1. Tax Conference 2017: Hawaii’s Taxes, from the Outside Looking In
2. Brian Schatz wants to put you on Medicaid
3. Karma: Supreme Court Aquarium Ruling may apply to Dive Tour Operators
4. Should Surfrider be Licensed to Pass Out Property Tax Exemptions?
5. Audit: City Loses $36.5M by Not Recycling Paper and Plastic into Electricity
6. State’s Hyperbaric Treatment Center to remain closed through November
7. Walter Ritte Launches Yet Another Campaign to Seize Control of Molokai Ranch
8. HPD Needs a Butt-Kicker, not a ‘Healer’
9. Chin treating national security as political football
10. Borreca: LG Race is Boring
11. Isle lawmakers search for way to collect taxes from Airbnb
12. Maui: 69% Property tax Hike for TVRs
13. Waikiki: Crazy Out of Control Homeless Screaming at Top of Lungs Pain Tourism Industry
14. Marijuana – Cannabis Word Game Part of Dispensaries' Money-Making Scheme
15. UH Needs More Rape Hysteria
16. Compact migrants to be counted

1. Audit: New Clause in Union Contract Boosts Overtime 50%
2. Judge Invalidates Aquarium Collectors Permits
3. Fitch Upgrades Airports Division Based on Island Air Growth Expectations
4. Kealoha Hires Former Meth Dealer to Represent Him in Court
5. Former cop with ties to Kealoha investigation charged in DUI case
6. Ige taps Kim to lead working group on Mauna Kea peace monument
7. Anti-Telescope Protesters Arrested at BLNR Meeting 
8. Three Candidates for Kauai Mayor

1. Corporate Taxes -- Hawaii Ranks 14th
2. Gun Mounted Video? HPD Already Saying 'No'
3. Right tools can dig us out of pension debt
4. Jim Dooley on CIU: Secrecy, Unwavering Loyalty A Recipe For Police Corruption
5. Lawyers call for review of cases handled by indicted HPD officers, deputy prosecutor
6. Ige Campaign Themes Hard to Pinpoint
7. Four Years of Disruption Coming as Rail work kicks off airport leg
8. City Council: It's time to get a handle on illegal vacation rentals
9. 9.4 percent of Hawaii residents are part of the state Employees’ Retirement System
10. Kihei Homeless Live in massive illegal dumping ground—Refuse Shelter
11. Hawaii energy stakeholders raise some concerns over new solar credit programs
12. Star-Advertiser Employees Rally To Protest Layoffs
13. DLNR Harassment, $10K Fine Shut Down Swim Races in Kailua Kona

1. Unanimous Police Commission Names Maj. Susan Ballard HPD Chief
2. House Speaker and Senate President Name Appointees to HART Board
3. What Can You Learn from CNHA Failure?
4. HTA: Visitor Spending and Arrivals up Again
5. $685K Stolen from Marshall Islands Trust Fund
6. Mike Huckabee Headlines Hawaii Republican Rally
7. IRS Admits Harassment of Maui TEA Party Group, Apologizes
8. Kauai mayor announces bid for lieutenant governor
9. Kihei Rep Kaniela Ing to Run for Congress in Honolulu
10. Feds: Bogus Police Report Helped Kealohas Get Hawaii Kai home
11. Maui TVR Tax Hike 22%
12. Distracted walking law creates Pretext for ID Check
13. Kakaako: Tweekers Take over Entire Block of Parking Spaces Because Nobody Will Tow ‘their ‘Junk Cars
14. City projects mark 1 year of housing homeless families
15. A rather sad “like father, like son” story
16. Lab Report: Hawaii Marijuana ‘Super Dirty’ Drenched in Pesticides, Carcinogens

1. F is for Fail: 2017 Honolulu Small Business Friendliness
2. Supreme Court Dismisses Hawaii Lawsuit Against Trump Travel Ban 2.0
3. North Korea Disaster Preparedness Community Meeting
4. How HPD CIU Links Mafia Directly to Police Chief
5. Next Chief? Maj Ballard Makes Plan to Hire Friends at HPD
6. Next Chief? Retired Assistant Chief Kevin Lima will Push Back Against ‘Negative Media’:
7. HPD finalist under fire from Texas police union
8. Council Rejects Tent Cities, But Still Intent on Repeating Portland and Seattle’s Stupidities
9. 500 Homeless Youth in Waikiki
10. Charlotte NC Homeless Man and Dog to be Flown to Hawaii One Way
11. New city proposals to legalize certain vacation rentals, and crackdown on scofflaws
12. Ritte Thugs Want DLNR to Give Them Control of Molokai Fishing
13. Peter Boy's mother to remain a free woman after probation violations
14. Hawaii Democrats Accomplish So Little

1. The Coming Transit Apocalypse
2. Rail Plan B: FTA Contradicts Caldwell
3. UH: Permafrost Discovered in Hawaii--Proves Global Warming is Real
4. Willes Lee Reelected President of National Federation of Republican Assemblies
5. 13 Years of Silence: Did House Speaker Scott Saiki Cover Up Kealoha Theft of $167K from Orphans?
6. Nobody in Hawaii’s Political Class Did ANYTHING to Stop Kealohas
7. Honolulu Police Comm Includes Three People who Wanted to Rehire Kealoha After Charges Were Filed
8. Long Interviews as Police Comm Seeks Next Kealoha
9. Honolulu Police Officer in court for federal wire fraud
10. What about the Criminal Intelligence Unit?
11. Experts: Criminal case against former HPD chief, wife could bolster civil suits against city
12. HART, Caldwell Already Creating Excuses for Next Rail Tax Hike
13. Tsutsui move opens up mayoral race—Ing to Run for Congress?
14. Police Slow to Respond as Abusers Harass Big Island Domestic Violence Shelter
15. Do-Nothing Big Island Ethics Comm ‘Should Just Resign’
16. Meth Addicts Ousted from Freeway Underpass: Only Six Accept Shelter
17. UH Unable to Maintain Accreditation, State Loses Hyperbaric Chamber
18. Obvious Futility: Hawaii one of seven U.S. states to not submit bid for Amazon HQ2
19. Hawaii Emergency Management Agency to meet on Nukes
20. US appeals Hawaii judge's order blocking newest travel ban

