1. Hawaii Republicans Unite for Once-in-a-Generation Campaign
2. VIDEO: Congressman Charles Djou addresses Hawaii Republicans
3. A Lull Before the Storm, Taxpayers Should be Wary
4. Lingle: Save Medicaid, Social Security
5. Hidden Windfarm Subsidy: Taxpayers Fork Out $18,401 for Each Electric Car
6. Kauai Smartmeter Contract: Mainland Contractor Beats Out Local Union Workers
7. Fund to Reelect Incumbents: Profitable Non-Profits Score Megabucks
8. Rural Hospital Loses Millions Every Year, But Has Waiting List for LTC Beds
9. Star-Adv Launches Another Attack on Charter Schools
10. UH Leftist Perfersser: Close Down E-W Center
11. Kalaeloa suggested to house incoming Marines
12. Website aimed at Cayetano is not being very nice itself
13. Pflueger can't block access to water and land, court rules
14. DHHL Dumps College Scholarship Program
15. Waimea community helps select new principal of charter school
16. West Hawaii accounts for two-thirds of property tax burden
17. Windfarm Scammers Take Aim at Small Pacific Island Nations

1. Hawaii Republican Convention This Weekend
2. Djou Campaign Kickoff Rally May 23
3. Hirono's Mainland Special Interests: Follow the Money
4. UHERO: Government Millstone is a Drag on Economy
5. JSC Names Nominees for Supreme Court, 2nd Circuit
6. Governor Makes Appointments to Public Safety Department and DHHL
7. VIDEO: Chamber of Commerce Ad for Lingle
8. Ceremony marks the return of 4,000 Schofield soldiers from Afghanistan
9. Abercrombie: “Environmentalists Not Paying Attention, Ought to take a look at Themselves”
10. Nobody Represents Consumers on Hawaii Health Connector
11. Queen's may buy and reopen Hawaii Medical Center-West
12. Smart Meters to Take Billions out of Your Pocket
13. Maui, Kauai Rebel against Smart Meters
14. Hawaiian Grabs 82% of Market, Jacks Up Inter-Island Rates
15. OHA Orders Shutdown of Poi Mill
16. “Support & Cooperation”: Abercrombie Gives Farmers Market 2 more Weeks to Get Out
17. Abercrombie, Ouansafi Make Prison out of Public Housing
18. Council Votes $325K to Settle Retaliation Lawsuit vs Carlisle
19. New UH Chancellor To Be Paid 95K More Than Predecessor
20. PBS Hawaii legislative wrap-up gives win to governor
21. Businesses satisfied with 2012 session
22. Peeping Police Officer Case Set For Trial Next Month
23. Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs petitions for Hawaiian green turtle de-listing
24. Maui Councilmembers Pay Out Thousands in Bonuses to Staffers
25. Construction of $200M windward sewage tunnel gets the green light
26. HC&S sours on sugar production, profits up
27. Student helping hands LDS members serve through statewide clean-up day

1. Full Text: Final Briefs Filed in Reapportionment Case 
2. Hawaii Republican Convention This Weekend 
3. Fading Chances for Rail Funding to Pass Congress
4. Hirono Attacks Chamber of Commerce
5. Flags Fly at Half-Staff in Honor of Chief Warrant Officer Don C. Viray
6. Hundreds gather as an Army helicopter pilot killed in Afghanistan is laid to rest
7. Hawaii’s Post-War Social Contract Has Collapsed
8. PEW: Hawaii Social Mobility Average
9. Tax Revenues Up 12.9%
10. Dear Dan: Cayetano's Email to Inouye
11. Council Votes Another $291M for Rail
12. Grabauskas: Debt Ate 30% of Boston Transit Budget
13. Is Peter Carlisle an Absentee Mayor or 'Doing the Business of the City'?
14. Honolulu Bag Ban Benefits Halawa Manufacturer
15. Ka Loko Figure Kusaka Co-Chairs Hannemann Campaign
16. Oceanic Reveals Who’s Buying Political Ads
17. Star-Adv: State Historic Preservation on Verge of Disaster
18. Geothermal Pollution Claims Debunked
19. HELCO gets OK for geothermal RFPs
20. Omidyar’s Scribblers Launch Plan to Discredit Anti-Wind Activists
21. Burlingame, Mizutani leave journalism
22. Commerce, Justice, Science: Hirono, Hanabusa Vote ‘No’!
23. 60 Minutes Preview: The Gulen Movement
24. Mayor signs bill banning retail plastic bags
25. Caldwell: “It is clear to me that the Governor is a Strong Supporter of this Rail Project”
26. 57% of Governor’s Bills Passed
27. Kona Volunteers Buy New Beds for Hospitals, Old ones ‘falling apart’
28. Bio-Fool Plant May Get Started in Keaau
29. Abercrombie: Secret volleyball idea at Waikiki Natatorium
30. Battered by Sex Harassment Suits, Kauai County Politicos Launch New Department
31. Kaiser settles with unions for nurses and other workers
32. Postal Service plan would cut hours at 12 Hawaii post offices
33. Sonar, Plastics: Enviros Re-Launch Hype Attacks

1. US Chamber of Commerce Endorses Lingle
2. Bateman Announces Run for State House District Representing Kona, Kau
3. Hawaii Superferries Renamed Guam, Puerto Rico
4. 22% Proficient: Hawaii DoE Test Scores Reach Level of Alabama, Mississippi
5. Hawaii Courts Among the Nation's Worst for Abused and Neglected Children
6. VIDEO: Short Range Missile Killer Tested off Kauai
7. Abercrombie questions status of rail
8. Honolulu City Council Approves $450 Million in Commercial Paper to Strengthen Rail's Financial Plan
9. Chamber aids Lingle with $275K in TV ads
10. Oi: Thin-Skinned, Out of Touch Inouye Looses Cool, Feigns Offense
11. HSTA Cancels Three Negotiating Sessions, Schedules Strike Vote
12. Even Now HSTA’s Okabe Doesn’t Understand LBFO
13. Honolulu Council Pushes Funds for Profitable Nonprofits
14. Hawaii Supreme Court: State Must Fund Dept. of Hawaiian Home Lands
15. Hawaii Insurers Alone in Meeting Requirements of Obamacare
16. Tourist count to climb to record 7.8M this year, but Economy Grows only 2.2%
17. Attempted kidnapping suspect released from OCCC 8 days ago
18. Hawaii's first prosecutor-directed cold case murder unit created on Kauai
19. 10,000 Big Island Dopers Dumber than One Judge
20. City Seeks 30 Unit Apartment Building as Homeless Transitional Housing
21. Cabanilla, DelaCruz, Nishimoto: Deficient financial disclosure forms still on Ethics Commission website after two months
22. Cashing In: Hawaii Candidates Stockpiling Campaign Cash
23. Are Hawaii's Rules On How Political Parties Can Be Financed Effective?
24. Hawaii Geothermal Energy Bills Aim To Reduce Oil Use, Energy Costs
25. HORIZON LINES REPORTS FIRST-QUARTER FINANCIAL RESULTS

1. Pay to Play Bus Dealer Selling Illegally in Hawaii?
2. Lawsuit: OCCC Guards Slept Thru Ex-Guard's Prison Suicide
3. HSTA Reelects Okabe President
4. Abercrombie Releases $37.5M in Transportation CIP
5. City to Build More Transitional Housing for Homeless
6. Lanai Could Be Liberated from Windfarm: Hawaii Land Sale Part of Dole Restructuring
7. US Chamber of Commerce to Run More Campaign Ads in Hawaii
8. Inouye Exports Hawaii Democrat Money to Mainland
9. DHS Decides to Continue Coverage for Artificial Limbs
10. Danger Sign: Act 221 Scammers Enthused About State’s Proposed IT Policy
11. Cayetano BRT to Feature Designated Bus Lane on King St or Beretania
12. Leeward Students Not Fooled by Grabuskas
13. State DOT holds meeting on major freeway work
14. HART Puts 150,000 pages of Rail Documents online
15. Maui: Broken-down buses and growing ridership collide
16. Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders Continue to Flee Hawaii
17. Homeless near Keaau Beach Park pack up again
18. City Contracting: 6 years, $300K to Build Public Restroom in Park
19. Kauai Budget: More Spending, Higher Property Taxes
20. Theft and forgery by ex-police officer fetch fine of $2,500
21. Greenwood: Socialism is Needed to Win War on Obesity
22. Marianas Pension Fund Runs Dry June 15
23. Luddite Harassment Suit vs GMO Farmer Transferred to Federal Court
24. Solomon Behind OHA Settlement, Geothermal Push
25. 1 in 20 isle homeowners late in paying mortgage
26. Lawsuit: State Removed Residents of Board-Care Home After False Allegations

1. Lingle to Host Luncheon for Native American Congressman Tom Cole
2. Hawaii: Important NRA Instructor Liability Bill Awaits Governor’s Approval
3. Marumoto: Mass Release of Prisoners not True Justice Reform
4. Thielen: Landfill Cannot Legally be Located at Ameron
5. State Releases Information Technology Proposal
6. Census Bureau Releases 2010 Data on Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders
7. Survey: Hawaii Failing Small Business Owners
8. Big Cable ‘Surcharge’ Provides Automatic Rate Hikes to pay for Billion-Dollar Cable
9. MDs Scramble to Find Cancer Drugs for Patients
10. AP Article on Hawaii GOP Convention Full of Errors
11. Maui Mayor: Critics Of Inouye "Completely Out Of Touch"
12. Troubled Myron B Thompson Charter School Tied to Solar Tax Credit Contractor
13. Teachers' ballot to cover strike: Re-Vote is ‘Insult to Our Intelligence’
14. Teachers Hammer Contract Re-Vote: Are You Kidding? It is a Waste of Time
15. Race for the Bottom: Education Secretary Arne Duncan Backs Gay Marriage
16. Hawaii #5 in Farmers Markets per Capita
17. 2012 Senate Race: Where’s the Money Coming From
18. Haleakala Raises Questions About Inouye’s Behind-the-scenes Wheeling Dealing
19. SB2858 Administration Headed Away from Open Information
20. Liberal Women’s Group Gives Hawaii a ‘B’ for Support of Working Families
21. Bank of America starts offering mortgage principal reductions
22. HB1755 Voter Registration On Line
23. Are There Rules Governing How Political Parties in Hawaii Raise Money?
24. Shooting suspect needs protection, lawyer tells judge
25. Sewer Line Floats to Surface of Ala Wai Canal: City Says, Don’t Worry, We’re building a Railroad
26. Tax Increase in Maui County Budget
27. Maui council members issue bonuses worth $46K to 17 staffers

