1. North Korea tells Russian Diplomats to get out — sets April 10 deadline
2. Lessen Dependence on Government: Key to Strong Democracy
3. SB893, the Marvin Dang Bill: Mollway Demands Kondo’s Head
4. GAO: Wind Farms Double Dipping on Federal Cash Giveaways
5. Hirono: Families Central to Immigrants’ Success
6. Book Review: A Hawaii Middle School Counselor’s Diary of a Working Day
7. Dr. Dennis Gonsalves Day Honors Developer of Hawaii’s GM Papaya
8. Oxycontin Overbilling: FBI Investigating Hawaii Drug Repackagers Which Contributed to Clayton Hee, Josh Green, Karl Rhoads  
9. In Inouye's absence, state loses big federal projects
10. Star-Adv: The Only People Who Are Against Abercrombie/KSBE Preschool Scheme Are Religious Fundamentalists
11. Hawaii lawmakers prepare for marathon of voting
12. House coalition doing good job
13. SugarDaddie Could Have Bought Legislature
14. Petition seeks to revive bill to allow recall of Hawaii public officials
15. GMOs: Schatz Panders to Luddites
16. Costs put Hawaii food makers at bottom of the barrel
17. Caldwell Puts FACE in Charge of Homelessness Industry, Star-Adv Pushes Tent Cities
18. Families struggle to find help for mentally ill loved ones
19. Hawaii could face criminal action over lighting suspected in seabird deaths
20. Philanthropist Pays for City Pool Repairs
21. Caldwell announces budget director and deputy
22. Condo Developer Lashes out at Medicated Marijuana Users
23. North Korea May be able to Nuke S Korea, Japan

1. Tax Myths Debunked
2. North Korea tells Russian Diplomats to get out — sets April 10 deadline
3. Investigations, staff conflict Keep Staff on Years-Long Paid Leaves from youth jail
4. SB310 Relating to Mental Health Treatment—A Real Homeless Solution
5. 81% of Former Foster Care Males Arrested
6. UPDATE:  Cesspool tax flushed (for now)
7. Mitsunaga: A focused approach to campaign contributions
8. HB643: Sale of Business With Over 100 Employees, New Owner Cannot Fire Any of Them
9. The GOP’s Local Youth Movement
10. Racist Anti-GMO Activists -- Pariah
11. UH Scientist Debunks Anti-GMOs Junk Science
12. Hawaii PV contractor disputes solar tax credit survey
13. HB668 Medicated Marijuana to be Regulated by Dep’t of Health
14. Routine: Voting on Amendments that are not Written
15. What’s Next For The State, Teachers
16. UH drops plans for controversial lab, returns federal funding
17. Benghazi Injured Being Silenced?

1. From Hawaii to Virginia, are College Accreditors Overstepping their Authority?
2. Full Text: Hawaii Senate Republican Budget Proposal
3. House Judiciary Kills Marijuana Decriminalization Bill
4. UH: College of Education programs align with national findings
5. 15th Anniversary Aloha Pregnancy Center
6. DOE to request waiver for School Improvement Grant funds
7. Stimulus Japan Style: Cost of Hawaii Vacation Jumps 3% Today
8. Lingle Joins US Energy Security Council
9. Bed Making Contest: Clayton Hee vs Jessica Wooley
10. Feds Investigate Caldwell Admin Official
11. Schatz: No Comment on Jones Act Resos
12. Clayton Hee Guts Reporters’ Shield Law
13. Sen Hee Kills Anti-Gambling resolution
14. Caldwell Lets Put Homeless in Chinatown, Waikiki and Tent City  
15. Honolulu 3rd Worst Traffic
16. State wants to charge homeowners who use cesspools, septic tanks 
17. Schoolteachers' tax credit OK'd
18. S Korea: North Korea moved missile to east coast
19. Waihee-Harris Associate Runs Winning Mayoral Campaign in N Las Vegas 
20. Who’s Behind Anti-GMO Movement? 
21. Sun, surf, and spies: Hawaii a spot for clandestine agents 
22. Cancer clinics are turning away thousands of Medicare patients. Blame the sequester.
23. Employee raises an unknown in County budget
24. Kaiser union plans work stoppage  
25. Hawaii DOT Refusal to Switch Out Lights Means Likely Federal Indictment
26. Child Molester 21 Counts, 5 years may Avoid Deportation

1. Full Text: Hawaii Salary Commission Pushes Legislators’ Pay Hike
2. Want a Fine Electric Car? Not in Hawaii
3. Charter School Network 2nd Annual Awards Dinner
4. Full Text: Mayor Caldwell’s State of the City Speech
5. Abercrombie: I’d Be Happy to Use Preschool to Demand Tax Increases in 2016
6. List of People Who Gave More than $10,000 in State Races
7. Hawaii doesn't need Election Day voter registration
8. Star-Adv: Transfer Future UH Contracting Work from Kobayahsi to Mitsunaga
9. UH violated open records law in Stevie Wonder investigation, OIP rules
10. DoE: ‘Professional Development Days’ Behind Teacher Absenteeism Numbers
11. DoE: We Keep Teachers out of Class 5 Days
12. Vouchers: Church-Based Day Care Aced out by KSBE Money Grab
13. Arizona Transgender Intends to Use Suit to ‘Legitimize’ Hawaii Transsexual marriage
14. State nurses awarded 8% pay raise
15. Community Anti-Obesity Effort:  Hawaii Hospitals Faking It
16. Hawaii Advances Public Financing Bill
17. Hawaii Senate committee to vote on shield law
18. Hawaii Bankers Assn Backs Gambling Bill
19. PLDC: Police investigate So-Called ‘threats’ to Solomon, DelaCruz
20. Officials' proposals at odds but all tackle homelessness
21. US to move Missile Defense System to Guam after North Korea threats
22. Grassroot Board Split Over New President
23. Workforce housing tower proposed in Kakaako
24. Global Cooling Alert: Hawaii Hits Record Low Temps
25. Hawaiian Electric can recoup costs of Big Wind studies from customers
26. Big Rooftop Solar Panels Make Sense in Hawaii - Without Any Subsidies!
27. Greek Shipowner Moves LNG Tankers to USA
28. UH Manoa Cracks Down on Bums

1. Hawaii Impact? Supreme Court Rejects Texas Reapportionment Case
2. 15 Years Without Global Warming
3. Today's top headlines for Lanai: News or April Fools?
4. Hyeonseo Lee: My escape from North Korea
5. China mobilizing troops, jets near Korea
6. HB903: Toilet Tax movement in Legislature
7. Legislators May Cut Income Tax
8. Abercrombie not doing well in attempts to raise taxes
9. UH Contracts: Legislators Move Closer to Snatching Kobayashi’s Sweet Deal
10. Workboat Magazine: Don’t limit Jones Act reform
11. KSBE Cites Six ‘Myths’ in Push for Preschool Voucher Program
12. Clayton Hee Celebrates National Atheists Day
13. Teacher Subs Lawsuit Could Cost Hawaii Taxpayers $75M
14. Mayor open to a 4% pay raise
15. Hawaii House to Vote on Bill to Protect Absentee Ballot Process
16. Proposed changes to bill aimed at tightening gambling law
17. Apoloiona: Akana is Sophomoric, Cheap, Irresponsible
18. Pot Arrests Don't Clog System
19. Hawaii senators propose judiciary, OHA budgets
20. Pentagon comptroller says no furloughs past September
21. Backlog forcing thousands to renew vehicle registrations in-person
22. Taxes Already Too High on Tobacco Products Sold in Hawaii
23. Craft Brewers Face Regulatory Challenges
24. Giant 'golf ball' radar ship to monitor North Korea
25. Mililani school raises funds for computers

1. Hawaii: Worst State to Make a Living
2. Anti-GMO Activist: Crazy Hawaiians Make us Look Bad
3. SJR12: Schatz, Hirono Tinker with Hawaiian Homelands Blood Quantum
4. Transsexual 'Marriage': Court Challenges Gender Change on Hawaii Birth Certificate
5. WAM Votes for Semi-Clean repeal of Public Land Development Corp.
6. Star-Adv: PPPA May be Converted to PLDC in Conference Committee
7. Commission proposes 4 percent raises for mayor and city officials
8. State Burns $140K per Acre to turn farmland into farmland
9. SA: Natural Beauty Allows Hawaii to Enact Bad Laws
10. Patient responsive months after end-of-life case
11. HPD Lieutenant charged with drunk driving after Crashing into Parked Car in Waikiki
12. HFP only 1% Female
13. Longer Wait For Disability Benefits In VA Secretary's Home State
14. Heterosexuals Only: Hawaii Bill Limits Chlamydia Treatment
15. Hitler Invented Term ‘Assault Rifle’