1. CNN’s Zakaria calls for Jones Act repeal as part of Puerto Rico aid package
2. Study: Timeshares Add $5.3B to Hawaii Economy
3. Down to Earth, Tulsi Gabbard Cult Tied to $170M Pyramid Scheme
4. Caldwell Caught in Another Lie--Rail’s ‘Plan B’ not vetted by federal agency
5. Tainted Pool of Candidates to Replace Kealoha
6. 180 Tweekers Forced from Under Freeway
7. Newsflash: Tweekers Don’t Take Good Care of Animals

1. Hirono: I Was Sexually Harassed by Teachers, Colleagues--"Usually it's the males"
2. Video: Hysteria Subsides, Lehua Island Rat Eradication Successful
3. DoTax Leaves Fewer Callers in the Dust
4. Tsutsui Will not Run for Maui Mayor, Will not Resign as LG 
5. Unimpressive Ige: Many lawmakers regard him with open contempt
6. Carvalho to Run for Lt Gov
7. Kealoha told HPD if he could do it, they could too … and then he taught them how
8. Rush Job: Council will Have Caldwell’s Hand-Picked Police Commissioners in Place by Nov 1
9. Same Police Comm is About to Pick the Next Kealoha
10. Next Telescope Appeal Due Nov 3
11. Lawmakers press home lands agency to create housing
12. Rep Nakamura: Only Mental Health Intervention Can Stop Mass Shootings Before They Happen
13. Developer Fled Hawaii in 1998—Never Looked Back
14. Law Creates State-Sponsored Marijuana Oligopoly
15. Jones Act: Keep afloat or let it sink?

1. Feds: Kealoha Stole $167K from Orphans
2. UPDATE: OHA Trustees Reject CNHA Grab for Charter School Funds
3. Kaneshiro Kept Kealoha on as Prosecutor—Now Her Cases Will be Challenged--100s of Repeat Felons May Walk Free
4. AG Chin: Trump OK to Ban Venezuela, N Korea--I’m Just Here to Help Get More Muslims into USA
5. Trump Reforms Obamacare but Prepaid Will Save HMSA/Kaiser Duopoly from Most Competition
6. How did Hawaii's hepatitis A outbreak compare to San Diego's?
7. Battery Schemes: PUC expands opportunities for Money Transfer to Elon Musk
8. Embezzlement cases show limits of trust
9. SHOPO Chief: Kealoha case is "unfortunate" and "heartbreaking"

1. Caldwell Flees State as Ex-Chief is Arrested
2. Letter to House Speaker: Legislator Assaults Oahu Democrat Official After Complaint over Misappropriation of Funds
3. Hawaii #1 for Road Rage
4. Hawaii AG Joins Call for Large Capacity Ammo Ban
5. Government is making a mess of Honolulu's Kakaako Waterfront Park
6. Finally: Former Honolulu Police Chief And Prosecutor Wife Arrested
7. To Hide More Cost Overruns, HART Killed $1.4B Procurement Just Before Special Session—Will Delay Two More Years
8. Doug Chin Sure Sounds Like He Might Run For Congress
9. GOP Rep. Andria Tupola To Run For Hawaii Governor
10. Can You Act? More Taxpayer Money to be Given to Fake Tech ‘Entrepreneurs’
11. Medicare, Medicaid: Homeless Ambulance Rides Rack up $89.4M in Charges
12. Useless as an Excuse to Avoid Shelter, Nimitz viaduct homeless suddenly give up dozens of ‘pets’
13. 40% of Hawaii Children Traumatized 
14. Search for Hawaii County Mass Transit chief continues in Wake of Hurricane Kenoi
15. ‘Complete Streets’ -- Caldwell Announces Plan to Increase Traffic Jams in Waipahu, Ewa
16. AP, Enviros Sense New Opportunity to Attack Hawaii Fishing Fleet
17. Did the Great Māhele Do More Good Than Harm?

1. Moody's: Hawaii has Already Collected the Taxes for Next Recession
2. Caldwell announces nominees to Honolulu Police Commission
3. Caldwell signs bills creating Waikīkī Transportation Management Special Improvement District
4. VIDEO: PBS Insights Debates Jones Act
5. Star-Adv: Kealohas to be Indicted Today
6. FBI Searches Home of Former Chief as Caldwell Preps Nominees to Name Successor
7. SHOPO: Police Corruption ‘Starts at the Top’
8. Kauai County considers 0.5% GE Tax hike
9. Audit airport hangar project
10. Former worker slaps Maui county with $1.63M discrimination suit
11. Hawaii County to Seek New HR Director: Last One Quit After Kenoi Hiring Scam Exposed

