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Entries for December 2023
| Sunday, December 31, 2023 |
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December 31, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:21 PM :: 2413 Views
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- Restaurants Getting Cooked
- Bissen Picks New Administrator for Maui Emergency Management Agency
- It might be called Hawaiian, but it isn’t Hawaii-owned
- VIDEO: Tulsi Gabbard Slams Maine’s ‘Dangerous’ Removal of Trump from Ballot
- Plea Deal By Miske’s Ex-Business Partner Leaves Only 3 Defendants In Upcoming Trial
- Customers could feel impacts of minimum wage increase
- 100% renewable for Oahu is bad law
- Here’s The Forecast For Legislative Reform in ’24
- Hawaii’s COVID-19 death toll surpassed 2,100 in 2023
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| Saturday, December 30, 2023 |
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December 30, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:36 PM :: 2000 Views
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- Keeping Honolulu Jammed: 2023 Complete Streets Progress Report
- Pinata: Legislature opens GIA application processes
- Mobile Homes for Lahaina? “We could have them set up within 48 hours”
- Law enforcement makes third big bust of illegal fireworks in two weeks
- Tentative Settlement Reached In Lawsuit Over Fatal Shooting By Honolulu Police
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| Friday, December 29, 2023 |
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December 29, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:18 PM :: 2499 Views
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- HPD: No Gun Permits for Next 40 Days
- Minimum wage jumps to $14 January 1st
- DBEDT: Tourist Count Up--Spending Down
- Task Force makes another large seizure of illegal fireworks
- No Water-No Build: Kaleo Manuel finally figures out he is ‘an obstacle’
- Climate Change not cause of Lahaina Fire
- Maui Arrival Requirements Revealed for Visitors In 2024
- Attorney Michael Green sued for alleged sexual harassment
- 5 years and 13 delays: Mother of infant who died in babysitter’s care desperately awaits trial’s start
- 4 Oahu Inmates Face Manslaughter Charge In Fellow Prisoner's Death
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| Thursday, December 28, 2023 |
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December 28, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:22 PM :: 1973 Views
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- FBI Illegal Disruption of Hawaii Republicans?
- Bearing brunt of housing crisis, Hawaii’s youth are speaking up for the future: ‘I don’t want to leave’
- Food insecurity rises in Hawaii amid increasing costs
- DoE Names new Person to Screw up CIP Projects
- Public Safety Department Changes Name
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| Wednesday, December 27, 2023 |
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December 27, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:53 PM :: 2181 Views
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- State Senate Announces Leadership, Committee Assignments
- Hawaiʻi State Legislature Announces 2024 Legislative Timetables
- Kaleo Manuel to depart the Commission on Water Resource Management
- ‘Makes me angry’: Lahaina family marks bittersweet holiday as they prepare to leave Hawaii
- This Lahaina senior complex used to be a refuge. Now it’s a ‘cemetery’
- Businesses In Lahaina May Face Significant Barriers To Reopening
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| Tuesday, December 26, 2023 |
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December 26, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:25 PM :: 2564 Views
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- EMS lost $33M after failing to bill patients?
- Hawaii slowest to recover pandemic job losses
- High School Teams to Compete in the 2024 Hawaiʻi LifeSmarts State Competition
- Maui County diverts UIPA requests to 'online portal'
- Maui: Unemployment drops to 6.5%
- “I lost it all”--Small Businesses Survive Lahaina Fires--but not aftermath
- Conflict Of Interest Has Clouded This Big Island Judge's Family Court Cases
- CD5: Will Calvin Say Run for Reelection?
- It’s Time To Take Meaningful Action Against Cockfighting
- New Database Tracks Millions In Donations And Government Funds For Maui
- State Hospital Workers are totally at the mercy of criminal insane ‘patients’
- The Insane Die on Hawaii Streets because They Are Not Forced into Treatment
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| Monday, December 25, 2023 |
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December 25, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:04 PM :: 2106 Views
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- How Christmas Came to Hawaii
- Find common ground to foster holiday cheer
- Public Corruption In The Land Of Aloha
- Hawai‘i County leading state in tackling housing shortage
- X-Mas Surprise: 27% raises for county execs
- Seven years since the fatal shooting at Ala Moana Center
- Trial in missing girl’s murder delayed
- Military fuel supplies could be targets in a Pacific conflict
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| Sunday, December 24, 2023 |
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December 24, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:58 PM :: 2002 Views
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| Saturday, December 23, 2023 |
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December 23, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:44 PM :: 2849 Views
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| Friday, December 22, 2023 |
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December 22, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:57 PM :: 2585 Views
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- Existing short-term Hawaii rentals may remain in operation, judge rules
- Help Maui fire victims, but not by abusing STR owners
- Could fixing our housing crisis really be so simple?
