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Friday, March 29, 2024 |
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Recktenwald Appoints Michelle N. Comeau Oahu District Judge
By News Release @ 12:05 AM :: 1315 Views :: Honolulu County, Judiciary
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... The appointment is subject to Senate confirmation ....
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Thursday, March 28, 2024 |
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Council resolution exemplifies why we still have housing crisis
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:00 PM :: 191 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Land Use
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... Twenty years later, we are still having the same conversations ....
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Sunday, March 24, 2024 |
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Cost of NIMBYism way too high
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 9:58 PM :: 488 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Land Use
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... Resolution 24-65 contains most of the usual anti-housing rhetoric, and even claims that making it easier to create smaller, more affordable homes would somehow result in more so-called monster homes ....
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Friday, March 22, 2024 |
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Victory! Honolulu Agrees to Suspend Enforcement of Unconstitutional Ordinance, Saving Local Businesses
By Selected News Articles @ 11:50 PM :: 1574 Views :: Honolulu County, First Amendment, Small Business, Tourism
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... City suspends enforcement of a city ordinance that’s driving several restaurants in Waikiki out of business ....
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Thursday, March 21, 2024 |
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Allowing smaller lots and homes would benefit families, promote affordability
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:02 PM :: 944 Views :: Honolulu County, Development
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... These two measures would increase our housing supply not only on Oahu but throughout all of Hawaii by allowing smaller homes on smaller lots....
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Saturday, March 16, 2024 |
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HHFDC Selects Insiders to Develop Kapolei Parcel
By News Release @ 5:10 PM :: 979 Views :: Honolulu County, Development
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... to award developers Ikenakea Development LLC and The Michaels Organization a long-term lease for the 19.4-acre property at Farrington Highway and Fort Barrette Road ....
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Friday, March 8, 2024 |
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Fake Minutes and Fire Secrecy: OIP Posts Three New Opinions
By News Release @ 3:06 AM :: 1457 Views :: Honolulu County, Education K-12, Ethics
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"... the executive session minutes did not convey a true reflection of the matters discussed at the meeting ..."
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Saturday, March 2, 2024 |
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Blangiardi submits FY2025 budget proposals to Honolulu City Council
By News Release @ 1:21 AM :: 1206 Views :: Honolulu County
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... proposed $3.63 billion Operating and $919 million Capital Improvement Program (CIP) budgets for the 2025 fiscal year ....
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Sunday, February 25, 2024 |
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City Demands Energy Use Data on Apartments and Commercial Buildings
By News Release @ 2:30 AM :: 1196 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy, Cost of Living
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... Starting in 2023, buildings 100,000 square feet and larger were required to begin annually reporting their utility data to the City. By June 30, 2024, buildings 50,000 square feet and larger must report, followed by buildings 25,000 square feet and larger by June 30, 2025 ....
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Wednesday, February 21, 2024 |
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FCKBLM? Censorship Leads to 23% Decrease in Personalized License Plate Requests
By News Release @ 2:09 AM :: 1234 Views :: Honolulu County, First Amendment
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... The city’s Motor Vehicle Registration Branch will reject applications that violate the existing rules, including letter and number combinations that are profane, encourage violence, or make sexual references ....
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Sunday, February 18, 2024 |
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City May be Short on Sanitation Trucks for Months to Come
By News Release @ 1:14 PM :: 1377 Views :: Honolulu County
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... Of the 73 trucks that have been ordered over the past five fiscal years, ENV has only received 17 of them — and no new trucks have been delivered since November 2020 ....
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Friday, February 16, 2024 |
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Debt: Honolulu 3rd-Worst Sinkhole City
By News Release @ 2:48 PM :: 1237 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii Statistics
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... Honolulu has $3.8 billion available to pay $6.6 billion worth of bills ....
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Tuesday, February 13, 2024 |
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Monday, February 12, 2024 |
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Blangiardi announces Andy Sugg as new Chief of Staff
By News Release @ 3:31 PM :: 1293 Views :: Honolulu County
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... Sugg previously served as a television executive in Hawai‘i and has years of experience in working alongside Mayor Blangiardi ....
