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Wednesday, April 24, 2024 |
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Notice of Anticipated Judicial Vacancy – Circuit Judge, Circuit Court of the First Circuit (island of Oʻahu)
By News Release @ 12:08 AM :: 181 Views :: Honolulu County, Judiciary
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... The Judicial Selection Commission is accepting applications and nominations to fill the following anticipated judicial vacancy ....
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Monday, April 22, 2024 |
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City Points to Empty Rail System as Example of 'Sustainability'
By News Release @ 11:15 PM :: 78 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Rail
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... and an interactive Skyline tour, showcasing that Earth Day is for everyone ....
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Friday, April 19, 2024 |
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Blangiardi: City Will Not Sue Glock
By Selected News Articles @ 11:59 PM :: 1476 Views :: Honolulu County, Second Amendment
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... a Council bill had proposed hiring specialized legal experts from the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence and Dentons law firm ....
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Friday, April 19, 2024 |
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Honolulu mayor says he's responsible for Honolulu’s gun licensing problems.
By Video @ 8:20 PM :: 829 Views :: Honolulu County, Second Amendment
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... The law clearly says the police chief makes the policies, but the mayor says he's pulling those strings ....
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Wednesday, April 17, 2024 |
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Naming Names: Airports Division Ran Late-Night Parties Where Hawaii Politicians Raked In Money
By Selected News Articles @ 4:04 PM :: 2760 Views :: Honolulu County, Maui County, Ethics, Hawaii State Government, OHA, COVID-19
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... late-night parties in a cramped second-floor office where lobbyists and executives seeking government contracts lined up to drop cash and checks into a metal lockbox ....
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024 |
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No Surprise: Waipiʻo Peninsula eliminated from consideration as potential future landfill site
By News Release @ 11:52 PM :: 463 Views :: Honolulu County
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... based on concerns regarding the site’s proximity to near-shore waters ....
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024 |
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Victim of bribery scheme testifies in Hawaii prosecutor corruption case
By Court House News @ 5:31 AM :: 1234 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Law Enforcement
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... A former Honolulu prosecutor is accused of accepting nearly $50,000 from a local engineering firm to go after a former employee with criminal charges ....
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Monday, April 15, 2024 |
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Homicide up 175% in Honolulu
By Selected News Articles @ 4:59 AM :: 1102 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii Statistics, Police
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... 11 homicides in Honolulu as of March 31 ....
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Saturday, April 13, 2024 |
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City Closing Ulehawa Beach Park to Clean Tons of Homeless Tent City Garbage
By News Release @ 10:19 PM :: 753 Views :: Honolulu County, Homelessness
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... beaches along the Waianae Coast have been taken over by a 20-mile-long homeless camp. This is just one mile ....
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Monday, April 8, 2024 |
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Marconi Point Project Connected to DPP Bribery Scandal
By Selected News Articles @ 6:14 PM :: 1698 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Development, Land Use
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... City Seeks to Dismiss Marconi Claims, Supports Move to Depose Bribery Convicts ....
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Thursday, April 4, 2024 |
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How to revive Hawaii’s downtown centers
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:59 AM :: 1144 Views :: Honolulu County, Development
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... The developer requested a waiver for the project, but a year later, the permit is still pending ....
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Thursday, April 4, 2024 |
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HONU Housing Less Than One Homeless Per Day
By News Release @ 4:50 AM :: 1329 Views :: Honolulu County, Homelessness
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... for the past 153 days HONU connected 119 clients with shelter or supportive housing ....
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Monday, April 1, 2024 |
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Salary Needed for family of Four to Live Comfortably in Honolulu -- $299K
By Selected News Articles @ 4:42 PM :: 1533 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... Total salary needed for two working adults with two children $299,520 ....
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Friday, March 29, 2024 |
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DoD Returns Red Hill Control to US Navy
By Selected News Articles @ 6:12 PM :: 1319 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military
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... Joint Task Force – Red Hill transferred authority of the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage to the Navy Closure Task Force – Red Hill ....
