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Thursday, April 30, 2015
April 30, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:19 PM :: 4752 Views
  1. Politicians Paid so Navatek Can get $20M Play?
  2. Desperate to Push GE Tax Hike Thru, HART Pretends Property Tax Hike is Only Alternative
  3. Hazardous Waste: DHHL Sues Evicted Racetrack Operator
  4. Hawaii Republican Convention Set for May 2
  5. Rail Tax Hike Twists in Wind -- TGIF?
  6. Star-Adv: Kill $20M Pay to Play Tax Credit Bill
  7. Randy Perriera's Shortsightedness Drives Big Island Hospital to Seek Private Partnership
  8. We’re broke, they’re loaded
  9. HB1140: Cesspool Tax Credit in Conference
  10. Gay Sex Education before BoE Again
  11. Bills on Drug overdoses, closed-door meetings Approved by Legislators 
  12. On The Move in the Last Days of the Legislative Session
  13. Homelessness Began With Decision to Close Insane Asylums
  14. Turnabout: Dobelle forced to Pay University After Being Fired
  15. Looking for a Great Read? Try Auditor’s Annual Report
  16. KIUC Pushes Back Against Pushy Solar Salesmen
  17. Geothermal Developer Denies Fraud in Response to Whistleblower Lawsuit
  18. New Yorker Appointed to UH BoR
  19. After years of delays, work begins on traffic center
  20. Hawaii Nation's Lowest Rate of Workplace Deaths
  21. 'Swift & Certain': Hawaii Probation Program Goes National
  22. Who Should Pay For Poor Decisions?
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015
April 29, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:27 PM :: 5961 Views
  1. Full Text: Unanimous Conference Committee Approves Maui Hospital Partnership Bill
  2. Souki: HB1075 'Will open the doors for a vital public-private partnership'
  3. UPDATE: 81 Republicans Running for Honolulu Neighborhood Board
  4. Powdered Alcohol Prohibition Wins in Hawaii Senate
  5. Telescope: Dangerous Intersection of Social Policy and the ‘Sacred’
  6. Hawaii's Thirty Meter Telescope website still under attack periodically
  7. Agreement Reached on Hawaii’s State Budget
  8. SB 555: The Last Bill Standing to Give Low-Income People a Tax Credit
  9. Politically Connected Companies Grab for $20M Tax Credit
  10. Hawaii could save up to $100M annually if LNG replaces oil
  11. Lawmakers set goal of 100% renewable energy by 2045
  12. We need energy technology, not ideology
  13. State agency has 92 questions regarding sale of Hawaiian Electric Co. to NextEra Energy
  14. Incubator companies have $214M economic impact on Hawaii, Self-Interested HTDC study Claims
  15. Nobody Noticed, But Hawaii's Not Gonna Get Obama Library
  16. Marijuana Stores: House Wants to Dope the People Up Even More than Senate
  17. Crackpot Launches Doomed Petition to Recall Kenoi
  18. Free speech protection updates still in the works
  19. Anti-GMO Hooser Goes to Switzerland, Makes Fool of Himself
  20. Lawmakers consider options for Oahu Community Correctional Center
  21. State lawmakers tackle bill to ban sex trafficking
  22. Outrigger and IHS partner on homeless strategy
  23. Statement by So-Called 'Innocence Project' Tied to Prison Death of Murderer, Rapist?
  24. State fines two companies $40K for illegal dumping
  25. John Henry Felix Saves Hawaii Civil Air Patrol
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015
April 28, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:23 PM :: 4955 Views
