1. OHA Audit in Jeopardy
2. A Stunning Revelation at OHA
3. Ige Appoints Clare Connors Attorney General
4. New Insurance Commissioner Appointed
5. Ige Reappoints Directors at Ten Departments
6. House Republican Package 'A Better Tomorrow'
7. Hawaii Republican Chair Sums up 2018
8. Government Shutdown: Hawaii 4th-most Affected
9. Insiders Try to Talk Down Zero-Based Budgeting
10. Lobbyist Tries Legal Suicide by Text Message
11. 8 Honolulu City Council members take seats without choosing a leader 
12. More interesting legal cases re government secrecy
13. Waikoloa Highlands Kim Admin Cancels Kenoi Development Deal
14. Development Takes 20 Years--May Take Another 20 Thanks to SHPD
15. Soft on Crime: Feds Step in Because State Just Can’t Get the Job Done
16. Bum Patrol: After 600 Acts of Vandalism City to lock up 18 more Oahu parks at night starting Friday
17. Price of Solar Energy in Hawaii Hard to calculate Thanks to ‘Lump Sum’ payment
18. Newsflash: Marijuana Causes Global Warming

1. Hawaii Rankings: Either the Best or the Worst
2. Feds say explicit photos led to Big Island firefighter in Kealoha case
3. Wind farm impacts worry Leeward Oahu residents
4. Lawmakers Must Resist Any Effort To Undercut Hawaii’s Public Records Law
5. Hospitals to Become More Like Used Car Dealerships 
6. Not Many Doctors Want to Prescribe Death
7. Hooser Having Difficulty Rounding up Support for Minimum Wage Hike
8. State attorney general opposes Abigail Kawananakoa trust changes
9. Water bill spikes prompt warning from Pearl City residents
10. Junk Cars: Can Technophiles Control the Little People?
11. Addicted To Airbnb: Hawaii’s Tourism Economy Depends On Illegal Vacation Rentals
12. Fireworks ban as ineffective as temperance

1. Photo: Ship Burns 1800 miles off Oahu
2. Ige Reappoints Directors at Eight Departments
3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted December 30, 2018
4. Will Supreme Court Act Before Council Sworn In?
5. Doctors, Pharmacists to be Targeted: Eight Line up for Death in 2019
6. Maui Strategies 360: New Farm Operator Hires Activists (so nobody is protesting)
7. Maui Anti-GMO King: We are Just Like Old Boys—but more Secretive
8. Star-Adv: Marijuana Not a Cash Cow
9. New Laws for 2019

1. OHA CFO: We Keep Trustees in the Dark About LLCs
2. House Finance Committee Sets Budget Hearings
3. Auditor: Styrofoam Ban Doesn't Reduce Litter
4. Campaign Spending Violations? Eric Ryan Attacks Republicans Again
5. Disaster dollars: Hawaii County Council asked to add projects for eruption, hurricane damage to budget
6. Great New Year Resolution: City Forcing More Homeless to Accept Shelter
7. 10 Squatters Arrested--Residents of lava-ravaged Leilani Estates drop lawsuit
8. Hawaii Supreme Court rejects appeal in nonjudicial foreclosure case
9. Hawaii County Finally Figures out how to Open New Landfill—Call it ‘Organic’

1. OHA’s $500K Cookie Crumbles
2. No, Killing a Special Fund Doesn’t Kill People
3. JSC Seeks Nominees for Maui Circuit Court
4. Commissioners Sought for Legacy Land Conservation Commission
5. Star-Adv: Other Departments Should Copy DoE ‘Maintenance Backlog’ Scam
6. Like Homeless who Refuse Shelter, Lots of Criminals Prefer Prison
7. Judge: Letting Lots of Criminals out of Jail would boost justice
8. Soft on Crime: Tweeker with 14 Convictions Skips out on Bail, Makes Most Wanted List
9. Federal Prosecutor: We will hold you accountable for these crimes
10. Seabirds Keep Kauai Free of Windfarms
11. Hawaii’s biosecurity plan lags in funding, implementation
12. Dusty, dull bureaucracy revealed in time capsule
13. Border wall-fund founder lived in Hawaii
14. Mazie Hirono Reminds us Democrats’ leaders are snooty supercilious snobs

1. Obamacare Waiver: Hawaii Only State to Skip Reinsurance
2. DoTax Report Reveals Tax Credits Claimed by Hawaii Taxpayers
3. Climate Change and all the Brainwashing
4. Dirty Little Hands
5. Nancy Pelosi Vacations at Fairmont Orchid During Government Shutdown
6. Maui Woke? Hindus urge Hawaii firm to withdraw Lord Ganesha shoes
7. Trevor Ozawa and Kurt Fevella victories called into question by Hawaii Supreme Court
8. Kaneshiro no-show at impeachment conference—Stalling Tactic Gets Delay to Feb 14
9. No Tent Cities—Use domes for ohana zones
10. High-Tax State Exodus
11. Linda Lingle is urged to re-enter Hawaii politics
12. Officials: Nearly 7,000 people registered to vote on Election Day
13. ACLU Responds to DoE Pledge to Upgrade Female Athletic Facilities

