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Saturday, July 6, 2024
After Veto Threat, Green Signs Sara Yara Bill into law
By News Release @ 2:47 PM :: 2072 Views :: Education K-12, Law Enforcement

... bill motivated by charges against a man who had no driver’s license and 164 traffic citations when he was arrested in the hit-and-run death of a 16-year-old McKinley High School student ....

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Saturday, July 6, 2024
Potential $85M from NASA for UH Hilo management of Maunakea telescope
By News Release @ 2:36 PM :: 1484 Views :: Higher Education

"... a primary asset in NASA’s planetary defense system ...."

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Saturday, July 6, 2024
Former Tokai University Building Becomes Homeless 'Kauhale'
By News Release @ 2:13 PM :: 2233 Views :: Higher Education, Homelessness

... Former college in Waikiki will soon house 120 homeless families as part of city program ....

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Saturday, July 6, 2024
Dillingham Airfield Saved by 50-Year Lease
By News Release @ 2:03 PM :: 1895 Views :: Honolulu County, Small Business, Tourism

... The new lease will go into effect July 6, 2024, at which time airfield operations will continue normal operations, including uninterrupted water service to the tenants ....

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Saturday, July 6, 2024
'Sun Bucks' -- $177 per kid Boost on EBT Cards
By News Release @ 2:29 AM :: 3921 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Cost of Living

... Most eligible families will get SUN Bucks automatically without the need for an application ....

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Friday, July 5, 2024
Ethics: Hawaii Socialists Illegally Lobbied for Gaza ‘Ceasefire’ Resolution on Taxpayer Dime
By News Release @ 3:40 AM :: 2629 Views :: Democratic Party, Ethics, Hawaii State Government

"... Respondent Coffield explained that he was so distressed by Chair Tam’s text message and email that he left work, went to a coffee shop, and then drafted and sent the email from the coffee shop. Respondent Coffield did not return to work that day and neglected to take leave ...."

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Thursday, July 4, 2024
Operation 'Shine the Light' Rescues 11 Missing Children on Oahu
By News Release @ 4:33 PM :: 3581 Views :: Honolulu County, Family, Law Enforcement

“...This operation required quick action and decisions and DHS is thankful for all involved with the successful location of these 11 children and youth....”

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Thursday, July 4, 2024
'Shift and Save' -- 16,000 Hawaiian Electric Customers Can Escape --if they act now
By News Release @ 12:22 AM :: 2251 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living

... Customers urged to review bills, take action if they choose not to continue ....

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Wednesday, July 3, 2024
Schatz: $6.6M for YIMBY
By News Release @ 11:58 PM :: 1764 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Development

... Grant Program Heading To Hawai‘i To Build More Housing ....

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Wednesday, July 3, 2024
City: Towing Contractor Ripped off 782 Customers
By News Release @ 9:31 PM :: 2215 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics

... invoices revealed the mishandling of a $900 fee ....

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Wednesday, July 3, 2024
Mayor signs bill limiting gifts to City employees
By News Release @ 1:40 AM :: 2010 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics

... prohibiting gifts to City officers and employees valued at more than $50 ....

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Wednesday, July 3, 2024
Blangiardi: Be Prepared for Blackouts
By News Release @ 1:33 AM :: 1918 Views :: Energy

... Residents should prepare for extended outages that could last several hours to days by having emergency supplies such as food, water, and medications ....

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Tuesday, July 2, 2024
UHERO: Where can Hawaiʻi diversify its economy?
By UHERO @ 10:26 PM :: 2322 Views :: Agriculture, Economy, Tourism

... industries with significant growth potential that are currently facing obstacles such as inadequate infrastructure, skills shortages, and market and government failures ....

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Tuesday, July 2, 2024
Second observatory removed from Maunakea summit
By News Release @ 10:10 PM :: 2776 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA

... All site work for the decommissioning of the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO) was completed in June 2024  ....

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Tuesday, July 2, 2024
Makawao meth trafficker gets nine years in federal prison
By Selected News Articles @ 11:59 AM :: 1846 Views :: Maui County, Drugs

... Kitashima's associates helped him buy, ship, and transport methamphetamine between California, Oregon, and Hawaii ....

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Monday, July 1, 2024
Christian Good News Clubs Win Equal Access in Hawaii Schools
By News Release @ 9:02 PM :: 2582 Views :: Education K-12, First Amendment, Religion

... after school Bible clubs must be given equal access ....

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Monday, July 1, 2024
‘You’re Nothing!’: Hawaii Black Cop Was Belittled and Racially Bullied By Colleagues, Leading to Four Officers Arrested, Nine Others Placed on Paid Leave
By Selected News Articles @ 8:58 PM :: 3373 Views :: Ethics, Police

... put Horton’s life at risk by ordering the man to rush into traffic at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport to stop a moving vehicle while on foot ....

