1. Finance Committee Passes Base Budget
2. Who's Getting Really Scared at OHA?
3. Small Business Poll: 88% Say 'No' to Minimum Wage Hike
4. Bum Patrol: City Extends Park Security Contract
5. HB939: State Ag Bill Restricts Hemp Growers More Than Feds Do
6. Hawaii 6th Highest Tax Collections Per Capita
7. Ige wants $40M -  33% Hike in gas tax, vehicle fees
8. Was Leong Sabotaging Police Commission with Purposefully Bad Legal Advice? – Friends of Leong Oust Levinson 4-3
9. Foster Care: State DHS to Delete Child Abuse Database
10. Administrative costs of ‘value-based’ health care too high
11. Proposed wind farm meets with opposition
12. Why a private-public prison makes sense
13. Honolulu construction costs 4th highest in the world, RLB report shows
14. Republicans propose tax exemptions on food, medical services, feminine hygiene products
15. Women’s Caucus Introduces Legislative Package
16. Proposal to Tear Down Aloha Stadium to Build a Smaller one and a Museum to Remember the Stadium they tore down
17. How Plastic Cleanup Threatens the Ocean’s Living Islands
18. KIUC#1 in Battery Farming: “Don’t expect bills to drop anytime soon”

1. Full Text: Ige's State of the State Address
2. Bipartisan Women's Legislative Caucus Elects Leadership for 2019
3. Pre-K: Ige’s HSTA Make Work Program Will Cost Millions
4. TAT Formula: ‘Opportunity to Levy Taxes’
5. Hawaii Energy Office May Face The Budget Ax
6. Local businessman admits he bribed state officials as part of a plea deal
7. Kealoha Wants Police Commission to Pay Lawyer Sumida
8. After Buying off all the Activists, Mahi Pono says land ‘partnerships’ on other islands a possibility
9. County nixes purchase of parcels from former Supreme Court Justice
10. UH System Benefits from Land Holdings
11. What is a Living Wage in Hawaii?
12. Hawaii State Senate: Climate Change Bills to Drive up Cost of Living Even More
13. PIT Counts Homeless Criminals in Chinatown
14. Bills Would Let Hundreds of Criminals Roam Streets
15. HB703: Harsher Penalties for Drunk Drivers
16. Keep the People Doped up so They Don’t Notice: Numerous bills tackle marijuana-related issues
17. City Council debates fate of Oahu's short term rentals (again)
18. Animal Liberation Nuts, Legislators Harass Diver Who Touched Shark
19. Gen Z: We’re too busy to Register—so do it for us

1. School Choice Week--Activities in Hawaii
2. Hawaii Most Unionized State
3. We The Excluded vs Mazie Hirono 
4. High Costs Make Hawaii Worst State for Drivers
5. Old Boys, Republicans Rally Behind Kahele for CD2
6. Community wants stiffer charges thrown at group behind OHA attack
7. Feds Say Hawaii Is Too Quick To Approve Wind Power Turbines
8. Hawai`i Community-Based Renewable Energy Projects Delayed
9. Hanalei Rebuilding: Nobody Believes in Sea-Level Rise
10. 35% of Hawaii ‘Nonprofits’ Depend Entirely on Government Handouts 
11. The same sort of rhetoric appeals to people both on the far left and far right
12. Confessions Of A Bill Hijacker
13. Hawaii eyes lottery and gaming revenue with new state lottery bill
14. Raising senior fare 340% for bus harmful
15. No turn on red? Honolulu mayor wants to change a traffic law on Oahu
16. Health risk from Drug Addicted Shelter-Refusers at Diamond Head

• We The Excluded vs Mazie Hirono
• Congress Must Approve Decent Funding for the Wall

1. 1959: Martin Luther King Jr Salutes Hawaii Statehood
2. Lesson for UH and DoE--How P3 Can Eliminate Deferred Maintenance
3. Gabbard: No regrets about meeting Syria's Assad
4. Hawaii Statehood Was Part of Civil Rights Movement
5. Did Kealoha’s CIU Protect Politicians From Being Busted for Corruption?
6. Halawa prison project delays cost millions
7. Soft on Crime: 22 Priors out on Streets Does it Again
8. Gabbard shouldn’t be part-time member

