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

1. Do Property Rights Matter When the Environment is Going to Hell in a Handbasket?
2. Dallas police-fire pension fund has $Multi-Million bet on Hawaii real estate
3. Health Insurance Exchanges Create State Problems
4. Micronesia: Waa'gey Planning & Partnership Tour a Success
5. HCDA Lets Building Sit Empty 14 years over Botched Flooring Job
6. Star-Adv: Stop Putting so Many Drug Dealers in Prison
7. Defense lobbyists say cliff now unavoidable
8. Enviros: Bag Tax? Conveyance Tax? We’ll Take Both
9. $8.4B Short? ERS' new leader confident fund will meet obligations
10. Care Home Industry Pressures Lawmakers to Weaken Inspections Bill
11. After 10 years, Home-school bill on hold again
12. Kona: UH seeks to save cash by trimming some work at West Hawaii campus
13. Public land sought for artists’ lofts
14. Italy makes 'Mafia' arrests over Sicily wind farms
15. 9-11 Trooother Claims Academic Freedom to Take Over Military Mom’s Library
16. Scoop the nuts: Mentally ill roundup plan after train pushes

1. Jerking the Hotel Industry Around, You Can’t Trust Lawmakers
2. Methadone, Soma: City, State, Josh Green to Split the Profits with Pill Mills under SB876
3. PLDC Under New Name: Hawaii lawmakers push school land development
4. HSTA Members Push for 25% Increase in GE Tax
5. While Legal Immigrants Wait, Activists Move Illegals to Front of Line
6. UH Finds only SEVEN Illegals Among Student Body
7. Shapiro: Politicos try to go green but keep losing track of it
8. ACLU Working to Ensure Honolulu Homeless Stay Homeless
9. Clarify rules on activities at Oahu's beach parks
10. Poll: 20% of Oahu Residents are Feeding Strange Cats
11. A List of Places to Name After Inouye
12. Mainland Gays, Star-Adv  Use Jim Nabors to Legitimatize Gay ‘Marriage’

1. Russian Nuclear Bombers Circle Guam
2. 421 Candidates Register for Honolulu Neighborhood Board Elections
3. NRA: Hawaii Anti-Gun Bills on the Move
4. Consumer Freedom: Taxes Shouldn't be a Tool for Social Engineering
5. Transparency: Hawaii State, County Websites Score Mixed Reviews
6. Grassroot Perspective Podcast: Celebrity, Steven Tyler, & the 1st Amendment
7. Bills Introduced to Cut Sugar Subsidies
8. Trafficked Thai Workers' Dreams Become Nightmares
9. New PLDC: Bill To Develop School Lands Clears Hawaii House Committees
10. Star-Adv: Hospitals deal promising but tread carefully
11. HB721 Mandates Insurance Coverage for Autism
12. Abuse of Disabled Girl: Mililani DoE school faces new allegation
13. SB932 May Cause Mentally Ill to Refuse Treatment
14. SB223 calls on candidates to prove political affiliation
15. Sequester will impact DOD's civilian workforce
16. Gabbard Thinks Women Should Be Part Of Military Draft
17. Raising the Minimum Wage – Truth and Consequences
18. Al-Jazeera Cheers Kauai Anti-GMO Protesters
19. BWS new billing system brings added cost
20. Judge: Internet commenter can stay anonymous
21. ‘Selfish’ Attorney Robert Kim Reprimanded for ‘False Statements’, ‘Deception’
22. Young Brothers asks Hawaii regulators to OK rate Hike plan
23. Hawaii Supreme Court to decide if state bodies can avoid public notice by repeated recesses
24. Sunshine Law is brighter on Kaua‘i
25. Soft on Crime: 65 arrests, 22 convictions Caught Selling Drugs at Age 77
26. Senate committee OKs Watson as U.S. district judge for Hawaii

1. KOS: Hanabusa Underperformed Obama the Most for any Incumbent in USA
2. Gallup: 5% of Hawaii Residents Gay
3. UHERO: Weakening Japanese Yen Will Cap Tourism Growth
4. State Launches New Teen-Focused Obesity Prevention Campaign
5. OIP: "Obvious Problems" with UIPA Records
6. Recall: Organic Spinach Sold in Hawaii Tainted with Hemorrhagic E Coli
7. “Damned Sellout” Mililani Trask Defends PLDC
8. SB215 Creates “Public-Private Partnership Authority” to Replace PLDC
9. Hawaii House votes to repeal public land agency
10. Banner Health getting closer to a deal with state hospitals
11. HB1027: Bill Aims To Prevent Candidates From 'Helping' Voters Fill Out Ballots
12. Abercrombie Uses $275K in State Money to Push Soda Tax Hike
13. SB120: “Could Lead to Rate Hikes”
14. HB506: Reneges on Every Building Contract in the State
15. Mainland Gays: It’s Not Over in the Aloha State
16. SA: Reject HB399,  Leave sex ed to DOE control
17. Broken Trust Figure Rockne Freitas nominated to be UH West Oahu chancellor
18. Hawaii House passes watered-down shield law
19. Legislators Suck Up to Celebs
20. Hawaii lawmakers explore more tax breaks for films
21. Obama Early Education Scheme Echoes Abercrombie
22. KHON: Security breaches by public agencies
23. Feds Bust Alleged Online Bookie, Lawyer Hints at Release of Client List
24. Eco-Faddist Caught in Lie -- Claims She Isn’t Trying to Destroy Fishing Industry
25. 2 bills would rid sidewalks of tents

1. HART Becomes Nervous After Arrest of Rail Contractor CEO
2. Audit: DoE Burns $150M/year on Construction and Maintenance, Tosses Records in Trash
3. Audit: Teachers Stealing Cash Fees Collected at Adult Schools
4. Historic Preservation Division Offers Feds a Laundry List of Excuses
5. Antolini vs Callies: Moon Court Favored Public Participation, not Environmentalists
6. Beverage Tax Heads to Senate Ways and Means Committee
7. For the First Time Satellite Tracking Used to Knock Down Missile
8. Jones Act shackles Puerto Rico; No Jones Act frees Jamaica to grow its economy
9. What’s Wrong with Pay for Performance?
10. Crooks, Cronies among donors to Caldwell's transition committee
11. Ethics agenda: Mayor Caldwell's donor fund
12. Senate Panel Mandates HGEA, UPW Control, Advances bill that would allow hospital takeover
13. State's pension fund falls short $8.4 billion
14. Anti-rail group will appeal federal court decision
15. Soda Tax: Government is not a substitute for responsible parenting
16. HB399: Mandate New Gay Sex Education Curriculum in DoE
17. BoE Agenda Tuesday, February 19, 2013
18. Hawaii Senate committee pushes forward wage hike
19. Higher Ed Committees Come Down Hard on UH
20. PLDC Stain Spreads to Other Abercrombie Initiatives
21. Lanai wind farm opponents take their case to lawmakers
22. GM Labeling Bill Facilitates Fear Mongers
23. Star Adv: Lack of Gay Marriage Will Destroy Tourism Industry LOL!
24. Pupus and Politics: It's That Time of Year at the Hawaii Capitol
25. Crackdown on local vendors
26. Pflueger Cheated on Taxes to Pay for Kaloko Manslaughter Defense, Los Angeles CPA testifies
27. SB358: Post Adult Care Home Inspection Reports Online
28. Ethics controversy a standoff between current and former ethics directors
29. Jeff Stone Development Scheme Causes Anger in Aina Haina
30. Worst roads: State embarks on projects to resurface highways and freeways
31. HB66: Don’t Release DUI Suspects Until Sober
32. Star-Adv: Obama's goals match Hawaii's