1. DoH Explains How Taxpayers Fund Gabbards’ Song and Dance Routine
2. Federal Suit Threatened: UH-Hilo Violates Rights of Religious Student Groups
3. VIDEO: Molokai Mocks Senators who vote 'With Reservations'
4. Hawaii Nurse Elected International VP of Union Nurses Council
5. Hawaii a 'Harbinger' as Insurers Give up on Long Term Care
6. Death on the Job -- Hawaii Ranks 20th
7. Calvin Say Refuses House Override Vote to Block Tricare Tax
8. HB1967: Conciliation alternative to medical suits
9. Hirono Apologizes for not Being Gay
10. Who's Giving Big Bucks to Our Senate Candidates?
11. ‘Grease Magnate’ Coming to Neil’s Birthday Party?
12. Inouye Adopts Alaska Sen Begich
13. ACT 51 Weighted Student Formula Robs Small Rural Schools
14. DoE, FACE Team up for ‘Community Organizing’
15. Honolulu 240 Ethics Complaints in Three Years
16. NYT Praises Hawaii’s Pedophile Law—Doesn’t Mention State Exempted Itself
17. Feds: Historic Preservation Division Still Falling Short
18. Breiner Endorses Takata for Prosecutor
19. VA Investigates Punchbowl Marker Relocations
20. Hawaii Insurance Company Filings Not Available online
21. AG Sues Bogus Online College
22. VIDEO: Drowning off Kalapana, diver had to be taken to Pohoiki first
23. Castle out of Debt, Beginning Open Heart Surgery
24. Depakote: Lawyers Split $100M Settlement with 45 States, Hawaii Gets $1.2M

1. SEC Report: ML&P on Verge of Bankruptcy
2. Bankrupt Marianas Islands Pension Fund Advisor Vanishes
3. Asking for More by Limiting Deductions
4. SA: List of How major bills fared at the Capitol
5. VIDEO: Gov. Cayetano: Honolulu mayoral campaign getting nasty
6. Borreca: Democratic State Convention “Going to be a Hotbed of Insurrection”
7. Rail Finances Take $244.7M from TheBus
8. Abercrombie Alienates Labor, Environmentalists, Progressives
9. Survey: Vast Majority Agree Legislature, Inouye Out of Touch, Failing
10. Civil Beat Poll: Questionnaire, Toplines and Crosstabs — April 2012
11. Public benefits offered by developers are often met with doubts
12. US Trustee wants Marianas Pension Fund bankruptcy case dismissed
13. Hawaii Case Leads Supreme Court to Review Police Use of Stun Guns
14. How to Maintain Competitiveness in Tourism
15. Financial Advisor: Hawaii Working Class Families Having Difficulty with Gas, Food, Insurance, Housing
16. Hawaii Island Democrats Vote to back Geothermal
17. AG Targets Property Owner After Third Gambling Bust
18. Change 1: Yukimura: Koloa Tenants ‘Ready to Change’
19. Change 2: Journey back to Manzanar
20. Change 3: Obama’s Gitmo Trial: "They're engaging in jihad in a courtroom"

1. Considering a Run for Office? Free Candidate Training in Hawaii
2. Hawaii Falls Short, May Still Lose RTTT Money: Hirono, Hanabusa Pleased
3. Statement from Gov. Linda Lingle on the Legacy of the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative
4. Rep. Kymberly Pine Pulls Papers Today to Run for City Council
5. Full Text: Supreme Court Ruling Allows Waimanalo Gulch to Remain Open
6. DBEDT: April, 2012 Monthly Energy Report
7. Senate Democrats: Highlights of 2012 Legislative Session
8. Rail Contractors Demand Ben Cayetano Stop Telling the Truth about Inouye and his Cronies
9. Meheula: Archaeological Studies Would Put Federal Rail Funding At Risk
10. Case: Hirono Hurt Hawaii Farmers With Vote Against Free Trade With S Korea
11. Hirono’s past actions don’t show support for kupuna
12. Mitt Romney's run for president brings church into the spotlight
13. Takata Challenges Kaneshiro for Prosecutor
14. Hawaii County Police Refused to Arrest Escaped Coke Dealer
15. Feds Indict HPD Narcotics Officer for Revealing Identity of Undercover Officer
16. Lawsuit: Fire captain's statements About Woman’s Death led to retaliation
17. Are Alleged Lottery Operators Eligible For Welfare, Public Housing?
18. Missouri AG sues files suit over school band trip to Hawaii
19. This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—May 5
20. Maui Electric Bills Going Up Another 1.5%
21. Lack of inspectors delays the approval of PV systems
22. Construction subcontractors can’t withstand prolonged downturn
23. Poll: Do Hawaiians Get Enough Benefits?
24. Gun toting resident fights, captures attempted murder suspect
25. Abercrombie Appoints Socialist Propagandist as ‘Poet Laureate’
26. Big Square Building: Legislators Leave, Occupy Arrives

1. Abercrombie: Re-Vote on HSTA Contract Has No Legal Standing
2. Abercrombie Cheers Big Cable, Release of Criminals
3. House Republicans reclaim the legacy of "Teddy" Roosevelt
4. Marcus Oshiro: ‘Top Ten Reasons’ to Pass Supplemental Budget
5. Mass Release of Hardened Career Criminals Will Begin this Summer
6. Repeat Contract Rejection by HSTA Members Will Likely Lead to Strike
7. Teachers Angered by Re-Vote, Prepare to Strike
8. Vote Count For New HSTA Prez on Saturday
9. Legislature Votes to Burn $14.4B
10. Senate passes bill authorizing the state to establish regulations for an undersea power cable
11. Stabbed in the Back by Sens English and Baker, Molokai and Lanai Wind Opponents Prepare for “Long Road”
12. Environmental exemptions for geothermal energy near final approval
13. House Kills Transit-Oriented Development Bill
14. Tax Tricare? Senate Unanimously Overrides Abercrombie Veto of GET Exemption
15. Cayetano Doubles Down: Calls Inouye Uninformed, Out of Touch
16. Cayetano Pummels Caldwell, Carlisle Until They Run Out of Questions
17. Charter School Accountability, DoE to get a Slice of Pre-K Education
18. Go Topless Day Leads to New Speech Regulations
19. CB Poll 66% Want to Die but Won’t do it Themselves
20. Abercrombie’s OIP Director Insults Open Government Advocates
21. Speaker: Thielen is ‘Out of Order’
22. Marumoto Wins Funding for Snake Inspection Program
23. Nene Transfer Averages $28K per Goose
24. Public Housing Tenants Score $500K Settlement
25. Insurance Commissioner's Financial Disclosures are Confidential
26. First Wind files $15M permit for Hawaii wind farm
27. Tax Subsidized Solar Buyers Not Interested in Cheaper Product
28. Band Deposits Gambled Away in Vegas
29. New graduates face challenging job market
30. The Top 10 Facts About Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
31. Drugmakers’ Deal With Obama Said to Be Probed by House
32. Punatics, SPACE Cadets Fight over land Use Violations by HICCUP Circus

1. As Legislative Session Ends, HSTA Suddenly Decides to Re-Vote Rejected Contract
2. Legislative Wrapup: Victories for Life, Family and Religious Freedom
3. Hawaii Churches Win Some Protection Against Forced Civil Unions
4. SB2785: Ratepayers will Foot Bill for Billion Dollar Cable
5. Ethics, Foreclosures, and Workers Comp: House Republicans Speak Out
6. 'Dereliction of Duty' -- Hirono Misses Student Loan Vote for Campaign Event
7. GAO Details Progress in Jones Act Study Requested by Puerto Rico Congressional Delegate
8. Reject SB2776: Beth and Duane ‘Dog' Chapman Open Letter to Legislators
9. Cayetano to Inouye Followers: What are you guys? Potted plants?
10. One Year Later: DoE Moribund, Evaluation Bill failed
11. CEOs: Hawaii is the 41st Best State for Business 2012
12. Lawmakers: Send Tourists to the Moon
13. SB2434: Last Minute Effort to Push Insurers off Healthcare Exchange Board
14. Development, Big Cable: More Polling Results
15. AARP Backs Star-Adv Effort to Keep Monopoly on Profitable Legal Notices
16. Landfill selection process under scrutiny
17. Having a Baby? Go to Kona -- Kamuela, Hilo Maternity Wards Overflowing
18. Traffic fines go to myriad special funds held by state
19. PUC Opens Docket for Big Isle Geothermal Plant
20. Another Hearing Officer in UH Telescope Case Resigns Amid Conflict Controversy
21. Luddites Plan Further Litigation against Fish Farm
22. Guam Base Location not to be Finalized til 2015
23. Tesoro's profitable quarter gets boost from Hawaii refinery
24. Teamsters Shake Down Movie Producers Back East, Too

1. Reps Fontiane, Pine Cheer Passage of Cyber-Crime Package
2. Thielen Makes Final Push for Local Food Production Mandate
3. As Final Vote Approaches, Molokai Launches Petition to Stop Big Cable
4. HB280: Strangled by Bureaucracy, Coffee Farmers Call for Repeal of Mandatory Inspections
5. CB Poll: Non-Voters Oppose Gay Agenda
6. Senate resurrects undersea cable bill
7. Transit-Oriented Development to be Voted Thursday
8. Hawaii Medicaid fee fix up for a final vote
9. Video: Secret Amendment Creates Public Land Development Corporation
10. SB2115 Charter School Accountability to Be Voted Thursday
11. Teacher: Interference, Retaliation by Principals Prevents Improvement in Student Achievement
12. No Bus Cuts for Elementary Kids?
13. Job cuts will not affect adult education services, schools superintendent says
14. DOE tries to crack down on employee theft
15. HB2175: Restricting OIP Passes House, Heads for Governor’s Desk
16. Kona airport, Palamanui campus and NELHA get big CIPs Nearly $50.4M for West Hawaii projects from Legislature
17. Services for soldier killed in Black Hawk crash will be May 10
18. Cash Call! Fundraisers for Sens. Baker, Ige During Session
19. Free Speech protocol required by a court order 10 years ago is moving through the Council
20. Occupy Moron Arrested Disrupting Lei Day Ceremonies at Kapiolani Park Bandstand
21. State crews clear out homeless camps under Nimitz highway
22. Federal Raid Targeting 'Queens of Lottery', Chinatown Gambling Ring
23. Star-Advertiser’s print circulation grows by 6%
24. Larger newspapers to lose monopoly on publication of foreclosure notices
25. Newt Gingrich ends his presidential campaign

