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Thursday, March 30, 2017 March 30, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 7:06 PM :: 4247 Views Senate WAM Budget -- $386M More Spending than House OHA seeks input on upcoming budget (for three days) OHA issues two more business loans Micronesian students head to International Robotics Competition UHERO: Electric Car Batteries Part of Plan to Go 100% Renewable As Expected, EPA Rejects Anti-Pesticide Activists’ Petition to Ban Chlorpyrifos Legislature: Two Gangs Compete to Steal millions in GEMS money Energy Green: Plan to Use Trump to Get More State Tax Credits We Long Ago Stopped Trusting Anything About Honolulu Rail Blue Planet: Hike GE Tax and Make Traffic Even More Jammed 12% Raises for Maui County Execs? Thomas Gorak Nominated as PUC Commissioner HCDA proposes changes to affordable housing rules Push for DHHL Rental Housing Part of a Robin Danner Money Scheme HB83: Lets Build a Gigantic Festering Tent City for Tweekers at Waianae Boat Harbor Prosecutor's office confirms wife of former police chief demoted amid federal probe Soft on Crime: Should Scizo Killer be Let Back out onto Streets? Maui Liquor Comm Violates Sunshine Law to lift Cap on Number of Hostess Bars More Anti-Dairy Activism on Big Island After 8-Year Hiatus, Protesters back at Pohakuloa Read More..

Wednesday, March 29, 2017 March 29, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 7:56 PM :: 3765 Views All Talk, No Action: State’s Low Refugee Count Works Against Hawaii v Trump Travel Ban: Hawaii Judge’s Ruling Based on Fake DHS Document Taxpayer Return on Investment? Hawaii ranks 49th Cover-up: How Wind Farms Hide Bird and Bat Kills Hawaii Dithers while Telescope Prepares to Build on Canary Islands Doubling Hawaii’s Food Production? Trump Economy: Visitor Spending Increases 11.5% in February 2017 Sabotage in Store for OHA Audit? Report: Big island Hotspot for ‘Premature Death’ Shortage of Homeless in Waikiki—Activists Terrified Honolulu Rail: City Needs To Get It Together Or Give It Up Anti-Dairy Activism Exported to Maui Maui Hospital subsidies missing from budget Hawaii Contingency Plan for Obamacare Repeal Becomes Christmas Tree Bill Arakawa Commits Political Suicide Hold Ige Responsible for Outcome of Superintendent Search DoE Fails to provide services to students with autism HB1580: Bill to Abolish Gasoline to be Heard Friday Hawaii has no Definition of Fossil Fuel Petition: Developers Stack HCDA Nomination List Curb HTA’s secrecy before seeking audit Panic in Kona Coffee Fields as Trump Reinstates Program to Deport Illegals Who Commit Felonies in US HCR176: Urge VA to Improve Health Care in Micronesia  SB221 Red Light Camera—a Money-Loser for the State One Nesting bird delays multimillion-dollar project in downtown Honolulu Read More..

Tuesday, March 28, 2017 March 28, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 7:49 PM :: 3480 Views FCC, DHHL Ask: Exclusive License to Criminal Al Hee Company Illegal? Hawaii Suicide Bill Would Have Let Nurses Diagnose Fatal Illness and Prescribe Death Pills Hawaii Ranks Among Worst States to be a Doctor Here's why rail is going to cost $12 to $13 billion Police Reform Bills Still Alive in Legislature HPD Gets PR Plan, not Reform Plan Council Approves More Lawyers to Defend Ex-Chief Assisted Suicide: Many Unanswered Questions HB1281: Tell Homeless to “Get a Job’ Political Insiders Get Away With a No Comment Money Talks To Lawmakers During Legislative Session Condo boards brace for medical marijuana smoke complaints New Suitor for Hawaiian Electric Companies? Immigration Raids at Kona Coffee Farms Oahu GOP Elects Brett Kulbis Chair Travel Ban: Trump Slow Walks 9th Circuit, Seeks Vindication in 4th Read More..

Monday, March 27, 2017 March 27, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:23 PM :: 4349 Views Prince Kuhio’s Fight to Americanize Hawaii Feds to Reopen Papahanaumokuakea to Fishing? Farmer: Shame on Kawailoa Development LLP Hawaii Taxpayers to be kept waiting 16 weeks on Tax refunds Political Insiders Among Few to Get Caldwell’s Ohana Dwelling Permits Molokai to be 100% Renewable in 2020? If Hawaii Democrats believe in Sea Level Rise—Why are they building Rail? Iwilei: Homeless Problem will be solved just as soon as Rail is Finished? East Hawaii GOP Convention Offers Preview of State Convention Hawaii v Trump Updates Read More..

Monday, March 27, 2017 March, 2017 Letters to the Editor By Letters to the Editor @ 2:49 AM :: 3211 Views Farmer: Shame on Kawailoa Development LLP Read More..

Sunday, March 26, 2017 March 26, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 8:59 PM :: 3730 Views Yes, Toto, Tourists Also Pay Real Property Tax Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review Hawaii Co Ag Property Tax Rate up 48.2% HIDOT Airports Div Red Tape: Theater of the Absurd Track rail costs with a Doomsday Clock Will Democrat ‘Mean Girls’ Let Fukumoto In? DLNR: Sea Levels to Rise 3.2 Feet (or was it 9?)  We are all Doomed! ‘Groundwater Inundation’ UH Manoa ‘Research’ Devises New Way to Shake Green Energy Tax Credits out of Lege SB1150 Chemophobia is Profitable: Selling ‘Bogus ‘Reef Safe’ Sunscreens Will State Fund Veterans Treatment Court? Read More..

Saturday, March 25, 2017 March 25, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:38 PM :: 4939 Views Maui Man Stabs Girlfriend to Death Because She Refused Abortion Maui: Arakawa Submits $795.3 Million Budget Proposal Signer of Anti-Trump Letter Withdraws From Hawaii Military Think Tank ‘Sanctuary State?’—Hawaii Dems Pass Toothless Resolution to Fool Base HB1518: Bill could limit access to public records Amazon will collect sales taxes nationwide starting April 1 HB1580 Abolish Gasoline and Diesel Vehicles Audit of tourism authority is urged Law exists to help mentally ill get treatment, but few resources available to do so HB1281: Bill to give homeless day jobs advances Tough Love: Diamond Head Homeless Sweep Forcers Six to Finally Accept Shelter Unreasonable Abercrombie Angry at Legislators--Wants Death for Expensive Oldsters Honolulu Prosecutor faces intense criticism for management of domestic violence safe house How Hawaii Paroling Authority Finds Excuses to Let Criminals Out Again and Again Ookala residents say runoff from dairy is contaminating streams, community Read More..

