retires From DOE
14. Will HPD release officer misconduct information to the public?
15. OHA Returned $2M Of Ceded Land Revenue In 2019
16. Medicare Trims Payments To 8 Hawaii Hospitals due to Excessive readmissions
17. Nearly A Quarter of Hawaii Homes Are Purchased By Out-Of-State Buyers
18. Hawaii Slips to No. 2 For Homelessness. New York Is #1
19. Punawai Rest Stop: 1 in 200 Bums Accept Drug Treatment, 1 in 57 accept jobs, 1 in 22 accept housing
20. $6M Ohana Zones program Moves 213 Bums into Housing
21. Disgusting ‘Health Food’ Store Sells Sandwich Infested with Rat Lungworm Slug
22. ‘I want her back’: Mother strengthens plea amid custody battle over 11-year-old girl

1. DHHL Leaseholds--many vacant or abandoned
2. Larry Ellison in Talks to Buy HECO's Lanai Grid
3. Issues for 2020: Out with the Old and In with the New?
4. Two Judicial Vacancies on Oahu
5. At 100, Jones Act Looks Old and Wrinkly 
6. Shakeup afoot at the federal office that exposed the Kealohas’ criminal behavior
7. School Construction Projects ‘Political’—Only in Hawaii
8. Audit: Honolulu DPP Can’t Get the Job Done Permits Languish for Years
9. Money: Telescope Protesters Address Astronomy Conference
10. YB Seeks $27M Rate Hike
11. For first time since 2012, Honolulu saw its annual median home price drop (but not by much)
12. 26% of Kailua TVRs Destroyed
13. With Vote by Mail Coming, Maui has no Chief Election Officer
14. Routes canceled as Hele-On bus shortage intensifies
15. Guam: Identity vs Reality
16. Man fatally shot by police in Kailua was work furlough escapee
17. Homeless have Elitist Attitude
18. Volunteers wanted for annual homeless Point-in-Time count

1. OHA Sacrifices $3.2M to Hide Lawyer’s Conflict of Interest?
2. Corruption Charges dropped against Wannabe Big Island Police Chief
3. Alleged Drug Dealer Walks–Evidence Dismissed due to Police Wrongdoing
4. Former SHOPO President Sues Over Police Chief Comments
5. OHA officials should be accountable to state
6. TMT supporters rally at Hawai‘i Convention Center
7. Hearings to be held on Young Brothers rate hikes today and Tuesday
8. Massive DoE Cash Giveaway Begins Tuesday
9. State Refusing to Insure Charter Schools?
10. Hawaii's new Title IX law includes incentives for Students to Turn Gay
11. Marketing Technique: Tourism Industry Continues to Promote Eco-Hysteria
12. Hawaii bankruptcies in 2019 hit highest level in 5 years

1. Cooling the Schools: The Reality
2. Legislative Agenda: HPD Wants 5-Round Magazine Limit
3. Pro-Telescope Rallies Set
4. We’ve had 30 years of “visionary” city leadership, and where has that gotten us?
5. Kim to meet with governor, TMT officials this week
6. Hawaii population decline could have big economic effects
7. New law on reporting inmate deaths exposes alleged prison homicide
8. Hawaii County Herbicide ban not a sure thing yet
9. ‘Solution’ to Affordable Housing?  Spend lots of Property Tax Dollars
10. Answers sought after state authorities allegedly take a child without a court order

1. BWS Fined for Runoff from Nuuanu Dam
2. Electric Rates Going Down: HECO, PGV Agree to Dump 'Avoided Cost' Scam
3. Hawaii 2nd-Worst State for Retirement
4. Hawaii Homelessness Summit 2020 set for Capitol
5. Homeless News: Supreme Court Ruling Makes Sentencing Lighter for Rapist – Kidnappers Statewide
6. Homeless Mayhem: Knife threat just latest incident in Kahului Safeway area
7. ANOTHER Homeless Alleged Rapist Arrested -- Attacks in Honolulu Office Building
8. Aloha Stadium: HCDA, Stadium Authority Fight for Control of Next Big Boondoggle
9. State senators grill University of Hawaii on salary funding details
10. Hawaii's New Asset Forfeiture Rules Take Effect Jan. 17
11. Helicopter tour company pushes back against claims industry is unsafe
12. FEMA Evaluates Hawaii Hurricane Logistics Support

