1. Hanabusa Blocks Missile Defense for Hawaii
2. DoE Touts AP Test Results
3. TOTE to Challenge Pasha for Hawaii trade?
4. Trump says NO to Puerto Rico Jones Act waiver
5. Hawaii schools not prepared to shelter children in event of nuclear strike
6. Keep HPD Corruption Alive: Secret ‘local’ panel being used to narrow down list for Honolulu's next police chief
7. Civil Beat: Doing Away With The Jones Act May Help Puerto Rico — And Hawaii
8. Homeless Program Focuses on Families with Children
9. Busted: Kenoi Operative Resigns as Hawaii County HR Director--Slips out Side Door
10. Urine and Marijuana Smoke: City Planning Commissioner Hosts Rave Party in Kakaako
11. Caldwell Tickets Makakilo Residents for Planting Flowers in Yard
12. Top 5 in USA: Hawaii Taxes Suck up More GDP than Most
13. Tobacco: 2017 State Legislative Summary
14. Beer Tax is Regressive
15. HGEA Against HDOT Police for Airport
16. Some Honolulu High Rises Don’t Need Sprinklers, Fire Safety Panel Says
17. Big Island Rep has Cancer

1. UH Law Prof Antolini: Mrs Brian Schatz’ North Shore Shopping Plaza is Not News – Stop reporting it
2. Supreme Court Justices Cancel Travel Ban Hearing
3. Problems ahead for Pasha Hawaii and TOTE despite Gov Ige’s terminal announcement
4. Does the Jones Act Endanger American Seamen?
5. Missed deadlines leads the city to lose millions in federal housing funds
6. Resignation May Allow Corrupt Chief Pick to be Blocked
7. The Big Island’s First Legal Homeless Camp: Safe Zone Or Shanty Town?
8. More ‘safe zone’ follies in Kakaako
9. HEI denies creating new subsidiary to get around state regulators
10. Lower taxes better than ‘basic income’
11. Police Commissioner Resigns Before Chief Picked
12. Draft ethics rules to be discussed next week
13. HART: Rail, Tech are Part of Scheme to Force You Out of Your Car
14. Tourism Drops to 17% of Economy

UH Law Prof Antolini: Mrs Brian Schatz’ North Shore Shopping Plaza is Not News – Stop reporting it

1. Hawaii Pregnancy Centers Go to Court Over Law Requiring They Promote Abortions
2. Congresswoman calls for yearlong Puerto Rico Jones Act waiver
3. Hawaii Lowest Teacher Salaries in USA
4. Unions Stood by as Kenoi Violated Civil Service Laws—100s Illegally Bypassed to hire ‘POI’
5. Chief: Police Commission to Winnow out Non-Corrupt Contenders This Week
6. DoE Starts Semester with 531 Teacher Vacancies
7. Doctor shortage worsens
8. Revitalizing Mayor Wright Homes could cost $1 billion
9. Tax Review Commission: A $700M Money Grab 
10. Hawaii Electric Rates up 9% in Year
11. Sierra Club Still Working Hard to Destroy Farmers
12. Nuclear attack sirens? Try wait

1. GOP Obamacare Repeal Deal Would Boost Hawaii Medicare and Medicaid
2. Harbors Division Soaking the Taxpayer – Again and Again
3. Brian Schatz Praises NFL Players who Kneel During National Anthem
4. Morale a major problem at embattled police department, some say
5. Big Island Strive HI test scores overall still below standard
6. How Honolulu Strip Clubs Get Away with Liquor Law Violations
7. No more cuffs in court? New policy says suspects can appear without shackles

1. DLNR wants to triple fees for commercial marine licenses
2. Senator: Lets Build a Massive Festering Homeless Tent City Downtown Where There’s Lots of Copper 
3. 41 Tons of Trash Removed from Pearl City Homeless Camp
4. Solar Panels About to Get More Expensive
5. 35 Years Late: Honolulu Leftist Churches Finally Decide to get Around to Becoming ‘Sanctuaries’
6. Investigator will explore contention over Kawananakoa’s estate

1. Hawaii Pregnancy Centers Ask Court to Stop Law Forcing Them to Promote Abortions
2. Hurricanes Blow Jones Act Out of the Way
3. Ige Assigns Dock Space to Pasha, TOTE
4. How High Are Property Tax Collections Where You Live?
5. Oahu Construction Boom Ending: What Excuse Will HART Use Next?
6. If N. Korea attacks Hawaii, you'll have minutes to prepare
7. More Tax Hikes Coming? Rail’s last segment fraught with risk to Taxpayers
8. OHA Trustees to Reconsider CNHA Contract at Sept 27 Meeting
9. Criminals Stealing More Thanks to Legislature
10. Council Considers New Scheme to Keep Criminals on the Streets
11. Marijuana Stores Move 57lbs of Dope in First Month
12. City continues to clear out items along the Pearl City bike path
13. With No Chief to Collect Payoffs, HPD Raids Illegal Gambling Sites Island-Wide
14. Police: Non-Profit Loses $5.8M to Embezzler

