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Entries for 'Andrew Walden'
Wednesday, November 22, 2023 |
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Confirmed: Union Lawyer Appointed to Supreme Court
By Andrew Walden @ 2:44 PM :: 2504 Views :: Ethics, Judiciary, Labor
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... Devens’ legal experiences go beyond corporate practice, having represented several labor unions, including the State of Hawaiʻi Organization of Police Officers, the Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association, and more ....
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Tuesday, November 14, 2023 |
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Felon Watch: Nan buying Grace Pacific from A&B
By Andrew Walden @ 3:41 AM :: 6599 Views :: Ethics, Development, Rail
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... convicted felon to gain even more control over Hawaii CIP projects ....
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Sunday, November 12, 2023 |
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Audit Exposes Caldwell’s $175M Slush Fund
By Andrew Walden @ 9:19 PM :: 6405 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, COVID-19
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... Could credit union executives go to jail? ....
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Sunday, October 22, 2023 |
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Right to Rebuild? No Building Permits Issued Since Lahaina Fire
By Andrew Walden @ 5:47 PM :: 9266 Views :: Maui County, Development
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... Not a single building permit has been granted within the Lahaina burn zone since the August 8-9, 2023, disaster .....
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Thursday, October 12, 2023 |
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Saturday, September 2, 2023 |
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Lawsuit: Libertarians Ask Federal Court to ‘Disband Hawaii Republican Party’
By Andrew Walden @ 10:42 PM :: 7424 Views :: Office of Elections, Republican Party
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... If Republicans were stripped of ballot access, the Libertarians would be the only alternative to the Democratic Party ....
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Thursday, August 24, 2023 |
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Do Lahaina Property Owners Have the Right to Rebuild?
By Andrew Walden @ 8:26 PM :: 11172 Views :: Maui County, Development
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... We asked the Maui Mayor’s office and the Maui County Building Permits Division. Here is their response ....
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Monday, August 14, 2023 |
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Lawsuit Alleges Waimanalo Foster Girls Sexually Abused--and DHS Knew
By Andrew Walden @ 11:35 PM :: 6115 Views :: Family, Health Care, Law Enforcement
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... medical records from November 8, 2019--given to DHS--indicate that Sibling 1 and Sibling 2 likely had been sexually abused ....
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Monday, August 14, 2023 |
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Hawaiian 8a Racial Contracting Finished?
By Andrew Walden @ 10:07 PM :: 5759 Views :: Ethics, Military, OHA
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... 8(a) application submissions temporarily suspended ....
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Saturday, August 12, 2023 |
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Hawaii Libertarians Coalesce with Other 3rd Party Activists, Elect New Leadership
By Andrew Walden @ 1:27 AM :: 3930 Views :: Office of Elections, Republican Party
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... Three political parties have been disqualified by the State in the prior cycle: Green, Aloha Aina, and the Constitution Parties. All of these unaffiliated independent voters are ripe pickings for the third largest party fighting for a seat at the debate table with the drones and the clones ....
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Sunday, July 30, 2023 |
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Housing Emergency Designed to Fail
By Andrew Walden @ 11:29 PM :: 5620 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... Because it is temporary, Green’s Proclamation ensures that too few projects will be approved to actually bring down the cost of housing ....
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Monday, July 17, 2023 |
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Real Estate Sharks Circle Hawaii Republican HQ as Party Loses ANOTHER Chairman
By Andrew Walden @ 6:31 AM :: 6735 Views :: Office of Elections, Republican Party
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... Just two months after being elected at the abortive May 6, 2023, Republican state convention in Hilo, latest Chair, Tim Dalhouse, has resigned ....
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Friday, July 7, 2023 |
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Lawsuit Coming: Murder of Ariel Sellers Reaches Probate Court
By Andrew Walden @ 10:56 PM :: 4541 Views :: Family, Judiciary
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... Public only because it is evidence in Probate Court, the Order is signed by Family Court Judge Jessi L. K. Hall, now seeking reappointment for another 10 years ....
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Tuesday, June 13, 2023 |
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Will Hawaii Family Courts mandate legal representation for abused foster children?
