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| Wednesday, October 29, 2025 |
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Kamehameha Admissions: Without Affirmative Action Defense, Who Needs Victimology?
By Andrew Walden @ 2:13 AM :: 79 Views :: Akaka Bill, DHHL, Education K-12, Judiciary, OHA
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... SFA’s lawyers do not acknowledge their argument would render much of US Indian policy unconstitutional. This is their blind spot ....
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| Tuesday, October 28, 2025 |
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Hawaii Joins 22 States Suing to Keep Welfare Cash Flowing
By News Release @ 5:12 PM :: 168 Views :: National News, Hawaii State Government
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... Coalition Urges Court to Immediately Restore SNAP Funding Relied Upon by 42 Million Americans ....
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| Tuesday, October 28, 2025 |
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Final request: Kama asks Council to name Kauanoe Batagan as her successor
By News Release @ 2:29 PM :: 244 Views :: Maui County, Politicians
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... Kauanoe Batagan is Executive Director of the Maui Metropolitan Planning Organization ....
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| Tuesday, October 28, 2025 |
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Hegseth in Hawaii--Update on Purge of Generals (in China)
By Selected News Articles @ 3:40 AM :: 368 Views :: Military
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... Pentagon chief told purge of PLA generals was linked to Party disloyalty, as well as corruption ....
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| Tuesday, October 28, 2025 |
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OHA sets aside $6.1 Million for emergency relief to protect Native Hawaiian families amid federal shutdown
By News Release @ 2:23 AM :: 225 Views :: OHA
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... More details on OHA’s $6.1 million dollar emergency funding program, who qualifies, and how benefits will be distributed will be announced no later than early November ....
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| Monday, October 27, 2025 |
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Brenton Awa to Challenge Tokuda for Congress
By Video @ 3:10 PM :: 333 Views :: Politicians, Republican Party
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... Awa's state senate seat is not up in 2026 so he does not have to resign to run ....
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| Monday, October 27, 2025 |
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Grassroot: Lahaina, Jones Act, and Rail
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:01 AM :: 524 Views :: Maui County, Development, Jones Act, Rail
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... upward of 500 building permits have been issued for Lahaina residents and businesses whose homes and storefronts were destroyed ....
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| Sunday, October 26, 2025 |
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Rubber Stamp Legislature Needs More Dissent
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 5:42 PM :: 602 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics
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... Out of 94,000 votes cast during the 2025 session of the Legislature, 92,000 were “Yes.” ....
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| Sunday, October 26, 2025 |
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Spend That Money, Vought Is Watching
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1198 Views :: DHHL
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... DHHL's carryover balances, and these high annual re-appropriations that they have, kind of made it low-hanging fruit for the Trump Administration ....
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| Sunday, October 26, 2025 |
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Honolulu’s “No Firearms” Transit Signs Are Misleading
By Selected News Articles @ 4:41 AM :: 1155 Views :: Small Business
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... HRS §134-9.1 explicitly allows people to transport an unloaded firearm in a locked, hard-sided case ....
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| Saturday, October 25, 2025 |
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Statewide Traffic Deaths Top Last Year's Total
By News Release @ 4:58 PM :: 702 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Law Enforcement
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... The 106 were a combination of motor vehicle occupants, pedestrians, motorcyclists, scooter riders, bicyclists and people on non-traditional conveyances like skateboards, foot scooters and Utility Task Vehicles ....
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| Saturday, October 25, 2025 |
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Inch by inch, everything's a cinch!
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:22 PM :: 1035 Views :: Maui County, Development
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... If we can keep clearing away the regulations that hamper recovery efforts, we might someday see a rebuilt and prosperous Lahaina ....
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| Friday, October 24, 2025 |
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Contracts: How Much Money is in Honolulu's Sewers?
By UHERO @ 2:48 PM :: 1096 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment
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... ENV’s role as a local engine of employment and income ....
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| Friday, October 24, 2025 |
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Pohoiki Boat Ramp Opens--Blocked by Shifting Shoreline within week
By News Release @ 5:01 AM :: 861 Views :: Hawaii County
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... From October 16 – 19, 2025, the entrance channel filled with black sand, cobbles, and larger lava rocks carried by ocean swells ....
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| Thursday, October 23, 2025 |
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Red Flag Could Lead to Blackouts
By News Release @ 6:54 PM :: 603 Views :: Energy, Environment
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... Strong winds, low humidity could lead to Public Safety Power Shutoff ....
