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Friday, February 17, 2017 Letters to the Editor February, 2017 By Letters to the Editor @ 12:23 AM :: 9648 Views Will HSTA Report Expenses for 6,000 Lobbyists? Falls of Clyde: Ige Ignores Call from British Parliament Read More..

Thursday, February 16, 2017 February 16, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 7:47 PM :: 3831 Views OHA: The Mystery of the Disappearing Money Hawaii 64 Structurally Deficient Bridges Identified Hawaii Supreme Court Oral Arguments: When Is Election Law Admin Appeal "Brought?" Economic Impact of Immigration by State—Hawaii 10th HB1595: Involuntary Commitment for Mentally Ill How They Voted: Assisted Suicide Bill Passes First Committee Ward Poll: Hawaii Residents Reject Tax Hikes GE Tax Hike -- SB 1183 a “multi-headed hydra of bad ideas” Ernie Martin: If Legislators Hike GE Taxes, I’ve got several Ideas on How Councilmembers can avoid putting skin in the game HB1586: Income Tax Hike on the Rich -- Counties could lose hotel subsidy Bills on short-term rental tax collection advance SB221: Red-light cameras bill advances Caldwell Affordable Housing Plan: Convert HART HQ to Condos  SB1129: Senators Vote to Boost Insurance Company Profits, Kill off Expensive Patients, Enable Elder Abuse Candidate chosen for UH chancellor turned position down Police Chief Orders Full Review Of Toddler Assault Case Deedy Case: Time To Let Go Of A Case That’s Gone Nowhere SB173: Let Convicted Felons Sell Legal Weed Trump draft order would make welfare recipients deportable Criticism of Gabbard-Assad Meeting Gives Muslims Political Opening  Read More..

Wednesday, February 15, 2017 February 15, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 4:49 PM :: 4811 Views How to give teachers a pay raise … without raising taxes Three Days Left: 371 Candidates Register for 437 Neighborhood Board Seats Maunakea Observatories award Nānākuli and Kapolei students with research time Transform the Bureaucracy and Achieve Justice for John Sosa No Joke: UH Pres Lassner to assist search for DoE superintendent UH Abandons Search for New Manoa Chancellor Chief Justice Seeks Public Comment on Judicial Nominees OHA Pays Criminal Tens of Thousands of Dollars for Nothing Hush Money? HTA Calls Waikai’s Bluff Corruption: DOBOR Boss Fails in Effort to retaliate Against Hawaii County Prosecutor State May Owe $101M to Developer After LUC Steals Land Equity HB1586: Cut counties out of 'room tax' revenues REIT Tax Bill advances in House Legislators: Acute Care is Too Expensive so Eliminate it Legislators: Oldsters are Too Expensive so Eliminate Them Autistic student raped Pearl City classmate TWICE while HSTA Member napped, lawsuit says Homeless to Pick up Litter, Clean Graffiti SB221: Stop Light Camera Tickets Back Again Minimum Wage Hike Clears Hawaii Senate Committee—Deferred in House HB1282: Laughing Legislators Run Anti-GMO Morons thru Maze (again) Anti-Aquarium Obsessives Pin Hopes on Two Bills and a Lawsuit Will Latest Round of AP Lies Sink Hawaii Fishing Fleet? Batteries undercut benefits of rooftop solar, says new study $10,000 Fake News -- HECO Style HB793: Force Everybody to Install Electric Car Chargers SB1121: Force Everybody to Use Solar Water Heaters Denied: Feds Fail Again in Kona Water Grab Feds Sue: Homosexual Harassment of Male Employees Read More..

Tuesday, February 14, 2017 February 14, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 9:17 AM :: 7242 Views HSTA Rallies for $500M Tax Hike on Renters—House Approves on 2nd Read Anti-Fishing Lies Exposed: Attorney General Releases Point by Point Debunk of Kaniela Ing HPD Acting Chief Supports Naming of Suspended Officers Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted February 13, 2017 Falls of Clyde: Ige Ignores Call from British Parliament DLNR Cop Accused of Raping Girl—My Mommy is HGEA President Students Starve While HSTA Demands Massive Tax Increase Caldwell Bank Job: Measure To Stop Mayors From Moonlighting Shelved Drivers May Face $100M Higher Taxes, Fees To Lard HIDOT Coffers PUC to Consider $300M HECO Rate Hike Doctors hui opposes assisted-death bill Are Hawaii’s Wind Farms Killing Too Many Hoary Bats? How Housing Shortage caused by City of Honolulu Regs HB778: “Thousands of B&Bs on Ag Land” Hundreds seek help from state rent assistance program Four Sneaky Bills Would give counties the authority to regulate pesticide use Hooser Wants to Legalize Genetically Modified Marijuana Homeless Drug Addicts -- 1 million dirty syringes collected statewide in 2016 After 19 Years Convention Center Finally Gets Around to Booking Sporting Events Age 33 - 6 Felonies: Criminal Dead Because of Soft on Crime Policies McDermott: Travel Ban Needed Read More..

Monday, February 13, 2017 February 13, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 1:42 PM :: 3348 Views SB1183: Rail Tax Hike Bill is Alive in Legislature How Ige Plans To Cut a Piddling $220 Million From His $28.5B Budget DoE fails to fix problems with its 17,000 casual employees The Impending Honolulu Rail Ridership Debacle Bill to make judges repeat confirmation is advanced Chemophobia: Legislators Advance Polystyrene Ban Politics is About Winning Read More..

Sunday, February 12, 2017 February 12, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:01 PM :: 5775 Views Most 2016 GEMS Loans Went to One Insider UHERO Slams the Skim Skin in the Game? Mayor Harry Kim says higher taxes not an option Senator’s Wife Refuses Hush Money Ige Blames Judicial Selection Commission for Appointment of Campaign Manager Ige: Get Rid of Matayoshi so HSTA can Achieve Nirvana HGEA Strategic Incompetence Means Former state workers face long wait for payouts SB534: $70/day, Then Organize Kupuna Caregivers into Union Feds Still Grabbing for Control of Kona Water Tulsi Gabbard Syria Trip Just Like Patsy Mink Meeting with Viet Cong? Years Later—Still More Whining About Depleted Uranium Read More..

Saturday, February 11, 2017 February 11, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:10 PM :: 4000 Views HIDOT Mileage Fee: Meet Big Brother the Taxman SB1129: Senate CPH Committee Schedules Assisted Suicide Bill Neighborhood Board Elections: 327 Candidates Register for 437 Seats With One Week to Go Demanding a Tax Hike, HSTA to Rally at Capitol Jones Act and Maritime Security Program Home Ownership: Hawaii Most ‘Equity Rich’ Properties Justice Ginsburg at UH Law School: “We have a Dysfunctional Congress” Study: 72 Convicted Terrorists Came From Countries Covered by Trump Vetting Order Hawaii needs self-managed pension plan for public-worker retirees Overtime Abuse? Ige’s Been Watching it Happen for Years HB209: Progressive Democrats Demand Massive Income Tax Hike on Small Business Owners Expensive Tickets? House votes to nix one of the HIDOT Money Grab Bills TAT: Political Insiders Milk Cash Cow Energy Excelerates Flow of Tax Dollars to Crony Capitalists Ing Rent Control Bill Deferred Amidst Laughter, Ridicule Condos in Your Future: Anti-Agriculture Activists Grab for Last of HC&S Water Hilo Attempts to Free Itself from DLNR Indolence DLNR Police Harass Christmas Boat Parade Organizer U.S. Transportation department executive approved grant days before taking job with rail contractor Trump Backs Privately Funded high-speed rail projects Shipyard Freeze Gives Schatz, Hirono Chance to Pretend that They Matter  Should U.S. be preparing for a North Korean nuclear strike on the West Coast? Read More..