1. Akina article in Wall Street Journal strikes a nerve
2. How to Stop the Exodus
3. Legislative Agenda: OHA to Parlay Mauna Kea Protests into Control of BLNR, LUC
4. Hawaii News Now president Rick Blangiardi may run for mayor
5. Astronomers to assemble in Waikiki as telescope discord looms
6. Impeach Kaneshiro: E-Signature Issue Heads to Federal Court
7. Hawaii ‘Amazon Tax’ is a Double Tax?
8. Bus Fare Hike Will Further Reduce Ridership
9. Judge Puts Hawaii Taser Case On Hold
10. Greenhouse Gas Analysis Spreading Across Hawai’i Public Utilities Commission Proceedings
11. Maili group sues city, developer in bid to stop affordable housing project
12. Canadian Police Catch Homeless Dude from Connecticut Allegedly Raping Woman in Kailua-Kona Park 

1. Hawaii Least Depressed State
2. Star-Adv: Office of Hawaiian Affairs should comply with audit
3. New laws you could see in the 2020 Legislative Session
4. Commission Begins Seeking Ways to Let Lots and Lots of Criminals Back out onto Hawaii’s Streets
5. Rents Are Dipping In Hawaii, At Least For Some People
6. $2.5M Hilo facility for homeless gets Three People into Permanent Housing
7. Nicotine user? Hawaii U-Haul won't hire you starting in February

1. DHHL Defends Mortgage Lending Practices
2. UH report shows more than 150 doctors left Hawaii in 2019
3. 2020 Elections – Which Seats are up for Grabs?
4. The community has been trained to complain
5. Rail to Open before HART Officials get Jail?
6. Fate of TMT uncertain after 2-month stalemate—TMT Pays License Fees in Canary islands
7. New laws going into effect in 2020—Dope and Sex Changes
8. Big Island: Three Rape Cases –one Conflict of Interest --from testing of rape kits
9. DUI crash injuring four children sparks stiffer penalty debate among MADD, Honolulu prosecutor
10. Short-term rental law a red-tape special
11. Big Island Recycling Scheme Collapses in Chaos

1. State Auditor Suspends OHA Audit Over Refusal to Release Records
2. US shipbuilding costs takes toll on national security
3. Exodus from Hawaii continued in fiscal 2019 
4. DLNR, TPL Buy Forest Surrounding OHA's Waimea Valley
5. Legislature Accepting Grant-in-Aid Applications
6. DoTax Changes for 2020
7. Rebounding Hawaiian Hawk Removed From Endangered List
8. Fistfights Break out Among Hawaii County Officials as AG Investigators work Police Corruption Case
9. 35% Of Hawaii Community Health Clinic Patients Have Used Meth
10. Hawaii joins a growing number of states enacting ‘Red flag’ gun law
11. Enviros Will Push for Even More Plastic Bag Bans
12. Hawaiian Hale destroyed by copper thief

1. Will Red Flag Laws Stop Gun Owners Seeking Medical Care?
2. DBEDT: Hawaii Losing 13,200 Civilians Per Year
3. TMT: How We Got Here
4. The Brutality of the Museum Market
5. Honolulu:  Nothing more than a collection of scandals waiting to be exposed
6. Barbers Point air museum files suit to stay in business
7. Ed Case Renews His Crusade Against The Jones Act
8. PUC Audit: Why isn’t Green Energy Producing Lower Electric Rates?     
9. Star-Adv:  Review permits for giant turbines
10. Jan 1: Massive Tax Credit Giveaways for Solar Ending  
11. Legislative Agenda: Bail reform (coming soon to Hawaii) is setting suspects free after string of anti-Semitic attacks
12. Legislative Agenda:  Use Vaping as Excuse to Raise Tobacco Taxes
13. Full Plastic Bag Ban Starts in 2020 With More Restrictions On The Way
14. Jan 1: Beverage changes on the way
15. Federal lawsuit challenges city rejection of electronically-signed petitions
16. $30 million in ‘ohana zone’ funding has led to multiple state projects
17. Kaimuki residents: City isn’t doing enough to rein in monster home builder
18. Like College, Tourism Becomes an Exercise in Brainwashing 

