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Saturday, May 17, 2025 |
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UHERO: Challenges and Opportunities Facing Maui’s Immigrant Community
By UHERO @ 2:53 AM :: 309 Views :: Maui County, Cost of Living
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... Most participants work in low-wage, non-unionized jobs—often seasonal or gig-based—in sectors like hospitality, domestic work, and landscaping ....
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Friday, May 16, 2025 |
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Hawaii governor defends emergency housing powers at state Supreme Court
By Court House News @ 5:46 AM :: 865 Views :: Maui County, Development, Homelessness, Cost of Living
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... a case challenging Governor Josh Green's use of emergency powers to address the state's affordable housing crisis ....
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Thursday, May 15, 2025 |
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Missing Meth Money a Conflict of Interest for Bissen Appointee?
By Andrew Walden @ 3:51 PM :: 3116 Views :: Maui County, Ethics, Drugs
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... when authorities raided the Kiakona compound, a mere $140,000 of cash was seized, along with 2 pounds of crystal meth and multiple firearms. Where are the rest of the millions? ....
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Wednesday, May 14, 2025 |
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UHERO: 75% of Hawaii Households Cannot Afford Mortgage
By UHERO @ 4:21 PM :: 579 Views :: Maui County, Development, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... The pace of new housing construction remains historically low. Housing permitting times continue to be long, especially in Honolulu and Maui ....
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Wednesday, May 14, 2025 |
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Disasters? Hawaii Still not Ready
By News Release @ 3:50 PM :: 718 Views :: Maui County, Hawaii Statistics
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... Hawaii among 13 states ranked low for emergency readiness ....
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Tuesday, May 13, 2025 |
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Legislature Delivers Progress for Housing
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:35 PM :: 384 Views :: Maui County, Development, Taxes
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“I want him to sign the historic review bills, the impact fee bill, the permit bill.”
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Sunday, May 11, 2025 |
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Grassroot: Akina gives Legislature a 'B-'
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 5:18 PM :: 608 Views :: Maui County, Development, Taxes
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... SB1296 will allow most Lahaina residents in the area’s Special Management Area to rebuild without having to go through the burdensome SMA permitting process ....
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Wednesday, April 30, 2025 |
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SCR198: Screwed out of Subrogation, Insurers Urged to Serve Legislature's Agenda by Suing Big Oil
By Andrew Walden @ 1:33 PM :: 933 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Environment, Ethics
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"...We kicked your butt and took your subrogation money. Now you work for us and serve our agenda by wasting your time on yet another bogus climate change lawsuit filed by Sher-Edling, of course...."
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Friday, April 25, 2025 |
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Lahaina sewer system 100% restored
By News Release @ 2:14 PM :: 509 Views :: Maui County
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... When County crews began work on sewer repairs in April 2024, approximately 1,822 lots had inactive sewer service ....
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Monday, April 21, 2025 |
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SB1296: Apply rebuilding waivers to all Lahaina fire victims
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 9:09 PM :: 698 Views :: Maui County, Development
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... SB1296 seeks to exempt buildings anywhere in Hawaii destroyed by a disaster from needing a Special Management Area permit to rebuild ....
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Friday, April 18, 2025 |
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SB1166: Hawaii Democrats Cooking Up Another Climate Lawfare Scheme
By Selected News Articles @ 4:54 PM :: 1349 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Environment
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“...provide a new, specific cause of action...."
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Wednesday, April 16, 2025 |
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Wednesday, April 16, 2025 |
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Court backs mosquito suppression plan to save Hawaii’s rare birds
By Court House News @ 4:02 AM :: 829 Views :: Maui County, Environment
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... mosquito “birth control” in Maui forests ....
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Sunday, April 13, 2025 |
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WSJ: Lahaina's Lessons for Los Angeles
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:03 PM :: 971 Views :: Maui County, Development
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... how intractable regulations have delayed rebuilding in Lahaina ....
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Friday, April 11, 2025 |
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Kauai, Maui zoning changes would help farmers, food trucks
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:23 PM :: 985 Views :: Kauai County, Maui County, Agriculture, Small Business
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... Lawmakers on Kaua‘i and Maui are considering bills that would increase income opportunities for farmers and other small businesses ....
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Wednesday, April 9, 2025 |
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Lahaina Ferry Pier Rebuild Named Best of 2024
By News Release @ 2:46 PM :: 1170 Views :: Maui County, Development
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... Maui’s Lahaina Small Boat Harbor Ferry Pier Improvements was named one of the most significant construction projects of 2024 ....
