Falsely arrested by their own Department? Four Sheriff Deputies File Suit
Hawaii on Verge of Affordable Housing Breakthrough?
Milk Recall: Children Sickened at Four Elementary Schools
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Scuttled Ship Latest in Hawaii’s poor history with history
SA: … The Falls of Clyde, the 146-year-old ship that lingered on the Honolulu waterfront during a decades-long debate over its future, was finally escorted early Wednesday to its final resting place, on the ocean floor 25 miles out….
The state Department of Transportation …in 2016… impounded the ship and awarded Shipwright LLC of Florida the $4.9 million contract to remove it. …
(CLUE: $4.9M could have paid to stabilize the hull for transport to Scotland for restoration.)
… the languishing plans for the Waikiki Natatorium War Memorial show another facet of this general failure….
(CLUE: Natatorium is a great source for white-collar make work contracts.)
Kaniakapupu Ruins, featured in a hike in upper Nuuanu Valley, had been the royal summer home of Kamehameha III. What’s left of the home is itself inaccessible to the public because of vandalism.
Similarly, the Boyd-Irwin-Hedemann Estate in Maunawili, better known as the Queen’s Retreat, is said to be the site where Liliuokalani was inspired to write the classic “Aloha ‘Oe.” It was not cared for by a series of owners and was turned to rubble in a 2023 fire….
Background: Falls of Clyde removed from Honolulu Harbor
FB: Save Falls of Clyde - International | Glasgow | Facebook
2021: Harbors Division Accepts Preservationist Bid to Return Falls of Clyde to Scotland
read … Editorial: Hawaii’s poor history with historic sites | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Passengers begin riding extended lines on Honolulu’s Skyline rail system
SA: … DTS Director Roger Morton rode aboard a 7:45 a.m. train Thursday where passengers nearly filled all 200 seats.
“We’re very happy with the first day,” Morton said.
Paid ridership continues today, with free service on Saturday and Sunday, but passengers riding for free still need a HOLO card to enter any station.
Ridership figures for the first four days’ of service won’t be released before Monday, Morton said.
DTS officials expect a weekend spike in passengers who will want to ride for free, just as they saw when the first segment of rail line opened for service in June 2023 from West Oahu to the Halawa station, across from the abandoned and empty Aloha Stadium….
read … Passengers begin riding extended lines on Honolulu’s Skyline rail system | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Federal Tax Deadlines Loom Over Lahaina Rebuilding
CB: … Hawaiʻi’s congressional delegation could help by working on waiving or extending the insurance payout rule….
read … Federal Tax Deadlines Loom Over Lahaina Rebuilding - Honolulu Civil Beat
First permanent affordable housing project for Lahaina fire survivors complete
HNN: … nearly 200 families now living there.
Right off the Lahaina Bypass, the development consists of 25 garden-style buildings comprised of two, three and four-bedroom apartment homes.
Everyone who lives there makes less than 60 percent of the area’s median income, so their rents are based on their earnings typically ranging from $700 to $2,000 a month….
MN: Grand opening celebrates 200 affordable housing units in Lahaina | News, Sports, Jobs - Maui News
read … First permanent affordable housing project for Lahaina fire survivors complete
Maui Land & Pineapple facing possible fines over water mismanagement
ASD: … State water commission issues notice of potential violations regarding landowner's maintenance of Maui irrigation system….
read … Maui Land & Pineapple facing possible fines over water mismanagement
Native Hawaiian groups urge OHA to cos-play with them in ‘epic battle’ over military land leases
HNN: … Native Hawaiian groups are asking the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to stand (pose) with them in a fight over military leased lands.
It comes after two county councils have already demanded that (cos-played) ‘desecration must stop’….
OHA says it will officially consider the group’s request at its board meeting in Hilo on November 6….
read … Native Hawaiian groups urge OHA to stand with them in ‘epic battle’ over military land leases
HPD: Ghost Gun Cases Double
CB: … In the first 10 months of 2024, HPD reported 68 ghost gun cases — more than twice as many as the same period the year before, Ernest Robello, then a lieutenant in the Honolulu Police Department’s Narcotics Vice Division, told state senators in February during a hearing on a bill to further restrict where firearms and firearms parts can be carried. Robello is now deputy director of administration for the state Department of Law Enforcement.
“When we do search warrants and when we do game rooms, the guns we’re finding are not registered guns or legal guns that were stolen from a car or a house,” he said. “They’re all ghost guns. And the main reason for that is the parts aren’t traceable.” …
read … Police Still Don’t Know How Theresa Cachuela’s Killer Got A Gun - Honolulu Civil Beat
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