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Entries for December 2020
| Thursday, December 31, 2020 |
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December 31, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:58 PM :: 3124 Views
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Ige: Federal COVID Relief Won’t Prevent Tax Hikes
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Dear Mayor-Elect Blangiardi: Please Add Transparency To Your Agenda
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“Lands on Maunakea are some of the best managed and protected lands in the entire state.”
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Nearly $70M spent statewide through Hawaii Restaurant Card program
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Katherine Kealoha got a 13-year sentence, but she’ll be released in 2030. Here’s why.
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Hawaii’s UPW-Controlled Prisons: When Inmates had guns
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| Wednesday, December 30, 2020 |
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December 30, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:59 PM :: 4576 Views
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Hawaii needs the federal corruption probes to keep moving forward
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Blangiardi’s transition team announces Cabinet selections
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Caldwell claims to close $400M shortfall without the slightest inconvenience to public unions
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University of Hawaii budget proposal to the Legislature includes $78M in cuts
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Tax Cheat Gary Hooser says ‘Raise Taxes’
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Hawaii heiress Abigail Kawananankoa got $142,000 federal bailout loan
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Biden: Vaccine Distribution being Slow-Walked until Jan 20
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Spying on You: COVID-19 exposure notification app going Statewide
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48 Priors: Life Long Crime Spree Finally Comes to an End
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Hawaii Worst State to Retire
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The War On Tiki Bars
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| Tuesday, December 29, 2020 |
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December 29, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:44 PM :: 6596 Views
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Lori Kahikina, new Rail Boss, Obstructed Dillingham Dig
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HART Fails To Address Risks Of Fraud, Waste And Abuse
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Gov. David Ige opposes plan for casino in Kapolei
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Caldwell’s Legacy As Honolulu Mayor Is Marred By Rail And Homelessness
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Nursing homes begin vaccinations, but who’s next?
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Hawaii sees 38% increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations—Case Count ‘Artificially Low’
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Tourism recovery not seen until summer, hotel execs say
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| Monday, December 28, 2020 |
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December 28, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:48 PM :: 2900 Views
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Public support for unions is a hard sell when so many in the private sector are hurting--so here’s how to manipulate a Billion Dollar tax Hike
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Next shipment of COVID-19 vaccines to arrive in Hawaii this week
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Are Open-Book Tests Making It Too Easy To Become A Honolulu Police Officer?
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Thousands turn out for The Food Basket’s 100th ‘food drop’ since April
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COVID disinformation is dangerous to society
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| Sunday, December 27, 2020 |
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December 27, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:40 PM :: 3939 Views
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What Emergency? Hawaii Tourism Authority Keeps Funneling Money to WCIT/DTL Scheme
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Hawaii’s leaders bring profiles in futlessness to dreadful year
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Potential Kapolei casino raises concerns in Las Vegas
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Over a hundred car break-ins and thefts reported within a week
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Sick Leave: Lets Pay People to Stay at Home and Do Nothing
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Puna Cell Phone Tower Permit Triggers Anti-5G Nuts
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| Saturday, December 26, 2020 |
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December 26, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:43 PM :: 2513 Views
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More Hawaii residents struggle to pay bills, survey indicates
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Hawaii Begins Public Debate Over Whether To Allow Vaccinated Travelers To Skip Quarantine
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Kauai COVID Numbers are Low—Why Hasn’t HSTA-DoE Reopened Schools?
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Navy begins to assess secondary containment for the fuel at Red Hill
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| Saturday, December 26, 2020 |
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Letters to the Editor December, 2020
By Letters to the Editor @ 12:36 AM :: 4275 Views
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The Manchurian Candidate
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TO: All OHA Trustees--"it is about power"
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TMT Ethics: Taxpayer Funds for Benefit of Protesters
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| Friday, December 25, 2020 |
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December 25, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:24 PM :: 5520 Views
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Federal corruption probe targets DPP staffers
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Renewed push for disclosure of final sealed record in Miske-related case
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Panel defers 2% pay hike for Maui mayor, council
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Hawaii DOH gives vaccine distribution update
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About 20% of Honolulu’s first responders received the Moderna coronavirus vaccination shot
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Hawaii nursing homes experience falling COVID-19 deaths and cases
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| Thursday, December 24, 2020 |
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December 24, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:20 PM :: 4205 Views
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Caldwell, Amemiya Owe Public Answers On Surveillance Scheme
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Hawaii to delay state furloughs after virus relief bill passes
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Caldwell, Robbins Next Failure: Keep Building Rail in Phases Forever
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Hawaii vacation rentals 32% occupancy in November—outpace hotels
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Mayor Kawakami requests ‘resort bubble’ alternative to Safe Travels Program
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Kauai Building Homeless Housing Units
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PUC OKs regulatory changes for Hawaiian Electric
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Hawaii Joins Legal Battle Over Telework Tax
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Caldwell announces new H-POWER contract to recycle ash, prevent it from going into Oahu landfills
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| Wednesday, December 23, 2020 |
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December 23, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:06 PM :: 3221 Views
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Green: Exempt Vaccinated Hawaii Travelers From Quarantine
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Do Reformers Change Government Or Vice Versa?
