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Sunday, March 13, 2016 |
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March 13, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:02 PM :: 3476 Views
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- Regressivity
- Auditor: Incompetence Prevents Management of State IT Resources
- Auditor: Handi-Van Not ADA-Compliant
- Who’s Running: Candidates Pulling Papers as of March 11, 2016
- SB 2840–Kill Zombie Pensions
- Morita Comes up Short in KIUC Bid
- AP: Only Senator Sam Slom Responded Fully to Our Open Records Request
- Senators go along with Dubious $75M Gas and Vehicle Tax Hike
- SB2454: Make Income Taxes More Progressive
- State is squarely in path of unfunded liability landslide
- Affordable housing trade-off: Credit program aids Hawaiian Homelands
- Another $30M in Revenue Bonds for Political Insiders
- Hawaii Trump Voters: It’s time to move to a level of confrontation not seen in local politics
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Saturday, March 12, 2016 |
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March 12, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:40 PM :: 4631 Views
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- Applicants Sought for Ethics Commission
- Hawaii Cesspools: Tax Credit, Ban
- Caldwell Minions finally force City Ethics Director Out for Being too Tough on Rail Crooks?
- OHA Mauna Kea Cash Grab: Judge Remands All Telescopes’ Sublease back to BLNR
- House Set to Approve $16B Budget, $300M in Red
- Hawaii could be only state that taxes Girl Scout cookies if Idaho bill passes
- Hawaii's general fund tax deposits up 7.4%
- Homeless are Big Part of Hawaii’s $1.2B Medicaid Bill
- Hawaii deals with dramatic shortage of doctors
- Like Tourism, State’s #2 Industry ‘In Slow Decline’
- Hawaii tech industry ranks 45th in the nation
- Civil Beat Hypes Latest Gaggle of Phony Taxpayer-Funded Tech Companies
- Anti-GMO Activists Just Keep on Lying
- 2 former GOP Hawaii chairs face complaint over their criticism of Trump
- Can Tulsi Gabbard Swing Hawaii Voters to Sanders?
- New state BOE policy embraces language diversity in classrooms
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Friday, March 11, 2016 |
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March 11, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:03 PM :: 5907 Views
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- Final Results: Hawaii Republican Presidential Caucus
- Guam Votes Tonight In The Republican Primary
- Nai Aupuni’s Secret Controllers
- Hawaii GE Tax Bites into 99% of Personal Income
- Maui: Auditor Undervalues our Garbage
- Maui Council Rejects 300% Agriculture Tax Hike
- American Samoa Fights Feds for Fishing Zone
- The Best—and Worst—States for Workers with Disabilities
- AM940 -- Grassroot Institute on the Air
- Full Text: Kauai Pesticide Report
- Local GOP hopes caucus turnout re-energizes party
- Hawaii Trump Voters “Disgusted with political correctness”
- Revolving Door: Politician Nestor Garcia Pays Largest Ethics Fine in History, Gets Hired by KHON
- Revolving Door: Ex-KITV Aide To Gov. Ige Launches Video Production Company
- How Fed Wreckers Kept Aha Distracted
- Drivers’ concerns rise as lawmakers advance bill to hike vehicle fees
- Maui Council Rejects Massive Ag Tax Hike
- Report finds no health impacts from pesticide use on Kauai
- FBI investigates allegations police chief's wife lied in court to fix ticket for Solar Contractor
- Calls for police chief to step aside grow amid expanding federal probe
- Hearing begins over Kauai Police Department’s body camera program
- Hawaii or Hawai'i: What's the official spelling?
- Kau: Sovereignty Activists Harass Landowners, Courts
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Thursday, March 10, 2016 |
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March 10, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:09 PM :: 3641 Views
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- Over 15,000 Ballots Cast in Hawaii Republican Presidential Caucus
- Beyond Political Sovereignty: Pathways for Native Hawaiian Advancement
- Hawaii’s Deficit Disaster: Learning from Illinois
- Raising Hawaii Taxes in 2016 - Unconstitutional Economics Exposed
- Hawaii Cruz Campaigners Disciplined by National Cruz Campaign
- Hawaii GOP caucus -- party hand-counts remaining ballots
- OHA Cronies: Seat a Government Before January 20, 2017, and Obama Will Make us a Tribe
- Rep. Choy’s bill would let legislators take jobs at the University of Hawaii
- HB2408: DoT to Award Secret Land Permits
- Kauai: Report Debunks Every Anti-Pesticide Claim
- Federal investigation into police chief broadens
- Honolulu police chief ‘exceeds expectations’ in annual evaluation (Meanwhile FBI closing in....)
- Ex-officer was bookie during HPD tenure, prosecutors say
- Missing OCCC extended furlough inmate captured, arrested for attempted murder
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Wednesday, March 9, 2016 |
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March 9, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 11:23 AM :: 3627 Views
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- Results from Hawaii Republican Presidential Caucus
- 2016 Hawaii Legislative Watch: People vs. Government
- Huge Voter Turnout for Hawaii Republican Caucuses
- $75M Tax on gas, auto weight would go up via bill OK’d by senators
- Sen Sam Slom, after a brief hospitalization, is back in true form at the Capitol
- Will TheBus be Handed over to Rail System?
- Hawaii County employees can keep frequent flier miles Purchased with P-Card
- What’s Up With Panel To Award Medical Pot Dispensary Licenses?
- Idle Rich Behind Hawaii Anti-GMO Activism
- Plans for Rusting wind junk off Waikiki moving ahead
- Hawaii’s Public Charter School Movement At A Crossroads
- Judicial Appointment Bills are Retaliation for DHHL Ruling?
- Homeless Tent City: Arguments, Yelling and a Party
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Tuesday, March 8, 2016 |
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March 8, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:51 PM :: 4361 Views
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- Where to Vote: Tuesday March 8 Hawaii Republican Presidential Caucus
- Rick Santorum Campaigning for Rubio in Hawaii
- Five Anti-Gun Bills up for House Vote
- Fitch: Hawaii debt levels are high
- Kasich: No Fake Hawaiian Indian Tribe
- Clinton Backs Fake Indian Tribe for Hawaii
- Native Hawaiian nation won’t be on public dime
- Duke Aiona Endorses Rubio
- Excitement Builds for Today’s Republican Presidential Caucus
- Can Hawaii and Idaho Stop Trump Tuesday?
- Rep Beth Fukumoto Chang on Trump: “I told you so”
- Hate on Display: As Sugar Layoffs Begin, Leading Hawaii Anti-GMO Activist Deploys Revisionist History to Cheer Demise
- Hawaii County Ethics Comm Holds Secret Hearings to Grant Exemptions to Double Dipping Self Dealing Contractors
- U.S. Senator Brian Schatz loses mind, calls on media to focus more on climate change
- Vehicle owners face increases to three separate fees under new bill
- Chronic Homeless Refusing Help, Return to Kakaako
- Proposed law would release even more criminals onto streets
- Men assaulted by Honolulu officer file lawsuit against city
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Monday, March 7, 2016 |
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March 7, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:13 PM :: 2783 Views
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Sunday, March 6, 2016 |
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March 6, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:03 PM :: 5037 Views
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- Nai Aupuni Aha Roll Call--How They Voted
- Energy Star Certification Program Promises Hawaii DoE $300M in Savings
- Tax Conformity: Can We Make It Move?
- March 8 GOP Caucus – Where to Vote
- What Really Happened at Aha: Delegate ‘Crying like a little B***h’, ‘Hostage’ Demands $5000 Ransom, and more
- Nai Aupuni ‘Constitution’ Becomes New Excuse for Multi-Million Dollar Cash Grab
- Mayor’s role on bank board seems to be a clear conflict
- Rail Tax Hike: ‘Can’t I get the Same Thing?’
