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Saturday, February 1, 2014 |
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February 1, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:24 PM :: 4058 Views
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- Sen. Sam Slom Introduces Legislative Package
- Marijuana Group Poll Shows More Support for Legalization
- Bird Group: Survey Shows 90% in Hawaii Want Cat Control
- Fundrace: Abercrombie $533K, Ige $56K
- SB3088: Big Cable to Service Wasteful Offshore Wind Farms
- Grabbing for TAT, Mayors Push GE Tax Hike
- HSTA Rejects Bills to lengthen school year, set instructional hours
- OHA pursues plan to double revenue from Kakaako land
- HB1654: More Administrators to Administrate the Administration
- Lobbying filings offer look at cost of gay-marriage fight as Legislators Continue to Seek Retaliation
- Sierra Club Joins Anti-GMO Whackos on Maui
- Health Dep't: Supermarkets Responsible for Cleanliness of Customers Dirty Reusable Bags
- IAC: Judge Hara Should Have Recused Himself
- Couple faces $15K fine for turning mill into residence
- SB234 Iwi reburial bill riles Native Hawaiians
- Foundation Headed by Chicagoans taking bids for Obama library
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Friday, January 31, 2014 |
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January 31, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:23 PM :: 5215 Views
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- Judge Tosses Gay Marriage Suit
- 204K in Hawaii on Average Day: Visitors Set Record in 2013
- Monsanto Hawaii Pesticide Use
- Sabato: Hawaii Senate Race 'Leans Schatz'
- DLNR Invites Comment on Statewide Outdoor Recreation Plan
- Hawaii Auto Insurance Quotes Vary 48% -- Depending on Month
- Video: Policy Roundtable with Grassroot Institute
- Veterans Treatment Court Celebrates its One-Year Anniversary
- Jan 31: Today's Legislative Agenda
- Monday official launch of ’14 election season
- Seitz: No Mental Health Facility in Hawaii able to Treat Roosevelt HS Suspect
- Sweet Heart Deal: City Contractor Pleads Guilty in Real Estate Scam
- Rhoads Fat Chance to Ban Free Speech
- Minimum wage bill passes through committee, Tip Credit Eliminated
- Hawaii Senate Ag Panel OKs Task Force on Genetically Modified Food
- Republican lawmakers lay out legislative agenda
- Gay-Atheists Still Trying to Redefine Free Speech as Lobbying
- Big Downtown Churches Debate How Deeply to Bow Before Gay Gods
- UH presidential search will go national
- Hawaii Lawmaker Wants New Statewide Agency To Monitor Police
- Two Gambling Bills in Motion
- SB1007: No State Liability for Hikers' Accidents
- State, energy firms bet on importing liquefied natural gas to Hawaii
- Hawaii Senators Want to Restore Funding for Public School Athletics
- Lawmakers propose solar connection rules
- HECO to Ease Solar Connection Requirements
- Veterans dying because of health care delays
- Representatives Ward and Fale address HB 525 – Veterans
- Representative Gene Ward addresses HB 1498 - Public Order; Urination
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Thursday, January 30, 2014 |
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January 30, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:16 PM :: 5806 Views
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- Hawaii’s minority leaders push for more power for the people
- When Government Keeps Teens from Seeing the Therapist
- Roosevelt incident puts Mental Illness in spotlight
- SA: Change how we handle runaways
- McDermott Lawsuit Against Gay Marriage Thrown Out of Court
- More Premium Hikes Coming: 2% Insurance Fee Extended to Sustain Failed Hawaii Health Exchange
- The End Approaches: DoE Vainly Pitches $14M Appropriation for Teacher Evaluations
- Admission: Jr. Kindergarten Repealed "To Give Momentum to Preschool Efforts"
- Fired Honolulu Cop's File Illustrates Lack of Public Insight into Misconduct
- Hirono, Hanabusa Among 58 Endorsing Clinton for President
- The Diplomat Runs Lengthy Hanabusa Interview
- HIRA Doesn't Hurt GOP Fundraising Much
- Hawaii Beverage Tax: Here They Go Again
- Anti-GMO Morons Counting on Wooley to Save Them
- Protestors, lawmakers demand more oversight of Kakaako development
- SB3122: Clayton Hee Pushes Condo Development on OHA Kakaako land
- HB2141 Will Allow Local Investors to be Scammed by Mainland Solar Schemers
- Five Years Later Hawaii Hydrogen Hype Exposed as Hot Air
- Nightmare: 21 Giant Windfarms Proposed for Hawaii
- Jones Act Keeps Saudi Oil Competitive
- AP: Global Cooling Protects Hawaii from Chinese Air Pollution
- Hawaii AG May Spend $3 Million to Investigate Matson, Defend State
- Court Records: Obama's Puck's Alley drug dealer beaten to death with ball peen hammer by gay lover
- Hawaii’s home ‘flip’ rate among lowest in U.S.
- Streamlined Permitting could ease path to restoring Hawaiian ponds
- Many state agency websites still earn failing grades
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014 |
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January 29, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:01 PM :: 3731 Views
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- Roosevelt HS Shooting: Failure of Mental Health Care System
- VIDEO: Hawaii House, Senate Republicans Join Forces
- Reason TV: Is Hawaii's Anti-GMO Movement Really Just Anti-Science?
- The Problematic National Security Rationale for the Jones Act
- Six House Bills Address Failed Health Connector
- Drop in Median Income Affects Affordable Housing Limits
- P-20 Partnership Pushes 55 in ‘25
- Panos: Household Electricity and Solar Panels
- KIDS COUNT report reveals growing gap in reading proficiency of students
- Full Text: State of the Union Speech 2014
- Republican Response to State of the Union
- Grassroot Institute: Obama Needs to Respect Constitution
- Abercrombie: Obama Falls in Line and Echoes Me
- Ige: Trumpets Have Sounded!
- Legislature: Today's Agenda
- Hawaii, Kauai County nearly 3% of population on Medicated Marijuana, Maui Co lags at 2%
- Farmers Denounce Maui GMO Bill
- Leading Democrats Make Fools of Themselves at GMO Hearing
- Kauai: Screaming Activists Disrupt Water Well Meeting
- Hawaii’s low-income students struggle in reading
- HB1943 Big Fat Rate Hike
- HB1499 Seeks End to Free Speech
- Hawaii Tops nation for Arrest of Runaways
- A Court’s All-Hands Approach Aids Girls Most at Risk
- Dozens 'Inherit' Section 8 Vouchers
- Legislators to Pour $487M down UH Black Hole
- Apple Tried to Fire Carbone, Faculty Backs Apple
- HCDA represents developers, not community
- HB1582: Fast-Track Development Applications
- C&C Still Pushing Lanai Wind Farm at PUC
- First Wind plans to build three large solar farms in Central Oahu
- Hawaii Co 26% of Water Bills Past Due
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014 |
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January 28, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:05 PM :: 3927 Views
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- Maui Council: Please Protect Hawaii Farmers and Ranchers from Anti-GMO Hype Campaign
- JSC Nominates Six for Hawaii Supreme Court
- Committee to Hear Multiple Pro-Hunting Bills This Week
- Three Bills Affect Future of Ag Land in Hawaii
- Supreme Court Moves Shoreline to "Historical Evidence of Upper Wash"
- Nominations Closing for State Water Commission
- Community Meetings: Kapolei, Pearl City, Aiea Rail Stations
- U.S. Supreme Court approves military exclusion from reapportionment plan
- Monsanto Hawaii Announces Enhanced Community Engagement Effort
- Kapolei soldier killed in insurgents' attack on Afghan base
- Senate Committee Passes GMO Labeling Bill
- Halawa: UPW Prevents Drug Detector from Being Used
- Espero: Cops Should Not Carry Guns While Stoned, Drunk
- Star-Adv: Just Pick Lassner Already
- Backlogged repairs at UH could be with us forever
- Molasses Spill Excuse for Frenzy of Legislative Activity
- Senators pull plug on cooling all schools
- Kauai Catholic Schools Celebrate School Choice Week
- Gallup: Hawaii Obama Popularity 61%
- Temps Decline During Four Decades of "Global Warming" on the Island of Oahu, Hawaii
- State officials hope the Pro Bowl stays in Hawaii after Abercrombie Opens Mouth
- DOJ: Portland pimps indicted, including suspect in Ivy Harris case
- Hawaiian Telcom is blocking half of the world from calling - and won't tell you
- Kauaians Angered by Clayton Hee's Niihau Fishing Ban
- Bill 8: Homeowners Junk Subject to Seizure
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Monday, January 27, 2014 |
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January 27, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:28 PM :: 3605 Views
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- Flashback: Schatz, Baker Pushed to Loosen Requirements for Dentists
- Hundreds of Youth Rally for Life at Capitol
- National Republicans Build 'Campaign Mechanics' for Hawaii
- Col Martha McSally to Headline Lincoln Day Dinner
- Hawaii's $9,000 million Deficit, not $850 million Surplus
- Abercrombie: $28.3M for NELHA, DURF, FTZ, HCDA
- Meth Again: Feds Arrest Another Halawa Guard
- The marriage of Marx and Freud
- HB1789: If a Molester 'Turns' Your Son, You Can't Turn Him Back
- Star-Adv: 'Bill of Rights' for homeless a distraction
- BoR to Skip Search, stick with Lassner?