1. Hawaii’s Failed Campaign Finance Law: The Case of the Star-Advertiser’s Missing Front Page Ad Disclaimer
2. HR25: Prohibit Possession of Firearms and Ammunition in Hotel Rooms
3. Tulsi wants Money to Fight 'BS' Party Insider Howard Dean
4. DOE’s Repair Backlog Is How Much Again?
5. Legislature changing state elections to Solidify Democrat Control
6. Gabbard Implosion a Reminder that Gays Control Democratic Party
7. State pension fund shortfall climbs to $13.4B
8. ACLU: Hawaii is a Launching pad for Our Agenda
9. Opioid prescriptions down in Hawaii
10. Hawaii County is Ground Zero for Opium
11. Political Correctness Erasing Kauai’s Russian History
12. Space Aliens Defending Jones Act

1. Unanimous: US Senate Rebukes Anti-Catholic Bigot Mazie Hirono
2. City Auditor: HART Cost Overruns Will Continue
3. Hawaii Construction Employment Down 4.8% for 2018
4. How we can keep our children in Hawaii?
5. Video: Gabbard's First Week Ends With Apology to Gays  
6. Ige Announces More Second Tier Appointments 
7. Video: Marshall Resigns After Fake Atooi King Teams up With Developer to Chase Protesters Off Land
8. It Begins: Sen. Kai Kahele challenges Tulsi Gabbard for her seat
9. Property tax bill could help some Oahu homeowners
10. Corrupt Lyon Contract with DHHL at Anahola?
11. Bribery: Will Caldwell Remove Federal Felon from Zoning Board?
12. Labor Board: Police Chief Did Nothing Wrong When She Transferred SHOPO President
13. Judge rejects Katherine Kealoha’s request to postpone trial
14. Hawaii Police Department releases discipline report
15. New proposal would ban hotel guests in Hawaii to bring firearms or ammunition into rooms
16. West Maui hospital ‘on hold’
17. Hawaii DOE to explore redevelopment sites
18. Only 50 Years behind the Times--DMV Adopts Take-a-Number System
19. Shook Up: Women’s March Splits over Muslim Anti-Semitism, Misogyny

1. Hawaii Tax Structure Uniquely Anti-Manufacturing
2. Police Impersonators Attack OHA Offices, Most Escape Scot-free
3. $10 Maui Oceanfront Parcel? Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Case
4. OHA’s Own Audit Is Being Blocked — By People At OHA
5. State Unemployment Rate Increasing
6. Old general excise tax hike resurfaces on Hawaii County council agenda
7. Climate Change DLNR’s Latest Excuse for More Money—Going for Millions
8. Rail Project Director Doesn’t Fully Meet Expectations — But Still Gets A Bonus
9. City, Kealohas battle over secrecy of ethics investigation evidence
10. Businessman charged with bribing state workers to land $2.5M contract
11. School Board votes to extend Superintendent's contract
12. Not too late for Big Isle to lead way on vacation rentals
13. Maui Taxis Picket Airport Against Uber/Lyft

1. Ige Sends McCartney to DBEDT, Fuchigami now Chief of Staff
2. Math Goes PC: First-in-the-world UH ethnomathematics program approved by Hawaiʻi Teacher Standards Board
3. Honolulu, Maui Among Least Affordable Rental Markets
4. 'The untouchables: Out-of-control prosecutors and the system that protects them'
5. Will Feds Target Caldwell Next?
6. State Senate president: The time is now to prepare for a recession in 2020
7. Ige Lame Excuse:  Claims Old Tech an Obstacle to Zero Based Budgeting
8. Kealoha Lawyer Attempts to Exploit Government Shutdown to Delay Case
9. Recount?  City Lawyer Challenged on Conflict of Interest
10. Councilmember Kobayashi continues to question Hawaii Supreme Court recount case
11. Charles Djou’s Self-Serving Electoral Reform Idea
12. Government shutdown holding up recovery funds for lava-ravaged Big Island communities
13. Activist Gets Himself Arrested to Push for Hawaiian language policing
14. 578 Homeless Visit ‘Rest Stop’ in First Week
15. Failed Ocean cleanup device heading to Hilo

