Entries for November 2025

1. SNAP Confusion…On Us
2. Lucky — and grateful — we live Hawaii
3. Josh Green for President?  Inexperienced, Thin-Skinned
4. Three Hilo Flop Houses Burn Down in a Month: Fire Kills 2 in Hilo Quonset Hut Legally Converted into Sec 8 Housing
5. POW pau: Longstanding Wai‘anae homeless community relocating
6. Blangiardi Names Three to Police Commission
7. Honolulu Charter Commission Rejects Public Vote on Rail Extension
8. Panel picks 3 finalists for city’s Ocean Safety chief
9. Even Failed Attacks on Cruise Ships can Reduce Arrivals
10. University of Hawaii seeks funding for student athletes

1. Visitor Spending Rose in October 2025 Despite Declining Visitor Arrivals
2. Homeless Meth-addicted rapist gets cashless bail on felony drug charge, so he returns to Waikiki Picnic Tables and assaults police officer
3. Council urges media access to HPD radio channels
4. HPD apartment search lawsuit still alive
5. Famed Hawaii golf course struggles with water woes

1. AG Report: Governor’s office fired Isaac Choy for threatening Audit of CNHA’s $27M HTA Contract
2. State Hospital: Lunatics Allowed to Come and Go, Get Knives, Drugs
3. Geothermal Expansion Will Reduce Electric Cost by 43%
4. LNG Push Puts Green Energy Lack of Reliability in the Spotlight
5. Can Hawaiʻi Tackle Football's Massive Carbon Footprint? (LOL!)
6. Promoters Demand taxpayer dollars for Golf Tourneys
7. The money in TheBus
8. State clarifies Central Maui pumping data; groundwater aquifer limits are under review
9. Kauhale expansion sparks success stories and scrutiny
10. How Socialists are Exploiting Union Plaza Hellhole

1. Green: Draft NDAA doesn’t authorize Army land condemnation
2. Hawaii joins Attorneys General suing to keep SNAP for legal immigrants
3. Food Snobs: Honolulu Could Become The First US City Where ‘Culturally Appropriate Food’ Is A ‘Human Right’
4. Maui County program paves the way for parking reform, but there’s still room for improvement
5. Authorities address gaps that allowed deed forgery and title theft
6. Honolulu EMS overhaul: No cuts, more staff, more units
7. No need to fib about Jones Act burden

1. Hurricane Tulsi
2. Precisely as predicted: Split Maui Council Can’t Agree On New Member. Now The Mayor Will Decide
3. Miske forfeiture proceeding delayed again
4. Hawaiʻi's condo insurance crisis: Rising premiums explained
5. Honolulu Permit Counter Closing Next Week To Catch Up With Backlog
6. With Subsidies About to Expire, Last Minute Hawaii solar installations soar
7. Family of disabled woman loses thousands in forged deed scam
8. Doomed: Kauaʻi's Next Top Cop Says He's A Relationship-Builder
9. The end of the middle-class traveler in Hawaii is near
10. ‘Gas Station Heroin’ selling fast in Hawaii -- addiction cases to this legal drug rise
11. Legislative Agenda:  Make 996 Career Criminals Eligible for Early Release
12. How Tonga Owes China $112M

1. TMT Exploring 'Promising Path Forward' in Spain
2. DCCA: Obamacare Plans to Increase 11.6% in 2026
3. DOJ Files Historic Supreme Court Brief in Support of Hawaii Second Amendment Case
4. NRA Urges SCOTUS to Invalidate Hawaii Carry Restriction
5. Hawaii AG Wins Federal court order blocking Trump from dismantling four agencies
6. Legislators Release 2026 Legislative Calendar
7. Green Names New Budget Director
8. Miske Loses Termite License
9. Designed to Fail: How Hawaii System lets Criminals Escape Justice
10. Police positive on media access proposal
11. Drill a Well: Maui Council advances plan to secure low-interest loans for water infrastructure projects (will end fake water shortage)
12. Deed forgery scheme impacts properties across Oahu
13. 2 years after left lane truck ban, no vehicles cited
14. 15.7% teacher turnover challenges Hawaii public schools
15. Bonuses Aren't Solving Hawaiʻi's Special Education Teacher Shortage
16. PRP: Housing Construction Expands