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| Thursday, October 23, 2025 |
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Too Many Blackouts? HECO will buy you a Generator
By News Release @ 6:42 PM :: 1342 Views :: Energy
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... Qualified Hawaiian Electric customers in wildfire risk areas who are subject to preemptive power shutoffs would be eligible to receive a rebate for the purchase of backup power equipment ....
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| Thursday, October 23, 2025 |
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Hawaii needs help with its social worker shortage
By Selected News Articles @ 6:27 PM :: 508 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Higher Education
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... Nearly half a million Hawaii residents live in mental health deserts, with just one provider for every 335 patients ....
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| Thursday, October 23, 2025 |
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VIDEO: Building common ground: Expanding housing in Hawaii
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:06 PM :: 793 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... Speaking to an audience of more than 70, including state and county lawmakers and department executives, the four presenters touched on myriad possible reforms, including those related to land-use laws, inclusionary zoning, density regulations, parking and amenities requirements, and farm-worker housing ....
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| Thursday, October 23, 2025 |
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New report shows how outdated parking mandates inflate Hawaiʻi housing costs
By News Release @ 2:48 PM :: 1284 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... parking mandates are adding tens of thousands of dollars to the cost of construction of new homes on Oʻahu ....
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| Thursday, October 23, 2025 |
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Japanese Archery Range Coming to Honolulu
By News Release @ 2:34 PM :: 932 Views :: Honolulu County, Second Amendment
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... kyudojo facility planned in the undeveloped area of Mau‘umae Nature Park in Kaimukī ....
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| Thursday, October 23, 2025 |
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Hawaii DoE Disciplines Teacher for Student-Initiated Charlie Kirk Free Speech Discussion on Constitution Day
By Selected News Articles @ 3:32 AM :: 2180 Views :: Education K-12, First Amendment
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... the vice principal interrupted a social studies department meeting to announce that teachers are not allowed to discuss “controversial issues” and that if controversial issues arise in student discussions, teachers must “shut it down” ....
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| Wednesday, October 22, 2025 |
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Green in DC to Meet with Army
By News Release @ 11:13 PM :: 1906 Views :: Environment, Land Use, Military
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... Governor Green and Secretary Driscoll anticipate working toward a Memorandum of Understanding by the end of this year, with the goal of outlining clear parameters for a suitable land arrangement and addressing the issues most important for Hawaiʻi’s communities ....
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| Wednesday, October 22, 2025 |
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Time for new choices on how to fix Hawaii’s shortage of housing
By Selected News Articles @ 3:58 PM :: 800 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... Our housing crisis is the result of past choices. The solution requires the courage to make new ones going forward ....
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| Wednesday, October 22, 2025 |
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| Wednesday, October 22, 2025 |
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Even on Fare-Free Weekend, Rail Ridership falls short of Blangiardi's 25,000
By News Release @ 3:36 AM :: 2123 Views :: Rail
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... DTS announces ridership numbers for Skyline Segment 2 ....
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| Tuesday, October 21, 2025 |
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Hawaii's Only Oil Refinery $100M 'Renewable' Fuels Deal
By News Release @ 11:27 PM :: 4845 Views :: Energy, Environment
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... Par Pacific, Mitsubishi, and ENEOS to Establish Joint Venture for Renewable Fuels in Hawaii ....
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| Tuesday, October 21, 2025 |
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100th Pre-K Classroom Opens
By News Release @ 5:15 AM :: 431 Views :: Education K-12, Family
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... Ready Keiki initiative marks major step toward statewide preschool for all ....
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| Tuesday, October 21, 2025 |
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US Senate is laying down terms for military land use negotiations in Hawaii
By Andrew Walden @ 4:39 AM :: 846 Views :: Land Use, Military
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... authorizes acquisition through exchange or lease ....
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| Monday, October 20, 2025 |
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Milk Recall: Children Sickened at More Elementary Schools
By News Release @ 11:56 PM :: 1582 Views :: Education K-12, Health Care
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... 31 illnesses potentially linked to the product ....
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| Monday, October 20, 2025 |
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Lawsuit Filed Over Kamehameha Admission Policy
By Court House News @ 11:45 PM :: 1123 Views :: Akaka Bill, Education K-12
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... The group challenges the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ 2006 decision in Doe v. Kamehameha Schools, which upheld the schools’ admissions policy by an 8-7 vote ....
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| Monday, October 20, 2025 |
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Hawaii State Most Affected by Government Shutdown
By Selected News Articles @ 3:06 PM :: 1085 Views :: Hawaii Statistics
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... Hawaii is tied with MD and DC for the largest share of federal employees ....
