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Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Trump Orders Temporary Withdrawal of Offshore Areas from Wind Leasing
By News Release @ 2:49 PM :: 1795 Views :: Energy, Environment

... temporary withdrawal of all areas on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) from wind energy leasing ....

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Tuesday, January 21, 2025
David K. Porter Named Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Honolulu Field Office
By News Release @ 1:23 PM :: 1840 Views :: Law Enforcement

... Mr. Porter most recently served as the chief of staff for the Deputy Director at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. ....

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Monday, January 20, 2025
Hawaii 7th-Worst State to Start New Business
By Selected News Articles @ 10:11 PM :: 1626 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business

... Choosing the right state for a business is crucial to its success ....

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Monday, January 20, 2025
Court Rejects Biden's 'Project Labor Agreement' Mandate
By News Release @ 5:02 PM :: 2738 Views :: Labor, Military, Rail

"...Mandating PLAs for Most Federal Construction Projects Is an Unauthorized Set-Aside...."

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Monday, January 20, 2025
VIDEO: Trump Inaugural Address
By Video @ 2:16 PM :: 1921 Views :: National News

"... America's decline is over ...."

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Monday, January 20, 2025
Do Lahaina recovery efforts hold lessons for LA?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 1:35 PM :: 1797 Views :: Maui County, Development

... over the past year, we’ve seen how bureaucratic hurdles can make it difficult to rebuild homes and businesses ....

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Sunday, January 19, 2025
Housing Affordability: Regulations or Spending?
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:21 PM :: 1529 Views :: Development, Cost of Living

... “it’s much easier to spend money than it is to deal with regulations, and that’s what’s going on here.” ...

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Sunday, January 19, 2025
Military Personnel 14% of Oahu Rental Market -- but nearly 0% of Sister Isle Rental Market
By News Release @ 3:15 PM :: 2966 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Military, Cost of Living

... Since DoD personnel occupy almost no rentals on the Sister Isles, DoD impact may be inferred by comparing Sister Isle rental rates to Oahu rental rates ....

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Sunday, January 19, 2025
Climate Resiliency
By Tom Yamachika @ 11:21 AM :: 1822 Views :: Maui County, Hawaii State Government

... Big funds with large amounts of money sitting around become, now or over time, tempting targets for lawmakers to raid or divert ....

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Sunday, January 19, 2025
Hawaii Congressional Delegation--How they Voted January 17, 2025
By GovTrack .us @ 12:32 AM :: 1704 Views :: Congressional Delegation

... Votes cast and bills introduced .... 

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Saturday, January 18, 2025
Spending restraint tagged as best way to protect 2024 state tax cuts
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:00 AM :: 1328 Views :: Taxes

... employees should already be seeing a bump in their paychecks thanks to the tax cuts ....

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Saturday, January 18, 2025
Vigilance key to protecting historic state income tax cut
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 2:51 AM :: 1366 Views :: Taxes

... Hawaii lawmakers might undermine some of the benefits of the tax cut by raising taxes elsewhere, “just kind of surreptitiously” ....

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Saturday, January 18, 2025
Trump should bypass support for the protectionist Jones Act
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:41 AM :: 1661 Views :: Jones Act

... trying to roll back policies that have damaged the U.S. economy ....

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Saturday, January 18, 2025
City partners with UHERO to launch Subsidized Housing Tracker
By UHERO @ 2:09 AM :: 1754 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Hawaii Statistics

... tracker consolidates data on government-subsidized housing units across Honolulu County ....

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Friday, January 17, 2025
Murdered Baby Related to HPD Deputy Chief, DHS Investigator
By News Release @ 1:15 PM :: 8009 Views :: Honolulu County, Family, Hawaii History, Police

... A young girl, whose remains were discovered in a Waikiki apartment in 2014, has been identified as Mary Sue Fink, born April 29, 1959 ....

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Friday, January 17, 2025
OHA Trustees Never Approved $705K Hush Money Payment
By Andrew Walden @ 4:54 AM :: 4211 Views :: Ethics, OHA

... 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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Friday, January 17, 2025
VIDEO: Hirono, Pam Bondi, and Sexual Harassment
By Video @ 3:31 AM :: 3694 Views :: Congressional Delegation

... "Let's move on" ....