1. Anti-GMO Activist: Crazy Hawaiians Make us Look Bad
2. Key to Tax Relief Lies in Repeal of Tax “Loopholes”
3. DLNR Reopens Kealakekua Bay to Two Kayak Operators
4. Schatz Campaign Kickoff: Abercrombie Compares Opponents to Dictators, Authoritarians
5. Abercrombie Must Choose Between ‘New Day’ and Paying Off Unions
6. Legislators to UH: Shut Down Kobayashi, Give Mitsunaga Some Contracts
7. GMO Labels Convey false Information
8. Innovation: State Spends $8M to Spread Ignorance
9. Hawaii Scores ‘F’ on Medical Consumer Cost Information
10. Dial back borrowing for road repairs
11. HPD lieutenant arrested for alleged DUI
12. Police give dozens of $500 Alcohol Citations to Spring Breakers
13. 400,000 Emergency Room Admissions for Marijuana

1. Photos: N Korea Dictator Signs Missile Orders in Front of Map Targeting Hawaii, Guam
2. VIDEO: Kalaeloa Solar Illegal Heavy Equipment Crushes Hawaiian Caves
3. Two former POWs visit wounded warriors, share stories of resilience, hope
4. Star-Advertiser Backs Jones Act Reform
5. Hawaii Schools Win Big in TV Journalism Competition
6. Hawaii Medal of Honor: Honoring the Fallen
7. Report: Hawaii 47th in Freedom
8. Chaos 2014: Hanabusa vs Abercrombie, Gabbard vs Schatz
9. Twenty-year hiatus in rising temperatures has climate ‘scientists’ puzzled
10. Hawaii = Not Much Support For Gay Marriage
11. Sequestration delivers major blow to health care
12. Family Health Hawaii Aims for Lower Rates on Health Exchange
13. Molokai Shooter Had Major Mental Illness, Was Free to Walk Streets in Hawaii
14. Civil Beat Marks Third Anniversary
15. Pro-Akaka Bill Congressman apologizes for using racial slur
16. Kona prison plan resurrected
17. State elections may get permanent public option
18. Schatz Launches barely Disguised Campaign Swing thru State
19. Honolulu has sixth-strongest local economy in the United States
20. Consent Decree on Disputed Pepe`ekeo Power Plant
21. Bernie Bicoy Obituary

1. State Inspects 90% Fewer Scales, 78% Fewer Gas Pumps Since 2010
2. House GOP: "Senate bills would increase taxes and fees"
3. Hawaii Republican Assembly: "You Can Stop Bad Ideas"
4. SHPD Pilot Project to Monitor Big Island Archaeological Sites
5. Honolulu Rail and the Uniform Relocation Act
6. Governor Announces Nominations to Land Board, Water Commission
7. After Waiving $18M, City Again Begins Collecting Solar Inspection Fees
8. Hawaii Construction Forecast: Construction Upswing Picks Up Speed
9. Hawaii's Good Friday Holiday - What's Up With That?
10. Hirono Announces State Office Staff Appointments
11. Abercrombie Turns 5 Percent of Prisoners Loose—First Kidnapping Reported
12. Doubling Number of inmates on furlough – Plan is Expected to bring more escapes
13. Absentee Voting Fraud Remains Legal as Clayton Hee Kills ‘Romy Cachola Bill’
14. PBN: Teacher Evaluations are Fake if no Firings
15. Cut blogs from press law, state urges
16. Star-Adv: Don't raise film industry tax credit
17. School Lands Development Scheme Heads for Secret Conference Committee
18. Lawmakers endorse extended foster care
19. Borreca Deeply Disappointed that GOP Will Not Embrace Gay Marriage
20. Arizona Judge Not Fooled by Hawaii Transsexual Marriage
21. Running Scared: Schatz To Kick Off Re-Election Campaign
22. 200 Airmen and B-52s Deploying From N. Dakota to Guam
23. Severe Turbulence Rocks Solar Industry
24. Little Interest In GMO Labeling Study Resolution
25. Racist Anti-GMO Activist Attacks Farmer
26. Anti-GMO Protesters Terrorize Farmers, Destroy ‘Aina
27. HB31: Senate President Could Still Save Bus Riders from Homelessness Industry harassment
28. TheBus Privatized to Save Teamsters from HGEA, UPW
29. Honolulu Council Moves Kawamoto Bill, Limited-Service Hotels
30. Could Maui form a municipal utility?
31. Price rises for Honolulu Seawater A/C project
32. Publicly Funded Elections Bill Clears Senate Money Committee
33. Hawaii Senate committee approves open data bill
34. Solar Panels: Electrocution Hazard for Firefighters
35. Koko Head Shooting Range Hours Extended
36. Former Filipino Chamber President Charged in Ponzi Scheme
37. Possible Downtown WalMart Plan Praised
38. Hawaii County Council Drops Marijuana Decriminalization Reso
39. Marijuana, Meth: Drug Dealers Charged in Hilo Have 50 Priors

1. Hawaii Senate Committee on Ways and Means Passes State Budget Bill
2. ICA Hears Case Challenging State Ownership of Mineral, Geothermal Rights
3. Application Deadline to Serve on State Ethics and Campaign Spending Commissions is March 31
4. Teens wanted for Hawaii Meth Project advisory council
5. Star-Adv Backs Jones Act Reform
6. ‘Bare Bones’ Senate Budget Funds 1000 Vacant Positions, Phony ‘Hi-Tech’ Tax Credits
7. $22K raise proposed for Kenoi: 19.8% for Hawaii Co Execs
8. Pentagon cuts number of furlough days
9. Calvin Say Hires Scott Saiki's GOP Opponent
10. Senate WAM to Consider PLDC Repeal Today
11. Statewide, Only Seven People Spent Time in Jail for Marijuana Last Year
12. UH abandons controversial plan to build expensive bio lab
13. Lawmakers push forward school land bills
14. State Senate: Audit The University of Hawaii
15. Teacher on contract: Devil is in the details
16. Hawaii Case Waits on Supreme Court
17. Open Lewdness: Naked Homosexuals Steal Mokuleia Beach from North Shore Locals
18. Suicide Squad Targets Waimanalo in Push to Eliminate Excess Hawaiians
19. Top cops join anti-pot rally
20. Hearings Thursday On GMO, Atrazine Resolutions
21. Eradication: Big Island Senators Ignore Hunters
22. State to develop Kunia Ag Park as live-work units
23. LOL! Kuokoa backs away from Hawaiian Electric takeover for ‘restructuring’
24. Community, individual acts can best government's work

1. Hawaii Health Insurance Rates to Rise 12% to 21% Next Year
2. USPIRG Flunks Hawaii on Tax Credit Secrecy
3. Scientology: Hawaii House Resolution Honors Group Tied to 'Torture', 'Concentration Camps'
4. 19 families to receive Hawaii Medal of Honor Today
5. Budget: Is Neil Abercrombie Four Times the Man Jack Burns Was?
6. Big Media Splash for Launch of Hawaii House Jones Act Resolutions
7. NRA: Background Check Bill Makes Final Committee Stop
8. Honolulu Tops Nation for 'Emotional Health'
9. Organic Spinach Recall Precedes Hawaii E-Coli Outbreak
10. NFIB to Lobby Against Minimum Wage Hike Today
11. Reason: America's Loneliest Senator: Hawaii's Lone Ranger Sam Slom
12. Hanabusa More Interested in Taking on Abercrombie
13. League of Conservation Voters Endorses Schatz
14. “What Happens in Caucus Stays in Caucus” – Mazie Hirono Joins ‘Silent Senators’
15. HR169: Cabanilla, Souki Retaliate on Arts Commission for Ratting Out Hanohano
16. Defending Molester Lobby, Clayton Hee Screams ‘Racism’
17. HRC, Lambda Were Legal Against Gay Marriage in 1990s Hawaii
18. Slom: HSTA Wins, Taxpayers Lose
19. Disney, Abercrombie, Caldwell Team up with media for Film Tax Credit Agit-Prop Show
20. Star-Adv: UH efficiency study a good sign
21. Lawmakers Say School Bus Fiasco Finally Shaping Up
22. SB1340: Extend care for foster children up to age 21
23. Hawaii Co Councilman Cancels Shady $1000/plate Fundraiser
24. Time To Ban Campaign Donations During Session?
25. Twice-fired TSA manager gets his job back AGAIN after judge rules he was unfairly sacked in Hawaii baggage-checking scandal
26. ‘Naturopathic’ Midwife Sued for Malpractice
27. Claim: Pot Hole Does $2000 Damage to Car
28. Kuhio Day: How The Royal Hawaiian Band Ended Up in the County of Honolulu

1. NKorea Threatens Attacks on Guam, Hawaii, US Mainland
2. Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How They Voted March 25, 2013
3. Hawaii Jihadi Convicted, Could Get 21 Years
4. Request Hearings for Jones Act Reform Resolutions
5. Rally Against Marijuana Decriminalization
6. Wednesday is Tax and Budget Day at Ways and Means
7. Is HSTA Contract Enough for Abercrombie to Buy Reelection?
8. HSTA Contract Proposal Sets off Budget Avalanche
9. $333M: How the state will pay for the teachers’ contract
10. 60-40 Healthcare Deal May be Biggest Ticket Item 
11. Task Force Teacher Praises Educator Effectiveness System
12. Doubling Number of inmates on furlough – Plan is Expected to bring more escapes
13. Soft on Crime: Alleged Molokai Shooter Had Multiple Convictions
14. State Senators Want Gay Marriage Impact Study
15. Caldwell Admin to draft plan for homelessness by May Day
16. Ethics: Should UH Administrators, Regents Get Free UH Athletic Tickets?
17. Money speaks loudly for Lobbyist Duo
18. AG: Enviros Rule Over Hawaii County Voters
19. New Maui Budget Proposal Full of Tax Hikes, Rate Increases
20. Potholes: Caldwell Administration Debates WAPNFFS
21. Bus riders welcome route's comeback
22. Former parks deputy to pay $2K in ethics case
23. Resolution calls for ocean-safety videos on flights

