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| Saturday, February 21, 2026 |
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February 21, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:23 PM :: 1581 Views
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| Friday, February 20, 2026 |
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February 20, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:19 PM :: 2271 Views
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- Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s one-man tariff war
- HDoT signs 10-year contract for 187 Red Light Cameras
- FEMA Approves $33.4 million to Support Recovery in Hawaii
- While Raising Taxes, State funds $904M Cash Giveaway to Public Employees
- DPP News: Failed $20 Bribe: 92-Year-Old Architect Sentenced In Honolulu Permitting Case
- SB2061: How Can Aloha Stadium Housing be Made Repulsive Enough but not too Repulsive?
- Concerns raised over Hawaii Pacific Health-HMSA partnership’s impact on Native Hawaiian care
- Bill 17: City Shuts Door on agritourism
- HB2589: Lose Your Vehicle if Caught Driving Without a License
- SB3334: 100 Bureaucrats Distrupt Senate Committee Hearing
- SB3326: Measure aims to restructure HECO
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| Thursday, February 19, 2026 |
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February 19, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:44 PM :: 1942 Views
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- Is Hawaiʻi Being Left Behind?
- ‘First Lateral’ Deadline Wipes out Lots of Bad 2A Bills
- UPDATE: HPD List of Firearms Instructors
- Augie T Says NO--Council OKs HART rail planning to Manoa, Ko Olina—Tax Increases Demanded
- New push for independent prosecutor for campaign donation investigation
- Canadian Hawaii tourism down 11.6%
- Hawaii Panel Advances Net Capital Gain Tax Increase
- EPA says Navy does not have to engage with Activist Circus over Red Hill crisis
- Third Time’s the Charm: Former State Rep. Jon ‘Riki’ Karamatsu arrested for another DUI
- Sexually transmitted infections more common in Hawaii than the flu
- $1.8M Settlement for getting Homeless Schizophrenic off the street and forcing him into the Mental Health Care he Desperately Needed
- Higher food prices elevate inflation in Honolulu
- $1B in Savings: LNG Is A Sensible Solution For Oahu's Future Energy Needs
- Shifting Methods for Compensating Hawaii Renewable Energy Producers
- While Crushing TVRs, Lawmakers Push for New Hotel in Hilo
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| Wednesday, February 18, 2026 |
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February 18, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:07 PM :: 1616 Views
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- Hawaii’s “Paper Bag” Corruption Case - Keli’i Akina interviews Alexander Silvert
- Birds of a Feather: Who is Rallying to Support Luke?
- Applicants Wanted for State Ethics, Campaign Spending Commissions
- Look at the Defensive Gun Uses that Hawaii Wants to Criminalize
- Throw Good Billions After Bad: Council to consider approving Skyline planning to Manoa, Ko Olina
- What’s the trick? Stadium District ‘Master Developer Agreement’ Reached
- Living space on Oahu at a premium as Army surges troops to Hawaii
- Hawaiʻi Long-Term Care Impoverishes Families
- Hawaiʻi County Inspectors Missed Illegal Rentals In Factory That Burned
- Two gambling bills on the move in House
- After 40 Years, State-city dispute over Kapolei roads being settled for $60M
- Sue Big Oil Shysters Salivate over Tump Emissions Rollback
- ‘Queer Day’ at Capitol
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| Tuesday, February 17, 2026 |
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February 17, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:37 PM :: 2514 Views
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- The Beginnings of Keawala’i Congregational Church
- Two Anti-Gun Bills Scheduled for Committee Hearings
- Clash of Hawaiʻi’s Healthcare Titans: Leaders Disagree on Best Path Forward
- New Mauna Kea Authority is Dictatorship of Self-Appointed Activists
- Miske News: Evidence from ‘Previously Undisclosed Criminal Investigation’ coming soon
- HB2493: Give So-Called ‘Exonerated’ Criminals $5,000 a month—no matter how many new crimes they commit
- 18 years later, Hawaii Supreme Court Finally Gets Around to Shutting Down Deadbeat Mortgage Scam
- Hawaii’s New Visitor Tax Sends First Millions To Save Oceanfront Hotel
- Gays Claim Kamehameha III was Bisexual
- Fiji: The island paradise with the world’s fastest growing HIV epidemic
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| Monday, February 16, 2026 |
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February 16, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:30 PM :: 1389 Views
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- HB1875: Juvenile Sex Change Bill Advances
- Bribery: ILWU, UPW Back Sylvia Luke
- Phase one: How the Sylvia Luke story is already reshaping Hawaiʻi politics
- Hawaiʻi County: Former department director beats rap
- REPORT: Hotels are Big Source of Votes, Campaign Contributions
- Survey: Almost Everybody Fooled by Sea Level Rise Hysteria
- Hawaii tourism plan aims to identify crowded hot spots on each island
- City bus drivers get high-gear contract
- Student Loan Relief for 988 Health Care Workers
- Kaala Gondola Debacle Excuse for Council to Crack Down on Ag Tourism
- Hyundai to Upgrade Pearl Harbor Shipyard
- Suicides 50% of deaths at Halawa Prison
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| Sunday, February 15, 2026 |
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February 15, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:06 PM :: 2370 Views
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- Tax Cuts: Pause versus Stop
- Legislators should cut budget, not hike taxes
- Grassroot keeps close tab on legislative session
- 'There’s no such thing as a free lunch'
- More local food starts with housing
- Firearm Instructors: HPD’s Hidden Secret?
