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Entries for August 2026
| Sunday, August 23, 2026 |
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August 23, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 11:43 AM :: 150 Views
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- Does FDA Approval Mean End to Anti-Sunscreen Hysteria?
- When do Judges Have Free Speech?
- It’s time to fix how Hawaii rebuilds
- SD18 Dems Find only one candidate Crooked Enough to Endorse
- Will USPS deliver mail-in ballots in Hawaii?
- Tax credit program could aid students – if Green Allows it
- Hurricane ‘Infrastructure’ Rebuild--Opportunity to Snatch Green Fee Slush Fund Away from Eco Activists
- Maui County pretends to ‘mull’ pricey desalination plans as part of scam to take ag water from Mahi Pono and use it for tourism
- FEMA to donate Kīlohana modular units to Maui County; plans call for permanent housing
- State warns of potential flooding near Wahiawa Dam
- 6 In 10 Lost Power During Lala. It May Take A State Inquiry To Learn Why
- David Ige’s victory over incumbent governor Neil Abercrombie in the 2014 primary was the biggest insurgency in Hawaiʻi’s history
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| Saturday, August 22, 2026 |
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August 22, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 10:23 AM :: 399 Views
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- The Federal Tax Credit for Scholarships: Money for Hawaii DoE--if they Accept it
- Honolulu Liquor Commission selects its next Administrator
- Got $88B? Hawaii Continues to Waste Money on High Profile Projects While Ignoring Basic Maintenance
- New Maui Middle School will cost $210M (and counting)
- HIEMA to request federal disaster declaration after Lala
- Kauaʻi County takes step to harden homes against wildfires
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| Friday, August 21, 2026 |
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August 21, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:51 AM :: 435 Views
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| Thursday, August 20, 2026 |
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August 20, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 10:18 AM :: 905 Views
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- Invest-90E--Another-Storm-Coming to Hawaii?
- Environmentalists sue to halt American Samoa deep-sea mining sale
- US Flag Cargo Ship Abandoned in West Pacific, Taking on Water
- WSJ—Hawaii Tourism is Dying: “the state shouldn’t try to predict which industries or businesses will succeed”
- From a Wall Map to a Weather Model -- Why Oʻahu's Grid Got So Complicated
- There are no real rules for development: Everything is a game (that’s why new housing costs so much)
- Lala Hurricane victims 93-year-old May Doi and retired physicist John Hylas found by neighbors in pastures
- ‘Nobody taking responsibility’: Oahu residents say some Lala storm damage was preventable
- Lack of investment in infrastructure taking a toll
- “$900 per 15 minutes”: Hawaii House panel considers more regulation of towing industry run by former Chop-shop theives
- Ban Taxpayer-Funded Mailers within 60 days of Elections, Ethics Chief Says
- Snouts at Trough: Green Fee application deadline extended following Hurricane Lala
- Almost Half Of Hawaiʻi Schools Have Unreliable Fire Alarms
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| Wednesday, August 19, 2026 |
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August 19, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 12:06 PM :: 817 Views
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- Indictment: Hawaii Targeted by Iranian Hackers
- Crooked Kidney Foundation Bought COVID Van from Jim Ireland for $148K
- Hawaiʻi Freshmen Failing: Ninth Grade Repeater Rate Among Nation's Highest
- East Honolulu voters file Supreme Court election challenge supporting Tommy Waters
- Another Tropical Storm Heading to Hawaii?
- Man found dead in Big Island pasture believed to be second Hurricane Lala fatality
- Honolulu police-involved accident hospitalizes pedestrian
- DoE Retaliation Games: Principal Harano must be reinstated
- America suspended the Jones Act. Americans were the winners.
