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Saturday, December 31, 2022 |
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Paranoia Will Destroy Ya: Maui Police CIU 'Kidnaps' one of its own officers
By Andrew Walden @ 7:12 PM :: 4753 Views :: Maui County, Ethics, Police
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... a lawsuit filed in 2nd Circuit Court November 4 by former MPD Officer Manuel Sorcy shows CIU investigators intensely focused on Chief Faaumu’s internal rivals both real and imagined ....
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Saturday, December 17, 2022 |
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DLNR Pushes Back Against Shark Attack Conspiracy Theories
By News Release @ 3:18 PM :: 2398 Views :: Maui County
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... The department has noted this kind of behavior over and over online ....
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Thursday, December 15, 2022 |
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DoI Announces Avian Malaria Plan for Maui, Big Island
By News Release @ 5:49 PM :: 2938 Views :: Hawaii County , Maui County, Environment
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... Haleakalā National Park is the first site where novel mosquito control technologies will be implemented. Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park will follow in subsequent years ....
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Wednesday, December 14, 2022 |
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Increased Fire Risk Surrounds Paeahu Solar Project in Kihei, Maui
By News Release @ 9:11 PM :: 3108 Views :: Maui County, Energy
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... live electrical currents, combined with the large lithium-ion batteries that are proposed for this project, could make gaining control of a fire more difficult and dangerous ....
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Thursday, December 1, 2022 |
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Maui County Christmas Tree Lighting Slated for Monday
By News Release @ 9:19 PM :: 2431 Views :: Maui County, First Amendment, Religion
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... Bring your ohana to enjoy the holiday light display, Christmas music, and treats for the Keiki ....
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Wednesday, November 30, 2022 |
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Environmental Harm and Blasting Hazards Surrounding The Paeahu Solar Project in Kihei
By News Release @ 7:50 PM :: 2396 Views :: Maui County, Energy
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... The evidentiary hearing is expected to be held throughout December 2022, with a final Maui Planning Commission decision early 2023 ....
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Saturday, November 26, 2022 |
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Reinventing Tourism: Maui Makes Fodor's 'NO' List
By Selected News Articles @ 3:36 PM :: 3209 Views :: Maui County, Tourism
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... We could kick every tourist off the island and it would do anything for Upcountry Maui water users. But, as usual, facts don’t get in the way of Kaniela Ing’s grandstanding ....
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Friday, November 18, 2022 |
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Two Maui Men Found Guilty of Hate Crimes for Racially Motivated Attack
By News Release @ 5:41 PM :: 3697 Views :: Maui County, Law Enforcement
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... the defendants, who had never met C.K. before, stormed onto his property and demanded that he pack his things and leave, threatening to “tie [him] up and drag [him]” and make him “go missing” ....
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Monday, November 7, 2022 |
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'By-right' approvals could lower cost of housing
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:42 AM :: 2662 Views :: Maui County, Development, Cost of Living
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... by-right approval for affordable housing projects would streamline the process for homebuilders and potentially yield big savings ....
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Friday, November 4, 2022 |
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Former Maui Police Officer Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison for Attempted Child Enticement
By News Release @ 7:54 PM :: 2796 Views :: Maui County, Ethics, Police
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... In addition to his sentence, Saffeels must also register as a sex offender ....
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Wednesday, November 2, 2022 |
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Friday, October 28, 2022 |
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Hawaii Sex Offender Arrested Quickly After Foolishly Leaving State
By News Release @ 4:02 AM :: 3064 Views :: Maui County, Law Enforcement
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... Maui rapist and drug dealer now in a Louisiana jail on $505,000 bail ....
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Saturday, October 22, 2022 |
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Maui Bill 107 Orders Developers to Reduce Price 20%
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:57 PM :: 2910 Views :: Maui County, Development, Cost of Living
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... the new ordinance is likely to do more harm than good by discouraging more homebuilding ....
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Wednesday, October 19, 2022 |
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Maui Bill 107 to change affordable housing guidelines
By News Release @ 7:57 PM :: 2995 Views :: Maui County, Development, Cost of Living
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... the new sales price calculations will reduce the cost of affordable homes by an average of 22% ....
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Tuesday, October 18, 2022 |
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Wednesday, September 28, 2022 |
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Skin Cancer News: Maui Sunscreen Ban goes into Effect October 1
By News Release @ 9:23 PM :: 2684 Views :: Maui County, Environment, Health Care
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... the terms “reef friendly” and “reef safe” are not regulated ....
