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Monday, January 31, 2022
January 31, 2022 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:21 PM :: 2786 Views
  1. Doubled in One Month: Over 100K COVID infections reported in January in Hawaii
  2. 42% of Vacation Rentals Wiped Out
  3. Who’s Looking for Hawaii’s Missing Girls?
  4. Legalized gambling gets renewed push
  5. Lawmakers push for "Ariel's Bill"
  6. Let's Hope For A Respectful Dialogue About Mauna Kea
  7. 5 Charts Show Hawaii’s Housing Cost Squeeze
  8. Among The Ideas For Screening Honolulu’s Police Chief Candidates: Sleep Deprivation
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Sunday, January 30, 2022
January 30, 2022 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:15 PM :: 3436 Views
  1. Kahele to Follow Hanabusa Path to Oblivion
  2. Investigative committee finds no criminal wrongdoing by state auditor
  3. Attorneys for former Honolulu officials seek documents in Kealoha corruption case
  4. Legislature kicks off by chop-blocking University of Hawaii
  5. Navy releases results for Earhart Village water samples from Stage 2 flushing process
  6. Hawaii To Tourists: Malama Our Land And Culture. Tourists: What’s ‘Malama’?
  7. The Hawaii Ag Department Clipped Poultry’s Wings. But Why?
  8. Shortage of Hawaii school bus drivers forces families to scramble
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Saturday, January 29, 2022
January 29, 2022 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:05 PM :: 2793 Views
  1. Lawsuits Threatened as Hawaii Reapportionment Commission Approves Final Legislative Maps
  2. House Panel Recommends Further Harassment Of Hawaii State Auditor  
  3. Official: Biden aware of Hawaii fuel spill; WH commits to restore drinking water, trust
  4. Hawaii Senate Votes To Raise Minimum Wage By October
  5. Honolulu City Council to consider raising property tax rate
  6. HART Claims ’Frog’ Problem to be Solved at End of Legislative Session, System Operational in time for Elections
  7. Blangiardi: No plan to institute booster mandate on Oahu
  8. Anti-Vaxxer Harasses Kids at Sunset Elementary
  9. Police union says HPD staffing shortages are putting officers and the public at risk
  10. Commission nears deadline to propose changes to Maui County government
  11. Maui Garbage Isle thanks to Homeless Meth Addicts
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Friday, January 28, 2022
January 28, 2022 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:33 PM :: 4224 Views
  1. Old mafia trick: Leong Attorney Points Finger at Dying Man
  2. State Agencies Push Back Against OHA’s $638M Money Grab
  3. After a Month of Stalling, DoH finally gives Navy ‘approval’ to filter millions of gallons of water a day from fuel-tainted Red Hill shaft
  4. Navy says it will release investigation into cause of Red Hill water contamination
  5. As criticism mounts, police commission eyes ways to speed up selection process for Next Kealoha
  6. Hawaii schools chief search -- Job Description Still Not Written, Position Still Not Advertised
  7. Court clears the way for sale of Miske home in Hawaii Kai
  8. Pelosi, PRP Team up to Train a New Generation of Hawaii Political Cronies
  9. Homeless Drug Addicts Trash Ala Moana Park
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Thursday, January 27, 2022
January 27, 2022 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:51 PM :: 5359 Views
  1. Attorney: Sword wants to Sing Like Canary
  2. City Council advances short-term rental bill
  3. SB2021: Lawmakers consider transferring to OHA an estimated $638M of withheld public land trust revenues
  4. Lawmakers Consider Nine Bills Limiting Executive Emergency Power
  5. Is Kai Kahele planning to run for governor? He won’t rule it out
  6. Big Fat Developer Giveaway: 3,000 luxury homes around Aloha Stadium
  7. High levels of petroleum found in drinking water sample at Pearl City Peninsula homes
  8. Hawaii Does Not Need a Minimum Wage Increase
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Wednesday, January 26, 2022
January 26, 2022 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:05 PM :: 3788 Views
  1. Bribery: Another Former Honolulu DPP official pleads guilty
  2. Hawaii’s state auditor Les Kondo blasts House hearings as ‘hit job’
  3. Calling OHA’s Bluff:  HB2024 Would Strip Mountain of Telescopes, Hand it over to Hawaiian Activists
  4. Hawaii Governor Says He’s Not Ready To Permanently Close Red Hill
  5. Ige: Booster shot added to Safe Travels Program ‘In next few days’--No Int’l Visitors Until End of Year
  6. Boost-or-test mandate brings challenges to Maui businesses
  7. Here’s How Affordable Housing Policies Have Impacted Hawai‘i’s Housing Supply
  8. Hawaii’s High Costs Leave Many Struggling To Get By
  9. Hand in Your Pocket: Hu Honua Knows PUC Will Rule Against it--Goes Back to Supreme Court
  10. Five Hawaii County police officers fired in 2021
  11. Big Isle homeless count ongoing
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Tuesday, January 25, 2022
January 25, 2022 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:10 PM :: 2699 Views
