Entries for July 2025

1. Rule by Decree: Is Hawaii's Democracy Broken?
2. NBC News: Josh Green Running for President?
3. New Software: DPP Promises 'Reduced Service'
4. Case, Keohokalole announce plans to run for 1st Congressional District
5. Cost of decarbonization still unknown, says HDOT
6. Traffic gridlock leads city to pretend to reconsider evacuation advice
7. Tsunami Gridlock: Hawaii Officials Have Learned Nothing in 40 Years
8. USS Carl Vinson ties up at Pearl Harbor while Tsunami Approaches

1. VIDEO: Tsunami Draws Water Down 15 feet in Kahului Harbor
2. Tsunami of Traffic: How One Gas Station Line Jammed up All of Kapolei
3. UPDATE: DoT Extends Public Comment Period on Teenagers' Climate Plan
4. Tsunami Proves Complete Streets are a Complete Failure
5. Hawaii judge dismisses wrongful death lawsuit in Myeni shooting
6. With Logan Gone, HPD Starts Sending Police to Waianae Coast
7. After Felony Convictions, Affordable Housing Scammers Stripped of Law Licenses
8. Kunia Farm Lots: High Cost of Housing Forces Families into 854 Acres of Illegal off-grid Dwellings
9. Hawaii AI Robot Lawyers Still Charge $300/hour

1. Corruption Lawsuit: Another Hawaiian ‘8a’ Defense Contractor in Court
2. FBI Director Kash Patel visits Honolulu field office
3. Spain Offers €400M to Bring TMT to Canary Islands
4. Honolulu Lawsuit on the Cutting Edge of Climate Hysteria
5. Growing Feud Between Public Utilities Commission and Solar Industry
6. Kīlauea community to look at site layouts in next town expansion project meeting
7. Manhattan NFL shooter identified as Shane Tamura, has Hawaii connection
8. Almost 7 vehicles stolen daily on Oahu, church becomes latest victim

1. $40M Rate Hike for Hawaii American Water
2. How 'Big Beautiful Bill' Affects UH Student Loans and Research Grants
3. Trump Forcing UH to Dump Useless Programs?
4. New Hawaii Fees Starting in 2026
5. Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting dumps 27-year-old computer system
6. Maui Food Bank Raises $77M After Lahaina Fire
7. Hawaiʻi’s Clean Energy Future Can’t Ignore LNG

1. Affordable: Green Signs 'Shot Clock', other pro-development bills
2. Baked to order: New cottage food rules
3. Pay for No Work
4. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted July 25, 2025
5. Trump: “Tulsi’s the hottest person in the room”
6. Police: State AG has Kamehameha Schools theft case
7. Hawaii’s Pathetic State Judiciary: Baby Killer out on work release after 13 years
8. We're Being Watched And We Don't Care
9. Displaced Lahaina fire survivors eager to rebuild with help from $1.6 billion federal grant  
10. So far, looks like Green light for gov reelection
11. Formby: How The Mayor Would Appoint New Police Chief
12. Mufi: HTA’s Greatest Achievement was Getting Funding from Legislature
13. Predictably, Hundreds oppose Haleiwa housing project
14. Here’s How The Legislature Is Slow-Walking move to Full-Time

1. Chiefess Kapiolani: The greatest student of Batimea Pua’aiki (Blind Bartimeus)
2. SHOPO leader to Quit: Retires hours after eligible, citing lack of incentives, burnout
3. Hawaii’s homeless encampment crackdown in line with President Trump’s executive order
4. Publisher sues Hawai‘i prisons for censorship

1. Energy companies seek dismissal in Hawaii climate lawfare case
2. Trump Executive Order: Clear Homeless Drug Addicts from Streets and Put them in Treatment Centers
3. Schatz: National Housing Shortage Is A Problem The Government Has Created; We Can Fix It
4. How to Apply for Honolulu Property Tax Credit
5. First Read: Maui council committee approves bill to phase out vacation rentals -- ‘with reservations’
6. Meth, Tats, and Murder: Gang Controls Guards at OCCC
7. Media executives, police chief spar over access to scanners
8. Hawaiʻi crisis: State ranks highest for unsheltered, homeless youth
9. Alarming increase in Honolulu police shootings
10. Kauaʻi Narrows Candidate Field For New Police Chief
11. Hawaiʻi ranks as 7th most dangerous US state for motorcycle riders
12. Crucial Insurance Deadline Looms In Two Weeks For Maui Fire Victims
13. Lawsuit Claims Housing Authority Broke Promises To Displaced Tenants

