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Entries for 'Andrew Walden'
Saturday, December 7, 2024 |
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Forgotten Honouliuli: Jack Burns, Police Spy
By Andrew Walden @ 12:01 AM :: 38686 Views :: Democratic Party, Hawaii History, Military, Police
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“It was (his) work as head of the HPD’s Espionage Bureau that lay the foundation for Burns’ later political success in Hawaii.”
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Monday, December 2, 2024 |
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SF Judge Rules 'Empty Homes Tax’ Unconstitutional
By Andrew Walden @ 3:50 PM :: 3602 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Land Use, Taxes
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... the (US) Supreme Court has held that the government cannot “compel a landowner over objection to rent his property” without violating the Takings Clause ....
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Sunday, December 1, 2024 |
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‘Empty Homes Tax’ Drives Rent up 37%
By Andrew Walden @ 5:40 PM :: 1856 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Taxes, Cost of Living
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...Even the bill’s supporters don’t pretend rents will come down....
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Tuesday, November 26, 2024 |
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Questions for Tulsi Gabbard about the National Socialists who directed her Syria Trip
By Andrew Walden @ 2:15 AM :: 1781 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Tulsi Gabbard
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“We’ll have lots of questions. She met with Bashar Assad. We’ll want to know what the purpose was and what the direction for that was as a member of Congress.”
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Wednesday, November 6, 2024 |
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2024 General Election Results --FOURTH READ
By Andrew Walden @ 5:17 AM :: 2219 Views :: Office of Elections
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... Republicans gain 1 Senate Seat and 3 House seats -- REP PIERICK PULLS AHEAD BY 20 VOTES -- to defeat Rosenlee again ....
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Monday, November 4, 2024 |
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376,635 Early Votes cast in General Election
By Andrew Walden @ 2:27 PM :: 753 Views :: Office of Elections
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... numbers obtained from County Election Commissions all valid as of Saturday, Nov 2, 2024 ....
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Tuesday, October 22, 2024 |
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OHA to Take Control of Kahana Valley Living Park?
By Andrew Walden @ 8:08 PM :: 951 Views :: Ethics, Land Use, OHA, Tourism
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... Will OHA transfer control of Kahana Valley to one of its LLCs? ....
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Sunday, October 20, 2024 |
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Hawaii Campaign Spending Commission: Republicans OK as long as they don’t spend any money defeating Hawaii Democrats
By Andrew Walden @ 7:25 PM :: 1882 Views :: Ethics, Republican Party
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... Hawaii Republicans can do anything they want with their $546,381.14--derived from selling the Party headquarters—as long as they don’t spend it on winning state or county elections ....
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Thursday, October 17, 2024 |
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Saturday, October 5, 2024 |
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Game Over for Fake Settlement? Lahaina Fire Insurers Find a Way into Federal Court
By Andrew Walden @ 5:22 PM :: 2069 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Ethics, Judiciary
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... The State Judiciary can be counted on to twist the law to serve KSBE and HECO. The Federal Judiciary doesn't even know who they are ....
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Wednesday, October 2, 2024 |
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FULL TEXT: ATF Lahaina Fire Report
By Andrew Walden @ 7:15 PM :: 1202 Views :: Maui County, Hawaii History
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...the report focuses on the 'rekindling' of the morning fire as the cause of the afternoon fire which destroyed Lahaina and killed 102 people....
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Monday, September 16, 2024 |
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Hawaii Connection--FBI Searching Kaaawa Home of Alleged Would-be Trump Assassin
By Andrew Walden @ 2:39 AM :: 2392 Views :: National News
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... Ryan Wesley Routh, 58 had a long criminal record from North Carolina before relocating to Kaaawa. In a social media post, he claims to have voted for Trump in 2016 ....