  1. UPDATE: Governor, Legislators Come to 'Understanding' on Maui Hospital Partnership Bill
  2. OHA Survey: Will You Like Us if We Reverse our Support for Telescope?
  3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted April 27, 2015
  4. Hawaii Open Budget: Online Conference Committee Tracking Tool
  5. "Sex Change" Surgery: What Bruce Jenner, Diane Sawyer, and You Should Know
  6. Drunk? Reckless? How Much Will Your Car Insurance Increase?
  7. Best Cities to Start a Business? Honolulu Ranks 66th
  8. Roads in Limbo for Rail? Hawaii Senators Pitch Tax Hike Deal
  9. Details of Ige’s Maui Memorial public-private partnership measure
  10. HGEA Reworks Contract after HSTA Leaves Perriera in the Dust
  11. House Republicans Give $470 for Hawaii Defense Spending
  12. Hack attack continues on Hawaii state government websites
  13. TMT fight puts education grants in jeopardy
  14. Obama Administration Shutdown of Heald Flummoxes 100s
  15. Ka Iwi land deal nearly sunk as Bureaucrats, Eco Groups Squabble over Who Will Score Millions in Management Funding
  16. Hawaiian Electric sale to NextEra Energy should be done by end of year, CEO says
  17. Layoffs at Hu Honua Biofuel Plant
  18. Tracking truth, transparency promises at HPD
  19. Busy city ambulances temporarily closed last weekend
  20. Star-Adv: New E-Cig Rules Make it Harder to Smoke Marijuana Under 21
  21. New campaign to help sex trafficking victims in Hawaii
  22. HB864: Mandates Insurance Coverage to Provide $20K Test Tube Babies to Lesbians
  23. Colorado Welfare EBT Cards $7000 in Hawaii
  24. SB1280: Ridesharing Bill in Conference Committee
  25. HB1007 Drivers Licenses for Illegals
  26. Health Officials Concerned About Side Effects of Care Home Bill
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Monday, April 27, 2015
April 27, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:20 PM :: 4562 Views
  1. Peter Carlisle: Dropping a Dime on Ethics Scofflaws
  2. Making a Deal on Rail Without All the Answers?
  3. Contractors' Complaints could delay the system's opening, HART says
  4. HGEA reaches new tentative agreement for more than 14,000 white-collar workers, supervisors
  5. The Jones Act Pays Off — in Politics
  6. Telescope: NPR Finds a Religion it Can Look Up To
  7. State Website Hacked, Telescope Site DNS Attack
  8. There's No 'Hawaiian View' on the Thirty Meter Telescope
  9. Anti-Telescope Lies About Water Pollution Debunked
  10. Rent subsidies fall short for isle vets
  11. The Price of a Place Called Home in Hawaii
  12. Chaperones taken aback by advice
  13. Lawmakers push for ban of plastic microbeads in personal care products
  14. Star-Adv: Third Trial for Deedy 'A Travesty'
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Sunday, April 26, 2015
April 26, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:05 PM :: 4719 Views
  1. Study: Hawaii Health Connector Loses 63% of 2014 Enrollees--Worst in US
  2. Feds Block Deal to Transfer Heald Students, College Shuts Down Monday
  3. The Magical Appearing Tax
  4. Pay to Play: Extent of Rail's influence a mystery
  5. Anti-Telescope Protesters Bring Invasive Ant Species to Mountain, Weiku Bug Threatened
  6. Enough of the Islands of “No”
  7. Ige to Meet With Feds About Health Connector
  8. HMSA Profit Drive Requires MDs to Talk up Costs
  9. DoE on Common Core: Greater Failure Means Greater Success
  10. 'Residential A' Tax Hike Would Mean Higher Rents
  11. NextEra Plan: Keep Rates High for Next Four Years
