Editorial
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
State Law Requires Disclosure Of Tax Number in Property Sales
To make sure that non-residents receiving income from the sale of real property in Hawai`i pay the necessary Hawai`i taxes on that income, state law mandates that the buyer of the property must withhold taxes on payments to the non-residents. … Continued
State Can't Afford Roads, Water For Multi-Million Dollar Kona Park
The Kona Coast State Park has been more than two decades in the making — and, despite expenditures by the state of more than $30 million for land acquisition alone, it may be decades more before visitors to the park … Continued
Anatomy of a Speculation: The Many Flips of Mahai'ula
On July 12, 1990, Richard A Stellmacher, an appraiser hired by the state, accompanied George A. Magoon II on a tour of a 40-acre shoreline parcel owned by members of the Magoon family at Mahai’ula, just north of the Keahole … Continued
Mahai’ula at Center of Dispute Over Will of George Magoon Sr.
On June 6, 1987, George A. Magoon Sr. died of a cardiac infarction. For the next six years, his estate was locked up in probate. Claimants to his estate were many, including his third ex–wife, Velma Lee, incarcerated at the … Continued
In the Conservation District
Board Extinguishes Conservation Permit For Engelstad House on Lanikai Hillside The Conservation District Use Permit for the planned Lanikai hillside residence of Las Vegas hotelier Ralph Engelstad and his wife, Betty, was killed by the Land Board on October 27. … Continued
Doomed Wetland at Haleiwa Is Small But 'Aesthetically, … Quite Pleasing'
The small wetland whose filling is imminent was overlooked in the initial surveys of the area proposed for the Haleiwa Bypass Road. Still, it has received what amounts to a moving eulogy from the consultants hired by the Department of … Continued
Land Board Approves Haseko Request For Permit to Dredge `Ewa Marina Channel
Rushing to meet a self-imposed deadline, the Board of Land and Natural Resources, on December 29, 1994, met to hear closing arguments in the contested case held over the Conservation District Use Application of Haseko (`Ewa), Inc., to build a … Continued
Affidavit of Libert Landgraf
In December, Environment Hawai`i published the letter of Sheryl Nicholson to Keith Ahue, in which Nicholson, attorney for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, described her encounter with Land Board member Libert Landgraf. Below we reprint, in its entirety, Landgraf’s affidavit, … Continued
Audit of Office of Space Industry Blasts Hayward, MCM Planning Contracts
Marion Higa, state auditor, has unleashed her staff on the Office of Space Industry. Its findings were released in January, along with the findings of a more general audit of the contracting programs of other programs of the Department of … Continued