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Entries for 'Andrew Walden'
Friday, April 2, 2021 |
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Hanabusa Attack on Auditor is all about hiding corruption in the Office of Hawaiian Affairs
By Andrew Walden @ 5:06 AM :: 5629 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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... The report was written solely for the purpose of keeping OHA Trustees Executive Session minutes out of the hands of State Auditor Les Kondo ....
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Sunday, March 28, 2021 |
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What Does Blangiardi’s Police Commission Nominee Know About Kimura Shooting?
By Andrew Walden @ 11:54 PM :: 6168 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Police
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... Cap't Ben Mahi was the 2nd-highest-ranking officer of HPD Division 1, when a drunken Division 1 Sgt Anson Kimura accidentally shot waitress Hyun Ju Park ....
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Thursday, March 11, 2021 |
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Chemical Company Behind Anti-Sunscreen Campaign
By Andrew Walden @ 12:58 AM :: 6571 Views :: Environment, Greenmail
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... BASF has been trying to break in to the US sunscreen market for nearly 20 years. They have been blocked by protectionist FDA stalling ....
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Tuesday, February 23, 2021 |
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For some beneficiaries, the Hawaiian Homelands ‘waiting list’ does not exist
By Andrew Walden @ 8:44 PM :: 3163 Views :: DHHL
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“...Sovereignty is already happening now. We are educating our children. What we have in front of us doesn’t work....”
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Friday, February 19, 2021 |
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Sand Island Disclosure After BRAT Threatens Blangiardi with ‘Citizens Arrest’
By Andrew Walden @ 10:20 PM :: 5046 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics
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... The parcel is one of several not included on Blangiardi’s, June 8, 2020, Candidate Financial Disclosure form ....
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Thursday, February 18, 2021 |
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9/11 Conspiracy Theorist to Rewrite Maui County Charter?
By Andrew Walden @ 4:19 AM :: 4360 Views :: Maui County, Ethics
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... One of the nation’s leading 911 conspiracy theorists has been nominated to serve on the Maui County Charter Commission ....
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Wednesday, February 10, 2021 |
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Lawsuit: Hee Crime Family Under the Table Deal with Time Warner
By Andrew Walden @ 1:18 AM :: 4791 Views :: DHHL, Ethics
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... According to the complaint filed by Bankruptcy Trustee Michael Katzenstein, Clearcom, a Hee family company, has been receiving payment under the table from Oceanic Time Warner, Charter, and possibly others ....
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Sunday, February 7, 2021 |
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Bill 31: Former Meth-head Helps Sand Island Lobby for Property Tax Cap
By Andrew Walden @ 3:02 AM :: 4822 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Development, Taxes, COVID-19
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... It is naturally hard to say no to an ex-tweeker who, at Bishop Estate, achieved the kind of things most Honolulu politicians can only dream of ....
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Thursday, January 28, 2021 |
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Ex-CFO: I was fired to keep Legislators from Seeing OHA's True Budget
By Andrew Walden @ 7:41 AM :: 5721 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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... According to Laeha’s suit he was suspended by OHA’s then-CEO Kamanao Crabbe one day before he was set to reveal OHA’s real budget and "corrupt and unlawful practices" to Legislators ....
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Sunday, January 10, 2021 |
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Say 'Uncle' -- What Connects Miske to Kealoha?
By Andrew Walden @ 10:25 PM :: 14343 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Police, Rail
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... Kealoha was selected Chief thanks in part to Michael Miske’s ‘uncle’ ....
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Wednesday, January 6, 2021 |
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Trumpsters Break into Capitol, Occupy Senate Floor
By Andrew Walden @ 4:37 PM :: 3882 Views :: National News
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... This is the 'fascio' organizing itself ....
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Saturday, December 26, 2020 |
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DoJ: Hawaii's Lum Crime Family Trades American Hostages in Trump's White House
By Andrew Walden @ 8:54 PM :: 14907 Views :: National News, Ethics, Hawaii History, Obama
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...Hawaii’s Lum Crime Family is back in the news—allegedly channeling a Malaysian billionaire’s money to buy Chinese communist influence in Donald Trump’s White House via a top Trump fundraiser--convicted fraudster Elliott Broidy....
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Tuesday, December 15, 2020 |
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Honolulu PD ‘Top 10 Earners’ List Revealed–Did Corporal make $341K?
By Andrew Walden @ 2:00 PM :: 10702 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Labor, Police
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...in 2017 five of the top ten earners worked directly under Ballard at Central Receiving....
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Wednesday, December 9, 2020 |
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Ethics Board: Harry Kim Violated 'Fair Treatment' Rules by Letting Telescope Protesters Violate Laws
By Andrew Walden @ 10:54 PM :: 3705 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Higher Education
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... Will an Hawaii County Board of Ethics decision help Hawaii County's new mayor chart a new course for law enforcement at the Mauna Kea telescope protest site? ....
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Sunday, November 29, 2020 |
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Sunday, November 22, 2020 |
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OHA: A Tale of Two Audits
By Andrew Walden @ 7:06 PM :: 3348 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...The net result: Keep the cash flowing to the usual insiders....
