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Saturday, November 8, 2025
'Building common ground' housing event travels to Kauai on Wednesday, Nov. 12
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:33 PM

...Grassroot Institute of Hawaii and Hawaiʻi Appleseed Center for Law & Economic Justice have teamed up with the Rice Street Business Association....

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Saturday, November 8, 2025
Just the beginning: 36-40 Flights Cut over Weekend
By News Release @ 6:29 AM

... We expect to cancel roughly 36-40 flights each day through Sunday, Nov. 9 ....

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Friday, November 7, 2025
$360M: HDoT Launches 113 Bicycle, Pedestrian Projects
By News Release @ 1:08 PM

... HDOT will invest approximately $360 million in multimodal projects over the next 10 years ....

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Friday, November 7, 2025
Hilo, 1881: Gaming for Control of the World's Largest Church
By Nicholas Freeman, PhD @ 1:47 AM

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

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Thursday, November 6, 2025
Hawai‘i’s News Desert: A Threat to Democracy and Civic Engagement
By News Release @ 11:59 PM

"...The number of Hawai‘i newspapers in circulation was as high as 52 in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but this number dropped to just 13 in 2024...."

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Thursday, November 6, 2025
OHA Approves Emergency Relief Payments for Native Hawaiians
By News Release @ 11:23 PM

... OHA estimates nearly 14,000 Native Hawaiian beneficiaries may qualify for the $350 direct payment to help meet food costs .... 

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Thursday, November 6, 2025
Lawsuit: OHA Budget Process Rooted in Illegal Power Grab
By Andrew Walden @ 7:03 PM

... OHA C-suite officers could be subject to criminal sanctions ....

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Thursday, November 6, 2025
Hawaii Household Debt Highest in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 3:21 PM

... and increasing ...

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Thursday, November 6, 2025
Ex-Justice Wilson: Hawaii Judiciary Believes Courts have duty to protect future generations from Climate Change
By News Release @ 12:43 AM

"Hawaii’s right to bring such litigation, he noted, has been threatened by the federal government's attempts to block such litigation."

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Thursday, November 6, 2025
AI Tool Helps You Keep Track of Hawaii Government Actions
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:24 AM

... keeping up with myriad government actions is challenging ....

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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

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

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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Hawaii AG joins suit over Trump’s limits for FEMA grants
By Court House News @ 11:18 AM

...attempt by Trump to curtail the agency’s programs and shift the burden of emergency management back to individual states, as it was before Katrina....

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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Hawaii AG joins suit to protect student loan forgiveness for 'illegal purpose' nonprofit employees
By News Release @ 11:01 AM

...the Department of Education issued a rule that threatened to remove eligibility for student loan forgiveness to anyone who works for someone with “a substantial illegal purpose.”....

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Tuesday, November 4, 2025
DoH Preps Hemp Retail Registration System
By News Release @ 10:42 PM

... Office of Medical Cannabis Control and Regulation (OMCCR) is launching an outreach and education initiative to encourage voluntary compliance among hemp retailers and distributors, including online and out-of-state businesses ....

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Tuesday, November 4, 2025
Matson Partners with WhaleSpotter to Commercialize Breakthrough Whale Detection Technology
By News Release @ 2:23 PM

... monitoring to reliably detect whales up to three nautical miles away, day or night ....

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Tuesday, November 4, 2025
Restoring ʻĀina, Restoring Ourselves
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 2:19 AM

... Across Hawaiʻi, many lands remain unused ....

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Tuesday, November 4, 2025
County of Maui seeking volunteers to serve on Boards and Commissions
By News Release @ 2:06 AM

... need volunteers for more than 30 panels, including Liquor Control Commission, Maui Planning Commission, Police Commission, Salary Commission, Urban Design Review Board, Fire and Public Safety Commission and others ....

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Monday, November 3, 2025
Convicted Felon Arrested and Charged After Stealing Multiple Firearms from a Storage Locker
By News Release @ 6:36 PM

... Campbell was previously convicted of burglary in the first degree in 2001 and has six prior felony convictions in the State of Hawaii ....

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Sunday, November 2, 2025
Easing farmworker housing rules crucial to Hawaii’s agriculture future
By News Release @ 5:45 PM

... having clear standards and not a bunch of hoops to jump through ....

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Sunday, November 2, 2025
Ohana Voices: Artificial Intelligence-powered civic-engagement platform
By News Release @ 5:35 PM

... to revolutionize how Hawaii residents communicate with legislators ....

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Sunday, November 2, 2025
TATmas Tree
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM

... Department of Hawaiian Home Lands is proposing Legislators again hike the Transient Accommodations Tax ....

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Sunday, November 2, 2025
Halloween is over, but spooky creatures still haunt us
By News Release @ 1:28 AM

... the Jones Act goblin, the budget banshee and the grasping rail ....

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Sunday, November 2, 2025
Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted November 1, 2025
By GovTrack .us @ 1:02 AM

... votes cast in Congress ....

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Saturday, November 1, 2025
Why Are Fewer Young People Identifying as Trans?
By Selected News Articles @ 5:47 PM

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

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Friday, October 31, 2025
State Tax Competitiveness--Hawaii Ranks 41st
By Tax Foundation @ 11:48 PM

... the general excise tax (GET) has an extremely broad base that includes virtually all business inputs, both goods and services, leading to significant tax pyramiding ....