1. Company With Ties to Abercrombie, DelaCruz Seeks $200M from Legislature
2. HSTA, DoE Announce Tentative Contract Agreement
3. Taxes, Marriage, PLDC Top Agenda for Hawaii Republican Assembly
4. Tax Cut or More Giveaways to Tax Credit Scammers?
5. Leading Progressive Columnist Makes Complete Fool of Herself
6. For the First Time, Welfare to Work is Being Enforced in Hawaii
7. Concerns arise over $150M Road Repair Plan
8. UH Spending Millions On PR Efforts
9. Pflueger Honda Changes Name after Bad Publicity
10. Star-Adv Cheers as Legislature Risks Closure of HMC West
11. Failed education bills demoted to resolutions
12. Wooley Pens Anti-GMO Screed
13. 800 Protest Postal Cuts
14. Grove Farm IAL Designation Tied to Biofuel Scheme

1. Knee-Jerk Reaction Leads to Just More Money
2. The Brighter Side: Honoring Human Achievement
3. Sequestration: Pacific Fleet Cancels Deployments
4. VIDEO Panos 2050: Earthquakes, Energy Supply, Tsunamis, Taxes and ... Politicians Local and International Threats to Hawaii's Sustainability
5. Running for Congress: Chang, Kenoi, Espero, Tsutsui, Kim?
6. Tsutsui to Open Offices in all Four Counties?
7. Anti-GMO Activists Should Go Back to Home Planet
8. Senate to debate Tax Credit Giveaways, School Land Development Schemes
9. Millions for Affordable Housing
10. Star-Adv Tries to Salvage Early Education Giveaway to KSBE
11. Kam Schools Continues Push for Preschool Program Which Will Line its Pockets
12. Quality of health care is not on unions’ agenda
13. Hawaii Resolutions Call for Same Jones Act Exemption that Guam Now Has
14. WHT Keeping Up With the Jones Act
15. Hawaii Suit on Hold Awaiting Supreme Court Gay ‘Marriage’ Case
16. Sen Ruderman Admits he is Unable to Understand Geothermal Bill
17. Kenoi: Drunk Election Workers OK by Me
18. Hemp Bill Passes Second Reading in Hawaii Senate
19. Hawaii County to Change all Streetlights to LED
20. Street analysis uncovers worst of the worst
21. Tesoro Closure Will not Squeeze Asphalt Supply

1. 471 Register as Honolulu Neighborhood Board Candidates
2. Hirono, Schatz Cast Decisive Votes as Senate Passes Trillion Dollar Tax Hike
3. Governor Releases $26.2 Million for Education Facilities Statewide
4. Senate Budget Bill to Fund 900 Vacant Positions, Abercrombie Preschool Scheme
5. University of Hawaii President 348 Days of Travel and Vacation in Four Years
6. Report: UH Professors Have 33% Fewer Students, Work 39% Fewer Hours Than Average
7. Star-Adv Covers Bipartisan House Jones Act Resolution
8. DelaCruz Proposes State Run Collectivized Agriculture
9. Star-Adv: Lets Sponsor a State-Wide Pot Party
10. Clayton Hee: City May Not Roust Sleeping Bums from Bus Stops 
11. Punatics Hyperventilate over Geothermal Steam Release
12. Steven Tyler Act stalls in Hawaii
13. Tracking bills on your smartphone with a free RSS reader
14. Revamped state websites lack access to minutes
15. Hawaii House committee defers gambling resolution
16. Hawaii Shippers Council: GAO’s Jones Act Report Is Inconclusive
17. Judge calls federal espionage accusation into doubt
18. At Legislative Town Hall, East Oahu Residents Express Outrage Over Proposed KSBE Development on Preservation Land
19. Sierra Club Leader Lost on Mauna Kea

1. Preemptive Strike: UHPA Endorses Schatz
2. VIDEO: Homosexual Child Molester Describes 40 Years of Abuse
3. SR123/SCR166: Activists Push Gay Marriage Task Force
4. Biofuel: Hawaiian Electric Agrees to Drop Rate Hike
5. Grabbing for OHA Cronies’ Support: Schatz, Hirono Tag Team vs Hanabusa
6. Schatz Kisses up to OHA Cronies Some More
7. Racist Anti-GMO Activist forced to Apologize for “Go back to Japan”
8. Bill for GMO labels fails; study sought 
9. HSTA Money Grab: Complains About Ed Reform Consultants
10. Greenwood defends UH to academic watchdog
11. Middle schoolers need attention, too
12. Substitute teachers due pay can expect it later this year
13. Abercrombie is Point Man in UH Futile Push for Obama Library
14. Homeless Tent City back after city cleans up Ala Wai site
15. Gil Riviere Announces Primary Challenge to Richard Fale
16. Police Misconduct Bill Teeters In Hawaii House Under Union Criticism
17. Profiling members of the Honolulu Planning Commission
18. Honolulu City Auditor Investigates Rail
19. Rail cars will have 20 more seats; critic predicts low ridership
20. Women's prison guard indicted on sex assault, more victims alleged
21. Kalaeloa Air Traffic Control to be Spared Sequestration Cuts
22. Gun Violence Drops as Gun Sales Soar
23. Hundreds of Honolulu property owners notified of rockfall hazards 

1. House Oversight Hearing on Recognition of New Tribes -- Akaka Tribe Brushback
2. House Ethics Investigating Alaska Rep Don Young
3. Atheists Push to Exclude Church Preschools from Early Learning
4. AARP: Health Connector Transparency Legislation Did Not Pass
5. Compassionate Care Versus Religious Freedom
6. NFL: Pro Bowl in Hawaii One More Year
7. Out of Reach: Hawaii Most Expensive Housing in Nation
8. 5,000 Petition Abercrombie to Keep Tesoro Open
9. Rep. Ward urges Jones Act reform
10. GAO Releases Jones Act Puerto Rico report
11. Honolulu City Auditor Survey: Environment Great, Living Tough
12. Schatz Bill Would Expand National Parks in Hawaii, Pacific
13. Online Travel Companies Ordered to Pay $70M, Appeal Planned
14. Hawaii Firearm Permits Set New Record in 2012
15. UH Contracting: Minaai Career Begins With 1982 Election Fraud
16. Distraction and Diversion: Legislators Set to Score 25% Pay Hike While Rejecting Additional 2% Hike
17. Hanabusa to Announce Plans in Next Several Weeks
18. Suicide Squad Helps Insurance Company by Preparing to Kill Off Expensive HIV Patient
19. Greenwood Admits Overstepping Authority
20. Proposed Oahu fuel tax fails to pass first reading
21. Hawaii lawmakers advance new development agency
22. Hawaii federal employees protest furloughs
23. OHA Trustee Says $21M Property Deal Was Shady
24. Solar Scammers Rally to Continue Looting General Fund
25. SB1196: Tax Collectors Step up Harassment of Farmers Market Vendors
26. Supreme Court to hear arguments in Hapa Trail case
27. Hawaii senators advance social-media privacy bill
28. Funding approved for more seats on Oahu rail transit system
29. Hilo $1.9M Water Tank Sits Empty 10 Years, Water Dept Seeks Rate Hike
30. Honolulu International Airport to get $750M makeover
31. Why Is Hawaii The Only State Without A Statewide Police Standards Board?
32. Hawaii Elections May Soon Get Public Funding, More Transparency
33. OHA Primary Election Bill Needed To Stop Recycling Trustees

1. Legislative Maneuver Means PLDC Goes to Secret Conference Committee
2. Stanley Chang Running for CD1?
3. VIDEO: HCDA Bulldozes Ancient Hawaiian Trails for Solar Farm
4. Rush Limbaugh on Akaka Bill: These are the people that asked to join this country and now they're trying to distance themselves
5. Wind Power Down, Natural Gas Way Up
6. Tsutsui to Meet Arne Duncan in DC
7. DoE Launches Leadership Institute for Principals
8. Abercrombie Names Three to UH Board of Regents
9. Rhoads Bill: Marijuana Legal for Juveniles, Illegal for Adults 
10. Schatz: Rail Money Could be Delayed due to Budget Impasse
11. Anti-GMO Mob Attacking Kauai Farm Workers
12. Pflueger Beats Tax Rap, Manslaughter Next
13. CoR Inspires DoE Money Grab
14. UH Manoa Faculty Jealous of New Librarian Pay
15. State Departments urge Senate to Fund Vacant Positions
16. Shapiro: Hanohano Endangers Support for Hawaiian Sovereignty
17. Honolulu Ethics: Three Investigators Oversee Massive Criminal Organization
18. Occupy Honolulu protesters plan City Hall sleepover
19. Hawaii's Rising Truancy Problem Leaves Lawmakers Scrambling
20. Online travel companies ordered to pay state $70M in penalties due to unpaid General Excise Tax
21. Payment Protection: Credit card companies call Hawaii AG’s petition for appeal weak
22. Anti-Geothermal bill evolves
23. Film tax credit advances
24. UH System to Load Athletic Debt on UH Manoa
25. Legislators Ignore SB692 to Restrain Pickup Bed Passengers
26. SB642: Cigars Can Be Displayed, Cigarettes Cannot
27. Sequester Puts 200 People on the Road
28. Woman at center of spy allegations not Arrested
29. Tulsi Gabbard Appears in Reality TV Show

