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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 :: 206 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 :: 666 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 :: 645 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 :: 891 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 :: 852 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 :: 558 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 :: 1093 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 :: 772 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 :: 621 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 :: 1461 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 :: 867 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 :: 849 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 :: 1074 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 :: 1515 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 :: 674 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 :: 748 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 :: 659 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 :: 3329 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 :: 2652 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 :: 512 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 :: 773 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 :: 1004 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 :: 714 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 :: 1207 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 :: 756 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 :: 804 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 :: 687 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 :: 903 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 :: 1417 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 :: 4272 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 :: 941 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 :: 940 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 :: 1646 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 :: 1113 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 :: 715 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 :: 972 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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Friday, January 24, 2025 |
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18 Months After Wildfires Destroyed Some 2,000 Homes on Maui, Only 3 Have Been Rebuilt
By Selected News Articles @ 5:01 AM :: 3013 Views :: Maui County, Development
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... A thicket of red tape has made the island's rebuilding efforts painfully slow ....
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Wednesday, January 22, 2025 |
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Maui Police Officer Indicted for Deprivation of Civil Rights
By News Release @ 2:07 PM :: 730 Views :: Maui County, Police
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... the defendant would face up to ten years in prison on the deprivation of civil rights charge, and up to twenty years in prison on the false report charge ....
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Monday, January 20, 2025 |
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Do Lahaina recovery efforts hold lessons for LA?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 1:35 PM :: 745 Views :: Maui County, Development
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... over the past year, we’ve seen how bureaucratic hurdles can make it difficult to rebuild homes and businesses ....
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Sunday, January 19, 2025 |
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Climate Resiliency
By Tom Yamachika @ 11:21 AM :: 753 Views :: Maui County, Hawaii State Government
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... Big funds with large amounts of money sitting around become, now or over time, tempting targets for lawmakers to raid or divert ....
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Tuesday, January 14, 2025 |
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Maui Wildfire: AG Releases Final Phase of Report
By News Release @ 5:35 PM :: 842 Views :: Maui County
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... a list of action items the state and all counties can use to make improvements to Hawai‘i’s future preparation for and response to wildfires ....
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Tuesday, January 14, 2025 |
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UHERO: Maui wildfires trigger population loss, economic impact
By UHERO @ 2:35 PM :: 1038 Views :: Maui County, Hawaii Statistics
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“These preliminary estimates likely underestimate the magnitude of the effect.”
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Monday, January 13, 2025 |
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HECO Unveils Expanded Wildfire Safety Strategy
By News Release @ 8:36 PM :: 1006 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Environment
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... 3-year plan focuses initial work on high-risk areas ....
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Monday, January 13, 2025 |
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No-Fault Insurance for Electricity-Caused Wildfires?
By Selected News Articles @ 7:58 PM :: 896 Views :: Maui County, Energy
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... modeled on Workers Comp ....
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Saturday, January 11, 2025 |
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Saturday, January 11, 2025 |
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Judiciary Seeks Nominees for Big Island, Maui
By News Release @ 3:09 PM :: 672 Views :: Hawaii County , Maui County, Judiciary
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... District Court judges and Independent Grand Jury Counsel ....
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Friday, January 10, 2025 |
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Maui Eviction Moratorium Ends
By News Release @ 11:00 AM :: 714 Views :: Maui County, Small Business
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... expiration of Maui’s eviction moratorium on February 4, 2025 ....
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