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Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Top DoD Officials Evaluate Oahu Military Housing
By Selected News Articles @ 12:50 AM :: 225 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Military

... the installation is managing a sustained strain on barracks capacity that will continue for several years as the Army modernizes its infrastructure in Hawaii ....

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Tuesday, January 6, 2026
Hawaii's new act redefining parenthood has disturbing implications
By Selected News Articles @ 11:00 AM :: 911 Views :: Family, Life

... the Act promotes a disturbing view about the notion of parenthood, commodifies human life, and erodes the sanctity of natural conception ....

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Monday, January 5, 2026
Cap and Trade Scam Makes West Coast Gasoline Almost as Expensive as Hawaii--but not quite
By Selected News Articles @ 10:09 PM :: 712 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living

... Hawaii, at nearly $4.41 a gallon, still has the highest gasoline prices in USA ....

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Friday, January 2, 2026
Hawaii #1 in AI-Written Essays
By Selected News Articles @ 11:00 AM :: 741 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics, Higher Education

...Hawaii ranks first nationwide, recording approximately 1,482 AI-essay-related searches per 100,000 residents. The state stands out as a clear outlier, with significantly higher interest than the rest of the country....

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Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Tariffs to transgender athletes: SCOTUS cases to watch in 2026
By Selected News Articles @ 11:00 AM :: 603 Views :: Judiciary

... Hawaii's Attorney General is involved in many of these cases ....

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Monday, December 29, 2025
Climate activists v. the U.S. energy industry: Cases to watch in 2026
By Selected News Articles @ 11:59 AM :: 650 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy

... "woke lawfare" ....

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Friday, December 26, 2025
Hawaii highest in nation for child care costs, study shows
By Selected News Articles @ 11:44 PM :: 726 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living

... parents of young children who both work need to earn at least $119,226 together to pay for child care ....

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Wednesday, December 24, 2025
Hawaii AG Fights to Keep Trannies in Female Sports
By Selected News Articles @ 8:49 AM :: 1012 Views :: Education K-12, National News, Higher Education

... AGs from 13 Democrat states signed on to amicus brief ....

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Saturday, December 20, 2025
HHS acts to bar taxpayer-funded sex-change procedures
By Selected News Articles @ 10:15 AM :: 840 Views :: Family, Health Care

... The proposed rule bans hospitals from performing sex change interventions on minors as a condition for Medicare and Medicaid participation ....

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Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Hawaii AG Sues to Hide Data on College DEI Admissions
By Selected News Articles @ 10:39 PM :: 846 Views :: Higher Education

... Democratic attorneys general are urging the U.S. Department of Education to withdraw a proposed expansion of federal data collection on college admissions ....

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Monday, December 15, 2025
Honolulu Health Care Costs 15th Highest in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 3:49 PM :: 854 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Cost of Living

... In Honolulu, health care costs 8.69% of median monthly income, 15th highest in USA.  And most of the top 15 cities have substantially lower median incomes ....

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Monday, December 15, 2025
Origins of the Great Hawaiian Revival of 1836-1842
By Selected News Articles @ 3:28 AM :: 1387 Views :: Hawaii History, Religion

... the largest and fastest growth period of the Protestant church in the Hawaiian Islands and one of the largest revivals in the world ....

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Friday, December 12, 2025
State Governments Parlay Sports Betting Into Tax Windfall
By Selected News Articles @ 12:46 PM :: 794 Views :: Gambling, Taxes

... Over the past four years, many states (but not Hawaii) have eased restrictions on gambling, contributing to the explosion of sports betting sales tax revenue ....

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Thursday, December 11, 2025
Kalaupapa, site of Catholic saint history, reopens to visitors
By Selected News Articles @ 1:09 PM :: 813 Views :: Maui County, Hawaii History, Religion, Tourism

... For the last five years, this historical space has been closed to the public . But now, visitors are welcomed back ....

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Wednesday, December 10, 2025
New Report Illuminates Geothermal Cooling Potential in Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 5:10 PM :: 675 Views :: Energy

... low-temperature geothermal can be accessed much nearer the ground surface, and used for building cooling ....

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Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Hawaii Says Trump’s Medicaid Policy Is Harmful. They Can’t Prove It.
By Selected News Articles @ 1:12 AM :: 897 Views :: Health Care, Judiciary

“...Without actual harm, Hawaii lacks standing to sue...."

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Tuesday, December 9, 2025
‘The Babylon Bee’ Fights Hawaii Law Censoring Political Speech
By Selected News Articles @ 11:49 PM :: 850 Views :: First Amendment

... The Babylon Bee went to court to challenge a Hawaii law banning “deceptive media” during the 10 months before an election ....

