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Friday, March 14, 2025
UH Manoa Next? Columbia Expels Anti-Semites After Trump Cuts Funding
By Selected News Articles @ 3:50 PM :: 2219 Views :: Higher Education

... Columbia U knuckled under SIX DAYS after Trump cancelled $400M in federal funds to the university.  How long will it take for the UH system to get rid of its’ anti-Semites?  ....

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Thursday, March 13, 2025
Man arrested in Utah nursing home may not be extradited for 1977 McKinley HS murder
By Selected News Articles @ 2:55 AM :: 2830 Views :: Honolulu County, Education K-12, Hawaii History, Law Enforcement

... Hawaii authorities are reportedly deciding to not extradite Castro from Utah, according to a spokesperson for the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office ....

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Monday, March 10, 2025
Pacific Biodiesel Occupies ADC Land In Keaʻau; No Lease, No Rent
By Selected News Articles @ 10:34 PM :: 3717 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy, Ethics

... for at least seven years the parcel has been used rent-free by Pacific Biodiesel ....

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Monday, March 10, 2025
How Much House Does $300K, $400K and $500K Buy You in Every State? In Hawaii it's about the size of a shipping container
By Selected News Articles @ 3:28 PM :: 2854 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living

... Hawaii ranked dead last for the amount of square footage $300,000 can buy -- 443 square feet ....

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Friday, March 7, 2025
Seven Gun Bills Moving Fast at Half-Way Point in Legislative Session
By Selected News Articles @ 1:16 PM :: 2318 Views :: Second Amendment

... the remaining gun control bills have now crossed over between the House and Senate ....

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Wednesday, March 5, 2025
How the century-old Jones Act is hurting Hawaii’s economy
By Selected News Articles @ 1:09 PM :: 2312 Views :: Jones Act

... Every Hawaii-based company that ships its goods outside of the state has come up against the Jones Act ....

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Sunday, March 2, 2025
Gabbard Lahaina Charity Spends only 34% on Fire Victims
By Selected News Articles @ 9:45 AM :: 4516 Views :: Maui County, Ethics, Tulsi Gabbard

... Despite promising “every dollar” would go to fire relief, the organization spent only about 34 percent of funds raised ....

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Thursday, February 27, 2025
Debt: Honolulu 4th Worst 'Sinkhole City'
By Selected News Articles @ 10:33 PM :: 2741 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Taxes

... a debt burden of $2.25 billion, translating to $17,400 per taxpayer ....

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Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Leaving Hawaii: Over Half Immediately Able to buy Home on Mainland
By Selected News Articles @ 4:25 PM :: 3931 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living

... former Hawaii residents are finding it easier to buy homes—especially in Washington, where a whopping 56% of movers from Hawaii achieve homeownership shortly after relocating ....

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Monday, February 24, 2025
Hawaii Can Auction Off Your Car Without Ever Convicting You
By Selected News Articles @ 2:50 PM :: 2570 Views :: Law Enforcement, Drugs

... Civil forfeiture allows the government of Hawaii to take your property and sell it for profit without proving you did anything wrong ....

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Saturday, February 22, 2025
Hawaii Among Worst States to Start a Business
By Selected News Articles @ 2:05 PM :: 2297 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business

... Hawaii ranks 44th ....

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Friday, February 21, 2025
Hawaii AG Backs Suit Against Closure of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
By Selected News Articles @ 3:55 PM :: 2436 Views :: National News, Small Business

... The bureau was started in 2010 during the Obama administration ....

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Monday, February 17, 2025
Rising Costs on the Horizon: How Increased Tariffs on China Will Impact Hawaiʻi
By Selected News Articles @ 11:42 PM :: 4366 Views :: National News, Small Business, Taxes, Cost of Living

... the Trump administration is reintroducing a 10% tariff on all imports from China ....

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Monday, February 17, 2025
House Report: 60 Chinese espionage cases in three years
By Selected News Articles @ 3:37 PM :: 2271 Views :: Military

"... Espionage threats increased as more than 176,000 Chinese illegally entered U.S. under Biden ...."

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Sunday, February 16, 2025
Amended SB1150 Still Legalizes Kidnap of Children for Sex-Change
By Selected News Articles @ 8:03 PM :: 7591 Views :: Family, Health Care

... This bill allows children to be legally stolen from the Mainland, and from American Samoa, Guam and other US territories where juvenile sex-change is not legal ....

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Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Honolulu 4th Highest Inflation in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 2:02 PM :: 2662 Views :: Honolulu County, Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living

... Honolulu inflation is up 1% in just the last two months ....

