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| Saturday, August 6, 2016 |
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August 6, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:18 PM :: 6107 Views
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- This Day in History: Truman Announces Hiroshima Bombing
- Occupational Licensing: Hawaii Most Burdensome Requirements in USA
- UH Law Prof: White Milk is Racist Food Oppression
- Hawaii Seed Crop Worth $151M—Up 7%
- Maui’s long waiting list for water
- 9th Circuit Dismisses Challenge to Hawaii Gay Marriage Law
- Republican Candidate for Ewa’s Senate Seat Demands Change
- Feds to Hit Corrupt Hawaii Democratic Party with ‘Biggest Fine Ever’
- Sewage Spill Bringing Stiff Fine: State Orders Caldwell to Change Ways
- Star-Adv: Police Commission Needs to Act on Kealoha
- Telescope: Next Hearing August 12
- Dozens pack the Hilo YMCA for TMT hearing
- Zika Fears Drive Tourists to Choose Hawaii
- Scary News: Farrington HS to be Model for DoE Maintenance Programs
- Papahanaumokuakea: Environmentalists excuse to cripple Navy operations
- Travel websites ordered to pay Hawaii taxes on car rentals
- Act 202: $3M Per Year State Giveaway to Biofuel Producers
- Securitas officers plead guilty to theft at Honolulu airport
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| Friday, August 5, 2016 |
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August 5, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:38 PM :: 4469 Views
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- Hawaii: 41% of Children Dependent on Government
- 53% – Hawaii Headed in Wrong Direction
- UPW Delays Destroying Maui Memorial Hospital
- Optimistic that hospital settlement is within reach
- Telescope Time Running Out: Flurry of Motions, Then Wait til October
- Tax Hikes Will Never be Enough to Pay for State DoT
- Djou: HPD needs to get a handle on officer misconduct
- How Kirk Caldwell Blew Through $500K In Just 29 Days
- Prominent Democrat Donors Give to Djou
- Public-Private Partnerships And Their Potential For Rail
- Rail Sinkhole is Developing Sinkholes in Ewa
- OHA Chair Claims Papahanaumokuakea Has Nothing to do with Money, LOL!
- Eco-Lawyers Push Federal takeover of Hawaii Agriculture
- Earthjustice has a great little scam going
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| Thursday, August 4, 2016 |
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August 4, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:00 PM :: 5110 Views
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| Wednesday, August 3, 2016 |
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August 3, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:22 PM :: 4505 Views
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- Caldwell Hammered on Bank Job, Lack of Ethics
- Will Olympic Visitors Bring Zika Back With Them?
- TOU Pricing: A Cool New Way to Raise Your Electric Rates
- Honolulu Ethics Commission Appoints New Director
- Hawaiian Electric Begins Peddling Batteries
- Elderly 45.8% More Likely to Suffer Traffic Fatality
- Hawaii Offshore Windfarms An Expensive ‘Political Agenda’
- CD1 Special Election Set for General Election Day
- Truth and Transparency Lacking at OHA
- Poll: Djou Ahead 42-33
- Money: OHA Cronies Demand Control of Papahanaumokuakea
- Caldwell Continues to Protect Chief Kealoha from FBI
- Computerization Opened Door to Cash Theft in Parks and Rec Dept
- Djou: Build Up in Urban Honolulu
- TOD Tax to Pay for Rail?
- Rap Back: Even Former Gun Owners Will be Included in Database
- Education: ESSA Forums Hit Big Island
- New charter schools’ authorizers sought
- Kapiolani Park Homeless threaten Journalist
- Stabbing suspect linked to previous incidents of road rage, pepper spray
- Big Island Windfarm Will Kill Endangered Bats and Birds
- Transportation Bill Decision
- Lawsuit: Kauai Marijuana Dispensary Funded With Stolen Money
- Believe in Sea Level Rise? Sell Now and Flee!
- Gabbard Slams Religious Bigotry in Clinton Camp
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| Tuesday, August 2, 2016 |
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August 2, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:18 PM :: 6125 Views
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- Feds Contradict Caldwell: Hawaii Veteran Homelessness Only Down 3%
- Hawaii Medicare: 50% of Payments to be on Incentive Plan
- Why are more Micronesians coming to Hawaii?
