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Entries for February 2017

Tuesday, February 28, 2017

February 28, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:57 PM :: 5898 Views

Hawaii 2nd-Toughest State for First Time Homebuyers
DCCA Chases Bitcoin Provider out of Hawaii
Corporate Income Tax—50-State Comparison
Victory! Rail tax hike fails Senate Ways & Means committee
HB1518: Citizens Asking too Many Questions—Lets Shut them Down
Hospitals Support Housing Prescription for Homeless
Fail: Cool Schools AC in only 54 Classrooms
HPD Chief: We’ll Learn More when Federal Indictments Come Out
Honolulu Transit Ridership Drops 3.2%
Senate to vote on bill boosting TAT funds for counties
DHS Reports $51.7M in Welfare Overpayments
Libertarian author Steven Greenhut talks public employees at Maui County Club
HPD has millions of unspent dollars in rarely-used forfeiture account
Suspicious call prompts evacuation of Jewish temple and preschool
Sierra Club OK if Paid: Wind farms killing more bats and nene than expected
SB376: Repeal Big Cable
Anti-GMO Activists Celebrate 98.4% Net Loss of Biofuel
Zuckerberg officially drops Hawaii 'quiet title' actions—Except the One Involving an Actual Owner
Trump Defeating Liberals by Making them Mentally Ill
Maui: Homeless Drunk Bites off Finger

Monday, February 27, 2017

February 27, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:38 PM :: 6267 Views

Study: Wind Turbines Could Make This Endangered Bat Go Extinct
Anti-Telescope ‘Circus’ Nearly Over? – Doubtful
Hawaii Wind Turbines Not Bolted Together Correctly—One Collapses
Retired HPD Officer was Sought in ‘Felony Investigation’
$3 million sought for Housing First effort on Sister Isles
HB783: Force Businesses to Give Free Electricity to Electric Car Moochers
We Came Here for the Lifestyle—Now Change It
Ige a Traitor? Meets with National Republicans

Sunday, February 26, 2017

February 26, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:11 PM :: 9387 Views

HB1297: State-Recognized Indian Tribe for Hawaii
Hawaii Legislature Obamacare Heavy
Lassner: In Spite of Trump’s Reversal, UH Remains Committed to Putting a Tranny in Every Bathroom
DPS Report: UPW Has Been Shielding Child Molesting Prison Guards since 2003
Prisons Have Become De-Facto Lunatic Asylums
Souki’s Suicide Run: I only Have 28 Votes for Killing off Expensive Oldsters
Cool Schools: 791 Units Short of 1,000
Ala Moana TOD pushes affordable housing aside to expand tourist area
SB419: Require draft sign-up for UH Admission
Zuckerberg Shakedown: Star-Adv Wants Greenmailers to Appreciate its Reporters More
Anti-GMO Crony Capitalist: That which You call sacred is not, That which We call sacred is
‘Indivisible’ Obama Operatives Finally Corner Trump Lovin’ Gabbard

Saturday, February 25, 2017

February 25, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:27 PM :: 4081 Views

It Doesn’t Always Pay to Make More
Legislators Order Pregnancy Centers to Promote Abortion: Assisted Suicide Next
62% Hike in Minimum Wage Hike Will Hit Consumers, Small Business Hard
SB221 Money Spinner: Legislators Vote Red Light Camera Ticket Fiasco (again)
After One Year of Daily Outreach, Less Than 1% of Homeless Agree to Accept Shelter
Flaws in protective order system leave abuse victims vulnerable
Judge: Kauai police body cams don't violate union agreement—SHOPO to Appeal
SB603: DPS Too Tough on the Few Criminals we Actually Send to Prison

Friday, February 24, 2017

February 24, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:33 PM :: 5265 Views

532 Candidates for Honolulu Neighborhood Board
SB898: Anti-Gun Legislation Passes Committee
SB1137: Return Control of HMSA to its Members
Honolulu Most Unaffordable State Capital
HB462: Billion Dollar Scheme to Place Prisoners Back under Control of Corrupt, Expensive UPW-Controlled Prisons
Tuition: Packed with Administrators, UH Now More Expensive than Mainland Schools
Taxi companies accuse Uber, Lyft of not paying $20M GE Taxes
Uneducated Schatz Pushing DHHL to Build Rentals, not Leaseholds
Team Ige Superintendent Questionnaire Designed to support whatever the decision-makers have already decided
How the military impacts rent prices in Hawaii
Wind Farm Asks permission to Murder More Bats, Nene
Star-Adv: Because Trump is President We Should Screw Agriculture
Agnotology: The Study of Anti-GMO Activism
HB1518: Block ‘Vexatious’ UIPA Requests
SB7: Use Medicaid funds to house homeless
Security Guard Loses Finger in Fight with Homeless Drunk
NYT: Hawaii is #2 for Teenage Trannies
Star-Adv Gives Eric Ryan Space to Rant About Fukumoto

