1. DCCA Dumps Mis-Named 'Innovation Lab': Crypto Suddenly Deregulated
2. Alaska and Hawaii Delegations Seek Medicare Reimbursement Flexibility for Rural Hospitals
3. Kalani HS Wins 2024 Hawaiʻi LifeSmarts State Competition
4. HB 106: Mayors to be Judge, Jury, Executioner?
5. DHS Expands Preschool Open Doors Program to Age 3
6. HIDOE seeks feedback on revising student journalism policy
7. HB2700: How Much Will Taxpayers Fork Out to Protect Hawaiian Electric from Litigation Over Wildfire Damage?
8. Cover-Up: After Four Years of Stalling, HART Board scrapping internal audit
9. Legislator Proposes Ban on Public Mask Wearing
10. Artificial Intelligence: Legislators Threatened by Competition?
11. 'Starting the conversation' -- Maui officials consider launching intra-county ferry system
12. Oregon high court says 10 GOP state senators who staged long walkout can’t run for reelection
13. Former Schofield soldier is ordered jailed in Jan. 6 attack

HB 106: Mayors to be Judge, Jury, Executioner?

1. Day One: 50 Candidates Pull Papers Statewide
2. PUC Approves $95M Rate Hike for 5-year HECO grid resilience plan
3. HECO New Welcome Home Rate: $0.62 per kwh
4. HECO: Blackouts This Weekend Will be Longer than Usual Thanks to New Policy
5. Vietnam Veterans Memorial: Wall That Heals Coming to Maui
6. Top Miske Lieutenant was Fake Cop and FBI informant
7. Nightmare: With Stroke of Pen, Blangiardi unleashes more spending for more useless Rail
8. Campaign Donations Roll In For Honolulu Mayor's Reelection Bid
9. Mazie Hirono Reelection Fund $1.8M: Bought n paid for by Military-Industrial Complex 
10. Hotels Unions Think This is Year they can wipe out Vacation rentals
11. Commercial ocean operators: Proposed permitting system would sink their industry
12. Maui Has Yet To Launch A Covid-Era Housing Program That Could Provide $24 Million In Relief To Fire Survivors

1. 18 Years Later State Wins Dannenberg EUTF Suit
2. Reduce Minimum Lot Size to Lower Housing Costs
3. Three Ways to Lower Hawaii's Cost of Living
4. COVID Money: HGEA Awarded $150M--and it is just the beginning
5. Ken Lawson’s Favorite Pimp Busted for Pimping Again
6. Federal investigation and indictment of three city officials started with complaint from HPD
7. After Fraser’s murder, Miske felt emboldened.
8. The Illusion of Carbon Taxes
9. Hawaii Ranks #10 for Congenital Syphilis
10. Will More Hotel Railings Fall?
11. Green has Appointed Six Legislators, and Counting
12. Election Dis-Integrity?
13. Another Schizophrenic killed on street because doo-gooders shut lunatic asylums down
14. Honolulu Police Fired For Buying Gun Parts, Domestic Violence And Not Activating Bodycam
15. Dumb and Expensive Plan for Lahaina Debris: Move it Twice

1. Murder of Ariel Sellers: Motion to Unseal Kalua Family Court Records
2. Eco-Lawyers to Sue Hawaiian Electric Because Birds Hit Power Lines?
3. House Democrats Introduce 2024 Legislative Package 
4. Five Straight Months of Tourism Decline Since Lahaina Fire
5. HB1357: New State Property Tax on the Move in Legislature
6. Armed Robber with Purple Hair Gets no respect in Legislature: Lahaina Rep Elle Cochran Not Consulted on Lahaina Bills
7. Hawaii Green Energy Initiative is 100% Fake--Hawaii Electricity Still 80% Oil-Fired
8. Some Maui residents fear programs aimed to house fire survivors could make other families homeless
9. After Doing Everything they can to Force Lahaina Fire Victims to move to the Mainland, Maui Finally Accepts a few FEMA Trailers
10. Maui Businesses Are Supposed To Have Priority For Wildfire Cleanup Jobs. Do They?
11. Money-Grubbing Dopers in Legislature Argue over how to Legalize Recreational Marijuana
12. Legislators Again Pushing State-Run Retirement Savings Scam--Auto Enroll?
13. DOE: 11 schools with inoperable fire alarms
14. Miske’s ‘right-hand man’ testifies for prosecution, but could prove gift for defense

