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					| Sunday, September 17, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 17, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 5:44 PM :: 4066 Views 
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 - Why America's Missile Defenses Might Not Work Against North Korea
 
 - Legislature with U R Missing
 
 - Carbon Tax Heads $700M in Tax Hikes Proposed for Next Legislative Session
 
 - HART Submits Rail Recovery Plan after 16 Months of Chaos Produces Massive Tax Hike
 
 - New documents reveal state system that failed abused boy 
 
 - Media bring legal challenge to Police Commission secrecy
 
 - City Fees Add to the High Cost of Sprinkler Retrofit
 
 - Ige Spews CO2 from Here to NYC—Meeting with Tax Credit Schemers to Talk ‘Warming’
 
 - Crony Capitalist Kelly King Plans to Spend $1.5M to Attract More Homeless to Kihei 
 
 - ACLU: We will Push Hawaii Counties to become 'Sanctuaries’ for Illegal Aliens
 
 - Big Island: Donald J Trump Scares Seven Liberals Away from Voting
 
 - Aquarium fish: Let science guide decision-making
 
 - Brian Schatz Can’t Distinguish Between Weather and Climate
 
 - Sale of Apartments Will Profit HHFDC, Reduce Affordable Housing
 
 
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					| Saturday, September 16, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 16, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 5:15 PM :: 4056 Views 
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 - Help Stop CNHA Grab for Charter School Funds 
 
 - Hawaii GOP Calls on Schatz to Return Money
 
 - Nominees Sought: Four UH Regents
 
 - Hawaii Uninsured Rate Drops 4.36% Since 2010
 
 - HART: Feds Freeze Rail Spending on Land Buy
 
 - Concern grows after construction workers unearth 2 sets of iwi
 
 - Honolulu to consider paying homeowners to house homeless
 
 - Rep Tupola: Sex trafficking is a big problem in Hawaii
 
 - How one Hawaii school is helping kids succeed by making sure they get to class
 
 - Solar installation warranty died with Honolulu company
 
 - Today’s Police News: Assault, Road Rage, and Cyberstalking
 
 
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					| Friday, September 15, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 15, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 4:14 PM :: 4324 Views 
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					| Thursday, September 14, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 14, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 4:48 PM :: 4403 Views 
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 - Hawaii GE Tax Highest Sales Tax in USA on Per Capita Basis
 
 - Council yanks ‘forensic’ from rail audit
 
 - Am Samoa: Feds Settle with StarKist
 
 - Harassed by Attorney General, Parents of Autistic Child Flee State
 
 - Honolulu Rail 3x More Expensive than Mainland Systems
 
 - Four Months and Still no State Tax Refund 
 
 - Will Police Commission Hearings be Opened by Judge?
 
 - Is Hawaii’s government corrupt?
 
 - National Democrat Donors Fly AG Chin Around World
 
 - Peter Apo: “I should have declined the offer to be a paid Civil Beat columnist”
 
 - High-ranking Maui police officer investigated for sexual assault
 
 
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					| Wednesday, September 13, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 13, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 6:57 PM :: 3905 Views 
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 - Mauna Kea: It All Came Down to Money
 
 - Hawaii Weed Stores to Go Cashless Oct 1 (sort of)
 
 - AG Chin Defeats Parents of Disabled Children (again)
 
 - DoE SPED: 24% Absenteeism, 40% Do Not Graduate
 
 - State's failure to conduct random checks on probationers puts public at risk
 
 - Hawaii Spends $2M/yr flying Criminals to Arizona and it’s still Waaaay Cheaper than our Corrupt UPW-Controlled Prisons
 
 - HHFDC: Operating Affordable Housing Not Our Job 
 
 - Retaliation Games; Parole chief back at job after investigation
 
 - Kim Plans Massive Festering Homeless Tent City for Hilo
 
 - Preschool In Hawaii: Expensive And ‘Ridiculously Hard to Find’
 
 - City Issues 49 Violations for TVRs
 
 - White Nationalist Leader: Tulsi Gabbard Understands Us
 
 
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					| Tuesday, September 12, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 12, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 6:20 PM :: 6543 Views 
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 - Hawaii Risks Loss of Federal Funds to Force Abortion on Churches
 
 - Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted September 11, 2017
 
 - Audit Exposes Illegal System to Bypass Civil Service, Hire 100s of Kenoi Cronies
 
 - Lawsuit: Hawaii County Police Used Stun Gun On Wrong Man—Tried to Cover it up
 
 - Republican Opposition To The Rail Special Session
 
 - News Outlets Challenge Honolulu Police Commission Secrecy
 
 - Star-Advertiser staff cuts follow lower earnings by parent company
 
 - Hawaii adds Only Four Shelters from Cat 2 Hurricane
 
 
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					| Monday, September 11, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 11, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 4:01 PM :: 4367 Views 
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 - 9-11 We Will Never Forget
 
 - Rail Taxtrophe
 
 - How to fix health care in Hawaii
 
 - Hawaii DoE Sued over Sept 11 "Lockdown Drill"
 
 - Travel Ban: Supreme Court Slaps Down 9th Circuit
 
 - Retaliation from NextEra Supporters behind Hanabusa Campaign Announcement
 
 - Ige’s Failed Housing Deal 
 
 - Hawaii Legislature: The Trappings of Respect and Trust Without the Real Thing
 
 - Civil Beat Needs to Come Clean on Peter Apo Scandal
 
 - Two more names emerge as candidates for HPD's next police chief
 
 - Another Day in the DPS: Penis Grabber Gets Back Pay
 
 
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					| Sunday, September 10, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 10, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 6:43 PM :: 4011 Views 
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 - CNHA 'Hoodwinks' Native Hawaiian Charter Schools out of $225K 
 
 - The Power of School Choice
 
 - How Much Does Your State Collect in Corporate Income Taxes Per Capita?
 
 - Rail: Heads We Win, Tails You Lose
 
 - Counties Begin Pushing for more Tax Hikes in 2018 Legislative Session
 
 - Waikiki: A never-ending parade of emergency vehicles that cater to the health problems of the homeless
 
 - What is being done to alleviate Hawaii’s physician shortage
 
 - Hawaii Civil Defense: "It is very difficult. We do not know."
 