Friday, February 10, 2017 February 10, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:56 PM :: 8566 Views OHA Old Guard Retakes Power: Machado Selected as Chair Crabbe Contract: Abigail Kawananakoa Sues OHA Ige Appoints Campaign Manager Circuit Court Judge HTDC Gives Away $9.8M of Your Tax Dollars to Six Tech Companies Senate Committee Turns Rail Tax Bill into Christmas Tree HIDOT Money Grab: Proposed fines for texting, speeding, seat belts, drunken driving may put motorists in poor house Star Adv: GE Tax on Internet Sales to Take Away Rare Perk $36M REIT Tax is Back (again) HSTA Announces Contract Demands Anti-Fishing Nuts Come Up with New Trick to Shut Down Fleet Maui: Homeless Flood Emergency Room Lawmakers puzzle over how to allow pot to be carried inter-island Honolulu police commissioner injured in domestic assault Hundreds of corrections officers call in sick during NFL championship game $11.5M to Make UH Education Free to Low Income Students Hawaii—Fewest Uninsured in USA Muslims Pleased by 9th Circuit Court Read More..

Thursday, February 9, 2017 February 9, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:59 PM :: 5093 Views OHA Audit Passes Committee Vote What is Kaniela Ing’s Hidden Agenda? 2017 Honolulu Rail: Advice to the Legislature Economy: DBEDT Drops 2017 Growth Projection to 1.8% An informed opinion on GMOs Buffer Zone Bozos Descend on Capitol (again) Assisted suicide: Hawaii bills push envelope Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted February 8, 2017 Caldwell announces more Cabinet Appointments HB1589: Pro-Hunter Bill to be Heard KIUC Board Sets Renewable Energy Goal of 70 percent by 2030 Streetlights: Kauai First to Complete LED Conversion Hawaii State Ethics Commission 2016 Annual Report UH Law Review Sharing Economy Symposium Murthy: HART Looking at Alternatives to Tax Hike At-grade option offers a way out of Honolulu’s train wreck Raid Rail Funds for Fake $2B Housing Scheme? After Chief’s Lawyer Taken off Her Defense, Accused Suddenly Starts Telling Stories About Crooked Cops and Prosecutors Ige Administration Conspires with Hawaii Mosque to get More Muslims In Tough Times: DoE Gets a Measly $40M Increase This Year Senator rips tourism agency on finances—Take $6M as Vengeance If wealthy can get tax breaks, why not low-income earners? Report: Public Records Agency Slower Than Ever With Appeals Sen Keith-Agaran Grabs for Control over Judiciary Kaneshiro’s New publicly-funded secure Women’s housing complex in Makiki nearly empty Hospitals Paying $1500 per Day per Patient for Homeless Long Term Care Homeless Drug Addicts Take Over Big Island Subdivision Libraries Overrun by Homeless?  A Sales Pitch to Fund Another Vacant Position Ige Admin Debunks Homeless Tent City Nonsense Anti-Urine Bill Becomes Easy Foil for Homeless Tent City Proponents  HB1267: Failed Rent Control Proposal is Back Again Ing Pounding Nails into Agriculture’s Coffin Anti-Agriculture Activists Pave Way for Developers Small Business Leaders Debunk Anti-Styrofoam Hysteria Caldwell Leaves Kids in the Dark The Toxic Language of Hawaii’s One Party State Read More..

Wednesday, February 8, 2017 February 8, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 2:08 PM :: 8292 Views US Supreme Court to Consider Hearing Hawaii Democrats Closed Primary Suit White House Calls Travel Ban ‘a Lawful Exercise’ of Authority Congress Considers Bill to Break up 9th Circuit Court Shell Game: Short Form Bills on the Move Trump Confusing Both Liberals and Conservatives Cost of Living: Only Manhattan is More Expensive than Honolulu Honolulu Neighborhood Board Elections 308 Candidates for 435 Seats Lawyer-Enrichment Bills on the Move—Require Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers to Promote Abortion Murthy: I Can Complete Elevated Rail Without Tax Hike Skim: Caldwell Reaches New Level of Insanity OHA, HART Auditors Didn’t Notice Embezzlement Until Company Ran Out of Cash Telescope: State files appeal over TMT sublease hearing Hawaii lawmakers mull short-term rental Taxes Terrified by Drop in Tobacco Sales, Lawmakers propose 70% tax on some e-cig products Hawaii Lawmakers May Triple Fines For Speeding, Cell-Phone Use, DUI HSTA Operative: Matayoshi Must Go Because We Think Matayoshi Must Go Charter School Commission Fighting Back Against Corruption Audit: Some DOE Employees Still Start Work Before Being Cleared Kenoi Rush Job Adds $280K to Cost of Gym, Golf Course Legislators Try to Establish Homeless Tent Cities AGAIN Honolulu Toddler Nearly Died In An Assault But No Charges Filed State House committees pass anti-Agriculture pesticide bills Garden Isle: Gabbard Right to Urge End to Obama’s Policy of Giving Money and Arms to Al Qaeda Read More..

Tuesday, February 7, 2017 February 7, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:18 PM :: 6079 Views County Employees in Hawaii make double what private sector workers make Hawaii government growing faster than private sector OHA and HART Financial Advisor on Trial for Embezzlement It goes to the Top: Ige Education Policy Based on Underage Drinking and Football Recruiting Trips $500M Union Slush Fund Passes Committee Vote—HSTA Strips out Promise of ‘Quality’ Education $80M online sales tax hike Rail Tax Hike—Legislators Kill Two Bills, Vote on Third Set for Wednesday Will President Donald J Trump De-Fund California Hi Speed Rail Boondoggle? Hawaii v Trump: Trump Wins Round One Silicon Valley Billionaire: Hawaii Should want Unlimited Supply of Muslims more than it Wants Rail Funds Akana drops OHA lawsuit against CEO Crabbe Hypocrite Rep Ing Targets OHA Trustee Akina Neighborhood Board Voting to be Internet Only? Hawaii Buyout Hall of Fame Should the State Borrow $2B to Pretend to Build Housing? SB1109: Statewide Styrofoam Ban Pushed by Chemophobes, Eco-Obsessives Bats vs. Blades: A Quixotic Struggle DLNR: Sell Carbon Credits to pay for Helicopters to Kill More Sheep, Goats and Pigs Maui physician against physician-assisted suicide Sovereignty Activists Push their way into Arizona Prison Illinois Homeless Dude Allegedly Kills Wife, Buys Ticket to Hawaii Read More..

Monday, February 6, 2017 February 6, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 1:22 PM :: 5122 Views Fluoridated Water Reduces Gender Pay Gap by 4% Hawaii Bills Would Legalize Industrial Hemp; Foundation to Nullify Federal Prohibition Matayoshi Dismissal -- Retaliation for Investigation of Kaiser Principal? Charter schools’ agency hit by report Green Grifters Fight over $150M in GEMS  HMSA plan won’t cover most costs One Way to Kill Rail--Trump Will Cut Off Federal Funds if Hawaii Becomes ‘Sanctuary State’ HOPE Probation: “Nothing Works” in Corrections Replaced by “Nothing Works Well?” Making Things Easy for Antis Hawaii Muslims: Now is not the time for Terror Attacks How Islam Is Gaining A Foothold In Micronesia Read More..

Sunday, February 5, 2017 February 5, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 7:50 PM :: 3854 Views SB1056: Seawater Air Conditioning to Become New High Tech Tax Credit Scam? Vacation Rentals: Tax Hike Bills on the Move in the Legislature Hawaii Union Membership #2 in USA–21.7% SB938: End the State Rail Tax Skim Unfunded Pensions – Tip of the Iceberg? 276 Candidates Register for Honolulu Neighborhood Board Don’t mug taxpayers to pay for Hawaii’s high cost of living Condo Justice - The Ball's Now In Your Court Save $4.2B, No Tax Hike: Ground-level rail reaches Legislature Mayor’s plan brings rail to new level of insanity Rate hike proposals abound this year, PUC chair says Being driven from GOP is rite of passage for many local successful Democrats Legislature tackles rising opioid abuse Poor Gary Hooser. He just can't accept the fact that Kauai voters rejected him Kauai: Ala Loa Trail Could be Real Money Spinner Beachcombing Becomes Act of Penance in Eco Religion Longline association slams AP article claiming slavery DLIR, DCCA Hound Construction Industry with Millions in Fines 40 Years Later Nanakuli Getting a Library Learning to change: Education program putting Kulani inmates on right course Use Community Colleges to Save Gifted Students from DoE Read More..