1. Senate Sets Triple Hearing on Vacation Rental Bill
2. FEMA to Build Hawaii's First Mobile Home Park
3. Oahu is slated to see more power outages — that last longer. Here’s why
4. WSJ: Hawaii’s Electric Utility Could Soon Feel the Burn
5. From tents to barns, Hawaiʻi charter school advocates say it's time for a permanent campus
6. DHHL has ‘Committed’ only 1/3 of the $600M it was awarded
7. Forget the First Amendment: Hawaii to Outlaw ‘Deceptive’ Media?
8. Ballot process opens Thursday for Hawaii political candidates
9. AG swamped with hundreds more cases after city prosecutor’s ‘unilateral’ decision
10. A Birth On A Hilo Sidewalk Reflects Challenges In Helping A Growing Homeless Community
11. Needle Exchange Van Keeps Chinatown Full of Homeless Zombies
12. Open, all-gender restrooms at UH Medical School spark concern
13. BYU-Hawaii's historic David O. McKay mosaic and complex set to come down
14. Measures seek to ease Puna’s insurance crisis
15. Hawaii Ranchers Want More Land Transferred To The State Agriculture Department

1. DoTAX Grabs for Restaurants’ COVID Relief Money
2. Proposed STR regulations pose threat to Hawaii Island economy
3. Not Much to Show for Governor's Emergency Housing Proclamations
4. Next Step: Transfer Mauna Kea to OHA Control
5. A Senate Bill Would Trade Good Friday For 'Reconciliation' As A State Holiday
6. Year Two after Bribery Arrests: Legislators Pander to Transparency Concerns 50% Less
7. Calculations find fare covers 3% of rail costs
8. City, Howard Hughes Headed For Trial After Supreme Court Ruling
9. New Department of Law Enforcement encounters growing pains, including with its new HQ
10. Hawaii County slashes maximum payment to buy lava-impacted properties
11. Student Journalists Still Fighting For Press Freedom In Hawaii

1. Audit Exposes Widespread Payroll Cheating at State Hospital
2. LLC Ownership Secrecy: Oh BOI, More Red Tape for All
3. Transit: Its growth, decline, and pending demise
4. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 27, 2024
5. House Introduces Maui Wildfire Bills
6. Reasons to be optimistic about the 2024 Legislature
7. Lawsuit Over Teen Raped by son of HGEA President Settled for $1.25 Million
8. Next Step: HART Gobbles up TheBus
9. How much to tax tourists to be debate in Legislature
10. Temporary campus opening for King Kamehameha III Elementary pushed back
11. Anxiety Sets In For Family Displaced By Lahaina Fire As Moving Day Looms
12. Bill would clarify definition of ‘historic property’
13. More conversions of Downtown Honolulu office buildings on the way
14. 5 city park facilities closed due to vandalism

1. Yet Another Report on How to Improve Hawaii's Competitiveness
2. Suspect in chemical attack was bailed out of jail day before
3. State AG: People’s ‘reticence’ to speak to investigators slowing wildfire probe
4. Honolulu City Council ‘reprograms’ $39M in federal COVID funds as gift to Unions
5. Belatti, 13 other Legislators push for more Shrooms

1. Christian Club Sues Hawaii Department Of Education After Allegedly Being Barred From School Grounds
2. Lung Association: Hawai‘i Earns Mixed Grades for Tobacco Control Policies
3. Hawaii 2nd Smallest Racial Wealth Gap
4. Hawaii Bill Would Take Steps Against a Central Bank Digital Currency
5. Hawaii Democrats to Investigate Kim Coco Iwamoto Anti-Vaxxerism?
6. Justice: Alaska judge will preside over Kaneshiro-Mitsunaga bribery trial after an unexpected recusal
7. FEMA Chief in Lahaina rebuilding amidst criticisms, price gouging
8. Mercado Kim Retaliation Bill Against Media
9. ‘It’s unacceptable to me,’ Mayor Blangiardi speaks on the mistrust the lack of communication from HPD puts on the public
10. Almost 340 bills are introduced to Hawaii lawmakers by the governor
11. Dozens express strong opposition to County Council’s short-term rental measure
12. Is Hawaii Saying Goodbye to Vacation Rentals?
13. North Shore homeowners blocked from building seawall
14. Billboards may be allowed in Aloha Stadium district
15. Hawai‘i Digital Currency Innovation Lab to conclude after four years of research
16. Hawaii Highest Grocery Bills in USA
17. Slam The Brakes On Runaway Legal Fees Charged By Condo Boards

