Unlawful Ad-Lib Legislation Takes The Stage What do you do when you can’t erase something? You use white out. Many formal legal documents will be declined if white out is used. Not in Maui County. If you are the self-proclaimed Chair of the County Council you can white out anything you want. Corporate counsel lawyers […]
Subject update: Item was deferred at the Land Use Committee meeting today. Future dates will be shared here. The first meeting for this Pa‘ia Development was a perfect example of a failed community meeting. Project developer David Spee only sent out notices to businesses and residences that were within 500 feet of his proposed project. […]
How To Conduct A Community Meeting: Choose a meeting space that has ample room for community attendance. Choose a future date well and a one month notice is advisable with reminders as the date nears. Send USPS postcard notification to ALL district areas that would be impacted by project. Use a public social media forum […]
Amazing HFUU Presidents These twelve chapter farmer leaders are directing Hawai‘i towards food production and self sustenance. Hawai‘i Farmers Union United has twelve chapters across four islands. Each chapter meets regularly and addresses concerns of local farmers with important place-specific attention. This past October these dirty dozen left the overalls and wheelbarrows on the farm […]
I have a tumultuous relationship with my mother and her passwords. I have been a computer teacher’s assistant many times and pride myself on being a patient and friendly teacher but I admit I have lost my patience with my own mother. I usually try to laugh it off but there was this one-day that […]
Personal Reflections of Raising Maui Women Its a quiet feat to bottle your nervousness about raising a young woman in times like this. Itʻs there, the nervousness exists. As a mother of girls you are constantly saying things of reassurance that you donʻt terribly believe as you say them. You encourage and reiterate statements of […]
While Hawai‘i has its fair share of agriculture problems, this one has an awkward ring, vegan bullies. When Maui’s The Farmacy Health Bar began selling venison burgers a non-customer authoritatively spoke to dining customers telling them they shouldn’t be eating venison burgers. The young waitresses interpreted him suggesting it wasn’t healthy for them. Comments on […]
Na Moku Aupuni o Ko‘olau Hui – The long road to water The first water meeting I went to was 32 years ago. My high school boyfriend asked me to go with his grandfather, the legendary, James Keolaokalani Hueu Jr. Back then the little Ke‘anae School cafeteria meetings were standing room only, spilling out on […]
East Maui Contested Case Hearing Final Arguments Public Meeting: Monday October 9th at 5pm Ha‘iku Community Center, Maui Commission on Water Resource Management will hear oral arguments Monday. It has been learned that each lawyer will have 30 minutes to present their reaction to findings. Updates can be see at East Maui Water facebook event […]
The following questions were sent to SenesTech on June 23rd, 2017 regarding the safety of their ContraPest product. Their answers were sent in red, as you see below, 10+ weeks later, September 6th, 2017. SenesTech came to Hana School on a reconnaissance trip to learn more about the degree of rat problem on the […]
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