1. Rep Andria Tupola to Host Hawaii Tax Conference
2. Who's Squandering Your Money at OHA?
3. Hawaii AG Sues Feds for Records on Deportations of Illegals
4. Business Taxes: Hawaii Ranks 27th
5. ‘Con-Artist’ OHA and HART Auditor Gets 20 Year Prison Sentence
6. Embezzlement?  Homosexuals Accuse chief investigator for Office of Disciplinary Counsel
7. Caldwell: I have Two Secret Nominees Lined up to Stack Police Commission
8. Top police chief candidate defends integrity after criminal trial 24 years ago
9. Third HPD officer charged in federal public corruption scandal linked to Kealoha
10. Democrat Voters to be Punished for Electing Officeholders who Raise State and Local Taxes
11. Discussions underway over where Trump should stay during Oahu visit – Maoists and Democrats Hoping for Waikiki
12. Hawaii Is Still Falling Short In Its Inspections Of Health Care Facilities
13. Soft on Crime: “He gets into trouble anytime he’s not in prison”
14. Hawaii’s missile defense urged as North Korean threat persists

1. Hawaii Judge Blocks Trump’s New Travel Ban. Again.
2. Video: Kelii Akina on The State of Racial Harmony in Hawaii
3. Quality of Life? Honolulu Ranks 18th
4. Kealohas Named Among Six Co-Conspirators in Indictment
5. HPD Chief?  U.S. Attorneys had a policy of not using Thomas Aiu as a witness in any criminal cases
6. Maui: Electric Bills Spike $9 as Ratepayers Are Forced to Buy More Overpriced Wind Energy
7. Pro-Rail Groups Spent $200K Lobbying Special Session
8. Hawaii must fix Dams
9. Nimitz Homeless Drug Addicts Run Illegal Gambling ‘Red Room’, Pile Garbage 10 Feet Deep
10. Can Oahu’s Kahauiki Plantation Be Replicated on Other Islands?
11. State: Homeless Tent Cities are not the Solution
12. Insights on PBS Hawaii--The Jones Act
13. Trump to visit Arizona Memorial next month

1. Crooks and Cronies: Who’s Getting Paid from the FY 2016-17 OHA Check Register
2. FBI arrests retired HPD major, police officer linked to alleged corruption investigation involving Kealohas
3. New HMSA rules cut back women’s cancer screenings
4. Civil Beat Mentions Kawananakoa Married to transsexual
5. HTA Pays to Mail Homeless Back to mainland
6. Global Warmers Upset You aren’t Taking Hawaii Climate Commission Seriously
7. Bloomberg: For Puerto Rico's Sake, Scrap the Jones Act
8. Guam: This is the Time to Push for Jones Act Exemption

1. Incentives for Retirement Savings
2. Cayetano Endorses Hanabusa for Governor
3. Council has plenty more vices in its long reach
4. Hawaii could face the same winds of scorn that hit Puerto Rico
5. Borreca: Hawaii Really Shouldn’t Bother With Disaster Preparedness
6. Hawaii investors least interested in cryptocurrencies

1. Fuchigami Taking over from Ige's Chief of Staff? – That’s What the State Constitution Says 
2. Hawaii politicians missing the boat on Jones Act reform
3. Rep Andria Tupola to Host Hawaii Tax Conference
4. Can Hawaii AG Help Muslims Obtain US Classified Info?
5. Nobody Buying Attempt to Equate Japanese Internment with Arrest of Muslims
6. Secret Public-Private Hawaii Energy Group is Plotting Our Future
7. Anti-Pesticide Activists Spread Rat Lungworm
8. State to clean up, fence off area under Nimitz Hwy. viaduct
9. Plan for homeless camp in Kona moves forward
10. BLNR Fines Family $75K for Saving House

1. Kiplinger: Hawaii Taxes 7th Highest in USA
2. Failing Upwards: Ige Promotes HDOT Boss Fuchigami
3. Workers Protest as Star-Adv lays off 25% of Newsroom
4. When Caldwell sees how the votes fall he will make the necessary appointments to get the Chief he wants. 
5. Obstruction of Justice? Arakawa Allegedly Asked Nonprofits Not to Cooperate with CSC Investigation 
6. Without Felix Consent Decree, DoE Mental Health Care Slips
7. Their Energy, Your Green: MECO is proposing 9.3 percent rate hike
8. Damage left by Homeless Meth Addicts at Kakaako park is worse than expected
9. Oahu Sites Identified for Massive Festering Homeless Tent Cities 
10. After 250 Visits, Street Psychiatrists Finally Get One Schizoid Homeless Person to Accept Treatment and Shelter
11. Huge Packages: 33% Raise Coming for Some Hawaii County Officials?
12. Illegal Red Placard Vendor Keeps Selling at North Shore Shopping Plaza Tied to Mrs Brian Schatz
13. Fire code issues keep school auditorium largely idle despite $15 million upgrade
14. Nanny State Regulation

1. Hawaii AG Obstructs Requests on How Much Taxpayer Funds Are Being Spent Fighting Trump’s Travel Ban
2. State of Hawaii Auditing OHA
3. USNWR: Best States? Hawaii Ranks 27th
4. Best Colleges? UH Manoa Ranks 484th -- UH Hilo 729th
5. State and Local Taxation Per Capita: Hawaii Takes $5,705
6. Islandwide Sit-Lie Ban Part of Trick to Create Massive Festering Homeless Tent Cities All Over Oahu
7. Will Harry Kim get land for Homeless Tent City?
8. Most of Hawaii's homeless students aren't actually living on the streets
9. Arakawa to be fined $2000 for Buying Goodwill?
10. Honolulu City Clerk Wants Big Increase In Price Of Voter Data
11. Trump's Latest Travel Ban Could Be the Toughest to Challenge
12. How Two Decades of Kauai Anti-GMO Ignorance Shaped Obama Admin Policy

