1. 1959: Martin Luther King Jr Salutes Hawaii Statehood
2. Punatics to get the House seat stolen from Oahu by Disenfranchising Military personnel?
3. Gov. David Ige seeks to create new law enforcement agency
4. Got $123.9 Billion? -- Abercrombie-Connected Group pushes Hawaii political candidates for more ‘investment’ in brainwashing young children
5. Bringing Down Costs Is More Important Than Raising Wages
6. Restrictions hurt Hawaii’s stake in cryptocurrency market
7. Navy Gives New Dates For Families Displaced By Water Crisis To Return Home
8. Sales Pitch for Next Boondoggle: Public can attend virtual meeting discussing Ala Wai Flood Risk study
9. Honolulu airport improvements become homeless camp--rash of car thefts
10. Shortage of volcanic black cinder in Hawaii

1. Unemployment insurance mess back to haunt us
2. Under the Big Top
3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 15, 2022
4. Before UH Hired Him -- Graham Got $12.8M Buyout from Arizona State U
5. Big Pile of Your Money: Legislature Prepares to Light Bonfire
6. What did Kealoha have on Caldwell?
7. How did handcuffs become Honolulu’s new jewelry craze?
8. Miske Lawyers Ask Hawaii Supreme Court to block sealing of old case and gag order issued by state judge
9. Water at Aliamanu Military Reservation was 3 times state’s safe limit
10. Living costs, lack of housing hurt medical recruiting locally
11. More Homeless Mayhem: State librarian asks for $1M security boost against COVID pandemic crime wave
12. Chinatown: 100 Homeless Drug Addicts Arrested
13. Caltech Submillimeter Observatory on track to be removed later this year

1. Commission Hears Complaints on Election Integrity
2. No Buyout:  Todd Graham resigns as University of Hawaii head football coach
3. UH regents to consider new Maunakea Master Plan
4. Hawaii public school teacher absences hit 2,159 amid omicron surge
5. State gets OK to once again streamline food stamp application, renewals process
6. How The Victim Of Mistaken Identity Was Finally Let Out Of The Hawaii State Hospital
7. HPD says 20 of the city’s security cameras in Chinatown don’t work

1. Put state budget on a diet, Akina says on ‘Perry & The Posse’ show
2. Al Hee's Hawaiian Homelands Monopoly Broken
3. Community invited to help shape spending of federal recovery funds
4. Which County has the Most Small Businesses?
5. VIDEO: TANF Hoarding
6. Former council members expect to be witnesses against indicted ex-city officials
7. Lawmakers: Red Hill Fuel Leaked Into Well Through A Pipeline Navy Didn’t Know Existed
8. DOE Officials Preview Budget Priorities To Hawaii Lawmakers
9. Honolulu Police Chief Search Expected To Take At Least 6 More Months    
10. Annual Statewide Count Of Hawaii’s Homeless Population Postponed
11. Will This Bureaucratic Tug Of War Over Hawaii’s Ag Lands Finally End?

1. Navy to Congress: Future of Hawaii Red Hill Fuel Facility Uncertain
2. Hawaii Tax Foundation to Host 2022 Legislative Briefing series
3. Hawaii: Cost Per Tobacco Smoker $2.8M
4. SHOPO Statement on Federal Indictment of Three Honolulu Officials
5. State budget windfall should be shared with taxpayers
6. Feds: Ali'i Security Rips off 171 Guards for $1.54M Overtime
7. Caldwell Next to be Arrested?
8. New map proposed for Hawaii’s state, congressional lawmaker districts
9. Hawaii Voter database - 100,000 bogus registrations?
10. Hawaii's Capitol Can Be Opened Safely
11. 42 Hawaii public schools have not reported their COVID-19 case counts since before winter break
12. Head of nurses union: Severe staffing shortage at hospitals is impacting patient care
13. UH Buyout: $1.2M for a Dr Pepper
14. COVID: People Earned Less from Work--But Got Free Money from the Sky
15. Antivax Mayoral recall effort fails Miserably in second attempt to collect signatures
16. Poll - Hawaii Voters Want To Access State Agencies and Services Online

1. How Many Legislators Were Partying With Sharon Har During COVID Shutdown?
2. Money and Power: HSTA Priorities for 2022 Legislature
3. DoH Reduces School Quarantine Requirements, HSTA Complains
4. DOH/CDC health survey expanded to include all Navy water system users
5. Kealoha Payoff Illegal: Top Caldwell Administration Officials Arrested by FBI
6. ‘The judge got it wrong’: City prosecutor rails against lawmaker’s acquittal in DUI case
7. Civil Beat Law Center intervenes again opposing unnecessary secrecy in Miske case
8. Reality: As it pledges to empty fuel tanks, Navy says cost of crisis now tops $250M
9. Illusion: Elected officials advance bill pretending to propose city regulate Red Hill fuel farm
10. Is The Hawaii Legislature Ready To Give Teachers Yet Another Raise Outside of Collective Bargaining?
11. Hanabusa Gravy Train: Honolulu Rail Board Members Signal Strong Satisfaction With Kahikina’s Job So Far
12. Bill 41: Neighborhoods need rentals of 30+ days
13. The Maui Charter Commission Is Weighing 85 Changes To County Government
14. CNMI House Votes To Impeach Governor Torres

