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Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Supreme Flip Flop: McKenna and Eddins Apologize, Withdraw Corrupt Kealoha Opinion
By Andrew Walden @ 2:26 AM :: 202 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Judiciary, Politicians

... Not ready for Prime Time ....

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Monday, October 6, 2025
Democrats Rushing Selection of Senator Aquino Replacement
By News Release @ 8:54 PM :: 206 Views :: Honolulu County, Democratic Party, Ethics

... Democrats' selection process was annonced in a FB post at 6am Thursday Oct 2.   Applications are due Oct 8. ...

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Monday, October 6, 2025
Lawsuit Challenges Hawaii Youth Gun Ban
By News Release @ 4:22 PM :: 207 Views :: Second Amendment

... a federal lawsuit challenging Hawaii’s ban on the acquisition and possession of firearms and ammunition for adults 18-20 years old ....

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Monday, October 6, 2025
Hawaii Mixed Scores on Mental Health
By News Release @ 2:01 PM :: 257 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Homelessness, Drugs

... Hawaiʻi ranked No. 37 for identifying students with emotional disturbance (ED) for individualized education programs (IEPs) ....

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Monday, October 6, 2025
Hawaii Homeowners Pay Some of the Highest Insurance Costs in the Country
By News Release @ 2:13 AM :: 369 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living

... at the upper end, the Census data also shows households reporting costs of $4,000 or more, making Hawaii one of the few states in that category ....

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Sunday, October 5, 2025
UH enrollment tops 51,000, highest in eight years
By News Release @ 5:24 PM :: 472 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education

... UH Community Colleges: 25,461 (+2.2%) ....

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Sunday, October 5, 2025
Nonresident Withholding, Six Years Later
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1123 Views :: Taxes

... the legislation was enacted in 2019, six years ago.  At the time, the Department issued an announcement saying that it wasn’t ready to implement the requirement yet, so taxpayers could relax ....

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Sunday, October 5, 2025
Kauai Judicial Vacancy
By News Release @ 5:00 AM :: 618 Views :: Kauai County, Judiciary

... Notice of Judicial Vacancy – Circuit Judge, Circuit Court of the Fifth Circuit (island of Kauai) ....

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Saturday, October 4, 2025
Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted October 4, 2025
By GovTrack .us @ 11:30 PM :: 529 Views :: Congressional Delegation

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

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Saturday, October 4, 2025
Erasing progress not the way to move forward
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 6:19 PM :: 988 Views :: Development, Land Use

... to solve Hawaii’s housing shortage, we need to embrace change ....

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Saturday, October 4, 2025
Student Immunization Rates Show Mixed Results
By News Release @ 1:09 PM :: 520 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care

... the religious exemption rate increased in Hawaiʻi from 5.3% for the 2023-2024 school year to 5.4% for the 2024-2025 school year, and from 3.1% to 3.4% nationally ....

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Friday, October 3, 2025
Not Anonymous: Employees Demand ‘Investigation’ of DoTax Director Suganuma
By Andrew Walden @ 8:00 PM :: 2002 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Labor, Tax Credits, Taxes

... yelling, cursing, swearing, finger-pointing, accusing, etc., and it has created a very hostile and toxic work environment for DOTAX staff ....

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Friday, October 3, 2025
Hawaii limits on concealed carry headed for Supreme Court
By Court House News @ 5:04 PM :: 726 Views :: Second Amendment

... Aloha State gun owners argue Hawaii’s regulations on concealed handguns mirror the New York law that the high court shot down three years ago ....

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Friday, October 3, 2025
Green's Budget and Finance Director Resigns
By News Release @ 2:28 AM :: 698 Views :: Hawaii State Government

...Deputy Finance Director Sabrina Nasir will serve as Acting Director effective November 1, 2025....

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Thursday, October 2, 2025
UHERO: 'Politically Vulnerable' Hawaiʻi nonprofits face losing more than $100M in federal cuts
By News Release @ 11:59 PM :: 1160 Views :: Economy, Health Care, Higher Education, OHA, Drugs

... "More than half of this risk is concentrated in healthcare programs, with significant exposure also in human services, environment and education. Programs serving Native Hawaiians account for more than half of the state’s politically vulnerable funds" ....

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Thursday, October 2, 2025
Green Wants Ultimate Fighting Training Center and Octagon at Aloha Stadium
By Selected News Articles @ 4:36 PM :: 673 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Tourism

 “It’s more opportunity to kind of reshape some of the tourism experience that we have" -- Josh Green

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Thursday, October 2, 2025
Taiwan: Strengthening Pacific Connections Through Culture and Youth Leadership
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:21 PM :: 722 Views :: World News, OHA

... youth ambassadors from ROC Taiwan visit Hawaii ....

