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Sunday, February 26, 2017 |
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February 26, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:11 PM :: 5171 Views
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- 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
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Saturday, February 25, 2017 |
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February 25, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:27 PM :: 3389 Views
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- 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
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Friday, February 24, 2017 |
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February 24, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:33 PM :: 4206 Views
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- 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
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Thursday, February 23, 2017 |
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February 23, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:34 PM :: 4708 Views
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- 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
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Wednesday, February 22, 2017 |
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February 22, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:38 PM :: 4511 Views
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- 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
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Tuesday, February 21, 2017 |
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February 21, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:04 AM :: 5607 Views
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- 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
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Monday, February 20, 2017 |
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February 20, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:03 PM :: 4164 Views
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- 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
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Sunday, February 19, 2017 |
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February 19, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:49 PM :: 4032 Views
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- 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
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Saturday, February 18, 2017 |
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February 18, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:43 PM :: 4010 Views
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- 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
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Friday, February 17, 2017 |
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February 17, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:12 PM :: 4054 Views
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- 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
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Friday, February 17, 2017 |
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Letters to the Editor February, 2017
By Letters to the Editor @ 12:23 AM :: 9940 Views
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- Will HSTA Report Expenses for 6,000 Lobbyists?
- Falls of Clyde: Ige Ignores Call from British Parliament
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Thursday, February 16, 2017 |
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February 16, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:47 PM :: 4015 Views
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- 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
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Wednesday, February 15, 2017 |
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February 15, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:49 PM :: 5097 Views
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- 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
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Tuesday, February 14, 2017 |
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February 14, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 9:17 AM :: 7413 Views
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- 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
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Monday, February 13, 2017 |
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February 13, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:42 PM :: 3505 Views
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- 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
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Sunday, February 12, 2017 |
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February 12, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:01 PM :: 6011 Views
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- 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
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Saturday, February 11, 2017 |
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February 11, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:10 PM :: 4165 Views
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- 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?
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Friday, February 10, 2017 |
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February 10, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:56 PM :: 8993 Views
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- OHA Old Guard Retakes Power: Machado Selected as Chair
- Crabbe Contract: Abigail Kawananakoa Sues OHA
- Ige Appoints Campaign Manager Circuit Court Judge
- HTDC Gives Away $9.8M of Your Tax Dollars to Six Tech Companies
- Senate Committee Turns Rail Tax Bill into Christmas Tree
- HIDOT Money Grab: Proposed fines for texting, speeding, seat belts, drunken driving may put motorists in poor house
- Star Adv: GE Tax on Internet Sales to Take Away Rare Perk
- $36M REIT Tax is Back (again)
- HSTA Announces Contract Demands
- Anti-Fishing Nuts Come Up with New Trick to Shut Down Fleet
- Maui: Homeless Flood Emergency Room
- Lawmakers puzzle over how to allow pot to be carried inter-island
- Honolulu police commissioner injured in domestic assault
- Hundreds of corrections officers call in sick during NFL championship game
- $11.5M to Make UH Education Free to Low Income Students
- Hawaii—Fewest Uninsured in USA
- Muslims Pleased by 9th Circuit Court
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Thursday, February 9, 2017 |
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February 9, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:59 PM :: 5299 Views
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- OHA Audit Passes Committee Vote
- What is Kaniela Ing’s Hidden Agenda?
- 2017 Honolulu Rail: Advice to the Legislature
- Economy: DBEDT Drops 2017 Growth Projection to 1.8%
- An informed opinion on GMOs
- Buffer Zone Bozos Descend on Capitol (again)
- Assisted suicide: Hawaii bills push envelope
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted February 8, 2017
- Caldwell announces more Cabinet Appointments
- HB1589: Pro-Hunter Bill to be Heard
- KIUC Board Sets Renewable Energy Goal of 70 percent by 2030
- Streetlights: Kauai First to Complete LED Conversion
- Hawaii State Ethics Commission 2016 Annual Report
- UH Law Review Sharing Economy Symposium
- Murthy: HART Looking at Alternatives to Tax Hike
- At-grade option offers a way out of Honolulu’s train wreck
- Raid Rail Funds for Fake $2B Housing Scheme?
- After Chief’s Lawyer Taken off Her Defense, Accused Suddenly Starts Telling Stories About Crooked Cops and Prosecutors
- Ige Administration Conspires with Hawaii Mosque to get More Muslims In
- Tough Times: DoE Gets a Measly $40M Increase This Year
- Senator rips tourism agency on finances—Take $6M as Vengeance
- If wealthy can get tax breaks, why not low-income earners?
- Report: Public Records Agency Slower Than Ever With Appeals
- Sen Keith-Agaran Grabs for Control over Judiciary
- Kaneshiro’s New publicly-funded secure Women’s housing complex in Makiki nearly empty
- Hospitals Paying $1500 per Day per Patient for Homeless Long Term Care
- Homeless Drug Addicts Take Over Big Island Subdivision
- Libraries Overrun by Homeless? A Sales Pitch to Fund Another Vacant Position
- Ige Admin Debunks Homeless Tent City Nonsense
- Anti-Urine Bill Becomes Easy Foil for Homeless Tent City Proponents
- HB1267: Failed Rent Control Proposal is Back Again
- Ing Pounding Nails into Agriculture’s Coffin
- Anti-Agriculture Activists Pave Way for Developers
- Small Business Leaders Debunk Anti-Styrofoam Hysteria
- Caldwell Leaves Kids in the Dark
- The Toxic Language of Hawaii’s One Party State
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Wednesday, February 8, 2017 |
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February 8, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:08 PM :: 8523 Views
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- US Supreme Court to Consider Hearing Hawaii Democrats Closed Primary Suit
- White House Calls Travel Ban ‘a Lawful Exercise’ of Authority
- Congress Considers Bill to Break up 9th Circuit Court
- Shell Game: Short Form Bills on the Move
- Trump Confusing Both Liberals and Conservatives
- Cost of Living: Only Manhattan is More Expensive than Honolulu
- Honolulu Neighborhood Board Elections 308 Candidates for 435 Seats
- Lawyer-Enrichment Bills on the Move—Require Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers to Promote Abortion
- Murthy: I Can Complete Elevated Rail Without Tax Hike
- Skim: Caldwell Reaches New Level of Insanity
- OHA, HART Auditors Didn’t Notice Embezzlement Until Company Ran Out of Cash
- Telescope: State files appeal over TMT sublease hearing
- Hawaii lawmakers mull short-term rental Taxes
- Terrified by Drop in Tobacco Sales, Lawmakers propose 70% tax on some e-cig products
- Hawaii Lawmakers May Triple Fines For Speeding, Cell-Phone Use, DUI
- HSTA Operative: Matayoshi Must Go Because We Think Matayoshi Must Go
- Charter School Commission Fighting Back Against Corruption
- Audit: Some DOE Employees Still Start Work Before Being Cleared
- Kenoi Rush Job Adds $280K to Cost of Gym, Golf Course
- Legislators Try to Establish Homeless Tent Cities AGAIN
- Honolulu Toddler Nearly Died In An Assault But No Charges Filed
- State House committees pass anti-Agriculture pesticide bills
- Garden Isle: Gabbard Right to Urge End to Obama’s Policy of Giving Money and Arms to Al Qaeda
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Tuesday, February 7, 2017 |
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February 7, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:18 PM :: 6347 Views
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- County Employees in Hawaii make double what private sector workers make
- Hawaii government growing faster than private sector
- OHA and HART Financial Advisor on Trial for Embezzlement
- It goes to the Top: Ige Education Policy Based on Underage Drinking and Football Recruiting Trips
- $500M Union Slush Fund Passes Committee Vote—HSTA Strips out Promise of ‘Quality’ Education
- $80M online sales tax hike
- Rail Tax Hike—Legislators Kill Two Bills, Vote on Third Set for Wednesday
- Will President Donald J Trump De-Fund California Hi Speed Rail Boondoggle?
