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| Friday, July 15, 2011 |
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July 15, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:09 PM :: 26215 Views
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- Despite high costs, Hawaii Medicaid Spending ranks 41st in Nation
- Berg: Restore Funding for Sand Island Wastewater Treatment
- Hanalani School Returns Home with Second International Botball Tournament Win
- Ewa Field Battlefield Survey Report released by Navy
- Hirono bests Case in raising contributions for Senate run
- City rail plan taking longer to build than Great Pyramid
- Hawaii Country strikes 2-year deal with HGEA, furloughs continue
- Jobless recovery persists in Hawaii
- Neighborhood Board Figure Accused Of Fraud, Elder abuse
- SA: Sex-Abuse Suits should be allowed against Catholic Church, but not the State
- Bus Stop Moved To Avoid Homeless Woman's Smell
- Mafia Wind: State signs off on North Shore wind farm plans
- Navy meeting on Kalaeloa to discuss proposal to develop solar power project
- CSAO: Scam Potential in some Charter Management Organizations
- Hawaii Judges Financial Disclosures Posted Online for first time ever
- Panel to consider placing sheriffs in their own state department
- Law Allows Public-Private Partnerships At State Properties
- Hawai‘i foreclosures decline 66% during June, Judicial Foreclosures nearly double
- 9th Circuit orders Pacific Beach Hotel to Bargain with Union
- Local farmers divided on food safety program
- CDC: Hawaiians Die, Too -- But Less Often
- County denies culpability in blowhole incident
- High Speed Misery: for Both Superferries & U.S. Taxpayers Alike
- Canadian Officials don’t want Hawaii Meth Dealer in their Prison
- Victim of the great garbage patch: Turtle is just one of thousands left deformed or dead by Pacific Ocean plastic—but not plastic bags
- Roseanne's Nuts: Say hello to the second-worst show on television
- Avoiding Cheating Scandal, Atlanta Sup’t of Schools Hides in Maui
- Peter Thiel Buys Maui Home For a Record $27 Million
- Inouye Knew about N Korean Abductions of Japanese 30 years ago
- Ceremony at Schofield Barracks marks the end of the Iraq mission for the post’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team
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| Thursday, July 14, 2011 |
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July 14, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:13 PM :: 15244 Views
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- NYT: Book Challenges Obama on Mother’s Deathbed Fight
- Abercrombie adds 10 more HGEA positions
- Supreme Court Offers Free Divorce Law Program on July 14
- HSTA to Abercrombie: Don’t turn your back on a friend
- Just in time to give it to the Unions: Hawaii 2011 Tax Revenues Higher Than Expected
- Commission refuses to Disenfranchise Military -- stands by controversial redistricting data
- Maui, Hawaii County Reapportionment Advisory Councils Reject Lawsuit over Military
- Hirono raises $300K for Senate Run
- Hirono opposes effort to allow States more local control over Federal Education Funds
- Dallas News: Just what Honolulu needs: 20 miles of elevated train track
- China gives Eased Access only to Obama-connected States
- Hawaii most expensive State to own a Car
- Ratepayers to fork out 2% of bill for Hawaii Clean Energy Subsidies
- While Hawaii’s Shipping Prices Increase Sharply, U.S. Shipping Market Sees Costs Plunge
- Liquor Commissioner Arrested, Charged for Bribery
- Hawaii to hire 10 agriculture inspectors
- $8M Ponzi scheme leader sentenced to 12 years
- Pacific Office Compliance Plan Accepted by NYSE Amex
- State Board Gives Nod To New Aloha Tower Marketplace Deal
- Hawaii approves 3-year contract with CCA
- WHT Helps Devalue Queen Liliuokalani Trust
- CB: Hawaii Legislature Needs to Give Records Office a Backbone
- CB: Few Cities Track Police Crimes, Honolulu Included
- Kauai Luddites fail in Second Effort to Kill Hydro Projects
- Mega solar farm in Kekaha approved
- 1000 Solar Panels save $300/day from Electric Bill
- Enforcers on hunt for bottomfish poachers
- Rollman vs Ryan Part …?