1. Al Hee Minion Robin Danner Grabs for Control of Crooked Sandwich Isles Scam Company
2. Surprise: CNHA Charter School Scheme Twice as Large as Previously Reported
3. Record setting applications for UH Manoa--But Enrollment Still Drops
4. City Fines Go Away for N Shore ‘Shopping Center’ Planned by Mrs. Brian Schatz
5. OIP Rules Designed to Cut off Access to Public Records
6. BLNR Hears Arguments Over Control of Mauna Kea Telescope, Land
7. How Some Hawaii Officials’ Paychecks Compare To The Mainland
8. Ige Confuses Renewable Energy with Low Climate Impact Policies
9.  Hawaii and other Liberal States Single-Handedly Saving Planet from Global Cooling or Warming or a Big Monster
10. DOH: Honey Butane Oil is ‘Medicine’ Now
11. HPD Officer Points out that Chief Selection Process is Corrupt
12. Kealoha’s Quest For City To Pay His Legal Fees Takes A Nasty Turn
13. Hawaii Housing Authority -- Kupuna ordered to pay $800 rent increase
14. Hawaii Co Council Votes to Ban Foam Containers
15. Study: $30B of Hawaii’s Economy based on Obamacare

1. Hawaii is #1 in Teacher Absenteeism at 79% 
2. Hawaii 6th Most Indebted State
3. Hawaii: 10,464 Student Loan Debtors Over Age 60
4. 'Pono Policy Academy' to Begin Candidate Training Classes
5. Got Anxiety? DoH begins adding new excuses for Medicated Marijuana
6. Greenmail: OHA, UH Team up to Hire More Lawyers
7. Nuclear Blast Preparations: Inside Legislators’ Secret Meeting
8. HART: We Overestimated Last Tax Hike by $600M
9. Ige’s School Reform:  Kaiser HS Football Team Collapses Season Cancelled After Threats
10. Special Education Parents: More Lawsuits Coming
11. 29% Property tax Hike for Maui TVRs
12. $4M Effort Forces 42 Homeless Drug Addicts to Accept Shelter
13. Kauai PD Raids Homeless Camps Forces 8 to Accept Shelter in Jail
14. Hawaii Co: In a few years we may buy some Igloos, until then we will have massive festering homeless tent cities
15. Abused Toddler’s Mom Seeks Federal Help With Her Son’s Case Against ‘Friend of the Police’
16. HFD: We Know cause of Marco Polo Fire
17. Lanai Celebrates Death of Big Wind

1. Ige Sends out Secret Memo on Information Practices
2. Caldwell: Now That Legislature Has Done the Hard Work of Raising Taxes, I Urge HART to Not Do Nothing
3. Data vs Hype: Honolulu NOAA Chart Shows Sea Level Rise is a False Crisis
4. Residents of U.S. Territories Ask Court to Expand Voting Rights
5. Survey: Texas More Diverse Than Hawaii
6. Rail ’Recovery’ Magically Drops Cost by $1B and Plans $429M per Year in New Tax Hikes
7. Rail critic calls HART’s financial recovery plan shallow
8. Telescope: Result of BLNR Hearing will be Appealed to Supreme Court
9. Overflowing With Homeless Drug Addicts, Emergency rooms struggle with long waiting times
10. Homeless Pour into Waianae Tweeker Camp
11. Soft on Crime: Cohort of Alleged Waikiki Shooter Released from Death Row in Delaware Thanks to Liberal Lawyers

1. Report: Hawaii Health Insurance Jumps by Avg of $341
2. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted September 18, 2017
3. Shelter? Most of Hawaii ‘On Their Own’ to Deal with Nuke Fallout
4. DoI Recommends Opening Some Pacific Monuments to Fishing
5. These Big Oahu Schools Got Bigger
6. Hawaii Co Police struggle with overtime, vacancies
7. Wait For Drug Treatment On Big Island Can Stretch Months
8. State Caregiver Aid Program Takes Shape—How Much will FACE Get?
9. Shipping companies’ expansion in isles could go bust for some

1. Why America's Missile Defenses Might Not Work Against North Korea
2. Legislature with U R Missing
3. Carbon Tax Heads $700M in Tax Hikes Proposed for Next Legislative Session
4. HART Submits Rail Recovery Plan after 16 Months of Chaos Produces Massive Tax Hike
5. New documents reveal state system that failed abused boy
6. Media bring legal challenge to Police Commission secrecy
7. City Fees Add to the High Cost of Sprinkler Retrofit
8. Ige Spews CO2 from Here to NYC—Meeting with Tax Credit Schemers to Talk ‘Warming’
9. Crony Capitalist Kelly King Plans to Spend $1.5M to Attract More Homeless to Kihei
10. ACLU: We will Push Hawaii Counties to become 'Sanctuaries’ for Illegal Aliens
11. Big Island: Donald J Trump Scares Seven Liberals Away from Voting
12. Aquarium fish: Let science guide decision-making
13. Brian Schatz Can’t Distinguish Between Weather and Climate
14. Sale of Apartments Will Profit HHFDC, Reduce Affordable Housing

1. Help Stop CNHA Grab for Charter School Funds
2. Hawaii GOP Calls on Schatz to Return Money
3. Nominees Sought: Four UH Regents
4. Hawaii Uninsured Rate Drops 4.36% Since 2010
5. HART: Feds Freeze Rail Spending on Land Buy
6. Concern grows after construction workers unearth 2 sets of iwi
7. Honolulu to consider paying homeowners to house homeless
8. Rep Tupola: Sex trafficking is a big problem in Hawaii
9. How one Hawaii school is helping kids succeed by making sure they get to class
10. Solar installation warranty died with Honolulu company
11. Today’s Police News: Assault, Road Rage, and Cyberstalking

