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Friday, June 21, 2013
June 21, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:39 PM :: 3737 Views
  1. Rep McDermott: Dep't of Health Obstructing VA Loans
  2. HI unfunded liabilities: Unpredictable tsunami or government-made disaster?
  3. Schatz Immigration Bill Amendment: Embrace Global Warming Hype to Enter USA
  4. Narcissism as a Marketing Strategy: PepsiCo Says Honolulu 9th Most Susceptible
  5. Town Hall Meeting on the ‘Ewa Development Plan
  6. Feds Release Economic Report on U.S. Shipyards
  7. Governor Releases $134.7 Million for Hawaii Schools
  8. 1978: Waihee, Souki, Ihara, Fukunaga Endorse Closed Primary
  9. Matson Strike Looms: July 1 Deadline
  10. TRICARE: Lack of Telemarketers Behind Failure to Approve Medical Care for Thousands
  11. 43 Positions Created for Hawaii Health Exchange
  12. Civil Beat: Mazie Hirono is a Rockstar
  13. Kakaako: More Development News
  14. Local Enough To Be UH Prez? Take Our Quiz!
  15. Former police officer faces drug charges after raids on his house
  16. FBI looking into Dinnan case
  17. Hooser introduces GMO Moratorium bill
  18. Island Air to Buy Go!
  19. New Kapolei Refinery Owner Also Owns H-Power
  20. Bakken Boom Cutting West Coast Imports of Crude
  21. US Trafficking in Persons Reports omit notable failures of prosecution in Hawaii
  22. Hawaii County increases park fees
  23. Bridges: Maui Leads State in Structural Deficiency
  24. Councilmember Pine Launches New District One Website
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Thursday, June 20, 2013
June 20, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:44 PM :: 3516 Views
  1. Rothenberg: Gabbard Could Challenge Abercrombie
  2. Stop Rail Appeal Hearing Set for August 15
  3. Importing Boston’s Failures to Honolulu
  4. Hawaii Insurance Agents Debate Obamacare
  5. HECO Plans to Give Away Millions to Wind Scammers, Lock in Ultra-High Rates
  6. Pilot project reducing institutional placement of at-risk youths
  7. Obamacare: HHSC EMRs to Punch $100M Hole in State Budget
  8. Council Budget Challenges 'Personal Services Contract' Scam
  9. Matson Strike Deadline July 1
  10. Will Kakaako boom stress its infrastructure?
  11. Kakaako Development Schemes Erupt Everywhere
  12. Oi: Dems Primary Lawsuit Splits Party behind Rigid Facade
  13. Governor approves 2 bills on super PAC disclosures
  14. Caldwell Snubs the 98.5%: Suggests Eliminating Traffic Lane on King Street
  15. Regents Focus on Local Non-Academic Hire for UH President
  16. CNN: Counting Welfare Queens, Hawaii is Very Entrepreneurial
  17. Progressives Eager to Grab Non-Profit Money Previously Reserved for Old Boys
  18. Feds: Hawaii Must Repay Half-Million Dollars in Stimulus Money
  19. Representative McDermott calls press conference to challenge Abercrombie administration’s obstruction of VA loans. 

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Wednesday, June 19, 2013
June 19, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:49 PM :: 3918 Views
  1. Republicans: Our Primary Will Remain 'Open' as Hawaii Democratic Party Sues for Closed Primary
  2. Full Text: Hawaii Democrats' Lawsuit Demanding Closed Primary
  3. Joe Trippi to Speak in Hawaii: "Better Schools Aren't a Partisan Issue"
  4. Spying: Obama Loses 17% Among Youth
  5. Hu Honua Biomass Construction Halted as Pipefitters, Boilermakers Fight for Control
  6. Oahu Karst Cave Videos and Photos
  7. NCTQ Report: UH Education Departments Among Nation's Worst
  8. National Governors Assoc to Assist Hawaii Early Learning Program
  9. HART West Oahu Community Meetings to Discuss Rail Station Design
  10. Gays Behind Closed Primary Suit: Opposed by Virtually All elected Democrats
  11. Five Days to Deadline, 200 Bills Await Abercrombie Signature
  12. UH Ed School Pushes Back Against 'Worst-in-Nation' Rap
  13. Making Waves: Kelii Akina and The Grassroot Institute of Hawaii
  14. Abercrombie Administration Spying on You?
  15. Former Inouye chief of staff to be Honolulu rail 'Dealmaker'
  16. Tesoro Refinery a 'Trophy Asset'?
  17. Hanabusa, Gabbard Vote for Late Term Abortion
  18. Obama's DoD Joins Push for Abercrombie's Pre-K
  19. Plenty of Swag for Hawaii In Defense Bills
  20. Oahu Part of Okinawa exit Plan?
  21. Hawaii Co Council Raises Salaries While Increasing Bus Fares, Car Regist Fees
  22. LUC Asked to De-Zone Turtle Bay
  23. Long-term Kakaako plans already displacing tenants
  24. Hawaii Teacher: My Descent Into Homelessness
  25. Hawaii Public Utilities Commission: Big Issues Mark 100th Birthday
  26. Coffield Tried to Weaken Solicitation of Minors Law
  27. OCCC guard dies alone at post after delay in getting him help
  28. Study: The More States Ban Discrimination Against Gays, The More Discrimination they Face
  29. Government to Regulate Food Scraps Next
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013
June 18, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:20 PM :: 4245 Views
  1. After Years of Talk, Hawaii Democratic Party Finally Sues for Closed Primary
  2. Tesoro Finds Buyer to Own, Operate Kapolei Refinery
  3. ‘Bureaucratic abuse’: Molokai vets wait a decade for center, services
  4. UHERO: Hawaii Costs 16% More than US Average
  5. Honolulu Tops USA: 9 years Income to Buy a Home
  6. Hawaii Foreclosure Starts up 108%
  7. Abercrombie Signs 37 Bills into Law
  8. Hawaii AG Joins 'Secure Our Smartphones' Initiative
  9. Supreme Court to Review Kawaiahao Church Cemetery Case
  10. SB482: Cutting Red Tape Helps Small Business, Honey
  11. Elected Democrats Outraged by Closed Primary Lawsuit
  12. Hanabusa has Inouye, Memories of Broken Trust
  13. Star-Adv: Cut Taxes on Rich to Help Poor
  14. Nonprofits competing for dwindling funds
  15. Med Quest Enrollment Reopened Without Waianae HMSA Agreement
  16. Number of solar photovoltaic permits falls on Oahu in May
  17. Ko Olina Using Boot to Restrict Beach Access
  18. City golf course Players Flee as fees rise
  19. Ban truck-bed riders, officials say
  20. Hawaii fishermen say development, not Fishing, is hurting reefs
  21. WSJ: Larry Ellison's Fantasy Island
  22. Maui Council Votes 6-3 to Create Fake Scandal
  23. Kauai Officials Scheme to Give Themselves Pay Hikes
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Monday, June 17, 2013
June 18, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:29 PM :: 3381 Views
  1. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Rules Hawaii Schools Can’t Pass-the-Buck
  2. Call for Audit: 51,000 Water Dep't Customers May Have Been Overcharged
  3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 17, 2013
  4. So Far All the Major Unions Have Backed Schatz
  5. Hanabusa Reacts to HGEA Endorsement of Schatz
  6. $12M Tax Cut: Deduction cap may be lifted for charitable donations
  7. Grants and contracts awarded nonprofit agencies can raise red flags
  8. Hawaii lobbyist reports say little about influence of money on Hawaii politics; most report $0
  9. Souki, Kim Given Veto Power Over Hawaii Auditor Contracts
  10. Asbestos charges need investigation
  11. Ron Menor: City Website to Give Money to Bums
  12. Embarrassing mayor seems to be the goal of sand ‘sale’
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Sunday, June 16, 2013
June 16, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:23 PM :: 3802 Views
  1. Lawsuit: Hawaii Gambling Machine Contract Guaranteed ‘No problem from Vice-Squad’
  2. Abercrombie Quietly Orders More Pay Hikes, Publishes HGEA, UPW Contracts
  3. Neither Age nor Disability is an Indication of Financial Need
  4. Sylvia Luke Next House Speaker?
  5. Finance panel’s summer work puts heat on budget
  6. Water board should be investigated
  7. Hanabusa Loses Big as HGEA Endorses Schatz
  8. Karst Caves Basis for New Stop Rail Lawsuit?
  9. Ernie Martin, Kirk Caldwell and the Cesspool 
  10. ORI Timeline
  11. Gun enthusiasts attend 20th Annual Shooting Sports Fair
  12. MECO wants to Replace Kahului plant by 2019
  13. Star-Adv: $300M for Solar Scammers
  14. Prostitution: Legislature Passes Four Bills