- OHA Violates Trust Responsibility to Native Hawaiians
- If We Can’t Have it Nobody Will: More Delays as UPW, HGEA Work to Destroy Maui Memorial
- Kaiser Losing $500K a Week Waiting for UPW, Governor
- Ige Doubles Down on Transportation Tax Blackmail
- Caldwell Boots Ethics Out the Door
- Rail: Caldwell Throws Out Option after Option until only Tax Hikes are Left
- Businesses blame Ridiculous, Irresponsible Years–Long Failure for Iwilei flooding
- Banks Pay Caldwell More Than City Does
- GEMS: Your Tax Dollars Shift to Corporations
- DoE Far Short of cooling a thousand classrooms
- Soft on Crime: Freeway stabbing suspect has previous felony conviction, pending cases
- Great News: 526 More Convicts may be Liberated from Expensive, Corrupt UPW-Controlled Prisons
- Death to Tourism: Zika Hits Miami, Visitors Cancel in Droves
- Barrons: Hawaii Only Place Anybody is Talking About Solar Battery Storage
- Hokulea Arrives at Nova Scotia Home Port of Hawaii Superferry
- Ilagan Gets More Contributions from SD2 than Anti-GMO Ruderman
- The Problem with Hawaii is Obscene Anti-GMO Activists Who Move Here from the Mainland
- Same-Day Voter Registration Available at Walk-In Voting Locations
- Who Can Fire Police Chief? Case Heading for Supreme Court
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| Monday, August 1, 2016 |
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August 1, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:46 PM :: 4443 Views
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- Walk-in Voting Begins Monday Aug 1
- On Rail, Caldwell Stonewalls Council, Legislature, and Feds
- A Dream and a Vision
- 1853 Hawaiian Mission to Marquesan Cannibals
- Papahānaumokuākea Expansion Public Meetings
- ‘Pretend School’ – 625 Teacher Vacancies Statewide
- Tighten Rail’s Leash
- Most Homelessness Money Goes to People on Verge
- High Cost of UPW Prisons Behind State’s Soft on Crime Approach
- Caldwell’s Sewage Incompetence
- Dying To Cross The Street In Honolulu
- Petroleum supplier wants to deliver clean energy
- Solar Dirty Energy Complain Waianae neighbors
- Public Hearing: Big Island Windfarm Wants to Kill Endangered Species for 20 Years
- Want a Copy of the Constitution? Now, That’s Controversial!
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| Sunday, July 31, 2016 |
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July 31, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:27 PM :: 5593 Views
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- SB2077: Randy Perreira Face-Saving Bill
- Hawaii Budget: Taxes on the Horizon
- Maui County set to strangle Airbnb
- Time for the Subcontract Deduction to Be Upended? Hafa Adai!
- Caldwell Already Lobbying for Multi-Billion Dollar GE Tax Hike
- Papahanaumokuakea: Question the Motives
- 105 Hot Classrooms at Campbell HS--DoE, Contractors Figure Out How Much They Can get away with Charging
- HART to Make a Mess of UH Football Opener
- Rail: Murder on the Disoriented Express
- Gay Prostitute Gets Dishonorable Discharge
- Anti-GMO Activists Aim for Aug 13 Dem Primary
- Half of Medicated Marijuana Users Will Soon Become Unemployed
- Hot housing market leaves elderly tenants out in cold
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| Saturday, July 30, 2016 |
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July 30, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:47 PM :: 4455 Views
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- Screaming Haole Trespasses on Farm, Destroys Papaya Trees
- Hawaiian Electric: Significant Alt-Energy Projects Underway Without NextEra
- KIUC: 40% Renewable for 2016
- Almost All Hawaii Catholic School Graduates go on to College
- High Tech Corporate Welfare: State Gives Away Another $3.2M of Your Tax Dollars
- Visitor Arrivals, Expenditures Increased in First Half of 2016
- Caldwell’s Darby Flood: 15 Homes Uninhabitable, 110 Damaged in Kalihi
- Convert Rail to Busway?