1. Is Hawaii Safe in Light of North Korea's Missile and Nuclear Tests?
2. BLNR Telescope Hearing Set for Sept 20
3. Census: Hawaii Highest Rents in USA
4. Bloomberg: After Irma, America Should Scrap the Jones Act
5. GAO: Pearl Harbor Shipyard in Bad Shape
6. AG Chin: How a lobbyist for Corrections Corporation of America became the Left’s darling
7. Pension Spiking Costs Taxpayers $25M per year
8. HART puts finishing touches on rail recovery plan on eve of deadline
9. State’s records request rules changing
10. Welfare, Medicare and Marijuana: Internet Billionaire has a Plan for Your Life

1. Hawaii GE Tax Highest Sales Tax in USA on Per Capita Basis
2. Council yanks ‘forensic’ from rail audit
3. Am Samoa: Feds Settle with StarKist
4. Harassed by Attorney General, Parents of Autistic Child Flee State
5. Honolulu Rail 3x More Expensive than Mainland Systems
6. Four Months and Still no State Tax Refund
7. Will Police Commission Hearings be Opened by Judge?
8. Is Hawaii’s government corrupt?
9. National Democrat Donors Fly AG Chin Around World
10. Peter Apo: “I should have declined the offer to be a paid Civil Beat columnist”
11. High-ranking Maui police officer investigated for sexual assault

1. Mauna Kea: It All Came Down to Money
2. Hawaii Weed Stores to Go Cashless Oct 1 (sort of)
3. AG Chin Defeats Parents of Disabled Children (again)
4. DoE SPED: 24% Absenteeism, 40% Do Not Graduate
5. State's failure to conduct random checks on probationers puts public at risk
6. Hawaii Spends $2M/yr flying Criminals to Arizona and it’s still Waaaay Cheaper than our Corrupt UPW-Controlled Prisons
7. HHFDC: Operating Affordable Housing Not Our Job 
8. Retaliation Games; Parole chief back at job after investigation
9. Kim Plans Massive Festering Homeless Tent City for Hilo
10. Preschool In Hawaii: Expensive And ‘Ridiculously Hard to Find’
11. City Issues 49 Violations for TVRs
12. White Nationalist Leader: Tulsi Gabbard Understands Us

1. Hawaii Risks Loss of Federal Funds to Force Abortion on Churches
2. Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted September 11, 2017
3. Audit Exposes Illegal System to Bypass Civil Service, Hire 100s of Kenoi Cronies
4. Lawsuit: Hawaii County Police Used Stun Gun On Wrong Man—Tried to Cover it up
5. Republican Opposition To The Rail Special Session
6. News Outlets Challenge Honolulu Police Commission Secrecy
7. Star-Advertiser staff cuts follow lower earnings by parent company
8. Hawaii adds Only Four Shelters from Cat 2 Hurricane

1. 9-11 We Will Never Forget
2. Rail Taxtrophe
3. How to fix health care in Hawaii
4. Hawaii DoE Sued over Sept 11 "Lockdown Drill"
5. Travel Ban: Supreme Court Slaps Down 9th Circuit
6. Retaliation from NextEra Supporters behind Hanabusa Campaign Announcement
7. Ige’s Failed Housing Deal
8. Hawaii Legislature: The Trappings of Respect and Trust Without the Real Thing
9. Civil Beat Needs to Come Clean on Peter Apo Scandal
10. Two more names emerge as candidates for HPD's next police chief
11. Another Day in the DPS: Penis Grabber Gets Back Pay

1. CNHA 'Hoodwinks' Native Hawaiian Charter Schools out of $225K
2. The Power of School Choice
3. How Much Does Your State Collect in Corporate Income Taxes Per Capita?
4. Rail: Heads We Win, Tails You Lose
5. Counties Begin Pushing for more Tax Hikes in 2018 Legislative Session
6. Waikiki: A never-ending parade of emergency vehicles that cater to the health problems of the homeless
7. What is being done to alleviate Hawaii’s physician shortage
8. Hawaii Civil Defense: "It is very difficult. We do not know."

1. Supreme Court: Aquarium Fisheries Sacrificed on Altar of Tourism
2. Enrollment: DoE Down 1% -- Charter Schools up 5%
3. Hawaii taxes block prosperity
4. Hurricane Irma: Hawaii Red Cross Volunteers Heading to Florida
5. Honolulu to hold 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony
6. U.S. waives Jones Act before Hurricane Irma hits
7. Caldwell to Meet With Rail Car Manufacturer
8. BLNR Approves Boating Rule Changes
9. Hirono Spews Anti-Catholic Bigotry in Senate Hearing
10. Rail Operations Timed to Provide Excuse for Next Tax Hike
11. Names: Five Local Candidates for HPD Chief
12. Homeless Male Dies on Freeway Because he was not Forced to Accept Shelter
13. Soft on Crime: Lifelong Doper Gets Another Joke Sentence
14. Gary Hooser Admits: ‘Harsh and Ugly Rhetoric’
15. More Rat Poison Hysteria on Kauai

1. Hawaii Braces for High Costs of Renewable Energy Mandates
2. Travel Ban: 9th Circuit Court Rules Against Trump (again)
3. Reso 17-199: Will Honolulu Council Back Rail Audit?
4. Rumors and Rage: When Good Conservation Sounds Bad
5. DoH Cancels Flu Vaccinations at Dozens of Oahu Schools and All Private Schools
6. Ponzi Scheme: Rep Beth Fukumoto’s ex-Husband Under FBI Investigation
7. Rail: Tax Hike Bill may Have Unconstitutional Provision
8. Neighbor islands feel railroaded by Legislature
9. Ige: I Have More Experience Running State than Hanabusa
10. Honolulu police chief candidates whittled down to top 9 after written test
11. HCDA Admits Developer Scored Kalaeloa Solar Farm Without Public Input or Open Bidding
12. Ige’s Incompetent Housing Dep’t Blows Deal for Hundreds of Affordable Units
13. Contract dispute spurs 'chaotic' move of mentally ill youth from Queen's
14. Hawaii County Foam container ban moves forward
15. Experts raise state revenue forecast—State Taxes Suck $6.62B out of Economy