1. Don't Sweep OHA Audit Under the Rug
2. Red Flags at OHA
3. Caught: OHA Audit Report Secrets Revealed
4. WSJ: Aloha Increasingly Means Goodbye Thanks to High Taxes
5. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted December 28, 2019
6. Rep Case Calls on FAA to Tighten Regulations After Deadly Helicopter Crash
7. Harry Kim Deal Allows Telescope Protesters to Move to the Mainland
8. Ige Supplemental Budget: Jail Plan Designed to Fail
9. Honolulu Dance Craze: The Perp Walk
10. Hawaii County GET increase to take effect Jan. 1—Another $25M taken from taxpayers to feed Government Unions
11. Hawaii Electric Car Registration Fee Jumps by $50
12. Hawaii Roadsides Too Junk-Filled for Homeless?
13. Government contributes to problem of illegal dumping in Waimanalo
14. Squatters Take Over Wahiawa Homeless Shelter Site While DPP Dithers

1. Will 2020 be the year of an Hawaii Airport Corporation?
2. Let's unite to reform Jones Act
3. Auditor: Insurers Already Cover Rape Victim Support
4. Hawaii 5th Highest Champagne Taxes in USA
5. Mauna Kea Total: 8,324 Tickets, 78 arrests
6. Rep Saiki: Nothing has been Resolved by Kim’s Deal with Protesters
7. The price of protest: one Hawaii Island company's experience
8. Congressman calls for stricter regulations on tour helicopters amid third fatal crash this year
9. Maui County Council overrides Victorino’s property tax veto
10. Maui Council Mishandling of Lahaina Injection Wells Case a Key Issue in 7-2 Ouster of King
11. Cane Smoke Activists Launch Maui’s year of fire
12. Hawaii's first mobile homeless center has helped 40 people find shelter, mostly families
13. Josh Green, ACLU: Stop Forcing the Homeless to Accept Shelter
14. Child Molester Gets Second Chance—Does it Again

1. Mayor Kim, Protesters Agree to Remove Last Tent from Mauna Kea Access Road -- Until End of February
2. Worst Drivers: Hawaii #1 State for Drunk Driving
3. 56% of Hawaii Smokers Tried to Quit Last Year
4. HawaiiLifeSmarts: HS Teams to Compete
5. November Tourist Arrivals up 4.2%
6. State DHS Tries Lawyer Trick to Evade Responsibility for Peter Boy’s Death
7. Free Lunch From A Contractor Is Annual Tradition at Honolulu Hale
8. Buy Petroleum to Reduce Climate Change

1. Mauna Kea Protest Shows Need for a Return to Elected County Sheriffs
2. The Decade of Getting Priced Out
3. Deadline arrives for TMT protesters to remove structures at Mauna Kea
4. Ala Wai: Height Restriction Behind P3 Failure
5. You will now become Hysterical About Waste from Nuclear Weapons Testing

1. How Christmas Came to Hawaii
2. Feds: State Historic Preservation Division now only Medium Risk
3. DLNR: Only 3 Bums Ticketed in Latest Napali Coast Sweep
4. City report claims housing shortage will end in 2028, but experts are skeptical
5. Give everyone a raise by lowering the cost of living
6. Both sides downplay likelihood of confrontation on Maunakea Access Road
7. After Helping Destroy Hawaii, Anti-Telescope Councilmember Moving to Virginia
8. Cost of Not Enforcing Law: Hawaii County PD $3M Over Budget
9. Summit tours to resume? Companies cautiously optimistic; Maunakea VIS to reopen
10. Kahuku Wind farm opponents take fight to zoning board
11. Hawaii Carbon Offset Report is Released
12. More Homeless Mayhem: Suspected arsonist now accused of kidnapping, sexual assault
13. Prosecutors keep up manslaughter quest against U.S. agent Christopher Deedy

