Board Makes its Choice for Maui Wind Power Developer “This is Matt,” Land Division administrator Dierdre Mamiya told the Board of Land and Natural Resources, motioning toward a bespectacled young man to her right. And, she added, contrary to what … Continued
“I bought a piece of property and I improved it. Nobody wanted it when I bought it. My own daughter said it’s the worst piece of property she ever saw and I made the biggest mistake of my life,” said … Continued
Wekiu Mauna Kea, kuahiwi ku ha’o i ka malie. Mauna Kea, standing alone in the calm. ‘Olelo No’eau Hawaiian Proverbs & Poetical Sayings, by Mary Kawena Pukui (1983) Mauna Kea is prominent in Hawaiian cultural and natural history. When measured … Continued
The Land Board Shuts Out the Public Assume, for the moment, that the public has a right to know what the agencies that control resources it owns do with those resources. You might want to have a law, say, that … Continued
The locked gate on the private, unpaved road in lower Puna is unremarkable. Like hundreds of others that lead to the area’s papaya orchards and scattered houselots, it effectively bars access to all but those privileged with padlock keys or … Continued
“Whatever I did with that property was my business. I didn’t ask if I could cut a tree down.” So stated James Pflueger in a February 2003 deposition regarding a dispute over the sale of roughly 400 acres at Pila’a, … Continued