- Hawaii v Trump: Trump Wins Round One
- Silicon Valley Billionaire: Hawaii Should want Unlimited Supply of Muslims more than it Wants Rail Funds
- Akana drops OHA lawsuit against CEO Crabbe
- Hypocrite Rep Ing Targets OHA Trustee Akina
- Neighborhood Board Voting to be Internet Only?
- Hawaii Buyout Hall of Fame
- Should the State Borrow $2B to Pretend to Build Housing?
- SB1109: Statewide Styrofoam Ban Pushed by Chemophobes, Eco-Obsessives
- Bats vs. Blades: A Quixotic Struggle
- DLNR: Sell Carbon Credits to pay for Helicopters to Kill More Sheep, Goats and Pigs
- Maui physician against physician-assisted suicide
- Sovereignty Activists Push their way into Arizona Prison
- Illinois Homeless Dude Allegedly Kills Wife, Buys Ticket to Hawaii
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Monday, February 6, 2017 |
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February 6, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:22 PM :: 5357 Views
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- Fluoridated Water Reduces Gender Pay Gap by 4%
- Hawaii Bills Would Legalize Industrial Hemp; Foundation to Nullify Federal Prohibition
- Matayoshi Dismissal -- Retaliation for Investigation of Kaiser Principal?
- Charter schools’ agency hit by report
- Green Grifters Fight over $150M in GEMS
- HMSA plan won’t cover most costs
- One Way to Kill Rail--Trump Will Cut Off Federal Funds if Hawaii Becomes ‘Sanctuary State’
- HOPE Probation: “Nothing Works” in Corrections Replaced by “Nothing Works Well?”
- Making Things Easy for Antis
- Hawaii Muslims: Now is not the time for Terror Attacks
- How Islam Is Gaining A Foothold In Micronesia
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Sunday, February 5, 2017 |
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February 5, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:50 PM :: 3979 Views
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- SB1056: Seawater Air Conditioning to Become New High Tech Tax Credit Scam?
- Vacation Rentals: Tax Hike Bills on the Move in the Legislature
- Hawaii Union Membership #2 in USA–21.7%
- SB938: End the State Rail Tax Skim
- Unfunded Pensions – Tip of the Iceberg?
- 276 Candidates Register for Honolulu Neighborhood Board
- Don’t mug taxpayers to pay for Hawaii’s high cost of living
- Condo Justice - The Ball's Now In Your Court
- Save $4.2B, No Tax Hike: Ground-level rail reaches Legislature
- Mayor’s plan brings rail to new level of insanity
- Rate hike proposals abound this year, PUC chair says
- Being driven from GOP is rite of passage for many local successful Democrats
- Legislature tackles rising opioid abuse
- Poor Gary Hooser. He just can't accept the fact that Kauai voters rejected him
- Kauai: Ala Loa Trail Could be Real Money Spinner
- Beachcombing Becomes Act of Penance in Eco Religion
- Longline association slams AP article claiming slavery
- DLIR, DCCA Hound Construction Industry with Millions in Fines
- 40 Years Later Nanakuli Getting a Library
- Learning to change: Education program putting Kulani inmates on right course
- Use Community Colleges to Save Gifted Students from DoE
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Saturday, February 4, 2017 |
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February 4, 2017 News Release
By Andrew Walden @ 11:57 AM :: 5800 Views
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- UHERO: ‘Discriminatory’ HSTA Property Tax Plan hits Renters Hardest
- Audit: Rep Kaniela Ing Does His Part to Hide OHA Corruption
- Hawaii Attorney General to Sue Trump to Keep Muslim ‘Refugees’ Flowing Into Country
- Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
- Hawaii: Trannies Drive Push to Legalize Prostitution
- Kidani: I want to Double Your Property Taxes to Create Massive Union Slush Fund
- Push to Hike E-Cig Tax
- Legislators Take Another Run at Judiciary
- Anti-GMO Hysterics Trying to Buy Politicians—But Voters Punish
- Anti-Sunscreen? Hysteria Attracts Quacks, as Usual
- Energy ‘Green’: Hawaii Legislature Explores New and Exotic Ways to Give Money to Silicon Valley Billionaires
- SunEdison: Billions Of Dollars In Taxpayer Money Hidden In Solar Scammer Bankruptcy
- 10 violations, 2 firings on annual review of Hawaii Co Police Department
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Friday, February 3, 2017 |
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February 3, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:58 PM :: 4576 Views
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- Hawaii public employee benefits rise 5 times faster than private sector
- UHERO: The Exorbitant Cost of Collecting Honolulu’s Rail Surcharge Tax
- Hawaii GE Tax Bites into 99.21% of personal income
- OHA Board Sets Audit Vote
- OHA: Akana Ousted, New Chair to be Elected at Next Board Meeting
- Choke or Head Fake? Ige Doesn’t Appoint Campaign Chair to ICA
- Mixture of Pro and Anti-Gun Bills Introduced in the Hawaii Legislature
- Hawaii Did Not Issue Any Gun-Carry Permits to Private Citizens in 2016
- Hawaii Bill Would Legalize Recreational Marijuana, Nullify Federal Prohibition in Practice
- Deadline to Apply for State Ethics and Campaign Spending Commissions Extended
- Basing decisions on evidence, not politics
- HB1595: Urine Free Zones
- Telescope Cuts off Funds to OHA
- Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa has registered as a Democrat
- Hawaii Democrats Hope President Donald J Trump Appoints Gabbard to Something, Anything
- Fake Issue: Shipyard at Pearl Harbor not part of feds’ hiring freeze
- Hawaii AG finally gets around to suing Trump over immigration ban
- Hawaii: President Donald J Trump becomes excuse for Letting Nurses do Abortions
- Chemophobia: Nature Challenges Anti-Sunscreen Coral Damage Claims