1. Hawaii Attorney General Releases Annual Firearm Statistics
2. Each Iron Worker pays George Paris $811 per year
3. Maui's Bill 9 close to getting a vote
4. City wages climate lawfare against Big Oil at cost of residents
5. Decarbonization proposal raises eyebrows at Council meeting
6. Proposed Ala Wai Watershed District raises concerns
7. Lawsuit alleges sex assault, climate of fear at Youth Challenge Academy
8. Working group set to meet to discuss bringing nuclear energy to Hawaii

1. DoE Ready to Resume Most School Bus Routes
2. $350M Aloha Stadium Funding Illegally Extended
3. Army secretary aims to move quickly on leasing training land in Hawaii
4. Lahaina ‘historic guidelines’ to produce ‘stop work’ orders against fire victims
5. Trump’s school voucher law raises questions in Hawaii
6. Affordable Housing Scam: Convicted Felons Still Practicing Law
7. IDG/Waika Lobbying Presentation Full of Outdated Info
8. Maui fires class-action settlement to be disbursed
9. Council Chair sends out Maui County-wide mailer on Bill 9
10. Private initiative propels effort to bring new fire station to West Maui
11. Bill would restore some media access to HPD radio communications
12. Surfing the Nations brings business and redemption to Wahiawā
13. Mark Zuckerberg’s expansive Kauai compound means money

1. Teenagers’ Climate Plan to be 'Handed Down' from Above? House Leaders Call for Extended Public Testimony
2. Hawaii's Only Oil Refinery Inks $100M 'Renewable' Fuels Deal
3. Search is on for a new KSBE Trustee
4. DoH: COVID Activity on the Increase in Hawaii
5. Election Conspiracy Nuts Finally Get a Report on the Elections Commission Agenda
6. Drastic changes could be coming to Hawaii's cruise industry
7. The Insane Keep Dying in Jail Because We Closed the Insane Asylums
8. Felon Gets (another) Federal Case
9. Police leaders under pressure to allow media scanner access
10. Hawai‘i Supreme Court rules on 7 years of "BS"
11. Pandering Relentlessly, Hawai‘i County Council to discuss resolution asking military to end bombing at Pōhakuloa Training Area

1. Sovereignty Activists team up with Chinese Communist Front Group
2. TWO YEARS LATER: Lahaina Emergency Housing Village finally nears completion
3. Audit Finds State Has Fallen Short On Driver Ed Programs
4. Ala Wai Watershed Improvement District has new trick—Hide the Tax Hike

1. Hawaii climate policy going overboard on cruise ships
2. Nonprofit Blankety Blank
3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted July 18, 2025
4. Green: ‘We’re totally fine’ –Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ ‘doesn’t hurt us right now’
5. Case Only Votes with Hard Left 92% of the Time
6. Lee Cataluna: Survival Sex In Lahaina? Says Who?
7. Honolulu Charter Commission Begins Hearings
8. No Confidence: We Need To Force Legislative Leaders To Clean Up Their Own Houses
9. Maui enforcing overgrowth rules, warning violators of potential fines, jail time
10. Two Miske associates to appeal their sentences

1. So Many Pools, So Little Truth: Inside Maui’s Water Crisis Theater
2. Fraud and Misrepresentation: IDG Geothermal Schemers Get Cold Reception from Hawaii County Council
3. Maui lawmakers give green light to food trucks and kitchenettes
4. Green Issues Emergency Proclamation for Wildfire Season
5. Student Jones Act Essay Contest
6. Maui County Clears Out Homeless Meth Addicts (again)
7. Need $600K? Maui County Launches New Federally Funded Fire Recovery Program 
8. Hawaiʻi State Workers Must Answer for Taking Girl from Her Mother
9. Trial run for rail’s airport extension delayed, HART says
10. Another Phony ‘Water Scarcity’ Story
11. Native Hawaiian family moves into first DHHL home on Maui in 17 years
12. Hawai‘i County Police Commission appoints Reed Mahuna as interim chief – activists seek leverage against ICE
13. Hawaii's speed calming device data shows it works
14. Trump cuts not enough to wipe out Hawaii Public Broadcasting

1. Two Indicted for Fraudulent FEMA Claims for Lahaina Fire
2. Transportation barriers impacting Hawaiʻi rural health care
3. Trump Admin Takes Back $30M that Hawaii Never Got Around to Spending
4. Maui: Usual Grifters Grabbing for Control of Water
5. Kauai Council Begins Process of Destroying Oceanfront Properties
6. SB15 signed into law to ease affordable housing crisis
7. 'A huge win,' Larger police presence heading to West Oahu
8. Filipino teachers arrive in time for school
9. 15 Years Later, Kauai Foreclosure Case Still Bumbles thru Courts
10. Independent audit into kauhale deals needed
11. Amala Place Sweep Pushes 23 Bums into Shelter