Climate Change and all the Brainwashing

1. Mazie Hirono mum on charity invitation from Catholic group she criticized as 'extreme'
2. Why are residents leaving Hawaii?
3. Zuckerberg Tries New trick to Grab Kuleana Plots
4. OHA Wants A Lot More Ceded Land Money From The State
5. Workers Comp Reform on Legislative Agenda (again)
6. Trevor Ozawa to be new Honolulu City Council chairman
7. Over $61 Million From FEMA For Hawaii County After Eruption, Hurricane
8. ‘Top Secret’ Clearance Expected For UH Lab Doing Navy Research
9. Pacific Spaceport Complex Eyes East Hawaii Launch Site
10. Soft on Crime: Escaped Lunatic Slasher Has Log Rap Sheet
11. Here’s a look at some of the laws set to take effect in the new year

1. The Latest Bad Joke for Hawaiians
2. Hirono Demands Judicial Nominee Quit Knights of Columbus
3. Ed Case Congressional Staff Includes Ethically Challenged Rail-Monger Nestor Garcia
4. Ige Reappoints Directors at Three Departments
5. LifeSmarts: Four High Schools Head to Finals
6. State Robotics Championship Set for January
7. Navy Approves EIS for Hawaii-So Cal Training
8. November: Visitor Arrivals Up, Spending Flat
9. Report: Airguns once again dominate ‘firearm’ violations at public schools
10. Hospital patients in Hawaii soon to be able to price compare health care online
11. Hawaii Low Tip Credit Obstacle to Raising Minimum Wage
12. State House GOP agrees with many against ‘gut and replace’
13. HUD Sec 8 Official Faces Federal Charges for Self-Dealing
14. Fraud alleged in local trash company bankruptcy
15. $5M for jail study looks wasteful
16. Activists Spend $500K to get Poor to Buy $45K Worth of Fresh Fruit and Veggies
17. Hawaii Failing to Exploit Natural Attractions
18. Forced out of Business, Dairy Has a Special X-Mas Gift for Ookala TVR Owners
19. Court Cases Open Window Into Marshallese Adoptions
20. How UH Professors Get Away With Sex Assault

1. CAFR: State Pension Debt Grows faster Than Tax Revenues
2. Schatz: My Bills Designed to Trick Public into Accepting Socialized Medicine
3. Star-Adv: If OHA Wants Control of Mauna Kea it will Have to Dump Anti-Telescope Protesters
4. Homeless efforts improving, official says
5. Medicaid Dollars Will Help Hawaii’s Homeless Find Housing
6. Progressives’ Annual Refrain:  If Hawaii is a Democrat State Why Can’t We Implement our Platform?
7. Foreign investment in Hawaii properties soars
8. Sports and girls' success in life: ACLU explains why it's pursuing Title IX lawsuit against DOE
9. Rail 10 Times More Expensive Than Musk Tunnel
10. Ed Case Names Top Staffers

1. How Christmas Came to Hawaii
2. Al Hee Sues Water Board Because Rail Project Not Rerouted to Protect His Tax Scam
3. DoT Lets Highway fall into Sea to Push $15B Sea Level Rise Scheme
4. State Hospital overtime raises safety concerns
5. Soft on Crime: Kahaluu Shooter 54 arrests, 20 convictions in 23 years—But he’s out on the street to do it again
6. Soft on Crime: Maui Man Shot by Police had Long Criminal Record, Little Jail Time 
7. Church domes in Kahaluu provide sanctuary for homeless single mothers
8. Hawaii officially down to one refinery
9. Anti-Frackers Fail to Squelch Gas Co Rate Hike

1. How Christmas Came to Hawaii
2. Lawsuit: Lloyd's of London Kickback Scheme Steered Lava Victims to Worthless Coverage
3. Criminal Prosecution for DLNR staff?
4. Copying UH: DoE Magically Triples its Deferred Maintenance, Grabs for $868M
5. OIP error allowed government agencies to withhold public records for decades
6. Fighting at the Public Utilities Commission
7. Bum Patrol: Hawaii County Parks Hires Security Guards

1. Carbon Tax: Will You Fiddle While Paris Burns?
2. Charitable Deductions--Hawaii Ranks 48th
3. Grassroot: Our Santa wish list for Hawaii
4. Environmental Council Completes Rewrite of Environmental Review Rules
5. Hawaii Becomes the Second State to Shut Out Wild-Animal Circuses
6. Ige Approves Rule Changes for Small Boat Harbors
7. The Big Squeeze: An analysis of tax and fee increases island residents are expected to pay
8. The problem with rail isn’t PR
9. Can Team Hanabusa Take Revenge by Cutting $125M for Ala Wai?
10. Ige seeks $5 million to study financing options for new Halawa jail
11. Kaneshiro Should Step Down to Avoid Impeachment
12. City Gives X-Mas Gift to Homeless Children—Forcing their No Good Parents to Accept Shelter
13. Road Open to Geothermal Plant -- May Restart in 18 Months
14. Anti-vaccination message barely worth printing
15. Maui Styrofoam Ban Begins Dec 31  
16. Obamacare’s fines are not the big stick many had expected

1. Hawaii Democratic Party Announces Priorities for 2019 Legislative Session
2. Senate Updates Committee Assignments
3. State Now Accepting Grant-in-Aid Applications
4. Congressional Delegation Not Eager to Push New Akaka Bill
5. Aloha Stadium Authority Tries for $25,000 Junket, Fails
6. Hawaii Supreme Court Overturns 30 Years Of Government Secrecy
7. Nearly one year after Hawaii missile fiasco, emergency reforms are still on the table
8. Homes Needed for 175 Criminals