1. 'FBI' Chain Letter Scheme Entraps Hawaii Republicans and Libertarians
2. Sen Karl Rhoads Closing Barn Door after the Trump Escapes?
3. Enviros: Honolulu is Primed for Carbon Pricing
4. Video: Massive Waves Rip thru Kwajalein Base
5. Applicants Wanted for State Ethics Commission
6. Miske company manager implicates Miske in kidnapping
7. Judge Backs Out Of Honolulu Corruption Case At Last Minute
8. City Council approves federal agreement -- votes to build more Honolulu rail with mystery cost
9. City council approves measure to help struggling businesses along Dillingham rail construction
10. Help more keiki access school-choice options
11. Many 'emergency hire' teachers brought in to fight Hawaii's teacher shortage

1. Court: Ethics Rules do Apply to OHA Trustees
2. Miske News: Ikaika Anderson Walks Free After Witness Fails to Appear
3. Duct tape, robbery and kidnapping in 1st day of trial of Hawaii crime boss Miske
4. Thousands of Hawaii School Employees To Get Up To 25% In ‘Pandemic Hazard Pay’
5. Senators Jet Around Globe on Your Dime
6. Half-Way to $600M failure, DHHL asks for more money
7. 2016 crash report involving embattled HPD corporal appears to disagree with sworn testimony
8. Habitual crimes could become felonies in Hawaii
9. Legislators to Stick Ratepayers with Bill for Hawaiian Electric Fire Liability
10. Condo Associations: A little power is a dangerous thing
11. Plan: Create Retirement Centers for Career Homeless

1. VIDEO: State of the State Address 2024
2. Hawaii Bill Would Legalize Raw Milk Sales
3. Recovery? Maui County Greets New Year with GE Tax Increase
4. Trial begins for Hawaii businessman accused of murder-for-hire, racketeering
5. Secret recordings of 3 former city executives reveal “low down, underhanded scheme” 
6. Miske Trial: 'Master Manipulator' Or 'Self-Made Businessman'?
7. SHOPO, Honolulu police sergeant settle lawsuit
8. Insurance Companies Want Their Money Back For Lahaina Fire Claims. They're Going After HECO For It
9. Maui County To Open A Special Permitting Office To Help Lahaina Rebuild?
10. Lahaina: 1,367 owners of Maui short-term rental units agree to house fire victims

1. Did you Buy a Gun and a Bible? Feds Sift Thru Bank Transactions Looking for 'Domestic Terrorists'
2. Hawaii Bill Would Reform Civil Asset Forfeiture Process, Opt State Out of Federal Program
3. On the eve of trial, Stancil flips, and Miske requests a new jury
4. COVID Funding: HGEA, UPW, HSTA Grab for Millions in ‘Hazard Pay’
5. Legislature in Session: Conspiracy Afoot to Gut Sunshine Law
6. School Construction $1M per Classroom--with no land cost--or is it $3.5M?
7. Hawaii DOE leaders are urged to cut funds on obsolete programs
8. Increasing Fossil Fuel Use via Carbon Tax Greenwashing
9. Celebratory Mass honors Joseph Dutton as he moves onto next phase of canonization
10. What will the numbers show? Oʻahu braces for upcoming homeless count

1. Will Tax Relief be on Agenda for 2024?
2. Changing ideas is the key to improving Hawaii
3. Saiki Updates House Committee Assignments
4. Hawaii Has Been Named the Most Corrupt State in America
5. David Shapiro: Family ties pay off nicely in Green’s musical chairs
6. How A Maui Court Mishandled A Divorce Case Involving One Of Its Own
7. Did Miske get government subsidies for hiring cons?
8. Is Star-Advertiser Worthless?
9. Legislature has no plan for Lahaina
10. New Hawaii Tourist Fees: Creative Hikes Set to Curb Tourism
11. Danger: Legislators Introduce 1,500 New Bills Before Deadline
12. Hawaii financial management system in need of upgrade after latest failed tech upgrade
13. Council Quietly Guts Tsunami Safety

1. Hold on to your wallets! The Legislature is back in session
2. Ways to improve Maui Interim Housing Plan
3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 20, 2024
4. Grubbing for Money: OHA sues over Mauna Kea management authority
5. Tripler Botches Botches and Botches Again--Kills 31 yr old mom
6. HART Board Members Question Whether Track Defects Fall Under 'Routine Maintenance'
7. Industrial businesses on Oahu may have a tough time expanding
8. Soft on Crime: Man who attacked Honolulu police officer gets verdict downgraded
9. Program Aims to Put More Dangerous Lunatics on Streets

