Paia School won Ka'anipali Beach Resort Association's Na Mele Song Competition
With Michelle Anderson gone, the developers are working on gutting the Workforce Housing Law. Mayor Charmaine Tavares proposed reducing the affordable housing requirement from 40% to 30% for developers who build subdivisions with market-rate homes that are $600,000 or less. Developers creating luxury housing (over $600k) the 50% affordable housing would still apply.
According to the article the County is dickering with Canadian developers who want out of the requirement for their 250 Kihei units. Are these the same Canadian developers who were hiring illegal aliens instead of Maui construction workers?
Dave DeLeon of the Realtors Association of Maui is predictably opposed to the bill since his group makes most their commissions selling luxury vacation homes to the wealthy.
Father Damien Statue gets maile lei
Public is urged to ignore the new monk seal pup at Hana lest it meet the same fate as Ho'ailona on Moloka'i. Stay at least 150 feet away, do not feed it, do not make eye contact, do not try to get its attention and if it approaches, ignore it and leave. NOAA captures tamed seals and they never get released again. Don't be the one who tames this seal pup and sentences it to a life in captivity.
In crime, Joseph "Joe" Kahanu Jr was convicted of punching his girlfriend's 6 year old in the forehead. Guys -- "never shake a keiki" also includes never giving them a ringing punch to the head. Sheesh.
Maui Taekwondo held a car wash last week at St. Theresa Church in Kihei.
Orlando Tagorda replaces J.B. Guard on the Maui Planning Commission.
The Nisei Veterans Memorial Center received $10,000 from the Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation.
The Kaho'olawe Island Reserve Commission is extending the deadline for nominations to fill the Native Hawaiian organization representative seat on its seven-member state commission. Visit the Web site www.kahoolawe.hawaii.gov or call Ka'onohi Lee at 243-5020 for applications.
Netra Halperin extols Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program for the schools.
Emmons Connell thinks many of the Federal programs are broke and wants them fixed prior to doing anything new ... like healthcare? This is one of the GOP talking points that they encourage their followers to write.
Alex Davis condemns organizations who want to "stop everything". He apparently wants Upcountry to drink from the pesticide polluted Hamakuapoko wells so that developers can build more subdivisions upcountry. He apparently feels that it is OK to ignore environmental law and run the Superferry without an EIS...and ignores the fact that it was a plan doomed to failure because its buisiness plan was faulty.
He calls groups that watchdog the environment and insure laws are followed "anti-everything". Presumably he wants these pesky zoning and environmental protection laws removed so that our island can be fully exploited and we can get on with making money.
Richard Webster propagates the GOP lie that the healthcare reform bill will create "a government health committee that will decide whether you, your children or parents can have treatment" Apparently he has never tried to get treatment out of his insurance company. There will be no government panel. But we already have insurance company panels dedicated to disallowing coverage for all kinds of reasons. Why print letters that you know contain erroneous information, Maui News?
Dissing the slowness and small size of stimulus funds reaching Maui
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