1. How Christmas Came to Hawaii
2. Honolulu 3rd Most Expensive Homes Per Square Foot
3. November 2019 Hawaii Vacation Rental Performance Report
4. Contradiction: While Funding Telescope Protests, OHA Gives UH $1.1M for Science Scholarships
5. Doing the Job the State Won't Do--Feds Lock up Domestic Violence Offenders
6. DPP: Anti-Monster Home Hysteria based on Lies and Ignorance
7. Crime Wave Caused by use of Parole and Probation
8. Because Feds on Job, Suspect is Held Without Bail instead of being ‘Released Pending Investigation’
9. In Between Grand Jury Appearances, Nadamoto finds time to form campaign committee
10. Hawaii’s Doctor Exodus Grew In 2019
11. Turning Around An Oahu Rural Hospital
12. Kahele Campaign Co-Chair Neil Abercrombie calls on Tulsi Gabbard to resign from Congress

1. How Christmas Came to Hawaii
2. 120 Homeless Die on Honolulu Streets This Year Because They Were Not Forced to Accept Shelter
3. Sweep at Ala Wai Small Boat Harbor uncovers hundreds of violations
4. Hawaii Island leads state in population growth, despite some towns seeing declines
5. Low Pay, Reputation Of Corruption Hinders Hiring at Honolulu Liquor Commission
6. Big Island Solar Schemer Goes for Giant Feed-in-Tariff Payoff 
7. Case throws liability for Hawaii charter schools in doubt
8. Protesters: Telescope is ‘Colonial Violence’ or Something
9. New pot law goes into effect Jan. 11
10. Trump Praises Gabbard for Not Voting to Impeach: “I Give Her a Lot of Respect”

1. Ed Case Innovative Approach to Jones Act Reform
2. Hawaii 'Ghost Guns' Already Illegal
3. HUD: West Coast is Source of Growth in Homelessness
4. Hawaii: State Tax Changes for 2020
5. Ninety-One Hours in a Work Week?
6. Mauna Kea Showdown Set for Dec 26
7. Revolving Door: Brandi Higa leaves KITV to join Caldwell’s office
8. Green New Deal: Trump Mocks Hirono, Airplane Ban
9. More Homeless Mayhem: High court reverses manslaughter conviction
10. Sovereignty Activists Cause Homelessness—Then Pretend to Have Solution
11. How Trump is filling the liberal 9th Circuit with conservatives
12. Group shows interest in opening new Ookala dairy (after tourism industry chased last dairy out)

1. UHERO: Hawaii economy enters soft patch
2. Legislative Agenda: CSC Behind Seven Bills for Campaign Finance reform
3. Busted: Josh Green Hiding Out of State Contributions--Out $13K
4. Campaign Spending: John Carroll Declines to Seek Criminal Charges Against Eric Ryan
5. Confused about GMOs and pesticides? Here’s a science-based handbook for combating anti-biotech fallacies
6. Property Tax Onslaught Looms
7. Mauna Kea: “While we were waiting for things to happen, inactivity is putting out the message that the police are weak”
8. Maui Anti-GMO Circus Ends:  Kelly King Ousted —Alice Lee to be new Council Chair 
9. HPD to propose ban on so-called ‘ghost guns’ amid increase in gun violence
10. Homeless Dude from Connecticut Charged in Volcano Golf Club Arson