Thursday, February 23, 2017

February 23, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:34 PM :: 5637 Views

Why OHA Fears a Forensic Audit
DLNR Still Paying Rapist Cop—Claims HGEA President Had Nothing to do with Hiring
DLNR Introduces Birth Control for Mosquitoes
HART Ridership Projections - Fantasies, Fairytales and Alternative Facts
Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted February 23, 2017
GE Tax Hike Grabs Another $800/year from family finances
Oahu drivers could get triple taxed
PUC starts public hearings on $100M Hawaiian Electric rate hike
Some customers asked to pay thousands to connect with solar
Hawaii County Affordable Housing Rents to go up 36%
Now That Maui Memorial is to be Privatized, Legislators Act to End Multi-Million Dollar Waitlisting Scheme
Push for paid sick time rankles Hawaii eateries
To Be A Honolulu Police Commissioner, First Be A Political Insider
Honolulu Ethics Commission finds no conflicts in legal campaign support from special interests
Anti-Fishing Activists Already Trying to Deflect Blame for ‘Crippling’ Hawaii Fishing Fleet
Water Grab: Anti-Agriculture Activists Run into Opposition from Upcountry Maui

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

February 22, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:38 PM :: 5393 Views

Earn $50K? Hawaii Takes More From Your Paycheck Than Any Other State
Local business owners speak out about the minimum wage
Governor Ige’s ‘cuts’ still result in big spending increases
Underreported: How Gun Silencers Became a Health Issue

Full circle about single-payer health insurance
Kauai Dairy Farm Withdraws Final EIS
Caldwell: My Latest Appointee Helped Deliver Lots of Muslims to Europe
OHA Insiders Plan to Neuter Audit
Jury finds HGEA President’s Son guilty of sex assault
Trump Admin has no Time to Talk to Hawaii Legislators About Rail
Inter-Island Cables and Rate Hike Hearings Today
Next Big Hawaii Tax Credit Scam Will Ban Gasoline, Diesel Vehicles
DLNR Scam-- Plans to Sell Carbon Credits
50% Failure Rate: Solar Installations ‘Falling Like Dominoes’
Sen J Kalani English Accepted Junket From Turkish Opposition Group
BOE approves findings from special review of charter school panel
HB407: Health Savings Accounts for Hawaii?
Honolulu Airport Crasher was Brother of Convicted Murderer
Open Borders Activists Come Up With New Argument: Hawaii Man Should be Granted US Citizenship BECAUSE He is Convicted Meth Dealer
Peter Boy Case Solved When Competent Prosecutor Elected
DAGS Doubletalk Collapsing Ceiling at Capitol
Kalihi, Iwilei Stripped of Copper: Sit-Lie Expansion to Force Bums Westward
Anti-GMO Activists Squabble Over Celebrutard Access
Molokai Finally Runs out of Answers
Hawaii Eco Hypocrisy--Trump Will Let us be the Phonies That We Are

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

February 21, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:04 AM :: 6556 Views

Forbes: Taxes Make Hawaii One of 10 Worst States for High Earners
OHA and HART Auditor Admits Fraud, Embezzlement
HB1549: Don’t Tax Affordable Housing to pay for Affordable Housing
Airbnb tries again on Hawaii tax broker bills
Counties Won’t Stand up to NIMBYS and Legalize TVRs – But They Want TAT!
Marijuana Just Another Excuse for a Tax Hike
SB173: Marijuana Candies are ‘medicine’
Audit Finds a House Worth of Unrecorded Lumber at Hawaii County baseyard
HB1277 Add 1,200 More Unionized Public Employees
SB1298: Will Police Commission be Allowed to Hire Outsider as Chief?
Star-Adv: Time for Greenmailers to get Serious About Extorting MegaBux from Zuckerberg
Heroic Coast Guard Protects Whales from Money-Hungry Anti-Superferry Activists

Monday, February 20, 2017

February 20, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:03 PM :: 4901 Views

The Cost of Public Employment
HPD Toddler Abuse Cover-up Unraveling
Still no A/C for schools
Caldwell Imposes 100% Fare Hike on Bus Transfer Riders
Incompetent DoTax a Month Late with Tax Forms
Soft on Crime Policy Kills Another Criminal: On the outside after 35 Raps in 14 Years—Bashes Through Airport Security and Dies
Maui Program Puts Homeless to Work Sweeping Streets
Who Will be Fooled? Anti-GMO Activists Blame Trump for Pesticide Bill
HCDA Changing Affordable Housing Rules
KSBE Trustee Search Begins Again