- Djou: Poor Zoning Blocks Affordable Housing
- Enviros Attempt to Force Fishermen out of Papahanaumokuakea discussion
- Mainland Lesbians Score $80K
- Bisexual Charged with Murder, Kiddie Porn, Prostitution
- DNC Finger Flipper Works for Gary Hooser
- Judge dismisses failure to disperse charge for six telescope protesters
- Five Years Later Hawaii-based BoA VP Arrested
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| Friday, July 29, 2016 |
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July 29, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:48 PM :: 5173 Views
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- Rep Kaniela Ing Caught Lying About Arrest--Claims 'Conspiracy'
- Heart Association: Second Hand Marijuana Smoke Worse than Tobacco
- Djou: Open to More Money for Rail as Long as it is not Tax Money
- Caldwell Slips out of the Office to Meet with bank Board of Directors
- Fire Grabauskas on August 8? Caldwell Not Willing to Say
- HART Board Member Walkout Stops Action on Property Purchases
- Lawmaker Rebuffed At DOE Meeting
- Three Charter Schools Nearing Approval
- Anti-GMO Activists Demand Removal of HD7 Democrat District Chair
- Other Gays Call Tranny a Prostitute After Recreation Department Employee Busted
- Civil Beat Upset Because Homeless Cant Pee on Things Freely
- Homeless Shack Runs Aground, Washed out of Keehi Tweekers’ Camp—Lawyers Called
- Police Union Shouldn’t Block Body Cameras In Kauai
- Cow Manure: Anti-Dairy Phonies Find New Excuses to Whine
- Oahu, Big Island nearing Solar Cap
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| Thursday, July 28, 2016 |
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July 28, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:55 PM :: 5696 Views
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- Rep Kaniela Ing Arrested by Maui PD
- Secrets: 24 Candidates Fail to File Financial Disclosure
- OHA Elections are Decided by Oahu Voters
- Hawaii Capital Gains Taxes 29.2%
- U.S. establishes new Jones Act enforcement arm
- Cover Up: Jones Act Whistleblower Case Costs Matson $1M
- Hot Schools: DoE Prepares for Illness and Exhaustion
- Bernie Sanders Resigns from Democratic Party
- DLNR: Keehi Lagoon is Caldwell’s Mess
- Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party Now Showing in Hawaii
- A Dozen Dead and Caldwell Does Nothing
- Gay Sex Scandal Rocks Caldwells’ Recreation Department
- Caldwell’s Darby Emergency Plan—Phone Hilo
- Here’s The Deal Caldwell Made to Oust Ethics Director
- HART to discuss council resolutions to suspend property acquisition, change of funding
- Most Doctors Don’t Want to Sell Weed
- Housing For Homeless Three Units in Waianae cost $752K
- Hawaiian Electric Industries Profits $60M from Failed Merger
- Hawaiians Plan to Violate Ige’s Kona Fishing Ban
- EPA Drawn into Dairy Farm Fight
- Why It Took A Republican Governor To Get Blue Hawaii On The Path To Clean Energy
- Soft on Crime: Man on probation arrested in shooting
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| Wednesday, July 27, 2016 |
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July 27, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:47 PM :: 5075 Views
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- Papahanaumokuakea: OHA’s Power Grab will harm State's ability to continue its trust responsibility to Native Hawaiians
- Hawaii Pension System $8 Billion in Trouble
- Sen. Sam Slom Endorses Kelii Akina for OHA Trustee
- Hawaii Police Departments decreasing in size per capita
- County by County: Where are the People Doped Up?
- Video: Tulsi Gabbard Nominates Bernie Sanders for President
- Lawsuit: Compel Department of Health to post long term care home inspection reports
- Hawaii Supreme Court: Hanalei Boatyard Connected to Area 51?
- Honolulu Tops Cities Where Coffee Costs the Most
- Hawaii County Mayoral Candidate Wally Lau Fears Perjury Charge in Billy Kenoi Case
- Djou is Only Candidate Pledged to Not Raise Taxes
- If voters don’t elect new leadership at City Hall, we’re all in big trouble
- Darby damage was avoidable?
- Fasi Building Air Conditioning Broken—Will Stay Down for Two Weeks Due to Caldwell’s Incompetence
- ‘That Ocean Belongs To Us,’ Former Governor Tells Feds
- HECO to Control Solar Development on Oahu?
- State, Feds Hand out $23.3M to so-called High Tech Companies
- State high court rejects ethics charges against Hilo charter school administrator
- Kauai Anti-GMO Activist Booted from Dem Convention After Giving Hillary Clinton the Finger on Live National TV
- BLNR OKs transfer of land lease in Milolii from Kahele to relative
- HPD Arrests City Employee in Gay Sex Scandal
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| Tuesday, July 26, 2016 |
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July 26, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:42 PM :: 5423 Views
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- Senator Slom Publishes Financial Report on the State General Fund
- Honolulu: Property Tax Bills and Absentee Ballots Arrive in Mail
- Another Sewage overflow near Ala Moana
- Tulsi Gabbard: ‘The Congresswoman Trump Fans Can Love’
- DoE Community Meetings--Seeks Input on ESSA
- Precisely as Predicted: DoE Now Says $63K per Classroom is a Good Price for AC
- Crooked medevac firm files bankruptcy
- Liquefied natural gas bridge to Hawaii collapses
- Kauai: Anti-Agriculture Lawsuit Filed by Phony Environmentalists
- After Tuition Hike, UH to find out if it will get hit with a historic penalty
- Decade After Being Blocked by OHA, Will Kauai Finally Get Drug Treatment Center?