1. Property tax relief could be extended for Lahaina homeowners and businesses
2. Grassroot Institute of Hawaii Recognized for Lahaina Rebuild Advocacy
3. Ethics: DeCoite, HECO Busted
4. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted November 21, 2025
5. Independent workers in Hawaii brace for 30% Jump in health premiums
6. Green Fee Defenders Want you to See Only The Bad Orange Man 
7. Hu Honua Bioenergy Still Alive and Kicking on 6,439th Day
8. Trial set for suspect in shooting death of Jonnaven Monalim

1. Pitfalls in Tax Appeals
2. How Lopez and Nakamura are Blocking State Inquiry Into Which Legislator Took $35,000 In A Paper Bag
3. Green: Democrats need a Moderate Like Me for President--Can’t win with ‘Radical from California’
4. ‘Progressive’ Plan for 2026 Legislature:  Four Big Tax Hikes on Housing  
5. Five Weeks Until Army Seizes Training Land
6. RPZ Surprise: City begins Charging Residents $125 to Park on their own Street
7. Hawaii grocery shopping is hell
8. Republican Legislators Still Stand behind their demented picks for Election Commission
9. Strong cruise recovery collides with Hawaii’s ‘climate’ rules

1. State-funded marketing is not the answer to low tourist turnout
2. Hawai'i AG Demands Trump Admin Allow Food Stamps for Non-Citizens
3. Texas Copies Hawaii Plavix Suit
4. Hawaii: 60% of violent crime goes un-solved
5. Associate of Hawaii’s Notorious Lum Crime Family sentenced to 14 years prison over illegal donations to Obama campaign
6. SHOPO Fail: Kauai Police Commission picks another outsider as new chief
7. HART proposes $1.07B total budget for fiscal ‘27, a 10% increase
8. Teacher Workforce Housing Project in Mililani back on track
9. DoE/DAGS Bureaucracy Slow to Fix Classroom ‘sewage’ leaks
10. Unofficial Security Guard Arrested At 'Hell Hole' Honolulu Office Building

1. Bill 42: After Decade of Uber/Lyft, Honolulu Council to Deregulate Taxis?
2. Sportsmens Alliance argues that Hawaii gun laws violate the Second Amendment
3. East Maui Streams: BLNR Defers Decision on how to make a Decision about how to Decide
4. PSD Vaccination Case Resolved
5. Still no Master Contract for Aloha Stadium
6. Very Predictable Split over swing vote successor for late Council Member Tasha Kama
7. ‘Fund the Police’ -- Police across the state set to receive largest raises in nearly 2 decades
8. SHOPO: Kauaʻi Police Commission Picks One Local and One outside Finalist—plus two tainted placeholders
9. Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Information is Spreading
10. Hawaiian Air Stripped of GE Tax Exemption
11. Tenants in low-income building face massive rent increases
12. Slow-Moving Honolulu Officials Are Doing Little To Help 'Hell-Hole' Tenants
13. Limited backyard hens will be allowed in residential areas on Big Island — and their eggs can be sold

1. Hirono Leads 130 Democrats in Support of 'Transsexuals' invading Girls Sports
2. Tourist Control Methods Spread to Four More State Parks
3. Hawaii lawmakers call for cowardly colleague to step forward in bribery investigation
4. OHA More Bluster than Strategy
5. Ghetto Lottery:  With Cops Silenced, $1M in Winnings after Criminal runs from police, crashes car into ditch
6. High traffic fatalities test city's Vision Zero plan
7. Hawai‘i DOE Demands $83,000 in Effort to Hide Data On Gender Equity In Schools
8. Additional ‘recycling’ efforts will cost Honolulu millions
9. Hawaiʻi County Council passes first reading of bill to prohibit use of disposable plastic (again)
10. Locally created AI tool transcribes and dissects government meetings
11. Merits Brief Informs SCOTUS on Hawaii’s ‘Vampire Rule’
12. $125M Ask for 2026 Lege: Local film group unveils (latest round of pretend) plans for new Kapolei studio
13. Tenants caught in the middle after city cites downtown building owner for illegal residential rentals
14. Oregon Sewer Commissioners Created Captive Insurance Company so they could vacation in Hawaii

