1. HSTA reaches school reopening agreement with state of Hawaii
2. Hawaii--Biggest Health Improvement During COVID-19
3. Aggressive contact tracing by state identifies new COVID cases
4. Some of Abigail Kawananakoa’s items are going up for auction. That’s raising concerns
5. Debating Christopher Deedy, again

1. Future of the Aloha Stadium
2. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 27, 2020
3. Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
4. State Education Systems with the Most Racial Equality -- Hawaii 16th
5. COVID Count: 27 new cases out of 1,677 tests
6. Honolulu police chief says department doesn’t need reforms despite recent spike in fatal shootings by officers
7. Distance Learning? Students MIA
8. Pandemic or not, legislators open vault for public workers
9. Honolulu city bus driver tests positive for coronavirus
10. Time will tell if Gov. David Ige’s slow-steady style proves wise against COVID-19
11. Union expresses concern about hotel worker safety
12. Cruise Ships Heading for Hawaii in October
13. Work from home era may leave rail behind
14. ‘It was hamajang’: East Oahu residents sue the city over shoddy road work
15. Who is going to pay for Aloha Stadium’s health and safety repairs?

1. Facial Recognition: Legislature appropriates $90 million for airport COVID-19 screening
2. Letter: Legislators 'Concerned' About DoE Plan to Continue 'Distance Learning' Scam
3. Note to Legislature: Focus!
4. COVID Count: 17 new cases out of 1,296 tests
5. COVID Count: Six new cases out of 1,177 tests
6. DoH Survey: Many Hawaii residents no longer see COVID-19 as threat
7. COVID: Half of Households with Children have lost income
8. Video: "Lockdown, Testing and Tracking: Are They Really Legal?"
9. Hawaii 2nd Highest Tax Burden in USA
10. Tourism Industry Kept 33% of Hawaii Households on Edge of Poverty—and that was before COVID
11. Lawmakers, schools superintendent trade blame for lack of preparation ahead of school reopenings
12. Hawaii vacation rentals see low occupancy, demand amid Covid-19 restrictions
13. Hawaii Attorney General victimized by identity thieves who targeted unemployment program
14. Legislators Allocate $7M to Remove Homeless Trash, ACLU Whines About it
15. COVID Tourism Control: State set to reopen Hana Highway to public
16. High court rules in favor of county on timeshare taxes

1. COVID Suits: One Case Dismissed, Judge Blocks Feds from Other
2. The Separation of Powers Limitation on Hawaii’s Emergency Authority
3. DLIR: Fraudsters Stole $15.8M Unemployment Benefits
4. Ige Defers Harbor Tariff Hike
5. COVID Count 16 new cases out of 1,070 tests
6. HB285: Legislative Conference Committee Passes Police Reform Bill
7. Kauai DoE Pilot Program to Continue 'Distance Learning' Scam with no Evaluations Until Fall of 2021
8. COVID vs Sunshine: Supreme Court Order Opens Planning Commission Meeting
9. Reopening Means Spying: State-County Database to Track Your Movements ‘In Real Time’ 
10. HB460 Spying: State senators to introduce bill that would require Hawaii's visitors to document where they'll be staying
11.  As tax revenues drop, Honolulu’s rail project faces $450M funding shortfall and new delays
12. Gut and Replace Hawaii Supreme Court Oral Argument
13. HB2502: Lawmakers pare back quarantine-powers bill after public concern
14. Union organizes mass COVID-19 testing for hospitality workers, it calls on employers to follow suit
15. Different Kind of Tourist?  Under Quarantine only Cheap Hotels have any Occupancy
16. Steep Drop in Real Estate Prices Coming?
17. Supreme Court declines to hear appeal in Christopher Deedy trial—Prosecutors will Try ‘Plan C’
18. Charlatans Whip Up Big Island Mob over missing children—Councilmember Warns Against Vigilantism
19. Thousands of Mainlanders sign petition calling for the removal of 1874 Hawaiian Kingdom Era Captain Cook monument
20. Trump wants federal hiring to focus on skills over degrees
21. Condo associations again face liability for past “wrongful foreclosures”
22. "Renewable Energy” is easy to grasp and slippery to define