- Rosanne Barr show endangers Hawaii Tourism, Mac Nut Industry
- 1996: America Defends Marriage against Broken Trust Hawaii Supreme Court
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| Wednesday, July 13, 2011 |
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July 13, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:03 PM :: 13784 Views
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- Abercrombie announces final vetoes, 14 bills become law
- Democrat push to disenfranchise Military fails to gain support of Hawaii, Maui Advisory Councils
- HI Gov. Abercrombie signs health law some saw as threatening Prepaid Act
- Hawaii Lawmakers Got Free Tickets from Ko Olina, Mitsunaga to Governor's Inaugural Ball
- Abercrombie’s HSTA Contract: Teachers' drug tests limited
- Sovereignty Scammers Arrested, One Held because no drug rehab space available
- Abercrombie agrees to pay losing bidders
- Third Appointee Resigns At Abercrombie's Request
- Rail Lobby sighs with relief as Agencies Decline to Cut Bond Ratings
- Bus fare hike on school board agenda
- In spite of all the talk, Hawaii in bottom 25% for so-called Green Jobs
- Attorney: Nobody in their right mind will use new isle foreclosure law
- Abercrombie Admin refuses to disclose details of $40,000 Renovation of Governor’s Mansion
- SA: Open the books on wind-energy plans
- CB: OIP is a Paper Tiger
- Homelessness Industry Thrilled as Abercrombie Policy pushes Homeless into Chinatown
- Defense Lawyers Dispute Prosecutor Kaneshiro
- Police Chief: Some Cyber Criminals Not Very Smart
- Can shipping containers help solve our homeless problem?
- Affordable Senior Housing 47% Vacant In Ewa
- Clayton Hee thinking about intervening in Hoopili Docket
- Anti-Superferry Protester Lance Holter Cries because Hanabusa fails to Shut down US Oil Drilling
- Obama threatens to cut off Veterans healthcare unless nation continues mortgaging itself to Saudi Arabia, China
- Suspected Murderer, Fraudster Moving to Hawaii?
- WSJ: Cerberus keeps grip on Kyo-ya, Royal Hawaiian
- Target set to open new store in Hilo
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| Wednesday, July 13, 2011 |
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July, 2011 Letters to the Editor
By Letters to the Editor @ 2:04 AM :: 8060 Views
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- Convicted Felon Keanu Sai is the source
- Save Kalaeloa from KREP July 19
- Dearest DOE: Not Just Any Substitute Teacher
- Biofuels could Lead to Economic Self-Sufficiency for Hawaii if Government would Get Out Of The Way
- Hawaii County Resolution 60-11 Development Moratorium
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| Tuesday, July 12, 2011 |
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July 12, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:54 PM :: 17725 Views
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- Abercrombie Admin. claims HSTA Negotiators Agreed to Terms, Releases Full Text of Contract Changes
- Thielen: Environmental Assessment required to truck Sludge from Sand Island to Kailua
- Hawaii Next? Civil Union Laws Can Spell End of Child Welfare Services for Faith-based Groups
- Democrats call disenfranchisement of Military Personnel “Fair, equitable representation”
- A Singular Woman: Obama lied about Cancer-Stricken Mother not having Health Insurance
- For me but not for thee: Punahou Obama praises school choice
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How they voted July 11
- Police, Prosecutors to discuss Cybercrime at Capitol
- As veto deadline looms, Abercrombie signs Eleven Bills into Law
- Voting Rights: Democrats may sue to block Military Personnel from Reapportionment Count
- Abercrombie Energy Plan: Cancelled, inoperative, ignored
- Rep Mele Carroll: Free iPad from Clinton Movie Mogul Cronies was “sign that the studio cares about Hawaii”
- Clock Ticking on Labor Board decision on HSTA Contract
- Alleged Fraudsters to benefit from Carlisle’s New Towing Contract?
- Judge rejects “nonsensical” documents filed in Maui sovereignty scam case
- Act 221 Scammers: OHA’s Geo Project to run cable from Big Island to Oahu
- In the Shadow of the Train, Landowners Stand to Gain—but DR Horton has “Plan B” just in case….