1. Hawaii offers a case study on the inadequacies of wind and solar
2. DLNR Transfers 24,200 Acres to Agriculture Department
3. HR6062: Congress Considers Amendments to American Samoa Constitution
4. UH Deal will make Aloha Stadium even less profitable
5. Kauai County Council member receives ‘credible threat’
6. Kauai County Councilman Is Put On Leave From State Teaching Job
7. Kennedy Rallies to Create new Political Party in Hawaii
8. Federal officials are no-shows at Red Hill community meeting
9. CNHA is Doing Something: Surprise! It’s Illegal
10. Bezos promised $100 million after Maui wildfire but no one knows where it’s going
11. Police: Homeless woman gives birth on sidewalk in downtown Hilo--drags baby around

1. Saiki Opening Day Speech: Don’t let Lahaina property owners rebuild
2. Time to ask ‘tough questions’ about state energy policy
3. Legislature Considering Constitutional Amendment to Enact a State Property Tax
4. Settlement Hearing Set for Hawaii DoE Title IX Class Action Suit 
5. Friends of Criminal Attempted to Intervene in New Years Day Manhunt--now they sue
6. Some Hawaii charter schools tops on tests--others not so much
7. Opening Day: Long Lines thru ‘Security’ at Capitol
8. ‘A serious matter’: HPD admits to $575K mistake in e-ticketing program, procurement violation
9. Don’t read too much into plea bargains
10. Hawaii continues to have one of the lowest age-adjusted firearm fatality rates in the nation

1. Hawaii 9th Worst State to Start a Business
2. State De-Carbonization Report Debunked
3. Hawaii fares poorly in ‘economic freedom ranking
4. Mizuno News: Green Picks Nepotistic Nominee for HD29 Vacancy
5. U.S. Supreme Court to hear challenge on homelessness ordinance ban
6. Hold on to your Wallet: Legislature in Session
7. Maui Renters Face ‘Increasingly Hostile Housing Market’ Thanks to Government Rent Subsidies
8. Gay Socialist Oahu teacher gets 17-year prison sentence for producing child porn
9. Log of personnel at Maui EOC on day Lahaina burned offers insight — and raises more questions
10. 600,000 tons of ash, debris to be hauled from Lahaina

1. Schatz Blasts Trump’s Dangerous Claim Of Total Impunity, Warns Of Rising Threat Of Authoritarianism In The U.S.
2. Star-Advertiser Owner Bankrupt--Paper to be transferred to creditors
3. Kona Airport Runway Cracks Force Shutdown
4. Hawaii Worst State for Drivers
5. OHA Backs Off On Its Push To Develop Kakaako Makai, At Least For Now
6. No body? Not a problem.
7. New Gun Safety Training Rules May Be Hurting Sales
8. It Started With A Messy Front Porch. Now This Elderly Woman’s Condo Association May Take Her Home
9. Hydrogen: 17 vehicles get their own slush fund
10. Solar Industry Whines About Reduced Subsidies
11. Homeless to be Illegally Kicked out of Low Income Housing to make way for Hawaiians
12. Is Honolulu opposing 9th Circuit rulings that invalidated laws against homeless camps?
13. Feel Good:  Lahaina wildfire debris to be wrapped in plastic before transfer to landfill
14. HPD officers lose ‘invaluable’ speed enforcement tool

1. 1959: Martin Luther King Jr Salutes Hawaii Statehood
2. Election 2024: Candidate Filing Begins Feb 1
3. Honolulu’s Skyline rail ridership still paltry, cost now $72 each
4. Are rolling blackouts the price Hawaii must pay for clean energy?
5. More Heads Roll at DLNR
6. Hawaii’s State Mental Hospital Has Long History of ‘Horrifying’ Problems
7. Oahu public housing projects pretend to advance again 
8. Hawaii New Car Markups Among Highest in USA

1. More Tax Hikes Coming
2. Hawaii Congressional Delegation--How they Voted January 13, 2024
3. Lisa Ginoza and Vladimir Devens Sworn In as Hawaiʻi Supreme Court Associate Justices
4. “Non-criminal form of corruption”
5. Will  ‘green’ energy bankrupt Hawaiian Electric?
6. Energy policy makers should get outages first
7. Miske Trial: Jury selection should be complete on Tuesday
8. DLNR fines 2 homeowners on Oahu $1M each for shoreline violations
9. Alameda officially launches campaign to oust Roth

1. Lahaina Building Permit: Corps of Engineers has 75-point test
2. DPP ‘Solution’ to affordable housing: Raise the Rent
3. Daughter-in-law of alleged crime boss Mike Miske takes plea deal for racketeering
4. Oahu emergency rooms overcrowded as demand on West side grows
5. Hawaii hospitals are full ahead of possible nurses' strike