1. 2017 Hawaii ACT Scores 4th Worst in USA
2. Dropping college enrollment shows Americans are no longer buying the college lie
3. AG Chin to Run for Congress?  Wes Machida for LG?
4. 8-0 Honolulu Council approves Rail GET surcharge extension
5. HART Cancelled Rail Contract to Ala Moana in August—Didn’t Tell Legislators – Already Planning to Fail on Latest Deadline
6. AG Chin Refuses to Prosecute: Slap on Wrist for PRP over campaign against Cayetano case
7. State Supreme Court Finds Excuse to Shut Down Aquarium Fisheries Statewide
8. Honolulu police body cam pilot on hold
9. Hirono Spews Anti-Catholic Bigotry in Senate Hearing
10. SHOPO Sues to Block Release of Police Officer Names For Salary Database
11. Soft on Crime: 10 Convictions Gets 18 Months, Will be out in Two
12. Hawaii County Spending $833 per Month per Bum for Homeless Tent City

1. Another OHA Trustee Caught Red-Handed
2. Ige Signs $2.4B Rail Tax Hike Bill
3. HDOT Sitting on $505M of Unspent Federal Funds
4. UH: Only 13 DACA Students in UH System
5. Hawaii Sues Trump over DACA
6. Jones Act industry attacks Mercatus paper
7. Best Place to Raise a Family? Honolulu Ranks 62nd 
8. 93% of Hawaii Dams at 'High Hazard Risk'
9. Abercrombie: Hanabusa is Toast
10. Cataluna: Ige is the Mafia Candidate, not Hanabusa (LOL!)
11. Legislators Admit They Used Caldwell as ‘Foil’ While Passing $2.4B Tax Hike
12. Three Hawaii Energy Fallacies
13. HGEA Member Uses State Funds for Cattle Ranch
14. Honolulu Prosecutor Bungles Grand Jury Investigation, Case Against Alleged Shooter Tossed
15. Attempt to Prevent Investigation of Kunia plane crash
16. Anti-GMO Whack-Jobs Use Maui Council to Waste Farmers Time
17. Foam containers have value; ban wouldn’t curb sea debris
18. Cesspool alternatives expensive
19. Charter School Leader Going The Extra Mile
20. Some Bums Went East—Will Be Swept West

1. Anti-bullying campaign marks its 10th year
2. Will Trump Admin approve Jones Act waivers in wake of Hurricane Harvey?
3. Hawaii Small Business in Facts and Figures
4. Hawaii Global Warming Commission Suggests Abandoning Waikiki
5. HART Could Cause Power Surges in Waipahu, Ewa
6. $205M Smart Meter Program Designed Entirely to Help Solar Schemers Make More Money
7. Will Kalihi Redevelopment Push Out Current Residents And Businesses?
8. Caldwell Finds Way to Jam up Traffic even more in Kailua
9. Council to Hold Hearing on Fire Sprinklers
10. 45 Homeless in Waipahu Refuse Housing After Decades on Streets

• Honolulu Republicans: On Labor Day Celebrate Entrepreneurship
• Letter to Hawaii DoE: Trump overturns Obama Policy on Trannies in Bathroom
• Tupola: Hawaii Needs a Change from Career Politicians
• HGEA-UPW Job Trust Maintained Despite Fewer Juvenile Inmates
• Star-Adv: Modernize work rules, benefits for state’s future
• Reforms helping more teens stay out of jail
• Rash of inmate suicides raise concerns over mental health services
• Another Inmate Scores: Sex With Prison Guard worth $100K
• Medevac services could become monopoly in isles
• Internet Billionaires Deploy Yet Another Fluff-Piece on Universal Basic Income
• Bill to ban styrofoam again heads to Honolulu council

• King Tide Floods? City Installed Valve Makes Them Worse
• AG Chin Defeats Parents of Disabled Children
• North Korea Tests H-Bomb For New ICBM
• Rail:  I Dunno About TAT
• Rail: Nationally known concrete monument to the incompetence of Hawaii’s Democrats
• Caldwell Preparing Excuses for More Tax Hikes
• In 2030 GE Tax will be Raised to 4.5%—Permanently
• Legislators Put Themselves on HART Board
• ‘Somebody tell me how it’s right’ Big Island officials trying to make sense of rail bill’s passage
• Maui: Legislature Should Have Taxed TVRs Instead
• AG Chin Asks 9th Circuit to Force Churches to Promote Abortion
• Sen Waklai Retaliation Game Puts HTA 6 months Behind Processing Vendor Payments
• Con Con to be on 2018 Ballot

1. Ige Appoints Pro-Rail Thug to HCDA
2. $2.4B Tax Hike: How They Voted
3. Risky, Overused Medications Prescribed Far Less Often in the Aloha State
4. Hawaii is woefully vulnerable to a North Korean nuclear attack
5. Mafia Hanabusa announces 2018 governor run
6. Sens. Green, Espero announce runs for lieutenant governor in 2018
7. Rail: Caldwell begins Making Excuses for Property Tax Hike
8. Lawmakers join the fight for more details on HPD officer's firing
9. UH Finally has ‘Incentive’ to Field Winning Football Team
10. Solar Scammers Scrounge for More Tax Credits
11. Homeless Drug Addicts Run ‘Notorious’ Gaming Room under Nimitz Fwy