- Kailua lawmaker is trying to fend off sewage
- Hawaii: Gays to get Civil union certificates faster than Straights
- 4 HPD Officers to Face Charges in Overtime Investigation
- Kaneshiro dumps plea bargains, sends more cases to Court
- Maui Democrat Netra Halperin just thrilled about Abercrombie’s plan to let lots and lots of criminals loose
- Suspected Murderer coming to Hawaii
- Defeated at the Polls, Luddites try another trick to Kill Kauai Hydro Projects
- Investigative Report on Condition of Breached Ka Loko Dam is Released
- Rep. Hanabusa joins Defense Energy Security Caucus
- 325,000 “Green” Cars in next 19 years
- Star-Advertiser leaks Tom Berg Emails to Civil Beat
- Eric Ryan: Monkey see, Monkey do
- HSDC seeking input on $13M earmarked for VC funding
- End of space shuttle creates opening for Hawaii
- Hawaii, 8 other States support Sprint against ATT/T-Mobile Merger
- Thought Control: Bill signed into Hawaii law banning word “retarded”
- No Fines, Citations Issued For Illegal Pet Owners
- The Emigrants Return
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| Monday, July 11, 2011 |
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July 11, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:31 PM :: 18650 Views
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- Hawaii Lawmakers: Quit Finding Excuses for More Tax Increases
- Honolulu: Mega Rail Project in a Micro City
- Barack Sr. so repulsive, even Abercrombie thought he was Arrogant
- SA: Hawaiians not tribal, State Akaka Tribe is not a Tribe, Many Hawaiians will not be “Qualified”
- Six Felons Walk: Kauai judge lets Sex offenders, dope dealers avoid Prison under Abercrombie Plan
- Abercrombie’s plan to let criminals loose to face tough questions from Legislators, Constituents
- Abercrombie Veto Could shield State from responsibility for Pedophile employees
- Hirono, Hanabusa, still stuck in DC
- More Lingle Appointees just say no to Abercrombie
- Hawaii Lawmakers Accept More Than $137,000 in Gifts
- Low CIP Threshold to blame for lack of Maintenance Statewide
- Conflict has appointee refusing charter panel seat
- EUTF board questions lack of minutes, adequacy of staffing, selection of vendor
- City to use 1 tow firm for all of Oahu streets
- Big Wind Blows Hard in Star-Advertiser
- Army discusses future of Pohakuloa
- New Hawaii Law Seeks to Restore Coverage for Construction Defect Claims
- Ten Years Later: Kidnapped Girl Escapes from Hawaii Felon
- Judge allowing Kidnapping, Murder suspect to visit girlfriend in Hawaii
- Allegiant: Fresno a likely candidate for direct flight to Hawaii
- Tears flow as Foodland Hawaii Kai bids farewell after 47 years in business
- New Hawaii Law Seeks to Restore Coverage for Construction Defect Claims
- Auction Notice: Offer for Public Sale of Two High Speed Vessels
- Industry throws Cold Water on Seabed Rare Earths Potential
- Our Cooling Globe: Montana ultra-marathon race cancelled due to July snow
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| Sunday, July 10, 2011 |
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July 10, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:19 PM :: 12835 Views
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- Featured on Glen Beck: Wallbuilders’ David Barton to speak at Hilo, Maui, Oahu events
- Update: Elwin Ahu decides not to run for US Senate
- Fear of Lingle: Inouye’s Borreca demands Akaka Quit Senate Now
- Cataluna: Abercrombie's attitude goes from mellow to mean
- HSTA Contract Conflict could Cost State $75M Race To The Top money
- HSTA Contract: Legislators consider Special Session while Abercrombie paddles away in Canoe
- HSTA demands HLRB invalidate State Budget, Claims budget must be negotiated with Unions
- UPW strike could ruin APEC
- Hawaii Bottle Tax may increase
- PUC grants request in review of HECO plan to charge customers for study
- Number of Native Hawaiian UH Students Doubles in 4 years
- Abercrombie grows Herb at Governor’s Mansion
- Will Abercrombie Cronies cost the State its Federal Historic Preservation Money?