Friday, March 24, 2017 March 24, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:26 PM :: 4434 Views Office of Hawaiian Affairs Ratifies Independent Audit On Sister Isles Working Class Whites Dying of Despair Being Hypnotized by HART? Double Food Production? Failed Central Planning Thrives in Hawaii Assisted Suicide Loses in Hawaii Hawaii Missile Defense Now HB209 and SB648 -- Two Income Tax Hikes on the Move Two Versions: Legal or Illegal TVRs to Be Taxed? HSTA Operative: Stalled Contract Talks Are Prompting Whispers Of A Strike 78-year-old business could shut down due to problems from homeless encampment Soft on Crime: Multiple Felon Gets Parole—Violates and Escapes in Beemer Unwanted Fukumoto to be Rejected by Democrats? Fukumoto: This is the Peak of My Political Career Travel Ban: Muslims Laughed out of Court Read More..

Thursday, March 23, 2017 March 23, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:47 PM :: 4191 Views Rep Andria Tupola to Run for Republican Party Chair? Do Muslims Have a Property Interest in US Visas? DLNR Statewide Hunting Survey Caldwell’s Chief of Staff Quits Victory! Lawmakers table Assisted Suicide bill following intense debate SB1183: Rail Tax Hike, Skim is Back --for DOTAX and HIDOT HB1580 Hawaii Legislators Still Working on Plan to Ban Gasoline, Diesel Vehicles HB552: Obamacare Mandate Tax for Hawaii Honolulu Council ‘Rats Approve Garbage Tax, Bus Fare Hikes Bill 7 A Massive Property Tax Hike Lawmakers consider charging prepaid wireless users a Million Dollar fee City Employees Use Each Others Raises as Excuse for More Raises Reduced Budget Growth hits construction, schools Fukumoto? Some Democrats Urge Rep Marilyn Lee to Get Out of the Way Census: Oahu Loses 5,156 People in 2016 Hypocrisy: Hawaii Accepts only 127 Refugees Since 9-11 Attacks DUI Attorneys Use Prosecutor’s ‘Ghost Ticket’ Defense for Their Own Clients Objection! 831 Exhibits Introduced in Telescope Case Oahu's hot housing market, limited supply leading to soaring demand Veterans Choice Worth Improving Espinda Slowing Down—Only 17 Over the Limit This Time Read More..

Wednesday, March 22, 2017 March 22, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 7:50 PM :: 4721 Views Omidyar Wins by Losing: Kauai Court Ruling Forces Farms to File EIS Trustees Set to Vote on OHA Audit Hawaii is in North Korea’s Crosshairs with no Real Defense Supreme Court: IDEA Requires ‘Ambitious’ Education Plan for Disabled Children Immigration: 9th Circuit Judge Warns Against ‘Judicial Psychoanalysis’ Travel Ban: Hawaii AG Presents Obama Judge With More Paperwork to Rubberstamp Homeless Tent City: DLNR Removes ‘Tons of Debris’ from Diamond Head Fukumoto Quits GOP: ‘Seeking Membership in Democratic Party’ SB1183: House Reinstates Massive Rail Tax Hike HSTA: No Private Organization (other than us) Should Influence Superintendent Selection Process Kauai Judge Sets Precedent for Obstruction of Agriculture Hundreds Sign Petition Demanding Removal of ‘Criminal Vagrant Squatters’ After Years of HIDOT Bungling, Hawaiian Air Takes over Airport Project DOH fines DOA for illegal wastewater discharge in Halawa Stream Massive 5% Raise for Caldwell and his Cronies HMSA payment overhaul could impact care quality Incompetent DoE Meets Only 20% of Cool Schools Goal as Money Runs Out Trump policies could mean big boon for Hawaii fishermen Honolulu judge sides with American Samoa fishermen over feds Financial Times: Will Hawaii ERS Cause Stock Market Crash? Pew: Only Hawaii Has Eradicated Christians from Congressional Delegation  Board and Care: We ‘Vote’ our Patients, so Legislators Better Shut Down our Competitors Jeff Stone Proposes 80 McMansions for Hanalei Ridge High pesticide level spurs first recreational marijuana recall Read More..

Tuesday, March 21, 2017 March 21, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:59 PM :: 4341 Views Public-Private Partnerships: Study Examines New Options for Rail Assisted Suicide Hearing Set for Thursday College Readiness: How Did Your School Do? Statewide 2017 HS Graduation Dates JSC Seeks Nominees for Two Oahu Judicial Vacancies Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted March 21, 2017 HSTA Operative: We Made Ige, We Can Destroy Him Last Tax Hike Bill to Line HIDOT Coffers Film Tax Credits: Payoff for OHA to be Required Amazon to tax items sold in Hawaii State: Uber, Lyft ride-sharing fares subject to excise taxes Sunshine Week: “We are always secretive” Another Cop Charged in Another Child-Rape Case SB804: Hawaii Rep Creagan Revives Pesticide Disclosure Bill As is so Often the Case, Civil Beat Gets it Wrong Lawyers Profit Bigly from Telescope Hearings Lawyers profit from Homelessness: City's decision to pass on ACLU settlement offer proves costly Psychiatrist Sues HHSC Will Council Put Developers on HSDC Nomination List? Read More..

Monday, March 20, 2017 March 20, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 7:02 PM :: 4634 Views After Six Years Fight State Attempt to Steal Property--State May Owe Developer $200M Five Years Later—Still no Permit to Demolish Hotel, Build School Mindless Bureaucracy Obstructs Wireless Tech in Hawaii Convention Center Goes Back to Losing Money Dealers’ Moldy Salmonella-Infected Marijuana Kept Waiting by State Bureaucracy Bill 7: Caldwell’s Latest Tax Hike Trick Big Fat Raises for Kauai County Execs  Following the Anti-GMO Money, Part 2 Caldwell Makes Sustainability Unsustainable HB887: Don’t Pay off All the OPEB Debt and We’ll Be Rich, Rich Rich! SB382: Legislature Considers Restructuring Public Utilities Commission HB2: Big Island Farms to Become TVRs Low morale plagues staff at veterans’ medical offices Read More..

Sunday, March 19, 2017 March 19, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 8:37 PM :: 4004 Views Dissent: Five Ninth Circuit Judges Rebuke Court’s Immigration Ruling A Constitutional Amendment for Education Wars, Part 2 Fox News Video: How your tax dollars are being wasted on a railway in Hawaii Assisted Suicide Laws in Oregon and Washington: What Safeguards? Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review Caldwell Fined for Sewage Spills Election Results: KIUC Co-op Board March 18, 1959: Eisenhower Signs Hawaii Statehood Bill National Republicans Poised to Liberate Hawaii from HMSA-Kaiser Duopoly Star-Advertiser Instructs Readers on How to Hate Trump HB1471: Tax the TVRs Bill Still Alive HIDOT Continues to Blackmail Big Island HB775--Egg Inspection: Will legislature End 86 Years of Mindless Bureaucracy? Maui Waena’s new building — after 10 years — is finally open VA: Mindless Bureaucracy Makes a Mess out of Veterans Choice Program HB432: Lawmakers consider making financial abuse by caregivers a felony H-Power: Third Boiler Reduces Waste Flow to Key Democratic Officials Now Warning Base Not to Expect Evidence of Trump/Russia Collusion Read More..