1. Ed Case: "I'm an Asian Trapped in a White Body"
2. UPDATE: Ige Sends McCartney to DBEDT, Fuchigami Chief of Staff
3. Opening Day Speech: What is a Loyal Opposition?
4. Opening Day: Be an Effective Citizen-Activist
5. Harassed by Drugged-out Shelter–Refusers, Iolani Palace to close earlier—Children’s Center may Shut Down
6. DoH Reports 23,479 Medicated Dopers Statewide
7. Racial Progress? Hawaii 2nd-Worst Health Disparities
8. Ige Announces More Second Tier Appointments
9. DoE Keeping Child-Molester Teacher Records Secret
10. Contract Reopeners: More Raises on Tap for Public Employee Unions
11. Bad News: The Hawaii State Legislature to open Today
12. Hawaii Carbon Tax --- Coal, Oil, Plastic, and Greenhouse Gases
13. Lawmaker wants to replace Presidents Day with Hawaiian Independence Day
14. Revote possible in contested Honolulu City Council race
15. Supreme Court questions process of mail-in ballot collection
16. Election Recounts, Vote by Mail Back on Legislative Agenda
17. Campbell High gets funds to begin planning a much needed athletic facility
18. Overrun by Homeless Shelter-Refusers, Children’s Discovery Center to be Closed
19. How EPA Forced Hawaii to Stop Covering up Dirty Water  
20. Microsoft Censors News at Hawaii Public Libraries
21. Democrats Plant all their Problem Children on House Financial Services Committee
22. Tulsi Gabbard’s presidential fantasy: “A remarkably bad launch”

1. Caldwell Coverup: Mayor Hid Target Letter from Public--Feds Raid Fasi Building
2. Audit: HART Board Hands Control to Contractor with Little Oversight
3. FCC Slaps Down Sandwich Isles Again--Orders Company to Continue Serving Customers
4. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 14, 2019
5. DCCA: Shop and Compare Insurance Options
6. Ige Announces More HDoT Appointments
7. Ige Appoints Three to Board of Regents
8. Irwin to be UH Hilo Chancellor?
9. Hawaii Student Loan Debt Doubles in Decade
10. Senators: Some Cabinet Nominees Won’t Make It
11. Honolulu Will Pay Train Maker $160 Million To Cover Rail Delays
12. Carbon Tax Hustle: Rail Promoter Keynotes State Climate Change Confab
13. Hawaii Climate Conference: To Carbon Tax or Not to Carbon Tax
14. AG Opinion Will Lead to More County GE Tax Hikes
15.  Honolulu City Council chooses interim chairwoman
16. Can Pre-K Help DoE Evade Responsibility for Poor Test Scores?
17. Son sentenced for killing and dismembering mom in Waikiki –Plans Already Afoot to Let Him Out
18. Arrogant Tweekers Refuse and Resist Shelter in Kailua-Kona
19. Gabbard Receives Lesson About Switching Sides on Gay Marriage   

1. Birth Control: Judge Blocks Religious Freedom in Hawaii
2. Carbon Tax on Legislative Agenda
3. They Never Learn: Replicating Abject Failure, Hawaii County to Open New Homeless Tent City
4. Man with ax should not have been freed
5. Raising Hawaii’s Minimum Wage Is No Quick Fix
6. Bill to Propose Automatic Recount for close elections
7. DoE Hindered by Decades-old Tech
8. Here’s Another Busy Highway Where The Crosswalks Have Been Removed
9. Puna Claims: Lloyds of London insists "Only a small number have been declined"
10. Big Island: First Marijuana Store slated to open
11. Dimwits from Kauai, Gabbard, Begin Protesting Against Nonexistent Oil Drilling Off Hawaii