1. Rail: Republicans Propose 'Forensic Audit' Amendment
2. Rail: FTA is open to shortening the route
3. Obamacare Could Bankrupt ERS
4. Profiting from Telescope Protests and Kakaako Development, OHA Trustee Fined $25K
5. Cool Schools: Ige Claims Success
6. Hawaii Crime Index Drops to New Low
7. Bill Before Congress: Claim--Hawaii Allows 'horrific legal market' in Dog Meat
8. Oahu GE Tax Adds 9% to Sister Island Grocery Bills
9. Rail bill permanently shifts hotel tax $$ away from neighbor islands
10. After Years, City Suddenly Pretends to be Interested in private partnerships for troubled rail project
11. Ige Buys Oshiro out of House with $120K HLRB Gig--Gets to Make Appointment
12. Homeless Tweeker Camp under Nimitz a 'hot spot' for crime
13. Homeless Bombard Queens Until Hospital Ponies Up

1. $2.4B Tax Hike: How They Voted
2. Ige Appointments: 5 HCDA, 1 UH Regent, 1 HLRB, 2 Judges
3. Sex Shame? 9th Circuit Revives Attempt to Shut Down Kauai Drug Rehab Program
4. Visitor Spending Increases 9.8% in July 2017
5. Caldwell: I’ll be Back for More
6. Politicians stealing from outer islands
7. ILWU, KSBE Behind Biomess Scheme to Gouge Electric Ratepayers
8. Trump to Dump Obama’s Dreamers—Chin to Sue
9. Will Robin Danner Control all Hawaii Inter-Island Cables?
10. Updated Hawaii Salary Database: Doctors And Judges Do Well, Thank You
11. More Money for Crooked Honolulu Liquor Commission
12. Hawaii Prescription Drug Abuse Lower than Mainland

1. $2.4B Tax Hike: How They Voted
2. HEI to Burn $205M Helping Tax Credit Scammers Make More Money on Alt Energy
3. Inouye congressional papers available to the public
4. HEI to Burn $205M Helping Tax Credit Scammers Make More Money on Alt Energy
5. Successful Missile Defense Test off Kauai
6. McDermott withdraws--Rep Andria Tupola to Run for Governor?
7. $2.4B Tax Hike -- 3rd Read in Senate Today
8. HART Magically Makes $548M Disappear
9. Only Independent, ‘Deep Dive’ Rail Audit Will Suffice
10. Trump Administration Gives Ige Full Control over Hawaii Schools
11. Honolulu apartment rents jump 30% in 8 years
12. Homeless Drug Addicts Behind Increase in vandalism, criminal acts reported by Kahului businesses
13. Grand Jury Probe Zeros In On ‘Safe House’ Property Deal
14. Al Hee Minion Robin Danner Grabs for Control of Crooked Sandwich Isles Scam Company

1. Grassroot Institute Testifies on Jones Act in Washington, DC
2. Hawaii v Trump Argued Before 9th Circuit Court
3. Ige Appointments: 5 HCDA, 1 UH Regent
4. After Decade of Litigation, Supreme Court Refuses to Order State to Repair Gold Coast Seawalls
5. Hawaii: Fewest Nurses Per Capita in USA
6. $2.4B Tax Hike: How They Voted
7. Rail: Oahu Tax Payers Don’t Want to Pay but Maui Reps, Sens Ready to Tax Sister Isles
8. Caldwell Continues to Play Heavy, Helping Legislators Distract Public While Raising Taxes $2.4B
9. Legislators Use Fake Audit to Make themselves Look Good While Raising Taxes $2.4B
10. Schatz, Hanabusa: Caldwell is Full of BS
11. Mufi: No TAT Hike
12. House reorganization continues
13. Legislature needs to pay foster parents fairly
14. No Need Tents: Homeless Can be Forced into Hard-Walled Structures at $9,500 each 
15. Star-Adv: Trump forces us to Investigate SNAP Fraud, Waste
16. Anti- Sand Mining Lies Exposed

1. Trump has the authority to modify existing monument boundaries
2. 3 Things That Could Derail The Honolulu Rail Bailout
3. Rail Skeptics Booted from House Finance Committee
4. Rail Crooks Saved: Lawmakers Drop ‘Forensic’ Audit
5. Pay ACLU Lawyers $75K to House Homeless in their Homes
6. Abercrombie Rants Raves Against Anti-Big-Wind Activist
7. Liberals to Establish Think Tank in Hawaii?

1. UPDATE: Billion Dollar Bailout Added to Rail Tax Hike Bill
2. Full Text: Feds Letter Demanding Rail Plan by Sept 15
3. Honolulu: For 1000s Property Tax Rate Will Quadruple Sept 1
4. Honolulu Republicans Protest Rail Bailout Bill
5. Legislators Exploit Caldwell’s Unpopularity to Distract Public While Enacting Massive Tax Hike
6. Make Sister Isles Pay for Rail? Senators say ‘No’ but Big Island Reps Ready to Stab Constituents in Back
7. Ige: Who needs Campaign cash When I Have Unions?
8. Alarmed at Possibility of Outside Chief, Some on Council suggest having mayor pick police chief
9. Lawsuit Challenges PUC Approval of Hu Honua Biomass Plant
10. Money: A&B, Activists Fight for Control of Profitable Water
11. Balance soars past $20,000 in SNAP account
12. Tourism economy failing local families