Saturday, February 4, 2017 February 4, 2017 News Release By Andrew Walden @ 11:57 AM :: 5646 Views UHERO: ‘Discriminatory’ HSTA Property Tax Plan hits Renters Hardest Audit: Rep Kaniela Ing Does His Part to Hide OHA Corruption Hawaii Attorney General to Sue Trump to Keep Muslim ‘Refugees’ Flowing Into Country Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review Hawaii: Trannies Drive Push to Legalize Prostitution Kidani: I want to Double Your Property Taxes to Create Massive Union Slush Fund  Push to Hike E-Cig Tax Legislators Take Another Run at Judiciary  Anti-GMO Hysterics Trying to Buy Politicians—But Voters Punish Anti-Sunscreen? Hysteria Attracts Quacks, as Usual Energy ‘Green’: Hawaii Legislature Explores New and Exotic Ways to Give Money to Silicon Valley Billionaires SunEdison: Billions Of Dollars In Taxpayer Money Hidden In Solar Scammer Bankruptcy 10 violations, 2 firings on annual review of Hawaii Co Police Department Read More..

Friday, February 3, 2017 February 3, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 7:58 PM :: 4406 Views Hawaii public employee benefits rise 5 times faster than private sector UHERO: The Exorbitant Cost of Collecting Honolulu’s Rail Surcharge Tax Hawaii GE Tax Bites into 99.21% of personal income OHA Board Sets Audit Vote OHA: Akana Ousted, New Chair to be Elected at Next Board Meeting Choke or Head Fake? Ige Doesn’t Appoint Campaign Chair to ICA Mixture of Pro and Anti-Gun Bills Introduced in the Hawaii Legislature Hawaii Did Not Issue Any Gun-Carry Permits to Private Citizens in 2016 Hawaii Bill Would Legalize Recreational Marijuana, Nullify Federal Prohibition in Practice Deadline to Apply for State Ethics and Campaign Spending Commissions Extended Basing decisions on evidence, not politics HB1595: Urine Free Zones Telescope Cuts off Funds to OHA Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa has registered as a Democrat Hawaii Democrats Hope President Donald J Trump Appoints Gabbard to Something, Anything Fake Issue: Shipyard at Pearl Harbor not part of feds’ hiring freeze Hawaii AG finally gets around to suing Trump over immigration ban Hawaii: President Donald J Trump becomes excuse for Letting Nurses do Abortions Chemophobia: Nature Challenges Anti-Sunscreen Coral Damage Claims Judge: Blacked-Out Health Department Reports Are Worthless Acting Chief Outmaneuvered: Chief’s severance paid out of police payroll funds last week Go West, Young Bum: Sit-Lie expansion into Iwilei, Kapalama EIS Approved for Dante Carpenter’s Garbage-to-Money Plant Dole Street: Manoa Neighborhood Board Tells SJWs to Get Lost Read More..

Thursday, February 2, 2017 February 2, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 3:15 PM :: 3636 Views OHA LLCs—A License to Self-Deal Support OHA Forensic Audit Full Text: OHA Chair Sues to Force Crabbe Out Hawaii: Anti-Gun Bills Scheduled for Hearing Zuckerberg Steps In It In Hawaii Hawaii Tops Gallup Well-Being Index for 6th Year Straight Hawaii: The State of Tobacco Control One Party Justice: Republican Faces Criminal Charges Because he did not put Name on Two Mailers Recycling Company Cited for Water Pollution Future Oahu Community Correctional Center Down to Four Sites Taxing The Poor: Will Legislators Ever Enact Working Family Tax Credit? GEMS and Batteries: Revenues from Ratepayer Fee to be Given to Silicon Valley Billionaires Another Tax Hike: State considers targeting online shoppers Caldwell’s City Hall: Blood, Feces and Broken Windows 5 Reasons To Oppose Physician-Assisted Suicide Let Psychologists Pass Out Crazy Meds? Lynch Mob: Hawaii Supreme Court to hear arguments over 3rd Deedy trial HPD fired, tried to fire 25 officers in 2016 Police Reform Bills Before Legislature Sunshine Law Amendments Before Legislature Hawaii Environmental Council Wants to Change Human Nature, Reorganize Economy Idaho Republican Launches Bid to Split 9th Circuit California Liberals Begin Castrating Prisoners Will President Donald J Trump Keep 1,250 Unwanted Muslim ‘Refugees’ Out of Hawaii? Read More..

Wednesday, February 1, 2017 February 1, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:22 PM :: 4090 Views Rep Kaniela Ing: Tickets, Lies, and Bin Laden After Speaking at Anti-Trump Rally, Rep Beth Fukumoto Prepares to Quit GOP ‘Challenging and exciting times’ SB938: Eliminate DoTax 10% Rail Skim HB663 and SB501: Force Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers to Promote Abortion DOH fights lawsuit on their non-posting of inspection reports even as two bills in the Legislature again fund the posting HECO Solar Deal: Wholesale Rate Finally Equals Average Mainland Retail Rate BLNR Approves Big Island Carbon Credit Scam  DLNR Seeks Applicants: Commission on Water Resource Management Parents asked to provide feedback on their child’s public school How Many Tourists is Too Many? Report: A Decade of Human Trafficking in Hawaii Information sessions for Oahu Neighborhood Board Candidates Peter Pakemai, Master Canoe Carver GE Tax Hike: Legislature ‘Very Upset’ at Rail Lies -- Caldwell Offers Bribe  Nightmare: Just When You Thought You Were Free of Obamacare, Hawaii Legislature Decides to Keep It HPD Refuses to Pay Kealoha’s $250K Golden Parachute:  Payoff Agreement in Default Feb 2 Maui: In Effort to Create More Homelessness, Soft on Crime Crowd Pushes for Mass Release of Criminals TMT contested case hearing slated to continue through February Bill would lower blood quantum requirement for Hawaiian Homestead successors if Congress Agrees Duke Aiona: Tracking Assisted Suicide in Legislature Chemophobia: Bill Banning Many Sunscreen Products Advances In House Anti-GMO Bills Pass Mike Gabbard Committee Gabbard’s trip to Syria tied to pro-Assad group Advice for Muslims in Hawaii: Don’t (ahem) ‘Blow Up’ the Situation Read More..

Tuesday, January 31, 2017 January 31, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 2:22 PM :: 3145 Views County workers in Hawaii make highest wages in the nation Call for a Forensic Audit at OHA Robert Lindsey: OHA Trustees Must “Walk on Water, Be Holier Than Thou” Trump Immigration: UH Administrators Pander Relentlessly VIDEO: UH Manoa Chancellor Candidates Public Forum New Tourism Record for 2016 -- 8.9 Million Arrivals High-Speed Internet: Hawaii Schools #1 in USA 2016 National Citizen Survey for the City and County of Honolulu Former Hawaii GOP Chair Joins National Rifle Association Board ‘Natural’ Toxins for your Baby: ‘Homeopathic’ Profiteers Refuse Recall Order HSTA: Amend State Constitution to give us Half-Billion-Dollar Slush Fund  Getting The Chronic Homeless Into Housing Rep Kaniela Ing is a Liar Hawaii one of only Six States for which Amazon Does not Collect Taxes Lawmakers aim to hold homeowner associations accountable for lost, stolen money Waihee Golf Course Tries to Shut Down Public Access to Hawaiian Kingdom Trail With vacancy at the top, high-level promotions at HPD raise eyebrows Correctional center designed for 127 has 174 inmates Change Orders, Cost Overruns picked up in Billy Kenoi’s Last two years Two Iraqi Refugees Slated to Come to Hawaii Read More..

Monday, January 30, 2017 January 30, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:55 PM :: 4970 Views Hawaii Attorney General to Sue Trump to Keep Muslim ‘Refugees’ Flowing Into Country? OHA 2016 Check Register: Money Flows to Lawyers, LLCs, Insiders and More Notice of Anticipated Judicial Vacancy – Circuit Court of the Third Circuit Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 30, 2017 Cancer: HMSA Puts MDs on Welfare--Begins Paying Oncologists to do Nothing Proposed tax hikes carry steep costs for drivers SB366/HB1283: Automatic Rate Hikes for Electric Utilities which Shovel Money to Green Energy Scammers Star-Adv: HTA should open financial records 20 Years on Diamond Head—Shooting Drugs and Panhandling in Waikiki Medical vans to aid homeless could cost state $1.4M annually Pot Decriminalization Has A Shot This Session, But Ige Wants To Wait Civil Beat: Report Trump Voters and Bloggers to Us Legislation on the Move Read More..