1. Zero-Based Budgeting
2. Local Media Makes Issue of Gabbard’s White Supremacist Support (two years late)
3. Democrats Trust Hirono Because She Apologized for not Being Gay
4. Budget: HDoT Chickens Out on $15B Climate Change Scam
5. Recreational Marijuana to top of Senate President’s List of Ideas
6. Recreational Marijuana to top of Progressives’ List of Ideas
7. Hawaii County Council: Longer Terms on Ballot?
8. Judge blocks Trump birth control coverage rules in Hawaii
9. Progressive: Storing your cars a waste of my urban space
10. Lawsuit filed over Schatz-Connected Development of Oahu’s Shark’s Cove
11. HCDA to fine owner of Kakaako streets for Insufficient potholes
12. Malfunctioning ocean cleanup boom to arrive in Hilo today

1. Candidates Already Lining up to Run for Gabbard's Congressional Seat
2. Who's Running in My District? 2019 Neighborhood Board Elections
3. ‘Singapore model’ doesn’t sing for Hawaii housing
4. Hawaii Ranks 49th for Federal Aid
5. Budget: Hawaii Scores 'D-' for Legacy Costs
6. 40-70 planned suicides in 2019?
7. HPD Officer has info on Fenatyl Bust Allegedly Covered up by Kealoha   
8. Abercrombie Defends Gabbard on Religious Bigotry
9. Ozawa-Waters Case Could Affect Vote by Mail Statewide
10. Sex Harassment: Confidentiality Lessens Effectiveness of Proposed House Policy
11. Lawsuit Filed Against Honolulu Police Over Beach Park Shooting
12. This is not a drill: Lessons from the false Hawaiian missile alert
13. Schatz, Gabbard Take Kauai Anti-Agriculture Hysteria National

1. CNN: Tulsi Gabbard says she will run for president in 2020
2. Gabbard Standing up Against Anti-Catholic Bigotry Within Democratic Party
3. BoE Will Re-Do Sup’t Vote—May Have Acted Illegally on Other Executive Hires 
4. Caldwell, Green Bless Iwilei Homeless Magnet
5. New Hi-Tech Payroll System Reveals 4,589 State Employees Paid for 'Multiple Positions'
6. Hawaii's coming recession--Are legislators Listening?
7. Ed Case Appointed to Appropriations Committee
8. Third Chief in Three Years for DOCARE
9. Hirono: Gabbard Getting Support from ‘Alt-Right’
10. City stands by election process in Trevor Ozawa-Tommy Waters vote
11. Democrats Only: Luke Plan Would Knock Republicans, Greens, Libertarians off the November Ballot
12. Details released in latest plea deal in public corruption case against Kealohas
13. State lawmaker to reintroduce bill to ban plastic straws, Styrofoam containers
14. Trump’s Border Wall Could Save Hawaii from Unnecessary, Expensive $345M Ala Wai Canal Flood Control Project
15. Homelessness Coordinator Touts Progress As Lawmakers Criticize
16. Homeless Camp to Move to 1100-ac Waianae Valley Ranch?
17. Star-Adv: Lets Put 1000s of Criminals Back onto the Streets 
18. 'Unbelievable.' Outrage after HPD releases man accused of striking bus rider in head with hatchet
19. Jail blunders in shooting case again: HCCC warden back in court
20. Worst-Ever Cases of Super Gonorrhea Are Here
21. There Will be no Warning: HI-EMA says 'ballistic missile alarms have been shelved’