- Longline fleets to lose millions with lower quota on tuna catch
- Puna: Aging Potheads, Sen Ruderman 'Excited' by Talk of Legalization
- Peculiar Pakalolo Proposal Pitched
- Could Removing State Taxes on Food Make it Cheaper?
- Hype over Honolulu Harbor Molasses Spill Sparks Legislation
- Kauai Co Uses Recycling as Excuse to Harass Businesses
- Problems at College-Prep in Kapolei
- Law allowing county lifeguards at state beaches could expire in June
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Sunday, January 26, 2014 |
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January 26, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:23 PM :: 4529 Views
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- Tax Foundation of Hawaii: We are Still Here, and Life Goes On
- Kauai: 74% Vote to Make Anti-Smart Meter Protesters pay for their own Paranoia
- Hee, Ihara Introduce Competing Media Shield Bills
- Whitewash: State of State Transcript Deletes Reference to Big Cable Deal
- AKP Biofuel Scheme tied to Abercrombie Admin
- Have the Senators who are authoring SB2754 spoken with the Molokai Community?
- Wooley Refusing to Hear Bills Designed to Save Agriculture from Anti-GMO Mobs
- Gubernatorial race focuses on state's financial health
- Abercrombie's Political Preoccupations
- Dismissal of 750 Domestic Abuse cases likely
- Hanabusa: Schatz' Budget Vote Bad for Hawaii
- Schatz backs plan to raise federal minimum wage
- Hawaii’s Population Increases 38 People Per Day
- New rules address isle dentists' use of oral sedatives, including drugs allegedly given to a 3-year-old Kailua girl
- Laniakea Beach Highway Realignment Proposed
- ‘Dog’ speaks out: Duane Chapman calls for tougher bounty hunter regs
- Lifelong Criminal faces no charges for alleged gunshot at Police
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Saturday, January 25, 2014 |
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January 25, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:54 PM :: 4053 Views
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Friday, January 24, 2014 |
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January 24, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:14 PM :: 4310 Views
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- Hawaii's Weak Congressional Delegation Unable to Protect Tsunami Center
- Minority leaders dispute governor’s claims that Hawaii is on solid financial ground
- Michael Medved to Discuss 3 Point Plan for Conservative Victory at GOP HQ
- Hawaii Supreme Court Eases Path to Challenge Subdivision Approvals
- Senator Introduces Anti-Child Pornography Bill “Alicia’s Law”
- Video: Homosexual Child Molester's Alleged Victims Describe Grooming Process at Maui Pineapple Camp
- Tobacco Control? Hawaii Scores 'A' for Taxes and Regulation, 'D' for Prevention
- Marijuana export could pay off Hawaii’s debts, lawmaker says
- Hawaii Pedestrian Plan Wins National Recognition
- Legislators Launch Aerospace Caucus
- Legislative Agenda: January 24, 2014
- Body of soldier killed in Afghanistan returns to Hawaii
- HB2506: Change in Right to Farm Act will reverse Big Island GMO ban
- Pension Tax: Abercrombie Still Running from Angry Seniors
- Deal to sell city's 12 rental housing complexes terminated
- Mizuno's HB1889 Would Make Homeless Sacred Cows
- Department of Health Releases Records Detailing Alleged Sex Assaults at the Hawaii State Hospital
- HB2529 would make Failed Hawaii Health Connector a state entity
- Star-Adv: Thanks to Obamacare, Medicaid Fraud Set to Rise in Hawaii
- Bill Introduced to Abolish HCDA
- Oahu electrical bills spike in January as Lower-Cost Production Goes Off Line
- Lanai Windfarm Back in Big Cable Plan?
- Supreme Court: Workers Comp Must Cover VOG Exposure
- Feds Refuse to Reimburse City for $1M in Obama Vacation Costs
- Thanks to Reagan, Hawaii is Larger than Texas
- Hawaii Baptists Reaffirm Support for Traditional Marriage
- Hawaii at Bottom for Spending on Safe Routes to School Program
- Women’s Caucus Focused on Health, Human Trafficking, Violence
- The State of America's Children 2014 Report
- Nella Media Group to launch Hawaii magazine for gay tourism market
- Council works in Secrecy to fill auditor position
- He plans to run for Congress -- in 4 states including Hawaii CD1
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Thursday, January 23, 2014 |
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January 23, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:53 AM :: 4201 Views
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- Grassroot Institute Talks to Duke Aiona
- Kelii Akina: Fiscal Responsibility with Community Focus
- Kuakini Hospital Refit to Cut Energy Bill by $1M/year
- House Minority Leaders Seek to Broaden Party's Agenda
- Rep Takayama Media-Politician Revolving Door
- Kauai Rally for Life
- Getting Sensible About GMOs
- HHSC to Partner With Local Hospitals, Guarantee Union Pensions?
- Hawaii State Hospital Investigation, "Not a witch hunt" -- Josh Green
- Lawmakers unveil affordable housing plans to tackle homelessness
- Reso 13-290: Council Considers Cutting Lanes in Crowded Neighborhoods
- Hawaiian Electric says solar PV installations rose 40% in 2013
- 9th Circuit: Bloggers have same 1st Amendment protection as mainstream media
- HB325 Ban Smoking at all State Beaches
- Rep Nakashima Proposes Water Tax
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014 |
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January 22, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:45 PM :: 3537 Views
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- Full Text: State of the State Address
- Pono Choices Coming to Every Middle School Next Semester
- Michael Medved, Lynn Finnegan Kick off Hawaii Celebration of National School Choice Week
- SB2693 Would Ban Soda, Juice, Latte Over 16oz
- Fitch Ratings for Hawaiian Electric Tout Decoupling
- Demographia: When Will Honolulu Urban Planners Wise Up and Follow the Chinese Communist Party Line?
- Cachola: Revitalize Kalihi by Moving OCCC
- Kauaʻi Judge Denies Injunction on KIUC Meter Opt-Out Fees
- 11 Running for KIUC Board; Candidate Forum Scheduled
- UH West Oahu to refund certain student fees
- Akaka Tribe: Hanabusa is the Only One
- Full Text: Office of Information Management Report to Legislature
- HB1943, HB2166, SB2238 Mandate $100M in Rate Hikes
- Abercrombie to Dump Morita as PUC Chair
- Firm allowed to shield data on wind project
- Legislators Get a Good laugh over Abercrombie's Cynicism
- New Senate Rule: President in Charge of Gut and Replace Bills
- TAT vs. GET: Hawaii Co Council Split
- Hawaii Underemployment Rate 11.6%
- Boost in Minimum Wage Is Only the First Step
- Hawaii County council committee votes against full GMO ban
- Anti-GMO Sen Ruderman -- Protests are Driving Shoppers into my 'Natural Foods' Store
- Plans for Oahu-Maui Grid Connection Raise Questions About Lanai
- Maui Council panel approves $23M Union Contract
- FBI: Man Collected Disability for Dead Mom 8 Years
- Death of 3-year-old Points To Lax Oversight of Hawaii Dentists
- Military mover fraudulently overcharged, lawsuit says
- Monthly Forum on Hawaiian Sovereignty Starts in Kapolei
- Central Union Church Switches to Gay Religion
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014 |
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Letters to the Editor, January, 2014
By Letters to the Editor @ 2:29 AM :: 3594 Views
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- Pono Choices Represents the 1.1%
- Riding Around in the Wrong Circles
- Lab Rats in Dangerous Social Experiment
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Tuesday, January 21, 2014 |
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January 21, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:41 PM :: 3814 Views
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- Supreme Court Upholds Hawaii Redistricting Plan
- Decoupling: How HECO's "Money Printing Machine" Causes High Electric Rates
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 21, 2014
- Hannemann has hurdles if he decides to seek office
- Prison corruption crackdown could lead to more arrests
- Neil 'Pension Tax' Abercrombie to Target Seniors in State of the State
- Accountability, Election Reform Top Good-Government Bill List
- Four Hawaii Mayors Head for DC
- Trailing in fundraising, Hanabusa gets support from retired governors, senator
- SB274: Special Purpose Bonds for Molokai Alt-Energy Project
- Rep. Creagan outlines legislative priorities
- Potheads: We Need to Get Past Election before our Reps Slip Legal Dope to the People
- Plastic bag ban: Is Oahu ready for the switch?