Sunday, January 29, 2017 January 29, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:33 PM :: 3997 Views 239 Candidates Register for Honolulu Neighborhood Board Elections Duke Aiona: “What is Your Legislator Pushing?” Peek-A-Boo -- I See Your Tax Return Judge Throws Criminal Al Hee’s Company Out of Court Ige Campaign Manager Shows up on Fourth Judicial Nomination List 12 Caldwell administration cabinet members confirmed Rail: Taxpayers to be Skinned Alive -- Twice? Tourism Industry Wary of HSTA Tax Hike Scheme Bumbling DoTax Can’t Figure Out How to Collect online travel taxes Kealoha Settlement Allows Him to Continue Harassing Ethics Commission—City to Pay Lawyers Millions Will Trump Administration Kill Honolulu Rail? Consider this time-honored Hawaii option for rail problem: Just ignore it and let it linger UH hopes taxpayers will pony up if they claim it is for ‘free’ education to eligible students UH Wants Cut of the Action at Aloha Stadium Five Bills Introduced to Kill off Expensive Patients HMA Opposition to Suicide Neutralized by Political Pressure? Counting ‘Anti-Government’ Homeless Determines Flow of Government Money Legislative bill proposes ban on sunscreen chemical harmful to coral reefs Read More..

Saturday, January 28, 2017 January 28, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 7:28 PM :: 4360 Views Trask: Trustee Apo uses OHA Resources for Private Business Deals VIDEO: OHA Board Protesters Throw Salt, Call for FBI Investigation FSMA: Unknown Regulatory Threat Leaves Agriculture in Limbo Third Circuit Seeking Applicants for Independent Grand Jury Counsels VIDEO: School Choice Dance 2017! HB71: Bill Would Force Caldwell Resignation Something to Hide? Will OHA Trustees Even Vote for Watered Down Audit? Toxic DoE Tries to Increase Teacher Retention Rate by Sacrificing Matyoshi Anti-Pesticide Claims are all Hype and Hysteria Senate asks attorney general to step in on HTA Secrecy UH Athletic Dep’t Grabs for HTA Pro Bowl Money Lawmakers grill DHS over long-delayed day care safe sleep policies After 11 years, school building might finally open Caldwell Lets Oceanfront Park Rot for Five Years until Community Volunteers Pay to Fix it up Soldier’s body found along freeway nearly 12 hours after motorcycle crash Ex-Cop Gets 2 Days for DUI Bill would ban cellphone use while crossing streets Another Hi Tech Tax Credit Failure Got Money?  Wanna Live in Hawaii?  We WILL Make You Pay Us – Just ask Zuck White Supremacists Cheer: Gabbard Talks Up Trump-Syria Unity Read More..

Friday, January 27, 2017 January 27, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 4:56 PM :: 5017 Views Honolulu 7th Most Expensive Housing on Earth Governor says treat symptoms, not causes of our economic woes Homeless Community Outreach Court is Now Open OHA Audit: Trustee says it’s time to reassure beneficiaries Hawaii 8th Largest Educational Attainment Gap OHA Corruption: FBI, Hackers, and Botox  Money: Schatz Tentacles Reach into P-20, UH Administration Mrs Brian Schatz is ‘Project Manager’ for Illegal North Shore Commercial Activities Judiciary seems recent target of lawmakers, chief justice says Embattled tourism agency Hides Sports Entertainment Spending Settlement in polygraph suit may cost state $400K State opts not to send new funds to program that kept 1000s from streets Medicaid Funds Pay to Help Homeless Stay in Housing? Lawsuit: Police Commission Broke The Law With Secret Meetings SB1292: Save Hilo from Economic Decline Caused by State-Owned Land Management HECO Seeks Re-Start for Overpriced Solar Farms Senate Energy Chair: HECO Must Agree to Bills Before I Hear Them Phony Baloney: Will Lawmakers Change Feel Good ‘Renewable’ Energy Formula? Dozens of Energy Bills Introduced in 2017 Hawai`i Legislative Session Capitol sees renewed push to legalize marijuana in Hawaii Mega Prison to Bulk up UPW-Prison Industrial Complex  Suicide Squad Working to Kill off Expensive Patients, Save HMSA Millions Ige’s Food Goal: Two Times ‘I don’t know’ City has no data on whether plastic bag ban has reduced litter or plastic bag waste SB18: DUI at 0.05%—Big Money Spinner for Lawyers Transportation Department Pushes for $1500 Speeding Ticket Gambling Measures Surface At The Hawaii Legislature Women’s Legislative Caucus targets health care, sex assault, pay gap Senator Brickwood Galuteria Loves Donald Trump Zuckerberg Media Circus Read More..

Thursday, January 26, 2017 January 26, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:06 PM :: 7004 Views Who Covered up OHA Sex Harassment Settlement? Full Text: 2017 State of the Judiciary Address Farm Bureau: 12 Anti-Agriculture Bills Introduced to Legislature SB702 Would Punish Short-Term Rentals Like Sexual Assaults HB1367: Accountability and Involvement with Homeless Provider Agencies Medicare Overbilling: Hawaii ranks 16th Hawaii #2 in USA for Arrests of K-12 Students Study: More Corrupt States Have Higher Public Debt Haven of Aloha: Democrats Declare Hawaii to be a ‘Safe Space’ from The Trumpmonster Grassroot: Stop the Return of Earmarks Star-Adv: Independent Audit of OHA Needed OHA Trustees to Vote on Forensic Audit Monday HSTA pitches $500M/year State property tax, hotel surcharge Legislators: ‘Out to Get’ Ige Mrs Brian Schatz is ‘Project Manager’ for Illegal North Shore Commercial Activities Ing Admits he is a Liar After Four Years of Ignorance, Kauai Council “clear the books” of invalid law regulating pesticides, GMOs Laughed out of Court, Anti-GMO Activists Introduce Anti-Ag Bills in Hawaii Legislature HECO Pays Isles’ largest solar farm 40% More Than Mainland Retail Hawaii bill would classify homelessness as medical condition Homeless Court Gives Bums Chance to Get a Job   SB611—Jack Up Cost of Housing to Create Make Work for Plumbers Union Hawaii Legislators Follow Abortion Playbook SB677: Gambling Bill Dead on Arrival Got Albizia? Get a Tax Credit Hawaii Lawmakers Grab for Control Over Judiciary Same old BS from New HPD Interim Chief Judge Throws Kealoha’s Lawyer off Case  Gabbard Endorses Trump’s Position on Syria After Trip—Calls for End to Obama-Clinton Policy of Arming Al Qaeda Zuckerberg Media Circus Read More..

Thursday, January 26, 2017 Letters to the Editor January, 2017 By Letters to the Editor @ 10:00 AM :: 6714 Views Need for More Family Court Judges on Oahu Vacant?  Planned Hires Normally Get Half-Year Funding Split Honolulu into Two Counties Advice to UH Manoa Chancellor Candidates--Run! One-Way Streets to Alleviate Dangerous Walking Conditions?  Lanai residents fed up with the awful service from Ohana Air Read More..

Wednesday, January 25, 2017 January 25, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 1:16 PM :: 3400 Views Crabbes in the Bucket: Secret OHA Employee Surveys Reveal Distrust, Anger Trump infrastructure priority list focuses on Public-Private partnerships--does not Include Honolulu Rail Hawaii Non-Governmental Workers Receive Lowest Pay in USA Vacant?  Planned Hires Normally Get Half-Year Funding Split Honolulu into Two Counties Making property taxes less taxing Caldwell Pushes $65M Fuel tax, Vehicle Fee Hike Water pipe woes Mean More rate Hikes Few Crabbe Supporters Testify at OHA Board of Trustees Meeting Survey Finds Homeless Dude Using Heroin for 48 Years Will Police Reform Finally Gain Traction In The 2017 Legislature? Criminal Hee Company Loses in Court (again) HPD: City, not Department Should Foot Bill for Chief’s Golden Parachute Hawaii County Council: Keep Buying Booze on P-Cards Greenmail Activists Assert Right to Walk Through Zuckerberg Site Aloha Stadium redevelopment could soon begin with EIS Another High-Tech Tax Credit Flop--Hawaii fish farming company shuts down after 10 years in business Read More..

