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Monday, May 11, 2020
May 11, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:27 PM :: 2932 Views
  1. Legislature’s Plan includes Pay Hikes for Public Employees
  2. COVID Plan is an Empire-Builder for DoT—114 New Positions
  3. Testing key to public health and future prosperity
  4. Will the Depression Kill More People than COVID?
  5. State House committee looks at when, how to reopen economy at Monday meeting
  6. Kauai Budget Cut Only $10M
  7. 31.5% Property Tax Hike to Help Hawaii County Public Employees Avoid the Slightest Discomfort
  8. Hawaii mothers say distance learning is failing their special needs children
  9. North Shore Residents Prefer COVID to Crowds
  10. State’s 14-day quarantine has loopholes
  11. Maunakea observatories prepare to reopen
  12. Clouds on real estate horizon
  13. Criminal Tries to Run Down Cop, Gets Probation, Steals a Rifle Gets Probation again, Absconds from Drug Treatment Gets Another Another Chance
  14. Did Homeland Security Blow Case Against Not-a-Pimp McCoy?
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Sunday, May 10, 2020
May 10, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:54 PM :: 5688 Views
  1. Hawaii Legislators Should Cancel Their 10% Pay Hike
  2. How Kids of Insiders Became Big Players In Virus Response
  3. Luxe Condo Associations Snag COVID Aid Money
  4. Roberts takes over ‘Socially Distant’ Hawaii County Bus System
  5. Maui Council Has Figured Out How To Do Virtual Meetings With Live Public Testimony
  6. People filing jobless claims know how to fix the system
  7. Help hard-hit tourism workers with safe reopening of industry
  8. MMA Fighter Got Probation for brutal assault on Japanese tourists—Now Wanted for Violation  
  9. Some inmates seeking release are accused of violent acts
  10. Prison population plummets as COVID becomes the Excuse to Release Lots and Lots of Criminals
  11. With Feds in Town, Prosecutor Suddenly Successful Against Massage Parlors
  12. ‘Free’ Food Giveaways Cost $50 per Bag of Groceries
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Saturday, May 9, 2020
May 9, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:59 PM :: 4477 Views
  1. MMA star accuses Punahou School of retaliation after sex abuse lawsuit
  2. Tax collections tank as Hawaii lawmakers plan budget fixes to protect public workers from the slightest sacrifice
  3. $2.1B CIP Blowout, Public Employees will still get Pay Hike, ERS to be Raided, Mental Health Gutted After Diamond Head Attack