1. Hawaii Scores ‘F’ on Health Care Price Transparency Laws
2. Sunburned by Corporate Welfare
3. Notable bills to be heard this week
4. New Governor Seeks Jones Act exemption to grow Puerto Rican Economy
5. Abercrombie: Hotel Industry TAT Concerns are "Propaganda"
6. SB69: Gun Registration Bill to be Heard Today
7. Hawaii Republican Party Growth and Opportunity Project
8. Hawaii GOP Chair Tours S. Korea With President Bush
9. Defense Contractor Charged in Hawaii with Communicating Classified Information
10. Hero Clarence Nishihara Defends Science Against Religious Fanatics
11. Coal Plant Shutdown raises HECO rates 9%
12. Proposal aims to increase hotel room tax by 2%
13. School land bill moves forward in Hawaii Senate
14. Hawaii Preschool Plan in Crunch as Advocates Vow to Restore Funding
15. Legislators to Get $10K Pay Hike
16. Bill: Let City Have Greater Share Of Rail Surcharge
17. House committee wants to increase tax on luxury home sales
18. Borreca Defends Molester Lobby
19. So-Called Consumer Advocate: Oahu Residents Should Pick Up Tab For Aina Koa Pono Project
20. Legislators Yank Funding for UHH School of Pharmacy Building
21. Sand Island Business Association–Money & Politics
22. Budget Actions in D.C. This Week Will Mean Tough Choices For Hawaii
23. Malulani Activist Endorses Banner Takeover of MMMC
24. Smart Grids Need to Be Evaluated With Cost Benefit Analysis
25. Solid waste contract would cloud Hawaii County waste-to-energy
26. Honeytrap: Honolulu Defense Worker Charged with Nuclear Espionage

1. Monday, March 18: Hawaii Statehood
2. PPPA: PLDC Bait and Switch? Next Hearing March 19
3. Homeless tent cities: Seattle’s decade-long nightmare coming to Honolulu?
4. Jones Act: Five House Reps Introduce Resolution Urging Reform
5. Doomed: Schatz “Not Looking Beyond 2014”
6. Schatz too Weak to Unify Delegation on Akaka Bill, Working on End-Run Around Congress 
7. Hanabusa Interviewed by Indian Country Today
8. Who Runs the University?  Star-Adv Pushes Back against WAC
9. Tax Cut More Effective than Minimum Wage Hike
10. Legislature might exempt meat processors and sales of isle produce from the state's GE Tax
11. Bills cleared to stem private money in elections
12. Hawaii Police Union Bargains In Secret, Leaves Public Wondering
13. Escapee Misses Two More Court Dates
14. SB170: HTA to Support ‘Cultural Practitioners’
15. HSTA Member Fails to Get Workers Comp for ‘VOG’

1. Key to Hawaii’s Future is Business Climate
2. Political Future? Djou Speaks, Lingle on Tap
3. Saddam Hussein's Honolulu Airplane Bomber to be Released Early
4. Video: Hawaii Advisory Team Postures Afghan Police for Counter-IED Success
5. HB411/SB1109: Will Legislators Force HMC Hospitals to Close -- Again?
6. Homelessness Industry: Stanley Chang’s $77M Push for Tent City
7. SB946: $520M/year to Pay for Retirees Health Care
8. Team Oxycontin Reunites for Ethics Bill Kabuki
9. Clayton Hee Helps Campaign Contributor Evade Ethics Problem
10. Shapiro: Clayton Hee is a Chihuahua
11. Crooks, Cronies Meet at Abercrombie Fundraiser
12. Bigger tip credit would ease wage increase
13. Approve bills to fix schools bus system
14. High cost of recycling glass bottles shatters eco-efforts
15. Kauai Budget Proposes Millions in New Taxes
16. PCBs found in Kauai water tank
17. Outrigger raises a few eyebrows with appeal of Waikiki retail project

1. UH Federalist Society: "Litigating for Liberty: Non-traditional Public Interest Law"
2. Commission Approves Charter School Accountability Contract
3. HCR 189: "No Big Wind, No Big Cable"
4. List of Tax Measures Moving in Legislature Totals Seven Pages
5. Honolulu County Republican Party Convention
6. Alleged Homosexual Child Predator at Kamehameha “could have been going on for years”
7. Legislator, Perfesser Claim Molesters Have no Friends Here
8. Hawaii ERS to Become Captive Insurance Company?
9. Hawaii House committee advances gun control bill
10. Josh Green Committee Rejects hospital privatization, Approves Worthless Task Force Instead
11. Will Clayton Hee Kill ‘Shield’ Law
12. New UH Librarian's $195K salary brings criticism
13. Obama Library Push Creates Excuses for 13 UH Junkets
14. Homelessness Industry to ‘Occupy’ Honolulu Hale
15. US to beef up missile defense as Norks Fire Missiles into Sea of Japan
16. Land acquisition for rail could face legal action down the track
17. Counties risk losing revenue from public utility franchise tax
18. Board of Water Supply looking for developers to take over its location
19. Rand Paul mocks federally funded study on menus for astronauts
20. DOA: Hanabusa Proposes Two no-hope COFA Funding Measures
21. PGV operations back to normal
22. KIUC Candidates Reject Rate Cuts, Waste to Energy

1. SB286: Solomon Decision Allows Legislature to Define 'Permanent Resident'
2. Could Repeal of the Jones Act Actually Happen?
3. VIDEO: Why does Hawaii oppose Jessica's Law?
4. Another Homosexual Child Predator busted? This Time at Kamehameha
5. Solomon: Hawaii 'On The Verge Of Bankruptcy'
6. PPPC: Counties Will be Able to Exempt Projects?
7. Mayor pushes gas tax hike, pegs average cost at $21.45 a year
8. GMO crops could trigger another Green Revolution
9. Only 28% Would Vote for Abercrombie for Governor
10. CB: At The Legislature Today
11. Counties Skeptical About Election Day Voter Registration
12. House Judiciary Approves Marijuana Decriminalization Bill
13. Corruption Studies: Potential Growth Industry for Hawaii
14. More than 2,000 teachers protest lack of contract at Capitol
15. Community key to creating programs in middle schools
16. Broken Trustee Joins Ritte in Atrazine Hype
17. Advocates urge lawmakers to adopt preschool bills
18. Prisons chief wants new tests to gauge guards
19. Honolulu Rail: A Textbook Case Of Poor Planning, Denial And Diversion
20. Kauai Dam Breach Tragedy Still Not Resolved 7 Years After 7 People Were Killed
21. Hawaii’s Favorite Gun - Who Owns It and Why
22. New health insurer to set up shop

1. Dick Rowland: 83 Years Young and Still Fighting for Liberty
2. House GOP: "Many Bad Bills Did Not Pass"
3. House approves $23.25B budget
4. McCain: OHA Cronies Milk Defense Budget for Millions
5. Republican Caucus Commends Fiscally Conservative Hawaii House Budget
6. Chevron Drives Kitimat LNG Export Project Forward
7. WAC: Legislature Endangers UH Accreditation
8. Report: Hawaii Beer Distributors Generate 850 Direct Jobs, $200 Million
9. Horizon Lines Loses $94.7M for 2012
10. Hawaii ranked seventh in U.S. for solar energy
11. Feds Investigating Hawaii Blind-Deaf School Homosexual Rape Gang
12. Council on Revenues Upgrades Hawaii Fiscal Forecast as House Passes Budget
13. $66M -- Legislators permit raise in jobless tax
14. Ending state-worker over payments proving tough and costly
15. Hawaii DoE to Participate in Maine Laptop Contract?
16. Solar: Nine Months and Still No Inspection
17. Josh Green Calls Other Doctors Corrupt
18. Non-Apology, Apology: Is Rep. Hanohano Really Sorry for Her Racist Rant?
19. State prisons suspend correction officer recruitment, delay training class
20. Bills would help rein in school bus costs
21. House committee advances solar tax credit bill
22. Hawaii Shield Law: Journalists Struggle To Hold On To Legal Rights
23. Hawaii Senate Stiffens Adult Care Home Online Inspections Bill
24. Hawaii House committee advances foster care bill
25. Hawaii House committee OKs e-cigarette youth ban
26. PGV outage triggers alarm
27. Spaceport skepticism
28. Hawaii population up 1 percent, to 1,392,313 residents
29. Former Hawaii State Planned Parenthood Director: 30 days in jail
30. Hui wants developer's permits to be revoked by city for good

