Entries for May 2026

1. Hawaii Ranks 44th for Financial Transparency
2. Can Philip Morris blame smokers for addiction? Hawaii high court weighs in  
3. Election 2026: 333 Candidates Pull Papers to Run
4. Maui fire survivors to see settlement money, but ‘not better off,’ economist says
5. $100M per Year Gravy Train Ending: Solar Industry Threatens Lawsuit
6. SB3025: State to buy out Deadbeat Medical Bills
7. Prosecutors: HPD Justified In Suicide By Cop Shooting

1. AG: Feds Investigated our Medicaid Fraud Prosecutions in April
2. Green Signs 'Corporate Personhood' Bill into Law
3. Green: "A Vision for Hawaii's Future"
4. Hawaiʻi outlook darkens amid oil surge, rising costs
5. EBT users spend only $339K at Farmers Markets
6. Lawsuit: Medicaid Fraud Prosecutor Forced Out by Connors
7. Why Lahaina will not be rebuilt by 2033
8. Mafia News: ILWU Endorses Drug Dealer’s Son for Legislature
9. Hawaii 2025 drug overdose deaths: More Meth, Less Fentanyl
10. Maui Council Races Could Reshape Power Balance

1. VP Vance: Hawaii has 'not taken Medicaid fraud seriously'
2. Point-in-Time: More Sister-Isle Homeless on Streets as Fewer Accept Shelter
3. Hawaii National Guard Closing Hilo Challenge Academy
4. Lambert: I warned HPD about Fake DUI Arrests
5. Geothermal to Provide Millions for DHHL?
6. Hawaii vs. Citizens United - The Atlantic is fooled
7. Hamada: Lawmakers saved the tax cuts with a "tax the rich" increase
8. Agribusiness Development Corp. can use eminent domain for ag under new bill
9. Emails show Patel trip included 'VIP snorkel' at Pearl Harbor memorial

1. Green Raids GEMS to Fund Condo Association Loans
2. DBEDT Releases New Report Highlighting Economic Ties with Japan
3. SB2471: Free Speech Under Fire
4. Navatek Fraudster's Hopes Lay with State Supreme Court
5. Kapaa Woman Sentenced for COVID Fraud
6. Kawakami vs Choi for Lieutenant Governor?
7. HPD chief finalist Mike Lambert: “HPD doesn’t necessarily want to be something else. The officers want to get back to where they were.”
8. SB2694: Hawaii lawmakers pave way for regular Young Brothers rate hikes
9. SB2471 Just a Semantic Trick
10. Will Hawaiʻi Consumers Benefit From HMSA-HPH Partnership?
11. Hawaii Legislature passes laws creating infrastructure finance tool
12. SB2061 could resume Hawaii's 99-year leasehold housing pilot
13. Hawaii sticks with its mail-in voting system despite Trump’s (so-called) ‘order’
14. HSTA, HGEA Bicker over $5M Apprenticeship Grant
15. Bill 34: New Flood Zone Maps Set to Immediately Increase Cost of Construction
16. Respite centers for sick, injured homeless could close after lawmakers cut funding
17. Doctor Accused Of Fertility Fraud. In Hawaiʻi, No Law Prevents It

1. Dope in Vending Machines? Complaint Alleges Honolulu Liquor Commission Does Nothing to Shut Down ‘ballsiest drug op in recent memory’
2. SB2471 Abolishes Right to Form Political Parties
3. Hawaiʻi County Issues RFP for West Hawaiʻi Cot Sleeping Program
4. City Managing Director Michael Formby Quits
5. Gay Divorce Exposes Hidden Insider Payoffs by State Homeless Housing Contractor
6. SB2471: How the Clinton White House just bamboozled Hawai‘i
7. Crash into Sea: Lawmakers back bill to speed Seaglider plans in Hawaii
8. Hawaiian Electric begins $479M Maui wildfire settlement payments
9. Five Hawaii Island early childhood education sites to close