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Monday, July 1, 2024
Veto? Hawaii governor under fire over authority to suspend electronic media transmission
By Selected News Articles @ 8:34 PM :: 1605 Views :: First Amendment

... a ‘blank check’ to shut down all electronic media ....

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Monday, July 1, 2024
Five candidates are running for Hawaii’s two U.S. House districts—the fewest in the last 10 years
By Selected News Articles @ 8:28 PM :: 2441 Views :: Hawaii History, Office of Elections, Politicians

... This is the only election cycle in the last 10 years in which a district is not open ....

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Monday, July 1, 2024
RIMPAC 2024 Kicks off in Hawaii
By News Release @ 8:21 PM :: 1598 Views :: Military

... Approximately 29 nations, 40 surface ships, three submarines, 14 national land forces, over 150 aircraft and more than 25,000 personnel will train and operate in and around the Hawaiian Islands ....

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Monday, July 1, 2024
Federal Court Whittles Down Hawaii Voter Roll Lawsuit
By Selected News Articles @ 8:02 PM :: 1539 Views :: Office of Elections

... NVRA requires statewide voter rolls to be accessible to the general public ....

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Monday, July 1, 2024
Supreme Court rules for broad presidential immunity in Donald Trump election subversion case
By Court House News @ 10:45 AM :: 2559 Views :: National News, Ethics, Office of Elections

... but no immunity for unofficial acts ....

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Sunday, June 30, 2024
Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 29, 2024
By GovTrack .us @ 9:09 PM :: 1553 Views :: Congressional Delegation

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

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Sunday, June 30, 2024
Green Announces Appointments, Creates Insurance Task Force
By News Release @ 8:39 PM :: 2286 Views :: Maui County, Hawaii State Government, Cost of Living

... The positions and appointees are listed below; House and Senate appointees also are included ....

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Sunday, June 30, 2024
Update development standards to allow more apartment housing
By Grassroot Institute @ 7:54 PM :: 1849 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Land Use

... if Honolulu were to revise upward all the other development standards as well — the minimum setbacks, the height limits, the maximum lot coverage and minimum lot widths and depths — the number of newly legal units could skyrocket ....

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Sunday, June 30, 2024
Intent to Veto: Budget Drama Continues
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1890 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor

... Intent to Veto: HB 1800, which is the state’s budget bill, and HB 40, which is the bill that puts $300 million into our rainy day fund and $135 million into the pension accumulation fund .... 

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Sunday, June 30, 2024
Supreme Court overrules landmark 'Chevron' precedent on government authority
By Court House News @ 3:39 AM :: 2635 Views :: Environment, Health Care, Labor, Land Use, Law Enforcement, Small Business

... For 40 years, the Chevron precedent has been the backbone of administrative law, limiting judicial decision-making in favor of agency 'expertise' ....

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Sunday, June 30, 2024
Freedom in Hawaii is having a moment
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:24 AM :: 2204 Views :: Development, Health Care, Small Business, Taxes

... This year our freedoms were expanded with the passage by our state lawmakers of important legislation. Those expansions covered taxes, housing and healthcare ....

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Saturday, June 29, 2024
Biki Bikeshare abandoned by owners, operation handed over to City
By News Release @ 5:40 PM :: 3360 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail, Tourism, Drugs

... as of Monday, July 1, 2024, Bikeshare Hawaiʻi has turned over its oversight role of the Biki bikeshare system to DTS ....

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Saturday, June 29, 2024
Scheme to Remake Lahaina as Touristy Water Park Advances in Congress
By Andrew Walden @ 5:12 PM :: 4725 Views :: Maui County, Environment, Development, Hawaii History, Land Use, Tourism

... 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
Criminal Alleges Ariel Sellers Buried at Bumpy Kanahele’s Waimanalo Compound 
By Andrew Walden @ 5:55 AM :: 7017 Views :: Akaka Bill, Honolulu County, Family, OHA

“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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Saturday, June 29, 2024
Can Hawaii afford climate change lawsuit settlement?
By Selected News Articles @ 4:33 AM :: 2301 Views :: Energy, Environment, Taxes, Cost of Living

"...There's going to be some pain...."

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Friday, June 28, 2024
How Mexican cartels target Hawaii with meth, fentanyl
By Selected News Articles @ 7:04 PM :: 2635 Views :: Law Enforcement, Drugs

... Sinaloa and its rival, the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación, known as CJNG — run drug pipelines through California and Nevada to flood Oahu with meth and other drugs, including fentanyl ....