- Second Maui Immigrant Pleads Not Guilty To Illegal Voting
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| Tuesday, August 18, 2026 |
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August 18, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:07 AM :: 816 Views
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- City waives permit fees, streamlines emergency repairs following Tropical Storm Lala
- FBI Records Raise New Questions About Murder-For-Hire Plot
- Mudflow Cashflow: State, federal funding sought for Lala recovery
- Honolulu Bill 53: Fine, Jail Meth Addicts Over Stolen Shopping Carts
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| Monday, August 17, 2026 |
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August 17, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:41 AM :: 989 Views
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- Pro-North Korea Activists Rally with Malama Makua within Makua Valley Military Reservation
- Ozawa gaming takes advantage of timeline
- PAC Spending Backs 73% of Winners in Primary
- Lala tests Hawaii's fragmented insurance market as flood and mudslide claims mount
- Nawahine climate change plaintiff flew in from Australia
- Hurricane Lala cuts off communities, closes schools
- TN woman files federal lawsuit to swim with dolphins in Hawaii
- Hawaii facing a critical shortage of primary care physicians
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| Sunday, August 16, 2026 |
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August 16, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:20 AM :: 1329 Views
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- Hurricane Lala: 1 dead, 19 homes lose roofs
- Primary Election Tie Votes: Drawing Gives Win to Medeiros, McDermott
- Will sky-high Skyline costs ever stop climbing?
- BLNR to Transfer 300 ac to DHHL
- Clean Energy Schizophrenia
- Hawaii ‘democratic’ socialist movement (again) fails to gain traction
- Waters mucked up the process by incorrectly filing motions before the case was pushed to the state Supreme Court
- Lawyers Grab for Larger Cut of Maui wildfire settlement -- payments delayed again
- Big Island: Lala and Pele Compete
- Sea Level Rise: “Yes, everything we've been telling you has been proven to be lies but keep on believing us anyway.”
- Low Quality Electricity: Intermittent Solar Behind Flickering Lights
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| Saturday, August 15, 2026 |
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August 15, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:46 AM :: 1168 Views
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| Friday, August 14, 2026 |
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August 14, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 9:27 AM :: 1487 Views
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- SD19 Corruption: Senator Lamosao tied to Cullen, Yamane
- Maui Council seeks volunteers for Boards and Commissions
- Navy Returning 44 Acres on Oahu, Molokai
- Storm Prep: DLNR Clears Streambeds in Manoa, Waiawa
- Hawaii Joins Suit in Effort to Protect Illegal Alien Truck Drivers
- Judicial Slow-Walk Stops: Supreme Court to Hear Waters-Ozawa Case Aug 25
- Soft on Crime: 15-time Loser arrested in Ala Moana murder just got probation for stabbing security guard
- Civil Beat Runs Fluff-Piece on new Honolulu Police Chief
- In A Hidden Hawaiʻi Gulch, A Wartime Secret Opens To The Public
- Vape: Will New Limits Make Kids Quit?
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| Thursday, August 13, 2026 |
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August 2026 Letters to the Editor
By Letters to the Editor @ 9:10 AM :: 4363 Views
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- SD19 Corruption: Senator Lamosao tied to Cullen, Yamane
- Building Permits: Maui County doesn’t seem to want to solve the problem
- Maui: Congressional Candidate Should Have Used a Hammer
- Are we ready to really address aging in Hawaii?
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| Thursday, August 13, 2026 |
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August 13, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:51 AM :: 1503 Views
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- Hawaii can’t kick oil habit as it sues over climate change
- Maui Hysteria Machine: Activists Post Phony BLNR Agenda
- Honolulu City Council confirms Krishna Jayaram as Managing Director
- Hawaii GOP names Kelly Kitashima to run for SD18
- Recounts confirm razor-thin margins in 2 Hawaii GOP legislative races
- Ozawa seeks fast Hawaii Supreme Court ruling on Waters’ disqualification
- Prosecutors Made Mistake: Maoli Singer Is Not A Drug Dealer, Lawyer Says
- MPD provides more details in Lt. Vaituulala investigation
- Crooked 8a News: Dawson/Laukoa in Scrum for $699M USACE Contract
- State Budget in Two Charts
- City Council advances vehicle weight tax cut
- Honolulu joins counties to urge BLNR to ban aquarium fishing
- Hawaiʻi's Intoxicating ‘Hemp’ Market Has Gone Up In Vapor
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| Wednesday, August 12, 2026 |
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August 12 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:42 AM :: 2261 Views
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- Lahaina: Three Years Later, Return Slows to a Trickle
- Building Permits: Maui County doesn’t seem to want to solve the problem
- Two Arrests for labor trafficking from Guatemala to Maui
- Office of Hawaiian Affairs to Produce Statewide Televised Candidate Forums for 2026 Board of Trustees Election
- Federal Justice: No Bail for Maui Police Lt. Accused Of Taking Bribes
- Entertainer is linked to Maui officer accused of corruption
- Candidates monitor recounts in tight primary races
- Waters’ Case Clown Show Continues: Five judges recuse themselves from ineligibility appeal
- ‘Big Beautiful’ School Choice Program Offers Tuition Money for Students: Will Green keep your kid trapped in the failing Hawaii DoE System?
