OHA

"So if you hear of ‘secret’ trips or backroom dealing, rest assured that we aren’t straying from the process.  We’re doing our job to keep diplomacy alive and keeping all options open...."

OHA’s appraisal of the land deal, done by Medusky & Co., Inc. acknowledged that residential uses of that land are not permitted....

...the bill now moves into conference where selected Senate and House conferees will continue discussions....

In Honolulu, unofficial tent cities are now set up in strategic locations designed to pressure the tourism industry, the Chinatown community, the Korean community, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, and the Honolulu Council debate over Housing First....

April 5-30: Attend a town hall meeting and learn more about nation building.

Capitol Rally on Tuesday, April 8, 2014 @ 11:00 am to 2:00pm....

"...OHA is not seeing resistance from Kamehameha Schools and Howard Hughes Corp., the two major developers in Kaka'ako Mauka, as suggested in the editorial...."

...If you are not politicized, you are not Hawaiian....

The life of Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalaniana'ole tells the story of how Hawaiians came to be Hawaiian-Americans.

...IDG officers and associates gave over $10,000 to Malama Solomon for her tightly contested 2012 primary race against Lorraine Inouye....

...As Predicted in 2006: A State-Recognized Indian Tribe for Hawaii....

SB 3122 SD1 exempts OHA, now owner of several Kakaako Makai parcels, from the prohibition of residential development on land makai of Ala Moana Boulevard....

• DATE: Thursday, February 13, 2014
• TIME: 1:15 p.m.
• PLACE: Conference Room 225

... each year OHA submits a package of proposed bills to the Hawaii State Legislature, and the agency’s Board of Trustees also votes to take positions on a wide variety of legislation ....

“Maybe Hawaiians don’t want to be Native American Indians."

Video of the State of OHA speech delivered at Central Union Church December 10, 2013....

This is a huge victory for Native Hawaiians.  Hawaiian affairs are returning to the channel created in the Hawaii Admission Act....

...arguing a case in the Hawaii Supreme Court about automatic approval statutes and zoning law....

• DATE: Thursday, November 21, 2013
• TIME: 9:30am to 11:30am
• PLACE: Conference Room 329 State Capitol

Machado has been admitted to The Queen’s Medical Center and is undergoing medical care....

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Hawaiiloa Foundation collected approximately $468,000 from approximately 200 individuals many of whom ultimately lost their homes through foreclosure....

After months of criticism of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs purchase of the Gentry Pacific Design Center, Trustee Rowena Akana has filed suit....

On August 6, 2013, OHA received a letter from HCDA stating they will not make any compromises to their plans and expects OHA to be a “good neighbor” and accept their plan for our property....

How to Divide Hawaiians from their Money?  Put the charges on their electric bill....

“inadequate, unable to support the office’s growing portfolio nor any future land involvements”....

As of February 2013, OHA owned or leased 28,206 acres, making it Hawai‘i’s 13th largest landowner....

Ceres founders and other mainlanders also funneled campaign contributions directly to Walter Ritte in 2012 for his race for a vacant seat on the Office of Hawaiian Affairs....

Esther Kiaaina may be the next Assistant Secretary of Interior for Insular Affairs....

Other services include financial assistance with asset-building strategies, such as Individual Development Accounts, which are special savings accounts....

...results of a feasibility study on the proposed adolescent residential drug treatment and healing facility are now available online....

As billionaire Larry Ellison makes gestures....

The AAFES building was recently transferred to OHA, and DOH intends to transfer 325 employees from the Environmental Health Administration – 260 from AAFES....

If OHA were more skilled at 'due diligence' it would have spotted the million dollar loan IDG's New Zealand partner wrote off last year....

...the impending total depletion of its trust fund....

On April 12, 2013, OHA Trustees were surprised to learn that the loan we got from Bank of Hawaii was not a secured loan and that it had to be backed by Trust dollars....

The announcement follows the release last Thursday of a report by the National Parks Service (NPS) that was critical of the division’s efforts....

Out of nowhere, all of sudden, OHA has an appetite for equity investments into high risk privately owned enterprises....

What's the difference, if any, between a "cemetery" and a burial....

Dr. Kelli Akina, the new CEO of the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii and former OHA trustee candidate, addressed the Conservative Forum for Hawaii at the Naniloa Hotel Crown Room in Hilo....