Saturday, March 18, 2017 March 18, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 3:28 PM :: 4030 Views ‘Unindicted Co-conspirator’ Owns Manoa Mosque Hawaiian biodiversity declining millions of years--Before Humans Arrived Letter to OHA: Hawaiian Activists Demand Audit Trump Budget to De-fund Democrat Ward-Heelers in Hawaii “This is what we’ve done to Kauai now. You can’t even have a farm on ag land.” MECO May Face Blackouts After HC&S Closure SB718 Homeless Court Kailua Kona ‘Building a Force’ to Get Rid of ‘Criminal Vagrant Squatters’ Hawaiian Airlines, HTA back airport authority bill 40 Muslims Eager to Engage with UH Manoa – But The Trumpmonster Won’t Let Them Muslims Leaving Hawaii Read More..

Friday, March 17, 2017 March 17, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:58 PM :: 5770 Views Hawaii v Trump: Decision based on Campaign Statements “Dangerous” How to fix Hawaii’s pension problem 15 Tax Hike Bills—and Four Tax Cuts--on the Move in the Legislature The Legislature Just Can't Help Itself When It Comes to the Maui Hospital Chief Justice Appoints Three Oahu District Court Judges Billy Kenoi Lava Tube Survey: Plurality in Hawaii Support Trump’s Travel Ban Hawaii is a Sanctuary State for Corruption—No Wiretaps Ordered Outside of Maui County $15M Change Orders: Redesign Rail Columns so they Don’t Collapse Under Weight of Stations SB334/HB1401: 100% Vote by Mail in 2020 State Fines City for Caldwell Sewage Spills HPD might test body cameras this year New law would require Hawaii church-based pregnancy centers to post abortion referral sign SB1266: Low-Income Tenants Ask State To Keep Their Housing Affordable E-Cig Tax Will Force Retailers to Register Bumbling Legislators Could Cost State $55M in Federal Funds Trump’s Cuts to Taxpayer-Funded Liberalism Could be Deeeevaaastaaaatiiiing in Hawaii Hawaii Gas to build infrastructure for LNG expansion project Tillerson: Pre-emptive force an option with N.Korea Read More..

Thursday, March 16, 2017 March 16, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:05 PM :: 3971 Views How Would You Fix OHA? Study: Ige's Budget Runs Out of Money in Two Years American Samoa Rep Calls on Trump to Undo Fishing Bans in Obama Tuna Monuments Another Dangerous Travel-Ban Ruling House Budget Cuts Pension Payments Jail Population Down to 20 Prisoners?  Hawaii House Rearranges Staff HCR103: State House to Hear Alternative to Elevated Rail How To Save Money And Salvage The Rail Shakedown: To Get Film Tax Credits, Producers Will Have to Hire OHA ‘Cultural Consultants’ County Budget Swells—65% for Salaries Hawaii ranks dead last in voter turnout for 2016 election Retaliation: Hawaii County Election Officials Continue to Drag Whistleblowers Through Court No applicants yet for next Honolulu police chief—April 3 Deadline Soft on Crime: Two Police Chases and Still out on Street Big Bust a Sign That OxyContin Users Shift to Heroin? SOS Domestic Violence Advocates Respond to Scene How Legislators Tricked Anti-GMO Morons Lead Poisoning: Caldwell Reneged on Promise to Maintain Site Dead Bee Hype Busted Hawaii v Trump: As Expected Honolulu Federal Judge Does His Part for the Local Power Structure Read More..

Wednesday, March 15, 2017 March 15, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:03 PM :: 4447 Views Another Step Towards an OHA Audit Hawaii Republican Party Convention Set for May 12-13 Break up 9th Circuit Court? Judicial Conference asks for 5 More Judgeships SB501: Force Pro-Life Centers to Promote Abortion How Paid Home Care leads to Union Membership Scam Trump Ban “Blatantly discriminatory”? Hawaii Should Look at the Fake Indian Tribe Prosecutor’s Office Tries to Squeeze Defendant on Behalf of Kealoha Liberal States Time their Anti-Trump Suits so Shopped Judges can Coordinate Caldwell: Creating a Giant Bureaucracy to do Sweetheart Deals with Developers Akina: Public-worker benefits need reform BOE Search: Matayoshi Should Apply HIDOT Takes Waianae Hostage, Demands Money Frustration mounts over HIDOT’s slow Honolulu airport renovations DLNR: A&B must prepare EIS for East Maui water diversion Following the Anti-GMO Money So Busy With Anti-Pesticide Hype, DoH Forgets About Lead Poisoned Soil in Kalihi SB1150 Crackpot Sunscreen Ban Continues to Advance Cover-up?  Kam Schools wants Secret Court Hearing on Alleged Faculty Pervert Manoa Rapist to get Another Chance? SB 718: Funds sought to expand court sessions for homeless Plan to Shut Down West Hawaii Homeless Camp Begins With Arrest of Its Meth Dealers Hawaii Supreme Court narrows definition of “disorderly conduct” in case of Occupy activist Read More..

Tuesday, March 14, 2017 March 14, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 8:40 PM :: 3622 Views UPDATE: Galera Quits, BoE Resumes Search for Superintendent Grassroot Institute Urges Caution in Light of New Revenue Projection Race-based voting overturned in Guam — after six years House Finance Committee Proposes Budget Hawaii One of Seven Best States for Telemedicine Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted March 14, 2017 What are the Financial Benefits of a University of Hawaii Education? Hawaii's case against Trump's travel ban, debunked Musical Chairs: Takumi of Pearl City will now be in charge of Laughing at Anti-GMO activists House Shakeup Also Related to Superintendent Search? Crooked Charter School Principal Gets off Even Easier Other Liberal States See Hawaii v Trump as a Joke—Join Washington v Trump Instead Dems Wish They Were Trump State Revenue Forecast Drops By $250 Million Hawaii among states with highest individual income tax collections per capita Young Parents Stay Broke until Kids Reach High School Age Bills Dealing With Homeless Health Twenty First Century Utilities still interested in Hawaiian Electric, source says Amid federal probe, wife of former police chief demoted at city prosecutor's office Another Day, Another Crooked Cop $1M a Year to Dump Toxic Waste on Hawaii More DOBOR Harassment Defeated Read More..

Monday, March 13, 2017 March 13, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 2:39 PM :: 3359 Views Board of Education Delays Superintendent Search Process After Challenge from Castle Foundation Honolulu Neighborhood Board--List of Contested Races and Candidates The Real Poison in Paradise Hawaii v Trump: ‘Deep Historical Illiteracy’ SB786: Obvious Shell Bill “Relating to Medical Marijuana” Anti-GMO Obsessives Attempt to Oust McKelvey from Chairmanship Anti-Dairy Activism Spreads to Big Island Hawaii Expands Voluntary Pesticide Reporting Program—Anti-GMO Activists Not Satisfied (of course) Hawaii considering bill to force church, pro-life centers to promote abortion Attorney General Meets with Usual Suspects to make Hawaii Sanctuary for Unwanted Muslims Civil Beat Whines About Former Omidyar ‘Journalist’ Busted Over Threats to Jewish Centers Star-Adv Publishes Map of Homeless Camps on Oahu Read More..