 
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					| Saturday, September 9, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 9, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 5:52 PM :: 4845 Views 
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					| Friday, September 8, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 8, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 4:46 PM :: 8672 Views 
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 - Hawaii Braces for High Costs of Renewable Energy Mandates
 
 - Travel Ban: 9th Circuit Court Rules Against Trump (again)
 
 - Reso 17-199: Will Honolulu Council Back Rail Audit?
 
 - Rumors and Rage: When Good Conservation Sounds Bad
 
 - DoH Cancels Flu Vaccinations at Dozens of Oahu Schools and All Private Schools
 
 - Ponzi Scheme: Rep Beth Fukumoto’s ex-Husband Under FBI Investigation
 
 - Rail: Tax Hike Bill may Have Unconstitutional Provision
 
 - Neighbor islands feel railroaded by Legislature
 
 - Ige: I Have More Experience Running State than Hanabusa
 
 - Honolulu police chief candidates whittled down to top 9 after written test
 
 - HCDA Admits Developer Scored Kalaeloa Solar Farm Without Public Input or Open Bidding
 
 - Ige’s Incompetent Housing Dep’t Blows Deal for Hundreds of Affordable Units
 
 - Contract dispute spurs 'chaotic' move of mentally ill youth from Queen's
 
 - Hawaii County Foam container ban moves forward
 
 - Experts raise state revenue forecast—State Taxes Suck $6.62B out of Economy
 
 
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					| Thursday, September 7, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 7, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 6:56 PM :: 4590 Views 
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 - 2017 Hawaii ACT Scores 4th Worst in USA
 
 - Dropping college enrollment shows Americans are no longer buying the college lie
 
 - AG Chin to Run for Congress?  Wes Machida for LG?
 
 - 8-0 Honolulu Council approves Rail GET surcharge extension 
 
 - HART Cancelled Rail Contract to Ala Moana in August—Didn’t Tell Legislators – Already Planning to Fail on Latest Deadline
 
 - AG Chin Refuses to Prosecute: Slap on Wrist for PRP over campaign against Cayetano case
 
 - State Supreme Court Finds Excuse to Shut Down Aquarium Fisheries Statewide
 
 - Honolulu police body cam pilot on hold
 
 - Hirono Spews Anti-Catholic Bigotry in Senate Hearing
 
 - SHOPO Sues to Block Release of Police Officer Names For Salary Database
 
 - Soft on Crime: 10 Convictions Gets 18 Months, Will be out in Two
 
 - Hawaii County Spending $833 per Month per Bum for Homeless Tent City
 
 
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					| Wednesday, September 6, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 6, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 7:43 PM :: 5495 Views 
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 - Another OHA Trustee Caught Red-Handed
 
 - Ige Signs $2.4B Rail Tax Hike Bill
 
 - HDOT Sitting on $505M of Unspent Federal Funds
 
 - UH: Only 13 DACA Students in UH System
 
 - Hawaii Sues Trump over DACA
 
 - Jones Act industry attacks Mercatus paper
 
 - Best Place to Raise a Family? Honolulu Ranks 62nd 
 
 - 93% of Hawaii Dams at 'High Hazard Risk'
 
 - Abercrombie: Hanabusa is Toast
 
 - Cataluna: Ige is the Mafia Candidate, not Hanabusa (LOL!)
 
 - Legislators Admit They Used Caldwell as ‘Foil’ While Passing $2.4B Tax Hike
 
 - Three Hawaii Energy Fallacies
 
 - HGEA Member Uses State Funds for Cattle Ranch
 
 - Honolulu Prosecutor Bungles Grand Jury Investigation, Case Against Alleged Shooter Tossed
 
 - Attempt to Prevent Investigation of Kunia plane crash
 
 - Anti-GMO Whack-Jobs Use Maui Council to Waste Farmers Time
 
 - Foam containers have value; ban wouldn’t curb sea debris
 
 - Cesspool alternatives expensive
 
 - Charter School Leader Going The Extra Mile
 
 - Some Bums Went East—Will Be Swept West
 
 
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					| Tuesday, September 5, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 5, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 3:32 PM :: 4121 Views 
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 - Anti-bullying campaign marks its 10th year
 
 - Will Trump Admin approve Jones Act waivers in wake of Hurricane Harvey?
 
 - Hawaii Small Business in Facts and Figures
 
 - Hawaii Global Warming Commission Suggests Abandoning Waikiki
 
 - HART Could Cause Power Surges in Waipahu, Ewa
 
 - $205M Smart Meter Program Designed Entirely to Help Solar Schemers Make More Money
 
 - Will Kalihi Redevelopment Push Out Current Residents And Businesses?
 
 - Caldwell Finds Way to Jam up Traffic even more in Kailua
 
 - Council to Hold Hearing on Fire Sprinklers
 
 - 45 Homeless in Waipahu Refuse Housing After Decades on Streets
 
 
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					| Monday, September 4, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 4, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 3:04 PM :: 4391 Views 
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					| Sunday, September 3, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 3, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 6:45 PM :: 3971 Views 
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					| Saturday, September 2, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 2, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 4:34 PM :: 5717 Views 
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 - Ige Appoints Pro-Rail Thug to HCDA
 
 - $2.4B Tax Hike: How They Voted
 
 - Risky, Overused Medications Prescribed Far Less Often in the Aloha State
 
 - Hawaii is woefully vulnerable to a North Korean nuclear attack
 
 - Mafia Hanabusa announces 2018 governor run
 
 - Sens. Green, Espero announce runs for lieutenant governor in 2018
 
 - Rail: Caldwell begins Making Excuses for Property Tax Hike
 
 - Lawmakers join the fight for more details on HPD officer's firing
 
 - UH Finally has ‘Incentive’ to Field Winning Football Team
 
 - Solar Scammers Scrounge for More Tax Credits
 
 - Homeless Drug Addicts Run ‘Notorious’ Gaming Room under Nimitz Fwy
 
 
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					| Friday, September 1, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 September 1, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 8:10 PM :: 4177 Views 
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 - Rail: Republicans Propose 'Forensic Audit' Amendment
 
