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| Monday, July 3, 2017 |
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July 3, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:06 PM :: 4122 Views
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- Craving Statehood: The view from Guam
- Is This the End to the Hawaii Aquarium Fishery?
- Super High—Rents in Honolulu Nearly Double National Average
- HandiVan: Caldwell Admin Pushing 100% Fare Hike
- SB410: Bill Would Make UH Admin Bow Before UHPA
- Idaho dairymen learn while expanding to Hawaii
- DBEDT staff should handle Public-Private partnerships
- Hawaii Senior Population Jumps 14%
- Gary Hooser is the Donald Trump of Kauai
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| Sunday, July 2, 2017 |
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July 2, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:51 PM :: 4136 Views
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- UH Prof: ‘I Don’t Trust White People,’ They ‘Need To Lose More’
- Carving Up the Price of Car Rentals
- Honolulu Neighborhood Boards: 47 Vacant Positions Available
- Transit-oriented development a Scam Just Like Rail
- Star-Adv: HMSA Welfare Scheme is ‘Unacceptable Pay Cut’ for Pediatricians
- Historic Home Tax Hike – Political Insiders May have to pay $1000
- Styrofoam Ban on Hawaii County Council Agenda (again)
- Supreme Court Orders John Carroll to Surrender Law License
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| Saturday, July 1, 2017 |
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July 1, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:39 PM :: 4472 Views
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- Hawaii’s nonsensical resistance to borders shows as insanity
- As Predicted, Matson Strike Avoided
- Are you confused about the status of the $250,000 HART special audit?
- Ige: Public Schools Now Offer Better Education Than Private Schools
- Matayoshi: ‘A change of direction that I don't really know about’
- $347M Just to Cover the Raises
- Rate Hike Coming: HECO to Burn Another $205M Accommodating Solar
- New laws mean some city fees to rise next month
- Caregivers: New Law Creates Liability for Hospitals
- Hospital Subsidizes Urgent Care to Reduce Unnecessary Emergency Room Visits
- Census: State Population Grows 0.8% per Year
- Judge Orders Release Of City Prosecutor’s Employment Records
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| Friday, June 30, 2017 |
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June 30, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:33 PM :: 5269 Views
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- Travel Ban: AG Chin Asks Obama Judge to Redefine Supreme Court Ruling, Let More Muslims In
- Video: Roth vs Anderson on GE Tax Hike
- APL to inaugurate new foreign flag Asia / Hawaii container service in August
- UH Law School Looks at Sharing Economy
- Matson Strike ‘Unlikely’
- Hawaii Visitor Spending up 8.7% in May 2017
- SB410: Public union power grab goes too far
- OHA Announces $6M in Grants
- Institute for Astronomy celebrates 50 years of discovery
- Micronesia: US Officials Lift Suspension on Compact Public Infrastructure Grant Funding
- Kim: Trade Telescope Approval for OHA Control of Mauna Kea
- HART Chair: We’re Not Telling Feds Anything
- GOP Medicaid Reform Will Give State Choices
- Caldwell Finds Way to Make Affordable Housing Even More Scarce
- Sand Mining Since 1980s, Now OHA wants to Sue
- Outlook dim for 3 proposed charter schools
- Aloha Stadium offers UH plan to share revenue
- Enviros Still Crying Over Lost Chance to Gut Fishing Industry
- Honolulu May Allow Transportation Companies To Regulate Waikiki Streets
- 5 Years Late, DoT Finally Completes Backup Power Project at Airport
- Homeless Camp: TVs, Laptops, Generators, Dogs and Fighting Chickens
- 144 Convictions: Lifelong Criminal Gets 5 Years
- Law requires officials be alerted when gun permits are denied
- HB1488: Wanna Feel Medicated? Now More Excuses are Available
- Matson Unions Threaten Strike If There Is No Contract Deal By Tonight
- HMSA Experiments With Hawaii Children
- For Profit Biki Designed to Reward the 1%
- Bikeshare Part of Kakaako Condo Sales Pitch
- City Council looks to ban plastic bags
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| Thursday, June 29, 2017 |
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June 29, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:21 PM :: 4385 Views
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- Can Hokulea Crew Save Telescope?