Sunday, March 12, 2017 March 12, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:51 PM :: 4075 Views A Constitutional Amendment for Education Wars Symposium: Caldwell’s Plan to Eliminate Lanes and Jam Up Traffic Even More UH Board of Regents finalists for Hawaii County selected Applicants Sought to Serve on Disciplinary Board of the Hawaii Supreme Court Caldwell: Social Engineering More Important Than Affordable Housing Latest Scandal Opens Door to Investigation of DOBOR Corruption Honolulu mayors’ policies on rail is lesson from ‘fait accompli’ school of politics Politics still at the heart of education reinvention Kealoha Dreams of Donald Trump SB1240/HB1457 Anti-Aquarium Hysteria on the Move SB1109: Anti-Styrofoam Hysteria Gets Sidelined Again Environmental health risks to keiki discussed at state symposium Will Waianae Finally Get its Bypass Road? Quick and Cheap Anti-Missile System Can Protect Hawaii Read More..

Saturday, March 11, 2017 March 11, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 4:13 PM :: 4691 Views DBEDT Report Designed to Help HSTA Write Slush Fund into Constitution? Is Hawaii's Hotel Room Tax Law Obsolete? SB1183: A Victory for the People (for now) HCR103: State lawmakers want cost comparison of street level versus elevated rail system Petition: Remove Hawaii AG Doug Chin Hawaii v Trump: The Documents Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review Lt Governor Tsutsui to Resign-Democrat Wannabees Scramble Luke: Nobody Believes Caldwell Any More Telescope Round Two: DLNR seeks hearing officer for TMT sublease HIDOT Builds $318K Fence to Keep Tweekers Out, Leaves Gate Open NYT: Highest and Lowest Property Tax Rates in the U.S. School overcrowding concerns grow after plans for East Kapolei High scrapped North Korea Could Have Missile to Strike US in 'Next Few Years' Read More..

Friday, March 10, 2017 March 10, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 12:17 PM :: 4498 Views Hawaii V. Trump: A Legal Nothing-Burger Hawaii v Trump V2—a $150K Photo–Op Integrity: Castle Foundation Refusing to Pay for ‘Unfair’ DoE Superintendent Search “Second home” tax may put affordable homes out of reach HB790: Sue Farmers to Death Hawaii Abortion Mandate Copies California Law -- Headed for Supreme Court Hearing Full Text: Maui County State of the County Address Judge rules in city’s favor on gambling device seizures Rail: Compromised Staff and Vacant Diminished Management Lead to Cost Overruns “far above norms”  Ige: HART Should Explore Private Sector Funding Ige Casts Wide Net for the very best Darrel Galera for the job Lawyer Bills Hawaii $600/Hour to get More Muslims into Country After 2 Months Toying With Anti-GMO Losers, HB790 Killed in Voice Vote Breaking, Faking News More Garbage Taxes: City wants to start charging for bulky item pickup Bills Will Free Hilo from DLNR Homeless and Rich: Alleged Drug Dealers Caught with $2000 Cash, Lots of Meth Bedbugs and Other Bizarre claims add up in state payouts Ige: Trump is Straightforward  Hawaii to benefit from Strong Trump Military Read More..

Thursday, March 9, 2017 March 9, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 7:50 PM :: 5378 Views North Korea Could Soon Launch Attack on Hawaii $50K Cover-up: OHA, Garbage and Sex Harassment Hawaii Challenges Trump’s Refugee Order, Takes No Refugees 5 Facts You Need to Know About Hawaii v Trump (v.2) Hawaiian Electric Renewable Electricity Lags on Oahu—Reaches 26% Statewide Hawaii House Unanimously Passes Bill to Limit Warrantless Drone Surveillance Civil Rights Violation? EPA Investigating Anti-GMO Pesticide Hype Trump Voter Captured at Campbell HS—Will be Disciplined Big Q: Majority Oppose Hawaii Suit Against Trump Ethics, insider edge, and governor’s role questioned in top school job switch House Panel Wants Budget Slashed By $500M Honolulu Rail Is Too Much, Too Late Waikiki Fee Hikes: More Opportunities to get into our Pocket Council Pushes $0.10 Bag Tax: More Opportunities to get into our Pocket (pt 2) Lawyer: Ex-Chief is Trying to Avoid My Process Servers State building linked to lawsuit, death of Hawaii Supreme Court justice Lease for PV farm on Maui mayor’s property canceled Economists: Deregulate Housing Economists: Don't Tax Real Estate Investors Build more housing to tackle high cost of living Ex-officer gets fine, probation for issuing false tickets Wailuku homeless are hired to clean streets Devil Styrofoam Will Have to Wait A Year or More to Get His Due  Trump Admin: "The government has wasted too much of the taxpayers' money on inefficient and misguided projects." Legislators Get Full Pension After Only 10 Years Read More..

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 March 8, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:27 PM :: 4361 Views Crossover--Complete List: Senate Sends 384 Bills to House Crossover--Complete List: House Sends 365 Bills to Senate Senate Approves Assisted Suicide and Mandatory Abortion Promotion—How They Voted Appeals court to hear arguments on whether Sen. Brickwood Galuteria lived in his district prior to his election 541 Running for Honolulu Neighborhood Board Thousands Petition for End to Hawaii Vehicle Safety Inspections Well Being: Honolulu Scores #4 in USA Unanimous: Senate Rejects Liar Caldwell--No GE Tax Hike Legislators Pass In Vitro Fertilization for Gays and Mandatory Abortion Promotion for Heterosexuals—Plus Assisted Suicide and State Obamacare Transsexual Agenda Being Implemented in Hawaii Public Schools HB1471 TVR Tax Collection System -- $100M defacto tax hike HECO Proposed Rate Hike 8.1% Plus Additional Charges BoE Promises ‘Transparency’ Before Picking ‘Ultimate Insider’ Galera for Sup’t Ige Admin: Chief Negotiator will Meet with HSTA After March 13 Councilman Pushes $0.10 Per Bag Tax Council Considers Hike in Golf Fees and Waikiki Parking Rates Auditor Discovers 22% of Hawaii County Baseyard Inventory Missing—Councilmembers Attack Auditor Ethics: Campaign Contributions Do Not Create Conflict of Interest Two Years, 130 Homeless in Tent City: 8 Leave—2 Killed, 6 Accept Shelter Surfers Protest Against Wind Farms The ABCs of Anti-Agriculture Activism HB407 Health Savings Accounts Read More..