1. HB2502: 'Gut and replace' bill would give emergency powers to health director
2. Will Hawaii COVID Lawsuits be Consolidated?
3. Constitutional Law and States of Emergency: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
4. Hawaii Fisheries Down 80%
5. Surprise: Public Employee Wage Hikes Total $150M
6. Group drops lawsuit against Gov. Ige's emergency proclamation
7. Hawaii Economic Chief: Tourism Is ‘Who We Are’ And Must Be Rebuilt
8. Hawaii Ready to take more COVID so Bring It
9. Hawaii lawmakers advance police reform bill that’s been obstructed for years   
10. Police Shootings Soar Under Ballard
11. Bill expands state powers on quarantine and health emergencies
12. Ala Moana Towers Designed to Create Rail Route?
13. Child abuse bill advances

1. Ige: Tourists Can Skip Quarantine with COVID Test Starting Aug 1
2. US DoJ Backs Hawaii Lawsuit Against Ige COVID Orders
3. Dead in Conference Ctte: HB220 would expand Department of Health emergency powers
4. AirBnB Occupancy Bounces Back – But Not in Hawaii
5. Pandemic EBT: $360 Extra SNAP Benefits For Families of 93,000 Students
6. COVID Count: Three new cases out of 1,199 tests
7. COVID Count: 16 new cases out of 1,396 tests
8. ​20 Years Of Honolulu Police Misconduct Summaries Document Serious Bad Behavior
9. Laughing at Your Sacrifice: Lawmakers give preliminary approval to $70M public-worker raises
10. Chamber of Commerce Hawaii urges Ige to create a ‘definitive plan’ for reopening transpacific travel
11. Oahu restaurants ask for delay in starting plastic-ban law
12. State Cutting Lifeguards—Will Counties Pick Up Expense?
13. Sacrifice: Maui County to Create Entire New Department? 
14. 20 Years Of Honolulu Police Misconduct Summaries Document Serious Bad Behavior
15. Facial recognition surveillance to screen for COVID-19 at Hawaii airports in July
16. Lawmakers call on state to give all 14,000 seniors at Hawaii care homes a COVID-19 test
17. NTSB to investigate loss of 21 shipping containers from barge off Big Island
18. DLIR Effort to Transform Uber Contractors into Employees delays unemployment payments for drivers
19. Stanford Carr to turn Honolulu bowling alley site into affordable rentals under $137M DHHL contract
20. Gangster Shot Dead in Pearl City

1. ACLU: Hawaii COVID Facial Recognition Program 'Rife for Abuse'
2. Hawaii’s Army Of Karens
3. Survey: Teachers Report Low Participation in Online Learning
4. DoH Uses COVID as Excuse to Quarantine 51 Homeless Frequent Flyers
5. Koko Head Shooting Complex resuming regular walk-in operations
6. Group Admits COVID Testing Plan is Scheme to Shrink Tourism Industry
7. Rep Wildberger, Candidate, Judge Get $5000+Jail Tickets for Violating COVID Emergency Orders—Judge Already Walks Free
8. YB COVID Money Grab—Why did Containers Collapse on Barge in Calm Seas and Light Winds?
9. SB126 to be CARES Spending Vehicle
10. Negotiations Begin On Hawaii Police Misconduct Bill
11. Mayor: Only 30 to 35% of businesses have reopened
12. Kauai Mayor Having Fun as Dictator
13. Some families of around a dozen residents at Hale Nani nursing center have chosen to remove them
14. Federal census of isle homeless is rescheduled for September
15. Program for women inmates is cancelled

1. HB2500 Legislators poised to exceed state debt limit to avoid making cuts
2. Two Years Later: Kauai Mayor signs fifteenth supplementary emergency proclamation
3. Hawaii Legislators Announce Plan to use CARES Funds
4. COVID Impact on Micronesia
5. Hawaii Anti-Gun Bills Scheduled for Hearing
6. COVID Count: Four new cases out of 629 tests
7. Lawyer known for “sovereignty defenses” barred from future foreclosure assistance
8. Ige reportedly close to announcing testing protocol, loosened quarantine based on Alaska Model
9. Hawaii Currently Fastest Spreading COVID in USA
10. SB2629 Carbon Credits: House Committee Hearing Gut-and-Replace Legislation
11. Lawyer known for “sovereignty defenses” barred from future foreclosure assistance
12. Convicted Anal Rapist of Child Gets Lucky at Supreme Court 
13. Police transparency bill being considered in Hawaii
14. How 12 Teens Who’d Never Met Before Organized Honolulu’s Black Lives Matter Protest
15.  Three more people test positive for COVID-19 at Hale Nani; senior facilities are concerned
16. With thousands out of work, scammers are targeting the unemployment system
17. COVID Cuts: Hawaii's only halfway house for women is closing
18. Hawaii’s Cesspool Problem Continues To Bubble Up As EPA Cracks Down