1. Insurance Companies Dumping Single-Wall Homes
2. Scott Saiki Appointed Insurance Commissioner
3. NIMBY: ‘Overhyped, overused, inaccurate, simplistic and selfish’
4. Hawaii Gov. Green 63% Approval Rating
5. Case Fundraising Is Going Just Fine
6. HIDoT Plan: Eliminate all Hawaii Cruise Ship Travel by 2040
7. Mountain West leader: Permanent stadium part of Hawaii’s membership deal
8. How Amazon and Maui pineapples could help diversify Hawaii’s economy
9. Mauna Loa Observatory – Lynchpin of Global Warming Hysteria --Is One NOAA Site That Could Close Because of Budget Cuts
10. SpaceX Rocket Splashdown Site Approved near Necker Island—Enviros want you to freak out

1. House Committee Approves East-West Center Funding
2. After Latest Fire at Sea, Matson Begins Refusing Shipment of Electric Cars
3. Ousted HPD Chief Logan demands $460K – sound familiar?
4. State land board shuts down Maui water rights petition
5. Cause of Maili wildland fire classified as undetermined
6. Correcting Lahaina Fire Road Deathtrap Could Take Seven More Years
7. Honolulu DPP to launch new permitting software (This time they will really reduce the backlog.  Really.)
8. Hu Honua Federal Lawsuit Temporarily Put on Hold
9. What If HOAs, Not Government, Enforced Wildfire Prevention Rules?
10. ICE Is Moving Immigrants Arrested On The Mainland To Honolulu

1. Hawaii gang enforcer gets 30 years, ending landmark case
2. State Job Growth? 'Health Care and Food Services'
3. HDoT Awards Contract for Removal of 'Falls of Clyde'
4. Honolulu Rewards City Employee for Alleged Stealing – Five Years Paid Vacation
5. Ousted Kahuku head football coach sues DOE, former team captain, and player’s father
6. Hawaii Pushes Back on Anti-Tourism Sentiments in New Maui Campaign
7. Man charged in meth money-laundering scheme
8. Developer Loses Court Fight To Build Luxury Homes On 'Anthrax Graveyard'
9. Kahala oceanfront condos face looming deadline
10. TheBus considering pushing West Oahu riders to use Skyline to get to town
11. Two ex-HPD officers indemnified in wrongful death suit
12. This Common Precursor To Murder Is Too Rarely Prosecuted On Maui
13. Investigator: Vocal Red Hill Whistleblower Faced Pushback For Speaking Out
14. Staff shortage hinders Navy program in Hawaii tasked with cleanup of contaminated sites

1. LGBTQ Commission Pushing Green to Sign Executive Order Making Hawaii Sex-Change Kidnapping Sanctuary
2. Discovery of unknown publications by Batimea Pua’aiki (Blind Bartimeus of Hawaii)
3. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted July 11, 2025
4. Keohokalole, Tokuda Whine About Difficulties of Being in Congress
5. State Sued for Playing Fast and Loose With Special Funds  
6. New ownership unlikely to quench conflict over Maui water
7. HPD: Number of illegal game rooms down in 2025
8. ʻEwa Developer Settles Marina Case For $40 Million

1. SNAP Cliffs Are Coming
2. Permitting progress prevails
3. Judicial Nominees Sought for Oahu, Maui, Big Island
4. FBI Interfered in Legislature and ‘Let’ A Dirty Lawmaker Get Reelected  
5. Who Framed Chief Pellitier? – no answers yet
6. What’s Next for “Hammah”? Lance Bermudez, key Miske associate, to be sentenced
7. Green: No Special Session Needed to Deal with Trump Cuts
8. ‘Green fee’ questions needs answers
9. Federal Solar Subsidies Coming to an End
10. Hu Honua Pushing Power Deal Before ‘Clean’ Energy Subsidies Expire
11. Shapiro: Let Hawaii voters have real choices—Knock Republicans off General Election Ballot
12. Homeless Meth Addicts on Amala Place must leave by next week, Maui County says (again)

