1. How do criminals become foster parents in Hawaii?
2. Reports show assisted suicide continues to grow in Hawaii
3. Recreational Marijuana Bills on the Move
4. Taxes, Housing, Energy: High Costs Driving People out of Hawaii
5. Hawaii Democrats Presidential Caucus Set for March 6
6. Hawaii needs better budgeting for Maui recovery
7. You Will Pay for Maui Fire Property Damage: Look out for $5B 'Fund 2'
8. Converting Maui vacation rentals to longer-term housing causing frustration for owners
9. Biden Administration: New Federal Money for More Useless Rail 
10. School Facilities Administration was Just a Scam to Grab Federal Funds
11. DHHL changes $600M spending plan to prioritize land purchasing over home construction 
12. FBI Threatens Politically Incorrect Mid-PAC Basketball Players
13. House bill preventing a mayor or governor from suspending electronic media transmissions
14. SB3159 / HB2470: Stop Vexatious Litigants
15. Most insurance-related bills to help those in Lava Zones 1, 2 have stalled 
16. Kapalama Container Terminal is almost built; that only took about 30 years
17. Chemical attacks described by witnesses in Miske trial

1. The Department’s Quest to Nullify Evidence
2. DoTax: State Tax Credits You Can Claim
3. City Demands Energy Use Data on Apartments and Commercial Buildings
4. 15% State Budget Cut Threatened by Hawaii’s Failure to Build Housing
5. Hawaii has done poorly with grandiose cannabis authorities
6. Column: Crackdown on short-term units will hurt isle people
7. DHHL Plan: More Paper Leases
8. Ethics Reform: After two Bribery Arrests, Legislators Set to do Nothing (again)
9. SB2322: Money for Surfrider’s Fake Bacteria Counts
10. County to Set up Massive Festering Homeless Tent City in Hilo?

1. Ninth Circuit to rehear Hawaii butterfly knife ban
2. Green Kills off 'Affordable' Housing Group, Hands Authority to HHFDC
3. 133 Candidates Pull Papers Statewide
4. After Wrecking Tourism Industry, DeFries to Take Over as Executive Director of Mauna Kea Oversight Authority
5. Schatz points to ‘paralysis by analysis’ in Maui housing debate
6. M Nightclub photos invite questions about Miske’s hidden ownership
7. Hawaii Will Pay $60K To An Inmate Who Suffered A Broken Jaw In 2019 Maui Jail Riot
8. HB1601 Stop Arresting Wife Beaters and Drunk Drivers

1. Kennedy on Hawaii Ballot with 'We The People Party'
2. Hawaii committee to discuss $25 tourism tax Friday
3. UHERO: Hawaii Economy Slowing
4. Hawaii Insiders Plot: Kill Seabright and Wheat?
5. 3 adults accused of torture, starvation death of 10-year-old girl plead not guilty
6. Habitual Violent Misdemeanor Bill Necessary For Community’s Safety
7. Chinese Police on Patrol in Kiribati
8. Maui Temporary Housing: State Games System to Milk FEMA for Every Penny
9. Cost of Housing Lahaina Residents may Lead to ‘Furlough Fridays’ unless FEMA Ponies Up for Hotels
10. Buttigieg visits Skyline while 0.3% of Oahu rides rail

1. SB3381: Stop Lahaina Property Owners from Rebuilding
2. VIDEO: Biological Parents of Ariel Sellers Speak
3. Anti-Gun Bills Scheduled for Decision Making Hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee
4. Pop-Up Village For 350 Maui Fire Survivors Has Been Blocked for Months by Red Tape
5. Lawmakers Question Plans For Governor's Maui Wildfire Death Settlement Fund
6. SB2475: Stop Recycling Child Molesters
7. Republicans Fail to Oust Nago as Chief Elections Officer
8. Man already serving life was sentenced in murder-for-hire case tied to the Mike Miske case
9. Vehicle towing rates in Hawaii could more than double this year
10. Hale Hookah co-owner pleads not guilty to drug charges