1. SCOTUS Backs Trump, Dismisses Travel Ban Challenge
2. Chin, Muslims Sue to Block Travel Ban 3.0
3. Recent Federal Court Ruling Affects Hawaii Tip Credit
4. How Resignation, Recusal Allow Caldwell to Pick Next HPD Chief
5. Medicaid: Ige Claims Cost not Soaring
6. Same Homeless Person Interviewed Again and Again over the Years
7. Exhausted from Hours of Drinking and Eating, Homeless Woman Slashed by Meth Addict
8. BLNR to Impose $10K fine for Swimming without a Permit?
9. Hawaii Hurricane Preparedness is ‘Mostly a Joke’

1. The Atlantic: Aloha Tower Deal Makes HPU Poster Child for College Debt
2. Jones Act industry anxiety increases with Hurricane waivers
3. Ominous UH email: 'In the event of a nuclear attack'
4. Mayor calls for police panel chairman’s recusal from chief selection
5. BoE: Stop Faking Student Success Indicator
6. Homeless Tweekers Rip up $500K worth of Electric Lines to Plug in Their Air Conditioners
7. City prosecutor: Judge was wrong to release ex-con accused of attempted murder
8. Convictions of 2 accused pimps reinstated after case is thrown out
9. Bill 80: Make a Payoff to Surfrider, Get a Tax Credit
10. How HDOT Insiders Steer Contracts to Roberts Hawaii
11. Hawaii Renewable Energy Standards A Shell Game
12. Green Energy Schemers Pushing New ‘Profit-Sharing’ Scam

1. Campaign Contributions, Financial Disclosure Tie Rep Beth Fukumoto to Alleged Ponzi Scheme
2. Honolulu Rail Deal Fallout: Neighbor Islands Want A More Open Legislature
3. Kakaako Sweep: 32 Homeless Forced to Accept Shelter
4. Could the rail project bring more affordable housing?
5. Legislators Plan more Gun Control Bills Next Session
6. Pearl Harbor shipyard is Navy’s most backlogged
7. USA Today: Save Puerto Rico from crippling Jones Act
8. Crooked European Prosecutor Uses Omidyar as Spy

1. If You're Still Paying Use Tax on Amazon Purchases—Stop
2. Protest OHA Giving CNHA $1.5M Hawaii Charter School Funds
3. Borreca: Exploit the Homeless to Get Hanabusa Elected
4. Caldwell Screws up Again: Lapsed housing funds fuel despair
5. Campaign Spending Commission investigates Maui mayor's spending
6. OK Now We Admit Medical Marijuana is Fake, so now lets just go for Full Legalization
7. Squatters Paradise:  Review of Sheriffs Favoritism Blocks Big Island Evictions for Two Years
8. Structures once intended for tsunami survivors help homeless Hawaii families
9. No Tents: Is Harry Kim Wising Up?
10. Maui Hospital: Is 100 Days Enough to Overcome Decades of HGEA-UPW Decrepitude?
11. Declining Men's Salaries Bring Gender Equity Closer

1. Hawaii: Median Family Spends 6.8 years income to buy median home
2. Honolulu Boondoggle Recovery Plan
3. Promise Kept: Trump Administration Protects Americans’ Religious Freedom
4. Jones Act industry dirty tricks sabotage Hawaii poll
5. Jones Act Lobby: Ten Days is all Puerto Rico Should Get
6. Transit Ridership is Declining–So Why Pay Transit CEOs So Much Money?
7. Sword Hid Relationship to Aiu from Police Commission
8. Kakaako: Homelessness as a tool for Bureaucratic Empire Building
9. Like Rats in a Maze: Legislators, Councilmembers Continue to Push for Massive Festering Homeless Tent Cities Everywhere
10. $160M Property Tax Hike Coming thanks to ‘rail recovery plan’
11. ‘Food Evolution’ screening benefits Waimea High

1. Trump Asks Supreme Court to Dismiss Travel Ban Cases--Chin Asks Court to Expand Case to Cover Travel Ban 3.0
2. RU486: ACLU Chooses Hawaii to Launch Abortion Drug Litigation
3. AG: 1156 Backlogged Rape Kits Tested so Far
4. Free Rein for Choppers Drives Park Enthusiasts to Court
5. DoE in Action: Calls Cops on 9-year-old
6. Conflict may force police panel leader to sit out chief vote
7. Another “cart before the horse” moment for rail
8. Tuition Hikes: UH Spends $25.7M on Travel
9. Mainland Jones Act Industry Stacks PBN Jones Act Survey
10. Wespac: Congressman Was Wrong About Lobbying
11. Green Energy Scammers Still Hoping to Scoop Megabucks from DoD Budget
12. DHHL Star-Adv Pushing Rentals (again)
13. Prescribing Hope: Meds for Mentally Ill Homeless in Hawaii
14. Homeless winning fight for beachfront property

1. Endgame: Telescope Protesters Shift focus to Sublease
2. Honolulu Neighborhood Boards: 30 Vacant Seats Available
3. City now accepting Grants in Aid applications
4. Our Revolution: Bernie Sanders Group Calls on Congress to Extend Jones Act Exemption for Puerto Rico
5. Cost of Living: Honolulu adjusted salaries lowest in USA
6. Hirono: Trump Nominees Not Gay Enough
7. Overtime Costs Jump 12% for Honolulu City Government
8. Democrats Punish Rep Cindy Evans for Voting Against Rail Tax Hikes
9. Attorneys accuse Kawananakoa's ‘wife’ of taking money from $200M fortune
10. Chief? Public Input Favors Retired HPD Major Kendro
11. Homeless do $500K Damage to Kakaako Park
12. The Jones Act is crony capitalism at its worst and congress must repeal
13. After Lobbying for Three Years, University of Hawaii actually has to Accomplish Something Now
14. Some Muslims Consider Leaving Hawaii
15. HSTA Member Indicted for Child Sex Assault