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Wednesday, November 18, 2020 |
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Friday, November 13, 2020 |
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OIP: Under Emergency Order, UIPA Still has Some Teeth
By Andrew Walden @ 9:03 PM :: 2920 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...what does it take to get OHA to comply with an Open Records request....
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Sunday, November 1, 2020 |
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Complaint: Manahan uses Council Email to Campaign for Amemiya and Cordero
By Andrew Walden @ 9:34 PM :: 3212 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics
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...Complaints have been filed with the Hawaii Campaign Spending Commission and the Honolulu Ethics Commission....
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Sunday, October 25, 2020 |
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Hawai'i Tourism Reopening Strategy: Make COVID Positivity Numbers Look Good
By Andrew Walden @ 10:08 PM :: 3995 Views :: Tourism, COVID-19
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... on Oct 7, the HawaiiCOVID19.com ‘dashboard’ added 131,999 new tests to the total ....
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Monday, October 19, 2020 |
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OHA COVID Money: Homeless not part of ‘Friends and Family Plan’
By Andrew Walden @ 1:11 AM :: 5299 Views :: Kauai County, Ethics, OHA, COVID-19
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"... the ones who are punished the most for allegations of OHA misdoing is the community ...."
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Sunday, October 11, 2020 |
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OHA Races: Miske’s Lawyer Leads Developers Targeting ‘Watchdog’ in Grab for Kakaako Makai
By Andrew Walden @ 3:10 AM :: 7288 Views :: Ethics, Development, OHA
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...Akina’s opponent, Jason Keoni Souza, is a Realtor who supports selling the Ceded Lands “to corporations.” Souza tells Ka Wai Ola he wants OHA to “collaborate with the Building Trades.”....
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Friday, October 2, 2020 |
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Trump Tests Positive for COVID
By Andrew Walden @ 2:23 AM :: 1738 Views :: COVID-19
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...President Donald Trump tweets he and first lady Melania Trump test positive for Covid-19....
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Thursday, October 1, 2020 |
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Ige Answers Hirono on COVID Spending Transparency
By Andrew Walden @ 5:38 AM :: 1629 Views
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...Ige announced today that 98% of the $863 million of the federal Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF) received by the state in April has been set aside to assist with COVID-19 response and recovery efforts....
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Wednesday, September 30, 2020 |
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‘Ragged clothing and a staged homeless look’–Foreclosure for Fun and Profit with Gary V Dubin
By Andrew Walden @ 5:35 AM :: 4495 Views :: Ethics, Judiciary
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“(My) law firm … pioneered foreclosure defense in Hawaii….” -- Gary V Dubin
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Tuesday, September 22, 2020 |
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Feds Bust DoH Lab Tech--Allegedly Making LSD During COVID outbreak
By Andrew Walden @ 1:02 AM :: 6263 Views :: Military, Drugs, COVID-19
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...“You would think that employees at the state disease outbreak control center would be too busy these days for such extracurricular activities,” Dan Grazier, an ex-Marine Corps officer who now works for the nonprofit Project on Government Oversight, told The Daily Beast....
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Sunday, September 20, 2020 |
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Saturday, September 12, 2020 |
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COVID: Court Upholds Ige Emergency Order Authority Beyond 60 Days
By Andrew Walden @ 8:52 PM :: 8771 Views :: Hawaii County , Law Enforcement, COVID-19
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...HRS127A contains no language prohibiting supplementary or additional emergency proclamations....
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Sunday, August 30, 2020 |
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Lawsuit: Lindsey Cheats Anti-Telescope Protester in OHA Race
By Andrew Walden @ 5:52 AM :: 8250 Views :: Ethics, Office of Elections, OHA
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...Is the entire administration of OHA complicit in the illegal candidacy of an OHA executive for Trustee?....
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Sunday, August 23, 2020 |
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Insider Cacao Scheme: KSBE out $4M -- but OHA Dodges Bullet
By Andrew Walden @ 1:06 AM :: 5718 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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... Did Burgess tell KSBE that he would need a steady flow of free money for the next 15 years to make good on the Trust’s investment? ....
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Friday, August 14, 2020 |
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ACLU Plan for Hawaii: Massive COVID-Infested Homeless Tent Cities Everywhere -- with no sweeps
By Andrew Walden @ 6:18 PM :: 3752 Views :: Homelessness, Justice Reinvestment, COVID-19
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...At 11am today, the Hawaii Supreme Court is hearing a motion from the State Public Defender’s office using COVD as an excuse to order another mass release of criminals from Hawaii’s prisons and jails....
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Wednesday, August 12, 2020 |
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Election 2020: Democrats Aim to Eliminate All Republicans from Hawaii Legislature
By Andrew Walden @ 11:02 PM :: 3888 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Republican Party
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...For the first time since 2002, Hawaii Democrat candidates will be on the ballot in the General Election challenging every single sitting Republican incumbent legislator....
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Sunday, August 9, 2020 |
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OHA to Take Over Honolulu Council?
