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Tuesday, February 2, 2016 |
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February 2, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:33 PM :: 4331 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 :: 4957 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 :: 5498 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 :: 3960 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 :: 4330 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 :: 3831 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 :: 3335 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 :: 4640 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 :: 4330 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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Sunday, January 24, 2016 |
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January 24, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:21 PM :: 3978 Views
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- Hirono: Obama’s CIA Spied on Me
- Honolulu Rail Project Cost Approaching One Half of Boston Big Dig
- HB326: Bad Mortgages to be Foundation for Calvin Say State Bank
- Tax Is for the Birds
- Ige to Propose Massive Utility Tax Hike--use hot schools as excuse
- Ige Calls for More Spending Questioned After Departments Fail to Spend Federal Money
- Governor No Can Do
- HGEA Job Trust: 45 Years old Computers Churn out State Payroll
- SB2297: Allow Counties to take Over Utilities via Eminent Domain
- Maui News: County Has No Idea How to Run Utility
- Puunene Mill will no longer provide power to the island's electric grid—may cause blackouts
- State Seizes HC&S Water
- Anti-GMO activists endangering future of agriculture in Hawaii
- Barking dog law a sad sign of changing times on Kauai
- Combine ax-grinding masquerading as science with poor reporting, and what do you get?
- After Massive Rate Hikes, HMSA Now Refusing to Pay for X-Rays, CAT Scans
- Wednesday is Deadline for Legislators to Introduce Bills
- Bills: Campaign Spending, Ballots, Open Gov’t on the Agenda
- Hawaii Future Caucus Outlines Agenda
- Ballot-Photo law to be reconsidered this legislative session
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Saturday, January 23, 2016 |
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January 23, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:57 PM :: 4027 Views
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- ‘Sacred’ Greenmail: OHA urges Legislators to charge observatories higher rent
- Low Income Tax Relief: Hawaii Earned Income Tax Credit
- Jones Act Shipbuilding: Only the Price is American
- Everything you need to know about Zika, virus that’s spreading like wildfire
- Hawaii Obamacare Exchange -- 20,000 bogus enrollees
- Is Hawaii in danger of losing the Thirty Meter Telescope? (duh)
- HB1525: Sit-Lie Ban on State Land
- No Tent City for Big Island: Hawaii County Council Votes for Homeless Micro-Units
- HB1740: Medicare Doesn’t Pay Enough—So Lets Force Doctors to Work
- HB1532: UH Regents’ Finances None Of Your Business
- Only a few early bird legislators have filed personal financial disclosures
- HTA Secretly Refinances convention center debt
- DLNR Officer Allegedly Demanded Sex, Drugs or Money after Catching Girl Smoking Weed
- Anti-GMO Activists Very Very Happy After Kauai Pesticide Blunder
- 20 Acres and a Mill: Sugar making Comeback on Kauai (sort of)
- Luxury Kakaako condo project cancelled after slow sales (Rising Dollar Claims First Victim?)
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Friday, January 22, 2016 |
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January 22, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:01 PM :: 3830 Views
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- SB217: Bill to Abolish First Amendment Deferred
- LNG could save Oahu gas utility customers more than 25 percent
- Minimum Wage in Hawaii Compared to Median Income
- Breakthrough: ACLU Allows City to Dispose of Homeless People’s Urine, Feces
- List of Neighborhood Board Vacancies
- Fatal work injuries -- 31 in Hawaii
- Alaska Groceries Short due to Repeated Ship Breakdowns by Jones Act Carrier Behind El Faro Disaster
- Gov. Scott Walker to Speak at Hawaii Lincoln Day Dinner
- Video: Duke Aiona on Hawaii Legislative Session
- Only 12,764 people in Hawaii sign up for Obamacare with days to go
- Second Year: Ige Admin has no Answers and no Strategies
- Delay Costing Telescope Millions of Dollars (so OHA Can Collect Rent)
- Alleged DoE Child Molester Rewarded with Paid Vacation: 12 DOE employees on leave with pay for a year or more
- Can Roz Baker Use Kupuna to Sucker You into Accepting 12.5% GE Tax Hike?
- Tax Policy? Nobody Here Knows What They are Doing
- Consultant recommends Cancer Center Dump Incompetent UH Admin, go private
- Even Legislators not fooled by Incompetent UH Administration
- As UH Tuition Soars, Poor Need More Scholarships
- Keeping Old, Inefficient OCCC is Priority for UPW Job Trust
- 318 Apply but Caldwell’s Planning Department issues only one ADU Permit
- Hawaii County to spend $650,000 on homeless micro-units while old buildings sit vacant
- Anti-GMO Losers Call Rally, Nobody Shows Up
- Big Island tourism taking a hit from dengue outbreak
- First family’s Hawaii vacation cost HPD $341K in overtime
- State-owned building to become operational after rotting for 13 Years
- After Multiple Offenses Spanning Generations, Child Molester Finally gets Hard Time
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Thursday, January 21, 2016 |
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January 21, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:46 PM :: 4626 Views
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- Speaker Souki Proposes Fee Simple Conversion of State-Owned Commercial Leases
- Full Text: Speaker Souki Opening Day Remarks
- “Lofty and dogmatic statements that have no basis in substantive policy”–Hawaii Legislature Reconvenes
- Unfulfilled promises, wasted tax money, poorly written contracts and unenforceable legislation—Hawaii Legislature Reconvenes
- Aloha Aina ‘Aha Against US Tribe
- Sen Kahele Hospitalized on Opening Day
- Lawsuit: Lopaka Ryder, Killed by Drug Dealer, was exposed by Police as Informant
- Opening Day at Legislature
- $10 Billion: The Ultimate Price Tag for Honolulu Rail?