1. Hawaii Republican Presidential Caucus Sites Published
2. Company Owned by Civil Beat Publisher Criminally Liable for Terror Campaign Against Media Critics 
3. Navy still on the hook for negligence claims by military families injured by jet fuel leak
4. Giant Tesla Battery system comes online, speeding Hawaii's transition to rolling blackouts
5. Oahu Rolling Blackouts Caused by Coal Plant Closure
6. House Democrats Outline Priorities for 2024 Session
7. Honolulu Inflation 3rd Highest in USA
8. Hawaii: State with the Smallest Credit Score Increase   
9. Did the alleged “Miske Enterprise” dabble in fireworks?
10. As Usual, CoR Suddenly finds $500M for Legislature to Spend
11. Lawsuit Aims To Halt Hawaiian Merger
12. Lawsuit Alleges Two State Entities Improperly Hired Their Leaders Behind Closed Doors
13. Hawaii hospitals are full ahead of possible nurses' strike
14. EPA probe eyes plumbing concerns after Navy confirms diesel in 4 Pearl Harbor homes    
15. 5 months after Lahaina disaster, state still lacks emergency response plan for wildfires
16. Blangiardi Admin Pushes Back against Aid for Rail-Impacted Businesses
17. Homeless Garbage Threatens Makiki With Flooding
18. Hawaii County Mayor Mitch Roth to run for reelection

1. State Senate Democrats Announce Legislative Priorities for 2024
2. Hawaii: $2.5M needed to retire
3. No-Bid 8a Contractors Got Millions--but Rains Washed Lahaina Ash into Ocean Anyway 
4. Depositions Go badly for ‘Sue Big Oil’ Eco-Kiddies
5. Ewa Rep Martinez Refuses to Make Lead Contamination test Results Public
6. Kaneshiro Corruption Case Set for Trial Feb 27
7. Miske Trial Day 3
8. $100M will be left for Native Hawaiian causes from Kawananakoa Estate
9. UH 800 bed Dorm vacant for Seven Years, nobody noticed
10. How big is the latest COVID wave?
11. Red Hill Registry Being Planned to Study Long-Term Health Effects of Tainted Water on Hawaii Military Community
12. Settlement talks continue in sex assault case against former Saint Louis School football stars
13. More details emerge in HCCC overdoses

1. Mizuno News: Dems send Green Nepotistic Nominee for HD29 Vacancy
2. Rolling Blackout Hits Within Days After Kapolei Battery Farm Goes Online
3. Americans Moved to Low-Tax States in 2023
4. Hawaii Isle property tax bill could penalize owners of ohana units
5. Let’s try a bottom-up approach to more homebuilding
6. $4.5M: The Real Cost of Smoking in Hawaii
7. Lahaina: More kama'aina leaving the islands for better opportunities
8. Burn zones in Lahaina have reopened, but scores of residents still can’t sift their properties
9. Burn More Billions: Council panel votes to support Rail to Ala Moana Mall
10. Amid worrisome surge, Queen’s West sees more ER visits than state’s largest hospital
11. Proposed new gun permitting process draws passionate testimony on both sides
12. Trio of Repeat Offenders charged in Oahu Country Club burglary
13. Navy glitch sends 2 million gallons of sewage into Hawaii waters
14. Next Tech Debacle will Cost $60M-- Josh Green
15. Honolulu Nears Settlement In Case Of Man Who Says He Was Wrongfully Jailed For Months

1. Lack of Solar: Rolling Blackouts for Oahu
2. $600M: Saiki Announces Act 279 DHHL Working Group
3. Mizuno News: Dems send Green Three Nominees for HD29 Vacancy
4. Top Three Slush Fund Surges for Wave of Retirees
5. Hawaii To Get $250M More In Tax Collections Than Expected   
6. Miske Trial Day 1
7. Corrections head: Screenings, x-rays failed to prevent fatal jail overdose

1. Housing regulations add up to solid brick wall against homebuilding
2. The Miske Case: A Few Friends In High Places?
3. Convention Center Usage Down by 33%
4. Escape the DoE: Hawai‘i School Choice Week lays out options