1. Hawaii Family Forum Wins Right to Intervene in Gay Marriage Case
2. Hanabusa, Pflueger, Thugs Fail in Effort to Drive Family off Kauai Kuleana Plot, Intimidate Lawyer
3. Activist, Videographer Assaulted by Hanabusa’s Senate Security
4. Hirono Misses Vote on Student Loan Reduction Goes to Campaign Fundraiser Instead
5. Insurers Will Remain on Board of Hawaii Health Connector after Roz Baker Blocks Reform
6. Democrats ‘Just don’t know who is going to vote’ in Primary
7. Poll Voting, Cynicism Inversely Proportional
8. Cost of Borrowing Could Rise: Non-Profits Score $11.6M, HMC Gets $80M in Bonds, Hurricane, Rainy Day Funds Gets Nothing
9. Act 48: Legislators to vote on HB1875 foreclosure reform bill
10. Ige Disappointed at Failure to Give Tax Credits to Billionaire Hollywood Movie Moguls
11. Kobayashi Loses Vote on Restrictions of $450M Rail Line of Credit
12. Cash Call! Sen. Kim Holds Fundraiser During Session
13. UHM Ed Perfesser: Give Up or The Keiki Will be ‘hurt’ in “Most Destructive War’ over ‘Inane, Manini’ RTTT Grant
14. Former school secretary charged with theft
15. Land Use undermines Swapmeet? First Haleiwa, next Aloha Stadium
16. Kollar Challenges Kauai Prosecutor over Unsolved Homicides
17. Head of Honolulu Air Traffic Control Retires After near-miss Hidden from FAA
18. City Council committee considers bills to strengthen disclosure requirements, training
19. Bill aims to amend tax incentive for historic homes
20. Luddites Crushed as Federal Judge Allows Fish Farming in Federal Waters
21. Labeling law and voluntary certification would help isle coffee growers
22. Guam: 2000 Marines to be Stationed, 3000 to Rotate
23. Hawaii Family Rescuing Child Trafficked Victims in Thailand Gives an Update on Their Mission Work
24. 1838 Hawaiian bible & map highlight antique collection
25. Occupy Activists Arrested in Plot to Blow Up Bridge

From Mililani: A Better Vision than Rail

1. As Legislators Consider Mass Release of Hardened Criminals, Lawsuit Challenges Half-Way House Supervision
2. Last Day for Legislation: Hospitals Medicare Fix, Early Release of Criminals, Gay Unions in Your Church, Tax Credits for Solar Scammers, and More
3. Honolulu Banquet Salutes Opening of Aloha Pregnancy Center Osaka
4. Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How They Voted April 30, 2012
5. Hawaii Christian Coalition Annual Prayer at the Capitol May 3
6. Hanabusa Sued over Beating by Sheriffs at Capitol
7. Cayetano: Push Polls Backed by Pacific Resources Partnership
8. Honolulu bus cutbacks will hit the already disadvantaged
9. State’s Top Paid CEO, Big Landowner Say You Can Afford to build Railroad
10. As Rail Heads towards Burials Central, State Historic Preservation Division May Lose Federal Certification
11. Teacher Evaluations Immediately Become HGEA Make-Work Program
12. Legislature voting on charter school omnibus bill
13. Off to clumsy start in landfill site pick
14. Poll: Why do Hawaii Voters Vote—or Not?
15. Hawaii Banks top Nation Again
16. Andrew Rosen Named President/CEO of Hawaii State Federal Credit Union
17. Audit: Aloha Stadium Authority Mismanages Swap Meet
18. Hawaii's Insurance Commissioner Subject to Political Influence
19. Arakawa Rejects Proposal to Lift Cap on Maui Hostess Bars
20. Hydropower developer gets Koke‘e License
21. Barack Obama's mother 'was secretly in contact with his estranged father during his entire childhood without his knowledge'

1. Zero in on Details to Figure Out True Story Behind Bills
2. Soldiers, Community restore Kaena Point
3. The History of Natural Gas in Hawaii
4. Honolulu Attorney Named to Board of Owners Counsel of America
5. AUDIO: Rick Hamada interviews Michael Hansen of Hawaii Shippers Council
6. Borreca: Cayetano Victory Will Signal Serious Loss of Face for Inouye
7. Over 200 Rail Jobs go to Mainland Workers
8. Solar Scammers May Yet get Legislative Reprieve
9. Monday is Deadline for Bill to Release 1,195 Criminals on Streets of Hawaii
10. Hawaiian Electric CEO ‘Earns’ $5.3M, Top 5 HEI Execs Pull Down $12.65M
11. Natural gas is cheap, but Jones Act rules it out for Hawaii
12. SA: Start laying groundwork for Marines
13. State Senator "Appalled" by Newspaper Lobbying Tactics
14. Cataluna: New Dump? Lets just Make the Peasants Follow our Garbage Rules
15. Why Does Abercrombie Have anything to do with Van Jones?
16. Demise of Pro Bowl Political Karma for Abercrombie
17. UHH added execs during crunch
18. Sewer moratorium impacts planned senior facility
19. AG, Large Landowners Block Oahu Burial Council Function
20. Hawaii Co Voters Consider Blocking Reapportionment Commission Members from Running
21. Kenoi Again Refusing to Fund Hawaii County Workers Pension
22. Bronster Seeks Dismissal of NMI Pension Fund Bankruptcy Petition
23. Remember PREL? Meet McREL
24. Officials Request Permission to Shoot Endangered birds to Save Endangered Salmon
25. Nature Conservancy Scientists Challenges War on Invasive Species
26. Adopted in 1977 Honolulu, Philadelphia Man Finds Himself on Missing Children Website
27. Godfather of local surf a legend

1. GOP Lincoln Day Dinner Draws Hundreds
2. Lingle: Americans Losing Trust in TSA
3. Hotel Workers Sue Local 5 Over Political Use of Dues Money
4. Sa-i-gu: Koreans wrestle with aftermath of LA riots
5. Green Energy? Do The Math
6. After Soaking Taxpayers for $63M on Bailout, Central Pacific Financial Corp. Reports $13.5 Million Net Income
7. Audio: Rick Hamada Interviews Congressional Candidate Matt Di Geronimo
8. DHS Grabs 12% of Nursing Home ‘Provider Fees’, Hospitals Soaked for 7%
9. Pork: The House wanted $300M, the Senate wanted $500M so they compromised on $825M
10. Senate Approves Bill Exempting State Projects from Environmental Regs, Approves Amended Hospital Deals
11. Civil Unions Mandate Passes, Deadline Extended Until Monday
12. Bill Grandfathers Pension Spiking Rights for All Existing Employees
13. Last Ditch Effort for Movie Moguls to Score Megabucks from $500M Senate ‘Accelerator’ Plan?
14. ILind: Rep. Choy credited with blocking expanded film industry tax credits
15. Hawaii Budget Bills Getting ‘Final Touches’
16. JRI: 50% Will Offend Again, so We Must Let these Criminals Out Now
17. Rail Vacuums $8 million more out of Taxpayers’ Pockets
18. Grabauskas Promises Not to Tear Down One Pillar
19. Okabe: BoE Gives Too Much Power to Governor
20. Laura Thielen Quits Carlisle Admin to Run for Senate
21. Federal Communications Commission votes to make political TV ad spending more transparent
22. Unions Back Loser: ILWU's endorsement of Caldwell makes him No. 1 in union support
23. HMSA Pays for nearly 2,000 medical flights from Big Island
24. Mainland Realtors Score Rail Redevelopment Contract
25. Star-Adv: Honolulu Bag Ban Gives Us 3 Years to Impose Bag Tax
26. Rooftop Solar Limited to 15%, But Industrial Wind Project claims 16% of Maui’s total
27. Maui favored as site for smart-grid testing
28. Uncovering the Truth About the Undersea Cable
29. Nearly Bankrupt, Horizon Lines Pledges to go to the Bottom With the Jones Act
30. Endangered Birds Eat Endangered Taro
31. U.S. Marshals arrest Maui teacher for multiple counts of sex assault of 8th Grader
32. ‘Scientists’ Change Counting Technique, Find 90% Fewer Sharks
33. Rep. Marumoto address SCR 97 - Uninsured Motorists
34. GOODWILL FOR GOOD JOBS: GOODWILL INDUSTRIES TO HOLD JOB FAIR MONDAY, APRIL 30

1. Seven Hawaii High Schools Compete in World Championship of Robotics
2. US, Japan Reach $8.6B Deal on Transfer of 9,000 Okinawa Marines
3. Marumoto: Plan to Release 1,195 Criminals is 'Kapakahi'
4. KITV Video: Euro Socialist working for UHERO Peddles Plastic Bag Tax Proposal
5. Leaked Democrat Emails: “Emotional Chickens” Bicker Over Laura Thielen Candidacy
6. 6PM Today is Deadline for Bills to Clear Conference Committee
7. Plan to Release Hardened Criminals onto Streets of Hawaii May Be in Trouble
8. Poof! The tax credits to Hollywood are up this a.m.
9. SB3003 Streamlines Permitting for Geothermal Exploration
10. Excellent News: Tsuji Amends Phony ‘Food Self-Sufficiency’ Bill to Prevent another HCEI-type Disaster
11. New Hearing Officer in UH Telescope Case is Also UH President's Attorney
12. Photos: Bulldozers Rape Earth to Construct Mammoth Tax Shelters
13. Ag lands approved for solar farms
14. State Evicting Haleiwa Farmers Market On Two Weeks Notice
15. Two Projects Already Blocked: Carlisle Admin Announces Sewer Hook-Up Moratorium Until 2018
16. Time Warner/Oceanic Cable in broad attack on public access media
17. Public housing getting modern renovations with private help
18. Hannemann Supports Jones Act
19. ILWU Backs Loser Caldwell
20. Union Lawyers Score $250K Payoff from Hotel
21. Pot-Head Abercrombie Signs Law Banning Spice
22. Dopers Push Dolan for Hawaii County Prosecutor
23. Oahu travel agent tells school band he lost $267,500 for Hawaii trip
24. Council passes anti-bullying resolution

