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| Friday, March 22, 2019 |
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March 22, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:14 PM :: 6269 Views
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- How high is too high? What’s known and unknown about minimum wage increases
- Hawaii PUC approves special rates for Al Gore's electric buses
- Hawaii Sues Trump (again) Over Abortion (again)
- HB942: Legislators Approve $60K Settlement After Failing to Force Churches to Promote Abortion
- Salvage Contract for Failed Plastic Boom in Hilo Bay?
- Micronesian official to plead guilty in bribery scandal
- Homeless Activist Has Change of Heart
- $2.5M Program Gives Mainland Newcomers $500/mo for Rent
- State Sen. Donna Kim drops plan to cut 121 UH-Manoa faculty positions
- Ex-chief's request granted for lawyer in mailbox framing
- Cue Progressive Freakout: Ige Turns To Private Prison Firm (other than UPW, Inc) For New Oahu Jail
- Department of Public Safety and Reentry Commission complete plans for Convict Reentry
- More is Less: Privatized Maui Hospital Recruits More Doctors Thereby Reducing Need for State Subsidy
- Electric Car Free Parking ‘Not Sustainable’
- Snorkel Rentals Kill: Two In Distress, One Rescuer Dead
- 9th Circuit Hands Tool to anti-GMO Hypesters
- DoH: How Many Anti-Vaxxers in Your School?
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| Thursday, March 21, 2019 |
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March 21, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:52 PM :: 5399 Views
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- Hawaii Supreme Court Rejects Rail Surcharge Lawsuit
- How to Solve the Hawaiian Homelands Problem
- Disabled Inmates: Feds Reach Agreement with Hawaii DPS
- Report: Hawaii Congressional Delegation Extremely Partisan, Except Gabbard
- Trump Ties Federal Funds for Colleges to Free-Speech Pledge
- Angry drivers blast state’s proposal to nix fuel tax for road usage surcharge
- Lyon contract scandal leaves Hawaii government officials scrambling
- Hawaii Nearly Alone: 2/3 of Legislative Races Uncontested
- Hawaii legislative committees reject plastics ban proposals
- EVs costing state millions, blamed for airport parking congestion
- 42 sweeps in 90 days and still volatile encampment plagues neighborhood
- 16 more MCCC inmates transferred to Halawa Correctional Facility
- Councilmembers Call for Patrick Wong’s Resignation
- HPD Chief Ballard Says Allegations Of Doctored Test Scores Are Unfounded
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| Wednesday, March 20, 2019 |
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March 20, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:02 PM :: 4580 Views
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- OHA Kakaako Makai Plans Begin With Sewage Plant
- Grant Supports Drive to make UH, Chaminade, Kauai CC 100% Tobacco Free
- Buying a House? Need Money? Honolulu can help
- House Resolution Seeks Return of Hawaiian Airlines Call Center
- Falls of Clyde to be Restored at Closed British Shipyard?
- US DoT Inspector General Investigating Honolulu rail concerns raised in (yet another) whistleblower suit
- Senate Committees Approve More Money for OHA Insiders to Steal
- Mauna Kea a Mountain of Moolah for OHA
- Flood control plan for Ala Wai strongly opposed at meeting
- More housing would boost Maui tax revenues
- Stolen Stuff Hawaii to hold anti-crime rally at the state Capitol
- Outdated Wang Technology Hampers Investigations Into Hawaii Professionals
- Woman accused of stealing $760,000 from Homeless Shelter to face charges (after all)
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| Tuesday, March 19, 2019 |
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March 19, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:33 PM :: 3423 Views
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- HART Plan to Control Expenses-Pay Robbins Crony $85K per Month
- Senate Committee to Hear Anti-Gun Bills
- The last time Congress created a new state
- HART Spends Money to Prove Spending Money is a Good Idea
- Hawaii State Government -- 2nd-Lowest Federal Dependency Ranking
- Liberty and Economics -- Hawaii Together with Keli'i Akina
- Pentagon IDs $452M in Hawaii military funding for border wall plan
- SB1428: Let Hawaii County Fritter Away GET funds on Anything
- Bureaucratic Turf Fight Holds Toddlers Hostage: Ige Backs Team DoE
- Inmate: Broken phones a starter for ‘riot’ at jail
- Soft on Crime Meets Hot Lead: 51 Convictions Out on streets—gets shot dead
- Bill 89: 4,000 TVR Permits
- Unused vehicles raise spending concerns at EMS
- Settlement reached in lawsuit against the city in firefighter’s death
- Hawai`i Can Reach 100% Renewable Energy by Clearcutting Forests
