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Sunday, October 13, 2024
LNG fuel for shipping is necessary for regulatory compliance
By Michael Hansen @ 12:47 AM :: 771 Views :: Energy, Environment, Jones Act

... LNG is an important fuel source to virtually eliminate most polluting emissions and significantly reduce carbon emissions ....

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Saturday, October 12, 2024
SMS Cash Catastrophe: State Contracts in Limbo
By Selected News Articles @ 11:48 PM :: 1430 Views :: Hawaii State Government

... SMS has been awarded $4.58 million dollars over eight contracts awarded from 2021 to 2023 ....

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Saturday, October 12, 2024
Permitting nightmare on Big Island
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 11:04 PM :: 1777 Views :: Honolulu County, Development

"That's not possible.  If the building permit doesn’t have a final, you would not have issued me a remodeling permit.”

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Saturday, October 12, 2024
Socialists Team up with Hawaii Judiciary to Expunge Dozens of Criminal Records
By News Release @ 1:21 AM :: 925 Views :: Judiciary, Justice Reinvestment, Law Enforcement

... Criminals were lined up when the doors opened, eager for a chance to do it all over again ....

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Saturday, October 12, 2024
The Voter Guide for the 2024 General Election is here!
By News Release @ 12:02 AM :: 2343 Views :: Office of Elections

... Mail ballots hit homes soon ....

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Friday, October 11, 2024
DLNR Transfers 7,000 acres to Agriculture Department
By News Release @ 5:18 PM :: 536 Views :: Hawaii County , Agriculture, Land Use

... The nine leases and 25 revocable permits represent a continuation of the transfers under Act 90. Passed by the legislature in 2003 ....

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Friday, October 11, 2024
BLNR Retroactively Approves Waimanalo Homeless Shelter
By News Release @ 5:12 PM :: 547 Views :: Honolulu County, Homelessness

... A community homeless shelter known as Hui Mahi‘ai ‘Āina has been operating at the site since 2020 without BLNR approval ....

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Friday, October 11, 2024
SMS Research Out of Business?
By Selected News Articles @ 3:31 PM :: 1723 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Small Business

... one of the stealthiest shutdowns this town has seen in a long time ....

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Friday, October 11, 2024
Lahaina Survivors: FEMA to pay rent for another year
By News Release @ 1:48 PM :: 584 Views :: Maui County, Development

... The 18-month initial period of assistance for FEMA IHP was set to end Feb.10, 2025 but has now been extended to Feb. 10, 2026 ....

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Friday, October 11, 2024
Eco-Lawyers Pledge to Hunt Aquarium Collectors to Extinction
By News Release @ 12:00 PM :: 731 Views :: Environment, Small Business, Tourism

... The aquarium pet industry has finished the environmental review process to seek up to seven commercial aquarium permits for collection in West Hawai‘i ....

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Friday, October 11, 2024
LGBTQ Commission Established within DHS
By News Release @ 2:02 AM :: 1029 Views :: Family, First Amendment, Hawaii State Government, Religion

... The commission is one of few in the country ....

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Friday, October 11, 2024
EPA Fines Daiso for Illegal Pesticides
By News Release @ 1:53 AM :: 836 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, Small Business

... Company to pay one of largest federal pesticides penalties: $314,747 ....

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Thursday, October 10, 2024
Affordable Housing: Green Signs 9th Emergency Proclamation
By News Release @ 9:40 PM :: 795 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living

... The latest proclamation places a pause on the automatic adoption of county building codes ....

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Thursday, October 10, 2024
Department of Law Enforcement Establishes Gun Tip Line
By News Release @ 9:35 PM :: 707 Views :: Second Amendment

“...Guns that have been stolen, guns that haven’t been registered and guns in the wrong hands...."

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Thursday, October 10, 2024
Hawaii Home Prices up 342% -- over and above the rate of inflation
By Selected News Articles @ 4:29 PM :: 1786 Views :: Development, Hawaii Statistics, Land Use, Cost of Living

... Hawaii had the number one largest cost increase of any state in the country ....

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Thursday, October 10, 2024
Honolulu Is the City with the Highest Inflation
By Selected News Articles @ 3:55 PM :: 982 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living

... Honolulu 4.2% Consumer Price Index Change year over year ....

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Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Case Pushes Back Against 'Misinformation on Federal Disaster Relief'
By Ed Case @ 10:42 PM :: 913 Views :: Maui County, Congressional Delegation, Military

... He says the federal government continues full disaster assistance to Maui and other disaster-impacted areas ....

