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| Tuesday, May 12, 2026 |
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May 12, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 10:09 AM :: 4401 Views
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- Dope in Vending Machines? Complaint Alleges Honolulu Liquor Commission Does Nothing to Shut Down ‘ballsiest drug op in recent memory’
- SB2471 Abolishes Right to Form Political Parties
- Hawaiʻi County Issues RFP for West Hawaiʻi Cot Sleeping Program
- City Managing Director Michael Formby Quits
- Gay Divorce Exposes Hidden Insider Payoffs by State Homeless Housing Contractor
- SB2471: How the Clinton White House just bamboozled Hawai‘i
- Crash into Sea: Lawmakers back bill to speed Seaglider plans in Hawaii
- Hawaiian Electric begins $479M Maui wildfire settlement payments
- Five Hawaii Island early childhood education sites to close
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| Monday, May 11, 2026 |
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May 11, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 10:03 AM :: 2435 Views
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- To Make Housing Affordable, don’t pave paradise to put up parking lots
- Political Dark Money Limits Clear Hurdles in Hawaii, Montana—“that’s the whole ballgame”
- After SB2698 Fails, Cruise Ship Green Fee in Hands of 9th Circuit Court
- ‘Renovation Aloha’ Again Proves Effective Real Estate Management is Illegal on Oahu
- HB1518: Help Criminals Get Back on Welfare Quickly
- NYT Praises Hawaii Judiciary for Letting Lots of Female Criminals Evade Prison
- New tourism strategy to tackle Hawaii's traffic woes
- Detained Immigrants Could Wait 19 Months For Their Day In Honolulu Court
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| Sunday, May 10, 2026 |
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May 10, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 10:38 AM :: 4024 Views
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- 'Has The Army Made Any Actual Offers?': Tokuda Asks General About Leases In Hawaii
- Hawaii Legislature passes first-in-nation bill targeting Citizens United ruling
- Tax Bills: Some Look Radically Different
- Hawaii Legislature Adjourns Sine Die, Marking Defeat of Several Anti-Gun Bills
- Historic 2024 tax cuts rescued for majority of Hawaii residents
- Judicial Vacancies in Maui, Kauai Counties
- Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
- Jones Act Waiver Makes Case for Permanent Reform
- Legislative Session Ends with No Answer from AG on $35K Bribe
- Will PRP Order Josh Green to Veto Anti Citizens United Bill?
- Lawmakers 2026 tax hikes–will they come back for the rest next year?
- Maui Council shakeup: Chair Lee won’t seek re-election to Wailuku-Waiheʻe-Waikapū seat
- Number of Oahu youth suicides in 2026 now match statewide number for entire 2023
- Hawaii shelters inadequate against hurricanes
- The Politics of Monk Seal Justice: Why a Hawaiian Senator Is Backing a Beach Vigilante
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| Saturday, May 9, 2026 |
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May 9, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 6:41 AM :: 2848 Views
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| Friday, May 8, 2026 |
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May 8, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 7:27 AM :: 2778 Views
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| Thursday, May 7, 2026 |
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May 7, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:12 AM :: 3956 Views
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- Feds Investigating 562,000 Fraudulent COVID Loans
- Despite Flooding, Waialua Robotics Team has a Winning Season
- Legislature passes bills for automatic voter registration, DHHL, 'Corporate personhood'
- Lambert and Two Outsiders finalists for Honolulu police chief
- Honolulu Police Commission names 5 of 6 finalists for HPD chief
- Third Try: State awards $63 million contract to (again try to) upgrade 55-year old financial data system
- Automatic Annual 5% Rate Hikes for Young Brothers Among Dozens of Bills Passed at last minute
- 3% to 6% Annual Pay Hikes for HSTA Forever
- Plans for jail on Oahu continue to advance
- SB2140: Carpenters Union Scam Targets nonunion contractors
- Bissen Refusing to do anything to Prevent Future Kihei Floods
- The Governor And The Auditor Are Fighting. That's Great
- Military members lose Red Hill case against the federal government
- Par Pacific: Hawaii biorefinery begins commercial operations
- Now That taxes Have Been Raised, Isle ‘Non’-profits want More Funding so they can pay Fatter Salaries
- Matayoshi: Playing with Fire ‘Stop Corporate Personhood’ Bill could ‘further cement’ Citizens United Decision
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| Wednesday, May 6, 2026 |
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May 6, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 9:39 AM :: 8745 Views
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- $255K Income Needed to Buy Home in Honolulu
- Pope Names New Bishop for Hawaii
- Young Brothers Swiped $26M in State Money (and it’s not the first time)
- After Raising Your Taxes, $50M deposit proposed for Hawaii’s state ‘rainy day’ fund
- After Burning COVID Money, Honolulu’s useless ‘Economic Revitalization Office’ faces defunding
- ‘Peter Boy’ lawsuit drags on: ‘What the state did was terrible. The liability is obvious’
- Ex-city administrator’s case in Kealoha payoff won’t be dismissed early
- Political influence in Hawai‘i by the numbers
- China: If Blangiardi wants Pandas, he must let us spy on INDOPACOM
- DHHL to hold public meetings on statewide geothermal energy exploration
- From flights to food, Hawaii residents feel the pressure of rising fuel costs
- County launches Molokai deed restriction pilot program
- Hawaiʻi Balks At Funding Maui Fire Victim Health Study
- First neighbor island kauhale is changing lives on Maui
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| Tuesday, May 5, 2026 |
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May 5, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 11:54 AM :: 3122 Views
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- Hawaii 2nd-Worst State to be Police Officer
- State Transfers $89M More GE Tax Revenues to Pay for Rail
- Indictment: $647K Embezzled from Homeowner Associations
- March: Tourist Count and Spending Both Down
- After Raising Your Taxes, Conference Committee Gives $55M to OHA
- Honolulu police chief search down to six secret candidates
- Hawaii lawmakers head into final vote week with more than 270 bills still in play
- ‘Sue Big Oil’ Bill Fails
- Without Luke, What Happens to Preschool Initiative?