- Pentagon Reevaluates HPU Tuition in Crackdown on Academic Wokeism
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted February 13, 2026
- $35K Bribery Case: AG Caught Lying About Special Prosecutor, House Speaker
- Luke is Finished: “Whoever is elected lieutenant governor this November, the political sky is wide open.”
- 100% Fake: ‘Green Fee’ Money will not pay for ANY ‘Green’ Projects
- HI-5 Tax is $74M DoH Slush Fund
- HECO net metering program costs all ratepayers $80 million per year
- Rhoads Suppresses Voters: Keep the Lines Long on Election Day
- SB2480 Jungle Primary: Only Democrats Allowed in General Elections
- Who is Financing Josh Green’s Presidential Aspirations?
- Sugimura pulls papers for Mayor of Maui County; announces key endorsement
- Let’em fall into the Ocean: Bills to help property owners with coastal erosion deferred
- Don't Weaken Financial Disclosure For The Board Of Regents
- Air Force Plans New Telescopes on Haleakala
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| Saturday, February 14, 2026 |
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February 14, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 12:46 PM :: 1711 Views
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- Election 2026: 126 Candidates Pull Papers to Run
- HD28: Holt Quits House to Take DLNR Job
- VIDEO: Big Island State of the County Address
- New Federal Lawsuit Challenges Hawaiʻi County Firearm Permit Delays
- $35K Bribery: Luke Still planning Run for Re-election, obviously needs more pressure--Hawaii attorney general says subpoenas issued
- Who got money from Solidum?
- SB3000: Oil industry slams Hawaii effort to hold it liable for insurance hikes
- Hawaii eyes tax on REIT dividends (again)
- Hawaii Legislators ‘Affordable’ Housing Plan? Increase Taxes on Housing
- Hawaii House Panel Advances Digital Advertising Tax
- Hawaii Panel Advances Tax On Sport Betting Licenses
- Hawaiʻi County: Former department director beats rap
- State Board of Education adopts new policy on student cellphone use; implementation begins next school year
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| Friday, February 13, 2026 |
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February 13, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:20 PM :: 3312 Views
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- Bribery News: Green Cancels DC Trip--Prevents Luke from Become Acting Governor
- Federal Civil Rights Complaint Challenges Hawaii DoE Transsexual Policies
- Hawaii Enters Propaganda War
- JSC Presents Nominees for Three District Judgeships
- With military land leases expiring, Hawaii moves into unique negotiating position
- Will Luke Resign before being Impeached?