- Sen Gil Kieth Agaran Proposes to Abolish Free Speech
- Leaders call for converting commercial leasehold lands to direct ownership
- Budget Preview for Legislative Opening Day
- HB1041: Hawaii State Gaming Commission
- Bought n Paid For: Legislators Employed by HGEA, AFL-CIO
- Vote Tuesday March 8--Hawaii Republicans could play bigger role in shaping GOP presidential race
- Competent Biography Would Explore Inouye Wartime Atrocity
- Apo: OHA is ‘De-Facto Governing Entity’
- Bishop Museum on path to irrelevancy
- Ex-Principal: Imposition of Statewide Curriculum ‘Troubling’
- Court OKs New Rules On Homeless Sweeps
- NextEra - Navy Deal Exposed
- Jones Act: Inconsistent Trade Policy Hinders Economic Growth
- Judge Grabs HC&S Water
- Will Paranoia Keep Pot Heads Away from Dispensaries
- ACLU unveils privacy fight in 16 states
- Lawsuit: Judge Improperly Sealed Records in Police Child Rape Case
- Little League thief granted reprieve
- Hawaii health officials worried about threat from Zika virus
- Kenoi Finally Gets Around to Filling Ethics Posts
- PETA Harasses Army Officer over Kahuku Pig Hunt
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Thursday, January 21, 2016 |
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Letters to the Editor, January, 2016
By Letters to the Editor @ 12:35 AM :: 4184 Views
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- Job opportunities and tax revenues suffer as a result of fallow fields
- Muslims Celebrate Christmas
- Labor Camps for Deadbeat Dads
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Wednesday, January 20, 2016 |
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January 20, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:42 PM :: 4393 Views
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- Governor Ige Proclaims Jan. 24-30 “Hawai’i School Choice Week”
- State-Local Tax Burden—Hawaii Ranks 14th
- Legislators Scale Back Opening Day Celebrations, Focus on Campaign Fundraisers Instead
- State Squeezing Counties on TAT in Hope of 12.5% GE Tax Hike
- Senate Reorganization Drops Massive GE Tax Hike in Roz Baker’s Lap
- Public Housing, DHHL Rentals top Homeless Agenda
- Great News: Homeless Sweeps Would Proliferate Under Ige’s Budget Plan
- Bill Would Get Rid of Scott Nago
- Revealed: Wealthy Mainlanders Funding Hawaii Anti-GMO Movement
- Oahu customers could have saved $132M on fuel costs with LNG in 2015
- Honolulu spending $5.2B on sewage system, but not expanding capacity
- Federal Grab for West Hawaii Water Could Take Years
- SHOPO Asks State To Stop Kauai Body Camera Use
- Man accused of setting fire to girlfriend had been released from jail days ago
- Peter Carlisle Wants to be Your Cannabis Connection
- Hawaii County to begin Hiring Drug Addicts, Thanks to ACLU
- Lawsuit: ACLU Board Member was Homosexual Child Molester at Kamehameha School
- FBI: Property crimes make up majority of crime in Honolulu
- BNP Paribas prepares multi-billion IPO of First Hawaiian Bank, say sources: Reuters
- Coast Guard suspends search for 12 Marines off Oahu’s North Shore
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Tuesday, January 19, 2016 |
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January 19, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:58 PM :: 3394 Views
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- Supreme Court Declines to hold Nai Aupuni in Contempt
- Hawaii Poll: Clinton, Trump Lead Races for Nomination
- Study Shows how Coral Death Hype can be used to Gain Control of Your Land
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How they Voted January 19, 2016
- Search for missing Marines continues into 5th day
- Caldwell in Trouble Against Aiona
- 41% of voters denounce Ige’s work
- Titanic Legislature has same deck chairs, just rearranged
- Homelessness Top Issue
- Green: Homeless is good excuse for Minimum Wage Hike, Tax Increase
- Kenoi Helps Charter Schools Push Back against Oversight, Ethics
- DHHL under fire for creating positions when vacancies are high—Danner Smells Opportunity
- Anti-Pesticide Hucksters Tour State -- Sugar Cane Victory Lap
- Hawaii has a shortage of farmers, not farmland
- Hawaii 4th Most Expensive State to be a Smoker
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Monday, January 18, 2016 |
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January 18, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:13 PM :: 3350 Views
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- 1959: Martin Luther King Jr Salutes Hawaii Statehood
- Maui TEA Party Hosts Pulitzer Prize Winning Cartoonist Michael P Ramirez
- Honolulu Charter Commission Discusses Ethics, Police, Fire and Salaries
- Rep. Ward: Legislators don’t have to Follow Souki and Ige Against DHHL Funding
- VIDEO: Is America Racist?
- Hawaii Residents Most Likely to be Living Paycheck to Paycheck
- Search for missing Marines finds life rafts but no sign of 12 Marines
- Poll: 45% of Native Hawaiians Reject Nai Aupuni
- Poll Shows Rail Planners How Much they Can Jack Up Costs
- HYCF Overtime Abuse has plagued the facility for years
- After 20 Years of paying, Tourism authority still owes $317M for convention center
- Food Injustice Comes to Hawaii (Again)
- Motivated Students Sacrificed to Satisfy Utopian Ideals?
- California to Build 10,000 Units for Mentally Ill Homeless
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Sunday, January 17, 2016 |
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January 17, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:23 PM :: 5036 Views
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- “The only result the Nai Aupuni process can get is federal recognition”
- Maui County Report: Co-op Should Buy MECO Transmission Grid
- Buy America! For an extra $3M – this time
- Hawaii Family Forum Gearing up for 2016 Legislative Session
- Hawaii March for Life Jan 22
- VIDEO: RNC member urges Republicans to rally against Trump
- VIDEO: Politically Incorrect Hawaiian Punch Prepares You for the Real World
- Military releases names of Marines involved in helicopter crash
- Poll: Aiona Beats Caldwell 43% to 38%
- Cronies Fail without Inouye to tell Them What to Think
- Great News: Public labor unions could lose their political clout
- Counties Challenge HECO Monopoly
- Cheering some pie-in-the-sky idea of agriculture
- Community spearheads effort to cool classrooms
- Too Many Children Being Placed in Foster Care
- Certificate of need process limiting isle health care options
- DoTax Helping Illegal TVRs
- Easy money: Slush fund gives Hawaii County Councilmembers spending power
- Birtherism Continues to Serve Democrats Well
- Kailua Boat Death Tied to Hare Krishna Cult?
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Saturday, January 16, 2016 |
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January 16, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:19 PM :: 3548 Views
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Friday, January 15, 2016 |
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January 15, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:02 PM :: 3763 Views
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- Full Text: Ige Signs Agreement Privatizing Maui Hospitals
- Where’s the Farm Justice Summit?