1. Hawaii Worst Unemployment Recovery in USA
2. COVID Count: 14 New Cases out of 1,126 tests
3. COVID Count: 11 new cases out of 851 tests
4. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 20, 2020
5. ‘The Jones Act isn’t just inefficient, it’s failed’
6. Pitfalls of the Subcontractor Deduction  
7. Approving Public Employee Raises Top Legislative Focus
8. Up to 45K Hawaii renters on brink could fall into abyss after July
9. Rail: How Many Honolulu mayoral candidates will go to jail?
10. Does a lawsuit against Ige have grounds?
11. Department of Health: Masks in classrooms are "Not recommended"    
12. Hello! Anybody There At The D-L-I-R?
13. First installment: $40M in CARES funds hits Hawaii County coffers
14. Maunakea command plan again delayed
15. Honolulu City Council takes aim at new regulations against monster homes
16. Honolulu City Council defers decision on mall tower changes
17. Airlines to Shirk Dramatically After Oct 1

1. How to balance the budget in just a few clicks
2. COVID Count 27 new cases out of 990 tests
3. Senator Dela Cruz asks Governor to consider pooled testing for arriving travelers
4. UHERO forecasts dire scenarios for local government budgets
5. Mayor Victorino returns budget to Maui Council without signature
6. 86% of Parents want Return to Classroom Teaching—Kishimoto: “We don’t need books”
7. Lawmakers: $600 Million In Federal Relief Funds Will Now Go To Hard-Hit Residents, State Agencies  
8. Economic Development Officials Outline Recovery Plan
9. Widow of 28-Year-Old Kaneohe Man tells BLM to Back Off
10. Telescope Protester Arrested in Kalihi Game Room Shooting
11. HPA: We’re Working Hard to Get Criminals Back out onto the Street
12. Cluster of New COVID-19 Cases Found In Waianae Elderly Care Homes
13. Volunteer sleuths track down Hawaii’s quarantine scofflaws
14. Grove Farm Is ‘Disappointed’ In Planned Changes For Kauai Rehab Facility
15. China Could Be in Reach of Hawaii After Monday’s Election in Kiribati

1. Caldwell Signs Budget: Rail Faces ‘Hard Decisions’ due to Collapse of Economy
2. DHHL Expands COVID-19 Emergency Rental Assistance Program
3. Tax Credit Available for Low Income Homeowners
4. AG proposes COVID Spying Bills to Legislature
5. State says greater testing capacity, digital records on visitors needed to restart tourism      
6. Cluster of COVID-19 cases at state’s largest nursing home grows to 11 as testing continues
7. Lawmaker says Black Lives Matter protest likely contributed to spike in COVID-19 cases
8. DoE Reopening Plans Secret Until After Legislative Session Ends
9. Sacrifice: Public workers approved for 4.5% pay raises by city council
10. Report: ‘New normal’ could mean half of Hawaii families in financial hardship
11. Honolulu Police Chief Hopes Nationwide Reform Movement Skips Hawaii
12. Caldwell scraps Sherwood Forest plan due to protests
13. Maui Co Bill to help grant recipients get funding without accountability
14. Hawaii County Council to take up new construction code
15. Should Hawaiian Electric Company Receive Financial Incentives to Reduce Greenhouse Gases