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Saturday, June 15, 2013
June 15, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:04 PM :: 3938 Views
  1. Tea Party Maui leaders call for special prosecutor to investigate IRS
  2. Hawaii Appeals Court Thwarts State's Massive Land Grab
  3. Survey Shows Slipping Confidence in Hawaii County PD
  4. Want Land? DLNR Will Buy it for You
  5. JSC Announces Nominees for 1st Circuit Court
  6. IRS scandal driving interest in Hawaii GOP
  7. $15M new tax credit excludes most local film productions
  8. City Hikes Building Permit Fees 20%, Makes Excuse
  9. Sovereignty Activists Bust Competing Drug Dealer
  10. Medicaid Buy-In Task Force to Meet 
  11. State tax revenues up 9.9 percent, latest figures show
  12. Hawaii hotel occupancy declines, rates rise more than 10%
  13. Epic Fail: Solar Scammers Thrown Out of Court
  14. Obama's Big Mouth May Set 100s of Military Rapists Free
  15. Star-Adv Helps Hanabusa Tout $400M in Military Construction
  16. Hawaii leads way in ethnicity data
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Friday, June 14, 2013
June 14, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:53 PM :: 4428 Views
  1. Heritage: Tulsi Gabbard Most Conservative, Schatz, Hirono are Zeroes
  2. Lawsuit: Act 163 Discriminates Against Disabled Students
  3. Hawaii Home Health Medicare Margins on Steep Decline
  4. Census: Asians Fastest Growing Group in US
  5. Deadline to apply for City grants next week
  6. State Set to Lose $55M as Act 221 Scam Companies Implode
  7. Rail Math Challenge: Plan to Boost Seats by running Half as Often Twice as Long  (2/2=4?)
  8. How Kenoi Steers Contracts to Contributors
  9. Outrigger CEO: In Hawaii, ‘it’s just hard to make the numbers work’
  10. State failed Maui special-needs student, federal court says
  11. Former Waianae charter school clerk pleads not guilty to theft
  12. Fifth Prosecution for Stealing School Money Since 2010
  13. DoE Brass Push for More Pay Hikes
  14. KCC managers accuse their chancellor of discrimination
  15. Another Day, Another Spy
  16. Hee's seat belt law causing confrontations in Taxis
  17. City Begins installing LED Street lights
  18. Green Energy Scammers Push Back Against PUC
  19. MECO Appeals Rate Hike Decision

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Thursday, June 13, 2013
June 13, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:15 PM :: 4781 Views
  1. Email Chain Reveals Hawaii Obamacare Leaders Debating “Inevitable Failure”
  2. What does a buck get you? A strange deal, ex-Hawaii regent says
  3. Hawaii’s GE tax mark-up
  4. Video: Debating Same-Sex Marriage on Island Insights
  5. Hawaii Rifle Assn. 20th Annual Shooting Sports Fair
  6. Before Waikiki Shooting, Chris Deedy in Benghazi
  7. Slom All Alone: "Yippee!"
  8. 51,000 Water Dept Customers May Have Been Overcharged
  9. Green Energy Scammers Promise themselves $300M from Hawaii 
  10. Navy Solar Scam EIS Comments Open Thru June 24
  11. PUC: HECO Must Give More Money to Green Energy Scammers
  12. Schatz vs Hanabusa on FISA Spying
  13. Star-Adv Lobbies for COFA Funding in DOA Immigration Bill
  14. Abercrombie Raising Money on Mainland
  15. Affordable Housing Provider Retaliates after Asbestos Discovered
  16. Kahoolawe Commission Burns Thru $44M, Looks for Handoff to Akaka Tribe
  17. Dinnan Case: Lawyer Changes Story
  18. UH Study: Yellow Tang Population Jumps 14%
  19. NOAA Rules May Overturn Hawaii Shark Fin Ban
  20. KSBE Shopping center plan called off
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013
June 12, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:19 PM :: 4066 Views
  1. Open Letter: Hawaii MDs Challenge “Severely Dysfunctional” Medicaid Program
  2. Akaka Bill Coming Back? Schatz Demands US Treat Hawaiians Just as Badly as American Indians
  3. Honolulu Revealed As Highest-Priced U.S. City This Summer
  4. Martin signed loan documents After Receiving Contributions
  5. City Budget Gives Martin $8M to Play With
  6. Media Flacks for Abercrombie, 2014 Edition
  7. Varona Squalor Thanks to Theft of Ewa Villages Redevelopment Fund
  8. Schatz, HCDA, UH Team Up to Create new Generation of Obama Community Organizers
  9. A Mother's Day Nightmare: Foster Home Failure?
  10. NOAA to Use Seal Meat as Bait in Shark Killing Program
  11. Crane that Installed Maui Wind Turbines Won't be Around to Remove Them When they Fail
  12. More GMO Articles
  13. Cockfighting is illegal, but everything else related is fair game in Hawaii
  14. DoH: Homosexuals Spreading Syphilis Around State
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013
June 11, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:58 PM :: 4339 Views
  1. Kamehameha: The Founding of the Hawaiian Kingdom
  2. Thanks to Pensions, Hawaii Retiree Income Tops Nation
  3. Feds Approve Hawaii Health Connector
  4. Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How They Voted June 10, 2013
  5. Jones Act Adds 30% To Price of Paradise
  6. Hawaii Unemployment Figures Skewed by Large Number of Part-Time Jobs
  7. Act221 Finale: $400M Solar factory built with Hawaii Tax Dollars produces nothing, may be dismantled for scrap
  8. 2 investigations examining nonprofit’s handling of federal funds
  9. Hawaii Delegation Postures Against Spying
  10. Democrat Manufacturing Fake Scandal in Effort to Dump Maui's Republican Mayor
  11. Interim UH presidents seem to do pretty well
  12. PUC Promises HECO a Microscope and a Big Stick
  13. Hawaii Teacher: Where is Education's Steve Jobs?
  14. Tropical flower growers hope to benefit from GMO boon
  15. Councilmember Offers $40M Bribe for Anti-GMO Vote
  16. Editor wants Weekly to rise again
  17. Parents Without Partners Nears End?
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Monday, June 10, 2013
June 10, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:54 PM :: 3219 Views
  1. Hawaii Based NSA Worker Exposes Obama Spying, Flees to Hong Kong
  2. Bottled Water Battle: A Decade of OHA Harassment Continues
  3. A&B Purchase of Grace Means Roads Will Now be Fixed
  4. Star-Adv: HART Should Prepare to Dump Ansaldo
  5. Neighborhood Board Voting Dropped Sharply When Paper Ballots Were Abandoned
  6. Clayton Hee, Myopic Media Baiter
  7. WHT Runs 3 More Articles on GMOs
  8. OHA Invests in Trask's Geothermal Scam
  9. Without Inouye, Alaska and Hawaii can only Tinker With Board
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Sunday, June 9, 2013
June 9, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:31 PM :: 4171 Views
  1. Electronic Health Records: Monopoly 'Scare tactics' Driving Hawaii Doctors into Retirement
  2. Number of Special Funds Should be Curtailed
  3. City Corruption Places Millions of Federal Dollars at Risk
  4. $8M scandal involving ORI draws odd city response
  5. Tsutsui Talks Up 2018 Campaign for Governor
  6. Campaign Spending Violator Leads Charge for 'Clean Elections'
  7. DoE Brass Think they're Worth More Money
  8. Bill that applies ethics rules to transit workers advances
  9. Water Dep't Rate Hikes Needed to Pay for Bill Collection
  10. 'Insane' Plan Put $331M Tsunami Center at Sea Level
  11. Hawaii One of Only Five States Which go Soft on Child Molesters
  12. W Maui to Finally Get Hospital?
  13. GMO:$243 million seed industry largest in state’s ag sector
  14. Plan to tax online hotel bills stalled
  15. U.S. District Court in Hawaii dismisses lawsuit challenging applicability of Jones Act in Hawaii
  16. 10 Priors, Gets Probation, Now Most Wanted  