- Jones Act, LNG at Center of Puerto Rico Recovery Plan
- 1959: Martin Luther King Jr Salutes Hawaii Statehood
- Supreme Court to Consider Nai Aupuni Contempt Today
- Search continues for 12 Marines after fiery helicopter collision off Haleiwa
- Suit Against Nai Aupuni “overwhelmingly likely” to succeed
- Nai Aupuni ‘Delegates’ Have to Show Up to get $5000 Bribe
- Legislators Demand Cash from Lobbyists
- LTC: Latest Excuse for Massive GE Tax Hike
- Crony Capitalism: Obama’s DoD Negotiates Sweetheart deal with NextEra
- HEI ‘Time of Use’ Rates Will Squeeze After-School Programs
- Anti-Agriculture Activists Seek 100% Tourism Economy
- Experts: Maui will Never Recover from Death of HC&S
- Taxes Vacuum 9.5% More out of Economy
- DoH Bungling Risks Loss of Funding for New Mental Hospital
- UH Inouye Center Plans ‘Shelved Indefinitely’
- CDC Secrecy Over UH Biolab Safety Failures Challenged In Court
- DHHL Seeks Developers for Parcels Near Rail Stations
- Former Kauai police lieutenant indicted for theft, money laundering
- Gambling Would Cost More than it Earns
- Rent Control Would Eliminate Rental Units
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Thursday, January 14, 2016 |
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January 14, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 11:38 AM :: 5379 Views
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- OHA Elections: Throw These Bums Out
- Hawaii: Only 11,949 Sign up for Obamacare
- HB1170: Geothermal Fast-track, part two
- HB1524: Obama Opens Door to Home Energy Project Loans
- Bed Bugs—Honolulu Slips to 49th Place
- Full Text: State of the Union Address
- Republican Response to State of the Union
- Fake Cap becomes Real Threshold—Council now demands HART Spend Money Planning to Extend Rail to UH Manoa
- Rail Operating Subsidy will Require 9% Property Tax Hike
- Hawaii’s Top Lobbyist Quitting?
- More on Land and Power from Nai Aupuni Wanna Be
- Hawaii Health Connector board members resign
- Marijuana Money Rains Down on Bishop Street
- Know-Nothings Talk up Plantation Closure as Boon to Agriculture
- Kouchi: Millions Earmarked for UPW Suit vs Maui Hospital Privatization
- Staff at HYCF rack up $1M-plus in overtime – With only 23 Inmates
- City Finds Way to Start Losing Money on H-Power
- Lawmakers open to gambling
- State ignored HPD’s recommendation not to hire officer now charged with sex assault
- Killer Gets to Stay Free Until September
- Meth Dealer Arrested 100 Times, Out on Street Does it Again
- Bizarre News: Government Employees Forced to Work Thru Lunch Break
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Wednesday, January 13, 2016 |
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January 13, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:45 PM :: 3630 Views
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- DoI Adds 2,000 Pro Fed-Wreck Testimonies
- Reviewing Hawaii’s FY 2017 supplemental budget
- VIDEO: Thirty Meter Telescope, Putting The "Puaa" Back In Ahupuaa, And Oprah Elections
- DHHL ‘Disappointed’ by State’s Appeal of Court Ordered Funding
- Gold Coast Seawall Hot Potato Case: Supreme Court Hears Arguments
- DBEDT: Family of Four Requires $75K to live on Oahu
- Council Still Pretending to ‘Cap’ Rail Expenses, Will Abandon Charade Soon
- After Wasting $87.5M, DoTax Still Can’t Process Tax Returns in Time Because of Outdated Computers
- UH Payroll — 1,600 Unauthorized Positions
- Kihei HS: Bureaucratic Delay Costs State $100M
- County Worker Stole Cash for Two Years
- Chun Oakland’s Homeless Tent City Idea Mocked
- Caldwell Objects to City Studying Electric Coop, Council Votes to do it Anyway
- Hawaii: More Than 40% of Workers Have no Retirement Plan
- Still Spreading Pesticide Hype, Eco-Lawyer Debunked
- State of State: Ige Catches Kalihi Prison Fever
- Soft on Crime: Probationer Charged with Child Molestation, Gets Supervised Release
- Civil Beat Pushes Gambling Again
- Suicide Squad Launches Annual Push to help Insurance Companies Save Money by Killing off Expensive Patients
- Ige Budget: $15 million to expand inmate capacity on Sister Isles
- Hawaii Democrats Feel the Bern—Hillary Losing Fundrace
- Coming Soon: Video On Demand From The Hawaii Capitol
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Tuesday, January 12, 2016 |
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January 12, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:46 PM :: 4136 Views
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- Up to 72% of Council Campaign Contributions from Hoopili and Rail
- Expert Slams Hawaii Legislature for Lumping E-Cigs in with Tobacco
- Calling all Cronies: Marijuana Dispensary License Application Now Available Online
- Legalize Marijuana-Criminalize Fireworks
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 11, 2016
- Kasich for America Files to Appear on Hawaii Ballot–Djou to Lead Campaign
- From Inside the Supreme Court, the Key Exchanges on a Case Pitting Unions vs. First Amendment
- Pro Life? Hawaii Ranks 43rd
- Five Unanswered Questions About Honolulu’s $6.6 Billion Rail Project
- Why Did DLNR Hire A Cop Who’d Been Fired By HPD?