- Tourists Required to Convert to Eco-Religion Before Tour
- Ocean Plastic Cleanup Boom Still Stranded in Hilo Bay
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| Monday, March 18, 2019 |
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March 18, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:02 PM :: 3456 Views
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- The last time Congress created a new state
- Honolulu Council Special Election Ballots to be Mailed March 21
- GE Tax Hike: How They Voted
- Legislative Preview: Week 9
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted March 17, 2019
- Innovation? Hawaii Ranks 45th
- Lesbian Home Invasion: Supreme Court Will Not Hear Hawaii Case
- Star-Adv Says We Need Tax Hikes … Because Economy is Slowing
- DPS Still Can’t Figure out how to Release Prisoners on Time
- Kealoha and Puana expected in court for drug related charges
- Judge Orders Release Of More Records In Case Of HPD Officer Who Beat Girlfriend
- Moldy Honolulu Council: $1.4M Plan to Go Alii with HART
- Federal Mandate forcing Hawaii to Overhaul Disabled Programs
- Isle taxpayers take loss on failed Kauai dairy plan
- Oceanfront Homes Keep Going Up Despite Rising Seas – Because Nobody Believes in Sea Level Rise
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| Sunday, March 17, 2019 |
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March 17, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:06 PM :: 4424 Views
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- Blank the Amount, Defect the Date
- Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
- Will Federal Investigation Wreck HART’s P3 Plan for Rail Past Middle Street?
- Senator Donna Kim pushes to fire 121 Underperforming UH Manoa faculty
- Lawmakers Looking Closely At Public Safety Director’s Performance
- Police chief owes answers on expensive lawsuit deal
- Pension ‘spiking’ costing Kauai county
- SB33: Millions More for Hollywood Movie Moguls
- Hana: ‘Electric Airplane’ Exposed as a Hybrid
- Star-Adv Genius Plan: Let Lots of Criminals out on Streets so they Won’t Riot in our Jails
- Hawaii Needs Municipal Governments Below County Level
- Politicians See Homeless Issue as Way to Pander to Voters, Nothing More
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| Saturday, March 16, 2019 |
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March 16, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:22 PM :: 4194 Views
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- Restore flexibility for delivery of public services
- Lava Tube Dishonor goes to Hawaii County Civil Defense
- Infested: Honolulu Ranks #2 for Termites
- Rep Rida Cabanilla Hires Convicted Child Molester--Then Complains About Catholic Church sexual abuse
- Star-Adv: Telescope Protesters Can Cash in on Sustainable Future
- SB887: $100 for Carton of Tobacco Cigarettes
- Dispatchers say valuable time wasted during 911 calls
- Star-Adv: Can Activists Exploit PRP Poll to Keep the Homeless Homeless
- State wants to build huge affordable housing projects with units on 99-year leases
- Hawaii National Guard soldiers headed soon to Afghanistan
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| Friday, March 15, 2019 |
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March 15, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:16 PM :: 19278 Views
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- Lesbian Home Invasion: Supreme Court Considering Whether to hear Hawaii Case
- House Committee to Hear Anti-Gun Bills
- Judge Allows OHA, UH to Scrap for Mauna Kea Money
- Seeking Applications for Independent Grand Jury Counsel – Second Circuit
- State won’t pay rail invoices subject to subpoena by feds
- Pacific Club Shindig: More Political Insiders Get Behind Kahele for Congress
- Spending soars in special election race for City Council seat
- Nadamoto claims Kaneshiro not in Charge
- SA Editorial: HPD settlement needs explanation
- $500 Red Light Camera Tickets
- Hawai‘i Businesses Speak Out Against Proposed Minimum Wage Increase
- Bottles, utensils and bags: Lawmakers are coming for your single-use plastics
- State proposes permanent villages of tiny homes for the hardest to house
- Ballard Pushing Homeless Tent Cities Modeled on Chinatown ‘Success’
- Ala Wai project will affect 37 private properties
- Bill To Create An Airport Corporation Advances — With A Very Big Catch
- Times of the signs: Holiday Inn still waiting, 5 years later, for sign approval
- GIA: Legislators Feel Their Power Over Nonprofits
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| Thursday, March 14, 2019 |
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March 14, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:23 PM :: 3944 Views
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- Massive Pay Hike for Hawaii Legislators?