1. UHERO: Solar Tax Credits Could Cost $1.4B
2. Grassroots Training for Hawaii Conservatives--Sign Up Here
3. Full Text: State of the Union Address
4. Full Text: Sen. Marco Rubio Response to State of the Union
5. Electric Rates Punish EVs
6. Green: Soda tax is ‘the right thing to do’
7. Star-Adv: $92M -- Cafeteria improvements long overdue
8. Commercial Beach Ban Kills Non-Profit Events
9. Are Hawaii Lawmakers Protecting A Lobbyist From the Ethics Code?
10. University Officials Find It Hard to Break Habit of Secrecy
11. Telescope: Sovereignty Activists Organize Circus, Demand Rent Money
12. Abandon Democracy to Fill Potholes?
13. Landlord may levy excise tax if bill is a business expense
14. Pflueger’s financial problems cited in his tax evasion trial
15. Student surveys can help evaluate teacher effectiveness
16. Don't let at-risk youth slip between the cracks
17. 9-Year-Old Jessica Lunsford - Murdered By a Repeat Sex Offender - Inspires Lawmakers in Hawaii to Introduce Tougher Legislation
18. Bill Legalizing Marijuana in Hawaii Dead For Session
19. Hawaii Lawmakers Consider Tougher Penalties for Soliciting Child Prostitutes
20. HB343: Bill clarifies gambling laws to cover 'sweepstakes' machines
21. HB533: Fly Homeless Back to Mainland

1. HFF: What's Happening at the Legislature
2. Hawaii Teacher Absenteeism 2nd-Worst in USA
3. Hawaii Teacher Absenteeism: How Did Your School Do?
4. RTTT: Hawaii DoE Wins Partial Removal of 'High Risk' Status
5. Ethics: Charter School Employee Fined $10K
6. Gallup: Alaska, Hawaii Follow D.C. in Highest Gov't Employment
7. Selection Committee Releases Names of UH Regent Nominees
8. Bishop Silva Reacts to Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI
9. NYT Editorial: Steven Tyler Act 'Boneheaded'
10. Seismic Activity May Indicate North Korean Nuclear Test
11. Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How They Voted February 11, 2013
12. Legalization of gay marriage appears stalled for session
13. Limp: Mainland Gays Miffed at Failure to Penetrate Legislature
14. Senators Question Use of Taxes as Behavior Modification
15. Senate committee approves soda fee
16. House, Senate Committees Vote for Repeal of PLDC
17. House Takes Lead On Gov’s Bill To Develop School Lands
18. OHA Pitch to US Congress: Not One Word About the Akaka Bill
19. Abercrombie administration relying on threats rather than persuasion?
20. HSTA Teacher; All Hawaii’s Education Problems Created by Evaluations
21. Hirono: Military cuts could affect Hawaii tourism
22. Department of Defense Announces Nomination of 4 Star General to Head Pacific Command
23. Hearing Scheduled For Casino, Shipboard Gaming Bills
24. State pension fund rises to $11.9 billion
25. Luddites Target Seed Industry Water Supplies
26. Goodfellow Bros. cutting 100 jobs after Hawaii agency shoots down Maui mega-mall
27. Genshiro Kawamoto’s derelict properties trigger new legislation
28. State lets tow firm off the hook in fraud claims

1. 292 Candidates Register for Honolulu Neighborhood Board Elections—Deadline Friday
2. The First Amendment Is a Sweet Emotion
3. Chief Justice Delivers State of Judiciary through Social Media and Releases Strategic Plan
4. Gun Control? Hawaii Does Not Comply With Existing Background Checks
5. Mainland Gays Lobby Legislature to Change Family Structure
6. Soda Tax to Steal $37M from Local Consumers
7. Audit: School Cafeteria Staffing Based on 48-year old Formula
8. Hawaii Fishermen in Uproar About Cascade of Environmental Protections
9. TMT hearing set for Tuesday
10. LUC converts one third of Grove Farm lands into IAL
11. SB693: Install Red Light Traffic Cameras
12. HB980: Ban Use Of Electronic Mobile Devices In Cars
13. SA: Use audit to find DMV's problems
14. Neighborhood Commissioner Fined $57K for Hoarding, Illegal Dumping

1. Bribery, Blackmail: Louie, Coppa Secretly Recorded Offering to Trade Away Investigation, Buy Silence from DHHL Exec
2. Caldwell Announces Mattson's Cabinet Picks
3. Sen Thielen’s PLDC Repeal Bill Gutted and Replaced With ‘Recreational Renaissance’
4. Just Which Programs To Cut?
5. Legislature Blowing Chance to Save HHSC from Complete Collapse
6. How HMC Collapse Claimed One Life—And How Health Exchange Will Claim More
7. HSTA: Preschool Voucher bill a threat to public schools
8. Abercrombie at PLDC Hearing: There’s Gold in Them Thar Schools!
9. ‘PBF Fees’ on Your Electric Bill to be Tapped to Pay for ‘On Bill Financing’
10. Hawaii legislative preview: Marijuana, human trafficking, sugary drinks, PLDC all agenda
11. Lawmakers dig into privacy, money matters and poop
12. HB673: Walter Ritte Wants Some Money, So House Votes to Squeeze Agriculture, Tourism
13. Steve Case: Hawaii's tech land baron
14. Killer Gets Five Years after ‘Slipping’
15. DLNR May Lift Ban on Kealakekua Kayak Rentals Soon
16. Zoo Must Continue Working to Keep Accreditation
17. Israeli surfers rescue 8 drowning children in Hawaii

1. Broken Trust Partners Abercrombie and Levinson Demand Legislature Invent Gay 'Marriage' Now
2. Audit: UH Skips 'Annual' Employee Evaluations for 15 Years
3. Suckers: HTA Maneuvered into Supporting Tax Hike On its Own Industry
4. SLAPP, Love, and Retaliation: Kauai County Attorney Nominee in Court
5. Grassroot Perspective Podcast: Obesity, the Soda Tax, and the Nanny-State
6. Lawmakers poised to renege on tax promises
7. Report: Hawai‘i trails Far behind other states in Medicare benefits
8. SB1085: Abercrombie Full Court Press for Soda Tax
9. Senate Committee Kills Teachers’ Labor Board Bill
10. ‘Occupy’ Teams Up with Quack to Fight Geothermal
11. HB642: Hawaii lawmaker backs off bill to create a sports task force
12. PLDC Bills Being Heard Saturday
13. HS Students: Don’t Legalize Marijuana
14. Carpenters Cash Continues to Flow to PRP 
15. Sen. Hee Wants to Limit Tyler Act’s Scope
16. Senator Tries, Fails to Regulate Airfares
17. LA Gun Control Nut on Killing Spree Cheered by Progressives