 - Rail: FTA is open to shortening the route
 
 - Obamacare Could Bankrupt ERS
 
 - Profiting from Telescope Protests and Kakaako Development, OHA Trustee Fined $25K
 
 - Cool Schools: Ige Claims Success
 
 - Hawaii Crime Index Drops to New Low
 
 - Bill Before Congress: Claim--Hawaii Allows 'horrific legal market' in Dog Meat
 
 - Oahu GE Tax Adds 9% to Sister Island Grocery Bills
 
 - Rail bill permanently shifts hotel tax $$ away from neighbor islands
 
 - After Years, City Suddenly Pretends to be Interested in private partnerships for troubled rail project
 
 - Ige Buys Oshiro out of House with $120K HLRB Gig--Gets to Make Appointment
 
 - Homeless Tweeker Camp under Nimitz a 'hot spot' for crime
 
 - Homeless Bombard Queens Until Hospital Ponies Up
 
 
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					| Thursday, August 31, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 August 31, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 5:59 PM :: 5254 Views 
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 - $2.4B Tax Hike: How They Voted
 
 - Ige Appointments: 5 HCDA, 1 UH Regent, 1 HLRB, 2 Judges
 
 - Sex Shame? 9th Circuit Revives Attempt to Shut Down Kauai Drug Rehab Program
 
 - Visitor Spending Increases 9.8% in July 2017
 
 - Caldwell: I’ll be Back for More
 
 - Politicians stealing from outer islands
 
 - ILWU, KSBE Behind Biomess Scheme to Gouge Electric Ratepayers
 
 - Trump to Dump Obama’s Dreamers—Chin to Sue
 
 - Will Robin Danner Control all Hawaii Inter-Island Cables?
 
 - Updated Hawaii Salary Database: Doctors And Judges Do Well, Thank You
 
 - More Money for Crooked Honolulu Liquor Commission
 
 - Hawaii Prescription Drug Abuse Lower than Mainland
 
 
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					| Wednesday, August 30, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 August 30, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 4:23 PM :: 4865 Views 
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 - $2.4B Tax Hike: How They Voted
 
 - HEI to Burn $205M Helping Tax Credit Scammers Make More Money on Alt Energy
 
 - Inouye congressional papers available to the public
 
 - HEI to Burn $205M Helping Tax Credit Scammers Make More Money on Alt Energy
 
 - Successful Missile Defense Test off Kauai
 
 - McDermott withdraws--Rep Andria Tupola to Run for Governor? 
 
 - $2.4B Tax Hike -- 3rd Read in Senate Today
 
 - HART Magically Makes $548M Disappear
 
 - Only Independent, ‘Deep Dive’ Rail Audit Will Suffice
 
 - Trump Administration Gives Ige Full Control over Hawaii Schools
 
 - Honolulu apartment rents jump 30% in 8 years
 
 - Homeless Drug Addicts Behind Increase in vandalism, criminal acts reported by Kahului businesses
 
 - Grand Jury Probe Zeros In On ‘Safe House’ Property Deal
 
 - Al Hee Minion Robin Danner Grabs for Control of Crooked Sandwich Isles Scam Company
 
 
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					| Tuesday, August 29, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 August 29, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 3:13 PM :: 4728 Views 
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 - Grassroot Institute Testifies on Jones Act in Washington, DC
 
 - Hawaii v Trump Argued Before 9th Circuit Court
 
 - Ige Appointments: 5 HCDA, 1 UH Regent
 
 - After Decade of Litigation, Supreme Court Refuses to Order State to Repair Gold Coast Seawalls 
 
 - Hawaii: Fewest Nurses Per Capita in USA
 
 - $2.4B Tax Hike: How They Voted
 
 - Rail: Oahu Tax Payers Don’t Want to Pay but Maui Reps, Sens Ready to Tax Sister Isles
 
 - Caldwell Continues to Play Heavy, Helping Legislators Distract Public While Raising Taxes $2.4B
 
 - Legislators Use Fake Audit to Make themselves Look Good While Raising Taxes $2.4B
 
 - Schatz, Hanabusa: Caldwell is Full of BS
 
 - Mufi: No TAT Hike
 
 - House reorganization continues
 
 - Legislature needs to pay foster parents fairly
 
 - No Need Tents: Homeless Can be Forced into Hard-Walled Structures at $9,500 each 
 
 - Star-Adv: Trump forces us to Investigate SNAP Fraud, Waste
 
 - Anti- Sand Mining Lies Exposed
 
 
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					| Monday, August 28, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 August 28, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 4:43 PM :: 3682 Views 
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 - Trump has the authority to modify existing monument boundaries
 
 - 3 Things That Could Derail The Honolulu Rail Bailout
 
 - Rail Skeptics Booted from House Finance Committee
 
 - Rail Crooks Saved: Lawmakers Drop ‘Forensic’ Audit
 
 - Pay ACLU Lawyers $75K to House Homeless in their Homes
 
 - Abercrombie Rants Raves Against Anti-Big-Wind Activist
 
 - Liberals to Establish Think Tank in Hawaii?
 
 
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					| Sunday, August 27, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 August 27, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 7:57 PM :: 4749 Views 
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 - UPDATE: Billion Dollar Bailout Added to Rail Tax Hike Bill 
 
 - Full Text: Feds Letter Demanding Rail Plan by Sept 15
 
 - Honolulu: For 1000s Property Tax Rate Will Quadruple Sept 1
 
 - Honolulu Republicans Protest Rail Bailout Bill
 
 - Legislators Exploit Caldwell’s Unpopularity to Distract Public While Enacting Massive Tax Hike
 
 - Make Sister Isles Pay for Rail? Senators say ‘No’ but Big Island Reps Ready to Stab Constituents in Back
 
 - Ige: Who needs Campaign cash When I Have Unions?
 
