Please sign in to access password-protected articles. If you do not subscribe and would like to, if you would like to renew your subscription, or if you want to purchase a 2-day pass, please click here. If you are a current subscriber, … Continued
Since December 12, 2023, Launiupoko Water Company, Inc., has been involved in a case before the state Public Utilities Commission, seeking approval for increased rates for its sale of potable water to its customers on agricultural lands in West Maui … Continued
In Memoriam: On March 5, Jonathan Starr passed away in Woodstock, New York. He will be remembered in Hawaiʻi for his advocacy for clean water and clean government. He chaired the Maui County Planning Commission and the Democratic Party, served … Continued
The failure of the Agribusiness Development Corporation to collect rent on its Keaʻau parcel represents the loss to the state of a significant income stream over the years. If the state were to receive a modest 6 percent return on … Continued
In their ongoing federal lawsuit against the City & County of Honolulu, companies owned by the developer of the Marconi Point Condominiums on Oʻahu’s North Shore now argue that a 2017 email among Department of Planning and Permitting staff that … Continued
“What more due process do you want?” Hawaiʻi Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins asked David Kimo Frankel last month. Frankel is the attorney representing the Sierra Club of Hawaiʻi in a lawsuit over the state Board of Land and Natural … Continued
RCA Trade Center, Inc., and MP Unit 21, LLC, are not letting go of their lawsuit against a couple that complained last year about large warehouses erected near its home within the Marconi Point Condominiums project. The companies hope to … Continued
The eight agricultural warehouses that stand out like sore thumbs within the Marconi Point Condominums property on Oʻahu’s North Shore are massive and, except for one of them, indefinitely empty. Whether they will ever start storing the fertilizer, seed, and … Continued
The Public Utilities Commission wants to know why some customers of the Launiupoko Water Company are consuming frankly outrageous amounts of potable water. And so, on October 17, it sent formal requests for information to LWC, laying out in detail … Continued
In our September 2024 cover story, “Abandonment of Water Well Permit Highlights Problematic Growth at Moloaʻa Ag Subdivision,” we reported that on October 5, dozens of tenants within the Moloaʻa Hui agricultural subdivision on Kauaʻi would be cut off from the … Continued