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29 Oct 2014

Editorial

by Teresa | posted in: Editorial, June 1993 | 0

With Empathy and Aloha Impasse at Park Might End The Pais and the National Park Service could well live in parallel universes, so little do their concepts overlap or their ways of looking at the issues coincide. But a common … Continued

29 Oct 2014

Editorial

by Teresa | posted in: Editorial, November 1993 | 0

Beyond Noise: Helicopters Threaten Health, Welfare, and Wildlife Hardly anyone would deny that helicopter tours have become a nuisance on the Big Island and on Maui. They used to be a bother on Kaua’i, too, but Hurricane ‘Iniki largely put … Continued

29 Oct 2014

Editorial

by Teresa | posted in: Editorial, October 1993 | 0

Hawai’i Deserves Chance to Comment on NEXRAD Maybe the NEXRAD folks have nothing to hide. Why, then, are they acting as if they do? Sure, technically they have complied with the disclosure requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act. Notice … Continued

29 Oct 2014

Editorial

by Teresa | posted in: Editorial, September 1993 | 0

Radioactive Waste: No Place To Hide It Anymore “My state knows better than any other what a folly the federal government has perpetrated with its failure to comply with environmental laws and properly manage nuclear waste,” Idaho Governor Cecil Andrus … Continued

29 Oct 2014

Editorial: Restoration, Not Condemnation: Hawai'i Has No Land to Spare

by Teresa | posted in: August 1992, Editorial | 0

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

29 Oct 2014

Editorial: Time's Up: State's Infatuation with Geothermal Can't Go On

by Teresa | posted in: December 1992, Editorial | 0

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

29 Oct 2014

Editorial: The DOT's Coy Religion Wins No Converts

by Teresa | posted in: Editorial, February 1992 | 0

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

29 Oct 2014

Editorial: Stop, Thief: Those Are Our Resources

by Teresa | posted in: Editorial, January 1992 | 0

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

29 Oct 2014

Editorial: In the Politics of Waste, Recycling takes the Hindmost

by Teresa | posted in: Editorial, July 1992 | 0

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

29 Oct 2014

Editorial: Geothermal, Oil, Rail: Hawai`i's Die-Hard Energy Myths

by Teresa | posted in: Editorial, June 1992 | 0

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