  4. Hotels Agree to Trap Quarantine Breakers Outside Their Rooms
  5. Caldwell and healthcare workers say DOH taking risks by not training more contact tracers
  6. Nearly 18,000 gig workers in limbo as state works to bring PUA platform online
  7. Cellphone spy data: Hawaii residents better than others at staying home during pandemic
  8. Kauai electricity use Down 16%
  9. Kauai: 100 Protest Lockdown
  10. Several Hawaii inmates released during coronavirus pandemic rearrested for new crimes
  11. Maui Co managing director charter proposal set for November ballot
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Friday, May 8, 2020
May 8, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:24 PM :: 5599 Views
  1. Tourism Industry Collapse ‘A Horror Show That is Just Beginning’
  2. New Quarantine Form Designed to Set Tourists up for Prosecution
  3. The First Signs of Travel’s Return?
  4. Lawyer connected to Katherine Kealoha arrested for Allegedly Stealing Car, Selling Meth
  5. Civil Rights Lawsuit Against Kealohas Stuck In Limbo
  6. It’s time to reevaluate Hawaii inmate releases
  7. Punahou: Several Staff Placed on Leave over Child Molestation Suit
  8. CARES?  Hawaii County Grabs $250K to ‘Administer’ $1.25M
  9. Unemployment Update: 141,077 Claims Processed, Additional 84,500 Under Review
  10. Lawmaker proposes using Hawaii’s federal stimulus aid to rush payments to laid off workers
  11. Schools Chief: Use Federal Bailout Money To Avoid Teacher Pay Cuts (even though they are doing nothing)
  12. DOE pilot program to deliver free meals to families at home
  13. Former Meadow Gold owner explains why money was deposited, then withdrawn from employee accounts
  14. Hawaii’s Only Refinery Production Drops 18,000 Barrels Per Day
  15. Molokai Solar-Battery Scheme: Sue MECO to Force $0.18/kwh Project
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Thursday, May 7, 2020
May 7, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:29 PM :: 4594 Views
  1. Hawaii Lawmakers Will Go Back To Work Monday, Looking To Cut $1 Billion From The Budget 
  2. Ige Backs Off His Suspension Of State Open Government Laws
  3. Hawaii Tourism Industry Pushing for Testing as Alternative to Quarantine
  4. Default, Bankruptcy Coming for Hawaii Hotels?
  5. More dark financial clouds surround Honolulu’s rail project
  6. Another 4,000 People Line up for Free Food
  7. Clock ticks on companies’ survival
  8. To ease burden on system, state asks laid off workers to file certifications only on certain days
  9. Honolulu Police Commission allows public viewing—but only at HPD HQ
  10. Maui County sets Monday for reopening its shopping malls, retail operations
  11. On beach closures, the governor and lieutenant governor aren’t on the same page
  12. Mayor Caldwell announces plan to allow for deferral of Oahu property taxes
  13. Young Brothers predicts $11M loss due to Covid-19
  14. Most Hawaii industrial landlords collected 84% of rents during Covid shutdown
  15. Soft-on-Crime Activists Still Trying to Sell ‘COVID in Prison’ Scare Stories
  16. After Bumfight Stabbing, City Moves to Sweep Iwilei
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Wednesday, May 6, 2020
May 6, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:12 PM :: 3523 Views
  1. Star-Adv: How to Test Tourists for COVID
  2. State says retailers on Oahu, Maui won’t be allowed to reopen this week as governor announced (Ooops!)
  3. Kauai Cancels Curfew, Reopens Malls, Elective Medical Procedures
  4. COVID: The Treatment is Worse than the Disease
  5. Hooser: COVID is great. This is Utopia.
  6. Health experts say it’s too soon to reopen Malls
  7. How An Antiquated IT System Failed Thousands Of Hawaii’s Unemployed
  8. Kim releases revised $585M budget—$14M Property Tax Hike
  9. Grubbing for CIP Funds, Homelessness Industry Announces Plan to Expand Homelessness in Hawaii This Summer
  10. Hawaiian Airlines reports $144M loss in first quarter, warns more economic pain ahead
  11. Coronavirus puts strain on Hawaii Electric Industries earnings
  12. Matson profit, revenue drop amid stormy seas of coronavirus pandemic
  13. Honolulu Council Can Meet By Video, But Not The Public
  14. Workers are shocked after money Meadow Gold promised to pay is deposited, then withdrawn from their accounts
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Tuesday, May 5, 2020
May 5, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:45 PM :: 5389 Views
  1. Black Sand CEO Was Charged With Assault. Then The Case Languished For A Year
  2. Ige reopens Malls, Nonprofits and Telescopes in Hawaii
  3. Best Case: Hawaii Economy Down 25%—Double Digit Unemployment for Rest of Year
  4. Hawaii tourism leaders urge state recovery plan
  5. Head of State Emergency Response Says Health Department Dragging Feet On Expanding Contact Tracing
  6. Just Days After COVID Jail Release, Suspect Allegedly Murders Homeless Dude
  7. COVID Keeps Alleged Two Time Baby-Killer Free
  8. Prosecutors say dangerous offenders are being released to free up space in Hawaii correctional facilities
  9. Restore access to public meetings
  10. Government transparency critical at all times
  11. Hawaii among states with few coronavirus cases to get big share of relief aid
  12. The Long Wait For Unemployment Checks Is Taking A Personal Toll
  13. Unemployment is Sweet $1248 a week—Don’t Wanna go back to work and get paid less
  14. National Guard, Kauai police intercept plane with two people trying to sneak in
  15. Hawaii County seeks site in Kona for Plywood SRO homeless housing units
  16. ACLU Lawyers Harass Hawaii County for Annoying Homeless Drug Addicts
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Monday, May 4, 2020
May 4, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:38 PM :: 3498 Views
  1. Bill 40: City Council to Save Construction Industry from Crooked Union PLA Requirement?
  2. Economic Downturn Could Hit Public Pension Funds Hard
  3. Queen’s Medical Center takes down coronavirus triage tent as Hawaii’s infection rate remains low
  4. As financial pain grows, Hawaii’s ‘nonessential’ retailers await OK to reopen
  5. As new coronavirus cases dwindle, the state looks at a ‘phase-in’ approach to reopening
  6. Carnival to resume cruises in summer when coronavirus order ends, but not from Hawaii
  7. With virus under control, Australia and New Zealand may form a travel ‘bubble’
  8. 50,000 QUEST beneficiaries to be forced to change their insurance plans?