- OHA: Hot Air vs Fresh Air
- Akina: Change OHA’s Current Spending Policy
- DMV Computer Fixed After Phone Call to Bulgaria
- Honolulu rail clearly a fiasco
- Legislators should scrap idea of 'basic income' and just lower taxes
- Greenmail Fail: Time Running out for Telescope
- HB165: Sunshine Law Modernized
- State Supreme Court says subs, part-time teachers aren't entitled to back pay
- Maui officer pleads guilty over witness-tampering
- Homeless Drug Addicts Threaten to Burn Down Building
- Tweekers Breed Puppies in Homeless Camp
- Bike sharing hits Oahu roads (and not everyone is happy about that)
- Citing liability, HEMIC cancels worker's comp plans for 7 marijuana dispensaries
- Usual Suspects: Hawaii Would Collapse Without Illegal Aliens
- Kauai: Hanabusa, Gabbard Block Immediate Deployment of Aegis Ashore
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| Wednesday, June 28, 2017 |
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June 28, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:03 PM :: 7250 Views
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- Grassroot: Feds Should Audit Rail
- Food Evolution
- Not Satisfied With Merely Taking Land For Rail, Now The City Wants Blood
- Trump Appoints Doug Domenech Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas
- Hirono Second Surgery: Gabbard, Hanabusa Jockey for Position
- Special Permits Near Honolulu Rail Line Attract Proposals For Big Juicy Hotels
- Only 9% of Honolulu renters can afford median-priced home—Worst in USA
- Telescope: Hawaiian cultural park would reflect traditional use of mountain
- Lawsuit: Mainland Anti-Ag Activists Target ANOTHER Hawaii Diary Farm
- Incompetent Caldwell Administration Crashes Computers Statewide, May Take All Week to Correct
- Homeless Meth-Heads dumping raw sewage at Diamond Head
- Residents of former plantation village in Ewa fed up with redevelopment plan delays
- Soft on Crime: Alleged Criminal Takes 160 Selfies and Still Walks
- HSTA Member Actually Gets Fired—Solicited a Minor for Prostitution
- Governor Must Follow Through On Intent To Veto Union Giveaway
- Lawmakers Got Ethics Awards For Not Breaking The Law
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| Tuesday, June 27, 2017 |
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June 27, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:26 PM :: 5319 Views
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- Universal Basic Income Is A Lazy Solution To The Oncoming Labor Crisis
- Drug Money: DoTax to Receive $400K/mo Cash—What Could Go Wrong?
- What Does it Take to Transfer one HGEA Member?
- Rep Chris Lee: If you don’t want to talk about putting everybody on Welfare, You Do Not Exist
- Ige Admin Claims Healthcare bill could cost Hawaii $200M/yr Medicaid funding
- Ige Veto May Save Hawaii From Wasting Millions on New Stadium
- Don’t Veto HB1414: Demand Audit of State’s Latest IT Debacle
- SA: Ige Right to Consider Veto of Aquarium Bill
- Ige Skips Chance to Name WESPAC Board Members
- Anti-GMO Activists Project and deflect
- Union for some Matson workers threatens to strike over labor dispute
- Chin: Hawaii Doomed because 6000 Muslims Might not Come Here
- Democrats Make Trump More Popular Among Republicans
- Attorney John S. Carroll asks to resign to avoid disciplinary action
- House bill presses for plan to protect Hawaii against North Korea missiles
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| Monday, June 26, 2017 |
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June 26, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:46 PM :: 6186 Views
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| Sunday, June 25, 2017 |
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June 25, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:08 PM :: 6758 Views
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- Hawaii named 'worst state to make a living' (again)
- Washington Holds Guam Back, Despite Not Knowing Where It Is
- Offshore Wind Turbines Blamed For Killing Whales
- Anatomy of Epic Fail on Rail
- Pay to Play: Navatek Contributes $120K to Legislators, Gets $8.75M in Tax credits and Grants
- Middle Street Station: HART Pays Millions More so First Hawaiian can Profit from TOD
- Blood Bank: HART Acts in Bad Faith – Reckless push to take land for rail
- Legislators need excuses to Hike taxes another $1.3B for more rail
- Rail: Why Learn from Your Mistakes?