1. Hilarious Video: I Aloha Molokai Rips Civil Beat ‘Fact’ Check
2. Hawaii is #2 in Nation for Mortgage Scams
3. HMA Warns Against 'Imminent Storm' Caused by Obamacare Implementation
4. Feds Begin Forcing Hawaii Island MDs into 'Medical Homes'
5. NMI Medicaid Cases “Circulate in Hawaii Like Hot Potatoes”
6. Hatch Act Violation: Scandalous GSA Official Starred in Inouye Campaign Ad
7. City 'Error': Kahuku is #1 Landfill Site, not Ameron
8. Dog the Bounty Hunter, Wife Lobby Against Hawaii Justice Reform Initiative
9. Star-Adv: Legislators Should give Cronies $300M in Pork Projects, not $500M
10. SB2858: Freedom Of Information At Stake In Legislature
11. House to vote on Senate's version of highway safety bill
12. $25 million for student transit still falls short of Colluding Bus Contractors Wishes, Matayoshi Searches for Pain Plan
13. DoE Slashes $6M from Adult Ed Classes
14. Abercrombie Scores Big Victory -- Pro Bowl Likely Ending
15. DoE TA Pleads Guilty to Sexting, Stalking 12-yr old Girl
16. Made Desperate by Hirono’s Weakness, National Democrats Target Lingle
17. HART: Nearly Half of Rail Jobs Have Gone to Mainlanders
18. Gabbard Votes for $450M Rail Debt
19. Plastic Bag Ban: Honolulu Council votes to Cut Lots of Timber for Paper Bags
20. After 58 Years of Democrat Rule, Hawaii Women Suffer 20% ‘Pay Gap’
21. Obamacare Bribes Distributed in Swing States: Hawaii Gets Nothing
22. Obama Admin Redirects $8.3B to Put off Collapse of Medicare Advantage Until After the Election
23. Hawaii Gets OK to Reduce Medicaid Income Eligibility
24. Hawaii Politicians Received $2.2 Million in Illegal Campaign Contributions
25. Big Island Newspaper Publisher Was Actually Coke Dealer Eugene Esposito—Escaped from Lompoc
26. Ethics: Secret Target of Secret Commission Gets Anonymous Reprimand
27. Old Geothermal Site Up For New Lease
28. Anti-Geothermal Meeting in Pahoa
29. Big Island Tea retails for $4800/lb at Harrods
30. Lower foreclosure rate helps Honolulu rise in U.S. ranking
31. Civil Beat Bases Evaluation of Hawaii ERS on George Berish’s Opinion
32. Sen. Hee, Rep. Jordan Hold Fundraisers During Session
33. Hawaii's Chief Securities Enforcement Lawyer Resigns
34. Hawaii Senate confirms Krieg as state Department of Human Resources and Development director
35. Students get a sneak peak at hospitality industry through lens of development program

1. Full Text: Plaintiffs' Motion for Preliminary Injunction Against Reapportionment Plan
2. Clinton’s chief economist supports Jones Act reform for Hawaii
3. Relativity Media Using Hollywood Accounting to Sell Hawaii Film Incentive
4. DoD IDs Hawaii Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan
5. 2,700 Okinawa Marines Coming to Hawaii
6. Planning Commission Set to Decide on 15-year Extension for Waimanalo Gulch Landfill
7. House Democratic Blog: OE Seeks Funds to Prepare for Possibility of Another Reapportionment Plan
8. Court Asked to 'Remedy Extraordinary Wrong'
9. Say: SB755 Transfers Control from Environmental Council to Governor’s Office
10. SA: Resist limiting public input
11. House, Less Pork with More Control
12. Cash Call! Rep. Herkes Raises Money During Session
13. Rail Contractors Illegally Using Ag Land for Construction Yard
14. $80M PM Contra-Flow Plan Will Cut Commutes by 20 minutes
15. Federal Judge Voids HGEA Make-Work Fee on Air Cargo
16. HB2659: Forces Churches to host Gay Union Ceremonies
17. Civil Beat Considers a Gay Marriage with Grabuskas
18. Another Bogus Civil Beat Fact Check -- Attacks I Aloha Molokai
19. Hawaii now Has 10,000 Medicated Pot-Heads
20. More Medicated Drug Pushers Busted
21. Big Isle Newspaper Publisher is Escaped Coke Dealer
22. Pot-Heads, Group Led by Convicted Drug Dealer Harass Hawaii Co Council over Geothermal
23. Psychos Obsess over Radiation Dangers on Kauai
24. Kauai’s Troubled Prosecutor Gets Appointment From Abercrombie
25. Shapiro: Landfill Plan Kills Jobs, Wastes Money
26. Honolulu Salaries 2012 — The City's Big Earners
27. EMS Director Questions Merger with Fire Department
28. Humane Society Pushes for Conferees on HB108
29. House Bill 2703 would commit the Aloha State to doubling the amount of food we grow in the islands by 2020
30. Feds Investigate Fourth Killing of Monk Seal
31. 9%: Hawaii has Most Multi-Generational Homes in Nation
32. Business group donates iPads for DOE teacher evaluations
33. Gingrich to leave presidential race next Tuesday, sources say

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• Well written and thoughtful letters from young Hawaiians

1. Contractor Scores Hawaii RTTT Assessment Contract
2. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted April 23, 2012
3. Hawaii has no consumer advocates, national advocacy official says
4. Justice Reinvestment Preview: Zero-Tolerance Probation Used as Excuse to Let Quadruple Rapist Walk
5. 1195 Hardened Criminals to be released onto streets of Hawaii, 48.8% expected to Reoffend
6. Teacher: Please Reject Race to the Top
7. HART Addition: Spend $119M to Build and Tear Down Rail, Avoid $22M in Delay Claims, Total Savings $194M
8. They’re Baaaack! Film company trying to resurrect huge new tax credits
9. Solar Scammers Give One Last Push to Save their Illegal tax Credits
10. Socialists Give One Last Push for State Bank of Abercrombie founded on Toxic Mortgages
11. Meeting in Secret, Legislature Decides How Many HGEA Make-Work Jobs To Create
12. Usual Crooks, Cronies Lineup to back Maile Shimabukuro
13. Hawaii Lawmaker Voted on Bills Backed By His Employer — Oceanic Cable
14. Accreditors want public input on HPD's adherence to policies
15. Suffering Under Obama’s Earmark Ban, Inouye Delivers a Piddling $5.8M
16. Inouye’s DoA $250M for Rail Cited as Earmark Work Around
17. Honolulu Council to Vote on Bag ban or Bag Tax Wednesday
18. City Moving On $10M H-POWER Sewage Burner
19. Usual Suspects Attempt to Block Construction of Haleakala Solar Telescope
20. Full List of Honolulu City Employees Published
21. Hawaii Residential Electric Bills up to $847 per Month
22. Hawaii’s Willoughby Eliminated in First Round of Utah GOP Voting
23. Legislation on air quality could close Nuuanu crematorium

1. Full Text: 2012 HSTA Legislative Endorsement Questionnaire
2. DHS Proposes Merging Medicare, Medicaid
3. Health Exchange Launches First Stage of Computer Program to Control Your Health Care
4. Senate Likely to Shift Republican Even Without Lingle Victory
5. Waipahu Man Among Four Hawaii Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan
6. Sierra Club: Unlike Lingle, Abercrombie Hasn’t Met a Farm He Doesn’t Want to Pave
7. Carlisle Demands Council Approve $450M credit line for ‘Unforeseen’ rail ‘Catastrophe’
8. SB2927 Contradicts Grabuskas’ Call for Rail Transparency
9. Case Decries Sierra Club Endorsement of ‘Endless Partisan Warfare’
10. Case Burns Money While Hirono and Lingle Save for Fall
11. Green Energy Scammers Seek to Cover Ford Island Runway With Solar Panels
12. HB2275 / SB2466: Hospitals Step Up to Make Medicare, Medicaid Work
13. Patients pay Annual Fee to Get 30 minute Doctor Visits
14. Four-Time Child Rapist Gets Probation
15. Another man stabbed outside of Mayor Wright Homes
16. Bugs, Snakes, and Mosquitoes Feature in This Year’s Pitch for More HGEA Make Work Jobs
17. Techie Creates Online Campaign Finance Database
18. State Audit Information Often Withheld from Public
19. Louie takes a Slap at Clayton Hee, Borreca over Kakaako Deal
20. Enviros Brag About Ending Traditional Hawaiian Cultural Practices
21. Hawaii banks report more lending, Profits
22. Hawaii teams win awards at world robotics meet

1. Zip Needed in Public Decision Making
2. Hawaii Court Ruling Challenges Gun Ban After Non-Violent Misdemeanor Conviction
3. DHS Money Grab Threatens Hawaii Hospitals, Nursing Homes
4. HSTA Candidates Bicker Over Who is Better at Killing Education Reform
5. Senate Shows Little Interest in Environmental Exemption Bill
6. Star-Adv: Hirono should debate Case more often
7. Suzanne Case: Stop Global Warming Because I need to Get to My House on Round Top
8. Sierra Club Endorses Hanabusa, Hirono, Gabbard
9. Retail Giants Want to Make Sure they Get a Cut of the Bag Tax Action
10. Kakaako advocates rally against OHA’s residential development
11. Hawaii Should Demand Labeling of ‘Organic’ Foods
12. Dispute reveals OHA Grant Funded Kawaiaha'o Disinterment
13. Defense Lawyers Upset over Bill Protecting Animals
14. AP: Hawaii College Grads Face Worst Job Prospects in Years
15. KIUC smart meter rollout to begin
16. Political Pressure, New Competition Bring New Cuts In Star Advertiser Ad Rates

1. Selection Committee Proposes Kailua Site for New Oahu Landfill
2. Utility Rejects "Expensive, High Risk" Undersea Power Cable Project
3. Ward, Slom, Marumoto Talk Story at Maunalua Bay
4. “Dumbest Decision in City’s History” Rail Construction to begin Monday
5. Legislators Pressured by HSTA Legislative Endorsements During Session
6. 93% Not participating in Earth Day activities this weekend
7. Sovereignty Scammers’ Lawyer Scores $1.2M in Estate Settlement
8. House, Senate Conferees Debate How Much Control Gays Should Have over your Church
9. Billionaire Movie Moguls Could Still Get Hawaii Tax Credits
10. Cash Call! Fundraisers for Reps. Evans, Awana, Mizuno
11. Lawmakers working to iron out details of 'move over' bill
12. SA: Fine on city an empty gesture
13. Hawaii Tourism Authority Gives $1.1M to Profitable NonProfits
14. Pflueger Federal Tax Case Split Into Three Trials
15. Appeals court upholds labor ruling against Hilo newspaper
16. DoH Harasses Farmer, Forces Destruction of Crops
17. Kauai Administration pondering property tax increase
18. The Dalai Lama isn’t a rock star

