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Sunday, August 2, 2026
OHA Launches National Search for Chief Executive Officer
By News Release @ 11:29 AM :: 4600 Views

"...we are seeking a leader who shares our commitment...." said OHA Board Chair Kaialiʻi Kahele

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Sunday, August 2, 2026
​The Curious Career of Ford Fuchigami
By Selected News Articles @ 10:37 AM :: 6518 Views

... Fuchigami has quietly spent the better part of fifteen years moving through some of the most influential positions in Hawaiʻi government ....

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Sunday, August 2, 2026
Taxation of Envy
By Tom Yamachika @ 12:00 AM :: 4661 Views

... Hawai‘i Millionaire Tax:  Why the New 13% Bracket Won’t Be the Last ....

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Saturday, August 1, 2026
Mafia News: Will Court Ruling Give Miske Pal Council Seat? -- Waters files Appeal
By Andrew Walden @ 5:21 PM :: 8150 Views

... Tommy Waters has appealed decision ....

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Saturday, August 1, 2026
The coast isn’t clear, it’s covered in red tape
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 10:33 AM :: 4326 Views

... Hawaii and California differ greatly in many ways, but they have plenty in common — including great weather and notoriously bad permitting systems ....

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Saturday, August 1, 2026
School resource officer program expands on O‘ahu
By News Release @ 9:14 AM :: 4424 Views

...Nānākuli High & Intermediate School will join the program this year with three assigned SROs....

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Saturday, August 1, 2026
‘New Tourism’ = ‘Costs too Much’—Therefore, Trend of shorter Hawaii vacations reaches into June
By News Release @ 7:59 AM :: 4614 Views

"...June visitors generally took shorter trips, with all markets – except Japan – reporting shorter average lengths of stay compared to last June, continuing a trend that began in April 2026.... "

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Friday, July 31, 2026
Canadian Submarine Sinks USS Mobile Bay off Hawaii
By Video @ 10:16 PM :: 4331 Views

... Canada's lone operational submarine recently took part in a massive military exercise involving 30 nations ....

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Friday, July 31, 2026
FIRE: College Free Speech Improving, but UH still stuck on Yellow
By News Release @ 4:05 PM :: 4501 Views

... UH Manoa and UH Hilo are still 'Code Yellow' ....

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Friday, July 31, 2026
Honolulu DPP Among 50 Best AI Systems in USA?
By News Release @ 3:39 PM :: 5110 Views

...Honolulu earned the national recognition for its project, “Honolulu Cuts Residential Permit Review Times by 70% with AI Plan Review,” which showcases DPP’s successful implementation of CivCheck....

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Friday, July 31, 2026
Green Announces Appointments to HHC, CSC, Ethics
By News Release @ 3:31 PM :: 4719 Views

...appointments to the Hawaiian Homes Commission, Campaign Spending Commission and Hawaiʻi State Ethics Commission....

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Friday, July 31, 2026
AG Announces Child Support Enforcement Tech Upgrade
By News Release @ 3:13 PM :: 4532 Views

"The new KEIKI system became fully operational on July 20, 2026 on schedule with no interruption to child support services or system operations...."

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Friday, July 31, 2026
Hawai'i Community College: Political Activist Banned from Campus for Collecting Petition Signatures
By News Release @ 8:13 AM :: 4475 Views

... in the spring of 2026, Austin Martin went to Hawai‘i Community College’s Hilo campus to collect signatures for a petition urging the University of Hawai‘i system to permit students to carry pepper spray for self-defense ....

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Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Kauai Charter School not the First to Remove Wife of OHA Trustee
By Andrew Walden @ 9:56 PM :: 6084 Views

"Executive Director/Principal Kanoe Ahuna gave special treatment to her husband Dan Ahuna (OHA Trustee) when she failed to reprimand him for multiple instances of using foul and abusive language toward middle school students while he was a KPCS teacher during the 2024-25 school year...."

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Wednesday, July 29, 2026
VIDEO: US Navy Sea Drone Holes Peleliu off Kauai
By Video @ 10:26 AM :: 4220 Views

... U.S. Navy unmanned surface vessels take part in a sinking exercise in the Pacific Ocean ....

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Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Case Calls On President To Once Again Extend Jones Act Waiver
By Ed Case @ 8:46 AM :: 4400 Views

... Rep Case says any lapse of the current Jones Act waiver will heighten disruption risk and further drive up sky-high prices ....

