Photos by Stephen Loftin
After Affects of “After-the-Fact” Special Management Area Permit
Wahinepe‘e, Waikamoi Forest Preserve, Maui, Hawaii – Lifetime East Maui farmers of the abundant watershed of Waikamoi have discovered an environmental crisis. The roadwork along the Hana Highway on the island of Maui has been a busy place with multiple road repairs. Three different major areas worked on have produced many semi truck loads of […]
Intentional Chaos
Serving the needs of the unsheltered during a pandemic is said to be within the purview of the Maui County Civil Defense Agency and The Department of Health. Yet little has been done to serve the population of Maui’s less fortunate. From COVID shelter-in-place day one, Maui County administration has been asked, how do we […]
Navigating Homelessness Verbiage
Here is an acronym key for the complex subject of Homeless, Houseless and Unsheltered Acronym Definitions of Key Terms Please note that key terms used in this report are used for Bridging the Gap (BTG), the Continuum of Care (CoC) Point In Time Count reporting purposes and accurately reflect the data used in this report. […]
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 […]
Vote for Farming Supporters
Famers Voice Hawai‘i is proud to endorse they the following candidates and their bid for office. We feel the voting record of these candidates has balanced towards the support needed for farming, farmers and agriculture over all. The list is growing of those candidates that have leaned towards best practice farming. CANDIDATES: Farmers Voice Hawai‘i is […]
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 […]
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
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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