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Entries for 'Andrew Walden'
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 |
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Can the Trump Administration save Honolulu from wasting $2.5B on Sand Island Sewage Plant?
By Andrew Walden @ 8:13 PM :: 245 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Taxes
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... The cost of the Sand Island upgrade aligns with the Council’s dispute with the Blangiardi administration over the amount of sewer fee increases to be forced upon Oahu ratepayers ....
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Sunday, May 25, 2025 |
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VIDEO: $4000 Dela Cruz Campaign Contribution buys Shouting Match in Hilo
By Andrew Walden @ 9:02 PM :: 2191 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy, Ethics
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... Was it worth it? Senate Ways and Means Chair Donovan Dela Cruz got $4,000 in campaign contributions from convicted Unity House felon Roberta Cabral. In exchange, we got a shouting match in Hilo ....
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Thursday, May 15, 2025 |
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Missing Meth Money a Conflict of Interest for Bissen Appointee?
By Andrew Walden @ 3:51 PM :: 4366 Views :: Maui County, Ethics, Drugs
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... when authorities raided the Kiakona compound, a mere $140,000 of cash was seized, along with 2 pounds of crystal meth and multiple firearms. Where are the rest of the millions? ....
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Tuesday, May 6, 2025 |
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‘By Request’ Gambling Bill got John Mizuno Ousted as Homeless Czar?
By Andrew Walden @ 3:43 PM :: 2426 Views :: Ethics, Gambling, Homelessness
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... Was John Mizuno lobbying for a gaming bill while on state time as director of the Statewide Office of Homelessness and Housing Solutions? ....
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Monday, May 5, 2025 |
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SB1396: Parts of Green Fee are Already Doomed in Court
By Andrew Walden @ 3:06 PM :: 1099 Views :: Environment, Taxes, Tourism
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"Federal courts (including the Supreme Court) have consistently ruled for over a century that fees or taxes imposed on vessels by non-federal entities are prohibited."
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Wednesday, April 30, 2025 |
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SCR198: Screwed out of Subrogation, Insurers Urged to Serve Legislature's Agenda by Suing Big Oil
By Andrew Walden @ 1:33 PM :: 1104 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Environment, Ethics
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"...We kicked your butt and took your subrogation money. Now you work for us and serve our agenda by wasting your time on yet another bogus climate change lawsuit filed by Sher-Edling, of course...."
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Monday, April 28, 2025 |
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‘Empty Homes Tax’ Drives Rent up 37%
By Andrew Walden @ 1:40 PM :: 5028 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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Thursday, April 24, 2025 |
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Republicans Give Josh Green Opportunity to Appoint his Former Office Manager as State Rep
By Andrew Walden @ 5:16 PM :: 4501 Views
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... It is not clear what low-budget legislative shenanigans caused Republicans to give Green this chance ....
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Sunday, March 30, 2025 |
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HB900 Dies in Senate: No Lawyers for Abused Foster Kids
By Andrew Walden @ 8:14 PM :: 2834 Views :: Ethics, Family, Judiciary
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“...Hawai’i is one of only five states that does not currently guarantee the right to legal counsel for children during the duration of their child welfare case....”
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Wednesday, March 26, 2025 |
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Prince Kuhio's Fight to Americanize Hawaii
By Andrew Walden @ 4:25 PM :: 43725 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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Friday, March 14, 2025 |
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'We Were Scammed:' NZ Lawsuits Expose fraudulent Hawaii Geothermal Developer
By Andrew Walden @ 9:07 PM :: 6282 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy, Ethics, OHA
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... Maori Trust insolvent, placed in receivership, after being looted by IDG Hawaii Geothermal schemers ....
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Tuesday, March 11, 2025 |
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Crackpot Lawsuit is all it takes--Maui Mayor and SHOPO make Complete Fools of Themselves Trying to get rid of Chief Pelletier
By Andrew Walden @ 4:04 AM :: 3699 Views :: Maui County, Ethics, Police
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... Pelletier credit card records prove he was in Las Vegas, hundreds of miles away from the alleged rape scene ....
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Sunday, March 9, 2025 |
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The Unity House Scandal Never Really Ended — decades later, it might bankrupt Hawaiian Electric
By Andrew Walden @ 1:39 AM :: 6875 Views :: Energy, Ethics, Higher Education, OHA, Cost of Living
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... a leftover Unity House scheme could be costing Hawaiian Electric as much as $476M per year ....