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Tuesday, July 28, 2026
DLIR: Welfare and Food Service to be Top Growth Industries
By News Release @ 8:26 PM :: 4236 Views

... 28,060 net new jobs statewide ....

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Tuesday, July 28, 2026
Honolulu retiree celebrates win in lawsuit challenging City’s excessive TVR fines
By News Release @ 7:24 PM :: 4738 Views

" ... she sued in federal court for imposing excessive fines in violation of the Eighth Amendment .... "

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Monday, July 27, 2026
3 years later: Over One Third of Maui Wildfire Victims Still in Temporary Housing
By UHERO @ 8:47 PM :: 4259 Views

...Participants living in temporary housing declined from 40.6% to 34.4%....

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Monday, July 27, 2026
DHHL Sued Over Courtyards at Waipouli Evictions
By News Release @ 6:55 PM :: 4563 Views

... David Kalahiki and Linda Twitchell allege that the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands’ blood-quantum rule violates their rights by conditioning housing on ancestry ....

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Monday, July 27, 2026
Voter Service Centers Open July 27
By News Release @ 10:41 AM :: 8320 Views

"...To beat the long lines on August 8, officials urge voters to take advantage of the opportunity to vote early...."

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Sunday, July 26, 2026
The One Dollar Solution
By Tom Yamachika @ 9:43 AM :: 4518 Views

... the line-itemed bill, SB 2600 ....

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Sunday, July 26, 2026
Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted July 24, 2026
By GovTrack .us @ 6:36 AM :: 4443 Views

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

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Saturday, July 25, 2026
Empty homes tax just empty promises
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 2:36 PM :: 4516 Views

... the Commission ultimately rejected putting the issue on the ballot ....

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Friday, July 24, 2026
Five Indicted in Luke Bribery Case--will this be enough to keep Feds Away?
By Andrew Walden @ 10:53 PM :: 8067 Views

...The most likely explanation for these indictments is that they are designed to present the minimum case capable of forestalling federal prosecutors.  As always, the slogan is 'Defend Hawaii.'....

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Thursday, July 23, 2026
Indian National Arrested in Hawaii for Role in Gold Bar Elder Fraud Scheme
By News Release @ 8:35 PM :: 4898 Views

... Harsh Fojalal Shah, 25, an Indian national, was arrested in Honolulu, Hawaii on July 20 ....

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Thursday, July 23, 2026
​How rigid land-use rules are holding back wildfire recovery in Lahaina
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:44 PM :: 4697 Views

... More than 2,200 structures were destroyed.  So far, only 220 houses have been rebuilt ....

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Thursday, July 23, 2026
When safety becomes exclusion: The hidden cost of building codes
By Selected News Articles @ 3:32 PM :: 5063 Views

... the ICC has become one of the most powerful and least transparent institutions in housing policy ....

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Thursday, July 23, 2026
BWS Agrees to Waste $6M on Useless Kalaeloa Desal Plant
By News Release @ 11:49 AM :: 4736 Views

... The company recently received a Limited Notice to Proceed from its client, the Honolulu Board of Water Supply, authorizing the procurement ....

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Thursday, July 23, 2026
The island without childcare for babies
By Selected News Articles @ 9:45 AM :: 5049 Views

... she’s been trying to add an additional building to run an infant-toddler center for seven or eight years, but on the island, the process is lengthy ....

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Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Maui can't delegate environmental assessment to property owners
By Court House News @ 4:20 PM :: 4597 Views

... the rules governing what can be built near the shore have been debated among developers, environmental advocates and fire survivors trying to rebuild their homes in Lahaina ....

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Wednesday, July 22, 2026
AG Sues to Force Shutdown of HECO's oldest Oil Burners on Maui, Big Island
By News Release @ 1:11 PM :: 4627 Views

... Kanoelehua Hill, Kahului, Māʻalaea and Puna generating stations were identified as the top contributors of human-caused, haze-causing pollution ....

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Wednesday, July 22, 2026
How politicians manipulate data to take credit
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 10:55 AM :: 4241 Views

... How do we honestly measure the American dream? ....

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Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Hawaii Tries and Fails to make Second Amendment a 'Property Rights' Issue
By NRA ILA @ 7:16 PM :: 4625 Views

...“Property Rights” Critique of Wolford Misleads on Facts and Law....