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Friday, March 29, 2024 |
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Recktenwald Appoints Michelle N. Comeau Oahu District Judge
By News Release @ 12:05 AM :: 2469 Views :: Honolulu County, Judiciary
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... The appointment is subject to Senate confirmation ....
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Thursday, March 28, 2024 |
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Council resolution exemplifies why we still have housing crisis
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:00 PM :: 1290 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Land Use
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... Twenty years later, we are still having the same conversations ....
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Sunday, March 24, 2024 |
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Cost of NIMBYism way too high
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 9:58 PM :: 1540 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Land Use
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... Resolution 24-65 contains most of the usual anti-housing rhetoric, and even claims that making it easier to create smaller, more affordable homes would somehow result in more so-called monster homes ....
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Friday, March 22, 2024 |
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Victory! Honolulu Agrees to Suspend Enforcement of Unconstitutional Ordinance, Saving Local Businesses
By Selected News Articles @ 11:50 PM :: 2591 Views :: Honolulu County, First Amendment, Small Business, Tourism
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... City suspends enforcement of a city ordinance that’s driving several restaurants in Waikiki out of business ....
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Thursday, March 21, 2024 |
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Allowing smaller lots and homes would benefit families, promote affordability
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:02 PM :: 1567 Views :: Honolulu County, Development
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... These two measures would increase our housing supply not only on Oahu but throughout all of Hawaii by allowing smaller homes on smaller lots....
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Saturday, March 16, 2024 |
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HHFDC Selects Insiders to Develop Kapolei Parcel
By News Release @ 5:10 PM :: 1375 Views :: Honolulu County, Development
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... to award developers Ikenakea Development LLC and The Michaels Organization a long-term lease for the 19.4-acre property at Farrington Highway and Fort Barrette Road ....
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Friday, March 15, 2024 |
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Blangiardi Delivers State of the City Address
By Video @ 2:12 AM :: 1306 Views :: Honolulu County
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VIDEO: State of the City Address
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Friday, March 8, 2024 |
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Fake Minutes and Fire Secrecy: OIP Posts Three New Opinions
By News Release @ 3:06 AM :: 1600 Views :: Honolulu County, Education K-12, Ethics
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"... the executive session minutes did not convey a true reflection of the matters discussed at the meeting ..."
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Saturday, March 2, 2024 |
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Blangiardi submits FY2025 budget proposals to Honolulu City Council
By News Release @ 1:21 AM :: 1286 Views :: Honolulu County
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... proposed $3.63 billion Operating and $919 million Capital Improvement Program (CIP) budgets for the 2025 fiscal year ....
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Sunday, February 25, 2024 |
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City Demands Energy Use Data on Apartments and Commercial Buildings
By News Release @ 2:30 AM :: 1280 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy, Cost of Living
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... Starting in 2023, buildings 100,000 square feet and larger were required to begin annually reporting their utility data to the City. By June 30, 2024, buildings 50,000 square feet and larger must report, followed by buildings 25,000 square feet and larger by June 30, 2025 ....
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Wednesday, February 21, 2024 |
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FCKBLM? Censorship Leads to 23% Decrease in Personalized License Plate Requests
By News Release @ 2:09 AM :: 1299 Views :: Honolulu County, First Amendment
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... The city’s Motor Vehicle Registration Branch will reject applications that violate the existing rules, including letter and number combinations that are profane, encourage violence, or make sexual references ....
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Sunday, February 18, 2024 |
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City May be Short on Sanitation Trucks for Months to Come
By News Release @ 1:14 PM :: 1445 Views :: Honolulu County
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... Of the 73 trucks that have been ordered over the past five fiscal years, ENV has only received 17 of them — and no new trucks have been delivered since November 2020 ....
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Friday, February 16, 2024 |
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Debt: Honolulu 3rd-Worst Sinkhole City
By News Release @ 2:48 PM :: 1301 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii Statistics
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... Honolulu has $3.8 billion available to pay $6.6 billion worth of bills ....