  9. Jail population in Wailuku drops below 300 with inmate releases
  10. HGEA Members Playing Solitaire on their Wang Computers are the Key to Economic recovery
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Sunday, May 3, 2020
May 3, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 9:10 PM :: 4635 Views
  1. OHA Insiders’ COVID Plan: “Push Money to Us”
  2. DoT Preps Thermal Scanning for Airports
  3. Burglars and Killers among 37% of Prison Population Released for COVID
  4. Contract Tracing Devolves into Bureaucratic Turf Battle, Squabble over Funding
  5. Slow-footed governor leaves Hawaii’s unemployed hanging
  6. Amid much talk of new normal, expect much to stay the same
  7. Hawaii can’t be world’s safest place with Homeless Tent Cities Everywhere
  8. Several Mainland Homeless Arrive at Airport as Senators Watch—Only One Deported
  9. Bumfight: One Homeless Dude Kills Another
  10. Hawaii couple that contracted COVID-19 recounts harrowing and frustrating battle against the disease — and red tape
  11. Waikiki bartender awake in hospital, tests negative for COVID-19 after 6-week battle
  12. DOH apologizes for director’s mention that Kona McDonalds Patients are Marshallese
  13. Layoffs and Cutbacks at Hawaii Newspapers
  14. Hawaii County Mayor: Mitch Roth Leads Fund Race
  15. Mary Day Disappearance: Another Hawaii Child Welfare Failure
  16. Global Warmers: Seawalls Will not Save Hawaii from Sea Level rise
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Saturday, May 2, 2020
May 2, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:43 PM :: 3945 Views
  1. Kauai: 56% of Households have Lost a Job
  2. Child Molestation Suits Raise Question About DoE Hiring Practices
  3. A sign of the times: Food distribution sites slammed with long lines
  4. Phased Reopening Plan to be Announced Soon?
  5. Airline CEO thinks Hawaii is poised for a major tourism boom after the pandemic
  6. Jobless filing a source of stress, frustration, long wait for checks
  7. Nothing Screams ‘Aloha’ Like An Ankle Monitor
  8. Kauai resident finishes 14-day quarantine without being checked on
  9. COVID Death Rate not what it Seems
  10. 1,400 Sign up for Antibody Testing at HPH
  11. 15-Minute COVID Test -- DOH distributes rapid test equipment to all Counties
  12. If you’re flying Hawaiian Airlines, you’ll need a face mask going forward
  13. Farmers react to Young Brothers shipping schedule change
  14. Caldwell wants four-day work week for city workers, but could take several months to implement
  15. Let’s Stop Calling Them Leaders
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Friday, May 1, 2020
May 1, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:46 PM :: 3947 Views
  1. Ige to step back from blanket suspension of open meetings law
  2. 4,400 people wait in line for hours for food on Oahu
  3. 811 Criminals Set Loose to Roam Streets—COVID is Excuse this time
  4. Criminal Released for COVID is Arrested for Carjacking
  5. DLIR Won’t Process Self-Employed Checks Anytime Soon
  6. A&B: 89% of Restaurants Did Not Pay April Rent
  7. Senators: Quarantine Not Working
  8. Plans in the works to market Hawaii as the ‘safest place in the world’
  9. Maui Council Votes 2% Raise for Top Managers, Cuts Property Taxes—But not as much as Mayor Wanted—TVRs Soaked
  10. Hawaii County Officials mull extra property tax on second homes to shore up county budget
  11. Nishihara Patient Zero? ‘I had COVID Before I Went to Vegas’
  12. Hawaii Lawmakers Have no Plan for Returning to Legislative Session
  13. Information Lockdown At Hawaii Labor Department Stymies Coronavirus Stories
  14. Car Dealers Excited to Reopen
  15. Despite pandemic, Big Island real estate market fairly stable
  16. DoE to Establish Classrooms in Homeless Tweeker Camps?        
  17. Challenges to Hawai`i Renewable Energy Projects
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Thursday, April 30, 2020
April 30, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:33 PM :: 5030 Views
  1. Caldwell Admin Official Sued for Child Molestation
  2. Alleged Child Molester Hired by DoE, Taught Second Grade
  3. Ige Reopens Realtors, Car Dealers, Professional Services
  4. Hawaii Officials Mull Further Restrictions On Tourists, But Data Show Most Virus Cases Are Residents