SB2471 Abolishes Right to Form Political Parties

1. To Make Housing Affordable, don’t pave paradise to put up parking lots
2. Political Dark Money Limits Clear Hurdles in Hawaii, Montana—“that’s the whole ballgame”
3. After SB2698 Fails, Cruise Ship Green Fee in Hands of 9^th Circuit Court
4. ‘Renovation Aloha’ Again Proves Effective Real Estate Management is Illegal on Oahu
5. HB1518: Help Criminals Get Back on Welfare Quickly
6. NYT Praises Hawaii Judiciary for Letting Lots of Female Criminals Evade Prison
7. New tourism strategy to tackle Hawaii's traffic woes
8. Detained Immigrants Could Wait 19 Months For Their Day In Honolulu Court

1. 'Has The Army Made Any Actual Offers?': Tokuda Asks General About Leases In Hawaii
2. Hawaii Legislature passes first-in-nation bill targeting Citizens United ruling
3. Tax Bills: Some Look Radically Different
4. Hawaii Legislature Adjourns Sine Die, Marking Defeat of Several Anti-Gun Bills
5. Historic 2024 tax cuts rescued for majority of Hawaii residents
6. Judicial Vacancies in Maui, Kauai Counties
7. Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
8. Jones Act Waiver Makes Case for Permanent Reform
9. Legislative Session Ends with No Answer from AG on $35K Bribe
10. Will PRP Order Josh Green to Veto Anti Citizens United Bill?
11. Lawmakers 2026 tax hikes–will they come back for the rest next year?
12. Maui Council shakeup: Chair Lee won’t seek re-election to Wailuku-Waiheʻe-Waikapū seat
13. Number of Oahu youth suicides in 2026 now match statewide number for entire 2023
14. Hawaii shelters inadequate against hurricanes
15. The Politics of Monk Seal Justice: Why a Hawaiian Senator Is Backing a Beach Vigilante

1. Hawaii constitutional amendment on resilient infrastructure for shelter and equity (RISE) bonds referred to November 2026 ballot
2. $35K Bribe: AG Issues More Subpoenas
3. Grassroot celebrates defensive wins as Hawaiʻi Legislature comes to close
4. Election 2026: 316 Candidates Pull Papers to Run
5. SB903: Now That Your Taxes have been increased, Legislators Give OHA $55M
6. House Democrats Proud of Massive Tax Hike, but juvenile sex changes, not so much
7. Rhoads: SB2471 will force PRP to Change
8. Hawaii lawmakers end session after killing UH athlete payment plan
9. Methamphetamines News:  ‘Clean Energy’ is Latest Money Scheme for Lahaina Strong
10. Kauai doesn’t get much from making tourists pay for rescue expenses

1. Hawaii Housing Costs 'Stabilize' at Extremely Unaffordable Level
2. SB3001: Legislators Trying to Regulate AI
3. Feds Bust Meth Gang Centered on Puuwai Momi Housing complex
4. Feds Extend Native Hawaiian Education Funding One More Year
5. Council Grabs for Control of $41M ‘Emergency Slush Fund’
6. UH Athletics funding plan heads to final vote
7. Skyline park-n-ride full at West Oahu rail station
8. Power Has Been Out In These Oʻahu Classrooms For Months

1. Feds Investigating 562,000 Fraudulent COVID Loans
2. Despite Flooding, Waialua Robotics Team has a Winning Season
3. Legislature passes bills for automatic voter registration, DHHL, 'Corporate personhood'
4. Lambert and Two Outsiders finalists for Honolulu police chief
5. Honolulu Police Commission names 5 of 6 finalists for HPD chief
6. Third Try: State awards $63 million contract to (again try to) upgrade 55-year old financial data system
7. Automatic Annual 5% Rate Hikes for Young Brothers Among Dozens of Bills Passed at last minute
8. 3% to 6% Annual Pay Hikes for HSTA Forever
9. Plans for jail on Oahu continue to advance
10. SB2140: Carpenters Union Scam Targets nonunion contractors
11. Bissen Refusing to do anything to Prevent Future Kihei Floods
12. The Governor And The Auditor Are Fighting. That's Great
13. Military members lose Red Hill case against the federal government
14. Par Pacific: Hawaii biorefinery begins commercial operations
15. Now That taxes Have Been Raised, Isle ‘Non’-profits want More Funding so they can pay Fatter Salaries
16. Matayoshi: Playing with Fire ‘Stop Corporate Personhood’ Bill could ‘further cement’ Citizens United Decision

