The Kamaka family land in the back of Waikane Valley is not the first military site left littered with unexploded ordnance. Nor, surely, will it be the last. For almost a century and especially in the last fifty years – … Continued
Is geothermal energy ever going to work in Hawai`i? Given the so-far failed efforts to harness this resource, the question is long overdue. Still, however, it is off-limits in the orbits of most state and county officials. A chorus of … Continued
The Department of Transportation has got religion — and a peculiar one it is, at that. We’re not talking about any orthodox faith here. It’s not shared by the traditional advocates of the tourism industry, whose high priests and bishops … Continued
Hawai`i is a state abundant in laws intended to guarantee public rights that in other states have been eroded by private development. On the books, therefore, are statutes enshrining the public’s right to coastal access and reserving to the public … Continued
In July of 1990, the small windward community of Lanikai, O’ahu, bade farewell to its homegrown recycling program and welcomed the offer of the City and County of Honolulu to take over with once-a-week curbside pickup. The Lanikai Association had … Continued
Geothermal energy has a lot in common with rail transit. Both are big-ticket items and, if they are built out, they hold the promise of jobs for the state’s most powerful unions and contracts for its most influential engineering and … Continued
In early 1990, Grant and Sharon Gerrish bought a lot in Laupahoehoe Valley, on the Big Island north of Hilo. The land was about an acre and a third large — just right for the modest house and garden that … Continued