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Thursday, September 12, 2024 |
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Q-Anon Cult Leader Loses Hawaii Real Estate License
By Andrew Walden @ 4:20 PM :: 1911 Views :: Kauai County
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... QAnon-adjacent beliefs like satanic child sex trafficking, the Luciferian agenda, aliens, reptilian overlords; advice on how to detach from your “family cult” ....
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Saturday, September 7, 2024 |
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Investment Bankers: How to Force Lahaina Insurers into Accepting Smaller Settlement
By Andrew Walden @ 5:09 PM :: 1546 Views :: Maui County, Ethics, Judiciary, Cost of Living
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... The chances of an expensive, boneheaded precedent being set are greatly enhanced ....
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Tuesday, September 3, 2024 |
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Is the US Department of Justice still ‘investigating’ the Maui Wildfires?
By Andrew Walden @ 5:02 PM :: 1285 Views :: Maui County, Ethics
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... The US DoJ response to an Hawai’i Free Press FOIA request says so ....
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Saturday, August 31, 2024 |
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Thursday, August 29, 2024 |
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Kennedy will not be on Hawaii Ballot?
By Andrew Walden @ 3:34 PM :: 1348 Views :: Office of Elections
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... Kennedy dropped out of the Presidential race and endorsed Donald Trump ....
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Thursday, August 29, 2024 |
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Meet the Meth Gang Behind ‘Lahaina Strong’
By Andrew Walden @ 3:51 AM :: 15683 Views :: Maui County, Tourism, Drugs
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... A Great Leader of the Hawaiian People Who Occasionally Sells Poison to their Children ....
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Sunday, August 25, 2024 |
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Maui’s Hidden Ethics – Who is Hiding Behind the Redactions?
By Andrew Walden @ 6:32 PM :: 1791 Views :: Maui County, Ethics
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... since January, four ethics opinions regarding Maui County employees who see their job as an opportunity to direct 'non-profit' grant funds to friends and family ....
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Sunday, August 18, 2024 |
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After Sovereignty ‘Army’ Ousted, Alleged Meth Dealer moves in on Local Country Club
By Andrew Walden @ 12:18 AM :: 3080 Views :: Honolulu County, Drugs
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... “a years-long, multi-defendant drug trafficking conspiracy” which allegedly moved 150 lbs of methamphetamines, one kilo of fentanyl, and four kilos of carfentanil, an elephant tranquilizer 100 times more potent than fentanyl ....
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Friday, August 16, 2024 |
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Hawaii Statehood: Tiny 1959 opposition was anti-Japanese, not anti-American
By Andrew Walden @ 12:01 AM :: 60655 Views :: Hawaii History
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... Opponents of Statehood were landed aristocracy fearful of being ruled by their employees ....
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Tuesday, August 13, 2024 |
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Full Text: Insurers Will Appeal Fake Maui Settlement Ruling
By Andrew Walden @ 3:19 PM :: 1579 Views :: Maui County, Ethics
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"...dramatically altering the insurance landscape in the State...."
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Monday, August 12, 2024 |
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After Mysterious Rome Conference, Tulsi Gabbard on Terror Watchlist?
By Andrew Walden @ 1:01 AM :: 4093 Views :: Tulsi Gabbard
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... after coming back from a mysterious 'conference' in Rome ....
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Sunday, August 11, 2024 |
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Primary Election Results--Fourth Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:39 AM :: 3298 Views :: Office of Elections
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... Only 269,912 votes are counted on Fourth Read -- 32.1% of the 839,618 total registered voters in Hawaii ....
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Thursday, August 8, 2024 |
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Full Text: Insurance Company Lawyers Debunk Green’s Fake Lahaina Fire Settlement
By Andrew Walden @ 5:51 PM :: 2695 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Ethics, Judiciary
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... All other Hawai'i media are pretending Green's settlement is real. Fortunately, you are reading Hawai'i Free Press ....
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Wednesday, August 7, 2024 |
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Sunday, August 4, 2024 |
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Hawaii Republican Party Sells HQ—Where is the $1.2M?