- Stock Analysts finally Figure out that NextEra’s purchase of Hawaiian Electric won’t happen
- Long Term Care Mandate: Mainland Progressives Want Hawaii GE Tax Hike
- Bishop Museum to Sell Waipio Valley
- Star-Adv: OHA Not Doing Enough for Hawaiian Youth, Broken Families
- Wanna Be Marijuana Dealers Concerned About Illegal Competitors
- More Ignorant Babble about Hemp Replacing Sugar
- State Can’t Find Way to turn Hana Pier into Recreational Site
- Homeless Threaten HNN Photographer with 2x4
- Homeless Come up With New Excuse for Refusing Shelter
- Maybe We Can Fool People into Accepting Homeless Tent Cities if we call them Hawaiian Grass huts
- 4 women inmates accuse 2 guards of sex acts
- Kauai Council Finally Gets Around to Regulating Lobbyists
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Monday, January 11, 2016 |
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January 11, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 11:27 AM :: 4095 Views
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- Update on Honolulu Charter Commission – Meeting Friday
- Hee steals from other Hawaiians and gives to me me meeeeeee
- Real Income: Hawaii Residents Lose 3.8% in Decade
- New Laws for 2016
- Secular State Just Can’t Reach Spiritual Hawaiians
- Kauai: Jail is a Great Place to Work
- We Use GMOs, So Does Everyone Else—and we’ve been doing it for 20 Years with no harm
- Death In Paradise Is All Too Frequent For Visitors To Hawaii
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Sunday, January 10, 2016 |
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January 10, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:15 PM :: 5531 Views
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- Sorry OHA, Free Trade Zones are not free of the Jones Act
- Obama Administration Promoting Race-based Hawaiian Election
- Plantation Era: They Came With Hope
- $6.8 million in grants promote STEM jobs for Hawaii
- Unfriendly Skies?
- March for Life--State Capitol January 22
- War on Coal: How Hawaii Clean Energy initiative Killed HC&S
- A sad week for agriculture in Hawaii – Pakalolo Plantations in our Future?
- Maui--Enviros Talk About Water, Get Luxury Homes
- Update your calendars for the 2016 political year
- State tax refunds might be late again this year
- Hawaii AG contests court order to increase DHHL funds
- Record high construction costs slam Honolulu
- Caldwell: I want City Workers to be forced into Unions and Controlled so they will vote for me
- Homeless are cleared again from Kakaako
- Hawaiians at risk: Keiki locked in cycle of foster care system
- Hawaii GMO Success Story
- Aloha Aina Party Holds Petition Drive for Ballot Status
- Historic North Kona church heading to tax auction after pastor Falls for Sovereignty Scam
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Saturday, January 9, 2016 |
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January 9, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 10:51 AM :: 3745 Views
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- Judicial Watch Opposes Obama Executive Action to Create Hawaiian Tribe
- Lawsuits Have Consequences: Aloha To Hawaii Sugar
- DLNR Officer Arrested--Charged with sexual assault of Minor
- ‘Tens of Thousands’ Kicked off Medicaid by State’s Heartless Computer—Blind and Disabled Hardest Hit
- 2 OCCC supervisors in trouble for allowing inmate's gangster father behind bars
- Soft on Crime: Schizo Slasher to be Allowed Back out on Streets
- Homeless Hygiene Station Becomes Magnet for Crime—8 Assaults Since October
- Another group of homeless moved from Moiliili area
- Councilwoman Calls For Domestic Abuse Audit
- Rail Contractors Slice into Huge Gas Line, Lucky No Explosion
- Hawaii Gas Selects LNG Vendor, Expects Savings of $2B
- Planning for HECO-MECO-HELCO Inter-Island Cables is Underway
- PUC chief scolds NextEra (again)
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Friday, January 8, 2016 |
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January 8, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:12 PM :: 5093 Views
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- Where to Vote: Hawaii Republican Presidential Caucus
- Nai Aupuni in Contempt of Supreme Court? Latest Filings
- Supreme Court to Consider Nai Aupuni Contempt January 15
- Ige Budget: $104M omissions, mystery spending cuts
- Federal Aid? Hawaii Ranks 49th
- Glass Houses of Marijuana: Pots, Kettles and the Color Black
- UH Reports Hawaii Hemp is Top Shelf
- DLNR to Loosen Death Grip on Hilo Businesses?
- Public Meeting on Honolulu Bikeways January 13
- What the Constitution Really Says About Race and Slavery
- 76% ‘Not Good’ -- Overall, what do you think about the condition of our city parks and playgrounds?
- UH Manoa—10 Salaries over $300K
- Honolulu City Council Will Consider Co-op or Muni Alternative To HECO
- Increase In Hawaii Revenue Forecast ‘Doesn’t Really Amount To That Much’
- Are Charter Schools Funded Equitably? Lawmakers Want Clearer Numbers
- DoE Campbell Contract $1M per Classroom
- OHA Kakaako Makai Deal Puts $1.2M Hole in HCDA Budget
- Charles Djou Endorses John Kasich for President
- House Candidate Jaci Agustin Launches App to Communicate with Constituents
- Supreme Court Redistricting Case Is New Front in Voting Wars
- Keeping a lid on Kauai property taxes?
- Maui Risks loss of $186M Federal Money
- Gun Permits: HPD Admits Nearly 100 False Denials in Just One Year
- Homeless Rob Restaurant Workers in Chinatown
- Civil Asset Forfeiture In Hawaii: Crime Deterrent Or Legalized Theft?
- Publicize names of dispensary applicants
- HMA Recommendations for Marijuana Dispensaries
- 40 Years Ago On Kahoolawe, A Faith Is Reborn?
- Hawaii is ground zero for Ag innovation
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Thursday, January 7, 2016 |
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January 7, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:07 PM :: 4565 Views
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- OHA Trustee, Ex-Legislator Come up with Excuses, Get Added to Aha Participant Roster
- A&B to Shutter State’s Last Cane Plantation—Activists ‘Happy’
- Quality Counts: Hawaii K-12 Achievement Ranks 32nd in USA
- HART: Construction Costs Soaring—Another $240M Tacked on to Overruns
- VIDEO: “Lessons Learned” from Turtle Bay
- VIDEO: Hawaii Water Law In A Nutshell
- Hana Pier to be Removed due to Public Opposition to Repairing it
- Confucius on Hawaii’s New Smoking Age
- VIDEO: Everything You Wanted to Know About the Jones Act with Michael Hansen
- Foes of cane burning cheer sugar’s demise – Plan to Keep up Fight Against Seed Farmers
- Smug Activists Party as Last Plantation Perishes
- Criminal Hee Gets 46 Months in Federal Prison as Powerless Cronies Look on
- With Mehau Dead, Criminals Begin Killing Each other?
- Medicated Marijuana: ‘If a Minor is Busted with a Baggie of Weed, I can Track Every Seed’
- Caldwell Inserts Himself in Senior Services, Makes a Total Mess of it
- Child Molesters’ Victims Have Until April, 2016 to Come Forward
- Who In City Government Gets A Six-Figure Paycheck?