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Thursday, January 16, 2025
Illegal Vapes: AG Warns Retailers
By News Release @ 10:12 PM :: 2741 Views :: Health Care, Small Business, Drugs

... This initiative is part of a coordinated effort, led by a bipartisan coalition of 10 attorneys general from around the country to hold companies accountable ....

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Thursday, January 16, 2025
Hawaii House Updates Rules for 2025 Session
By News Release @ 8:35 PM :: 2757 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government

... 'Nay' voters on Conference Committee and 'By Request' by whom ....

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Thursday, January 16, 2025
Interior Department Strengthens Native Hawaiian Consultation Policies and Procedures, Affirms Federal Trust Responsibility to Native Hawaiian Community
By News Release @ 5:32 PM :: 2201 Views :: DHHL, OHA

"...government-to-sovereign consultations between the Department and the Native Hawaiian Community, to include Native Hawaiian Organizations...."

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Thursday, January 16, 2025
NCAA athletes seeking women's sports for women only
By Selected News Articles @ 2:42 AM :: 1658 Views :: Higher Education

... Without those protections, women’s sports will eventually be destroyed said Sia Li'iLi'i, a product of Halawa, Hawai'i. ...

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Thursday, January 16, 2025
Ninth Circuit won’t rehear arguments on its decision to uphold gun-free zones in Hawaii and California
By Court House News @ 2:31 AM :: 1775 Views :: Second Amendment

... Eight Republican-appointed judges dissented ....

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Thursday, January 16, 2025
US DOT Sues Southwest Airlines for Chronically Delayed Flights
By News Release @ 1:04 AM :: 2147 Views :: National News, Tourism

... DOT’s lawsuit alleges that Southwest’s chronic flight delays were an illegal unrealistic scheduling practice ....

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Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Chris Butler Sabotaging Gabbard Nomination? Blames Opposition on 'Pedophile and Paranoid Murderer'
By News Release @ 4:13 PM :: 4103 Views :: Tulsi Gabbard

"... inspired and groomed by a convicted pedophile and a paranoid delusional individual recently arrested for attempted murder ...."

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Wednesday, January 15, 2025
DLE Director Quits
By News Release @ 3:03 PM :: 3723 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii State Government, Law Enforcement, Police

... Green announces nomination of HPD Major Mike Lambert as the next Director of the State Department of Law Enforcement ....

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Wednesday, January 15, 2025
HS Teams to Compete in 2025 Hawaii Lifesmarts Competition
By News Release @ 11:01 AM :: 2481 Views :: Education K-12, Family

... The winner of the competition will represent Hawaiʻi at the National LifeSmarts Competition in Chicago ....

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Wednesday, January 15, 2025
'Ohana Health Plan Launches Residential Program for Homeless Psych Treatment
By News Release @ 11:00 AM :: 2210 Views :: Hawaii County , Health Care, Homelessness, Drugs

"... First-of-its-kind health plan and housing agency partnership in Hawaii offers transitional housing and structured support for its most vulnerable members experiencing homelessness ...."

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Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Maui Wildfire: AG Releases Final Phase of Report
By News Release @ 5:35 PM :: 1705 Views :: Maui County

... a list of action items the state and all counties can use to make improvements to Hawai‘i’s future preparation for and response to wildfires ....

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Tuesday, January 14, 2025
UHERO: Maui wildfires trigger population loss, economic impact
By UHERO @ 2:35 PM :: 2226 Views :: Maui County, Hawaii Statistics

“These preliminary estimates likely underestimate the magnitude of the effect.”

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Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Hawaii 2nd Most Racially Integrated State
By Selected News Articles @ 2:16 PM :: 1440 Views :: Hawaii Statistics

... New Mexico is #1 ....

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Monday, January 13, 2025
HECO Unveils Expanded Wildfire Safety Strategy
By News Release @ 8:36 PM :: 3174 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Environment

... 3-year plan focuses initial work on high-risk areas ....

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Monday, January 13, 2025
No-Fault Insurance for Electricity-Caused Wildfires?
By Selected News Articles @ 7:58 PM :: 2635 Views :: Maui County, Energy

... modeled on Workers Comp .... 

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Monday, January 13, 2025
Supreme Court Allows Honolulu 'Big Oil' Suit to Proceed
By Court House News @ 3:50 PM :: 3278 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy, Judiciary

... The justices denied the oil and gas companies' petition without further explanation in Monday's orders list ....

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Sunday, January 12, 2025
Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 10, 2025
By GovTrack .us @ 2:59 PM :: 1612 Views :: Congressional Delegation

... votes cast and bills introduced ....