Tuesday, January 24, 2017 January 24, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 4:18 PM :: 4621 Views Full Text: State of the State Address Ige Speech “Unfocused, Disappointing, Lacking in Details” Bill: Fund Rail by Sale of Development Rights Hawaii Celebrates School Choice Week at 79 Events Statewide Circuit Court Criminal and Family Court Criminal Cases Now Available Online Affordable Retirement? Not in Hawaii Government Mandates on Local Farmers Hawaii Bill Would Legalize Raw Milk Sales Caldwell: Hike Honolulu fuel tax, vehicle weight tax and parking fees to Convince Legislators to Hike GE Tax Ige warns of slowing economy—Promises Raises for Unions Pay for Improvements by Eliminating Bureaucracy, not Allocating Funds Trump, Day One: Hawaii Congressional Delegation Applauds Wildly as Obama-Clinton Legacy Erased Beware the echo chamber Voluntary EIS Provides Vehicle for Anti-Dairy Protesters Bill Banning Second Jobs For Mayors Would Affect Caldwell’s Bank Deal OHA trustees’ to Try to Get Rid of Crabbe Again Lunch Trucks Give up on OHA, Move to Park Bill Would Feminize Hawaii Public Utilities Commission Ige Pushes $10M for High Tech Tax Credit Scammers Death squeal of a subsidy pig: Green Energy Scammers Terrified that Trump will Lower electric Rates Legislation: Felony to Not Put Baby to Sleep on his Back What will Happen to Medicaid when Obamacare is Gone? Several marijuana measures introduced Family of man killed in violent arrest to get $1M Police Commission ‘Clarifies’ Terms Of HPD Chief’s $250K Deal Caldwell Very slow to replace Oahu’s aging water mains State kicks off annual homeless 'point-in-time' count Delay in 'Peter Boy' trial used to Pressure Legislators for Judicial Funding Private Developer offers to Solve Aloha Stadium Problems Zuckerberg's Quiet Title Actions: Reality vs Shibai Read More..

Monday, January 23, 2017 January 23, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 1:14 PM :: 3212 Views OHA’s Hidden LLCs: Why Plead Guilty to Stealing $14M? My Conversation with OHA Sex Harassment Victim Legislators ‘GEMS Model’ for Future:  Spend $2B on ‘affordable’ Housing Legislators Introduce Two Gambling Bills, More to Come Meet OHA’s Newest Trustee Bill Seeks Privatization of State Small Boat Harbor Kauai Council to vote on anti-GMO repeal Protests a Distraction Assisted treatment law rarely used to help mentally ill in Hawaii $200K to Redirect Low-Level Offenders? High winds rip through Waianae homeless encampment—Tweekers Still Won’t Accept Shelter Trannies a Non-Issue in Kauai School Bathrooms Star-Adv: Expand scrutiny of wind turbines Caldwell’s Latest Water Main Collapse will Jam H-1 thru Thursday Potholes, Lost Inmate Property, Falling Ceiling Cost Taxpayers Civil Beat: All Arguments against Assisted Suicide are Religious and Therefore Must be Disregarded Assisted Suicide Won’t Necessarily Eliminate Lobbyist Read More..

Sunday, January 22, 2017 January 22, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 1:04 PM :: 4497 Views Liberal TEA Party: Thousands March Against Trump in Hawaii Funding Nonexistent People UH System-Wide Survey to Amp up “Gender Violence” Hysteria State Environmental Council Releases ‘Sustainability’ Report Telescope Leaving? “Will Decide This Autumn” Rail: 145,000 Cracked Shims and Pads to be Replaced – 11 Miles of Re-Work Tokuda: Ige Has No Coherent Plan on Rail Assisted suicide does not fit Hawaii Trump’s victory creates uncertainty for wind and solar tax-credit scammers Lost Ag Jobs Excluded from Hawaii Unemployment Numbers Invasive Species a Real Money Spinner Corrections officials seek $1M to update fruitless master plan Caldwell’s Water Mains Keep Breaking—H-1 Jammed til Monday? Read More..

Saturday, January 21, 2017 January 21, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 3:36 PM :: 8047 Views Obama’s Final Gift to Hawaii—Three Gun-Toting Meth Dealers Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review Auditor: HART Audit Not Started Lost Jobs: Obamacare Impact on Hawaii Corporate Lobbyist Leads Hawaii Anti-Trump March Hawaii Republicans Celebrate Trump Inauguration AUW Pays Rent for 1,353 Families Honolulu's construction costs finally cool down, report says Ongoing renovation of state-owned building still behind schedule Lawyer: I’ll Pretend to be Incompetent if it Helps Convicted Murderer Get Off Easy Zuckerberg Quiet Title Gives Ing Another Opportunity to Pander and Posture Mindless State Bureaucracy Shuts Down Car Dealership for Three Weeks High Tech Tax Credit Schemers Try Agriculture as Excuse for New Round of Crony Capitalism Legislature Set to Ban Sunscreen After Coral Hype Kim Jong-un sets sights on nuking Pearl Harbor Read More..

Friday, January 20, 2017 January 20, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:55 PM :: 4642 Views Full Text: President Donald Trump Inaugural Speech Full Text: Police Commission Reasons for Removal of Chief Kealoha Financial Services: OHA Spire Contract Balloons 760% in Two Years Ward to Introduce ‘Tough Love Act’ for Homelessness Competition Matters … In Sports and Government Republicans Urged to Run for Neighborhood Board 188 Candidates File for Honolulu Neighborhood Board Elections Asset Forfeiture Transparency & Accountability—Hawaii Grade D+ How Does Hawaii Score on Healthcare Access? Full Text: UH Sued over Biofuel Lab Explosion On Life Support? HECO Wants to Give You $20 EPA Fines Matson $725K for Molasses Spill Auditor: How Will Hawaii Regulate Midwives? Rail: Murthy Finds $9M, Discovers HART Employees are Incompetent Rail: HART CFO Quits—Caldwell Covers it up for a Month Teachers union: State offer of 2 percent increase over 2 years is ‘unacceptable” Second try for New KSBE Trustee Search HMSA chief Wants Hawaii Regulators to Protect HMSA from Competition Corporate Welfare Queens Conspire to grab More High Tech Tax Credits How Legislators Evade Conflict of Interest Rules DoTax Hammered over bugs in $59M Computer Program Report shows millions budgeted for Honolulu Police Department left unspent Hirono at Interior Secretary Confirmation Hearings—Not One Word about the Fake Indian Tribe Star Adv to Trump: Don’t Roll Back Fake Indian Tribe  Obama’s Final Gift to Hawaii—Three Gun-Toting Meth Dealers OJ Simpson Innocence Project files motion to overturn conviction in Dana Ireland murder Lawmakers Push for Mass Release of Criminals onto Streets--Call Hawaii prisons expensive homeless shelters KPD Officer Charged with negligent Homicide Homeless Desecrate Cemetery Amid ongoing crisis, Maui homeless shelters face uncertain future Homosexuals Harass Waianae Church Unlike UH Manoa, KCC students aren’t protesting inauguration Read More..