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Thursday, October 2, 2025
Hawaii Should Introduce Forced Labor Prevention Legislation Next Session
By Heartland Foundation @ 4:09 AM :: 674 Views :: Energy, Environment, Ethics

... is forced labor being used in solar panels, windmills, EV batteries, and other “green” technologies? ....

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Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Supreme Court Orders Disclosure of Adoption and Foster Records in Kalua Murder Case
By Andrew Walden @ 2:35 PM :: 832 Views :: Ethics, Family, Judiciary

... The court decision sharply reverses stringent secrecy rules ....

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Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Chief Justice Recktenwald Retires
By News Release @ 3:30 AM :: 844 Views :: Judiciary

... Recktenwald is stepping down in accordance with the State of Hawaiʻi’s constitutional requirement that judges and justices retire at the age of 70 ....

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Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Red Hill: Judge Rules Against Navy
By Court House News @ 4:03 AM :: 941 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military

... Kobayashi found that these disputes over material facts cannot be resolved without a full trial ....

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Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Green: Army Land Negotiations Advance
By News Release @ 2:13 AM :: 1119 Views :: Environment, Land Use, Military

... Governor Green and Secretary Driscoll anticipate working toward a Memorandum of Understanding by the end of this year, with the goal of outlining clear parameters for a suitable land arrangement and addressing the issues most important for Hawaiʻi’s communities ....

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Sunday, September 28, 2025
HTA Whistleblower Isaac Choy Illegally Fired by Governor’s Chief of Staff
By Andrew Walden @ 10:48 PM :: 4552 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Tourism

... Court documents allege Choy was illegally fired September 5, 2025, on the written order of Green’s Chief of Staff, Brooke Wilson ....

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Sunday, September 28, 2025
Petition: Close Holomua Homeless Camp, Protect Paia from Fires
By News Release @ 4:47 PM :: 761 Views :: Maui County, Homelessness

... The Lahaina fire taught us what happens when warning signs are ignored. How much ignoring needs to happen? ....

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Sunday, September 28, 2025
Bill 60: “Have we not learned our lesson over the many years of Rail?”
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:31 PM :: 1379 Views :: Honolulu County, Higher Education, Rail

... extensions to the estimated $10-billion rail project are being explored by the Honolulu City Council and the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation ....

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Sunday, September 28, 2025
Housing, Taxes, Rail: On the Agenda before County Councils
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:16 PM :: 1226 Views :: Honolulu County, Maui County, Development, Rail

... focus includes property tax relief and speeding up permitting, rail and rate freedom for taxis ....

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Sunday, September 28, 2025
COVID Money, Accounting Tricks Reduce Hawaii's Debt
By Selected News Articles @ 1:52 PM :: 1055 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics, Taxes

... now, each taxpayer would have to contribute 'only' $8,800 to help pay off the state’s debt ....

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Sunday, September 28, 2025
The Deduction for State and Local Tax
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1030 Views :: Taxes

... the push and pull that the federal tax system inflicts on state and local tax systems ....

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Sunday, September 28, 2025
Big Brother is Watching: State giving away 1,000 dashcams
By News Release @ 3:43 AM :: 1043 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Higher Education, Law Enforcement

... these cameras will record all roads that you drive normally each day, collecting imagery that the Hawaii DOT will use ....

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Sunday, September 28, 2025
Do we really want a "rubber stamp" Legislature?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 12:48 AM :: 858 Views :: Democratic Party, Ethics, Hawaii State Government

... too much agreement can sometimes cover up serious problems ....

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Saturday, September 27, 2025
Hawaii Installs 1 gigawatt of Solar and Batteries, but still depends on oil
By News Release @ 1:57 PM :: 1325 Views :: Energy

... capacity and production are two different things ....

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Saturday, September 27, 2025
Feds: Hawaii has until Oct 27 to remove all References to 'Gender Ideology' from Sex-Ed Programs
By Court House News @ 1:16 PM :: 1045 Views :: Education K-12, Family

... Hawaii joins a 16-state lawsuit filed Friday in an effort to keep transsexualizing your children ....

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Saturday, September 27, 2025
State Completes Housing for 900 Fire Victims Not Eligible for FEMA Aid
By News Release @ 1:54 AM :: 1036 Views :: DHHL, Maui County, Development

... By 2029, DHHL will take full ownership of the land, infrastructure and homes ....

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Saturday, September 27, 2025
Hanabusa Resigns from HART Board
By Andrew Walden @ 12:07 AM :: 1580 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Rail

"...the decision was made last month...."