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Saturday, June 8, 2013
June 8, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:12 PM :: 3210 Views
  1. HSTA’s ‘Multi-Front War’ Against ‘Rogue Teachers’
  2. Hiram Fong First Asian-American Senator, An R From Hawaii
  3. NFIB: So Where Do We Stand As A State?
  4. Pulpit Freedom Sunday: Hawaii Pastors Join Nationwide Challenge to IRS
  5. Mayor Wright Housing: FACE Grabs for Seat at Redevelopment Table
  6. UPDATE: Organic Berries Cause 79 Cases of Hepatitis
  7. Abercrombie Quietly Orders Pay Hikes
  8. Governor Signs Bill Establishing 'Civil Liberties and the Constitution Day'
  9. Disgrace - Iwi Kupuna at Ewa Plantation Cemetery
  10. NYT: Obama 'has Lost All Credibility' on Spying
  11. Obamacare Solution: Build 'Integrative Care Team' Without 'Expensive Doctors'
  12. Opponents appeal permit for telescope
  13. Hilo Saddened by End of Furlough Fridays
  14. Waimanalo public housing unit used as storage shed
  15. Kalapana: Strangled Camper, Boyfriend Threatened by Rival Tour Guides
  16. Medical Examiner Changing Story on Dinnan Case?
  17. Sun Mei, Brother of Sun Yat Sen

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Friday, June 7, 2013
June 7, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:12 PM :: 4215 Views
  1. Hawaii Obamacare: As Doctors Quit, Telemarketers paid $480K each
  2. 9th Circuit Debates Seizure of Abandoned Property from Homeless Camps
  3. Governor Releases $41.2 Million for Various CIPs Statewide
  4. HUD Orders End to Non-Profit Contracting Kickbacks
  5. Lower Electric Rates?  LNG Is The Way
  6. Hawaii Has Less to Gain from Obamacare
  7. UH Profs to Students: Leave Hawaii
  8. Wanted: University of Hawaii president who can manage Transition from Kobayashi to Mitsunaga
  9. Rail route is still sound, extra report says
  10. Maui Council Approves Tax Hikes
  11. Hanabusa Backed Obama on Spying, Schatz Opposed Obama
  12. Kaiser, HMSA Eager for 100,000 New Customers
  13. Kalihi Road Will not be Repaved for 50 Years
  14. Sheriff Department Cruising in Hummer
  15. City, Neighborhood Board Attack Wedding Business
  16. Transsexual Babysitters Force their Way into Home
  17. Oahu child advocate charged with sexual assaulting minor
  18. DoD: Homosexuals Rape Dozens of Soldiers Daily
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Thursday, June 6, 2013
June 6, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:59 PM :: 4925 Views
  1. Paychecks Hawaii Rates Legislators
  2. Ed Week: Hawaii DoE Dropout Rate Jumps to 32.8%
  3. HSTA Appoints Team to Tackle Teacher Evaluations
  4. Hawaii's Forgotten Internment Camps
  5. Lanai Video: Money for Murdock, Rate Hikes for Oahu
  6. Caldwell Hires Private Detective to Investigate Ernie Martin
  7. New Union Contract Mandates Paid Campaign Rallies in County Facilities
  8. Lanai: Is Big Wind Dead?
  9. Did Hawaii's Energy Reform Leave Consumers Vulnerable?
  10. HART Railcars to Come from Ansaldo Factory Which Built Junk Belgian Trains
  11. Kakaako agency poised to vote on 803 Waimanu high-rise
  12. OHA Kakaako Plans Sputter
  13. Council Approves $2.16B Budget With Slushfund, Without Tax Hikes
  14. Regents vote to form UH presidential selection committee
  15. Help UH students graduate on time
  16. Are Hawaii Lawmakers Weakening Support for the Elderly and Disabled?
  17. California Elder Abuser Comes to Hawaii, Steals Old Man's Money
  18. Alleged Drunk Signmakers Lose Defamation Case Against Former Elections Chief
  19. Family of Stephen Dinnan believe police used excessive force
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Wednesday, June 5, 2013
June 5, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:51 PM :: 3917 Views
  1. IRS probes former GOP leader’s ties to Maui Tea Party
  2. HART releases Supplemental EIS in response to court order
  3. Native Hawaiian Advancement: Dr. Kelii Akina Speaks in Hilo
  4. Losing One Of The Good Guys
  5. Mortgage Settlement: Hundreds of Hawaii Borrowers to get $1480
  6. Seniors in Poverty: Hawaii Ranks #3 in Nation
  7. ORI Mismanagement Comes Back to Haunt Ernie Martin, Throws Wrench In City Budget
  8. Martin is the Biggest Earmarker
  9. ORI: HUD Hires Community Organizers to Show Us How its Done
  10. PUC Decision Aims to Force HECO to Pay More to Wind, Solar Scammers
  11. Dutch, Belgians Dump Honolulu Rail Contractor Ansaldo
  12. Millions spent on out-of-state travel by Dept. of Education
  13. Matayoshi Whines about DoE Executive Salaries
  14. Obama Will Give $7M to Get Hawaii Hooked on Free Preschool
  15. Public gets its say on rules to contest sidewalk violations
  16. Bill would apply city ethics policies to transportation workers
  17. Probation That Works
  18. Is This The End of 50-Yard-Line Shmooze Seats?
  19. House Approves Military Construction Bill With $400M for Hawaii
  20. How Abercrombie Came to Hawaii and How to Avoid Similar Situations in the Future
  21. Kawanakoa: Only a Small Number of Mortgage Foreclosures Warranted on DHHL
  22. CNHA Hosts Hawaii-Alaska Summit in DC
  23. Honolulu Weekly Pau for Now
  24. Military Homosexual Rapists to Win Protection? 