- Maui County: Punitive tax plan has Real Potential to Shut Down Farms, Ranches
- Senate moving bill to grab veto power on reappointment of judges and justices
- Abercrombie, Sanders: Birds of a Feather
- SB2569: Homelessness Court Sought to handle 14,860 Tickets
- Star-Adv: Quit playing politics with homelessness
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Saturday, March 5, 2016 |
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March 5, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:15 PM :: 4443 Views
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- Where to Vote: Tuesday March 8 Hawaii Republican Presidential Caucus
- Former Bush Supporter Barbara Marumoto Endorses Rubio
- Former Carson Supporter Sen Sam Slom Endorses Ted Cruz for President
- Sen Sam Slom Hospitalized
- Who’s Running: Candidates Pulling Papers as of March 4, 2016
- Renewable Energy: How the 100% Mandate Hurts Hawaii
- Hawaii Drone Bill Would Hinder Federal Surveillance Program
- Hawaii Bill to Reject Some FDA Restrictions on Terminal Patients Clears Final House Committee
- HPD: Surfing on Duty? Beat your Wife? -- Get Promoted to Captain
- Obamacare: HMSA Refuses to Pay for Medical Tests, Patient Suffers Stroke While Waiting
- 78% Support Term Limits for Hawaii Legislators
- Kauai Council Considers Stupendous Gas Tax Hike
- After $10K and 2.5 Months, Builder Finally Allowed to Apply for ADU Permit
- How Caldwell Wants To Spend $61.7 Million On Housing
- Windward Residents Continue to Suffer Bus Cuts to Pay for Rail
- ACLU Desperately Trying to Keep the Homeless, Homeless: Urine is a Constitutional Right
- Hawaii lawmakers push to ban professors sex with students
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Friday, March 4, 2016 |
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March 4, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:01 PM :: 4373 Views
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- Where to Vote: Tuesday March 8 Hawaii Republican Presidential Caucus
- Waste Management: Millions for Company Tied to OHA Chair Pass Through House Finance on Three Minutes Public Notice
- Gasoline Taxes: Hawaii 4th Highest in USA
- Hawaii: Legislation that Violates Due Process Could be Voted on in the House Friday
- Hawaii Federal Court: Get Ready For Bridge Aina Lea Trial
- Hawaiian Electric Companies report record high renewable energy use
- Excitement Builds for March 8 Hawaii Presidential Caucus
- Star-Adv: Reject gas tax--bloated bureaucracy, not lack of money, is a fundamental obstacle to better roadways
- Your Tax Dollars at Work: HCDA, City Team up for Florida Boat Junket
- Governor: 100% Renewable Energy Formula ‘Flawed’
- Sen Keith Agaran: I Intended to Kill Term Limits from the Beginning
- Borreca: Gabbard Can Expect Retaliation from Clinton Machine
- Mayor keeps his options open for seeking another elected office
- Harry Kim to run for Hawaii County mayor again
- Hitachi hitting speedbumps in acquisition of rail car manufacturer Ansaldo
- Legislators Work to protect Tobacco Biz by Taxing E-Cigs
- Garbled gibberish, faux science and Utopian agricultural dreams
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Thursday, March 3, 2016 |
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March 3, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:25 PM :: 4211 Views
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- Nai Aupuni ‘Constitution’ Dictated by Department of Interior?
- Honolulu Charter Commission to Discuss Rail-Related Proposals Friday
- Impact of Jones Act Shipping on Hawaii Cost of Living? House Refuses to Study Issue
- Caldwell, Liberal West Coast Mayors, Hope to Exploit Homelessness for Federal Megabucks
- Hawaii Republicans ready for March 8 Presidential caucus
- Contractor: Hawaii DoT Using Lawsuit to Cover up Incompetence
- Emergency? Lingle Built Shelter Space for 650 Homeless, Ige 20
- Senators Kill Bills To Elect Judges, Create Legislative Term Limits
- Residency: Josh Green Lives and Works on Oahu but Says he Still Occasionally Visits his Kona District
- OHA Trustee: Another $2M Must be Wasted on Nai Aupuni
- Judge strikes dollar amount from order to boost DHHL funds
- Kapolei students chosen for telescope time
- State of the City Fallout
- Jon Drinky Karimatsu Convicted on 2nd DUI
- IDG-Huena Geothermal Missed the High Price Opportunity
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Wednesday, March 2, 2016 |
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March 2, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:52 PM :: 5013 Views
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- Duke Aiona Legislative Update March 1, 2016
- Grassroot: Pro Bowl Numbers Don’t Add Up
- HB1473: Help Legislators Buy Influence, Spread Campaign Cash
- Demographic and Economic Profiles of Hawaii's Electorate
- CTA Innovation Scorecard: Hawaii Dead Last, Likely to Stay There
- Trump’s isle lead has rivals wary of upcoming caucus
- Tulsi Gabbard Not a Combat Veteran
- Star-Adv: Keep Political Appointees out of HART, Bus Lines Will have to be Cut
- Geothermal Wars: IDG/Huena—The Highest Price of Them All
- Media Ignored OHA Cronies Aha—62% Say ‘Meaningless’
- 5.5% increase in $462M Hawaii County Budget mostly for salaries, benefits
- Soft on Crime: Lunatic Returns to Asylum
- City: Artificial Turf Cheaper than UPW Lawnmowers
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Tuesday, March 1, 2016 |
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March 1, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:59 PM :: 4874 Views
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- Grassroot: Aha ‘Constitution’ is Effort to Form Race-Based Government
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted February 29, 2016
- Guards Union: Airport Security Contractor Illegally Holding Money Which Belongs to Workers
- Tax Facts & Figures: How Does Hawaii Compare?
- Hawaii: Only 38% Doubt God
- Retaliation: Nailed for Campaign Spending Violations, House Reps Push HB2008 to Eliminate Investigators’ Positions
- Trump ‘A Nightmare for Hawaii GOP?’
- Nai Aupuni Constitution: Limitless Land Grab
- Legal turbulence that swirls around Nai Aupuni will not abate anytime soon
- Senate panel votes $75.3M gasoline tax hike
- Dead for Session: Two Different GE Tax Hikes
- Kauai County’s GE tax hike plan filled with flaws
- Maui County: Now That Sugar is Dead, We Want 1000% Tax Hike on Farms, Ranches
- Earned Income Tax Credit Bill Dies
- Caldwell: HART Should Take Control of TheBus, HandiVan
- HECO-NextEra Hearings End Today
- SB2561: Why Does it Take 10 years to Build Affordable Housing in Hawaii?
- Can LUC Penalize Developers?
- Ige, Legislators Flail About Looking for More Prison Space to Create UPW Positions, Spend More Money
- 3 Maui prison recruits fired after strip club fight, stabbing
- 20 Convictions: Out on Bail--Does it Again
- YB Monopoly: Lousy Service is Latest Excuse for Rate Hike
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Monday, February 29, 2016 |
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February 29, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 12:35 PM :: 4309 Views
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- Dengue Here, Zika Coming but 75% of South Kona Properties Go Unsprayed due to Anti-Pesticide Fanaticism
- SB2478: Massive GE Tax Hike on Agenda Today
- HB2388: Build Many New Prisons to Give Jobs to UPW
- Term Limits Bill Gets Hearing
- Hawaii lawmakers looking into 'Work for a Day' program for homeless
- Maui Harassed by Homeless Demanding Money for Malt Liquor
- Hawaii has one of lowest Food Stamp Participation Rates in USA
- Proposed Assistant HPD Chief kept Second Domestic Violence Case secret
- Maui County Employee Gets Months of Paid Vacation after Caught Stealing $73K in Tires
- ADA: Tulsi just an Opportunist
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Sunday, February 28, 2016 |
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February 28, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:42 PM :: 5138 Views
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- VIDEO: Tulsi Gabbard Resigns DNC, Endorses Bernie Sanders
- Notice Overkill?
- Last Week of Hearings—What’s on the Move?
- Bureaucracy on Maui Leading to Water Shortage
- Hawaii Kine Stuff - Setting the Record Straight with Al Gonzales
- VIDEO: Republican Legislators on HMSA Imaging Mandate, Sex Trafficking, and Shark Fins
- Feds Expanding Medicaid involvement in Hawaii homeless initiatives
- Hawaii Right to Try Legislation Receives Bipartisan Support
- Hawaii BOE Adopts New Standards for Science Education
- Aha Constitution a Negotiating Position with Department of Interior
- UH Proudly Announces: We are Closing Down Five Perfectly Good Telescopes
- Hawaii: Crooks, Cronies Line up Behind Clinton—Anti-GMO Nuts Back Sanders
- Legislators’ crackpot plans muddle state’s real issues
- Pathetic and Ineffectual Congressional Delegation Places Hawaii at Risk
- Feathering their own nest, UH Administrators Try to Peddle Tuition Hikes
- Two Years Later Still no Criminal Charges against Nepotistic Charter School Operators
- Is DoE Competent to Plan ‘Cool Schools’ Program?