1. Timeline: Hawaii County Council Abandons TMT--Ige Abandons Mauna Kea—Confusion Reigns
2. VIDEO: Ige pulls state law enforcement from Mauna Kea
3. TMT: State and County have not Demonstrated they are able to Provide Safe Access to Mauna Kea
4. Hawaii Grade F for Business Subsidy Transparency
5. Hawaii Unemployment Insurance System Ranks 28th in USA
6. Kalapama Container Terminal Enters Phase 2
7. DoH raids Two Unlicensed Care Homes
8. Ed Case Introduces Three Jones Act Reform Bills
9. U.S. Attorney believes group behind violent crimes on Oahu
10. Breiner and Nadamoto summoned again to the federal grand jury in widening public corruption probe
11. Locks and lawsuit: fight continues for Naval Air Museum Barbers Point  
12. Ala Wai: Why Some Are Fighting a Massive Flood-Control Project
13. Opponents of controversial Waimanalo development claim project has been scrapped
14. Citing taxpayer confusion, Maui Mayor vetoes property tax bill
15. Complaint: ‘Enhanced’ Maunakea traffic enforcement is unconstitutional
16. Justice: Anti-Cane Smoke Activists Suffer from Dust

1. Why You Should Mahalo OHA Trustee Keli'i Akina
2. State Supreme Court to Hear Gut n Replace Appeal
3. ​Impeachment: Gabbard Votes 'Present'
4. Grassroot: Ige’s fiscal 2021 budget ‘unsustainable’ 
5. Barbers Point Air Museum Sues Airports Division to Block Eviction, Destruction of US Navy-owned Planes
6. Alleged Synagogue Vandal Arrested in Kailua-Kona
7. Ige plans to pull state law enforcement from Mauna Kea
8. Majority of HGEA  Positions Unnecessary—Could be Eliminated Easily
9. Hawaii County Council rejects agreement with state on cost of policing TMT protests
10. State Agribusiness Dev Corp land a haven for criminal activity for years—ADC Spokesman: “We don’t want to do a sweep”
11. 2 suspects fatally shot by police were both on probation—Now Dead Because They Weren’t Jailed
12. 13 Convictions in 7 Years: Out on Street Doing it Again
13. More Homeless Mayhem: Lifelong Criminal Gets 5 Years after Pleading Down Rape, Kidnapping Charge
14. Big Island paramedicine program targets Frequent 911 Callers
15. $350M Stadium Designed to Subsidize Development of ‘Entertainment District’

1. Keli'i Akina: The Jones Act and Hawaii
2. Legislative Agenda: UH Budget Request for 2020
3. Revolving Door: Andrew Pereira leaving City for 'new opportunity in private sector'
4. Gabbard to Introduce Censure Alternative to Impeaching Trump
5. Land Use: Hawaii Supreme Court Creates New Procedural Hoop to Jump Through
6. Unique Accomplishment: Kauai Runs on 100% 'Renewable' for a Few Hours
7. Feds: Since Soft on Crime State Won’t Lock up Criminals, We Will
8. Another Criminal Killed by Soft on Crime Policies—Who will Save Hawaii Criminals from Do-Gooders?  
9. Police Re-arrest 12-time loser after Judiciary Sets Him Free
10. In astounding confession, Hawaii child porn suspect claims 100 victims
11. Maui Council brings back county manager debate
12. Hawaii Co Energy code changes heading to council
13. City officials say homeless ruling won’t derail enforcement in Honolulu