1. North Korea Prepares to Launch Mobile Missile Able to Reach Hawaii
2. S&P Downgrade Causes HART-Burn: "Less Confident" Buyer will be Found for Ansaldo
3. HB497: Extends Solar Tax Credit Giveaway for a Few More Years
4. Keeping involved with Hawaii law-making
5. Legislators Study Mandatory Long Term Care Insurance Plan
6. SB639: Big Pharma Opposes Control of Meth Precursor
7. UHERO: Bag Tax and Conveyance Tax Have Downside
8. Hanabusa Left out as Maui County Gets Federal 'Smart Growth' Funding
9. OHA Gravy Train: 148 Non-profits Seek $36M Grant Money
10. PEW: Hawaii Elections Performance Index Ranks 44th
11. Governor Appoints Max Otani Deputy Director of Corrections
12. EPA Releases State Enforcement Performance Information and Comparative Maps
13. Abercrombie Kicking Democrats Out of Office to Re-launch Gubernatorial campaign
14. Molokai Big Wind Deal Falls Apart, Ritte Upset
15. Sovereignty Group Tied to Child Torture Tries to Take Over State Archives, Iolani Palace (Again)
16. HHSC Privatization Bills Proceed over HGEA Objections
17. Radcliffe: Prisoners Don’t Want to leave Arizona Prison
18. Richard Kelley: State wants to raise tax on visitors — what would George Mason say?
19. Army grids for $175M in isle cuts
20. Gay Marriage Debate Headed to Honolulu Hale
21. Honolulu Rail Authority: Archeological Survey Mandated by Court is Done Ahead of Schedule
22. SB484: Motorcycle helmet Law
23. Lines spur call for licensing office audit
24. Tesoro isn’t Even Closed Yet, But Gas Prices Already Rising
25. HB1363: Solar Scammers Blow Chance at Condos
26. Preventative Medicine? DoH Drags heels on Supervision of Meth Precursors
27. Hawaii Health Connector Reports to Legislature
28. Hawaii Teachers Union Asks Legislature To Force Labor Board’s Hand
29. Legislators Hijack anti-GMO Bill as Protectionist Move
30. Alleged ‘Stars’, B-List Has-Beens, Demand Censorship
31. State says no smoking at public housing
32. Suicide Squad Pushes Agenda in Hawaii, Other States
33. Rep. McDermott addresses HB901 - Relating to Solid Waste
34. Cheape: Labeling of Imported GMO Whole Produce a Good Compromise
35. Hawaii to Host International VEX Tournament This Month
36. Celebrating 40 Years As A Free Man

1. NRA: Deeply Flawed Hawaii Mental Health Bill to be Heard Friday
2. World Economic Forum: Reform Jones Act to Grow Economy
3. Dojo Mystic Ousted From City Administration
4. Keaau K-8: Nearly 1,000 students assigned digital devices
5. SB465 “Tramples on First Amendment”
6. Public Charter School Commission names director
7. Geothermal development proposal prompts behind-the-scenes flap at OHA
8. Legislator Demands Answers from DoTax
9. Mainland Gay Activists Wave Money Around—Can $2M Buy Gay ’Marriage’?
10. Movers, Shakers Give Big To Gov's Re-Election, But Labor Support Soft
11. DHHL nod withstands accusation
12. Sugary drink tax draws mixed response
13. HSTA Shills Demand Poor Hand Over $1B in GE Tax Hike: Claim DoE Has ‘Cut Every Ounce of Fat’ from Budget
14. Legislature Hears Bills to Clean Up School Bus Contract Waste
15. HSTA Angered by its Inability to Stack Teacher Evaluation Commission
16. HSTA Tax Hike Signwave at Capitol
17. Hawaii State Library Website Back Up After Forgetting to Renew Internet Domain
18. Unfunded Liabilities are Putting Hawaii Taxpayers in Dire Financial State
19. Counties Demand Cut of Abercrombie’s TAT Hike
20. College of Pharmacy could be in danger of losing accreditation
21. UH Vendors Go Unpaid for 120 Days
22. Star-Adv: Anti-paparazzi bill goes too far
23. Kaiser: Closing Urgent Care Facility Means Better Care
24. Greenwood Confused About Which Telescope
25. High Utility Bills Drive Restaurant out of Business
26. Electric Car Charging Station Builder Collects Stimulus Funds, Walks Away Laughing
27. Politically Connected Developer hopes to open Kakaako amusement park before start of summer
28. Rep. Thielen addresses HB154 relating to industrial hemp
29. Bills Moving Forward Provide Neighbor Islanders With Better Access to Hawaii Legislature
30. Enviros Seek Bill to Ban Uhu Fishing, $10,000 Fine

1. Abercrombie Unveils Early Childhood Action Strategy
2. Caldwell's Secret group to disclose its Secret donors
3. IRS Police Leading Investigation of alleged DoTax Criminals
4. Poll: Hanabusa 42% - Abercrombie 35%
5. GE Tax Hike Passes First Hurdle
6. Hawaii School Board Scrutinizes High Teacher Sick Leave, Turnover Rates
7. Hawaii Ed Department's Food Service Problems Mirror School Bus Woes
8. Hawaii state library website and services down—apparently no one renewed the domain registration
9. Encampments must be removed
10. Abercrombie’s Latest DHHL Pick Called ‘Divisive’
11. Homosexual Child Molester gets 5 Years
12. Internet Gambling Corporation: Bill Introduced in Hawaii Senate
13. Legislators Rush to hand out Money to Solar Scammers
14. Public Utility Commission orders on-bill program to finance clean energy
15. Hawaii lawmakers investigate university tuition
16. Abercrombie to Pick 3 New UH Regents
17. On second thought, construction of $300M telescope atop Maui's Haleakala is under way
18. Expedia 4Q profit plunges After Hawaii Loots Company
19. Rep. Aaron Ling Johanson addresses HB916 – Minimum Hourly Wage
20. Better Government – Minority Caucus Package 2013
21. Usual Suspects, Usual BS: Gay ‘Marriage’ Will Make You Rich, Rich, Rich!
22. New Study: Hawaii drivers spending less time in traffic
23. 43% of Hawaii Roads ‘Degraded’
24. Act 221 Scammers to Host Transportation Forum
25. HR6, HCR3--Pot Heads Push for ‘Industrial Hemp’

1. Gallup: Hawaii Ranks Third in 'Economic Confidence'
2. Gun Buyback Bill Re-Scheduled to be Heard in Senate Committee this Thursday
3. Secret Donors fund Secret high-level assistant for mayor
4. Homosexual Rape Gang May Have Claimed 35 Victims at Blind-Deaf School
5. Solar Scammers Resigned to Reduced Tax Credits, Focus on On-Bill Financing
6. 25% Pay Hike: Method of legislative raises is 'ingenious political move'
7. Solomon Reneges on Repeal PLDC Bill
8. DoE, Dela Cruz, Tokuda Challenge Governor’s Plan to Develop School Lands
9. HSTA Teacher, Boycott Standardized Testing
10. Hawaii Teachers Talk Strike
11. Senate President: 'Bloated' Bureaucracy at University of Hawaii is Making Tuition Unaffordable
12. Hawaii lawmakers mull over unfunded liabilities
13. Plan now for future of long-term care
14. Lawmakers Say no to Ethics Again and Again
15. Legislators: Gambling Has no Chance this Year
16. Fire Department Buys Faulty Defibrillators, Covers it up – 2 Dead
17. 83% Higher in Hawaii -- Adding up the cost of incarceration
18. Outreach finds rental units for the chronically homeless
19. Consumer education, Not Taxes: How to encourage healthier choices
20. North Korea 'preparing for two nuclear tests'
21. Feds launch criminal probe into landfill runoff
22. Bill aims to label all genetically modified food
23. Hawaii Home Prices up 12.5%--5^th fastest increase in USA 