1. Report Renews Push to Turn Hawaiians into Fake Indian Tribe
2. Supreme Court Releases Opinion Striking Down HSTA Property Tax ConAm
3. Surfboards count as 'vessels' under the Jones Act, and it's creating big problems for workers' comp
4. HC&S Land Sold to Real Farmer
5. Trump Signs Farm Bill Legalizing Hemp
6. Hawaii Population—First 2yr Decline Since Statehood
7. 68 Oahu Homeless Dead after Lifetime on the Streets
8. Caldwell ‘Seriously Considering’ Excluding Prosecutor from Public Safety Meetings
9. Hearing set for petition on Kaneshiro impeachment
10. Honolulu Meets Federal Demands On Rail Project
11. With Pre-K Sales Pitch Needed, DoE Suddenly Wants MORE Testing
12. Homeless shelter for young adults rapidly expands thanks to state’s ‘ohana zones’ plan
13. The Hidden Cost of Shipping Your Holiday Package
14. Oahu Democrats to Discuss Big Island bioenergy power plant
15. Maui: Enviros Prepare for All-Out War Against Agriculture
16. Maui Enviros will Grab for Water to Destroy New Farm
17. Quack Anti-Vaxxers Mobilize for Kauai Hearing

1.  Ethics: DLNR Manager Steals Equipment, Funnels Money to Contractor
2. Auditor: DAGS Funds 'Do not meet Criteria'
3. What's Not Adding up at OHA?
4. DLNR, Animal Liberation Nuts Imagine Aquarium Poachers--Post Reward
5. Trump, Schatz Team up to Release Thousands of Criminals
6. DoH Fines Hu Honua Biofuel Plant for Water Pollution
7. Internal audit of UH managed Maunakea lands finds no irregularities
8. UH Study: Tweekers 15.1% of Emergency Room Traffic at Hawaii Hospital
9. UH Budget request breakdown for 2019 Legislature
10. Biofuel: How HECO, Enviros Teamed up to Destroy Rainforest
11. Police chief expresses concern about embattled prosecutor’s potential impact on cases
12. Green: Reclassifying drug treatment as ‘primary care’ could help more addicts into recovery
13. Hawai'i Interagency Council on Homelessness Legislative Priorities: $218M
14. Star-Adv, Legislators: We Want Massive Festering Homeless Tent Cities
15. Senators Put UH Finances Under A Microscope
16. University of Hawaii athletics considers raising student fees
17. HPD officer hit with more domestic abuse charges while out on bail
18. Public Paychecks: America's police and fire chiefs have big jobs, and big salaries to boot. Here's Honolulu's breakdown 

1. Cato: Ige 3rd-Worst Governor in USA
2. Cato Institute’s Jones Act Conference
3. Economic Security: In Hawaii it Costs $96K
4. Homelessness: Hawaii has 4th Largest Increase and 4th Largest Decrease
5. HAWSCT's Latest Water Case Isn't About Water
6. Petition Filed With Court To Impeach Prosecutor Kaneshiro
7. Josh Green uses old power playbook
8. Some Grumbling Over Senate Committee Posts
9. Bloated rail lost public trust long ago
10. The cost of living just got more expensive for homeowners
11. Minimum-wage hike Leads to Restaurant Closures
12. OJ Simpson Innocence Project Fights Retired Judge in Effort to Free Rapist-Murderer
13. Thousands of Hawaii teens admit to injecting illegal drugs
14. Terrified BoE Members to Counter Luke Push for ‘Zero Based Budgeting’
15. Delays, Denials, Wasted Tax Dollars: DOE’s Troubled Treatment Of Injured Workers
16. Settlement reached over alleged gender discrimination within the Maui Police Department
17. Big Fat Salary Hikes for Top CWS Officials
18. Goodbye Kona, homeless situation too aggressive to enjoy stay

1. Ige Introduces Executive Budget for Fiscal Biennium 2019-2021
2. Maui County Pays Vendors Ripped Off by Anti-GMO Activist
3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted December 16, 2018
4. National Report: Hawaii Ranks 13th in Protecting Kids from Tobacco
5. 2019 Summer Journalism Internships
6. Zero Based Budgeting on Table as Legislators Seek to Trim Governor’s Power
7. Ige Proposes Spending $125 Million For Ala Wai Canal Flood Control
8. Ige proposes major expansion of ‘free college’ program for low-income students
9. Ige: Spend $38.2 million on girls’ locker rooms
10. Kaneshiro Impeachment Suit to be Filed Today
11. Queens Spends $2.25M to Convince 84 Homeless to Accept Housing—And its a Money Saver
12. Waianae Homeless Camp: Trust a Tweeker with $150K?  Trust Bumpy with $150K?
13. Dimwits Finally Figure Out Huge Barrier For Trapping Plastic Waste In The Pacific Isn’t Working
14. Hawaii AG to oppose Obamacare ruling
15. Puna Subdivisions Divisive Internal Politics
16. HSTA Member ‘Terminated’ After Sex With Students, Paid Vacation
17. Witnesses describe seeing a ‘drunk’ officer hitting utility pole

1. Hawaii: Gun-Carry Ban Legit Because It's Century Old
2. Who's Running in My District? 2019 Neighborhood Board Elections
3. How Much Would Carbon Tax Add to Price Per Gallon?
4. Rail: “No Public Trust in our Organization”
5. Maunakea financial audit completed
6. The history of Title IX compliance in Hawaii's public schools
7. You aren’t born a leader, says Lingle, you become one
8. Study: Chuukese Patients In Hawaii Often Face Discrimination
9. Biocontrol: $35M Building to House More HGEA ‘Positions’
10. Help Count the Homeless
11. 2 Windward churches aiding the homeless get different results
12. Tourist Sues Expedia for False Advertising of Hawaii TVR

