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Friday, February 28, 2025 |
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Hawaii Gun Ban Bills Advance Out of Senate Committee
By NRA ILA @ 5:29 PM :: 345 Views :: Second Amendment
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... Senate Bill 401 and Senate Bill 308 ....
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Thursday, February 27, 2025 |
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Debt: Honolulu 4th Worst 'Sinkhole City'
By Selected News Articles @ 10:33 PM :: 229 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Taxes
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... a debt burden of $2.25 billion, translating to $17,400 per taxpayer ....
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Thursday, February 27, 2025 |
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Comments Sought on Judicial Nominees for Maui County, Hawaii County
By News Release @ 12:41 PM :: 196 Views :: Judiciary
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... Circuit Judge in the Circuit Court of the Third Circuit and District Family Judge, Second Circuit ....
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Thursday, February 27, 2025 |
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Jury in ‘Moana’ copyright trial gets primer on Polynesian, Hawaiian culture on day 1
By Court House News @ 12:12 PM :: 239 Views :: National News, Hawaii History
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... An anthropologist testified at the copyright infringement trial about the similarities between "Moana" and "Bucky" that aren't found in traditional Polynesian stories ....
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Thursday, February 27, 2025 |
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SB933: Shell Bill with Blank Dollars to Make up for Federal Funding Freeze
By News Release @ 1:19 AM :: 231 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Health Care
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... This bill was created to address potential negative impacts of the federal funding freeze ....
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Thursday, February 27, 2025 |
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Wednesday, February 26, 2025 |
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Grassroot: State's school impact fees earn 'F'
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:27 PM :: 218 Views :: Education K-12, Development, Taxes
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... The report says the fees are not needed, are likely unconstitutional, have never been spent, and are driving up Hawaii housing costs ....
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Wednesday, February 26, 2025 |
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Extradition to Hawaii ordered in 1977 murder case
By Court House News @ 3:23 PM :: 226 Views :: Law Enforcement
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... Authorities arrested Gideon Castro at a Utah nursing home and charged him in the 1977 murder of 16-year-old Dawn Momohara at McKinley HS ....
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Wednesday, February 26, 2025 |
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2025 Wildfire Summit: 'Exploring our Wildfire Future'
By News Release @ 12:05 PM :: 236 Views :: Hawaii County , Honolulu County, Kauai County, Maui County
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... akamai readers will remember that fire officials were at a summit like this when Lahaina burned ....
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Tuesday, February 25, 2025 |
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Defamation: UH Law School Dean Sues Ken Lawson
By News Release @ 7:57 PM :: 340 Views :: First Amendment, Higher Education
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... Lawson’s expressive freedoms date to a faculty meeting back in February 2023, where he voiced vehement objections to a scheduled Black History Month event ....
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Tuesday, February 25, 2025 |
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Leaving Hawaii: Over Half Immediately Able to buy Home on Mainland
By Selected News Articles @ 4:25 PM :: 366 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... 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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Tuesday, February 25, 2025 |
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Kōloa Rum Company challenges Jones Act in court
By News Release @ 3:48 PM :: 293 Views :: Jones Act
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... argues century-old shipping law violates the Constitution’s Port Preference Clause ....
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Tuesday, February 25, 2025 |
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Jones Act Keeps Hawaii Energy Expensive
By Cato Foundation @ 3:03 AM :: 267 Views :: Jones Act
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... Jones Act means that the Aloha State obtains most of its energy from far more distant and costlier foreign sources ....
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Tuesday, February 25, 2025 |
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UH Trump Watch: New website on federal policy updates
By News Release @ 2:51 AM :: 242 Views :: National News, Higher Education
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"Since taking office on January 20, the new federal leadership has released a series of EOs and directives that could significantly impact the 10-campus system."
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Monday, February 24, 2025 |
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Hawaii Can Auction Off Your Car Without Ever Convicting You
By Selected News Articles @ 2:50 PM :: 298 Views :: Law Enforcement, Drugs
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... 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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Monday, February 24, 2025 |
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Sunday, February 23, 2025 |
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Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review Feb 21 2025
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 4:49 PM :: 535 Views :: Family, First Amendment, Health Care, Religion
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... Vaccine Exemptions: 1,000 testimonies were submitted in opposition to HB1118 ....