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Tuesday, June 4, 2013
June 4, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:38 PM :: 4717 Views
  1. Guam Testimony Favors Jones Act Reform
  2. Hawaii Data Sharing: 2.2 Million Layers of Information on You
  3. Class Action Lawsuit Seeks To End Hawaiian Electric Industries Monopoly
  4. Hawaiian Electric Cuts Earnings After PUC Orders Consumer Refund
  5. Caldwell Encourages 'Qualified' Non-Profits to Apply for Grants
  6. Transform Hawaii Gov: Tech Mavens Point to Success in Other States
  7. CoR Releases General Fund Forecast
  8. OHA ramps up its online presence with new site
  9. Abercrombie Signs Seven More Bills into Law
  10. Feds Nail Ernie Martin, Demand $8M from City
  11. Local culture: Don't Piss Off Neil and Donna
  12. Hawaii's Obamacare Doctor Shortage: Got Cancer?  Wait till you can't ignore it
  13. Hawaii lawmakers to examine $5.7B special funds
  14. Teachers Lose Two Weeks of Instructional Time
  15. Shimabukuro, Oshiro: Worst legislative attendance records
  16. State Super-Minorities Lead to Hawaiian ‘Lone Ranger’ Movie Trip
  17. Kamehameha Schools to present mixed-use Salt project to HCDA
  18. Espero to Propose Legalizing Boot
  19. Justice Reinvestment: One Day After Release, Brutal Rape
  20. Heroin, Oxy and 98lbs of Marijuana Equals Probation
  21. Abercrombie to Sign Bills Making MDs into Marijuana Dealers
  22. Sheriff shortage causing courthouse concerns
  23. Solution for State's Dirtiest Waterway? Stop Testing it
  24. Will 33-year Old Waianae Bridge Collapse?
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Monday, June 3, 2013
June 3, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:33 PM :: 4702 Views
  1. Feds Bust Sandwich Isles Com: $25M/year Funneled to Hee Company
  2. Sick Organic: Frozen Organic Berries Linked to Hepatitis Outbreak
  3. UH Study: 92% of Global Warming Climate Models Fail
  4. KSBE Trustees Tied to Sandwich Isles Scam
  5. Sandwich Isles Spent $480K in Lobbying and Political Contributions
  6. Want To Run For Congress? Political Insiders Only, Please
  7. House Finance Committee to Study Special Funds
  8. Should The City Earmark Millions For Favored Nonprofit Groups?
  9. Obama Launches 'Furlough Fridays' for 15,000 Fed Workers in Hawaii
  10. Cultural differences aside, standards are a must
  11. State Claims Reduction in youth suicide rate
  12. City kills attempt to reduce habitual 911 calls
  13. HECO:  One Plan for Entire State
  14. After A123 Bankruptcy, Maui Windfarm Finally Gets Battery
  15. Star-Advertiser editorial opposes city budget item to fund public toilets in Chinatown
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Sunday, June 2, 2013
June 2, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:02 PM :: 4062 Views
  1. No Good Intention Goes Without Consequences
  2. HIRA Candidate for GOP Chair Stars in Gay Pride Parade
  3. Hawaii Rifle Association Supports Council Resolution 13-74
  4. Hawaii Obamacare Leaders tell 'Scary Truth': System Strained to the Breaking Point
  5. Abercrombie Holds Secret HGEA-HHSC Meeting
  6. Bill would raise vehicle tax, fees
  7. Honeymoon Over at Honolulu Hale
  8. Abercrombie and Caldwell go together like rice and poi
  9. Watson: New Federal Judge Not 'Activist'
  10. Tsutsui leasing space for Maui office from county
  11. Task Force Reports Gather Dust
  12. Graduation rate still 'awful'
  13. Hawaii Among only 7 States to Eliminate Welfare Asset Limit
  14. Mayor Wright: Ouansafi Orders Tenants Not to Listen to FACE
  15. Vermont Legalizes Terminal Elder Abuse, Star-Adv Celebrates by Lying about Hawaii Law
  16. End of protest period clears way for new Handi-Vans
  17. Moth Eats All the Koa on Big Island
  18. Napoopoo Landing was once a busy port, now You need Permit for Paddleboard
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Saturday, June 1, 2013
June 1, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:29 PM :: 6340 Views
  1. New AIS Testimony: Rail Route Illegally Damages Hawaiian Cultural Properties
  2. More Flooding in Kakaako's Future
  3. NRA Debunks Ammo Shortage Rumors
  4. .05% Solution: Abercrombie Quietly Appoints DUI Taskforce
  5. Abercrombie Angered by "Damn Idiot who got Stoned and drove off bridge"
  6. Shortage: No More TB Tests at Child Care Centers
  7. Supreme Court: Medicated Potheads May Smuggle Up to 3 oz on Airplanes
  8. Elections Coming: Maui Council Members Attack Arakawa
  9. Aquarium Collecting: Ecos Lose First Round in Court
  10. Honolulu Official: Synagro Bankruptcy Won’t Impact City
  11. 17,000 Hawaii students borrow $64M subsidized college loans
  12. Ben Jay Backs Apple, Calls for New Stadium
  13. First Time Since 2001 No Hawaii-Based Army Units in Mid East
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Friday, May 31, 2013
May 31, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:49 PM :: 4635 Views
  1. VIDEO: I Aloha Molokai ‘Bottom Up Planning’
  2. Gun Permitting Among Bills on Honolulu Council Agenda
  3. Shipping Industry under “environmental siege”
  4. Hawaii Ranks 6th for Senior Health
  5. Vanished Hawaii Travel Agent Ordered to Pay $4M
  6. Governor Releases $21.8 Million for Airports, Highways Statewide
  7. Legislators encouraged to revisit HCDA mandate
  8. Kakaako residents give lawmakers an earful on the proposed massive development plans
  9. Muslim Could Get 10 Years in Eye-Gouge Attack, Works Insanity Plea Instead
  10. Hawaii Co Council Passes 10.8% Tax Hike
  11. Booted from LUC, Duane Kanuha Appointed Planning Director for Hawaii County
  12. Schatz Hires Mufi Operative to Manage Campaign
  13. UH Tickets Investigation Targets Dahilig
  14. UH West Oahu cost overruns mount
  15. 4 Hawaiian charters get accredited
  16. Rape: Thousands of Homosexuals in Military Could Face Prison, Dishonorable Discharge 
  17. Liliha hospital to serve elderly
  18. Wind, Solar Scammers Dependent on Multi-Million Dollar 'Smart Grid'
  19. Who's Driving TheBus? Honolulu Councilman Wants Ethics Oversight
  20. State sues parking boot companies
  21. Homeless cleanups to be Monthly
  22. 3rd Annual Women’s Veteran Day Celebration