1. UHPA: Fund our Contract During Special Session
2. Hawaii Millionaire Will Go Broke Faster Than Any Other State
3. Saltchuk puts Matson’s terminal expansion at risk?
4. You are more than partners in the waste and fraud; you are the enablers
5. Caldwell: Legislators too Stupid to Understand Where Latest $548M Came from
6. Caldwell is accused of padding rail budget
7. Mufi Hannemann, Sister Island Councilmembers: No TAT Hike
8. UH-Hilo Suggests Legally Binding Mauna Kea Conditions
9. City ordinance change requires wind developers to hold public hearings
10. Global Warming Exists Thanks to Years of Dire Warnings
11. Anti-Superferry Hypesters Mark Decade of Mob Rule
12. Hawai`i Anti-Marijuana Bureaucrat Profits from Selling Medical Marijuana
13. Clinic that caters to homeless aimed at easing burden on state's largest hospital
14. $33M Procurement Suspended to Fix Ko Olina Caldwell Spill

• You are more than partners in the waste and fraud; you are the enablers
• HART Rail Costs Nearly Triple Rail Tunnel

1. Full Text: Caldwell Rips Legislators Rail Tax Hike Plan
2. Full Text: Rail Tax Hike Bill
3. Rail: How to Gut an Audit
4. Pasha signs contract to build two containerships; what now?
5. West Oahu Schools Underfunded? AG Responds to McDermott Suit
6. Lawsuit Filed Over Kauai Bird Deaths--HDOT Claims to be in Compliance
7. Caldwell: ‘I don’t need to take this’ Yelling from Drunk, Belligerent Legislators
8. Sen Thielen: Caldwell Lied Three Times at Hearing
9. Hanabusa: Caldwell’s $548M Surprise Covers up for Something
10. Maui Council Chair: “Why are they taking advantage of the Neighbor Islands on rail?”
11. Panos: Only a Forensic Audit Can Find Truth
12. Ige ‘Elated’ About Rail Tax Hikes
13. Business Insiders Pushing Rail
14. State To Homeless Shelters: If You Want Money, Show Results
15. Hawaii's medi-juana dispensaries could offer candies and liquids within next two weeks
16. Grandmother who launched Kealoha corruption probe believes indictments are coming
17. Kawananakoa Estate Fight: Lawyers File, Respond
18. Hawaii: Nobody Spends More on ‘Efficiency’ Contracts
19. Hawaii to be Liberated from 9th Circuit Court?
20. Telescope Protesters Oppose UH Plan to Trade 10,000 Acres for Approval
21. Pohakuloa seeks citizens for advisory board

1. Mauna Kea: UH to Trade 10,000 Acres for Telescope Approval, Lease Extension
2. Postpone tax talk until after rail audit
3. State GOP Calls for Forensic Audit of Rail
4. Keep Traffic Jammed: Rail FEIS Shows Plans for Lane-Elimination
5. Interior Dep't Sends Trump Recommendations on National Monuments
6. Schatz: Put Everybody on Medicaid 
7. Some Women are More Equal than Others
8. Which Counties Benefit Most From the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction?
9. Multi-Billion Dollar Tax Hike--Legislators' rail funding deal makes Sister Islands Pay
10. Caldwell to Legislators $3B Tax Hike or Nothing--Promises Tax Hike Trifecta--GE Tax, TAT, Property Tax all to go up
11. Hot Potato: Will Legislators Vote to Make Themselves Responsible for Rail Disaster?
12. Could recent plunge in public transportation ridership spell trouble for rail? (Clue: “Yes”)
13. Why is a forensic audit still not essential? …
14. ‘Friends of Rail’ – New Name for the Same old Insiders
15. Foster parents to Legislature: Use special session to pay out $9M settlement
16. Oahu’s Cheapest Source Of Power Is About To Go Away
17. Mansions are easier to build on Valley Isle than apartments
18. Money: Gaggle of Activists Pick over Remains of Sand Mining Operation
19. Homeless Meth Addicts Would Rather Drown Than Accept Shelter
20. Hawaii Co Council to take another bite at foam food container ban
21. High court ruling could take away legal protections for off-duty officers working private events

1. Feds Search for Criminals Buying Honolulu Real Estate Thru Shell Companies
2. Kona DLNR Harassment: Judge Throws Case out on Technicality
3. Ige Unveils Plan to Bulldoze Kalihi, Build Condos
4. College Rankings: BYUH, HPU, Chaminade Trounce UH Campuses
5. Using Freedom of Information Act to target biotech scientists boomerangs against anti-GMO activists
6. Rail: Hannemann, Hanabusa Pointing Fingers
7. Stop Rail At Middle Street, Then Use Express Buses
8. HELCO rate hike OK’d—Will Pay for Solar
9. Bus Driver Shortage? Roberts Hawaii Grabs for Millions from DoE Budget
10. Mandatory Sprinkler Bill Deferred
11. Will Dopers Have the Right to Stay Doped up at Work?
12. Proposed in-car smoking ban advances
13. Waianae Tweeker Camp Claims Rotting Piles of Garbage are Just a Coincidence
14. Government enables homeless
15. Earthjustice files suit over DOT lights, imperiled seabirds