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Saturday, March 8, 2025 |
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Social Worker Arrested in Torture Death of Foster Girl
By Andrew Walden @ 1:24 AM :: 4402 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Higher Education, COVID-19
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... The latest foster parent arrested for child torture is a university instructor, social worker, DoE behavioral health specialist, and UH Manoa PhD student ....
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Tuesday, March 4, 2025 |
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Lawsuit Filed Against State After Latest CWS Child-Torture Death
By Andrew Walden @ 10:24 PM :: 1531 Views :: Family, Law Enforcement
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... allegedly CWS and PACT informed four times but did nothing before death of Sarai Perez-Rivera ....
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Thursday, January 30, 2025 |
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Gabbard Attended Pro-Russia Conference in Rome--then invented story about Terror Watchlist
By Andrew Walden @ 2:01 PM :: 8101 Views :: Tulsi Gabbard
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... UPDATE: Jan 28, 2025 NYT confirms we were right. Rome Conference with pro-Russia agenda was cause of Gabbard's incluson on 'Quiet Skies' -- not her criticism of Harris ....
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Wednesday, January 29, 2025 |
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Lahaina Fire: How Maui Emergency Operations Center Lost 'Situational Awareness'
By Andrew Walden @ 1:02 PM :: 2183 Views :: Maui County, Hawaii History
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... What was happening at the Maui County Emergency Operations Center (EOC) while Lahaina Burned? ....
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Tuesday, January 28, 2025 |
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COFA Migrants win Second Amendment Rights in Hawaii Suit
By Andrew Walden @ 5:10 PM :: 2924 Views :: Second Amendment
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... injunction overturns the unconstitutional denial of firearm ownership to law-abiding COFA residents ....
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Friday, January 24, 2025 |
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2024 Check Register: OHA Spending up 9.6%
By Andrew Walden @ 9:37 PM :: 1765 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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... OHA’s payroll totals $15.9M. This is 40.7% of OHA spending ....
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Friday, January 17, 2025 |
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OHA Trustees Never Approved $705K Hush Money Payment
By Andrew Walden @ 4:54 AM :: 2853 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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... OHA Trustee Hulu Lindsey, who was at the time Chair of the Board of Trustees (BoT), tells Hawai’i Free Press she was not aware of this $705K Laeha case settlement and that the BoT was never asked to approve the payment ....
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Tuesday, December 31, 2024 |
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Insider Giveaway? Hawaiian Electric Announces Sale of American Savings Bank
By Andrew Walden @ 2:05 PM :: 2863 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Economy
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... Sale price of $405M for 90.1% of ASB suggests that the sale is a 50%-off giveaway to ASB insiders ....
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Thursday, December 26, 2024 |
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Supreme Court Upholds Tom Cook Victory over Kelly King
By Andrew Walden @ 3:53 PM :: 1252 Views :: Maui County, Ethics, Office of Elections
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... The race is noteworthy because the ‘pro-development’ candidate Cook, beat the ‘anti-development’ candidate King by 97 votes. All it took to shift voter sentiment was Lahaina burning to the ground ....
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Thursday, December 26, 2024 |
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OHA Trustees’ Illegal 2025 Rush to Upzone Kakaako Makai (again)
By Andrew Walden @ 12:01 AM :: 1660 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Development, Land Use, OHA
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... OHA Trustees are hoping 2025 will be the year legislators stop laughing at their Kaka’ako Makai upzone bills ....
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Tuesday, December 24, 2024 |
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Long-Term Recovery Plan for Lahaina Does not commit to Rebuild Front Street
By Andrew Walden @ 8:40 AM :: 2055 Views :: Maui County, Development
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... The word ‘plan’ occurs 526 times in this report. The phrase ‘property rights’ occurs zero times ....
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Saturday, December 7, 2024 |
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Forgotten Honouliuli: Jack Burns, Police Spy
By Andrew Walden @ 12:01 AM :: 40424 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 :: 4788 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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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 :: 2714 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 :: 2956 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 :: 1106 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 :: 1845 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 :: 2362 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 :: 2982 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 :: 2577 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 :: 4374 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 :: 2861 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 :: 3876 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 :: 3451 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 :: 3550 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 :: 22473 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 :: 3763 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 :: 4061 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 :: 63767 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 :: 2724 Views :: Maui County, Ethics
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"...dramatically altering the insurance landscape in the State...."
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Sunday, August 11, 2024 |
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Primary Election Results--Fourth Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:39 AM :: 4502 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 :: 5448 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 :: 4416 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 :: 2658 Views :: DHHL, Ethics, Hawaii History
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“yet another attempt at serial litigation by the Hee enterprises”
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