1. COVID Count: Five New Cases out of 1,131 tests
2. COVID Count: 18 new cases out of 1,370 tests
3. Public input sought on decommissioning of Maunakea telescope
4. Hawaii 20.2% Unemployment -- 3rd Highest in USA
5. UHERO: Estimating the Need for Rental Assistance in Hawaii
6. Just in Time to Shut Down Session (Again) -- State House staff member tests positive for coronavirus
7. No, We Are Not All In The Same Canoe
8. Caldwell: Rail Faces ‘Hard Decisions’ due to Collapse of Economy
9. Window of Opportunity to Reopen Hawaii – Closing Quick
10. HART Gives Hi Tech Tax Credit Schemers $190K to Design Video Game
11. Hawaii Supreme Court asked to block opening of controversial wind project
12. Utility must get more efficient
13. Vote-by-mail might make it easier to vote, but it's not the fix we need to engage citizens in elections.
14. HB285: Open Records on Police Misconduct
15. Man dies after altercation with police in Kaneohe
16. Body cameras coming for Big Island police
17. As COVID-19 cases rise, family members say Hale Nani not doing enough to protect residents
18. Three employees at Doraku Sushi in Waikiki test positive for COVID-19
19. Hawaii Senators Introduce Bill To Close Air Tour Loopholes
20. Attorney faces threat of disbarment while trying to clear his record
21. COVID Excuse to Grab Control of Kauai Drug Treatment Center Facility

1. Council District Nine--Family Ties
2. Another Hawaii Lawsuit: Coronavirus Orders Violate Right To Travel, Equal Protection, Due Process
3. Trump’s Executive Order on Improving Policing Brings Welcome News in Troubled Times
4. HPD Policy on ‘Vascular Neck Restraint’ is Redacted
5. Corona Count: Four new cases out of 1,215 tests
6. Navy Calling Up Reservists to Fill in For Pearl Harbor Shipyard Workers Out for COVID-19
7. Saving coral reef fisheries with management areas
8. Ex-Legislator Who Lied About Police Misconduct Slimes Doug Chin in Grab for Police Commission Seat
9. Jabola the Carolus Having Difficulty at Home
10. 19 Police Killings Left out of HPD Reports
11. OCCC relocating to new facility at the animal quarantine station    
12. Hale Nani 5 Positive COVID, prompts mass testing of nursing home
13. Hawaii one of the worst places for businesses sued over COVID

HPD Policy on ‘Vascular Neck Restraint’ is Redacted

1. Former Governors Urge Alternatives to Star-Adv Layoffs
2. Settlement Improves Honolulu Gun Registration System
3. Young Case against Hawaii Carry Ban Finally Moving Forward
4. COVID Count: Eight new cases out of 554 tests
5. DoH Still Working on New Rules for Quarantine-Free Inter-island Flights
6. EPA orders the closure of 16 cesspools on Kauai
7. Contact Tracing, Testing Keep Recent Clusters in Check
8. Sen. Laura Thielen: Legislature Must Spend $632M on COVID Relief, not Public Employee Pay Hikes
9. Death Threats Convince 21 Cult Members accused of breaking COVID-19 quarantine to leave Hawaii
10. Law Profs: Hawaii can require testing for all coming in
11. Second Wave?  Hawaii Ready to handle it Without Return to Lockdowns
12. Hawaii Economy Faces ‘A Long Slow Road Back’
13. With some improvising, state agencies welcome thousands of workers back to the office
14. In Effort to Justify Do-Nothing ‘Distance Learning Scam, DoE Deploys Unworkable Summer School System 
15. Five Hotels Permanently Discharge Workers
16. Kauai: 57% of Households have lost a job
17. Star-Advertiser's plan to cut 30 newsroom staff may turn out to be a negotiating ploy
18. Short term vacation rentals allowed to reopen on Maui, Big Island and Kaua'i
19. Retailers report resistance to the in-store mask requirement
20. Soft on Crime: Spurned Woman Accused of Attempted Murder Walks Free without Bail
21. Soft on Crime: Homeless Car Thief Does it Again and Again Since COVID Release
22. 2 possible COVID-19 cases being looked at in state-run public housing
23. State: COVID Spreads to Resident at state’s largest skilled nursing facility

1. Feds: Civil Beat Publisher's Security Detail Sends Pig's Head to Media Critic
2. COVID Count: Five new cases out of 1,152 tests
3. Maui Planning Commission sneaks Hawaiian burial group’s motion onto agenda
4. How SHOPO keeps public from seeing police misconduct records
5. Caldwell disagrees on extent of Police Commission’s authority
6. Recent spike in COVID-19 cases will test Hawaii’s preparations
7. California's starting to reopen hotels. Hawaii just extended its shutdown
8. Bankruptcies decline thanks to federal loan program
9. Bill could impact Aloha Stadium demolition, landfill operator says