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Some Honolulu Police Officers Are Doubling Their Salaries With Overtime
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Tulsi Gabbard refuses vaccine until all front-line health care workers and seniors get inoculated.
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Convicted Felon Complains About Getting Free Stuff too Slowly
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112 homeless dead because we could not force them to accept shelter
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Casino Yes – Telescope No???
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Banning pedestrians from the road into the Waipio Valley runs contrary to state and county law
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| Tuesday, December 22, 2020 |
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December 22, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:08 PM :: 3599 Views
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Did Caldwell Entrap the Police Chief?
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Deadline extended for $250M federal grant for Honolulu Rail
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Federal COVID-19 aid could postpone Hawaii state worker furloughs, Gov. David Ige says
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30,000 doses of coronavirus vaccines arrive in Hawaii, many slated for neighbor islands
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Hawaii hotels continued to see huge declines in November despite pre-travel testing program
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Inmates who get COVID-19 will no longer be added to Oahu’s daily case count
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Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to help with down payments outside DHHL Lands
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Hawaii Reboots Depression-Era Conservation Corps Using Pandemic Assistance Funds
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Miske’s Lawyers Push for More Rights for Client
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| Monday, December 21, 2020 |
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December 21, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:10 PM :: 3960 Views
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Caldwell Admin Ordered Covert Honolulu Police Unit to Investigate Former Medical Examiner
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Congress to Restore Medicaid for COFA Citizens after 24 Years
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Criminals Trying to Give Each other COVID May Put Oahu Back on Tier One
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Chinatown conditions worsen in pandemic—Overrun with Drug Addicts and Lunatics
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Safe Travels Fails To Lure Many Travelers From Japan To Hawaii
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Residents’ sentiment toward tourism has worsened
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Hawai'i could receive $1B as Congress agrees on nearly trillion dollar relief package
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Struggling families still waiting for city grocery cards plagued by delays
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Property tax assessment appeals on the rise
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| Sunday, December 20, 2020 |
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December 20, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:32 PM :: 3646 Views
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Ige: There’s No Money To ‘Sustain Government As It Existed’—”we could raise taxes”
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How One death on Kauai Was Used to Destroy Tourism Industry
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Lackluster Hawaii tourism widens losses for hotels
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Hawaii’s Artificial fiascos, such as rail and stadium
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Physician Shortage—Hawaii GE Tax -- Only State Taxing Medicaid and Medicare Benefits
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More EV Subsidies and Mandates in 2021 Legislative and Council Agenda
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Always Fake: Honolulu Seawater Air Conditioning to stop pretending after 15 years
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‘Unlawful Conduct’ Councilmember a board member for company receiving CARES funds
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Pandemic-related stress fueling domestic violence
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Sister Isle Counties Agree: COVID is Opportunity to Make You Pay to Create Feminist-Socialist Utopia
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| Saturday, December 19, 2020 |
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December 19, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:26 PM :: 3530 Views
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Furloughs? UPW wants another pay raise and more positions
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Unions move to take legal action to prevent state worker furloughs
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HART Board Selects New CEO—Refuses to make name public
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Surrrprise! Aloha Stadium not quite shut down, will ‘entertain’ new events with added expenses
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Caldwell: Cut Maintenance at Blaisdell Center to force Renovations—Just like Aloha Stadium
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Kauai can’t afford a COVID outbreak, but they can’t afford a shutdown for much longer, either
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Pandemic Hits More Than 1,475 Hawaiʻi Inmates This Year—but doesn’t take a bite out of crime
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| Friday, December 18, 2020 |
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December 18, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:59 PM :: 3054 Views
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Corrections Commission Wants To Pause Planning On New Oahu Jail as Part of Plan to Let Lots and Lots of Criminals out onto Streets
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HART board votes to oust CEO, search for as-of-yet unnamed replacement
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O-Posers: Hawaii Board of Education members oppose furloughing teachers, school staff
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“The fiscal impacts will get worse in the next two or three years”
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Hawaii emerges as leader in distributing CARES Act funding to solve housing issues
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Unemployed Demand HGEA Members Show up for Work
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Stripped of TAT, Kauai County Raids Reserve to fund HGEA Salary Increases
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Oahu to use $7 million towards COVID-related programs after CARES Act money runs out
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Regulatory Hearing Today -- The End of Coal in Hawai’i
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Reckless Endangerment? Alleged pistol in accidental shooting was police issued gun
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| Thursday, December 17, 2020 |