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Tuesday, October 8, 2024
One year after the wildfires: Rents up 43%, Poverty Doubles
By UHERO @ 2:58 PM :: 929 Views :: Maui County, Economy, Cost of Living

... 29% of fire-affected households now live below the poverty line, compared to 14% before the fires ....

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Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Database: More than 13,000 gender reassignment procedures on minors between 2019-23
By Selected News Articles @ 12:38 PM :: 1212 Views :: Family, Hawaii Statistics, Health Care

... Hawaii, with a population of 1.46 million and 15 procedures, had the lowest rate at one procedure per 291,054 residents ....

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Monday, October 7, 2024
​Tour Boat Operators Hit Hard by Insurance Increases
By News Release @ 7:53 PM :: 835 Views :: Small Business, Tourism

... In late 2022, Congress passed a law that significantly increased the cost of liability insurance for a small subset of the small-passenger boating industry ....

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Monday, October 7, 2024
UPDATE: Territorial Bank Postpones Merger Vote
By News Release @ 12:51 PM :: 2175 Views :: Small Business

"... Preliminary Indication of Interest by Outside Investor Group, Blue Hill, is Illusory, Non-Binding and Highly Conditional ...."

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Monday, October 7, 2024
Financial State of the States--Hawaii Ranks 45th
By Selected News Articles @ 6:32 AM :: 980 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics, Taxes

... Hawaii had a Taxpayer Burden of $16,500, earning it a “D” grade ....

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Monday, October 7, 2024
Honolulu empty homes tax proposal advances out of Council committee
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:11 AM :: 1287 Views :: Hawaii County , Honolulu County, Maui County, Taxes

... Bill 46 aims to impose a 3% tax on so-called empty homes across Oahu ....

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Sunday, October 6, 2024
Imagine Maui being an even more expensive place to live than it is now
By Grassroot Institute @ 9:14 PM :: 1479 Views :: Maui County, Development, Cost of Living

... that’s a risk officials are taking by not actively clearing some of the most important legal barriers to rebuilding in Lahaina ....

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Sunday, October 6, 2024
To bee or not to bee?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 8:10 PM :: 888 Views :: Hawaii County , Honolulu County, Agriculture

... just as Hawai‘i County lawmakers were working on freeing the bees, the Honolulu County Council began making an unexpected beeline in the opposite direction ....

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Sunday, October 6, 2024
More on the Empty Homes Tax
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1082 Views :: Honolulu County, Taxes, Cost of Living

... Bill 46 (2024) is the current version moving forward in the Council. ...

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Saturday, October 5, 2024
Game Over for Fake Settlement? Lahaina Fire Insurers Find a Way into Federal Court
By Andrew Walden @ 5:22 PM :: 2095 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Ethics, Judiciary

... The State Judiciary can be counted on to twist the law to serve KSBE and HECO.  The Federal Judiciary doesn't even know who they are  ....

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Saturday, October 5, 2024
Bad news for Tesla and America: Chinese E-Car maker is all over Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 4:48 PM :: 5738 Views :: Energy, Military

... thanks to Hawaii’s Clean Energy Initiative ....

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Saturday, October 5, 2024
20 US Cities That Spend the Most on Groceries Every Month (18 are in Hawaii)
By Selected News Articles @ 4:15 PM :: 2382 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living

... Hanalei, Kauai monthly grocery expenditure cost: $841.67 --  Highest in USA ....

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Saturday, October 5, 2024
OHA Seeks Candidates for Burial Council Vacancies
By News Release @ 3:52 PM :: 1066 Views :: Development, Hawaii History, OHA

... There are five island burial councils ....

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Saturday, October 5, 2024
Hawaii is the Only U.S. State Not Investing in Manufactured Housing
By Selected News Articles @ 2:51 AM :: 1421 Views :: Development, Hawaii Statistics

... the average cost per square foot of a manufactured home was $87, roughly half of the $166 cost per square foot of a site-built home ....

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Friday, October 4, 2024
VIDEO: Finalist for UH President pushes 'Critical Race Theory'
By News Release @ 3:05 PM :: 4999 Views :: Higher Education

... Critical Race Theory (CRT) is an excuse to bar Asian students from equal access to higher education. Will CRT dominate UH--the university system in the most Asian state of all? ....