  5. Kauai Curfew and County-Organized Homeless Tent Cities Still in Effect
  6. 60% of Unemployment Claims Not Yet Acted on
  7. DLIR Finally Ready for Self-Employed to Apply for Unemployment
  8. Dental and eye care offices plan to open-up appointments slowly
  9. Aussies Already Planning Hawaii Vacations
  10. Another 35-MW wind farm is proposed in Ulupalakua
  11. ​Telemedicine: Abortion by Mail in Hawaii
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Wednesday, April 29, 2020
April 29, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:35 PM :: 3728 Views
  1. Maui Council to Hike Property Taxes, Boost Pay for ‘High Level Attorneys'
  2. COVID-19 Monitoring Could Turn Hawaii Into A Tourist ‘Prison Camp,’ Critics Say
  3. Caldwell eyes May 1st for possible reopening of low-risk businesses  
  4. ‘By mid-month we could see some significant changes,’ LG Green on slowly re-opening the state
  5. Coronavirus antibody tests will start Thursday in Hawaii
  6. Public In The Dark as HART Board Approves Another $40M in Change Orders
  7. An optimistic film industry prepares for the day productions can resume in Hawaii
  8. Ward Village stores form Hui, ask landlord for price break
  9. Kauai hasn’t seen a new COVID-19 diagnosis in 15 days. Now, they’re reporting no active cases
  10. Kim eyes reopening some businesses as long as safety measures are in place
  11. Kokua Kalihi Valley among Oahu clinics demanding access to COVID-19 testing
  12. Hawaii Labs Improve COVID-19 Testing Turnaround Times
  13. Some Adult Care Homes Want Inspections Halted—COVID is their latest Excuse
  14. Kauai Homeless Tent City Festers Under Bridge
  15. Mainland Criminal Flies to Hawaii, gets Deported
  16. Baltimore Consulting Firm Relocates Entire Staff to Hawaii, Violates  Quarantine
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Tuesday, April 28, 2020
April 28, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:01 PM :: 8142 Views
  1. Punahou Board Member Resigns over Child Molestation Allegations
  2. Economist predicts parts of state’s economy could soon reopen
  3. Less than one-third of Hawaii’s unemployment claims have been paid since March 1
  4. Honolulu Police Commission to hold second secret meeting
  5. Squeaky Wheel Political Quarantine: Governor changes his mind on flower deliveries (No science here)
  6. Maui Business Leaders Push To Join Western States Pact, Ige Demurs
  7. Closure of mainland processing plants raises some concern among local cattle ranchers
  8. Hawaii in line for close to $7 billion in federal assistance, Rep. Ed Case says
  9. HECO Companies Bad Debt Is Rising -- Utilities Seek Deferred Accounting for COVID-19 Expenses
  10. Lawsuit: Hawaiian Airlines fraud on Corona Refunds
  11. City resumes homeless sweeps, citing concerns about infection risk
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Monday, April 27, 2020
April 27, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:19 PM :: 5425 Views
  1. ‘Insider Trading’ Wrecks Meadow Gold Sale?
  2. Homeless Camp Blocks COVID Testing Team
  3. Immigrants And Others Struggle Applying For Hawaii Jobless Benefits
  4. New management structure for Maunakea proposed
  5. Public participation critical for real property tax rates, FY 2021 budget
  6. Council members push programs to help beleaguered businesses
  7. Another Child Welfare Fail -- Former foster kids sue parents and state over abuses
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Sunday, April 26, 2020
April 26, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:38 PM :: 3553 Views
  1. Some fear liberties will be lost in Hawaii’s COVID-19 pandemic orders
  2. State Supreme Court: Release More Criminals from Jail
  3. Credit-rating agencies lower Hawaii’s debt outlook to ‘negative’
  4. Star-Adv: As long as COVID-19 cases tamped, strategic phased reopening in Hawaii makes sense
  5. UHPA: Re-Start Academic Research
  6. Oahu’s mayoral race and rail problems obscured by coronavirus crisis
  7. Covid-19 Financial Impacts -- HECO, MECO & HELCO
  8. Despite pandemic, some protesters continue camping on Maunakea
  9. Tulsi Gabbard is Back
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Saturday, April 25, 2020
April 25, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:03 PM :: 2776 Views