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Friday, October 31, 2025
After 500,000 Warnings, Speed Cams Begin Issuing Real Tickets
By News Release @ 11:27 PM

... Since March, HDOT has sent over 500,000 warnings ....

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Friday, October 31, 2025
Study: Illinois, Connecticut, Alaska, Hawaii, New Jersey and Mississippi have the most per capita pension debt
By News Release @ 4:45 PM

... Hawaii public pension debt is $9,784 per person ....

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Friday, October 31, 2025
Tourist Count Drops 2.5%
By News Release @ 4:30 PM

... there were 690,858 total visitors to the Hawaiian Islands in September 2025, a 2.5 percent decline compared to September 2024 ....

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Thursday, October 30, 2025
$250 per person: State Opens up Welfare Spigots to Make up for Loss of SNAP
By News Release @ 11:54 PM

... Applications for the $250 Hawaiʻi Relief Program will be accepted beginning today, Wednesday, October 29, 2025 ....

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Thursday, October 30, 2025
Petition: Investigate Legislator who took $35K Bribe
By News Release @ 2:51 PM

... A Hawaii lawmaker who allegedly pocketed $35,000 in exchange for political favors remains unnamed and uncharged, despite federal court records confirming the transaction ....

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Thursday, October 30, 2025
Koko Head Shooting Complex Back at 100%
By News Release @ 12:46 AM

... The opening of the metallic silhouette range represents the final range to be reopened at the Koko Head Shooting Complex since its initial closure in September 2022 ....

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Thursday, October 30, 2025
Royal Hawaiian Band kicks off Christmas Season with free “Kalikimaka Ho‘omau” Holiday Concert at Blaisdell Nov. 28
By News Release @ 12:36 AM

... This year’s concert features a lineup of acclaimed Hawai‘i artists ....

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Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Hawaii is Failing in Affordability and Homebuilding: Can Gov. Green Change That?
By News Release @ 6:13 PM

... Green became the first governor in the nation to declare their state’s housing crisis a statewide public emergency in summer 2023 ....

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Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Maui Council to Meet November 3 to Establish Process to Fill Vacancy
By News Release @ 3:54 PM

... The process would closely follow steps taken by the council in 2002 to replace Council Chair Patrick Kawano, who passed away while in office ....

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Wednesday, October 29, 2025
HART Board of Directors Elects New Chair and Vice Chair
By News Release @ 4:33 AM

... following the resignation of Chair Colleen Hanabusa on September 26, 2025 ....

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Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Kamehameha Admissions:  Without Affirmative Action Defense, Who Needs Victimology?
By Andrew Walden @ 2:13 AM

... By eliminating affirmative action as a defense for Kamehameha’s admissions policy, SFA has done us all a favor ....

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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

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

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Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Final request: Kama asks Council to name Kauanoe Batagan as her successor
By News Release @ 2:29 PM

... Kauanoe Batagan is Executive Director of the Maui Metropolitan Planning Organization ....

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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

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

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Monday, October 27, 2025
Brenton Awa to Challenge Tokuda for Congress
By Video @ 3:10 PM

... Awa's state senate seat is not up in 2026 so he does not have to resign to run ....

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Monday, October 27, 2025
Grassroot: Lahaina, Jones Act, and Rail
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:01 AM

... upward of 500 building permits have been issued for Lahaina residents and businesses whose homes and storefronts were destroyed ....

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Sunday, October 26, 2025
Rubber Stamp Legislature Needs More Dissent
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 5:42 PM

... Out of 94,000 votes cast during the 2025 session of the Legislature, 92,000 were “Yes.” ....

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Sunday, October 26, 2025
Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted October 24, 2025
By GovTrack .us @ 4:50 PM

... votes cast and bills introduced in Congress ....

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Sunday, October 26, 2025
Spend That Money, Vought Is Watching
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM

... DHHL's carryover balances, and these high annual re-appropriations that they have, kind of made it low-hanging fruit for the Trump Administration .... 

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

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

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Saturday, October 25, 2025
Statewide Traffic Deaths Top Last Year's Total
By News Release @ 4:58 PM

... The 106 were a combination of motor vehicle occupants, pedestrians, motorcyclists, scooter riders, bicyclists and people on non-traditional conveyances like skateboards, foot scooters and Utility Task Vehicles ....

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Saturday, October 25, 2025
Inch by inch, everything's a cinch!
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:22 PM

... If we can keep clearing away the regulations that hamper recovery efforts, we might someday see a rebuilt and prosperous Lahaina ....

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Friday, October 24, 2025
UH study: 19-year life expectancy gap among Hawaiʻi groups
By News Release @ 3:13 PM

"... Other Pacific Islanders: 69.6 years ...."

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Friday, October 24, 2025
Contracts: How Much Money is in Honolulu's Sewers?
By UHERO @ 2:48 PM

... ENV’s role as a local engine of employment and income ....

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Friday, October 24, 2025
Pohoiki Boat Ramp Opens--Blocked by Shifting Shoreline within week
By News Release @ 5:01 AM

... From October 16 – 19, 2025, the entrance channel filled with black sand, cobbles, and larger lava rocks carried by ocean swells ....

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