- Omidyar, A&B, Parker Ranch Score $1.5M in IAL Tax Credits
- Removal of HC&S Water Means no Farms to Replace Cane Plantation
- Seeing a NextEra Conspiracy Where There is None
- Dopers: Lack of Labs Gives us Excuse to Transport Kilos of Marijuana on Airlines
- Activists Change Kauai’s Image
- Taro isn't Maui's future either
- Mom sues again over education for hearing-impaired girl
- Medicare Cuts End Medical Equipment Purchases on Sister Isles
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Saturday, February 27, 2016 |
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February 27, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 10:15 AM :: 3746 Views
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- Constitution: OHA Cronies Want to Run Their Own Prison System, Police, and Judiciary
- Thousands Attend Franklin Graham Rally at the State Capitol
- Who’s Running: Candidates Pulling Papers as of Feb 26, 2016
- Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
- Hawaii CON Law Throttles Health Care Access
- Doctors Want Nothing to do with ‘Medical’ Marijuana
- Hawaii gets federal help to expand Mental Health programs for homeless
- Seniors Fear Arrival of Property Tax Assessment
- Self-Satisfied: Hawaii Co Council to discuss measure that would increase term from 2 years to 4
- Traffic relief in Nanakuli in the works Thanks to Rep Andria Tupola
- Lawmakers Livid at Soft on Crime Sentence for Thieving Principal
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Friday, February 26, 2016 |
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February 26, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:52 PM :: 5474 Views
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- If judges act like politicians, shouldn't they be treated like politicians?
- Court: Kawananakoa Can’t Sue Over Tainted Rail Votes
- Puerto Rico moves to privatize local ferry services
- Report: Educational Attainment in Hawaii
- Hawaiians Reject Fake Indian Tribe
- HB1653: How 100% Mail-In Voting Could Shut Down anti-GMO Activism Statewide
- Sen J Kalani ‘Powdernose’ English on Cocaine Conviction—Nothing to see here, just move along
- DLNR Lease puts Kai Kahele’s residency in question: Senate seat requires Hilo home; DLNR requires Milolii residency
- Cigarette tax hike advances
- HB1751: Green Energy Scams Nobody Knows About Yet
- Expert: Hawaii would save money with liquefied natural gas
- Criminal trespass bill aims to fight Keehi harbor thefts, drug dealing
- ACLU Forces Police to Ticket 7,000 Tourists
- Cop charged in off-duty assault pleads not guilty
- Hawaii least satisfied with affordability of local housing
- Mom sues state Department of Education after son goes missing from school
- State seeks an $15M in back taxes from online travel websites
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Thursday, February 25, 2016 |
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February 25, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:36 PM :: 5293 Views
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- New School Construction: “Intentional misuse of taxpayers’ money”
- El Faro Disaster could reshape Jones Act
- UHERO Tries to Make Hi-Tech Tax Credits Look Good
- PEW: Public support for environmental regulations varies by state
- Who Will Win Hawaii Presidential Caucuses?
- Native Hawaiian Indians In A Tribe
- Land Board gets case—Telescope Prepares to Leave Hawaii
- Emergency: Push is on to Get Homeless Shelters Tied up in Environmental Red Tape Again
- Lawmakers look Save GEMS--alter school AC plan
- Pensions at Risk: Enviros Use Divestment Scheme in Bid to Take Control of ERS Billions
- Great News: Bill to Elect Judges Still Alive
- Bill on executive branch lobbying up for hearing Thursday
- While Considering GE Tax Hike, Kauai Pushes Executive Pay Hikes
- Brickwood Galuteria Free—but Former Hawaii County Council candidate charged with voter fraud
- Small Donors Have Nothing for Caldwell
- SB2820—Will 100% = 100%?
- Anti-Cane Burning Injunction Denied—For Now
- Illegal TVRs: Political Amnesia
- Alleged Homosexual Child Molester Retires to Hawaii after 30 years Preying on Boys
- Former head of school avoids prison time after stealing nearly $153K
- Soft on Crime: Paroled murderer charged with Honolii shooting
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Wednesday, February 24, 2016 |
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February 24, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:58 PM :: 3849 Views
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- Hawaiians Arrested at Nai Aupuni Tribal Aha
- SB2618: Should there be a Hawaii State Ferry?
- SB2615: Democrats to dictate theology
- Statewide Homeless Emergency Extended
- Feds: We will Recover Billions Wasted on Obamacare State Exchanges
- HB2632: Many Excuses to Take Your Guns
- Hawaii Anti-Gun Bills Scheduled for House Judiciary Committee Hearing This Week
- HB2528: Shooting Range for Kailua-Kona
- Former OHA Staffer Joins Office of Mauna Kea Management
- HGEA Work Rules Prevent Counties from Catching Illegal Vacation Rentals
- Star-Adv: We need Fewer Lanes for Cars to Increase Traffic Jams
- SB2313: Gender Wage Cap Can Make Millions for Hawaii Lawyers
- HB2773: Elected Criminals to be Reelected by Incarcerated Criminals
- FACE: Lets Raise Taxes to Pay for $100M of Make Work Projects
- Zika virus confirmed in Marshall Islands
- Honolulu one of worst state capitals due to lack of affordability
- Muslims Fish Around for Someone Opposed to Missile Defense of Hawaii
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Tuesday, February 23, 2016 |
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February 23, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:07 PM :: 4425 Views
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- Rep Bob McDermott Endorses Ted Cruz
- Hawaii’s Top Secret Japanese Prisoner of War Camp – Camp Iroquois
- Grassroot Salutes Court Decision Protecting Maui Hospital Plan
- HART Gives HECO $120 million—Says ‘Tourists’ Will Pay It
- 8 Protesters Arrested at Aha
- Ige’s School AC Scheme Crashes, Burns
- Report on roads left by wayside
- $100,000 Salaries Mushroom at DOE
- 6% -- More Tuition increases proposed for UH
- Total Loss: Hawaii ERS Loses Everything on Defunct Big Island ‘Clean’ Energy Project
- PUC: Electric rates should not be lowered
- Failed ‘Clean’ Energy Behind Rolling Blackouts on Big Island
- Maui Anti-GMO Committee: County Should Buy up Ag Land and Put it under our Control
- Subsidies won’t solve homelessness
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Monday, February 22, 2016 |
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February 22, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:26 PM :: 5156 Views
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- Gun Grab: Ivory Bill Scheduled for Senate Vote on Monday
- Franklin Graham Prayer Rally Coming to Honolulu
- Kenoi Mulls Plea-Bargain, May be Forced to Resign
- HMSA treating its member doctors like idiots
- Bought n Paid For: Sen. Josh Green Is Sitting On A Half-Million Dollars Of Campaign Cash
- State survey shows big decline in agricultural land
- Movement towards Legalization Seen in Hawaii Marijuana Bills
- Legislation seeks more police oversight
- HB2773: Allow prisoners to vote from behind bars
- HB1524: More Debt-Financed Rooftop Solar
- Kauai Study group to release pesticide report March 10
- Council Bills Pushback Against Caldwell Scheme to Eliminate Lanes, Jam up Traffic
- Roads in Limbo Committee Report In Limbo
- Bankrupt HHSC Plans Closure of E Hawaii LTC Facility
- DLNR Helicopter Used to Clear Tons of Junk from Homeless Camp
- Dengue: Vegan, Cruelty-Free Mosquito Repellant
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Sunday, February 21, 2016 |
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February 21, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:17 PM :: 3131 Views
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- General Excise Tax at 6%?
- Who’s Running: Candidates Pulling Papers as of Feb 19, 2016
- Carson and Rubio on Ballot for Hawaii Republican Caucus
- HB2632: Many Excuses to Take Your Guns
- Big Island Rolling Blackouts Caused by Lack of Wind
- Hawaii Gasoline Prices #1 in USA—$0.24 Higher Than California
- Long Term Solutions for Coastal Highway Erosion
- HB1013: Hawaii’s Right to Try Bill
- Hawaii Ag Land Use Baseline Report
- List of Bills Still Alive After First Lateral
- OHA Cronies: Scalia Death Opens Door to Fake Indian Tribe
- State Awash in Unspent Highway Funds, But Wants to Hike Your Fuel Taxes by $45.1M
- Kauai: $50M GE Tax Hike for 3% Bus Ridership?
- DLNR Revocable Permits: Will Legislature Save Agriculture from OHA, Enviros?
- Medical Marijuana: Star-Adv Suddenly Remembers that Senator J Kalani ‘Powdernose’ English plead guilty to drug felony
- HECO Cancellation of Bankrupt Solar Farms is latest Excuse to Kill NextEra Deal
- Shapiro: Left becoming as absolutist as far right
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Saturday, February 20, 2016 |
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February 20, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:13 PM :: 3981 Views
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- Full Text Court Order: UPW May Not Block Maui Hospital Privatization
- HECO: LNG is Cleaner, Cheaper Energy Alternative
- Which Places Benefit Most from State and Local Tax Deductions?