 - Alarmed at Possibility of Outside Chief, Some on Council suggest having mayor pick police chief
 
 - Lawsuit Challenges PUC Approval of Hu Honua Biomass Plant
 
 - Money: A&B, Activists Fight for Control of Profitable Water
 
 - Balance soars past $20,000 in SNAP account
 
 - Tourism economy failing local families
 
 
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					| Saturday, August 26, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 August 26, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 8:09 PM :: 3983 Views 
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 - UHPA: Fund our Contract During Special Session
 
 - Hawaii Millionaire Will Go Broke Faster Than Any Other State
 
 - Saltchuk puts Matson’s terminal expansion at risk?
 
 - You are more than partners in the waste and fraud; you are the enablers
 
 - Caldwell: Legislators too Stupid to Understand Where Latest $548M Came from
 
 - Caldwell is accused of padding rail budget
 
 - Mufi Hannemann, Sister Island Councilmembers: No TAT Hike
 
 - UH-Hilo Suggests Legally Binding Mauna Kea Conditions
 
 - City ordinance change requires wind developers to hold public hearings
 
 - Global Warming Exists Thanks to Years of Dire Warnings
 
 - Anti-Superferry Hypesters Mark Decade of Mob Rule
 
 - Hawai`i Anti-Marijuana Bureaucrat Profits from Selling Medical Marijuana
 
 - Clinic that caters to homeless aimed at easing burden on state's largest hospital
 
 - $33M Procurement Suspended to Fix Ko Olina Caldwell Spill
 
 
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					| Saturday, August 26, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									By Letters to the Editor @ 2:51 AM :: 4103 Views 
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 - You are more than partners in the waste and fraud; you are the enablers
 
 - HART Rail Costs Nearly Triple Rail Tunnel
 
 
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					| Friday, August 25, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 August 25, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 9:18 PM :: 7174 Views 
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 - Full Text: Caldwell Rips Legislators Rail Tax Hike Plan
 
 - Full Text: Rail Tax Hike Bill 
 
 - Rail: How to Gut an Audit
 
 - Pasha signs contract to build two containerships; what now?
 
 - West Oahu Schools Underfunded? AG Responds to McDermott Suit
 
 - Lawsuit Filed Over Kauai Bird Deaths--HDOT Claims to be in Compliance
 
 - Caldwell: ‘I don’t need to take this’ Yelling from Drunk, Belligerent Legislators
 
 - Sen Thielen: Caldwell Lied Three Times at Hearing
 
 - Hanabusa: Caldwell’s $548M Surprise Covers up for Something
 
 - Maui Council Chair: “Why are they taking advantage of the Neighbor Islands on rail?” 
 
 - Panos: Only a Forensic Audit Can Find Truth
 
 - Ige ‘Elated’ About Rail Tax Hikes
 
 - Business Insiders Pushing Rail
 
 - State To Homeless Shelters: If You Want Money, Show Results
 
 - Hawaii's medi-juana dispensaries could offer candies and liquids within next two weeks
 
 - Grandmother who launched Kealoha corruption probe believes indictments are coming
 
 - Kawananakoa Estate Fight: Lawyers File, Respond
 
 - Hawaii: Nobody Spends More on ‘Efficiency’ Contracts 
 
 - Hawaii to be Liberated from 9th Circuit Court?
 
 - Telescope Protesters Oppose UH Plan to Trade 10,000 Acres for Approval
 
 - Pohakuloa seeks citizens for advisory board
 
 
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					| Thursday, August 24, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 August 24, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 9:20 PM :: 5169 Views 
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 - Mauna Kea: UH to Trade 10,000 Acres for Telescope Approval, Lease Extension
 
 - Postpone tax talk until after rail audit
 
 - State GOP Calls for Forensic Audit of Rail
 
 - Keep Traffic Jammed: Rail FEIS Shows Plans for Lane-Elimination
 
 - Interior Dep't Sends Trump Recommendations on National Monuments
 
 - Schatz: Put Everybody on Medicaid  
 
 - Some Women are More Equal than Others
 
 - Which Counties Benefit Most From the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction?
 
 - Multi-Billion Dollar Tax Hike--Legislators' rail funding deal makes Sister Islands Pay
 
 - Caldwell to Legislators $3B Tax Hike or Nothing--Promises Tax Hike Trifecta--GE Tax, TAT, Property Tax all to go up
 
 - Hot Potato: Will Legislators Vote to Make Themselves Responsible for Rail Disaster?
 
 - Could recent plunge in public transportation ridership spell trouble for rail? (Clue: “Yes”)
 
 - Why is a forensic audit still not essential? …
 
 - ‘Friends of Rail’ – New Name for the Same old Insiders
 
 - Foster parents to Legislature: Use special session to pay out $9M settlement
 
 - Oahu’s Cheapest Source Of Power Is About To Go Away
 
 - Mansions are easier to build on Valley Isle than apartments
 
 - Money: Gaggle of Activists Pick over Remains of Sand Mining Operation
 
 - Homeless Meth Addicts Would Rather Drown Than Accept Shelter
 
 - Hawaii Co Council to take another bite at foam food container ban
 
 - High court ruling could take away legal protections for off-duty officers working private events
 
 
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					| Wednesday, August 23, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 August 23, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 6:32 PM :: 3930 Views 
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 - Feds Search for Criminals Buying Honolulu Real Estate Thru Shell Companies
 
 - Kona DLNR Harassment: Judge Throws Case out on Technicality
 
 - Ige Unveils Plan to Bulldoze Kalihi, Build Condos
 
 - College Rankings: BYUH, HPU, Chaminade Trounce UH Campuses
 
 - Using Freedom of Information Act to target biotech scientists boomerangs against anti-GMO activists
 
 - Rail: Hannemann, Hanabusa Pointing Fingers
 
 - Stop Rail At Middle Street, Then Use Express Buses
 
 - HELCO rate hike OK’d—Will Pay for Solar
 
 - Bus Driver Shortage? Roberts Hawaii Grabs for Millions from DoE Budget
 
 - Mandatory Sprinkler Bill Deferred
 
 - Will Dopers Have the Right to Stay Doped up at Work?
 