1. RNC Tells Hawaii Republicans: No Caucus, No Delegates
2. Lahaina Senator Slams Housing Plan
3. Tax Word Find
4. 30% More Locals to Flee Hawaii in 2024
5. Sand Island Rehab Recycles Ex-Cons to Work for Miske
6. The witness list for the Miske trial has grown
7. Average Penalty on Oahu STRs -- $160K
8. Kauai Protesters, Eco-Lawyers Kill Green Energy Project
9. DAGS Bumbling Capitol Security Rollout

1. As new year dawns, old maritime law still a problem
2. 2024: A chance to ‘accomplish great things’
3. OHA Trustees Working Together: From One Year to the Next!
4. City buys up expensive real estate in Iwilei--43% Profit for Kobayashi
5. Hawaii Attorney General Writes Bill to Legalize Recreational Marijuana
6. No Nukes: Green Announces $500M “Maui Interim Housing Plan”
7. Target List: Judge refuses to protect juror identities in trial of Michael Miske
8. Darwin News: Fatal overdose in Hilo jail possibly linked to Kona couple fentanyl bust  
9. A new study finds Hawaiʻi has a hit-and-run epidemic
10. Hawaii named ‘most dangerous state’ for two-wheeled vehicles
11. The Supreme Court will decide if Donald Trump can be kept off 2024 presidential ballots

1. Anti-Vaxxer Candidate Kennedy to Rally for Ballot Access in Hawaii
2. ‘Defects’ Have Already Been Found Along Honolulu Skyline’s Tracks
3. Connected Developers Cash in While Others Are Blocked
4. HART Lawyers Feast: $23.3M Legal Fees in $200M Dispute over 2 Acres in Kakaako
5. Maui short-term rental owners say they need answers on looming moratorium
6. How to pay for make-work programs called ‘climate change mitigation’? Green proposes another tax hike
7. HPD corporal’s 2016 DUI case faces new scrutiny amid questions about how recent crash was handled
8. More Unionized Public Employees! Yippieeee --  Labor board says UH graduate assistants have right to collectively bargain

1. Trump to be Removed from Hawaii Republican Ballot--or vice versa
2. Lahaina: Who they’re Getting Rid Of
3. Female Strip Search News: Crooked Jail Guards and Airport Employees Team up to Steal State Vehicles
4. Bissen Campaign Worker Awarded $150,000 Contract For Maui County Recruitment
5. The task force has five containers with illegal fireworks in its possession as evidence, Lowe said no arrests have been made yet.
6. Column: To improve schools, expand DOE system that works
7. Rail construction is slowly killing these businesses. Relief has been slow to come
8. Judge rejects injunction in ACLU case against Oahu homeless sweeps
9. In alarming trend, Hawaii saw multiple overdose deaths in 2023 involving horse tranquilizer
10. Hawaii GOP’s disputes linger into next legislative session

1. Saiki Updates House Committee Assignments
2. House Finance Announces Hearing Schedule
3. While Locals Flee, Useless Hawaii Make-Work Projects Will Require Workers From The Mainland
4. Housing panel makes first development decision
5. HPD Car-Chase Cut-off Rules Make Chases More Dangerous, not less
6. Soft on Crime: Gunman killed by Honolulu police was free on bail
7. Big Island Woman Killed Despite A Restraining Order Against Ex-Boyfriend
8. UH president won’t say if he was drinking before crash
9. Gender-neutral terms, not ‘mom’ or ‘dad’

1. Trump to be Removed from Hawaii Republican Ballot--or vice versa
2. New information suggests link between Miske group and a North Shore drug gang
3. “We are considering moving to Mexico,” Government proposals worry Maui short-term rental owners
4. Horse Tour Operator Being Fined to Death
5. Tourist Count Up but tourist income in real terms hasn’t grown in the past 30 years

1. FBI Illegal Disruption of Hawaii Republicans?
2. Maui Economy will get Worse in 2024 
3. Ige Admin Tries to Destroy Digital Records of Governorship
4. Hawaii DOE Faces Roadblocks, Delays In Spending $2 Billion For School Facilities
5. Mental hospitals warehoused the sick. Congress wants to let them try again.
6. Hawaii Prisons Need More Thorough Internal Investigations, Commission Says
7. State of Hawaii Moves Closer to Disposing of Historic Sailing Tanker

1. Restaurants Getting Cooked
2. Bissen Picks New Administrator for Maui Emergency Management Agency
3. It might be called Hawaiian, but it isn’t Hawaii-owned
4. VIDEO: Tulsi Gabbard Slams Maine’s ‘Dangerous’ Removal of Trump from Ballot
5. Plea Deal By Miske’s Ex-Business Partner Leaves Only 3 Defendants In Upcoming Trial
6. Customers could feel impacts of minimum wage increase
7. 100% renewable for Oahu is bad law
8. Here’s The Forecast For Legislative Reform in ’24
9. Hawaii’s COVID-19 death toll surpassed 2,100 in 2023