By Andrew Walden @ 3:30 AM :: 9882 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Development, Land Use, OHA
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...two OHA operatives are in the Council runoff elections this November with one goal in mind--help OHA upzone Kakaako Makai so it can build hotels and condos up to the sky....
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Sunday, August 9, 2020 |
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Fourth Read: Results from 406,425 votes
By Andrew Walden @ 12:25 AM :: 6346 Views :: Office of Elections
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... final results for all races ....
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Wednesday, August 5, 2020 |
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COVID Count 173 new cases out of 2,383 new tests
By Andrew Walden @ 10:42 PM :: 1862 Views :: COVID-19
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...six new hospitalizations, no new deaths....
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Sunday, August 2, 2020 |
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OHA Illegally Using State Resources to Campaign Against Akina, others
By Andrew Walden @ 11:44 PM :: 4037 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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... HRS § 84-13, the “Fair Treatment” section of the State Ethics Code, prohibits the use of state resources for political campaign purposes....
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Sunday, August 2, 2020 |
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Council Candidate Texeira Gets DUI
By Andrew Walden @ 1:52 AM :: 5183 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics
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...Honolulu Council District III candidate Alan Texeira was convicted of DUI March 10, 2020....
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Sunday, July 26, 2020 |
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Miske Lawyer Behind Campaign to Unseat OHA Trustee Keli’i Akina
By Andrew Walden @ 3:52 AM :: 11830 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...In the middle of what may become a death penalty case, lawyer Thomas Otake is making time for an OHA campaign. One might wonder what Michael Miske thinks about that....
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Tuesday, July 7, 2020 |
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Ige Vetoes $432M CARES Rainy Day Deposit
By Andrew Walden @ 5:45 PM :: 3329 Views :: Hawaii State Government, COVID-19
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...according to Senator Thielen CARES money was put in the Rainy Day fund so the governor couldn’t touch it....
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Monday, June 15, 2020 |
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Settlement Improves Honolulu Gun Registration System
By Andrew Walden @ 8:12 PM :: 4927 Views :: Honolulu County, Second Amendment
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"...From now on everyone who is in line at HPD's firearms registration department by 6:30 p.m. on Wednesdays will be served...."
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Sunday, June 7, 2020 |
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Amemiya Joins Pack of Insiders Grabbing ‘Affordable’ Housing Units for Themselves
By Andrew Walden @ 3:57 AM :: 17438 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Development
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...Honolulu Mayoral Candidate Keith Amemiya knows a lot about the ‘affordable’ housing system and how to ‘work’ it....
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Thursday, June 4, 2020 |
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HD5 Rep Creagan Withdraws from Race for Reelection
By Andrew Walden @ 10:20 PM :: 3128 Views :: Hawaii County , Politicians
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...Creagan made his unannounced move June 3, 2020—the last day for withdrawals and one day after the deadline to file....
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Friday, May 29, 2020 |
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Mufi Hannemann Pulls Papers to Run for Mayor
By Andrew Walden @ 10:32 PM :: 4146 Views :: Honolulu County, Politicians
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... a surprise on today's candidate printout ....
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Sunday, May 17, 2020 |
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Hawaii Wastes Thousands of COVID Testing Opportunities Every Day
By Andrew Walden @ 12:13 AM :: 6870 Views :: Economy, Health Care, Tourism, COVID-19
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...Hawaii has a 5,000 test per day capacity, yet access to testing is restricted and day after day only a few hundred tests are performed....
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Saturday, May 9, 2020 |
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OHA to Ige: Bypass Legislature and Give Us $21,287,134
By Andrew Walden @ 4:11 AM :: 4328 Views :: Ethics, OHA, COVID-19
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...OHA’s letter to Ige was timed to coincide with a media campaign designed to make Hawaiians appear as exceptional COVID victims....
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Saturday, May 2, 2020 |
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A Low-Risk Plan to Re-Start Hawaii Tourism Now
By Andrew Walden @ 2:52 AM :: 4448 Views :: Tourism, COVID-19
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...To rebuild tourism the Governor should amend his emergency order to exempt from quarantine any visitor who can show a negative COVID test....
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Sunday, April 26, 2020 |
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Harry Kim Pulls Papers to Run for Reelection
By Andrew Walden @ 8:44 PM :: 3699 Views :: Hawaii County , Politicians
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...Kim, 80, had previously expressed uncertainty about his reelection plans....
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Wednesday, April 22, 2020 |
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A Low-Risk Plan to Re-Start Hawaii’s Economy Now
By Andrew Walden @ 2:25 AM :: 7221 Views :: Economy, Small Business, COVID-19
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...To reopen the economy, start with high dollar-per-human-contact businesses—ie the ones nobody is talking about. We don’t need to wait a month to do this....
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Saturday, April 4, 2020 |
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Lawsuit Alleges Another Pedophile Ring at Kamehameha
By Andrew Walden @ 1:16 AM :: 13631 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii History
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...A new set of child molestation allegations is the subject of a lawsuit against Kamehameha Schools filed April 3, 2020, in Hawaii’s First Circuit Court....
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