  1. DHHL?  Rainy Day?  Minimum Wage?  Most of the Big Splashy Legislative Proposals are just Negotiating Positions
  2. Minimum Wage Hike -- Big Contract Boost for UPW?  
  3. Proposed short-term rental ban is not the ‘solution’ we need
  4. 8 Years Of Fighting The Police Union In Court And What Did We Get?
  5. More Homeless Mayhem: Police shoot man, 48, who allegedly charged at them with knife in Ala Moana area
  6. Navy to withhold full Red Hill fuel leak report
  7. Maui Commission Wants Public’s Feedback On 40 Reforms To Local Government
  8. UH Football Coaches And The Culture Of Hawaii
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Monday, January 24, 2022
January 24, 2022 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:08 PM :: 4451 Views
  1. Honolulu’s Culture Of Corruption: It Takes a Village
  2. Federal grand jury probes Hawaii campaign donations
  3. Let's Back Those Trying To Earn An Extra Buck Instead Of Blocking Them
  4. Drinking water quality test results will be made public faster
  5. SB2057: Rush Windfarms Past Community Opposition
  6. Victorino, Bissen, Molina Dive In Early To Maui Mayor Race
  7. How Many Murders does one Criminal Need to Commit Before Being Locked up?
  8. Legislator’s Sports Betting Bill Proposes Staggering 55% Tax Rate
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Sunday, January 23, 2022
January 23, 2022 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:28 PM :: 3662 Views
  1. $600M Didn’t Solve Hawaiian Homelands Problem Last Time
  2. DHHL: $600M Here, $600M There, and $200M for OHA
  3. Pension Cash Still Flowing to Kealoha
  4. Effort to Revitalize Hilo sinking into DLNR morass
  5. Carbon Tax Would Drive More People out of Hawaii
  6. DoE Program Designed to Prevent Kids from Ever Becoming Republicans
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Saturday, January 22, 2022
January 22, 2022 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:06 PM :: 4733 Views
  1. June Jones turns down Hawaii job: 'I wasn't offered a job that was conducive to winning'
  2. Trapped Rat: Roy Amemiya Wants to Expose other ‘Severance Agreements’. The City Says No
  3. Red Hill: Legislators see Dollar Signs
  4. Term limits for Hawaii legislators would help shorten the long game
  5. PUC Says No to Secret HEI Investments
  6. Report: Gun Control Nuts Like Hawaii, California
  7. Maui Police 25% short staffed
  8. Hawaii public school teacher absences ease following omicron surge
  9. Blood Bank of Hawaii: Critically low blood supply a matter of ‘life and death’
  10. Rep. Val Okimoto To Seek Honolulu City Council Seat
  11. FAKE FAKE FAKE--Resorts find Loopholes in Maui ‘Moratorium’
  12. Kakaako: HHFDC Quietly Evaporates School Plan
  13. Bum Magnet: River Of Life Mission Is Leaving Chinatown
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Friday, January 21, 2022
January 21, 2022 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:05 PM :: 4450 Views
  1. UH Regents approve new Maunakea Master Plan
  2. Rep Kai Kahele Doubles Down on COVID Lockdowns
  3. Star-Adv: Down with Freedom--Hawaii is only for the Elite
  4. Federal prosecutors not finished--interview Hanabusa
  5. The Squatter House That Miske Bought
  6. City lawyers’ ouster from Iremamber Sykap case sought
  7. Storing jet fuel a complicated task
  8. Hawaii public-school student absences up dramatically in latest COVID-19 surge, report says
  9. Retention rate of Hawaii public school teachers after 5 years of employment just over 50%
  10. Advisory panel formed to help find next DOE superintendent
  11. Plan to ban rentals under 90 days moves through City Council despite some opposition
  12. Mayor Taps Former Fire Chief To Join Honolulu Police Commission
  13. Laughing at the Judiciary: Criminal Racks up 161 Convictions in 18 Yrs
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Thursday, January 20, 2022
January 20, 2022 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:23 PM :: 4096 Views