1. Ige Unveils Supplemental Budget--Massive Spending Hike
2. 2020 Federal Spending Plan Includes Lots of Hawaii Pork Projects
3. Hilo Panel Discussion: Culture and Science can Coexist on the Mauna
4. Ed Case Finally Gets Around to Announcing he will Vote for Impeachment
5. Homelessness: Ige Signs Seventh Emergency Proclamation
6. Audio: Trustee Keli’i Akina talks about the Office of Hawaiian Affairs recent audit
7. Why Corrupt Public Employees In Hawaii Keep Their Pensions
8. Rail Launch to be Matched by Gigantic Bus Fare Hikes
9. Technicality means the Kealohas could get less prison time in mailbox case
10. Telescope Protesters to halt sit-in at UH-Manoa campus After Launching Witchhunt
11. Ige: State spends $15 million on Maunakea access
12. Climate-change lawsuits bad for environment, Hawaii residents
13. Caldwell signs bill creating new B&B tax hike class
14. 3 Months After New Law, Oahu Vacation Rental Numbers Drop 5% on Oahu
15. Prosecutors, others (who are responsible for soft-on-crime policies, pretend to) call for tougher consequences as crime wave highlights repeat offenders
16. Hawaii Law Enforcement Standards Board Wants More Money, More Time
17. Soft on Crime: 7 Time loser caught trying for #8—gets released 
18. Honolulu police officer pleads guilty to forcing homeless man to lick urinal
19. Waipahu Flaw: Homeless Being Swept instead of being Arrested
20. Pie in Sky: Ige wants the state to buy federal jail to replace Oahu Community Correctional Center
21. Legislative Agenda: Hawaiian Immersion May Get More State Support After Years of Community Activism
22. Legislative Agenda: Youth Vaping

1. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted December 14, 2019
2. Homelessness: Kauai LEAD Program Launches
3. HART Secretly Fired Spokesman After Union Corruption Conviction
4.  Mayor signs Plastic Ban into law
5. Agenda: Residential Property Tax Hikes to Pay for Rail
6. Fake state or fake history?
7. How Hawaii Tax Dollars Keep Lunatics on the Streets
8. State budgets $2.5M to replace state Capitol’s carpeting
9. Aiea Board Gives Its Blessing To Preliminary Plans For A New Jail
10. Public comment workshop set for new stadium project
11. Georgia Adoption Consultants Helped Honolulu Lawyer Place Marshallese Babies
12. Avoiding Carbon Offset Scams

1. OIP Strips Back OHA Censorship
2. Ranking Property Taxes on the 2020 State Business Tax Climate Index
3. “Piling On” to Transient Vacation Rentals
4. Election Year Makes Telescope Action Unlikely
5. Effort to improve policy on sexual harassment in limbo in the Senate
6. Massive Property Tax Hike Planned for Kauai
7. Hawaii County Building Code: How to Drive Construction Costs Higher
8. Creagan: The Legislature Didn’t ban Herbicide but The County Council Should
9. Lanes on Nimitz are getting smaller as rail moves closer to town

1. Samoa Rep Aumua Amata: Disappointed in Citizenship Ruling
2. HPD Settles Employment Discrimination Suit
3. Maui on $10K per day: New Vacation Rental Fines
4. 'Gut and replace' has got to go
5. Senators Think UH Regents Are ‘Too Cozy’ With Officials
6. 5-year window for state to reimburse Hawaii county for Mauna Kea law enforcement
7. Waipahu temporary homeless structure gets an early occupant
8. Hawaii Obamacare Signup Deadline 10PM Sunday
9. Was landmark EV growth a milestone or Fake News?
10. Honolulu businesses have until the end of the month to switch from using plastic bags
11. Legislative Agenda: After Wasting Millions on Failed ‘Green’ Air-conditioning Units, DoE wants Legislature to Pony up for Real ACs
12.  Suspects arrested in Waipahu manhunt are no strangers to run-ins with the law
13. Soft on Crime: ‘Time Served’ for Killer—Out After 14 Mos
14. Meanwhile at the Parole Office … State employees say supervisors are spying on them with taxpayer-funded cameras