- Council to Consider Less Parking, Fewer Lanes
- Shark expert to plead guilty to child pornography charge
- Hawaii County Bounty Hunter has 26 Convictions, Allegedly Jumped Bail
- Cheating on tests spurs KCC Radiology Program to change exam rules
- State refutes Kauai contamination study
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Monday, January 20, 2014 |
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January 20, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:23 PM :: 4401 Views
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- Chang: Prominent Democrats Consider Joining GOP
- Hawaii Welfare Tops Nation at $29.13 per Hour
- 1959: Martin Luther King Jr Salutes Hawaii Statehood
- Riding Around in the Wrong Circles
- Lab Rats in Dangerous Social Experiment
- Hunting bills introduced in House
- Faleomavaega Still Finds Ways to Travel
- Waikiki parade honors Martin Luther King Jr.
- Star-Adv: Don’t give mayors authority over GET
- Murderer Got out of Prison on Medical Excuse, Suddenly Got Better
- Bill proposes trading land at rail station for acreage held by Dole
- Maui Homeless Tent City Squatters claim land belongs to 'Hawaii Kingdom'
- School Funding: Only Hawaii doesn’t use property taxes
- Tobacco a $100M Cash Cow for State
- Enviros Paid to Catch Sharks, Torture them
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Sunday, January 19, 2014 |
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January 19, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:48 PM :: 4173 Views
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- 1959: Martin Luther King Jr Salutes Hawaii Statehood
- Furloughs: Abercrombie Caught in Lie as He Launches First Campaign Ad
- Four Bills in House, Senate Democrat Package
- OHA Introduces 2014 Legislative Package
- Home School Legal Defense Association Legislative Watch List
- Bumble Bee CEO to Faleomavaega: You’re a Liar
- HSTA Trying to Worm out of Evaluations
- Medical Care Spending Jumped 22.72% as Hawaii Residents Rushed to Beat Obamacare Deadline
- Pesticide Bill impacts farmers, but ignores them too
- Kalaeloa Raceway Park Violates DHHL Lease Terms, Behind $121K on Payments--Hanabusa Can't Save Them Now
- State of State Speech to renew call for wage hike, preschool aid
- Poor stewardship by UH leadership has turned into an embarrassment
- Star-Adv: Homelessness needs to be dealt with now
- Bums Demand Return to Street Peddling
- Turtle Bay Development Scheme Hinges on How Much State will give
- SB2012 Would Eliminate Party Labels from Ballot
- Former Maui Mayor Apana Announces Bid for Woodson’s House Seat
- 'Naughty' Non-Profit Takes Money, Leaves Handicapped High and Dry
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Saturday, January 18, 2014 |
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January 18, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:05 PM :: 4829 Views
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- Hawaii: The Laughing Stock of Obamacare
- Audit: Hawaii Medicaid Loses $67M/yr Due to Fraud, Waste, and Abuse
- HB744 Forces Gay Agenda on Hawaii Churches
- Republican Party Plans Statewide Caucuses, Fundraising Dinners
- House Republican Caucus 2014 Legislative Package
- Crime Bills Clamp Down on Repeat Offenders
- AARP Urges Passage of Caregiver Support Legislation
- Chang: Mufi Welcome to Join Republican Party
- Chang Happy to Have Democrats Switch Parties
- Report: Hawaii has heaviest debt load among states, in some cases
- 'Passive Renewal' Enables Hawaii Medicaid Fraud
- Regulator sets hearing on proposed Oahu-Maui power cable
- Council Outfoxes Caldwell, Delays Bus Ad Decision Until Budget Hearings
- Hawaii lawmakers launch new attempt to raise minimum wage
- Maui News: Use Lottery, Marijuana Tax to Pay for Pre-K
- HB420: Constitutional Amendment Needed to Reveal Secret Judicial Nomination Lists
- Schatz maintains fundraising lead over Hanabusa in race for Senate
- Hawaii PUC Commissioners: Who They Talk to, Where They Travel
- Report: ‘Tremendous progress’ made on Honolulu rail project
- Time and Resources are Running Out: Supreme Court ruling on Haleakala permit may Delay TMT case
- Hooser Panics as Proposal calls for Kauai Council district elections
- Measures Seek to Bolster Hunting Community
- Rep Evans proposes gender-neutral bathrooms at State Capitol
- Hale Kipa, Hawaii Youth Services Network Push Gay Agenda
- DLNR Educational Coordinator Busted for Kiddie Porn
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Friday, January 17, 2014 |
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January 17, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:25 PM :: 5104 Views
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- Duke Aiona Announces Run for Governor
- Audit: Repealed Special Fund Accounts Never Closed
- Full Text: Hawaii DoE Budget Proposal
- Ethics: State Supervisor Got $10,000 Riding Mover from Vendor
- Feds Compare Quality of Care at 17 Hawaii Hospitals
- U.S. military dominance in Pacific in decline, says top admiral
- Word of caution to the GOP leadership: it’s not your egg
- Bills On Tap at Legislature Today
- SB2204: Mizuno, Oakland Sponsor Child Molester Protection Bill
- Tranny to Run for OHA Trustee
- Bill would make state brief public on sex ed
- Latest Rumor: Mufi for Governor as Republican?
- Hawaii Health Connector Fails -- 0.5% of Employee Signup Projections
- Bid to tax seniors' pensions seems like suicide mission
- GET Hike on Hawaii County Council Agenda
- What To Do With $844 Million?
- Star-Adv: GMOs are a Distraction in Agriculture Debate
- Pandering to the Mob: Sen Green Bill Would Ban Roundup Herbicide
- Anti-GMO Obsessives Whine About Pesticide Numbers
- Add space between people and wind turbines, firm told
- Hui mounts legal fight against 801 South St condo
- 5 homicides end life on the street for isle homeless Because Liberals Refuse to Force them into Shelters
- HB676 Would Force Landlords to Accept Section 8 Tenants
- Appeals court delay could stall Honolulu rail construction
- House, Senate Dems unveil joint Hawaii package
- Still Looking for Tax Hike Excuse, Caldwell Pitches Doomed Bus Ad Proposal
- City Bicycle Program: $7000 per Bike plus $2176 per Bike Operating cost
- Kauai County Owes 14 Years Back Taxes After Audit finds flaws in county vehicle policy
- Hawaii considers gambling as potential nuisance
- 20 Year Sentence for Stealing from City Workers Pension Funds
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Thursday, January 16, 2014 |
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January 16, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:21 PM :: 4886 Views
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- Hawaii Planned Parenthood Denies Lawmakers’ Request to See Its Graphic Sex Ed Curriculum
- Health Connector Update: 2,709 Individuals, 350 Businesses Signed Up
- Omnibus Laden With $744M Federal Pork for Hawaii
- Michael Medved, Lynn Finnegan Launch School Choice Week in Honolulu
- Americans for Prosperity: Schatz, Hirono are Zeroes
- Appleseed: Creating a Fairer State Tax System and Economy
- Ward: No Pension Tax
- Opening Day: Johanson Outlines Republican Caucus Goals
- Sen. Sam Slom Opening Day Comments
- Speaker Souki Opening Day Remarks
- House Approves 2014 Committee Assignments
- Faleomavaega Video Raises More Questions than Answers
- Hawaii Scores ‘F’, Lacks Access to Emergency Care and Disaster Preparedness
- Hawaii: 7.18% of Households have $1M Liquid Assets
- Bed Bug Cities: Honolulu Slips to 45th
- Hawaii House speaker: Lift county cap on hotel tax
- Rising Waters, Stinging Ants and GMOs Top Legislative Priorities
- Seed firms on Kauai report data on pesticide use to state
- Time's up for CGI Group, Hawaii lawmakers say
- Star-Adv: Don't water down teacher evaluations
- Legislators, Administrators Squabble as University of Hawaii asks for $33.5 million
- Souki Drops Call for Income Tax Cut
- It's Time to Revamp Hawaii's Regressive GET
- Souki aims to change medical marijuana laws
- LWV pushing for electronic meeting notices
- Loony Rep Lowen: Sharks Should be Protected
- “Revenge Porn” Bill Could Protect Kris Coffield
- Kahuku residents generate heat at wind turbine meeting
- Kaiser High School principal retires as investigation continues
- Hawaii’s First Full-Service School Health Center Now Serving Kahuku Students
- Lower loan guaranty could prevent veterans from buying homes
- Former GOP lawmaker Faith Patricia Evans Dies at 76
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014 |
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January 15, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:18 PM :: 5572 Views
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- Opening Day Legislative Preview
- USDA: Pesticides, Chemicals, and Synthetic Ingredients Used in 'Organic' Food
- Bureaucracy, high prices, keep local business from into buying Obamacare
- OTEC Completes Pennystock Sale, Reverse Merger with Shell Company
- Hawaii Co Dems Release Secret HD5 Nomination List
- Talanei: Congressman on audio
- DoAg: Kauai Pesticide Usage Report for December
- Hawaii National Guard soldier dies in Afghanistan plane crash
- Star-Adv: Be a part of shaping Hawaii’s future, Defeat GMO Labeling
- Ambitious evaluation plan lacks resources, critics say
- Business Roundtable: More reforms needed to assure educational success
- Sen Thielen Questions 'Common Core'
- Firm buying rental properties wants to delay paying the city
- PRP Tax Filing Details Political Spending But Questions Remain
- Kahuku: 1,000 Sign Petition Against New Windfarm
- The Fable of Hawaiian Frankencorn
- Homeless Being Murdered because Liberals Refuse to Force them into Shelters
- Sovereignty Mortgage Scammers Contribute to Homelessness
- Kakaako: Homeless Charged in Polysexual Rape
- Atheists Target Former Pastor's Consulting Business
- Obamacare Gives Single Payer Opening in 2017
- Honolulu Traffic: Still Waiting for Ninth Circuit to Rule on Stop-Rail Appeal
- Schatz Demanding TV Networks 'Cover' Climate Change More
- Long live the Jones Act?