- Rail: 100% Personnel Turnover as Rats Jump Sinking Ship
- Shakedown: After Ignoring it for Years, Squatters Suddenly Claim Coco Palms Site
- Maui: Audit the Transportation Department
- Hawaii County: Audit the Hele On Bus System
- Mom blames court delays in the killing of 7-year-old Reef Aikau
- The People Who Sold us Obamacare now Pretend to Speak Authoritatively Against Trumpcare—Who could be fooled?
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| Saturday, June 24, 2017 |
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June 24, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:30 PM :: 4066 Views
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- Ige to Veto 15 Bills
- DoE to Open Military Transition Centers
- BoE Approves ESSA Plan Submission to Feds
- Celebrate Hokulea Return, Oppose Telescope?
- BoE Handing out Cash to top DoE Execs
- Hawaii County Council pumps up fuel tax by 261%
- DOBOR New Fishing Fees – $0.25 per square foot?
- Homeless: “There’s lots of crazy people on ice around here,”
- Star Adv: Gays are Racist, Need to Evolve
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| Friday, June 23, 2017 |
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June 23, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:26 PM :: 4696 Views
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- HART Cancels Audit: "It's not my intent to figure out what we did wrong”
- Trump nominates retired Admiral Buzby to be MARAD Administrator
- Meet the Jones Act: A 97-year-old regulatory law that's costing you money
- Transforming Military Impact Aid into Education Savings Accounts
- HART Incompetence: Rail station strategy proves costly
- Supreme Court could reveal action on travel ban at any time
- Hirono to undergo second cancer surgery
- Newly hired teacher faces two month delay in pay
- Can HGEA and its Legislature Stop Airport Security Privatization?
- GEMS: How Many Legislators Does it take to Change a DoE Lightbulb?
- Honolulu Is Paying Back $1.45 Million In Federal Housing Funds
- Kauai Council Will not Bow to Mayor’s Demand for Tax Hikes
- Walter Ritte Thug Gets Six Months for Attack on Fishing Boat
- DLNR Urges Ige To Veto Bill Phasing Out Aquarium Fishing In Hawaii
- Global Warmers Hope King Tide Will Generate More Propaganda Photos (again)
- Men Systematically Excluded from College Education
- Battery Schemers Demand More Tax Credit Giveaways—Elon Musk Needs Another Billion
- Biki is Really Just a Politically-Connected For-Profit Business
- Wahiawa Meth Addicts Take over Foreclosed Home, Assault Neighbors
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| Thursday, June 22, 2017 |
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June 22, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:53 PM :: 4449 Views
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- Military Industrial Complex Compromising Hawaii Missile Defense for Profit
- Honolulu rail project most expensive in the world
- NFIB Hawaii Small Business End-of-Session Report
- The Greatest Journey Didn’t Start with a Protest
- HDOT: 2002 Airport Agreement with Sheriff is Out of Date
- OCCC Jail Siting Study Released
- Hawaii Homes Lowest Average CO2 Production in USA
- How High Are Spirits Taxes in Your State?
- Navy’s partnership with Polynesian Voyaging Society
- After Getting Rid of Citizen-Advisors Police Commission finds Way to Dump Consultant Leading Police Chief Search
- Performance-Based Contracts Drive Housing First Progress in Hawaii
- Meth Addicts Like Being Homeless, Don’t Want Shelter
- Harry Kim Wants Homeless Tent City, May Lose Federal Funding
- UH Prof: Break up the DoE to Solve Teacher Shortages
- Hawaii businesses struggle to find workers
- If Hawaii Was Really Serious about Global Warming, We Would Shut Down Tourism Industry
- Jones Act Keeps Clean LNG out of Hawaii
- PUC Orders HECO to Give More Money to Green Energy Scammers
- Soft on Crime: Pimp, Child Rapist to Get Early Parole—Sues Because Prison was Unpleasant
- Jonesing Dopers Deploy Sob Story
- Campaign calls to 'relocate the turtles' as frustration grows over Laniakea gridlock
- Honolulu Residents Get Raw Deal With Bikeshare
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| Wednesday, June 21, 2017 |
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June 21, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:34 PM :: 5810 Views
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- After Pushing Bogus Coral Sunscreen Bills, Hawaii Surfrider Collects Payoff from Manufacturer
- Pasha to Buy Four Mystery Ships?