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Sunday, September 25, 2022 |
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9th Circuit: Religious Services Allowed on Hawaii Ag Land
By Selected News Articles @ 9:57 PM :: 3995 Views :: Maui County, First Amendment, Land Use, Religion
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... a Maui county commission denied the Spirit of Aloha Temple’s application for a permit to hold religious services on its ag-zoned property in Hana ....
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Friday, September 16, 2022 |
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Maui housing bill seriously flawed in July, and even more so now
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:13 PM :: 3078 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... An amendment seeks to subsidize homebuyers, leaving open whom would qualify and how much taxpayers would be in for ....
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Thursday, September 15, 2022 |
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Indictments: Choy Paid $2M Bribes to Maui County Environmental Management Director
By News Release @ 11:57 PM :: 3105 Views :: Maui County, Ethics
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... analysis of county procurement records shows that since 2012, Choy’s firm received more than 40 non-bid Maui County contracts valued at around $20 million ....
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Friday, September 2, 2022 |
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HECO's Idea of 'Good News' -- Oahu Electric Bills to go up 4%
By News Release @ 12:43 AM :: 3254 Views :: Hawaii County , Honolulu County, Maui County, Energy, Cost of Living
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... This is an improvement over the earlier forecast that projected bills would increase 7% or about $15 after the coal plant ends operations, which is scheduled for today ....
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Monday, August 29, 2022 |
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HECO Warns of Rolling Blackouts on Big Island
By News Release @ 11:41 PM :: 3197 Views :: Hawaii County , Maui County, Energy
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... If rolling outages are necessary, Hawaiian Electric will send out a Tweet. That's the plan ....
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Tuesday, August 16, 2022 |
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Audit: Maui County Zoning ‘Heavily Politicized’
By News Release @ 2:50 AM :: 2736 Views :: Maui County, Ethics, Development
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... ZAED lost the majority of its supervisory personnel in 2021, and only one has been filled as of January 2022 ....
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Saturday, August 6, 2022 |
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Maui Mineral-based sunscreen ordinance goes into effect October 1
By News Release @ 4:55 AM :: 2226 Views :: Maui County, Environment
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... mindless hysteria is part of our tourism marketing scheme ....
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Saturday, August 6, 2022 |
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Maui Disposable Bodyboard Ban takes effect
By News Release @ 4:46 AM :: 2746 Views :: Maui County, Environment, Tourism
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... Ordinance prohibits sale, rental or distribution of polystyrene bodyboards ....
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Friday, August 5, 2022 |
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Another Public Defender Becomes a Judge
By News Release @ 8:40 PM :: 2579 Views :: Maui County, Judiciary
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... She served as a law clerk for Judge Michael Town ....
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Wednesday, August 3, 2022 |
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Maui’s New Water Bureaucracy
By Grassroot Institute @ 9:08 PM :: 2873 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use
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... New Regulations May Slow Homebuilding ....
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Saturday, July 30, 2022 |
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Maui: 'Yes In My Backyard'
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:16 PM :: 2976 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use
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... how do we work with the state and counties to move in this direction ....
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Sunday, July 24, 2022 |
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Affordable? Maui Price Fixing Bill 'Recommitted'
By Joe Kent @ 9:19 PM :: 2760 Views :: Maui County, Development, Cost of Living
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... there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch ....
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Sunday, July 24, 2022 |
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How to take politics out of housing
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 8:39 PM :: 2670 Views :: Maui County, Development, Cost of Living
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... The most recent example of this comes from Maui, where just this week the County Council killed a housing project that would have created 28 affordable units in Kihei ....
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Tuesday, July 19, 2022 |
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Maui Council on verge of worsening housing crisis
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:58 AM :: 3146 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... The assumption is that they would simply have to take that additional loss ....
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Saturday, July 16, 2022 |
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Maui’s sky-high home prices a ‘self-inflicted wound’
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:47 AM :: 3945 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... Maui Council Bill 107 could cause homebuilders to stop building affordable homes ....
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Friday, July 8, 2022 |
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9th Circuit: Honolulu and Maui 'Big Oil Climate Change' Lawsuits Stay in State Court
By Selected News Articles @ 1:28 AM :: 2762 Views :: Honolulu County, Maui County, Environment
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... U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today ruled that a pair of lawsuits from Honolulu and Maui can proceed in state court ....