  12. Electronic cigarette bill SB1030 may not have been passed constitutionally
  13. Fire chief's excellent rating surprises union president
  14. Off Duty Cop Arrests Knife-Wielding Lesbian
  15. 100 at Hawaii County Democratic Convention
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Saturday, April 25, 2015
April 25, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:33 PM :: 7428 Views
  1. Sacred? Protest Leaders Demand $50M Yearly Rent for Telescope Site
  2. Land and Power atop Mauna Kea
  3. 7% Solution Makes Hawaii Pension Debt Seem Smaller
  4. UH: $14M Plan to Save Cancer Center Accreditation
  5. Common Cause: Audit the Clinton Foundation
  6. Neighborhood Board elections now open for voting
  7. Anti-Telescope Leader Calls for killing telescope supporters -- HS Girl Targeted
  8. Hospital measure still waiting for action from Ige
  9. State Budget Negotiators ‘Still Have a Lot of Issues’
  10. $38B in capital spending (Rate Hikes) needed to reach Hawaii's original renewable energy goals
  11. Age 21 for E-Cigs?  With Tobacco Taxes Declining, Legislators Clamp Down on their Competition
  12. IHS: Homeless panhandlers 'Very Comfortable Living this Lifestyle'
  13. Hawaii Tourism Taxes 'Shambolic and Annoying'
  14. State to waste $2.9 million on water feature at Maui airport
  15. Judge rules Deedy must stand trial a third time
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Friday, April 24, 2015
April 24, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:33 PM :: 5006 Views
  1. 75 Republicans Running for Honolulu Neighborhood Board—Voting Begins Today
  2. HART GE Tax Receipts $9M Above Expectations
  3. Crabbe: OHA Wants 'percentage of gross receipts' from Telescope
  4. OHA, University to Di$cuss Telescope
  5. To Taxi or Ride-share?  Limiting Government’s Role
  6. One Simple State Tax Code Tweak to Favor Marijuana Taxpayers over Tax Evaders
  7. Auditor: No Special Fund Raids After AG Tightens Enforcement
  8. Suffering Loss of Tobacco Tax Revenues, Health Department Applauds Act 19 Restrictions on E-Cigs
  9. Contract Re-opener a $58M Giveaway to HSTA
  10. Instructional Time: Ige Signs Bill Allowing Schools to Fake it
  11. Kaiser Suddenly Interested in Maui Memorial Partnership
  12. Will Poison Pill be Slipped into Maui Memorial Partnership Bill?
  13. Telescope Case: Dangerous Expansion of Religious Rights?
  14. UH Considers Destroying Perfectly Good Telescopes to Satisfy Protesters
  15. Work on Rail Tax Hike Moves Behind Closed Doors
  16. Contractors 7 Months Behind on Rail Construction
  17. Unaccountable State spends nearly $14 million on failed DOT Accounting system
  18. House, Senate Lawmakers Debate Education Bills
  19. HGEA cancels contract ratification voting for white-collar units
  20. P-Card Holder 'may be held legally and personally responsible for Fraud'
  21. Attorney General asked to investigate lawmakers
  22. HPD investigating whether supervisor bullied detective before Suicide
  23. Hawaii Needs a ‘Marsy’s Law’ to Ensure Victims Rights
  24. SB1030 Minimum Age 21 for Cigs, E-Cigs
  25. Comcast plans to drop $45B Time Warner Cable bid, reports say
  26. Hawaii Gas chief backs bill Pretending to curb use of LNG
  27. Hawaii's top solar companies accounted for 800 jobs, $151M in revenues in 2014
  28. Battle Over Geothermal Contract Plays Out in Court and at PUC
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Thursday, April 23, 2015
April 23, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:23 PM :: 5793 Views