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Thursday, May 30, 2013
May 30, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:04 PM :: 3443 Views
  1. NCLB Waiver: DoE's Latest Trick to Hide Failure
  2. Hawaii Officials Could Face Prison Over Failure to Act on Bird Deaths
  3. Public Meetings: HECO to Hear Comments on Resource Planning
  4. DLNR Requires Permit for Canoe, Paddleboard--Swimmers OK for Now
  5. Chinatown Tenants: FACE does not Represent Us
  6. As DHHL War Rages, Robin Danner Relinquishes Presidency of CNHA
  7. City Transport 2020: The Future Can't Come Soon Enough
  8. 38 Hawaiian Species Are Endangered, Agency Says
  9. Pushing Tax Hikes, Caldwell Suddenly Attacks Council Slush Fund
  10. Tourism: Japanese Spending Drops 12.5%
  11. Kakaako TOD: "That's Awful"
  12. Bumbling DoE Payroll has ed assistants skipping paycheck
  13. Only 37% of DoE Schools Ready for Digital Testing
  14. 4 UH Cancer Center researchers file successful complaints against director
  15. Honolulu Lawyer Hopes Federal Lawsuit Targeting Restrictive Shipping Laws Will Move Forward
  16. Hawaii County postpones vote on GMO ban
  17. Ethics Commission: UH Should Revise Free Ticket Policies
  18. Hawaiian Importer Loses Bid To Lower Plastic Bag Duties
  19. Hawaii Co Tax Foreclosure Bill Postponed
  20. Surrender Monkeys Cheered by Possible Stryker Brigade Departure
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013
May 29, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:32 PM :: 5273 Views
  1. Hawaii TEA Party Groups Sue IRS
  2. Group Organizes to Save Jefferson School
  3. Governor Sees Council on Revenues Forecast as Sign of Strong Economy
  4. Hee's Sandwich Isles Scam: $25M/Year from Taxpayers
  5. Star-Adv: Senate must oversee DHHL Since DoI won't
  6. UH president sheds light on governor's interference
  7. Game-Changer on State Health Benefits Could Spur Higher Taxes
  8. UH spends $1 million a year renting space that's 30% empty
  9. Slom Defends Mercado Kim vs Greenwood, House GOP
  10. Ritte Gloms on to Campaign Against Phased Archaeological Studies
  11. Anti-Superferry Protester Gets $250 fines, May Get Fake Badge Back
  12. Gay Thief Appoints Caldwell Grand Marshall
  13. Teacher Rejected by Neighborhood Board
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Letters to the Editor May, 2013
By Letters to the Editor @ 4:18 PM :: 8823 Views
  • Sensible Slate Makes Quiet Revolution on Kapolei Neighborhood Board
  • State Surplus is Fake
  • Hawaiian Sinkhole Pond Area Used For PCB, PAH, Chlordane Disposal
  • Blocking Banner Keeps Sister-Isle Patients Flowing to Oahu Hospitals
  • Removal of "Occupy," an Attack on "International Workers Day" 
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013
May 28, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:17 PM :: 3784 Views
  1. Hawaii residents renew fight for free market in shipping
  2. Picking the Next Greenwood: BoR Appoints Task Force to Form Committee
  3. Dueling Petitions as HSTA Targets Principal of Kapaa Middle School
  4. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted May 28, 2013
  5. 5,000 Candle-lit Lanterns Float Off of Magic Island
  6. Saiki: HCDA = PLDC
  7. Abercrombie Concerned Regents May not do His Bidding
  8. Danner Operatives Excluded from DHHL Reform Commission
  9. Big Wind Already Costing Ratepayers $4.4M
  10. Tenants: FACE in Bed with City on Privatization Plan
  11. Kakaako: Abercrombie Works to Coopt Mufi's Caldwell
  12. Should Hawaii Be Exempted From The Jones Act? Lawsuit Says Yes
  13. Honolulu City Council: $10M for the Influential
  14. Retaliation: Kauai Council OKs $10K more for Iseri-Carvalho
  15. Hawaii to share in $160 million clean-up fund
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Monday, May 27, 2013
May 27, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:20 PM :: 3954 Views
  1. Hawaii Memorial Day Ceremonies
  2. Serving Those Who Served
  3. A New Moral Treatment: Humane institutionalization can help the mentally ill and protect society
  4. So you don’t think Stop Rail Appeal has a Chance?
  5. Star-Adv Celebrates Memorial Day By Crying About Dead Terrorist
  6. Honoring Memorial Day
  7. Bills would force $500M/year Tax Hike or Spending Cut
  8. John Carroll Appeals Jones Act Suit Dismissal
  9. Senator Hee given Lava Tube Award for death of Shield Law
  10. Teachers sought for leadership program
  11. Sex Offender Released from Prison, Allegedly Kills Neighbor
  12. Elderts Has Record of Fighting With Police
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Sunday, May 26, 2013
May 26, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:56 PM :: 4136 Views
  1. Hawaii Memorial Day Ceremonies
  2. Making the Tax System a Social Tool Creates Inefficiencies
  3. Hawaii Academics, Business Leaders Urge Congress to Repeal Jones Act
  4. Hawaii Republican Assembly Elects New Board of Directors
  5. A Visit to Drake's Bay Oyster Farm, Epicenter of a California Food Fight
  6. Stanley Chang: Elect Me or I'm on Welfare
  7. KOS: Schatz Should Undergo Sex Change Operation
  8. Morons Against Monsanto Rallies
  9. Star-Adv Cheers DoE Scheme to Shuffle Tests
  10. Unemployment Taxes Soar 980%
  11. Hawaii County Council Backs Tax Hikes
  12. Going big on Kakaako plans will redefine our isle home
  13. City to restore and improve 5 bus routes
  14. City Bumbles Handi-Van Procurement Three Years Running
  15. Electric car trailblazer Better Place to file for bankruptcy within days
  16. AD Ben Jay has his work cut out revamping UH’s athletic facilities
  17. Honoring veterans as monuments decay, funds dry up
  18. Delicious Turtles: National Geographic Pushes Back Against Traditional Native Hawaiian Gathering Rights
  19. Smithsonian Redoubles Assault on Hawaii Fishing Industry
  20. More pumping, less rain leads to spike in salt levels in water
  21. Police Capture Another OCCC Escapee
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Saturday, May 25, 2013
May 25, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:28 PM :: 4168 Views
  1. Census looks at 2012 Elections: Hawaii Worst Voter Registration, 2nd Worst Voter Participation
  2. Castle & Cooke moving forward with Lanai ‘Big Wind’ project
  3. State Targets Hundreds of Small Businesses, Demands $30K
  4. Star-Adv: Howard Hughes Kakaako Plan Lacks Parking
  5. Legislature Rejects DoE Strategic Plan, DoE Rejects Legislature
  6. UH needs oversight structure revamped, union says
  7. Developer in dispute with Hawaii County links back to top lobbyists
  8. Report: Nearly 13% of Hawaii's bridges are 'structurally deficient'
  9. Homeless shelter director accused of mistreating Bedbugs
  10. Disbarred Libel Lawyer Got Fake Law Degree from Fake Hawaii School
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Friday, May 24, 2013
May 24, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:58 PM :: 4213 Views
  1. Honolulu Muslim Leader Accuses Radical Muslim of Two Local Attacks
  2. Hawaii ranks 40th for Economic Outlook
  3. UHERO County Forecast: Growth Accelerates Statewide
  4. Report: Espero Expects to Announce Congressional Candidacy
  5. House GOP Cites ‘Significant Progress for Hawaii’s People’
  6. Shawn Tsuha Nominated Deputy Director, Department of Public Safety
  7. UHERO: Does Abortion Pill Reduce Surgical Abortion?
  8. Hawaii Family Advocates Reviews 2013 Legislative Action
  9. Calvin Say to Run for Governor?
  10. Developers Meet to Cut Up Kakaako
  11. Council Agenda: Restore Bus Service or Fund Profitable Nonprofits?
  12. Matayoshi Claims 'Transformation of Education' Taking Place
  13. 100% On-Line Election Generates Lowest Turnout of All
  14. House Candidate Admits to Running Ponzi Scheme
  15. Housing First to Shelter 800
  16. 5 more come forward alleging abuse by Homosexual priests
  17. State Senate Airs Frustration Over Home Lands Audit
  18. Filthy Biofuels, biomass dominate Hawaii Clean Energy Leader list
  19. 38 Hawaii plants, snails gain federal protection
  20. How Board and Care Home Operators Killed Transparency
  21. Gays Still Frustrated by Inability to Penetrate Boy Scouts

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Thursday, May 23, 2013
May 23, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:13 PM :: 3985 Views
  1. DoD Report: 14,000 Military Personnel Victims of Homosexual Rapists
  2. VIDEO: Honolulu Airman Trains Afghan National Police
  3. Hawaii Lowest Alzheimer’s Mortality in USA
  4. NOAA expects below-normal Central Pacific hurricane season
  5. GOP: Investigate Donna Mercado Kim
  6. $139K per Unit: $48.3M for Public Housing CIP
  7. Maui TEA Party in DC for IRS Hearings
  8. CD1: Case, Takai, Espero, Hannemann, Anderson?
  9. Muslim Infighting behind Honolulu Eye-Gouge Attack, Two Other Assaults
  10. Honolulu Has no Emergency Room Capacity for Disaster, Terror Attack
  11. Hawaii: 12,000 Medicated Pot Heads
  12. Restraining orders often slowly or never served
  13. HCDA: Tear Down Blaisdell, Build 700' Tower
  14. County Council OKs property tax hikes 5-1-3
  15. Kenoi Pushes Tax, Fee Hikes--Uses Unions as Excuse
  16. GPS School Bus Tracking Expands to Oahu
  17. Hanabusa Cons Congress into Wasting $70M on Jones Act Shipyards
  18. UH spends $1.3 million upgrading empty College Hill mansion
  19. Tesoro Layoffs to Start June 14
  20. Senate Extends Sugar Subsidies
  21. Judge won’t block seizure of Occupy belongings
  22. Hanabusa And Schatz Differ Over Making Drug Companies Pay
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
May 22, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:20 PM :: 14962 Views
  1. Maui TEA Party Leaders to Testify Before Congress
  2. Neighborhood Board Election Results Announced
  3. Filipino Veterans Equity Act Celebrates 20 Years of Pretending
  4. Former Hawaii Judge Suspended for 'Misappropriation of Client Money'
  5. Report: No Economic Recovery for Hawaii Youth
  6. Aloha for Oklahoma
  7. Senate Briefing on Hawaiian Homelands Audit
  8. Mercado Kim Threatens Investigation Because Son not Admitted to Richardson Law School
  9. Mercado Kim's Son Accepted to UH Law School Without Applying
  10. Disaster: Council sets aside $300,000 for homeless tent city
  11. Hirono: Foreign Tourists Must be Fingerprinted
  12. Hawaii agency taking comments on Honolulu rail survey work for another week
  13. Civil Beat: Day Three of Ala Wai Canal Coverage
  14. UNITE HERE, Teamsters, UFCW, Reject Obamacare
  15. Boylan: Impeachment Sets Stage for Republican Ascendancy
  16. Political Correctness 'Outs' Warriors
  17. Hawaii Pro Bowl in doubt for 2015
  18. UHWO Stiffs Tokai Univ on Land Deal
  19. Big Wind Coming Soon To An Electric Bill Near You!
  20. Oahu electric rates fall to lowest level since December
  21. Solar Scammers to Bulldoze Trees in Kau
  22. Honolulu nightclub owner arrested, again
  23. Kauai school custodian arrested on campus for drug offenses
  24. The Shack Waikiki Defendants Beat All Charges