- UH West Oahu students getting money back
- Travelers Stiffed by Disbarred Travel Agent Hiding Behind Shell Company
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Tuesday, January 14, 2014 |
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January 14, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:20 PM :: 3648 Views
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- CD2: Marissa Capelouto Launches Republican Congressional Bid
- Os Stender Questions Hawaiians’ Support for Native Hawaiian Roll
- KITV: Waihee Pushes Last Week of Enrollment
- UPDATE: Hawaii Co Dems Release Abercrombie's Secret HD5 Nomination List
- Mainland Group Criticizes Lack of Hawaiian Population Control
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 13, 2014
- Former KITV Weatherman to Head Abercrombie Communications
- More Local Media Fraud on Faleomavaega?
- Heritage Experts Weigh In On Massive Omnibus Spending Bill
- Budget Solvency: Hawaii Ranks 47th
- Counties Push GE Tax Hike in Grab for State Surplus
- More Mainland Money Buying Hawaii Anti-GMO Protesters
- Excellent News! New homeless proposal will involve police enforcement
- GMOs, Minimum Wage and More
- Bill Would Mandate 100% Alt Energy
- With Kahuku Surrounded, Wind farm firm to bring doctor to meeting
- Legislature has Chance to Dump Worthless Manoa 'Tech' Center
- HB1512 Writes Sea Level Change into Land Use Planning
- Hawaii watchdog groups to highlight changed bills
- TOD Support for Car Sharing, Pushing Legislation to Change Rental Tax
- HB1487 Would Make Kindergarten Mandatory
- Honolulu Not Ready to Accept $3M Deal To Settle Nonprofit Scandal
- 1,100 family abuse cases to be dismissed over procedural errors
- Alleged Homosexual Child molester Caught Living with more adopted boys
- Mainland Homosexuals take to Billionaire's Website to Demand Hawaii Children be Indoctrinated by Tranny
- Sentencing Delayed for 'Gutless' Jimmy Pflueger in Ka Loko Dam Breach Case
- Halawa guard faces drug smuggling charges
- HPD Lt. accused of DUI returns to court, Gets Another Delay
- Hawaii News Orgs Ask Judge to Unseal Deedy Transcripts
- After Burning $200K, Michelle Leaving Hawaii Tuesday
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Monday, January 13, 2014 |
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January 13, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:14 PM :: 5724 Views
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- Services Planned for Taxpayer Advocate Lowell Kalapa
- $33,000 Per Person: Hawaii State Debt #2 in Nation
- New IRS Rule Could Cut Into Restaurant Workers' Tips
- Hawaii Supreme Court Clarifies "Final, Appealable Order" And Forgay Doctrine
- Sovereignty Mortgage Scam Lands OHA Trustee in Court
- Civil Beat lawyer: Pono Choices is a Public Document
- Bhagowalia: Hawaii Health Connector 'Business Model Will not Survive'
- Sunshine Law Violated During Chock's Appointment to Kauai County Council?
- Anti-GMO Senator Ruderman Slapped Down by Scientists
- Will Abercrombie administration continue to oppose disclosure of judicial nominees?
- State AGs tell Obama to enforce health law
- Star-Adv: East-West Center must prove itself
- 'Chamber Week' launches Legislative Proposals
- Honolulu Council Bill 6 Ban Tents From Sidewalks
- Tax Keeps 'Car Sharing' Companies Out of Hawaii
- Will Gambling be on Legislative Agenda?
- Honolulu Police Misconduct Continues But So Does the Secrecy
- Report Cards for Hawaii's D.C. Delegates: How'd They Do?
- Reserved parking stalls for food trucks proposed
- State fines Captain Cook man for illegal kayak vending
- Deal to Build Recycling, Waste to Energy & Biogas Facility on Maui
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Sunday, January 12, 2014 |
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January 12, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 12:41 PM :: 3817 Views
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- Interview: Drug Dealing N. Shore Anti-GMO Leader Has 'Penchant for Violence'
- Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell
- Star-Adv Demands State Action, Hits Anti-GMO activist 'Quest to Control Hawaii Farmers'
- Kauai County: We Will Seek Pro-Bono Shysters from Mainland Anti-GMO Groups
- Resolving minimum wage tops lawmakers' priority list
- Counties Push Massive GE Tax Hike
- HECO Gaming the Oil Market more than doubles Hawaii soldiers' bills
- Under a plan, Molokai would rely completely on renewable energy-- Cost Unknown
- Undersea Cables: The Return of the Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement
- Starting anew by taking the words out of my mouth
- Phonies Cry About Sea Level Rise, Say Nothing About Rail, Kakaako
- Star-Adv Runs Another Sales Pitch for Pre-K
- City Confiscations of Junk from Homeless Who Refuse Shelter Drop from 11 Tons to 3 Tons / week
- Child Molestation Leads to Prostitution
- UH Perfesser: We're too Hard on Criminals, Need to be Harder on Prosecutors
- Caregivers Underpaid, to Form Union
- In Tonga Cyclone Ian causes devastation and death
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Saturday, January 11, 2014 |
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January 11, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:01 PM :: 3865 Views
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- The Other Shoe Drops: Kauai Anti-GMO Ordinance Challenged In Federal Court
- Hawaii Family Advocates: See You at the Capitol January 15
- Abercrombie Appoints Creagen to House from Secret List
- Hawaii churches prevail against atheists’ baseless lawsuit
- Hauula Teacher Wins Back Pay After Pot-Fueled Firing
- DLNR Considers Haleakala Land Exchange
- Stung by Reports of Whale Collisions, Pacific Whale offers Feel-Good Seminar
- Washington Correspondent Breaks Faleomavaega Illness Story
- McDermott to Speak in Kailua
- PEW: Hawaii to be 13th in Job Growth
- PBN Overview of 2014 Legislative Session
- Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii to Introduce Pro-Business Bills at the Legislature
- Politician urges action on beach erosion, blames Global Cooling or Something
- Lawmaker fired up over UHWO student fees
- State sticks with health-site contractor but Obama doesn't
- Hanabusa Joins House Democrats Breaking Rank on Obamacare Data Security Vote
- Indy Hawaii study downplays atrazine dangers, shows flaws in Kaua’i bill
- Faleomavaega Health Won’t Hold Up Omnibus Territories Bill
- Candidate says public should be told
- City clears out homeless in Iwilei
- State Police: Marijuana Oil Labs Same as Meth Labs
- Kauai Lobbying bill gets green light
- Caught in Undercover Sting, Man Fined $2500 for unpermitted Kayak Rentals
- Isle-based troops were among the casualties in a doomed mission retold in the new film "Lone Survivor"
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Friday, January 10, 2014 |
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January 10, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 11:24 AM :: 6959 Views
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- Pono Choices not medically accurate, age appropriate, or complete on STD risks
- Hawaii Solutions Candidate Recruitment Update
- Dramatic footage from inside plane plunging into ocean
- Jeff ‘The Solar Guy’ Davis Running for Hawaii Governor-- As Libertarian
- Zero-based budgeting could change culture of spending
- Tranny Asserts Absolute Right to Promote Himself to 6th Graders
- 703 Gay Marriage Applications Files So Far
- Union Sways State’s Prison Policy
- Pasha says 2011 law made it impossible for Hawaii regulators to allow interisland service
- Star-Adv Pushes Back Against Abercrombie on Military
- HUD Tells Honolulu to Pay $3 Million for ORI Grant Mismanagement
- What Hawaii's Legislature Has in Store for Education
- Secret Inter-Island Cable Meeting held at the Capitol
- As Polar Vortex Boosts Hawaii Tourism, Legislators Fret over Global Warming
- Implementation of Obamacare has been keeping the state insurance commissioner busy
- Students paying for nonexistent services
- Act 176 of 2009 Blocks Sale of Unused State Property
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Thursday, January 9, 2014 |
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January 9, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:04 PM :: 4887 Views
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- Abercrombie: Less Revenue--What, Me Worry?