- 10 Buildings With the Highest Honolulu Property Taxes in 2016
- How Economically Independent is Hawaii?
- Hawaii to Supreme Court: No need to review travel ban
- ‘Food Evolution’ movie could mark turning point in public GMO discussion
- Mother Jones: World Health Organization called RoundUp a “probable carcinogen,” but it didn’t have all the facts
- FBI probe investigating police chief now zeroing in on city prosecutor, too
- Lawyers Begin Pretending Kealoha-Kaneshiro Ghost Ticketing Investigation is Real
- Universal Basic Income: Tax Hike to Pay Mainland Homeless to Come to Hawaii
- Lawsuit dismissed, clearing the way for transfer of hospitals
- Ige to Sign GEMS Rip-off Bill—Electric Ratepayers to Subsidize Failed Cool Schools Scam
- DoE Fails to Develop Even one Parcel of Land
- BoE Forwards HSTA-Ige ESSA Plan to Feds
- Emergency hires fill 38% of Leeward Teaching Positions
- Student Loan Repayment Steers 25 MDs, Nurses to ‘Underserved Areas’
- HIDoT: Firing Sheriffs is Negotiating Tactic
- Soft on Crime Crowd Saddened to Learn that Criminals do not Have Eternal Life
- Opioid Overdoses Cost $110M/year in Hawaii
- Domestic Abuse Felony Cases Clog Courts
- Aquarium fishing limits wrong for Hawaii
- Surfrider to DoH: Give Us the Power to Shut Down Beaches, Farms
- Military Industrial Complex Compromising Hawaii Missile Defense for Profit
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| Tuesday, June 20, 2017 |
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Letters to the Editor June, 2017
By Letters to the Editor @ 8:09 PM :: 9589 Views
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- Oahu Homeowners Get Railroaded
- Rail vs Neil Blaisdell Center Renovations
- Audit The Rail
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| Tuesday, June 20, 2017 |
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June 20, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:17 PM :: 4598 Views
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- Rail Tax Hike: Legislators Promise Special Session, but Cannot Agree on Date or Funding Mechanism
- Global Warming: UH Professors Say Everybody in Hawaii Will Burn to Death. Soon. Real soon.
- Cool Schools? DoE Working to Avoid Installing Air Conditioners
- Rail vs Neil Blaisdell Center Renovations
- IT: Hawaii Spends the Most, Gets the Least
- DoTax: Another Big IT Project Collapse—$ Millions Wasted
- Enough is enough: Cut losses, end rail project
- Tourism Industry is Proof of Hawaii Democrats’ Climate Hypocrisy
- How HART Tried — And Failed — To Keep Rail Records Secret
- Rep Marilyn Lee to Appeal Against Admission of Fukumoto?
- Homeless Drug Addict’s Dogs Attack Jogger
- Hawaii Judge Amends Travel Ban Injunction
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| Monday, June 19, 2017 |
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June 19, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:16 PM :: 4980 Views
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- Democrats Vote to Allow Fukumoto In
- Medicaid Expansion States Saw ER Visits Go Up, Uninsured ER Visits Go Down
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 19, 2017
- Panos: Statewide Surface Transportation Challenges and Opportunities
- Half of Hawaii Medicaid Funds Pay for Homeless Emergency Room Visits
- With Government out of the Way, Privatized Maui Hospital Hiring Hundreds, Investing Millions
- Put Everybody on Welfare: Omidyar, ACORN, and Richard Nixon All Agree—What Could Go Wrong?
- Hawaii County Moves to Shut Down Affordable Housing Development
- Honolulu Ethics Needs ‘Complete Overhaul’
- Global Warming: UH Professors Say Everybody in Hawaii Will Burn to Death. Soon. Real soon.