- Judge: Blacked-Out Health Department Reports Are Worthless
- Acting Chief Outmaneuvered: Chief’s severance paid out of police payroll funds last week
- Go West, Young Bum: Sit-Lie expansion into Iwilei, Kapalama
- EIS Approved for Dante Carpenter’s Garbage-to-Money Plant
- Dole Street: Manoa Neighborhood Board Tells SJWs to Get Lost
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Thursday, February 2, 2017 |
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February 2, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:15 PM :: 3828 Views
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- OHA LLCs—A License to Self-Deal
- Support OHA Forensic Audit
- Full Text: OHA Chair Sues to Force Crabbe Out
- Hawaii: Anti-Gun Bills Scheduled for Hearing
- Zuckerberg Steps In It In Hawaii
- Hawaii Tops Gallup Well-Being Index for 6th Year Straight
- Hawaii: The State of Tobacco Control
- One Party Justice: Republican Faces Criminal Charges Because he did not put Name on Two Mailers
- Recycling Company Cited for Water Pollution
- Future Oahu Community Correctional Center Down to Four Sites
- Taxing The Poor: Will Legislators Ever Enact Working Family Tax Credit?
- GEMS and Batteries: Revenues from Ratepayer Fee to be Given to Silicon Valley Billionaires
- Another Tax Hike: State considers targeting online shoppers
- Caldwell’s City Hall: Blood, Feces and Broken Windows
- 5 Reasons To Oppose Physician-Assisted Suicide
- Let Psychologists Pass Out Crazy Meds?
- Lynch Mob: Hawaii Supreme Court to hear arguments over 3rd Deedy trial
- HPD fired, tried to fire 25 officers in 2016
- Police Reform Bills Before Legislature
- Sunshine Law Amendments Before Legislature
- Hawaii Environmental Council Wants to Change Human Nature, Reorganize Economy
- Idaho Republican Launches Bid to Split 9th Circuit
- California Liberals Begin Castrating Prisoners
- Will President Donald J Trump Keep 1,250 Unwanted Muslim ‘Refugees’ Out of Hawaii?
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Wednesday, February 1, 2017 |
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February 1, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:22 PM :: 4272 Views
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- Rep Kaniela Ing: Tickets, Lies, and Bin Laden
- After Speaking at Anti-Trump Rally, Rep Beth Fukumoto Prepares to Quit GOP
- ‘Challenging and exciting times’
- SB938: Eliminate DoTax 10% Rail Skim
- HB663 and SB501: Force Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers to Promote Abortion
- DOH fights lawsuit on their non-posting of inspection reports even as two bills in the Legislature again fund the posting
- HECO Solar Deal: Wholesale Rate Finally Equals Average Mainland Retail Rate
- BLNR Approves Big Island Carbon Credit Scam
- DLNR Seeks Applicants: Commission on Water Resource Management
- Parents asked to provide feedback on their child’s public school
- How Many Tourists is Too Many?
- Report: A Decade of Human Trafficking in Hawaii
- Information sessions for Oahu Neighborhood Board Candidates
- Peter Pakemai, Master Canoe Carver
- GE Tax Hike: Legislature ‘Very Upset’ at Rail Lies -- Caldwell Offers Bribe
- Nightmare: Just When You Thought You Were Free of Obamacare, Hawaii Legislature Decides to Keep It
- HPD Refuses to Pay Kealoha’s $250K Golden Parachute: Payoff Agreement in Default Feb 2
- Maui: In Effort to Create More Homelessness, Soft on Crime Crowd Pushes for Mass Release of Criminals
- TMT contested case hearing slated to continue through February
- Bill would lower blood quantum requirement for Hawaiian Homestead successors if Congress Agrees
- Duke Aiona: Tracking Assisted Suicide in Legislature
- Chemophobia: Bill Banning Many Sunscreen Products Advances In House
- Anti-GMO Bills Pass Mike Gabbard Committee
- Gabbard’s trip to Syria tied to pro-Assad group
- Advice for Muslims in Hawaii: Don’t (ahem) ‘Blow Up’ the Situation
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017 |
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January 31, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:22 PM :: 3275 Views
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- County workers in Hawaii make highest wages in the nation
- Call for a Forensic Audit at OHA
- Robert Lindsey: OHA Trustees Must “Walk on Water, Be Holier Than Thou”
- Trump Immigration: UH Administrators Pander Relentlessly
- VIDEO: UH Manoa Chancellor Candidates Public Forum
- New Tourism Record for 2016 -- 8.9 Million Arrivals
- High-Speed Internet: Hawaii Schools #1 in USA
- 2016 National Citizen Survey for the City and County of Honolulu
- Former Hawaii GOP Chair Joins National Rifle Association Board
- ‘Natural’ Toxins for your Baby: ‘Homeopathic’ Profiteers Refuse Recall Order
- HSTA: Amend State Constitution to give us Half-Billion-Dollar Slush Fund
- Getting The Chronic Homeless Into Housing
- Rep Kaniela Ing is a Liar
- Hawaii one of only Six States for which Amazon Does not Collect Taxes
- Lawmakers aim to hold homeowner associations accountable for lost, stolen money
- Waihee Golf Course Tries to Shut Down Public Access to Hawaiian Kingdom Trail
- With vacancy at the top, high-level promotions at HPD raise eyebrows
- Correctional center designed for 127 has 174 inmates
- Change Orders, Cost Overruns picked up in Billy Kenoi’s Last two years
- Two Iraqi Refugees Slated to Come to Hawaii
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Monday, January 30, 2017 |
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January 30, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:55 PM :: 5164 Views
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- Hawaii Attorney General to Sue Trump to Keep Muslim ‘Refugees’ Flowing Into Country?