1. The County Strikes Back (part 4)
2. Judicial Vacancy – District Judge, District Court of the Third Circuit
3. 1988: Kaneshiro Brought in to Save Mafia Godfather Larry Mehau
4. Hawaii Minimum Wage Workers Make $50K/year
5. Proposed Hawaii Carbon Tax Would Add $0.88 per gallon of gasoline
6. Title IX 46 Years of DoE Hypocrisy
7. Assisted Suicide ‘Uncharted Territory’
8. A Tale of Two Mauis: Newly released census data reveals growing inequality
9. Kona Homeless Tent City Site Still a Swirling Vortex of Shelter-Refusers
10. Caring efforts are energizing the fight against homelessness
11. ‘Modern Hawaii was built on human trafficking’
12. Can Tulsi Gabbard Revitalize Birtherism?

1. Dubin Disbarment?  Another Step in the Process 
2. Ige Signs Emergency Proclamation to Build Homeless 'Ohana Zones
3. Ige: Lofty ideals, few practical solutions
4. UHERO Economic Forecast: Record-high Visitor Numbers--Unimpressive Income Gains
5. HELCO Pushing $13.4M Rate Hike
6. Josh Green: Pay to Play
7. Kaneshiro Corruption: Murderer May be First to Walk Free
8. Impeachment process unclear for Honolulu Prosecutor Keith Kaneshiro
9. Civil Beat Law Center Files To Unseal Secret Kealoha Court Documents
10. Pu‘uhonua o Waianae gets $150,000 to help build new encampment
11. Solar Homes Hit By High Electric Bills

1. Auditor: DLNR Held Back Ceded Lands Payments
2. Honolulu Republican Party Calls for Kaneshiro Resignation
3. ‘Gold star’ marked duplicate driver licenses now available online
4. Honolulu Bum Patrol Extended -- City Cites 'Good Results'
5. Hawaii hotel strike linked to lack of economic freedom
6. DLNR Publishes Dam Evacuation Maps
7. Hanabusa Identifies Two Key Republicans Behind Hawaiian Tribal Scheme
8. The Cost Of Honolulu Rail’s Westside Stations Keeps Going Up
9. Honolulu Prosecutor Keith Kaneshiro’s deputy takes leave
10. Hawaii State hospital escapee Randall Saito pleads not guilty to escape and identity theft
11. Two Groups Compete to Free Rapist and Murderer
12. Bat Killers Whine About Windfarm Opposition
13. New VA Secretary: We will do more to help Hawaii’s military veterans
14. Muslim Tries to Recruit from Oahu Prisons
15. Teacher Complains Students Not Politicized Enough

1. Whitewash: HGEA Members at State Hospital Get No Punishment for Saito Escape
2. How Would You Grade OHA?
3. City, Hawai‘i Gas open renewable wastewater biogas facility
4. Hemp Made Legal in Federal Farm Bill
5. UN Climate Change Confab: Hawaii Promises to Keep Ratepayer Cash Flowing to Silicon Valley Billionaires
6. Report: Hawaii is the healthiest state in 2018
7. Pearl City--2nd Least Needy City in USA
8. Liar Kaneshiro Can Talk About Federal Investigation If He Wants To 
9. Honolulu Police Corruption Probe Now Includes Katherine Kealoha’s Brother
10. 10 years later, board still trying to fix ethics code
11. Hawaii’s Chief Information Officer Is Stepping Down
12. Kauai Criminal Indicted for Sex Assault While on Work Release
13. Punatic Activist Fails to Complete Community Service, Going to Jail
14. Military Lesbian Charged with Attempted Murder of ‘Wife’
15. Southwest’s CEO Bucks Skeptics With Hawaii Flights ‘Ready to Roll’

1. PETITION: Impeach City and County Prosecutor Keith Kaneshiro
2. Machado remains OHA chair with support of full board
3. Urban Honolulu Native Hawaiian Population Declines 12%
4. Hawaii Cell Phone Taxes 7.75%
5. Regressive Progressives Plan Big Agenda for 2019 Legislature
6. As pressure grows for Kaneshiro to step aside, experts say city charter has process to impeach prosecutor
7. Hawai`i Considers Green Taxes
8. Paul Brewbaker wrong about housing in Honolulu
9. Hawaii is the only state not awarded federal BUILD transportation grants in 2018
10. Hawaii County’s New Pitch To State Seeks $150M For Lava Damage
11. Thanks to Regressive Progressives Once-Thriving Hawaii Dairy Industry Is On The ‘Brink Of Extinction’
12. Lame Duck Maui Council Pushes Big Agenda
13. PGV gets green light to clear road
14. Ex-Real Estate Commission vice chairman changes plea in embezzlement case

1. Finish OHA’s Audit for Fraud, Waste and Abuse!
2. Janus: DAGS Bobbles Union Dues Collection
3. Congress Giving Territories Control of Offshore Windfarm Permitting
4. EPA Moves to Roll Back WOTUS
5. Convicted Murderer to Walk Free Because of Kaneshiro Corruption?
6. City prosecutor shows no signs of stepping aside after getting formal notice that he’s a target of federal probe
7. New OHA Leadership Promises to Complete Audit
8. Hawaii Obamacare Enrollment only 7,806 With 15 Days to Go
9. Rollout of new state payroll system almost complete
10. Geographical Exemption: School Choice Forcing Hawaii Schools to Improve?
11. After 2 Years of Paper Shuffling, City Finally Allow Church to Open Homeless Shelter 
12. Boaters Not Fooled by DLNR Sales Pitch
13. Mortgage delinquencies on Hawaii's Big Island grow after Kilauea eruption
14. The Agricultural Energy - Renewable Energy Quagmire
15. Danger: Hawaii Nonprofit Teams up with UN to Enforce Eco-Religion
16. Ritte warns he’ll protest if Navy goes through military exercises off shore without Giving Him Money
17. Tulsi is Running for VP to Bernie