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Wednesday, January 24, 2024 |
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Thursday, January 18, 2024 |
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Time to ask ‘tough questions’ about state energy policy
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:54 AM :: 1167 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy
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... Are rolling blackouts going to be Hawaii’s “new normal”? ....
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Thursday, January 11, 2024 |
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Navy still on the hook for negligence claims by military families injured by jet fuel leak
By Court House News @ 11:59 PM :: 162 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military
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... The government managed to dodge failure to warn claims thanks to the Federal Tort Claims Act ....
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Thursday, January 11, 2024 |
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Oahu Rolling Blackouts Caused by Coal Plant Closure
By News Release @ 8:29 PM :: 1222 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy
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... In 2020, the Legislature passed a bill that banned coal powered energy production in the State by 2023 ....
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Monday, January 8, 2024 |
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Rolling Blackout Hits Within Days After Kapolei Battery Farm Goes Online
By News Release @ 11:21 PM :: 2004 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy
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"...due to heavy cloud cover and rainy conditions across the island, production from solar energy systems has been reduced and battery energy storage systems could not charge...."
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Saturday, December 30, 2023 |
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Keeping Honolulu Jammed: 2023 Complete Streets Progress Report
By News Release @ 5:57 PM :: 1136 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail
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... In previous decades, City streets were planned and designed primarily for vehicular capacity, not any longer! ....
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Tuesday, December 26, 2023 |
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EMS lost $33M after failing to bill patients?
By Andrew Walden @ 12:01 AM :: 1381 Views :: Honolulu County, Health Care
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... City and County of Honolulu had nearly a year to prepare for the July 1, 2022 handover, but somehow didn’t get the billing contract established ....
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Sunday, December 24, 2023 |
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Merry Wet Christmas for Honolulu BWS
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 3127 Views :: Honolulu County, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... Honolulu consumers will be subjected to a double whammy next year ....
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Saturday, December 16, 2023 |
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Saturday, December 16, 2023 |
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Loss of $192M? Honolulu EMS forgot to bill ambulance patients for over a year
By Andrew Walden @ 10:07 PM :: 1953 Views :: Honolulu County, Health Care
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... EMS neglected to bill patients for ambulance rides starting July 1, 2022 ....
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Thursday, December 14, 2023 |
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Wednesday, December 13, 2023 |
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New Oil Burner: HECO to Repower 76-Year Old Waiau Plant
By News Release @ 3:17 PM :: 1118 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy, Environment
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..."The proposed repowering of the Waiau facility will be the largest generation project in Hawaiian Electric’s 132-year history." It will run on oil, but read on to see how HECO conceals this fact....
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Wednesday, December 13, 2023 |
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City to send 2024 Real Property Notice of Assessments
By News Release @ 1:54 PM :: 1590 Views :: Honolulu County, Taxes
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... an approximate increase of 0.79 percent ....
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Monday, December 11, 2023 |
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Green Questions Water Rate Hikes After They are Approved
By News Release @ 1:08 PM :: 1162 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military, Cost of Living
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... “The BWS’ decision to raise water rates by about 50% may create a hardship for many residents. It’s important for the BWS to take advantage of available federal funding to reduce the costs it passes on to O‘ahu residents,” said Governor Josh Green, M.D. ....
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Wednesday, November 29, 2023 |
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Navy Notifies Regulators of Groundwater PFAS Detection
By News Release @ 12:46 AM :: 1072 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military
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... Four of 21 groundwater monitoring wells showed exceedance of perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS), a component of polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) ....
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Tuesday, November 28, 2023 |
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Hawaii demands remediation from Navy following jet fuel leak
By Court House News @ 4:37 PM :: 1542 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military
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... Red Hill fuel-polluted soils could cost $750 million to clean up ....
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Saturday, November 25, 2023 |
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Public comment open on Ala Wai Flood Risk Management Study
By News Release @ 2:01 PM :: 1255 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military
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... release of the Ala Wai Flood Risk Management draft General Reevaluation Report and Integrated Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for review and 45-day public comment period ....