1. Video: Running for Governor, Rep Andria Tupola Rallies Supporters in Waianae
2. Survey: Over 80% of Hawaii Residents want Jones Act Repeal or Reform
3. State Climate Change Adaptation Commission to Meet in Doomed Oceanfront Hotel
4. More Shifting Numbers: Now City Claims Rail plan is $214M Short
5. Candidates for HPD chief to detail their visions and qualifications
6. Fail: Ige touts homeless successes — in park to be closed because of homeless crisis
7. Illegal Hiring Practices: Kenoi Cronies fear Tidal Wave of Lawsuits
8. Sister-Isle Councils: Sunshine Law Must Apply to Legislature
9. Maui Survey: Repeal Obamacare 66.6%
10. Here's another chapter of "Getting Around":
11. Jones Act unfairly hurts Hawaii while jeopardizing security of U.S.
12. Guam: Chamorro Tribal status resolution raises concerns
13. Guam: 16 Homosexual Child Molesters

1. Oahu Circuit: Public Comment on Judicial Nominees for Four Positions
2. Open Access for Broken Trust Book
3. Best Cities for Disabled? -- Honolulu Ranks 62nd
4. Fastest Growing? Honolulu Ranks 333rd
5. Hawaii Joins States with Highest-Rated Health Insurance Plans
6. Abigail Kawananakoa Marries Transsexual Partner
7. Surveys: Majority in Hawaii Want to Dump Jones Act
8. Overrun with Homeless, Kakaako Park to Close
9. Special Interests Spend Big On Their Lobbyists
10. State eyes hike to well permit fees
11. USDA: Hawaii has Lowest Rate of ‘Food Insecurity’ in USA
12. Star-Adv: Matayoshi’s work on AP Classes Paying Off
13. Move to Hawaii, Become Less Racist
14. ACLU Chooses Hawaii to Launch Litigation for Mandatory Abortion Pills Nationwide
15. Former Hawaii resident shot twice, describes horror of mass shooting in Las Vegas

1. Cultural Nationalism vs Technical Progress: Telescope Protesters Make More Cash Demands
2. Two HPD Chief Nominees Sued: Cover up Manslaughter, Excessive Force
3. Accountable, Affordable, Accessible: House Republican Caucus 2018 Bill Package
4. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted October 2, 2017
5. UPW to Blame: OCCC Inmates Attack Guards After Dozens Call in ‘Sick’
6. The Disturbing State Of Mental Health Care In Hawaii’s Prisons
7. Man arrested after Waipahu standoff was on leave from job as prison guard
8. Nursing Home Inspections: DoH Fails 61% of Time—Loses Federal Funds
9. Hawaii DOT proposing to hike harbor dockage, cruise passenger fees
10. With thousands of Hawaiians waiting, Home Lands agency produced no homes—Sits on $30M in Fed Funds
11. Airport corporation plan still supported
12. BoE; We’re Making up Kishimoto Evaluations as we go Along
13. Honolulu Zoo: How Long Will New Director Last?
14. 894 Registered Lobbyists in Hawaii

1. Fritz v. Department of Taxation, and Why You Should Care
2. Crooked Former Sheriff Chairs Hanabusa Campaign
3. Star-Adv: Caldwell’s Horrendous Mismanagement of Homeless Crisis
4. Unfathomable city bungling costs millions for housing, puts services at risk
5. Kauai County Council Discusses Creation of Massive Festering Homeless Tent City as Homeless Dude Cracks Whip
6. 20% of Big Island Sex Offenders ‘Non-Compliant’
7. Maui County auditor in Hawaii said finance director misused credit card
8. Telescope: Cultural Nationalism vs Progress
9. Gabbard Bill Would Ban All Gasoline, Diesel Vehicles in USA
10. GOP Plan: Make it Harder for Democrat States to Raise Taxes

1. Will Courts Defend Free Speech -- Or Forced Speech To Promote A Political Agenda?
2. Sen McCain Introduces Bill to Exempt Puerto Rico from Jones Act
3. Judiciary: Collaborative Effort to Reduce Truancy Launched
4. DBEDT Community Forums on Electric Utility Ownership Models
5. Hawaii to Feds: Let us use Medicaid to house the homeless
6. How each of the HPD Chief finalists were ranked after their assessments
7. War on Agriculture: Kauai Anti-GMOs intend to Force EIS on All Farm Operations
8. Resolution asks for Legislature to also be governed by state’s open meetings statutes
9. Calls for mental health reform after rash of Halawa suicides
10. City Wastes a lot of Time Storing Junk so Worthless that Homeless People Don’t Want it 
11. Oahu Dope Pushers Expect 25,000 Users
12. Fire department fined over Marco Polo blaze
13. Solar Farm Stripped of Panels Again and Again
14. Arkansas Calls for Jones Act Repeal
15. Trump and Pence Coming to Hawaii
16. Todays Child Molesters in Hawaii Education