- Resort Fees: SB1201 Proposes Massive Hike in TAT
- Hawaii Ag Law Conference Tackles GMO Issues
- Abercrombie Hosts Nursery School Sales Pitch for Legislators
- Rep Ward Proposes Bill to Eliminate Prepaid College Tuition
- Ed Week: Hawaii DoE scores 77.3% Chance for Success
- Hawaii Supreme Court: Indigent Parents Have the Right to Court-Appointed Counsel During Child Welfare Proceedings
- Insurance Div Submits Four Reports to Legislature
- House Finance Committee to Look at Public Safety Department
- Go Back To Law School: UH "J-Term" Classes Open To The Public
- Public Housing Deal to be Modeled on Ewa Villages Debacle?
- Unionized Contraflow Keeps Oahu Jammed
- Caldwell Continues to Block Ethics Investigators
- Forbes: Fracking, Frankenfoods, and Antoinettes
- Ethnic divisions will take a central role in Senate Race
- State to Sue Online Travel Companies for More Unpaid Taxes
- Abercrombie: Now or Never for land preservation deal with Turtle Bay
- Atta: Honolulu Is Not 'Neglecting' Shoreline Development Issues
- Judge Slams Prosecutors Because Rat List Denied to Multi-Kilo Meth Ring
- Kauai Man gets Jail, Faces Lawsuit for Beating up Knife-Wielding Drug Pusher
- Feds Bust Gang of Mainland Pimps Working Hawaii
- Board member wants HPD on campuses
- Pinky Ring: 3 accused of altering computer records
- Ethics: Hawaii Co Appraisers Cannot Appraise their own Homes
- True Lies: State Violates Procurement Code in Hiring of Polygraph Examiners
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014 |
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January 8, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:06 PM :: 4404 Views
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- Report: Am Samoa Governor Prepares to Replace Faleomavaega
- Will Minimum Wage Legislation Wreck American Samoa Economy Again?
- Congress Back in Session: Faleomavaega a No Show
- Finley Boyle Tragedy Exposes Danger of Primary Care Dentists Operating as Pediatric Dental Specialists
- City: Bridge Financing Can Save Housing Deal
- Not so nifty: Taxpayers chip in on gift for first lady, who turns 50
- A New Year and New Scholars at Grassroot Institute
- HIRA: 2014 Will be a Banner Year
- DoH to Take Oversight of Home and Community-Based Facilities?
- Worldwide Shipping Monopoly? Hawaii, Alaska, Territories Concerned by P3
- DCCA Releases Insurance Comparisons for Homes, Vehicles
- Abercrombie Pushing More Military Training as Other States Grab for Hawaii's Pork
- Just in Time for the Budget: Economic slowdown leads to downgrade in revenue forecast
- Harimoto announces state senate run for Ige's Seat
- Atheist Trash Latch on to Mililani abuse case
- Senate committee to use subpoena powers to probe hospital conditions
- Agency That Oversees Prisons Holds Open Vacant Positions
- Legislature Will Have Opportunity to Toughen Sex-Trafficking Laws
- State investigating dentist whose patient died
- $790/mo: Higher Electric Bills May Force Navy Sailors into Street
- Rate Hikes Coming as Blue Planet Outlines Proposals to Pour Even More Money into Independent Power Producers Pockets
- Hawaii Health Connector Signs Up Less than 1% of Business Goal
- Kauai County bill would require lobbyist registration, financial disclosure
- TheBus Renews Push for Advertising
- Report reveals meth use rises
- Regulating Smokeless Electronic Cigarettes
- Oprah Neighbors Pissed Over Obama Security
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Tuesday, January 7, 2014 |
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January 7, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:02 PM :: 5679 Views
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- Tax Credit Scammers Find a New Home in HSDC
- New Republic: Hawaii Anti-GMO Protesters ‘Objectively Crazy’
- GMOs: NYT/Grist gets it right; Hawaii County Council gets it wrong
- Hawaii GOP refuses request to recruit for Obamacare exchange
- Kaiser: 57% of Hawaii Uninsured Eligible for Medicaid
- Hawaii Family Forum: Organizing for Life, Family, and Religious Freedom
- March for Life Set for January 25
- High Home Values Give Hawaii Low Property Tax Percentage
- Cho Tet--Vietnamese New Year Fest
- Hannemann Should Jump to the GOP
- Preschool cash called premature
- City Refuses to Turn over Emails to Ethics Comm, Promises to Stop Destroying Them
- Dental tragedy prompts concerns over sedating kids, Lack of Fluoridation
- Appointed lawyer now a right in child-custody matters
- Courts Dismissing Hundreds of Abuse cases, TROs over procedural errors
- After Mitsunaga Fired, UH Student center falls 14 months behind
- City's affordable housing deal might hinge on seller financing
- VA Cuts Hawaii Home Loans Guarantees Again
- New Head of Cultural Preservation in Hawaii Pledges Transparency
- Transparency taken a hit under Abercrombie Administration
- Council may consider Ford’s GMO bill next
- KIUC Election Spending Underlines Cost of Smart-Meter Paranoia
- Anti-GMO Activists Get their Hands on 'Food System'
- Explosion, Fire Among Solar Battery Challenges
- Chicago Tribune Offers Trash Talk to Hawaii In Campaign to Land Obama Presidential Library
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Monday, January 6, 2014 |
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January 6, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:44 PM :: 2806 Views
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- New Republic: Hawaii Anti-GMO Protesters ‘Objectively Crazy’
- Hawaii Rifle Association 2014 Sen. Sam Slom Fundraiser
- Budget Hearings Coming up this week
- New Obamacare health plans may leave some 'underinsured'
- Tobacco Smoking Will Soon be Effectively Outlawed
- Trees Die as Big Island gets ready for ban on plastic bags
- Honolulu Forgoes Federal Funds to Manage Coastal Development
- Searching for the Searcher: UH regents to discuss bids from search firms
- UH Dept of Anti-American Studies Leads Obama Library Pitch
- Prominent Auto Dealer Alan Pflueger Serving Time For Tax Fraud, While Father Awaits Sentencing
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Sunday, January 5, 2014 |
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January 5, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:48 PM :: 3992 Views
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- HART Audit Leaves Many Questions Unanswered
- 'Sanford Dole' Joins Akaka Tribal Roll
- NYT In Hawaii: A Lonely Quest for Facts on Genetically Modified Crops
- Tourist Boats Operated by Anti-Superferry Activists Hitting More Baby Whales Than Ever
- Hawaii Perspectives Survey Shows Strong Support for Military Presence in Hawaii
- Invasive Species Briefing Set
- Senate Cttes Set Informational Hearing on Turtle Bay
- OPEB, Pre-K and a 10% Reserve: Abercrombie Says we can Have it all
- Delegation 3-1: Only Hanabusa Mentions Akaka Tribe
- Schatz is 'Attention Whore'
- As Tourism Declines from Peak, Same Sex Marriage has no Impact
- Lowell Kalapa: A defender of Hawaii's poor taxpayer
- OEL Outlines Plan to Coopt HSTA with Pre-K Scheme in DoE Schools
- Questions Raised About 'Black Pellet' Energy Scheme
- HECO: Giant batteries May Allow More Solar
- Assaults Occur Because Law Allows Lunatics to Run the Asylum
- Let's be clear about limits of drone use
- Pflueger Demands State Cut off Water to Ka Loko Farmers He Flooded
- YMCA suspends child care programs in Hilo
- TEA Party Maui plans to present 2 speakers
- Enviros Work to Save Snails Their Bio-control Scheme is Destroying
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Saturday, January 4, 2014 |
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January 4, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:57 PM :: 3411 Views
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- HI Health Connector Solicits GOP Help in Boosting Enrollments
- Hawaii Health Connector Finds One Success Story
- PUC Clears Former Chairman's Law Firm to Continue Representing Lanai Wind Project
- WaPo: Hawaii an Incubator for Progressive Policies
- Choom Gang friends from Punahou provide sanctuary for Obama
- Caldwell Vacations While Low Income Housing Deal Collapses
- ILWU, Employers Prepare for Toughest Talks in Decades
- Turmoil at East-West Center in Hawaii as Fesharaki, energy team quit
- WSJ: Asian Refiners Get Squeezed by U.S. Energy Boom
- Star-Adv: Dietary aids need oversight
- Progressive Bloggers Turn Against Smart Meter Paranoia
- Hawaii AG Joins Brief to Block Firearm Purchase Loophole
- Preservation: Big Landowners Score Big Tax Credits
- After 1 Year, Hawaii Co Council seeks new auditor
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Friday, January 3, 2014 |
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January 3, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:27 PM :: 5697 Views
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- Flawed Minimum Wage Hike Advocacy Will Cost Hawaii's Poorest Workers $7M this Year
- Anti-GMO mob attracts a colorful, motley, mixed bag
- UHERO: Hawaii Health Insurance Premiums, Oligopolies, and the Affordable Care Act
- Tourism Committees to Look at HTA Audit
- DCCA: 300 Mortgage Loan Originators Lose License
- Governor Releases $9.3 Million for Various CIPs Statewide
- Hooser: It doesn't matter if Kauai GMO Law is never Enforced--All That Mattered was Getting it Passed
- Profitable Nonprofit FACE Desperate to Save $35M Cut of Housing Deal
- Labor Fest Hawaii Slams Omidyar
- Obama at UH Game: Skinny, Poor, Dull, No Cheers
- Bob Jones: Get More Tough-Minded on Homeless
- Price: Gay Marriage Will Make Politics More Extreme
- First Same-sex couple files for divorce
- Judge finds abuse at Kipapa Elementary
- Marijuana legalization: Is Hawaii next?