1. Keeping Honolulu Jammed: 2023 Complete Streets Progress Report
2. Pinata: Legislature opens GIA application processes
3. Mobile Homes for Lahaina?  “We could have them set up within 48 hours”
4. Law enforcement makes third big bust of illegal fireworks in two weeks
5. Tentative Settlement Reached In Lawsuit Over Fatal Shooting By Honolulu Police

1. HPD: No Gun Permits for Next 40 Days
2. Minimum wage jumps to $14 January 1st
3. DBEDT: Tourist Count Up--Spending Down
4. Task Force makes another large seizure of illegal fireworks
5. No Water-No Build: Kaleo Manuel finally figures out he is ‘an obstacle’
6. Climate Change not cause of Lahaina Fire
7. Maui Arrival Requirements Revealed for Visitors In 2024
8. Attorney Michael Green sued for alleged sexual harassment
9. 5 years and 13 delays: Mother of infant who died in babysitter’s care desperately awaits trial’s start
10. 4 Oahu Inmates Face Manslaughter Charge In Fellow Prisoner's Death

1. FBI Illegal Disruption of Hawaii Republicans?
2. Bearing brunt of housing crisis, Hawaii’s youth are speaking up for the future: ‘I don’t want to leave’
3. Food insecurity rises in Hawaii amid increasing costs
4. DoE Names new Person to Screw up CIP Projects
5. Public Safety Department Changes Name

1. State Senate Announces Leadership, Committee Assignments
2. Hawaiʻi State Legislature Announces 2024 Legislative Timetables
3. Kaleo Manuel to depart the Commission on Water Resource Management
4. ‘Makes me angry’: Lahaina family marks bittersweet holiday as they prepare to leave Hawaii
5. This Lahaina senior complex used to be a refuge. Now it’s a ‘cemetery’
6. Businesses In Lahaina May Face Significant Barriers To Reopening

1. EMS lost $33M after failing to bill patients?
2. Hawaii slowest to recover pandemic job losses
3. High School Teams to Compete in the 2024 Hawaiʻi LifeSmarts State Competition
4. Maui County diverts UIPA requests to 'online portal'
5. Maui: Unemployment drops to 6.5%
6. “I lost it all”--Small Businesses Survive Lahaina Fires--but not aftermath
7. Conflict Of Interest Has Clouded This Big Island Judge's Family Court Cases
8. CD5: Will Calvin Say Run for Reelection?
9. It’s Time To Take Meaningful Action Against Cockfighting
10. New Database Tracks Millions In Donations And Government Funds For Maui
11. State Hospital Workers are totally at the mercy of criminal insane ‘patients’
12. The Insane Die on Hawaii Streets because They Are Not Forced into Treatment

1. How Christmas Came to Hawaii
2. Find common ground to foster holiday cheer
3. Public Corruption In The Land Of Aloha
4. Hawai‘i County leading state in tackling housing shortage
5. X-Mas Surprise: 27% raises for county execs
6. Seven years since the fatal shooting at Ala Moana Center
7. Trial in missing girl’s murder delayed
8. Military fuel supplies could be targets in a Pacific conflict

1. How Christmas Came to Hawaii
2. Find common ground to foster holiday cheer
3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted December 23, 2023
4. Merry Wet Christmas for Honolulu BWS
5. Hawaii's outward migration confirmed in U.S Census Bureau's report
6. Debt: Hawaii Ranks #1
7. The More Green Talks About Homelessness, the Less He Does
8. Hawaii lags in preparing kids for kindergarten, state DOE report shows

1. State Pays Down Student Debt for 492 Medics 
2. Telescope Removed from Mauna Kea--Will be Shipped to Chile where Science is Appreciated
3. Soft on Crime: Kidnapper twice not arrested, he then kills victim
4. Lahaina: Home Ownership is Key to Success

1. Existing short-term Hawaii rentals may remain in operation, judge rules
2. Help Maui fire victims, but not by abusing STR owners
3. Could fixing our housing crisis really be so simple?
4. Air Tours to be Restricted over Volcanoes National Park
5. Ways to make it easier for private homebuilders to build more homes
6. Long-term rental tax relief should include mixed-use properties
7. Judge denies ex-city prosecutor’s last ditch effort to have public corruption case thrown out after lawyer indicted as co-conspirator
8. Lawyers have a lot of work before the Miske trial starts
9. Hannemann: “We have an opportunity to use this crisis”
10. Maui Starts Building Temporary Landfill For Wildfire Ash And Debris
11. With $2B in unspent construction money, schools superintendent pretends to pledge to overhaul process
12. Fuel found in some homes on Navy water system, new EPA report finds