1. US Senate Investigating Hawaii's Soaring Medicaid Costs
2. Housing ASAP: 714 Homeless Families Placed in Permanent Housing
3. Financial Literacy--Hawaii Ranks 42nd
4. Feds Sue Guam Over 'Chamorro Land Trust'
5. Puerto Rico needs more than temporary Jones Act waiver
6. Hawaii Visitor Spending Grows 6.1 Percent in August 2017
7. Why is Hawaii so Healthy? Gallup vs Bloomberg
8. UHERO: Economy Slowing, Despite Arrivals Boom
9. Telescope Shakedown: Next Stop Court
10. Ige: North Korean Nuclear Attack ‘Not Likely’
11. Thanks to President Donald J Trump, Hirono Suddenly Calls for Jones Act Waiver
12. Blue Planet Pushes for More Rate Hikes to Support  Billionaire Elon Musk
13. 2 years after Accessory Dwelling Units law passes – Only 67 Units Built
14. Another Homeless Camp Fire Under H-1 Freeway
15. HGEA Mental Hospital Pretends to make Changes after Latest Two Escapes
16. DoE HSTA Brainwash Students to become Professional Activists

1. Audit: Honolulu Homeless Programs Subject to Corrupt, Incompetent Department of Community Services
2. Girl Scouts Rank Hawaii 23rd for girls' well-being
3. Hawaii Excise Taxes: $885 per Capita--3rd Highest in USA
4. White House waives Jones Act for Puerto Rico -- For Just 10 Days
5. BLNR Approves Telescope 5-2
6. Strive HI: How did your School do?
7. FBI: Violent Crime up 24% in Hawaii
8. Picking the Next Corrupt Police Chief: Members of Secret Local Panel Identified
9. Akaka supports Mauna Kea telescope in new book
10. National attention on Jones Act 'good for Hawaii'
11. Caldwell Loses Federal Funding for 1000s of Oahu Seniors
12. Big Island Homeless Summit Discusses Ways to Keep Shelter-Refusers Nice and Comfy on Streets 
13. Plan would redevelop public housing, add 11,000 rental units along Honolulu rail route
14. Hawaii Among 20 most expensive places in America to die
15. State Agency Proposes Tripling Fees For Access To Public Records
16. Judge Blocks Release Of Names Of Former Undercover Cops — For Now
17. Adopting Republican Tax Reform For Hawaii
18. Are Hawaii’s Nursing and Senior Care Homes Prepared For Disasters?
19. Planning officials OK Os Stender’s Maunawili Valley rezoning request

1. Hanabusa Blocks Missile Defense for Hawaii
2. DoE Touts AP Test Results
3. TOTE to Challenge Pasha for Hawaii trade?
4. Trump says NO to Puerto Rico Jones Act waiver
5. Hawaii schools not prepared to shelter children in event of nuclear strike
6. Keep HPD Corruption Alive: Secret ‘local’ panel being used to narrow down list for Honolulu's next police chief
7. Civil Beat: Doing Away With The Jones Act May Help Puerto Rico — And Hawaii
8. Homeless Program Focuses on Families with Children
9. Busted: Kenoi Operative Resigns as Hawaii County HR Director--Slips out Side Door
10. Urine and Marijuana Smoke: City Planning Commissioner Hosts Rave Party in Kakaako
11. Caldwell Tickets Makakilo Residents for Planting Flowers in Yard
12. Top 5 in USA: Hawaii Taxes Suck up More GDP than Most
13. Tobacco: 2017 State Legislative Summary
14. Beer Tax is Regressive
15. HGEA Against HDOT Police for Airport
16. Some Honolulu High Rises Don’t Need Sprinklers, Fire Safety Panel Says
17. Big Island Rep has Cancer

1. UH Law Prof Antolini: Mrs Brian Schatz’ North Shore Shopping Plaza is Not News – Stop reporting it
2. Supreme Court Justices Cancel Travel Ban Hearing
3. Problems ahead for Pasha Hawaii and TOTE despite Gov Ige’s terminal announcement
4. Does the Jones Act Endanger American Seamen?
5. Missed deadlines leads the city to lose millions in federal housing funds
6. Resignation May Allow Corrupt Chief Pick to be Blocked
7. The Big Island’s First Legal Homeless Camp: Safe Zone Or Shanty Town?
8. More ‘safe zone’ follies in Kakaako
9. HEI denies creating new subsidiary to get around state regulators
10. Lower taxes better than ‘basic income’
11. Police Commissioner Resigns Before Chief Picked
12. Draft ethics rules to be discussed next week
13. HART: Rail, Tech are Part of Scheme to Force You Out of Your Car
14. Tourism Drops to 17% of Economy

UH Law Prof Antolini: Mrs Brian Schatz’ North Shore Shopping Plaza is Not News – Stop reporting it

1. Hawaii Pregnancy Centers Go to Court Over Law Requiring They Promote Abortions
2. Congresswoman calls for yearlong Puerto Rico Jones Act waiver
3. Hawaii Lowest Teacher Salaries in USA
4. Unions Stood by as Kenoi Violated Civil Service Laws—100s Illegally Bypassed to hire ‘POI’
5. Chief: Police Commission to Winnow out Non-Corrupt Contenders This Week
6. DoE Starts Semester with 531 Teacher Vacancies
7. Doctor shortage worsens
8. Revitalizing Mayor Wright Homes could cost $1 billion
9. Tax Review Commission: A $700M Money Grab 
10. Hawaii Electric Rates up 9% in Year
11. Sierra Club Still Working Hard to Destroy Farmers
12. Nuclear attack sirens? Try wait