- After Lunatics Take over Kauai Considers Council Redistricting
- Willie Proposes More Food Labels
- Residents receive aid shoring up property as Enviros Demand Seizure of Property
- January Hearings for Undersea High Voltage Transmission Lines
- Non-Existent Pellets pitched as Cheap, Clean fuel for Oahu
- Hawaii Supreme Court Tells Deedy Judge To Defend Closed Proceedings
- Surfers File Lawsuit Against State for Blocking Laniakea Beach Parking
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Thursday, January 2, 2014 |
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January 2, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:17 PM :: 3509 Views
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- WaPo: Schatz Represents Hawaii's new White Ruling Class
- Happy New Year from HMSA: Premium now $1742.50 per Family
- Drones may be buzzing Hawaiian skies soon
- Star-Adv: The way to help the homeless is to get them off the streets
- Convict Scores $983K Malpractice Award
- Hawaii Tourists Revel in Sun, Surf and Semiautomatics
- Cosmetic companies set eyes on Hawaii
- Drone test sites spell opportunity for companies
- New year, new laws against smoking in public places
- Nation of Islam Leaders Vacation on Maui
- Progressives: N Shore Erosion is Excuse to Seize Oceanfront Property
- Hawaii hosting wounded warrior athletic competition
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Wednesday, January 1, 2014 |
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January 1, 2014 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:27 PM :: 3627 Views
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- Hanabusa Hits Schatz for Ties to Bloomberg, Schatz camp Hits Hanabusa for Ties to Inouye
- Federal Wind PTC Tax Credit Expires
- State, County Retirees Health Plan Now Costs $524 to $2173/mo
- HSTA: No, We Do Not Support Abercrombie's Pre-K Initiative
- Elections stand to change political contours
- Vote yes for KIUC rate fairness, Make the Conspiracy Nuts Pay their Own Way
- New Law Allows Petitions for Involuntary Mental Health Care
- Home prices and Chinese tourism are slated to increase, and Queen's is headed west
- Resolve to be a hero in 2014
- Hawaii PUC plans meeting to discuss undersea cable between Oahu, Maui
- Get Ready to Pay More
- High court kicks back Hapa Trail case
- Justice delays health law’s birth control mandate
- Family sues over police cellblock death
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013 |
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December 31, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:28 PM :: 3920 Views
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- Taxpayer Advocate Lowell Kalapa Dies at 64
- Abercrombie Gets Secret List of Three Candidates to replace Rep Coffman
- Supreme Court to Confer on Hawaii Reapportionment Case January 17, 2014
- Report: Obamacare Gives Hawaii More Cash, Less Benefit
- Schofield Combat Engineers Train Afghan Soldiers
- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s 9-day Hawaiian vacation
- Informational Briefing on Violence at State Hospital
- Hawaii: Twelfth Highest Tax Burden in USA
- Michael Medved to Talk Up Republican Unity at HIRA Dinner
- HMSA, Kaiser Year Ends With Another 9.2% Rate Hike Thanks to Obamacare
- Star-Adv: In 2014 New Family Structure Must be Imposed on education, social programs
- First Wind's Kahuku Wind Farm still Floundering
- Rep Brower a Trendsetter: 'Alarming' trend of violence against homeless in Hawaii grows
- Honolulu Zoo Director Quits After 6 mos on Job
- Hawaii Police Union Wants Officer Misconduct Records Kept Confidential
- Castle & Cooke reiterates plan to move ahead in building Koa Ridge houses
- A Woman Attempts to Rebuild Ohana Broken by Fear of 'Lepers'
- Open Space Preferred to Obama Library
- Bezos' Drone to Be Tested in Omidyar's Backyard
- Pothead Blows Up House Making Marijuana Oil for ECigs
- Comments Open for Amendments to Western Pacific Fishery Ecosystem Plan
- Hooker-Lovin Titcomb Obama's Constant Pal
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Monday, December 30, 2013 |
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December 30, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:31 PM :: 3636 Views
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- Auditor Looks at Workers Comp Medical Fee Review Process
- Hanabusa Alone Still Talking about Akaka Tribe
- Plan B? City Scrambles After Ernie Martin Wrecks Housing Deal
- Flooded With Mentally Ill, Hawaii Prisons Seek More funding
- Schatz Among Top 5 Senators Vulnerable in 2014 Primaries
- Army’s ‘Pacific Pathways’ initiative sets up turf battle with Marines
- Oceanographer Debunks Fukushima Conspiracy Mongers
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Sunday, December 29, 2013 |
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December 29, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:45 PM :: 4588 Views
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- HGEA BU 10, 13 Contracts Detail ‘Huge Payout to Union’
- Samoa News Continues to Deceive Public on Faleomavaega; credibility sinking
- Taxing Tourists Politically Popular
- $14.3M CIP for Harbors, Highways Statewide
- Jean King Memorial Reminisces About Her Communist Party Days
- Justice Reinvestment: Loosen School Discipline Even More so Future Criminals Will be Less Likely to Drop Out
- Biofuel Scheme Wanted $1.08 per Ratepayer per Month for 20 Years
- Abercrombie Reelection slogan? "2 x 0 = 0"
- What to look for in the next UH president? Nudity
- Trade UHWO land for fiscal aid, lawmaker proposes
- Naturopathic Quacks Face backlash after Baby Suffers Brain Damage
- Hotels vs Timeshares?
- Kauai Co Audit raises more red flags about Overtime Records
- Geothermal Fund Buys out Protesters then Auctions Homes to New Protesters
- West Maui taxpayer group to meet
- Homeless man had sought public office
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Saturday, December 28, 2013 |
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December 28, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:26 PM :: 3746 Views
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- Hawaii Next? States Halting Payment to CGI over Obamacare Debacle
- Health Connector: Our Miserable Failure is Positive Momentum
- Tourism Arrivals, Spending Drop for 3rd Straight Month
- State Energy Office Updates 'Clean' Energy Leaderboard
- Target Credit Card Breach May Affect 121K in Hawaii
- House, Senate Schedule Committee Hearings on Budget
- $20K for Nothing: Frustration grows for photovoltaic customers
- Abercrombie Sets up UH Hilo Pharmacy School for Legislators to Knock Down
- I Aloha Molokai Sings Holiday Wishes to HECO’s CEO
- Some speculate that Par Petroleum wants to bring liquefied natural gas to Hawaii
- Idiot Chock Voted Against GMOs "For the Children"
- Trees Chopped to Make Way for Hawaii County Plastic Bag Ban
- New Push for Ethics Reform in Hawaii County
- "The median age of homeless people is getting older."