1. Feds: Green Fee is 'Illegal Extortion Scheme'
2. Maui DWS Admits -- Just One Well Will Solve Most of Water Problem
3. Gun owner fights silencer ban at Ninth Circuit
4. DoH Updates Rules for Marijuana Dispensaries
5. Military Land Negotiations: OHA Tries to Sideline Governor Green
6. Exposed: How DHS, ‘Experts’ Covered up Ariel Sellers’ Broken Bones
7. Green flip-flop: Income Tax Hike Coming
8. Maui Prep Evac Center: “These weren’t government officials. These were families from other parts of Maui that had gone to Walmart or Target”
9. Green Injects ‘Desalination’ Scam into Lahaina Water Wars
10. Maui County in ‘Earliest Phases’ of Phony Desalination Scam Project
11. State Commission on Water Resource Management Explains How it is Stalling to Create Artificial Crisis
12. Waikiki restaurants struggle as tourism lags and costs rise
13. Hawaiian Airlines CEO Issues Apology -- Problems Expected to Continue for Next 6 Months
14. Fatal HPD Chases Cost City Millions. New Law will make it Worse.
15. Hawaii I.C.E. Map Tracks Raids
16. Green Signs Six More Emergency Orders

1. Hitachi Sues HART: $320M of 'Gross Mismanagement'
2. PUC approves Young Brothers 25.75% shipping rate hike
3. Honolulu police officers accused of dodging court service in DUI lawsuit
4. First reading of Bill 9 on TVRs in apartment districts scheduled for Dec. 1
5. Artificial Crisis: Earthjustice asks water commission to stop Kapalua golf courses from using drinking water for irrigation 
6. DHHL Severs Ties To Al Hee’s Company -- Says it Abandoned Homesteaders
7. “Positioning for insolvency”  Latest Round of Salary hikes for county officials questioned
8. Public Hearing Set For Puna Geothermal Power Production Increase, December 8
9. Highway Inn sues state over tax on pandemic-era Restaurant Revitalization Fund
10. Big Ask for 2026 Lege: Food Bank Claims 427,000 Hawaiʻi Residents Are Going Hungry
11. Will Republicans Lose the Right to Appoint Election Comissioners?

1. After Evicting Tenants, DHHL Offers Rent-to-Own on Kauai
2. Justice Department: Dawson 8a Hawaiian Defense Contractor Embezzled Funds
3. OHA and DHHL to discuss housing: Exclusive negotiation period begins for Kakaʻako Makai Lot I
4. Parallels Between LA Fire and Lahaina Fire
5. FAA ends cuts to flights at 40 airports, including Honolulu
6. Congress closes ‘hemp loophole,’ which could lead to removal of nearly all THC products
7. Advocates Fear 'Surveillance Creep' -- HPD Starts Using AI To Write Reports

1. Many of the proposed Honolulu Charter amendments actually make sense
2. ‘We need to grow those voices’ that support building more homes
3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted November 14, 2025
4. Student Loan Forgiveness for a 'substantially illegal purpose'?
5. Feds:  Cover-up Protects Legislator, Another Crook
6. If you want to get away with bribery in Hawaii, bribe big
7. Open Seats for 2026: Chinatown, Pearl City, Waipahu
8. Liquid natural gas is smart energy path
9. Hawaii’s economy slogs through mediocre year
10. More Reform Ideas for Legislators to Reject
11. Hawaii Needs ‘Office of Legislative Ethics’
12. ACLU: Police are Guilty—Criminals are Innocent
13. Anxious Honolulu bus riders await contract resolution
14. Boost to Tourism: Mainland Welfare Bums Spending More in Hawaii

1. Hawaii faces constitutional showdown over climate tax on cruise ships
2. OHA: How much money can we get from Military Condemnation?
3. Cost of Living Behind Hawaiʻi’s rising child poverty
4. After Renters Evicted, Courtyards of Waipouli now offered to Hawaiian Home Lands beneficiaries on Kaua‘i
5. State land board hears conflict over East Maui water
6. Usual Suspects Try to Push Heretical Non-Believers off BLNR
7. PUC ‘suspends’ proposed Maui power plant
8. Commission wants more candidates to request public funds for their campaigns
9. Meth-Addled Firebugs Kicked out of Another Dry Brush Area