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Friday, November 24, 2023 |
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JSC seeks Nominees for Several Judicial Vacancies
By News Release @ 11:00 AM :: 1270 Views :: Hawaii County , Honolulu County, Judiciary
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... vacant judgeships on Oahu and Big island ....
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Wednesday, November 22, 2023 |
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BWS files $1.2 billion claim over Red Hill damages
By Selected News Articles @ 4:56 PM :: 1283 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military
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... Honolulu's Board of Water Supply is seeking $1.2 billion from the U.S. Navy for costs associated with the fuel leak at the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility ....
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Sunday, November 19, 2023 |
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Let's not fall for all the Aloha Stadium hype
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 2:24 AM :: 1537 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Tourism
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... even the slimmed down plan is worrisome ....
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Friday, November 17, 2023 |
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Honolulu 'Equality' Score Jumps with Transgender 'Health' Benefits
By News Release @ 1:42 PM :: 1373 Views :: Honolulu County, Health Care, Police
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... Honolulu achieved additional points in this year’s rankings for having transgender-inclusive healthcare benefits ....
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Tuesday, November 14, 2023 |
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Pentagon Plans Transfer of Red Hill Back to Navy
By Selected News Articles @ 10:41 PM :: 1462 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military
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... Joint Task Force – Red Hill was in charge of defueling, while the Navy and the Department of Defense will take on the closure process ....
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Monday, November 13, 2023 |
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Gun Violence: Westside Legislators Push Back Against Grace, Fevella
By News Release @ 5:39 PM :: 2923 Views :: Honolulu County, Gambling, Law Enforcement, Second Amendment
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"We are disappointed that one of our colleagues has chosen to align themselves with a group of people promoting hate and bullying."
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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 :: 4771 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, COVID-19
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... Could credit union executives go to jail? ....
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Sunday, November 12, 2023 |
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Honolulu Council approves self-certification for permits
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:00 AM :: 3029 Views :: Honolulu County, Development
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... Bill 6 (2023), CD1 would allow building applications to be reviewed by professionals qualified to self-certify that the plans and other data in the applications are in compliance ....
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Saturday, November 11, 2023 |
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Streamline permitting process to reduce wait times, favoritism
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:40 AM :: 1511 Views :: Honolulu County, Development
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... The Actors Guild, a local acting group, produced a play based on their five-year ordeal of trying to get a permit to renovate their theater at Dole Cannery ....
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Friday, November 10, 2023 |
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Mililani Fire Video: Native Trees Burn, Albizia Survives
By Video @ 3:09 AM :: 1657 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment
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... While flames are no longer visible, the landscape is a mosaic of blackened native trees interspersed with invasive ones, like Albizia ....
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Friday, November 10, 2023 |
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Trap & skeet ranges at Koko Head Shooting Complex reopening this weekend
By News Release @ 2:52 AM :: 1412 Views :: Honolulu County, Second Amendment
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... Skeet Range opening Saturday, Nov. 11, Trap Range reopening Sunday, Nov. 12 ....
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Thursday, November 9, 2023 |
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DOBOR Proposes Paid Parking at Ala Wai (again)
By News Release @ 1:09 AM :: 1450 Views :: Honolulu County, Tourism
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... Ed Underwood said, “The boating program is currently subsidizing free parking in the facility which is not fair to those who are paying the fees" ....
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Thursday, November 9, 2023 |
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2023 Honolulu City Lights opening night set for Saturday, December 2nd
By News Release @ 1:02 AM :: 1793 Views :: Honolulu County, Religion
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... tree lighting ceremony, Public Workers’ Electric Light Parade and City Lights block party ....
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Sunday, November 5, 2023 |
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Queens to Buy Wahiawa Hospital
By News Release @ 1:57 AM :: 1564 Views :: Honolulu County, Health Care
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... Queen’s to formalize the purchase of WGH scheduled for March 31, 2024 ....
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Saturday, November 4, 2023 |
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Public Input Sought for City’s First Climate Adaptation Strategy
By News Release @ 1:15 AM :: 1399 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment
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... The Resilience Office is engaging in fifteen islandwide programs in the first half of November ....
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