- A Comparison of Presidential Tax Plans and Their Economic Effects
- After Kicking Everyone Out, Aha Decides to Allow Olelo Coverage
- Where to Vote: Hawaii Democrats Presidential Preference Poll March 26
- SB2615: Gay Control of Your Son
- A Word With Ward - Dengue Fever with guest Dr. Sarah Parks
- Six More Days--Aha Delegates Preparing Tribal Constitution for Vote by Kanaiolowalu Roll
- HB1527: Round up all the Tax Credits, Kill Them Off
- A look at some of the measures that survived the first major deadline of the session
- Hawaii Superferry to Run Maine-Nova Scotia Route
- Hounded by Protesters, UH cancels Hualalai geothermal projects
- HART: First Railcars to Arrive March 23
- Parents Push Back After DoE Cancels Honors Classes
- Honolulu charter panel considers more powers for police commission
- 11 Years, Million Dollars: Lawyers Score Big in HPD Discrimination Case
- Hawaii County Police misconduct drops
- Dengue: State officials more concerned about Tourism, Federal Money
- Thanks to Kym Pine, City accepts ownership of more than 50 Leeward roads and infrastructure improvements
- It's Time To Throw The Ancient 'Merchant Marine Act' Overboard
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Friday, February 19, 2016 |
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February 19, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 11:01 AM :: 3631 Views
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- Rusting Wind Junk off Waikiki? Ige Flies to NYC, DC for Meetings
- HB1713—Exempt all State Employees from Ethics Laws
- House Incumbents: Who Has Campaign Cash, Who Doesn’t
- Hawaii House legislators band together to grab lobbyist donations during session
- HB2773: Convicts Will Receive Absentee Ballots to Give to the UPW
- HPD Scandals: Never Enough to Break Through Culture of Impunity
- Star-Adv Applauds as ACLU, Criminal Lawyers Beaver Away at Marsy’s Law
- HB2501: Stop Anti-Agriculture Water Grab
- Rail Condemnation: HART Squeezes Blood Bank for Every Drop
- Hawaiian Electric Claims it won't pursue LNG after NextEra Energy sale dies
- Energy Plan? UH Fails Miserably after Decade
- Three Clean Energy Projects Collapse in One Week
- SB2535: Bill limiting county oversight of Geothermal advances
- Low teacher salaries mean high turnover, second jobs
- Ige Nominates Two to UH BoR
- Leadership: Rep Andria Tupola Wins Nanakuli Contraflow Lane
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Thursday, February 18, 2016 |
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February 18, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:50 PM :: 4026 Views
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- Hawaii Joins 17-State Expensive Energy Pact After SCOTUS Stay
- DLNR Task Force to Analyze Revocable Permits
- Hawaii: Pacific VA Director Quits Without Notice
- CDC: Hawaii #1 for Sleep Deprivation
- Applicants Sought for Ethics Commission
- Scott Walker Addresses 400 Republicans in Hawaii
- Report: 60 Hawaii Bridges Structurally Deficient
- Marijuana: State Now Helps 13,000 Stay Medicated
- One Party State: Stanley Chang Campaigns to Eliminate All Republicans from State Senate
- Attempt to raise GE Tax is opposed
- SB3001: Senate Votes to Dry up Farmers’ Water Supply
- Hawaii Conspires With Vermont to Develop State Obamacare Software
- HELCO Seeks LNG Conversion for Failed Hu Honua Plant
- Marijuana Dispensary panel Still not Selected, Deadline May be Missed
- Kaneshiro: HOPE Probation is Excuse to Keep Criminals out of Prison
- A third of prison guards call in sick Super Bowl Sunday
- Public school employees get paid vacation when accused of sex with students
- Homeless Tent Cities – Deaths and Murders
- Nuisance Money: City agrees to pay $48,500 to settle sidewalk-clearing lawsuit
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016 |
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February 17, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:36 PM :: 3855 Views
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- Duke Aiona Open Letter to Donald Trump
- 2016 Hawaii Legislative Watch: Taxes
- Property Rights Court for Guam?
- Na’i Aupuni Surprise
- Maj. Borges decides not to accept HPD promotion
- SB2478: 12.5% Increase in GE Tax
- Seriously Considering Gas Tax Increase
- Hawaii Only State Taxing Girl Scout Cookies
- DoE—Lots of Vacant SPED Positions
- UH Manoa—25 Salaries over $275K
- UH West Oahu sees big tuition hikes
- The Elusive Goal of On-Time Graduation—The Atlantic Looks at UH
- Report: LNG Provides Electric Ratepayers ‘Lowest Overall Cost’
- Hearing Set in Anti-Aquarium Lawsuit vs DLNR
- HB2564 Deferred: Farmers Saved from Anti-Pesticide Hypocrites
- Deadly Cult Boat Investigation “Could Take Years”
- State Pulls Request For Prison Environmental Studies Exemption
- Marijuana Dispensary Applicants Had Trouble with DoH Website
- USO Gangster, Brother Start Prison Riot—Second Incident this Year
- Gun goes off in prosecutor’s office, no report filed with authorities
- Bills On Police Body Cams, Shooting Review Board Move Forward
- After 20 Convictions, Judge Finally Gives Lifelong Criminal Hard Time
- 80 days in jail after 9th violation
- Lunatic Acquitted killer seeks state hospital release
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Tuesday, February 16, 2016 |
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February 16, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:34 PM :: 5157 Views
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- Reject the Tribe: Hawaii, Maui, Oahu Public Meetings
- Bumpy Kanahele Quits Aha–Cites Clandestine Manipulation
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted February 16, 2016
- BBC: Use genetically modified mosquitoes on Big Island
- Ige Appoints Kai Kahele to Senate
- Ige Joins ‘Governors’ Accord for a New Energy Future’
- After Bribery Indictments, State Airport Division Extends Contract, Increases Pay
- Aha 2016: “Everything’s going to plan — we’re going to be Indians.”
- State government wages war with itself over DHHL
- SB2496: All Absentee Voting System—Romy Cachola’s Dream
- House Bills Take Aim at Profligate UH Administration
- Hawaii attorney general files to dissolve Hawaii Health Connector
- Hawaii 20% Short of physicians
- Marijuana Bills not Moving in House
- Amendment would limit county oversight of geothermal
- ‘Revealing Emails’ May Emerge in Big Island Geothermal Docket
- Reports to the Legislature Hidden
- Homeless Tent City Sprouts on Diamond Head
- Veterinarian to Challenge Anti-GMO Councilmember
- HECO bills drop again thanks to Fracking
- Atheist: Conservative President May Mean More God-Friendly Military
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Monday, February 15, 2016 |
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February 15, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:25 PM :: 3973 Views
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- With Mike Gabbard Controlling DLNR Budget, Kailua Bay Zodiac Death too Hot to Handle
- It’s the Judges, Stupid
- March 8 Hawaii Republican Caucus in the News
- Telescope Protesters Fined $5000 for Illegal take and Transport of Marine Mammal
- SB3072: Airport Authority
- Hawaii PACs Already Busy Raising And Spending Cash
- Term Limits, Voter Initiatives
- Tax Credit: An Investment In Children’s Future
- HB2638: Public Housing Move to Work
- HSTA: Give Us a 25% GE Tax Hike and Eliminate Testing
- HPD wants gun owners in FBI database
- SB2725: State lawmakers seek enhanced police oversight
- 225 Homeless Meth Addicts Near Wahiawa
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Sunday, February 14, 2016 |
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February 14, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:44 PM :: 5936 Views
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- What Scalia Taught Us
- Solving the Online Tax Dodge with Cookies?
- Hawaii State, Local Taxes Take $129.73 per $1000 Income
- Threatened with lawsuit, DoH Agrees to Identify Marijuana Panel Members
- Second Amendment Bills on the Move in Legislature
- Jones Act Exemption, LNG Imports Key to Puerto Rico Recovery
- Jones Act Navy Sinking in Sea of Red Ink
- Former Cocaine Dealer seeks Marijuana License: Unwarranted advantages, self-dealing, favoritism, and undue influence
- Marijuana: Secrecy, Unknown Agendas, connected applicants and lobbyists pressuring friends
- OHA’s Latest Cash Grab targets DLNR Leases
- OHA Cronies, Hanabusa in Grab for Big Island Geothermal Cash Flow
- Borreca: Mauna Kea Telescope Failing Because if Ige’s Lack of Leadership
- Elected Judges? Elected AG? Senators Push to Trim Governor’s Power
- Legislature considers a “victims’ bill of rights” in Soft-on Crime Hawaii
- Three Chosen To Fill Seat Of Late Hilo Senator Kahele
- Hawaii bills tackle marijuana, police oversight, pesticides
- HPD leader under fire for soliciting support for promotion
- UH NCAA Violations—It’s the Administration’s Failure to Stop the Coverup
- March 8: Who will Hawaii voters pick for Republican Presidential Nominee?
- Gabbard vs Wasserman-Schultz Showdown at the Plaza Club Tuesday?