Tuesday, March 7, 2017 March 7, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 3:40 PM :: 3790 Views Hawaii Lawmakers Censor Pro-Lifers Defending Free Speech DLNR Finally Gets Around to Firing Rapist Cop Son of HGEA President Three Political Parties to be Removed from Hawaii Ballot Congress Repeals Obama’s Blacklist of Federal Contractors Darrel Galera Resigns BoE so Ige Can Appoint Him Superintendent Deadline to Apply for State Ethics and Campaign Spending Commissions Extended (again) NOAA: How are Coral Reef Fish Doing in Hawaii? Where Are Honolulu Rail’s Latest Financial Records? US DOT Demands Audit Before Funding High Speed Rail Star-Adv: Reveal spending for IUCN meeting Lawmakers out of touch with voters Calling Out The Anti-Science Denialists Let Wailuku Drown: Anti-GMO Councilmembers Vote Against Funding for Iao Valley Flood Control Lead is a Real Problem—But Anti-GMO Pesticide Hysteria Gets the Funding Bill would strip Hawaii gun owners of 2nd Amendment rights Sewer hookups slow Accessory Dwelling Unit approvals HSTA Protests Slow Negotiations Hawaii County: Usual Suspects Rake in Big Bucks Read More..

Monday, March 6, 2017 March 6, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 4:02 PM :: 3867 Views HCDA Solar Project: Fraud, bribery and 23 Hawaiian sites OHA LLC Rakes in $4.3 to $6.5M a Year Conservation event funding is a mystery—Audit Quashed Na Hopena A’o program --helping students appreciate the “Hawaiian perspective.” Kealoha’s Lawyer Whines about the Investigation DoE Recruitment System Designed to Create Massive Turnover Problem Sunscreen: Hawaii Needs to Erect Buffer Zone Around Chemophobes Legislators: We’re Not Going to Reveal OUR Tax Returns—But We Want Trump’s Civil Beat Finally Releases some Readership Stats Read More..

Sunday, March 5, 2017 March 5, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 3:20 PM :: 4761 Views One Integrated Approach to Tax Fairness? Flooded With Fear State Supreme Court says election board erred in not hearing challenge Corrupt Former Fire Chief Arrested for Aiea Road Rage Murder Legislature is last hope of digging up true rail cost Caldwell Plan: Raise Taxes and Add Another Layer of Government Voices of working folk have grown eerily quiet SB501: Force Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers to Promote Abortion HB1501: Got a Meth Pipe?  No Biggie Beach Clean up: Activists Looking for Styrofoam Find Needles, Meth Pipes SB1109 Fake Chemical Scare: Styrofoam Ban Stalled Lead Poisoning: Real Chemical Scare Gets Scant Attention from DoH, Legislature  SB1240/HB1457: Anti-Aquarium Bills to be Voted  Read More..

Saturday, March 4, 2017 March 4, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:13 PM :: 4684 Views Former Omidyar ‘Journalist’ Charged with Threats Against Jewish Centers HB314: Limit Warrantless Drone Surveillance Anti-Gun Legislation Eligible for Senate Floor Vote Next Week Hawaii Legislature: A Guide to the Deadlines Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review OHA Trustee sued over secret sex harassment settlement HPD Reassigns Detective Who Investigated Toddler Abuse Case Police irked as repeat felons are released to drug treatment – then escape After a Lifetime of Crime, Let 55 Year Old Criminals Out One More Time Star-Adv: Lets pretend to Get Tough on UPW Rapists Still Refusing Shelter: Homeless drug addicts crowd into H-1 embankments Mayor: Ing Would Let Wailuku Residents Drown Green Energy is a Joke: HECO To Build Two More Giant Diesel Plants Anti-GMO Luxury Realtors Sue Each Other A Year Later--VA administration still looking for Hawaii director Hawaii Residents Have Least Past Due Medical Debt Who owns vacation rentals in Hawaii? State Supreme Court says election board erred in not hearing challenge Read More..

Friday, March 3, 2017 March 3, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:35 PM :: 4166 Views Use CRA to Repeal Dept. of Interior Rule that Tries to Create Fake Indian Tribe in Hawaii Salvage the Rail: Street Level Plan Can be Completed with Existing Funds Ethics: DLNR Harbor Agent Grabs for Payoff Beyond $200 Allowed Under Law What you can do to help contain taxes Hawaii's Unsustainable Cost of Public Employment ILWU Work Action Idles Pasha Containership in Honolulu Harbor HIDOT to Solicit Feasibility Study for Ferry System Emergency Work Ordered--Giant Sewer May Collapse Under Ala Moana Blvd Pesticides, VOG, Mercury? DoH Seminar to Train MDs on Hysteria Eight Nominated for UH Board of Regents NCAA Reduces Punishment for UH men’s basketball Security: Hawaii Legislators are Sitting Ducks UHERO Fears Trumpmonster: “Many things could go wrong in Washington” Caldwell: My Garbage Tax and Bus Fare Hikes are a Political Gambit Caldwell Budget Adds 191 Positions, Funds 522 Vacant Positions TMT hearing concludes: Decision on contested case could still be months away Not all multi-home owners are investors With No Cardiologists, Sister Isle Hospitals Pay $70K for Life Flight Firefighters could receive 100% Disability pay, Expended Medical Benefits Urban Honolulu ranks 16th among U.S. metro areas in median pay Bills To Raise Hawaii’s Minimum Wage Dead SB689 Search and Seizure: County Inspectors May Raid Buildings Without Warrant—Looking for ‘Illegal Yoga Studios’, ‘Granite Countertops’ Hawaii gun bill aims to prevent mass shootings by seizing firearms from ‘at-risk’ owners Soft on Crime: Lifelong Criminal Will be back out in a Year Read More..

Thursday, March 2, 2017 March 2, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:22 PM :: 4749 Views HPD, FBI Investigate Threat to Honolulu Jewish Preschool New Study Details Driving Forces of Hawaii's Unfunded Liability Crisis OHA Ethics Complaints Ignored—Until Now California Company Helps Hawaii Marijuana Dealers Plan Sales to 9M Tourists City schedules meeting to update community on O‘ahu General Plan Senate Judiciary and Labor Passes Assisted Suicide Bill Out of Committee Memorial Service for Former State Rep Mark Moses Trump Should Rescind Obama’s Hawaiian Government Rule Grand Jury Investigation Needed to Get to Bottom of HPD Toddler Abuse Case Caldwell Budget Designed to Justify Tax Hike Hawaii Moves Too Slow On Asset Forfeiture Reform Bitcoin Shutdown related to Hawaii Marijuana Dispensaries Tax Evasion System? Your state is soaking you for beer money Hawaii: Why Wait—We can Already Announce the Worst Appellate Decision of 2017 Kakaako Homeless Refuse Shelter, Dogs Attack Parkgoers HB790: Sacrifice Agriculture to the Hysterical Demos Another step back for dairy – State orders Restart of EIS Planning panel gives city OK to use the landfill till it’s filled Read More..