- Swimming in Money after Hiking Your Taxes, Legislators Consider Giving OHA $55M for no Particular Reason
- Cesspools: Hanalei Pushes For $19 Million Sewer System
- Fewer AAPI Adults Report Hate Incidents -- Poll
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| Monday, May 4, 2026 |
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May 4, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 9:42 AM :: 4437 Views
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- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted May 1, 2026
- The ‘New Tourism’ -- More Money Spent at Hotels and Less at Small Businesses
- Kona Low Storm Damage: 260 Oahu homes ‘uninhabitable’
- Soft on Crime: Juvenile Killers Released to their Mommy—do it again
- Retaliation Games: Honolulu Forced To Rehire Fired Paramedic Supervisors Because Sleeping on Job is Legal
- Taxpayer funding to pay state legal claims tops $20M
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| Sunday, May 3, 2026 |
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May 3, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 11:24 AM :: 3156 Views
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- Deciphering the Budget
- UHERO: The True Cost of Subsidizing Childcare
- Untangling occupational licensing rules
- Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
- Alleged Pimps Catch Federal Case
- Do Trump Budget Cuts Signal A New Challenge For Native Hawaiians?
- Last-minute Conference Committee Scramble
- “Sylvia Luke is still the lieutenant governor of this state”
- For youth, state must act on housing affordability
- City, State Hustle to Maximize Kona Storm Losses: Federal Taxpayers to Cover 75%
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| Saturday, May 2, 2026 |
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May 2, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 9:59 AM :: 4572 Views
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- Mafia News: After Raising Your Taxes, Legislators Give More to Movie Moguls
- Divided There’s Nothing We Can Do; United Nothing Can Stop Us
- Grassroot announces legislative wrap-up tour
- Election 2026: 302 Candidates Pull Papers to Run
- West Maui Rep. Cochran leads House in floor no-shows — again, but not as much
- Judge denies motion to suppress statements in Geanna Bradley murder case
- Honolulu police officer indicted in alleged on-duty sexual assault
- SB2471: ‘Stop Corporate Personhood’ bill collapses in on itself
- Hawaii Maoists Upset After Philippine Military Kills 19 Maoist Guerillas in Combat—wipes out Commander of ‘New Peoples Army’
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| Friday, May 1, 2026 |
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May 1, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 11:13 AM :: 6081 Views
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- After Raising Taxes, Conference Committee Approves $20B State Budget
- Auditor: Out-of-Control Homeless Program Puts Public Funds at 'Immediate Risk'
- 20-5: Senate Confirms Andy Winer's Law Partner as Chief Justice
- Onomea: The Mystery of the Unknown Church
- VIDEO: The Jones Act and the 2026 Energy Crisis
- Team Bissen Stealing Money Immediately After Lahaina Fires
- $120M Green Fee Slush Fund Saved as Legislators Stab Taxpayers in Back
- Solar is Diesel: HECO Lied About Urgent Need for Maui (Diesel) Power Plants
- State Film Commissioner Donne Dawson retires
- FBI executes search warrant in Windward Oahu as part of ongoing investigation
- What the Jones Act waiver extension could mean for Hawaiʻi's maritime economy
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| Thursday, April 30, 2026 |
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April 30, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 8:12 AM :: 2887 Views
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- Census: Nearly Half of Young Adults born in Hawaii have left state
- HART needs $1.6B of your money to get to Ala Moana
- Emergency Response: 12-years-later Hawai‘i Island firefighter dispute reaches state Supreme Court
- Fake DUI Arrests: HPD officer loses civil lawsuit after failing to show up for court
- Anti-ICE Masking Bills In Hawaiʻi Doomed After Court Ruling
- SB2471: Legislators want to Waste Money on Futile Lawyering
- Small businesses continue to form the backbone of Hawaii’s economy
- Six Years Later: Car dealers still plagued by Oahu DMV processing delays
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| Wednesday, April 29, 2026 |
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April 29, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 2:51 PM :: 2890 Views
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- A Bigger Fish than Luke: AG Bribery Letter Reopens PUC Lahaina Fire Coverup
- Ninth Circuit says Hawaii does not have to publicly release voter rolls
- HB2309: DHHL Homestead Inheritance Rules
- VIDEO: Drawing Held to Determine Ballot Placement
- SB3218: Honolulu to Borrow Millions to pay for Aloha Stadium Infrastructure
- Budget Committee Makes Deal to Increase Taxes
- Boosting Hawaii's economy with film industry expansion
- HB1516 Pre-Trial Release: Soft-on-Crime Activists Rush to MisJudgment
- Millions in ‘improper billing’: Governor Terrified of what Upcoming Kauhale Audit will Reveal
- Hawaii NIL bill would allow UH to pay student-athletes
- Hawaii Traffic deaths cut in half
- How one dairy farmer is keeping the milk flowing in Hawaii
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| Tuesday, April 28, 2026 |
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April 28, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 5:02 PM :: 3732 Views
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- SB3125: Senators make their case for smaller Tax Hikes
- Senate Confirms Judges for Kauai, Maui
- Maui Fire Settlement: Insurers get 10%, Shysters Grab for 25%, Feds get 37% -- little left for victims
- Should your taxes increase to provide greenies with Slush-Fund?
