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Sunday, May 11, 2025
Trump Admin: Greenland to Become a COFA Country?
By Selected News Articles @ 12:15 AM

... US officials are discussing a plan to pull Greenland into America’s sphere of influence using a type of agreement that the United States has used to keep close ties with several Pacific Island nations ....

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Saturday, May 10, 2025
BLNR Rejects Army Pohakuloa EIS
By News Release @ 1:06 AM

... The Army’s current lease for 23,000 acres of state-owned land at PTA is set to expire in 2029 ....

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Friday, May 9, 2025
Another 8a Disaster: NIH Halts Operations at US Biolab After Sabotage Incident
By Selected News Articles @ 5:26 PM

... the lab’s operations are managed by Laulima Government Solutions, an (8a) Native Hawaiian LLC based in an office park in Orlando, Florida ....

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Friday, May 9, 2025
Campaign Contributions: Hawaii Climate Change Lawsuit Skips State's Only Refinery
By Selected News Articles @ 3:38 PM

"...While Democrats posture about taking on 'Big Oil,' they’re shielding Par Hawaii—a top fossil fuel donor to their own party—from climate lawsuits...."

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Friday, May 9, 2025
UHERO: Federal policies push Hawaii toward mild recession
By UHERO @ 2:09 PM

... volatile fiscal and immigration policies are undermining consumer confidence, raising inflation expectations, and worsening the business outlook ....

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Thursday, May 8, 2025
DLE Upgrades License Plate Readers
By News Release @ 6:01 PM

... If a license plate is deemed actionable, it can be added to a hotlist—triggering real-time alerts the moment the vehicle is detected by a Cloudrunner camera ....

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Thursday, May 8, 2025
Reflections of Gene Ward
By Selected News Articles @ 4:49 AM

... reflecting on a person I got to know over my years of participation in the political world of Hawai‘i ....

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Wednesday, May 7, 2025
US Navy liable for fuel leak that sickened military families in Hawaii
By Court House News @ 11:03 PM

... In the long-awaited preliminary decision, U.S. District Judge Leslie Kobayashi awarded 17 plaintiffs damages ....

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Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Miske News: Union Boss sentenced to 14 years in federal racketeering case
By Selected News Articles @ 3:48 AM

... Norman Akau III, a former union board member who founded a Kaneohe-based motorcycle gang and served as an enforcer for the late Honolulu businessman Michael J. Miske Jr., was sentenced to 14 years ....

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Tuesday, May 6, 2025
‘By Request’ Gambling Bill got John Mizuno Ousted as Homeless Czar?
By Andrew Walden @ 3:43 PM

... Was John Mizuno lobbying for a gaming bill while on state time as director of the Statewide Office of Homelessness and Housing Solutions? ....

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Monday, May 5, 2025
Multi-State Coalition Against Hawaii’s ‘Sensitive’ Places Concealed Carry Ban
By Selected News Articles @ 9:21 PM

... The coalition is asking SCOTUS to take action via Wolford v. Lopez, the case through which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit allowed Hawaii’s “sensitive” places ban to stand ....

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Monday, May 5, 2025
SB1396: Parts of Green Fee are Already Doomed in Court
By Andrew Walden @ 3:06 PM

"Federal courts (including the Supreme Court) have consistently ruled for over a century that fees or taxes imposed on vessels by non-federal entities are prohibited."

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Monday, May 5, 2025
​Hawaii County Tells Homeowner His 38-Year-Old House Is Actually Illegal
By Selected News Articles @ 2:25 PM

... Ausman is not quite out of the woods yet ....

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Monday, May 5, 2025
Guam: Ex-Cop Gets 5 years for Jury Rigging
By News Release @ 2:05 PM

... in the criminal case of United States v. Raymond Martinez and Juanita Moser, 15-CR-00031 ....

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Monday, May 5, 2025
Mayor establishes new Department of Housing and Land Management with City Council’s blessing
By News Release @ 1:28 PM

... strategic reorganization to centralize and accelerate the City’s housing initiatives ....