1. June 14, 1900: The Abolition of Slavery in Hawaii
2. COVID Count 17 New Cases out of 984 tests
3. The Giant Sucking Sound
4. Sause ends Hawaii Barge Service after 54 years
5. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 13, 2020
6. Hawaii tax revenues plummet 49% in May as Covid impact comes into focus
7. Many Small Businesses Going out of Business
8. Honolulu County says how workers are deployed; Gov. Ige’s administration has yet to supply such information
9. Kishimoto: Academic Rigor Fell by Wayside and I want $87M to Do It Again this Fall
10. Momentum builds for police-linked reforms: stricter gun laws, opening discipline records
11. Ballard Dismissive of New Police Commission Nominees
12. Kauai Prosecutor Tries to Make Excuses for COVID Criminal Releases
13. COVID-19 case confirmed in Hale Nani rehab center employee
14. Maui Hotel workers rally Saturday for safe reopening
15. Opportunity Zones Eyed for P3 Projects
16. Hawaii County Fire Department and volunteers erect homeless shelters

1. List of Staff Being Laid off by Star-Advertiser
2. Regents to consider new Maunakea internal management structure
3. Oahu District Courts Reopen
4. This act needs a rewrite
5. VIDEO: Sen. Mike Lee on the Jones Act at 100: Time to chart a new course?
6. Bubbles? Corridors?  Ige announcement on reopening transpacific travel upcoming
7. HPD chief okay with releasing names of disciplined officers, but not for minor violations
8. Joyous News: 21 members of reported cult that violated 14-day quarantine plan to stay in Hawaii After Jail Sentence is up
9. Elderly Care Nurse Among Latest COVID-19 Diagnoses
10. BLNR grants contested case hearing over aquarium collection fines

1. Kamehameha: The Founding of the Hawaiian Kingdom
2. Constitutional Law and States of Emergency: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
3. Hearing Set for New Administrative Rules for Hawaii Elections
4. COVID Count: 15 new cases--10 in one family
5. Facial Recognition A Minefield, Could Evolve into Compulsory Program 
6. Hawaii’s largest daily newspaper cutting nearly 30 newsroom staff
7. Stop verbal, physical attacks on police
8. How Effective Is Hawaii’s Key Court-Sanctioned Drug Treatment Program?
9. Thanks to Bookkeepers, Young Brothers demanding $25M Cash and 25% Rate Hike   
10. “Were Hawaii’s lockdowns worth it?”
11. City Finally Finds A Replacement To Join The HART Board
12. Council Tinkers With Affordable Housing Rules (again)
13. MCCC population trimmed 41 percent during COVID-19
14. Cult leader among 21 arrested in Puna for violating quarantine order
15. Effort to dismiss hotel hearings officer fails
16. Pandering to Russian-backed Anti 5G Conspiracy Nuts, Hawaii Council Illegally Obstructs 4G Installers
17. A growing number of missing children on the Big Island is causing concern

1. Hawaii COVID Lawsuit: Emergency Rules Unconstitutional Beyond 60 Days
2. DLIR Updates Unemployment Claims Processing Numbers
3. Ige Extends Emergency Order Through July 31
4. ‘New normal’ requires long-term budget thinking
5. Lockdown victims include Hawaii healthcare providers
6. COVID Count: Seven new cases out of 1,284 new tests
7. Anderson and Kobayashi Block Forensic Audit of Rail—Use COVID as Excuse
8. Hawaii will utilize facial recognition in airports
9. Hotel security keeps tabs on quarantined visitors
10. Vacation rental owners claim discrimination, threaten lawsuit
11. COVID an Excuse to Gut TVRs on Maui, Lanai
12. Honolulu City Council moving forward with resolution pressuring state to test visitors before they board a plane to Hawai'i
13. COVID-19 patient was at Oahu game room hours before being hospitalized
14. Governor: I ‘ordered’ director handling unemployment claims to take time off
15. Pandemic's budget shortfalls push states toward automation
16. COVID $28M for Kauai County to Pass Around
17. This Kauai Doctor Is Helping Revolutionize Drug Treatment For Inmates