- OHA 2016 Check Register: Money Flows to Lawyers, LLCs, Insiders and More
- Notice of Anticipated Judicial Vacancy – Circuit Court of the Third Circuit
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 30, 2017
- Cancer: HMSA Puts MDs on Welfare--Begins Paying Oncologists to do Nothing
- Proposed tax hikes carry steep costs for drivers
- SB366/HB1283: Automatic Rate Hikes for Electric Utilities which Shovel Money to Green Energy Scammers
- Star-Adv: HTA should open financial records
- 20 Years on Diamond Head—Shooting Drugs and Panhandling in Waikiki
- Medical vans to aid homeless could cost state $1.4M annually
- Pot Decriminalization Has A Shot This Session, But Ige Wants To Wait
- Civil Beat: Report Trump Voters and Bloggers to Us
- Legislation on the Move
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Sunday, January 29, 2017 |
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January 29, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:33 PM :: 4204 Views
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- 239 Candidates Register for Honolulu Neighborhood Board Elections
- Duke Aiona: “What is Your Legislator Pushing?”
- Peek-A-Boo -- I See Your Tax Return
- Judge Throws Criminal Al Hee’s Company Out of Court
- Ige Campaign Manager Shows up on Fourth Judicial Nomination List
- 12 Caldwell administration cabinet members confirmed
- Rail: Taxpayers to be Skinned Alive -- Twice?
- Tourism Industry Wary of HSTA Tax Hike Scheme
- Bumbling DoTax Can’t Figure Out How to Collect online travel taxes
- Kealoha Settlement Allows Him to Continue Harassing Ethics Commission—City to Pay Lawyers Millions
- Will Trump Administration Kill Honolulu Rail?
- Consider this time-honored Hawaii option for rail problem: Just ignore it and let it linger
- UH hopes taxpayers will pony up if they claim it is for ‘free’ education to eligible students
- UH Wants Cut of the Action at Aloha Stadium
- Five Bills Introduced to Kill off Expensive Patients
- HMA Opposition to Suicide Neutralized by Political Pressure?
- Counting ‘Anti-Government’ Homeless Determines Flow of Government Money
- Legislative bill proposes ban on sunscreen chemical harmful to coral reefs
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Saturday, January 28, 2017 |
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January 28, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:28 PM :: 4519 Views
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- Trask: Trustee Apo uses OHA Resources for Private Business Deals
- VIDEO: OHA Board Protesters Throw Salt, Call for FBI Investigation
- FSMA: Unknown Regulatory Threat Leaves Agriculture in Limbo
- Third Circuit Seeking Applicants for Independent Grand Jury Counsels
- VIDEO: School Choice Dance 2017!
- HB71: Bill Would Force Caldwell Resignation
- Something to Hide? Will OHA Trustees Even Vote for Watered Down Audit?
- Toxic DoE Tries to Increase Teacher Retention Rate by Sacrificing Matyoshi
- Anti-Pesticide Claims are all Hype and Hysteria
- Senate asks attorney general to step in on HTA Secrecy
- UH Athletic Dep’t Grabs for HTA Pro Bowl Money
- Lawmakers grill DHS over long-delayed day care safe sleep policies
- After 11 years, school building might finally open
- Caldwell Lets Oceanfront Park Rot for Five Years until Community Volunteers Pay to Fix it up
- Soldier’s body found along freeway nearly 12 hours after motorcycle crash
- Ex-Cop Gets 2 Days for DUI
- Bill would ban cellphone use while crossing streets
- Another Hi Tech Tax Credit Failure
- Got Money? Wanna Live in Hawaii? We WILL Make You Pay Us – Just ask Zuck
- White Supremacists Cheer: Gabbard Talks Up Trump-Syria Unity
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Friday, January 27, 2017 |
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January 27, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:56 PM :: 5227 Views
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- Honolulu 7th Most Expensive Housing on Earth
- Governor says treat symptoms, not causes of our economic woes
- Homeless Community Outreach Court is Now Open
- OHA Audit: Trustee says it’s time to reassure beneficiaries
- Hawaii 8th Largest Educational Attainment Gap
- OHA Corruption: FBI, Hackers, and Botox
- Money: Schatz Tentacles Reach into P-20, UH Administration
- Mrs Brian Schatz is ‘Project Manager’ for Illegal North Shore Commercial Activities
- Judiciary seems recent target of lawmakers, chief justice says
- Embattled tourism agency Hides Sports Entertainment Spending
- Settlement in polygraph suit may cost state $400K
- State opts not to send new funds to program that kept 1000s from streets
- Medicaid Funds Pay to Help Homeless Stay in Housing?
- Lawsuit: Police Commission Broke The Law With Secret Meetings
- SB1292: Save Hilo from Economic Decline Caused by State-Owned Land Management
- HECO Seeks Re-Start for Overpriced Solar Farms
- Senate Energy Chair: HECO Must Agree to Bills Before I Hear Them
- Phony Baloney: Will Lawmakers Change Feel Good ‘Renewable’ Energy Formula?
- Dozens of Energy Bills Introduced in 2017 Hawai`i Legislative Session
- Capitol sees renewed push to legalize marijuana in Hawaii
- Mega Prison to Bulk up UPW-Prison Industrial Complex
- Suicide Squad Working to Kill off Expensive Patients, Save HMSA Millions
- Ige’s Food Goal: Two Times ‘I don’t know’
- City has no data on whether plastic bag ban has reduced litter or plastic bag waste
- SB18: DUI at 0.05%—Big Money Spinner for Lawyers
- Transportation Department Pushes for $1500 Speeding Ticket
- Gambling Measures Surface At The Hawaii Legislature
- Women’s Legislative Caucus targets health care, sex assault, pay gap
- Senator Brickwood Galuteria Loves Donald Trump
- Zuckerberg Media Circus
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Thursday, January 26, 2017 |
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January 26, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:06 PM :: 7324 Views
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- Who Covered up OHA Sex Harassment Settlement?