 - Proposed in-car smoking ban advances
 
 - Waianae Tweeker Camp Claims Rotting Piles of Garbage are Just a Coincidence
 
 - Government enables homeless
 
 - Earthjustice files suit over DOT lights, imperiled seabirds
 
 
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					| Tuesday, August 22, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 August 22, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 4:46 PM :: 4012 Views 
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 - Oahu Event: New Directions in Education
 
 - A strange mix of piracy and racketeering
 
 - UPDATE: No More Bailouts for Rail!
 
 - Pearl City: 43 Homeless Forced to Accept Shelter
 
 - What Does it Take to be Expelled from Manoa Mosque?
 
 - UH Selected to Host ‘Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Campus Center’ 
 
 - Hawaii Rankings: How Good is Your Community College?
 
 - Legislators: GE Tax Hike and TAT Hike to Pay for Rail
 
 - Rail represents everything that is wrong with state government
 
 - Caldwell Plan: Tax Military Families to Pay for Rail
 
 - Kishimoto: I will let HSTA do Whatever it Wants
 
 - KSBE Trustees: Jeff Stone Operative Replaces Al Hee Operative
 
 - Neutral party sought in heiress’s case
 
 - Outcry over secrecy surrounding termination of Honolulu police officer, possible pay off
 
 - Former DOCARE Manager Charged With Child Molestation 
 
 - Go West Young Bum! Sit-lie ban extended to 15 other Oahu communities
 
 - State certified vs. black market: Potheads paying for quality
 
 - VICTORY! 3,700 Days of Big Wind, Big Cable Finally End
 
 - Sierra Club sues state to force Statewide replacement of fuel tanks
 
 - Not Worth It: Operator Admits US Windfarms kill 500K Birds per Year
 
 
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					| Monday, August 21, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 August 21, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 8:07 PM :: 4393 Views 
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 - OPEN LETTER: Tulsi Gabbard's GMO labeling push is an embarrassment to pro-science progressives
 
 - VIDEO: Panos on Mauna Kea Telescope
 
 - Survey: 70 Percent of Union Members Want Re-certification Vote
 
 - Carvalho for Governor? Ige to Remind Votes that…uh…uhh….
 
 - LOL!  “Rising seas will devour Waikiki, wash away billions from Hawaii's economy”
 
 - Batteries: How Much Can Elon Musk Raise Hawaii Electric Bills?
 
 - Competition could spark a price war
 
 - Should City Dump UPW’s bulky-trash program?
 
 - Race Hustlers Target McKinley Statue (again) in Desperate Bid for Attention, Money
 
 
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					| Sunday, August 20, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 August 20, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 7:36 PM :: 3922 Views 
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 - Hawaii Family Forum: Talk to Your Kids About Racism
 
 - The Grand Skim of Things, Part 3
 
 - Legislators Foolhardy Enough to Give Caldwell More Money?
 
 - Star-Av: Fake Audit Can Help Legislators Raise Taxes for Rail
 
 - Don’t Increase TAT for Rail
 
 - Hawaii only state that did not regularly review child deaths
 
 - Honolulu 7th Most Expensive City for Car Owners
 
 - Public Land Must be Made Available for Affordable Housing
 
 - It Begins: Global Warmers: Go Mauka
 
 - Dope Dealers Yearn for Honey Butane Oil
 
 - Activist: Waianae Deserves Massive Festering Homeless Tent City
 
 - Borreca: Hawaii Democrats Can Exploit Trump Remarks in Local Elections
 
 
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					| Saturday, August 19, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 August 19, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 9:20 PM :: 3654 Views 
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 - City rail audit won’t look for fraud?
 
 - Hawaii misses the bitcoin boom
 
 - Report: Island With Highest Prices Has Smallest Proportion of Mainland Buyers
 
 - Oral Arguments set for Morita vs Gorak
 
 - Feds Reach $10M Deal In Hawaii Birth Complications Suit 
 
 - Woman who waited 4 hours for rescue from condo fire dies
 
 - Anti-Sunscreen Hysteria Reaches NY Times
 
 - DLNR still responding to concerns on Lehua rat eradication
 
 - Star-Adv: Trump Poisons Nation
 
 - WaPo: How Employers Can Fire Trump Voters—a State-by State Guide
 
 
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					| Friday, August 18, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 August 18, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 6:31 PM :: 5223 Views 
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 - Hawaii Statehood: Tiny 1959 opposition was anti-Japanese, not anti-American
 
 - Honolulu Republicans: Happy Statehood Day!
 
 - Ships No Longer a Mystery: TOTE to Launch New Hawaii Service
 
 - Honolulu City Lights application deadline Sept 1
 
 - Desperation: HART Backs Efficiency Audit
 
 - Kauai Reps Scheme for Rail Tax Hikes
 
 - Ige says he can beat Hanabusa in a potential 2018 match-up
 
 - Ige: I Want to Remind You I had Nothing to do With Kishimoto Pick and Neither did my Wife 
 
 - Honolulu Council Resolution: Block All Mainland HPD Chief Applicants
 
 - Caldwell Trick will Put 8,000 Condos in Highest Property Tax Bracket Sept 1
 
 - Thirty Meter Telescope executive hopeful project will receive permit ahead of September hearing
 
 - For most, life is not an either/or proposition
 
 - Hawaii developers face challenges selling affordable housing units
 
 - DoH: Many People Not Fooled by ‘Medical’ Marijuana
 
 - Fewer people are using public transportation in Honolulu
 
 - Muslim Sues Hawaiian Tel:  Presence of Trump Supporter Violates my Rights
 
 - County Council approves gun ranges for the Big Island
 
 - Ignored, Fukumoto Finds Way to Get Some Attention
 
 
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					| Thursday, August 17, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									By Andrew Walden @ 4:07 PM :: 4055 Views 
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 - Honolulu: $100 worth only $80.32
 
 - Corporations Becoming New Arbiters Of Public Morality
 
 - DBEDT Releases 2016 Hawaii Data Book
 
 - Grabauskas Suspected of Withholding Records
 
 - How A Princess’s Embattled Fortune Could Become A Massive Native Hawaiian Charity
 
 - Will State Provide Land for Affordable Housing?
 