1. Trump: Tulsi Gabbard on Short List for Vice President
2. More cost, More delay: Green Signs 'PLA' for Lahaina Rebuild
3. Executive Order: Hawaii is a 'Trauma-Informed' State
4. DoH: Exposing tobacco marketing to Hawai‘i’s youth
5. Rule Forcing Corrupt Project Labor Agreements Will Face Legal Challenges
6. FCKBLM? Censorship Leads to 23% Decrease in Personalized License Plate Requests
7. Senate Approves Publicly Funded Election Bill
8. Feds Obtain More Than $1.9 Million in Forfeitures from Hawaii Illegal Gambling Operations
9. Water Activists Delaying Lahaina FEMA Trailers--Just Like they delayed firefighting water
10. Lahaina Temporary Housing Delays Caused by Water Activists cost State $60M and counting
11. Lahaina Homeowners Prohibited from Parking trailer on their Burned-Out property
12. 44% of Residents Thinking About Leaving Hawaii
13. Are Locals Happier on the Mainland?
14. Short-term vacation rentals impact Hawaii’s housing market only 5%
15. Honolulu ethics panel mulls gift prohibition for all city employees
16. Kupuna testify against purchase of Kauai apartments for DHHL beneficiaries
17. School bus driver shortage has lawmakers looking at other options
18. Boyfriend of drowning victim claims inadequate response by police, fire
19. Repeat Offenders Must be released so they can Repeat Again

1. Hawaiʻi’s future jobs: 70% require postsecondary education by 2031
2. Cockfighting fans fight Northern Mariana ban at Ninth Circuit
3. Tax Hike News: COVID giveaway to Public Employees plus Maui Fire Costs Could Top $1B This Year Alone
4. Legislature Plans ‘Fundamental Change’ for HECO:  Yes, its a Rate Hike
5. How Green Amendment to Hawaii Constitution will make Fuel and Electricity More Expensive
6. The Plan is Working as Intended:  1,500+ families believed to have left Maui since August wildfires
7. Carpenters Union Illegally Voids Maui Mayor’s Nominees for Boards and Commissions
8. House marijuana debate shows softening support for legalization in Hawaii
9. Food prices increase at grocery stores and restaurants
10. After 20 Years of Violations, Administrative order between EPA, Hawaii county demands improvements to aging sewage plants

1. True housing reform seems a strong possibility 
2. SB3196 Bans Many Types of Guns
3. Wahiawa Child Abuse Death--Who Should Have Known?
4. Bill requires teachers accused of sexual misconduct to surrender licenses
5. UH Manoa: “So much antisemitism on campus”
6. WSJ: Hawaii Wants Visitors to Pay a Tourist Tax to … uh … Help Prevent the Next Disaster, yeah that’s it
7. Hawaii Legislators Seek To Outlaw AI-Generated Political Misinformation
8. Can crowdsourcing improve reporting of the Miske Trial?

1. Skimming Nuclear Munitions Contract? Lawsuit Alleges Dawson is Fake Hawaiian Company
2. The ConAm Returns Again
3. City May be Short on Sanitation Trucks for Months to Come
4. Hawaii's high cost of living is due to “one little thing after another, just building on each other”
5. 111 Candidates Pull Papers Statewide
6. Lahaina Cleanup is Scam to Keep Owners off their own Properties
7. Exodus of Hawaii residents cost state $185M in lost taxes since 2020
8. Hawaii is the only U.S. state that taxes Medicare, Medicaid and TriCare insurance benefits
9. FEMA housing far from burned properties in West Maui
10. SB2693: Outlaw Kaniela Ing’s Lahaina Charity Scam
11. Blangiardi’s biggest decision was to halt construction of the city rail line before reaching all the way to Ala Moana.
12. City auditor reviews building permit department
13. More Empty promises on horizon for future Hawaiian homestead leases
14. Taxpayers Are On The Hook For $1.25 Million After The State Failed To Provide Water To An Oahu Farmer
15. Child welfare bureaucracy’s debilitating “cover your ass” mentality must be replaced
16. HB1799/SB2670: Help Gays Access Fresh Schoolboys