- Donations scandal puts shadow over city COVID testing program
- $35K Bribe: Solidum and Mitsunaga both Tied To Taxpayer-Funded Kidney Center That Was Never Built
- Star-Adv: Time to cut vacant civil service jobs
- $33 million well spent? Resolution seeking audit of county homeless fund spending passes
- The Incredible Shrinking Voter of Honolulu
- DHHL: 40 affordable rental units for Native Hawaiians coming to Leeward coast
- Failed Duckbills behind Mapunapuna Flooding
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| Thursday, February 12, 2026 |
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February 12, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 11:42 AM :: 5109 Views
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- What's Happening with Hawaiian Homelands: Keli'i Akina Interviews Kali Watson
- JSC Presents Four Nominees for ICA
- $35K Bribe: How Luke Donor and Caldwell Cronies Cashed In On City-Funded COVID Testing Program at Airport
- Insurers Screwed Again and yet, $4 billion Maui wildfire payouts still delayed
- Sugimura Emerges as Missen Bissen’s Top Challenger
- Bernard Carvalho Jr., Mel Rapozo file to run Kauai mayor
- HB2570: Hawaii Advances Bill for Legal Online Sports Betting
- Hawaii House Panel OKs Cruise Ship Patron Tax
- Hawaii Panel Passes Gen Excise Tax On Vehicle Imports
- Student homelessness doubles on Oahu’s west side
- DoE Hides Loss of Licensed Teachers by Hiring 1,000 Unlicensed Ones
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| Wednesday, February 11, 2026 |
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February 11, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:23 PM :: 2602 Views
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- $35K Bribe: Luke Confessions Spark Call for Special Prosecutor
- DAGS’ Hawaiʻi State Archives Digitizing KSSK Perry & Price Shows
- Queens Launches Campaign Against HMSA-HPH 'Merger'
- COVID Money Scams Behind Sylvia Luke Bribery Payments
- Another Big Island man sentenced for affordable housing scam
- Bought and paid for: Schatz, Murkowski Defend 8a Fraudsters
- Queens launches Campaign Against Hawai’i Pacific Health, HMSA partnership
- Hawai‘i Doctor Shortage Has Patients Paying Fees For Fast Care
- Pay to Play Make Believe: Pay-To-Play Bill Passes Judiciary Committee
- Lawmakers reschedule bill hearings after storm closure
- Hawaiʻi charter school officials say enrollment is trending up
- SB2061: Nobody Wants to buy ‘Singapore-Model’ affordable-housing condos
- Reso 24: Megabux for EMS Management
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| Tuesday, February 10, 2026 |
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February 10, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:15 PM :: 6048 Views
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- Rail: HART Alleges ‘Core Systems Contractor’ is Criminal Organization
- $35K Bribe: Sylvia Luke changes her story—finally admits taking money in FBI Sting Operation--bribester flees country
- Green’s Tax Hike: ‘Classic Bait-and-Switch’
- CNHA productions anchor $10M push at Ko Olina
- Legislators to Revoke Corporate personhood, and give Personhood to Nature?
- Disgraced attorney could face trial on fraud, theft charges next month if plea deal not reached
- Bill 92: National Hysteria Over Immigration Enforcement Animates Maui Council
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| Monday, February 9, 2026 |
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February 9, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:38 PM :: 1622 Views
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- Census data confirms Hawaii population still in decline
- Will the Supreme Court stop Hawaii’s stealth gun ban?
- Legislature, Courts, Schools, UH to be Closed Monday Due to Severe Weather Warning
- Bill 60: After Wasting $10B, Council Set to TRIPLE the Length of Rail
- “RFK Jr is a liar. He lied to me about his anti-vax Samoa trip”
- Hawaii County considers new tax tier for $4M+ homes
- Make Believe Clean Government Bills introduced (again)
- Teacher Harassment Bills on the Move
- HB2198: Hawaii Just Took A Major Step Toward Banning Prediction Markets
- Miske’s half-brother awaits court decision on long shot appeal
- Waiting for DPP: ‘Affordable’ Oʻahu Rentals Sit Empty For 10 Months
- Kauai so expensive nobody is left to drive sanitation trucks
- Honolulu 'Hell-Hole' Building Now Without Water
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| Sunday, February 8, 2026 |
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February 8, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:44 PM :: 1712 Views
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- HB1875: Juvenile Sex Change Operations on the Move in House
- $100M -- Idle Land and Natural Resource Funds
- The kind of playbook Hawaii lawmakers need
- Election 2026: 94 Candidates Pull Papers to Run
- Deferred: SB 433 Would Criminalize Knives and Bows
- State Wastes $82.8M on Long-Vacant ‘positions’
- Green Fee Slush Fund off the GRID
- DOE Travel: $4 Million, 8,000 Trips And Few Details On Educational Value
- Lawmakers Again Pretending to Consider Banning Contributions from Contractors
- Blangiardi wants Taiwan to fix crumbling, crime-plagued Chinatown Cultural Plaza
- Shapiro: Ed Case had right strategy for achieving Dems ICE reforms
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| Saturday, February 7, 2026 |
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February 7, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 10:01 AM :: 1576 Views
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- Paid family leave program could drive up costs, harm employees
- AG, House leader accused of talking of 'mystery lawmaker'
- Hawaii lawmakers question timeline for bribery investigation completion
- Why homebuyers in Kalaeloa want to pay more than required
- HB2451: Free public transit?
