29 Oct 2014

Editorial

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The State Boating Division: Hopeless, and Worse Larry Cobb, property manager of the state Department of Land and Natural Resources’ Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation, has acknowledged his agency has no handle on tenant accounts. In a moment of … Continued

29 Oct 2014

Editorial

by | posted in: Editorial, July 1996 | 0

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

29 Oct 2014

Editorial

by | posted in: Editorial, March 1996 | 0

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

29 Oct 2014

Editorial

by | posted in: Editorial, November 1996 | 0

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

29 Oct 2014

Editorial

by | posted in: Editorial, September 1996 | 0

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

29 Oct 2014

Editorial

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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

29 Oct 2014

Editorial

by | posted in: Editorial, February 1995 | 0

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

29 Oct 2014

Editorial

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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

29 Oct 2014

Editorial

by | posted in: Editorial, March 1995 | 0

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

29 Oct 2014

Editorial

by | posted in: Editorial, November 1995 | 0

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