- HB118: Republicans Explain Vote to Kill Rail Audit
- After Konno: How Hawaii Can revive contracting as policy option
- State’s use of contractors just a hint of what could be
- UH Legislative Update
- Forgotten Voices: The Inadequate Review and Improper Alteration of Our National Monuments
- Poll: 45% Thinking of Leaving State or Know Someone who is
- Hawaii County Council passes $50M/year general excise tax hike
- Keith Kaneshiro put himself on paid leave. So why is he showing up at the office?
- State Deputy Sheriffs Still Aren’t Accredited — 8 Years After the Law Required It
- Names, Ranks And Salaries Of Honolulu Cops Are Still Secret
- HB593: The Era of Hawaii Agriculture is Over
- City has collected more than 4.6 million pounds of homeless garbage from city streets and parks—14,276 Shopping Carts
- 21 inmates identified in MCCC riot; transferred to Halawa Correctional Facility
- Roads: Kauai Council Actually Considering Preventative Maintenance!
- Lifeguards work in deteriorating towers as brand new ones sit unused
- American Samoa Governor in Coma After Surgery
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| Wednesday, March 13, 2019 |
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March 13, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:11 PM :: 3528 Views
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- Road Usage Charge: HDoT Community Meetings on Latest Tax Hike Scheme
- Auditor: Every Special Fund Proposed by Legislators Fails to Meet Criteria
- The Difference Between Real and Fake Energy Policy
- HART to Defy Federal Subpoena?
- Hawaii's predicted to bring in about $80 mil fewer dollars in tax revenue this fiscal year
- Nearly all state jails operating over capacity
- Take longer view on Hawaii infrastructure
- Official charged with enforcing building codes didn’t get permits for residence
- School Chief Chooses Some Of The People Helping To Evaluate Her
- One judge approves sale of Kealohas’ home; another reschedules their fraud trial
- Judge rules bank fraud evidence can't be used in Kealoha corruption trial
- Legislator: Calls Run 30-0 Against Sanctuary State
- Investigation: No laws were broken when athletes skied down a snow-less Mauna Kea
- Biomass is not Carbon Neutral
- Gabbard Among ‘Those Going Nowhere’
- Did Hawaii Company Funnel Malaysian Money to Trump Campaign?
- Arrested in Waikiki: Coach Helped Rich Liberals get their Idiot Children into the Colleges They won’t let you attend
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| Tuesday, March 12, 2019 |
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March 12, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:09 PM :: 4821 Views
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- Legislative Preview: Week 8
- Another Poll Puts Gabbard at 0% in Iowa
- Honolulu Council Special Election: Thursday Deadline to Register to Vote
- 557 Candidates Register for Honolulu Neighborhood Board Elections
- I Was America’s First ‘Nonbinary’ Person. It Was All a Sham.
- Nishihara: Senate Will Vote on Espinda When I Have 13 Votes Against Him
- Criminals Light Fire in Maui Jail because TV Broken
- Cost to transport, house Hawaii inmates on the mainland is skyrocketing—But its Still Cheaper than UPW-Controlled Halawa Prison
- Shining Sunlight On The Honolulu Police Chief’s Performance
- Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Keith Kaneshiro’s paid leave approved by his appointee
- City attorney to help hammer out how process for impeachment petition works
- Maui Councilmember Calls for Top Lawyer’s Resignation
- HPD Lieutenant who investigated financial crimes pleads guilty to tax charges
- Illegal immigrant sanctuary bill dies in state legislature
- SB663: Robot Cops to Give Tickets at Red Lights
- HB593: Replacing Prime Agricultural Land With Solar Panels
- Homebuyers should not be forced to choose solar over gas
- Honolulu Diocese Should Identify All Credibly Accused Priests
- Soft on Crime: Incompetent Prosecutors Let Homeless Lunatic Get Away With Murder—Literally
- Downtown Bumfights Leave two Stabbed
- Rich Tweeker Has 25-year Criminal Record—Keeps Getting Bail
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| Monday, March 11, 2019 |
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March 11, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:41 PM :: 9019 Views
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- Rep Quinlan to Constituent: "Get the F*** Out!"
