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Monday, July 21, 2025 |
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Search is on for a new KSBE Trustee
By News Release @ 6:28 PM :: 294 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics, Development, Land Use
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... Trustee to succeed Trustee Robert K.W.H. Nobriga, whose term expired on June 30, 2025 ....
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Saturday, July 19, 2025 |
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So Many Pools, So Little Truth: Inside Maui’s Water Crisis Theater
By Selected News Articles @ 4:23 PM :: 1402 Views :: Maui County, Development, Tourism
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... The only cited support was a comparison of empty non-owner occupied second homes in one phase of the Wailea Palms property to another phase that allows short-term rentals ....
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Friday, July 18, 2025 |
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Maui lawmakers give green light to food trucks and kitchenettes
By Grassroot Institute @ 7:14 PM :: 444 Views :: Honolulu County, Maui County, Development, Small Business
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... the Planning Commission backs a bill that would make it easier for B&Bs destroyed in the 2023 fires to rebuild ....
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Thursday, July 17, 2025 |
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Insurance Companies Dumping Single-Wall Homes
By Selected News Articles @ 12:21 PM :: 1776 Views :: Maui County, Development, Cost of Living
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... single-wall construction is considered structurally inferior in hurricane-prone areas ....
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Saturday, July 12, 2025 |
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Permitting progress prevails
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 7:08 PM :: 652 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Development
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"...decisive action to address Hawaii’s notorious permitting delays...."
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Thursday, July 10, 2025 |
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Green Signs SB933, HB420, HB431
By News Release @ 2:50 AM :: 587 Views :: Ethics, Development
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...funding to support critical nonprofit organizations impacted by federal funding reductions....
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Wednesday, July 9, 2025 |
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Green Signs $4B Lahaina Settlement Bill
By News Release @ 12:27 AM :: 763 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Development
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... House Bill 1001 (Act 301) establishes the Maui Wildfires Settlement Trust Fund ....
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Tuesday, July 8, 2025 |
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OHA-Connected DTL Selected to Handle Iwilei Master Planning
By News Release @ 2:31 PM :: 837 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Development, OHA
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... OHA bought up several properties in Iwilei. Now OHA-connected and Dela Cruz connected DTL is handling the master plan. See how that works? ....
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Monday, July 7, 2025 |
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Building New Schools
By Tom Yamachika @ 2:27 PM :: 612 Views :: Education K-12, Development, Taxes
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... the fees have been collected but have not been used, and for a very long time ....
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Saturday, July 5, 2025 |
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Testimony: Bill 9 Debunked by Former AG David Louie
By Video @ 3:14 AM :: 2762 Views :: Maui County, Development, Small Business, Tourism
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... short-term rentals have been lawful, residential uses in these districts for decades ....
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Friday, July 4, 2025 |
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DPP to Launch New On-Line Permitting System
By News Release @ 2:51 AM :: 795 Views :: Honolulu County, Development
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...'HNL Build' will officially launch on Monday, August 4, 2025....
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Friday, June 27, 2025 |
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Lahaina Maui HI - DRONE Update - June 2025 - Is there ANY Progress ???
By Video @ 3:51 PM :: 947 Views :: Maui County, Development
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Lahaina Maui HI - DRONE Update - June 2025 - Is there ANY Progress ???
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Thursday, June 26, 2025 |
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Inflexible policies continue to hinder Lahaina wildfire recovery
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:38 PM :: 829 Views :: Maui County, Development
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... almost two years after the fires, fewer than two dozen homes have been rebuilt ....
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Thursday, June 26, 2025 |
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'Self-Certification' to Bypass DPP Delays
By News Release @ 3:33 PM :: 679 Views :: Honolulu County, Development
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... online registration is now open for DPP's new Self-Certification Professional (SCP) Program ....
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Wednesday, June 25, 2025 |
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Bills that passed the Lege now on the edge
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:18 AM :: 636 Views :: Development, Hawaii State Government, Law Enforcement
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... SB66, which would create a permitting “shot clock” and allow third-party permit approval if the 60-day processing deadline is not met; and HB126, which would reform the state’s civil asset forfeiture process ....
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Tuesday, June 24, 2025 |
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Lahaina fire rebuild will be complete in 2038 at current pace
By Selected News Articles @ 4:56 PM :: 899 Views :: Maui County, Development, Hawaii Statistics
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... Maui is averaging just under 21 approved permits per month ....
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Saturday, June 21, 2025 |
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Saving for a Home in Hawaii Takes 29 Years
By Selected News Articles @ 12:10 AM :: 999 Views :: Development, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... with just $489 left over each month after covering essential living expenses, residents are left with little room to save ....
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Thursday, June 19, 2025 |
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Bubble: Investors Flood Into Hawaii Housing Market
By Selected News Articles @ 7:27 PM :: 1363 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... in Hawaii investor buyers outnumber investor sellers more than any other state ....
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Monday, June 9, 2025 |
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Lahaina: Hotel Unions, HSTA Join with Meth Gang to Demand Seizure of Vacation Rentals
By News Release @ 3:23 PM :: 1784 Views :: Maui County, Development, Tourism
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... The Lahaina fire is an opportunity to exploit. The hotel unions and the hotels want the TVR business all for themselves ....