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Friday, September 26, 2025
More Kai Kahele Chaos: OHA Trustees Remove CEO
By News Release @ 11:26 PM :: 1991 Views :: Ethics, OHA

... OHA makes no public announcement of Ferreira's 'leave' until news leaks to the media ....

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Friday, September 26, 2025
Hawaiʻi faces mild recession as tourism falls, inflation rises in new UHERO forecast
By UHERO @ 1:50 PM :: 1363 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Tourism

... visitor numbers are down, job growth has stalled, and housing activity remains weak ....

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Thursday, September 25, 2025
LGBTQ Triumph: McKenna to be first Lesbian Supreme Court Chief Justice
By News Release @ 8:11 PM :: 1448 Views :: Judiciary

... Associate Justice Sabrina S. McKenna will become Acting Chief Justice of the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court on October 1, 2025, following the retirement of Chief Justice Mark E. Recktenwald ....

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Thursday, September 25, 2025
Expungement: Judiciary Workshop helps hide arrest records, makes Bench Warrants disappear
By News Release @ 8:04 PM :: 547 Views :: Judiciary, Law Enforcement

"The Judiciary and its partners plan to continue offering expungement and bench warrant recall clinics as part of their shared commitment to expanding access to justice for all."

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Thursday, September 25, 2025
NASED finally gets around to signing Aloha Stadium Demolition Contracts
By News Release @ 4:21 PM :: 760 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Higher Education, Tourism

...  it will be "months" before the remaining agreements are signed ....

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Thursday, September 25, 2025
HPU, UH Ranked by US News for 2026
By News Release @ 3:54 PM :: 1236 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education

... HPU ranks 86th in the west in the US News and World Report College Rankings for 2026 ....

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Thursday, September 25, 2025
U.S. Sen. Schatz to be featured speaker at Grassroot, Appleseed housing forum
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:00 PM :: 1167 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Development, Land Use, Cost of Living

... The Oct. 15 event will focus on research and practical reforms aimed at addressing Hawaii's acute need for more housing ....

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Thursday, September 25, 2025
Petition: OHA Trustee's Wife Using Charter School Funds for 'improper personal expenses'
By News Release @ 6:18 AM :: 2266 Views :: Kauai County, Ethics, OHA

"...Ahuna is responsible for a five-year decline in K-12 enrollment and using school funds for improper personal expenses benefiting herself, her family, and associates...."

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Thursday, September 25, 2025
SD19: Aquino Quits Senate to Join Lobbying Firm
By News Release @ 5:51 AM :: 1872 Views :: Democratic Party, Ethics, Hawaii State Government

... I am quitting to become a big time lobbyist ....

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Wednesday, September 24, 2025
DHS: Reduced SNAP Benefits Begin October 1
By News Release @ 6:00 PM :: 1278 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Cost of Living

... a single-person household will see about an $11 reduction, while a family of four will see about a $34 reduction ....

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Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Paia: Will Maui lose ANOTHER town to fire due to refusal to clear out Holomua Homeless Camp?
By Andrew Walden @ 3:28 PM :: 2280 Views :: Maui County, Homelessness

... on average the homeless meth heads at Holomua start a grass fire every three days threatening Paia Town ....

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Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Green Emergency Order Allows COVID-19 Vax Without Prescription
By News Release @ 3:33 AM :: 601 Views :: Health Care, COVID-19

... This emergency proclamation allows Hawaiʻi pharmacists to continue providing the vaccine to anyone age 3 and older who wants it — without requiring a doctor’s prescription ....

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Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Judge signals six-month delay of Hawaii jet fuel contamination case
By Court House News @ 2:17 AM :: 1542 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy, Environment, Military

... Courts previously allowed the Navy a yearlong stay in the case ....

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Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Regional pressure builds on Kaiser as Hawaii strike called
By Court House News @ 3:38 PM :: 1535 Views :: Health Care, Labor

... Kaiser workers in Hawaii joined three other Pacific states in voting for a strike, citing unsafe staffing levels and wage disparities with mainland counterparts ....

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Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Hawaii's First Interscholastic Surfing Championships in 2026
By News Release @ 2:58 AM :: 1456 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12

... The inaugural championships will be May 1–2, 2026, at Hoʻokipa Beach Park on Maui, hosted by the MIL, which has sanctioned high school surfing since 2014 ....

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Tuesday, September 23, 2025
DHHL Issues First Agricultural Lease Awards in More Than 20 Years
By News Release @ 2:46 AM :: 1457 Views :: DHHL, Maui County, Agriculture

... 105 agricultural project leases for two subdivisions on the island of Maui ....

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