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Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Feds: Hawaii Homeownership 18.9% Lower Than Believed
By Selected News Articles @ 1:05 PM :: 5152 Views

"...Hawaii’s homeowners-to-population ratio (HPOP) is 18.9 percentage points lower than its owner-occupancy rate, the largest difference of any state...."

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Tuesday, July 21, 2026
DLNR: 80 Meth Addicts Removed from Waianae Boat Harbor, 30 Still Waiting
By News Release @ 9:21 AM :: 5077 Views

... Globalization Personified: 30 American drug addicts are sitting around waiting for Chinese workers to finish building them homes ....

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Monday, July 20, 2026
What It Takes to Retire in Hawaii at 62 on $1.5 Million Without Touching Your Principal
By Selected News Articles @ 9:10 AM :: 6123 Views

... the tax code treats different retirement dollars very differently ....

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Monday, July 20, 2026
Upgraded HECO Waiau Plant 'can run on LNG'
By News Release @ 8:52 AM :: 5014 Views

"...can operate on a variety of liquid fuels...and can be converted to run on liquefied natural gas if it becomes available...."

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Monday, July 20, 2026
After 18 Years of Green Energy, Oil still supplies 68% of electricity on Oahu
By Selected News Articles @ 8:43 AM :: 4666 Views

"Perhaps electrical grids are more complicated than the mandates."

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Sunday, July 19, 2026
Trustees: Kahele Used Line-Item to Illegally Buy Support for Budget
By Andrew Walden @ 12:18 PM :: 8979 Views

"... As the Chair and majority continue Ferreira’s leave, and weigh further disciplinary action against Ferreira, they create ongoing exposure to OHA to adverse litigation risks ...."

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Sunday, July 19, 2026
Hawaii Supreme Court Opinions Designed to Inject 'Critical Race Theory' into Law?
By Selected News Articles @ 6:20 AM :: 6481 Views

...Ketanji Brown Jackson is creating a body of “KBJ law” that other judges can cite to defy SCOTUS....

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Sunday, July 19, 2026
Why Care About the Dam Special Fund
By Tom Yamachika @ 12:00 AM :: 4913 Views

... we are suing the State over it ....

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Saturday, July 18, 2026
Hawaii comes in first — at being the worst state for business
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:14 PM :: 4984 Views

... Hawaii’s business climate is getting worse, not better ....

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Saturday, July 18, 2026
Hilo Internet 'Cultist' Gets 10 Years for Child Porn
By News Release @ 2:48 PM :: 4825 Views

...Cultists members collaborated to victimize children in a systematic attempt to trigger social collapse and topple the current world order....

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Saturday, July 18, 2026
Helping Maui Rapist, Hawaii’s Top Court Unleashes ‘Unserious Screed’ Against Conservative-Majority Supreme Court
By Selected News Articles @ 1:54 PM :: 5567 Views

"...This is nothing more than an unserious screed rather than a reasoned opinion....”

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Saturday, July 18, 2026
‘The Timing is Interesting’ -- How does Performance-Based Regulation affect HECO’s stance on LNG?
By Andrew Walden @ 12:03 PM :: 5291 Views

...Performance-Based Regulation, adopted by PUC in 2020, (PBR) fundamentally changed HECO's financial incentives in a way that made pursuing LNG much less attractive....

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Saturday, July 18, 2026
Solar: HECO Announces Plan to Pave Koolaus in Glass
By News Release @ 9:20 AM :: 6121 Views

Solar farm sacrifice zones.

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Friday, July 17, 2026
Marijuana: Is the Honolulu Police Department ignoring the U.S. Supreme Court?
By News Release @ 1:18 PM :: 4913 Views

...On June 18, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court made clear that the government cannot impose a blanket prohibition on firearm rights simply because someone is, or was, a medical marijuana patient....

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Friday, July 17, 2026
Soft on Crime Hawaii Supreme Court Gives Maui Rapist a Second Chance
By Court House News @ 11:18 AM :: 5711 Views

... The victim in the case reported that Granillo struck her in the parking lot, dragged her into his car, drove her to a beach, held her at knifepoint and repeatedly sexually assaulted and beat her before she escaped ....

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Friday, July 17, 2026
UPDATE: AG Investigators "work toward completing" bribery investigation
By News Release @ 10:20 AM :: 35079 Views

... "work toward completing the investigation" .... 

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