Hawai`i Free Press 
Today's News Read
September 3, 2017

Mafia News: Hanabusa announces 2018 governor run
... With Inouye and Mehau dead, Hawaii's political criminal class is leaderless.  Can Hanabusa pull them together?  Read www.TheRealHanabusa.com and decide for yourself ....
Ethics: OHA Trustee Caught Profiting from Telescope Protests -- Fined $25K
...Apo violated the State Ethics Code by using OHA resources, and his position with OHA, to advance his private business interests....
Will Robin Danner Control all Hawaii Inter-Island Cables?
...Al Hee Minion Robin Danner Grabs for Control of Crooked Sandwich Isles Scam Company....
$2.4B Tax Hike: How They Voted
... only three Senators running for reelection in 2018 voted for the tax hike ....
Ige Appoints Pro-Rail Thug to HCDA
...Timson worked at First Hawaiian Bank as vice president while FHB Chairman Don Horner was HART board chair. She organized large groups of screaming union supporters to crash, harass and threaten at public meetings....
HART Magically Makes $548M Disappear
...Don't worry.  Caldwell will bring it back to justify even more tax hikes.... 
Rail: Nationally known concrete monument to the incompetence of Hawaii's Democrats
-Caldwell Preparing Excuses for More Tax Hikes
-In 2030 GE Tax will be Raised to 4.5%-Permanently
-Legislators Put Themselves on HART Board
-'Somebody tell me how it's right'--Big Island officials
Oahu GE Tax Adds 9% to Sister Island Grocery Bills
...San Buenaventura added that she had calculated a $150 neighbor island grocery bill to include some $13 of Oahu-based excise tax....
Obamacare Could Bankrupt ERS
...a 1% increase in health care costs equals a $2 billion increase in unfunded liabilities....
HEI to Burn $205M Helping Tax Credit Scammers Make More Money on Alt Energy
...Elon Musk made lots of campaign contributions.  He expects to be repaid....
North Korea Tests H-Bomb For New ICBM
... North Korea tested a hydrogen bomb for its new intercontinental ballistic missile, state media revealed in a special announcement Sunday ....
ILWU, KSBE Behind Biomess Scheme to Gouge Electric Ratepayers
...KS is finalizing a lease with Hawaii Forest for 10,000 acres of timber land planted on former sugar lands on the Hamakua Coast....
Hawaii is woefully vulnerable to a North Korean nuclear attack
...There is not a single "designated" blast or fallout shelter in the entire state....
Successful Missile Defense Test off Kauai
...the USS John Paul Jones detected and tracked a target missile launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai....
Grassroot Institute Testifies on Jones Act in Washington, DC
... President Keli'i Akina Discusses Act's Economic Impact, Reform at SBA Hearing ....
Hawaii: Fewest Nurses Per Capita in USA
...Burned Out: Is Your State Full of Overworked Doctors and Nurses?....
McDermott withdraws--Rep Andria Tupola to Run for Governor?
...McDermott -- my voice is still needed to represent the residents of West Oahu....
Rail: Republicans Propose Floor Vote on 'Forensic Audit' and other amendments
...Require the State Auditor to perform a forensic audit to look for fraud, waste, and abuse....
Rail Crooks Saved: Lawmakers Drop 'Forensic' Audit
...Rail Skeptics Booted from House Finance Committee....
Rail: I Dunno About TAT
... The TAT, when it was enacted in 1986, was primarily meant to fund the Hawaii Convention Center ....
Rail: FTA is open to shortening the route
...FTA is complicit.  That's why it is likely to approve a Plan B that stops at Middle Street....
Schatz, Hanabusa: Caldwell is Full of BS
... Mufi: No TAT Hike ....
King Tide Floods? City-Installed Valve Makes Them Worse
... but it helps generate more 'sea level rise' photos  ....
Hawaii Crime Index -- Murder, Rape Increasing
...What Attorney General Chin doesn't want you to notice....
Trump Administration Gives Ige Full Control over Hawaii Schools
...Gov. David Ige and the state Department of Education therefore have full responsibility to finalize an education plan by Sept 18.... 
AG Chin Defeats Parents of Disabled Children
... A copy of the decision, Rachel H. v. Department of Education, State of Hawaii, is attached ....
Risky, Overused Medications Prescribed Far Less Often in the Aloha State
...Medicare patients in Hawaii take fewer opioid painkillers and fewer antibiotics, on average, than those in any other state. Physicians and health policy experts cite demographics and healthier lifestyles as possible reasons why....
Hawaii 4th-Lowest Obesity Rate
...Hawaii's adult obesity rate is currently 23.8 percent, up from 15.7 percent in 2000 and from 8.9 percent in 1990 ....
Bill Before Congress: Claim--Hawaii Allows 'horrific legal market' in Dog Meat
"...An undercover investigation for EnviroWatch highlighted the brutality of dog meat farms in Hawaii...."
Cool Schools Buys Batteries, Solar and Shiny Stainless Steel Boxes
...There's a sucker born every minute....
Cool Schools: Ige Claims Success
...Without raising the DoE electric bill....
Sex Shame? 9th Circuit Revives Attempt to Shut Down Kauai Drug Rehab Program
...to give Gregg an opportunity to show her awareness of her injuries had been delayed....
Ige Appointments: 5 HCDA, 1 UH Regent, 1 HLRB, 2 Judges
... While all eyes are on rail ....
Inouye congressional papers available to the public
...The library recently finished cataloging and digitizing 1,400 boxes of materials it received in 2014....
After Decade of Litigation, Supreme Court Refuses to Order State to Repair Gold Coast Seawalls
...But Klein claims victory anyway....
Hawaii v Trump Argued Before 9th Circuit Court
...Whatever the Ninth Circuit's ruling, it will have a limited shelf life as the Supreme Court will take up the travel ban's constitutionality on Oct. 10....
Trump has the authority to modify existing monument boundaries
...Presidents Bush and Obama mocked the Antiquities Act's limitation that monuments can only be designated on federal 'land' by designating huge ocean monuments....
 