  1. Hawaii Congressional Delegation Dead Last in Clout
  2. HSTA Contract Reopener Showers Teachers in Cash
  3. Audit: DoE Bungles Federal Grants, Gives Teachers Excess Sick Leave, Vacation Time
  4. UPDATE: Governor, Legislators Come to 'Understanding' on Maui Hospital Partnership Bill
  5. Feds OK Pasha Acquisition of Horizon's Hawaii Business
  6. Sen Murkowski: An Effort to Look at Jones Act, Energy Exports
  7. London Times: Jones Act 'Key Bargaining Chip' in Trans-Atlantic Trade Negotiations
  8. Chinese Communist 'Confucius Institute' a Threat to Academic Freedom at UH Manoa
  9. Tiny Honolulu Rail Stations Limit Capacity of $300M per Mile System
  10. Your Electric Bill is Higher than you Think
  11. Ohana Policy Group Pushes Back Against Kindergarten Gay Sex Education
  12. Anger at Kenoi: "What the hell else is this guy Cheating?"
  13. Resign Already: Hawaii County Residents Overcome Fear of Retaliation, Speak out Against Kenoi
  14. Ashamed and Disappointed: "Mayor has intimidated you into being followers"
  15. When Will Kenoi Grow Up?
  16. Senate Galuteria Hearing Follows Model Used on Convicted Felon, Racketeer
  17. Star-Adv: Follow through on privatizing Maui hospitals
  18. Lawmakers consider $5 million infusion for Hawaii Health Connector
  19. HGEA Contracts offer 4 percent raises even as Existing Contracts Drain General Fund
  20. Protesters occupy OHA ahead of Board of Trustees meeting
  21. Thirty Meter Telescope May be Affected by Haleakala Case Before Supreme Court
  22. Adrenalin-addicted activists to the latest cause celebre
  23. Anti-GMO Wooley to be Unemployed June 30?
  24. Children's Nonprofit Terrified by Invasion of Homeless Heroin Addicts
  25. Kitesurfer Harassed by Police, Prosecutors working for Krilua NIMBYs
  26. Enviros Upset because H-Power Recycling Stifles Brainwashing Opportunity
  27. HCDA rule could cancel developer's plan for affordable rentals
  28. Rail, Eminent Domain, And Who's Going To Pay
  29. Only Two Politicians Poll Above 50%
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015
April 22, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:27 PM :: 8203 Views