1. State Supreme Court Declares Fevella the Winner
2. Auditor: Internal Docs Show HART Lied to Public About Rail Costs
3. 'The untouchables: Out-of-control prosecutors and the system that protects them'
4. Disabled: Hawaii Ranks 6th for Service, 49th for Opportunity
5. What Should OHA Really be Doing?
6. The Misinformed, Ineffective War on Styrofoam
7. DoH cites Maui Land & Pineapple for wastewater violations
8. Viral 2019: Ten Second Fireworks Video
9. RIMPAC: Navy Quietly Fires 20 Hyper Velocity Projectiles Through Destroyer’s Deckgun
10. Hawaii Smokers Lose $48K Per Year
11. Maui: Key Activists Bought n Paid for By Strategies 360 Farm 
12. BoE Will Re-Do Sup’t Vote—may Have Acted Illegally on Other Executive Hires
13. Telescope Already Improving Science Education Statewide
14. CoR Knocks $55M out of Projected Revenue Base
15. Global Warmer: Hawaii Will Raise Taxes and Utility Rates to Oppose Trump
16. Marijuana-Infused Legislators Complain Governor is Bifurcated
17. Council Approves 92.5% Sewer Rate Hike—$17M to ‘Create Positions’
18. New Public Works Director: “Lack of innovative thinking, lack of vision, lack of communication and lack of rapport” (but creating 22 new ‘positions’)
19. On Kauai, walk-in voting will (mostly) be a thing of the past in the 2020 election
20. Revolving Door: Two Reporters Join Victorino Administration
21. Activists May Loses Ability to Organize Circuses at Maui Council Meetings
22. Soft on Crime: Murderer Accused of Attempted Rape, Kidnapping

1. Ill-Fated Ocean Cleanup Boom Collected only 2000kg Plastic
2. Ige Appoints New PUC Chair 
3. SPED Parents Asked to Sign up for Medicaid
4. Ige Reappoints Directors at Eleven Departments
5. Ige Appoints New Directors at Three Departments
6. Christian Brothers Oust Damien School President--Dispute Over Child Molestation Settlements
7. Tech Modernization Plans in the 2019-21 Budget 
8. Fact-Checking 5 of Trump’s Claims in Border Speech
9. After 23 Mistaken Prisoner Releases, DPS Experiments with Something Called ‘Email’
10. Caldwell’s Climate Change Commission Pushes ‘Congestion Pricing’ Tax
11. Hawaii County: More Tax Hikes Coming?
12. Solar Fail: HECO bills spike over unusually humid months
13. Hawaii County Lava Relief Package $155M
14. Suit against Big Island Dairy settled
15. Hawaii Supreme Court has more questions for election officials in challenge to Honolulu City Council race
16. City opens Iwilei homeless magnet—designed to keep ‘em comfy on the street

1. Remembering Senator Fred Rohlfing, Republican Reformer
2. Sex Harassment: New House Rules "add another layer of silence"
3. Feds to PUC: Stop Approving Bat-Killing Windfarms without Endangered Species Permits
4. HECO Pushing Seven Giant Battery Farms
5. Hawaii 4th-Fewest Families with Young Children
6. Keli'i Akina Interviews Environmental Watchdog Caroll Cox
7. Rep Ward Calls for Second Trump-Kim Summit to be held at Waikiki
8. Auditor Follows up on Foundation for Culture and Arts
9. Hawaii Still Paying Out Millions for Act 215/221 Hi Tech Tax Credit Scams   
10. BoE Secretly Votes to Extend Kishimoto Contract
11. Teacher turnover at highest rate
12. DLNR funds mishandled, audit finds     
13. MADD’s New Target Is Drugged Driving           
14. Teen dies while scuba diving, company linked to a previous incident
15. Nearly 2,000 businesses affected by Maui's new foam container ban
16. Filmmaker Settles Lawsuit After Hawaii Grants Him Tax Credits
17. Trip to Hawaii reveals rusting wind turbines
18. Hundreds of volunteers still needed for homeless count
19. Got $1.3M? – Buy Kealoha Home (mailbox not included)
20. Obama, Pelosi Hype Birtherism Again
21. Un, Trump Coming to Hawaii Next?

