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1 week ago | 
hawaiifreepress.com | Andrew Walden
‘By Request’ Gambling Bill got John Mizuno Ousted as Homeless Czar?
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1 week ago | 
hawaiifreepress.com | Andrew Walden
Excerpt from SB1396 testimony of Michael McGarry, Senior Vice President, Government Affairs for Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), April 2, 2025
… SB1396, HD2 seeks to establish a funding mechanism to address environmental impacts from visitors to Hawaii through an expansion of the Transient Accommodations Tax (TAT) to include the cruise industry as well as an increase to the current TAT rate.
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3 weeks ago | 
hawaiifreepress.com | Andrew Walden
Republicans Give Josh Green Opportunity to Appoint his Former Office Manager to Replace Rep Gene Ward
by Andrew Walden
Sometimes you just have to laugh at Hawaii’s hapless Republicans.
During COVID, some of them chanted anti-Semitic slogans outside Josh Green’s downtown condo. They got pelted with eggs.
In the 2022 Primary, 24% of Republicans voted for conspiracy theorist and MMA fighter JD Penn as their 2022 gubernatorial candidate. Another 10% voted for anti-vaxxer Gary Cordery.
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1 month ago | 
hawaiifreepress.com | Andrew Walden
Current Articles | Archives Sunday, March 30, 2025 HB900 Dies in Senate: No Lawyers for Abused Foster Kids By Andrew Walden @ 8:14 PM :: 1039 Views :: Ethics, Family, Judiciary UPDATE: HB900 died on Second Lateral March 21 because Sen Buenaventura refused to give it a hearing before her Senate HHS Committee. Buenaventura's HHS had previously heard and approved the companion bill, SB 1228. Asked for comment, Buenaventura responds: "I passed the companion bill SB1228 and there was no assurance...
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2 months ago | 
hawaiifreepress.com | Andrew Walden
Current Articles | Archives Friday, March 14, 2025 'We Were Scammed:' NZ Lawsuits Expose fraudulent Hawaii Geothermal Developer By Andrew Walden @ 9:07 PM :: 288 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy, Ethics, OHA IDG New Zealand Geothermal Scheme Devolves into a Decade of Litigation by Andrew Walden Testifying recently before the Hawaii Legislature in support of a geothermal development bill, SB1269, Innovations Development Group (IDG) founder, convicted Unity House fraudster Roberta Cabral, aka...
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2 months ago | 
hawaiifreepress.com | Andrew Walden
IDG New Zealand Geothermal Scheme Devolves into a Decade of Litigation
by Andrew Walden
Testifying recently before the Hawaii Legislature in support of a geothermal development bill, SB1269, Innovations Development Group (IDG) founder, convicted Unity House fraudster Roberta Cabral, aka Inmate #87755-022, gives the usual pitch:
“…We went to Aotearoa at the invitation of the Maori Queen to develop the geothermal resources of the Maori Trusts.
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2 months ago | 
hawaiifreepress.com | Andrew Walden
Maui Mayor Bissen is asking the Maui County Police Commission to suspend Maui County Police Chief John Pelletier because he is named as a defendant in a crackpot California lawsuit by an alleged rape victim who claims Sean Combs and several other famous people showed up at a basement apartment in Orinda, CA to gang rape her in 2018.
Apparently it doesn’t take much for the Mayor of Maui to turn against his County Police Chief.
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2 months ago | 
hawaiifreepress.com | Andrew Walden
Current Articles | Archives Sunday, March 9, 2025 The Unity House Scandal Never Really Ended — decades later, it might bankrupt Hawaiian Electric By Andrew Walden @ 1:39 AM :: 30 Views :: Energy, Ethics, Higher Education, OHA, Cost of Living The Unity House Scandal Never Really Ended — decades later, it might bankrupt Hawaiian Electric by Andrew Walden The 1990s Unity House scandal never really ended. Decades later, it’s one of the reasons Hawaii’s electricity is so dirty and...
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2 months ago | 
hawaiifreepress.com | Andrew Walden
Social Worker Arrested in Torture Death of Foster Girl
by Andrew Walden
The latest foster parent arrested for child torture is a university instructor, social worker, DoE behavoiral health specialist, and UH Manoa PhD student.
HPD arrested Sina Pili, of Laie, today, March 7, 2025, for the December 22, 2023, death of her 11-year-old foster daughter, Azaeliyah Pili-Ah You.
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2 months ago | 
hawaiifreepress.com | Andrew Walden
Lawsuit Filed Against State After Latest CWS Child-Torture Death
Excerpt from lawsuit (1CCV-25-0000342) filed after arrests of Janae Perez and her partner, Ashleigh Utley, for the torture and starvation death of three-year-old Sarai Perez-Rivera, on behalf of the three surviving children identified as “I.P., E.P.-R., AND P.P.” in First Circuit Court, March 4, 2025:
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