1. Hawaii is State With the Least Disposable Income
2. Decision on advisory group for UH president’s search postponed
3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted February 17, 2024
4. Rail: Another GE Tax Increase on the Agenda
5. Prosecutors seek forfeiture of Buntenbah’s House
6. DHS: We do not inspects Guardian or Adoptive Homes Unless Credible Complaint is Made
7. Hawaiian Airlines shareholders approve proposed acquisition by Alaska Air Group
8. Remembering Sara Yara: Community comes together to sign wave
9. Alleged Molester Allegedly Confessed to HPD in 2020--Four Years Later Finally Extradited to Texas
10. Thousands of pounds of illegal fireworks seized
11. Navy’s new $3.4 billion dry dock in Hawaii is most expensive project in service’s history
12. Mayor Blangiardi OKs aid to rail-affected small businesses

1. Gun bills pass Hawaii Senate committee
2. Debt: Honolulu 3rd-Worst Sinkhole City
3. CNHA’s Latest Grift: “Something illegal on the side”
4. Defendant In Kaneshiro Case May Pose Danger To Others, Probation Officer Says
5. Hearing to unseal adoption, foster care documents in Isabella Kalua case set
6. Criminal Mother Arrested While Beating Boys in Street
7. WAM Chair Calls Private Meeting To Discuss Maui's Public Disaster
8. Queens to Close Wahiawa General Inpatient Facilities
9. Many Female HS Athletes without lockerrooms 6 Years After lawsuit
10. Educational worker safety bill advances but removes increased harassment penalties
11. State prevails in ‘reverting’ land under affordable housing project
12. State receives green light on redevelopment of Mayor Wright homes (Again)
13. After Four Years on Streets, One Homeless Person Finally Agrees to Accept Shelter

1. Tulsi for VP? Trump talks with Gabbard about U.S. defense
2. Rabbi Sues Hawaii County Over Mounting Fines for Hosting Small Religious Gatherings in His Home
3. CWS Used Guardianship as Legal Loophole to Place Tortured Girl in Home with Convicted Felon?
4. Will Property Owners be Allowed to Rebuild? Community Opposes HCDA Takeover of Lahaina
5. Another Labor Cost for Business: Momentum Grows For Comprehensive Paid Family Leave In Hawaii
6. Soft on Crime: Thugs Walk Free After beating Security Guard to Death
7. Louis Kealoha Wants Reduced Sentence
8. Testimony in Miske trial pivots to alleged chemical attack on rival nightclub
9. The Packed Hawaii State Hospital May Soon See A Surge In Patients From A Private Facility
10. 'Swarm team' investigates increasing chemical detections in Pearl Harbor's drinking water
11. Still towing complaints 3 years after changes to state law

1. HPD: First Amber Alert in 19 Years Results in Safe Recovery of Two Boys
2. Big Island: Low Winds Lead to Rolling Blackouts
3. Three Anti-Gun Bills Scheduled to be Heard
4. Liberation of crypto is win for Hawaii
5. Hawaiian Electric 2023 Annual report: Still profitable except for Lahaina Litigation
6. Advocates call for change of legal guardianship policies
7. Lahaina Fire Death Toll Rises To 101 After Police Identify Remains Of Missing Person  
8. Survivors’ Monthly Hotel Bill: $15,000 paid by FEMA
9. SB2762 Rent Control: After Rent Subsidies Create Crisis, Legislators prepare to Make it Worse
10. Bills For UBER/LYFT Ride-Share Fee And A Climate-Impact Fee Advance
11. Some Reform Bills Are Simply Ignored Until They Die — And They Start Dying Friday
12. 65 Shell Bills on the Move
13. Pension Scam behind Star-Advertiser bankruptcy?

