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Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Amended fuel contract expected to save Oahu households nearly $3 a month on electric bills
By News Release @ 4:50 PM :: 3704 Views

... The contract amendment negotiated with Par Hawaii and approved by the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) includes significant changes aimed at stabilizing fuel costs ...

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Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Hawaii 2nd-Healthiest State
By News Release @ 2:50 PM :: 2871 Views

... While Hawai‘i performed strongly in most categories, the report identified several areas where performance declined ....

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Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Bills, Backers, and Blocs: A Data-Driven Look at Lobbying in Hawai‘i
By UHERO @ 2:12 PM :: 4042 Views

... 7,188 positions taken by 340 organizations on 1,747 bills ....

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Sunday, June 22, 2025
Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 21, 2025
By GovTrack .us @ 5:51 PM :: 2033 Views

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

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Sunday, June 22, 2025
Dam Special Fund
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 3714 Views

... Our state budget already is in chaos, and adding more workarounds and sleight of hand will not make things better! ....

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Saturday, June 21, 2025
Trump: US Attacks Three Iran Nuke Sites
By News Release @ 9:20 PM :: 2183 Views

... in a reversal of previous presidents' policy, Trump is de-nuclearizing Iran while re-nuclearizing the US ...

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Saturday, June 21, 2025
County of Maui, HUD sign $1.6B grant agreement for disaster relief
By News Release @ 3:09 PM :: 2597 Views

... the County recommends that residents who lost homes in the fires or renters who were displaced by the fires begin preparing to apply ....

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Saturday, June 21, 2025
City awards contract to continue construction on second floor of HPD’s Waiʻanae Substation
By News Release @ 2:55 PM :: 2610 Views

... The newly awarded contract will focus on completing the build-out of one loft space on the second floor to house the investigations section....

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Saturday, June 21, 2025
Mayor Signs Three Bills to Crack Down on Game Rooms
By Andrew Walden @ 2:40 PM :: 2804 Views

... “These bills will bring to bear the authority and power of City agencies to aggressively attack the illegal and insidious game rooms that are so harmful to our communities,” said Mayor Rick Blangiardi ....

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Saturday, June 21, 2025
Jones Act keeps U.S. lagging in global shipbuilding output
By Cato Foundation @ 2:28 PM :: 2797 Views

... The protectionist law’s defenders claim U.S. shipbuilding would be virtually nonexistent without it, but it would be hard to do much worse ....

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Saturday, June 21, 2025
Barking Sands Land Leases Set to Expire 2027-30
By News Release @ 12:54 PM :: 4067 Views

... U.S. Navy and NASA release Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for proposed, continued use of state lands on Kauai ....

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Saturday, June 21, 2025
Saving for a Home in Hawaii Takes 29 Years
By Selected News Articles @ 12:10 AM :: 3271 Views

... with just $489 left over each month after covering essential living expenses, residents are left with little room to save ....

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Friday, June 20, 2025
Navy faces key ruling in Hawaii fuel contamination case
By Court House News @ 11:58 PM :: 3502 Views

... A federal judge is deciding whether the U.S. Navy should be held liable for 543 Clean Water Act violations at its Red Hill fuel facility ....

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Friday, June 20, 2025
UH Grad Student $6.7M Settlement in 2016 Lab Explosion
By News Release @ 2:44 PM :: 3689 Views

"Dr Ekins-Coward, an academic researcher, was seriously injured when her laboratory experiment exploded on 16 March 2016."

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Friday, June 20, 2025
AG Terminates Lahaina Investigation
By News Release @ 3:30 AM :: 2807 Views

... Attorney General Lopez also announced the official transition of future wildfire analysis, mitigation and coordination efforts to the new state fire marshal and the Hawaiʻi Wildfire Management Organization (HWMO) ....

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Thursday, June 19, 2025
Bubble: Investors Flood Into Hawaii Housing Market
By Selected News Articles @ 7:27 PM :: 3803 Views

... in Hawaii investor buyers outnumber investor sellers more than any other state .... 