- In Quest For Obama Library, Hawaii Plays Underdog
- Ex-Maui officer settles sex assault suit for $20K
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Friday, December 27, 2013 |
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December 27, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:20 PM :: 4753 Views
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- Hawaii Reapportionment: State's Exclusions not Rational
- Think your state has Obamacare problems? They’re nothing compared to Guam
- Ready to handle the Crazies? Psych Major to Head Agriculture Board
- Abercrombie Releases $21.7M CIP for HHSC, Mostly for EHRs
- $88K per enrollment: Only 2,015 in isles sign up, 296 businesses apply for Obamacare
- City Planning Zoning, Permitting Exemption for Development Along Rail Line
- Chief of the city Ethics Commission says his staff must be independent
- Akaka Roll Padded to Overcome 'Registration Fatigue': 71,000 Names from Operation Ohana, Kau Inoa
- Visitor arrivals fall for the third consecutive month
- Hawaii Retailers Suffer Diminished Visitor Spending
- Victims of Solar Scammers now Pay $705/mo for useless System
- World's Dumbest Surfers Fight GMOs in Hawaii Protest
- Tenacious McD: State Rep. Bob McDermott
- Politico: Hawaii Senate Race one of Nation's Top Primaries
- Gas Buddy: Hawaii Stands Alone
- Biofuel firm says HELCO contract not needed for plan to work
- Par Petroleum ‘confident’ about Hawaii
- UH Regents: We're Serious Now
- UH Athletics Plan: Fewer Seats
- With 2 school leaders accused of crimes, charter schools face more oversight
- Kauai County Considers Cat Tax
- 2000 Big Island Check Card Customers Frozen over Target Data Breach
- 911 Trooothers Drop Hawaii Ballot Suit
- Hauula recycling center reopens After City Seizes Choon James Land
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Thursday, December 26, 2013 |
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December 26, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:36 PM :: 3854 Views
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- E.R. Costs for Mentally Ill Soar, and Hospitals Seek Better Way
- Panos: The Public and Private Versions of Solar Power, in Brief
- DLNR Clamps Down on 'Illegal Vendors'
- Flood Insurance: Sharpening the Government's Blurry Maps
- Customers Pay Double, Risk Being Cut off as Solar Scammers Install 100s of 'Rogue Systems'
- Feinstein to Obama: Move without Congress on GMOs
- Pesticide and GMO rules will take time, says Kauai mayor
- Who is the University of Hawaii?
- Legislators Haggle with UH over Pharmacy School Building
- Rail Will Drag More Buildings, Growth to Oahu
- Kaupoa: Visiting Molokai's Haunting 'Place of Thieves' on Molokai (Slideshow)
- A Model for Civic Engagement: Let hunters catch Hoomaluhia pigs
- Retaliation: Couple settles lawsuit against Molokai condo association for $1.2M
- Repaving has been completed on 392 lane-miles this year
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013 |
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December 25, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 11:26 AM :: 5476 Views
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- How Christmas Came to Hawaii
- Excessive Price: PUC Rejects AKP Biofuel Scheme (again)
- Hawaii Rifle Assn Leader Looks forward to 2014 Session
- HSTA Legislative Agenda: Bring Back Pre-Kindergarten
- Gary Gill Appointed Temporary Health Dep’t Director
- High Schoolers Dual-Enrolled in College: How Does Hawaii Compare?
- $97K Per Enrollment: Only 1,776 Individuals, 284 Employers Sign Up for Hawaii Health Connector
- Pinky Ring: Ethics Comm. Unveils 162 Violations Against Thompson Charter School
- Soft on Jihad: Muslim Eye-Gouge Attacker Was Let out of OCCC Without Facing Charges for Jailhouse Assault
- UH Electric Bill: $35M/Year
- Abercrombie vs Ige: Big Cable vs Smart Meters
- Koa Ridge Still Moving Under 2012 Approval
- New Mauna Kea lease faces delay
- Hu Honua Unsure of Investors, Awaits further Regulatory Permits
- Hawaii hotels reach October revenue record
- UH smoking ban on hold for review
- 2013 Ends With Self-Congratulation
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Tuesday, December 24, 2013 |
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December 24, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:57 PM :: 5680 Views
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- FULL TEXT: Secret Pono Choices Curriculum Exposed
- Supreme Court Invalidates LUC Koa Ridge Reclassification
- How Christmas Came to Hawaii
- Merry Christmas
- Hawaii Health Connector: One More Day to Get Obamacare
- Full Text: Hawaii State Auditor Gets Audited
- UHERO: Ethanol Harms Public Welfare, Does Little to Reduce Greenhouse Gasses
- DoE: Hawaii leads nation in growth of National Board Certified teachers
- $3.46M CIP for Hawaii Film Studio
- Abercrombie Releases $74M Airport CIP
- 248 Gay 'Marriages' So Far
- Did Clayton Hee Lead a Failed Political Coup in Hawaii's Senate?
- Why Hawaii Democrats Aren't United This Holiday Season
- NEA may split with HSTA in Senate race as Unions Continue to Hedge their Bets
- HSTA Pushes for Pre-K to be in Public Schools, not Private Vouchers
- Star-Adv: HART Board Fails to Question Grabauskas
- Was 2013 the Year of the Farmer?
- Profs: Dr. Carbone Placed Cancer-Stricken Children at Risk
- Anti-Telescope Activists Threaten STEM Funds
- HELCO: Geothermal Bids don’t Bring Rates Down Low Enough
- PUC OKs Hu Honua Bioenergy's contract with Hawaii Electric Light Co.
- Aina Koa Pono Touts Support from its Own Consulting Engineer
- Electric Cars Still Waiting for a 'Jumpstart' on Maui
- Turtle Bay: Lawsuits Threaten $40M Deal
- Harbor Patrol: Police Officer Arrested for Running Over Co-Worker
- HDOT crews start installing barriers at Laniakea Beach, Enviros Threaten to Sue to Maintain Traffic Jams
- Hawaii adds 1,300 construction jobs in past year
- Today is Last Chance for Honolulu Housing Privatization Deal
- Politicians Dumbfounded as Movie Studios Compete Against Each Other instead of coming together behind Tax Credits
- Obama Gives Federal Workers A 1 Percent Raise
- Shibuya refiles suit against KPD
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Monday, December 23, 2013 |
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Letters to the Editor, December, 2013
By Letters to the Editor @ 4:34 PM :: 5134 Views
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- Merry Christmas
- Dept. of Common Sense Plan for Hawaii Health Connector
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Monday, December 23, 2013 |
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December 23, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:14 PM :: 4021 Views
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- Akaka Tribe ‘Exit Plan’ -- Padding Rolls with Fraudulent Tribal Enrollment?
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted December 23, 2013
- Hawaii Scores 60% on Infectious Disease Prevention and Control
- Priced out of Paradise: What are Hawaii Leaders Doing?
- Hawaii Health Connector sign up deadline Today Tomorrow
- Obama Repeals ObamaCare
- Hanabusa to Campaign on Budget No Vote
- Turtle Bay Setting the Price of Condemnation
- Developer Seeks DoH Report on Anti-GMO Activists Touchstone
- Spike in Harm to Liver Is Tied to anti-GMO Funders -- Dietary Aids Industry
- As Internet Gambling is Pushed on Hawaii--Atlantic City and Las Vegas face catastrophic collapse
- Pension Cut Angers Senate's Staunchest Military Supporters
- Want Washington compromise? Elect young members of Congress, Reps. Schock and Gabbard say
- Arbitrator: Counties Have Money to Pay for Raises Without Caldwell's Tax Hike
- Man Shot By Honolulu Police Gets $150K
- Hunters offer to clear pigs from city park — at no cost
- Dumbest Idea Ever? City Wastes $1000 for Screwdriver on a Chain
- Heroin use in Hawaii could be on the rise
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Sunday, December 22, 2013 |
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December 22, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:29 PM :: 3428 Views
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- Nominees Sought for State Water Resource Management
- Tax Policy Should be Equitable and Not Hinder Economic Growth
- Obama Tees off with Hooker-Lovin Buddy (again)
- Progressives Launch Preemptive Strike Against Hannemann
- Star-Adv: Making Health Connector State Agency Will not Solve Sustainability Problem
- Blue Planet seeks to Clear the Path to Higher Utility Bills
- Abercrombie Admin Turtle Bay Plan: Give Developers $40M, Let them Build Two Hotels
- Abercrombie Budget Fills Ag Dep't Pesticide Positions
- Kauai Attacks Seed Growers, Protects Tobacco Grower
- Methodist Bishop Overseeing Hawaii, Calif Offers Gay Marriage Pastor Job
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Saturday, December 21, 2013 |
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December 21, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:40 PM :: 3873 Views
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- Dept. of Common Sense Plan for Hawaii Health Connector
- There's Nothing Pono About Pono Choices
- Hundreds gather to remember Loretta Fuddy
- Deadline Monday: Only 1,100 Sign Up for Hawaii Health Connector
- Hawaii Health Connector: 'Confusion, Miscommunication' as Dec 23 Deadline Approaches
- Reps: UH Admin Sets Course for Mediocrity, 'Positions'
- State Ethics Commission releases new details in charter school investigation
- Another 'Clean' Energy Disaster: Subcontractor Slaps Lie on Hu Honua
- Obama Caps off Worst Year of Presidency by Endorsing Abercrombie
- Hawaii County Officer misconduct cases increase
- Hawaii Budget Surplus Means No Hawaii Beverage Tax?