1. Cryptocurrency in Hawaii at a crossroads
2. DHHL Releases EA for Isenberg Street Rentals, Kalaeloa Solar Project
3. Drunk With Power: Sharon Har DUI case ends in acquittal
4. Witch Hunt Continues: House May Ask AG To Probe Alleged Criminal Conduct By State Auditor
5. COVID Excuse: Higa sentencing delayed
6. SB666: Hawaii’s Legislature Will Use Climate Change as Excuse for Tax and Fee Hike
7. Rolling Blackouts Coming: Oahu renewable energy suffers setback
8. Prioritize COVID testing, transparency to keep schools going
9. First cruise ship to Hawaiʻi in 2 years arrives with positive COVID-19 cases in isolation
10. U.S. military tracking Russian military vessel near Hawaii
11. HPD And DOE Sued For Allegedly Handcuffing 10-Year-Old Girl Over Drawing
12. New suits filed against housing project on Navy water line as flushing effort continues
13. Hospitals report ‘critical’ shortage of staffed beds with 1,400 frontline caregivers out due to COVID
14. Quack? Maui Hospital Goes After Antivax Doc

1. 1959: Martin Luther King Jr Salutes Hawaii Statehood
2. Navy Has Underground Fuel Tanks on Kauai, Too
3. Legislature: Wooden Stockade to Keep Public Out
4. SHOPO Leader Wants Faster Progress In Finding A New Honolulu Police Chief
5. Rate Commission seeks public input on Bus, Handi-Van fares
6. Hele-On riders offered free Bikeshare use

1. Red Hill: BWS Smokes out Congress?
2. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 8, 2022
3. Hotel moratorium bill: Maui Council Overrides Veto 
4. TANF Hoarding
5. Aloha Stadium Gravy Train: Tickets on Sale Now $25
6. Rail Operating Cost may be $150M per Year
7. Pandemic-caused shutdown of state Capitol hurts public participation in our Legislature
8. One of Miske’s Hawaii Kai Homes Is For Sale, But He’s Unlikely To Get The Proceeds
9. Hawaii’s high housing costs can be lessened
10. Flushing of water system at Aliamanu and Red Hill to continue, Army says
11. Some Central Maui residents may see different voting districts
12. Interest is high now that electric guns are legal to buy and carry in Hawaii
13. Young Brothers suspends some cargo shipments to Maui
14. Shapiro: Lesson from WWII: Fix democracy with more democracy

1. Anti-Gun Bills Expected
2. Hawaii population continues to dwindle
3. UHERO: ​Effects of COVID-19 vaccine mandates in Hawai‘i
4. PUC Chair James Griffin to Step Down
5. Curbing emergency power
6. Public schools are in-person, but COVID is keeping hundreds of students away
7. Hawaii public school officials report 1,800+ teacher absences; Chaminade joins shift to virtual classes
8. Navy wants to release millions of gallons of treated water a day from tainted well into Halawa Stream
9. Ige Proposes Statewide Law Enforcement Agency
10. Next Big Fat UH Buyout: Todd Graham Allegedly Called Hawaii A ‘Third World Country’ Because The Vending Machines Didn’t Have Dr. Pepper

1. House subcommittee to take up Navy fuel cleanup in Hawaii
2. TANF: Hawaii Hoards $364M Federal Welfare Money
3. Hawaii offers $25 to inmates who get COVID booster
4. COVID: Hawaii Shutdowns Among Harshest in USA
5. National Community Survey for O'ahu Residents
6. UH: Solar Installations are Killing Birds
7. UH: Ocean plastic is creating new communities of life on the high seas
8. Hawaii Republicans: January 6 Investigation 'Targeting Good Americans'
9. Peter Savio: ‘I Like Trump’ -- Considers Run on Republican Ticket
10. Miske associate ‘Harry Boy’ Kauhi details Hawaii murder-for-hire in plea deal
11. Missing HSTA Members Include 1,969 Anti-Vaxxers--Schools Shifting Back to Fake ‘Online’ Classes
12. Decision on military population means 100,000 Oahuans Disenfranchised so Big island can Seize Control of Undeserved House Seat
13. Hawaii Tax Collections Are Projected To Top $8 Billion For The First Time Ever
14. First cruise ship in nearly two years slated to arrive in Hawaii next week
15. Best feature of Maui comprehensive affordable housing plan is at risk
16. Commission rejects ‘flawed’ effort to preserve Oahu farmland
17. Monsanto pleads guilty to pesticide-related crimes in Hawaii
18. 6 in 10 Oahu homes on the market sold over asking price in 2021: Report
19. Hawaii Should Prepare Now For The Next Drug Scourge