1. $255K Income Needed to Buy Home in Honolulu
2. Pope Names New Bishop for Hawaii
3. Young Brothers Swiped $26M in State Money (and it’s not the first time)
4. After Raising Your Taxes, $50M deposit proposed for Hawaii’s state ‘rainy day’ fund
5. After Burning COVID Money, Honolulu’s useless ‘Economic Revitalization Office’ faces defunding
6. ‘Peter Boy’ lawsuit drags on: ‘What the state did was terrible. The liability is obvious’
7. Ex-city administrator’s case in Kealoha payoff won’t be dismissed early
8. Political influence in Hawai‘i by the numbers
9. China: If Blangiardi wants Pandas, he must let us spy on INDOPACOM
10. DHHL to hold public meetings on statewide geothermal energy exploration
11. From flights to food, Hawaii residents feel the pressure of rising fuel costs
12. County launches Molokai deed restriction pilot program
13. Hawaiʻi Balks At Funding Maui Fire Victim Health Study
14. First neighbor island kauhale is changing lives on Maui

1. Hawaii 2nd-Worst State to be Police Officer
2. State Transfers $89M More GE Tax Revenues to Pay for Rail
3. Indictment: $647K Embezzled from Homeowner Associations
4. March: Tourist Count and Spending Both Down
5. After Raising Your Taxes, Conference Committee Gives $55M to OHA
6. Honolulu police chief search down to six secret candidates
7. Hawaii lawmakers head into final vote week with more than 270 bills still in play
8. ‘Sue Big Oil’ Bill Fails
9. Without Luke, What Happens to Preschool Initiative?
10. Swimming in Money after Hiking Your Taxes, Legislators Consider Giving OHA $55M for no Particular Reason
11. Cesspools: Hanalei Pushes For $19 Million Sewer System
12. Fewer AAPI Adults Report Hate Incidents -- Poll

1. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted May 1, 2026
2. The ‘New Tourism’ -- More Money Spent at Hotels and Less at Small Businesses
3. Kona Low Storm Damage: 260 Oahu homes ‘uninhabitable’
4. Soft on Crime: Juvenile Killers Released to their Mommy—do it again
5. Retaliation Games: Honolulu Forced To Rehire Fired Paramedic Supervisors Because Sleeping on Job is Legal
6. Taxpayer funding to pay state legal claims tops $20M

1. Deciphering the Budget
2. UHERO: The True Cost of Subsidizing Childcare
3. Untangling occupational licensing rules
4. Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
5. Alleged Pimps Catch Federal Case
6. Do Trump Budget Cuts Signal A New Challenge For Native Hawaiians?
7. Last-minute Conference Committee Scramble
8. “Sylvia Luke is still the lieutenant governor of this state”
9. For youth, state must act on housing affordability
10. City, State Hustle to Maximize Kona Storm Losses: Federal Taxpayers to Cover 75%

1. Mafia News: After Raising Your Taxes, Legislators Give More to Movie Moguls
2. Divided There’s Nothing We Can Do; United Nothing Can Stop Us
3. Grassroot announces legislative wrap-up tour
4. Election 2026: 302 Candidates Pull Papers to Run
5. West Maui Rep. Cochran leads House in floor no-shows — again, but not as much
6. Judge denies motion to suppress statements in Geanna Bradley murder case
7. Honolulu police officer indicted in alleged on-duty sexual assault
8. SB2471:  ‘Stop Corporate Personhood’ bill collapses in on itself
9. Hawaii Maoists Upset After Philippine Military Kills 19 Maoist Guerillas in Combat—wipes out Commander of ‘New Peoples Army’

1.  After Raising Taxes, Conference Committee Approves $20B State Budget
2. Auditor: Out-of-Control Homeless Program Puts Public Funds at 'Immediate Risk'
3. 20-5: Senate Confirms Andy Winer's Law Partner as Chief Justice
4. Onomea:  The Mystery of the Unknown Church
5. VIDEO: ​The Jones Act and the 2026 Energy Crisis
6. Team Bissen Stealing Money Immediately After Lahaina Fires
7. $120M Green Fee Slush Fund Saved as Legislators Stab Taxpayers in Back
8. Solar is Diesel: HECO Lied About Urgent Need for Maui (Diesel) Power Plants
9. State Film Commissioner Donne Dawson retires
10. FBI executes search warrant in Windward Oahu as part of ongoing investigation
11. What the Jones Act waiver extension could mean for Hawaiʻi's maritime economy