1. Surprised by Wind and Waves in Pacific: Giant Plastic Eco-Boom Breaks up, Will soon wash up on Hawaii Beaches
2. VIDEO: Economic Cost of Jones Act to Koloa Rum Co
3. Stop legislative gut-and-replace
4. Rail Gets Another $7.5M More Expensive
5. Gov. Ige’s New Cabinet Is Still Almost Half Empty
6. Alaska Aerospace Proposed Kona Airport Spaceport Goes Nowhere in Four Years
7. Criminals Score Thousands on Claims paid out by state
8. City and state to suspend homeless sweeps during annual census
9. Obama Library Consolation Prize

1. Auditor: Conveyance Tax Money Misspent by DLNR
2. Anti-GMO? Regressive Left Just as Russian as Trump
3. Tulsi Gabbard is a Rising Progressive Star, Despite Her Support for Hindu Nationalists
4. So Did You Meet Your Goals This Year? -- Um, We Dunno
5. Agriculture is all Politics: Central Maui Farm Project to be Controlled by Strategies 360, Tsutsui
6. Secret Group Pushes to Make KSBE Trustees More Corrupt
7. Kauai: $25M Tax Hike
8. $6.8M Gas tax hike Survives with ‘Timely’ List
9. Senators ask why Hawaii passed on opioid suit while Suing Trump Again and Again
10. Soft on Crime: Alleged Domestic Violence Stranglers walk out of Jail After Posting Mini-Bonds
11. Residents and police pair up to crack down on squatters
12. Wholesale Electric Rates about the Same as Mainland Retail Electric Rates
13. Hawaii Congressional Delegation: Words to the Unwise
14. Surprised by Wind and Waves in Pacific: Giant Plastic Eco-Boom Breaks up, Will soon wash up on Hawaii Beaches

1. Government-Funded Sweatshops: No Minimum Wage for Hawaii Disabled Workers
2. Congress Must Approve Decent Funding for the Wall
3. Video: Ship Burns 1,800 miles off Oahu
4. Team Hanabusa Grills Fuchigami
5. LoPresti: Election Recount Law Unconstitutional
6. Lawmaker: Judges made the ‘wrong call’ in letting suspect in assault case out again and again
7. Police standards board requesting more time, money
8. Softer on Crime: Task Force Wants to Let Even More Criminals out on Streets
9. City appeals fatal excessive force suit to Supreme Court
10. Inmates forced to stay in prison past their release date cost taxpayers
11. ‘Service Resistant’ Meth Addicts Camping out in Kakaako Again
12. High Cost of Shelter-Refusers Tearing up Parks
13. Hawaii Tourism Paradise has a Dark Side: 117 People Dead in 2018  
14. Mission Accomplished: Ulupono Destroys Dairy Industry, Prepares to Quit Kauai Dairy Plan
15. Judge denies dismissal of Leilani homeowner’s lawsuit

1. Happy New Year, Hawaii, now pay up!
2. Christian Brothers Oust Damien School President
3. US Solicitor General Urges Supreme Court to Hear Maui Injection Wells Case
4. Bum Patrol: Security Contract Expands to Windward, North Shore Parks
5. Luke: DoE Lied to Legislature About Maintenance Backlog
6. Attorney on Nude Pics: “Katherine Kealoha's apparent need to express herself in unusual ways’
7. Deputy AGs Urged Ige to Reappoint Suzuki
8. Star-Adv: Legislature Should Pass Automatic Recount Law
9. Police officer indicted in Kealoha corruption case to change plea
10. Judge rules prison must accommodate Sovereignty Movement Recruitment
11. Ballard Considers Allowing Lateral Transfers from Other departments
12. Windfarm Approvals: Nonsense in a Rush for Expiring Subsidies
13. 43 pedestrians died on Hawaii roadways in 2018. That’s more than the number killed in vehicles
14. Elder Abuse Cases up 300%
15. Soft on Crime: After 10 year Spree, Criminal Finally Gets Hard Time
16. Tulsi Gabbard one of only Three to Vote Against PAYGO

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