1. HTA Board Positions Open
2. VIDEO: HFD Chief Hao on the Māʻili wildfire
3. 42 More Homeless Beds Available in Iwilei
4. SHOPO Bags Three Chiefs—Swing and a miss on Maui
5. Hawai‘i County Police Commission to discuss appointment of interim chief at next meeting
6. Could this Hawaii community be the next Lahaina? Some residents fear a similar wildfire fate
7. To Clear Out Zombies, City Council considers ‘Downtown Honolulu Business Improvement District’
8. Maui Council advances bills for agricultural tourism and food trucks in ag districts
9. Hawaii homeowners face hurricane insurance challenges
10. Honolulu regulators decide not to issue any violations for railing collapse at Moana Surfrider
11. Jury selection to begin in civil trial over fatal police shooting in Nuuanu
12. Hawaii wannabe Trumpshooter Ryan Routh offers himself for prisoner swap with US adversaries in letter shared by judge

1. Chinese Naval Vessel Spotted Off Hawaiian Coast
2. Green Signed 313 Bills Into law
3. Prosecutors Win on Appeal -- Maui Hate Criminals to get more time in prison after beating white man with a shovel
4. Lahaina Strong Helping Trump Abolish FEMA--Administration Pretends to Take Mrs Kaniela Ing’s Sex-for-Food Stories Seriously
5. Moszkowicz Forced out as Big Island Chief (now he can try for HPD Chief)
6. Blangiardi Blindsided by Rade Vanic’s Interest in Top Job
7. Lawmakers' Plan To Give $50M To Nonprofits May Be Unconstitutional
8. Solar Scammers Gather on Maui for More Self-Serving Rhetoric

1. Auditor Dings Hawaii ERS Annual Comprehensive Financial Report
2. Green Signs SB933, HB420, HB431
3. Katherine Kealoha’s Dope Dealing Brother Schemes to Get out of Prison
4. Deed Restrictions to Create Locals-Only Housing Market?
5. Maui Fires Settlement: Kamehameha Schools Poised To Pay $872 Million
6. Maui County Slow to Correct Fire Death-Trap Lahaina Roadways
7. Lawsuit to Challenge $50M Legislative Slush Fund?
8. Burden For Preventing Drownings In Hawaiʻi Falls On Counties — And Residents
9. Downtown property owners willing to pay for sanitation, safety improvements
10. Nanakuli residents want more access to emergency road
11. Trump De-Funds One Tiny Piece of UH Manoa Global Warming Hysteria Generation System
12. Global Warmers Claim Waikiki Stormwater Drainage System Will Fail
13. Military watching Chinese naval ship near Hawaii
14. Usual suspects gin up ICE Controversy
15. Controversial CEO of Domestic Violence Action Center Steps Down

1. Green Signs $4B Lahaina Settlement Bill
2. SB933CD1: Shell Bill Gives Legislators $50M to Dole out to their Friends
3. Maui County Sewer Rates Jump 9%
4. Paid in full. Trust? Still pending.
5. Carpenters Union Announces Plan to Harass Non-Union Contractors
6. Good Jobs Hawaiʻi participants see significant wage gains, UHERO finds
7. Firearm Permits Subject of Hawaii County PD Hearing
8. Maui Bill 76: Restore Farmers' Food Truck Rights
9. Green Signs SB1231 Giving Gays More Opportunity to Get Children
10. ‘Wheeling’ Means UH Will Clutter West Oahu Ag land With Solar Farms
11. Will Solar Incentives Impact Non-Participants?
12. ‘Affordable’ Housing $2,500 / Month
13. ‘Affordable’ Housing $556K per unit

1. 79.1% of Homeowners in Hawaii Will Face a Hidden Home Equity Tax If They Sell
2. Green Signs Condo Insurance Stabilization Law
3. OHA-Connected DTL Selected to Handle Iwilei Master Planning
4. Feds seek forfeiture of luxury Kahala home tied to fraud conviction of former defense contractor
5. HELCO will File New Hu Honua Power Purchase Agreement
6. 94-year-old woman, critically injured in Maili wildfire, dies
7. Island of Retaliation: Kauaʻi Police Chief Job Posting Gets 42 Applicants
8. DMV promises end to registration delays in 'next few weeks'
9. ICE agents stationed at Marine Corps Base Hawaii
10. Green Signs Electric ‘Wheeling’ Law
11. The 25 best high schools for athletes in Hawaii

1. Hawaii’s Police Corruption Scandal: Cash Flow to Crooks Continues
2. July 7, 1935: Moscow orders first Communists to Hawaii
3. Building New Schools
4. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted July 3, 2025
5. Only 48% of Hawaiʻi HS Seniors Apply for College Financial Aid –Sharply Down After COVID
6. Maui County Gears Up For Legal Challenges From Former Employees
7. Happy News: With No Federal Halfway House in Hawaiʻi, Inmates Remain Far From Home
8. Maili wildfire –Many did not receive Evacuation Notice
9. Waianae lunch turns into fast exit as diners flee from Maili wildfire