- Advocates For Elderly Sue State Over Inspections Of Care Homes
- 42 Handi-Van Vehicles out of Commission
- HPD officer arrested for DUI
- Makani Christensen has long been an ally of Hawaii’s fishing community
- Rod Tam Crosses The Aisle To Try To Come Back
- You Tube Video Reveals Homosexual Sex Harassment in Hawaii Community Service Program
- Here’s why the Hawaii LGBT Caucus doesn’t support Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s reelection campaign
- Corps of Engineers Plan for Waikiki? ‘Build a Wall’
- UH astronomers test waters for new telescope atop Haleakala
- Readers Not Fooled by Latest HI-Tech Tax Credit Sales Pitch
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| Monday, July 25, 2016 |
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July 25, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:22 PM :: 6411 Views
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- Debt Financing: The mayor's word on rail has been broken – again
- Bishop Museum: ‘Fears that some pieces might have disappeared’
- Telescope Doom: OHA intends to take state and UH to court
- Gabbard to Challenge Hirono in 2018?
- Should a deal be struck, it’s unclear how it will impact SB 2077
- Top donors to state and local candidates so far this year
- Bankrupt Puerto Rico Cited as Model for Hawaiian Electric
- WSJ Looks at UH 15-to-Finish Program
- Special Session’s Price Tag At Least $10,000
- Debunked Instantly: Civil Beat Pushing for Rent Control
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| Sunday, July 24, 2016 |
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July 24, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:35 PM :: 4106 Views
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- Recreation Department Audit: No Way to Know How Much They Stole
- The “Turn Back the Clock Award”
- UH Law Grads Average $55K Debt
- City seeks non-profit organization for Kapolei City Lights parade and vendors
- Video: Winds of Change in Education
- How Much Money Does Hawaii Spend Per Student?
- Djou has a point, and Caldwell knows it
- Veto Override: The whole Democratic machine wobbles
- Maui Hospital: With Override, the transition should proceed
- Hawaii Sunshine Law—Constant Tug of War
- Hawaiian Electric: We’re Looking at all Fuel Choices
- Young Bros Seeks $3.1M Rate Hike
- The Evolution of Obamacare
- Kauai Anti-GMO Candidate Funded by Mainlanders, Celebrutards
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| Saturday, July 23, 2016 |
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July 23, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:53 PM :: 5272 Views
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| Friday, July 22, 2016 |
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July 22, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:34 PM :: 5192 Views
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- VIDEO: HART Vice-Chair Endorses Charles Djou
- Hawaii 3rd Highest Excise Taxes in USA
- Golden Parachutes are Expensive -- Massive tuition increases approved by UH regents
- Honolulu ADU Incentives Now Law
- Ige Announces $12M Homelessness Plan
- DoH Socks Hawaii’s Last Cane Plantation with $600K Fine
- TS Darby heading to Hawaii, tropical storm watch issued for Big Island, Maui Co
- Big Mess: Legislators’ Trash Heap imperils pension fund
- Suddenly Caldwell Claims City Finances are All Better Now, Just Ignore that Rail Thingy
- Hawaii GOP’s Only Senate Seat May Be In Jeopardy
- NextEra to pull out of Hawaii wind farm, undersea cable and power supply improvement projects
- Your Tuition Hike At Work: Vice Chancellor Quits, Scores Big Fat Salary to Teach English
- Kealohas file motion to dismiss federal prosecutor from grand jury investigation
- Chinatown Gambling: Price of HPD Protection $7,000?