1. Watershed Plan: Abercrombie Executive Order Allows Logging of Dead Trees
2. Hawaii Mayors Back Gun Ban
3. Abercrombie’s TAT Head Fake Wins Acceptance of Proposal to make 9.25% Rate Permanent
4. Legislature rules for public notice already getting sidestepped
5. Put Adult Care Home Records Online?
6. IAL: Grove Farms Threatens to Expel Ranchers in Favor of Biofuel and Property Development
7. Don't be surprised if both refineries close, experts say
8. Record tourism numbers, but not in all respects
9. House Ag Committee considers GMO, taro legislation
10. SB768 Internet Gaming Bill
11. Bill would raise waste surcharges in Hawaii
12. Annual St. Patrick’s Day fundraiser for the Paniolo Preservation Society
13. How to Honor Choombama

1. DoTax Employees Secretly Arrested, Fired
2. 236 Candidates Register for Honolulu Neighborhood Board Elections—Deadline Feb 15
3. Banner CMO to Meet HHSC MDs, Staff
4. Jacking Up the Heat in Tax and Fee Hell
5. Minimum Wage Increase Could Put People Out of Work 
6. Sources: Schatz Not Doing His Job, Delegation Splintered
7. Shield or Cape? Evil twin replaces flaming liberal in Hawaii governor’s mansion
8. Cost of Delays $500K/Month: Construction of telescope ‘in limbo’ due to appeal process
9. The “New” Public Land Development Corporation
10. HB1249: HCDA to Grab Control of Hilo’s Banyan Drive Hotels?
11. Kalealoa: Ordy Pont to Be Transferred to HCDA?
12. Star-Adv: We Have a Right to Force a New Family Structure on Society
13. List of Gun Bills Before Legisature
14. Hemp, tuition and food on lawmakers' agenda
15. Bag Tax Just a Money Grab
16. HSTA Signwave at Capitol
17. Implement 'restorative justice' in schools
18. Many Hawaii residents lack means to pay for nursing care, report finds

1. Caldwell Secretly Appoints ‘Chief of Staff’--Convicted Criminal Harry Mattson
2. New York Fed Recommends Jones Act exemption for Puerto Rico
3. Nobriga vs DHHL: Some Days You Get the Bull
4. Celebrity Incentive To Move To Hawaii: We'll Give You An "Inoffensive" Space
5. HB1357 / SB1343 Limit Development to Freeway Capacity
6. Energy Secretary Steven Chu resigns; led green energy push
7. Te’o Hoaxer Was Turned Gay by Child Molester
8. $5M Settlement in Homosexual Rape Gang case at DoE Blind-Deaf School
9. State IT Upgrade tied to DoTax Arrests
10. Star-Adv: House Judiciary Committee Weakens Shield Law
11. Hawaii Preschool Initiative Passes Committee Votes
12. Fake Marijuana Legalization Bill Vote Postponed
13. Activists Continue Push for Sovereignty Movement Training Center at Kulani Prison
14. After 42 Arrests in 11 years, Kapa‘a man finally sentenced
15. Liquor Commission Pretends to Investigate after Pro-Bowl Incident, Shooting
16. Advertising on Police Tape? Civil Beat Falls for Bogus Occupy Story
17. Bill would affect future UH athletic contracts
18. Blood in Water: Anti-Superferry Hypocrites Slice Whale Open With Propeller
19. Big Island Braces for Tourism Decline
20. Hilo sort station diversion rate falls short of promises

1. Feds Release RTTT Report: "We will continue to work closely with Hawaii"
2. Hawaii Charter School Law Improves from 35th to 14th in Nation
3. Rep. McDermott: after nine years of development, new principal evaluation process still flunks
4. Lanai to PUC: Murdock's Wind Waiver No Longer Valid
5. Breaking Down The Tesoro Refinery Closure
6. Honolulu at the Bottom of Top 300 Cities
7. LINK: Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection Posts Hearings on Facebook
8. IRS: Cheapest Obamacare Plan Will Be $20,000 Per Family
9. Gay Activists: Hawaii ‘Marriage’ Push May Backfire
10. Gabbard: Marriage is the Cornerstone of Civilization
11. Primaries: Hanabusa Still Considering Her Options
12. Paying for Play: Donors Give Abercrombie $2M
13. New Order: Committee Chairman Rejected 6-4 on Bill Sponsored by Majority Leader
14. Idiot Rhoads Drops Effort to Gut First Amendment
15. Abercrombie administration appears to be leading attack on journalist shield law
16. Former Cocaine Dealer Seeks Senate Ban on Candid Media Photos, Videos
17. Rhoads Protects Lobbyists from Scrutiny
18. Don't overrate student feedback
19. State Denies Counties Ticket Money Again
20. Group asks Hawaii regulators to revoke waiver for Lanai wind farm
21. Homelessness Industry Invades Chinatown
22. Law Will Prohibit Homeless from Sleeping on Bus Stop Benches
23. Bus Cuts?  Riders wait for mayor to fulfill promise
24. Public housing, fancy cars: lawmaker proposes crackdown

1. Tax Cut or Minimum Wage Hike? Hawaii 4th-Highest Taxes for Low Income Residents
2. Hawaii: Attempt to Repeal Protections for NRA Instructors Fails
3. Would a Jones Act exemption lower the cost of electricity in Hawaii?
4. FrackNation TV Debut: Debunks Anti-Natural Gas Hysteria
5. DoTax Employees Secretly Arrested, Fired
6. Another PLDC: Bill on park and harbor development passes initial hurdle
7. Hawaii School Voucher Program Passes Senate 24-1
8. Bills would clip powers of UH board, president
9. E-W Center Could Lose 51% of Budget
10. Abercrombie's budget does not require more tourism revenue, he says,but he wants discussion (In order to make extension more palatable)
11. Kaiser Nurse layoffs could hurt care
12. State to Pay $550K Settlement over Sovereignty Activist Torturing Children
13. Gay Domestic Violence: Ex-49er Arrested After Fight over Soy Sauce and Underwear
14. NOAA Covers for Anti-Superferry Whale Watch Tour Operators After they Viciously Attack Whales
15. Hypocrites: Feminist HQ, UH Manoa, Underpays Female Researcher
16. Pothead Legalization Bill HB699 to Be Heard Friday Feb 1
17. Bill would allow higher rates when water low
18. Former Kauai Deputy prosecutor accuses county attorney of trading settlement for wife’s job
19. Maui News Publisher Pleads Not Guilty
20. Scheme to Take over Hawaiian Electric Falls Apart
21. How Much Did Marth Score from Gullible Hawaii ‘Investors’

1. HHSC Exec: Hospitals "Being Pushed to Brink of Collapse"
2. Hawaii Gun Buyback Bill Scheduled to be Heard This Week
3. Must Read: Leading Activist Apologizes For Starting Anti-GMO Movement
4. Teo Hoax Created by Homosexual Pretending to be Female
5. Sen Donna Mercado Kim Endorses Abercrombie’s Big Fat TAT Tax Hike
6. High Electric Rates: They can use Candles
7. Alm: Inouye Wanted Jones Act Waiver for LNG
8. HSTA Focuses on Student Evaluations in Effort to Kill All Evaluations
9. Complete Rundown on Gambling Bills, Including SB124 the Gambling Shell Bill
10. Star-Adv on Bags: Taxes & Fines-- the Peasants will Learn to Live with it
11. Foster care bills ask for increased reimbursement for caregivers, extending age for foster children
12. HB426: Dozens Testify Against Measure to Eliminate Liability Protection for Gun Safety Training
13. Enviros Crushed by Support for Fishermen
14. Aquarium fish collecting bill deferred indefinitely
15. Increasing Tip Credit Would Raise Wages in Hawaii Restaurant Industry
16. Hawaii couple behind 'Super Bowl of Cockfighting' sentenced to prison
17. Students, teachers, parents rally for Hawaiian language tests
18. Mafia First Wind Fences Off 10 acres Calls It License to Keep Killing Lots of Birds
19. State taking a proactive approach to possible Boeing strike