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Sunday, December 7, 2025
Homelessness: How Effective is HONU Program?
By Selected News Articles @ 2:38 PM :: 874 Views :: Honolulu County, Homelessness

... HONU is successful in moving 1 in 3 homeless that it interacts with off the street ....

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Friday, December 5, 2025
Fanatics starts sports prediction app, not subject to state taxes in Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 4:23 PM :: 710 Views :: Gambling

... users wager against each other on the results of everything from sports markets to elections ....

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Monday, December 1, 2025
West Coast Health Alliance pushes back against antivaxxer lies
By Selected News Articles @ 12:37 PM :: 955 Views :: Health Care

... Hawaii had the highest vaccination rate and lowest mortality rate ....

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Thursday, November 27, 2025
Hawaii joins Attorneys General suing to keep SNAP for legal immigrants
By Selected News Articles @ 11:26 AM :: 961 Views :: National News, Hawaii State Government

... Although the Big Beautiful Bill Act eliminated SNAP eligibility for individuals who entered the U.S. as refugees or were granted asylum or humanitarian parole, it did not end the eligibility for noncitizens who became legal permanent residents, Bonta said....

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Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Hurricane Tulsi
By Selected News Articles @ 3:56 PM :: 1281 Views :: Tulsi Gabbard

... these events in our intelligence community track with the interests of former KGB officer and Russian President Putin more so than with the national security interests of the United States ....

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Tuesday, November 25, 2025
DOJ Files Historic Supreme Court Brief in Support of Hawaii Second Amendment Case
By Selected News Articles @ 3:24 PM :: 1066 Views :: Second Amendment

... In a historic first, the Department of Justice has filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in a Second Amendment case that sides with plaintiffs challenging a gun control law ....

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Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Hawaii AG Wins Federal court order blocking Trump from dismantling four agencies
By Selected News Articles @ 2:13 AM :: 1101 Views :: National News, Homelessness, Judiciary

... The agencies are the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Minority Business Development Agency, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, and the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness ....

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Saturday, November 22, 2025
Hawai'i AG Demands Trump Admin Allow Food Stamps for Non-Citizens
By Selected News Articles @ 12:12 PM :: 1068 Views :: National News, Hawaii State Government, Cost of Living

... the USDA guidance, which would exclude noncitizens who are permanent residents from eligibility for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The USDA manages SNAP ....

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Friday, November 14, 2025
Trump signs executive order to improve foster care
By Selected News Articles @ 9:32 AM :: 833 Views :: Family, Religion

"...address state and local policies that disqualify otherwise qualified caregivers based on their religious beliefs or moral convictions...."

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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Hirono & Schatz Voted 15 Times to Keep Government Closed--blame Republicans
By Selected News Articles @ 10:47 PM :: 1734 Views :: Congressional Delegation

... Democrat demands to reopen the government included $3.9 million for LGBTQI+ democracy grants in the Western Balkans ....

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Friday, November 7, 2025
Hilo, 1881: Gaming for Control of the World's Largest Church
By Selected News Articles @ 1:47 AM :: 1466 Views :: Hawaii County , Hawaii History, Religion

“Kekoa tried the same game here some two or three years ago.”

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Thursday, November 6, 2025
Hawaii Household Debt Highest in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 3:21 PM :: 1641 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living

... and increasing ...

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Thursday, November 6, 2025
Hawaii remains the only state in the nation to impose a complete prohibition on firearm ownership by adults aged eighteen to twenty
By Selected News Articles @ 12:14 AM :: 1016 Views :: Second Amendment

... The case of Pinales v. Lopez now challenges this unprecedented infringement ....

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Saturday, November 1, 2025
Why Are Fewer Young People Identifying as Trans?
By Selected News Articles @ 5:47 PM :: 1922 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Higher Education

... since 2023 both trans and queer identification have dropped sharply within Generation Z ....

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Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Hawaii Joins 22 States Suing to Keep Welfare Cash Flowing
By Selected News Articles @ 5:12 PM :: 1069 Views :: National News, Hawaii State Government

... Coalition Urges Court to Immediately Restore SNAP Funding Relied Upon by 42 Million Americans ....

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Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Hegseth in Hawaii--Update on Purge of Generals (in China)
By Selected News Articles @ 3:40 AM :: 1578 Views :: Military

... Pentagon chief told purge of PLA generals was linked to Party disloyalty, as well as corruption ....