Wednesday, March 1, 2017 March 1, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:23 PM :: 3529 Views POTUS Rescinds WOTUS: Hawaii Waters to be Freed of Federal Control Best States? Government Drags Hawaii Down to 27th Full Text: President Donald J Trump Speech to Joint Session of Congress First Month of Trump Economy: Visitor Spending up 10.1%—Arrivals Jump 4.9% Senate Devises Property Tax Bait n Switch to Help $500M HSTA Slush Fund Pass Vote SB1129: Senate to Vote on Assisted Suicide Airbnb bill calls to collect taxes from vacation rental owners Prescribe-a-Home Bills Amended Hawaii Bill Targeting Commercial Fishing Industry in Danger Why Weren’t Other Parents Told About Day Care Toddler Abuse? 15 Years Later, UH Athletics Dep’t Finally Figures out it Might Need a Marketing Partner Moral Outrage Is Self-Serving, Say Psychologists Read More..

Tuesday, February 28, 2017 February 28, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:57 PM :: 5020 Views Hawaii 2nd-Toughest State for First Time Homebuyers DCCA Chases Bitcoin Provider out of Hawaii Corporate Income Tax—50-State Comparison Victory!  Rail tax hike fails Senate Ways & Means committee HB1518: Citizens Asking too Many Questions—Lets Shut them Down Hospitals Support Housing Prescription for Homeless Fail: Cool Schools AC in only 54 Classrooms HPD Chief: We’ll Learn More when Federal Indictments Come Out Honolulu Transit Ridership Drops 3.2% Senate to vote on bill boosting TAT funds for counties DHS Reports $51.7M in Welfare Overpayments Libertarian author Steven Greenhut talks public employees at Maui County Club HPD has millions of unspent dollars in rarely-used forfeiture account Suspicious call prompts evacuation of Jewish temple and preschool Sierra Club OK if Paid: Wind farms killing more bats and nene than expected SB376: Repeal Big Cable Anti-GMO Activists Celebrate 98.4% Net Loss of Biofuel Zuckerberg officially drops Hawaii 'quiet title' actions—Except the One Involving an Actual Owner Trump Defeating Liberals by Making them Mentally Ill Maui: Homeless Drunk Bites off Finger Read More..

Monday, February 27, 2017 February 27, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 1:38 PM :: 5600 Views Study: Wind Turbines Could Make This Endangered Bat Go Extinct Anti-Telescope ‘Circus’ Nearly Over? – Doubtful Hawaii Wind Turbines Not Bolted Together Correctly—One Collapses Retired HPD Officer was Sought in ‘Felony Investigation’ $3 million sought for Housing First effort on Sister Isles HB783: Force Businesses to Give Free Electricity to Electric Car Moochers We Came Here for the Lifestyle—Now Change It Ige a Traitor? Meets with National Republicans Read More..

Sunday, February 26, 2017 February 26, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:11 PM :: 5202 Views HB1297: State-Recognized Indian Tribe for Hawaii Hawaii Legislature Obamacare Heavy Lassner: In Spite of Trump’s Reversal, UH Remains Committed to Putting a Tranny in Every Bathroom DPS Report: UPW Has Been Shielding Child Molesting Prison Guards since 2003 Prisons Have Become De-Facto Lunatic Asylums Souki’s Suicide Run: I only Have 28 Votes for Killing off Expensive Oldsters Cool Schools: 791 Units Short of 1,000 Ala Moana TOD pushes affordable housing aside to expand tourist area SB419: Require draft sign-up for UH Admission Zuckerberg Shakedown: Star-Adv Wants Greenmailers to Appreciate its Reporters More Anti-GMO Crony Capitalist: That which You call sacred is not, That which We call sacred is ‘Indivisible’ Obama Operatives Finally Corner Trump Lovin’ Gabbard Read More..

Saturday, February 25, 2017 February 25, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 2:27 PM :: 3415 Views It Doesn’t Always Pay to Make More Legislators Order Pregnancy Centers to Promote Abortion: Assisted Suicide Next 62% Hike in Minimum Wage Hike Will Hit Consumers, Small Business Hard SB221 Money Spinner: Legislators Vote Red Light Camera Ticket Fiasco (again) After One Year of Daily Outreach, Less Than 1% of Homeless Agree to Accept Shelter Flaws in protective order system leave abuse victims vulnerable Judge: Kauai police body cams don't violate union agreement—SHOPO to Appeal SB603: DPS Too Tough on the Few Criminals we Actually Send to Prison Read More..

Friday, February 24, 2017 February 24, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 3:33 PM :: 4237 Views 532 Candidates for Honolulu Neighborhood Board SB898: Anti-Gun Legislation Passes Committee SB1137: Return Control of HMSA to its Members Honolulu Most Unaffordable State Capital HB462: Billion Dollar Scheme to Place Prisoners Back under Control of Corrupt, Expensive UPW-Controlled Prisons Tuition: Packed with Administrators, UH Now More Expensive than Mainland Schools Taxi companies accuse Uber, Lyft of not paying $20M GE Taxes Uneducated Schatz Pushing DHHL to Build Rentals, not Leaseholds Team Ige Superintendent Questionnaire Designed to support whatever the decision-makers have already decided How the military impacts rent prices in Hawaii Wind Farm Asks permission to Murder More Bats, Nene Star-Adv: Because Trump is President We Should Screw Agriculture Agnotology: The Study of Anti-GMO Activism HB1518: Block ‘Vexatious’ UIPA Requests SB7: Use Medicaid funds to house homeless Security Guard Loses Finger in Fight with Homeless Drunk NYT: Hawaii is #2 for Teenage Trannies Star-Adv Gives Eric Ryan Space to Rant About Fukumoto Read More..

Thursday, February 23, 2017 February 23, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 3:34 PM :: 4739 Views Why OHA Fears a Forensic Audit DLNR Still Paying Rapist Cop—Claims HGEA President Had Nothing to do with Hiring DLNR Introduces Birth Control for Mosquitoes HART Ridership Projections - Fantasies, Fairytales and Alternative Facts Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted February 23, 2017 GE Tax Hike Grabs Another $800/year from family finances Oahu drivers could get triple taxed PUC starts public hearings on $100M Hawaiian Electric rate hike Some customers asked to pay thousands to connect with solar Hawaii County Affordable Housing Rents to go up 36% Now That Maui Memorial is to be Privatized, Legislators Act to End Multi-Million Dollar Waitlisting Scheme Push for paid sick time rankles Hawaii eateries To Be A Honolulu Police Commissioner, First Be A Political Insider Honolulu Ethics Commission finds no conflicts in legal campaign support from special interests Anti-Fishing Activists Already Trying to Deflect Blame for ‘Crippling’ Hawaii Fishing Fleet Water Grab: Anti-Agriculture Activists Run  into Opposition from Upcountry Maui  Read More..