- Maui Bus Shelters $150K each
- Molokai veterans center suit may proceed
- Plan to transport raw sewage draws criticism
- $5,000 cap should boost small claims court's load
- Hui revives plan to get electricity from water
- Memorial service honors veteran and Navy League organizer Harold Estes
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| Saturday, July 9, 2011 |
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July 9, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:47 PM :: 13059 Views
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- Soak the rich: 26,000 Hawaii residents hit with $40M/year in new taxes
- HUD giving away $50K to Hawaii Mortgage deadbeats: Deadline for free money is July 22
- Abercrombie seeks applicants to roll Hawaiians
- Abercrombie signs 16 bills into law
- Berg: Makaha Town Meeting July 12
- HSTA files labor challenge against Abercrombie and BOE
- HSTA strikes out against 180-day law
- Wife of Congressman in Prison as Honolulu Council seeks alternative to Bribery-Tainted Sludge Processor
- Democracy smashes Luddites: KIUC members affirm Free Flow contract
- Abercrombie snags second Resignation
- Bill waiving environmental regulations for border security would cover all of Hawaii
- Con Man Strikes Again while on Parole — Bilks Elderly Victim of $682,000
- Hawaii lawmaker to introduce "Caylee's Law"
- Hawaii's first Convoy of Hope event brings free services, food and compassion
- Electric customers could get a financing break with new law
- $10B solution for Hawaii Electricity
- SA: Build Waikiki Park only if Homeless are blocked
- Dope Doctor claims he was coerced into guilty plea
- 'Extinct' plant found on Big Island
- Robots to remove ordnance from Hawaii sea floor
- Why the federal-hiring system is broken
- Space Station, Shuttle visible from Hawaii starting at 7:15pm
- Hawaii soldiers awarded the Presidential Unit Citation emblem
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| Friday, July 8, 2011 |
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July 8, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:05 PM :: 17262 Views
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- Immigration Records: Obama was to have been put up for Adoption at Honolulu Salvation Army Home
- Council Reorganization makes Kobayashi guardian of Ernie Martin’s Secrets
- Abercrombie appoints officials to DoH, DoT
- Listeria: Calvin Say’s Bentos Being Recalled from 7-11 Stores Statewide
- Hawaii Spending Growing at Nearly Four Times National Average
- Hawaiian “Haves” vs “Have-nots” take opposite sides on so-called Hawaiian Recognition Bill
- Labor's ally becomes its potent adversary
- Cayetano on 2001 HSTA Strike
- Accountability: Only 6 DoE Teachers fired in 2 years
- DoE Cronies are using Social Studies cuts to attack STEM Education
- SA: Elder care needs better oversight
- Legalistic homeless move back to Ala Wai Canal
- Buddhist front group for Watabe Wedding Corp Exposed
- City Starts Work on Revised General Plan
- Excellent News: Bag ban bill trashed again
- OHA operatives who once fought it are now pushing Geothermal
- Guam projects put in doubt
- More Federal Funds? Hawaii will feel the sting if federal government defaults
- Teachers Union To File Legal Challenge This Week
- Democrat Caucus Meets decides not to call Special Session
- Cab heist suspect violated probation multiple times, was still out on street
- Hawaii's crystal meth use lowest since 2004
- UH Manoa Earns Maximum Reaccreditation
- Kauai man waited 10 years for boating permit—still waiting
- Honolulu among most expensive parking spots
- Allegiant plans to fly to Hawaii by summer 2012
- Debris from Japanese tsunami drifting east toward Hawaii
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| Thursday, July 7, 2011 |
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July 7, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:58 PM :: 10459 Views
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- Sources: Democrats scheming to plant candidate in Republican Senate Primary
- New Report: Hawaii is Fifth Least Obese State in the Nation
- Rep Pine: “If you have been a victim of internet crime, I want to help”
- Abercrombie signs bill to tighten OHA trustees’ grip on Native Hawaiians
- July 7, 1898: Hawaii Republic Annexed by USA
- July 7, 1935: Moscow orders first Communists to Hawaii
- Public Teachers' Contract A Private Affair?
- Shapiro: Abercrombie-imposed HSTA contract does not address 180 day law, RTTT
- Wind Developer: Public Input is Noise, Time is a Nemesis
- Council Reorganization makes Kobayashi guardian of Ernie Martin’s Secrets
- City Rents Downtown Office Space for Rail at $1.4 Million a Year
- $2B Honolulu Sludge Resolution
- Federal Highways Rep: City and State Need to Play Nice
- After getting $140M from Abercrombie, Dante Carpenter tries to take over Hawaii County Garbage
- Farms Under EEOC Scrutiny in Hawaii and Washington Receive Federal Aid
- 'First Step' to a Native Hawaiian Governing Entity – or Dan Akaka’s Swan-Song
- UK Guardian: The 'Akaka bill' is a US colonial device to ratify the robbery of the Kanaka Maoli people's rights
- Scholar Criticizes Census Portrait of Native Hawaiians
- Tammy Duckworth Running in Newly Drawn 8th District of Illinois
- Secretive Student Caucus selects UH Regents
- Legislators resist tough on crime measures to help Abercrombie let criminals out of prison
- Getting Hawaii’s Homeless Military Population Off the Street
- Blas denies outside influence as Kona-side media plots revenge
- Expedition To Pacific Garbage Patch Gets Underway—no mention of Plastic Bags
- New geothermal production in Hawaii to be discussed during meeting at Hawaii Capitol
- DLIR Harassing Contractors over minor Electrical, Plumbing Work
- State to expand online filing system for unemployment claims
- Family of gay US soldier Andrew Wilfahrt fight for equality at home
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| Wednesday, July 6, 2011 |
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July 6, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:30 AM :: 12080 Views
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- Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How they voted July 5th
- Abercrombie Administration: State homeless plan on track
- Quash Private Agendas For Public Good
- Mufi to Neil: “Too bad”
- Shapiro to HSTA: “Go on strike”
- Martin, Anderson: HART power struggle not about money
- Could Teacher Contract Talks Affect Race to Top?