1. Remember 313,000?  A look at HART's shifty ridership projections
2. Green Names Advisory Committee for Military Land Negotiations
3. Coast Guard Intercepts Russian Spy Ship 15 Miles off Barbers Point
4. Honolulu Grand Jury Indicts Two in Realty Scam
5. Former death row inmate sentenced to life for sex trafficking in Hawaii
6. Trump signs executive order to improve foster care
7. Feds now Claim $35K Legislative Bribery Case Does Not Exist
8. False Dichotomy: Lawmakers, advocates ‘defend’ mail-in voting
9. No Surprise: Green’s TMT letter draws strong opposition at Maunakea authority meeting
10. Maui: Usual Suspects Getting Closer to Grabbing Mahi Pono Water and Dumping it Down Stream Beds
11. Lacking Space in Lunatic Asylums, City Gives Homeless Tickets Instead

1. Hirono Voted 15 Times to Keep Government Closed--blames Republicans
2. UHERO: Disabled Maui residents still face steep barriers to recovery 2 years after wildfires
3. Condorama XV Set for this Weekend
4. To Keep Case in State System, HPD decides to claim murder of Ex-federal informant not gang retaliation
5. Star-Adv Admits ‘Passive’ AG Lopez is Protecting Legislative Bribe-Taker
6. While Legislator Evades Justice for $35K Bribe--Architect, 92, On Trial For Failed $20 Gift To City Worker
7. Biggest water users in West Maui are Hotels and Resorts not TVRs—Bill 9 will make it worse
8. 500 Grifters Grab for Green Fee Money
9. Only Five Honolulu Businesses Hurt By Rail Construction Got $10K from City
10. The Old Aloha Stadium Was A Failure
11. Parents of infant abused at Navy day care in Hawaii file federal lawsuit
12. Get a Job: 6,000 Medicaid Recipients will need to work at least 20 hours
13. Hawaiʻi DOE Spending More On Buses For Fewer Students
14. Hawaii’s speed enforcement cameras -- zero citations due to tech failure
15. Tsunami Alert: NOAA ending contract with Alaska Earthquake Center
16. Kona Park to be Irrigated with Treated former Injection Well Sewage
17. Stolen truck, guns, hazards recovered during Maui wildfire risk reduction program

1. Hawaiian Electric monitoring wildfire risk conditions on Hawaii Island
2. OHA Relaunches Congressional Fellows Program with 8(a) Co-sponsorships
3. Clarifying misconceptions in Bad Bunny’s ‘Hawaii’
4. Solar Scammers Terrified as they Lose Grip on PUC
5. DPP HNL Build: “Jumping on the grenade”
6. Rail ridership numbers average 11,649—counting grand opening free rides
7. Honolulu Fire Department Relied On Risky Tactic In Deadly Blaze
8. Hawaii Job Corps still alive after Court Order Stays Cancellation
9. Criminal Runs Red Light, Gets Killed in Crash: If he was also running from Police, family can cash in

1. Three names on list to fill vacant Maui council seat
2. Survey: 75% of Hawaiʻi’s Workforce May Leave
3. HPD finds Missing Tennessee Child Living in Van with Criminal in Hawaii
4. HPD Seeks Community Feedback to Enhance Public Safety Services
5. PUC Chair Resigns
6. Alleged Chinese Spy Given Hawaii Mansion
7. 60 Mentally Ill Inmates at WCCC
8. SHPD Begins Updating Statewide Historic Preservation Plan
9. EXPOSED:  How AG Lopez Stalling Bribery Investigation Until Statute of Limitations Runs Out
10. Honolulu Mayor wants power to hire and fire police chief
11. Money News: OHA Wants ‘Seat at table’ in Army Land Negotiations
12. Profit and debt will fund $2B in Hawaiian Electric ventures
13. Green Energy Scammers Grift Legislature for More Subsidies
14. Honolulu City Council approves pay raise for police
15. Immigration arrests surge in Hawaii as federal agents target courthouses
16. Soft on Crime: Man accused of sexually assaulting disabled woman was on probation for another case
17. Council OKs vacation rental fee increases
18. Kauai County Charter Review Commission invites public comment