1. Honolulu Neighborhood Boards -- 34 Vacancies
2. Dead Bats Are Changing People’s Minds About This Energy Project
3. City pays for security at parks to keep homeless out, vandalism down
4. Star-Adv: Lets Put Homeless Tent Cities Back in Our Parks Now 
5. How To Get What You Want From The Legislature
6. Electric Car Tax Credit to be Abolished?

1. Will US Supreme Court Hear Lesbian Home Invasion Case?
2. Auwahi Wind Farm Requests Approval to Kill 140 Hoary Bats
3. The County Strikes Back (part 3)
4. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted December 9, 2018
5. Planning for climate change to the sound of ‘ka-ching’
6. Ige 2.0: Small goals, petty politics
7. Latest Scheme: ‘Free’ Lawyers will Work to Eliminate Rental Units from Marketplace by Helping Deadbeats, Squatters
8. TMT foes don’t speak for all UH faculty
9. Star-Adv: Stamp out Parasite TVRs
10. Leilani: After Volcano, Something Really Horrible—Tourists!
11. Hanalei Continues to Exploit Fake ‘Emergency’ to Keep Tourists Out

1. Nation’s Capital hears our message on Jones Act
2. Health Insurance: Hawaii Cheapest in USA
3. Elder-Abuse Protections--Hawaii Ranks 28th
4. Honolulu Scores Well for 'Wallet Fitness'
5. Kaneshiro Acting as Political Enforcer?
6. OHA Money Grab: Hearings planned on small boat harbor fee hikes
7. Sierra Club Fails in Effort to Cut Off Upcountry Maui Water Supply
8. Tax Hike Coming: Global Warmers Have a Plan for You and Your Property
9. Solar project must be moved away from humans, homes
10. Kauai: Grove Farm Personnel Line Cabinet
11. Activist: I Submitted Comments Against RimPac and the Exercise Continued, therefore the process is Rigged 
12. Food Evolution: the film that may change your mind about GMOs
13. WHT Editorial: Hospital’s Scabies timing seems suspicious

1. Forgotten Honouliuli: Jack Burns, Police Spy
2. Title IX Lawsuit: ACLU Sues over Lack of Female Athletic Facilities at DoE Schools
3. FHA Baseline Limit for Hawaii Homebuyers Increases
4. Census Releases 5 Year Study of Hawaii Households
5. Geothermal energy a 'no brainer' for Hawaii
6. Proposed Water Bottling Plant Dares to Challenge OHA Ownership of Subsurface Resources, Gets Protested
7. Department of Planning and [Not] Permitting
8. Climate-Safe Energy Can Be Dangerous
9. Kamehameha Schools negotiating with Hu Honua Associate for eucalyptus harvest
10. 12 Years Later Honolulu Airport Still Under Construction
11. Telescope Protester: We Built an Altar But the Supreme Court did not give us the Land
12. DLNR to Propose Fishing License Bill?

1. Where Does OHA Hide its Secrets?
2. U.S. Soldier Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison for Attempting To Provide Material Support to ISIS
3. Hawaii 2nd-Worst State for Drivers
4. Convictions May be Overturned Due to federal criminal probe of Honolulu prosecutors
5. UH Faculty Circular Logic: Telescope is Unethical because we got ourselves Arrested Protesting Against it
6. Hawaii ACLU Outlines Litigation Plan to Keep the Homeless Homeless
7. HPD overstating success in rape cases, report claims
8. City Ethics Commission Is Investigating Far Fewer Cases Than 2 Years Ago
9. Public pension reform will benefit government workers
10. High rise fire inspections to remain at three years vs. five, post-Marco Polo fire
11. Commuting Oahu: ‘It Takes Your Time And It Gives You Back Stress’
12. Court orders Legislature to Release Sex-Harassment Records (in Oregon)

1. How George H W Bush Stopped the Bombing of Kahoolawe
2. Smug Hirono: Dems Struggle Appealing to Voters Because ‘We Have to Tell Everyone How Smart We Are’
3. House Announces Committee and Leadership Roster
4. Candidate registration period opens for 2019 Neighborhood Board Elections
5. Lt. Gov. Green Hires Carpenters Union Lobbyist As His Chief Of Staff
6. Gabbard: If You Ask About Chris Butler, You Are Just Like Pittsburgh Shooter
7. As part of widening corruption probe, DOJ sends subject letter to second-in-command at prosecutor’s office
8. Anti-Telescope Fight Now Shifts to OHA Grab for Cash and Land
9. Six-Figure Deal To Cover UH Rail Costs ‘Slipped Through The Cracks’
10. Council Still Playing Games with Homeless
11. Caldwell Claims Sidewalk Nuisance Bill Undermines Efforts to Force Homeless to Accept Shelter
12. Puuhonua?  10% of Criminals Back in Prison After Just One Year
13. Soft on Crime: Repeat Rapist on Trial for Child Molestation
14. No more Styrofoam: Maui County’s ban leaves restaurants searching for alternatives
15. Ige Orders DoTax to Confiscate Tax Refunds from People Who Owe Money to Government
16. Filmmaker Likes to Sue People
17. Good Thing We Don’t Have Smaller Stadium: Expected to fill Aloha Stadium this weekend: The Eagles, Jack Johnson and Guns N Roses