- Amazing: Stop feeding Homeless in Parks and 125 move to Shelters
- State receiving millions in education money
- Letter from Lanai: The Governor and Big Wind
- Hawaiian group to protest Native Hawaiian bill signing
- Freddie Mac moves its Hawaii foreclosures into courts following state overhaul
- Hawaii School Bus Fares Could Rise Again
- Accused Human Trafficker Goes on the Record
- Seed Growers debunk Critics
- Drop in fire calls but has fun gone out of 4th?
- Honolulu: Mega Rail Project in a Micro City
- Hawaii Includes all in Census Counts: Reapportionment Commission vote affirms U. S. Census Rules
- Mineral-rich ocean mud stirs environmental fears (surprise, surprise)
- Aina Koa Pono signs contract with AECOM for biofuels plant
- EPA has “significant concerns” about Hu Honua Permit
- Boa Constrictor may have given birth while on the loose in Wahiawa
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| Tuesday, July 5, 2011 |
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July 5, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:35 PM :: 17311 Views
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- New laws which take effect July 1
- Abercrombie signs six more bills into Law
- Abercrombie creates huge opening: Will GOP step up?
- HART Budget sets up 1 year tap dance with Council
- Spending to promote Hawaii tourism cut
- Will Budget cuts Sink Pearl Harbor Modernization?
- HSTA Rep: Abercrombie Failed to Bargain In 'Good Faith'
- Star-Advertiser cries over defeat of Obama’s Medical Snooping
- SA: Charter school independence must come with accountability
- Rescuing dropouts from the DoE
- Gay-Atheists fail to trick Gabbard into running for US Senate
- No Crime Stats Kept on Honolulu Police Officers
- Andrea’s Law requires Murderers to Register
- Abercrombie to sign State Indian Tribe Bill
- Mainland Luddites thrilled at Abercrombie intent-to-veto of Fish Farming Bill
- Roz Baker to reminisce about her days as Teachers’ Union operative
- Futility Defined: After fencing off forest, pigs reinvade
- Tocqueville on bureaucracy
- Obama’s Economists: ‘Stimulus’ Cost $278,000 per Job, now is causing job loss
- Rare earth metals abundant in deep-sea mud
- Honolulu Weekly: Why we can’t ditch nukes and coal
- Asia pollution is latest excuse for global cooling
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| Monday, July 4, 2011 |
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July 4, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 11:32 AM :: 9275 Views
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- Abercrombie’s HSTA contract says nothing about 180-day law, RTTT
- Four of a Kind: UPW, UHPA get big Fat Pay Raise—and HSTA suit could give one to HGEA
- TEA Party to join July 4 Parades in Kailua, Makawao, Hilo, Kona
- 4th of July celebration as Schofield turns 40
- Abercrombie signs six more bills into Law
- Union leaders “frustrated” with Abercrombie, HSTA prepares to sue
- More than Half of Lingle Appointees Won't Resign
- AP: Annual 'Hawaii Pork Report' cites wasteful spending in Hawaii governments
- Sexual Abuse goes unpunished at Hawaii's care homes
- Gaia vs America: Eco faddists now claim Fireworks pollute ocean
- Battle Looms Over Huge Rare Minerals Haul off Hawaii
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| Sunday, July 3, 2011 |
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July 3, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:42 PM :: 16666 Views
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- TEA Party to join July 4 Parades in Kailua, Makawao, Hilo, Kona
- MISSION HOUSES MUSEUM JULY FOURTH WEEKEND PA`INA
- Calles: Rational Decision for Developers -- to not work in Hawaii
- AFP: Hawaii's Citizens Weigh Cost of Living versus Cost of Leaving
- Say thanks to military, and know that training here is vital to freedom
- Star-Advertiser: July 4th is all about gay marriage, men wearing dresses, legal dope, and abortion
- UPW gets Big Fat Pay Raise July 1
- UHPA Profs getting 6.7% Raise today, 3% more soon
- KS, Stone, DHHL all continue to point fingers over Collapse of Makaha Deal