By Andrew Walden @ 10:08 PM :: 3036 Views :: Ethics, Family
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... If the Judiciary does not act, the Legislature will ....
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Monday, June 12, 2023 |
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Falsified Financial Disclosures? Legislators Approve $20K for Sen Fevella’s ‘Reelect-me’ Group
By Andrew Walden @ 9:06 PM :: 3906 Views :: Ethics, Republican Party
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... Voting on legislation affecting a for-profit or non-profit organization in which you are a director, even if unpaid, is a violation of HRS § 84-14 and Senate Rules 83 and 85 ....
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Saturday, May 6, 2023 |
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Dela Cruz News: Conference Committee Sneaks $200M Slush Fund into Budget
By Andrew Walden @ 7:48 AM :: 3401 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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... Apparently the Governor is becoming the appropriator--constitutionally a function of the Legislature ....
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Thursday, April 27, 2023 |
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Trumpsters Fight Antivaxxers for Control of Maui GOP--Preview for Republican State Convention
By Andrew Walden @ 12:23 AM :: 4817 Views :: Maui County, Republican Party, COVID-19
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... The fight over control of the Maui County Republican Party provides a preview for the Upcoming Hawaii GOP State Convention set for May 5-6, 2023, in BJ Penn’s hometown of Hilo ....
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Tuesday, April 18, 2023 |
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Honolulu CrimeStoppers is Looking for OHA Embezzler Walter Rodenhurst--We Found Him on the Board of Hawaiian Civic Clubs
By Andrew Walden @ 5:49 PM :: 5041 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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... Rodenhurst was just elected as the 2nd Vice President of the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs. He can probably be arrested at the next Board meeting ....
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Tuesday, April 18, 2023 |
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Secret Conference Committee Tracking System
By Andrew Walden @ 12:11 AM :: 2797 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... this is not easy to find ....
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Wednesday, April 5, 2023 |
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Supreme Court: OHA Can Hide its Crooked Deals in Executive Session
By Andrew Walden @ 7:04 PM :: 2943 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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... This unanimous ruling will allow any Hawaii governmental body to hide its corrupt dealings in bogus ‘Executive Sessions’ simply by paying a shyster to sit in and twiddle his thumbs ....
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Saturday, April 1, 2023 |
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Micronesia: Will Lyon Associates Crook Become FSM President Again?
By Andrew Walden @ 7:22 PM :: 5329 Views :: Ethics, World News
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... Has Hawaii’s corruption of FSM opened the doors to China’s corruption of FSM? ....
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Thursday, March 30, 2023 |
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Bra and Panty Birthday Parties: Lawsuit Details Work Life at Hawaii DOBOR
By Andrew Walden @ 1:52 AM :: 9398 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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"...You must promise me that if things ever get really ugly between the both of us, you will not say a word about this...."
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Tuesday, March 28, 2023 |
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Micronesian President: Chinese Bribery ‘Happens all the Time’
By Andrew Walden @ 10:33 PM :: 4166 Views :: Ethics, World News
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... The Vice President was asked by Ambassador Huang if he could sit up front, with other Senators, and also to accept an envelope filled with money; Vice President Palik refused, telling the Ambassador to never offer him a bribe again ....
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Sunday, March 19, 2023 |
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Dead Bodies, Convicted Felons and Kakaako Makai: Meet the new Gang at OHA
By Andrew Walden @ 12:20 AM :: 10260 Views :: Ethics, Development, OHA
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... “We greatly appreciate what Senator Dela Cruz is trying to do. And we thank him.” -- OHA Chair Carmen Hulu Lindsey ....
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Sunday, March 5, 2023 |
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Labor Board Nails DPS Conspiracy, Cover-up
By Andrew Walden @ 9:51 PM :: 5370 Views :: Ethics, Law Enforcement, Police
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"...the Board finds that PSD consciously, knowingly, and deliberately failed to disclose and withheld information...."
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Sunday, February 26, 2023 |
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HB1291: Will Abused Foster Children Ever be Represented?