1. DoE Backs Down Completely From Punishing Teacher for Allowing Kirk and Trump Discussion on Constitution Day
2. Four Ways to Keep Building Rail Forever
3. City Council urges repeal of transit fare ‘Cost Recovery’ policy as Transit Ridership Declines
4. Hawaiian Electric, Investors Reach Deal in Lahaina Fire Suit
5. Losers: Schatz, Hirono voted to keep Government Closed
6. USDA: State Should Undo SNAP Benefit Payments
7. “The tweakers, squatters, druggies — whatever you want to call them — they come in here all day, kicking, squatting, robbing”
8. OHA awarded grant to assess Kakaako Makai land
9. Visitors Say Hawaii Is Getting Too Complicated To Enjoy

1. Bishop Street Lawyer Behind OHA Power Grab?
2. Flagged for being too efficient?
3. Eligible Charges
4. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted November 8, 2025
5. $35,000: House Speaker Looks for Way to Blame Attorney General for Bribery Coverup  
6. Bissen reelection campaign based on Lahaina Strong Meth Gang
7. False Dichotomy: Skeptics to ask Legislature to ban mail-in voting in Hawaii
8. Charter Commission Gets Slammed With More Than 200 Proposals
9. 40% vacant beds at Two Hawaii Prisons
10. Blake Parsons Appointed to Police Commission
11. New show or just a re-run for Mauna Kea telescope?
12. Bill 7: Keep pushing to improve Honolulu’s housing laws
13. Plastic foodware ban on Hawaii County Council Agenda (again)

1. Just the beginning: 36-40 Flights Cut over Weekend
2. 'Building common ground' housing event travels to Kauai on Wednesday, Nov. 12
3. Slink Away in Shame: ‘Missen Bissen’ Announces Reelection Campaign
4. ‘Bad Actors Within Department’ -- Internal HPD memo warned that officers were arresting sober drivers for DUI, but practice continued
5. Former informant in high profile case found dead
6. Discussions underway for $3 billion Thirty Meter Telescope to be built on alternative site on Mauna Kea
7. A Campaign to Make Guam the 51st State Is Gaining Traction
8. Drama: Hawaii National Guard activated to make statewide food distribution efforts look more like an emergency
9. How parking spot mandates affect affordable housing in Honolulu
10. HPD arrests 4, seizes 48 gambling machines in Waialua, Pearl City raids
11. Nanakuli Homeless Refuse Shelter, Pledge to ‘go stealing’ even after EBT Cards Filled
12. 2,400 Hawaii households missing SNAP payments after Supreme Court stay
13. Burning Man comes to Papaikou (again)

1. Lawsuit: OHA Budget Process Rooted in Illegal Power Grab
2. Just the beginning: Six HNL Flights Cut for Friday
3. Rep Lowen Too Busy to Respond to Constituents
4. OHA Approves Emergency Relief Payments for Native Hawaiians
5. Hilo, 1881: Gaming for Control of the World's Largest Church
6. $360M: HDoT Launches 113 Bicycle, Pedestrian Projects
7. Ridiculous Asks: Fake ‘Geothermal’ Scheme Wants OHA to ‘Invest’ $5 Million (again)
8. Should HART Be Allowed To Manage City Projects Beyond Honolulu Rail?
9. State offers to pay TSA, FAA workers to spare Hawaii from air travel cuts
10. Government shutdown leads to cancellation of two Veterans Day ceremonies on Oahu
11. Kunia Loa Ridge 15 Years in Legal Limbo
12. Supreme Court Decides not to let Child Molester Get Away With It
13. Criminal fights Maui police, loses
14. Tren de Aragua? Immigration raid targets cleaning company employees months after wage settlement

Rep Lowen Too Busy to Respond to Constituents

1. Ex-Justice Wilson: Hawaii Judiciary Believes Courts have duty to protect future generations from Climate Change
2. Hawaii remains the only state in the nation to impose a complete prohibition on firearm ownership by adults aged eighteen to twenty
3. AI Tool Helps You Keep Track of Hawaii Government Actions
4. Hawaii Household Debt Highest in USA
5. Coverup: Hawaii House leaders conceal name of Legislator who allegedly took $35,000 bribe
6. DOE Superintendent 60% pay hike approved by board
7. Teacher says DOE response to Charlie Kirk class discussion violates her rights
8. Maui Water Shortage is an Artificially-Created Illusion—Maui Council Votes to Make it Go Away for one developer
9. Solar Industry:  Barrel Tax on Oil to Subsidize Us
10. Honolulu airport on FAA list for cuts in air traffic
11. ICE raids on Kauai lead to dozens of arrests
12. Maui: Homeless Drug Addicts are a Fire Risk--police called 118 times
13. Queen Emma Land Co. Wants Former Tenant To Tear Down Historic Building
14. Mom, daughter face extortion charge in alleged assault of special needs student
15. State Sen. Awa contests election ethics violation