- Abercrombie signature will allow Gay Activists to team up with School Bullies
- ACLU: Hands off APEC Rioters
- Kauai residents continue to suffer with plastic-bag ban in place
- Hawaii State Inspectors sanction Nursing Homes at lowest rate in Nation
- Chinese tourism cycle where Japanese Tourism cycle was 25 years ago
- SA: More Visa offices needed in China
- Higher Court Fees to Line NHLC Pockets
- New Foreclosure Law means lots of houses sitting empty
- Wind Power forces MECO to snoop on your home electricity usage
- Officials aim to collect DHHL taxes
- CITY OPENS OFFICE OF HOUSING
- Kauai: $28K project costs $338K
- Strengthening Hawaii’s lobbyist registration and disclosure law
- Early signs UH athletics turning financial corner
- Volunteers help church emerge
- Gay Rapist, child molester gets another prison term
- Hawaii sea bottom holds treasure trove of rare-earth elements
- Opihi finding shows Hawaii ‘not an evolutionary dead end for marine life’
- Hawaii among world’s most shark-infested waters
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| Saturday, July 2, 2011 |
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July 2, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 12:54 PM :: 16049 Views
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- Abercrombie: HSTA Negotiators agreed to Contract
- GOP’s Nonaka Launches Political Consulting Firm
- Americans for Prosperity Hawaii Chapter Forms
- Insights: Molokai, Lanai leaders debate Big Wind
- TEA Party to join July 4 Parades in Kailua, Makawao, Hilo, Kona
- Kamehameha on Makaha: “Its time for us to move on”
- Furloughs End, But UPW takes a furlough day anyway and gets it as a paid day off
- Teachers union says it will challenge forced contract, then fails to do so
- HART, Carlisle Won’t Sue Over Rail Budget
- State Begins Fixing Building Vacant For 9 Years
- Hawaii Co Budget Problems ‘solved’ by skipping Pension Contribution
- Private operation of Hilo sort station to be aired at council
- Both sides file briefs in TMT case
- Law will streamline Land Court by de-registering time shares
- University of Hawaii Board of Regents names new members
- UH Athletics might turn
profit cash-flow positive this year
- Senate Bill 1520 intended to facilitate Akaka Bill
- Hawaiian Telcom Commences Staged Launch of TV Service on Oahu
- Errors Occur in 12% of Electronic Drug Prescriptions Matching Handwritten
- FOX News Profiles Hawaii Reporter
- Civil Beat Marks July 4th by Re-writing Declaration of Independence
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| Friday, July 1, 2011 |
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July 1, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:27 PM :: 15522 Views
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- TEA Party to join July 4 Parades in Kailua, Makawao, Hilo, Kona
- Sumitomo: Ready to go all the way with Rail Contract Protest
- Hawaii Meth Survey Shows Significant Shifts in Attitudes
- 4th of July celebration as Schofield turns 40
- Gaza Flotilla Roster Portends Another Violent Clash
- Martin announces new Honolulu Council Committees
- New rail board will not sue City Council over budget
- HSTA Leader has been out of town for Days, strike vote awaits his return
- DoE imposes 9 Furlough Days on Teachers
- Hawaii County wants 13 HGEA Furlough Days
- Frustrated teachers give their union a failing grade
- 2001 Redux: Hirono backs Teachers Strike against Abercrombie
- Hee: Legislature forms Abercrombie Cheerleading Team
- Nurse: Do not Fear State Retaliation
- Arizona, Texas, Hawaii all rejecting Gulen Cult Schools
- The Unbearably Smug Soetoro-Ng pushes Social(ist) Studies
- Hawaii Regulator Orders Homeowners Insurers to File New Rates
- Hawaii is #5 destination for International Visitors to US
- Hawaiian Now Controls 83% of Inter-Island Market
- What are Hawaii's most expensive construction projects?
- Albertini: Abercrombie pimping Hawaii’s economic future to the U.S. military
- Independence Day in Kailua and 4th of July Firework Fundraising in High Gear
- SA: Amend Unconstitutional Big Isle election project
- Herkes: Act 48 - What's it all about?