Thursday, January 19, 2017 January 19, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 4:56 PM :: 4532 Views OHA pays $50K: Sex harassment claim against Peter Apo Caldwell: Payoff for Police Chief is Best Use of Taxpayer Money Privatize: “Not one penny more for rail" Full Text: House Speaker Opening Day Remarks 48-Hour Fed Wreck Countdown Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 18, 2017 Hawaii Dead Last for Pass-Thru Businesses Best State to Raise a Family? Hawaii Ranks 33rd Scottish Nationalists Demand Ige Return Falls of Clyde Star-Adv: Raise Taxes and Kill off Expensive Oldsters High Cost: GE Tax Hike and Honolulu Property Tax Hike on Legislative Agenda One Party Senate: “I can say Anything” Again: Rep Chris Lee Bill to Outlaw Gasoline, Diesel Vehicles Chief Takes One Final Payoff – $250K Plus Full Pension Hawaii County Raises considered despite hiring freeze HPD Needs To Stop Shooting At Cars Keep the People Medicated: Hawaii marijuana numbers soar 17% in Year Police, Social Workers to Count ‘Hard Core’ Homeless Aiea Homeless Camp -- From Bad to Worse Hawaii 5-0 Profitable for Bumpy Kanahele, Fleeing Felons Gabbard won’t say who funded her controversial Syria trip Anti-GMO Movement Splits Wide Open—Dustin Barca Denounces ‘Con Artist’ Ashley Lukens Hawaii Dairy Farms submits unnecessary Final EIS Technicalities prevent Supreme Court from appointing TMT master Weigh in on where to put OCCC North Korean Attack on Hawaii Might Trigger US Response Read More..

Wednesday, January 18, 2017 January 18, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 4:18 PM :: 4316 Views Hawaii Family Forum Prepares for Legislative Session Hawaii State Legislators join nationwide initiative to address opioid abuse Opening Day Remarks: House Minority Leader Beth Fukumoto Senate Democrats 2017 Legislative Program Danger: Legislature Begins 4 Month Run for Your Money FBI raids second city building in police chief investigation OHA settles sexual harassment claim against Peter Apo for $50K Counselor Involved In School Sex Case Now Works For State BoE Scrounges Around for Excuse for Matayoshi Firing Caldwell Conceals DPP Resignations For Nearly a Month Moving in the Right Direction? Housing for the Homeless in Hawaii Legislators Seek to Outlaw Lower Cost Private Insurance Plans Rep Kaniela Ing Wants to Steal Your Money, Shut Down Businesses which Employ the Poor Anti-GMO Losers Want Legislature to make them into Winners Green Energy Schemers Grab for More Tax Credits Lifeguard Immunity: Trial Lawyers vs Counties More Empty Talk About Hawaiian Health Care Charter School Commission Hides Funds from Legislators Kauai Reduces teacher turnover 15 Years Later UH Maui Building Falling Apart Quiet Title Actions a Great Opportunity to Shake down Zukerberg for some Serious Money Program to Let Lots of Criminals out of state’s jails has yet to launch Soft on Crime Policy Denies Free Room and Board to Homeless Criminal Soft on Crime: Criminal sought after officer-involved shooting was on work furlough Entire UH Manoa Campus to be Consumed with Anti-Trump Protest Honolulu: 6,000 Expected to Protest Trump on Saturday Read More..

Tuesday, January 17, 2017 January 17, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 3:01 PM :: 3301 Views Hawaii residents most likely to live paycheck to paycheck Wind Turbines Are Killing Way More Bats Than Any Expected Hawaii Among Most Expensive States for Smokers Gun Deaths Per Capita: Hawaii ranks 49th Legislative Changes to Ensure Brokerage Compliance? Help Wanted: Deputy Solicitor General State of Hawaii Legislative Changes to Ensure Brokerage Compliance? City purchases undeveloped Kahuku Golf Course oceanfront lands Hawaii Gun Owners ‘Rap Back’ Fact Sheet Caldwell: Don’t Do Anything About Corruption in HPD Will President Trump Save Hawaii from Rail? Children can be eligible to use medicated marijuana Maui Anti-GMO Councilmembers Get Tired of their own Circus Do Condo Owners Need Some Help From Hawaii’s Legislature? Read More..

Monday, January 16, 2017 January 16, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:42 PM :: 3267 Views 1959: Martin Luther King Jr Salutes Hawaii Statehood Akina: Make King’s dream a reality for Hawaii Legislature Opening Day Wednesday January 18 Advice to UH Manoa Chancellor Candidates--Run! Oahu Veterans Treatment Court Celebrates 22 Successful Graduates Full Text: New report concludes Airbnb has ‘no material impact’ on Hawaii housing inventory Caldwell’s New Money-Making Scheme--Raise rents on ‘affordable’ housing Leaders of tourism bureau often opt for closed meetings—Claim They’re Talking About Cookies Green Energy Schemers Claim They Can go on Without Federal Subsidies Conference looks away from test scores for DoE Can Feds Save Hawaii From New Stadium Boondoggle? Public has 1 more chance to air concerns on ag lands Soft on Crime: Man who shot at police in Kahaluu is a repeat felon—Escaped in 2012, out on Street in 2017 Two men suffer injuries in Koko Head shooting range mishap Obamacare Rally—300 Democrats Show up in Honolulu  Read More..

Sunday, January 15, 2017 January 15, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:29 PM :: 3129 Views Architects: Put Rail on the Ground—Save $4.2B Obamacare? Nobody Wants it Less than Honolulu Obama Admin: Hawaii DOI Rule Part of ‘Renewed Era of Federal-Tribal Relations’ UHERO Adjusts Economic Forecast Upward Thanks to Trump Michael, Row the Boat Ashore 2017 Legislature: Economy is Booming And They Still Want More Tax Hikes Budget: The Good the Bad and the Ugly Assisted Suicide to Help Insurance Company Profits-- Kill of the Disabled—They’re so Expensive! Tax Housing by $45 psf to make Housing Affordable? Vacation-rental tax: Hard to catch elusive funds Hee in Prison But Sandwich Isles Still Refusing to Pay $76M Federal Fines  Hospital transition still a high priority for Maui legislators Homeless at Old Kona Airport Park have ‘very few places to go’ (Except a Shelter) Homeless Camp Pollutes One Mile of East Oahu Beach Surfrider marks 400th victory for Dominant Paradigm Read More..

Saturday, January 14, 2017 January 14, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:06 PM :: 4601 Views Ige: School system is simply not relevant to today’s students FBI Raids Honolulu Prosecutor’s Office Hawaii Wind Farms Kill 146 Bats, 50 Nene, 26 Petrels—and Counting Insiders Claim GEMS is About to Write $109M in Loans HTA must open financial books Marijuana Dealers Look forward to Selling to Tourists Homeless Drug Addicts Take over House, Burn it Down Citizens now called 'Hawaii residents' vs. 'Hawaiians' in federal paperwork DCCA is in No Hurry to Process Paperwork for Volvo Dealership Read More..

Friday, January 13, 2017 January 13, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:17 PM :: 4827 Views Ige Campaign Manager Shows up on Two More Judicial Nomination Lists Ige Announces Contracts for 33 Homeless Shelters, Claims Increase in Bed Count Hawaii State Capitol Korea-Vietnam Veterans Memorial Vandalized With Excrement Hawaii Healthcare Access Cut off by Regulations Obamacare Repeal: How Will it Affect Hawaii? Hawaii Supreme Court: Do County Plans Override Zoning Laws? Campaign-Finance Rules Chill Speech Unrelated to Election Campaigns Did Activists Meet Deadline to Challenge Council Candidate? Best Places for STEM Professionals? After Dropping Billions on Phony High Tech Tax Credits, Honolulu Ranks 95th KIUC Signs 20MW ‘Peaker’ Battery Deal Pedestrian Deaths—Hawaii Ranks 26th Hawaii Better to Rent Than Buy New DLNR Police Chief Announced OHA Officially Named Papahānaumokuākea co-trustee UH: Students and Faculty Who Stay Home and Cry on Inauguration Day will Have to Make up Work Rail: Souki Backs Massive GE Tax Hike, Demands Caldwell Raise Property Taxes Budget so Tough, Departments May have to Cut Funding for Vacant Positions OHA: Trustees Walkout of own Meeting Again $260K for Kealoha -- City Council Pretends to intervene Solar Schemers Will be Back for More Subsidies from  2017 Legislature Hawaii Faces up to 45 Million Cyberattacks Daily, State Officials Say Lawmakers to again consider vote-by-mail system, automatic voter registration Budget: DLNR Has been Lying to Legislators for Years (They’ll get their money anyway) Stadium Authority: Lets Burn Hundreds of Millions Demolishing Perfectly Good Stadium to Build Smaller One Court appoints representative for ‘Peter Boy’ to Investigate Foster Care System Soft on Crime Crowd Pushes for Mass Release of Criminals Recruiting obstacles, officer vacancies among challenges facing Honolulu Police Department News Homeless Contracts Expand Waianae Rural Transitional Housing, Shrink Chinatown Spaces Mainland Homosexuals Take Aim at Polynesian Cultural Center Maui Protester: I am Marching Against Trump Because I am Fat Maui Anti-GMO Realtor Wastes Ethics Commission Time Read More..