1. GOP Obamacare Repeal Deal Would Boost Hawaii Medicare and Medicaid
2. Harbors Division Soaking the Taxpayer – Again and Again
3. Brian Schatz Praises NFL Players who Kneel During National Anthem
4. Morale a major problem at embattled police department, some say
5. Big Island Strive HI test scores overall still below standard
6. How Honolulu Strip Clubs Get Away with Liquor Law Violations
7. No more cuffs in court? New policy says suspects can appear without shackles

1. DLNR wants to triple fees for commercial marine licenses
2. Senator: Lets Build a Massive Festering Homeless Tent City Downtown Where There’s Lots of Copper 
3. 41 Tons of Trash Removed from Pearl City Homeless Camp
4. Solar Panels About to Get More Expensive
5. 35 Years Late: Honolulu Leftist Churches Finally Decide to get Around to Becoming ‘Sanctuaries’
6. Investigator will explore contention over Kawananakoa’s estate

1. Hawaii Pregnancy Centers Ask Court to Stop Law Forcing Them to Promote Abortions
2. Hurricanes Blow Jones Act Out of the Way
3. Ige Assigns Dock Space to Pasha, TOTE
4. How High Are Property Tax Collections Where You Live?
5. Oahu Construction Boom Ending: What Excuse Will HART Use Next?
6. If N. Korea attacks Hawaii, you'll have minutes to prepare
7. More Tax Hikes Coming? Rail’s last segment fraught with risk to Taxpayers
8. OHA Trustees to Reconsider CNHA Contract at Sept 27 Meeting
9. Criminals Stealing More Thanks to Legislature
10. Council Considers New Scheme to Keep Criminals on the Streets
11. Marijuana Stores Move 57lbs of Dope in First Month
12. City continues to clear out items along the Pearl City bike path
13. With No Chief to Collect Payoffs, HPD Raids Illegal Gambling Sites Island-Wide
14. Police: Non-Profit Loses $5.8M to Embezzler

1. Al Hee Minion Robin Danner Grabs for Control of Crooked Sandwich Isles Scam Company
2. Surprise: CNHA Charter School Scheme Twice as Large as Previously Reported
3. Record setting applications for UH Manoa--But Enrollment Still Drops
4. City Fines Go Away for N Shore ‘Shopping Center’ Planned by Mrs. Brian Schatz
5. OIP Rules Designed to Cut off Access to Public Records
6. BLNR Hears Arguments Over Control of Mauna Kea Telescope, Land
7. How Some Hawaii Officials’ Paychecks Compare To The Mainland
8. Ige Confuses Renewable Energy with Low Climate Impact Policies
9.  Hawaii and other Liberal States Single-Handedly Saving Planet from Global Cooling or Warming or a Big Monster
10. DOH: Honey Butane Oil is ‘Medicine’ Now
11. HPD Officer Points out that Chief Selection Process is Corrupt
12. Kealoha’s Quest For City To Pay His Legal Fees Takes A Nasty Turn
13. Hawaii Housing Authority -- Kupuna ordered to pay $800 rent increase
14. Hawaii Co Council Votes to Ban Foam Containers
15. Study: $30B of Hawaii’s Economy based on Obamacare

1. Hawaii is #1 in Teacher Absenteeism at 79% 
2. Hawaii 6th Most Indebted State
3. Hawaii: 10,464 Student Loan Debtors Over Age 60
4. 'Pono Policy Academy' to Begin Candidate Training Classes
5. Got Anxiety? DoH begins adding new excuses for Medicated Marijuana
6. Greenmail: OHA, UH Team up to Hire More Lawyers
7. Nuclear Blast Preparations: Inside Legislators’ Secret Meeting
8. HART: We Overestimated Last Tax Hike by $600M
9. Ige’s School Reform:  Kaiser HS Football Team Collapses Season Cancelled After Threats
10. Special Education Parents: More Lawsuits Coming
11. 29% Property tax Hike for Maui TVRs
12. $4M Effort Forces 42 Homeless Drug Addicts to Accept Shelter
13. Kauai PD Raids Homeless Camps Forces 8 to Accept Shelter in Jail
14. Hawaii Co: In a few years we may buy some Igloos, until then we will have massive festering homeless tent cities
15. Abused Toddler’s Mom Seeks Federal Help With Her Son’s Case Against ‘Friend of the Police’
16. HFD: We Know cause of Marco Polo Fire
17. Lanai Celebrates Death of Big Wind

1. Ige Sends out Secret Memo on Information Practices
2. Caldwell: Now That Legislature Has Done the Hard Work of Raising Taxes, I Urge HART to Not Do Nothing
3. Data vs Hype: Honolulu NOAA Chart Shows Sea Level Rise is a False Crisis
4. Residents of U.S. Territories Ask Court to Expand Voting Rights
5. Survey: Texas More Diverse Than Hawaii
6. Rail ’Recovery’ Magically Drops Cost by $1B and Plans $429M per Year in New Tax Hikes
7. Rail critic calls HART’s financial recovery plan shallow
8. Telescope: Result of BLNR Hearing will be Appealed to Supreme Court
9. Overflowing With Homeless Drug Addicts, Emergency rooms struggle with long waiting times
10. Homeless Pour into Waianae Tweeker Camp
11. Soft on Crime: Cohort of Alleged Waikiki Shooter Released from Death Row in Delaware Thanks to Liberal Lawyers