- Hawaii health agency faces challenge in Hepatitis A outbreak
- Valley Fever Could be Excuse to Release Hundreds of Criminals
- Cab companies see profits plummet as ride-sharing expands
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| Thursday, July 21, 2016 |
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July 21, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:08 PM :: 4076 Views
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- It Begins: Caldwell Launches First Negative Campaign Ad
- Maui Hospital Veto Override will jeopardize the Employee Retirement System
- Ige: The concerns expressed in my veto message have not changed
- IUOE ‘Hawaiian Stabilization Fund’ All But Clear of Lawsuit
- Papahanaumokuakea: Hawaii Fishermen get no response from Obama, Schatz
- DHHL Begins Work on 2017 Legislative Package
- Souki: Rather Difficult to Implement HGEA-UPW Payoff Bill Without Funding
- HART considers federal loan to help patch rail shortfall
- After All the Hype Oahu Electricity Still 71% Oil
- Star-Adv: UH Tuition Hike is ‘Reasonable’
- Fitch warns utilities: Retail net metering could damage your creditworthiness
- Hawaii’s longline fisheries hit bigeye tuna limit early
- School Cleared In Ethics Case
- Prison Guard Facing Six Counts of Lesbian Rape
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| Wednesday, July 20, 2016 |
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July 20, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:38 PM :: 3918 Views
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- Rep Mark Takai Dies--Special Election in November
- Hawaiian Electric withdraws request for approval of LNG contract and generation upgrades
- Supreme Court: Mixed Decision on Office Of Election Ballot Practices
- Voters win ballot shortage case against the Hawaii Office of Elections
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted July 19, 2016
- Zika Spreads—1300 Cases in Continental US and Hawaii
- Hospital Privatization: Legislators Override Veto, Give HGEA, UPW Millions
- After All Caldwell’s Tax Hike Hype, HART Middle Street Contract Somehow Magically Comes in on Budget
- Facebook Being used to Impose Political Correctness: HPD Officer Reassigned After Writing Incorrect Things
- School misconduct investigations Sideline Employees for Year
- Teachers say Hawaii public schools plagued with faulty furniture, equipment
- County Recreation Department has One Employee for Every 2.8 Acres of parks
- ‘Village’ offers hope to homeless
- State Pays for Homeless Programs Slashed by Obama Administration
- Hawaii groups push co-op utility after failed merger
- Mainland Anti-GMO Loons, Civil Beat Team up to Attack Kauai County Water Board Nominee
- Poll workers sought for primary election
Kauai PD Lt Stole $75K intended for Drug Buys
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| Tuesday, July 19, 2016 |
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July 19, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:36 PM :: 5634 Views
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- Keli’i Akina and Mililani Trask Team-up to Reform OHA
- EPA Imposes $425M in Costs on Tesoro, Parr Refineries
- VIDEO: Linda Lingle Addresses GOP Convention
- 2016 Candidate Info Available on League of Women Voters Website
- Hawaiian Electric Will Move Forward as an Independent Company
- Papahānaumokuākea Expansion Public Meetings
- Maui Hospital Bill: Legislators ‘Look Foolish Negotiating for Unions’
- The transfer of the hospitals would be the largest privatization project in state history
- Caldwell: I Want Another $1.5B of Your Money
- Poll: Native Hawaiians Support Telescope
- GEMS a drain on ratepayers as well as taxpayers
- Hawaii Poll: Nearly Half of Voters Want HPD Chief to Resign
- HPA Gives Lifelong Criminal Early Release due to Overcrowding
- Hawaii's educators fed up with slow progress to cool classrooms
- First in History: Hawaii DoE Adopts a Curriculum
- NextEra Rejection Places LNG Project in Limbo
- Ige Claims Others Wait to Buy Hawaiian Electric
- Kauai Enviros Really Thrilled About Letting Enemy Subs Sneak up on Navy Ships
- UH recommends raising its tuition 2%
- Hawaii County Council Considers $39M Tax Hike on Agricultural Properties
- HMSA Insurance Rate Hikes Average 11.1%
- GOP Convention Coverage
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| Monday, July 18, 2016 |
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July 18, 2016 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:49 PM :: 3824 Views
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- NextEra Quits Hawaii Short $95M
- Mina Morita Lawsuit Challenges Gorak Appointment
- CPA Mobility—Accountants Denounce Dale Kobayashi
- Team Djou Challenge—Rail, Trust, Homelessness, Ethics
- Take rail all way to Ala Moana, voters urge
- Poll: People Happier About Homeless after they beat up Brower
- Porno Choices: Sex ed found to alter minds
- High cost of rents partially result of GE Tax
- Maui is being ruined by environmentalists
- Charter School Chief Job Offer Rejected
- SB2196 Creates Independent Police Review Board
- Civil Beat: We Need $400K for Hemp
- UH president’s pay in mid-range among college leaders, study finds
- Islanders hit Ohio for GOP convention
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