1. After Dumping Goldman Sachs, Hawaii ERS Quietly Seeks New Managers for $1.2B
2. Jobs? Hanabusa Votes Against Tax Cut for 97% of Hawaii’s Employers
3. Lesson from Hawaii: Is the GOP really the party of fiscal responsibility?
4. HSTA Lawsuit against Laupahoehoe Charter School Dismissed
5. US News and World Report Ranks UH Manoa
6. Akaka Co-Sponsors Bill to Protect Civil Rights of Military Personnel
7. Federal Correctional Officer Charged with Sexual Abuse of Detainee
8. Three Convicted in Looting of Am Samoa Non-Profit
9. Abercrombie Appoints Jo Ann Uchida Takeuchi DCCA Deputy Director
10. Abercrombie Releases $34.2 Million for CIP
11. Listening Sessions for Ocean Resources Management Plan
12. Well written and thoughtful letters from young Hawaiians
13. Six University of Hawaii Regents named
14. Stiglitz: Jones Act, Young Bros and High Electricity Cripple Hawaii
15. SA: Reveal credit union executives’ pay
16. Alcohol and Sign Printing at the Hawaii Co Elections Office
17. Secret Budget Negotiations Continue Until Monday
18. Tax Credits Don’t Pay Off but Bogus Last Minute ’Studies’ Sure Do
19. Chong: Solar Tax Credits Siphon Money from State
20. Rail contractor's request for $15.9M Change Order first of Many to Come
21. $250 million for rail Likely to Die in US House
22. HART vs. LIUNA: Whose Responsibility it is to Blackmail Council Candidates?
23. School Busses: Legislators Push Back Against DoE’s “Irresponsible Fear-Mongering”
24. Laura Thielen: “People think I am a Republican; I would have a tremendous amount of support in the Republican Party”
25. Price: Is there an Upside to SB2858?
26. State Demotes Securities Regulator
27. State Agencies Ignore Auditor’s Reports
28. First Honolulu Mayoral Debate Set
29. Yoshioka Beginning to Choke on Bus Service Cuts
30. Despite Warnings and Pleas, Honolulu Rail Headed for 'Burials Central'
31. PUC Delinks Oil and Wind: Wind Scammers Lose $330,000/yr
32. Eco-Faddists Demand Bag Tax to Harass People into Obeying Their Religious Dogma
33. Double Header: Two Sheriffs On Trial This Month
34. After Stabbing, Ouansafi Praises Security
35. Stoned Drunk Driver Drives over Cliff, State to Pay $3M
36. First Hawaiian Continues to Profit by Refusing to Lend to Deadbeats
37. State Income Tax Due Today
38. Senate confirms 3 Board of Education members
39. Community school could turn into state's first adult charter school
40. ‘Pregnant Man,’ Splits From ‘Wife’ Of 9 Years, Going Through ‘Rough Patch’
41. Hawaii One of Few Places in US With No Licensed Aerial Drones
42. Retirement Fund Bankruptcy: Worst time in CNMI history

1. Legislators Voting to Release 1,100 Criminals on Streets of Hawaii
2. HB425 Opens Door to Natural Gas, Mandates Diversity of Fossil Fuel Energy Sources
3. Save Kakaako: Rally to Stop HB2819
4. Hanabusa Scores $284,000 in special interest money
5. DoE Announces Public School Graduation Dates
6. US Energy Dep't: 300 Open Criminal Investigations of Green Energy Scammers
7. Star-Adv Editorial: Census should guide election boundaries
8. Hawaii Co Elections Office: Alcohol, Parties, and Sign-making Business
9. Rail? Cayetano? Abercrombie Spokesperson Gives Non-Denial Denial
10. Bus Ridership Jumps as City Considers Service Cuts
11. Rail Project Cases Argued in Federal, State Court
12. Desperate Green Energy Scammers Now Claim their Baksheesh Benefits Economy 44-1
13. Legislature Voting to Let Lots of Criminals out of Prison
14. Lawsuit Settlement Will Cover up Homosexual Rape Gang stretching back to 1970s at Blind-Deaf School
15. Hawaii Kevorkian Taunts Police
16. Pathetic Hawaii Supreme Court Gives Alleged Attempted Babykiller New Trial
17. Hanabusa Pays Herself $51K from Campaign Funds
18. ‘Buzzy G’ Coordinates Senate Democrat Fundraisers so Lobbyists Can Avoid Scheduling Conflicts
19. Tsunami alert: Don't cut that program
20. President Obama signs Hawaii disaster declaration
21. Stimulated? Hawaii Burns Thru $1.5B in ‘Recovery’ Funds
22. Business chiefs try to ride to the rescue of rail project
23. Failure to Block: Hanabusa, Hirono Vote Against Small Business Tax Cuts
24. Rep. Pono Chong on SB 755, Environmental Protection & the Public Trust
25. Bag Tax in Political Death Throes
26. City Employees Travel to Germany to Oversee Sewer Pipe Manufacturing
27. Council Spends on Travel and TVs
28. GSA Watchdog Says Employees Are Reporting Abuse
29. Hawaii Could Establish a Veterans Court modeled on Drug Court
30. Act 208 Blocks Crazy Stupid Criminals from Working as Security Guards
31. Bank Fees don’t Pass Legislature
32. NELHA Aquaculture Pays Off
33. City Council committee approves measure to Create Kayak Rental Monopoly in Kailua
34. Lahainaluna HS to Celebrate David Malo Day
35. NMI Retirement Fund Bankruptcy Goes to Court

1. Djou Outlines Strategy for Congressional Race
2. Challenge to Democratic Party Bosses: Laura Thielen Launches State Senate Campaign
3. No Natural Gas for Hawaii with Jones Act Ships
4. Malulani Hospital seeks Mainland Partner
5. Hawaii Bishop at Vatican, Prays for Courage to Defend Religious Liberty
6. Hawaii Marines Lead Offensive Against Jihadi Dope Farms
7. Election plans move ahead despite pending lawsuit
8. Were Political Signs Printed at Hawaii County Elections Commission Warehouse?
9. Akaka Hospitalized over weekend? Misses Key Vote
10. KHON Retracts Story About Inouye Hospitalization
11. Borreca: Solving Natatorium issue could be Governor's legacy
12. Hannemann has $631K to Gabbard’s $465K
13. State Refuses to Enact Tax Credits for the Poor
14. Bill to speed development at rail depots moves ahead
15. TEA Party Rally Draws few to Capitol
16. Star-Adv: Haleiwa Farmers Market Should Move to make Way for State Paper Shufflers
17. Hawaii Whistleblowers Not Protected from Retaliation
18. EPA Working Hard to Make Sure Nobody Saves Money with Seawater Air Conditioning
19. Waimanalo Gulch Hearing Today
20. Enviros Sue Maui County over Wastewater Again
21. Hawaiian Airlines Inaugural Flies Jewel Smugglers to Japan and back
22. As City Cleans up Last Big Waianae Coast Homeless Camp, Some Finally Accept Shelter
23. VIDEO: Homelessness Industry Activist Harasses Makaha Beach Cleanup Volunteers
24. MD Busted for Selling Dope
25. SB2579 Encourages Underage Prostitution?

1. Dalai Lama Slams Beijing for Burnings
2. Hawaii Bishop at Vatican, Prays for Courage to Defend Religious Liberty
3. Honolulu TEA Party Rally April 16
4. Case: Far Left Hirono is just as Bad as Limbaugh
5. Rail Advertiser: Don’t Add 4th Lane to H-1
6. Abercrombie Tries to Block HFF From Defending Marriage
7. Blue Planet Foundation Legislative Agenda: Higher Utility Bills for the People, More Tax Credits for ‘Green’ Energy Scammers
8. OSHA to Take Over Takamine’s Incompetent DoL?
9. In spite of High Cost of Living, Hawaii Workers’ Earnings Below US Average
10. Hawaii doctors offer patients 'choice' to die
11. KHON Retracts Story About Inouye Hospitalization
12. NHLC Shake-Down Lawyers Still Grabbing for Control of Public Water
13. 13% of OHA Small Business Loans Default
14. Kobayashi to Credit Unions: Disclose Exec Salaries, or Face Property Tax Hikes
15. Congressional hearing on GSA's lavish spending begins Monday
16. Politics: Leaders debate Micronesia impact in US areas
17. Micronesia: Fishing days to dominate treaty talks
18. Vacation Rental Legislation is Deceptive
19. 90% of Hawaii Financial Disclosures Hidden from Public View
20. Shoppers and farmers are dismayed over the state forcing the Haleiwa Farmers' Market from its site

1. Lingle to Focus on Comprehensive Tax Reform
2. Ed Week: Hawaii in Biggest Trouble, Feds Have Good Reason to Revoke Race to the Top
3. UH: Hawaii Physician Shortage Could Grow from 600 to 1600
4. SB3010: Sierra Club Threatens to Sue over Environmental Exemptions
5. Zenith Reached in Earmarking of Unrelated Fund Sources
6. QUEST Rationing: Hospitalization, Artificial Limbs Eliminated to Pay for ‘Preventative Services’
7. Hee: OHA Must Go After More Land and Money
8. SB2438: PUC to Rely on HECO-Controlled ‘Institute’ to Approve ‘Clean Energy’ Projects
9. Bag Tax, Big Cable, and Kupuna Care Lead Star-Adv Editors Legislative Priorities
10. Ihara: ‘Gut and Replace’ Hits New Peak this Session
11. Will Natural Gas be Allowed to Lower Hawaii’s Electric Rates?
12. State Capitalists Raise Money for Pro-Rail Propaganda
13. Hanabusa Brings in $224,000
14. DoH Bans Backyard Burning Statewide—$10,000 Fine
15. Hawaii Would Be Hit Hard by Buffet Rule
16. Akiona: Obama Budget Targets Independent Contractors
17. Guam National Guard Teams to Deploy to Afghanistan
18. UH Manoa Perfesser Predicts Future Census Questions: How many times have you changed your sex?
19. Hardships do not faze new BYUH student president
20. Lawsuit: Waikiki Shooting Gallery Charged with Negligence

1. Mazie Brings "Mr Fannie Mae" to Hawaii
2. Hawaii Shippers Council Outlines Jones Act Reform Proposals
3. Hawaii Economic Performance Ranks 15th, Economic Outlook 46th
4. Hawaii Youth Link Assisted Suicide to Teen Suicide
5. Makers of Promotional Products Rally to Defense of Rail
6. SB2341: Would Allow Overnight Accommodations on Maui Ag Land
7. SB2394: Would Allow Condemnation of Private Property to Bail Out Mortgage lenders
8. VIDEO: Thielen, Rivere, Ward Rip SB755 Environmental Exemptions
9. Case: Hirono Now Ducking 10 Debate Invitations
10. Public Access TV Relegated to Digital Siberia
11. Adrianne Heely Appointed Maui Judge
12. North Korea's Rogue Missile Launch
13. Redistricting case will be heard in May
14. HSTA pressure kills class-time bill
15. Educated Youth Flee Hawaii
16. Waipahu Students Not Fooled by Rail Presentation
17. Abercrombie’s Wife Endorses Tulsi Gabbard
18. Legislature out of control on attacking Hawaii’s environmental protections
19. Civil Beat’s “integrity investigation” questioned by Ian Lind
20. Legislators Consider Giving Sex Workers Welfare, Labor Law Protections
21. Honolulu TSA Screeners Acquitted of Catching too Many Illegals and Too Many Drug Smugglers
22. GSA official to assert privilege to remain silent
23. World Laughs at Incompetent Socialists in N Korea
24. Illegal Dumping Settlement Dumps on taxpayers
25. After Hee’s Bill Fails, Opihi Season Requested by Resolution
26. Schatz traveling to Asia to discuss clean energy Scams
27. Kauai electric utility will begin installing smart meters
28. Horse Cruelty Case May Be Tossed Due to Bumbling Kauai Prosecutor’s Office
29. Homeless Alcoholic Busted in Kauai Church Fire
30. UH Manoa Perfesser Preaches His Atheist Religion at California Revival Meet
31. Some Hawaii post offices offering late collections on Tax Day
32. International Marketplace to Be Demolished
33. Photo: First axis deer killed on Big Island