 - DoE: 33% Absenteeism on South Side of Big Island 
 
 - Child Deaths: DHS Reverts to Tried and True System for Covering Up
 
 - Greenmail: Panel wants to make watching delicious whales a Hawaiian experience
 
 - Body camera video showed MPD officers acted by the book with protesters
 
 - Army searching for 5 aboard downed chopper
 
 
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					| Wednesday, August 16, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									By Andrew Walden @ 10:28 PM :: 4022 Views 
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 - Telescope: OHA Sees Chance for Land and Money Grab
 
 - Jones Act: Matson and Pasha Seek Every Loophole
 
 - Compact Impact: DoI Launches Census of COFA Migrants
 
 - Honolulu Ethics Comm Seeks Comments on Draft Strategic Plan
 
 - Honolulu 2016 Citizen-Centric Report Released 
 
 - Audit: Bulky Pickup Schemes Generate Millions in Overtime 
 
 - Rail Solution?  A new PR Campaign!
 
 - Council committee to take up measure seeking rail audit
 
 - State Surplus Becomes Deficit After Paying Wages, Benefits, Pension
 
 - Star-Adv: Only Days Left for Legislators to Come up with Tax Hike for Rail
 
 - Obamacare Causing $68M in Losses for HMSA, Kaiser
 
 - Hawaii AG to Oversee Kawananakoa Dispute
 
 - The state is spending a lot less on school buses. Here's how
 
 - Mindless Bureaucracy: Housing Becomes Less Affordable on Oahu
 
 - Hawaii’s household debt per capita ranks highest among 50 states
 
 - Analysis: Most renters in Hawaii are 'cost-burdened'
 
 - Homeless Can Get Housing if they Walk Across The Street: Most Won’t
 
 - Officer caught fighting with girlfriend on video expected to get six-figure payoff
 
 - Gulliver, Lilliputians: Kona Spaceport Tied Down by Red Tape
 
 - Fraud-Riddled Hawaii recycling program hit lowest rate in 2016
 
 - Its Easy to Call Trump Racist 
 
 
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					| Tuesday, August 15, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 August 15, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 6:26 PM :: 5054 Views 
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 - Charlottesville Attack Was Domestic Terrorism
 
 - DLNR Sea Level Rise Adaptation Meeting Set for Hilo, Kona
 
 - Broken Trust Published 20 Years Ago
 
 - Rep Tupola Backs Forensic Audit for HART
 
 - Special Session to be Cancelled?
 
 - Apo voices support for TMT
 
 - Definition of ‘Renewable Energy’ is Political
 
 - DoH Bureaucratic Bottleneck Keeps 100lbs of Weed off Streets
 
 - Guam on Edge as Norks Chicken Out
 
 
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					| Monday, August 14, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									By Andrew Walden @ 7:14 PM :: 5516 Views 
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 - Kawananakoa Estate: Sex, Drugs, and Inequality
 
 - HART Rail Costs Nearly Triple Rail Tunnel   
 
 - Grassroot: Investigate Rail Fraud, Waste, Abuse
 
 - Oahu GOP: Mo More Bailouts for Rail
 
 - Mattis: ‘We’ll Take It Out’ If North Korea Fires A Missile At Guam
 
 - Heiress Kawananakoa: Lawyer is trying to take control of $200M estate
 
 - Tuition Hikes Explained: UH Manoa Paying 72 Over $200K
 
 - New DoE Sup’t Finds Way to Keep Daughter out of Hawaii Public Schools
 
 - Hotels Control Opposition to Kauai dairy plan
 
 - Hotels Chemophobes Team up for Sunscreen Megaprofits
 
 - A bad week for sunshine
 
 - Police Called 3x Day to Kona’s New Homeless Tent City
 
 - Ex-Cop Sues Honolulu For Not Paying To Defend Him In Assault Lawsuit
 
 - Star-Adv Nailed for Misleading Styrofoam Ban Rhetoric
 
 - Association says a sprinkler system bill is not feasible
 
 
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									By Andrew Walden @ 6:21 PM :: 4794 Views 
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 - The Grand Skim of Things, Part 2
 
 - 2018: Service to Muslims Could Make Chin Lt Governor
 
 - Maui Council: TAT Hike Makes Neighbor Islands Pay for Rail (but we still aren’t legalizing TVRs)
 
 - Pay for Rail by Eliminating Pension Spiking
 
 - Rail Condemnation: Jurors Not Fooled by HART’s Appraiser
 
 - Workings of Hawaii government hew to satirical Parkinson’s Law
 
 - Roberts Hawaii Sees Money in Maui School Bus Debacle
 
 - REIT Tax Losers Whine
 
 - Maui Dopers Clean out Shelves at Weed Store
 
 - Money: Danner’s Annual Show Set for October
 
 - Muslim Relabeled as Grandmother upon Arrival in Hawaii
 
 
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					| Saturday, August 12, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									By Andrew Walden @ 7:03 PM :: 4384 Views 
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 - No need for special session this summer
 
 - It was 119 years ago today: Hawaii Becomes US Territory
 
 - Honolulu Rents Jump Another 6.7%
 
 - Youth Homelessness--Hawaii Ranks 5th
 
 - Tough On DUI? Hawaii Ranks 26th
 
 - DBEDT: Hawaii Economy Slowing
 
 - Registration Open for Hawaii LifeSmarts Competition
 
 - Rail Fail: Hanabusa Threatens to Run For Governor
 
 - Government failures continue to mount
 
 - GEMS: The Hawaii Program That Keeps on Taking
 
 - UHA 15.3% Obamacare Insurance Rate Hike
 
 - Star-Adv: Don’t overreach with smoking ban
 
 - Dopers Clean Out Supply of Medicated Marijuana in 3 Days
 
 - Chinatown: Six Homeless Accept Shelter Since May
 
 - Tarnas announces campaign for Evans’ District 7 House seat
 
 - Kauai council chair Rapozo to run for Kauai mayor
 
 
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					| Friday, August 11, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									By Andrew Walden @ 5:28 PM :: 4018 Views 
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 - Audit the rail: An idea that’s catching on
 
 - Rail Fail: Why You Should Speak Out
 
 - Which States Benefit Most from the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction?
 