- Maui police commander suspended in connection with illegal fireworks incident
- Hawaii Rifle Association may see windfall from new concealed carry rule
- HB1888 to protect education workers and sports officials still alive
- Hawaii Plans Kauai-Style Visitor Controls For Oahu North Shore
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| Monday, April 27, 2026 |
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April 27, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:30 PM :: 3007 Views
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- Lawsuit : Bissen insiders Stole $45K from County days after Lahaina Fire
- Will ‘Kona Low’ rebuild be as slow as Lahaina?
- UH Mānoa chancellor search: finalist campus visits set
- Conveyance Taxes are Just for the Little People
- Soft-on Crime Crowd Comes up with new Trick to Block Oahu Jail construction
- Loss of land in storm complicates recovery for ‘Īao Valley residents
- Hawaiʻi Drivers Say Uber AI is Shortchanging Them
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| Sunday, April 26, 2026 |
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April 26, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 4:48 PM :: 3162 Views
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- $35K Bribe: AG Skips Biweekly Update on 'Investigation'
- Auditor: Maui Fraud Risk Out of Control During Emergencies
- The unintended consequences of transfer taxes
- HIDOE opens 47-unit housing project on Maui
- Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
- What’s Dead – For Now
- Lawmakers clash on tax increases: “Historic bait and switch and that is unacceptable”
- Is sacrificial Sylvia Luke enough to placate corruption gods?
- Carpenters Union Spending Big to back Kawakami in Lt Governor Race
- Maui Disaster: Herman Andaya was Keith Regan’s 2016 Campaign Manager
- Will Flood-Damaged Kula Hospital be Demolished?
- OHA demands cut of the money from military-leased lands
- Star-Adv Editors: ‘Please Pass SB2471 and Abolish Our Right to Press Freedom’
- Where Is Tulsi Gabbard?
- Passing Bills Is One Thing. Implementing Them Is A Different Story
- Honolulu mayor says getting giant pandas to Hawaii would be 'incredible'
- Homeless Meth Addicts Camp out on Waikiki Beach
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| Saturday, April 25, 2026 |
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April 25, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:41 PM :: 3149 Views
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- Feds say Hawaii crime boss orchestrated his own death to shield millions in assets
- Federal Justice: Three Sentenced in Big Island Affordable Housing Scam
- KIUC to Retire $2.7 Million in Patronage Capital to Members
- Judge grounds flyers' attempt to undo Alaska-Hawaiian airlines merger
- Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted April 24, 2026
- It’s all over now and we can get back to bribery as usual
- Chin: Since When does the State AG Send out ‘Target Letters?’
- 3-2 Senate Panel Narrowly Approves Chief Justice Nominee
- HMSA-HPH Merger Is Not A Solution To Hawaiʻi Health Care Problems
- Trump extends Jones Act waiver 90 days to ease energy costs
- Bill honoring 2 crash victims fails as family continues pushing for change
- 3,700 Oahu properties will require flood insurance under new FEMA maps
- ‘Degassing’ of Red Hill tanks nearing completion, Navy says
- Trial for couple accused of killing adopted daughter delayed until 2027
- Maui Council considers 9% sewer fee hike
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| Friday, April 24, 2026 |
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April 24, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 1:01 PM :: 5265 Views
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- Luke Out: Green Names Keith Regan as Acting Lt Governor
- Hawaii court weighs whether banana workers proved pesticide exposure
- Case: Extend Jones Act Waiver
- Hawaii Attorney General now targets former PUC Chair in state bribery investigation
- The Real Choice is Between LNG and Oil
- What Will Happen to Preschool Program Without Luke?
- Stopping Maui Resort's Plastic Barrier is Best chance Ever to make Hotel Fall into the Ocean
- As Obesity Threatens the Poor, The Usual Useless Activists Push Honolulu's ‘Right To Food’
- Sign waving in Kapolei in opposition of landfill expansion on the West Side
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| Thursday, April 23, 2026 |
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April 23, 2026 News Read
By Andrew Walden @ 3:04 PM :: 3140 Views
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