1. Lobbyists Welcome--But Legislature will Continue to Exclude Public
2. California Global Warmer Returns to Hawaii, Quickly Named to BLNR
3. Capacity at larger indoor gatherings temporarily restricted through January in response to Omicron
4. Statewide Historic Preservation Plan to be Updated
5. Hawaii COVID Hospitalization Count Artificially Inflated by 20%
6. Gov. David Ige’s emergency powers face challenges
7. Hanabusa Gravy Train: HART Board Rewards one of its own with $170K Salary
8. The Navy told this military family they were safe from toxic water. Then both their children ended up in the ER
9. Unemployment Tax Spike For Employers?
10. Lawmakers: Spend $1 Billion In Rainy Day Funds to Create HGEA ‘Positions’
11. This Year HTA Wants $150M, and a Convention Center Roof
12. ‘Working families’ Group of Hawaii lawmakers formed
13. Hawaii DOE superintendent: Over 1,600 teachers statewide have called out sick    
14. McDermott Leaving Hawaii House, Daughter-In-Law To Seek Seat
15. Maui Purports to Have 4,311 ‘Affordable’ Units ‘in pipeline’
16. Survey: Anti-Tourism Sentiment Strongest Among New Arrivals 
17. Anti-TVR Bill 41 to be Heard Jan 13
18. Ex-death row inmate accused of raping another prisoner at Halawa facility
19. Hawaii 'Proud Boys' leader's case still active year after Jan. 6 Capitol attack
20. Displaced military families will have to wait longer until water is safe to return home
21. ‘It’s a mess’: Some Kula residents still boiling water 1 month after powerful storm
22. With electric guns legal in Hawaii, police warn misuse comes with consequences

1. Schatz: 'January 6 was round one'
2. Hawaii budget needs lifestyle change in 2022
3. DoT: Hawaii Harbors Reopen to Cruise Ships
4. Federal CDC to Survey Red Hill Health Impacts
5. Congressional Delegation: Navy Must Comply With DOH Emergency Order To Defuel Red Hill Tanks
6. Judges, Grand Jury Counsel Needed on Big Island
7. Hawaii’s Population Drain Outpaces Most States — 10,358 flee
8. Lower Income Families May Face Extra Hardships In 2022
9. Hawaii is forecast to reach nearly 10 million tourists in 2024
10. Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi announces 50% capacity limit on large indoor events on Oahu
11. Hawaii COVID-19 hospitalizations mount
12. Hospital workers shortage worsens with more than 1,000 frontline caregivers out due to COVID  
13. Some Hawaii public schools face staffing shortage as COVID-19 infections rise in the state
14. Pressures of the pandemic delay environmental protection efforts
15. Hundreds of domestic violence, DUI cases at risk after state Supreme Court ruling
16. State offering inmates $25 incentive to get booster shot
17. Alleged Game Room Shooter Has Lots of Priors
18. HFD investigating blaze in Kakaako that triggered evacuation at homeless shelter
19. Hawaii Council committee advances fare-free bus
20. $250 tax credit for homeowners? Council members mull proposal, vote to table it for now
21. Hawaii Avoids Port Backups But Some Goods Are Scarce

1. New Ethics Comm Exec Director a Pro-Rail Corporate Lawyer and Lobbyist
2. Senate Budget Briefings Begin
3. Let's Play Make Believe: Hawaii DoH 'Orders' US Navy to Stop Fueling Ships, Planes
4. Sounds of war we wish to forget 
5. Removing Hawaii’s Barriers to Bitcoin
6. 7-Eleven Hawaii to Accept SNAP for Online Orders With Vroom Delivery
7. Hawaii Top Choice for Taiwan-National Guard Partnership: Report
8. Investigation underway: State probing vandalism of Captain Cook Monument
9. COVID Count Drops Sharply: Hawaii sees 1,592 new coronavirus cases
10. 100,000 Oahuans to be Excluded from Count so Big Island can get Another House Seat
11. Board of Water Supply says 3 Oahu wells may never reopen after latest Navy contamination
12. Clare Connors sworn in as U.S. Attorney for Hawaii
13. Students return to Hawaii public school classrooms amid omicron surge
14. Hawaii eliminates Safe Travels health questionnaire, reduces COVID quarantine for visitors to align with CDC guidelines
15. Hawaii County flooded with outreach requests from COVID-patients who have no place to quarantine
16. Honolulu Councilman Augie Tulba’s role in TV commercial raises ethics questions
17. Report: DOE Food Sustainability Goal Not Real