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| Sunday, October 19, 2025 |
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SD19 Dems Send Three Names to Governor
By News Release @ 10:54 AM :: 3238 Views :: Honolulu County, Democratic Party, Ethics
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... On Sep 25, 2025, SD19 Senator Aquino announced he would quit Senate to join lobbying firm ....
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| Sunday, October 19, 2025 |
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Even More TANF Hoarding
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 801 Views :: Family, Hawaii State Government
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... federal TANF money that we haven’t spent: $452 million ....
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| Sunday, October 19, 2025 |
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Harnessing AI for Government Transparency
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:20 AM :: 618 Views :: First Amendment, Hawaii State Government
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... Grassroot’s “Open Hearings” project can monitor and summarize government hearings and produce transcripts and summaries of those hearings almost immediately ....
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| Saturday, October 18, 2025 |
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| Saturday, October 18, 2025 |
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Former Maui resident pleads guilty in fentanyl trafficking case
By Court House News @ 5:44 PM :: 735 Views :: Maui County, Drugs
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... man with 11 prior convictions, including five drug felonies in Hawaii, admitted to shipping nearly a pound of fentanyl to Maui ....
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| Saturday, October 18, 2025 |
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BBC: Harbors Division Rejected Two Offers to Save Falls of Clyde
By Selected News Articles @ 3:59 AM :: 805 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii History
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... A Norwegian firm which operates heavy lift ships offered to transport Falls of Clyde back to Scotland for free, but the campaign was soon embroiled in a wrangle with the …(Hawaii Dept of Transport Harbors Division)… over insurance costs and other conditions ....
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| Friday, October 17, 2025 |
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Profitable Nonprofits: Four Legislators Oversee $50M Cash Giveaway
By News Release @ 2:06 PM :: 754 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... Rep Daniel Holt, House Finance Committee Vice Chair Jenna Takenouchi, Senate Ways and Means Chair Donovan Dela Cruz and Senate Majority Leader Dru Kanuha ...
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| Friday, October 17, 2025 |
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Hawaii on Verge of Affordable Housing Breakthrough?
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:29 AM :: 1392 Views :: Development, Cost of Living
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... Legislative action in all four of Hawaii’s counties could soon help ease the state’s acute housing shortage ....
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| Thursday, October 16, 2025 |
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Falsely arrested by their own Department? Four Sheriff Deputies File Suit
By Andrew Walden @ 9:54 PM :: 820 Views :: Ethics, Law Enforcement
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... trumped-up the charges against the four deputies as part of a convoluted scheme to manipulate Horton as a ‘pawn’ to retaliate against the number three man in the State Sheriff Division, First Deputy Lanikoa Dobrowolsky ....
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| Thursday, October 16, 2025 |
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Defensive Gun Use Proves Armed Citizens Aren’t ‘Vampires’
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:07 PM :: 865 Views :: Second Amendment
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... Hawaii and several other states passed a series of spiteful measures—including the so-called “Vampire Rule” now before the court ....
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| Thursday, October 16, 2025 |
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Hawaii Joins Democrat States' Tech Anti-Trust Lawsuit
By Selected News Articles @ 12:33 PM :: 736 Views :: National News
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(CLUE: Stupid Democrats still don't understand what turned Big Tech against them.)
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| Thursday, October 16, 2025 |
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| Thursday, October 16, 2025 |
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Falls of Clyde removed from Honolulu Harbor
By News Release @ 2:18 AM :: 743 Views :: Hawaii History, Tourism
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... the disposal site is approximately 25 miles south of Honolulu Harbor ....
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| Thursday, October 16, 2025 |
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Fed Wreck Back Again?
By Video @ 12:29 AM :: 1373 Views :: Akaka Bill, OHA
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... Shame On The Office Of Hawaiian Affairs For Lying Again. Theyʻre Trying To Convince You That You Need US Federal Recognition ....
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| Wednesday, October 15, 2025 |
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Kaiser health care workers strike for better wages
By Court House News @ 10:37 AM :: 559 Views :: Health Care, Labor
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... Thousands of Kaiser employees in California, Oregon and Hawaii organized a five-day work stoppage after negotiations for higher pay and other demands stagnated ....
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| Tuesday, October 14, 2025 |
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National Republicans Sue Hawaii over Election Rolls
By News Release @ 10:32 PM :: 802 Views :: Office of Elections, Republican Party
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... The RNC filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Hawaii’s chief election officer for allegedly violating the law by refusing to provide public voter roll maintenance ....
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| Monday, October 13, 2025 |
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Green Signs Energy Deal with Japanese Company
By News Release @ 11:34 PM :: 1509 Views :: Energy, World News, Tourism
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... Could Hawaii be Supplied with Canadian LNG from JERA? ....
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