- Nuuanu Ave Next Target in Caldwell’s War on Cars
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Saturday, February 13, 2016 |
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February 13, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:13 PM :: 4021 Views
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- Pounded by Schatz and Gabbard, Ige Finally Declares Dengue Emergency
- VIDEO: Duke Aiona Legislative Update
- HGEA to Protest Against Hawaii Republican Party
- Video: Free Market Economics for Hawaii (with Erik Root)
- North Korea Nukes: The Tipping Point is Here
- February 11: First Triple Referral Deadline of the Legislative Session
- Grassroot Institute Legislative Update--February 12, 2016
- HB1249: Guilty until Proven Innocent of Rape
- Who’s Running: Candidates Pulling Papers as of Feb 12, 2016
- HSTA bid for raised GE Tax fails in House, Still Moving in Senate
- No Surprise: Hawaii’s Soft-on-Crime Judges Don’t Want To Face Voters
- Biofuel Shell Game: How Giant Coal Plant Becomes part of Hawaii's 'Clean' Energy Future
- Because Obama is a Pathetic Weakling, South Korea Will Need its own Nukes
- HART: Time to Plan for Permanent GE Tax Hike using Rail Extension as Excuse
- No Surprise: DoE Solar project long on talk, slow on PV installations
- HELCO geothermal plan’s strict requirements nixed deal
- Bills Aim to Finance Workforce Housing Developments
- Homeless People Crowding Waianae Busses
- Soft on Crime: Multiple Convictions Since 2006 out on the Streets Does it Again
- Prison Guard accused of sex assault on the run
- Hawaii Ranks #3 in Foreclosure Inventory
- HGEA Members Take 180 Days to Approve Building Permits
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Friday, February 12, 2016 |
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February 12, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:07 PM :: 4697 Views
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- HB2733: 25% Hike in GE Tax
- Federal Court: Unions Can't Stop Maui Hospital Privatization
- Shenanigans continue—House Waives 48 hour notice for Hearings
- Hawaii Consumers Will Save $20M/Year Thanks to Internet Tax Abolition
- Interior Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas to Host Panel on Self Determination
- Oahu Girls Court Celebrates Strength Through Adversity
- Plan B: TMT would relocate if permit not secured soon
- Puna Geothermal: Door Open to OHA-Connected Company Selling Overpriced Electricity
- Judge Seizes A&B Water, Transfers Control to EarthJustice
- Newspaper demands pot panelists’ names be released
- Hawaii’s Charter School Overseers ‘Under Assault’ by Corrupt Charter School Operators
- Hawaii fantasy sports bill could create loophole
- Only 53% of Hawaii Visitors Stay in Hotel
- Mililani: Homeless Invade Preschool, Demand Service
- Police transparency gaining momentum as political issue
- Soft on Crime: Legal Aid Society Among Hawaii’s Top Lobbyists
- Legislators Consider Releasing 200 Criminals on to Streets
- Senators grill HPD over claims department meets 'gold standard' for operations
- Internal probe targets alleged cheating at police academy
- Zika in Micronesia?
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Thursday, February 11, 2016 |
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February 11, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:49 PM :: 5418 Views
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- HB1829 Makes it Easier to Divert Dispensary Weed to Black Market
- US Senate Votes to Permanently Ban Hawaii's Tax on Internet Access
- The Last Farmer Standing
- Grassroot Asks Legislature to Stop Using the GET as a Fundraising Tool
- Gabbard: Obama, Kenoi show Leadership on Dengue—Where’s Ige?
- UHERO: Recent Trends in Hawaii's Green Economy: Agriculture, Energy and Natural Resource Management
- DBEDT: Residential building permits jump 67.5 percent
- Legislators Advance 50% Hike in GE Tax
- Utility Taxes Rerouted to Reward HSTA for Supporting Ige
- AirBnB to Become State’s Tax Collector
- Huge Progress? After Kicking Most Hawaiians Out, Nai Aupuni Aha Decides to … Adopt Roberts Rules of Order
- Thirty-Meter Telescope officials reviewing sites outside of Hawaii
- Hounded by Protesters, Geothermal Company Quits HELCO RFP
- Hawaii Needs All Types Of Farms, Including Industrial Operations
- Marijuana Application Process ‘Stinky’
- Leader of Charter School Oversight Agency Hounded out of Office By Corrupt Charter School Operators
- Kenoi’s Crony Ethics Board Continues to Obstruct
- Political Insiders Panic over Possibility of Elected Judges
- Committee begins search for new Kamehameha Schools trustee
- Honolulu Prosecutor Takes over Prosecution of Cult Boat operator
- HB2740: Legislators consider tough medicine for HMSA
- UH Rape Politics Enters Legislature
- Victims wait for justice as hundreds of rape kits go untested
- SB2316: HPV Vaccine Mandate
- WaPo: Obama has Failed, North Korea May Nuke Hawaii
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Wednesday, February 10, 2016 |
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February 10, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:01 PM :: 4709 Views
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- Hawaii: Two Anti-Gun Bills Scheduled for Hearing Feb 10
- Kenoi Declares Dengue Emergency, Ige Refuses
- Hawaii ANG Unit Deploys to Fight ISIS
- Irony: GMO Marijuana Growers Threatened by Pollen Drift from Organic Hemp Farms
- Coop Proposes Alternative Power Generation Plan for Big Island
- Nai Aupuni Brainwashing
- Judge Throws out UPW Suit Against Hospital Privatization
- Crazy Idea: DOE could try more efficiency
- Unions Push State Subsidies for Failing, Bankrupt HHSC
- Panel, process for giving Cronies pot licenses to remain secret
- SB2753--Term limits for state legislators
- Feudal System Saved from Souki
- New HPD Assist Chief Has Long History of Trouble
- NextEra-HEI hearings likely to be extended again
- Monsanto is getting tired of being everybody's whipping boy
- Anti-GMO Airhead Ing -- ban genetically-modified salmon in Hawaii
- 95 Lose Jobs--Sugar plantation layoffs announced
- Brower: Turn Sand Island into Gigantic Homeless Tent City for 1,500
- Kahele’s Son to Seek Senate Nomination
- Election-Related Bills Before Legislature
- Senators Unanimously propose creation of new airport authority
- Push for victims’ constitutional right-to-know renewed at State Capitol
- Report--Escapee Shot by Hawaii County Police
- Push Hawaii lawmakers for pesticide buffer zones—but only for agriculture, not golf courses or other big pesticide users
- Humane Society Sticks up for Cat-Obsessives
- Solar Contractor Pleads Guilty to Tax Cheating—May Get Prison
- Waipio: 308 Acres Bulldozed for Bankrupt, Incomplete Solar Farm
- Talia's Bill To Curb US Military Child Abuse Passes House
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Tuesday, February 9, 2016 |
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February 9, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:28 PM :: 4638 Views
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- HB868 Gut n Replace: DoE Sneak Attack on Special Ed Students
- Fee Simple Conversion Bills Killed after KSBE Protests
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted March 8, 2016
- Are Electric Cars Really Green?
- State Individual Income Tax Rates and Brackets for 2016
- HB1675: Gay Control of Religion
- State Looking For A TMT Hearing Officer–Deadline 430pm Today
- Bridge Aina Lea: Hawaii ‘Takings’ Case in Federal Court
- HB1886: Oshiro v Friedrichs to Save HGEA from Open Shop?
- Poll: Ige Even Less Popular than Caldwell
- HB1913: Small businesses in Hawaii could be exempt from G.E.T.
- State pension could face ‘volatile’ future
- Hawaii is a Sinking Ship
- Telescope: Will Investors Give Up?
- House Chairman Blocks Speaker’s Lease Conversion Bills on Orders from KSBE
- HB2571: Legislature Considering New HECO Business Model
- Proposals would expand after-school care for middle schoolers
- Hawaii law to limit tenants' stay in public housing advances
- Homeless find permanent housing during ‘successful’ start to Hale Mauliola
- Ernie Martin Obstructs Affordable Senior Housing project
- Firearms Bills At Hawaii Legislature
- Soft on Crime: New Ways to Let Criminals Roam Free
- Escapee Wanted for Shooting
- SB3016: Will the Hawaii Legislature finally allow the public to see the names of bad cops?
- Instead of immediate DUI arrest, HPD sergeant got ride home
- Airport security guards accused of bribery plead not guilty
- Karen Awana Running For Office?
- Disgusting Organic Mac Nuts Infested with Salmonella
- Atheists, Devil-Worshippers Renew Push to Drive God off Kaneohe Base
- Which is More Sacred: Crony Spawn or Albatross?