- Arakawa: SMA Law Needed For Sake of Free Enterprise
- Waiawa corrections officer blames staffing shortage for escape of four inmates
- Church honors Blessed Mother Marianne Cope
- VIDEO: Hawaii County budget veto override fails
- Reapportionment Software to be Demonstrated
- Eco-Cultists starving Turtle-hungry Natives
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| Thursday, June 30, 2011 |
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June 30, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:22 PM :: 12823 Views
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- Big Wind to be debated on PBS Insights Thursday
- Abercrombie imposes new contract terms for HSTA, UPW
- Hawaii Debt, obligations $25K per Taxpayer—4th highest in nation
- Study: Rich or Poor, Hawaii DoE Fails everyone more Equally than Most
- Teachers furious over union busting by Abercrombie
- April, 2001: HSTA rejects 14% Pay hike, goes on strike
- Most Union Paychecks Down Next Week; Some Will Rise
- UH Hilo Chancellor paid $284,000 for absolutely nothing, takes $187K sinecure
- Honolulu Unemployment rate increases
- Resignation Resistance Climbs to 13
- Green Energy: Rep Denny Coffman (D-Kona) fingered for sabotaging HB1520
- Inouye takes hard-line position on cuts, demands we borrow more money from China, Saudi Arabia
- Homeless move back in after Sweeps
- Pono Chong, Blake Oshiro meet with Obama, bullying activists, to discuss next gay move on your kids
- Hawaii Transsexual leader is “Pro-pimp”
- Hawaii Muslim Gay Rapist and Pimp moves to Alaska—Gets Life Sentence on top of 28 years
- Remembrance set for man who helped bring the Missouri and Bowfin here
- State to Blame for Ka Loko Dam Failure, Not Jimmy Pflueger, Advertisement Claims
- Charter school agency taps McKeague as chief
- UH Research a Story of Progress and Potential
- Kauai utility gets hydro support
- Brokerage may buy back Maui’s dormant Student Loan securities
- Supreme Court decision appears to nullify a campaign funding project here
- Broadband: Star-Advertiser gives commentary space for Commercial Advertisement by Former State Employee
- Hawaii Judiciary: We Can't Handle Foreclosure Flood
- Suit: Hawaii PD Officer stood by during attack
- Hawaii has 4th cleanest beach water, 2nd most beach closures
- Hilo is One stop to Europe: New Hilo flights a hit with locals, Europeans
- Firecracker sales for July 4 fizzle with new law
- More Federal Funds? Hawaii 48th in Farm Subsidies
- City approves request to alter 4 Oahu streams for rail project
- Ecos threaten suit over Lahaina Sewage
- Two Percent or not Two Percent?
- WaPo: The missing facts in President Obama’s news conference
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| Wednesday, June 29, 2011 |
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June 29, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:40 PM :: 22614 Views
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- Victory for Civil Rights: All Persons shall be counted for Hawaii reapportionment
- Victory: Obama Admin cancels stealth survey of Hawaii MDs
- Molokai Wind Developer: “We will pack up and leave.”
- Abercrombie announces plan to let more criminals out onto the streets
- Rep Michelle Bachmann: “We want to win Hawaii”
- Kos: Will Hanabusa let Case beat Hirono?