Wednesday, February 22, 2017 February 22, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:38 PM :: 4537 Views Earn $50K? Hawaii Takes More From Your Paycheck Than Any Other State Local business owners speak out about the minimum wage Governor Ige’s ‘cuts’ still result in big spending increases Underreported: How Gun Silencers Became a Health Issue Full circle about single-payer health insurance Kauai Dairy Farm Withdraws Final EIS Caldwell: My Latest Appointee Helped Deliver Lots of Muslims to Europe OHA Insiders Plan to Neuter Audit Jury finds HGEA President’s Son guilty of sex assault Trump Admin has no Time to Talk to Hawaii Legislators About Rail Inter-Island Cables and Rate Hike Hearings Today Next Big Hawaii Tax Credit Scam Will Ban Gasoline, Diesel Vehicles DLNR Scam-- Plans to Sell Carbon Credits 50% Failure Rate: Solar Installations ‘Falling Like Dominoes’ Sen J Kalani English Accepted Junket From Turkish Opposition Group BOE approves findings from special review of charter school panel HB407: Health Savings Accounts for Hawaii? Honolulu Airport Crasher was Brother of Convicted Murderer Open Borders Activists Come Up With New Argument: Hawaii Man Should be Granted US Citizenship BECAUSE He is Convicted Meth Dealer Peter Boy Case Solved When Competent Prosecutor Elected DAGS Doubletalk Collapsing Ceiling at Capitol Kalihi, Iwilei Stripped of Copper: Sit-Lie Expansion to Force Bums Westward Anti-GMO Activists Squabble Over Celebrutard Access Molokai Finally Runs out of Answers Hawaii Eco Hypocrisy--Trump Will Let us be the Phonies That We Are Read More..

Tuesday, February 21, 2017 February 21, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 3:04 AM :: 5638 Views Forbes: Taxes Make Hawaii One of 10 Worst States for High Earners OHA and HART Auditor Admits Fraud, Embezzlement HB1549: Don’t Tax Affordable Housing to pay for Affordable Housing Airbnb tries again on Hawaii tax broker bills Counties Won’t Stand up to NIMBYS and Legalize TVRs – But They Want TAT! Marijuana Just Another Excuse for a Tax Hike SB173: Marijuana Candies are ‘medicine’ Audit Finds a House Worth of Unrecorded Lumber at Hawaii County baseyard HB1277 Add 1,200 More Unionized Public Employees SB1298: Will Police Commission be Allowed to Hire Outsider as Chief? Star-Adv: Time for Greenmailers to get Serious About Extorting MegaBux from Zuckerberg Heroic Coast Guard Protects Whales from Money-Hungry Anti-Superferry Activists  Read More..

Monday, February 20, 2017 February 20, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 1:03 PM :: 4182 Views The Cost of Public Employment HPD Toddler Abuse Cover-up Unraveling Still no A/C for schools Caldwell Imposes 100% Fare Hike on Bus Transfer Riders Incompetent DoTax a Month Late with Tax Forms Soft on Crime Policy Kills Another Criminal: On the outside after 35 Raps in 14 Years—Bashes Through Airport Security and Dies Maui Program Puts Homeless to Work Sweeping Streets Who Will be Fooled?  Anti-GMO Activists Blame Trump for Pesticide Bill HCDA Changing Affordable Housing Rules KSBE Trustee Search Begins Again Read More..

Sunday, February 19, 2017 February 19, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:49 PM :: 4050 Views The Need for Tax Vigilance in 2017 Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review Utopian Nonsense on the Move in the Legislature With Sam Slom Gone, Legislators weigh more than a dozen tax proposals A clear money grab by politicians HB1586: Council Will refuse GE Tax Hike Even if TAT is Taken Away 27 Rail Cars to Be Ripped Apart and Rebuilt in Desperate Attempt to Salvage Them SB591: $2B State Bonds for Housing Construction Medically assisted death: Wariness is warranted Star-Adv Pushes for Red Light Camera Ticket Machines Telescope: Lawyers Make Megabucks House Bill 1571, only attacks agriculture and will destroy farming Will British Petroleum Junk Hawaii Windfarm or Repower Before Federal Corporate Welfare Goes Byebye? Hawaii Residents Suffer the Most from Sleeplessness Read More..

Saturday, February 18, 2017 February 18, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 4:43 PM :: 4035 Views OHA Insiders Plan to Neuter Audit 516 Candidates Register for Honolulu Neighborhood Board Elections Hawaii pro-life centers fight abortion referral mandate Hawaii Ranks Fourth for Millionaires SB898: Anti-Gun Bill Scheduled for Committee Hearing Next Week Hawaii Military Commissaries Offer 32.6% Savings—Highest in USA Caldwell Goes on Vacation While Legislators Expected to Vote on Rail Tax Hikes Incompetent Airport Division Wants Fee Hikes But Can’t Fix Leaky Roofs Star-Adv: Greenmail Shakedown of Zuckerberg is a Good Idea Diamond Head: Social Workers Chased out of Homeless Tent City By Knife Wielding Bum Soft on Crime: 20 Priors Gets ‘Supervised Release’—Then Shockingly, He does it Again HPD Toddler Beating Gets National News Attention State says hotel illegally pumped storm water into ocean for more than a decade SJWs Scream Blasphemy after Maui mayor says 'No such thing' as sacred rocks So-Called Farmers Union Joins With Anti-Dairy Farm Activists Hordes of Anti-Agriculture Activists to Descend on Maui Public Hearing to Take A&B Water Read More..

Friday, February 17, 2017 February 17, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 3:12 PM :: 4075 Views State Procurement Office Launches Investigation into OHA Professional Services Contracts Honolulu Neighborhood Board Elections 430 Candidates Register with One Day to Go Hawaii Motor Vehicle Deaths Jump 27% DOH: Dairy Farm EIS Decision Coming Feb 24 Will HSTA Report Expenses for 6,000 Lobbyists? Caldwell to Build Affordable Housing With Same Efficiency as Rail Blackmail: HECO Scores $61M, Free Trucks Thanks to Rail Tax Payers First Lateral: Several Energy Bills Survive Hawaii Legislature Deadline Target Legislators who fail to introduce bills SB107 Minimum Wage Vehicle Focuses Debate on Tip Credit Incompetent DoE Payroll: Two Months to get Your First Paycheck Sheriffs Refuse to Stop Auto Burglar Two Months of Canvassing Diamond Head – Only 6 Homeless Accept Shelter Eager to Use Homeless for Political Agit-Prop TVRs Account for 1/3 of Hawaii Visitor Accommodations Greenmail: Bill aims to create and Profit from disputes over trail on Kauai When it Comes to ‘Sanctuary Cities’ Hawaii is all talk Read More..

Friday, February 17, 2017 Letters to the Editor February, 2017 By Letters to the Editor @ 12:23 AM :: 9984 Views Will HSTA Report Expenses for 6,000 Lobbyists? Falls of Clyde: Ige Ignores Call from British Parliament Read More..