1. $59.8M Vanishes as State, HECO Reach Agreement
2. Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How They Voted January 28, 2013
3. HECO to Pay H-Power 21 Cents Per KWH
4. HECO Lifts Limits on Solar Installations
5. The Empire Strikes Back: Reaction To UH Lawprof's Study Of Success Rates In Hawaii Supreme Court Cases
6. HHSC: Hospitals face ‘painful choices’, 33% May Close
7. Mainland Gays Deploy Fake Hawaii Poll, Claim Majority for Gay Marriage
8. Lobbyists Complain: “All 51 lawmakers have to be Queried”
9. Bill: Homeless Tent City to be Set Up in Parking Lot Near You
10. HSTA Teacher: Parents, Students to Blame for My Failure 
11. House Republicans Not Unified Against Tax Hikes
12. First Gun Control Bill to be Heard Today
13. Enviros: Conveyance Tax Hike Will Magically ‘Save’ Water
14. Governor banks on bag fee, tax to Magically ‘Save’ watershed
15. SB799 / SB 1223: Jessica’s Law for Hawaii
16. To Be Heard Today in Legislature
17. Legislators Seek to Benefit MMA Promoters at Expense of Fighters
18. Political Connections Pay Off: State Ag Development Corp. Gives Ho`opili Farmers First Shot at Large Chunk of Former Galbraith Land
19. HB1335 Would Ban Windfarms on Molokai, Lanai
20. Rockclimbers to Legislature: Please Save us from the Lawyers
21. State Movie Studio Pitches Wish List to Legislature

1. Survey: Honolulu 3rd Least Affordable Housing on Earth
2. Over 1000 March for Life in Honolulu
3. SB1319: Sen Chun Oakland falls for Bogus “Road Pollution Filter”
4. Gallup: Obama Job Approval Jumps 8.1% in Hawaii
5. Abercrombie Administration Assisted Acquitted Waianae Toilet Bomber
6. Tesoro Shutdown, Jones Act Will Drive Up Jet Fuel Prices, Hurt Tourism
7. Just the Beginning: Navy Plans Layoffs, Cuts Repair Work in Hawaii
8. How Dare You Let the People Vote! Gays Practice ‘Discipline’ on Democrats
9. Disclosure, Not Censorship is Answer to Citizens United
10. Smart Growth ideas will guide transit-oriented development
11. Eco-Lawyers Answer Callies
12. Mini-PLDC On Agenda Today
13. Election Commission: No Report on Election Failure, No Punishment for Nago
14. Kaiser Higher Rates, Fewer Nurses
15. Maui's Hopes to Turn Its Trash Into Energy Could Be Dashed by HECO
16. Nightclub Owner Arrested for Assaulting NFL Player, Has 6 Felonies
17. HB72 Deferred: Would Protect the 99% Against Harassment by ‘Occupy’ Lawyers
18. For Advocate: ‘Work of Dying’ Presents Uncomfortable Questions about Assisted Suicide

• SB1319: Sen Chun Oakland falls for Bogus “Road Pollution Filter”
• Gun Ban Would Destabilize Hawaii’s Ecosystem
• Planned Makaha Beach Park to be Ruined by Bridge Replacement?
• Hawaii’s Den of Thieves

1. 'Complete Streets': Will Kakaako Become Another Waikiki?
2. Kulani Prison to be Sovereignty Movement Training and Recruitment Center
3. HFF: Mainland Money Behind Push for Gay Marriage
4. CDC: Hawaii 3rd Lowest Tobacco Use
5. 199 Candidates Register for Honolulu Neighborhood Board Elections
6. Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals Clarifies Zoning Appeals
7. After 20 Years of Minimal Change, Minimal Growth What Should Hawaii Plan For?
8. Impact of High Taxes Cripples Economic Growth
9. Meet the Profiteer Behind Hawaii Medical Marijuana Cards
10. Governor's road to curing 'virus' starts with a mirror
11. Abercrombie’s Perilous Rollercoaster: Are Unopposed Legislators Really That Popular?
12. Let the People Vote on Marriage
13. Rhoads Proposal calls for limits on free speech
14. Abercrombie Schools, Harbors, Parks Proposals Copied from Text of PLDC Law
15. SB594/SB595 Help Farmers by Exempting Foods From GE Tax
16. HART: Rail on Track
17. Trained parents have better effect on children than universal preschool
18. Nearly 90% of all bills introduced in Hawai'i fail
19. Hawaii Refinery Stop Set to Lure Asia Jet Fuel: Energy Markets
20. Films of IAM’s 2nd Annual Energy Festival
21. Trent Williams Assaulted, Tasered in Hawaii Nightclub, Won’t Play NFL Pro Bowl
22. North Korean Dictator Preparing Nuclear Test? 

1. NRA: 2013 Legislative Session Begins with a Battle for Our Second Amendment Rights in the Aloha State
2. RFP: HELCO Seeks Proposals for 50MW Geothermal
3. State Rejects HSTA's Billion Dollar Contract Proposal
4. Competing Marriage Bills Introduced as Gay Atheists Stomp Gary Okino
5. Hawaii elections commission says elections office will make improvements, Nago can keep job
6. Hawaii lawmakers Introduce Bills to reform state elections
7. State Supreme Court Prepares to Give Medicated Potheads License to Traffic Drugs on Airlines?
8. HART to Complete Trenching This Weekend, No Changes to Rail Route Expected
9. Hawaii legislators push ethics code reforms
10. Volcano Nat’l Park Plans to Exterminate Remaining Animals
11. Ellison plans new Lanai hotel, runway

1. HSTA: 'Prepare for Negotiations to Continue at Length'
2. HTA: 2012 Arrivals, Spending Set New Records
3. HGEA, DOE Agree on Evaluation and Support System for Principals
4. Hawaii's 40 Top 'Green' Energy Projects
5. A Fracking Good Story
6. DoE Scores 'D' for Teacher Preparation
7. 15 House Reps: Let the People Vote on Marriage
8. Gay-Atheists Trying to Force Gary Okino Off Ethics Committee
9. Fesharaki: Oil Prices Going Down, Wind, Solar ‘ Not Free’
10. Refineries, Electric Power Plants May be Shut to ‘Solve’ Non-Existent Global Worming
11. HART Sues Demanding to be Given 10ac Waipahu ‘Banana Patch’ Without Payment
12. Kauai Reps Skeptical About Pot Bill
13. News From Hawaii’s Future -- Colorado:
14. Penalty could keep (Tobacco) smokers out of health overhaul
15. Tsutusi Promises Not to Run Against Abercrombie, Pushes Constitutional Amendment
16. Honolulu Council Committee OKs hotels in smaller communities
17. Rail Burials Ruling May Halt Road Work Statewide
18. Hawaii DoT May Face Criminal Charges over Oahu Shearwater Deaths
19. HB72 Protects Public Employees from ‘Occupy’ Lawsuits
20. Anti-GMO Activists Seek GE Tax on Ag Exports
21. SB894: $100M to Buy Out Turtle Bay?
22. Hanabusa Scores Gig on Energy Subcommittee, May Use Position to Support Alaska Drilling