 - Governor needs to step up and fix Maui school bus crisis
 
 - DLNR Sea Level Rise Adaptation Meeting Set for Hilo
 
 - Vulnerable: Ige’s Campaign Cash As Low As His Poll Numbers
 
 - Elections Commission Retaliation Suit Heading for Supreme Court
 
 - Mileage Tax: HDOT to Hire Con-Artists to Concoct Sales Pitch for Massive Tax Hike
 
 - Bureaucratic Empire Builders: HDOT wants to create State Police Force, Patrol Highways, Airports, Ports
 
 - Proposed Wind Farms in Hawaii face challenges
 
 - Maui Electric Bills Drop $11 Because of Less Wind Energy 
 
 - Kauai  Maui still short of school bus drivers
 
 - Ex-Honolulu Cop Offers $300,000 To Settle Suit With Bartender He Shot
 
 - Protective gear from Marco Polo fire fight taken out of service
 
 - Enviros Freak out Because Somebody Might Catch a Fish
 
 - ‘High’ Tech: Cannabis dispensary Hawaii's largest venture capital deal of 2016
 
 - North Korea details plan to fire missile salvo toward Guam
 
 
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					| Thursday, August 10, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									By Andrew Walden @ 5:33 PM :: 4081 Views 
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 - OHA the Savior of Mauna Kea?
 
 - Video: How Jones Act Jams up Highway Traffic
 
 - Killer Windfarms: Why do we subsidize the slaughter?
 
 - Rail: ‘Special audit possibly coming down the line’
 
 - Hawaii: North Korea Threat is Excuse for Another Pork Barrel Project
 
 - Fight Begins over Kawananakoa Money
 
 - Judge’s Findings Leave TMT Opponents Few Options
 
 - 2 prominent Native Hawaiians say they're part of 'silent majority' in favor of TMT
 
 - Legalize TVRs
 
 - Hawaii County Fuel Tax Hike Bites Consumers Hard
 
 - Students Make it to School Without Busses
 
 - Bill requiring retrofitting of all high-rises with sprinklers passes first reading
 
 - HPD Raids 20 Game Rooms
 
 - Resolution to remove controversial sidewalk extensions passes city council
 
 - Medicated Marijuana “Like Candy’ Should Appeal to Kids
 
 - After Faking Opposition, Hawaii Election Officials Give Trump Exactly What He Requested
 
 - Why Hawaii Won’t Join Battle Against Trump’s ‘Sanctuary City’ Crackdown
 
 - Anti-Semites Harass Hanabusa for Support of Israel
 
 
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					| Wednesday, August 9, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									By Andrew Walden @ 5:55 PM :: 3997 Views 
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 - North Korea Mulls Nuking Guam
 
 - Matson Tightens Grip on South Pacific
 
 - Hawaii -- Lowest Percentage of MDs Accepting Medicare
 
 - Who Needs Rail? Cost-Effective Lane Projects Save Commuters Time
 
 - Want Land? DLNR Will Buy You Some
 
 - Politicians Scramble for Dozens of Openings with Primary Day 1 Year Away
 
 - Sister Isle Outrage over Tax Hike for Oahu Rail
 
 - Pro-Rail Democrats Demand Hanabusa Oppose Rail Audit
 
 - Defense Against North Korea Nukes? Hawaii Congressional Delegation Pushes Giant Pork-Barrel Project 
 
 - OHA must seek TMT solution
 
 - OHA Pays Waimea Group $172K to Watch Trees Grow
 
 - Former Big Island Prosecutor Jay Kimura Missed Chance to Nail Peter Boy Killer
 
 - Windfarms Kill 100s of Sacred Endangered Animals
 
 - Grossly Overpriced Biomass project ‘still on schedule’
 
 - Anti-GMO Loser Running ‘Academy’ For Democrat Candidates
 
 - Dopers, Chronics Line up on First Day of Weed Sales
 
 - UH Athletic Department Finds Way to Claim Profitability
 
 - Sharp Drop in Pedestrian Deaths
 
 - Gag order rescinded
 
 - Star-Adv: We Need Massive Festering Homeless Tent Cities in EVERY Community
 
 
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					| Tuesday, August 8, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 August 8, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 8:02 PM :: 5342 Views 
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 - Full Text: Lawmaker Leaks Plan to Make Sister Isles Pay for Rail -- Public Hearing Set
 
 - Full Text: Summary of Secret UPW Contract
 
 - Trump Admin Funds Micronesia One Stop Centers
 
 - Turn Your Child into a Tranny--Star-Adv Runs How-to Guide
 
 - New DOE: Teacher Shortages, Hot Classrooms, and Low Test Scores 
 
 - HMSA Losing $48M on Obamacare Plans
 
 - The Daniel K. Inouye Center has quietly disappeared
 
 - Mental Health Care at Center of Homeless Plan
 
 - Hawaii County Transit Administrator Disqualified Because he Tells Employees What to do
 
 - Hawaii Ranks 46th for Gun Ownership
 
 - BioMess: Hu Honua Loophole Allows Importation of Wood to Burn
 
 - State’s Ruling Party Gears up for ‘Day of Resistance’
 
 - State’s First Weed Store to Open Aug 15
 
 
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					| Monday, August 7, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 August 7, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 4:22 PM :: 4191 Views 
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 - DoE Student Absenteeism Over 20%
 
 - Rail Stations Designed to Profit KSBE, HECO, First Hawaiian
 
 - Why Hawaii Isn't Rich Like Texas
 
 - NY Child Molester Approved by Hawaii DHS as Foster Parent
 
 - Legislators Create System for Politically Connected Landowners to Rake in Megabucks from Carbon Credit Scams
 