- State opposing county plan for East Maui water system
- ‘Hawaiian Council’ buys Sea Life Park
- Maui Riot: How the outrage machine works
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| Tuesday, August 11, 2026 |
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August 11, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 10:26 AM :: 2754 Views
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- How Alleged Corruption Blocks Hawaii Dialysis Access
- Hawaii Agribusiness Development Corporation Reorganizes (again)
- Gabbard Threats: FBI Arrests Escaped Lunatic in Hawaii
- 9th Circuit Issues Hawaii Gun Ruling
- Ongoing roadblocks to rebuilding in Lahaina
- Airports Division: If Projects are Moving, Bribes are Paying
- Hawaiʻi Democrats hear warning -- voters are 'angry'
- Recount set for Tuesday in two state Republican primary races
- Maui Police corruption case shows why Hawaiʻi needs federal law enforcement
- Soft-on-Crime Maui: 18 Time Loser Allegedly Beats Kupuna to death
- FBI most-wanted fraudster behind $10M Shriners theft spotted in Philippines
- Honolulu Sells Bonds to Fund Rail Line
- Hawaiʻi Schools’ New Cellphone Ban Is Here. What Are Teens Saying?
- Civil rights groups protest Palantir surveillance software in Honolulu
- Hawaii High Court Says Booking.com Can Challenge Tax Rule
- Skepticism as Maui Weighs $53M Kīhei Desalination Plant
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| Monday, August 10, 2026 |
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August 10, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 10:20 AM :: 2035 Views
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- Friday Aug 14, 2026 is deadline to ‘cure’ your mail-in ballot
- Corruption: Green’s SD18 Appointee Worked Under Both Yamane and Asuncion
- Honolulu Special Funds
- The Jones Act Lobby’s Waiver Panic
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted August 8, 2026
- Another Hawaii Voter Roll Lawsuit Filed
- The State Will Never Win Public's Trust In The Bribery Case
- How Hawai‘i's latest bribery scandal blocked healthcare access
- Trump extends Jones Act waiver for 90 days, sort of
- Chinatown nightclub to return to court in fight with Honolulu Liquor Commission
- Major Landlord Accused Of Discriminating Against Section 8 Renters In Hawaiʻi
- Murderer Kills Transsexual at Halawa
- Kaua‘i’s Only Emergency Homeless Shelter To Get Major Overhaul
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| Sunday, August 9, 2026 |
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August 9, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 12:35 PM :: 2491 Views
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- Primary Election -- First Read Results
- Three years later: Lahaina Rebuild Bleak
- 'Office of Economic Revitalization' will officially cease operations on August 14, 2026
- ‘One of the most Conservative Democrats’ Ed Case bucks socialist trend in deep-blue Hawaii district
- Team Methamphetamines on the Ballot in Upcountry Maui Council Race
- Last-minute voters turn out on primary Election Day — but not many
- New details unveiled in Waianae child torture investigation
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| Saturday, August 8, 2026 |
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August 8, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 10:10 AM :: 2668 Views
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- Primary Election Day: In Person Voting Sites
- Hawaii's End Run Around Citizens United Faces a First Amendment Roadblock
- Praising Lahaina recovery is premature
- Honolulu Council should reconsider restrictions on homeowner repairs
- Hawaii high court restores smoker's $2 million award against Philip Morris
- Will Scandal Force Out Maui’s Outsider Chief?