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Friday, June 6, 2025 |
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Hawaii’s energy future: Red tape is in the way
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:47 PM :: 720 Views :: Energy, Development
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... regulations that allow community groups to essentially kill projects after they’ve been approved are the biggest hurdles to clear ....
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Thursday, June 5, 2025 |
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Lawsuit Alleges More Affordable Housing Fraud
By Selected News Articles @ 3:45 AM :: 1178 Views :: Hawaii County , Ethics, Development
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“The height restriction … is wrongfully preventing Honuaʻula from completing the construction of an approved affordable housing project…"
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Wednesday, June 4, 2025 |
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Guilty on All Counts: Big Island Affordable Housing Fraudsters
By Selected News Articles @ 11:25 PM :: 1125 Views :: Hawaii County , Ethics, Development
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... Sulla is set to be sentenced on October 21, Zamber on October 7, and Budhabhatti on October 8 ....
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Monday, May 26, 2025 |
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Bill 47: Hawaii County Developers to Build TVR Subdivisions
By Selected News Articles @ 8:27 PM :: 1648 Views :: Hawaii County , Development, Tourism
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... could potentially open up a huge legal can of worms based on historical layers of fraud, mislabeling and mishandling of so-called "Ag" land ....
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Saturday, May 24, 2025 |
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VIDEO: Honolulu Rail--We're not going to do THAT Again
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:20 PM :: 976 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Rail
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... promises are not guarantees, and that big government projects tend to come with unexpected costs and delays ....
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Friday, May 23, 2025 |
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Grassroot Council Testimony: Cutting Red Tape to Build Housing
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:55 PM :: 846 Views :: Hawaii County , Kauai County, Maui County, Development, Small Business
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... testimony before Hawai‘i, Honolulu, Kaua‘i and Maui county councils or planning commissions ....
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Friday, May 23, 2025 |
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Audit: How to Speed up Building Permits
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:43 PM :: 867 Views :: Hawaii County , Development
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... a new report from the county’s Office of the County Auditor suggests more than two dozen ways to help speed up the process ....
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Friday, May 23, 2025 |
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Hawaii: Where Clean Energy Projects Go to Die
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:31 PM :: 1253 Views :: Energy, Development, Land Use
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... Over the past five years, 15 energy projects in the state have been cancelled — more than half of the power projects being considered ....
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Tuesday, May 20, 2025 |
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Study: More Housing Units Built-But Fewer Available for Residents
By News Release @ 8:38 PM :: 1138 Views :: Development, Hawaii Statistics, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... 64,490 additional units are needed through 2027 but only 13,471 units are currently in development pipelines and anticipated to be available by 2027 ....
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Monday, May 19, 2025 |
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Cleaning up Hawaii’s permitting mess
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 6:33 PM :: 936 Views :: Development
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... A new report from the University of Hawai‘i Economic Research Organization shows that Hawaii permit delays in 2024 were at some of the worst levels ever ....
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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 :: 1497 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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Wednesday, May 14, 2025 |
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UHERO: 75% of Hawaii Households Cannot Afford Mortgage
By UHERO @ 4:21 PM :: 1497 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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Tuesday, May 13, 2025 |
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Legislature Delivers Progress for Housing
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:35 PM :: 905 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 :: 1135 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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Sunday, May 11, 2025 |
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Peeling away regulations that hinder homebuilding
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:06 PM :: 1261 Views :: Maui County, Development
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... rebuilding Lahaina ....
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Monday, May 5, 2025 |
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Hawaii County Tells Homeowner His 38-Year-Old House Is Actually Illegal
By Selected News Articles @ 2:25 PM :: 2154 Views :: Hawaii County , Development
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... Ausman is not quite out of the woods yet ....
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Monday, May 5, 2025 |
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Mayor establishes new Department of Housing and Land Management with City Council’s blessing
By News Release @ 1:28 PM :: 1862 Views :: Honolulu County, Development
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... strategic reorganization to centralize and accelerate the City’s housing initiatives ....
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Sunday, May 4, 2025 |
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Legislature on a housing-reform streak
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 1:00 PM :: 1069 Views :: Development, Land Use
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... Bills that will help mitigate Hawaii’s housing crisis include ....
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Monday, April 28, 2025 |
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‘Empty Homes Tax’ Drives Rent up 37%
By Andrew Walden @ 1:40 PM :: 5507 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... Even the bill’s supporters don’t pretend rents will come down ....
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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 :: 1099 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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Sunday, April 13, 2025 |
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WSJ: Lahaina's Lessons for Los Angeles
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:03 PM :: 1265 Views :: Maui County, Development
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... how intractable regulations have delayed rebuilding in Lahaina ....
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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 :: 1527 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 :: 1492 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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Saturday, April 5, 2025 |
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Turns out you can fight city hall — and win!
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 7:29 PM :: 1158 Views :: Hawaii County , Development
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... Ausman sued Hawai‘i County’s Board of Appeals after finding himself in the strange position of owning a beach house in Milolii that he couldn’t live in or renovate ....
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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 :: 2073 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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VIDEO: Progress in reducing housing regulations
By Grassroot Institute @ 7:17 PM :: 1017 Views :: Development
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... conversation between Ted Kefalas, the Grassroot Institute director of strategic campaigns, and state Rep. Lauren Matsumoto on the March 11 episode of “The Right Side” radio show ....
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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 :: 1349 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 :: 1625 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use
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... It’s a situation formed by both negligence and design ....
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