  1. Max Sword Points Finger at Amemiya, Leong--Caldwell Next?
  2. ‘Round 3, I’m out’: Hawaii Restaurant Association worries new COVID rules could turn away business, customers
  3. Hawaii House leaders vow to clear Hawaiian Home Lands backlog, raise minimum wage and decommission Red Hill
  4. Sales Pitch for Next Boondoggle: Ala Wai Today 1pm
  5. More families file claims against Navy as attorneys plan for class-action lawsuit
  6. Lawsuit: UPW Elections Botched
  7. Staffing shortages leave scores of Hawaii hospital patients ‘waitlisted’ for long-term care beds
  8. Substitute Teachers Are In High Demand But Short Supply In Hawaii
  9. $30K Mortgage help for Oahu residents
  10. HTA Demands $60M to Find ‘Mindful’ Tourists
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Wednesday, January 19, 2022
January 19, 2022 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:01 PM :: 2888 Views
  1. Closed to the People: 2022 Legislative Session Begins Today
  2. Minimum Wage: Legislature Finishes what COVID Started? 
  3. Update: US Aid Following Tonga Volcanic Eruption and Tsunami 
  4. ARPA: Where did $1.6B Go?
  5. Legislature to Consider Auto-IRA Saving for Private Sector Workers
  6. Before Pandemic, Spending Exceeded Long-Term Revenue in Hawaii
  7. Audit of the City's Information Technology Modernization, Services, and Support
  8. Solar: 1,000 megawatts now online
  9. Day One of Legislature: House Panel Needs More Time to Frame Up State Auditor
  10. Hold on to Your Wallet--Legislators want ‘Justice’
  11. HSTA: “There’s absolutely no learning going on.”
  12. 2 years after the tragedy at Diamond Head: Gun Control but not much Lunatic Control
  13. The Path to 100% Clean Energy in 2045 Fallacy
  14. UH Board of Regents nearing vote on latest Maunakea Master Plan
  15. Navy Hires Contractor To Assess Integrity Of Red Hill Fuel Facility
  16. State Suspends Contract For Security Guards That Watch Over The Hawaii Capitol
  17. Illegal Gambling Rooms--Police Have Seized 700 Machines
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Tuesday, January 18, 2022
January 18, 2022 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:27 PM :: 2322 Views
  1. How Kealoha settlement was rushed past Honolulu Police Commission
  2. Military-Industrial Complex, Congressional Delegation Pushing Unwanted Missile Radar for Kauai
  3. Hawaii County Councilman criticized for Anti-Vax social media posts   
  4. 50 Years After Title IX, Hawaii DoE Still Doesn’t Have Female Locker Rooms
  5. ‘Broken Windows’ Enforcement?  Only if you smash the windows in Police Station
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Monday, January 17, 2022
January 17, 2022 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:19 PM :: 2574 Views