- Recently accused Maui police lieutenant allegedly destroyed evidence before arrest
- Corruption: Green’s Likely SD18 Appointee Worked Under Both Yamane and Asuncion
- Legislators, PUC Help HECO Profit from Maui Wildfire
- ICA Not Taking Tommy Waters appeal seriously
- ‘Incompetence and Irresponsibility’—Judiciary Slow-walks Waters Case
- Long Overdue law forcing homeless off streets puts some on path to healing
- Man and woman accused of torturing kids in Waianae
- US Pacific Command Considers Moving Billions in Planned Infrastructure Out of Micronesia
- Booking.com Gets Hawaii Justices to Revive Use Tax Rule Case
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| Friday, August 7, 2026 |
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August 7, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:54 AM :: 1872 Views
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- Judge Shakes Up OHA CEO's Lawsuit
- Hawaii AG Conspired to Sue Trump Seven Days After He was Reelected
- HECO: 'We did not ask PUC to Approve 500MW Plant'
- Does The "Aloha Spirit" Violate The Establishment Clause?
- Purposeful Slow-Walking: Waters lawyers Still Haven’t Filed Appeal with ICA
- Carpenters Union Spends Big on Maui Candidates
- DoC Bumbles Latest OCCC Escape: “the Department of Corrections did not respond for hours”
- Hawaii Nonprofit Sues to Block HHS Organ Donor Competition Rule
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| Thursday, August 6, 2026 |
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August 6, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 10:09 AM :: 2801 Views
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- Maui Police Department Lieutenant Charged with Taking Bribes from Criminals to Protect Chicken Fighting and Drug Operations on Maui
- This Day in History: Truman Announces Hiroshima Bombing
- AI Robot to Control Permitting for eligible residential projects beginning Sept. 1
- DLNR to Increase Punishment for 'Harassing' Animals
- Maui: Congressional Candidate Should Have Used a Hammer
- Below average number of open state legislative seats in Hawaii in 2026
- FEMA reviews Hawaii’s COVID funding after Sylvia Luke indictment
- State agrees to $3.25M settlement with Peter Boy Kema’s siblings
- Maui County offers buyouts to iconic Lahaina properties as owners struggle to rebuild
- Lahaina voices: 'They're almost driving us out'
- Hawai‘i Could Hit New Low For Voter Turnout
- Hawaiʻi Becomes a Polling Desert
- Hawaii's Green Fee Is Paying For Beaches. And A Slaughterhouse.
- PUC rejects HECO’s power plant proposal ‘without demonstration of need’
- Par Pacific ramps up renewable fuel production in Q2
- Cost of Housing Going Up: Tax Credit Schemers Pushing new Hot Water Scam Device
- Unequal Protection: While Tourist is prosecuted for Throwing Rocks at a Monk Seal, Molokaians Continually Shoot Them with Impunity
- CORE Forcing Homeless Mentally Ill into Treatment
- Waimanalo homeless village underway
- LA’s highest-paid homeless nonprofit CEO lives in Hawaii on $1.6M salary
- Honolulu police use drones as first responders in 2 districts
- Hawaii school buses short dozens of routes
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| Wednesday, August 5, 2026 |
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August 5, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 10:37 AM :: 2947 Views
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- Hawaii Sues to Protect Welfare Cheats
- Tariffs Again: Hawaii AG Joins Another anti-Trump Lawsuit
- City burns $9 million from 'Climate Resiliency Fund'
- Kona Hospital Verifies Level III Trauma Certification
- How Legislative Bribe-taker Ensured that Latest Round of Corruption Defendants Could Only Lose Half Their Pensions
- 160,000 ballots cast for the primary election so far
- Hawaiian Homes Commission lawsuit continues after evictions averted
- HART will soon be forced to admit Cost Of Honolulu Rail Line Climbing Again
- Tommy Waters Lawyers Bumble Appeal as Clock Ticks
- Lahaina’s slow rebuild: 3 years later
- 3 years after Lahaina fire, condo owners search for money to rebuild
- The cure for corruption is shrinking the prize, not rewriting the rules.
