Entries for 'Andrew Walden'

...Should ex-coke dealers get more political representation?....

...Ige Admin testimony shows that OHA rent-seeking is driving up hospital bills, public housing rents, and University of Hawaii tuition for everybody—including native Hawaiians.... 

...Waimea Valley and all of the LLCs are still 100% owned by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs--but the LLCs' lawyer says otherwise.... 

...Governor Ige and HIEMA administrator Vern Miyagi say they had to obtain permission from FEMA ... FEMA says that’s not true....

"...NO missile threat to Hawaii...."

...Gabbard’s consultant, Chris Cooper, is allegedly one of seven identified as being at the center of illegal Russian lobbying efforts reaching into the Trump campaign and Congress....

...This ‘consensus’ of disbelief is proven by the massive investment in sea-level construction of Kakaako condos and Honolulu Rail.... 

• Senate: Nielsen Nomination - Confirmation
• Senate: Balash Nomination - Confirmation
• Senate: Short-Term Fiscal 2018 Continuing Appropriations
• House: Tax Overhaul – Motion to Request Conference
• House: Concealed Carry Reciprocity Between States
• House: Small Business Mergers Regulatory Exemption
• House: Short-Term Fiscal 2018 Continuing Appropriations

...The seeming political power play is actually a sign of Perreira’s weakness.... 

...Judge Crandall's husband, David Schulmeister, and his law firm, Cades Schutte, represented the Kamehameha Schools, billing as much as $1 million a year....

... How do Hawaii legislators get away with sexual harassment? ....

...Hawaii taxpayers may have been soaked as much as $200K in settlements which keep sex harassment quiet....

Krishna Consciousness is when you know the Krishnas did it....

A federal court order is being ignored so union members at the Hawai’i State Hospital can manipulate work rules....

Hawaii public hospital workers earn less but cost more than their private sector counterparts.  How is that possible?

..."Andrew Walden of the Hawai'i Free Press, actually called HHSC the 'HGEA job trust'"....

“The Airports Division expects near-term traffic results will be better than projected due to Island Air expanding interisland traffic...." -- Fitch Ratings, October 26, 2017

The following message was sent out to Arakawa campaign supporters Tuesday Nov 7, 2017....

...Unsurprisingly, it appears Ing is already violating the law.... 

...In or about 2004, while employed as a private attorney, K. KEALOHA was appointed by the Hawaii state court as trustee and guardian for two minor children....

"...The four men who restrained Rep. Quinlan are Rep. Daniel Holt. Rep. Tom Brower, Ali Sek and Benjamin Gates...."

...Hawai’i Free Press has obtained a copy of the Fiscal Year 2016-17 Office of Hawaiian Affairs check register in response to an open records request....

...Fukumoto’s Long-Form Financial Disclosures include many details....

...a secret commission larded with Kealoha loyalists has picked some candidates to continue the tradition....

...The more technical progress, the less attractive cultural nationalism becomes....

...CNHA's cut will be $450K....

...Ironically, the Memo itself was not posted on the Governor’s news feed nor is it linked by any Hawaii.gov website....

...Senators highlighted in YELLOW are up for reelection in 2018.  Only four of them voted for the tax hike....

...The Recovery Plan does not include a financial plan with funding sufficient to cover HART's current estimated total Project cost....

...The contract features 10.65% wage hikes over four years and a reopener for years three and four -- conveniently timed for after the next gubernatorial election....

...Cashing in at Middle Street, Kalapama, Iwilei....

... DoE student absenteeism is caused by DoE teacher absenteeism ....

...BLNR Chair Suzanne Case set Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017 to hear oral arguments in the Contested Case Hearing for the Thirty Meter Telescope....

... we found $1.595B being siphoned off of Rail for non-rail purposes ....

...Hawaii GET taxes many products multiple times and ultimately taxes 99.21 percent of the state’s personal income compared to the national median sales tax which applies to 34.46 percent of personal income....

...oddly enough, global warmers are still not lining up to accept my very generous offer of 10% of assessed value for their Hawaii oceanfront real estate....

Guess who owns Makaweli poi mill now?

...entrenched interests within the DHS culture of secrecy are afraid of this book and its contents....

Report from the 2017 Hawaii Republican Party convention....

Multiple procurement violations underlie a secret $435,000 contract between the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) and a company owned by UH Law Professor Kamana Beamer.....

229 Bills have been passed by the Legislature.  15 have been signed into law as of May 4.  Another 214 are awaiting Gubernatorial action....

...Orig published June 23, 2012.  Republished to celebrate the 6th anniversary of the extermination of Osama bin-Laden....

TAT Tax Hike for Rail and HSTA and a Massive Income tax Hike on Small Business Owners....

...attorneys representing Abigail Kawananakoa effectively debunk arguments used by the LLC lawyer Kimberly Greeley in opposition to an earlier open records request--which is still pending--from Hawai'i Free Press....

On March 6 Hawai’i Free Press carried an article reporting on SB501: “Hawaii lawmakers are censoring pro-lifers who were defending free speech”.  Now the Attorney General has weighed in....

“A little over half of this increase is attributable to State wharfage charges"

...the audit of “OHA and its subsidiaries” should include the six secretive LLCs owned by OHA....

On the trail to Hawaii Islam Day: Saudi money, Libyan assassins, Palestinian Jihad, London bombers, Malaysian sodomy, and laughing Islamists....

Mufi Hannemann’s Hawaii Independent Party, the Constitution Party, and The American Shopping Party are to be disqualified from the Hawaii ballot for 2018....