By Andrew Walden @ 9:19 PM :: 3655 Views :: Ethics, Family, Judiciary
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... Outside counsel may be a child’s only hope to break out of a system run for the benefit of adults’ need to cover up their own wrongdoing ....
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Thursday, February 23, 2023 |
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Audit: DHHL Traded 42 Affordable Housing Credits for a Fence
By Andrew Walden @ 8:53 PM :: 4177 Views :: Hawaii County , DHHL, Ethics
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... Big Island lawyers facing the possibility of Federal Penitentiary after allegedly scamming Hawaii County Affordable Housing credits may have one question on their mind ....
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Wednesday, February 22, 2023 |
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After Indictments, Al Hee Took $9M More
By Andrew Walden @ 9:59 PM :: 5715 Views :: DHHL, Ethics, Hawaii History
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... remember Al Hee? The first in the current wave of Hawaii corruption cases, Hee's indictment was handed down on the exact second anniversary of Dan Inouye's death ....
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Saturday, February 18, 2023 |
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Abraham Lincoln Abolished Slavery in Hawaii too
By Andrew Walden @ 4:13 AM :: 5027 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii History
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... Abraham Lincoln freed Hawaii plantation laborers from indentured servitude--in 1900--35 years after he was assassinated. How? Keep reading ....
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Friday, February 10, 2023 |
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Lawsuit: Catholic Charities Approved Foster Care Home with Schizophrenic Child Molester
By Andrew Walden @ 8:29 PM :: 6191 Views :: Hawaii County , Family
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... The girl was placed in foster care on or about July 31, 2017, then allegedly endured several months of sexual assault at the hands of two different adult male alleged perpetrators who were living in the house. Both have criminal records ....
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Friday, February 10, 2023 |
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Thursday, February 2, 2023 |
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VIDEO: FBI Raids Home of former Punahou Basketball Coach
By Andrew Walden @ 2:12 PM :: 3455 Views :: Education K-12
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... Clad only in white shorts, Yuen, a former Punahou coach accused by numerous female athletes--but never charged--was cuffed and soon whisked away in an unmarked vehicle ....
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Wednesday, January 25, 2023 |
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Preventing the Next Foster Care Disaster--Bills Mandate Court-Appointed Attorneys for Biological Parents
By Andrew Walden @ 3:36 AM :: 3287 Views :: Hawaii County , Family
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... Could Fabian’s death have been prevented if the biological parents had an attorney to investigate the fitness of these foster parents prior to Fabian’s placement? ....
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Sunday, January 22, 2023 |
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Supreme Court: Election Officials moved office furniture instead of ‘curing’ hundreds of invalidated ballots
By Andrew Walden @ 9:40 PM :: 3425 Views :: Office of Elections
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... Thousands of absentee voters are disenfranchised every election due to rejection of their ballots by the four county election offices ....
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Thursday, January 19, 2023 |
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Kauai Democrats Nominate Replacements for Rep Tokioka HD16
By Andrew Walden @ 8:48 PM :: 5624 Views :: Honolulu County, Democratic Party, Kauai County
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... the HD37 Democratic Committee picked three nominees: Ron Menor, Charlotte Nekota, Trish LaChica. Kauai HD16 Democrats picked Evslin, Chock and Cristobal ....
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Friday, January 13, 2023 |
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GE Tax: Audit Shows Tourists Pay 14.1%--not 30%
By Andrew Walden @ 5:21 AM :: 14344 Views :: Rail, Taxes, Tourism, Cost of Living
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...The lie that tourists pay 30% of the GE Tax is front and center as Gov Green and legislators quickly walk back Green’s fake 2022 campaign promise to eliminate the GE Tax from food and medical care....
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Saturday, December 31, 2022 |
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Paranoia Will Destroy Ya: Maui Police CIU 'Kidnaps' one of its own officers
By Andrew Walden @ 7:12 PM :: 4735 Views :: Maui County, Ethics, Police
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... a lawsuit filed in 2nd Circuit Court November 4 by former MPD Officer Manuel Sorcy shows CIU investigators intensely focused on Chief Faaumu’s internal rivals both real and imagined ....