- NextEra Merger News
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Wednesday, January 6, 2016 |
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January 6, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:28 PM :: 3582 Views
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- OHA Trying to Convince Telescope to Stay and Pay
- Friedrichs v CTA: Will Supreme Court End Mandatory Union Membership for Government Employees Nationwide?
- Anti-GMO Leader: “Bring Islamic Nation to Battle in Hawaii—Allah Akbar”
- Possible Pipe Bomb Found After Big Island Police Arrest Three at Protest Against License Plates
- UHERO: Status Update on Federal GHG Emissions Reduction Policy for Hawaii
- “Entire American Samoa school system must be revamped”
- UH appeals NCAA ruling on men’s basketball program
- Guard Your Wallet: State lawmakers gear up for new legislative session
- Legislators Baffled by State’s Inability to Spend Federal Money—DoE Fails to Even Ask for It
- Shed light on NextEra/HECO alliance
- PHOCUSED: Profitable Nonprofit Nailed by Ethics Commission
- Lawmaker argues new 'limited' driver's licenses open to abuse
- New ID Law May Trip Up American Samoa Residents
- 2012 Law Saves Hawaii Fisheries from Rampaging Eco-Whackos
- Study Of Pesticide Use On GMO Crops Delayed
- Nonprofit launches new housing program for recovering addicts
- HPD officers erred in not arresting men for major illegal fireworks bust
- Orgy of outlawed fireworks flaunts our island anarchy
- DOE report reveals 21 students caught with So-Called ‘firearms,’ most in elementary, middle schools
- Gun Sales Through the Roof after Obama Cries
- North Korea Tests Possible H-Bomb
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Tuesday, January 5, 2016 |
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January 5, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:32 PM :: 3990 Views
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- Big Island Police Arrest Three at Protest Against License Plates
- Gun Control Nuts Tout Hawaii as Example
- Ige Budget Does not Include Union Pay Raises
- State Steals Money from Conservation to Subsidize Fancy Waikiki Eco-Conference
- After Negative Audit, KOLEA Touted as Model for Hawaii IT Reform
- Merger or Not, NextEra is Writing HECO’s Renewable Energy Plans
- Hawaii’s strict gun laws will not be affected by President Obama’s proposals
- Homeless Sweeps Push 51 into Shelters
- Tomorrow is Deadline for UH to appeal NCAA sanctions for men’s basketball team
- Hawaii workforce drug tests show hike in cocaine use in 2015
- Prosecutors seek to revive major gambling case dismissed in 2014
- Former HPD officer to report to L.A. prison
- 2015: The Year in Claims Against the State of Hawaii
- 2016: An Opportunity to Finally be Rid of Gary Hooser
- Maui Anti-GMO Activists Spray Pesticide in their own Homes, Call Heath Department
- Why Are Online Classes, Degrees Hard To Get At The University Of Hawaii?
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Monday, January 4, 2016 |
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January 4, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:00 PM :: 3523 Views
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- Alleged Monk Seal Harasser Sues Police over Arrest
- 80% Not Great: How is the plastic-bag ban working out?
- Honolulu dead last in starting pay
- “Expensive renewables do nothing”
- Baboozes in isles’ top jobs gave us yearlong headache
- Inspiring quotes for leaders start the new year off fresh
- 5 Issues for 2016
- Anti-GMO Activism is Probably Not About the Technology At All
- DoH Rules Allow Sale of Hash Oil, but no Joints no Brownies and no Candies (for now)
- Homeless tents reappear in Kakaako, Idiot Brower Demands State Create More Homeless Tent Cities
- Not REAL ID: New License Specially for Homeless and Illegals
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Sunday, January 3, 2016 |
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January 3, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:00 PM :: 3746 Views
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- Leaked Nai Aupuni Emails: ‘Godless’ Faction Pushing to Ban Pule at Aha
- Permanent Internet Tax Freedom
- Josh Green to Run for Governor in 2018?
- Anti-GMO Activists Blamed for Arson at Waialua Farm
- $23,000 Rate Hike Coming: Data show Obamacare will produce results opposite of what was intended
- Nai Aupuni Exercise in Frustration, Obviously a Surrogate for OHA
- ERS pension plan shortfall rises to $8.77B
- New federal education law offers more flexibility, say isle officials
- Hawaii pedestrian death rate among seniors leads the nation
- Star-Adv: Don’t Give More Money to Corrupt HI-5 Program
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Saturday, January 2, 2016 |
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January 2, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:05 PM :: 3817 Views
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- Testimony: 76% say No Fake Tribe for Hawaii
- AAA Hawaii: Lower 2015 Gasoline Prices Save Drivers $400
- KGI: Election year is here. Who are you going to vote for?
- Former Cancer Center director failed to disclose major financial conflicts of interest
- State Takes $13.2M from Conservation to Subsidize Fancy Eco-Conference
- Star-Adv: Counties should get more of TAT
- Hawaii would be better off with a true two-party system
- Deregulate Transportation-Let the PUC Focus on Energy and Telecom Utilities
- Thanks to Feds, Ethanol still in gas, even with new state law
- Visitors still being arrested for enjoying moonlight on Waikiki Beach
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Friday, January 1, 2016 |
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January 1, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:34 PM :: 4821 Views
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- OHA 2016 Legislative Package: Telescope Rent Money, Control of Mauna Kea Tours
- ‘Santa Claus Came Early’ for Hawaii’s Politically-Connected Marijuana License Seekers
- Hawaii Pesticide Complaints: Urban Homeowners are #1 Violator
- DoTax Claims IT System Success
- Looking Forward to 2016
- Hawaii Air National Guard destroys Islamic State targets
- Telescope Faces Years of Delay
- Secret Cabal of Insiders Plot Electric Rate Hikes, Tax Increases
- Thanks to Fracking, Hawaii drivers saved more than $400 on gas in 2015
- Mobi PCS President Wants to be Your Dope Dealer
- Annual Budget Pitch for DHS
- Maui Hospital: ‘Extremely complex negotiations’ drag on into 2016
- Minimum Wage Hike May Result in Fewer Employees
- City Refuses to Take Responsibility for Dozens of Roads
- Hawaii County Council Debates Agricultural Property Tax Exemptions
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Thursday, December 31, 2015 |
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December 31, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:04 PM :: 3752 Views
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- First Hawaiian No Longer Servicing OHA ‘Malama Loans’
- State of the State Budget 2016
- New High School? What is DoE’s top priority?