Thursday, January 12, 2017 January 12, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 7:02 PM :: 4138 Views Hawaii pension debt rises to $12 billion, but the real debt is more like $35 billion Which States Rely the Most on Federal Aid?–Hawaii 46th Sen. Josh Green floats possible bid for Governor, Lt Governor Lobbyist Sues: Looks for Judge to Allow MDs to Kill off Expensive Patients, Save Insurance Companies Money  Legislators Consider How to Screw Taxpayers:  Posture Wildly on Highway User Fees Caldwell Demands Big Fat Payoff for Kealoha—Just Like Grabauskas Hypocrite Rep Chris Lee--Wants to require presidential candidates to release tax returns—But Not Legislative Candidates Caldwell Ala Moana Sewage Spill Fine Secret Until Later This Week City estimates $40 million cost to replace sewer force mains Department of Education employee misconduct investigations Recruiting Teachers?  DOE should look at people it already has on staff Ex-county workers accused of vacation theft Small Businesses Hit Hard by Minimum Wage Hikes Anti-Telescope Lawyer: Judges Must be Biased if our Favor Maui: Anti-GMO Councilmembers Ethics Violations Anti-GMO, Anti-Vaxxers and Trump USDA report confirms that plant pesticides are used safely Farmers Need Auction House Murderer of Dana Ireland Exterminated in Prison, 2 Years Later Civil Beat and the OJ Simpson ‘Innocence Project’ Still Crying a River Health Insurance up 19% –Thanks Obama Read More..

Wednesday, January 11, 2017 January 11, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:58 PM :: 4136 Views Kakaako Kickbacks: Ethics Commission Investigates OHA Trustee Peter Apo Third UH Manoa Chancellor Candidate Magically Appears on Campus Full Text: ACLU Asks Feds to Investigate Hawaii Prison Conditions Full Text: Hawaii Kai Homeless Map Cleared by Attorney General 151 Candidates Register for Honolulu Neighborhood Board Elections State Announces 10-Year Invasive Species Plan HDOT Sets Public Meeting on Use of OR&L Right of Way Repeat Welfare Fraudster Gets Five Years Prison Hawaii County Prosecutor Investigates DOBOR Corruption, Retaliation GEMS: Borrow $150M, Pay $33M interest to Loan out $2M HTA Hides Public Information behind Fake ‘Corporate’ Structure Assisted Suicide to Kill Off Samoans Telescope PEIS started for Canary Islands State pulls funding from one of Oahu's largest homeless outreach providers Lethargic Police Commission Suddenly Springs into Action -- Copies UH to Give Kealoha $500K Golden Parachute Crabbe Plants Old-News Story in Civil Beat Businesses raise concerns over lawmaker’s push for $22 minimum wage by 2022 Readers Debunk Pie-in Sky $22/Hour Scheme  HSTA Claims Hawaii Schools Need Lots More Taxpayer Money Report: 20 DOE employees placed on leave since July Elementary school worker pleads no contest to sex assault charges involving minor Former Honolulu police officer won't fight sex charges Will State Supreme Court Prohibit Police Aerial Surveillance? City Targets 2000 Farmers for IAL Designation Airbnb has no impact on Hawaii housing market, new study finds Read More..

Tuesday, January 10, 2017 January 10, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 3:09 PM :: 4224 Views Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted January 9, 2017 UH Med School Resources Used to Organize Anti-Trump Protest Video GMO story: The near death and rescue of the Hawaiian papaya Embattled HPD chief to get Golden Parachute plus $150K/yr pension Hawaii public employee pension fund shortfall tops $12 billion Insiders Speak up for Ige Judicial Nomination of Campaign Chair Hawaii sees potential in internet sales tax Search afoot for last-minute fix to state rules poised to slash number of homeless beds State to appeal TMT sublease ruling Anti-Telescope Testimony Expected to Burn Time Thru End of January Hawaiian Electric Targets Maui, Lanai, Molokai for Wind Projects in Effort to Justify Big Cable Forty-Eight States Have An Airport Authority — Why Not Hawaii? Save the Zoo? Caldwell has only one Idea—Raise Admission Fees Anti-GMO Circus Returns to Maui Council Monday Hawaii’s hot construction market rife with illegal practices UH Whistleblower Hotline Read More..

Monday, January 9, 2017 January 9, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:51 PM :: 3527 Views Lawyer: OHA Transferred Waimea Valley to Private Company Controlled by CEO Crabbe Assisted Suicide: 2017 Bill Written to Facilitate Elder Abuse Problems with the Rail Initiative - Indebted to the HART Hawaii most racially integrated state (Except Healthcare) OHA Loan Program for Friends and Family Only After Three Years of Doing Nothing, LUC Tries to Spin Affordable Housing Record Is HPD Chief’s Departure Just The Beginning Of An ‘Ugly’ Mess? How Will Ige Justify Picking his Campaign Manager for ICA? Budget chairwomen get tough with governor Kakaako Shelters Work To Move Homeless Into Housing Faster How Accurate is Homeless Count? Anti-GMO Fruitcakes Whine About Agriculture Conference Hooser Fluff Piece Blows up in Star-Adv Face Tracking The 2017 Hawaii Legislature Read More..

Sunday, January 8, 2017 January 8, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 4:23 PM :: 3524 Views What's Next for Marijuana Tax? Native Hawaiian Astronomers Testify in Support of Telescope Caldwell to Ige: Raise Taxes for Rail or I’ll Run Against You HGEA Having Hard Time Finding Candidate to run Against Ige Telescope Getting Permits for Canary Islands Site Ag Dep’t: 122 ‘Vacant Positions’ Lard Budget Requests What is their economic vision? Study: Maui needs 12,000 housing units MECO Claims 35.4% ‘Renewable’ Recovering Drug Addicts Agree to Stop Being Homeless Top Lobbyist on Mission to Help Insurance Companies Save Money with ‘Right to Die’ Bill Star-Adv: How to Get Rid of Obamacare—We Should Follow Trump’s Lead January 21 Anti-Trump Protests Set for All Islands Read More..

Saturday, January 7, 2017 January 7, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 1:39 PM :: 5818 Views Hawaii Assisted Suicide Bill Abandons Safeguards Report: 46% of HC&S Cane Workers Find New Jobs Hawaiian Electric seeks onshore wind farm developers on Oahu OHA trustee Peter Apo faces investigation into Kakaako Kickbacks Governor David Ige and Hawaii Legislature force shelters to turn away homeless families Interim rules set affordable housing standards McDermott to appeal on Campbell HS Overcrowding lawsuit TMT Hearing: Last Pro-Telescope Witnesses Testify Anti-GMO Whack-jobs planning push to strengthen regulation over chemicals they want you to fear Caldwell’s Latest Sewage: Triple Costs on Septic Cleaning High Tech Tax Credit Schemers Claim to Be Successful (again) Will Hawaii County Taxpayers Bail out Bishop Museum Disaster? Manic-Depressive Ex-MPD officer gets jail term for exposing himself Read More..