By Andrew Walden @ 7:10 PM :: 3782 Views :: Ethics, Republican Party
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‘A fool and his money are soon parted.’
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Thursday, August 1, 2024 |
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Al Hee Laughed out of Court—“Close this Case!”
By Andrew Walden @ 2:40 AM :: 1884 Views :: DHHL, Ethics, Hawaii History
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“yet another attempt at serial litigation by the Hee enterprises”
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Sunday, July 21, 2024 |
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Crooks and Cronies on the Move in Primary Races
By Andrew Walden @ 5:31 PM :: 7611 Views :: Democratic Party, Hawaii State Government, OHA, Republican Party
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... Keli’i Akina, OHA’s only honest Trustee, is being challenged by three has-beens in an obviously coordinated effort ....
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Thursday, July 11, 2024 |
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Ariel Sellers Murder: Family Court Refuses to Release Secret Records “because of the impression of DHS and the family court that it might create”
By Andrew Walden @ 10:47 PM :: 1374 Views :: Family, First Amendment, Judiciary
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"The family court held that the redacted record could not be disclosed because of the impression of DHS and the family court that it might create."
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Sunday, July 7, 2024 |
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July 7, 1935: Moscow orders first Communists to Hawaii
By Andrew Walden @ 2:32 PM :: 50182 Views :: Democratic Party, Hawaii History, Labor
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...When the USSR collapsed in 1991, long-secret archives of the Communist International were thrown open to western researchers for the first time. Many previously unknown details of communist history have been revealed--including the 1935 Comintern orders directing Communists to begin work in Hawaii....
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Saturday, June 29, 2024 |
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Scheme to Remake Lahaina as Touristy Water Park Advances in Congress
By Andrew Walden @ 5:12 PM :: 3000 Views :: Maui County, Environment, Development, Hawaii History, Land Use, Tourism
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... The remade Lahaina will be a tourist-oriented animation of the pre-plantation era when the economy was based on slaughtering lots of whales ....
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Saturday, June 29, 2024 |
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Criminal Alleges Ariel Sellers Buried at Bumpy Kanahele’s Waimanalo Compound
By Andrew Walden @ 5:55 AM :: 4281 Views :: Akaka Bill, Honolulu County, Family, OHA
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“HPD is taking this seriously and attempting to determine whether Branco may have indeed been able to contact Kalua while in jail.”
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Friday, June 14, 2024 |
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June 14, 1900: The Abolition of Slavery in Hawaii
By Andrew Walden @ 12:01 AM :: 61211 Views :: Hawaii History, Labor
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Hawaii was the last place in the US to abolish indentured servitude....
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Thursday, June 13, 2024 |
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Geanna Bradley Coverup: Witness Handed Over to Alleged Killer's Family
By Andrew Walden @ 6:03 PM :: 3347 Views :: Ethics, Family, Judiciary
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... CWS social workers did not seek immediate medical attention for John “A.B.” Doe after Geanna Bradley was found murdered on January 18, 2024, instead, on January 19, 2024, they placed him with Brandy Blas’ sister ....
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Wednesday, June 5, 2024 |
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Hawaii Per-Capita GDP Grows as Young Families Flee Hawaii
By Andrew Walden @ 3:25 AM :: 1190 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics
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... Young families are leaving Hawaii. Rich retirees are moving in. The result is a sharp increase in per capita GDP ....
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Saturday, June 1, 2024 |
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Clayton Hee Trying to Sneak Back into the State Senate
By Andrew Walden @ 6:26 AM :: 5737 Views :: Ethics, Office of Elections, Republican Party
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... UPDATE Monday, June 3, 2024: Republican Sen Brenton Awa pulled and filed today. Democrats Clayton Hee and Ben Shafer filed their nomination petitions. ....
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Saturday, May 18, 2024 |
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The Office of Hawaiian Affairs is a slush fund—Where is the money going?