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
May 21, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:54 PM :: 4074 Views
  1. Abercrombie, Wife, and Murdered Legislator on Hawaii Democratic Socialist Membership List
  2. Penny Pritzker: Waikiki Hotel Workers Union to Protest Obama Commerce Nominee
  3. Kakaako: HCDA to Release TOD Plan, Hold Open House
  4. OHA Urged to Back Hawaiian Immersion Focus for Paia Elementary School
  5. After Banning Fishing, NOAA Kills Sharks to Save Monk Seals
  6. End of Life Workshop Featuring Scott Makuakane
  7. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted May 20, 2013
  8. Hawaii Filmmakers Investigate 'Honor Killings' in US
  9. Highlights from Hawaii GOP Convention
  10. Consequences for Bad Government Behavior? Sen. Sam Slom to Address Maui TEA Party
  11. Native Hawaiian Advancement: Keli’i Akina to Speak in Hilo
  12. Abercrombie Signs Seat belt Law, Calculates Savings at $7226 per Victim
  13. Abercrombie Defends Convention-goers Fired for Hawaii Pension Conference 'Boondoggle'
  14. Council Raids Slush Fund to Reject Caldwell's Tax Hike, Pay for Union Contracts
  15. Luke Targets 'Vacant Positions'
  16. UH legal bill for Greenwood's $2 million demand letter: $53K
  17. Teacher: No Administration Support for School Discipline
  18. Obama Salutes Transsexual Agenda for Hawaii Schools
  19. Democrats Thrown Out of Army Facility
  20. Medical marijuana primed for overhaul
  21. Inmate deaths a call to action
  22. Maui County Demands Property Return from Profitable Non-Profit
  23. Towing Companies Bill to kick boot competitors awaits governor's move
  24. Ala Wai Canal: Oversight Is As Murky As The Water

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Monday, May 20, 2013
May 20, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:47 PM :: 3634 Views
  1. DoE Sidelines HSA Test, Dumps No Child Left Behind
  2. Caldwell Pushes for Tax Hikes
  3. Obamacare: Kauai to Become Collectivized 'Blue Zone'
  4. Star-Adv: Obama's Worst Abuse of Power
  5. Affordable Housing: 100 sq Feet?
  6. The Geopolitics of Hawaii
  7. Feds Push $100M Project, Claim Ala Wai Canal Could Overflow, Flood Waikiki
  8. Public Asked To Help Pick Site For New Hawaii Nature Reserve
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
May 19, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:40 PM :: 4734 Views
  1. Hints from GOP: Aiona for Governor, Djou for Congress
  2. Is Anyone On The Hook If a Volcano Gawker Ends Up In Trouble?
  3. Stanley Chang Suspended by Bar Association
  4. Minimum Wage Should Not Be Living Wage
  5. Tsutsui Being Used to Keep Unstable Abercrombie Under Control
  6. Abercrombie: My Opponents are Depraved, My Faults are Teeny-tiny
  7. Kos: Anti-GMO Activists, Sovereignty Movement Part of Republican Conspiracy
  8. Aiona Lays Groundwork for Gubernatorial Campaign
  9. Hawaii GOP: 'Republicans Will Rise Again'
  10. Kim: Gut and Replace Guidelines Need to be in Senate Rules
  11. Forgiveness doesn't come cheap or easy for UH brass
  12. TOD Talk Just a Cover for KSBE Kakaako Profits
  13. UH Athletics Shortfall Due to Aloha Stadium Deal?
  14. Forty Years Later, Hawaii Congressional Delegation Still Pretending to Pass Filipino Immigration Bill
  15. Bag Tax? Watershed gets $10.75M after all
  16. Another OCCC detainee allegedly commits suicide