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Tuesday, April 8, 2025 |
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10 reasons Lahaina rebuilding has been so depressingly slow
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:52 PM :: 1128 Views :: Maui County, Development
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... only 341 permits to rebuild have been issued as of the end of March 2025, and only eight homes have been completed ....
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Wednesday, April 2, 2025 |
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Maui transient vacation rental phaseout means fewer jobs
By UHERO @ 1:59 PM :: 739 Views :: Maui County, Land Use, Tourism
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... the policy could also reduce visitor spending by nearly $900 million annually, resulting in job and income losses, declining property values and an estimated $60 million drop in county property tax revenues ....
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Tuesday, April 1, 2025 |
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Green Appoints Water Commissioner and Circuit Court Judges
By News Release @ 11:00 PM :: 1431 Views :: Hawaii County , Maui County, Development, Judiciary, Land Use
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... Governor Green has nominated three Circuit Court Judges in the Circuit Court of the Third Circuit and Hannah Kihalani Springer to the Commission on Water Resource Management ....
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Sunday, March 30, 2025 |
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New maps improve Hawaiʻi’s wildfire risk warnings
By News Release @ 5:50 PM :: 999 Views :: Maui County, Hawaii State Government
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... these maps provide a daily, high-resolution look at the most current fire ignition risks statewide ....
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Wednesday, March 26, 2025 |
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Feds Release $2.5M to Reimburse Nonprofit for Shuttered Lahaina Jobs Program
By News Release @ 2:23 PM :: 774 Views :: Maui County, Labor
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... temporary jobs focused on cleaning up debris and repairing damage caused by the fires ....
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Wednesday, March 26, 2025 |
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Trump Pardons Devon Archer, Hawaii High-Tech Tax Credit Scammer Turned on Bidens
By Selected News Articles @ 1:49 AM :: 1628 Views :: Maui County, Ethics, Tax Credits
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... Devon Archer cooperated with congressional investigators as a witness against Hunter Biden and the Biden family ....
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Monday, March 24, 2025 |
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Maui judge rules Haleakala trail must be open to public access
By Court House News @ 10:53 AM :: 1083 Views :: Maui County, Environment, Land Use, Tourism
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... The state must now open the historic Haleakala Trail for public access, putting an end to a decade-long fight for it to be declared a public right of way ....
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Saturday, March 22, 2025 |
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Lahaina: Still waiting for permits
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:59 PM :: 992 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use
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... he’s paying a mortgage on an empty lot and watching his resources drain away while waiting for permits and approvals to rebuild ....
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Friday, March 21, 2025 |
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Lahaina: "Feelings of conspiracy and mistrust"
By Selected News Articles @ 4:27 PM :: 1235 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use
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... It’s a situation formed by both negligence and design ....
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Monday, March 17, 2025 |
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Hawaii 204 Condo Projects Blacklisted by Fannie Mae
By Selected News Articles @ 8:49 PM :: 1750 Views :: Maui County, Development, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... Hawaii's 204 blacklisted condo projects make us 4th-worst in USA. Since the other top states are much larger, Hawaii probably has the most blacklisted condo units per capita ....
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Monday, March 17, 2025 |
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Persistent income, employment, housing challenges for Maui’s fire-impacted households
By UHERO @ 6:54 PM :: 837 Views :: Maui County, Hawaii Statistics, Tourism
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... rising poverty rates, persistent displacement, and limited job opportunities continue to hinder full economic recovery ....
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Monday, March 17, 2025 |
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Lahaina Housing: ‘Yes in God’s Backyard’
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:44 AM :: 892 Views :: Maui County, Development, Religion
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... members of the Pukalani Community Church of the Nazarene spent eight months building four homes for residents displaced by Maui’s August 2023 wildfires ....
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Friday, March 14, 2025 |
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Green Announces First Maui Fire Settlement Payout
By News Release @ 11:34 PM :: 805 Views :: Maui County
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... A total of 26 wrongful death claims have been qualified -- One claim has been paid ....
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Tuesday, March 11, 2025 |
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Crackpot Lawsuit is all it takes--Maui Mayor and SHOPO make Complete Fools of Themselves Trying to get rid of Chief Pelletier
By Andrew Walden @ 4:04 AM :: 3582 Views :: Maui County, Ethics, Police
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... Pelletier credit card records prove he was in Las Vegas, hundreds of miles away from the alleged rape scene ....