1. Legislature's "Gut-And-Replace" Procedure Violates Hawaii Constitution Three Readings Requirement
2. 17 Weeks on Mauna Kea: 8,031 Tickets, 74 Arrests
3. Vote by Mail Plan ‘A Recipe for Disaster’
4. Kaneshiro impeachment effort suffers setback
5. Prosecutor Candidate Steven Alm Backs Parole of Wanna-be Cop Killer
6. Soft on Crime: Killer Gets Third Trial
7. What a Surprise! Three Arrested in Police Shooting Case were Already Wanted
8. AG Investigating Embezzlement at Kauai PD
9. Hawai`i Confusion -- Renewable Energy Definitions
10. Homeless seniors check out city-backed apartments 
11. Tweeker Camp needs $4.5M to Move into Waianae Neighborhood
12. Legislative Agenda: Outlaw Rental Security Deposits
13. What To Know About Oahu Real Property Assessments Coming To Mailboxes Soon
14. Kim vetoes herbicide bill—Rules are for Farmers, not Government
15. Anti-Vaxxer Hype Costs Lives in Samoa, Philippines
16. Insiders: Gill Family Still Pushing Waianae Wind Scheme
17. U.S. should recognize American Samoans as citizens, judge says

1. VIDEO: Mauna Kea Defining Sacred
2. Hawaii Credit Rating Upgraded to Highest Level Ever
3. Hawaii GOP First in Nation to Bind Delegates to Trump
4. Anti-Vaxxers Target Samoa with Disinformation Campaign
5. Ethics Board asks if ongoing blockade of Maunakea Access Road is allowed under county ethics code
6. After Decades of Allowing Homeless Drug Addicts and Lunatics to Overrun Cities--Has Honolulu Found Way to Enforce Vagrancy Laws?
7. Robberies up 50%--Because State Judiciary is Soft on Crime, HPD will Seek Federal Charges on Purse Snatchers
8. Soft on Crime Crowd: Criminals Should Oversee Hawaii Prisons 
9. AG Opens Criminal Investigation into Top DPS Training Officer
10. Following The Money At The Hawaii Legislature
11. Tear Down Hawaii’s Contractor Licensing Walls
12. Ritte: Automatic Voter Registration will Make Sovereignty Activists Vote
13. Another HSTA Member Arrested for Child Molestation
14. Samoa measles outbreak triggers concerns over anti-Vaxxer idiocy at Hawaii schools
15. Homeless Lunatic from Connecticut Wanted in Volcano Country Club Arson
16. Homeless Sweep: 3 arrested at Salt Pond

1. TMT: Time to Reassess Viability of Hawaii Telescope Project
2. Auditor: Zoo Loses Track of $658K
3. Impeachment? Ed Case 'Not There Yet'
4. Audit should set off alarms at OHA—But Trustees don’t seem to care
5. In going green, the devil is in the details
6. Eco-Religion Jousts with the ‘Wicked’
7. Mitch Roth running for Big Island Mayor
8. Oahu property tax assessments up 1.7%
9. City to introduce roving tents to force homeless into shelter
10. Soft on Crime: Homeless Tweeker Gets 1 Year for Child Molestation, Burglary
11. Homeless Drug Addicts and Lunatics Squat in Empty KSBE Buildings—Burglarize Neighbors
12. Suit: Kauai police failed to monitor woman who took an hour to kill herself with blanket
13. Regulations coming soon for bikeshare companies --  but not Biki, they have insiders on payroll
14. US Ramps Up Attention On Micronesia To Curb China’s Expanding Influence
15. Paid Family Leave Likely For Nearly 20,000 Federal Workers In Hawaii

1. TMT - Hawaii Owes You an Apology
2. Surfing the Nations - Transforming Wahiawa and the World
3. A Day in the Life of a Napali Coast Ranger
4. Witch Hunt: UH Manoa seeking nominations for commission to address racism and bias on campus
5. Office of Elections Retaliation Games: Seven Years Later Scott Nago Victims Still in Court
6. Ooops! So-Called Biodegradable Plastic Substitutes Can’t be Composted
7. 3 New Bills to Drive up Construction Costs: City Continues War Against Affordable Housing ‘Monster’
8. Honolulu City Council Voted On Company’s Project Then Let It Buy Lunch
9. Next Boondoggle:  HCDA set to take over Aloha Stadium redevelopment
10. Legislative Agenda: 0.05% Blood Alcohol?
11. Handi Van: Auditor’s Report Due Soon
12. GAO: Fixing Shoddy Military Housing In Hawaii And Elsewhere Won’t Be Easy
13. As Predicted: Ivory Ban Leads to Petty Harassment of Market Vendor
14. How Many Bird Species will go Extinct Because of Anti-GMO Activists?
15. Homeless Dude Poses for Insanity Plea After Murder of Acclaimed Artist