- Air Tours to be Restricted over Volcanoes National Park
- Ways to make it easier for private homebuilders to build more homes
- Long-term rental tax relief should include mixed-use properties
- Judge denies ex-city prosecutor’s last ditch effort to have public corruption case thrown out after lawyer indicted as co-conspirator
- Lawyers have a lot of work before the Miske trial starts
- Hannemann: “We have an opportunity to use this crisis”
- Maui Starts Building Temporary Landfill For Wildfire Ash And Debris
- With $2B in unspent construction money, schools superintendent pretends to pledge to overhaul process
- Fuel found in some homes on Navy water system, new EPA report finds
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| Thursday, December 21, 2023 |
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December 21, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:11 PM :: 3198 Views
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- Mizuno Quits House to Become Homeless Czar--who will the Carpenters Union Appoint Next?
- Lahaina Tourism Industry Factions Fight: ILWU, UNITE HERE Demand Their Competitors be Shut Down
- DoE Non-Spender to Work for Senate WAM this Session
- Senators Grill DOE Officials For Failure To Spend Project Money Before Deadline
- No House Investigation into Alcos
- Fear: Applying The Smell Test To CWS
- As Lahaina burned, resort safety officer’s satellite phone proved a critical connection to outside world
- Mauna Kea lands on Hawaii Register of Historic Places
- UH Regents on Track to Pick Next Dobelle
- $0.329/kwh not enough? Solar Industry Appeals
- HPD investigating bizarre break-in at Oahu judge's home
- Should Oahu Have Armed Police Officers Inside Its Schools?
- Large shipment of illegal fireworks seized in Honolulu
- Mililani Shooting Another Joseph Family Hit
- Convicted Child Predator Gets Manini Sentence After Long Delay In Standing Trial
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| Wednesday, December 20, 2023 |
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December 20, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:51 PM :: 2862 Views
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Displaced Lahaina residents will be placed in Short-Term Rentals for Years and Years to Come
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Hawaiian Airlines Open To Other Merger Offers
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Legislative Agenda: GE Tax Hike, TAT Hike, State-Run Bank
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Honolulu Fireworks Cases Almost Always Get Dismissed
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Court document: HPD brass ignored sex harassment, retaliation complaints against embattled major
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Police and Courts Find Way to Get DUI case dismissed against former UH football coach June Jones
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One Homeless Alcoholic May Move Back to Mainland
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| Tuesday, December 19, 2023 |
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December 19, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:47 PM :: 2373 Views
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DCCA Makes It Hard To Find Information On Political Insiders
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Governor looks again to climate impact fee — this time aimed at vacation rentals
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HPD chief says he’s ‘not aware of all the facts’ in alleged mishandling of crash involving officer
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Sue and Settle: Hawaii Governor Proposes Additional Funds to Pretend to Fight Youth Climate Lawsuit
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Hawaii Federal Court Denies Motion To Certify Covid-19 Vaccination Class Action
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Benioffs donate 282 acres for Self-Help Affordable Housing to Hawaii Island nonprofit
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FBI Busts Hilo Satanist-Anarchist on Kiddie Porn
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| Monday, December 18, 2023 |
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December 18, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:56 PM :: 1990 Views
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- Cost-free ways Hawaii can increase its housing stock
- Voluntary tax incentives could encourage landlords to house displaced Lahaina residents
- Public asked to participate in survey on next UH President
- Drugs Behind 50% of Traffic Fatalities
- Lahaina: “Impatient to move back onto the property”
- Lahaina: ‘We want to return to work’
- Hawaii State Hospital Workers Were Assaulted More Than 1,700 Times Over The Past 11 Years
- Another Day in the DoE: Autistic student beaten at Kailua-Kona high school, mother speaks out
- Corrections Panel Crumbling
- Is Miske somehow behind recent shooting deaths?