1. Argentine Jorge Bergoglio Elected Pope—Will be Pope Francis
2. WAC: Legislature Endangers UH Accreditation
3. UH Mānoa Law School leaps 26 points in rankings
4. Kauai County Smacks Down Hype: "No Atrazine in Water Supply"
5. SB286: Solomon Decision Allows Legislature to Define 'Permanent Resident'
6. Schatz Proposes $180 Billion Carbon Tax
7. Hawaii Gun Registration Bill to be Heard this Thursday
8. Hawaii Meth Project Foundation Joins The Partnership at Drugfree.org
9. Hawaii Had Lowest Election Turnout in Nation – 44.1%
10. HR29: Gambling tries to Slip in Via Resolution
11. Hawaii's state revenues 12% higher than last year
12. Thousands of Hawaii Teachers Expected to Rally at Capitol Tomorrow
13. University of Hawaii Procurement Under Fire for Wasting Millions of Dollars on Fraud and Corruption
14. Shapiro: Souki-led House majority has delivered solid agenda
15. Cash Call: Tsutsui, Kidani 
16. SB51: Sand Island Land Swap
17. CBAs an Alternative to PLDC?
18. Question study on gay tourism
19. Star-Adv: Leave GMOs to the Feds
20. Native Hawaiian Filmmaker Asks Lawmakers to Extend Journalism Shield Bill
21. $26.6 Million to Settle Lawsuits Against the State
22. Rock Climbers vs Trial Lawyers
23. Bill: Prohibit ‘Biased-Based’ Policing
24. HB1481: Bigger Welfare Payments for Wanna-Be Politicians
25. SB573: Back-Door Pay Hike for HSTA
26. Lax military in Hawaii led to California cops' deaths
27. Sen Sam Slom on The O'Reilly Factor 
28. Steven Tyler on Hawaii's 'Steven Tyler Act': 'Now I Can Walk Around Naked'
29. Caldwell: Keep Waimanalo Gulch Open
30. City suspends Jeff Stone’s Aina Haina permit
31. Electric Car Chargers Have only 700 Customers
32. Hawaii Supreme Court to decide whether a ‘medical’ marijuana user can be stopped at the airport for carrying his ‘medicine’
33. I Aloha Molokai -- Celebrate Our Way of Life
34. Small Business Day at the State Capitol is March 27
35. Commander Of U.S. Pacific Forces Says Global Warming Is Our Top Threat

1. SB286: Solomon Decision Allows Legislature to Define 'Permanent Resident'
2. Sunlight: Hawaii Scores 'C' for Transparency
3. Organic Profiteers: 15% Sales Boost from Anti-GMO Hype
4. Hawaii: Gun Registration Bill Passes the Senate
5. RFP: Hawaii Health Connector Seeks Seamless Customer Experience
6. Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How They Voted March 11, 2013
7. Naming Names: Big Pharma Pays $3.2M to Hawaii MDs
8. Honolulu Pavement Condition: Is Your Street Serious?
9. How Hawaii Minimum Wage Workers Earn $24.24 per hour
10. Poll: Hanabusa Beats Abercrombie by 27%, Beats Schatz by 22%
11. Still No Prayer in the Hawaii Senate
12. OCC: Cells Empty While Prison Overcrowded
13. State Pays Thousands to Prisoners Kept Beyond Sentence
14. Should Suspended Cops Be Identified? Hawaii Records Office Says Yes
15. Its Legal: Legislators Can Sell Influence and Access With Impunity!
16. Souki, Kouchi, Tokioka Hold Fundraisers During Session
17. The bills that made the cut
18. Give labor board resources it needs so it Will Deliver HSTA Decision
19. Restaurants and food businesses weigh in on the minimum wage increase
20. SB472HD1: Reduces Marijuana Ticket to Piddling $100
21. Hawaii Online Poker Bills Fold
22. Hawaii Senators: Strengthen Early Childhood Education
23. HB321: ACLU Pushes Same-day registration
24. Free Clinics Push for More Medicaid Spending—200% of Poverty Line
25. Obama Kills Tsunami Detection Funds, 1/3 of Buoys Dead
26. Hawaii Jihadi Heads to Trial, Lawyer Asks Judge to Ban Jews from Jury
27. Conklin: “Racial Entitlement Bills in the 2013 Hawaii Legislature”
28. Hirono Apology for Not Being Gay Goes Viral
29. History shows N. Korean pattern: Wait, then attack
30. Japan’s New PM May Reduce Hawaii Gas Prices
31. Contractor Wastes 18 Mos, $600 cost overruns fined $26K
32. Bereavement Pay For Inouye’s Widow In New Senate Budget
33. Allegiant Cancels Multiple Hawaii Flights over Mechanical Issues

1. China Debates Whether to ‘Keep or Dump’ North Korea
2. Abercrombie for Monopolies?
3. SEC Charges Illinois for Misleading Pension Disclosures
4. Anahola Rejects Danner Sisters’ Biomass Plant
5. Hawaii Commercial-Scale Solar Installations Lose Key Part Source
6. Kahuku wind farm safety called into question
7. No cause, no answers 7 months after Kahuku wind farm fire
8. Agency bumps up rebate for solar water heaters
9. Shine a light on political finances
10. Great News: Hawaii Gun Control Measures Dead for Season
11. Labor Board Blames Lack of Staff for Slow HSTA Decision
12. Mainland Homosexuals Target Hawaii for 2013-14
13. Gabbard Joins Rand Paul Drone Protest
14. Civil Beat Joins Atrazine Hype Squad
15. Hawaii Would Lose Influence if Electoral College, Senate Reformed
16. Investigation on disposal of county records produces no results
17. Deedy Drops Dismissal Motion, Clears Way for State Murder Trial

• Abercrombie for Monopolies?
• ERS: USS Titanic Hawaii Headed for $8.4B Iceberg
• Hanohano Should Resign

1. SB286 Ends Reapportionment Discrimination, to be Heard Tuesday
2. Knock Off the Theatrics and Get Down To Business
3. Hawaii Legislative Watch: People vs. Government
4. LINK: How major bills fared at the Capitol
5. Legislators Fail to Act--Can Still Legally Profit from their Actions
6. SB66 Would Require Disclosure from State Commission Members
7. 25% Tax Credits for Hollywood Movie Moguls?
8. Hawaii Scores Five on Fed-Up Index
9. Star-Adv: $1000 Marijuana Ticket Could Boost General Fund
10. Brewbaker: Tourism Maxed Out, Need More Hotels
11. Affordable housing remains a dire need across state
12. Ing Fails, Panel includes Only half of request for high school in Kihei
13. Under Attack by Luddites, Seed Industry Growth Stalls
14. Following Crook Ritte, Kauai Idiots March against GMOs
15. HB1388 Gives $1.3M to Shrimp Farm Operator
16. Gabbard Joins Republicans in Criticism of White House
17. Caldwell Claims “Fuel tax hike is investment in the future”
18. Hawaii Co. Police officer reprimanded following misconduct complaint
19. Inmate dies after fight at OCCC

1. The Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative: Watt, Me Worry?
2. Airlines Bet Big On Hawaii With 275,000 Additional Seats
3. Governor Releases $46.39 Million for Capital Improvement Projects Statewide
4. “Harassment and intimidation” Clayton Hee Challenges Wil Espero to a Duel on Senate Floor 
5. HGEA/AFSCME Fundraiser for Schatz
6. House finance committee approves $23 billion budget--$590 million shy of governor's request
7. DoE abuse of Disabled Children prompts calls for federal intervention
8. Star-Adv: Only Now is it time to Get Serious About HSTA Negotiations
9. DHHL, Solar Scammers Split Profits, Ratepayers Stuck with $108/barrel for 20 years
10. House passes bill to create night parking lots for homeless Tent Cities
11. State: It'll Take 4 More Years To Clear Elevator Inspection Backlog
12. Soft-on-Crime Policy Gets Burglary Suspect Shot
13. Union employees at The Modern vote to authorize strike
14. Star-Advertiser owner a very busy man these days

1. GAO Jones Act Report to be Released Next Week
2. Sequestration: Army Tuition Assistance Ends Today
3. Honolulu Ranked 8th-Worst City for Drivers
4. Rail Fail: Ansaldo Breda, Finmeccanica Financial Report Shows Negative Net Worth, Massive Losses
5. Crossover at the Capitol
6. HPD makes a push for, and against, new laws
7. Crossover News:
8. PPPA: Hot Exchange Before Senate Passes Development Bill
9. Senate bill seeks more fairness in election financing
10. Military to lawmakers: Cuts will hurt state
11. Tomorrow's pensions put pressure on today's needs
12. Alleged Killer Cop Gets off Easy
13. Answers due for cost overruns in county contracts Some as high as eight-fold
14. State Denies Teachers Claims, Pays Prisoners
15. State hires private firm to defend against expected Federal indictment over seabirds
16. City brings back permit fees for solar installations
17. Fontaine is elected to lead Maui County GOP
18. Hokulia developer files bankruptcy with debt over $500 million