By Andrew Walden @ 9:54 PM :: 3974 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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... Ironically, OHA is repeating the error of Hawaiian Kingdom royals who exploited their own people and relied on an alliance with businessmen ....
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Saturday, April 27, 2024 |
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Miske Hitman Criminal Record Secretly Expunged
By Andrew Walden @ 12:32 AM :: 4476 Views :: Ethics, First Amendment, Judiciary, Second Amendment
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... You won’t find any record of expungement proceedings on ECourtKokua—they’re secret ....
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Friday, April 19, 2024 |
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Taxpayers Not on the Hook for HECO's $542M 'Special Purpose Revenue Bonds'
By Andrew Walden @ 3:37 AM :: 1499 Views :: Energy
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... another $700M has been authorized, but not issued ....
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Saturday, April 13, 2024 |
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Affordable Housing? HB2328 Bethel Block Bill Secretly a Sweet Deal for Fullard-Leo Family
By Andrew Walden @ 3:37 AM :: 2852 Views :: Ethics, Development
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... secretly to give $8,480,800 over the tax assessment to one specific family at the request of Neil Abercrombie ....
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Friday, April 12, 2024 |
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Rape and Death: HB2340 pays $2.5M to Coverup Foster Care Disasters
By Andrew Walden @ 11:19 PM :: 3445 Views :: Ethics, Family, Judiciary
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... rape, sodomy, forced oral copulation and fondling, physical beatings, starvation, theft and destruction of personal property, and failure to provide medical care, clothing, and medicine ....
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Thursday, April 11, 2024 |
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SB2706: 'Expungement' will help sex offenders find work in Hawaii schools
By Andrew Walden @ 8:44 PM :: 2466 Views :: Education K-12, Judiciary, Law Enforcement
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... Examples of offenses which may be eligible for automatic expungement include domestic abuse, harassment by stalking, certain sex offenses, sexual exploitation, promoting pornography for minors, and habitual intoxicated driving ....
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Wednesday, April 3, 2024 |
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The Secret History of the Mercado Kim Crime Family
By Andrew Walden @ 9:48 PM :: 11750 Views :: Ethics, Gambling, Hawaii History, Police, Politicians, Drugs
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... Mercado Kim's uncle, John Sayin Kim, became Godfather of Hawaii organized crime after the explosion of his Cadillac Eldorado in Chinatown ....
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Saturday, March 30, 2024 |
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Eight Parties on Hawaii Ballot--but Democrats Challenge Kennedy's 'We The People'
By Andrew Walden @ 4:58 PM :: 2358 Views :: Democratic Party, Office of Elections
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... National-level polling shows Kennedy pulling more votes from Biden than Trump ....
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Tuesday, March 26, 2024 |
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Prince Kuhio's Fight to Americanize Hawaii
By Andrew Walden @ 12:01 AM :: 40156 Views :: DHHL, Agriculture, Hawaii History, Land Use
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...the homestead associations he championed in his first decade of service were multi-ethnic groups seeking the fee-simple ownership of land promised in the Hawaii Organic Act....
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Sunday, March 17, 2024 |
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Hawaii Republican leaders secretly met with Miske Hitman Lindsey Kinney
By Andrew Walden @ 11:59 PM :: 6220 Views :: First Amendment, Republican Party
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... How Miske Hitman ‘Kleaned House’ in Three Political Parties ....
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Wednesday, March 13, 2024 |
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Trump Sweeps Hawaii Republican Caucus
By Andrew Walden @ 5:32 AM :: 2525 Views :: Republican Party
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... Proportionally, Kauai County has the highest turnout ....
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Tuesday, March 12, 2024 |
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JSC Still Seeking Applicants for Big Island Circuit Judge
By Andrew Walden @ 4:31 PM :: 1774 Views :: Hawaii County , Judiciary
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... Notice of Second Extended Deadline for Applications for Anticipated Judicial Vacancy – Circuit Judge, Circuit Court of the Third Circuit (island of Hawai’i) ....
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