Okay, i’ve avoided it long enough. I’ve procrastinated, made excuses, pretended there was other things to do. I know some people I’ve promised answers about land titles in Hawai‘i are questioning my follow through. Afford me a moment, I have some twisted emotion around the subject. Two years ago my two eldest and I immersed […]
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Water Guns
In an astonishing series of events, an East Maui farmer has been attacked by corporate third-party aggressors in attempts to continue stealing water and they are using guns to do it. Hawai‘i has been in 127 years of occupation and those corporations who advantaged the illegal overthrow are pulling triggers to hold on to stolen […]
Re-Elect the “New Kids on The Block”
This last term of the Maui County Council has provided a refreshing experience for Maui residents with the ‘New Kids on The Block’ leading strong. Wasting no time in office, first time Council members Keani Rawlins-Fernandez, Tamara Paltin and Shane Sinenci have successfully introduced new departments, commissions and clarifying procedures that have set new precedence. […]
Commission on Healing Solutions for Homelessness Introduced
This Friday, July 24, 2020 the Maui County Council will have First Reading on a Commission on Healing Solutions for Homelessness. Over the last four months the agencies who receive Maui County funds have struggled to deal with the vulnerable population of houseless, homeless and those living in their cars. Early COVID alarm prompted erroneous […]
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Paddling in Stolen Waters
It’s not the JAWS you know. As land tenancy remains to be a high topic of conversation in Hawai‘i, on O‘ili Road Maui, it has become a dangerous landscape. The resident tenants and the heirs are restoring the ahupua‘a (land from mountain to sea) of Kaupakalua. The adjoining property to the grown-famous street, O‘ili Road, used […]
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WSL Served Cease and Desist Orders
EXHIBIT Administrative notices served to the World Surf League on behalf of the heirs to the Kaupuakulua Ahupua’a in Haiku – Hamakualoa Maui Hawaii. The notice was confirmed as received on 12-03-20. WSL Cease and Desist Order
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Maui County Department of Ag Moving Forward
UPDATE: The Environmental, Agricultural and Cultural Preservation Committee introduced a Maui Department of Agriculture. The item passed first reading at a full Council of Maui Count on July 10, 2020. The vote was 6-2, Yuki Sugimura and Tasha Kama voting no and one excused, Riki Hokama. The item will have a second reading at the […]
Wea ‘Da Mayor?
It appears that Maui County Mayor Victorino is imposing more than social distancing onto the residents of Maui. He has created a “humane distancing” issue onto himself and his administrative leaders. The conditions for unsheltered residents at Kanaha with the Beach park gate locked is unfathomable. The County is at the end of the hot, […]
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GenY Hawaiians Fighting Real Estate Fraud Ask Why?
The island of Maui in Hawai‘i has had one of the largest water battles in history. A hundred year plus battle. Long standing court cases, incestuous land and water boards, corporation control of government, all these and more have led a sad path for native tenants who merely want water to farm. Broken promises exhausted […]
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Let the Solutions Flow ~ RESCHEDULED > Dec 26th
This Event Has Been Rescheduled for December 26th, 2020 • Mahalo for tuning in Resource Recovery Maui prepares for a free remote event focused on applied solutions. In it’s third year, Farmers Voice Hawai‘i is proud to announce this year’s event, Resource Recovery: Let the Solutions Flow on December 26th, 2020. This will be an […]