1. Eco-Friendly? Reusable Shopping Bags Poisoning Our Oceans
2. Does Senate Bill 219 turn your Daddy’s Duck Gun into an Assault Weapon?
3. Survey: 195 Patients in Hospitals Waiting for Long Term Care Beds
4. Health Insuance: Hawaii Has One of Lowest Rejection Rates in Nation
5. Sen Sam Slom Releases Agenda for 2013
6. Rep. Thielen Wants to Make Shoreline Access Law Permanent
7. Gallup: Obama's Fourth Year in Office Ties as Most Polarized Ever
8. HCDA to Become New PLDC: Governor wants firms to develop public land with state
9. Gay ‘Marriage’ Bills Introduced in Legislature
10. Pearl City man charged with producing Homosexual child porn
11. NKorea warns that nuke test may be imminent, Aimed at USA
12. Hawaii Delegation Applaud Sending Women into Combat
13. Souki Pot Bill nearly identical to Colorado Amendment 64
14. Union membership slips nationally, grows in isles
15. Hawaii senators propose tax on sugary drinks
16. Abercrombie State Bank is Back With a New Name
17. Minimum Wage: The Governor’s Secret Tax Increase
18. Small businesses react to minimum wage hike proposal
19. Abercrombie Has Appointed 10% of Legislature
20. Hospitals in Hawaii Employ 16,043 People
21. Justice Reinvestment: Sovereignty Activists Given Grant to Recruit Juvenile Delinquents
22. Contracts: State plans $750M in airport work
23. Department of Health cites companies for pollution violations
24. Lobbying Lessons: What Hawaii Can Learn From Other States
25. NAACP, Hispanic Alliance Join Lawsuit Against NY Soda Ban

1. FULL TEXT: State of the State Speech
2. Summary of Bills Repealing the PLDC
3. HI-5 Fraud Shows DoH Cannot be Trusted With Soda Tax
4. McDermott: Early Education Proposal Inadequate
5. Johanson: How Will We Pay for All These Initiatives?
6. Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How They Voted January 22, 2013
7. WaPo: Sting operations reveal Mafia involvement in renewable energy
8. Kahuku Windfarm Loan Timed to Boost IPO, Avoid Jail
9. No Sugar For You
10. Abercrombie's Jeopardy Challenge: What Is Uninspiring?
11. Spending Would Rise Nearly $1 Billion Under Gov. Abercrombie's Legislative Proposals
12. Governors List Leans Toward the ‘Wish’ Category
13. FACE Backs Call for 3rd Highest Minimum Wage in Nation
14. Why Should We Take Rep Awana to Court?
15. Mayor right to call out state on skimming city's rail tax
16. Lobbying Reform Is A Tough Sell In Hawaii's Legislature
17. Greenwood Goes to Washington During Inauguration on University’s Dime
18. State Spending on Higher Education Rebounds in Most States After Years of Decline
19. Big Cable Scammers Threaten to Hike Prices if We Do Not Knuckle Under
20. Gabbard elected as DNC Vice Chair
21. Pro-life group marches to protest Roe v. Wade
22. Harry Kim: Repeal Act 97, Help Me Kill Geothermal
23. Indian team eyes slice of Hawaii telescope
24. Hawaii Woman Steals Benefits from Wounded Iraq Vet
25. Man's homicide by police officers results in wrongful-death lawsuit
26. HSTA Pahoa Teacher: Evaluations Based on Pseudo-Science
27. (Latest) Bomb threat sparks high security at Keaau school (again)
28. 9-11 Truthers, Sovereignty Activists, Defense Bar, Leading Democrats and Convicted Felons Demand that New Prison be as Resort-Like as Possible
29. Occupy Degenerates into Just Another Homeless Camp
30. NFL to decide by April whether to keep Pro Bowl
31. Striped Marlin Stock Assessment Peer-reviewed and Released

1. The Legislature and the Death of Big Ideas
2. Abercrombie to Sign Executive Order Creating Super-PLDC
3. Hawaii School Choice Week Events on Oahu, Maui
4. FrackNation TV Debut: Debunks Anti-Natural Gas Hysteria
5. Abercrombie Soda Tax: $1.28 per Gallon
6. 1959: Martin Luther King Jr Salutes Hawaii Statehood
7. Full Text: Obama's Second Inaugural Address
8. Star-Advertiser Buys Kauai Garden Isle Newspaper
9. Gun Ban Would Destabilize Hawaii’s Ecosystem
10. Will Legislature Make TAT Increase Permanent?
11. State of the State: Two Speeches, Two Disasters … Going on Three
12. Hilo Election Workers’ Suit Challenges Journalists’ ‘Shield Law’
13. Wooley: PLDC Repeal ‘Going to be a Challenge’
14. Kona: Solar Powered Electric Cars Equal to $3/gallon Gas
15. Senators Grill Greenwood Over Jerry Chang’s PR Gig
16. Act 221 Scammers to be Kicked out of Manoa HQ?
17. Is It Time To Beef Up Hawaii's Lax Lobbying Law?
18. Pflueger faces more accusations
19. 19 Convictions in 23 Years and Out Stealing Motorcycles at UH Law School
20. Potheads Drop to 2.8% of Job Applicants
21. Hawaii should prepare now for driverless vehicles
22. Preserve proposed to help 4 native plants

1. Our American Triumph: Civil Rights and Hawaii Statehood
2. Storm of Protectionism: It’s time to repeal the Jones Act
3. Schatz: The Biggest Challenge Hawaii Faces is my Inadequacy
4. Support Our Troops Rally at Pohakuloa
5. Star-Adv: Gun Control, Obamacare, and Amnesty for Illegals Should be Obama’s Agenda
6. Star-Adv, Rachel Maddow Spin Desperately in Effort to Portray Gun Owners as ‘Conflicted’
7. Ing Joins Broken Trust Waihee for Hawaiian Roll Rally at Iolani
8. Gays: “Civil Union uptake has been relatively low in Hawaii”
9. Anti-GMO Crackpots Delusions of Grandeur
10. Protestors want answers about burial plans at Kawaiahao Church
11. ‘VSE Corp’ Sued in Waikele Fireworks Blast
12. Parents of Autistic Girl Sue DoE for Abuse
13. Leeward tow company faces eviction
14. It will take a year for isle employment to recover from the recession, experts say

1. Our American Triumph: Civil Rights and Hawaii Statehood
2. Abercrombie to Push Penny an Ounce Soda Tax
3. Instill Priorities for Precious Tax Dollars
4. Honolulu: Hundreds Rally in Defense of Second Amendment
5. Hawaii Republicans Announce District Caucuses
6. Contentious Legislative Brawls Challenging for Abercrombie, Unions Deeply Suspicious 
7. PLDC: Abercrombie Eats His Own Words
8. Caldwell focuses on the hotel room tax and money generated by the GET for rail
9. Kam Schools helps guide charters on better school leadership
10. PP: We Will Renew Effort to Force Abortion Pills on Hospitals
11. Elite snobs have hijacked Maui Democratic Party
12. Legalized Gambling Will Create a New Class of Addicts
13. Excellent News: City Sweeps Net Up 96 Bins of Junk from Homeless Camps Daily 
14. Hawaii Presidential Center Inaugural Gala