1. Full Text: Ige Inaugural Speech
2. Republican Responses to Ige Inaugural Speech
3. OHA Year in Review: Looking Back at 2018
4. Legislators to consider carbon tax for ‘polluters’ (big and small)
5. Hawaii soldier who threatened to shoot up Waikiki sentenced to 25 years for trying to aid Islamic State
6. Lack of Earmarks Makes Limousine Liberals Pony Up
7. 7 vacation rental bills before the Council
8. Hawaii Tuna Fishermen Want Higher Quotas
9. HPD Program For Domestic Violence Victims Stalls
10. Maui Co Liquor Comm is “retaliatory and not open to new ideas”

1. WOTUS: Supreme Court Asks US Solicitor General to Weigh in on Maui Injection Wells
2. JSC Seeks Nominees for First Circuit Court--Two Vacancies
3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted December 2, 2018
4. UH: Record-setting Native Hawaiian, Filipino and overall 4-year UH Mānoa graduation rates
5. Tulsi Gabbard returns to NH, fueling speculation of presidential run
6. McDermott: Republicans Want to Cooperate with Ige
7. Civil Beat: Release Lots of Criminals from Jail and Open Up Massive Festering Homeless Tent Cities to House Them
8. Want To Teach In Hawaii? HSTA-DoE Won’t Recognize Your Seniority
9. Lime Bike: City Still Clings to Scooter=Moped Position, Kicks Football to Legislature
10. Kaiser graduate speaks out about Amtrak incident

1. Fraud, Collusion, Embezzlement: Hawaii OPEB Debt
2. The County Strikes Back (part 2)
3. Senate Announces Committee Assignments
4. Feds Investigating Rail After ‘Breathtaking’ Cost Increases
5. UH Global Warmers: Impose Carbon Taxes on Hawaii Because of White Privilege
6. Economists: $800K is Affordable House
7. The need for tweeks:  Star-Adv Urges Lege to Make Oxy Easier to Get
8. Smug Gabbard: Those of us here at the Sanders Institute are Superior to the Measly Little Humans Driven by Greed
9. Remembering President George HW Bush

1. Honolulu Ethics: Legal to Campaign on County Time?
2. Ige Extends Lava Emergency for 5th Time
3. Police Report ‘Threat’ Against State Women’s Commission Director was Fake—Timed to Coincide with Renewal of Employment Contract
4. State Commission on Status of Women--No Minutes Posted for Years
5. Fishermen Not fooled by DLNR Push for Fishing Fees
6. Smaller Stadium -- No More Concerts for Hawaii?
7. Beware of Maui County’s ‘shiny new ball’
8. Maui: Animal Liberation Nuts Grab For Control of Cattle Ranching
9. Maui Anti-Styrofoam Hysteria—What Next?
10. Sovereignty: Doped Up Ruggles Scores Spread in Guardian
11. Doped up at UH: Prof Claims Marijuana is Good for Heart
12. NH Young Democrats Want Gabbard to Speak

1. What’s an airconditioned Neal Katyal worth?
2. Not all public-private partnerships are good
3. Forbes Best States for Business: Hawaii Ranks 46th
4. Report: Since recession, 10 states, including Hawaii, operate at structural deficits
5. Hawaii Ranks 15th for Financial Transparency
6. Honolulu--6th Oldest Homeowners in USA
7. OHA offering $7 million for community grants
8. How a U.S. law intended to reduce dependence on fossil fuels has unleashed an environmental disaster in Indonesia  
9. House and Senate Republicans Meet to Plan 2019 Agenda
10. Wanna Buy a House on Maui? County has $30K to Give You
11. Stream Flow Ruling Cuts off Lahaina Water Supply
12. Potential Criminal Prosecution: Hu Honua Violates Water Pollution Laws
13. In ‘game-changer,’ Hawaii given approval to use Medicaid dollars to help chronically homeless
14. State Carbon Tax The Devil is in the Details
15. Smelling Your Money, Green Scrum at Honolulu Hale
16. State’s high court stands by its Mauna Kea ruling
17. After Three Years Judge finally dismisses Kealohas' harassment lawsuit against city ethics commission, employees
18. State Claims ‘Dramatic’ Improvement In Adult Home Care Oversight
19. CDC: Drug overdose deaths on the rise in Hawaii
20. Firefighters extinguish Homeless Tweeker Fire near Makai Research Pier
21. Honolulu Council to take up emergency measures for building permits
22. Bill 79 adds more restrictions designed to Squelch Affordable Housing Construction
23. Aloha Stadium upgrade plan includes lots of condos
24. Honolulu City Council Blocks Multi-Million Dollar Cellphone Service Upgrade:
25. Ige Spent $3.2 Million On Re-Election Campaign, New Reports Show
26. Ige to be sworn for second term next week