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Tuesday, February 13, 2024 |
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Monday, February 12, 2024 |
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Blangiardi announces Andy Sugg as new Chief of Staff
By News Release @ 3:31 PM :: 1357 Views :: Honolulu County
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... Sugg previously served as a television executive in Hawai‘i and has years of experience in working alongside Mayor Blangiardi ....
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Wednesday, January 24, 2024 |
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Thursday, January 18, 2024 |
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Time to ask ‘tough questions’ about state energy policy
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:54 AM :: 1219 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy
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... Are rolling blackouts going to be Hawaii’s “new normal”? ....
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Thursday, January 11, 2024 |
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Navy still on the hook for negligence claims by military families injured by jet fuel leak
By Court House News @ 11:59 PM :: 219 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military
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... The government managed to dodge failure to warn claims thanks to the Federal Tort Claims Act ....
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Thursday, January 11, 2024 |
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Oahu Rolling Blackouts Caused by Coal Plant Closure
By News Release @ 8:29 PM :: 1282 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy
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... In 2020, the Legislature passed a bill that banned coal powered energy production in the State by 2023 ....
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Monday, January 8, 2024 |
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Rolling Blackout Hits Within Days After Kapolei Battery Farm Goes Online
By News Release @ 11:21 PM :: 2077 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy
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"...due to heavy cloud cover and rainy conditions across the island, production from solar energy systems has been reduced and battery energy storage systems could not charge...."
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Saturday, December 30, 2023 |
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Keeping Honolulu Jammed: 2023 Complete Streets Progress Report
By News Release @ 5:57 PM :: 1192 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail
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... In previous decades, City streets were planned and designed primarily for vehicular capacity, not any longer! ....
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Tuesday, December 26, 2023 |
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EMS lost $33M after failing to bill patients?
By Andrew Walden @ 12:01 AM :: 1458 Views :: Honolulu County, Health Care
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... City and County of Honolulu had nearly a year to prepare for the July 1, 2022 handover, but somehow didn’t get the billing contract established ....
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Sunday, December 24, 2023 |
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Merry Wet Christmas for Honolulu BWS
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 3178 Views :: Honolulu County, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... Honolulu consumers will be subjected to a double whammy next year ....
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Saturday, December 16, 2023 |
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Saturday, December 16, 2023 |
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Loss of $192M? Honolulu EMS forgot to bill ambulance patients for over a year
By Andrew Walden @ 10:07 PM :: 2054 Views :: Honolulu County, Health Care
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... EMS neglected to bill patients for ambulance rides starting July 1, 2022 ....
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Thursday, December 14, 2023 |
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Wednesday, December 13, 2023 |
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New Oil Burner: HECO to Repower 76-Year Old Waiau Plant
By News Release @ 3:17 PM :: 1182 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy, Environment
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..."The proposed repowering of the Waiau facility will be the largest generation project in Hawaiian Electric’s 132-year history." It will run on oil, but read on to see how HECO conceals this fact....
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Wednesday, December 13, 2023 |
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City to send 2024 Real Property Notice of Assessments
By News Release @ 1:54 PM :: 1691 Views :: Honolulu County, Taxes
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... an approximate increase of 0.79 percent ....
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Monday, December 11, 2023 |
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Green Questions Water Rate Hikes After They are Approved
By News Release @ 1:08 PM :: 1218 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military, Cost of Living
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... “The BWS’ decision to raise water rates by about 50% may create a hardship for many residents. It’s important for the BWS to take advantage of available federal funding to reduce the costs it passes on to O‘ahu residents,” said Governor Josh Green, M.D. ....
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Wednesday, November 29, 2023 |
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Navy Notifies Regulators of Groundwater PFAS Detection
By News Release @ 12:46 AM :: 1119 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military
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... Four of 21 groundwater monitoring wells showed exceedance of perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS), a component of polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) ....
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Tuesday, November 28, 2023 |
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Hawaii demands remediation from Navy following jet fuel leak
By Court House News @ 4:37 PM :: 1617 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military
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... Red Hill fuel-polluted soils could cost $750 million to clean up ....
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