  1. Governor, Legislators Come to 'Understanding' on Maui Hospital Partnership Bill
  2. 25% Tax Would Make State Senior Partner in Marijuana Business
  3. Conference Committee Begins Negotiations on State Budget
  4. Ira Einhorn, Earth Day's Dirty Secret
  5. Crichton: Environmentalism is a religion
  6. Poll: Oahu Voters Against Rail Tax Hike 55%-35%
  7. Oahu Burial Council Chair on Payroll of Kakaako Developer
  8. BOE weighs anal sex policy
  9. Money at Center of Anti-Telescope Lawsuit
  10. Regents to Discuss Telescope Deal in Hilo Sunday
  11. Hawaii County Officials Squelch First Attempt at Kenoi Recall Petition
  12. Worthless Hawaii County Council Supports Kenoi in pCard flap 
  13. Kenoi Attempts to Emerge from Hiding With Help from Cronies on Hawaii Co Council
  14. HB1286: Legislators Pass Anti-LNG Bill 
  15. Bill in Congress Will Grant Flexibility to School Boards, Principals
  16. Hawaii Legislature negotiates state’s $26B budget
  17. Hawaii Hospitals 2nd Slowest to Adopt EHR
  18. Are schools equipped to handle population boom in Kakaako?
  19. Students Raise Money for Campbell HS AC
  20. Impact on shareholders if the Hawaiian Electric merger fails to go through?
  21. Attention Protesters: Egg Farm Planned for Oahu Ag Land
  22. Lawmakers consider expanding sit-lie law to Kapalama Canal
  23. Homeless from Indiana, California need to be Forced into Shelters 
  24. Star-Adv: Bills to Provide Emergency Housing Now
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015
April 21, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:15 PM :: 4776 Views
  1. The day when America moved toward becoming a global power
  2. Honolulu: 40% of Homeless Refusing to Accept Shelter
  3. New Laws Regulate Aquarium Fishermen
  4. Governor Ige to Sign Bill Designating the Hawaiian Hoary Bat As State Land Mammal
  5. Last Chance to Vote on School Calendar
  6. House Agrees to Senate Version of Hospital Privatization Bill
  7. Star-Adv: Ige Shows Lack of Leadership on Telescope Protests
  8. Ige has gone from decider to messenger on TMT issue
  9. Money Committees to Begin Final Review of State Budget
  10. Honolulu Council Considers Massive Property Tax Hikes
  11. Special Committee Hearing to Investigate Galuteria
  12. HR158: NextEra Not Acting in Good Faith
  13. 'Lots of Employees' Depend on Failure of Hawaii Gov Tech
  14. Feds: Hawaii Fails to meet 70% of Nursing home Inspection Standards
  15. More Federal Funds to End Homelessness Among Vets
  16. Occupy Honolulu Pays off for Bumbling Lawyers
  17. Convicted Mortgage Scammer Keanu Sai Helps Foreigner Evade State Taxes
  18. Walter Ritte Associates Fail in Attempt to use Sovereignty Defense Against Charges Related to Molokai Fishing Boat Attack
  19. Christopher Deedy returns to court as judge weighs dropping remaining charges against him
  20. Hawaii lawmakers push for audit of alleged sick time abuse by prison officers
  21. DPS Waited One Month to Report work furlough escapee
  22. Family of victim shocked that suspected hit-and-run driver was released
  23. Attempts to Crack Down on ECigs Still Alive in Legislature
  24. Hawaii marijuana dispensaries could become reality this year
  25. Poll: Republicans Least Likely to be Fooled by Anti-GMO Hype
  26. Groups question state's rules for ocean permits
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Monday, April 20, 2015
April 20, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:37 PM :: 5043 Views
  1. Hawaii Noted for 'Anti-Innovation Policy Choices'
  2. Mark Takai: 100 Days of Nothingness
  3. Some States Pay Doctors More to Treat Medicaid Patients
  4. Mayor's Election Payback
  5. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted April 20, 2015
  6. NOAA: Successful conservation efforts recognized in revised ESA Humpback Whale listing
  7. Ige DLIR Nominee Involved in Post-Iniki Insurance Fraud? 
  8. Tax hike that victimizes Small Business, Professionals to expire
  9. High costs keeping isle homes crammed
  10. HMSA rule tightens control over MDs
  11. Mauna Kea Telescopes: The Business of Astronomy Is Not an Easy One
  12. Anti-Pesticide Activists Silent About 100 acres of Herbicide at Princeville 
  13. Lawsuit alleges PGV owner Ormat Industries defrauded federal government