1. To ‘Change Society’ -- Hawaii Climate Commission Pushes For State Carbon Tax
2. Details of the Horrible Carbon Tax Bill
3. Pine: Gill Family Windfarm Proceeding Against Community Opposition
4. DBEDT: International Students Contribute $498M to Economy
5. Caldwell Allows 60-Day Permitting Bill to Become Law Without Signature
6. $3.56M Tourism Industry Payoffs to Community Groups Statewide
7. Visitor Arrivals Jump 4.4% for October--Spending Drops
8. State sued over services for autistic students
9. DoE distancing itself from Rape Case smells bad
10. Legislature’s Hires Hanabusa to Defend Gut-n-Replace Frankenbills in Lawsuit
11. Performance-based regulation (PBR) of utilities has emerged as an important Excuse for Raising Rates
12. ‘Wife’ to Get $40M from Kawananakoa Trust
13. Star-Adv: Copy San Francisco TVR Regs
14. Ride Sharee works with City Council to draft rules for dockless bike parking
15. Castle High School parents sue over dangerous football drill
16. WOTUS: Waipio Valley residents concerned for safety after permits revoked by Feds
17. Privately Funded, ‘Destination’ Playground Proposed For Ala Moana Park
18. Hawaii County Planning Commission Votes to Kill Affordable Housing Project
19. Commission gives positive recommendation to Hawaii Co sewer fee hike bill
20. Audit critical of Maui liquor department and commission

1. Ige-Green Administration is Hiring
2. Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C?
3. Charitable? Hawaii Ranks 46th
4. Revolving Door: DBEDT Director Quitting to Join Law Firm's Lobbying Arm
5. Hawaii County: Top Contractor Headed Salary Commission—Gave  Massive Raises
6. Really, how hard can fixing jail blunders be?
7. Danners won’t face prosecution
8. Hotel strikers to get $6.13 in raises over 4 years
9. State Law Allows Minors to Refuse Psychiatric Treatment
10. Marshallese Adoptions Fuel A Lucrative Practice For Some Lawyers
11. Man who suffered heart attack during Hawaii missile alert sues state
12. Consumers sue maker of ‘Hawaiian’ potato chips
13. President 2020? Gabbard Speaking to Democrats in New Hampshire

• Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C?

1. Sen 19 Loser Lopresti Claims Golojuch Altered Ballots--Demands Recount
2. The County Strikes Back (part 1)
3. Council Resolution: Ban Cars, Buses from Waikiki by 2030
4. Inspector General Releases False Missile Alert Report
5. 4 Problems With the New Climate Change Report
6. Plastic Straw Ban Crusades Are About Progressive Virtue Signaling, Not Practical Solutions
7. Professor Thinks Banning These Words Would Fix Free Speech on College Campuses
8. Connected: Rail, Pensions, and Vacation Rentals
9. Caldwell Claims: ‘No More Important Issue’ Than Climate Change – While Building Rail in Inundation Zone
10. Proposed Palehua Wind Farm May Violate State Law
11. Windfarm to be built on top of Hawaiian archaeological site?
12. Kurt Fevella: From school custodian to sole Republican in the state Senate    
13. Losers LoPresti, Waters Sue for Recount
14. Marriott-managed hotels, union reach agreement, vote set today
15. Police Security Cameras May Soon Blanket Waikiki
16. CPB Raises Minimum Wage to $16—Socialists Still Dithering on $15, Just Can’t Keep up with Trump Economy
17. Star-Adv: Affordable Housing Plan ‘Scary’
18. HPD Calls for Massive Festering Homeless Tent Cities
19. Enviros Prepare to Launch Fake Humpback Hysteria
20. Honolulu mayor exploits Thanksgiving to spin Iwilei homeless center debacle
21. Board of Water Supply starts new push to redevelop downtown parcel
22. Kauai Council Chair Chosen: Anti-GMO Freaks Lose 5-2
23. Black Market Babies from Marshall Islands
24. Port of Honolulu Master Plan Being Updated

1. Schatz deletes tweet suggesting ‘chemical weapons’ used at US-Mexico border
2. Tax Credits: Proposed Biofuel Plant Faces $100M Deadline
3. GET blocks ability to survive on 1 job
4. Legislative Agenda: State lawmakers pander, knowing Committee Chairs will Kill Minimum Wage Hike
5. Fee to fish?: RPL Public Meetings Set
6. Program prevents former inmates from becoming homeless
7. Opioid Prescriptions Down—So Are Overdose Deaths
8. Big Island Bus System Still a Mess

1. City Piles on Big Ticket Projects as money woes mount
2. Star-Adv: DLNR must extract more rent money from Small Businesses
3. Flacking for Hotel Industry, Appleseed Center urges tough vacation rental rules
4. Rape victim sues DOE
5. Hawaii County seeks flexibility in using GET funds
6. Hawaii’s disability benefit denials reversed at highest rate in nation
7. Caldwell: Don’t delay needed fire sprinkler law
8. Bitchy Gabbard Just a Trump Copycat
9. Gabbard Going from the ridiculous to the profane

1. Lloyd’s of London Throws in the Towel on Lava Exclusion
2. The Jones Act: Charting a New Course after a Century of Failure
3. Political Connections Pay Off: Gill Family to Cash in on Makakilo Wind Farm
4. Sex, Lies and Retaliation at Big Island Election Office—6 years later Case Reaches Supreme Court
5. Climate report paints dire picture for Hawaii – Public Laughs at Mindless Eco-Hysteria
6. Iwase Out at PUC—Who Will Raise our Rates Next?
7. Bus fares could go up, again
8. Big Island Taxicab drivers say Uber, Lyft putting them at unfair disadvantage
9. An alternative for the homeless?

