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Wednesday, April 16, 2025
DLNR Attempts to Clarify Ocean Commercial Use Permitting Status
By News Release @ 4:33 AM :: 235 Views :: Maui County, Small Business, Tourism

... At this time, no new CUPs will be issued ....

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Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Court backs mosquito suppression plan to save Hawaii’s rare birds
By Court House News @ 4:02 AM :: 206 Views :: Maui County, Environment

... mosquito “birth control” in Maui forests ....

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Sunday, April 13, 2025
WSJ: Lahaina's Lessons for Los Angeles
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:03 PM :: 666 Views :: Maui County, Development

... how intractable regulations have delayed rebuilding in Lahaina ....

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Friday, April 11, 2025
Kauai, Maui zoning changes would help farmers, food trucks
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:23 PM :: 645 Views :: Kauai County, Maui County, Agriculture, Small Business

... 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
Lahaina Ferry Pier Rebuild Named Best of 2024
By News Release @ 2:46 PM :: 891 Views :: Maui County, Development

... 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
10 reasons Lahaina rebuilding has been so depressingly slow
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:52 PM :: 852 Views :: Maui County, Development

... 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
Maui transient vacation rental phaseout means fewer jobs
By UHERO @ 1:59 PM :: 558 Views :: Maui County, Land Use, Tourism

... 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
Green Appoints Water Commissioner and Circuit Court Judges
By News Release @ 11:00 PM :: 1093 Views :: Hawaii County , Maui County, Development, Judiciary, Land Use

... 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
New maps improve Hawaiʻi’s wildfire risk warnings
By News Release @ 5:50 PM :: 772 Views :: Maui County, Hawaii State Government

... these maps provide a daily, high-resolution look at the most current fire ignition risks statewide ....

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Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Feds Release $2.5M to Reimburse Nonprofit for Shuttered Lahaina Jobs Program
By News Release @ 2:23 PM :: 621 Views :: Maui County, Labor

... temporary jobs focused on cleaning up debris and repairing damage caused by the fires ....

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Wednesday, March 26, 2025
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

... Devon Archer cooperated with congressional investigators as a witness against Hunter Biden and the Biden family ....

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Monday, March 24, 2025
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

... 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
Lahaina: Still waiting for permits
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:59 PM :: 849 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use

... 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
Lahaina: "Feelings of conspiracy and mistrust"
By Selected News Articles @ 4:27 PM :: 1074 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use

... It’s a situation formed by both negligence and design ....

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Monday, March 17, 2025
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

... 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
Persistent income, employment, housing challenges for Maui’s fire-impacted households
By UHERO @ 6:54 PM :: 674 Views :: Maui County, Hawaii Statistics, Tourism

... rising poverty rates, persistent displacement, and limited job opportunities continue to hinder full economic recovery ....

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Monday, March 17, 2025
Lahaina Housing: ‘Yes in God’s Backyard’
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:44 AM :: 748 Views :: Maui County, Development, Religion

... 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
Green Announces First Maui Fire Settlement Payout
By News Release @ 11:34 PM :: 659 Views :: Maui County

... A total of 26 wrongful death claims have been qualified -- One claim has been paid ....

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Tuesday, March 11, 2025
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

... 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
Gabbard Lahaina Charity Spends only 34% on Fire Victims
By Selected News Articles @ 9:45 AM :: 2652 Views :: Maui County, Ethics, Tulsi Gabbard

... 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
Federal Law Requires Lahaina Survivors to Begin Paying Rent March 1, 2025
By News Release @ 2:03 PM :: 512 Views :: Maui County

... 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
2025 Wildfire Summit: 'Exploring our Wildfire Future'
By News Release @ 12:05 PM :: 773 Views :: Hawaii County , Honolulu County, Kauai County, Maui County

... akamai readers will remember that fire officials were at a summit like this when Lahaina burned ....

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Saturday, February 22, 2025
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

... 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
Fire debris cleared from final commercial property in Lahaina
By News Release @ 9:02 PM :: 714 Views :: Maui County, Development

... In total, 1,538 residential and commercial properties have been cleared ....

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Saturday, February 15, 2025
Policies that could help turn the tide of people leaving Hawaii
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:44 PM :: 1207 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use

... 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
California wildfire recovery lessons from Lahaina
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:32 PM :: 756 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use

“...Lessons from Maui as LA Begins to Rebuild....”