- Full Text: 2017 State of the Judiciary Address
- Farm Bureau: 12 Anti-Agriculture Bills Introduced to Legislature
- SB702 Would Punish Short-Term Rentals Like Sexual Assaults
- HB1367: Accountability and Involvement with Homeless Provider Agencies
- Medicare Overbilling: Hawaii ranks 16th
- Hawaii #2 in USA for Arrests of K-12 Students
- Study: More Corrupt States Have Higher Public Debt
- Haven of Aloha: Democrats Declare Hawaii to be a ‘Safe Space’ from The Trumpmonster
- Grassroot: Stop the Return of Earmarks
- Star-Adv: Independent Audit of OHA Needed
- OHA Trustees to Vote on Forensic Audit Monday
- HSTA pitches $500M/year State property tax, hotel surcharge
- Legislators: ‘Out to Get’ Ige
- Mrs Brian Schatz is ‘Project Manager’ for Illegal North Shore Commercial Activities
- Ing Admits he is a Liar
- After Four Years of Ignorance, Kauai Council “clear the books” of invalid law regulating pesticides, GMOs
- Laughed out of Court, Anti-GMO Activists Introduce Anti-Ag Bills in Hawaii Legislature
- HECO Pays Isles’ largest solar farm 40% More Than Mainland Retail
- Hawaii bill would classify homelessness as medical condition
- Homeless Court Gives Bums Chance to Get a Job
- SB611—Jack Up Cost of Housing to Create Make Work for Plumbers Union
- Hawaii Legislators Follow Abortion Playbook
- SB677: Gambling Bill Dead on Arrival
- Got Albizia? Get a Tax Credit
- Hawaii Lawmakers Grab for Control Over Judiciary
- Same old BS from New HPD Interim Chief
- Judge Throws Kealoha’s Lawyer off Case
- Gabbard Endorses Trump’s Position on Syria After Trip—Calls for End to Obama-Clinton Policy of Arming Al Qaeda
- Zuckerberg Media Circus
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Thursday, January 26, 2017 |
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Letters to the Editor January, 2017
By Letters to the Editor @ 10:00 AM :: 6901 Views
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- Need for More Family Court Judges on Oahu
- Vacant? Planned Hires Normally Get Half-Year Funding
- Split Honolulu into Two Counties
- Advice to UH Manoa Chancellor Candidates--Run!
- One-Way Streets to Alleviate Dangerous Walking Conditions?
- Lanai residents fed up with the awful service from Ohana Air
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Wednesday, January 25, 2017 |
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January 25, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:16 PM :: 3547 Views
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- Crabbes in the Bucket: Secret OHA Employee Surveys Reveal Distrust, Anger
- Trump infrastructure priority list focuses on Public-Private partnerships--does not Include Honolulu Rail
- Hawaii Non-Governmental Workers Receive Lowest Pay in USA
- Vacant? Planned Hires Normally Get Half-Year Funding
- Split Honolulu into Two Counties
- Making property taxes less taxing
- Caldwell Pushes $65M Fuel tax, Vehicle Fee Hike
- Water pipe woes Mean More rate Hikes
- Few Crabbe Supporters Testify at OHA Board of Trustees Meeting
- Survey Finds Homeless Dude Using Heroin for 48 Years
- Will Police Reform Finally Gain Traction In The 2017 Legislature?
- Criminal Hee Company Loses in Court (again)
- HPD: City, not Department Should Foot Bill for Chief’s Golden Parachute
- Hawaii County Council: Keep Buying Booze on P-Cards
- Greenmail Activists Assert Right to Walk Through Zuckerberg Site
- Aloha Stadium redevelopment could soon begin with EIS
- Another High-Tech Tax Credit Flop--Hawaii fish farming company shuts down after 10 years in business
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Tuesday, January 24, 2017 |
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January 24, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:18 PM :: 4776 Views
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- Full Text: State of the State Address
- Ige Speech “Unfocused, Disappointing, Lacking in Details”
- Bill: Fund Rail by Sale of Development Rights
- Hawaii Celebrates School Choice Week at 79 Events Statewide
- Circuit Court Criminal and Family Court Criminal Cases Now Available Online
- Affordable Retirement? Not in Hawaii
- Government Mandates on Local Farmers
- Hawaii Bill Would Legalize Raw Milk Sales
- Caldwell: Hike Honolulu fuel tax, vehicle weight tax and parking fees to Convince Legislators to Hike GE Tax
- Ige warns of slowing economy—Promises Raises for Unions
- Pay for Improvements by Eliminating Bureaucracy, not Allocating Funds
- Trump, Day One: Hawaii Congressional Delegation Applauds Wildly as Obama-Clinton Legacy Erased
- Beware the echo chamber
- Voluntary EIS Provides Vehicle for Anti-Dairy Protesters
- Bill Banning Second Jobs For Mayors Would Affect Caldwell’s Bank Deal
- OHA trustees’ to Try to Get Rid of Crabbe Again
- Lunch Trucks Give up on OHA, Move to Park
- Bill Would Feminize Hawaii Public Utilities Commission
- Ige Pushes $10M for High Tech Tax Credit Scammers
- Death squeal of a subsidy pig: Green Energy Scammers Terrified that Trump will Lower electric Rates
- Legislation: Felony to Not Put Baby to Sleep on his Back
- What will Happen to Medicaid when Obamacare is Gone?
- Several marijuana measures introduced
- Family of man killed in violent arrest to get $1M
- Police Commission ‘Clarifies’ Terms Of HPD Chief’s $250K Deal
- Caldwell Very slow to replace Oahu’s aging water mains
- State kicks off annual homeless 'point-in-time' count
- Delay in 'Peter Boy' trial used to Pressure Legislators for Judicial Funding
- Private Developer offers to Solve Aloha Stadium Problems
- Zuckerberg's Quiet Title Actions: Reality vs Shibai
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Monday, January 23, 2017 |
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January 23, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:14 PM :: 3365 Views
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- OHA’s Hidden LLCs: Why Plead Guilty to Stealing $14M?