1. Mizuno Quits House to Become Homeless Czar--who will the Carpenters Union Appoint Next?
2. Lahaina Tourism Industry Factions Fight: ILWU, UNITE HERE Demand Their Competitors be Shut Down
3. DoE Non-Spender to Work for Senate WAM this Session
4. Senators Grill DOE Officials For Failure To Spend Project Money Before Deadline
5. No House Investigation into Alcos
6. Fear: Applying The Smell Test To CWS
7. As Lahaina burned, resort safety officer’s satellite phone proved a critical connection to outside world
8. Mauna Kea lands on Hawaii Register of Historic Places
9. UH Regents on Track to Pick Next Dobelle
10. $0.329/kwh not enough?  Solar Industry Appeals
11. HPD investigating bizarre break-in at Oahu judge's home
12. Should Oahu Have Armed Police Officers Inside Its Schools?
13. Large shipment of illegal fireworks seized in Honolulu
14. Mililani Shooting Another Joseph Family Hit
15. Convicted Child Predator Gets Manini Sentence After Long Delay In Standing Trial

1. Hawaii Teacher Certification Wins Praise from Heritage Foundation
2. Army and HDOT Set to Negotiate 50-Year Lease for Dillingham Airfield
3. Displaced Lahaina residents will be placed in Short-Term Rentals for Years and Years to Come
4. Hawaiian Airlines Open To Other Merger Offers
5. Legislative Agenda: GE Tax Hike, TAT Hike, State-Run Bank
6. Honolulu Fireworks Cases Almost Always Get Dismissed
7. Court document: HPD brass ignored sex harassment, retaliation complaints against embattled major
8. Police and Courts Find Way to Get DUI case dismissed against former UH football coach June Jones
9. One Homeless Alcoholic May Move Back to Mainland

1. Green 2025 Budget Adds $1.2B New Spending
2. Chinese Illegals: CNMI DMV Chief Convicted of License Fraud
3. DCCA Makes It Hard To Find Information On Political Insiders
4. Governor looks again to climate impact fee — this time aimed at vacation rentals
5. HPD chief says he’s ‘not aware of all the facts’ in alleged mishandling of crash involving officer
6. Sue and Settle: Hawaii Governor Proposes Additional Funds to Pretend to Fight Youth Climate Lawsuit
7. Hawaii Federal Court Denies Motion To Certify Covid-19 Vaccination Class Action
8. Benioffs donate 282 acres for Self-Help Affordable Housing to Hawaii Island nonprofit
9. FBI Busts Hilo Satanist-Anarchist on Kiddie Porn

1. Cost-free ways Hawaii can increase its housing stock
2. Voluntary tax incentives could encourage landlords to house displaced Lahaina residents
3. Public asked to participate in survey on next UH President
4. Drugs Behind 50% of Traffic Fatalities
5. Lahaina: “Impatient to move back onto the property”
6. Lahaina: ‘We want to return to work’
7. Hawaii State Hospital Workers Were Assaulted More Than 1,700 Times Over The Past 11 Years
8. Another Day in the DoE: Autistic student beaten at Kailua-Kona high school, mother speaks out
9. Corrections Panel Crumbling
10. Is Miske somehow behind recent shooting deaths?
11. State firework drop off doesn’t spark much interest
12. EMS staffing shortage leaves one-third of Oahu’s rigs out of service for 12-hour period

1. Loss of $192M? Honolulu EMS forgot to bill ambulance patients for over a year 
2. Green announces plan to use short-term rentals to help with Maui housing
3. Hearing Set for Honolulu PD Concealed Carry Rules
4. Big Island: Gun License Denial Leads to Lawsuit
5. School Non-Spending
6. Another Sher-Edling Scam: Hawaii Ag Sues Makers of Firefighting Foam
7. Hawaii AG Fights to Get 'transsexual' Males into Bathroom with your Daughter
8. More moving away as Hawaii dream gets costlier
9. Millions for Fake ‘Toxic’ Cleanups but County Noncommittal as Maui developers seek subsidies to alter projects and help fire evacuees
10. Homeless Drug News: Hepatitis epidemic hits Hawaii harder than other states
11. ACLU Suits Could Help Expand Gigantic Festering Homeless Tent Cities