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Sunday, March 2, 2025 |
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Gabbard Lahaina Charity Spends only 34% on Fire Victims
By Selected News Articles @ 9:45 AM :: 2949 Views :: Maui County, Ethics, Tulsi Gabbard
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... Despite promising “every dollar” would go to fire relief, the organization spent only about 34 percent of funds raised ....
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Saturday, March 1, 2025 |
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Federal Law Requires Lahaina Survivors to Begin Paying Rent March 1, 2025
By News Release @ 2:03 PM :: 603 Views :: Maui County
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... FEMA is required by law to charge rent for direct housing 18 months after a disaster is declared ....
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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 :: 939 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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Saturday, February 22, 2025 |
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Political problems not the same as true emergencies
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 7:46 PM :: 1161 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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Thursday, February 20, 2025 |
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Fire debris cleared from final commercial property in Lahaina
By News Release @ 9:02 PM :: 827 Views :: Maui County, Development
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... In total, 1,538 residential and commercial properties have been cleared ....
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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 :: 1309 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 :: 904 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use
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“...Lessons from Maui as LA Begins to Rebuild....”
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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 :: 915 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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Thursday, February 13, 2025 |
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Lahaina FEMA Housing: Rent to be collected starting March 1
By News Release @ 11:45 AM :: 775 Views :: Maui County, Cost of Living
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... The rental requirement will be in effect for the remainder of FEMA’s housing assistance program, which has been extended through Feb. 10, 2026 ....
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Tuesday, February 11, 2025 |
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Hawaii Supreme Court gives green light to $4 billion Maui fire settlement
By Court House News @ 11:32 AM :: 1076 Views :: Maui County, Ethics, Judiciary
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"...Subrogating insurers, the insurance companies argued, have rights that cannot be dismissed or negotiated away by other people or other parties...."
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Monday, February 10, 2025 |
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FULL TEXT: State Supreme Court Ruling Goes Against Maui Wildfire Insurers
By News Release @ 8:08 PM :: 1684 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Ethics, Judiciary
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“…now comes the crisis in property insurance - much higher insurance premiums and insurers ceasing to write property insurance….”
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Thursday, February 6, 2025 |
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PHOTOS: 'Lahaina Strong' Leaders Show Off Luxe European and Asian Vacations
By Selected News Articles @ 7:42 PM :: 4643 Views :: Maui County, Ethics
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... 'Lahaina Strong' Leaders Register Again as 'Our Hawaii' Lobbyists and Continue the Grift Amid Eroding Community Support ....
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Thursday, February 6, 2025 |
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Lahaina Rebuild: Green's Latest Emergency Order Gives SMA Exemptions Mauka of Front Street
By News Release @ 4:35 PM :: 1160 Views :: Maui County, Development
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... Properties mauka of Front Street or outside of the erosion hazard line are now exempt from SMA rules, which typically require lengthy review processes ....
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Thursday, February 6, 2025 |
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Sunday, February 2, 2025 |
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Bill 105: Let Lahaina Rebuild as it Was
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:34 PM :: 1101 Views :: Maui County, Development, Religion
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"... Bill 105, which would waive for five years the nonconformity rule for churches, temples and anyone else seeking to rebuild in the wake of the Lahaina fires...."
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Wednesday, January 29, 2025 |
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Lahaina Fire: How Maui Emergency Operations Center Lost 'Situational Awareness'
By Andrew Walden @ 1:02 PM :: 2116 Views :: Maui County, Hawaii History
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... What was happening at the Maui County Emergency Operations Center (EOC) while Lahaina Burned? ....
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Monday, January 27, 2025 |
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Hawaii’s failed wildfire rebuild should not be a model for California
By Selected News Articles @ 12:01 AM :: 1217 Views :: Maui County, Development
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... California Gov. Gavin Newsom is looking to Hawaii for advice on how to rebuild after wildfires ....
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Saturday, January 25, 2025 |
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MEMA After-Action Report on Maui wildfires released
By News Release @ 12:50 PM :: 810 Views :: Maui County
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... The review focuses on immediate response and incident stabilization efforts of MEMA’s previous administration and the County Emergency Operations Center (EOC) from Aug. 7-11, 2023 ....
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Friday, January 24, 2025 |
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How to use Control of Water to Block Lahaina Rebuild
By UHERO @ 7:17 PM :: 1160 Views :: DHHL, Maui County, Development, OHA
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... In June 2022, the State Commission on Water Resource Management (CWRM) designated the Lahaina Aquifer Sector Area as both a ground and surface water management area ....
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