- My Conversation with OHA Sex Harassment Victim
- Legislators ‘GEMS Model’ for Future: Spend $2B on ‘affordable’ Housing
- Legislators Introduce Two Gambling Bills, More to Come
- Meet OHA’s Newest Trustee
- Bill Seeks Privatization of State Small Boat Harbor
- Kauai Council to vote on anti-GMO repeal
- Protests a Distraction
- Assisted treatment law rarely used to help mentally ill in Hawaii
- $200K to Redirect Low-Level Offenders?
- High winds rip through Waianae homeless encampment—Tweekers Still Won’t Accept Shelter
- Trannies a Non-Issue in Kauai School Bathrooms
- Star-Adv: Expand scrutiny of wind turbines
- Caldwell’s Latest Water Main Collapse will Jam H-1 thru Thursday
- Potholes, Lost Inmate Property, Falling Ceiling Cost Taxpayers
- Civil Beat: All Arguments against Assisted Suicide are Religious and Therefore Must be Disregarded
- Assisted Suicide Won’t Necessarily Eliminate Lobbyist
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Sunday, January 22, 2017 |
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January 22, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:04 PM :: 4652 Views
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- Liberal TEA Party: Thousands March Against Trump in Hawaii
- Funding Nonexistent People
- UH System-Wide Survey to Amp up “Gender Violence” Hysteria
- State Environmental Council Releases ‘Sustainability’ Report
- Telescope Leaving? “Will Decide This Autumn”
- Rail: 145,000 Cracked Shims and Pads to be Replaced – 11 Miles of Re-Work
- Tokuda: Ige Has No Coherent Plan on Rail
- Assisted suicide does not fit Hawaii
- Trump’s victory creates uncertainty for wind and solar tax-credit scammers
- Lost Ag Jobs Excluded from Hawaii Unemployment Numbers
- Invasive Species a Real Money Spinner
- Corrections officials seek $1M to update fruitless master plan
- Caldwell’s Water Mains Keep Breaking—H-1 Jammed til Monday?
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Saturday, January 21, 2017 |
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January 21, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:36 PM :: 8420 Views
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- Obama’s Final Gift to Hawaii—Three Gun-Toting Meth Dealers
- Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
- Auditor: HART Audit Not Started
- Lost Jobs: Obamacare Impact on Hawaii
- Corporate Lobbyist Leads Hawaii Anti-Trump March
- Hawaii Republicans Celebrate Trump Inauguration
- AUW Pays Rent for 1,353 Families
- Honolulu's construction costs finally cool down, report says
- Ongoing renovation of state-owned building still behind schedule
- Lawyer: I’ll Pretend to be Incompetent if it Helps Convicted Murderer Get Off Easy
- Zuckerberg Quiet Title Gives Ing Another Opportunity to Pander and Posture
- Mindless State Bureaucracy Shuts Down Car Dealership for Three Weeks
- High Tech Tax Credit Schemers Try Agriculture as Excuse for New Round of Crony Capitalism
- Legislature Set to Ban Sunscreen After Coral Hype
- Kim Jong-un sets sights on nuking Pearl Harbor
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Friday, January 20, 2017 |
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January 20, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:55 PM :: 4778 Views
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- Full Text: President Donald Trump Inaugural Speech
- Full Text: Police Commission Reasons for Removal of Chief Kealoha
- Financial Services: OHA Spire Contract Balloons 760% in Two Years
- Ward to Introduce ‘Tough Love Act’ for Homelessness
- Competition Matters … In Sports and Government
- Republicans Urged to Run for Neighborhood Board
- 188 Candidates File for Honolulu Neighborhood Board Elections
- Asset Forfeiture Transparency & Accountability—Hawaii Grade D+
- How Does Hawaii Score on Healthcare Access?
- Full Text: UH Sued over Biofuel Lab Explosion
- On Life Support? HECO Wants to Give You $20
- EPA Fines Matson $725K for Molasses Spill
- Auditor: How Will Hawaii Regulate Midwives?
- Rail: Murthy Finds $9M, Discovers HART Employees are Incompetent
- Rail: HART CFO Quits—Caldwell Covers it up for a Month
- Teachers union: State offer of 2 percent increase over 2 years is ‘unacceptable”
- Second try for New KSBE Trustee Search
- HMSA chief Wants Hawaii Regulators to Protect HMSA from Competition
- Corporate Welfare Queens Conspire to grab More High Tech Tax Credits
- How Legislators Evade Conflict of Interest Rules
- DoTax Hammered over bugs in $59M Computer Program
- Report shows millions budgeted for Honolulu Police Department left unspent
- Hirono at Interior Secretary Confirmation Hearings—Not One Word about the Fake Indian Tribe
- Star Adv to Trump: Don’t Roll Back Fake Indian Tribe
- Obama’s Final Gift to Hawaii—Three Gun-Toting Meth Dealers
- OJ Simpson Innocence Project files motion to overturn conviction in Dana Ireland murder
- Lawmakers Push for Mass Release of Criminals onto Streets--Call Hawaii prisons expensive homeless shelters
- KPD Officer Charged with negligent Homicide
- Homeless Desecrate Cemetery
- Amid ongoing crisis, Maui homeless shelters face uncertain future
- Homosexuals Harass Waianae Church
- Unlike UH Manoa, KCC students aren’t protesting inauguration
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Thursday, January 19, 2017 |
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January 19, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:56 PM :: 4697 Views
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- OHA pays $50K: Sex harassment claim against Peter Apo
- Caldwell: Payoff for Police Chief is Best Use of Taxpayer Money
- Privatize: “Not one penny more for rail"
- Full Text: House Speaker Opening Day Remarks
- 48-Hour Fed Wreck Countdown
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 18, 2017
- Hawaii Dead Last for Pass-Thru Businesses
- Best State to Raise a Family? Hawaii Ranks 33rd
- Scottish Nationalists Demand Ige Return Falls of Clyde
- Star-Adv: Raise Taxes and Kill off Expensive Oldsters
- High Cost: GE Tax Hike and Honolulu Property Tax Hike on Legislative Agenda
- One Party Senate: “I can say Anything”
- Again: Rep Chris Lee Bill to Outlaw Gasoline, Diesel Vehicles
- Chief Takes One Final Payoff – $250K Plus Full Pension
- Hawaii County Raises considered despite hiring freeze
- HPD Needs To Stop Shooting At Cars
- Keep the People Medicated: Hawaii marijuana numbers soar 17% in Year
- Police, Social Workers to Count ‘Hard Core’ Homeless
- Aiea Homeless Camp -- From Bad to Worse