  14. Poll: Strong Support for Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
  15. Honolulu PR Maven Needs Kenoi
  16. Land Use Shenanigans on the Windward Side
  17. Panel OKs Mizumoto, Cox and Minn for seats on state Board of Education
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Monday, April 20, 2015
Letters to the Editor, April, 2015
By Letters to the Editor @ 12:27 AM :: 4835 Views
  • Mayor's Election Payback
  • HPD Accreditation Requirements?  $80 to Find Out
  • Kenoi Must Resign
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Sunday, April 19, 2015
April 19, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:25 PM :: 4034 Views
  1. Tobacco Tax Frankenbill: Smoking It Out
  2. Hawaiians and the Law: Kelii Akina and Michael Lilly
  3. SB 555 - Increasing the Food/Excise Tax Credit
  4. Report: Illegals Pay $31M in Hawaii State Taxes
  5. OHA Trustee: Telescope Protests About 'Finances, Growth Models'
  6. Protesters: Science a European Idea which has Inundated our Society
  7. Telescope: Enrich our legacy by moving forward
  8. Rail: No Plan for Cost Controls and No Plan for Operating Expenses
  9. Legislature nears finish with big issues unresolved
  10. Star-Adv: Time for Hawaii Public Hospitals to Privitize
  11. Star Adv: Get Rid of Ethanol Mandate
  12. Bean counting, corrections and nominees await Legislature
  13. State computer system initiative: Too huge, too costly
  14. Guests at vacation rentals, B&Bs spend less on their island getaways
  15. Maui Politicians Squabble over EUTF's Lost $21M
  16. Solar Power Battle Puts Hawaii at Forefront of Worldwide Changes
  17. NextEra sues U.S. Government for $97.5 million
  18. More Positive than Negative from Police Body Cams
  19. Group appeals Kulani court ruling--Complain Prison Not Enough Like a Resort
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Saturday, April 18, 2015
April 18, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:20 PM :: 5254 Views
  1. Ige: Telescope Legally Entitled to Proceed With Construction
  2. Auditor: City Unable to Track Federal Transportation Funds
  3. Desperate to Pass Rail Tax, HART Finally Agrees to Televise One Meeting
  4. BoE to Debate Sex Education Policy
  5. DoH: Tobacco Use Down 20%, E-Cigs Up
  6. OHA Refuses to Reveal Geothermal Investments, Losses -- Like Bishop Estate
  7. Abigail Kawananakoa Funds Anti-Telescope Protests
  8. Student’s pro-TMT stance gains traction
  9. Cronies Develop Garbage Projects, Want to Risk Taxpayer Money
  10. Senate committee unanimously approves DLNR nominee Suzanne Case
  11. Senate Panel Recommends Balfour to Water Commission
  12. A case of legislative immunity in the ongoing Say saga
  13. Hawaii County Releases More P-Card Statements
  14. Hawaii County Water Board Used P-Card to Evade Sunshine Law?
  15. Kauai mayor releases pCard statements
  16. Not Fooled by Battery Scammers: KIUC, Paniolo go for Pumped Hydro
  17. SB1316: Condo Associations to be Forced to Accept Electric Car Chargers
  18. SB1050 Community-Based Solar
  19. U.S. Antitrust Lawyers Said Leaning Against Comcast Deal
  20. Patients Rank only One Hawaii Hospital '5-Star'
  21. Veterans treatment court graduates first class
  22. Soft on Crime: 10 Priors, out on Street now Faces Murder Charge
  23. 10 Maui officers wearing body cameras for department study
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Friday, April 17, 2015
April 17, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:03 PM :: 6342 Views
  1. DBEDT: Solo Commuters up 74%
  2. DoE: Students Meet 79% of 'Wellness Guidelines'
  3. Coverup: HART Hiding Damaged Rail Spans Since Last June
  4. Rail Contractor tries to Block TV Crew From Filming Giant Cracks in Rail Spans
  5. With Tax Hike, City Will Face no Consequences if Rail not Finished
  6. Maui hospital privatization could pave way for Big Island
  7. HGEA Contract Drives HHSC Hospitals Further into Red
  8. Cowardly Kenoi 'On Vacation', Withdraws Nominee, May Skip Budget presentation
  9. Aghast at Health Connector
  10. HB496: Employers Must Provide 3 Months Paid Vacation
  11. House Tries to Wiggle Out from Under Unfunded Liability Mandate
  12. Supporters of Bill Requiring Autism Coverage Say This is the Year