- State firework drop off doesn’t spark much interest
- EMS staffing shortage leaves one-third of Oahu’s rigs out of service for 12-hour period
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| Sunday, December 17, 2023 |
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December 17, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:56 PM :: 2483 Views
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More moving away as Hawaii dream gets costlier
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Millions for Fake ‘Toxic’ Cleanups but County Noncommittal as Maui developers seek subsidies to alter projects and help fire evacuees
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Homeless Drug News: Hepatitis epidemic hits Hawaii harder than other states
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ACLU Suits Could Help Expand Gigantic Festering Homeless Tent Cities
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| Saturday, December 16, 2023 |
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December 16, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:55 PM :: 3154 Views
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We’re #1: Hawaii has highest rates of chronic homelessness, youth without shelter
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Total Fail: After Closing Sole ‘Kauhale’, Green’s Homeless Coordinator Is Leaving Post
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More Bluster: Gov. Green again threatens moratorium on short-term rentals
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City measures pave way for transit, stadium development
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BLNR grants protesters right to occupy Coco Palms leased-land parcel--Squatters to buy land?
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Military concludes ‘gravity defueling’ at Red Hill -- 60,000 gallons remain
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| Friday, December 15, 2023 |
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December 15, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:00 PM :: 2397 Views
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Lahaina Recovery: Convicted Felon Wants Another $50M
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Renters Fear Unintended Consequences Of Cash Incentives To Help House Maui Fire Survivors
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Only 3,200 People Ride Rail on Average Weekday
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HART Reaches Nearly $60 Million Settlement With Rail Contractor STG--but don’t worry, it won’t impact overall price of project, LOL!
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Driver falsely arrested at DUI checkpoint claims statistics — not drunk drivers — motivate arrests
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New law enforcement department is a ‘force multiplier’ with new ‘Training Center’ in its Crosshairs
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Erosion: State Prohibits Homeowners from Saving Their Homes--State may get land ‘donated’
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As deep-sea mining ship arrives in Honolulu, Hawaiians and environmentalists speak out
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ACLU Helps Maui Meth-heads Stay on Beach
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| Thursday, December 14, 2023 |
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December 14, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:22 PM :: 5014 Views
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- Hawaii Democrats New Interim Chairman Supported Primary Candidate Against Speaker Saiki
- Kauai: Eco Lawyers Block Green Energy Project
- Hawaii Traffic Fatalities Down from 2022
- Mafia News: Miske’s Lawyer Takes over Law Practice of New Supreme Court Justice
- CNHA News: HTA Gets Hannemann After Grifters Rampage Leaves them Without Budget
- For Maui wildfire survivors seeking long-term housing, a new concern: Scammers
- Sheriff’s Top Training Officer with fake Credentials arrested for DUI late Tuesday night
- Maui County moves towards settlement in lawsuit alleging ‘kidnapping’ of officer under former MPD chief
- Gun safety, concealed carry permits highlighted in West Oahu town hall
- Nurses Union: Healthcare Shortage helps us get Better Contract
- Ambulance services --new RFP Coming Soon
- Nearly 600 EBT cardholders in Hawaii victimized by fraud
- Hawaiian Airlines Workers Denied Class Status in Covid Vax Suit
- Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Top-Secret Hawaii Compound
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| Wednesday, December 13, 2023 |
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December 13, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:12 PM :: 2358 Views
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Four Months Later: Final Group of Homeowners Allowed to Reenter Burn Zone
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$1B Ala Wai flood mitigation plan faces harsh criticism
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Military Land Leases: OHA Insiders Smell the Money
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Maui Fire Victims Fight To Keep Lawsuits On Maui
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Hotel metrics a mixed bag after tourism reopened in West Maui
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Mayor: Credibility of HPD ‘on the line’ as officers are being investigated for mishandling crash probe
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Spike in violent crime involving youth triggers after-hours security concerns for school campuses
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Hawaii’s first homeless ‘medical respite’ site closing, never to be rebuilt
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| Tuesday, December 12, 2023 |
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December 12, 2023 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:29 PM :: 2562 Views
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Swastikas Cover 10 Miles of H1 Freeway--Eleven Hawaii Jewish Sites Targeted with Bomb Threat
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Fire Destroyed This California Town's Water System. But That Didn't Slow The Effort To Rebuild
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Law enforcement: Illegal fireworks sales are fueling organized crime
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Puna standoff suspect out on bail, under indictment
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Prosecutors In Keith Kaneshiro Case Did Not Step Over The Line, Judge Rules
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Honolulu Homeowners: Property Assessments Are Coming Soon
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City Ends Contract With Private Security Company Hired To Help HPD Make Waikiki Safer
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