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Friday, June 28, 2024
Did Hawaii just pave the way for court enforcement of California's climate promises?
By Selected News Articles @ 6:12 PM :: 1656 Views :: Environment, Cost of Living

... The settlement provides benchmarks for a greenhouse gas reduction plan that will be overseen and enforced by a court through 2045 ....

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Friday, June 28, 2024
Homeless people can be fined for sleeping outside, Supreme Court rules
By Court House News @ 5:21 PM :: 1784 Views :: Homelessness

...Gorsuch said “a handful of federal judges” couldn’t “begin to ‘match’ the collective wisdom of the American people” in deciding policy solutions for homelessness....

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Friday, June 28, 2024
Hawaii Water Wars: If you don't claim a 'taking' you lose
By Robert Thomas @ 12:01 AM :: 1825 Views :: Environment, Land Use

... those standards only apply where there's a takings claim present. And there's no takings claims here ....

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Thursday, June 27, 2024
Senate Special Session Rubber Stamps Four Oahu Circuit Court Nominees
By News Release @ 6:00 PM :: 6755 Views :: Judiciary

... Rebecca A. Copeland, Brian A. Costa, Dyan M. Medeiros, and Steven R. Nichols to the Circuit Court of the First Circuit .... 

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Thursday, June 27, 2024
May 2024: Tourism Declines Again
By News Release @ 5:59 PM :: 2451 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Tourism

... tourist count down 4.8%, spending down 4.0% ....

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Thursday, June 27, 2024
State Supreme Court: Is Gov't Imposed "Church Purposes" Deed Restriction Void?
By Robert Thomas @ 3:36 PM :: 2809 Views :: Hawaii County , First Amendment, Land Use, Religion

... the Hawaii Supreme Court hears oral arguments ....

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Thursday, June 27, 2024
Government says Red Hill plaintiffs are asking for too much in damages
By Selected News Articles @ 3:01 PM :: 2059 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military

... Seventeen plaintiffs are asking for $7 million ....

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Thursday, June 27, 2024
Fate of Hawaii’s ‘Stairway to Heaven’ hike hangs in balance at appellate court
By Court House News @ 2:55 PM :: 2001 Views :: Environment, Tourism

... Advocates to keep the stairs told the court that demolishing them will threaten the state's official mammal, the Hawaiian hoary bat. ....

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Thursday, June 27, 2024
Hawaii officials argue for second chance to reinstate butterfly knife ban
By Court House News @ 2:41 PM :: 1586 Views :: Second Amendment

... After a federal court struck down the ban, the Hawaii Legislature approved an amendment to the ban that prohibits only the concealed carry of bladed weapons ....

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Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Kauai Island of Retaliation: Year in Jail After Putin Dupe Passes Along ‘Threat’ from Schizophrenic
By Selected News Articles @ 10:23 PM :: 4581 Views :: Kauai County, GMOs

... Cowden had made the entire incident about herself ....

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Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Maui TVR phase-out plan unconstitutional
By Grassroot Institute @ 8:01 PM :: 2426 Views :: Maui County, Development

... The county cannot ignore the constitutional rights of Maui property owners in its race to address its housing problems ....

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Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Maui TVR phase-out wrong means for good goal
By Grassroot Institute @ 7:45 PM :: 2612 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use, Small Business, Tourism, Cost of Living

... virtually all local economists realize the main cause of Hawaii’s housing crisis is the state’s extremely high number of land-use and other housing-related regulations that have hindered homebuilding ....

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Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Building Benchmarking Report -- deadline extended
By News Release @ 7:12 PM :: 1984 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy, Cost of Living

... requires large commercial and multi-family buildings to annually report aggregate energy and water utility data to the City and County of Honolulu ....

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Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Maui Short-Term Rentals, the Minatoya List, and Housing Supply
By UHERO @ 6:37 PM :: 2758 Views :: Maui County, Small Business, Tourism, Cost of Living

... we would expect to see significant–possibly double digit–declines in condominium prices on Maui ....

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Tuesday, June 25, 2024
New Coffee Labeling Rules Take Effect July 1
By News Release @ 3:06 PM :: 1899 Views :: Agriculture, Small Business

... will apply to all coffee product inventory sold to the public or displayed at retail stores in Hawai‘i ....

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Monday, June 24, 2024
Hawaiian 'Intellectual Property' Group Convenes
By News Release @ 11:59 PM :: 2290 Views :: First Amendment, Greenmail, OHA

"The group's primary objectives are to draft and propose substantive legislation and policies that can be enacted in the upcoming legislative session."

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Monday, June 24, 2024
500 Lahaina Victims Still in Hotels--Deadline June 30
By News Release @ 12:24 PM :: 1548 Views :: Maui County

... to support the 200 households (more than 500 individuals) currently residing in Non-Congregate Sheltering (NCS) hotels, the NCS program has been extended until June 30, 2024 ....

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