1. Lingle Campaign Raises $3.1M
2. Not Aimed at Hawaii This Time: N Korea Rocket fails, falls in Ocean
3. Celebrate Israel Day Hawaii, May 20
4. Am Samoa Congressional Race: Radewagen, Lancaster Challenge Faleomavaega
5. Salon: Am Samoa's Congressional Delegate Defends Dictatorship at Behest of Lobbyist
6. Abercrombie Signs Kakaako Over to OHA, HCDA Maintains Development Control
7. HB 108- Dog Fighting OK, Dog Breeding Illegal
8. Payment Protection: State Sues Seven Mainland Credit Card Companies
9. Akaka: Lingle is ‘Friendly’, Her Role Model is ‘Open-Minded’
10. Tipping Point? Isle Democrats lead charge against the environment
11. Abercrombie Dept of Corrections Appointee Flees State
12. SA Editors Grasping at Straws Claim: Teacher evaluations within reach
13. DOE seeks extra funds to preserve Colluding Bus Contactors
14. Grabbucks: New HART Boss Pulls Down $300K / year
15. Grabbucks vs TheBus: “Rail is the Gift that keeps on Giving”
16. Inouye: The Only Thing That Will Stop Rail is World War III -- Carlisle: We Need to Build an Army
17. Cayetano: "Carlisle prone to Making Stupid Statements"
18. Caldwell: Carlisle “Crazy” To Build Rail Columns and tear them Down
19. Honolulu Council Keep Rail Budget Intact
20. Malama Solomon Scores Worst Senate Attendance Record
21. House OKs charter school bill despite divisive ethics provision
22. Senate Passes bill Requiring minimum sick leave
23. State deputy sheriff accused of sexually assaulting female detainee
24. April electric rates up on all islands except 1
25. Crooks, Cronies Squabble over Geothermal Royalties
26. Haleiwa Farmer’s Market to Stay open til end of Month
27. DoH Harasses Local Businesses, Cane Fire Gets Fine
28. Solar Telescope Construction May Begin Despite Permit Challenge
29. SB2402: Dim Bulb Legislators Vote to Block State Use of Fluorescent Bulbs, Stadium Lighting on Edge
30. Leading Theocrat Hailed by Billionaire as He Launches Four Day Hawaii Tour

1. Lingle, Collins: "Bipartisanship is Leadership"
2. VIDEO: Guam Senator Garners Support for Jones Act Exemptions
3. The View from DC: No Sign Hawaii is Serious about Teacher Evaluations
4. State Steals $200M from Hawaiians, Gives 30 Ac to OHA: Hee, Solomon Boycott Signing
5. Matthew DiGeronimo to Run for CD2
6. Linda Lingle's Role Model: Susan Collins of Maine
7. Useless $75,000 Drone Traced to Waihee Cronies
8. Boylan: Hawaii Dems Suspicious of Party-Switchers
9. GSA Spends $330,000 to Relocate One Employee to Hawaii, Then He Quits
10. Manoa Chancellor Candidates At the End of their Careers
11. Number of police officers holding medical marijuana cards remains a mystery
12. Police Warn Chinatown Shopowner not to Antagonize Meth Dealers, Threaten Him With Arrest
13. City Council Would Create Bureaucracy to Track Plastic Bag Use
14. Stanley Chang: Give Councilmembers $40K more to Play With
15. State orders Haleiwa Farmer's Market to close
16. Koa Ridge, Hoopili Last Big Master Plans?
17. Profitable Nonprofits Lose 19%
18. Few Hawaii Donors Support Presidential Super PACs
19. Plan would squeeze 4th lane into Honolulu freeway
20. Historic Kauai Church Vandalized on Easter Eve

1. Three Judge Panel Will Hear Reapportionment Case
2. Honolulu TEA Party Rally April 16
3. Study: Hawaii Cost of Long Term Care Soars 87% in Five Years
4. Carlisle Admin: Keep Waimanalo Gulch Open 15 More Years
5. Legislators Exempt State from Child Molestation Claims
6. Horizon Lines Completes Restructuring
7. Marumoto: SB2858 Relating to Closed Government
8. Activists attack bills that exempt construction projects from review
9. Without High-rises, OHA Cannot Justify Kakaako Toxic Waste Cleanup Expense
10. Civil Unions, Bag Ban, Taxes, Tax Credits Set for Crossover
11. Big Victory for HSTA: House Kills Teacher Eval Bill, $266M in Federal Funds at Risk
12. HGEA Inks Fake Principal Accountability Evaluations
13. Rail development proposal fails to give public a voice
14. Geothermal to be Issue in Hawaii County Mayor’s Race
15. Big Wind Opponents Suffer Defeat in House
16. Rep Mele Carroll Misses 25% of Sessions, Makes Excuses
17. Hawaii Gov’t Hiring Tarnished by Nepotism, Cronyism, and Patronage
18. SB2115 Would Allow Nepotism in Charter Schools
19. GSA employees travel to Hawaii five-days for a one-hour ribbon cutting, Planning 10 day return Trip
20. Feds Bust HPD Officer with Medical Marijuana Card for Multi-Location Grow-Op
21. Wisconsin Homosexual Child Molester Gets 10 Years in Waikiki Molestation cases
22. Top Five Lobbying Spenders
23. Senate: DLNR Officers Don't Need Taser Training
24. Federal Taskforce Stacked by Homelessness Industry
25. Styrofoam: Mainland Green Energy Scammers Attack Hawaii Restaurant Industry
26. TPL Aims for 16% Profit on Sale of Swampland

1. Yoshioka: Bus Service Cuts Have no Connection With Rail
2. $25M Kapolei Biofuel Refinery Produces 5 Barrels per Day
3. While Hawaii Legislators Sleep, Another State Bars Companies Doing Business With Iran
4. Federal judges will hear challenge to state reapportionment plan
5. N.Korea presses on with anniversary rocket launch
6. BoE to Vote on Teacher Accountability
7. Budget: Abercrombie Paying $11,700 per Goose, $168K per Delinquent
8. Rail Opponents Ask Judge For Decision
9. Rail crews continue search for ancestral bones
10. An environmental review of Rail precast facility OK'd, Could Lead to new Lawsuit
11. Environmentalists rally against "dirty dozen" bills at capitol
12. SB2785: Big Cable for Big Wind Vote Today
13. Paper bag use Soars as Plastic Bags banned on Maui, Kauai
14. Bag Distributor Wants Amendments to City Bag Ban
15. Akaka Committee to Meet With AWOL Soldier
16. Soft on Crime: Suspect in Arson, Killing of 97-year-old Has 8 Convictions
17. Politically Connected Public Housing Resident Calls for State to Ban Smoking in Homes
18. Crystal meth use drops among workers in isles
19. Unions Use Sewage Plant As Endorsement Backdrop
20. Nepotism Not Illegal in Hawaii
21. Hawaii judges' pay Lowest in Nation
22. What Do Hawaii Lawmakers Have Against Ethics Code?
23. Government Health IT Comes to Hawaii
24. Teen Pregnancy Rate Continues to fall
25. Honolulu Residents Abuse City’s New 311 Service
26. Long lines shift from DMV to Health Department
27. Harbors Dep’t Buys Useless $75K Drone
28. Occupy Honolulu expands encampment to Central Pacific Bank
29. State offering mortgage assistance to first time homebuyers
30. Allegiant Air to Start Hawaii Flights
31. How Hawaiian princes brought Surfing to Britain in 1890

1. Pacific Rim GSA: 115 iPods Missing
2. RNC Moves to Boost Hawaii GOP
3. Hawaiian societies caught as much fish as modern fishers
4. HSTA Leader: Abercrombie, Legislators Should Switch to Republican Party
5. Daughtery Challenges Okabe: The top-down approach has bankrupted teacher morale
6. Gov. Lingle Selected Laura Thielen for Her Cabinet Based On Talent, Not Political Affiliation
7. Hawaii Gaming Promoter to Host $1M Obama Fundraiser
8. Airline Exec Offers to Campaign Against Lingle in Exchange for Subsidies
9. Republicans Overwhelmingly Reaffirm Ted Liu as National Committeeman
10. Council Support Wavers As Key Rail Vote Looms
11. Kauai District Attorney Recuses Herself AGAIN
12. Runner for political seat would be youngest ever to hold office in state, at 18
13. Tobacco giant Philip Morris was top lobbyist during May-December 2011
14. State Workers having a Hard Time Scoring Workers Comp Bennies
15. Hawaii Owes $60,000 in Airport Workers’ Harassment Suit
16. Electric Car Drivers May Face Federal Charges
17. SA: Make room for bikes on roads
18. Hawaii Turns to Dog Shrinks As 'Incessant Barkers' Enter Pleas
19. Ninth Circuit Revives Lawsuit over Religious Marijuana Use
20. Laupahoehoe Charter School names new Principal
21. Kids' English takes priority at Kalihi School
22. Highlighting Hawaii's problem of child abuse
23. Mokulele Flights to Chicago, London put on hold
24. Supreme Court’s Ratings Jump Following Health Care Hearings

1. Hawaii Among Worst States in Nation on Taxing the Working Poor
2. GSA Scandal: Lingle Takes Aim at Waste and Fraud
3. Zero Confidence in Lawmakers Revealed
4. Big Island Prosecutor Candidate Promises to Re-Open Peter Boy Case
5. State Senate Candidates Scramble to Distance themselves from Abercrombie
6. Boylan: Romney May Be Next President
7. New tax credits sought for Billionaire Movie Moguls
8. Borreca: Legislators Rejected Lingle’s Call to Stop Taxing the Poor
9. Kauai Democrats: Never make the mistake of electing a Republican governor again
10. Tulsi Gabbard Would Repeal DOMA
11. Cataluna: Hilo Peeping Tom Beaten
12. MADD: Pass HB2320 Ignition Interlock
13. State Gets off Easy After Hiring Doper as Spinal Surgeon
14. DoE Closing Adult GED Schools
15. RTTT pays to Hire 200 Un-Licensed Obamabots to ‘Teach’ in DoE Schools
16. Punatic: Only 1% of Oil Used to generate Electricity is Imported
17. Navy Testing New Generation of Power Buoy
18. UH athletics could lose $2 million
19. Japan Prepares to Shoot Down North Korean Missile