Friday, January 6, 2017 January 6, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 9:20 PM :: 3705 Views Retirement: HPD Chief Kealoha Finally Forced Out Story of Hope HD2-Hilo: Ige Appoints Chris Todd to Legislature Dean Nishina Appointed Consumer Advocate UHERO: Regulating Home-Share Rentals in Hawaii 137K Gallons Sewage: Caldwell Claims Latest Rupture is Repaired Applicants Wanted for State Ethics and Campaign Spending Commissions Out with Obamacare…In with Trumpcare? State pension debt will likely get worse Clyde Wadsworth Named Hawaii Solicitor General Rail Spending Limit: Who is Lying? Ige Budget: ‘Borderline Schizophrenic’ Shimabukuro pushes for taxing online sales Why Hasn’t Hawaii Hired A Chief Negotiator For Union Talks? HSTA: BoE Not Doing Enough to Abolish Testing, Accountability Hawaii Kai Homeless Map Will Guide point-in-time count Judge dismisses remaining charges in Mrs Kealoha’s bungled game room case Caldwell Loses $3M in Garbage Bankruptcy State beefs up security in anticipation of major cash influx from medicated marijuana Fake Females: Trannies Endorse Womens March Against Trump Hawaii regulators reject expansion of State’s Cheapest Electricity Source NOAA plans to open federal waters in Pacific to fish farming Soft on Crime: Lunatic Bank Robber Gets 120 Days—Out, Does it Again Judge has been the court's constitutional conscience Read More..

Thursday, January 5, 2017 January 5, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:05 PM :: 5869 Views Obamaphones for the Homeless: Busted in DHHL Scam, Company Teams up with Aloha United Way Akina: Ethics Commission Upholds Participation in Suit Against Fake Indian Tribe Caldwell Inaugural Address: Rail Could End up Like Superferry Intermediate Court of Appeals: JSC Sends Six Nominees to Governor Auditor: Three DoE Special Funds do not meet criteria Honolulu: 1,309 Lane-Miles Repaved Gabbard: I’m Going to Get Pregnant, not Challenge Mazie COR Cuts State Budget Forecast By $155 Million – Blames Trump! State: Expect delays for tax refunds (Again) Senators Voice Concerns Over UH Budget ‘Shell Game’ Minimum Wage?  How About a Tax Cut Instead New Hawaiian Affairs trustee foiled Fake Indian Tribe Makekau: Crabbe Does NOT have Valid Contract Lingle touts Trump as ‘great disrupter’ Police Commission Makes Kealoha Leave Indefinite, Will Reconvene Friday Latest Ko Olina spill prompts sewage capacity concerns Milner: More Hawaii Taxpayer Dollars should go to Green Energy Scammers Honolulu Tweaking Its Rules For Affordable Housing Near Rail Volunteers Needed to Count Homeless (lots of money at stake here if count comes in low, hint, hint) Rail Bungles Again: Crews dig up improperly installed curb along Kamehameha Hwy. Kaneshiro, HPD Claim they will crackdown on illegal game rooms in 2017 Hawaii County Council Finds Excuse to Keep Buying Alcohol on P-Cards Retaliation: Kamelamela confirmation moves forward Anti-GMO Clowns Find Way to Extend Maui Council Circus Maui County Corporation Counsel Wins Big in Vegas Hawaii 2nd Highest Flu-Pneumonia Death Rate Read More..

Wednesday, January 4, 2017 January 4, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 6:45 PM :: 3915 Views Video: OHA Trustees Vote to Fire Crabbe--$450K Golden Parachute Nai Aupuni Biggest Failure of 2016, Will be Dead January 20 Harbors wharfage rates to rise 34.5% in 2017 Education Week: Hawaii Grade ‘C’, Ranks 25th Sewage: New Year Begins With Yet Another Caldwell Spill 2015 Traffic Accident Map of Honolulu Bedbugs: Honolulu Crawls up to 48th in USA Menor-Caldwell Plan: Sweep Rail Problems under Rug Until Tax Hike is Approved Caldwell Claims ‘Tourists’ will pay for Rail (again) City Prosecutor Under Corruption Probe Will Run Criminal Intel Unit Kealoha Corruption: "This is the beginning of the stench" Goodman thinks Kaiser takeover of Maui’s hospitals could save lives HPD on fireworks enforcement: 92 citations issued, investigation leads to 7 arrests Counties submit wish list to Legislature; Hotel tax, lifeguard protection, ambulance, collective bargaining top wants Unlike other pricey cities, Honolulu rents continue to rise Don’t Talk About How Crazy the Homeless Are The famous hair sample pesticide test: The enemy is us (Anti-GMO Lies Busted #1) Reporting of Maui sunshine law complaint criticized (Anti-GMO Lies Busted #2) Anti-GMO Clown Show Wastes 13 Hours in Maui Council Protesters: The Telescope is making us Mentally Ill Albizia Burner First to Snag ‘Closed Loop’ Tax Credit What a long strange trip its been for Proposed Kahuku Wind Generation Facility Soft on Crime: 17 Priors Out on Street Does it Again  Read More..

Tuesday, January 3, 2017 January 3, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 4:13 PM :: 4436 Views Legislative Agenda: Small Business on Defense (Again) One-Way Streets to Alleviate Dangerous Walking Conditions? Lanai residents fed up with the awful service from Ohana Air Ethics, HSTA Announce Agreement on School Trips HGEA Wants Revenge on Ige for Maui Hospital Privatization—Demands Protection Money Small Business: Obamacare Gone—The High Prices it Created Remain Lizzie Warren Raises Money for Hirono to Fend off Primary Challenge from … (Gabbard?)  Prosecuting Attorney Kaneshiro sworn in for 2nd term –Gives Katherine Kealoha A PROMOTION Kealohas in Second Attempt to Frame Puana? Caldwell Sworn in, His Cronies Take Control of Council Threat to Close Politically Connected Golf Course ‘A Departure from the Norm’ Illegal Fireworks Death at Grace-Family Business Prohibition Makes Fireworks More Harmful How Hawaiian Electric Company Rigs Need for Interisland Cable Anti-GMO Circus Falls Short at Maui Council Organization meeting Anti-GMO Hysterics “May Get Something Thru Legislature” Ige to Appoint HD2 Legislator Soon Campbell Estate quietly dissolves Read More..

Monday, January 2, 2017 January 2, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 4:31 PM :: 4669 Views 112 Candidates Register for Neighborhood Board Elections 2018: Abercrombie Revenge Round vs Ige? Ige ‘Tone Deaf’ on Sister Isles 2017: Honolulu still has no plan for needed affordable housing while rail could increase rents and traffic Homeless Refuse Shelter, Commit Home Invasions Read More..

Sunday, January 1, 2017 January 1, 2017 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 5:35 PM :: 5922 Views State spends $72K to monitor your social media accounts 112 Candidates Register for Neighborhood Board Elections CNMI Government Takes House Lot from Owner, Refuses to Pay Annual Registration of Mopeds Required Beginning January 2017 Video: Hawaii GMO Papaya Real Solutions Real Lives Mark Moses was a Mensch Ige to be Tossed out in 2018? To Satisfy Protesters, Locals May be Kicked off Mauna Kea 2017 Plan: Put 662 more Homeless on the Streets and Help them to Just Say No To Shelter WSJ: “A lot of people are going to end up on the streets” Will Chief Kealoha be Fired Wednesday? Rail Starts New Year with New Contractor What Can Be Done About Obama’s Tuna Monuments? Kauai: Move past Bill 2491 to era in which all farmers can prosper Maui: Anti-GMO HAPA Files Another bogus complaint against Council Chair DoH Wants Epidemiologists to Address Chemophobia, Mass Hysteria Soft on Crime: Plea Deal Gets Thug Off Easy on Third Strike Not Enough Applicants for Hilo Circuit Court Judgeship Read More..

Saturday, December 31, 2016 December 31, 2016 News Read By Andrew Walden @ 12:14 PM :: 3272 Views More Turmoil at OHA -- CFO Resigns Another Court Blasts Unconstitutional, Race-Based Voting Can you name the state trying to place racial restrictions on voting? Hawaii Gets Small Business Waiver–First in the Nation to Escape Obamacare Obamacare Repeal Has Begun For Small Firms Ward Seeks Attorney General's Opinion On Hawaii Kai Homeless Map DLNR Dis-Informational Meeting on Non-Existent Sea Level Rise in Hawaii DHHL: 2017 Legislative Talk-Story Sessions Minimum Wage $9.25 Effective January 1, 2017 10 New Year's Resolutions for Hawaii Hawaii: $325 Per Capita on So-called ‘Energy Savings Contracts’ OTEC is a Science Experiment Hawaii AG Threatens Suit to Save Obama’s Already-Destroyed ‘Clean Power Plan’ Will Huena Power Sue over Geothermal Scheme? City ethics rules need clarification Read More..

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