 - Up Country Maui Residents May Get Nothing Out of A&B Water Settlement
 
 - Styrofoam Ban Before Honolulu Council Wednesday
 
 - How Jones Act Causes Traffic Jams
 
 
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					| Sunday, August 6, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									By Andrew Walden @ 6:46 PM :: 4436 Views 
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 - This Day in History: Truman Announces Hiroshima Bombing
 
 - The Grand Skim of Things (Part 1)
 
 - Laughed out of Court, Lawsuit Fails to Force US Unilateral Disarmament
 
 - To Pay for Rail Curb costly retirement benefits for government workers
 
 - Peter Apo: Loss of TMT would do cultural damage
 
 - Not Dead Three Years Later, Corporate Lobbyist Used ‘Terminal’ Cancer in Assisted Suicide Sales Pitch 
 
 - High flying: Councilmembers Party in Japan on pCard
 
 - Maui: 13,496 Units Needed to Meet Demand for Affordable Housing
 
 - Maui Meeting Held to Justify $205M in Rate Hikes to Pay for Solar Schemers Profits
 
 - Infighting, Retaliation at Hawaii Paroling Admin
 
 - News Flash: Criminals Usually Don’t Get Their Shots
 
 
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					| Saturday, August 5, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									By Andrew Walden @ 7:30 PM :: 3793 Views 
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 - Seafarers’ irrational opposition to Sen McCain’s Jones Act reform bill 
 
 - Second Amendment Guarantee Act Would Protect Popular Rifles, Shotguns from Antigun Politicians
 
 - Trump - Kim summit in Hawaii?
 
 - Why a Tax on Soda is Unhealthy
 
 - OHA committee pledges 'aggressive position' on Mauna Kea management
 
 - Thompson’s voice needed on TMT
 
 - DBEDT, Solar Scammers Seek GEMS Secrecy
 
 - Police Commission selects consultant to help pick a chief
 
 - Homeless relocation program has helped hundreds return to mainland
 
 - Kona Homeless Refuse to Accept Shelter Spaces at New ‘Camp’
 
 - Disability?  Yep Hawaii’s Got a Tax for That
 
 - Activists fuel public’s disconnect from modern agriculture—and it hurts farmers
 
 - Tulsi Gabbard panders to Anti-GMO Morons (Again)
 
 - Judge issues stay to stop all Sand-Mining 
 
 - Zimmerman vs. Slom, Round 2
 
 
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					| Friday, August 4, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 August 4, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 5:08 PM :: 4567 Views 
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 - Hawaii Value of $100? -- $84.18 
 
 - Caldwell, Ige: Least Transparent in Hawaii History
 
 - HD48 and SD24 to be Open Seats in 2018 Election
 
 - HART Burns Millions on ‘Art’, Embossed Columns
 
 - Hawaii Burns Down Rainforest for ‘Renewable’ Biofuels
 
 - Chinatown: Caldwell’s Dim Bulb-outs Become Homeless Camps
 
 - Kona: Homeless Keep their Needles, Leave Truckloads of Trash Behind
 
 - Former HPD officer convicted of child sex assault crimes now facing civil suit
 
 - Pie Meet Sky: 80K Tech Jobs for Hawaii
 
 - We’re mad as hell, and wearing it like a medal
 
 
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					| Thursday, August 3, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 August 3, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 7:35 PM :: 4090 Views 
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 - Anti-Telescope Protesters Fight with Police in effort to Create Incident
 
 - Hawaii, 2017: 15 Cases of Rat Lungworm and Counting
 
 - Hawaii Among States with Least Student Debt
 
 - Break the Government Monopoly on Flood Insurance
 
 - Rail Budget Pays to Repave Prison Parking Lot--HDOT Milks Rail Budget to Pay for Kam Hwy Repaving Beyond Middle Street 
 
 - Star-Adv: Robbins Hire a Hail Mary for HART
 
 - Tokuda announces plans to run for lieutenant governor
 
 - HSTA Gains Total Control over DOE
 
 - Hawaii Smart Grid: Want vs. Need
 
 - Statewide natural gas rate hike awaits PUC approval, costs could increase 15%
 
 - Caldwell’s Complete Streets—A Scam to Keep Locals Out
 
 - Soft on Crime: Judge gives career criminal another sentencing reprieve
 
 - Harry Kim Declares Emergency so he can Build Homeless Tent City at Copper-Laden Construction Site
 
 
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					| Wednesday, August 2, 2017 | 
				 
				
					
						
							
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									 August 2, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 7:02 PM :: 4318 Views 
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 - Matson: Construction-Related Shipments Down
 
 - Honolulu Among 10 Worst Markets for House Flippers
 
 - Compact Impact: Trump Admin Sends Another $3M
 
 - Oahu Republicans Go Door-to-Door
 
 - Mike Huckabee to Speak at Hawaii Republican Fundraiser
 
 - Secret UPW Contract Gives 7.2% Raise, $2000 Bonus 
 
 - HMSA Seeks seek 27.1% Obamacare hike
 
 - OHA to Sue UH Over Telescope ‘Mismanagement’ (Next Stop Canary Islands)
 
 - Caldwell’s Sec 8 Program Designed to Hide Fraud
 
 - 796 AC Units Installed in Schools
 
 - More Secrecy: State issues gag order as investigation continues into death of Hawaii island toddler
 
 - Homeless Tweekers Sink Boat in Ala Wai Canal
 
 - Latest Sweep Makes Bums Interested in Finally Accepting Shelter 
 
 
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									 August 1, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 8:04 PM :: 4388 Views 
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									 July 31, 2017 News Read
									 
									By Andrew Walden @ 6:15 PM :: 3784 Views 
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 - Slate: The Absurdity of Honolulu's New Law Banning Pedestrians From Looking at Their Cellphones
 
 - Hint to Hawaii: Court halts Illinois mandate to promote abortion
 
 - HART Board Votes 6-1 to Select Robbins as CEO
 
 - What land in Hawaii is not held sacred?
 
 - Caldwell’s Homeless Point-Man Quits
 
 - Airport basement leak Becomes Excuse to Give Oceanit $500K
 
 - HB1079: More Useless Expensive Regulations for Hawaii
 
 - Maui hospital raises fee but retreats after moms protest
 
 
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