- Man OK With Pedophilia Loses Bid to Teach Kids
- 2015 Wrapup Stories
- 14 new state laws to take effect on New Year's Day
- Honolulu Charter Commission denies proposals for public vote on rail
- Hawaii Medicaid Fraud makes Top Ten Government Waste List for 2015
- Report: Hawaii’s Phony Hi-Tech Tax Credit Schemers Not getting any Venture Capital
- State Negotiating New IT Contract in Wake of Obamacare IT Debacle
- Kakaako homeless moving into HCDA areas to Evade enforcement and Stay out of Shelter
- Minimum wage hike could mean higher prices for consumers
- NCAA appeal due or dead Jan 6
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Wednesday, December 30, 2015 |
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December 30, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:07 PM :: 4138 Views
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- Only Moments Left to Stop Fed Wreck
- Last Day: Say "No!" to Interior Department Rule
- Grassroot Comments on DOI Proposed Rule
- Real ID Begins Jan 10: Will Washington State Residents Need Passport to Fly to Hawaii?
- Hawaii’s Expensive Green Energy Program Saves No Energy
- KOLEA: After Burning $155M, Hawaii’s Other Obamacare Eligibility System Falls Short
- Report: Return County TAT Deal to Status Quo Ante
- Hawaii Visitor Arrivals Set New Record for November
- Jones Act Unions file protest over crewing of APL Guam
- Champagne Taxes? Hawaii Ranks #3 in USA
- Overrun by Solar, Wind Scammers, Does HECO need NextEra Bail Out?
- Judge Tosses Solar Scammers Suit out of Court
- Telescope: Hawaii Supreme Court invalidates lower court documents
- Local Food Win: Enviros Fail to Kill off Ahi Fishery
- City’s explanation of discrepancies in real property tax assessments don’t satisfy
- Caldwell’s Repaving Project Continues to Slip
- Star-Adv: Homeless Tent Cities are Not a Solution
- After Six Years, Homeless Man Decides to Accept Shelter
- AG: Woman Collected Welfare Illegally for 7 Years
- Center for Food Safety – Luddite of the Year?
- Anti-GMO Councilmember Concerned About Marijuana Strains with ‘Strong Hallucinogenic Properties’
- Vandals set fire to Ewa Beach church lawn, destroy religious statues
- Advocate of sex with minors kept from becoming Hawaii teacher
- Dispute continues over aerial shooting that’s killed thousands of goats, sheep on Mauna Kea
- Dengue Hits 190 Cases
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Tuesday, December 29, 2015 |
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December 29, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:56 PM :: 4329 Views
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- Green Party v Nago: ‘Mistakes were made, Election Office Fell Short’
- Hoopili: Is the State Prohibited from Rezoning "Potential" Important Ag Land?
- Obama Vacations Cost Nearly $500K per Day
- Survey Designed to Push for Long Term Care Insurance Mandate
- Top High School Teams to Compete in Lifesmarts Hawaii State Championship
- Hawaiian Humane Society restores services under city contract
- Lifting US Oil Export Ban could substantially change Jones Act dynamics
- Bill to drop American Samoa flight fee reaches Senate
- Former Lt. Gov. Duke Aiona appears to set stage for mayoral run
- Loophole: Legislators Made marijuana dispensaries tax free
- Hawaii County to Hire Dopers for 97% of Jobs
- Crushing Defeat for so-called ‘Innocence Project’ as Federal Judge Rejects Tweeker’s Effort to Re-try Murder Conviction
- Giant New Year’s Party Moved to Accommodate Homeless Tent City
- Lack of Recycling Centers May Drive Homeless out of Rural Locations
- Oil Still Accounts for 71.3% of Hawaii Electricity—Dropping Prices Panic Green Energy Profiteers
- State regulators roll back the net-metering electricity scam
- Alt-Energy Schemers Publish new Rent-a-Poll
- Upheaval at KITV
- Former med student sues University of Hawaii for sex harassment, termination
- Dengue Fever Case Count Holds At 181
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Monday, December 28, 2015 |
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December 28, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:30 PM :: 3644 Views
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- Gov. Scott Walker to Speak at Hawaii Lincoln Day Dinner
- 5 minutes to stop federal creation of a Hawaiian tribe
- Housing: Cheaper to Rent than Buy -- only in Honolulu and Silicon Valley
- Hawaii Democratic Presidential Caucus Date Changed to Help Clinton beat Sanders
- Rewarding Failure: NCAA Bans UH, UH Compliance Director Gets a Promotion, Gib Arnold Gets $700K
- Leader of almost 260 meth addicts wants to lease Waianae site for Homeless Tent City
- How Can We Get our ‘Medical’ Dope onto Airlines?
- Wind Schemers Chased off of North Shore, Focus on Waikiki for Offshore Wind Facility
- University Of Hawaii Seeks A Speedier Path To Graduation
- We Need More Transparency In Our Public Boards
- Hawaii-Made Dengue Vaccine Deployed in Philippines
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Sunday, December 27, 2015 |
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December 26, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:17 PM :: 3359 Views
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- Delays Upon Delays at DHHL
- 5 minutes to stop federal creation of a Hawaiian tribe
- KPD implements first body-worn camera program in state
- Joint Hearing Set for Marijuana Dispensaries
- Big Q: 83% Say Nai Aupuni Must Stop
- Telescope project stalled ‘for years’
- Aiona for Mayor?
- HSTA, UH to Claw Back Millions from Ige Budget
- KPD officers 1st in state to use new body-worn cameras, despite SHOPO disapproval
- Ignorance: Anti-Pesticide Superstitions Allow Banana Disease to Wipe out Crops
- Does Pesticide Exposure Cause Anti-GMO Activism?
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Saturday, December 26, 2015 |
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December 26, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:53 PM :: 3488 Views
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- Jones Act unfairly hurts Hawaii while jeopardizing security of U.S.