1. Hawaii AG joins suit over Trump’s limits for FEMA grants
2. Hawaii AG joins suit to protect student loan forgiveness for 'illegal purpose' nonprofit employees
3. DoH Preps Hemp Retail Registration System
4. Matson Partners with WhaleSpotter to Commercialize Breakthrough Whale Detection Technology
5. Green’s $10B Negotiating Position on Army Training Lands
6. Hawaii residents face steep Obamacare premium increases amid subsidy uncertainty
7. Hawaii elections commission calls for end to mail-in voting
8. DCCA 26 Years of Stalling on Condo Database
9. Opioids, cesspools and more: Inside the counties' 2026 legislative proposals
10. HPD using mounted license plate reading cameras
11. Council to mull "Shared Streets" proposal to Jam up Traffic Even More
12. City selects corporations to lead inclusive housing development
13. Former UFC star B.J. Penn arrested, charged with assault in Hilo

1. Maui Council Announces ​Process to Fill Vacancy
2. County of Maui seeking volunteers to serve on Boards and Commissions
3. Convicted Felon Arrested and Charged After Stealing Multiple Firearms from a Storage Locker
4. Restoring ʻĀina, Restoring Ourselves
5. OHA Board to Decide on Emergency Relief Payments for Native Hawaiians
6. DLE Top Criminal Investigator Plotted False Arrest of Senator’s Husband
7. Ghouls: ‘Progressives’ Try to Exploit Death of Tasha Kama to Force Bill 9 Vote
8. Charter Amendment: HART to become Eternal Construction Project
9. Worth $400K?  DOE's Top Bureaucrat Could Get 60% Pay Raise
10. Governor, Congressional Delegation Push Funding for Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea
11. Bishop Street Lawyer May Face New charges in probate fraud case
12. Green Sea Turtles are Delicious. Should Hawaiians Be Able To Eat Them?

1. Easing farmworker housing rules crucial to Hawaii’s agriculture future
2. Ohana Voices: Artificial Intelligence-powered civic-engagement platform
3. In The Midst of Federal Arrests, One DPP Worker Just kept on Doing Favors
4. Hawaii Speed Cameras Go Live as Old Tickets Arrive
5. HTA Faking Tourist Data Since March 1
6. Bill 9’s first reading to be scheduled after council fills vacancy
7. Four Seasons wins SMA permit after Maui Planning Commission backs off property-wide water monitoring
8. Push is on for Carbon Taxes in 2026 Legislature
9. Union urges no vote on TheBus contract offer, says OTS ‘does not value’ workers
10. Immigration enforcement impacting production at some small Kona coffee farms
11. Long delay of bowling alley on Lanai suggests need for parking reform

1. Why Are Fewer Young People Identifying as Trans?
2. TATmas Tree
3. Halloween is over, but spooky creatures still haunt us
4. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted November 1, 2025
5. Sen Karl Rhoads will not seek reelection in 2026
6. Eight Hours of Useless Posturing at Elections Commission Meeting
7. Council likely to push back implementation of STVR law to July 2026
8. Maui County plans more wells, system upgrades to meet Upcountry’s water issues, growing demand
9. Not enough after-school child care to meet demand, Hawaiʻi report finds
10. State law enforcement cites litigation concerns in $500K handgun switch
11. HHFDC Resells 17 Landslide Lots in Kuliouou

1. State Tax Competitiveness--Hawaii Ranks 41st
2. After 500,000 Warnings, Speed Cams Begin Issuing Real Tickets
3. Not Enough Workers for Pork Barrel Projects
4. Fatal ʻEwa Beach Fire: Care Home Had History Of Not Documenting Fire Drills 
5. Hawaii gang leader known as 'Murder Inc.' sentenced in federal court