1. Green signs bills aimed at alleviating Hawaii’s housing shortage
2. Blue State Blues: One-Party Control? In Hawaiʻi It’s More Like No-Party Control
3. What Did Green Veto?
4. Police chief to face commission on Thursday
5. With old ‘leaders’ ousted, Hawai‘i Tourism Authority finally resolves late invoices, interest payments
6. Third Parties Petitioning for Hawaii Ballot Access
7. Air Force suspends SpaceX project on Pacific atoll

1. Testimony: Bill 9 Debunked by Former AG David Louie
2. Over 400 building permits have been issued for Lahaina rebuilds so far
3. Honolulu rail project streamlines stations and tactics to save money
4. ACLU Very Excited to Learn Honolulu’s Federal Detention Center to house ICE detainees

1. The Verified Complaint In Equity: The Declaration Of Independence
2. The 1840 Hawaiian Constitution and the Fourth of July
3. Green Finalizes Veto Decisions
4. Green: 'Big Beautiful Bill' Cuts MedQuest and EBT Cards
5. Hawaii prison guard gets eight years for sexually abusing inmates
6. Homeowners Association Harasses Foster Family
7. DPP to Launch New On-Line Permitting System
8. Shakedown: How Can Hawaii insiders get money out of US military training lease renewal talks?
9. New law cuts retirement benefits for judges
10. City ‘struggling to keep up’ with car registration backlog, impacting thousands on Oahu
11. Former Oahu prison guard sentenced to 8 years in prison for sexually abusing inmates 
12. Retired MFD battalion chief reindicted for sexually assaulting minor
13. Police not helping with immigration arrests –but ACLU Still Trying to Turn ‘No’ into ‘Yes’

Homeowners Association Harasses Foster Family

1. In Chile, where science is appreciated, UH Telescope discovers visitor from outside solar system
2. Maui Council panel recesses secret vacation rental deliberations until July 23
3. Leadership overhaul continues at the Hawaii Tourism Authority
4. Hawaii solar companies say Trump’s proposed tax credit cut is a blow to business
5. Big Island soda theft case highlights mental health treatment gaps
6. Crime On Oʻahu Is Down Except In One Category — Murder

1. Lawsuit Settlement will Impose ‘Big Expense’ on Your ‘fuel, groceries, and airfare’
2. Red Hill: BWS Sues Navy for $1.2B
3. Hawai‘i’s state road usage charge begins for electric vehicles on July 1
4. After Much Gnashing of Teeth, OHA Trustees Approve Amended Budget
5. The Only Real Strategy for Tourism is to Make it Cost More
6. After threatening $2.19M fine, DOH admits East Hawaii Urgent Care clinics have resolved paperwork issue
7. Green Line-Item Vetoes $90M in Bogus DoE ‘Maintenance’
8. How Oahu Lawsuit Settlement Neuters Law Against Vacation Rentals
9. 86 drown on the North Shore of Oʻahu in Decade
10. Maui Council advances Honuaʻula project amendments with a slim 5-4 vote in marathon session
11. Lahaina Is Rising Slowly
12. Girl Scouts of Hawaii's new plan to put a troop at every public elementary school in the state
13. Maui Police arrest new MPD employee for sex assault allegations
14. Hawaii Governor Signs Medical Marijuana Expansion Bill, After Calling One Of Its Provisions 'A Grave Violation Of Privacy'

1. Obscure federal laws could preserve birthright citizenship in Alaska, Hawaii, and Territories
2. Lawsuit Challenges “Dam Special Fund” Used to Undermine Constitutional Expenditure Controls
3. Aloha Stadium FAIL: NASED Lists Latest Excuses
4. May Tourist Count up 1%
5. Puna Meth Lab Busted
6. HECO Preps Power Safety Shutoff System for Dry Season
7. Green Signs State Budget
8. Visitors Donated Millions To Maui. Where Did It Go?
9. Senate GOP scrambles to save Alaska/Hawaii SNAP carveout
10. More Than $100 Million Cut From Hawaiʻi State Budget
11. ‘Dehumanizing Chaos’: OHA budget pits CEO against Chair of the Board
12. Immigration: Ed Case Thinks for Himself
13. Prosecutors want ex-prison guard to serve 7 years