  1. Bill 41 Property Tax Relief for Businesses?
  2. Kauai Council eyes reducing current budget
  3. Covid impact on Hawaii home sales will be more severe next month
  4. Hawaii Paid $68 Million In Unemployment Claims This Week
  5. Hawaii lawmakers are advised to prepare for more cases of COVID-19
  6. State attorney general tells Hawaii Senate Special Committee on COVID-19 that 14-day visitor quarantine may last
  7. With donations, nonprofit puts homeless families up in Waikiki hotels
  8. Young Brothers requests to scale back service to Maui, Hawaii counties
  9. Coronavirus outbreak strikes another U.S. Navy ship after Pearl Harbor Port Call
  10. About 100 victims come forward with new claims of sex abuse
  11. Aquarium trade releases final EIS for reopening West Hawaii fishery
  12. The Trash That Fuels Oahu’s Power Plant Is Vanishing As Fast As The Tourists
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Friday, April 24, 2020
April 24, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:50 PM :: 4333 Views
  1. Chinky Mahoe Sued for Child Molestation
  2. Friday is Deadline for Child Molestation Lawsuits
  3. Self-Employed Gig Workers Unemployment Checks Must Wait for DLIR to Build New Computer System
  4. Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell outlines plan to reopen Hawaii businesses
  5. How to rescue Maui from the coronavirus recession
  6. Caldwell: Use Kauai as Guinea Pig for COVID Tourism  
  7. 25% of Hawaii’s COVID-19 patients who are 60 and over have been hospitalized
  8. Visitor: I was Here for Two Weeks, took Four Flights to three islands—nobody checked on me
  9. More than 3,500 visitors have come to Hawaii since quarantine began
  10. Hawaiian Airlines Got $654 Million From Feds
  11. Homeless Tent City Expands
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Thursday, April 23, 2020
April 23, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:09 PM :: 5047 Views
  1. ‘What Was It All For?’: Divide Grows Over Hawaii’s Lockdown
  2. Caldwell to Reopen Car Dealers, Realtors
  3. Kauai to Reopen May 3?
  4. For those awaiting elective surgeries, physical pain & the unknown of when surgeries will resume is unbearable
  5. Senators say plan needed as airlines resume flying to Hawaii
  6. No Surprise: DoH Against City Purchase of 10,000 Test Kits
  7. DoH Accused of COVID Cluster Coverup
  8. Tourists Leave Address Blank to Fake Quarantine
  9. 1980s Computers Slow Unemployment Backlog
  10. Contact tracers follow-up positive COVID-19 cases in Hawaii
  11. Antibody tests show COVID-19 was in Hawaii before first positive test
  12. Sunshine: Kauai Council Rushing Housing Density Law under Quarantine?
  13. Three Hawai`i Solar Projects Test The Legal Limits
  14. Will There Be “Vote Buying”?
  15. Mauna Kea: Hawaii Co Council votes to accept $5.3 million for police overtime
  16. MMA star Macfarlane among women suing Punahou, former basketball coach for sex abuse
  17. Why Go Away to College if it is Going to Be Online-Only?
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Wednesday, April 22, 2020
April 22, 2020 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:48 PM :: 4749 Views
  1. Hawaii’s Virus Response: ‘Medieval Frankenstein’ Sidelined
  2. Japan: Travelers Get COVID Test at Airport—Result within Hours
  3. 100% Tested Tourists Key to Reopening
  4. Hawaiian Airlines Cuts More Flights
  5. Public worker union urges Ige to borrow $4B to pay them to sit at home
  6. Unions Exploit Maui Memorial COVID Cluster
  7. Lawmakers pretend to look to diversify Hawaii’s economy away from tourism
  8. Gabbard Spending a Lot of Time Trying to Reconnect with Her Constituents … Hmmmmm
  9. Mayor Kim Mandates Face Masks in All Stores
  10. Contradictory, Changing COVID Orders Confuse Public
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