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Thursday, July 7, 2022 |
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Chief Justice Seeks Public Comment on Judicial Nominees
By News Release @ 12:00 PM :: 2224 Views :: Maui County, Judiciary
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... judicial nominees for a vacancy in the District Court of the Second Circuit (island of Maui) ....
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Sunday, June 26, 2022 |
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Maui No Ka $$
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 2442 Views :: Maui County, Taxes
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... Maui County proposes to spend more than One Billion Dollars in this fiscal year, a 26% increase over last fiscal year ....
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Wednesday, June 15, 2022 |
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'Water Management Area' -- New Way to Selectively Control Development
By News Release @ 10:04 PM :: 3241 Views :: Maui County, Environment, Development, Land Use
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... Tuesday, the Commission on Water Resource Management (CWRM) unanimously agreed to designate the entire Lahaina Aquifer Sector Area as both a Surface Water and Ground Water Management Area ....
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Saturday, June 4, 2022 |
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Maui’s Public Nuisance Climate Lawsuit
By Selected News Articles @ 6:58 PM :: 2907 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Environment
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... Over 1,300 climate lawsuits have been filed in the U.S. None has yet succeeded ....
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Monday, May 30, 2022 |
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Auē! All four counties are planning spending sprees
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 11:30 PM :: 3605 Views :: Hawaii County , Honolulu County, Kauai County, Maui County, Taxes
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... Hawaii’s gross domestic product is down by 4.43% since 2019, yet even as the economy suffers, all four counties seem determined to spend like crazy ....
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Monday, May 16, 2022 |
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Auditor: Maui Building Permits Delayed for Months in Spite of 30-Day Mandate
By News Release @ 9:19 PM :: 2742 Views :: Maui County, Development
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... Since the reviewing agencies are diverse and have their own priorities, it is not unusual that substantial delays are caused when these other agencies do not timely process applications ....
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Saturday, May 7, 2022 |
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County of Maui and Ogden Newspapers Agree to End Discussions on Sale of Maui News Building
By News Release @ 4:58 PM :: 2523 Views :: Maui County, First Amendment
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... In March 2021, the Maui County Council passed legislation for the administration to acquire the 6.3-acre parcel for $9.8 million ....
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Saturday, May 7, 2022 |
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HECO RFP Seeks 'Renewable' Projects on Maui, Oahu
By News Release @ 1:51 AM :: 2744 Views :: Honolulu County, Maui County, Energy
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... that includes but is not limited to wind, solar, biomass and biofuels. Standalone energy storage proposals also will be accepted ....
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Thursday, April 21, 2022 |
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Video: 175 Junk Cars being Removed from DLNR Land on Maui
By News Release @ 2:19 PM :: 2594 Views :: Maui County, Environment
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“...People have been abandoning vehicles in an area about ¼-mile off the pavement and it’s been happening for 6-7 years...."
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Thursday, April 21, 2022 |
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Water to be Restored to Five Molokai Streams
By News Release @ 2:02 PM :: 3075 Views :: Maui County, Environment, Agriculture
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... For more than a century these streams were almost fully diverted and often dry ....
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Thursday, April 21, 2022 |
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Victims' rights events set for Oahu, Maui
By News Release @ 4:01 AM :: 5638 Views :: Honolulu County, Maui County, Law Enforcement
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... commemorating National Crime Victims’ Rights Week ....
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Wednesday, April 20, 2022 |
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Former Maui Police Officer Pleads Guilty to Child Enticement Charge
By News Release @ 12:01 AM :: 2569 Views :: Maui County, Police
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... on December 3, 2021, Saffeels contacted the online profile of what appeared to be a young female ....
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Monday, April 18, 2022 |
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Maui’s Automated Planning and Permitting System is LIVE
By News Release @ 11:59 PM :: 2418 Views :: Maui County, Development
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... a new web-based software designed to support planning and permit processing ....
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Saturday, April 2, 2022 |
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Maui Council unanimously approves resolution seeking Jones Act waiver -- Hawaii County Next?
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:47 PM :: 3284 Views :: Hawaii County , Maui County, Jones Act
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... Hawaii County Council member Matt Kanealii-Kleinfelder said today he also is planning to introduce a resolution soon seeking a Hawaii waiver from the Jones Act ....
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Friday, April 1, 2022 |
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Maui Taser Lawsuit Filed
By News Release @ 10:38 PM :: 2817 Views :: Maui County, Second Amendment
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... The lawsuit is needed to force the County of Maui to start issuing electric gun dealers licenses ....
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