1. Oahu Event: New Directions in Education
2. A strange mix of piracy and racketeering
3. UPDATE: No More Bailouts for Rail!
4. Pearl City: 43 Homeless Forced to Accept Shelter
5. What Does it Take to be Expelled from Manoa Mosque?
6. UH Selected to Host ‘Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Campus Center’ 
7. Hawaii Rankings: How Good is Your Community College?
8. Legislators: GE Tax Hike and TAT Hike to Pay for Rail
9. Rail represents everything that is wrong with state government
10. Caldwell Plan: Tax Military Families to Pay for Rail
11. Kishimoto: I will let HSTA do Whatever it Wants
12. KSBE Trustees: Jeff Stone Operative Replaces Al Hee Operative
13. Neutral party sought in heiress’s case
14. Outcry over secrecy surrounding termination of Honolulu police officer, possible pay off
15. Former DOCARE Manager Charged With Child Molestation
16. Go West Young Bum! Sit-lie ban extended to 15 other Oahu communities
17. State certified vs. black market: Potheads paying for quality
18. VICTORY! 3,700 Days of Big Wind, Big Cable Finally End
19. Sierra Club sues state to force Statewide replacement of fuel tanks
20. Not Worth It: Operator Admits US Windfarms kill 500K Birds per Year

1. OPEN LETTER: Tulsi Gabbard's GMO labeling push is an embarrassment to pro-science progressives
2. VIDEO: Panos on Mauna Kea Telescope
3. Survey: 70 Percent of Union Members Want Re-certification Vote
4. Carvalho for Governor? Ige to Remind Votes that…uh…uhh….
5. LOL!  “Rising seas will devour Waikiki, wash away billions from Hawaii's economy”
6. Batteries: How Much Can Elon Musk Raise Hawaii Electric Bills?
7. Competition could spark a price war
8. Should City Dump UPW’s bulky-trash program?
9. Race Hustlers Target McKinley Statue (again) in Desperate Bid for Attention, Money

1. Hawaii Family Forum: Talk to Your Kids About Racism
2. The Grand Skim of Things, Part 3
3. Legislators Foolhardy Enough to Give Caldwell More Money?
4. Star-Av: Fake Audit Can Help Legislators Raise Taxes for Rail
5. Don’t Increase TAT for Rail
6. Hawaii only state that did not regularly review child deaths
7. Honolulu 7th Most Expensive City for Car Owners
8. Public Land Must be Made Available for Affordable Housing
9. It Begins: Global Warmers: Go Mauka
10. Dope Dealers Yearn for Honey Butane Oil
11. Activist: Waianae Deserves Massive Festering Homeless Tent City
12. Borreca: Hawaii Democrats Can Exploit Trump Remarks in Local Elections

1. City rail audit won’t look for fraud?
2. Hawaii misses the bitcoin boom
3. Report: Island With Highest Prices Has Smallest Proportion of Mainland Buyers
4. Oral Arguments set for Morita vs Gorak
5. Feds Reach $10M Deal In Hawaii Birth Complications Suit 
6. Woman who waited 4 hours for rescue from condo fire dies
7. Anti-Sunscreen Hysteria Reaches NY Times
8. DLNR still responding to concerns on Lehua rat eradication
9. Star-Adv: Trump Poisons Nation
10. WaPo: How Employers Can Fire Trump Voters—a State-by State Guide

1. Hawaii Statehood: Tiny 1959 opposition was anti-Japanese, not anti-American
2. Honolulu Republicans: Happy Statehood Day!
3. Ships No Longer a Mystery: TOTE to Launch New Hawaii Service
4. Honolulu City Lights application deadline Sept 1
5. Desperation: HART Backs Efficiency Audit
6. Kauai Reps Scheme for Rail Tax Hikes
7. Ige says he can beat Hanabusa in a potential 2018 match-up
8. Ige: I Want to Remind You I had Nothing to do With Kishimoto Pick and Neither did my Wife
9. Honolulu Council Resolution: Block All Mainland HPD Chief Applicants
10. Caldwell Trick will Put 8,000 Condos in Highest Property Tax Bracket Sept 1
11. Thirty Meter Telescope executive hopeful project will receive permit ahead of September hearing
12. For most, life is not an either/or proposition
13. Hawaii developers face challenges selling affordable housing units
14. DoH: Many People Not Fooled by ‘Medical’ Marijuana
15. Fewer people are using public transportation in Honolulu
16. Muslim Sues Hawaiian Tel:  Presence of Trump Supporter Violates my Rights
17. County Council approves gun ranges for the Big Island
18. Ignored, Fukumoto Finds Way to Get Some Attention

1. Honolulu: $100 worth only $80.32
2. Corporations Becoming New Arbiters Of Public Morality
3. DBEDT Releases 2016 Hawaii Data Book
4. Grabauskas Suspected of Withholding Records
5. How A Princess’s Embattled Fortune Could Become A Massive Native Hawaiian Charity
6. Will State Provide Land for Affordable Housing?
7. DoE: 33% Absenteeism on South Side of Big Island
8. Child Deaths: DHS Reverts to Tried and True System for Covering Up
9. Greenmail: Panel wants to make watching delicious whales a Hawaiian experience
10. Body camera video showed MPD officers acted by the book with protesters
11. Army searching for 5 aboard downed chopper