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Sunday, February 23, 2025 |
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TAT Is Not Duct Tape
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 446 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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... some lawmakers think the TAT fixes everything ....
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Saturday, February 22, 2025 |
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Saturday, February 22, 2025 |
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Political problems not the same as true emergencies
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 7:46 PM :: 637 Views :: Maui County, Ethics, Development, Hawaii State Government
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... You might not have realized this, but Hawaii residents are living in multiple, continual states of emergency ....
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Saturday, February 22, 2025 |
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Honolulu Next? U.S. Transportation Secretary Duffy Announces Review of California High-Speed Rail Project
By News Release @ 2:39 PM :: 542 Views :: Rail
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"...determine whether roughly $4 billion in taxpayer money should remain committed to the proposed project to build high-speed rail...."
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Saturday, February 22, 2025 |
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Saturday, February 22, 2025 |
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Liquor Comm. Insider Bails out as Federal Oversight Commences
By News Release @ 1:36 PM :: 561 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Small Business
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“...Assistant Administrator Anna Hirai has served the Liquor Commission in several capacities for almost two and a half decades...”
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Friday, February 21, 2025 |
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Hawaii AG Backs Suit Against Closure of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
By Selected News Articles @ 3:55 PM :: 394 Views :: National News, Small Business
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... The bureau was started in 2010 during the Obama administration ....
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Thursday, February 20, 2025 |
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Island Flex Open Enrollment Period: March 1 through April 30, 2025
By News Release @ 11:09 PM :: 462 Views :: Health Care, Labor, Tax Credits
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... Island Flex is a program that allows employees to allocate a portion of their salary into Medical Spending Accounts and/or Dependent Care Spending Accounts on a tax-free basis ....
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Thursday, February 20, 2025 |
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SB433: Hawaii Knife Ban Bill Stopped
By News Release @ 10:55 PM :: 847 Views :: Second Amendment
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... SB 433 would have absolutely banned carry, open or concealed, of most knives, and all knives in many public places in Hawaii ....
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Thursday, February 20, 2025 |
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Fire debris cleared from final commercial property in Lahaina
By News Release @ 9:02 PM :: 473 Views :: Maui County, Development
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... In total, 1,538 residential and commercial properties have been cleared ....
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Thursday, February 20, 2025 |
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Case and Ward ask Trump Admin to Ban Windfarms from Kaiwi Channel
By Rep Gene Ward @ 2:22 AM :: 763 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy
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... in light of President Trump’s welcome Executive Order temporarily withdrawing all areas of the outer continental shelf from leasing for wind energy ....
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Wednesday, February 19, 2025 |
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UH: TRO Protecting DEI from Trump Executive Orders
By News Release @ 2:52 PM :: 719 Views :: Higher Education
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... suit in two cases to challenge the federal directives halting funding for DEIA-related programs and capping indirect costs for research at 15% ....
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Wednesday, February 19, 2025 |
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'Malicious Prosecution' Kaneshiro Tries to Beat Back Civil Suit
By Court House News @ 12:12 PM :: 925 Views :: Ethics, Law Enforcement
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... the campaign contributions were bribes meant to secure Mau's prosecution, a federal jury eventually found that the donations were legitimate political contributions ....
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Wednesday, February 19, 2025 |
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Indictment: Alleged Embezzler Busted at Hawaii Eco Group
By News Release @ 2:30 AM :: 878 Views :: Environment, Ethics
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... While employed with the Conservation Council for Hawai‘i, Bjur allegedly issued herself $81,000 ....
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Tuesday, February 18, 2025 |
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Green Executive Order to Speed State Hiring?
By News Release @ 11:01 PM :: 482 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor
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“...As we witness the very quickly changing landscape of the federal government, federal workforce and federal policies, this order directs state agencies to review candidates and make a conditional job offer within 14 days of receiving an individual’s application....”
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Monday, February 17, 2025 |
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Rising Costs on the Horizon: How Increased Tariffs on China Will Impact Hawaiʻi
By Selected News Articles @ 11:42 PM :: 674 Views :: National News, Small Business, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... the Trump administration is reintroducing a 10% tariff on all imports from China ....
