In West Maui, the Fight Over Water Reveals Deep Social, Economic Rifts
It is April 2022. A worker at the Salvation Army center in Lahaina receives a visit from a young woman living high in Kauaʻula Valley seeking entry for her family into the organization’s homeless shelter. The Salvation Army worker notifies … Continued
Editorial: Those Launiupoko ‘Farms’
What comes to mind when you think of a farm? The white frame house in Grant Wood’s “American Gothic?” Endless acres of melon plants or cabbages? Barns with cattle, a chicken house, a pig sty? In the Launiupoko area of … Continued
New & Noteworthy: Mosquito Control, Lahaina Permit And Affordable Housing Trial
Kauaʻi Mosquito Control: In a desperate effort to stave off the extinction of Kauaʻi forest birds, the state Department of Land and Natural Resources’ Division of Forestry and Wildlife is resorting to aerial spraying of Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bti) as … Continued
High Court Finds Water Commission Failed To Justify ‘Status Quo’ Stream Flow Standards
According to a June 20 opinion by the Hawai‘i Supreme Court, the state Commission on Water Resource Management needs to justify why more water shouldn’t be left in four Maui streams long diverted for sugarcane production, especially since the largest … Continued