1. SB3381: HCDA will use Eminent Domain to Take Over Lahaina Make it in to High End Resort Area
2. Bribe-Taking Cocaine Dealer J Kalani ‘Powdernose’ English to get Early Release
3. Lahaina Fire Charity Scam News: Kaniela Ing Faces More Charges Of Campaign Spending Violations
4. Torture House Foster parent Requests Release -- Denied
5. Miske was Child Abuser, got Probation
6. Labor Trafficking: Getting Away With It
7. Lahaina Death Trap: The Day Fire Engulfed Kuhua Street
8. Secret Hawaii Energy Cabal Fades Away
9. Why an M&A swoop in Hawaii is a big bet on the yen
10. Gov. Green calls new Hawaii housing bill ‘unconstitutional’
11. Hawaiʻi to build out housing services with Medicaid under new federal program
12. Driver Chose Which Cop would Administer DUI Test

1. 9th Circuit To Hear Oral Argument in Absentee Voting Case for Citizens in U.S. Territories
2. Kaheohe 'comprehensive' homeless solution houses only 34 people
3. Blangiardi announces Andy Sugg as new Chief of Staff
4. Miske trial picks up after a week of Witness Intimidation
5. Green Pushing Tax Hikes
6. Tourism: Another Year of Stagnation
7. HB1611: Stop Recycling Bad Cops?
8. Local Food?  DoE has a solution--‘give us more money’
9. 2023: A Year of Hawaiian Spyin'

1. Father:  DHS and Catholic Charities both involved in Geanna Bradley Placement in Torture House
2. Nearly 5,000 Maui fire victims remain in hotels
3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted February 10, 2024
4. SB3196: More Gun Control on the Agenda
5. Hawaii energy policy bedeviled by price, reliability tradeoffs
6. Hoarding School Impact Fees
7. 93 Candidates Pull Papers Statewide
8. SB3381: HCDA to Control Lahaina Redevelopment?
9. HB2762: OHA to Build Casino at Kakaako Makai?
10. Mafia News: SHOPO Lawyer Devens Planted on Supreme Court to Block Release of Police Disciplinary Records
11. LOL: Hawaii Version of ‘Three-Strike’ bill for repeat violent offenders -- Prosecutors will actually be allowed to charge a felony
12. Hawaii teens report persistent mental-health problems
13. A ‘Shockingly Broken System’: Hawaii Failing To Meet ANY Child Care Safety Regulations
14. BJ Penn for … Council?

1.  AGAIN: Family Court Gave Another Girl to Another Convicted Felon, She was also starved and tortured to death
2. Naming Names: Which Honolulu Lawyers are Helping Miske Catch Informants?
3. Wahiawa Foster Girl Tortured, Murdered
4. Article misrepresents status of Hawaii ballot bill 

1. Maui Fires: Green, Bissen Feds Six-Month Update
2. Guam Meth Kingpin Gets 30 Years
3. Hawaii 2nd-Worst State for Fatal Crashes Involving Unlicensed Drivers
4. 'Spirit of Aloha' Hawaii Supreme Court gun ruling brings praise and ridicule
5. SB2392: Hawaii committee advances bill that could keep Trump off the ballot
6. Bill 21:  Emergency building permits for Maui Fire Survivors
7. Lahaina family excited to rebuild home after fire debris is cleared from property  
8. After listening Tour, House GOP Champions ‘Common Sense’ Bills, Conservative Values
9. Unaffordable Affordables: Another $10M Subsidy for Black Sand, Kobayashi
10. Big Island Police Discipline: Exhibitionist and a Burglar
11. HB1626: To Keep More Criminals on the Streets,  Shorten Probation Periods
12. As Always Intended: Waimanalo Gulch to be Extended

1. UHERO: After Six Months of 'Relief' Lahaina Survivors Health Worsens
2. Kula Fire Recovery: "No one is coming to save you"
3. Hawaii Supreme Court Rejects Major Second Amendment Rulings in New Gun-Carry Decision
4. Blackouts cast doubt on renewable energy mandates
5. House to Consider Three Bills to Reduce Cost of Living
6. Maui wildfires leadership void -- Six Months Still No Answers
7. Glittering Illusion: Fake Proposal to ban foreign purchase of Hawaii land draws 2,000 testimonies
8. Real Purpose of fake ‘Anti-Trump’ Bill: Create process to handle Candidate Challenges?
9. Hawaii Child Welfare Polygamy Procurement
10. Child starvation death: Adults all got Probation and time served 
11. HB1610 Killed: Would have capped Cost of UIPA Requests
12. Legalize?  Marijuana Behind 70% of Auto Accidents
13. Witnesses allege HPD officer tossed what appeared to be beer bottles from SUV after crash
14. ‘Basically collapsing’: Buried WWII-era landfill plagues high school’s athletic complex
15. Disabled Veterans Get Big Discount on Kauai Property Taxes