- DHHL Funding: Ige to Appeal Court Order?
- Gov. Ige goes big on budget for buildings
- Prosecutor: Legislature Must Close Baby Killer Loophole
- Defending GMOs ‘Right thing to do’
- Police Memorial to Begin Construction
- Leasehold: State to Loosen its Grip on Hilo Businesses, Resorts
- What's next for marijuana in Hawaii?
- Obama: “I Feel Small”
- Dengue Hits 181
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Friday, December 25, 2015 |
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December 25, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:47 PM :: 3975 Views
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Thursday, December 24, 2015 |
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December 24, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:35 PM :: 3472 Views
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- How Christmas Came to Hawaii
- Leaked Email Reveals Aha Agenda
- Need a Job? OHA is Hiring
- Judges Lead Grassroots Effort to Help Landlords and Tenants Curb Evictions
- 2016: Unemployment Taxes to Drop 26%
- Airport Division Turned Blind Eye to Sex Harassment
- Nai Aupuni Leaves Rowena Akana, two others out of Oprah Aha
- 2016 Legislative Calendar Released
- HART Didn’t Pick Lowest Bid For Rail Stations
- Unfunded liabilities for Hawaii's state pension increase this year and will keep rising until 2023
- Anti-GMO Activists Act Without Giving Much Thought
- Family Flees Honolulu Finds Paradise in Houston, Texas
- Child Molester Exploits Homeless Teen—Gets 10 Years
- Allow ride-hailing, taxis to innovate
- Milner: Ige should hand more money to Profligate UH Administrators
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Wednesday, December 23, 2015 |
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December 23, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:02 PM :: 7436 Views
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UH Coverup: Did Asbestos Litigation Shake Down Fund UH Cancer Center?
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Founder of Kamehameha Schools would almost certainly have supported the telescope project
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What Could $1.5 Billion Buy You (Besides More Of The Rail Project)?
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HART awards 3 Station contract to Nan, Inc.
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Jones Act great for some but most of us here suffer
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Marijuana Grow-Op Faces $1.5M Electric Bill
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Espero Still Pushing For More Citizen Oversight Of The Police
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Kenoi Staffers Claim he is Going to Make Appointments to Ethics Commission
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Residents to challenge property assessments
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Hawaii: 11,000 New Residents for 2015
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Lawyers Show Homeless How to Evade City Sweeps, Stay out of Shelter by Moving to State Parcels
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Ige’s homelessness plan just a start
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Businesses blame King Street bike lane on drop in sales
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LEDs Produce 40% Electricity Savings
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Tuesday, December 22, 2015 |
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December 22, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:48 PM :: 4313 Views
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- What Is The Office Of Hawaiian Affairs?
- Akina, Chang, Lilly: Is Nai Aupuni State-Sponsored?
- Ige Presents Supplemental Budget--$31B in New Spending
- OHA Publishes 2015 Annual Report
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted December 21, 2015
- GAO: Freeze Funding for Littoral Combat Ship Building
- NCAA: Arnold violated NCAA ethical conduct rules, UH Program Banned
- Ige Budget Coverage
- Will Duke Aiona Run For Mayor Of Honolulu?
- Half of Nai Aupuni Candidates Fail to Register for Oprah Aha
- ‘We got crushed’: NCAA hands down sanctions against UH
- Gov. Ige puts lump of coal in UH’s coffers
- $250 million for Rail part of a year-end Congressional spending bill
- Airports Division 3 years Behind on $2.7B Modernization Program
- NextEra Testimony: How Lawyer Planted ‘HECO as a Snack’ Remark in Media
- NextEra-HECO to put almost all intervenors on the stand
- Federal Budget: Corporate Welfare Continues to Flow to Wind Farms, Solar Contactors
- Why is island hopping so expensive?
- State has yet to lend out one penny of $150M in solar loan funds
- Investors’ claim triggered Hoana Medical bankruptcy (Latest Act 221 Debacle)
- Hawaii’s flawed ‘concealed carry’ law makes us easy victims
- Dengue fever outbreak in Hawaii has global impact
- GMO Primary: Ilagan vs Idiot Ruderman in Puna
- City Crew To Sweep Kakaako — Again
- How City Charter will Provide Kyo Ya End Run
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Monday, December 21, 2015 |
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December 21, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 12:30 PM :: 3876 Views
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- Report: Hawaii Youth Drug Overdose Deaths Double
- 2018: Hanabusa vs Ige?
- HART Plays ‘Big Game of Chicken’ With Council
- Billionaire’s Website Favors HSTA Plan to Make Peasants Pay 25% More GE Tax
- After Decades of pandering to Filipino WW2 Vets – Hirono asks Obama to finally Let a few 80-year olds into USA
- ‘Natural’ Supplements Industry Behind Overharvesting of Sea Cucumbers
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Sunday, December 20, 2015 |
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December 20, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:36 PM :: 3853 Views
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- How Christmas Came to Hawaii
- The Racial Spoils System Invents a Tribe for Native Hawaiians
- HRC: Hawaii Counties Not Gay Enough
- UH Manoa #1 in Eyes of Chinese Communists
- GEMS: Gets Everyone’s Money Swiftly
- Lawsuit: OHA Paying Lawyers Millions of Dollars to Evade Sunshine Law
- Na‘i Aupuni convention unlikely to craft anything credible or legal
- Hawaii Republican Presidential Caucus -- So far, GOP’s nominee for president is anyone’s guess
- Ige Budget Constrained by Act 268
- NextEra hearing delayed Until February
- Hawaii reading scores improved after ‘preschool to third grade’ initiative
- States Are Struggling To Keep Medical Weed Safe
- Church opens Work Farm for the Homeless
- Bill 85 Requires Taxi meters for Uber, Lyft
- Aloha Stadium study waiting on direction from Gov. Ige
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Saturday, December 19, 2015 |
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December 19, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:08 PM :: 3910 Views
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- A new test on Hawaii’s future?