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Monday, February 17, 2025 |
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City announces two more town hall meetings on proposed sewer fee increases
By News Release @ 11:23 PM :: 322 Views :: Honolulu County, Taxes, Cost of Living
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Tuesday, Feb. 18: Mānoa Valley District Park, 5:30–7 p.m., Old Gym
Thursday, Feb. 20: Ewa Mahiko District Park, 5:30–7 p.m., DP Multi-Purpose Room 1
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Monday, February 17, 2025 |
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House Report: 60 Chinese espionage cases in three years
By Selected News Articles @ 3:37 PM :: 676 Views :: Military
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"... Espionage threats increased as more than 176,000 Chinese illegally entered U.S. under Biden ...."
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Sunday, February 16, 2025 |
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Amended SB1150 Still Legalizes Kidnap of Children for Sex-Change
By Selected News Articles @ 8:03 PM :: 2483 Views :: Family, Health Care
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... 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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Sunday, February 16, 2025 |
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Candy Crush
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 798 Views :: Small Business, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... it’s being pushed very hard as a sweet deal, but it has the potential to really stomp our economy ....
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Sunday, February 16, 2025 |
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Saturday, February 15, 2025 |
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Saturday, February 15, 2025 |
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If we're not careful, nearly everything will become "historic"
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 6:01 PM :: 621 Views :: Development
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... state law defines any building, structure, object, district, area or site over 50 years old as historic ....
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Saturday, February 15, 2025 |
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LIST: Dozens of Bills That Could Affect Cost of Living
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:58 PM :: 920 Views :: Development, Health Care, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... measures related to housing, healthcare, taxes and government accountability ....
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Saturday, February 15, 2025 |
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Policies that could help turn the tide of people leaving Hawaii
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:44 PM :: 922 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use
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... Hawaii’s high housing costs are due mostly to Hawaii’s excessively strict land-use and zoning regulations, as well as its long permitting wait times ....
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Saturday, February 15, 2025 |
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California wildfire recovery lessons from Lahaina
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:32 PM :: 499 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use
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“...Lessons from Maui as LA Begins to Rebuild....”
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Saturday, February 15, 2025 |
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Case, Moylan Introduce Jones Act Reform Bill
By Ed Case @ 1:03 PM :: 516 Views :: Jones Act
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... The median annual cost of the Jones Act to the Hawai‘i economy is $1.2 billion ....
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Saturday, February 15, 2025 |
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Busted on Guam: Federal Juror Took Bribe from Dirty ex-Cop
By News Release @ 1:30 AM :: 668 Views :: Ethics, Judiciary, Police, Drugs
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... After a mistrial was declared, Boom met with Tyquiengco and gave him $1,100 ....
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Saturday, February 15, 2025 |
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Releasing Mosquitoes to Help Kauai Forest Birds
By News Release @ 12:33 AM :: 503 Views :: Kauai County, Environment
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... first release of sterile male mosquitoes into a state forest reserve on the vast Alakaʻi Plateau ....
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Friday, February 14, 2025 |
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Honolulu Neighborhood Board Candidate Registration Ends Feb 21
By News Release @ 10:24 PM :: 478 Views :: Honolulu County
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... Friday, February 21, 2025 – Candidate Filing and Voter Registration Deadline ....
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Friday, February 14, 2025 |
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Report urges changes to cut review delays at State Historic Preservation Division
By Grassroot Institute @ 7:00 PM :: 517 Views :: Development
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... Updating the definition of “historic property” would speed up permitting for homebuilding while protecting Hawaii’s history ....
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Friday, February 14, 2025 |
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18 Months Later: Maui Council Begins to Loosen Rebuild Restrictions
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:00 PM :: 552 Views :: Maui County, Development
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... Maui County Council considering multiple housing-related bills, including one aimed specifically at making it easier for older buildings to be rebuilt after the 2023 wildfires ....
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Friday, February 14, 2025 |
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Frustrations, ironies of ‘Princeville Market Saga’
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:00 PM :: 682 Views :: Kauai County, Agriculture, Small Business
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...zoning complaints led to the market’s closure in January, and now, other farmers markets across the county face a similar fate unless the Kauai County Council takes action....
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