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Monday, December 26, 2022 |
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Convicted Meth Dealer Asks Federal Court Permission to Take Over Laborer’s Union
By Andrew Walden @ 10:48 PM :: 8762 Views :: Ethics, Labor, Rail, Drugs
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... “If my name sounds familiar it's because my dad was President of the Hawaii AFL-CIO and the Business Manager/ Financial Secretary for the Hawaii Carpenters Union Local 745 for over 20 years.”….
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Saturday, December 17, 2022 |
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Why We Left Hawaii: Police Misconduct Threatens My Wife and Daughter
By Andrew Walden @ 9:37 PM :: 9543 Views :: Hawaii County , Ethics, Police
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... building contractor Chris Kagawa lived on the Big Island his entire life until he was forced to relocate to the mainland in June, 2022 due to the actions of the Hawaii County PD ....
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Tuesday, December 13, 2022 |
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Disgraced Bitcoin Billionaire Sent Thousands to Hawaii Democrats
By Andrew Walden @ 10:01 PM :: 3684 Views :: Democratic Party, Ethics
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... Indicted for campaign fraud and misappropriation of client deposits, former crypto-billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) is now under arrest in the Bahamas facing extradition to the US ....
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Monday, December 12, 2022 |
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Kawananakoa Estate: Sex, Drugs, and Inequality
By Andrew Walden @ 1:16 PM :: 50555 Views :: Ethics, Drugs
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...If you’re rich, Hawaii is a really lousy place to get sick....
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Thursday, December 8, 2022 |
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Sunday, November 27, 2022 |
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FBI: Miske Ran Waikiki ‘Beachboy’ Concession
By Andrew Walden @ 5:56 PM :: 4595 Views :: Ethics, Law Enforcement, Tourism
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... Gradually the mafia deathgrip on Waikiki beaches is being chipped away ....
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Saturday, November 26, 2022 |
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Builder Cancels DHHL Barbers Point Solar Project
By Andrew Walden @ 4:59 PM :: 3585 Views :: Honolulu County, DHHL, Energy
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"...this project is no longer financially viable under its current terms in the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) due to changing supply chain/market conditions, regulatory delays and final interconnection costs...."
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Wednesday, November 23, 2022 |
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Drugs, Fish, and Termites: Miske FBI Backgrounder Unsealed by Federal Judge
By Andrew Walden @ 8:35 PM :: 6426 Views :: Hawaii History, Law Enforcement, Drugs
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... 40 miles off the coast of Hawaii, FV Rachel attached a large amount of Methamphetamine to a Radio Frequency (RF) buoy and dropped the drugs into the ocean ....
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Thursday, November 10, 2022 |
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General Election Results--Fourth Read and Recount Results
By Andrew Walden @ 9:00 PM :: 7402 Views :: Office of Elections
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... Republicans win four new House seats and a new Senate seat ....
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Saturday, November 5, 2022 |
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Hawaii Supreme Court: Hawaii MDs Eligible for Enhanced Medicaid Payments
By Andrew Walden @ 9:00 PM :: 3355 Views :: Hawaii County , Health Care
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... the Hawaii Department of Human Services spent seven years litigating against an honest doctor in Hilo. They lost ....
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Sunday, October 9, 2022 |
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Dirty OHA Contract is Model for CNHA Takeover of Tourism Marketing
By Andrew Walden @ 9:37 PM :: 8573 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, OHA, Tourism
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... Ige’s March 4, 2020, COVID Emergency legalized over half of CNHA’s corruption ....
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Thursday, October 6, 2022 |
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Federal Court Ruling: Sen. Karl Rhoads participated in Honolulu County Council Kickback scheme
By Andrew Walden @ 11:35 PM :: 21019 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Politicians
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...When Honolulu County Council member Andy Mirikitani faced trial in 2001 for fraud, theft, extortion, and bribery, key testimony came from Cynthia McMillan, the wife of now-State Senator Karl Rhoads (D-Downtown Honolulu)....
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