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Sunday, January 12, 2025
Walk back our tax cuts? That would be a shame.
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 11:01 AM :: 1587 Views :: Taxes

... You might have noticed something a little different about your most recent paycheck ....

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Sunday, January 12, 2025
Debate: Jones Act Reform a Winning Topic
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:00 AM :: 1790 Views :: Jones Act

... this is a strange gift to receive ....

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Sunday, January 12, 2025
Case Dismissed—For Now
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1595 Views :: Taxes

... document that directed staff at the Department of Taxation to use the negligence penalty, a penalty of 25% of the tax due, against taxpayers who receive requests for documents from a tax auditor ....

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Saturday, January 11, 2025
OIP: New Law and New Opinions for New Year
By News Release @ 10:16 PM :: 1727 Views :: Ethics, First Amendment

... OIP posted five new informal opinions ....

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Saturday, January 11, 2025
14% of Hawaii Healthcare Jobs Vacant
By News Release @ 8:52 PM :: 2720 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Labor, Small Business, Cost of Living

... 34,181 healthcare positions in the state and a 14% vacancy rate, a significant decrease from the 17% vacancy rate reported in 2022 ....

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Saturday, January 11, 2025
ALICE REPORT: 37% of Households Consider Leaving Hawaii
By News Release @ 8:34 PM :: 3660 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living

... 27% of households statewide fear being forced to move within a year—a figure that jumps to 41% among ALICE households ....

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Saturday, January 11, 2025
Deport Illegal Thieves? Hawaii Congressional Delegation Votes 'Nay'
By Selected News Articles @ 5:37 PM :: 2025 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Law Enforcement

... The U.S. Senate has voted 84-9 to begin debate on the Laken Riley Act.  Schatz and Hirono are among the nine .... 

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Saturday, January 11, 2025
Hawaii Democrats Talk a Big Game on the 'Climate Crisis.' They're Also Shielding an Oil Company Whose Execs Backed Their Campaigns
By Selected News Articles @ 4:25 PM :: 4466 Views :: Honolulu County, Maui County, Energy, Environment, Ethics, Congressional Delegation

... Since late 2019, Par Pacific's executives and PAC have collectively wired state Democrats a total of nearly $34,000 ....

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Saturday, January 11, 2025
Judiciary Seeks Nominees for Big Island, Maui
By News Release @ 3:09 PM :: 2199 Views :: Hawaii County , Maui County, Judiciary

... District Court judges and Independent Grand Jury Counsel ....

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Saturday, January 11, 2025
OHA Legislative Agenda: Kakaako 400 Foot Towers (again)
By News Release @ 2:52 PM :: 2484 Views :: Development, Land Use, OHA

... This bill would also raise the residential height limit along Ala Moana Boulevard to 400 feet ....

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Saturday, January 11, 2025
House Majority Outlines 2025 Priorities
By News Release @ 2:43 PM :: 1780 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Cost of Living

"...our focus remains on tackling the cost of living and improving the quality of life...."

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Saturday, January 11, 2025
Hawaii attorney general questions Walmart's retreat from DEI
By Selected News Articles @ 2:10 PM :: 2091 Views :: Labor, Law Enforcement

... Walmart reportedly is rolling back its diversity, equity and inclusion policies to focus on being more "belonging." ....

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Saturday, January 11, 2025
OHA Trustees Swear to Uphold Two Constitutions
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 11:00 AM :: 1953 Views :: Hawaii History, OHA

... trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) were sworn in by Hawaiʻi Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins ....

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Friday, January 10, 2025
Is another great year too much to ask?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 11:36 PM :: 1793 Views :: Health Care, Taxes, Cost of Living

... a modest but workable list of policy resolutions for 2025 ....

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Friday, January 10, 2025
Not Everybody is Leaving: COVID fraud helps one family move to Kapolei
By News Release @ 10:32 PM :: 2311 Views :: Law Enforcement, COVID-19

... as a result of the false and fraudulent applications, they received $1,365,000 in PPP loan funds ....

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Friday, January 10, 2025
VIDEO: Vaccination Drive Saves Samoa from RFK's Deadly Antivaxxer Propaganda
By Video @ 4:05 PM :: 1654 Views :: Health Care

... RFK traveled to Samoa to discourage vaccinations.  83 died of measles ....

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