1. Lawsuit: Veterans, Military Personnel Challenge Hawaii Reapportionment Plan
2. NTU: Hanabusa voted for 91% of Tax Increases, Hirono 88%
3. Push Poll Audio: "Berg got so drunk ..."
4. Biofuel: Honeywell Hints at Tesoro Refinery Takeover
5. Big Island Paper Pushes Back against Equal Representation for Military Families, Students
6. HR61: Legislators Salivate for Legalized Honu Hunting
7. New Tax Evasion Charge Filed Against Retired HPD Major Nishimura
8. Honolulu Bag ban Would cost Stores $30K month, Cause Paper bag use to Skyrocket
9. Lingle the Only Reason there’s a Tossup
10. Aiona will focus on practicing law but is still open to public service in the future
11. Aiona ‘Excited about Opportunity to bring people together’
12. Rivere, Say, Aila, Harris Debate Environmental Review Exemptions
13. Shapiro: Political mess deepens as sewage sludge returns
14. OHA, Enviros Only Get One Water Commissioner
15. HB2236: Funds Commission to Study Ways to Raise Your Taxes
16. Shelving of 2 bills hampers reform of workers' comp
17. Mitch Roth running for Hawaii County prosecutor
18. Castle’s Man in DoE Retires
19. HPD Employee Faced Retaliation for Sex Harassment Lawsuit
20. Star-Adv Backs AWOL Surfer Soldier
21. Dalai Lama's visit, peace initiative will show isles to the rest of world

1. Lawsuit: Veterans, Military Personnel Challenge Hawaii Reapportionment Plan
2. Okabe to Obama: Abercrombie is 'Difficult'
3. US Constitutional Convention? Hawaii State House Wants to Write Obamacare into Constitution, Strengthen Power of President
4. VIDEO: Hawaii Federal Rapper at Center of Latest GSA Scandal
5. Hawaii's Good Friday Holiday - What's Up With That?
6. Seek Truth in Response to Physician Assisted Suicide
7. Thielen May File as Democrat, Challenge Party to Sue
8. Political Comeback? Former Sen. Fred Hemmings Says Hawaii is Ready to Change the 'Status Quo'
9. Charles Djou: Back from Afghanistan - Ready for Political Battle
10. Lingle acknowledges her challenge as a pro-choicer
11. Duke Aiona Leaves St Louis School Job, Returns to Law Practice
12. Insurers Launch Big Brother Medical Records System
13. New Hawaii State Securities Lawyer: $900,000 In Back Taxes, Child Support
14. Gore Cult Praises Hawaii’s Preparation for Global Warming, Demands More
15. Water Board Appointees Get Instructions for Malama Solomon’s Water Deliveries
16. Abercrombie Admin Backs Castle & Cooke Development
17. Honolulu Council Campaign Getting Ugly
18. Feds Bust Five in cockfighting, illegal gambling case
19. Online Poker Site Accepts Hawaii Players
20. Double Murderer Charges Parole Board Vindictive, Gets New Hearing
21. Food businesses face fee 1050% Fee hikes to Create HGEA Jobs
22. W. Oahu churches expand to serve growing congregations
23. Open-ocean cages get state's approval
24. "Pacific Gibraltar" -- Important New Book on Hawaiian History

1. U.S. Senator Susan Collins Visits Hawaii
2. Guam Legislator Calls for Exemption from US-Build Provisions of Jones Act
3. Rep Kymberly Pine Running for Honolulu City Council
4. Hirono Supporters Worry about Candidate’s Ability to Go One-on-One vs Lingle
5. Lingle: Pro-choice Republican women Needed in Senate
6. Inouye, Muslims Raise Money for Michigan Democrat Senate Candidate
7. SA: Legislators Should Let Housing Authority Ban Smoking in Public Housing
8. April 6 is ‘Tax Freedom Day’ in Hawaii
9. Abercrombie to Steal $200M from Hawaiians, Give 30 ac to OHA Trustees
10. Hurried House Rushes 13 Bills to Hearing
11. Ernie Martin: Honolulu Will Move Bag Tax
12. Honolulu Budget panel Decides Horses are Agricultural: OKs restoration of tax breaks for horse owners
13. Abercrombie: No Declaration for Annual Hawaii Prayer Day
14. Pacific Palisades Shooter Was Watch Commander at Wahiawa Prison
15. Oi: Thielen is type of Candidate Democrats Need
16. Enviros Prepare to Destroy Tuna Farm
17. Sen Roz Baker Makes Excuses for Vacation Rental Bill
18. Improvements at Kewalo may hinge on public-private partnership
19. Hawaii SB2168 Will Activate Nationwide Reinsurance Tax Clearinghouse
20. HB2703 Directs Dept of Ag to Maintain Count of Local Grown Food
21. State senators table workers comp bill
22. Rep. Giugni’s Fundraiser During Session
23. Are Hawaii Judges Governed By Conflict Of Interest Rules
24. “Clean Energy’ Stimulus Funds Burned by State, Cronies, Utilities, and Profitable Nonprofits
25. Tesoro Sale Casts Doubt: Federal Stimulus Still Not Stimulating Many Jobs at Local Biorefinery Plant
26. Biofool Scammer Makes Nice in Hamakua
27. Christian Sparks Propane Price War in Puna
28. 6 Occupy Honolulu protesters plead no contest, nobody cares
29. Descent Into Haole: 'The Descendants' Dissed
30. City offers online Sunshine Law training for board, commission members

1. KOS: The Secret Behind Mitt Romney’s Hawaii Landslide
2. Faleomavaega: Bahrain’s Best Friend in Congress
3. Hawaii: Is the Obama Administration Giving States Flexibility When It Rejects Proposals to Reduce Medicaid Costs?
4. Suicide Activists Line up Hawaii Doctors to Kill Patients
5. Honolulu Community College Announces Final Three Candidates for Chancellor
6. The Seven Rules of Bureaucracy
7. Atheist Advertiser vs. First Amendment: ‘Don't allow anti-civil union actions’
8. Democrats, Media Carefully Avoid Any Discussion of Illegality in Thielen Rejection
9. DoE Pulls Out All the Stops to Save Funding for Colluding School Bus Contractors
10. Reforming Hawaii's charter schools: 5 myths and 5 realities
11. HB2819: Kakaako Development Gut and Replace
12. Small Contractors to be Cut Out of $500M in CIP?
13. State's answer to its budget deficit is crippling small construction companies
14. HB466: Workers Comp Reform Proposal Described as Sop to Pill Mills
15. Act 221 Scammers, Insurance Companies Team Up With Abercrombie Admin to Profit from Controlling Hawaii Health Exchange
16. Health exchange board needs to be accountable to public
17. Hawaii to receive part of $137.5M WellCare settlement
18. University of Hawaii-Manoa Chancellor Candidate Eliminated Two Dozen Degree Programs at MSU
19. Abercrombie’s Apocalypse: The King Nebuchadnezzar Effect
20. Enviros Pounce on Abercrombie Water Board Nominees
21. Rent-a-Mob: Anti-Geothermal Punatics Hammer HECO
22. Another Mainland Solar Contractor Seeks Profits from Hawaii Tax Credits
23. Small Businesses Losing Revenue Due to Bag Bans
24. Gabbard Adds Bottle Tax to Plastic Bag Tax Bill
25. NPS Short Circuits Bottle Ban After Donor Complaints
26. Food Truck Fix Passed, Signed into law
27. Soft on Crime: 13-year Criminal Record, Out of Jail 1 month Tries to Run Down officer in Stolen Jeep
28. Mayor Won't Cancel Sewage Treatment Contract
29. ‘October Baby’ Well Received in Honolulu, Slated for National Rollout
30. HPD officers say enforcing 30-year old policy endangers their lives
31. Hawaii Still Waiting as Coast Guard Rolls Out ‘Rescue 21’ System on Mainland
32. Inouye, Wife Visit Arab-American Museum

1. Pentagon Prepares for Possible Shoot Down of North Korean Missile
2. Ko Olina, Kyo-Ya Snag HTA Board Positions
3. ACLU: Hawaii Counties Among Few Requiring Warrant to Track Cell Phones
4. Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How They Voted April 2, 2012
5. Feds Reject Hawaii’s 10-Day Medicaid Hospital Limit
6. While Cutting Services, Hawaii fails to reap up to $80M in federal Medicaid money
7. As Legislators Threaten to Impose Accountability, HSTA Pretends to become interested in Negotiations
8. $11B budget bill moves ahead
9. Rep Har Pushes Abercrombie’s SB755 Environmental Takeover
10. Lanai Voter Regrets Abercrombie Vote
11. Abercrombie, Hee Team up to Push Dogs-in-Restaurants Bill—Restaurant Owner Must Clean Up Dog Poop
12. As Filipinos Move to Middle Class, they Line up with Republicans against Rail
13. Assisted Suicide: Six Hawaii Kervorkians Announce Plan to Commit Manslaughter
14. Star-Adv: Police Should Get Record of Everybody’s Prescriptions
15. Study: HECO Overpaying for Windfarm Electricity by 200% to 300%
16. New emission controls will cost shippers billions
17. Hee Pushes Thru Bill to Block Public Housing Residents From Smoking in their Own Apartments
18. Non-Resident VR Owner feels ‘Kicked in the Face’
19. Ethics Commission Nixes OHA’s Lawmaker Invites
20. Legislators still slow in filing financial disclosures
21. Bankruptcy filings down 25.4 percent in March
22. HLTA takes applications for Hannemann's position
23. Candidates for UH Manoa Chancellor set to visit the Manoa campus
24. H-Power Recycles All Metals in Waste Stream
25. HB1947: Anti-Small Farmers Bill Backed by Agribusiness
26. Is The Way Hawaii Selects Judges Transparent?
27. Drunk Driver Kills Two, Families of Victims Given $210,000 by State of Hawaii
28. Hawaii Whale Population Increasing 7% Per Year
29. Beck to Publish Book on Obama’s Communist Mentor