- Slick Lawyer Helps Social Worker Get off Easy after Killing Girl
- Meth: 19 time loser finally gets a Federal Case
- Bus driver shortage causing delays, cancellations
- Pay to go Hiking: Kupu awarded $1.75M in AmeriCorps funding for Hawai‘i
- Landfill: How Annual Kabuki Show Will Lead Right Back to Waimanalo Gulch
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| Tuesday, August 4, 2026 |
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August 4, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 10:39 AM :: 2624 Views
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- Are we ready to really address aging in Hawaii?
- Department of Hawaiian Home Lands Awards Record Number of Leases in July
- Dela Cruz Silent On Bribery Charges Leveled At Former Staff Member
- Judge allows feds to file new fossil fuels lawsuit against Hawaii
- 98,115 ballots returned by Oahu voters
- Hawaii Visitors Paying $1,000 More A Week Than Last Year
- Maui County’s Budget Bloat—Doubles Since COVID
- Soft on Crime: After two previous Attacks, Congressional candidate arrested after Maui beach altercation, bail set at $1 million
- Alone: Kaua‘i Council Does Not Post Public Testimony Online
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| Monday, August 3, 2026 |
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August 3, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:44 AM :: 2500 Views
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- Lawsuit: UH Hides Public Records to Protect Climate Scheme
- The Curious Career of Ford Fuchigami
- OHA Launches National Search for Chief Executive Officer
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How they Voted July 31, 2026
- Oswald Stender: A Model of Fiduciary Duty
- County Lied Twice About Front Street building permit—none have been issued
- Keohokalole Exposed -- Just Another Dark Money Clone Candidate
- Dist IV Council Race: ‘Making it up as they go along’
- How Hawaii was Freed of $68M of Bogus ‘Green’ Energy Projects
- Protesters Upset that Military Hotel is not Anti-American
- DoE Cellphone Ban Won’t last Long
- Termites Eating DoE Schools
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| Sunday, August 2, 2026 |
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August 2, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 10:05 AM :: 2536 Views
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- Mafia News: Will Court Ruling Give Miske Pal Council Seat? -- Waters files Appeal
- The coast isn’t clear, it’s covered in red tape
- Taxation of Envy
- DPH boss Freitas on Bribery: “No one’s been convicted. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves….”
- Luke bribery case could pit what’s legal vs. what’s right
- How Legislative Insiders Kill Campaign Spending Reform Again and Again
- LGBTQ Commission to be on November Ballot
- Big Money In Hawaiʻi Politics — The Carpenters Union Is Crushing Everyone
- More Bureaucracy Is Not The Answer To A Struggling Economy
- Climate NGOs have forgotten mission
- Hawaii Politician Arthur Brun Breaks Bad
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| Saturday, August 1, 2026 |
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August 1, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 9:47 AM :: 2294 Views
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- Honolulu DPP Among 50 Best AI Systems in USA?
- AG Announces Child Support Enforcement Tech Upgrade
- Green Announces Appointments to HHC, CSC, Ethics
- FIRE: College Free Speech Improving, but UH still stuck on Yellow
- Canadian Submarine Sinks USS Mobile Bay off Hawaii
- ‘New Tourism’ = ‘Costs too Much’—Therefore, Trend of shorter Hawaii vacations reaches into June
- School resource officer program expands on O‘ahu
- Bribery? Indicted state employee allowed to continue working while co-defendants are on leave or have resigned
- Who Gives Together? Mapping Hawaii’s Political Contributors
- Gov Green Bought His Own Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card. Now He Wants HECO to Thank Him For It
- Hawaiʻi education department turns to regional kitchen to boost DelaCruz
- Hawaii healthcare system plans to fill 4,700 vacant jobs?
- Maui Council horrified that fire station might be built near ag fields
- Council committee recommends adding five years to pursue alleged ethics violations
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