1. Honolulu Tax Evader a Big Deal in Guam, Micronesia
2. Criminal Al Hee’s Scam Company May be Forced into Bankruptcy
3. Key to DPP Change: Fewer HGEA Members Making Excuses  
4. Ex-prison guard charged in three inmates’ assaults

1. The hidden story of the third Thanksgiving: 1623--giving thanks for freedom
2. Wind Farm: Hearing to Consider Plan to Kill More Bats, Petrels
3. DoE Announces New Scheme to Extract CIP Money from Legislature
4. Hawaii AG Demands More Focus on Trannies
5. If Hawaiians Were Indians, Hawaii Would be #3 for Reservations
6. Medicaid waivers allowed for inpatient psychiatric treatment
7. UH: Convicted Felon Paid to Get Other Convicts Released
8. State economic growth downgraded
9. Permitting delays hinder small business, startup growth in Hawaii
10. State’s unfunded liabilities crisis has a silver lining
11. Honolulu’s Secret Home Buyers Must Now Reveal Their Identities
12. Hawaii Legislative “Tricks”
13. HECO Playing Games With Proposed Makakilo Wind Farm
14. East Honolulu City Council candidate to appeal razor thin loss
15. Family blames bureaucracy for keeping 85-year-old sex offender on the streets
16. Substance abuse put former athletes on different paths to redemption

1. UHERO: Revenue Decoupling Jacks up Utility Rates
2. Tulsi Gabbard Just Called Donald Trump A Bitch for Being Insufficiently Russian
3. Ikaika Anderson: Council Homeless Policy Like Homosexual Gathering
4. With Few Days Left in Office, Drug-Infused Councilwoman Continues to Spout Sovereignty Rhetoric
5. Homeless Child Molester Busted at Ala Moana Beach Park
6. Anti-Dairy Protesters Drive Big Island dairy farm out of business
7. Change Honolulu Rail’s Route Right Now Because of Sea Level Rise
8. Caldwell vetoes bill giving condo owners more time to comply with fire safety law
9. Native Hawaiians claim voter suppression at Leeward Oahu polling sites during general election
10. Former Hawaii Geothermal site destroyed by lava; PGV says risk of of hydrogen sulfide release ‘minimal’
11. Hawaii County Council passes measure regulating short-term vacation rentals
12. Federal Report: No Evidence That Agent Orange Was Used On Guam

1. Hawaii putting bond investors in a world of hurt
2. Hawaii Grade C for Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment Laws
3. HRA Backs Hawaii Concealed Carry Lawsuit
4. UH 'Scientists' Assemble Cavalcade of Global Warming Hysterias
5. A Smaller World 
6. Women's March Founder: "Anti-Semitism, anti-LBGTQIA sentiment, and hateful, racist rhetoric part of the platform"
7. Grandstanding: Hirono Lawsuit Challenges Trump Appointment
8. OHA Money Grab Behind Star-Adv Push for Higher DLNR Land Rents
9. Telescope foes ask Hawaii high court to reconsider ruling
10. AG to Release Result of Investigation into HGEA-Controlled Lunatic Asylum
11. Did Hawaii Lawmakers Poison Their Relationship With Gov. Ige?
12. $17M—300% Sewer fee hike advanced
13. We’re Number One!  Construction underway in Iwilei for largest hygiene center in the nation
14. New location discussed for Waianae homeless
15. Soft on Crime: 10 Convictions out on the Streets Does it Again
16. Time For Honolulu To Finally Decide On Natatorium’s Future?

1. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted November 18, 2018
2. HART Admits Taxpayers 100% on the Hook for P3 Contract
3. Waters and supporters threaten recount lawsuits
4. Green Energy Hustlers Thrilled at Prospect of 20% Higher Electric Bills
5. Rename Hawaii Consumer Advocate the Rate Advocate
6. Shakedown: Judge calls inspections at Pohakuloa training area ‘grossly inadequate’
7. DLNR Leasing Strategy: Wait for Phone to Ring
8. DLNR Criticized for Not Looting Tenants of Kanohelehua Industrial Park
9. DHHL: Three Years of Paper Shuffling Before Construction Can Begin
10. DPP Whac-a-Mole
11. Maui: Will Planning Comm Water Down $20K/day TVR Fines?

1. Thousands of HSTA Members Could be Targeted by New Anti-Bullying Policy
2. Senate Announces Leadership, Committee Chairs
3. Full Bilingual Hawaiian-English Bible Published
4. Walden versus OHA’s LLCs
5. OHA Operatives Squeeze DLNR Harbors Division for Money as Ala Wai redevelopment Looms
6. Open-Carry: Hawaii Paints itself into corner 
7. Lt. Gov. needs a real job or save us the big salary
8. Hygiene Center Homeless Vortex: Drug dealing, public drinking, street sex, street brawls, stabbings and murders
9. Hanalei Residents Angle for Six More Months Without Tourists, TVRs
10. Bill Would Keep Hordes of Tourists out of Leilani Estates
11. New Age Quacks Behind Anti-Vaxxers Mobilizing to Keep Your Kids Sick
12. When hype overpowers fact, we get mongoosed

1. City to Feds: OK We've Done What You Told Us To
2. State Legislature Hiring for Upcoming Session
3. Maui rental fines not fine
4. Hawaii: Nobody Has More Individual Income Tax Brackets
5. UH: Ken Lawson Admits his “Innocence Project” Brought Alleged Pimp to Hawaii
6. Legislative Agenda: State to Build 1000s of Condos at $300K ea?
7. Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation to pay $13M for construction claims
8. Ala Wai Harbor P3 Draws Interest from Developers
9. Homeless Tent City: “Rapes, stabbings, theft. It was the weak preying on the weaker.”