TMT - Hawaii Owes You an Apology

1. How OHA Lawyers Hid $200K Procurement Violation
2. Secretary Bernhardt Announces Hawaii’s state Bird is on the Road to Recovery
3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted December 8, 2019
4. $100K Retirement Fund? In Hawaii it will be gone in 14 months
5. OHA investigation identifies $7.8M of possible fraud
6. Look beyond pay to help teachers
7. Lawsuit: DOE Retaliated When Staffer Reported Misuse Of Federal Funds
8. Save The Barbers Point Naval Air Museum
9. Honolulu Council approves B&B property tax increase
10. Phase Two: Maui Council Preparations for Property tax Hike
11. Nonplastic foodware might cause problems
12. Will The Gas Company Plans To Fight A Bill Banning Gas Water Heaters?
13. Hawaii Lt Gov Says Samoa Medical Mission Won’t Be The Last
14. American Samoa declares measles outbreak, closes schools
15. After Decades of Rhetoric, ANOTHER Enviro Study FAILS to Connect Whale Beaching to Navy Sonar
16. How to Save a Dying Language

1. Naming Names: Meet the Political Insiders Behind Eviction of Barbers Point Air Museum
2. Let’s Not Tax Transportation
3. Legislators are Above the Law Because the Judiciary is So Politicized 
4. More ways to support teachers besides just increasing salaries
5. Hawaii ice cream maker fears meltdown in wake of Meadow Gold restructuring
6. Enough lollygagging on upgrading old Red Hill fuel tanks
7. Recycling is a Pipe Dream: Big Island Recycling Drops 17% in Decade
8. Attorney indicted for alleged forged deed, real estate theft
9. Five Welfare Fraud Cases in Kailua-Kona

1. Forgotten Honouliuli: Jack Burns, Police Spy
2. Liberate Hawaii Homebuilding
3. Two Judicial Vacancies on Maui
4. OHA offering $250,000 in grants to nonprofits
5. OIP: OHA’s PIG is a Dead Duck (UPDATED)
6. Gut-and-replace in court (again)
7. Hawaii medical team returns after 48-hour Samoa trip
8. Streak of Oahu record home sale prices may be coming to an end, report indicates 
9. Lanai: Overpriced Solar Farm to be Terminated?
10. Pearl Harbor Day

1. Forgotten Honouliuli: Jack Burns, Police Spy
2. Hawaii: 91 Hour Work Week to Live Comfortably
3. America's Health Rankings: Hawaii 3rd-Healthiest State
4. Hawaii Ranks Among Least Protection Against Elder Abuse
5. Honolulu Ethics Commission Presents Strategic Plan
6. Auditor--14 Years Later: Liquor Comm Still Working on 2005 Recommendations
7. Finalists for William S. Richardson School of Law dean announced
8. This Week on Mauna Kea: 436 Tickets, 2 Arrests
9. BoE Skeptical About Latest HSTA Pay Hike Scam
10. Hawaii County Council Chair: Sweep Mauna Kea or Withdraw Police
11. Blocked by OHA, Kauai Finally Gets Juvenile Drug Treatment Center Built
12. New HART Analyses Show Millions Of Dollars In Added Rail Costs
13. Paeahu Solar contested case wraps up before PUC
14. Real estate couple sentenced for Welfare Fraud
15. Involuntary Mental Hospitalization Task Force Report Due Next Week
16. Hawaii one of worst states in distracted driving deaths
17. Gas prices 4 cents higher than this time last year
18. Big Island: Council OKs Ban On Roundup And Other Herbicides On County Land
19. Census error in Hawaii to result in $12M compact funding loss for Guam?