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| Sunday, June 18, 2017 |
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June 18, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:26 PM :: 7222 Views
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- Closing an Estate Tax Loophole?
- New Sup’t Kishimoto set up to be Main Course of Political Feeding Frenzy
- Lawsuit: Sex, Lies and Retaliation in Maui County
- LG Candidates have no enthusiasm for Ige
- Another IT Disaster: Legislature Cuts off Funds for Tax System Modernization
- Public school spending in Hawaii is above U.S. norm
- Renters Hit by 10% Property Tax Hike on Affordable Housing
- How Homeless Attack Workers, Get Away with it
- Medicated Marijuana Drenched in Pesticides
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| Saturday, June 17, 2017 |
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June 17, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 9:23 PM :: 5296 Views
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- Caldwell to Legislators: City will not put more ‘Skin in the Game’
- With Obama Out of the Way, HMSA Rate Hike Much Smaller
- Expensive Wind Energy Makes Maui Electric Bills Jump $15 in Month
- What do Illinois and Hawaii have in common that's causing residents to flee?
- Decisive Endorsement? Gay Thief Approves Fukumoto for Democratic Party membership
- Sovereignty Lawyer Disbarred
- Its Summer Again so Ige, DoE Pretend to Scramble to Cool Schools While Diverting Money to Line Green Energy Scammers Pockets
- Legislator: Housing Authority Money Demands Lack Specifics
- State DOT says deputy sheriffs no longer needed at Honolulu airport
- DOCARE Proposes $11,000 Fine for Teaching Kitesurfing at Beach
- Kauai Mayor Refuses to Sign Budget After Council Rejects Tax Hike
- Maui Hospital: 97% of HHSC Staff Accept Employment
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| Friday, June 16, 2017 |
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June 16, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:23 AM :: 4736 Views
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- June 14, 1900: The Abolition of Slavery in Hawaii
- State Recycling Program: A Decade of Fraud (Part 6)
- Auditor: 2017 Legislature Batting .000 -- 65 Bogus Special Funds
- Ige: Legislators Aren’t Getting Answers on Rail Costs
- Doomed: Affordable Housing Plan Depends on Rail
- Obamacare repeal will Barely be Noticed in Hawaii
- Hawaii workers 2nd in the nation using vacation time
- Preschool Pricing Hawaii families out
- Bogus Sand Study Claimed Maui would Run out in 2011
- Organic Brainwashing in a Sea of Ignorance
- Scientists Want Papahanaumokuakea All to Themselves
- NRC Laughs at Big Island Depleted Activists
- Lawsuit: Staff Covered up Homosexual Rape
- Inmate lawsuit claims severe beating by HCCC guards; ‘repeated, systemic use of excessive force’ alleged
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| Thursday, June 15, 2017 |
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June 15, 2017 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:13 AM :: 4762 Views
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- Audit The Rail
- State Labor Negotiators partly to blame for counties’ tax hikes
- No Jones Act tankers are capable of carrying liquid natural gas
- Takings: Bridge Aina Lea Suit Dismissed
- Wine Taxes: Hawaii Ranks 12th
- The Economic Security of Older Women and Men in Hawaii
- Audit: Informal Procedures by HPD, Prosecutor Hinder Domestic Violence Cases
- Audit Catches Maui County Finance Directory Abusing P-Card–Exposes Hostess Bar Loophole
- Soon-to-be HIDOE superintendent at the center of nearly $1M controversy
- TMT returns to high court: State justices to hear sublease appeal
- Property Taxes to Quadruple for 8,000 Condos
- GE Tax Payments up 1.1%, TAT up 14.9%
- Legislature’s Latest Idea: Put Everybody on Welfare and Call it ‘Universal Basic Income’
- Vampire Rail Cuts into Hawaii Blood Supply
- Hawaii Fastest Rising College Tuition in USA
- Hawaii Home Health Care Costs Rising Faster Than 48 States
- Anti-GMO Activists Sue State to Force EIS for Farming Operations
- Big Money Behind Anti-GMO
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