Sounds of war we wish to forget

1. 2022 State Business Tax Climate Index--Hawaii Ranks 41st
2. Hawaii could be more transparent about CARES Act spending, report says
3. Wages For Many On Oahu Fail To Keep Pace With Soaring Prices
4. Kaua‘i avoided ‘eviction tsunami’ as wealthy homebuyers drove up prices
5. Omicron 66%, Delta 33% of Hawaii COVID cases
6. Contractors play key role in Red Hill fuel storage operations
7. Soft-on-Crime Crowd Hopes to Give Tickets for Felonies
8. Helicopter Mapping Homeless camps for outreach, Point In Time Count

1. Native Hawaiian Access to Healthcare is a Symptom of a Statewide Problem
2. OHA’s 2022 Legislative Package
3. Act 90: 19,000 DLNR Acres Transferred to Agriculture Department
4. ​Honolulu Police Department Gun Registration Website Now Operational
5. Considering a Carbon Tax with Rebates
6. ‘Social License’: Buying Off Activists with Bundles of Money Is Essential For Large-Scale Projects In Hawaii
7. Critical Hawaii issues face deadlines, uncertainty in 2022
8. Wise quotables to help guide isle notables in the new year
9. Rain may delay US Navy’s timeline for flushing fuel-contaminated water out
10. New law allows Hawaii residents to legally purchase, carry stun gun for self-defense
11. Hawaii deputy sheriffs hoping for back hazard, overtime pay
12. Decision by Hawaii Supreme Court leads to dismissal of dozens of cases
13. Romantic ideas about locally grown food getting in the way
14. A Long Legal Battle Still Looms For Hawaiian Home Lands Beneficiaries
15. ‘Just hop on the bus’: Hawaii County Council bill would make bus rides free thanks to grants

1. Hawaii Ranks 12th for Property Crime
2. Hospitalizations ‘decoupling’ from COVID counts as severity is not surging with cases
3. Hawaii records 4 new coronavirus-related deaths, 2,710 additional infections
4. State senate to hold hearing on University of Hawaii football program
5. First class action lawsuit filed on behalf of residents affected by Navy’s tainted water crisis
6. Preview of Oahu Without Coal: HECO asks Oahu customers to conserve electricity after several generators go offline
7. Most Japanese nationals want to travel to Hawaiʻi after the pandemic
8. Star-Adv Editorial: How to Extract Money from Zuckerbergs on Kauai

1. A clear abuse of power: Auditor Rips Legislators 'Nonsense attempt to conjure up malfeasance'
2. Ige's Latest COVID Emergency Proclamation Does Only One Thing: Suspend Part of Sunshine Law
3. Maui Revises Definition of 'Fully Vaccinated'
4. DHS Waiver Makes Life Easier for Welfare Cheats
5. Honolulu Hale Multiple Resignations, Retirements
6. Making Tourism More ‘Woke’ Means Taxes, Fees, and Hassles
7. No Booster Shot Patients in ICU
8. Hawaii reports 5 new coronavirus-related deaths, 3,290 additional infections
9. Hawaii County Council Rejects In-Person Testimony                       
10. Maui Council to convene online as in-person meeting rules suspended
11. Hawaii Public Utilities Commission -- 2022 and Beyond
12. Oahu and Maui plastic bans postponed

1. HIDOE schools expected to resume in-person learning following winter break
2. COVID: HSTA Urges Sickout
3. DoH Eases COVID Quarantine Rules
4. DLIR Reports Seven Workplace fatalities in 2021
5. Here’s How Life Expectancy in Hawaii Compares to the Nation
6. Maui County Delays Plastic Disposable Foodware Ban
7. Hawaii sets new record with 3,484 new coronavirus cases -- no deaths
8. Blangiardi Defends Approach To Omicron Surge
9. New timeline of events sheds light on failures that led to Navy’s ongoing water crisis
10. The Army showed the Navy how not to mismanage the contaminated water crisis in Hawaii
11. DoH Still Delaying Flushing Process
12. Navy Again Points Out Health Department Lacks Power To Shut Down Red Hill
13. 3% TAT Hike Will Make TVRs More Attractive --- Cruise Ships Coming Jan 22
14. High court ruling in Maui case could be good news for Maunakea protestors
15. A quick look at some of what searches of Miske’s properties disclosed
16. Pace of occupancy loss slows for Oahu retail market