  1. Punatics to get the House seat stolen from Oahu by Disenfranchising Military personnel?
  2. Gov. David Ige seeks to create new law enforcement agency
  3. Got $123.9 Billion? -- Abercrombie-Connected Group pushes Hawaii political candidates for more ‘investment’ in brainwashing young children
  4. Bringing Down Costs Is More Important Than Raising Wages
  5. Restrictions hurt Hawaii’s stake in cryptocurrency market
  6. Navy Gives New Dates For Families Displaced By Water Crisis To Return Home
  7. Sales Pitch for Next Boondoggle: Public can attend virtual meeting discussing Ala Wai Flood Risk study
  8. Honolulu airport improvements become homeless camp--rash of car thefts
  9. Shortage of volcanic black cinder in Hawaii
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Sunday, January 16, 2022
January 16, 2022 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:29 PM :: 4194 Views
  1. Before UH Hired Him -- Graham Got $12.8M Buyout from Arizona State U
  2. Big Pile of Your Money: Legislature Prepares to Light Bonfire
  3. What did Kealoha have on Caldwell?
  4. How did handcuffs become Honolulu’s new jewelry craze?
  5. Miske Lawyers Ask Hawaii Supreme Court to block sealing of old case and gag order issued by state judge
  6. Water at Aliamanu Military Reservation was 3 times state’s safe limit
  7. Living costs, lack of housing hurt medical recruiting locally
  8. More Homeless Mayhem: State librarian asks for $1M security boost against COVID pandemic crime wave
  9. Chinatown: 100 Homeless Drug Addicts Arrested
  10. Caltech Submillimeter Observatory on track to be removed later this year
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Saturday, January 15, 2022
January 15, 2022 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 12:44 PM :: 2265 Views
  1. Commission Hears Complaints on Election Integrity
  2. No Buyout:  Todd Graham resigns as University of Hawaii head football coach
  3. UH regents to consider new Maunakea Master Plan
  4. Hawaii public school teacher absences hit 2,159 amid omicron surge
  5. State gets OK to once again streamline food stamp application, renewals process
  6. How The Victim Of Mistaken Identity Was Finally Let Out Of The Hawaii State Hospital
  7. HPD says 20 of the city’s security cameras in Chinatown don’t work
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Friday, January 14, 2022
January 14, 2022 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 11:31 AM :: 2815 Views
  1. Former council members expect to be witnesses against indicted ex-city officials
  2. Lawmakers: Red Hill Fuel Leaked Into Well Through A Pipeline Navy Didn’t Know Existed
  3. DOE Officials Preview Budget Priorities To Hawaii Lawmakers
  4. Honolulu Police Chief Search Expected To Take At Least 6 More Months    
  5. Annual Statewide Count Of Hawaii’s Homeless Population Postponed
  6. Will This Bureaucratic Tug Of War Over Hawaii’s Ag Lands Finally End?
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Thursday, January 13, 2022
January 13, 2022 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:31 PM :: 4569 Views
  1. Caldwell Next to be Arrested?
  2. New map proposed for Hawaii’s state, congressional lawmaker districts
  3. Hawaii Voter database - 100,000 bogus registrations?
  4. Hawaii's Capitol Can Be Opened Safely
  5. 42 Hawaii public schools have not reported their COVID-19 case counts since before winter break
  6. Head of nurses union: Severe staffing shortage at hospitals is impacting patient care
  7. UH Buyout: $1.2M for a Dr Pepper
  8. COVID: People Earned Less from Work--But Got Free Money from the Sky
  9. Antivax Mayoral recall effort fails Miserably in second attempt to collect signatures
  10. Poll - Hawaii Voters Want To Access State Agencies and Services Online
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Wednesday, January 12, 2022
January 12, 2022 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:19 PM :: 4370 Views
  1. Kealoha Payoff Illegal: Top Caldwell Administration Officials Arrested by FBI
  2. ‘The judge got it wrong’: City prosecutor rails against lawmaker’s acquittal in DUI case
  3. Civil Beat Law Center intervenes again opposing unnecessary secrecy in Miske case
  4. Reality: As it pledges to empty fuel tanks, Navy says cost of crisis now tops $250M
  5. Illusion: Elected officials advance bill pretending to propose city regulate Red Hill fuel farm
  6. Is The Hawaii Legislature Ready To Give Teachers Yet Another Raise Outside of Collective Bargaining?
  7. Hanabusa Gravy Train: Honolulu Rail Board Members Signal Strong Satisfaction With Kahikina’s Job So Far
  8. Bill 41: Neighborhoods need rentals of 30+ days
  9. The Maui Charter Commission Is Weighing 85 Changes To County Government
  10. CNMI House Votes To Impeach Governor Torres
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