FEATURED ARTICLES

  1. Legislators Exploit Caldwell's Unpopularity to Distract Public While Enacting Massive Tax Hike
  2. Caldwell: 'I don't need to take this' Yelling from Drunk, Belligerent Legislators
  3. Lawyer: OHA Transferred Waimea Valley to Private Company Controlled by CEO Crabbe
  4. Conflict of Interest: OHA Audit Committee Member Secretly owns OHA's Former Poi Mill
  5. Honolulu: For 1000s Property Tax Rate Will Quadruple Sept 1
  6. Criminal Probe of OHA's $435K Beamer Contract
  7. Waimea Valley: OHA's $20M Secret
  8. Kawananakoa Estate: Sex, Drugs, and Inequality
  9. Hawaii Millionaire Will Go Broke Faster Than Any Other State
  10. Tulsi Gabbard's GMO labeling push is an embarrassment to pro-science progressives
  11. What Does it Take to be Expelled from Manoa Mosque?
  12. Randy Roth: OHA Copies Bishop Estate--Misusing LLCs to Hide from Law
  13. Political Connections Pay Off: Former OHA Officer on the Inside Developing Kakaako
  14. Mauna Kea: UH to Trade 10,000 Acres for Telescope Approval, Lease Extension?
  15. Progressive Activists are the Main Cause of Inequality
  16. Ige says he can beat Hanabusa in a potential 2018 match-up
  17. HART & OHA Auditor Found Guilty of Fraud-Could Get 20 Years
  18. LOL! "Rising seas will devour Waikiki, wash away billions from Hawaii's economy"
  19. Ige Unveils Plan to Bulldoze Kalihi, Build Condos
  20. Rail Stations Designed to Profit KSBE, HECO, First Hawaiian
  21. Honolulu: $100 worth only $80.32
  22. College Rankings: BYUH, HPU, Chaminade Trounce UH Campuses
  23. Conservative Rankings of Hawaii Legislators-2016 Session
  24. Telescope Protesters Want to Discuss Terms for Cultural Park atop Mauna Kea
  25. Interior Dep't Sends Trump Recommendations on National Monuments
  26. Tuition Hikes Explained: UH Manoa Paying 72 Over $200K
  27. Peter Apo: 'People can just make up stuff, and pronounce cultural claims with little or no validation'

  28. Turn Your Child into a Tranny--Star-Adv Runs How-to Guide
  29. Report: Island With Highest Prices Has Smallest Proportion of Mainland Buyers
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