1. Akaka Tribe Could Receive Legal Jurisdiction Over Non-Tribal Members
2. Kalaeloa: Hawaiian Burial Caves to Be Bulldozed for Solar Farms?
3. Occupy Honolulu Points Finger at City over Deaths, Threatens ‘300 Instant Criminals’
4. Enviro Lawyers Off Target With Criticism Of Callies, Says Callies
5. Hawaii State Senate Passes 348 Bills Over to the House
6. Honolulu’s Poor Economic Growth and What to Do about It
7. HSTA, DoE, HLRB Agree to Mediation
8. Tuition Increases: UH #2 in Nation
9. Chicken Manure Penny Stock Looks to Abercrombie for ‘Strategic Relationship’
10. ERS: USS Titanic Hawaii Headed for $8.4B Iceberg
11. Senate Ways and Means Rejects Beverage Tax
12. Forced Participation in Abortion: Nine Legislators Take a Stand for Religious Freedom
13. Federal Reserve to Hold Public Meeting on Samoa
14. Spy Network? Former Hawaii Planned Parenthood Director Installed 500 Security Cameras on Maryland County Offices, Buildings
15. Hospital privatization advances
16. House Will Vote Friday on Budget
17. Legislative Crossover News
18. Star-Adv: 5-cent gas tax hike adds to heavy burden
19. Washington Monument Gambit: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park cut tours, programs under sequestration
20. Gabbard Breaks With Democrats On Republican Budget Bill
21. Union protests plan by Kaiser to eliminate jobs
22. Released 911 tapes capture frantic moments after Munet escape
23. Leeward Coast Has Longest Commute Times
24. HSTA To Bus In Members for March 14 Rally
25. Former lawmaker headed to court over felony charge
26. Prosecutors: Kawamoto Spearheaded Plot to Evade taxes
27. Filipino cardinal stirs papal talk with rapid rise

1. SB894 Held as Turtle Bay Opens New Negotiations with State
2. As Solar Backout Spreads HECO Unveils More Detailed Grid Map
3. Former Rep Roland Sagum Charged With Stealing Stones from Heiau Site
4. House Moves Hundreds of Bills Over to Senate
5. A Good Day For Good Government, Mostly
6. CB: Senate Approves Series of Bills Cracking Down on UH
7. Bills On The Move
8. Revenue: HTA raises 2013 projections for visitor arrivals, spending
9. PACOM: Military furloughs will be worse in Hawaii
10. Oh, he'll fix the roads … but it's going to cost you
11. Bag Tax Killed for Session
12. Money Spinner: Senate Votes to ‘Decriminalize’ Small Marijuana Possession, Increase Fine
13. HB535 Homeless Tent City Passes House
14. City tags items on sidewalk placed by (de)Occupy hui
15. Farmers Harassed by Copper Thieves
16. DoE Hustles to Burn RTTT Money Before HSTA Blows Rest of Deal
17. Trade Windfarm for Cookies?
18. Kawamoto Denied Bail, 4 Weeks in Jail
19. Lawsuit: Alleged Homosexual Priest Allegedly Molested Boys 45 Years Ago
20. Green Police: Collective Punishment for Fishermen after False Killer Hooked
21. Walter Ritte Brings Anti-GMO Dog n Pony Show to Kauai, 300 Idiots Show up
22. Anti-GMO Hypesters to Use Atrazine as Weapon
23. Local digital media group wants to keep creatives in Honolulu, Put them on Welfare
24. State Harasses Small Businesses at Dillingham Airfield

1. Lawsuit: Mainland Homosexual Adopts Boys, Molests Them in Hawaii
2. Senate Crossover: 200 Bills on the Agenda
3. House moves 69 bills over to Senate
4. State Sells Holdings in Student Loan Auction Rate Securities
5. NRA: Burdensome Anti-Gun Bill Must be Stopped
6. HB411 Forces Hospitals, Doctors to Hand Out Abortion Pill
7. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted March 4, 2013
8. VIDEO: Sen Sam Slom and Donovan DelaCruz ‘A Better Day’
9. Crossover Thursday: House order of the day, Senate order of the day 
10. Riot Police Stand by as Hawaii’s Congressional Delegation Finally Meets
11. Bills to Develop School Lands Approved by Senate
12. Senate Kills Religious Exemption Amendment in Emergency Contraception Bill
13. Legislators can get a raise if they simply do nothing
14. Budget holds no raises for teachers, union says
15. Pahoa HSTA Member: Teachers days are Numbered, Common Core Easily Manipulated
16. House Approves Early Lawmaker Financial Disclosure, Senate Votes to Exempt Task Force Members from Ethics
17. HB713: Police Recruiters Should Not be Able to Look at Job Applicants Online Presence
18. Billionaire Kawamoto arrested in Japan for alleged tax fraud
19. Notices for federal furloughs begin
20. Liquor inspectors Secretly stopped from making arrests, using handcuffs
21. 88% Reject Gas Tax Hike
22. Occupiers Block New Sidewalk
23. Who will play for little pay? UH's new concert rules
24. Senate Passes Steven Tyler Act
25. Machines ruled gambling devices
26. Solomon, Dela Cruz Holds Fundraisers During Session
27. Caldwell makes park repair a priority in proposed budget
28. New Bill Aims to Attract Outer Space to Big Island
29. Hawaii DOE to request waiver for FY 2012 SIG Grant

1. US Patent Pending for Genetically Modified Marijuana
2. Senators too Intelligent to be Fooled by Anti-GMO Nonsense
3. Water Board to Waste $9.5M on Global Warming, Will Use Eco-Babble to Justify Further Rate Hikes
4. Stand Up To SHOPO And Open Police Misconduct Records
5. Lucky Sequestration Delays Major Review of Hawaii Historic Preservation Division
6. Star-Adv: Soda Bottlers Must Pony Up or Soda Tax Will be Back
7. Civil Beat Decides Hanohano May Have Had a Point 
8. Hawaii State Hospital Population Up as Mental Health Services Cut
9. Inmate Gets Wet, Scores $38K from State
10. Tesoro ups layoff estimate to 210 workers at Kapolei refinery
11. Puna Geothermal -- Six Cents per KWH
12. SB1045/HB815 Exempt Electric Coop from HRS 269
13. OHA, Aina Haina group ask city to halt site work
14. Senate Ctte amends Banyan Drive legislation
15. Public vying for chance to shoot at public gun range
16. Lawmakers may limit e-cigarette sales
17. Supreme Court to Hear Gay Marriage Arguments March 26

1. Hawaii Precedent? 'Sidewalk Property' Decision Appealed to Supreme Court
2. Keep The Promise for Better Wages as Goal
3. HNL Planning Director: "Public, Along With Private Property Rights, Are Our Top Priority"
4. Video: The PLDC And Property Rights In Hawaii - A Panel Discussion
5. Sewer Gas Powers Cars
6. Where is Hawaii Transportation Headed?
7. Abercrombie Laughs at Teachers: “Be careful what you wish for”  
8. Only Two Schools Meet Instructional Hours Law, So SB238 Will Re-define “instructional”
9. Trade Minimum Wage Hike for Unemployment Tax Freeze?
10. Greenwood Needs to Speak Up, Name Names in Response to Mitsunaga Allegations
11. Crossover: Hawaii lawmakers to vote on hundreds of bills
12. Followers of Eco Religion March in Haleiwa, Call for Total Ban on GMOs, Destruction of 2000 Agriculture Jobs
13. SB937: 10% More Local Food = 2300 Jobs
14. 91% ‘No’ -- Do you think Rep. Faye Hanohano's apology for racial slurs was enough?
15. ML&P Bailout: A measure aims to conserve coastal property and provide a financial boost to Maui Land
16. Veterans Court Launched

1. Gays Attack Hawaiians (Again)
2. Sen Solomon Resolutions Urge Hawaii Jones Act Exemption
3. NRO: Sink the Jones Act
4. Hanohano Should Resign
5. DoE Extends Deadline for School Quality Survey
6. DoE Million Dollar Cash Giveaway to 32 Schools
7. Governor to Establish Hawaii ‘Sequestration Impact Response Team’
8. After all the Hype, Sequestration Brings ‘Business as Usual’ to Hawaii
9. “Dead on Arrival”: Caldwell wants to raise the city's fuel tax by 5 cents a gallon
10. SB215 would create a Public-Private Partnership Authority, Give Counties Power to Waive Land Use Requirements  
11. Bumbling DoTax Shorts City $33M GET funds for transit project?
12. Mitsunaga v Kobayashi: UH System Has No Comment as AG Investigates
13. Hawaii Teachers Stage ‘Teach-In’ at Gov’s Residence
14. Clean Elections: $34K for House, $68K for Senate
15. Office of Hawaii Affairs Bill Needed to Stop Recycling Trustees?
16. Lunatic Released by Judge Before Killing Rampage
17. UH Manoa Fights Act 221 Scammers for Control of So-Called ‘Innovation Center’
18. Judge Halts Work at Villages of `Aina Le`a and Orders Supplemental EIS
19. HB1424 to Buy Lipoa Point, Save from ML&P from Bankruptcy