- Hotel Workers Union Sues Turtle Bay Over Timeshare Plan
- Hawaii: 6.2% of Workers Hold Multiple Jobs
- Hawaii solar boom so successful, it's been halted
- More Criminals Join Suit Demanding Resort at Kulani Prison
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Friday, December 20, 2013 |
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December 20, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:34 PM :: 3497 Views
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- How Christmas Came to Hawaii
- Judge Throws Out Atheist Lawsuit
- Hawaii Obamacare exchange not fiscally sustainable, lawmakers told
- Hawaii’s education department keeping sex-ed curriculum a secret
- Budget: UH Rewards Mitsunaga, Abercrombie Rewards UH
- Mainland Organic Activists Launch Harassment 'Investigation' of State, County Governments
- Blake v Kauai: Recktenwald Court continues Moon Court's policies
- Panos: Helmet Law, Jones Act Repeal Top Wish List for 2014
- 2013 Grassroot Report: Major Victory for the Aloha Spirit
- Caldwell Signs More Smoking Bans
- HART Lies to Feds About 11% Cut in Ridership Projections
- Hawaii Military Housing residents slammed with rate hike, call Navy-wide billing system 'unfair'
- Caldwell Using Firefighters Contract as Latest Excuse for tax Hikes
- UH Cancer Center Profs: Director has been doing great job
- Corrections Corp. of America: We Don't Want to Manage a Prison
- Soft-on-Crime: Maui Rapist Gets Probation for Kidnap-Rape while Allegedly Holding New Kidnap-Rape Victim Hostage
- UI Tax Rate Drops 35% -- Save $300 per employee
- DLIR: ACA Does not Change Employers Obligations Under Prepaid
- Hanabusa: I am the right 'Optics' for TPP Talks
- HTA develops plan to address state auditor's criticism
- Kailua businesses worry about town’s ‘growing’ reputation
- Government plans 'open season' on Hawaii's cattle egrets and barn owls
- New study points to possibility of 'extreme' tsunami in Hawaii
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Thursday, December 19, 2013 |
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December 19, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:54 PM :: 3781 Views
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- How Christmas Came to Hawaii
- Secret Encounters: DoE Refuses to Release Homosexual Education Curriculum to Legislators
- KOS 'Hit Job' on Schatz' Sheep Sex Incident
- Airports Division Signs $518M Energy Contract
- Hawaiian Pacific Health Survey will Sample 4,000 Households
- Hawaii Among Least Free States, Provinces of N America
- 1000 Good Reasons to Label GMO Food: A Guide for Politicians
- Succession Plan Quietly Underway for Faleomavaega Seat?
- Hawai'i Free Press Exposes Media Cover up of Faleomavaega Health
- Hirono, Schatz, Gabbard Vote for Budget After Pretending to Oppose it
- Nepotism, unused facilities and key posts unfilled at troubled State Hospital
- Finance Chair to Budget Director: ‘Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is’
- Kauai Mayor updates council on pesticide law implementation
- Organic Food = $42,000/year Grocery Bill
- State, VA close in on home loan agreement
- More Hot Air from HECO
- Hu Honua Has New Excuse for Work Stoppage
- Hoku's failed Idaho plant is purchased for $8.3M
- UH backs Cancer Center's embattled director
- Molokai Gradually Recovering From Damage Caused by Ritte
- Rich housing risks easing out locals
- Envros' Threat: Sue to Keep Kam Hwy Jammed
- ILWU To Endorse Hanabusa for Senate
- Abercrombie Demands 9th Circuit Overturn Gay Marriage Ruling
- Hawaii Officials Informed in August the Obama Library not Coming to Kakaako
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013 |
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December 18, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:46 PM :: 4309 Views
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- Samoa Reporter Accidentally Admits Coverup: Missing Congressman Found "Convalescing in Utah"
- Hearing Thursday on Motion to Dismiss Atheists’ Lawsuit
- Christmas vacation: Obamas get trip to Hawaii, taxpayers get ‘jelly-of-the-month’ club
- Abercrombie Appoints Patricia Kim Park to JSC
- City Ambulance Contractor Turns Down 30-40% of Calls in Leeward Oahu
- HSTA Joins AFL-CIO
- Obama Vacation Circus
- Amount of Taxpayer Money Spent on Advertising Hawaii's Obamacare Exchange is "Proprietary"
- New Director Takes Over Hawaii Health Connector, Immediately Crashes Website
- Abercrombie's Turtle Bay Deal Would Allow Two New Hotels, Give Developers $40M
- Juvenile justice needs reform
- How Will Hawaii Police Its Police? Lawmakers and Lawsuit Shape the Future
- Retaliation: Supreme Court Slaps Dowm Hannemann Admin for Blacklisting Stagehands
- How Sen. Daniel Inouye Defended the Hawaiian Flag
- Full Text: KIUC Stupidity Tax
- Permanent rules restrict state's solar tax credits
- HECO Demands Kahuku Windfarm be Exempted from Competitive Bidding
- Disabled Military Retirees Not Exempt from Pension Cuts in Budget Deal
- U.S. hospital admissions weakest in a decade
- Geothermal energy pool may expand
- Chicago Fierce Battle for Site of Obama Library
- Waipahu School was warned of cooling practices in September
- DHHL threatens to evict charity
- While Thousands of Filipinos Wait to Immigrate Legally, Illegal Immigration activist to speak at UH-Manoa graduation
- Boylan Quits Island Insights, Blames Micromanagement
- 5 Judges Petition for Retention
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013 |
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December 17, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:28 PM :: 3980 Views
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- Auditor: HART Paid $563K to Blogger who said Job was 'Obviously' to Help Pro-Rail Candidates
- Hawaii Driving Ranks 48th for Drunk, 41st for Careless
- FULL TEXT: Abercrombie Releases Supplemental Budget
- Tim Lussier Appointed Hawaii State Director for Western Liberty Network
- NOAA announces regulations to protect marine mammals during Navy training--Enviros Sue
- As Hundreds of Hawaii Doctors Threaten to Quit, Obama Administration Delays EHR
- Obama Vacation Circus Begins
- Abercrombie Lards Budget, Sets up Ige to Strip Pork
- Lawmakers to test zero-base budget plan on HCDA
- Mufi has $257K Campaign Debt to Repay Himself: "Discussions are taking place regarding 2014"
- Developers of controversial Waikiki tower invested heavily in state, local officials
- AG raids charter school, seizing records, computers
- Jones Act Leads to Higher Gasoline Prices
- Say no to higher fees to fly
- Resolve dispute at Cancer Center
- Maui Councilmember Ellie Cochran Joins Surf Nazis' Anti-GMO March
- Jan 3 KIUC Members to Vote to tax Conspiracy Theorists
- Where’s the Giving Spirit of Gary Hooser and Club?
- Suspects Admits Identity in Waikiki Homosexual Dismemberment Murder
- What One Elderly Woman Said That Empowered a Community to Fix Honolulu's Dangerous Sidewalks
- Why Are the Numbers of Homeless Growing in the Land of Aloha
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Monday, December 16, 2013 |
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December 16, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:39 PM :: 3716 Views
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- PHOTOS: MMA Fighter Leads Surf Nazis in Haleiwa Anti-GMO March
- Hawaii Supreme Court: Demand A Contested Case, And There's A Good Chance You'll Get One
- Lack of Statewide policy threatens new Ag jobs
- Fire Hazard: Volcano School Threatened with Closure After Abercrombie Refuses to Release Funds
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How They Voted December 16, 2013
- Services for Loretta Fuddy
- "Sad Malihini Histrionics": Anti-GMO Protesters Resented by Kamaaina
- Anti-GMO Activist in Midst of Squabble over Surfer's Cancer Money
- Stalled remedies vex DHHL homestead residents
- Tourism agency taking too long to fix deficiencies
- Clouds over Hawaii's rooftop solar growth hint at U.S. battle
- See What Gifts Honolulu City Agencies Got This Year
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