- Accused of Rape at UH? Women’s Center Wants to Talk You into Admitting Guilt
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Monday, February 8, 2016 |
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February 8, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 12:49 PM :: 4590 Views
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- Pirate Video from Aha: Bumpy Kanahele Shouted Down, Walter Ritte Thrown Out
- HB1902 Sex Trafficking Reform Passes Judiciary
- DLNR Issues, Revises Kailua Bay Boating Incident News Release, Then Withdraws It
- HART Errors – Lack of Acknowledgement is Troublesome
- DLNR Sweeps Na Pali Coast--One Arrested, 70 Cited, Tons of Trash Airlifted Out
- Senate Superferry Bills on the Move
- Hawaii voters believe most misconduct is due to a few bad cops
- GE Tax Hike to Fund Bankrupt HHSC
- Where Are The Highest Paid State Workers? Public Health
- Only 19% Trust Aloha United Way With $5M for Homeless Projects
- Hawaii Energy Excelerator Funds Phony Wind Turbine Scheme
- Another Green Energy Scheme Goes Bankrupt
- Mauna Kea Telescope is Key Scientific Project for Indian Government—Will Tulsi Gabbard Step Up?
- Eco-Hypocrisy: Pandering, Selling Votes and Trashing the Aina
- HB686: Anti-GMO Morons Attack Fish without Explanation
- HPV: Legislators Bow to Anti-Vaxxers
- UH Grad Students Union Gets Hearing in House, Senate
- HB1802: Abusive Condo Associations
- Oahu 40 years Behind in Road Maintenance
- 27 Years: ‘Roads in limbo’ compound upkeep problems on island
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Sunday, February 7, 2016 |
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February 7, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:39 PM :: 3710 Views
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- Campaign 2016: Dozens of Politicians Pull Papers in First Week
- Legislative Update: Death, Taxes, and Extracurricular Activities
- As Farms Close, Reps Ing and Lee Jump on Anti-GMO Bandwagon
- GEMS to Cool Classrooms?
- Indian Casinos for Hawaii? Karl Rhoads Awaits Instructions from Political Bosses
- Aha: First week of convention Focuses Push for Fake Indian Tribe
- Republican Primary Season for All Players
- Panicky Airhead Schatz Struggles to Appear Senatorial
- Term limits for Hawaii legislators and initiatives could revive isle politics
- Ferry plans face big hurdle in swelling culture of ‘no’
- HB2638: Make Public Housing a Ladder to Home Ownership
- Lawyers Salivate at Chance to get Money for Convicts
- SB2313: Field Day for Lawyers
- Senate committee approves bill imposing tax on E-cigarettes and E-liquids
- Cigar Tax Cut on Agenda for 2016?
- Marijuana Bills – Ban Home Grown?
- Caldwell’s Potholes Repaired with ‘Least Durable Method’
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Saturday, February 6, 2016 |
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February 6, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 9:46 PM :: 3594 Views
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- DoH Releases Full List of Marijuana Dispensary Applicants
- Hawaii Superferry Eyed for Maine-Nova Scotia Route
- Anti-Family Bills Before Hawaii Legislature
- VIDEO: Planned Parenthood Uses Accounting Gimmicks to Hide Baby Parts Sales
- HSTA Pushes $750M GE Tax Hike
- HB1713: HSTA Bill Will Gut Ethics Law in Hawaii
- Feds: Caldwell’s Homeless Tent City is Distraction—Path to Failure
- NextEra’s ‘Unreasonable’ Plan: Windmills Everywhere and Undersea Cables to Connect Them
- 9th Circuit court to hear Maui GMO moratorium case
- Bad Day in Court for Burning Anti-Agriculture Activists
- Hi-Tech Scammers: Tax Real Companies to Pay for our Fake Companies
- Hi Tech Scammers: We don’t need to Develop any real Companies in Hawaii But You Must Give Us Money
- Chief Being Investigated by FBI, New Assistant Chief was arrested on a first-degree felony charge for terroristic threatening
- SHOPO files complaint over use of police body cameras on Kauai
- HB1525: Legislators Maneuvering to keep Homeless on the Streets
- Maui County Council Dithers as Ige Homeless Emergency Ticks Down to Feb 26 Expiration
- DLNR Removes 71 Homeless and Tons of Trash from Napali Coast Camps
- Obamacare: COFA Has until Feb 15 to Sign up
- DoE School Cancels Honors Classes in Effort to Promote ‘Equality’
- HMSA Imaging Ban ‘A Lawsuit Waiting to Happen’
- Child Molestation: HB1782--Erin’s Law for Hawaii
- Soft on Crime: Shot at a Cop, out on Parole, Does it Again, and Again
- State seeks proposals for secured privately-run mental patient facilities
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Friday, February 5, 2016 |
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February 5, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:33 PM :: 3637 Views
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- SB2179: Decriminalize Methamphetamines, Heroin, Cocaine
- Gallup: Hawaii Conservatives Outnumber Liberals—State Ranks #3 in Moderates
- Cult Busted: Gabbard Financier Charged with Killing, Injuring Divers with Speedboat
- Nai Aupuni Aha Illegally Blocks Protesters from Walking on Stolen Hawaiian Kingdom Road
- Final Report: Only 14,564 Apply for Obamacare in Hawaii—Lowest in USA
- Ige Admin Denies Proposing Superferry Revival
- Business in Hawaii: Regulatory barriers and crippling tax rates
- KSBE: We Will Fight Leasehold Conversion Bills
- Oahu: 596 Homeless Veterans Permanently Housed
- Inspector General: Honolulu VA Hospital Fails on Suicide Prevention
- Hawaii Union Membership Slips to 20.4%
- Western States try again at Freeing Themselves from 9th Circuit Court
- Army announces decision on ‘biofuel-capable’ diesel electric plant
- Judge sends TMT back to Land Board
- Poll: Only 16 Percent Of Voters Feel Good About Honolulu Rail
- Kauai Plan to Hike GE Taxes ‘Flawed’
- Superferry idea worth vetting
- Romy Cachola’s Dream Ends Badly
- Feds: Soapy Water Pleases Hippies, but Doesn’t Kill Mosquitoes
- Governor works with developer on plan to build more affordable rentals
- Cronies Pour Money into Congressional Delegation
- Committee approves HB2193—Let lawmakers veto UH tuition hikes
- Faculty Members Sue UH Over Claims Of Broken Promises, Retribution
- UH Admin Let Kaimuki Properties Sit Empty for 39 Years
- UH coaches will continue to be HGEA members
- HMSA Imaging Ban Crowds Emergency Rooms
- SPED: DoE ‘Inclusion’ Policy Does not Include Education
- Legislature: Anti-Vaxxers Win a Big Victory for Germs
- Legislators Pander to Anti-Pesticide Hypocrites Before Killing Bill
- Committee OKs Bill Granting Public Access To Police Misconduct Records
- Super Bowl Looms, And A Lot Of Prison Guards Feel Colds Coming On
- High-ranking HPD promotion surrounded by controversy
- Defense Bar uses Continuances to Get up to 1/3 of DUIs Dismissed
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Thursday, February 4, 2016 |
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February 4, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:20 PM :: 5514 Views
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- Presidential Race: Santorum Endorses Rubio--Huckabee, Paul, O’Malley Drop Out
- Hawaii ERS vs Petrobras: $98 Billion Bribery Case
- Ill-conceived ivory-ban legislation based on lies and deceit
- State Corporate Income Tax—Hawaii Competitive?
- Hawaii Open Budget Celebrates One Year Online
- Latest Solar Scam: Kauai Coop Warns Consumers
- On Peak Solar Days, Kauai Momentarily Hits 90% Renewable Energy
- Public Health Expert: Spread of Dengue, Zika Caused by Environmentalists
- Not Just Cane--Burning Lawsuit Impacts 140 Farming Operations in Hawaii
- Acquittal of Telescope Protesters Give Them Heckler’s Veto
- Ige Admin floats proposal to bring back ferry service -- then denies it (?)
- Kauai Council: $250M GE Tax hike won’t cure congestion
- HART Responsible for Pro-Bowl Parking Mess
- ‘Club Being Assembled’: Kenoi Cronies Stack ‘Ethics’ Commission, Prepare Whitewash
- Poll: Ige, Caldwell Failing On Homelessness
- Ige’s Hardest Job Is Just Making State Government Work
- HB2575 Renewable Energy: Will 100% Really Mean 100%?