1. Full Text: Rep Hanohano Accused of Workplace Violence after Racist Tirade Aimed at State Workers
2. HTA: Visitor Arrivals Rise 5.9% from January 2012
3. HELCO RFP Seeks More Geothermal Power
4. Environmental Concerns "At Record Lows": Global Poll
5. Store owners say plastic bag ban causes more shoplifting
6. EPA Cites 188F Garbage: $1.1M Waimanalo Gulch Settlement Day After Lawsuit Filed
7. Sakai: Misconduct Investigation Underway After Latest Prisoner Escape
8. DoE Extends Deadline for School Quality Survey
9. Soda Tax Bill Fizzes Out
10. House Committee Moves Two Tax Cuts, ‘For Vehicle Purposes Only’ 
11. Hanabusa Proposes Special Funds Raid to Stop DoD Furloughs
12. SB286: Malama Solomon Endorses Call to Count Every Person for Reapportionment
13. Mitsunaga Levels More Accusations House Committee Votes to Strip UH Procurement Power
14. Honolulu Liquor administrator won't resign after admitting 47 ethical violations
15. PPPA/PLDC Hearing Friday
16. Full House to consider measure on prompt Labor Board rulings
17. Bill on public financing of campaigns advances in Hawaii Senate
18. House Finance Committee Hearing Violates 24-Hr Notice Rule
19. Common Cause Focuses on Three Bills
20. No Prison Time: Pflueger, State Attorney, Nearing Ka Loko Manslaughter Plea-Bargain?
21. Should Police Misconduct Be Public?
22. Witnesses recount school abuse of Disabled Children
23. State plan aims to turn Wahiawa into agricultural hub
24. Schatz Joins Lawmakers at Inouye memorial pledging support for Israel

1. Sequestration Scare Tactics: Caldwell Administration Threatens Sec 8 Housing Evictions
2. Solar Scammers Pleased by SB623: Extends Solar Tax Credit Giveaway
3. Pine Announces Improved Leeward Bus Routes
4. Mad Money Video: Jim Cramer Rips Jones Act
5. Peg Legs and Eye Patches - Ninth Circuit Wades Into Piracy
6. Status Of Appeal Of Land Use Commission’s Koa Ridge Approval
7. Gallup: Hawaii Again Tops Nation in Well-Being
8. Woodward at War
9. Rep Hanohano Launches Racist Tirade
10. Senate Ctte Advances Minimum Wage, HHSC Privatization, Gun Control, Abercrombie Preschool, Film Tax Credits
11. HB1149 Would Require Windfarm Decommissioning Plan
12. Star-Adv: We’ll Take Same-Day Registration
13. SB286 Count Every Person for Apportionment, Moves to Full Senate
14. Hawaii government technology stuck in time warp
15. DoE: The Numbers Don’t Lie (But HSTA Member Does) 
16. UHPA Dumps NEA in Slap at HSTA
17. Pension Debt May Damage Hawaii Bond Ratings
18. What The Police Commission Isn't Doing About Misconduct
19. Proposal could extend benefits to Age 21 for foster children
20. EPA Sues Over Waimanlo Gulch, City ‘Will Not Pay’
21. Tow company still overcharging motorists
22. Senate Committee Moves Turtle Bay Purchase Bill
23. Star-Adv Parent Removes Last Printing Press From Kauai

1. Hawaii Welfare Recipients 2nd Healthiest in US: 75% Not Disabled
2. Hawaii Nursing Homes Ranked by US News
3. AECOM Scores $43.9M Rail Contract
4. Politico: Is President Obama Telling the Truth about Sequestration?
5. Omidyar Plan to Develop Hanalei Advances on Kauai
6. Legislative Crossover Next Week
7. PLDC Redux: DelaCruz, Solomon Playing Same Legislative Games
8. Abercrombie: “Will Continue to Impose Contract”, Claims Teachers Agreed to Last Best Final Offer
9. Kipapa Elementary faces more abuse claims
10. UHPA Quits NEA
11. Price: Awarding Contracts to Friends is No Big Deal
12. City DPP Claims No Favoritism for Jeff Stone Hao Street Project
13. HREA: No Solar Scammers Interested in HECO Offer
14. Now That Rail is Approved, Repairing Roads is Suddenly Worth the Cost
15. $1000 Marijuana Fine to be Money-Spinner
16. 1994: Hawaii Police Union 'Outguns' Students
17. HB321: Same Day Voter Registration
18. HB1481 Public Funding for Political Campaigns
19. House to Consider “Romy Cachola Bill’
20. Bill to Alter Hawaii's School Bus Contracting Process Advances
21. New House Leadership Knocks Calvin Say Appointee off Water Commission
22. HI jail officers shift duties during escape probe
23. Backlash for Red-Light Cameras Hasn’t Slowed Spread
24. University of Hawaii criticized for spending money to study itself
25. Tougher sidewalk bill clears first hurdle
26. Church will employ homeless on a farm, in Kim Chee factory
27. Ian Lind: Hawaii Media Doesn’t Attack Military Enough
28. New York investors want to acquire Hawaii landowner CommonWealth REIT

1. The Numbers Don’t Match: Obama vs Harkin on Hawaii Sequester Impact
2. OHA Offers Cash Prizes for Weight Loss
3. DoE Cash Rewards for Academic Progress
4. Designed to Fail? HECO Seeks Green Energy Projects on Oahu
5. 23 Hawaii Robotics Teams Qualify for VEX World Championships
6. UHERO: Minimum Wage Hike Unlikely to Help Working Poor
7. DoE: ‘No Impact’ from Sequester
8. Non-Profits Have No Idea of Sequestration Effect
9. Abercrombie Soda Tax Simplistic and Simple-Minded
10. Solar Scammers Seek Free Reign Over General Fund
11. Good News: Vote By Mail Bills Nearly Dead
12. Same-Day Voter Registration on House Judiciary Agenda
13. Abercrombie Holds $1000/plate DC Fundraiser
14. DATABASE: A Compilation Of Honolulu Police Misconduct
15. 1994: UH Student vs. The Police
16. Settlement over Homosexual Rape Gang at school calls for big changes to campus
17. Caldwell Left High and Dry as Mattson’s Pick for Corp Counsel Withdraws
18. DoE: Only Two Schools Meet Requirements for Instructional Time
19. $260,000 study tackles UH accountability
20. Pro-American Speakers Will no longer be Censored at Hilo HS, Albertini May not Force his way into Teacher’s Classroom
21. Farmers, Ranchers Question Federal Takeover of 271,062 Hawaii Acres
22. HB252 Amends Definition of ‘Qualified Native Hawaiian Constituent’
23. HB1374: Amend Procurement Code to Hold Contractors Responsible for Past Performance
24. Bill Would Give Banyan Drive Properties to Hawaii County
25. Caldwell hopes to smooth Oahu's ragged streets with $150 million for repair work
26. After Ten Years Obstructing Traffic Lights, Punatics Finally Get their Traffic Circle
27. Lepeuli, Kauai: Trails and Tribulations
28. HNN Suckered by Bogus “Road Pollution Filter”
29. Chevron to Waste Money on Least Cost-Effective Form of Solar

1. Reapportionment: Plaintiffs Attorneys Back SB286
2. Bill 4 to Create New Honolulu Council Slush Fund?
3. CIP: $113M New Spending at Airports, Harbors
4. What the Public Isn’t Being Told About Police Misconduct
5. Reapportionment: Trade Canoe for Census Base?
6. HB603: Calvin Say ‘Castle Doctrine’ Bill
7. A soda tax would hurt business revenues and cause worker layoffs
8. $5.75 Million Settlement Awarded to Deaf and Blind Students Sexually Assaulted by Gang at Hawaii Public School
9. Taxpayers Owe $550K After Kids Are Put in ‘House of Horror’ with Sovereignty Activist
10. Pathways needed to help homeless
11. Hawaii lawmakers debate geothermal energy proposal
12. Abercrombie: I Want $20M to Turn the Bourgeoisie into Welfare Queens
13. Whale Worshippers Hit Whales, Then Demand Ferry Slow Down
14. Caldwell: Five-year plan for Potholes
15. Foreclosure law has Hawaii homeowners associations covering maintenance costs
16. Transportation and Economy

1. Just a Vicious Circle, Higher Minimum Wage, Higher Prices
2. Bob Woodward: Sequester Was Obama's Idea
3. Even lipstick can’t disguise PLDC look-alike proposals
4. PLDC Staff Kept on Payroll Awaiting New Role
5. Fear Monger Abercrombie: 19,000 jobs affected if budget deal isn't reached
6. Danger: Legislature back from Recess, Begins Voting Again
7. Poverty: Tax Cut or Minimum Wage Hike?
8. KSBE Says ‘Investing in keiki is for all our futures’
9. Kabuki: ACLU, Seitz Preen, 911 Truther Albertini Pretends to Score Victory
10. Hilo HS Flashback -- Fri Feb 22
11. After Death of Lifelong Criminal, Family Sues Police
12. Electric Car Charger Co Claims to Have Two Buyers, Refuses to Name Them