  13. Mauna Kea telescope in line with Hawaiian values
  14. Testimony candid and caustic at HPD accreditation forum
  15. Murder?  Kidnapping?  Soft on Crime Supreme Court Overturns Conviction on Technicality
  16. Prosecutor Became Defense Attorney After Being Fired by Kaneshiro
  17. Attorney general files DUI-related charges against Karamatsu
  18. Family Claims Ownership of State Hemp Farm
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Thursday, April 16, 2015
April 16, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:34 PM :: 6353 Views
  1. HS Senior Launches pro-Telescope Petition
  2. Stewardship by UH to protect Maunakea for future generations
  3. Final Act 221: Hoku Plant Cut Up, Pieces Auctioned off
  4. Small Business Tax Index -- Hawaii 47th
  5. HPD Accreditation Requirements?  $80 to Find Out
  6. Kauai Council Calls for ‘Home Rule’ on Marijuana Dispensaries
  7. Forbes Worst States for Taxes: Hawaii 31st
  8. Public input sought on school calendar
  9. Hawaii State Auditor Presents 2014 Annual Report
  10. HAWSCT Clarifies Joinder Of Indispensable Parties, Timely Appeals
  11. Chief Justice Appoints Dyan M. Medeiros as Oahu District Family Court Judge
  12. Anti-Telescope Protesters Opportunistic, Self-Righteous
  13. Kenoi Silent After Being Caught Double Dipping
  14. Expenses for Mayor Billy Kenoi did not come with receipts
  15. Kenoi a Dead Politician Walking
  16. Maui News: Kenoi's Sense of Entitlement 'Cannot be Tolerated in Public Official'
  17. Before Rail and GMOs, There Was the Jones Act
  18. Senators Grill Water Board Nominee, Delay Decision
  19. Legislation on the Move
  20. House Resolution Backs Electric Co-op
  21. NextEra Will Take Hawaii Where it has Taken Florida
  22. Oahu electric rates continue to decline as Oil Prices Fall
  23. DoE Solar Plan Still Lagging
  24. Enrollment drops at town public schools, prompting rumors one school will close
  25. HART says rail guideways are safe despite concrete looming above
  26. Maui PD Claims NM Officers Arrested Over Burglary
  27. Report Claims Illegals Pay $31M in Hawaii Taxes
  28. After Months of Waiting, Disabled License Applications Slowly being processed Again
  29. Study: High school smoking fell as e-cigarette use boomed
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015
April 15, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:28 PM :: 6459 Views
  1. Criminal Charges? Attorney General to Investigate Kenoi
  2. Senate Passes Rail Surcharge Extension, State to Skim $496M
  3. House Passes Nearly 150 Senate Bills on Second Crossover
  4. Senate Passes Nearly 200 Measures on Crossover
  5. Auditor: Fraud-riddled HI5 Program Ripped off by Whole Foods Market for 6 Years
  6. Feds Cite Honolulu Taco Bell Placement in $30M Fine Against Heald College
  7. Lawsuit Challenges HC&S East Maui Water Diversions
  8. Inspector General, Special Purpose Revenue Bonds, and Monolithic Monopoly: House Republicans Speak Out
  9. Hawaii Has Most Tax Brackets of Any State
  10. Carlisle: Only 2,100 Signatures needed to Impeach 'Repulsive' Kenoi
  11. I'm done talking about pCard, says arrogant mayor
  12. Senate advances bill to Raise GE Tax for rail
  13. DoT Won't Open H-1 Shoulder Lane until Legislature Done with Rail Tax Hike
  14. Second Crossover Legislation
  15. Hawaii Senate approves Maui state hospital private partnership
  16. HGEA nurses ratify new contract with 4 percent raises (still waaaay behind private sector nurses)
  17. House Passes Two Senate Bills to Save Health Connector
  18. Homeless can't stay on sidewalks
  19. As Mauna Kea Protests Grow, Some Hawaii Island Residents Worry About Jobs
  20. Hawaii County Council Rejects Ethics (Again)
  21. Oahu bag ban Kills Trees, Brings Thicker Plastic Bags
  22. Internet Billionaire Behind Solar City 
  23. Solar Contractors: We Have Installed Hundreds More Fraudulent Solar Systems
  24. Kauai Soft on Crime Judge Lets Two Attempted Murderers off probation early
  25. Vacation Rentals: Come Back in 30 Years and We'll Talk
  26. Maui OPEB Audit Disputed
  27. State tax refunds delayed 10-14 Weeks by new fraud prevention procedures
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015
April 14, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:45 PM :: 4432 Views