- Storage Hype and Getting to 100%
- Bill would lower Hawaiian ancestry rule for homesteads
- Homosexual Child Molesters at Catholic Churches and Kam Schools Worked Together
- Lawsuit claims teachers kept autistic boy strapped to chair
- Resignations allow HPD to Hide Police Misconduct
- HB2335: Get Rid of Bad MDs from other States
- Reality Check: Hawaii Tourism on a 30 Year Decline
- Boom Goes Bust? Hughes Delays Construction of Two Luxe Towers
- Bike lane study to block lanes, jam traffic in Kailua
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Wednesday, February 3, 2016 |
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February, 2016 Letters to the Editor
By Letters to the Editor @ 7:40 PM :: 4276 Views
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Ill-conceived ivory-ban legislation based on lies and deceit
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Wednesday, February 3, 2016 |
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February 3, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:03 PM :: 5191 Views
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- Sovereignty Activists’ Declaration Protesting Na’i Aupuni, Federal Recognition
- Time To Elect Hawaii's Judges? Maybe Not Such A Bad Idea
- Renewable Energy: How the 100% Mandate Hurts Hawaii
- DraftKings Quitting Hawaii After Prosecutor Issues Cease-and-Desist Letter
- Experts split on rail’s options
- Mainland Homosexuals Target First Amendment, Children, Bathrooms in Hawaii
- HB1701: Hawaii First State to Introduce ‘Safe Child Act’
- HSPAN: Hawaii Capitol On Demand Video
- Looking back at the 2015 Hawaii Legislature
- Video: Anti-GMO Crackpot Peddles ‘Molecular Hydrogen’ Tablets
- Communist Acquitted Killer Named Inouye Professor at UH Manoa
- HB2712: Will Legislators Save Telescope with Zoning Change?
- Committee OKs Bill To Shield UH Regents From Revealing Financial Info
- An audit of UH?
- Audit: Hawaii DoE Sped Programs ‘Marginal, Inefficient’
- Medicare: “Value-based” payment can encourage unethical behavior
- Dengue Emergency? Gabbard, Ige Jostle for Credit
- Anti-GMO Activists, Anti-Vaxxers: Dumb and Dumbest
- HPV vaccination bill spurs emotional debate
- Committee Defers Bill to Fly Homeless Back to Mainland
- On the Move in the Legislature
- Caldwell Has $1.6M For Re-Election
- Nearly 6,000 HMSA members did not reenroll in ACA plans, insurer says
- Hawaii Had a Master Plan for Prisons in the 1970s—It Didn’t Work Either
- SHOPO Claims to Support Heightened HPD Discipline
- Pro-Bowl: Total Frustration Four Hours in Traffic
- Hawaii is the top state for potential savings through mortgage refinancing
- Kauai: 62% oil Powered Electricity, Oahu 85%
- Ige Not very Interested in LNG Plan
- More NextEra Merger News
- Lawsuit: Hawaii man HIV-positive after blood transfusion
- Legislators Push Back Against Cesspool Ban
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Tuesday, February 2, 2016 |
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February 2, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:33 PM :: 4327 Views
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- Incumbents Challenged on Day One--Candidates Begin Filing on Maui, Big Island
- McCain strikes at Jones Act to reform U.S. energy policy
- Report: Russian, Iranian Hackers Behind Honolulu School Bomb Threats
- HOPE Probation: Confronting America’s Drug-Overdose Epidemic
- BBB: Hawaii Ranks #2 for Scams
- Caldwell Raises GE Taxes $1.1 Billion
- Na'i Aupuni 'aha begins, protestors unite
- Nai Aupuni likely to broaden and deepen the mistrust
- Galuteria, Akana Double Dipping to Attend Nai Aupuni Oprah Aha – Ing Chickens Out
- After Clearing Kakaako, Caldwell, Martin Conspire to Build Gigantic Homeless Tent City in Wahiawa
- Legislature Mulls Fly-Homeless-Home Program
- 19,000 families on waiting list to get public housing
- Paradise? Real Suffering Ignored While Activists Babble About Imaginary Nonsense
- HB1778: Kill a Baby, Go to Jail? – Not in Soft on Crime Hawaii
- HPD reports firing of 17 officers, major increase in discipline
- Hawaii Ranks 29th for Gun Control Nuts
- Hilo Hospital Closing Down Long Term Care, Reducing HGEA Positions
- Can You Afford To Be A Teacher In The Islands?
- NextEra-HEI merger hearing resumes
- Feds Force Stations to Keep Selling Ethanol Gas, Despite State Law Repeal
- Fans Miss Pro-Bowl Due to Long Lines at Aloha Stadium
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Monday, February 1, 2016 |
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February 1, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:02 PM :: 4952 Views
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- Golf Club Aha: John Waihee Returns to the Scene of the Crime
- Aha Participants Asked to Leave Weapons at Home
- Pirate Video from Aha: Bumpy Kanahele Shouted Down, Walter Ritte Thrown Out
- Oprah Aha Does Not Represent Hawaiian Public
- Complete List of 2016 Gambling Bills
- Labeling a Cop Out Mentality
- Rail’s Numbers – A Pattern of Errors and Inconsistencies
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted February 1, 2016
- The REIT Way Hawaii
- 772 Homeless Accepted Housing Last Year
- Drumbeat for More GE Tax Hikes
- REIT Tax is Back for 2016
- HB2638 limits Public Housing tenants’ stay to 7 years
- Breast Feeding Jurors on legislative agenda
- HB2005 Care Homes: More unannounced visits and licensing fees in exchange for more money
- $27M Hilo airport warehouse still vacant
- Must Hawaii be the State that just Cannot Plan?
- Civil Beat Kisses up to Ige Some More
- Civil Beat Kisses up to Takai Some More
- Fatal Boating Accident Linked to Tulsi Gabbard Cult
- Bullying on the Legislative Agenda
- Tom Brower is a Bully
- Human Papillomavirus Vaccine By 7th Grade?
- SB2158: No State Funds for Bottled Water
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Sunday, January 31, 2016 |
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January 31, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:56 PM :: 5495 Views
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- Gambling on a Hawaiian Tribe
- UHERO: New Perspectives on Land and Housing Markets in Hawaii
- Hawaii Business Roundtable Announces Support for NextEra Energy and HEI Merger
- Apply Now for Vacant Seat: State Commission on Water Resource Management
- Delegates ‘Not Optimistic’ As Closed Aha Gathers at Luxury Golf Resort
- Threats arise ahead of Native Hawaiian 'aha
- Leaders dig into new round of frustration and frivolity
- Star-Adv: Start talking now about Using Rail as Excuse to Make GE Tax Hike Permanent
- GE Tax Hike Will Increase Suffering in Our Community
- Names surface for Kahele’s successor
- Ige’s 1,000 cool classrooms face a credibility problem
- Marijuana Dispensary license application period ends—Which Cronies Will be Picked?
- Point in Time Count—Need to Maximize Homeless to Maximize Federal Dollars
- Big Island Homeless Count – Hope for 2,000 This Year
- SB2464: Homeless Alkies Move from Mainland, Want Josh Green to Tax Your House to Buy Them More Beer
- Legislature again considering bill to make consumer complaints secret
- Maui Jail: Even the Planning Funds Eliminated from Ige Budget
- SB2778 Puts Airport Security Under Control of Sheriff
- HGEA: HC&S Layoffs are Opportunity for us to ‘Create Positions’
- HGEA, UPW: Dengue Fever is Opportunity for us to ‘Create Positions’
- MECO: Cheap Oil is Saving You Money on Electricity, but Don’t Worry, Were Getting Rid of It
- Feds Plan to Use Endangered Species Act to Shut Down Hunting in Hawaii
- Hawaii Mulling Mandatory Insurance For Gun Owners
- Obama Hawaii DoE a Model for Computer Science Success
- Parents say teen victims of cyber-assaults received little or no help from DOE
- Domestic violence #2 in arrests
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Saturday, January 30, 2016 |
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January 30, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:29 PM :: 3957 Views
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- Reason: Conversion Therapy Is Bad, but Banning It Is a Form of Unacceptable Censorship
- The Drama of the Jones Act Follies
- HB1686: New standard for involuntarily commitment to psychiatric facility
- Sex, Drugs, Gambling and Suicide on Legislative Agenda
- Fact Sheet: Nelson v Hawaiian Homes Commission
- VIDEO: How a Bill Becomes a Law
- Advocates for Abused and Neglected Children Needed on Oahu
- Hi Tech Scammers: Tax Real Companies to Line our Pockets
- Vote by Mail on the move at Legislature
- No Joke: University of Hawaii seeks revenue bond authority again from Legislature
- Lawmakers consider UH salary cap
- HB1713: Reverse Ethics Ruling on Teacher Travel
- 10 Years Later—Sudden ‘Urgency’ on State Mental Hospital
- Once again, State promises change after losing more millions in another inmate-related settlement
- Usual Suspects Propose State Allow Homeless Tent Cities to Remain
- Dengue: Ige Still Inactive after Gabbard Demands Fever Emergency
- Intelligent Person Forced to Quit Pesticide ‘Fact-Finding’ Group
- District-Based Kauai Council Charter Amendment Popular
- Military? Voting is our right and responsibility
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Friday, January 29, 2016 |
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January 29, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:34 PM :: 4320 Views
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- ‘Entire Process Corrupt’–Protests will Greet Nai Aupuni at Luxury Golf Resort ‘Aha
- Guam Governor Endorses Ted Cruz for President
- Where Do Americans Take Their Retirement Income?