- Defense Attorneys Part of Kealoha Conspiracy, Coverup
- Maui Corp Counsel Girlfriend ‘Transferred out to Avoid Appearance of Nepotism’
- Lawsuit Claims HPD Officer Sexually Assaulted Woman
- HB210: Lower Voter Participation by Making Hawaii Elections More Complicated and Annoying
- SB557: Hawaii to not likely become Second ‘Sanctuary State’ for Illegals
- HB1464: HMSA Underpays Doctors
- Manipulating Renewable Energy Definitions to Achieve Goals
- Gabbard declines to call Syria's Assad a war criminal
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| Sunday, March 10, 2019 |
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March 10, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:53 PM :: 4319 Views
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| Saturday, March 9, 2019 |
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March 9, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:31 PM :: 3463 Views
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- GE Tax Hike a Lose-Lose Proposition
- SB931: Tourism Industry Aims to Shut Down Aquarium Fishery
- FSM Election 2019 Certified Results
- Legislation Introduced to Repeal Jones Act
- DPP: Shortage of New Affordable Housing Triples
- Legislation Introduced to Repeal Jones Act
- While Collecting Honorifics from Chinese Communists, UH Manoa Also Gets Spyware
- HART’s disarray shows need for more oversight, not less
- Mauna Kea: OHA Still Grifting for Money
- Honolulu residents one step closer to paying for trash pickup
- Small Boat Harbors Need New Management: DLNR Wants More Money But Hasn’t Earned It
- For city officials on paid leave, taxpayers pay now or pay a lot more later
- The Kealohas Could Lose Their Taxpayer-Funded Lawyers
- Public Safety chief appears headed for a fight at Legislature to keep his job
- Former HPD officer accused of sexually assaulting a military wife
- Soft on Crime: Shoot a Weed Dealer Get 5 Years
- Maui Organic Food Activist is a Child Molester
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| Friday, March 8, 2019 |
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March 8, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:02 PM :: 4398 Views
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- SCR42: After Partying with Mafia Hitman, Sen Stanley Chang Proposes Repeal of 2nd Amendment
- Hawaii Infrastructure Receives D+ Grade from Civil Engineers
- HB893 Guts DHHL Funding
- Earth Just-us: Eco-Lawyer Drives Up Your Cost of Living
- Hawaii lawmakers move to decriminalize pot possession
- Rape, Kidnapping Plea Bargain: Gets 5 Years After Marijuana Growers Threaten Rape Victim
- City Poised To Pay $550,000 To Cop Who Claimed Ballard Doctored Female Recruits’ Test Scores
- UH should be wary of Confucius Institute
- Consumer Advocate Urges Rejection of Solar Project on Kunia Ag Land
- Identity politics does not fit well in Hawaii
- WaPo: Deathwatch for Tulsi Gabbard Campaign
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| Thursday, March 7, 2019 |
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March 7, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:22 PM :: 8779 Views
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- Lyon Bribery: Preliminary Election Results Show FSM President May Lose Seat
- Prosecutor Kaneshiro Take Leave of Absence on Deadline to Respond to Supreme Court
- Kanuikapono School: Will Teachers be Fired to Cover Up FBI Investigation?
- Hawaii Sues Trump Over Abortion Sales Pitch
- DBEDT Projects Slower Economy, Rising Unemployment
- Crossover: Anti-Gun Bills Make it to the Other Side
- House Passes Election Changes, Ethics, Campaign Spending Reforms
- DoH Launches Marijuana Sales to Tourists
- How Much Does Your State Collect in Corporate Income Taxes Per Capita?
- Carbon Tax Crosses over to House
- Ozawa Helped Kealoha Pal Miske
- Kealoha lawyer seeks city funding for fees
- Solar Bid Rigging: Yamamoto Caliboso Secretly Represented All 7 Winning Bids
- State fires firm auditing rail change orders
- Rail officials want a multi-million dollar do-over for a station entrance they once decided to scrap
- Secret Plan to Convert Waianae Shelter into Massive Festering Homeless Tent City Behind Oahu’s 20% drop in sheltered homeless
- Queens Overrun by 1,700 Lunatics: Legislators Consider Doing a Study
- Rare Polynesian artifacts stolen from OHA CEO's home
- Soft on Crime: 31-Time Loser Gets 10 Years—Could be out in 1 Year
- HB287 / HB1557: Clear Squatters out of Foreclosed Homes
- Advocates Want to Legalize Child Prostitution
- DLNR Takes over Surf School Permits, Gives only one out
- Building More Suburbs Could Help Millennials Stay In Hawaii
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| Wednesday, March 6, 2019 |
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March 6, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:12 PM :: 5118 Views
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- Hawaii GE Tax Hits Poor 255% Harder than Rich
- It's legislative season again, so taxpayers beware!