- Hawaii 2011 Pork Report points to DoE Embezzlement
- CNBC: Hawaii #1 in cost of living, 48th in Business Climate
- KS claims it is not grabbing for Juicy Affordable Housing Credits
- UPW gets 8% Raise on Friday (and still getting 60-40 on Health Care)
- HSTA Contract: Imposing a pact that a labor union has not agreed to is unusual
- Honolulu Takes Steps to Avoid Paying Back $7.9M
- Mayor should step off the train and let HART do the steering
- Enterprise Zone Tax Benefits end Friday
- Mauians decline Abercrombie’s request to resign
- HGEA Nurses Reach Impasse with Contract Negotiations
- Abercrombie gets lots of window dressing for plan to let criminals out on streets
- Maui Judge: “Prison best place” for racist lunatic with multiple convictions
- Reform victim restitution program
- Info about Wahiawa escapees delayed 12 hours because “problems with our cabling and some of the faxing”
- Hawaii visitor spending increases 15 percent
- WSJ: Mogul Digs Hawaii Hotels Out of Debt, Disaster
- Activists, Legislators upset because Fannie Mae goes to Courts with Foreclosures
- Police Save Women from Forced Prostitution Scam
- Transsexual Leader complains Human Trafficking Law is hard on Pimps
- Bacteria: Hawaii Beaches dirtier than New Jersey
- $1.6M in fines over 2 years for Hawaii drivers violating cellphone ban
- Kauai Luddites panicking, try to cancel election because Hydropower may win
- US Supreme Court Decision kills Big Island’s “Public Owned Elections” giveaway to candidates
- Maui Voters to Consider Council Power over Appointments
- Hawaii GM papaya featured at BIO 2011
- Lennon was a closet Republican: Assistant
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| Tuesday, June 28, 2011 |
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June 28, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 12:28 PM :: 14638 Views
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- Abercrombie announces Intent to Veto 23 Bills—including HB1134 which may have endangered Prepaid Health Care Act
- Hawaii 8th Annual International Women’s Leadership Conference Sept 20
- Abercrombie replaces DHHL official ousted in Treadmill Scandal
- Abercrombie appoints former Sandwich Isles Communications Exec to assist Chief Information Officer
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How they voted June 27
- Hawaii Reapportionment Commission expected to decide Today on whether to count military
- DoE’s Last, Best and Final Offer does not provide for 180-day law
- HSTA shut out: DoE will execute its "last, best" offer to teachers without union approval
- On campaign trail, Abercrombie called vetoes “breakdowns in communications”
- Abercrombie still campaigning, lying
- Rail Platform to built on top of Waiawa Spring
- Honolulu City Council overrides vetoes, changes leadership
- NY Gay Marriage will serve as a catalyst for Hawaii
- State-Run Media: Star Advertiser To Collect $1 Million For State Legal Ads
- EMILY's List backs Rep. Hirono for Senate to fight “War on Women”
- Progressives’ American Dream: Business Owners on Foodstamps
- Clean Elections Law is Dirty—Ruled Unconstitutional by Supreme Court
- Lobbyists’ spending escapes disclosure
- As APEC Approaches, Superferry still clouds Hawai‘i’s business image
- Is Abercrombie Anti-sports?
- Inouye moving ahead with appropriations process despite disagreement on spending levels
- Assessing University of Hawaii Faculty Research
- Not guilty by reason of insanity in killing of mom—could be out in 3 mos
- Pastor arrested for punching out alleged drug dealer
- Abercrombie to “get rid of” Texas Company with contract to collect on Hawaii Tickets
- Hawaii TV Examined in New Report on Newsroom Consolidation
- Affordable Homes will “rot on the hill” if LUC decision not reversed
- Hawaii Council special meeting on budget veto (June 30)
- Dark skies likely ahead as Maui fireworks shows fade
- Kaua‘i residents passing up ag opportunities
- Hillary: State Dept. ‘Instrumental in Sealing Deal’ For Lady Gaga’s Gay Pride Gig in Rome
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| Monday, June 27, 2011 |
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June 27, 2011 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 12:33 PM :: 13214 Views
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- Resignation call after Audit reveals “ward heeler’s slush fund” overseen by Honolulu Councilman
- NYT: Obama Administration Plans Stealth Survey of hundreds of Hawaii MDs
- Iran developing capability to hit US with Nukes
- Abercrombie Admin signs contract to keep prisoners on Mainland for rest of his term
- TEA Party to join July 4 Parades in Kailua, Makawao, Hilo, Kona
- Hawaii Teachers talk Strike
- City: Four Streams must be Diverted for Rail
- Abercrombie requires a review of helicopters' environmental impact, forcing an $11 million move to Colorado
- $159M bankruptcy caused by anti-Superferry Protesters, Judiciary, and Legislature
- UH Research spending Doubles in Decade
- Full Text: ID Theft Suit filed against UH
- Hawaii last in Nation: Tax Free Health Savings Accounts reduce cost of Health Insurance
- The Special Case for COFA Migrants
- GAO: Minimum Wage kills Jobs in Am Samoa, NMI
- Officials, Lawyers make excuses for deadbeat criminals
- Do Hawaii's Strict Gun Laws Fuel a Black Market?
- Atomic Monkey: “Hatcheted By Huff”
- Feds, Longliners Get Pass for Giving Dolphin Deaths Low Priority
- Oregon lawmakers to save $100s of Millions by ending Green Energy Tax Credits
- VIDEO: N Korean children begging, army starving
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