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Sunday, May 4, 2025
Legislature on a housing-reform streak
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 1:00 PM

... Bills that will help mitigate Hawaii’s housing crisis include ....

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Sunday, May 4, 2025
Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 12:13 PM

... Marcus Oshiro and Eva Andrade go over the session ....

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Sunday, May 4, 2025
Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted May 2, 2025
By GovTrack .us @ 11:57 AM

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

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Sunday, May 4, 2025
The Major Raid that Wasn’t
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM

... Senate Draft 2 of the bill proposed to raid ninety-seven special funds for $320M  ....

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Saturday, May 3, 2025
Defeated SB401 Would Have Been Most Extreme Gun Law in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 11:07 AM

... a sweeping ban on a range of common firearms, including semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines, semi-automatic shotguns holding more than five shells, and any handgun capable of holding more than ten rounds ....

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Friday, May 2, 2025
Feds Bust Honolulu Massage School Owner in $9.1M VA Scam
By News Release @ 4:26 PM

... to obtain tuition assistance payments from the VA for ghost students ....

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Friday, May 2, 2025
HB1422: Nonprofits Exempt from Motor Carrier Law
By News Release @ 3:21 PM

“This bill recognizes that programs like the Hā‘ena State Park access and entry management program, which reinvests its proceeds into environmental and community benefits, shouldn’t be treated like traditional, for-profit carriers,”

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Friday, May 2, 2025
Visitor Industry Expanded in March 2025
By News Release @ 12:00 PM

... There were 903,891 visitors to the Hawaiian Islands in March 2025, up 3.0 percent from the same month last year ....

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Friday, May 2, 2025
Grassroot hails passage of bills aimed at boosting housing supply, helping Lahaina
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:30 AM

... State legislators also OK'd bills that will increase healthcare access and reform civil asset forfeiture, pending approval by the governor ....

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Friday, May 2, 2025
DOJ Urges Supreme Court to Hear Hawaii ‘Gun-Free Zone’ Case
By Selected News Articles @ 2:21 AM

... The move boosts the odds that the Supreme Court will take up the case ....

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Friday, May 2, 2025
Complete Debunk: Hawaii AG Files Climate Change Lawsuit in State Court
By News Release @ 12:47 AM

"... The federal lawsuit filed by the Justice Department attempts to block Hawaiʻi from holding the fossil fuel industry responsible ....”

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Thursday, May 1, 2025
​State Launches Operation Hire Hawai‘i to Fill Vacant Positions
By News Release @ 6:00 PM

... More than 900 interested job seekers attended ....

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Thursday, May 1, 2025
Hawaii legislature approves $20 billion state budget
By Court House News @ 1:38 PM

... Hawaii lawmakers passed the budget for the next two years and began voting on more than 200 bills as the legislative session draws to a close ....

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Thursday, May 1, 2025
Health Measures up for Final Passage
By News Release @ 12:44 PM

... A series of health-related measures is up for final reading today on the House floor ....

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Thursday, May 1, 2025
Senate Confirms Eight Judges
By News Release @ 10:59 AM

... Hawai‘i State Senate’s confirmation of eight judges across the state — including Judge Karen T. Nakasone as Chief Judge of the Intermediate Court of Appeals (ICA) ....

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Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Trump Admin: Native Hawaiian History NOT Considered 'DEI'
By Selected News Articles @ 8:30 PM

... On April 25, the Department of Education issued a letter clarifying that Native Hawaiian, Alaska Native, and American Indian communities are not considered part of DEI or CRT categories ....

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Wednesday, April 30, 2025
SCR198: Screwed out of Subrogation, Insurers Urged to Serve Legislature's Agenda by Suing Big Oil
By Andrew Walden @ 1:33 PM

"...We kicked your butt and took your subrogation money.  Now you work for us and serve our agenda by wasting your time on yet another bogus climate change lawsuit filed by Sher-Edling, of course...."