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Thursday, June 19, 2025
Priced out: The growing challenge of teacher pay and housing costs
By News Release @ 6:33 PM :: 4254 Views

... in Hawaii, rent for a one-bedroom unit costs 46% of beginning, bachelor-degree-holding teacher salary ....

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Thursday, June 19, 2025
Hawaii Democrats Outraged Over Ban on Juvenile Sex Change
By News Release @ 3:10 PM :: 2891 Views

... Hawaii Democrats remind us why they are more repulsive than Donald J Trump ....

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Thursday, June 19, 2025
Maui residents’ recovery sees gains, but health and housing challenges persist
By UHERO @ 4:27 AM :: 3502 Views

... Nearly half of participants are still in temporary housing ....

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Wednesday, June 18, 2025
HMSA: 2nd Worst Health Insurance Company in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 5:43 PM :: 5145 Views

... submitting claims multiple times before they’re paid is necessary and sometimes claims are completely ignored ....

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Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Wahiawa Veteran Wins in Class Action Lawsuit Against Iran
By News Release @ 4:55 PM :: 3697 Views

... On May 30, 2025, a federal court in Washington, D.C., awarded over $573+ million in total damages to victims and families affected by terrorist attacks in Iraq that were enabled by Iran’s support for extremist groups ....

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Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Lawsuit by State Hospital Medical Director Details How Retaliation Games Keep Hospital Understaffed
By Andrew Walden @ 3:31 PM :: 5798 Views

“...you need to be more on my team....”

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Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Why Hawaii lawmakers should adopt interstate telehealth
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:19 PM :: 2560 Views

... The practice worked well and safely during the COVID-19 crisis and could do so again, the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii says ....

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Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Matt Elliott approved by BOR as next UH Mānoa athletics director
By News Release @ 1:38 AM :: 2453 Views

... BOR unanimously approved the appointment ....

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Sunday, June 15, 2025
Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 14, 2025
By GovTrack .us @ 7:19 PM :: 1882 Views

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

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Sunday, June 15, 2025
Supreme Court decision makes it easier for disabled students to sue school districts for bias
By News Release @ 5:10 PM :: 2822 Views

... lower courts had ruled against the family’s claim for damages, despite finding the school had fallen short ....

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Sunday, June 15, 2025
Intent to Veto
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 2080 Views

... two tax bills are on the list ....

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Saturday, June 14, 2025
A blue wave is helping rock the boat on Jones Act reform
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 8:01 PM :: 2582 Views

... Democrats favoring Jones Act reform include U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres of New York, who introduced a bill in early May to exempt oil and other energy products transported to Hawaii, Alaska, Guam and Puerto Rico from the Jones Act ....

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Saturday, June 14, 2025
$294K Income Needed for Family of Four in Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 4:40 PM :: 4130 Views

... This is up 9.48% from just a year ago ....

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Saturday, June 14, 2025
Hawaii: Fewest Boat Owners Per Capita
By Selected News Articles @ 3:49 PM :: 3294 Views

... Hawaii has only 2.5 registered boats per 100 residents--dead last in USA ....

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Friday, June 13, 2025
Against all odds, Hawaii’s children are returning
By Court House News @ 2:54 PM :: 2682 Views

"...they have grandparents who just passed away recently or moved into assisted living, so now they can move back home and live in that house....”

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Friday, June 13, 2025
Lawsuit: HTA bosses destroy Convention Center Roof in quest for retaliation
By Andrew Walden @ 1:56 PM :: 5706 Views

... After being frog-marched out of the building, former HTA VP of Finance Isaac Choy is spilling the beans ....

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Thursday, June 12, 2025
DoH Coverup? Health Dep't Fines Hilo Medical Practice $2.19M for Minor Paperwork Violation
By Andrew Walden @ 10:31 PM :: 5671 Views

... "If (the $2.19M fine is) upheld by the hearings officer it will mean the closure of these two urgent care facilities." ....