Thursday, February 16, 2017 February 16, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 7:47 PM :: 4035 Views OHA: The Mystery of the Disappearing Money Hawaii 64 Structurally Deficient Bridges Identified Hawaii Supreme Court Oral Arguments: When Is Election Law Admin Appeal "Brought?" Economic Impact of Immigration by State—Hawaii 10th HB1595: Involuntary Commitment for Mentally Ill How They Voted: Assisted Suicide Bill Passes First Committee Ward Poll: Hawaii Residents Reject Tax Hikes GE Tax Hike -- SB 1183 a “multi-headed hydra of bad ideas” Ernie Martin: If Legislators Hike GE Taxes, I’ve got several Ideas on How Councilmembers can avoid putting skin in the game HB1586: Income Tax Hike on the Rich -- Counties could lose hotel subsidy Bills on short-term rental tax collection advance SB221: Red-light cameras bill advances Caldwell Affordable Housing Plan: Convert HART HQ to Condos  SB1129: Senators Vote to Boost Insurance Company Profits, Kill off Expensive Patients, Enable Elder Abuse Candidate chosen for UH chancellor turned position down Police Chief Orders Full Review Of Toddler Assault Case Deedy Case: Time To Let Go Of A Case That’s Gone Nowhere SB173: Let Convicted Felons Sell Legal Weed Trump draft order would make welfare recipients deportable Criticism of Gabbard-Assad Meeting Gives Muslims Political Opening  Read More..

Wednesday, February 15, 2017 February 15, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 4:49 PM :: 5129 Views How to give teachers a pay raise … without raising taxes Three Days Left: 371 Candidates Register for 437 Neighborhood Board Seats Maunakea Observatories award Nānākuli and Kapolei students with research time Transform the Bureaucracy and Achieve Justice for John Sosa No Joke: UH Pres Lassner to assist search for DoE superintendent UH Abandons Search for New Manoa Chancellor Chief Justice Seeks Public Comment on Judicial Nominees OHA Pays Criminal Tens of Thousands of Dollars for Nothing Hush Money? HTA Calls Waikai’s Bluff Corruption: DOBOR Boss Fails in Effort to retaliate Against Hawaii County Prosecutor State May Owe $101M to Developer After LUC Steals Land Equity HB1586: Cut counties out of 'room tax' revenues REIT Tax Bill advances in House Legislators: Acute Care is Too Expensive so Eliminate it Legislators: Oldsters are Too Expensive so Eliminate Them Autistic student raped Pearl City classmate TWICE while HSTA Member napped, lawsuit says Homeless to Pick up Litter, Clean Graffiti SB221: Stop Light Camera Tickets Back Again Minimum Wage Hike Clears Hawaii Senate Committee—Deferred in House HB1282: Laughing Legislators Run Anti-GMO Morons thru Maze (again) Anti-Aquarium Obsessives Pin Hopes on Two Bills and a Lawsuit Will Latest Round of AP Lies Sink Hawaii Fishing Fleet? Batteries undercut benefits of rooftop solar, says new study $10,000 Fake News -- HECO Style HB793: Force Everybody to Install Electric Car Chargers SB1121: Force Everybody to Use Solar Water Heaters Denied: Feds Fail Again in Kona Water Grab Feds Sue: Homosexual Harassment of Male Employees Read More..

Tuesday, February 14, 2017 February 14, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 9:17 AM :: 7439 Views HSTA Rallies for $500M Tax Hike on Renters—House Approves on 2nd Read Anti-Fishing Lies Exposed: Attorney General Releases Point by Point Debunk of Kaniela Ing HPD Acting Chief Supports Naming of Suspended Officers Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted February 13, 2017 Falls of Clyde: Ige Ignores Call from British Parliament DLNR Cop Accused of Raping Girl—My Mommy is HGEA President Students Starve While HSTA Demands Massive Tax Increase Caldwell Bank Job: Measure To Stop Mayors From Moonlighting Shelved Drivers May Face $100M Higher Taxes, Fees To Lard HIDOT Coffers PUC to Consider $300M HECO Rate Hike Doctors hui opposes assisted-death bill Are Hawaii’s Wind Farms Killing Too Many Hoary Bats? How Housing Shortage caused by City of Honolulu Regs HB778: “Thousands of B&Bs on Ag Land” Hundreds seek help from state rent assistance program Four Sneaky Bills Would give counties the authority to regulate pesticide use Hooser Wants to Legalize Genetically Modified Marijuana Homeless Drug Addicts -- 1 million dirty syringes collected statewide in 2016 After 19 Years Convention Center Finally Gets Around to Booking Sporting Events Age 33 - 6 Felonies: Criminal Dead Because of Soft on Crime Policies McDermott: Travel Ban Needed Read More..

Monday, February 13, 2017 February 13, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 1:42 PM :: 3531 Views SB1183: Rail Tax Hike Bill is Alive in Legislature How Ige Plans To Cut a Piddling $220 Million From His $28.5B Budget DoE fails to fix problems with its 17,000 casual employees The Impending Honolulu Rail Ridership Debacle Bill to make judges repeat confirmation is advanced Chemophobia: Legislators Advance Polystyrene Ban Politics is About Winning Read More..

Sunday, February 12, 2017 February 12, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:01 PM :: 6043 Views Most 2016 GEMS Loans Went to One Insider UHERO Slams the Skim Skin in the Game? Mayor Harry Kim says higher taxes not an option Senator’s Wife Refuses Hush Money Ige Blames Judicial Selection Commission for Appointment of Campaign Manager Ige: Get Rid of Matayoshi so HSTA can Achieve Nirvana HGEA Strategic Incompetence Means Former state workers face long wait for payouts SB534: $70/day, Then Organize Kupuna Caregivers into Union Feds Still Grabbing for Control of Kona Water Tulsi Gabbard Syria Trip Just Like Patsy Mink Meeting with Viet Cong? Years Later—Still More Whining About Depleted Uranium Read More..

Saturday, February 11, 2017 February 11, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:10 PM :: 4190 Views HIDOT Mileage Fee: Meet Big Brother the Taxman SB1129: Senate CPH Committee Schedules Assisted Suicide Bill Neighborhood Board Elections: 327 Candidates Register for 437 Seats With One Week to Go Demanding a Tax Hike, HSTA to Rally at Capitol Jones Act and Maritime Security Program Home Ownership: Hawaii Most ‘Equity Rich’ Properties Justice Ginsburg at UH Law School: “We have a Dysfunctional Congress” Study: 72 Convicted Terrorists Came From Countries Covered by Trump Vetting Order Hawaii needs self-managed pension plan for public-worker retirees Overtime Abuse? Ige’s Been Watching it Happen for Years HB209: Progressive Democrats Demand Massive Income Tax Hike on Small Business Owners Expensive Tickets? House votes to nix one of the HIDOT Money Grab Bills TAT: Political Insiders Milk Cash Cow Energy Excelerates Flow of Tax Dollars to Crony Capitalists Ing Rent Control Bill Deferred Amidst Laughter, Ridicule Condos in Your Future: Anti-Agriculture Activists Grab for Last of HC&S Water Hilo Attempts to Free Itself from DLNR Indolence DLNR Police Harass Christmas Boat Parade Organizer U.S. Transportation department executive approved grant days before taking job with rail contractor Trump Backs Privately Funded high-speed rail projects Shipyard Freeze Gives Schatz, Hirono Chance to Pretend that They Matter  Should U.S. be preparing for a North Korean nuclear strike on the West Coast? Read More..

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