- Tokuda-Connected Recycler Busted for Fraud
- Technology Transformation: Priority Bills on the Move
- New Reports Detail the Jones Act’s Cost to Puerto Rico
- South Dakota law school: Hawaiian Day is offensive. Hawaii state rep: No it's not.
- Hirono Suggests She Was Joking When She Criticized the Green New Deal
- Crossover: House Sends 497 Bills to Senate
- Legislators Response to Federal Rail Probe: Cancel State Audits
- DAGS Rejects 11% of HART Invoices—HDoT Scheme to Milk Rail Budget May be Jeopardy
- Senate Approves 11% GE Tax Increase
- Pre-K: DoE Bureaucrats Squabble over Lucrative New Fiefdom
- Caldwell’s Latest Tax Hikes to create 110 new positions
- Mystery: BioFuel Scammers Behind HB307
- Dairy Shelves Empty in Hawaii Thanks to Anti-Dairy Activists, Jones Act and Hemi-Global Cooling
- Will Dead Criminal Finally Do Something for Family?
- Hawaii Claims Lowest Average Personal Loan Balance Among States
- 7th Annual Vietnam Era Patriot Recognition
- Hawaii Tests Abortion by Telephone
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| Tuesday, March 5, 2019 |
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March 5, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:34 PM :: 8961 Views
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- Crossover: House Sends 197 Bills to Senate
- City-Funded Survey Tries Out Excuses for Tax Hikes
- Suddenly Transsexual at 50--Former Dude Scores $95K from New Age Guru
- Kealoha Tied to former M Nightclub Owner
- HART board and City Council Reject forensic rail audit (again)
- Massive Festering Homeless Tent Cities Coming Thanks to Josh Green: HPD chief says yes to ‘temporary refuge areas’
- HB1552: Independent Commission of Soft-on-Crime Activists to Oversee Prisons?
- Administrator who oversaw Hawaii State Hospital during high-profile escape to leave post
- Annual homeless census’ leader resigns
- A controversial ban on single-use plastics is up for a vote at the state capitol
- Oligopoly Drug Dealers Move 1,569 lbs of Weed, Score $12.9M in Revenue—Expect More when Tourists Can Score
- 85% of Medicated Dopers Have …uh… ‘Severe Pain’
- Legislature Considers Sex Abuse Investigation Of Catholic Church
- Kauai Emergency Proclamation Saves TVRs from Losing Legal Status
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| Monday, March 4, 2019 |
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March 4, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:27 PM :: 3684 Views
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- HB664 / SB674: Legislators Push Sex Change for Autistic Children
- Legislative Preview: This Week's Bills on the Move
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted March 3, 2019
- Cancer Gambit Pays Off--Kealoha Trial Delayed Until May
- The Drug-Addicted Lawyer
- Lawmaker wants answers on Public Safety Dept.'s polices, procedures
- State trying to raise boat harbor fees excessively
- Expedia: SB1292 Illegal Spying on Vacation Rentals
- Challenge to City Council race about seeking a fair election
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| Sunday, March 3, 2019 |
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March 3, 2019 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:34 PM :: 4685 Views
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- Trump knocks 'crazy female senator' Mazie Hirono for comments on men
- Beware of Tax Software?
- Grassroot Institute Plans Events on Oahu, Maui
- Leaving Hawaii: Biggest Outflow in Last Year
- Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
- Rail: Is FTA a Target of Grand Jury—Will Feds Freeze Funds as a Result?
- Rail scrutiny goes from questions of urban planning to criminal culpability
- Plotting GE Tax Hike Behind closed doors: Council holds secret budget meeting, discussions off agenda
- Cut Cost of Living Instead of Hiking Minimum Wage
- Green Energy Scammers Driving up Taxes and Cost of Housing
- Lying: MECO Claims customers will not pay for unused power from solar farms
- Enviros Still Trying to Keep Paper and Plastic out of H-Power
- SB522 Styrofoam Ban Statewide
- Tourism Industry Tries to Shut Down Aquarium Fishers (again)
- How Maurice Arrisgado Jr. escaped OCCC before he was shot
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