- Latest On The Hawaiians-Only-Oprah/Costco-Everyone-Wins Election
- The U.S. Constitution Still Applies to Hawaii
- VIDEO: Law & Corruption in Hawaii
- TAT Already Applies to TVRs—but DoTax Not Enforcing it
- State Quietly Approves Oceanic-Charter Merger
- Video: Millennials as Free Market Champions
- Hawaii Poorly Prepared to Resist Infectious Disease Outbreak
- Wastebook 2015: The Farce Awakens
- HECO Overstaffed, Underskilled—1,000 Deadwood Employees Boost your Electric Rates
- New law: Tax Credits for Alt-Energy Projects to Begin Before the Projects are Built
- Ige: State Had trouble getting Truth from Health Exchange
- Treatment of troubled youth better in Hawaii
- Should Hawaii caregivers receive training in-hospital?
- Gun permit applicants denied over medical dispute
- OCCC Overcrowded, Fobs Prisoners off on Feds
- Military tops isle spending gains
- Obama Returns Again
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Friday, December 18, 2015 |
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December 18, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:23 PM :: 3385 Views
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- Hawaii Family Advocates Geared up for 2016 Legislative Session
- Fake Energy Savings? Airport Division Lets Contractor Write its own Check for 20 Years
- Audit: Old Contracts Tie Up DHHL Special Funds
- HHSC, DoH: Nineteen special funds and two trust funds did not meet criteria
- Judiciary: Six Funds out of Compliance
- Vegetarian Questions
- Obama to Arrive Tomorrow
- Decision to forgo election toxic for Nai Aupuni
- Rail costs rise another $12M—and More Overruns Expected Soon
- Building Costs Day by Day--Rail Contracts Delayed Until Tax Passes
- NextEra Energy expected Hawaii's governor to favor sale of Hawaiian Electric
- Kauai utility's members have each saved nearly $1,000 in 2015
- Obamacare: Hawaii Insurance Rate Hikes Among Top 4 in USA
- Obamacare: Only 8,000 re-enroll for 2016
- Caregiving mandates could cost Hawaii hospitals an extra $23M
- Covanta Contract Reeks of Corruption
- City property appraisal not legal, attorney says
- Dengue Cases up to 160
- Kauai Pesticide Report Delayed to Jan 6
- Ala Wai Sewage Spill—Caldwell Had Nobody Watching Largest Sewage Pumping Station
- State's largest prison over capacity, with plumbing and cell lock problems
- Feds Fine Hawaiian Air for Cheating Customers
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Thursday, December 17, 2015 |
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December 17, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:41 PM :: 4253 Views
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- VIDEO: Hawaii Could Still Get the Fed Wreck
- 5 minutes to stop federal creation of a Hawaiian tribe
- Science--The Life of the Land
- Feds: ‘Organic Farms and General Opposition to Chemicals Present Insurmountable Obstacle’ to Dengue Eradication
- Lawsuit: Deadly ‘Natural’ Supplement contained “methamphetamine-like chemical”
- Desperate: Obamacare Deadline Extended 48 Hours
- Honolulu Awarded Sexual Assault Justice Initiative Grant
- Honolulu: Average Small Business Invoices $105K per Year
- Class Action Suit Filed over Canceled Soccer Game
- With TMT project stalled, heavy equipment removed from Mauna Kea
- Ige: Telescope Waiting on State, State Waiting on a District Court Judge
- Peter Apo Debunks Claims of ‘Sacred’ Mauna Kea
- Williamson Chang: Nai Aupuni Convention Contrary to Supreme Court Order
- Kauai Council—$800 per Year GE Tax Hike to pay for Plan to Force you out of your car
- Honolulu Charter Rewrite Just for Kyo Ya Developers
- City Puts 465 Homeless into Homes
- City says number of documented homeless could grow in new year
- HPD chief outlines body cam plans, challenges Police Commission Discipline
- Kakaako Street ownership dispute clouds rail acquisition
- Honolulu, Kahului rank low in airport survey
- Dengue fever outbreak in Hawaii biggest in 60 years—thanks to anti-pesticide activists
- How the Fed's rate hike makes Hawaii’s biggest problem even tougher
- Amicable Divorce? Hawaii Ranks #11
- Poll: Hawaii 3rd Most Desired State
- Hawaii: 2nd Fewest Gun Dealers Per Capita
- Eco-Shysters Study Fisheries Agreements for Path to Total Shutdown
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015 |
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December 16, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:21 PM :: 4946 Views
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- Nai Aupuni’s "Oprah Theory Of Elections"
- Grassroot: Nai Aupuni is undercutting its own efforts
- Hawaii Ranked in Bottom Five States for Economic Freedom
- Word with Ward: Portnoy, Kato Discuss Shield Law
- Honolulu Is the 11th Best City for Singles
- DoH Posts Interim Administrative Rules For Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
- Study: Honolulu Lowest Per-Patient Health Spending in USA
- Criminal Hee Claims ‘Food Allergies’ Should Exempt him from Prison—Sentencing Delayed Again
- "Nai Aupuni has the integrity of a Costco membership at this point."
- Ritte: “Bad Joke -- It’s not going to Work.”
- Nai Aupuni Devolves into Embarrassing Circus
- Big Island Delegates May Take $4000 Bribe
- Nai Aupuni: Dwindling Time Left for Tribal Cronies
- New Lawsuit Challenges Nai Aupuni Blood Quantum
- Honolulu Charter Commission Exempts itself from Ethics Disclosure, Plans Kyo-Ya Amendment
- Obamacare Deadline Extended 48 Hours
- Health reform's escape hatch may be too narrow for states seeking to use it
- Kohala: Existing Pot Growers Demand Protection from State-Controlled Corporate Crony Marijuana
- Anti-Dairy Obsessives at Kauai Meeting with Governor
- ‘Deficiencies’ found in dengue effort—More Pesticide Needed, anti-Pesticide Activists Remain Silent
- DOE tackling shortage of special education teachers
- Charter School Paying $110K/Month for Portable Classroom
- Criminal Al Hee Sentencing Delayed Until January 6
- Kauai police chief explains body camera usage, despite union protest
- Lawyer Targets Police After Arrest of Monk Seal Harasser – Caldwell Panders
- Criminals, Thieves Cleared out of Kewalo
- Hawaii Renters Among Most Cost-Burdened
- State's unclaimed property pot exceeds $200M
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