City, State Must Work Together to Save Ka Iwi Coast The City and County of Honolulu, one could argue, has not been well served by its Corporation Counsel in the matter of contested zoning for East Honolulu. Consider this: The … Continued
Are We Killing Our Kids? Groundwater Merits Better Protection Is Hawai`i’s groundwater safe? The question cannot be answered with an unqualified yes or no. In all too many areas of the state, some pesticides continue to leach into aquifers, decades … Continued
The Ma`alea Mystery: Why? In light of the manifest fiasco of the state’s lease of an acre of land at Ma’alaea, what is one to think of the staff at the state Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation? Whatever they … Continued
Return the Water to Waiahole When Amfac announced three years ago that it would be closing down its last sugar plantation on O`ahu, it set the stage for what has to be one of the greatest battles over water fought … Continued
Mahai`ula Revisited: It’s Never Too Late to Learn The $13,000 in back taxes owed by Blue Point, Inc., to the state at the time Blue Point received the state’s payment of $13 million for land at Mahai`ula is, we admit, … Continued
Integrated Coastal Management Starts With an Integrated Coastal Study Integrated coastal management. It’s not a term that rolls off the tongue with ease yet, nor has it become embedded in the public’s consciousness to any significant extent. But what integrated … Continued
The DLNR: Silent Accomplice in Heinous Crimes For 15 years, the Department of Land and Natural Resources’ Division of Forestry and Wildlife pleaded with the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for DHHL to make its tenant at Kahikinui, Stephen Perreira, … Continued
Irradiation: It’s an Idea Whose Time Still Hasn’t Come In the late 1980s, the people of Hawai`i said “No” to the state’s proposal to develop a fruit irradiation facility. At public hearings and in the public comments during the environmental … Continued
Wake Up, DOBOR: Your Boat Is Sinking Imagine Liberty House not billing its charge customers. Think of Visa graciously allowing overdue accounts to ride for months with nary a nasty note to the deadbeats. Dream of the Internal Revenue Service … Continued
After 85 Years, An EIS For Hamakua Ditch In 1910, the world was the Western man’s oyster. Anything technologically conceivable was held to be possible. And if something could be conceived of, it not only could be done, but probably … Continued