1. UHERO: Weakening Yen May Cut Tourism
2. NFIB Small Business Day at the Capitol
3. Obama Gives Abercrombie $937K to Devise System to Force Doctors into 'Medical Homes'
4. DBEDT Releases Economic Projections
5. DoE Changes Student Assessment Tests Again
6. Grassroot Perspective Podcast: Liberty and Movies
7. Reason: Former Gov. Ben Cayetano on Hawaii's Fiscal Mess and Stupid Rail Plan
8. BoE: Releases Fiscal Reports from 2012
9. State Auditor: Releases Annual Report for 2012
10. WCCC Prison Guard Allegedly Part of 400lb California-Hawaii Meth Ring
11. Prison guards might face physical fitness tests
12. Federal cuts forecast to slow isle economy
13. Federal officials warn of likely flight delays if spending cuts of $1.2 trillion kick in
14. Hawaii Naval forces could lose billions to sequester
15. Bill to ban imposed worker contracts deferred
16. Window is closing on Luddites’ ability to require labeling of GMOs
17. DoH Seeks Profits from Medicated Pot
18. HB619/HB15: Criminalize Bird Feeding
19. Towing firm admits struggles
20. VAWA: National Democrats Use Violence Against Women to Give Tribal Authorities Jurisdiction over Non-Tribal Members
21. Obama to Have Two Libraries?
22. Flags to Fly at Half-Staff in Honor of Helene Eleanor Hale

1. SB120: $3.5B Rate Hike and No Natural Gas for Hawaii
2. Could Soda Tax Shutter Hawaii's Only Can Maker?
3. Hawaii Foreclosure Relief: 1,468 Homeowners Get $158M Wiped off Books
4. Did murder suspect have help escaping?
5. Chevron: We’re Staying, But Prices are Going Up
6. Danger: Senate Ways and Means Moves 70 Bills
7. Solar Loans to Help Scammers Make Out Big
8. Snow, Wind Rail Lash Isles as Global Cooling Intensifies
9. MRC Greenwood: I’m Gone in 2015
10. HB713: Will Block Police from Investigating Applicants
11. After Decades, Hilo Teachers, Parents Tired of Albertini’s BS, Tell Surrender Monkeys to get new Spokesman
12. With American Military on Decline, Time to Focus on Gay Sex
13. Regents Flatter Themselves Seven Illegals Get Discount Tuition so BoR can “Do the Right Thing”
14. Abercrombie Fails on Elevator Inspections
15. Hawaii Supreme Court hears Sunshine Law case: Kanahele v. Maui County
16. Union Power Ensures Hawaii Has Hefty Government Labor Force
17. Star-Adv: Allow limited-service hotels
18. Defense Witnesses in Jimmy Pflueger's Federal Tax Fraud Trial Include Well Known Politicians
19. Hawaii Appeals to be UAV Test Site
20. Intelligence: North Korea set to conduct intermediate-range missile test
21. Anti-GMO Activists Vandalize Kauai Roads
22. Kawamoto Houses Used for Crack, Meth

1. Heritage: Protectionist Jones Act Harms Puerto Ricans
2. Upcoming Event: The PLDC and Property Rights in Hawaii
3. Washington Legislator to Address Maui TEA Party
4. Long Lines to Vote? Not for the Vast Majority of Americans
5. Only 11.4% of DoE Graduates Score on AP Exam
6. Impeach Hawaii's Governor? State Senate Establishes Causes
7. 61% Raise on Tap? State leader pay to jump double-digits; next round of raises drafted
8. NYT: Hawaii Democratic Senate Primary ‘Could be Competitive’
9. Sheriff: Proper Procedures Not Followed With Escapee
10. Star-Adv: AG Louie Should Hound Greenwood from Office 
11. 19,000 Hawaii Defense Workers At Risk Of Being Furloughed
12. Surfeit of myths complicates teacher contract negotiations
13. Hawaii DOE Not Spending Race To The Top Money Fast Enough
14. Legislature votes 23-1 to Protect Child Molesters
15. Homeless Industry Wins Control of Waikiki
16. Abercrombie Administration Cuts Deaf Services, then Lies About it
17. Local 5 Blocks Limited Service Hotel Construction Bill
18. 7 Caldwell cabinet appointees approved by Council
19. Court Blocks Greens’ Challenge to Rep. Say’s Residency
20. Which Ethics Director To Believe?
21. Are Hawaii Schools Doing Enough to Prevent Youth Sports Concussions?
22. Honolulu to be Inundated by Global Worming—NOT!
23. Greenfellas: The Italian Mafia Muscles In On Green Energy Racket
24. Will Chinese Communists Close Slave Labor Camps?
25. Ex-Con, Felon, 9-11 Truther Relays Third-Hand Account of ‘Threats’

1. Holy Paparazzi! Molokai Mocks Steven Tyler Act, Sen English
2. Governor Excludes Union from Refinery Task Force
3. Former DPP Head Running Controversial Wailupe Valley Project
4. Prosperity? Hawaii Congressional Delegation Scores Zero
5. Can Vote-By-Mail Fix Those Long Lines At The Polls?
6. Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How They Voted February 19, 2013
7. AARP Opposes Chained CPI as Threat to Veterans Benefits
8. SB69: Hearing Feb 20 for Extremist Anti-Gun Measure
9. Repeal the Jones Act, Reduce the Price of Gasoline
10. Hospitals Chase Medicare Performance-Based Bonuses
11. Secret U.S. military flights carried officials, equipment to N. Korea
12. Schatz: Obama Administration May Recognize Akaka Tribe Without Congress
13. Double-Digit Pay hikes weighed for politicians, appointees
14. Shapiro: All-mail voting needs fraud insurance
15. SB 707: Senate Unanimously Repeals PLDC
16. Settlement Prelim OK in Homosexual Rape Gang Case at Blind-Deaf School
17. Kim to Gays: “This is a Democracy, Everyone Has the Right to Propose Legislation”
18. Perreira: Tesoro refinery closure will Mean Higher Prices, Energy Crunch
19. Furloughs hit more than 100 at Schofield
20. 3 hour airport security waits under sequester
21. Star-Adv: Tents and sidewalks don't mix
22. HPD officer investigated for 'pepper pellets' incident caught on camera
23. Property Forfeiture bill advances
24. State might OK red-light cameras
25. New take on city park law OKs vendors at festivals
26. Board of Education Spurs DOE Officials To Fix School Bus Program Faster
27. Charter School Employee Challenges Status as State Employee, Ethics Fine
28. UH might tighten reins on its execs’ sabbaticals
29. Advocates Suddenly Find 293 More Illegal immigrants Who might qualify for in-state tuition
30. Show Us The Money: Bill Calls For Early Financial Disclosure
31. Will Local Taxation Drive Gasoline Above $5.00 Per Gallon As A Norm?
32. Workboat Magazine LTE: Jones Act Reform
33. Lawsuit: Was SSgt Killed by Defective Mortar Round?
34. Hawaii Happiest State in USA
35. Army seeks community input for marine study
36. 2013 VEX PAN PACIFIC Information

Former DPP Head Running Controversial Wailupe Valley Project

HB1357 / SB1343 Limit Development to Freeway Capacity

1. Gays Threaten Expulsion of 11 Democrat Legislators
2. Mitsunaga Names Names, Slams UH for Favoritism Towards Kobayashi
3. Lingle: Hawaii Republican Party is Thriving
4. Wells Fargo: Hawaii to be Hardest Hit by Defense Cuts
5. Bipartisan Bills present opportunity for Hawaii Jones Act LNG Ship Exemption
6. $45B Project: Alaska Plans 800 Mile LNG Pipeline
7. Residences at Aina Haina: Jeff Stone's Plans in Wailupe Valley Opposed
8. Six States Consider Assisted Suicide
9. HawaiiFreePress: 20,001 Tweets -- 5,001 Followers
10. Navy Saves $35M By Cancelling Pearl Harbor Work
11. Looking for Campaign Cash, Schatz names executives as ‘community liaisons’ for Senate office
12. Heenan: Akaka Should Have Left in 2006
13. UH researchers and solar industry lobbyists duke it out over tax credits
14. HB856/SB1087 State Loan Giveaways for Solar, Wind Scammers
15. CB: Bills at the Legislature Feb 19
16. In Swipe at HSTA, UHPA to Vote on Leaving NEA
17. With more retirees, EUTF becomes a ticking time bomb
18. USA Today: Hawaii should walk away from Steven Tyler Act
19. State Shuts Down Dozens of Small Businesses
20. Star-Adv: Don’t Give Granma a Free Ride, We Need the Money for Rail
21. Should Hawaii Residents Filing Their Taxes Online Pay an Extra Fee?
22. $200,000 County Gun Buy Back Program is Bad Deal for Taxpayers
23. More Funds Needed for Long term Care for Mentally Ill Homeless
24. Kaiser workers: “A Strike is very Likely”
25. James Pflueger, One of Hawaii's Wealthiest Residents, is on Trial for Tax Fraud After Hiding Assets in Switzerland
26. North Korea Plans More Nuclear Tests