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Saturday, May 18, 2013
May 18, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:28 PM :: 3813 Views
  1. IRS to Maui TEA Party: "Provide details of your relationship with Dylan Nonaka"
  2. Mitsunaga Launches New Attack on Kobayashi
  3. Hawaii leads nation in per-capita debt for unfunded union benefits
  4. 'Hating Breitbart' Now Showing in Honolulu
  5. Gov. holds secret meeting with UH regents on presidential search
  6. Salmonson Appointment a Swipe at Hoosier, Anti-Superferry Protesters
  7. UPW Negotiations Required to Mandate Physical Fitness for Prison Guards
  8. HSTA Leaders Spent $700K on Futile Labor Board Case
  9. Federal Judge Refuses To Toss (de)Occupy Honolulu Suit Despite City's Efforts
  10. Integrative approach gives Kaiser edge in health care
  11. Demolition starts next week at former HMC-West hospital
  12. Sex Assault Becomes Excuse to Place Military Justice under External Control
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Friday, May 17, 2013
May 17, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:58 PM :: 4345 Views
  1. GOP Lost 50% of Statewide Offices Under Willes Lee
  2. Hawaii Republican State Convention May 17-18
  3. Hawaii County Democratic Convention This Weekend
  4. Full Text: Rail Appeal Challenges Failure to Consider Bus Rapid Transit
  5. Neighborhood Board Voting Deadline is Today
  6. Abercrombie Nominates Salmonson for Environmental Quality Control
  7. Hawaii Scores 'C' on Attack Ad Transparency
  8. Hawaii schools scale back extended learning time
  9. DoTax Invents More Excuses for Shortchanging Rail 
  10. Caldwell Campaign Chair Backs Out Of Zoning Board Appointment
  11. Investigate airport contracts
  12. New US Transportation Dep't Nominee Backs Honolulu Rail, Complete Streets 
  13. UH regents urged to hire new president locally
  14. Regents Vote to Wipe Athletic Department Debts
  15. Occupy: “Mixed Bag Of Self-Absorbed Social Protestors”
  16. Homeless Dude: 'I Hate Hawaii'
  17. Housing Last: Tobacco Smokers to Be Evicted
  18. Hawaii County Pays 130% of Assessed Value for Geothermal Relocations
  19. Suspect in infant death has prior record
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Thursday, May 16, 2013
May 16, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:02 PM :: 4046 Views
  1. Airports Division Audit: Mismanagement, Recurring Violations, Delays, Cost Overruns
  2. Neighborhood Board Voting Deadline is Friday
  3. Aloha Tower Case Tests 'Private Attorney General' Before Supreme Court
  4. Atheists Attack HGEA, UPW Contract: Demand Unions Give Up Paid Holiday
  5. Judicial Watch Sues U.S. Secret Service for Obama’s Hawaiian Vacation Records
  6. Honolulu Tea Party says it was targeted by IRS
  7. Maui Tea Party Group: IRS Intimidated Us
  8. Will A New Federal Shield Law Replace The Soon-To-Be-Dead Hawaii Law?
  9. Wasted money approaches Wonder Blunder status
  10. HMSA: Obamacare to Impose 2% Rate Hike
  11. HMSA, Kaiser Losing Money--More Rate Hikes Coming
  12. What Bills Do You Want The Governor To Veto?
  13. Hawaii County Elections Division faces audit
  14. Bloody UH, Near Death, Littered With Bodies
  15. 2 previous UH presidents remain in academic posts
  16. Ruling due on sidewalk nuisance law
  17. Homeless Destroy Chinatown, Use as Toilet
  18. Mayor Wright Redevelopment Slated
  19. Complete Streets: Kakaako Developers Aim to Recreate Manhattan
  20. Complete Streets Activists Fail to Stop Repaving Work
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013
May 15, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:53 PM :: 3729 Views
  1. Report: Hawaii Ranks #2 for Embezzlement
  2. Quarter Pounder Index: Honolulu 10th Most Expensive
  3. U.H. Men’s Athletics Once Again Hamstrung With Swishy Moniker
  4. Anti-Whaling Tactics to be used Against Hawaii Aquarium Collectors?
  5. Flags to Fly at Half-Staff on Peace Officers Memorial Day
  6. State Spends $176K to Save HMSA
  7. Tea Party Maui targeted for IRS scrutiny
  8. Hospitals not to blame for differences in their bills
  9. Police, Fire Contracts to Cost $11.5M
  10. In the Reign of the Gay Magical Elves
  11. With Greenwood Neutralized, Faculty, Apple Squeeze Athletic Department
  12. Public Shut out of BoR President Search?
  13. For Abercrombie, Senate Primary is a Chance to Make His Mark
  14. Kakaako: Ecos, Developers on Same Page
  15. DOE Builds Without Permits, Blames consultant
  16. Registration Fee Hike? Council seeks to Blackmail Gun Owners
  17. Organizations consistently ranking high for lobbying expenditures
  18. Sen Green Gives His Parking Spot to Super Lobbyist
  19. Scientists, Farmers Defends Themselves Against Ignorant Mob
  20. Testimony Unanimous Against Tax Hikes
  21. $40M for Micronesian Medicaid in Immigration Bill
  22. HSTA Tries to Shortchange State on Contract Deal
  23. NYT Runs Feature on Pig Eradication in Hawaii
  24. Are You an Artiste?  $5M for You in Rail Budget
  25. Defense workers' furlough days cut Again
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
May 14, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:48 PM :: 4094 Views
  1. GOP Chair Nominates Leadership Team
  2. Med-Quest Enrollment Cancelled After Multiple Marketing Mix-ups
  3. Council Resolution 13-74: Ease Gun Registration Lines
  4. DoJ Recognizes Hawaii Crime Victim Compensation Director
  5. Politico: Multiple Scandals Envelop Obama Administration
  6. After HMSA Loses Customers, State delays enrollment for low-income health plans
  7. Legislative session: Act 221 Scammers Cry a River
  8. Double-dipping pervasive in Hawaii’s public sector and it Starts at the Top
  9. House Coalition: Middle Class Tax Relief on Agenda for Next Session
  10. Star-Adv: Water Fee is Last Straw
  11. Teacher Questions Common Core
  12. Leilehua teacher accused of Meth Importation placed on house arrest
  13. Complete Streets Honolulu: Completely Free of Cars
  14. High Gasoline Prices Killed Caldwell's Gas Tax
  15. Where's The Pork? Honolulu City Council Dishes Out The Earmarks
  16. Hawaii County Council Awards itself $900K Reelect Me Fund, Considers Tax Hike 
  17. Opponents file last-minute notice against TMT
  18. Department of Retaliation: Hawaii County Contractor Claims Defamation, Flickinger Apologized
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Monday, May 13, 2013
May 13, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:43 PM :: 5470 Views
  1. Database Reveals Hawaii MDs and the Drugs They Prescribe
  2. Hawaii Obamacare Leaders Warn: “We’re not Going to Have Any Health Care”
  3. Video: Hawaii Wounded Warriors Qualify for 2013 Warrior Games
  4. The Sinking Ship of Cabotage
  5. Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How They Voted May 13, 2013
  6. Danner Claims Obama in on Conspiracy to Federalize DHHL
  7. Salaries: Greenwood Down, Apple Next 
  8. Hirono Invents Excuses for Illegals to Stay in USA
  9. Star-Adv Backs 'Housing First'
  10. It’s Neil’s Birthday (Again)!
  11. Hawaii Ed Department Could Restore School Bus Cuts
  12. NYT: Disentangling the Politics of a Hawaiian Murder Mystery
  13. Gov. Abercrombie mulling bill to help local pharmacies
  14. Hawaii tax revenue rises 8%
  15. The fall of the yen as seen from Hawaii
  16. Civil Beat: Hawaii is Being 'Left Behind' as Gay Marriage Penetrates More Jurisdictions
  17. Public Housing: 128 Kona Apartments Value Reduced to Zero
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Sunday, May 12, 2013
May 12, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:40 PM :: 3771 Views
  1. Akaka Tribe: Frankenstein Bill to Create a Frankenstein Tribal Roll
  2. Hirono, Schatz Vote Would Impose Hawaii GE Tax on Pension Contributions, Stock Transactions
  3. Moving the Tax Burden to Others
  4. Legislature Graded: 42% F, 31% D 
  5. Oahu Democrats, Abercrombie show frustration with Legislature
  6. Chang, Espero, Takai for CD1?
  7. Gays Describe How they Tortured Hanabusa to Force Marriage
  8. Souki:  Republicans Involved, Coalition Strong, Great Session
  9. Ritte Joins Danner's Attack on DHHL
  10. Cigarette maker Altria tops in lobbying spending since 2006
  11. Touching tribute for fallen Kailua airman
  12. Billing fee gets tempers boiling
  13. Hawaii Co Food Bank Buys New Building, Can't Account for $200K
  14. Hundreds of families on public housing wait list see hope 
  15. Gabbard: Sex Assault in Military a Handy Excuse to Put Military Justice Under Outside Control
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Saturday, May 11, 2013
May 11, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:58 PM :: 3717 Views
  1. Flags to Fly at Half-Staff in Honor of Capt. Reid K. Nishizuka
  2. Geothermal: Hundreds Denounce Mililani Trask
  3. Auto Commuters' Access to Work: Honolulu Among Four Biggest Losers
  4. UHERO: Are lodging costs starting to tame the tourist boom?
  5. DBEDT: Economic Forecast "Slightly Less Optimistic"
  6. DHHL: Senate Hearing Slated After Danner Attacks Masagatani
  7. Legislature, Steelworkers Ask Abercrombie for Union Seat on Tesoro Refinery Task Force
  8. Governor Signs More than Seventy Bills Before End of Session
  9. Senate Democrats Tout Achievements
  10. Oahu Democrats to Elect New Leadership Today
  11. American Legion Honors KITV for St Marianne Cope Documentary
  12. Campaign Spending Commission Launches New Website
  13. Honolulu Auditor Seeks Interns
  14. New effort by state could cause patients more pain
  15. Cost Transparency Leads to Cost controls
  16. Kakaako development will hit new heights under rail-oriented draft rules
  17. Drop in value of Japanese yen Blamed for 2.9% Drop in Japanese Tourism
  18. Decade passed before a Hawaii court found DHHL breached its trust obligations to Native Hawaiians
  19. Opposition to GMO foods has become a Salem-like witch hunt
  20. Profits: Media Will Be Biggest Winner of 2014
  21. UH works to fix millions worth of broken, dilapidated facilities
  22. Public input sought on Kenoi’s Second Tax Hike
  23. $57/month Rental Has Leaky Roof
  24. Occupy Litigation Status Conference
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Friday, May 10, 2013
May 10, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:18 PM :: 4007 Views
  1. IRS Admits Targeting TEA Party Groups—Maui TEA Party Among Victims
  2. Tesoro Bidder: Dismantle Refinery, Ship it to China
  3. NYC Reduces Street Homelessness with ‘Housing First’
  4. Hawaii Gas delays LNG shipping container program
  5. Reason TV: How Protectionism Hurts Hawaii--Why It's Time to Repeal the Jones Act
  6. Kym Pine Backs Four Key West Oahu Transportation Projects
  7. Big Cash Giveaway: Health Connector Announces Marketplace Assister Funding Opportunity
  8. Star-Adv, Danner, Schatz vs Abercrombie: Federalize DHHL
  9. Bishop Silva: Lawsuit Possible over Abortion Pill Mandate
  10. SB623 Solar Credits: 1MW or Larger Projects Would Have Looted Treasury 
  11. UH legal bill for new telescope project nearly $3 million
  12. Honolulu mayor reveals plan to reduce homelessness
  13. DoE SPED Teacher Busted for Meth trafficking
  14. Greenwood Retirement Catches Visiting Accreditation Officials By Surprise
  15. Hawaii County PD:  Sovereignty Scammers Lying About Investigation 
  16. State Destroys $60M to Get $12M in Tax Revenue
  17. Political Chicken: Alternatives to Gas Tax Hike
  18. Lawmakers Balk At Bills Targeting 2012 Hawaii Election Flubs
  19. New laws target sex exploitation of children
  20. Online Voting Leads to Low Participation in Election
  21. HCDA: Secret Plans for Another Kakaako Tower 
  22. 'Complete Streets': Cooke St to Be Closed to Traffic