1. 'VSE Corp' Blamed in Deadly Waikele Bunker Explosion
2. 'School Quality Survey' seeks parent feedback
3. DoE Asks Feds to Transfer School Repair Funds from Kamaile Academy to Deaf-Blind School
4. HB9: Rep. Cynthia Thielen Seeks to Repeal PLDC
5. Six Hawaii Colleges Make ‘Military-Friendly’ List for 2013
6. Public-Private Partnerships Could Keep State Park Gates Open
7. Hawaii Supreme Court to Hear Another Shoreline Case
8. UH System Enrollment Drops 2.3%
9. Abercrombie Administration Cuts General Assistance Payments Again
10. Hawaii National Guard Trains Afghan Police in Zabul Province
11. 40th Annual March for Life Saturday, January 26
12. Boylan: Abercrombie is the Next Inouye
13. HB 150 Legalizes Marijuana While SB 330 Bans Tobacco in Public Housing
14. Ihara Doesn’t Support His Own Gun Control Bill
15. Hawaii Firearms Owners Plan Saturday Rally in Support of Second Amendment Rights
16. Union Urges Teachers To Take Personal Days To Testify
17. Giesting: Affordable Care Act isn’t likely to bring down insurance premiums
18. Obamacare is Based on Community Organizing Model
19. Obama breaks isles' mystique
20. 1,100 Morons Gather to Hear Anti-GMO Cult Leader in Lihue
21. Environmental Activist Apologizes for Years of Opposition to GM Foods
22. Organic Cultists, ‘Green’ Energy Scammers Grab for Barrel Tax
23. Ethics, campaign spending packages introduced
24. Bob Jones Plan for the Future: Gay Marriage and No Pensions
25. Greenwood: 108% Tuition Increase a “Good Bargain”
26. State breaks ground on Halekauwila Place
27. Hawaii residents react to recent chill in the air—Oddly Fail to Blame Global Worming
28. Prospects of an all-geothermal isle unlikely
29. Regulators OK Hawaiian Electric power-purchase agreement for H-Power expansion
30. State, Activists Join Forces to Win Right of Trespass
31. Obama Stuck With 16% Spending Reduction on Defense
32. Reduction puts size of Oahu forces in flux

1. Abercrombie: "Legislature May Need to Adjust Act 55 to Avoid Repeal"
2. HSTA: "Time and Money Needed"
3. Rep Thielen Introduces Bill Promoting Energy Efficiency in Schools
4. FERC Comes to the Rescue as Gas Supply Threatened by Tesoro Shutdown
5. UHERO: UH Not as Bloated as Other Universities
6. UHERO: UH Manoa Generates $3.2B in Business
7. Will Chevron's Hawaiian refinery survive 2013? – Bunkerworld
8. Teachers Rally for $900M Tax Hike, Point to Own Disinterest in Job
9. Borreca Shocked as Legislators Actually Disagree
10. Repeal of PLDC Designed to Give Developers Access to School Properties 
11. SB 1 First Read: Senate passes bill to repeal PLDC
12. Rhoades Introduces Bullet Control Bill, Ihara Introduces Assault Weapons Ban
13. LNG Could Cut HECO Fuel Costs 50%
14. Big Island Senators Reps Conspire to Squelch Geothermal Development
15. Bag Ban: Hawaii County Residents too Intelligent to fall for it
16. Gilligan’s Island? University of Hawaii Finds $200,000 After It Went Missing for 7 Years
17. Greenwood to Legislature: Get Over It
18. ‘Gay-Friendly’ Pahoa innkeeper enters guilty plea in child porn case
19. Atheist Trash, Civil Beat Protest Against ‘Red Mass’
20. Anti-GMO Luddites Talk Suicide
21. After Abercrombie Forces Tesoro to Announce Shutdown, Gas Prices Jump
22. OHA Claims Victory: Waimea Valley Visitor Count One Third of What it Used to Be

1. HHSC Exec Discusses Banner Partnership with Hilo MDs
2. Slom: Thank God Senate Will Again Have Daily Prayer
3. Kim: Opening Day Remarks
4. Poll: State Taxes Should Require a Super Majority for Passage
5. NFIB: Want to be a Small-Business Leader?
6. EPA Releases List of Hawaii's Top Polluters
7. Speaker Souki Opening Day Remarks
8. Rep Thielen Hails House Bipartisan Coalition
9. Opening Day Speech by House Minority Leader
10. Will LNG become a widely-used marine fuel?
11. Dr John Rosemond Speaking--Honolulu, Waipahu, Poipu
12. Say and His 17: "Revenge, Retribution, Vengeance, Punishment"
13. Caldwell to Hawaii Legislature: Where's My Money? I Want it Now
14. Souki, Kim take different tones on new taxes
15. Schatz Refuses to Support Waiver for HECO, May Force massive Hike in Electric Bills
16. Consultant predicts Chevron refinery will close Next
17. Omidyar’s Hanalei Development Designed by Turtle Bay Architect
18. HMSA Supports Banner Takeover of HHSC Hospitals
19. Oi: PLDC Style Control of School Land Won’t Be for ‘Ritzy Tourist Projects’
20. Honolulu still hasn’t regained all jobs lost during recession
21. Big Island Plastic Bag Ban Murders 12,000 Trees Every Year
22. Solar Scammers Trot Out Last Year’s Bogus Study
23. Hawaii unemployment rate falls to 5.2%
24. Group: Lighten tax burden for isle poor
25. Amusement Park Proposed for Kakaako
26. Hapuna Beach: Sen Laura Thielen Defends Lingle’s DLNR
27. Biofool Producer Introduces New Invasive Grass Species
28. Groin Removal Blamed for Waikiki Beach Erosion

1. Privitization: Post Office to be Replaced by 'Hybrid Model'
2. Poll: Majority in Hawaii Against Gay ‘Marriage’
3. Arbitration Award Sets Stage for Union Raid on Budget ‘Surplus’
4. Dissidents Have Produced No Agenda 
5. Souki Just as Rigid as Say?
6. HECO’s $200/barrel Scam Exposed
7. Schatz: Jones Act Exemptions are a ‘One-Off’, Good Riddance to Tesoro 
8. Poll: Hanabusa Wins Among Democrats, ‘She Might Have a Good Chance’
9. Woodson: Abercrombie’s Carpetbagger, just 2 Years on Maui
10. HSTA ‘Encourages’ Teachers to Demand 25% Hike in GE Tax
11. HSTA Negotiations Resume Tomorrow
12. Hawaii Firearms Owners Plan Saturday Rally in Support of Second Amendment Rights
13. Another Kakaako ‘Affordable’ Project to be 100% Rentals
14. Island Air Unions Must Give Back or Face Shutdown March 11