1. Telescope: OHA Sees Chance for Land and Money Grab
2. Jones Act: Matson and Pasha Seek Every Loophole
3. Compact Impact: DoI Launches Census of COFA Migrants
4. Honolulu Ethics Comm Seeks Comments on Draft Strategic Plan
5. Honolulu 2016 Citizen-Centric Report Released 
6. Audit: Bulky Pickup Schemes Generate Millions in Overtime
7. Rail Solution?  A new PR Campaign!
8. Council committee to take up measure seeking rail audit
9. State Surplus Becomes Deficit After Paying Wages, Benefits, Pension
10. Star-Adv: Only Days Left for Legislators to Come up with Tax Hike for Rail
11. Obamacare Causing $68M in Losses for HMSA, Kaiser
12. Hawaii AG to Oversee Kawananakoa Dispute
13. The state is spending a lot less on school buses. Here's how
14. Mindless Bureaucracy: Housing Becomes Less Affordable on Oahu
15. Hawaii’s household debt per capita ranks highest among 50 states
16. Analysis: Most renters in Hawaii are 'cost-burdened'
17. Homeless Can Get Housing if they Walk Across The Street: Most Won’t
18. Officer caught fighting with girlfriend on video expected to get six-figure payoff
19. Gulliver, Lilliputians: Kona Spaceport Tied Down by Red Tape
20. Fraud-Riddled Hawaii recycling program hit lowest rate in 2016
21. Its Easy to Call Trump Racist 

1. Charlottesville Attack Was Domestic Terrorism
2. DLNR Sea Level Rise Adaptation Meeting Set for Hilo, Kona
3. Broken Trust Published 20 Years Ago
4. Rep Tupola Backs Forensic Audit for HART
5. Special Session to be Cancelled?
6. Apo voices support for TMT
7. Definition of ‘Renewable Energy’ is Political
8. DoH Bureaucratic Bottleneck Keeps 100lbs of Weed off Streets
9. Guam on Edge as Norks Chicken Out

1. Kawananakoa Estate: Sex, Drugs, and Inequality
2. HART Rail Costs Nearly Triple Rail Tunnel  
3. Grassroot: Investigate Rail Fraud, Waste, Abuse
4. Oahu GOP: Mo More Bailouts for Rail
5. Mattis: ‘We’ll Take It Out’ If North Korea Fires A Missile At Guam
6. Heiress Kawananakoa: Lawyer is trying to take control of $200M estate
7. Tuition Hikes Explained: UH Manoa Paying 72 Over $200K
8. New DoE Sup’t Finds Way to Keep Daughter out of Hawaii Public Schools
9. Hotels Control Opposition to Kauai dairy plan
10. Hotels Chemophobes Team up for Sunscreen Megaprofits
11. A bad week for sunshine
12. Police Called 3x Day to Kona’s New Homeless Tent City
13. Ex-Cop Sues Honolulu For Not Paying To Defend Him In Assault Lawsuit
14. Star-Adv Nailed for Misleading Styrofoam Ban Rhetoric
15. Association says a sprinkler system bill is not feasible

1. The Grand Skim of Things, Part 2
2. 2018: Service to Muslims Could Make Chin Lt Governor
3. Maui Council: TAT Hike Makes Neighbor Islands Pay for Rail (but we still aren’t legalizing TVRs)
4. Pay for Rail by Eliminating Pension Spiking
5. Rail Condemnation: Jurors Not Fooled by HART’s Appraiser
6. Workings of Hawaii government hew to satirical Parkinson’s Law
7. Roberts Hawaii Sees Money in Maui School Bus Debacle
8. REIT Tax Losers Whine
9. Maui Dopers Clean out Shelves at Weed Store
10. Money: Danner’s Annual Show Set for October
11. Muslim Relabeled as Grandmother upon Arrival in Hawaii

1. No need for special session this summer
2. It was 119 years ago today: Hawaii Becomes US Territory
3. Honolulu Rents Jump Another 6.7%
4. Youth Homelessness--Hawaii Ranks 5th
5. Tough On DUI? Hawaii Ranks 26th
6. DBEDT: Hawaii Economy Slowing
7. Registration Open for Hawaii LifeSmarts Competition
8. Rail Fail: Hanabusa Threatens to Run For Governor
9. Government failures continue to mount
10. GEMS: The Hawaii Program That Keeps on Taking
11. UHA 15.3% Obamacare Insurance Rate Hike
12. Star-Adv: Don’t overreach with smoking ban
13. Dopers Clean Out Supply of Medicated Marijuana in 3 Days
14. Chinatown: Six Homeless Accept Shelter Since May
15. Tarnas announces campaign for Evans’ District 7 House seat
16. Kauai council chair Rapozo to run for Kauai mayor

1. Audit the rail: An idea that’s catching on
2. Rail Fail: Why You Should Speak Out
3. Which States Benefit Most from the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction?
4. Governor needs to step up and fix Maui school bus crisis
5. DLNR Sea Level Rise Adaptation Meeting Set for Hilo
6. Vulnerable: Ige’s Campaign Cash As Low As His Poll Numbers
7. Elections Commission Retaliation Suit Heading for Supreme Court
8. Mileage Tax: HDOT to Hire Con-Artists to Concoct Sales Pitch for Massive Tax Hike
9. Bureaucratic Empire Builders: HDOT wants to create State Police Force, Patrol Highways, Airports, Ports
10. Proposed Wind Farms in Hawaii face challenges
11. Maui Electric Bills Drop $11 Because of Less Wind Energy
12. Kauai  Maui still short of school bus drivers
13. Ex-Honolulu Cop Offers $300,000 To Settle Suit With Bartender He Shot
14. Protective gear from Marco Polo fire fight taken out of service
15. Enviros Freak out Because Somebody Might Catch a Fish
16. ‘High’ Tech: Cannabis dispensary Hawaii's largest venture capital deal of 2016
17. North Korea details plan to fire missile salvo toward Guam