- If the state legalizes any form of gambling, federal law would allow Native American tribes to then buy property in Hawaii and build a casino
- SB2938: Ige Pushes 19% Gas Tax Increase
- Grabauskas: $3.7B = $5.2B and the Additional $1.2B is My Enemies’ Fault
- Hawaii leaders are admitting that what used to be just problems are now catastrophes
- CDC: Hawaii Organics and anti-chemical feelings are ‘Unsurmountable obstacle’ to Dealing With a Zika Outbreak
- 77,000 installed solar PV systems across Hawaii
- HB2638 would limit tenants’ years in public housing
- Forbes: Restrictions on Hawaii Marijuana Dispensaries will Leave Black Market Intact
- Lawmakers Defer Lower Blood-Alcohol Limit For Drivers, Approve Car Smoking Ban
- Prisons officials seek private partnership for new jail
- Privatizing Honokohau Harbor floated
- Restore HMSA waivers ASAP
- DLNR officer faces possible 20 years in rape case
- Security guards indicted for taking bribes at airport
- FBI takes over theft, bribery case involving Maui officers
- Marines fired commander days before deadly helicopter crash in Hawaii
- Billy Kenoi’s Chief Crony Announces Run for Mayor
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Thursday, January 28, 2016 |
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January 28, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:59 PM :: 3827 Views
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- 2016 Elections: Candidate Filing Begins Monday Feb 1
- Fraud Risk as HGEA, UPW Members Give Each Other Undocumented Vacation, Sick Leave
- State bank bill deferred
- Is HART's train factory a joke?
- Aloha Aina Activists Holding their Own ‘Aha
- Hawaii Reclaims Top Spot in U.S. Well-Being
- 8.6M–Tourism Sets New Record for 2015
- Council Passes GE Tax Hike: Extending Rail to Manoa More Important than Affordable Housing
- Kobayashi: Rail Will go Bankrupt
- Hawaii County Council Considers Massive GE Tax Hike – Would Take $20M out of Consumers’ Pockets
- Kauai Council Considers Massive GE Tax Hike
- 10 Bills that would raise taxes
- Hawaii lawmakers file 2,000 bills on lottery, ferry, guns
- Hanabusa, HSTA Team up to Gut Hawaii Ethics Laws
- Governor Just another small voice in Union Orchestrated Chorus
- A proposed bill could cut salaries of 10 UH executive employees
- Don’t politicize medical licensure
- SB3022: Bring Back Superferry
- More Privileges for Electric Car Eco-Elites
- Bike share Program Has $2.5M Won’t do Anything Unless Legislature Wastes Another $8M
- Proposal would require gun insurance, firearm renewals every 5 years
- Making it easier to hospitalize the mentally ill could help ease homelessness
- Pensions at Risk: Bill Pushes for Oil and Coal Divestment
- Hawaii Bill Would Legalize Marijuana for Recreational Use
- HB1677: Oversee Dope Doctors, HB2455: Price Controls for Weed
- In Soft on Crime Hawaii, Bills Make it Even Easier to Let Criminals Roam Free
- State lawmakers push for new bill to expand public database of officer wrongdoings
- Kona police officer charged with assault
- Rod Tam to Run for State Senate?
- Confessions Of A Native Hawaiian Poster Child
- Inaccuracies sink report critical of Jones Act
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Wednesday, January 27, 2016 |
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January 27, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:00 PM :: 3331 Views
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- Study: HTA Faking Pro Bowl Tourism Numbers
- Grassroot Budget Report Highlights Missing Element In Governor's Address
- Humpback Go Back: Feds Back off of Grab for Hawaii Waters
- The DoD Biofuel Scam Is Worse Than Solyndra
- 2015: Hawaii Adds Most Construction Jobs Per Capita
- Will Navy Buy More Foreign-Built Ships?
- Government IT Transformation: 2016 Legislative Priorities
- Sen Gil Kahele Dead at 73
- Charter Commission Defers Proposal to Repeal Affordable Housing Fund
- Ige’s already nervous. This is gonna be painful.
- Ige ‘Cooling’ Plan: $100K Per Classroom
- Legislators Propose Tax Hike on Workers to Pay others not to Work
- Criminal Escapes Lunatic Asylum Thanks to HGEA Members Leaving Gate Open
- Mainland Dopers Like Hawaii’s System for Selling Weed
- HB1675: Molester Can ‘Turn’ your Son and You Can’t Turn him Back
- Gay Panic: ‘Conversion Therapy’ Does Not Exist in Hawaii
- Bill would criminalize consensual sex between teachers and teens
- Hawaii per pupil spending is $11,743 rank 16th in USA
- DoE Double Pays 223 Teachers—May Try to Get $100K Back
- UH Manoa: Howling Lynch Mob of Perfessers Screaming ‘Racism’
- HB2156 Fund Campaign Spending Commission
- Should Hawaii Elect Its Judges And AG?
- Kauai: No GE Tax Hike
- Reps. Evans, Mizuno and Morikawa Raising Cash During Session
- More Legislative News:
- NextEra-HECO Hearings to Re-Start on Monday
- Micronesians ‘Younger, Sicker’ Than Other Hawaii Groups
- Isles rank near bottom for jobs in STEM fields
- What is WalletHub and why are we listening to them?
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Tuesday, January 26, 2016 |
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January 26, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 10:37 AM :: 4636 Views
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- GEMS: Electric Ratepayers Pay Millions for Nothing
- Full Text: State of the State Address
- Republicans on State of the State: 5 Things We Can Agree On, 5 Areas for Improvement
- Jones Act: “Diffuse costs and concentrated benefits”
- Video: Budget or Bust
- UH Cancer Center: E-Cigs are Cutting Deep into our Tobacco Tax Revenue—So We’re Hitting Back
- State of the State: Illusions, Unspent Money, and Zero
- State of the State: Ige Snatches Abercombie’s GEMS
- Progress? Ige Touts DoH Ability to Spend Money
- Busted: Hawaii Tax Credit Scammers Caught Lying About Failure Rate of Their Fake ‘Startup’ Companies
- Rail operations will raise taxes 9%—$90M per Year Forever
- Supreme Court Rejects Kam Schools Effort to Suppress Evidence in Other Child Molestation Case
- Hawaii Senator Wins Residency Appeal
- World’s Most Expensive Resort Ever To Be Built In Hawaii For $2 Billion by Jeff Stone
- Boom Over? The same thing happened in the last building booms. Each condo project sold fast, until one didn't
- Humpback: DLNR Opposes Federal Grab for Control of Hawaii Waters
- County Mayors Are Back With A Familiar Request — More Tax Money
- Souki Introduces Lottery Bill
- Lawmaker proposes Bellagio-like fountains at State Capitol
- Privatizing Building Permits
- Bill would let Hawaii pharmacists prescribe birth control
- Death Panels: HMSA Proves Sarah Palin Right
- HGEA and UPW Order Legislators to Raise Questions about HHSC long-term care facilities
- New bill proposes lowering blood-alcohol-content levels in Hawaii
- Bullying Professors Scream Racism (again) at UH Manoa
- Number of abused kids in Hawaii up slightly
- Airport Ceiling Collapse Generates $900K Contract
- Criminal Lunatic Escapes Again—Recaptured by Police
- UH researchers say Hawaii wildfires strongly linked to Abandonment of Ag Lands
- Obama Admin Gives HCDA Money for Local Food Production … in Kakaako
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Monday, January 25, 2016 |
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January 25, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:24 PM :: 4321 Views
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- Crabbe: Plan is to Take Control of Hawaii’s Entire Economy and Hide Behind Tribal Jurisdiction
- Bishop Museum to ‘Focus on Disposition of Assets’
- Another Brand New Navy Ship Breaks Down
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 25, 2016
- Council Final Vote on massive GE Tax Hike & Rail Extension to UH Manoa Wednesday
- Ige Starting to Look Like a Weak Governor
- Politics At Play With UH Maintenance Backlog
- Dawn Ige Headlines Education Conference
- Business Top Priority: Stopping Tax Hikes
- County Councils’ Priorities: Gut Sunshine Law, Abolish First Amendment
- School-community councils Inactive at many Schools
- HB1680: Outlaw Non-Dispensary Marijuana
- Judicial system should keep child molesters off the street
- Body Cam Rules top Police Reform Agenda
- Grand jury to look into airport bribery allegations
- Frustration: Greenwell ‘Surprised’ By Sudden Bishop Museum Sale Announcement
- Analyst: LNG Likely Would Save Hawaii Billions
- Hawaii among the worst states for retirees
- Will barking Sands Defend Hawaii or Mainland?
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