1. Abercrombie Appoints Justin Woodson to House Dist 9
2. Experts: Bag Tax Spreads Disease, Fills Hospitals
3. Feds Pay Maui County Office of Aging to Keep Medicare Patients Away from Hospital
4. Disease Management Programs Don't Work
5. Dr John Rosemond Speaking in Honolulu
6. Aung San Suu Kyi to Speak in Honolulu
7. $150M Tax Ruling "Will Significantly Reduce Demand for Hawaii Vacations"
8. A Coherent Cabotage Critique
9. Waikele Fireworks Bunker Explosion: Investigation Findings to be Released
10. Rep. Thielen introduces Task force for “reasonable rate of return” for electric utilities
11. Republicans Open House on Opening Day
12. PR: Follow hearings before the Senate Education Committee and the Senate Technology and the Arts Committee from home computers and iPads.
13. Legislature poised to get a lot done — or maybe not
14. Circling With Knives Drawn, Hawaii Congressional Delegation Still Hasn’t Met to Discuss Priorities
15. HGEA Demands Lower Pay for Workers, Less Healthcare for Sister Isles
16. More Hanabusa-Free Coverage of Kalaeloa Raceway Scandal
17. Star-Adv: Mini PLDC Should Redevelop unused school properties
18. Progressives Continue to Hound Calvin Say
19. Racial Distribution of Hawaii’s ‘Gifted and Talented’?
20. Teacher ‘Surrounded by Clichés’
21. Which Hawaii Schools Are Badly In Need Of An Extreme Makeover?
22. Poll - Keep the PLDC, Create a Lottery and Vote By Mail
23. Ethics Commission cautions legislators on invitations to “food and drink” events
24. Election workers’ lawsuit Heads for Dismissal hearing
25. Potential Lawsuit may Derail Aloha Tower Deal
26. Counties Grub for Money
27. The Economist: Aloha Asia
28. Marine Corps to Increase Numbers in Hawaii
29. Homeless Camp Fire Cuts Telephone Service to Kauai
30. County worker gets another county contract
31. Hawaii Pacific University gets OK for Aloha Tower dorm plans
32. Tesoro mum on who will buy its Hawaii gas stations

1. Abercrombie 'School Readiness' Plan Based on Proven Failure?
2. Head Start: When the Government Fails Completely
3. Poll on Schatz Pick Looks Good for Abercrombie, Bad for Old Boys
4. Star-Adv Features Hanabusa’s Dirt Track Scandal, Doesn’t Mention Hanabusa
5. Teachers Rally for 25% Hike in GE Tax
6. Gabbard, DLNR Team Up to Push 10 cent Bag Tax
7. Money must be set aside for union contracts, and with Inouye gone, fewer federal funds will arrive
8. More Human remains found during rail route survey
9. Legalization of Assisted Suicide Opens Door to Abuse
10. Corporate Gas Consumers Organize Against LNG Exports, Fear End to Cheap US Gas
11. SA: Organize Circus hearings on status of pot
12. Kollar Focuses of Meth. Prescription Abuse
13. Seitz Claims Maui Case Limits Police Use of Tasers
14. Deadly Venomous Snakes, Samurai Swords, Canon Ball and Chainsaw Among Items Seized by TSA
15. Workers approve first Pacific Beach Hotel labor deal
16. Take Ben Cayetano’s Advice – Be True To Yourself
17. Hawaii's Greatest Entrepreneur, Lex Brodie, Dies at 98

1. VIDEO: O'Reilly Demolishes Hanabusa 
2. Instead of Exempting Wholesaling from GET, Reduce Rate on Business Inputs 
3. Maui Dems Refuse to Release Names of House District 9 Nominees
4. Hawaii’s Den of Thieves
5. Rail Transit Under Fire in Los Angeles and San Jose
6. Jones Act Hurts Hawaii (Alaska, Guam and Puerto Rico too)
7. Transportation and Energy Infrastructure Projects: Forecasting is Unnecessary
8. Lawmakers Aim to Create Mini-PLDC to Develop School Properties
9. Abercrombie Cronies to Organize PLDC Pep Rally, Conference
10. Counties' proposals include revenue from traffic fines
11. Abercrombie’s Defeat of Inouye Faction Means Oahu is in Decline
12. Neighbor Island Teachers Miss 20-45 Days Thanks to DoE ‘Training’ Fetish
13. Political Office is for Kids Who Miss Prison, School
14. Insurer-Controlled Health Exchange to Oversee Your Medical Records 
15. Court orders online travel companies to pay state of Hawaii $150 million in general excise taxes
16. Hawaii-based soldiers return home from Afghanistan
17. 10 Felonies, Ordered out of Hilo Drug House
18. Transactions jumped 9.8% in 2012 at isle businesses
19. Kakaako to be Given to Obama Foundation to Develop?

1. 133 Candidates Register for Honolulu Neighborhood Board Elections
2. Seven Apply for House District 9 Position
3. FULL TEXT: HSTA Contract Proposal
4. 'Coastal Development' Tops Priorities for Hawaii Ocean Resources Plan
5. HART Claims Rail Delay Costs 'Lower than Expected'
6. Hanabusa says 2014 run for governor, Senate, House all on table
7. Teachers want 4%, 4 years; tab extra $440 million
8. LNG Fuel switch could bring 55% savings--HECO to give money to Solar, Wind Scammers
9. War With HGEA, UPW: Banner Health nonprofit wants to take over 8 HHSC hospitals
10. Kaiser gets approval for 5.3% rate increase
11. Election Commission Delays Report on Nago Fiasco
12. No Joke: Former state Rep. Jerry Chang joins UH Hilo as director of university relations
13. Absence of Truck Farming Leads to Invasive Species Danger
14. State LUC Rejects Affordable Housing for Lahaina

1. HSTA Survey: "Hawaii teachers welcome an evaluation process"
2. NRA: White House Meeting Agenda Driven
3. PEW: Vote-by-Mail Favors Old White Democrats
4. Cayetano on Akaka Bill: Stop Sending Millions to Washington Lobbyists
5. Election's Commission investigation results expected 10AM today
6. Senate Dems Unveil 2013 Legislative Priorities
7. Medicated Marijuana Activists Release Poll Results
8. KIUC Board Election Nominations Open
9. Inouye, Say Gone: Legalized gambling to be key issue when lawmakers convene
10. HSTA to Present Contract Offer Based on UPW Arbitration Award
11. Solar Scammers Grab for ‘Rail Pie’ 
12. Callies: HCDA = PLDC
13. Cayetano sees Hanabusa rising on political horizon
14. Mainland Homosexual Millionaires Push Gay ‘Marriage’ on Hawaii
15. Alm: HECO Needs LNG
16. Solar Scammers Unveil Two Schemes to Keep Money Flowing into Their Pockets
17. Ex-HPD Officer Sentenced for Exposing Undercover Officer to Drug Dealers
18. Parker Ranch’ Theo Lani Bell Arrested for Looting California Homeless Shelter
19. $13.4M Oceanside mortgage foreclosed, Greenmailers Missed Vein of Lucre
20. Group lobbies to prevent Turtle Bay development

1. Calles: Moon Court Favored 'Select Interest Groups and Factions'
2. Abercrombie, Star-Advertiser Laugh at Union Effort to Save Tesoro, Price Spikes Predicted
3. State, NOAA Preparing EIS for Humpback Sanctuary
4. Cayetano Doubts Authenticity of Inouye Letter, Will Appeal Rail Ruling
5. For Abercrombie Opportunities Abound on Inouye’s Grave
6. Construction delay costs for rail project lower than anticipated
7. Solar Goes Supernova, Burns Out
8. Pay-raise award imminent in UPW arbitration
9. Souki, Say Spar over Who Gave More to Republicans
10. Counties, LWV, Abercrombie, Push Same Day Registration, Vote by Mail
11. Post-Inouye Reality: Navy Prepares to Cut Two Hawaii-Based Cruisers
12. Ewa Field Runway to be solar -- project gets OK from Navy command
13. Daily Tourist Spending by Island
14. Waikiki 20/20 supports big events and significant funding for improvements