  1. Stop the Rail GET Surcharge Extension Bills
  2. Let Your Voice Be Heard for Maui Hospital!
  3. Momentum for Jones Act Reform Reaches Faraway Shores
  4. Incense and Candles Can Pollute
  5. Rise Up People: Redefining What It Means
  6. HSTA Contract Reopener Comes down to wire: Study Terms Teachers' Pay 'Robust, Very Competitive'
  7. OHA Trustee: Pay Us Rent and Telescope will become 'Extension of Spirituality'
  8. Who Needs Telescopes? Hawaii Can Always Rely on Tourism
  9. Mauna Kea Is a Special Place in Humanity’s Quest for Knowledge
  10. TMT tries to counter misinformation
  11. Senate to vote on Maui state hospital private partnership Tuesday
  12. Hawaii Health Connector's future is in the governor’s hands
  13. State Hospital had most patients ever last month
  14. Water Commission: Enviros Hammer Nominee for Refusing to Support Federal Water Grab
  15. DLNR Rules Linger in Governor’s Office
  16. Not Red Hot: Hawaii carpenters union advocacy group reports fewer workers
  17. HB496 Sick Leave Bill to be voted by Senate
  18. NextEra: An Evening With the Illusionist
  19. NextEra spreads around money
  20. HCDA to Pave Endangered Species, Install Solar Farm
  21. Homeless Camp Generates 37 Tons of Trash
  22. Career criminals bail out of jail, even after allegedly assaulting cops
  23. Former New Mexico police chief sues Maui Police
  24. Star-Adv: Drunk Cops Shouldn't be Armed
  25. Nobody Wants Gary Hooser so he is running for Council Again
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Monday, April 13, 2015
April 13, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:31 PM :: 5709 Views
  1. Insider Deals: OHA, Kanaiolowalu Procurement Code Violations
  2. Fences and Eradication: Petition Calls for Rejection of Suzanne Case
  3. My Father Was Gay: Why I Oppose Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage
  4. Inside look at Monsanto’s Hawaii farm nursery
  5. Secret Subcontractors: What Honolulu Rail Officials Aren’t Telling You
  6. OHA Illegally Refuses to Reveal Geothermal Investments, Losses 
  7. Energy cooperative ready to take root on Hawaii island
  8. Anti-Telescope Hysteria Still Spreading
  9. NextEra: People won't want rooftop solar
  10. Suzanne Case: Ige's Wily Ways
  11. Unlike Mayor, Hawaii County Council controls pCard use
  12. Arakawa: Hawaii County Also Withheld OPEB
  13. SB64 preschool opportunities for at-risk children
  14. Waikiki Homeless: 18 Contempt Warrants, Passing Around Vodka and Fighting
  15. Tighten rules that let prisoners on work furlough
  16. Advocates want Hawaii to ban sex trafficking
  17. Top firefighters sue Hawaii county claiming alleges wage inequities
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Sunday, April 12, 2015
April 12, 2015 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:41 PM :: 5457 Views
  1. OHA seeks TMT moratorium to "address unresolved legal matters"
  2. Alii Place: Where Will the $90M Come From?
  3. PBS Video: Gridlocked by the power grid: Hawaii's Solar Industry
  4. Rail Tax: If You Don't Ask You Don't Get
  5. HB459: The Science and Politics of Casual Sex
  6. Star-Adv: It's time for Mayor Kenoi to resign
  7. Spending scandal threatens to end Kenoi's career
  8. Sen Josh Green takes heat from psychologists, retirees on potential conflicts of interest
  9. Thirty Meter Telescope construction delayed to April 20
  10. Shapiro: Ige Turns it Around with Case Nomination
  11. Kidnap--Inmates Given 'Work Furlough' to Look for a Job
  12. Union Planning to Represent Marijuana Workers Criticizes Dispensary Legislation
  13. Marijuana Bills Will be Rewritten in Conference
  14. Waimanalo family claims UH hemp study land belongs to them
  15. Airport sees dramatic decline in number of homeless people
  16. Creating a Hawaii electric co-op
  17. Schatz: I have no 'Head Space' for Reflecting, but I Talk Story with Biden
  18. Kona Church Marks 195 Years
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