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Sunday, October 26, 2025
Honolulu’s “No Firearms” Transit Signs Are Misleading
By Selected News Articles @ 4:41 AM :: 1851 Views :: Small Business

... HRS §134-9.1 explicitly allows people to transport an unloaded firearm in a locked, hard-sided case ....

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Thursday, October 23, 2025
Hawaii needs help with its social worker shortage
By Selected News Articles @ 6:27 PM :: 1335 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Higher Education

... Nearly half a million Hawaii residents live in mental health deserts, with just one provider for every 335 patients ....

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Thursday, October 23, 2025
Hawaii DoE Disciplines Teacher for Student-Initiated Charlie Kirk Free Speech Discussion on Constitution Day
By Selected News Articles @ 3:32 AM :: 3943 Views :: Education K-12, First Amendment

... the vice principal interrupted a social studies department meeting to announce that teachers are not allowed to discuss “controversial issues” and that if controversial issues arise in student discussions, teachers must “shut it down” ....

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Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Time for new choices on how to fix Hawaii’s shortage of housing
By Selected News Articles @ 3:58 PM :: 1567 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living

... Our housing crisis is the result of past choices. The solution requires the courage to make new ones going forward ....

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Monday, October 20, 2025
Hawaii State Most Affected by Government Shutdown
By Selected News Articles @ 3:06 PM :: 1655 Views :: Hawaii Statistics

... Hawaii is tied with MD and DC for the largest share of federal employees ....

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Saturday, October 18, 2025
BBC: Harbors Division Rejected Two Offers to Save Falls of Clyde
By Selected News Articles @ 3:59 AM :: 1422 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii History

... A Norwegian firm which operates heavy lift ships offered to transport Falls of Clyde back to Scotland for free, but the campaign was soon embroiled in a wrangle with the …(Hawaii Dept of Transport Harbors Division)… over insurance costs and other conditions ....

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Thursday, October 16, 2025
Hawaii Joins Democrat States' Tech Anti-Trust Lawsuit
By Selected News Articles @ 12:33 PM :: 1161 Views :: National News

(CLUE: Stupid Democrats still don't understand what turned Big Tech against them.)

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Saturday, October 11, 2025
When Honolulu chose the airport: A council aide’s view of the decision that changed the Skyline
By Selected News Articles @ 7:37 PM :: 1945 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii History, Rail

... the idea of the rail rolling on tracks in the second phase to the airport was, at the origin of the project, not a done deal ....

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Saturday, October 11, 2025
Hawaii State Budget -- 26% Federal Funds
By Selected News Articles @ 1:22 PM :: 1372 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics

... the state that relies the least is Hawaii at 26.3% ....

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Saturday, October 11, 2025
Ka’ahumanu’s Christian Conversion: The Tahitian Connection
By Selected News Articles @ 1:16 AM :: 1627 Views :: Hawaii History, Religion

... tracing Ka’ahumanu’s conversion to Christ, one must first look to Tahiti in the year 1796 ....

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Thursday, October 2, 2025
Green Wants Ultimate Fighting Training Center and Octagon at Aloha Stadium
By Selected News Articles @ 4:36 PM :: 1793 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Tourism

 “It’s more opportunity to kind of reshape some of the tourism experience that we have" -- Josh Green

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Sunday, September 28, 2025
COVID Money, Accounting Tricks Reduce Hawaii's Debt
By Selected News Articles @ 1:52 PM :: 2041 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics, Taxes

... now, each taxpayer would have to contribute 'only' $8,800 to help pay off the state’s debt ....

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Sunday, September 21, 2025
Davida Malo: Two Undiscovered Sermons
By Selected News Articles @ 12:37 PM :: 2680 Views :: Hawaii History, Religion

... Malo's method of approach involves using a classical apologetic by presenting observable natural and historical evidence ....

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Saturday, September 20, 2025
Hawaii Student Debt Among Lowest in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 2:48 AM :: 3169 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education, Cost of Living

... the average student owes $38,929 in Hawaii .... 

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Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Hawaii: Seven Years Income to Buy House
By Selected News Articles @ 9:30 PM :: 3741 Views :: Development, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living

... Value-to-income ratios below 4 are affordable ....

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Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Feds axe $12.9M in Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian grants
By Selected News Articles @ 11:29 PM :: 2393 Views :: Higher Education, OHA

... U.S. Department of Education announces cuts; secretary of education stresses goal to end racial quotas ....

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Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Why everything Pam Bondi said about ‘hate speech’ is wrong
By Selected News Articles @ 10:26 PM :: 3627 Views :: First Amendment

“hate speech is any speech I hate”

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