1. HB1033: Tracing the Financial Outlines of Socialism in Hawaii
2. S&P: Credit Risks Mount For U.S. Domestic Shipping Companies As Ships Start Showing Their Age
3. Vancouver Sun: Hawaii Vacation Rental Bills Violate NAFTA
4. Abercrombie: Unions Better Wake Up, HSTA Contract Will be up in June
5. SB682 Could Change Terms of OHA Settlement
6. Ethics: Belatti Throws Clunker into Charter School Reform Bill
7. Today may be the last chance to remove monopoly health insurers from the Hawaii Health Connector
8. Green Energy Bank would Use Hawaii General Fund to Build Wind farms Nationwide
9. Is It 'Reckless' To Build Honolulu Rail Before Feds Commit Funds?
10. Second Crossover Deadline Thursday
11. Mufi Teams Up with Guam Republicans for Fundraiser
12. Hawaii Scores 25% for Executive Branch Financial Disclosure
13. Pay raises advocated for city officials
14. Molokai condo lawsuit gets big result, lots of news
15. Condo losses from theft now $100,000
16. Obstacles to Veterans Transitioning into University Education?
17. Private Schools Raise Tuition 3%-6%
18. State House resolution calls for lower shipping fees on Internet purchases
19. EXCLUSIVE: Honolulu Zoo's full accreditation restored
20. Maui: 450 Idiots Spend 10 Hours Listening to Conspiracy Huckster
21. Charlie Maxwell Changed With Pension, Free Time

1. Felony Inducement? Laura Thielen Senate Run Rejected by Democratic State Committee
2. Zing To Taxpayers, You Are Paying For Those Giveaways
3. Lingle Calls for Reauthorization of Export-Import Bank
4. Gallup: After Electing Hanabusa, Urban Honolulu Drops from 4th best to 57th
5. Broken Trust Figures Abercrombie, Hee, Levinson: Churches Must be Forced to Conduct Gay Union Ceremonies
6. Star-Adv: After Supremes Overturn Obamacare, We Will Still Destroy Prepaid
7. Multiple Violations: DCCA Securities Enforcement Headed By Lawyer Sanctioned by Hawaii Supreme Court
8. Feds Loss on Central Pacific Bailout Estimated at $63.1M
9. SB682: Another Waikiki In the Making?
10. Unity House Looted of Another $800K in Lotus Hotel Deal
11. Hawaii's marriage rates by community
12. Soft on Crime: Burglar Released Early After Multiple Convictions, Kills 3 year old boy in Drunk Driving Hit and Run
13. Cataluna: Which Drunk Legislator was Dumber?
14. Star-Adv Profiles AWOL Soldier Surfing Northshore
15. JSC: Nobody Wants to be on Hawaii Supreme Court
16. Police Will be Overseeing your Prescriptions
17. Waterman Aka Hemmings is dead at 59
18. NMI: Signature campaign to Allow Land Sales to Outsiders begins
19. Hawaii County report offers 40 recommendations to improve tax policy

1. Overworked Doctor Commits Suicide at Tripler
2. Honolulu Tea Party Rally, Monday April 16
3. Bailout: $60M Loss as Feds Sell Interest in Central Pacific Bank
4. HTA: Visitor Arrivals up 2.5% from Year Ago
5. Hawaii NRA Instructor Liability Bill to be Heard in Senate Committee
6. Applicants Sought for Chair of the Elections Commission
7. Kealakehe Selected as Site of Future Judiciary Complex in Kona
8. DLNR Snares Slowly Torture Pigs
9. April 22 is Deadline for Reapportionment Litigation
10. Tires Slashed, Signs Stolen: Cayetano's Campaign Targeted Again
11. Spending Billions on Rail, City Now Cuts Back on TheBus
12. Aging Flower Child Abercrombie Morphs into Spiro Agnew
13. After Decades, Kamaoa Wind Farm Finally Being Torn Down
14. After Kamehameha – DHHL Deal Fails, Jeff Stone Sells Golf Course to Firm Headed by Micah Kane
15. Data Mining May Penalize Doctors Who Help Poor, Homeless
16. Bag Tax May Not Be Heard in House?
17. Frankel: “Big money’s at stake” on Haleakala
18. HSTA Will Resume bargaining April 5
19. Sunshine Law likely to be amended by several pending bills
20. Amid gold rush to recruit veterans, concerns over rankings of "military friendly" colleges
21. Medicare Paying $15,000 to Save Old People’s Vision
22. NAACP sunset vigil to honor King and victim of Florida shooting
23. Council approves $10K for Police Commission counsel

1. Barney Frank on Maui: Hirono Raises Funds with Man Who Caused Housing Collapse
2. NRA: Immediate Action Needed on Hawaii Instructor Liability Bill
3. Abercrombie: We Need to Move Past Self-Appointed Hawaiian Organizations
4. OHA Cronies Will Get $200M worth of Land to Personally Profit From
5. Abercrombie: I delayed Capital Improvement Projects for 20 Months
6. Laura Thielen, Former Lingle appointee, to run for SD25 as Democrat
7. Hawaii Legislature Advances Law in Hopes of Deceiving US Department of Education
8. Plan to Let Criminals Out of Prison Stripped from Bill after Ala Moana Work Release Arrests
9. Mandatory Sick Leave: Another Made in San Francisco Pipedream
10. Property Management Firms Behind Non-Resident Vacation Rental Owners
11. Inouye Behind Firing of Haleakala Hearing Officer
12. Bag Ban Littered With Confusing Exemptions
13. Who Speaks for the Abercrombie Administration?
14. Losers: Hirono, Hanabusa vote against House Budget
15. Josh Green Lines Pockets as State Health Connector Nears Approval
16. Wooley, Hooser Bob and Weave as Dirty Dozen Near Approval
17. SB2927 Will Help Line Up TOD Developers for Rail
18. The Navy will withdraw from service three ships at Pearl Harbor in the next two years
19. Change state Constitution if you want to rein in debt
20. Star-Adv Desperately Looks for Justification of $100K Gift to Atheist
21. Split in trade groups lobbying for Hawaii’s solar/PV industry
22. Hawaii one of Only 8 States to Raise Cigarette Taxes
23. Waste to Energy Proposals Sought in Maui, Hawaii
24. Maui Resident Appointed to National Taxpayer Advocacy Panel
25. Hawaii becomes 20th state to certify Americans Elect on November general election ballot
26. Hawaii leads nation in electric vehicle charging stations
27. Profitable Non-Profits Drive Expanding Definition of Autism
28. Hamakua Resident Roseanne Barr Publishes Address of George Zimmerman’s Parents
29. Zoo Suspects Crazy Bums Freed Tawny Frogmouth

1. Rail Plaintiffs to FTA: We suspect that you are no longer shocked by the City’s deceptive practices
2. Abercrombie: Environmental Critics Are 'Apocalyptic Naysayers'
3. Hawaii's fallen heroes remembered in medal of honor ceremony
4. Abercrombie Rambles at Medal of Honor Ceremony
5. Hawaii Is Tops in Cronyism, Nepotism, and Patronage
6. Hawaii: Highest State Debt Per Capita
7. State Owned Bank: $4B at Risk to Reward Cronies
8. Out-of-state workers already on the rail job
9. Star-Adv: We Want Our $75M--Use HB2527 to Pressure HSTA on RTTT Settlement
10. Lingle Campaign Slaps Down Democrat Attack on Republican Jewish Coalition
11. Hawaii Charter School Overhaul Looks Likely
12. Pay raises suggested for top City and County jobs
13. Civil Beat Loses Chief Editor
14. Kailua, Urban Honolulu are Top Communities for Divorced Persons
15. Census: Honolulu and San Diego Swap Residents
16. Nearly $3.9M award from jury over Molokai ‘campaign of intimidation’
17. Feds Bust Airline Workers Allegedly Moving 300 lbs of Meth to Hawaii
18. Prison Guard Arrested for Allegedly Shooting Up Pearl City

1. Lingle Commends US Chamber for Tourism-Focused Senate Testimony
2. Life of the Land Releases Hawaii Energy Report
3. State, County Projects Exempt from Environmental Review? Thielen, Rivere Rip SB755
4. Teacher: DoE Allows Students to Take and Re-Take Tests until they Pass
5. SB1332: Kobayashi UH Exemption to be Continued?
6. Is Honolulu Rail Debt Causing Budget Cuts?
7. Grabuskas: Rail Funding not Guaranteed
8. Sen. Roz Baker Blasted Over Hearing Conduct
9. Slom: Health Exchange Lacks Sunshine, Ethics
10. HMSA seeks rate boost
11. HB2175: Task-Force Lobbyists to be Exempted from Ethics Code
12. Hawaii Adds 1,200 Gov’t Jobs, Loses 33,800 Private Sector Jobs
13. Paid Sick Leave Mandate on Today’s legislative Agenda
14. Young Brothers’ President Nominated to Board of Ag
15. Hawaii GOP 'Still Looking' for Candidate to Run in Congressional Race
16. New guns for Hawaii sheriffs packed up & shipped back to Smith & Wesson
17. Horizon Lines' debt restructuring puts future in limbo
18. Gay Waikiki Murder Trail Continues
19. State says condo funds must be deposited locally
20. Vandals strike Honolulu Zoo, exotic birds missing

1. Report: HSTA not to Blame for All Delays in Race to the Top
2. Hawaii GOP Appoints New Executive Director
3. Obama Whispers Away America's Security
4. Banks to Pay only 20% of Mortgage Settlement
5. Giant radar returns to sea as N. Korean launch looms
6. Abercrombie’s Medical Plan: Iowa Senator Pushes Hawaii to Dump Psychiatrists off Medicaid
7. New health board is off to an uncomfortable start
8. New Secret Weapon in Federal Anti-Rail Lawsuit in Honolulu: University Law Students
9. Performance Evaluations front and center as RTTT Squad Arrives
10. Criminal UPW Boss Gary Rodrigues on the Loose in Honolulu, Looking for a Job
11. Cyberbullying, Kiddie Porn on Legislative Agenda Today
12. Abercrombie Victory: No Plans being made for 2013 Pro Bowl
13. Can Abercrombie be Held Accountable for his Actions?
14. City Down to ‘only’ 150 Sewage Spills a Year
15. Higher Electric Bills Ahead: PUC Gives Go-Ahead to Biofool Scammers
16. Sex Offenders on the Loose
17. HPD investigates 100,000 missing police reports
18. Ritte Demands Boat Visiting Molokai Hand over Cash
19. Lawmakers question UH Manoa Chancellor's necessity
20. Certified Hawaii CEO Fired – Was Allegedly Stealing from Homeowners Associations
21. What delayed news of theft by CEO of major property management firm? 
22. 9th Circuit Voids Hawaii Foreclosure Sale
23. 9th Circuit Rules on Waikiki Coral Damage Fine
24. $65,000 to preserve WWII Japanese-American internment sites in Hawaii
25. Taro task force looking for members