State Senate Announces Leadership, Committee Assignments
Hawaiʻi State Legislature Announces 2024 Legislative Timetables
Kaleo Manuel to depart the Commission on Water Resource Management
MN: …On Tuesday, Water and Land Senate Committee Chair Lorraine R. Inouye (Senate District 1, Hilo, Paukaʻa, Papaikou, Pepeʻekeo) issued a statement regarding Manuel’s departure from the Commission on Water Resource Management, that she said takes effect Jan. 5, 2024.
“I want to express my sincere appreciation for the dedicated service of Kaleo Manuel during his tenure as the Commission on Water Resources First Deputy,” said Sen. Inouye….
According to Sen. Inouye, Manuel successfully guided DLNR and the Commission on Water Resources through the Red Hill crisis, and in 2022 he implemented the Lahaina Aquifer Sector Area as both a Surface and Ground Water Management Area. In 2019, he was also instrumental in reorganizing the commission, according to Sen. Inouye….
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‘Makes me angry’: Lahaina family marks bittersweet holiday as they prepare to leave Hawaii
HNN: … “This has been my home for a really long time, and I’ve never wanted to be anywhere else ... so being basically forced to leave because we can’t find any rentals that will take our family and dogs for under $10,000 and that in turn makes me very angry.”…
She said the fires not only destroyed everything her family owns, it is also forcing them to move nearly 5,000 miles away.
“Florida kind of came up in just random situations,” she said. “And we want warm weather. We want the beach. We found a really sweet, small town, a really close-knit community.”…
Right now, they are staying in a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house in Napili for $7,000 a month….
She said they can’t afford to live on Maui anymore and she believes her family leaving is the beginning of a mass exodus coming….
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This Lahaina senior complex used to be a refuge. Now it’s a ‘cemetery’
HNN: … The 72-year-old writer stood in what would have been his kitchen to survey the ruins that remained. There are piles of household goods, but destroyed are his precious photographs and a book that he had written about about life on Maui in the 1970s that was ready to publish.
“What I lost there is irreplaceable. It’s like my life is gone,” Hill said….
Hill lived in Lahaina’s Hale Mahaolu Eono, a low-income senior housing complex where management says seven people died.
“It has to be shared. People died here. That’s Buddy’s house, that’s Angie’s house. She died there. Louise died there. Vergie died there,” Hill said, pointing to the burned homes around him. “I don’t know where the other four people died, but some were down there. This is like a cemetery.”…
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Businesses In Lahaina May Face Significant Barriers To Reopening
CB: … A California town recovering from a devastating wildfire offers a glimpse of the challenges ahead for Lahaina's business community -- along with a few possible solutions….In Paradise, the businesses that were projected to be the biggest economic drivers were in construction and home goods, so those were some of the companies that the economic development office focused on, followed by restaurants…..
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