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Friday, February 14, 2025
18 Months Later: Maui Council Begins to Loosen Rebuild Restrictions
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:00 PM :: 804 Views :: Maui County, Development

... 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
Lahaina FEMA Housing: Rent to be collected starting March 1
By News Release @ 11:45 AM :: 687 Views :: Maui County, Cost of Living

... 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
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

"...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
FULL TEXT: State Supreme Court Ruling Goes Against Maui Wildfire Insurers
By News Release @ 8:08 PM :: 1417 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Ethics, Judiciary

“…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
PHOTOS: 'Lahaina Strong' Leaders Show Off Luxe European and Asian Vacations
By Selected News Articles @ 7:42 PM :: 4272 Views :: Maui County, Ethics

... '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
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

... 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
California Home Insurance Crisis Provides Another Example of the Pitfalls of Government Intervention
By Selected News Articles @ 1:26 AM :: 683 Views :: Maui County, Cost of Living

... government price controls come with negative consequences ....

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Sunday, February 2, 2025
Bill 105: Let Lahaina Rebuild as it Was
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:34 PM :: 940 Views :: Maui County, Development, Religion

"... 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
Lahaina Fire: How Maui Emergency Operations Center Lost 'Situational Awareness'
By Andrew Walden @ 1:02 PM :: 1646 Views :: Maui County, Hawaii History

... What was happening at the Maui County Emergency Operations Center (EOC) while Lahaina Burned? ....

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Monday, January 27, 2025
Hawaii’s failed wildfire rebuild should not be a model for California
By Selected News Articles @ 12:01 AM :: 1113 Views :: Maui County, Development

... California Gov. Gavin Newsom is looking to Hawaii for advice on how to rebuild after wildfires ....

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Saturday, January 25, 2025
MEMA After-Action Report on Maui wildfires released
By News Release @ 12:50 PM :: 715 Views :: Maui County

... 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
How to use Control of Water to Block Lahaina Rebuild
By UHERO @ 7:17 PM :: 972 Views :: DHHL, Maui County, Development, OHA

... 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
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

... A thicket of red tape has made the island's rebuilding efforts painfully slow ....

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Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Maui Police Officer Indicted for Deprivation of Civil Rights
By News Release @ 2:07 PM :: 730 Views :: Maui County, Police

... 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
Do Lahaina recovery efforts hold lessons for LA?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 1:35 PM :: 745 Views :: Maui County, Development

... 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
Climate Resiliency
By Tom Yamachika @ 11:21 AM :: 753 Views :: Maui County, Hawaii State Government

... 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
Maui Wildfire: AG Releases Final Phase of Report
By News Release @ 5:35 PM :: 842 Views :: Maui County

... 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
UHERO: Maui wildfires trigger population loss, economic impact
By UHERO @ 2:35 PM :: 1038 Views :: Maui County, Hawaii Statistics

“These preliminary estimates likely underestimate the magnitude of the effect.”

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Monday, January 13, 2025
HECO Unveils Expanded Wildfire Safety Strategy
By News Release @ 8:36 PM :: 1006 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Environment

... 3-year plan focuses initial work on high-risk areas ....

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Monday, January 13, 2025
No-Fault Insurance for Electricity-Caused Wildfires?
By Selected News Articles @ 7:58 PM :: 896 Views :: Maui County, Energy

... modeled on Workers Comp .... 

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Saturday, January 11, 2025
Hawaii Democrats Talk a Big Game on the 'Climate Crisis.' They're Also Shielding an Oil Company Whose Execs Backed Their Campaigns
By Selected News Articles @ 4:25 PM :: 1691 Views :: Honolulu County, Maui County, Energy, Environment, Ethics, Congressional Delegation

... Since late 2019, Par Pacific's executives and PAC have collectively wired state Democrats a total of nearly $34,000 ....

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Saturday, January 11, 2025
Judiciary Seeks Nominees for Big Island, Maui
By News Release @ 3:09 PM :: 672 Views :: Hawaii County , Maui County, Judiciary

... District Court judges and Independent Grand Jury Counsel ....

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Friday, January 10, 2025
Maui Eviction Moratorium Ends
By News Release @ 11:00 AM :: 714 Views :: Maui County, Small Business

... expiration of Maui’s eviction moratorium on February 4, 2025 ....

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Friday, January 10, 2025
The growing crisis in the insurance market further exacerbates Hawaiʻi’s cost of living crisis
By News Release @ 1:21 AM :: 921 Views :: Maui County, Cost of Living

... Hawaii cannot afford to wait ....

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