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Thursday, June 12, 2025
House Announces New Assignments: Leadership, Committee Chair
By News Release @ 5:50 PM :: 2801 Views

... Speaker Nadine K. Nakamura today announced updated leadership and committee appointments in the Hawaiʻi House of Representatives ....

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Thursday, June 12, 2025
Cost of Bills Index: Hawaii 32% Above US Median
By News Release @ 4:52 PM :: 2569 Views

... residents in the most expensive states like California, Hawaii, and New Jersey paying up to 39% more than the national median, while those in the most affordable states like West Virginia, Mississippi, and Oklahoma pay up to 44% less ....

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Thursday, June 12, 2025
Hawaii is a Leader for Preschool Quality But Last in Access Among Pacific States
By News Release @ 4:42 PM :: 4099 Views

...Hawaii serves just 5% of its four-year-olds and 2% of three-year-olds in state-funded preschool programs, dead last among Pacific states....

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Thursday, June 12, 2025
Hawaii 3rd-Highest Beer Taxes in USA
By Tax Foundation @ 4:19 PM :: 3403 Views

... Hawaii taxes beer at $0.93 per gallon .....

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Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Kauai Sewer Rates Model for Honolulu Council?
By News Release @ 11:25 AM :: 3450 Views

... Increasing 11% per year over a 5-year period -- The Honolulu Council apparently used this as a model. ....

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Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Hawaii justices examine doctors’ ability to challenge denied health insurance claims
By Court House News @ 3:13 AM :: 4051 Views

... questions that could reshape insurer-provider contracts statewide ....

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Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Nitta v. HMSA: A Turning Point for Hawaii's Healthcare Providers
By News Release @ 11:58 PM :: 276 Views

... Nitta v. HMSA has brought unprecedented attention to the systemic barriers that Hawaii''s healthcare providers face ....

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Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Lawsuit: Hawaii AG Accuses Trump of 'Distributing Machine Guns'
By Court House News @ 2:14 AM :: 2410 Views

...The states accuse the Trump administration of hiding violations of federal law prohibiting the possession of machine guns in a settlement agreement with manufactures of forced reset triggers....

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Monday, June 9, 2025
Lahaina: Hotel Unions, HSTA Join with Meth Gang to Demand Seizure of Vacation Rentals
By News Release @ 3:23 PM :: 4378 Views

... The Lahaina fire is an opportunity to exploit.  The hotel unions and the hotels want the TVR business all for themselves ....

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Monday, June 9, 2025
In Hawaii Only Military Water Systems are Fluoridated
By Selected News Articles @ 2:48 PM :: 4300 Views

... 70.6% of third graders in Hawaii experience tooth decay—the highest rate in the nation ....

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Monday, June 9, 2025
Hawai‘i children hit hard by high cost of housing
By News Release @ 12:22 PM :: 4329 Views

... Hawaiʻi ranks 24th in overall children’s well-being in the Data Book, as well as 33rd in the economic well-being ....

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Sunday, June 8, 2025
Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 6 2025
By GovTrack .us @ 9:25 PM :: 1853 Views

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

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Sunday, June 8, 2025
Maui Council approves tax-rate hikes
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:00 PM :: 3237 Views

... overall, Maui taxpayers will still see their tax bills go up in 2026 because of a combination of higher tax rates and assessments ....

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Sunday, June 8, 2025
Grassroot: Democratic Congressional Staffers focus on Jones Act
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:46 PM :: 2552 Views

... Truth about Jones Act makes big leap forward ....

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Sunday, June 8, 2025
REPORT: Hawaii Math Instruction 'Unacceptable'
By News Release @ 5:29 PM :: 2660 Views

... an estimated 3,120 students in 4th grade likely cannot perform skills like adding and subtracting multidigit whole numbers, fractions, and decimals ....

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Sunday, June 8, 2025
The Unseen Stopper Committees
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 2906 Views

... money chairs’ macabre tradition ....

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Saturday, June 7, 2025
"Diversified ag" rhetoric doesn't match reality
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 10:19 PM :: 4036 Views

... Two bills that would relax some of these regulations passed out of a Maui County Council committee just this week ....

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