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Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Honolulu 3rd-Worst City to Start a Business
By Selected News Articles @ 3:01 PM

... only San Jose and Washington, DC are worse ....

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Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Best States for Nurses? Hawaii Ranks 47th
By Selected News Articles @ 2:49 PM

... WalletHub compared the relative attractiveness of the 50 states across 20 key metrics ....

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Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Hawaii Child Support Hearings Now Virtual
By News Release @ 2:32 PM

... Attorney General Office of Child Support Hearings has successfully transitioned to conducting administrative hearings almost exclusively by video conference ....

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Monday, April 28, 2025
‘Empty Homes Tax’ Drives Rent up 37%
By Andrew Walden @ 1:40 PM

... Even the bill’s supporters don’t pretend rents will come down ....

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Sunday, April 27, 2025
HB1175: Small Victory Over Procedural Trap
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM

... It’s a genuine procedural trap ....

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Saturday, April 26, 2025
Resolutions a sign that legislators are listening
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 11:39 PM

... fiscal notes and building codes ....

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Saturday, April 26, 2025
Judicial Vacancy Kauai Fifth Circuit--Deadline Extended
By News Release @ 8:31 PM

... the Judicial Selection Commission is accepting applications and nominations to fill the following anticipated judicial vacancy ....

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Saturday, April 26, 2025
Schatz to Replace Durbin as Whip?
By Selected News Articles @ 4:45 AM

... Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Patty Murray of Washington are also seen by some Senate insiders as potential candidates ....

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Saturday, April 26, 2025
Hawaii lawmakers reject bill to legalize sports gambling
By Court House News @ 4:30 AM

... Hawaii lawmakers failed to reconcile House and Senate versions of a sports betting bill, leaving the state without legal wagering ....

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Friday, April 25, 2025
Matson Moves to Intervene in Jones Act Lawsuit
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:21 PM

... A recently filed lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Jones Act has not surprisingly caught the eye of Hawaii-based shipping giant Matson, which filed a motion on April 11 to intervene in the case ....

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Friday, April 25, 2025
Focus should be on job growth and progress, not more and more taxes
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:06 PM

... Hawaii continues to suffer anemic economic growth — the second slowest in the country ....

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Friday, April 25, 2025
Lahaina sewer system 100% restored
By News Release @ 2:14 PM

... When County crews began work on sewer repairs in April 2024, approximately 1,822 lots had inactive sewer service ....

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Thursday, April 24, 2025
Former death row inmate convicted of sex trafficking in Hawaii
By Court House News @ 6:43 PM

... McCoy faces a minimum penalty of 15 years in prison and a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, as well as mandatory restitution. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Aug. 18 ....

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Thursday, April 24, 2025
Republicans Give Josh Green Opportunity to Appoint his Former Office Manager as State Rep
By Andrew Walden @ 5:16 PM

... It is not clear what low-budget legislative shenanigans caused Republicans to give Green this chance ....

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Thursday, April 24, 2025
Hawaii Housing Costs 53.47% of Median Income
By Selected News Articles @ 1:34 AM

... Hawaii Residents Spend the Highest Percentage of Income on Housing ....

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Tuesday, April 22, 2025
SB295: Tougher Penalties for TRO Violations
By News Release @ 7:41 PM

... The bill increases penalties for individuals who violate temporary restraining orders (TROs) and orders for protection (OFPs) ....

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Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Operator Syndrome: Hidden toll on first responder life
By Selected News Articles @ 6:00 PM

... years of trauma can lead to a complex set of injuries: sleep disorders, PTSD, hormonal imbalances, pain, depression and more ....

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Tuesday, April 22, 2025
FULL TEXT: Conference Commitee Approves State Budget Bill
By News Release @ 2:21 AM

... finalized in a joint conference committee after both chambers initially passed different versions. The bill will now be up for final reading in both chambers before heading to the Governor's desk ....

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