1. Star-Advertiser Profitable ... except
2. A social tax policy I could agree with
3. DLNR: Court Ruling Protects Endangered Hawaii Birds from 'Save the Mosquito' Activists
4. Hawaii Information Practices: Annual Report for 2023
5. HPD Hits Critic with Bogus Sex Case
6. Witnesses allege HPD officer tossed what appeared to be beer bottles from SUV after crash
7. SB2475: Schools to Stop Recycling Child Molesters?
8. Anti-Insurrectionist Ballot Bill  Passes Committee 3-2
9. DHHL Buying Kauai’s last ‘Affordable’ Apartment Complex--Residents to be Evicted? 
10. Families Stopped Paying Rent During The Red Hill Water Crisis. Now Their Landlord Wants To Collect
11. New law to protect renters from background check fees

1. Family Court Secrets: Two Years After Ariel Sellers Murder, Kaluas Still Retain Parental Rights
2. Court: HMSA Physician Contracts “oppressive, unconscionable, and unenforceable”
3. Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
4. Lahaina Fire: Maui PD After Action Report Full Text
5. Kaneshiro, Mitsunaga want key evidence excluded from corruption trial
6. Witness Intimidation: Defend Hawaii owner back in federal custody after instigating a Waikiki brawl
7. Finger-Pointing On State's latest Botched IT Job
8. State psychiatric hospital overcrowded with patients who don’t have medical needs
9. Wahiawa General Hospital forced to transfer patients after air condition breakdown
10. DoE Lunchroom Food Goes to Feed Pigs
11. The Game Management Advisory Commission Was Created To Be The Voice Of Hawaii's Hunters. Is Anyone Listening?
12. University of Hawaii selects film studio developer for West Oahu

1. Long Lines Suppress Republican Votes on Election Day:  City Clerk Plans to do it Again in 2024
2. Let’s Fulfill MLK’s Dream in Hawai‘i
3. Hawaii’s cost-of-living problem is an economic freedom problem
4. Hawaii: Never a shortage of costly and grandiose project proposals
5. Danger: 200 tax bills being considered by Legislature
6. Lawmakers seek clarity on possible connections between suspects in 2 acid attacks while serving time
7. Taxpayers will likely have to fork over $12.5M for latest settlement in high-speed police chase
8. Green Energy is a Joke: Hawaii building Six More Diesel Plants disguised as ‘biodiesel’
9. Green Energy: Means ‘More Expensive’--Let’s call it ‘Carbon Cashback’
10. Green Means ‘More Expensive’--Let’s call it ‘Climate Fee’
11. Will New Property Tax Backfire on DoE Bureaucracy?
12. Lahaina Fires Become Excuse du Jour
13. Campaign Cash Rolls in to Usual Incumbents
14. Insurance Company Led By HECO Board Chair Is Suing His Own Utility Over The Maui Fires
15. Shelters are Retirement Centers for Career Homeless

1. What Were They Thinking?
2. Maui 'Renewable' Power Plant--Surprise, its Diesel!
3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted February 3, 2024
4. Kauai: Tourism Industry Scores Another Big Win Over Agriculture 
5. SB3350: Outlaw Supreme Court Justice Vlad Devens’ Mafia Trick
6. HB1537 DoE Money Grab: Create New Property Tax, Rob Counties
7. Bill to raise Hawaii DOE superintendent pay cap sparks controversy
8. Would Public Campaign Financing Help Republicans?
9. Miske trial as performance
10. An alarming uptick in crime alerts HPD
11. Hawaii County officials eyeing possible sites for massive festering homeless tent cities
12. Money News: Mizuno and Moku are the Latest to Pretend to do Something About Homelessness
13. UH: 530 Dorms Closed --- going on 1,186

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