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Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Hawaii AG Joins Suit Against Trump administration for ‘indiscriminate’ public health research funding cuts
By Selected News Articles @ 11:45 AM :: 1586 Views :: Higher Education

... “Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs” ....

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Saturday, February 8, 2025
SB1150 Would Legalize Child Kidnapping for Sex Change
By Selected News Articles @ 2:11 PM :: 6836 Views :: Family, Health Care, Law Enforcement

... Set for a February 11, 2025, hearing before Senate HHS/CPN committees, SB1150 grants a de-facto immunity and asylum in Hawaii for any kidnapper who claims to be helping a child receive so-called ‘gender-affirming’ treatments ....

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Thursday, February 6, 2025
PHOTOS: 'Lahaina Strong' Leaders Show Off Luxe European and Asian Vacations
By Selected News Articles @ 7:42 PM :: 7588 Views :: Maui County, Ethics

... 'Lahaina Strong' Leaders Register Again as 'Our Hawaii' Lobbyists and Continue the Grift Amid Eroding Community Support ....

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Thursday, February 6, 2025
California Home Insurance Crisis Provides Another Example of the Pitfalls of Government Intervention
By Selected News Articles @ 1:26 AM :: 1687 Views :: Maui County, Cost of Living

... government price controls come with negative consequences ....

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Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Honolulu Charges the Highest Tourist Tax in the World
By Selected News Articles @ 4:20 PM :: 2034 Views :: Taxes, Tourism

... Honolulu, with its 10.25 percent tax rate and an average tourism tax of $51.70 per night, came out on top ....

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Tuesday, February 4, 2025
2024 Homeless Report showed many underutilized housing programs
By Selected News Articles @ 3:13 AM :: 2574 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Homelessness

... 82% utilization rate among the 139 emergency, transitional and permanent housing programs on Hawaii ....

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Friday, January 31, 2025
What happens When UH Hires a Disbarred Ex-Con as Law Professor?
By Selected News Articles @ 3:51 PM :: 4006 Views :: Higher Education

... Ken Lawson uses images of UH administrators to illustrate hypothetical shooting ....

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Thursday, January 30, 2025
WSJ: Hawaii 'Down to Earth' Markets Tied to Ponzi Scheme
By Selected News Articles @ 1:00 AM :: 7835 Views :: Ethics, Tulsi Gabbard

... QI owns 'Down to Earth' -- subsidiaries were banned in Sri Lanka, Nepal and Rwanda and prosecuted in India ....

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Monday, January 27, 2025
Hawaii’s failed wildfire rebuild should not be a model for California
By Selected News Articles @ 12:01 AM :: 2213 Views :: Maui County, Development

... California Gov. Gavin Newsom is looking to Hawaii for advice on how to rebuild after wildfires ....

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Friday, January 24, 2025
Butterfly Knife Ban: 9th Circuit’s Devious Maneuvers Against 2nd Amendment
By Selected News Articles @ 8:01 PM :: 1997 Views :: Second Amendment

... a remarkable dissent that should echo through the halls of American jurisprudence ....

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Friday, January 24, 2025
Tulsi Gabbard’s performance in Jan. 30 hearing could ‘make or break’ her chances
By Selected News Articles @ 5:11 PM :: 2153 Views :: Tulsi Gabbard

... missing FBI background check and ethics disclosure forms ....

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Friday, January 24, 2025
18 Months After Wildfires Destroyed Some 2,000 Homes on Maui, Only 3 Have Been Rebuilt
By Selected News Articles @ 5:01 AM :: 7815 Views :: Maui County, Development

... A thicket of red tape has made the island's rebuilding efforts painfully slow ....

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Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Hawaii Worst State for Drivers
By Selected News Articles @ 12:00 PM :: 2717 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living

... gas prices, rush-hour traffic, road quality ....

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Monday, January 20, 2025
Hawaii 7th-Worst State to Start New Business
By Selected News Articles @ 10:11 PM :: 1794 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business

... Choosing the right state for a business is crucial to its success ....

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Thursday, January 16, 2025
NCAA athletes seeking women's sports for women only
By Selected News Articles @ 2:42 AM :: 1802 Views :: Higher Education

... Without those protections, women’s sports will eventually be destroyed said Sia Li'iLi'i, a product of Halawa, Hawai'i. ...

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Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Hawaii 2nd Most Racially Integrated State
By Selected News Articles @ 2:16 PM :: 1591 Views :: Hawaii Statistics

... New Mexico is #1 ....

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Monday, January 13, 2025
No-Fault Insurance for Electricity-Caused Wildfires?
By Selected News Articles @ 7:58 PM :: 2827 Views :: Maui County, Energy

... modeled on Workers Comp .... 