- Hawaii 5-0 Profitable for Bumpy Kanahele, Fleeing Felons
- Gabbard won’t say who funded her controversial Syria trip
- Anti-GMO Movement Splits Wide Open—Dustin Barca Denounces ‘Con Artist’ Ashley Lukens
- Hawaii Dairy Farms submits unnecessary Final EIS
- Technicalities prevent Supreme Court from appointing TMT master
- Weigh in on where to put OCCC
- North Korean Attack on Hawaii Might Trigger US Response
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Wednesday, January 18, 2017 |
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January 18, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:18 PM :: 4441 Views
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- Hawaii Family Forum Prepares for Legislative Session
- Hawaii State Legislators join nationwide initiative to address opioid abuse
- Opening Day Remarks: House Minority Leader Beth Fukumoto
- Senate Democrats 2017 Legislative Program
- Danger: Legislature Begins 4 Month Run for Your Money
- FBI raids second city building in police chief investigation
- OHA settles sexual harassment claim against Peter Apo for $50K
- Counselor Involved In School Sex Case Now Works For State
- BoE Scrounges Around for Excuse for Matayoshi Firing
- Caldwell Conceals DPP Resignations For Nearly a Month
- Moving in the Right Direction? Housing for the Homeless in Hawaii
- Legislators Seek to Outlaw Lower Cost Private Insurance Plans
- Rep Kaniela Ing Wants to Steal Your Money, Shut Down Businesses which Employ the Poor
- Anti-GMO Losers Want Legislature to make them into Winners
- Green Energy Schemers Grab for More Tax Credits
- Lifeguard Immunity: Trial Lawyers vs Counties
- More Empty Talk About Hawaiian Health Care
- Charter School Commission Hides Funds from Legislators
- Kauai Reduces teacher turnover
- 15 Years Later UH Maui Building Falling Apart
- Quiet Title Actions a Great Opportunity to Shake down Zukerberg for some Serious Money
- Program to Let Lots of Criminals out of state’s jails has yet to launch
- Soft on Crime Policy Denies Free Room and Board to Homeless Criminal
- Soft on Crime: Criminal sought after officer-involved shooting was on work furlough
- Entire UH Manoa Campus to be Consumed with Anti-Trump Protest
- Honolulu: 6,000 Expected to Protest Trump on Saturday
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Tuesday, January 17, 2017 |
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January 17, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:01 PM :: 3433 Views
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Monday, January 16, 2017 |
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January 16, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:42 PM :: 3415 Views
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- 1959: Martin Luther King Jr Salutes Hawaii Statehood
- Akina: Make King’s dream a reality for Hawaii
- Legislature Opening Day Wednesday January 18
- Advice to UH Manoa Chancellor Candidates--Run!
- Oahu Veterans Treatment Court Celebrates 22 Successful Graduates
- Full Text: New report concludes Airbnb has ‘no material impact’ on Hawaii housing inventory
- Caldwell’s New Money-Making Scheme--Raise rents on ‘affordable’ housing
- Leaders of tourism bureau often opt for closed meetings—Claim They’re Talking About Cookies
- Green Energy Schemers Claim They Can go on Without Federal Subsidies
- Conference looks away from test scores for DoE
- Can Feds Save Hawaii From New Stadium Boondoggle?
- Public has 1 more chance to air concerns on ag lands
- Soft on Crime: Man who shot at police in Kahaluu is a repeat felon—Escaped in 2012, out on Street in 2017
- Two men suffer injuries in Koko Head shooting range mishap
- Obamacare Rally—300 Democrats Show up in Honolulu
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Sunday, January 15, 2017 |
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January 15, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:29 PM :: 3258 Views
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- Architects: Put Rail on the Ground—Save $4.2B
- Obamacare? Nobody Wants it Less than Honolulu
- Obama Admin: Hawaii DOI Rule Part of ‘Renewed Era of Federal-Tribal Relations’
- UHERO Adjusts Economic Forecast Upward Thanks to Trump
- Michael, Row the Boat Ashore
- 2017 Legislature: Economy is Booming And They Still Want More Tax Hikes
- Budget: The Good the Bad and the Ugly
- Assisted Suicide to Help Insurance Company Profits-- Kill of the Disabled—They’re so Expensive!
- Tax Housing by $45 psf to make Housing Affordable?
- Vacation-rental tax: Hard to catch elusive funds
- Hee in Prison But Sandwich Isles Still Refusing to Pay $76M Federal Fines
- Hospital transition still a high priority for Maui legislators
- Homeless at Old Kona Airport Park have ‘very few places to go’ (Except a Shelter)
- Homeless Camp Pollutes One Mile of East Oahu Beach
- Surfrider marks 400th victory for Dominant Paradigm
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Saturday, January 14, 2017 |
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January 14, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:06 PM :: 4778 Views
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- Ige: School system is simply not relevant to today’s students
- FBI Raids Honolulu Prosecutor’s Office
- Hawaii Wind Farms Kill 146 Bats, 50 Nene, 26 Petrels—and Counting
- Insiders Claim GEMS is About to Write $109M in Loans
- HTA must open financial books
- Marijuana Dealers Look forward to Selling to Tourists
- Homeless Drug Addicts Take over House, Burn it Down
- Citizens now called 'Hawaii residents' vs. 'Hawaiians' in federal paperwork
- DCCA is in No Hurry to Process Paperwork for Volvo Dealership
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Friday, January 13, 2017 |
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January 13, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:17 PM :: 4995 Views
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- Ige Campaign Manager Shows up on Two More Judicial Nomination Lists
- Ige Announces Contracts for 33 Homeless Shelters, Claims Increase in Bed Count
- Hawaii State Capitol Korea-Vietnam Veterans Memorial Vandalized With Excrement
- Hawaii Healthcare Access Cut off by Regulations
- Obamacare Repeal: How Will it Affect Hawaii?
- Hawaii Supreme Court: Do County Plans Override Zoning Laws?
- Campaign-Finance Rules Chill Speech Unrelated to Election Campaigns
- Did Activists Meet Deadline to Challenge Council Candidate?