- Sen Rhoads Still Trying to ‘Abolish Corporate Personhood’ (sort of)
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| Friday, February 6, 2026 |
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February 6, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:48 PM :: 1460 Views
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- Grassroot: 10 bold reforms to ease Hawaii’s housing crisis
- Hawaiʻi Mayors Scrap GE Tax Hike Pitch – will try again after Election
- Hawaii’s Income Tax Cut U-Turn Muddles Relief for Working Class
- Performance audit requested for housing, homelessness programs funded by Hawaiʻi County
- House Advances Another Tax Increase on Housing
- Liquor tax hike advances, despite brewers' concerns
- $5.3M in Legal Weed Sales Every Month
- SHOPO seats new leadership following 27.5% pay increase
- Honolulu police officers arrested in separate incidents
- HPD Officers Fired For Burglary, Assault And Fraud Could Be Rehired
- Burglar Trying to Regain his Hawaii County PD Badge
- Red Hill Victims Dealt A Blow In Their Fight Against The Navy
- Intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard’s office obtained and tested voting machines in Puerto Rico
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| Thursday, February 5, 2026 |
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February 5, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 10:58 AM :: 1982 Views
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- Senator Kidani Still in Office, claims she is not senile
- FTC settles with prescription drug middleman giant to lower pricing
- After burning $10B, rail is roughly equal to a single bus line
- Private Sector construction workers want state taxpayers to pay them for their days off
- After Screwing Insurers out of Subrogation, Legislators find even more ways to jack up your insurance rates
- Legislators Affordable Housing Plan? Impose another tax on housing
- Governor Asks Lawmakers For $126M In Green Fee Projects
- DelaCruz Pork Kitchen Can be Killed off after $28M is Wasted on Phase 1
- A history of epidemics, vaccinations during the Hawaiian Kingdom
- More Bureaucracy: University of Hawaiʻi to search for separate Mānoa campus chancellor
- ‘Vienna model’ bill advances to limit rental housing fund surpluses to more housing
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| Wednesday, February 4, 2026 |
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February 4, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 11:36 AM :: 901 Views
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- UHERO: Adjusted for local prices, Hawaiʻi’s economy among worst in nation
- Stop Taxing Food — Support Families and Food Security
- Hawaii dreaming that it can fend off federal fossil fuels lawsuit
- Lawmakers hear DHHL proposal to study 12 potential geothermal sites
- Bills advance to force HPD to refuse to back up ICE agents
- Council home bills counterproductive
- Used Car dealers on Oahu complain about delays in getting vehicles registered
- Shakedown: Environmentalists claim Hawaii Ritz-Carlton development threatens endangered species
- Hawaii mental patient dies after 9 yrs in coma, family sues
- Sheriff Drones May Be Watching You In Waikīkī
- Tulsi Gabbard running solo 2020 election inquiry separate from FBI investigation
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| Tuesday, February 3, 2026 |
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February 3, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 10:23 AM :: 2289 Views
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- Police Commission appoints Rudy Tai as Kaua‘i Police Chief
- Green Appoints Char Kauai Circuit Judge
- “Potential criminality” of Rail Contractor
- Senator Kidani Still in Office, claims she is not senile
- Ed Case Has Substantial Lead In Money Race For U.S. House Seat
- Oceanfront Lahaina Property Owners May Get $50M Buyout In Updated Disaster Plan
- Star-Adv: Put ban-LNG bill on back burner
- Expanded work requirements for SNAP are kicking in for Hawaii
- Hawaii Bill To Ban Prediction Markets Amid $448K Bets on Gov. Green's Speech
- State, county settle lawsuits over psychiatric detention
- State Agrees To Settle Case Over Prison Drug Withdrawal Death
- DOE Made Little Progress Last Year On Local Food Goals
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| Monday, February 2, 2026 |
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February 2, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:42 PM :: 1163 Views
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- With Supreme Court Ruling Coming, Hawaii Democrats Push More Carry Restrictions
- Hawai‘i’s proposed anti-ICE laws mimic Minneapolis in the worst ways
- What More can Hawaii do to help random adults Transsexualize other peoples’ Children?
- Classified Whistleblower Complaint About Tulsi Gabbard Stalls Within Her Agency
- Hawaii Legislative Bill May Promote Greenhouse Gas Offset Scams
- Affordable Housing Scam: Big Island Lawyer Gets 6 Years
- Honolulu City Council’s affordable housing bills face strong resistance
- Free school meals ‘non-sensible’
- End of aquarium collecting does not lead to recovery of reef fish in Hawaiʻi waters, new analysis finds
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