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Thursday, May 9, 2013
May 9 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:05 PM :: 3836 Views
  1. Dozens of Republicans Enter Neighborhood Board Elections
  2. HCR165: State Child Welfare Services “Unauditable”
  3. Harvard: HOPE Probation Among Top 25 Innovations in Government
  4. 24% of DoE Grads Ready for College Math
  5. Video: Slom, Kato, Morita Discuss Shield Law
  6. Hawaii--How Safe is Your Hospital?
  7. Kim: Airport Division Audit Among Priorities for 2014
  8. Masagatani: Abercrombie is With me Against Schatz, Danner
  9. Appeal Planned After Suit Challenging planned Ho'opili community is dismissed
  10. HMSA Chief Predicts Obamacare 'Rate Shock' for Hawaii
  11. Hospital charges vary widely within Hawaii
  12. Honolulu Homeless Solution to be based on 'Housing First' Plan
  13. Hee Single-Handedly Kills Ethics Reforms
  14. Playing Hooky from the Legislature
  15. Hawaii County Board OKs Sequential Self-Dealing 
  16. LNG and CEO Compensation top issues at HEI's Annual Meeting
  17. Hawaii High Prices Due to Electric Rates
  18. Flights, seats from Honolulu fell over 6 years, study shows
  19. My Dad, Larry Helm, Needs Your Prayers, Good Thoughts and Mana-ful Energy
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013
May 8 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:18 PM :: 4435 Views
  1. Sen Sam Slom: List of 27 ‘No’ Votes
  2. Campaign Season: Abercrombie Hands Out Taxpayer Cash to Taxpayers
  3. Foreign-Built Jones Act Ship Launches New Domestic Puerto Rico Service
  4. Pacquiao Takes Fight in Macau, U.S. Federal Income Tax Rate Proves Too High
  5. Akaka Tribe: Schatz, Danner Conspire to Federalize DHHL
  6. Shapiro: Race Card is Hanabusa's Only Hope
  7. Caldwell: Labor Agreements Give Me New Excuse for Gas Tax Hike
  8. Caldwell Claims 'Chief of Staff' Position Vacant
  9. Dang Quietly pays $1,000 to resolve potential conflict of interest charge
  10. Hawaiian Roll Commission Fails Transparency Test
  11. Who Will Replace Greenwood?
  12. Abercrombie, Legislators' Power Play Doomed Greenwood
  13. Will Hawaii Schools Ever Become the Equal of Micronesian Schools?
  14. Education Chairs To Participate In Nat’l Early Ed Fellows Program
  15. Obamacare: Hawaii nursing Glut and Shortage Coexist
  16. Lunatics, Criminals to be Banned as Security Guards:  Half Still Eligible
  17. Elder Abuse Justice Unit doubled in size, working with finance industry
  18. Another inmate dies in Hawaii prisons
  19. Now That Rail is Being built, City, State Act to Relieve Traffic
  20. Hawaiian Electric Pays out $120M/year Dividends
  21. NYT: Who Would Kill a Monk Seal?
  22. Tom Brower Praises Cult Church of Scientology
  23. Luddite Proposes GMO Ban on Big Island

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Tuesday, May 7, 2013
May 7, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:57 PM :: 6047 Views
  1. MRC Greenwood Quits After Abercrombie Shortchanges University $22M
  2. Hawaii Republican State Convention May 17-18
  3. 45 Students Complete State's First 'Transformation Internship Program'
  4. While Thousands Wait, Sen Malama Solomon gets Lease on 106 ac of DHHL Land
  5. Danner Pushes to Eliminate non-Hawaiian DHHL Renters
  6. Blackmail: Greenwood Out, Apple Next?
  7. Republican Bills Pass Legislature
  8. Hanabusa Defended Secret Labor Contract
  9. Public Not Invited to Abercrombie Political Campaign Opener
  10. Welfare Cheats Steal $48M from State
  11. Solar Scammers: Half of Installations Were Fraudulent
  12. Hawaii Historic Preservation Division Still On Federal Thin Ice
  13. DoE: Can Change at the Top Overcome Years of Failure?
  14. Hawaii Schools Chaotic
  15. College students say 'Easy A' courses waste time & money
  16. Money in Politics Report: Top Donors to Hawaii's Legislators Revealed
  17. Hong argues conspiracy in Elections Division suit
  18. War In Waikiki? The Fight Over The Natatorium Is Far From Over
  19. Lost in the Budget, $20M ML&P Pension Fund Bailout Money Found

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Monday, May 6, 2013
May 6, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:24 PM :: 5135 Views
  1. Hawaii Health Connector Funded by Cutting off Coverage for Cancer Patients
  2. Lodestar: Plaintiff Attorneys Awarded Fees in Rail Iwi Case
  3. Laie Hotel Developer Selected
  4. Reason TV: How Protectionism Hurts Hawaii
  5. Danner vs Masa­ga­tani for Control of DHHL
  6. Why Won't Kirk Caldwell Say Who Works For Him?
  7. $100M in Pure Profit: Legislators kill bill to reduce state's take of rail surcharge
  8. Legislators set sights on 2014
  9. Early Education: KSBE, Castle Come up Short, Will Be Back for More
  10. Schatz Touts Rise to 76th in Senate Seniority
  11. How Lobbyist Dollars Helped Save The Pearl Harbor Tower
  12. Bill to buy Lipoa Point not backed by funding
  13. Public Housing Smoking Ban Prevents Patients from Properly Using Prescribed Medicine

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Sunday, May 5, 2013
May 5, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:22 PM :: 5670 Views
  1. Rail Suit to Be Heard August 12, Quick Ruling Expected
  2. Deadline for Public Comment on Rail AIS May 30
  3. Farmer: Anti-GMO Activists Burn Two Tractors on Maui
  4. $2.5M Per Job: Honeywell CEO Defensive About Kapolei Biofuel Refinery
  5. Blocking Banner Keeps Sister-Isle Patients Flowing to Oahu Hospitals
  6. Making Reimbursements Could Incur Tax Liability
  7. PDF: How Major Bills Fared at the capitol
  8. 12 Cents an Acre: DHHL Commissioner, Senator, Other Cronies in Hawaiian Land Grab
  9. Hunt Development Grabs Control of Kalaeloa 
  10. Two Dozen Doctors targeted amid rise in painkiller deaths
  11. Act 221 Scammers Score $6M
  12. 'New day,' new bills mostly promise new headaches
  13. Calvin Say Twists Arms to Win Passage of Abercrombie's Voucher Program
  14. Bill 8 Puts Police at Disadvantage Against 'Meanderers'
  15. SB883: Tourist Drownings Caused by Lack of Lifeguards' Bargaining Unit
  16. SB693: Espero's Traffic Cam Bill Dies in Conference
  17. Strange Bedfellows: Life in the Senate
  18. Did Hanabusa Block Ko'olina Boat Ramp?
  19. Honolulu 2nd Worst Traffic in USA
  20. Accreditation Agencies' Racket

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Saturday, May 4, 2013
May 4, 2013 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 12:24 PM :: 7362 Views
  1. Inspector General Slaps Down Effort to Create Indian Tribe Without Congressional Approval
  2. Budget: Kenoi Proposes $21M Property Tax Hike
  3. 'No Hawaii Beverage Tax' Cheers Third Win in a Row
  4. $9.6M: DHHL Wins First legislative Appropriation Since 2010
  5. Obama: From king of the world to dead in the water in six months
  6. Schatz to Inouye Family: "Uh, uh, uh...."
  7. Perreira: HGEA Primary Endorsement Coming
  8. Retaliation: Abercrombie Quietly Shortchanges UH by $22M
  9. Tampering? Lawyers Pack Court to Support DesJardins
  10. Tax Increase, Fee Hikes Still Fall Short of Funding Biggest Budget Ever
  11. Councilmembers mull 10% Property Tax Hike
  12. Fewer funds force drug treatment centers to close
  13. Exemptions to Speed Restoration of Hawaiian Fishponds
  14. Maui Budget: Property Tax Hikes are Hot Button Issue
  15. ML&P’s troubled financials raise concern about future
  16. Six bid for new geothermal plant
  17. DoD Employees Face Furloughs: Pentagon Pays $59/gallon for Biofuel
  18. Former county workers charged with stealing fuel
  19. Nonprofit group spearheads Wahiawa transformation
  20. Felix Gee Wan Tom, supervised 20 bookies, filed a false 2011 tax return and laundered money
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