Sunday, February 19, 2017

February 19, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:49 PM :: 4711 Views

The Need for Tax Vigilance in 2017
Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
Utopian Nonsense on the Move in the Legislature
With Sam Slom Gone, Legislators weigh more than a dozen tax proposals
A clear money grab by politicians
HB1586: Council Will refuse GE Tax Hike Even if TAT is Taken Away
27 Rail Cars to Be Ripped Apart and Rebuilt in Desperate Attempt to Salvage Them
SB591: $2B State Bonds for Housing Construction
Medically assisted death: Wariness is warranted
Star-Adv Pushes for Red Light Camera Ticket Machines
Telescope: Lawyers Make Megabucks
House Bill 1571, only attacks agriculture and will destroy farming
Will British Petroleum Junk Hawaii Windfarm or Repower Before Federal Corporate Welfare Goes Byebye?
Hawaii Residents Suffer the Most from Sleeplessness

Saturday, February 18, 2017

February 18, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:43 PM :: 4762 Views

OHA Insiders Plan to Neuter Audit
516 Candidates Register for Honolulu Neighborhood Board Elections
Hawaii pro-life centers fight abortion referral mandate
Hawaii Ranks Fourth for Millionaires
SB898: Anti-Gun Bill Scheduled for Committee Hearing Next Week
Hawaii Military Commissaries Offer 32.6% Savings—Highest in USA
Caldwell Goes on Vacation While Legislators Expected to Vote on Rail Tax Hikes
Incompetent Airport Division Wants Fee Hikes But Can’t Fix Leaky Roofs
Star-Adv: Greenmail Shakedown of Zuckerberg is a Good Idea
Diamond Head: Social Workers Chased out of Homeless Tent City By Knife Wielding Bum
Soft on Crime: 20 Priors Gets ‘Supervised Release’—Then Shockingly, He does it Again
HPD Toddler Beating Gets National News Attention
State says hotel illegally pumped storm water into ocean for more than a decade
SJWs Scream Blasphemy after Maui mayor says 'No such thing' as sacred rocks
So-Called Farmers Union Joins With Anti-Dairy Farm Activists
Hordes of Anti-Agriculture Activists to Descend on Maui Public Hearing to Take A&B Water

Friday, February 17, 2017

February 17, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:12 PM :: 4919 Views

State Procurement Office Launches Investigation into OHA Professional Services Contracts
Honolulu Neighborhood Board Elections 430 Candidates Register with One Day to Go
Hawaii Motor Vehicle Deaths Jump 27%
DOH: Dairy Farm EIS Decision Coming Feb 24
Will HSTA Report Expenses for 6,000 Lobbyists?
Caldwell to Build Affordable Housing With Same Efficiency as Rail
Blackmail: HECO Scores $61M, Free Trucks Thanks to Rail Tax Payers
First Lateral: Several Energy Bills Survive Hawaii Legislature Deadline
Target Legislators who fail to introduce bills
SB107 Minimum Wage Vehicle Focuses Debate on Tip Credit
Incompetent DoE Payroll: Two Months to get Your First Paycheck
Sheriffs Refuse to Stop Auto Burglar
Two Months of Canvassing Diamond Head – Only 6 Homeless Accept Shelter
Eager to Use Homeless for Political Agit-Prop
TVRs Account for 1/3 of Hawaii Visitor Accommodations
Greenmail: Bill aims to create and Profit from disputes over trail on Kauai
When it Comes to ‘Sanctuary Cities’ Hawaii is all talk

Friday, February 17, 2017

Letters to the Editor February, 2017
By Letters to the Editor @ 12:23 AM :: 11277 Views

Will HSTA Report Expenses for 6,000 Lobbyists?
Falls of Clyde: Ige Ignores Call from British Parliament

Thursday, February 16, 2017

February 16, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:47 PM :: 4831 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

Wednesday, February 15, 2017

February 15, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:49 PM :: 6526 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

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

February 14, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 9:17 AM :: 8225 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

Monday, February 13, 2017

February 13, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:42 PM :: 4289 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

Sunday, February 12, 2017

February 12, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:01 PM :: 7223 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

Saturday, February 11, 2017

February 11, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:10 PM :: 5057 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?

Friday, February 10, 2017

February 10, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:56 PM :: 10867 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

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