- Best Places for STEM Professionals? After Dropping Billions on Phony High Tech Tax Credits, Honolulu Ranks 95th
- KIUC Signs 20MW ‘Peaker’ Battery Deal
- Pedestrian Deaths—Hawaii Ranks 26th
- Hawaii Better to Rent Than Buy
- New DLNR Police Chief Announced
- OHA Officially Named Papahānaumokuākea co-trustee
- UH: Students and Faculty Who Stay Home and Cry on Inauguration Day will Have to Make up Work
- Rail: Souki Backs Massive GE Tax Hike, Demands Caldwell Raise Property Taxes
- Budget so Tough, Departments May have to Cut Funding for Vacant Positions
- OHA: Trustees Walkout of own Meeting Again
- $260K for Kealoha -- City Council Pretends to intervene
- Solar Schemers Will be Back for More Subsidies from 2017 Legislature
- Hawaii Faces up to 45 Million Cyberattacks Daily, State Officials Say
- Lawmakers to again consider vote-by-mail system, automatic voter registration
- Budget: DLNR Has been Lying to Legislators for Years (They’ll get their money anyway)
- Stadium Authority: Lets Burn Hundreds of Millions Demolishing Perfectly Good Stadium to Build Smaller One
- Court appoints representative for ‘Peter Boy’ to Investigate Foster Care System
- Soft on Crime Crowd Pushes for Mass Release of Criminals
- Recruiting obstacles, officer vacancies among challenges facing Honolulu Police Department
- News Homeless Contracts Expand Waianae Rural Transitional Housing, Shrink Chinatown Spaces
- Mainland Homosexuals Take Aim at Polynesian Cultural Center
- Maui Protester: I am Marching Against Trump Because I am Fat
- Maui Anti-GMO Realtor Wastes Ethics Commission Time
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Thursday, January 12, 2017 |
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January 12, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:02 PM :: 4274 Views
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- Hawaii pension debt rises to $12 billion, but the real debt is more like $35 billion
- Which States Rely the Most on Federal Aid?–Hawaii 46th
- Sen. Josh Green floats possible bid for Governor, Lt Governor
- Lobbyist Sues: Looks for Judge to Allow MDs to Kill off Expensive Patients, Save Insurance Companies Money
- Legislators Consider How to Screw Taxpayers: Posture Wildly on Highway User Fees
- Caldwell Demands Big Fat Payoff for Kealoha—Just Like Grabauskas
- Hypocrite Rep Chris Lee--Wants to require presidential candidates to release tax returns—But Not Legislative Candidates
- Caldwell Ala Moana Sewage Spill Fine Secret Until Later This Week
- City estimates $40 million cost to replace sewer force mains
- Department of Education employee misconduct investigations
- Recruiting Teachers? DOE should look at people it already has on staff
- Ex-county workers accused of vacation theft
- Small Businesses Hit Hard by Minimum Wage Hikes
- Anti-Telescope Lawyer: Judges Must be Biased if our Favor
- Maui: Anti-GMO Councilmembers Ethics Violations
- Anti-GMO, Anti-Vaxxers and Trump
- USDA report confirms that plant pesticides are used safely
- Farmers Need Auction House
- Murderer of Dana Ireland Exterminated in Prison, 2 Years Later Civil Beat and the OJ Simpson ‘Innocence Project’ Still Crying a River
- Health Insurance up 19% –Thanks Obama
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Wednesday, January 11, 2017 |
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January 11, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:58 PM :: 4329 Views
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- Kakaako Kickbacks: Ethics Commission Investigates OHA Trustee Peter Apo
- Third UH Manoa Chancellor Candidate Magically Appears on Campus
- Full Text: ACLU Asks Feds to Investigate Hawaii Prison Conditions
- Full Text: Hawaii Kai Homeless Map Cleared by Attorney General
- 151 Candidates Register for Honolulu Neighborhood Board Elections
- State Announces 10-Year Invasive Species Plan
- HDOT Sets Public Meeting on Use of OR&L Right of Way
- Repeat Welfare Fraudster Gets Five Years Prison
- Hawaii County Prosecutor Investigates DOBOR Corruption, Retaliation
- GEMS: Borrow $150M, Pay $33M interest to Loan out $2M
- HTA Hides Public Information behind Fake ‘Corporate’ Structure
- Assisted Suicide to Kill Off Samoans
- Telescope PEIS started for Canary Islands
- State pulls funding from one of Oahu's largest homeless outreach providers
- Lethargic Police Commission Suddenly Springs into Action -- Copies UH to Give Kealoha $500K Golden Parachute
- Crabbe Plants Old-News Story in Civil Beat
- Businesses raise concerns over lawmaker’s push for $22 minimum wage by 2022
- Readers Debunk Pie-in Sky $22/Hour Scheme
- HSTA Claims Hawaii Schools Need Lots More Taxpayer Money
- Report: 20 DOE employees placed on leave since July
- Elementary school worker pleads no contest to sex assault charges involving minor
- Former Honolulu police officer won't fight sex charges
- Will State Supreme Court Prohibit Police Aerial Surveillance?
- City Targets 2000 Farmers for IAL Designation
- Airbnb has no impact on Hawaii housing market, new study finds
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Tuesday, January 10, 2017 |
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January 10, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:09 PM :: 4389 Views
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- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 9, 2017
- UH Med School Resources Used to Organize Anti-Trump Protest
- Video GMO story: The near death and rescue of the Hawaiian papaya
- Embattled HPD chief to get Golden Parachute plus $150K/yr pension
- Hawaii public employee pension fund shortfall tops $12 billion
- Insiders Speak up for Ige Judicial Nomination of Campaign Chair
- Hawaii sees potential in internet sales tax
- Search afoot for last-minute fix to state rules poised to slash number of homeless beds
- State to appeal TMT sublease ruling
- Anti-Telescope Testimony Expected to Burn Time Thru End of January
- Hawaiian Electric Targets Maui, Lanai, Molokai for Wind Projects in Effort to Justify Big Cable
- Forty-Eight States Have An Airport Authority — Why Not Hawaii?
- Save the Zoo? Caldwell has only one Idea—Raise Admission Fees
- Anti-GMO Circus Returns to Maui Council Monday
- Hawaii’s hot construction market rife with illegal practices
- UH Whistleblower Hotline
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