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Saturday, January 11, 2025
Deport Illegal Thieves? Hawaii Congressional Delegation Votes 'Nay'
By Selected News Articles @ 5:37 PM :: 2203 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Law Enforcement

... The U.S. Senate has voted 84-9 to begin debate on the Laken Riley Act.  Schatz and Hirono are among the nine .... 

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Saturday, January 11, 2025
Hawaii Democrats Talk a Big Game on the 'Climate Crisis.' They're Also Shielding an Oil Company Whose Execs Backed Their Campaigns
By Selected News Articles @ 4:25 PM :: 4858 Views :: Honolulu County, Maui County, Energy, Environment, Ethics, Congressional Delegation

... Since late 2019, Par Pacific's executives and PAC have collectively wired state Democrats a total of nearly $34,000 ....

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Saturday, January 11, 2025
Hawaii attorney general questions Walmart's retreat from DEI
By Selected News Articles @ 2:10 PM :: 2301 Views :: Labor, Law Enforcement

... Walmart reportedly is rolling back its diversity, equity and inclusion policies to focus on being more "belonging." ....

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Friday, January 10, 2025
Hawaii Abortions Down 11% for 2022
By Selected News Articles @ 1:07 AM :: 1969 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Life

... there were 1,970 abortions reported in Hawaii in 2022, a decrease of 11% from 2021 ....

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Thursday, January 9, 2025
Busted in Ibiza: Bumpy Kanahele's Fake 'Diplomat'
By Selected News Articles @ 12:54 AM :: 4291 Views :: OHA, Drugs

... The adventures of a false diplomat in Ibiza exposed: luxury vehicles, private clubs, cryptocurrency bank and other fantasies ....

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Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Hawaii doctor under investigation for murder in woman’s euthanasia death
By Selected News Articles @ 11:31 PM :: 3811 Views :: Law Enforcement, Life

... the woman was starting to choke and motioned for the doctor to stop — but he continued ....

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Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Oil industry seeks end to climate change lawsuits
By Selected News Articles @ 1:14 PM :: 2392 Views :: Energy, Environment, Judiciary

... the defendants may have a valid argument in favor of federal law since Honolulu is suing over conduct taking place outside of Hawaii’s borders ....

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Friday, January 3, 2025
Can New Legal Angle Beat Jones Act in Court?
By Selected News Articles @ 3:02 AM :: 2427 Views :: Jones Act

... lawsuits challenging the Jones Act have failed to seize upon an important piece of the Constitution ....

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Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Hawaii 7th Hardest Gun Control Laws
By Selected News Articles @ 4:58 PM :: 2439 Views :: Second Amendment

... The nonprofit analyzed every gun law in every state ....

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Sunday, December 29, 2024
Why is inflation higher in Hawaii?
By Selected News Articles @ 2:46 PM :: 3074 Views :: Development, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living

... It mostly comes down to one thing: housing ....

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Saturday, December 28, 2024
Hawaii worst state to work in 2024
By Selected News Articles @ 1:00 PM :: 3145 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Cost of Living

... Hawaii has the lowest average disposable income, $5,929 per working resident ....

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Saturday, December 28, 2024
Two Unconvincing Defenses of Tulsi Gabbard
By Selected News Articles @ 1:18 AM :: 2644 Views :: Tulsi Gabbard

"... iconoclastic inaccuracies and thought-terminating clichés ...."

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Thursday, December 19, 2024
Hawaii is the 5th Worst State for New Business Survival
By Selected News Articles @ 3:53 AM :: 2232 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business

... not for the faint of heart ....

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Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Hawaii AG Joins 18-State Coalition Targeting 'Ghost Guns'
By Selected News Articles @ 10:20 AM :: 1946 Views :: Second Amendment

... the coalition plans to take concrete action by working together to leverage and enforce each state’s existing civil liability and consumer protection laws ....

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Monday, December 16, 2024
Reply to ACLU: Fixing Hawaii Bail Problem Requires Return to Core Constitutional Principles
By Selected News Articles @ 12:42 PM :: 21030 Views :: Judiciary, Justice Reinvestment, Law Enforcement

... reforms implemented in 2019 have not reduced pretrial incarceration ....

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Sunday, December 15, 2024
Hawaii Gun Control Issue 'Far from Resolved'
By Selected News Articles @ 3:24 PM :: 2775 Views :: Second Amendment

... Hawaii has effectively declared that the Second Amendment, as interpreted in Bruen, does not apply within its borders ....

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Thursday, December 12, 2024
Honolulu City Council votes to defer Bill 46 Empty Homes Tax
By Selected News Articles @ 12:12 AM :: 2116 Views :: Honolulu County, Taxes

... after over 5-hours public testimony of which the majority opposed Bill 46 ....

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