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Friday, October 4, 2024
UH earns strong bond rating, saving millions of dollars
By News Release @ 2:42 PM :: 618 Views :: Higher Education

... The University of Hawaiʻi currently has more than $396 million in outstanding revenue bonds. Annual debt service of the university can exceed more than $30 million annually through 2041 ....

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Friday, October 4, 2024
Digital States Survey: Hawaii Grade A-
By News Release @ 4:08 AM :: 908 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor

... due to a commitment to the fundamentals of IT modernization ....

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Friday, October 4, 2024
City Now Accepting Grants in Aid Applications
By News Release @ 3:57 AM :: 779 Views :: Honolulu County

... Last year more than $9.6 million in GIA were awarded to 78 nonprofits across O‘ahu ....

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Thursday, October 3, 2024
Hawaii Voters Can Track their Mail Ballot 
By News Release @ 3:51 AM :: 845 Views :: Office of Elections

... Hawaii voters can enroll for ballot notifications ahead of the 2024 General Election ....

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Wednesday, October 2, 2024
FULL TEXT: ATF Lahaina Fire Report
By Andrew Walden @ 7:15 PM :: 1232 Views :: Maui County, Hawaii History

...the report focuses on the 'rekindling' of the morning fire as the cause of the afternoon fire which destroyed Lahaina and killed 102 people....

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Wednesday, October 2, 2024
DHHL Begins Signing its own Building Permits
By News Release @ 1:07 PM :: 999 Views :: DHHL, Ethics, Development

... Department of Hawaiian Home Lands Director Kali Watson signs first-of-its-kind building permit ....

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Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Green Appoints Takamine to Labor Board
By News Release @ 12:54 PM :: 944 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor, Military

... Welcomes New State Adjutant General and Deputy Adjutant General ....

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Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Hawaii Man Pleads Guilty to Violating the Atomic Energy Act
By News Release @ 4:11 PM :: 833 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy

"...in January 2019, Kazee’s new company began conducting inspections at the refinery...."

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Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Aloha Stadium: Deadline Passes Again
By News Release @ 3:33 PM :: 813 Views :: Ethics, Higher Education

... The specifics of the Request for Clarifications are not known to the Stadium Authority, its members said.  The identities of the committee members have not been made public ....

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Tuesday, October 1, 2024
August Tourism 88.4% of Pre-COVID Numbers
By News Release @ 1:22 PM :: 753 Views :: Maui County, Hawaii Statistics, Tourism

"This August registered as the lowest performing month during the summer season."

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Sunday, September 29, 2024
Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted September 28, 2024
By GovTrack .us @ 8:16 PM :: 794 Views :: Congressional Delegation

... This week in Congress ....

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Sunday, September 29, 2024
After Kiddie Porn Indictment, Kamakana Villages Residents Demand New Management
By News Release @ 7:51 PM :: 1512 Views :: Hawaii County , Ethics, Development, Hawaii State Government

... In December 2023, the FBI conducted a raid of the managers’ apartment and the Lei Ohana office at Kamakana Villages, seizing computers and other items implicated in the production of child pornography ....

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Sunday, September 29, 2024
Hawaii’s 14 Largest Cities Ranked by Cost of Living
By Selected News Articles @ 7:03 PM :: 3611 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living

... Hilo has the lowest cost of living, Kailua has the highest ....

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Sunday, September 29, 2024
I. T. E. M. (Incompetence Takes Everyone’s Money)
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1137 Views :: Education K-12, Labor

... employees were required to go to their principal’s office and sign a promissory note ....

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Sunday, September 29, 2024
​Will rent stabilization reduce housing costs? Hardly.
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 2:50 AM :: 1187 Views :: Maui County, Development, Cost of Living

... Price control will always have the same effect: scarcity, a distorted market and higher prices ....

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Saturday, September 28, 2024
Lahaina: DoE Abandons Kamehameha III School Site
By News Release @ 5:11 PM :: 1202 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Development

... the existing site will become part of the ‘Venice of the Pacific’ water feature ....

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Saturday, September 28, 2024
JSC Seeks Nominees for Oahu First Circuit Judge
By News Release @ 4:59 PM :: 722 Views :: Honolulu County, Judiciary

... The term of office of a circuit judge shall be ten years ....

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Friday, September 27, 2024
Hawaii’s legislature does the unthinkable, for a blue state: Slashing taxes
By Selected News Articles @ 3:34 PM :: 1777 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes

“... In general, it was a terrific year at the legislature, and I never say that ....”

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