1. Report: Hawaii Health Insurance Jumps by Avg of $341
2. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted September 18, 2017
3. Shelter? Most of Hawaii ‘On Their Own’ to Deal with Nuke Fallout
4. DoI Recommends Opening Some Pacific Monuments to Fishing
5. These Big Oahu Schools Got Bigger
6. Hawaii Co Police struggle with overtime, vacancies
7. Wait For Drug Treatment On Big Island Can Stretch Months
8. State Caregiver Aid Program Takes Shape—How Much will FACE Get?
9. Shipping companies’ expansion in isles could go bust for some

1. Why America's Missile Defenses Might Not Work Against North Korea
2. Legislature with U R Missing
3. Carbon Tax Heads $700M in Tax Hikes Proposed for Next Legislative Session
4. HART Submits Rail Recovery Plan after 16 Months of Chaos Produces Massive Tax Hike
5. New documents reveal state system that failed abused boy
6. Media bring legal challenge to Police Commission secrecy
7. City Fees Add to the High Cost of Sprinkler Retrofit
8. Ige Spews CO2 from Here to NYC—Meeting with Tax Credit Schemers to Talk ‘Warming’
9. Crony Capitalist Kelly King Plans to Spend $1.5M to Attract More Homeless to Kihei
10. ACLU: We will Push Hawaii Counties to become 'Sanctuaries’ for Illegal Aliens
11. Big Island: Donald J Trump Scares Seven Liberals Away from Voting
12. Aquarium fish: Let science guide decision-making
13. Brian Schatz Can’t Distinguish Between Weather and Climate
14. Sale of Apartments Will Profit HHFDC, Reduce Affordable Housing

1. Help Stop CNHA Grab for Charter School Funds
2. Hawaii GOP Calls on Schatz to Return Money
3. Nominees Sought: Four UH Regents
4. Hawaii Uninsured Rate Drops 4.36% Since 2010
5. HART: Feds Freeze Rail Spending on Land Buy
6. Concern grows after construction workers unearth 2 sets of iwi
7. Honolulu to consider paying homeowners to house homeless
8. Rep Tupola: Sex trafficking is a big problem in Hawaii
9. How one Hawaii school is helping kids succeed by making sure they get to class
10. Solar installation warranty died with Honolulu company
11. Today’s Police News: Assault, Road Rage, and Cyberstalking

1. Is Hawaii Safe in Light of North Korea's Missile and Nuclear Tests?
2. BLNR Telescope Hearing Set for Sept 20
3. Census: Hawaii Highest Rents in USA
4. Bloomberg: After Irma, America Should Scrap the Jones Act
5. GAO: Pearl Harbor Shipyard in Bad Shape
6. AG Chin: How a lobbyist for Corrections Corporation of America became the Left’s darling
7. Pension Spiking Costs Taxpayers $25M per year
8. HART puts finishing touches on rail recovery plan on eve of deadline
9. State’s records request rules changing
10. Welfare, Medicare and Marijuana: Internet Billionaire has a Plan for Your Life

1. Hawaii GE Tax Highest Sales Tax in USA on Per Capita Basis
2. Council yanks ‘forensic’ from rail audit
3. Am Samoa: Feds Settle with StarKist
4. Harassed by Attorney General, Parents of Autistic Child Flee State
5. Honolulu Rail 3x More Expensive than Mainland Systems
6. Four Months and Still no State Tax Refund
7. Will Police Commission Hearings be Opened by Judge?
8. Is Hawaii’s government corrupt?
9. National Democrat Donors Fly AG Chin Around World
10. Peter Apo: “I should have declined the offer to be a paid Civil Beat columnist”
11. High-ranking Maui police officer investigated for sexual assault

1. Mauna Kea: It All Came Down to Money
2. Hawaii Weed Stores to Go Cashless Oct 1 (sort of)
3. AG Chin Defeats Parents of Disabled Children (again)
4. DoE SPED: 24% Absenteeism, 40% Do Not Graduate
5. State's failure to conduct random checks on probationers puts public at risk
6. Hawaii Spends $2M/yr flying Criminals to Arizona and it’s still Waaaay Cheaper than our Corrupt UPW-Controlled Prisons
7. HHFDC: Operating Affordable Housing Not Our Job 
8. Retaliation Games; Parole chief back at job after investigation
9. Kim Plans Massive Festering Homeless Tent City for Hilo
10. Preschool In Hawaii: Expensive And ‘Ridiculously Hard to Find’
11. City Issues 49 Violations for TVRs
12. White Nationalist Leader: Tulsi Gabbard Understands Us

1. Hawaii Risks Loss of Federal Funds to Force Abortion on Churches
2. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted September 11, 2017
3. Audit Exposes Illegal System to Bypass Civil Service, Hire 100s of Kenoi Cronies
4. Lawsuit: Hawaii County Police Used Stun Gun On Wrong Man—Tried to Cover it up
5. Republican Opposition To The Rail Special Session
6. News Outlets Challenge Honolulu Police Commission Secrecy
7. Star-Advertiser staff cuts follow lower earnings by parent company
8. Hawaii adds Only Four Shelters from Cat 2 Hurricane

1. 9-11 We Will Never Forget
2. Rail Taxtrophe
3. How to fix health care in Hawaii
4. Hawaii DoE Sued over Sept 11 "Lockdown Drill"
5. Travel Ban: Supreme Court Slaps Down 9th Circuit
6. Retaliation from NextEra Supporters behind Hanabusa Campaign Announcement
7. Ige’s Failed Housing Deal
8. Hawaii Legislature: The Trappings of Respect and Trust Without the Real Thing
9. Civil Beat Needs to Come Clean on Peter Apo Scandal
10. Two more names emerge as candidates for HPD's next police chief
11. Another Day in the DPS: Penis Grabber Gets Back Pay