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December 17, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:49 PM :: 4489 Views
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Kouchi: Gambling must wait for the fake Hawaiian Indian Tribe
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Recycling Dead Ideas: Similar DHHL Casino Bill 10 Years Ago
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What Did HPD Do To Prevent Another Kealoha Scandal? ‘Appoint Me’, Chief Says
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Hawaii Supreme Court Releases Cachola Arbitration Decision
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State issues new COVID-19 rules, shortening quarantine and extending eviction protections
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Survey: More than 40% of Hawaii restaurants may not be in business in 6 months
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Aloha Stadium Plan just like rail—Shut down to Save Money (but first pretend to be unsafe to juice new stadium boondoggle)
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Insiders Only Plan—Magic Money from the Federal Sky
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7.6% of CARES Act funds left on Kaua‘i
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Maui EMS Pretends to Suffer Budget Cuts
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Denied: Hawaii bar owners ask court to let them open
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Teleworking from paradise may sting come tax time
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| Wednesday, December 16, 2020 |
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December 16, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:58 PM :: 4720 Views
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Hawaiian Home Lands considers proposal to build casino in Kapolei
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DHHL Casino Plan Tied to DeBartolo—Convicted of Casino Bribery in 1990s
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Furloughs? HGEA demands more ‘Positions’ -- Threatens to Delay unemployment, Medicaid and SNAP claims even more than they have been
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Hawaii public schools superintendent reveals furlough dates for teachers, other employees
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Make-work: Grab n Go Program Keeps DoE Food Service Employed preparing 22 lunches per school
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Pandemic causes uptick in child abuse cases and challenges in reporting abuse
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In-person only: Early-learning dumping virtual classes
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Rail project in shambles –Robbins Leaving Sixth CEO to Quit in 9 Years
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Unexpected Delay in Honolulu’s “City Card" Program
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‘Not worth the paper its printed on’ Former HPD chief Louis Kealoha ordered to pay back severance
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Elections Officials Want To Tweak Hawaii’s Mail-Voting Law Next Year
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Tax department following up on landlords who may be avoiding taxes on rental income
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Accidental shooting in Waiehu on Maui happened at police officer’s home
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Escape Plan: Few Remaining COVID-Free Inmates Try to Figure out how to get Disease
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| Tuesday, December 15, 2020 |
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December 15, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:55 PM :: 4306 Views
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Kouchi: Legislators Discussing Income Tax Hikes
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Caldwell Brings Back Alleged Child Molester
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Future of rail project uncertain with $250M in federal funding still up in the air
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State to spend nearly entire $1.25B allotment of federal COVID-19 relief fund
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Surveillance Test Study Shows Few COVID-19 Positives During Safe Travels
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Three Times as many Pacific Islanders Hospitalized for COVID
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DoH Plan: Criminals Will Get COVID Vax Before You Do
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Criminal Releases Produce Spike in auto thefts, burglaries during pandemic
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Soft on Crime: 17 Convictions Does it Again
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| Monday, December 14, 2020 |
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December 14, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:56 PM :: 3073 Views
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Furloughs? HSTA Demands a Pay Hike
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5,000 to 12,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine arriving in Hawaii today
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Test at Airport? Ige Still Pandering to Kauai Anti-Tourism Activists
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Hawaii County spent 80% of $80 million CARES funds
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More People Are Going Hungry And It's Only Going To Get Worse
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Many students choose in-person classes at Hawaii’s Catholic schools
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Judge Orders Honolulu to pay Louis Kealoha legal fees
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Legal Battles Loom With Developer Whether Rail Gets Finished Or Not
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Defense Authorization Act passed by the U.S. Senate on Friday includes more than $300 million in construction projects for military bases in Hawaii.
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| Sunday, December 13, 2020 |
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December 13, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:03 PM :: 5407 Views
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Ige: “I’m Contemplating Tax Increases”
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“There will need to be much more emphasis on early retirement.”
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Purposeful HSTA Chaos Blocks Obvious Solution for Education
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Usual Suspects Claim Government Employees pay is an Economic Stimulus (without laughing)
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Oahu property values come in flat for 2021
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How To Redefine The Housing Crisis In Hawaii so that Nobody Notices KSBE Profit Motive at Work
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How Lending Practices Restrict Hawaiian Homesteaders’ Borrowing Power
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Two-day summit covering Native Hawaiian homesteads
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Miske landed millions in loans after he knew of fed’s criminal investigation
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“How do you handle mean things people say on social media?”
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Hanauma Bay Restrictions Jam up Neighborhood
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