JUNE 26, 2019 BY DEBORAH CAULFIELD RYBAK “Maui is losing its aloha,” a friend lamented recently as we discussed the news of...
Category: Water

Council leadership defends property tax, fee hikes, record $823.5 million budget
The budget includes funds for affordable housing with the council doubling the appropriation of property tax revenues to… Posted by...

Monsanto must pay couple $2bn in largest verdict yet over cancer claims
California jury holds makers of Roundup weedkiller responsible for couple contracting non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma ...

Victory! House Bill 1326, the water bill that would have saved Alexander & Baldwin $62 million and delayed environmental assessment of stream diversions for another 7 years
Posted by SAFE on Tuesday, April 30, 2019

A&B Water Bill is Back! Maui Needs Your Voices!
HEADS UP! PLEASE SHARE WIDELY! As we expected, the A&B Water Bill is back! Not satisfied with their loss at the...

Council looks to have final say over injection wells settlement
Chairwoman King wants to see county withdraw appeal from US Supreme Court The Maui County Council is mulling a resolution...
Trisha Kehaulani Watson: This Maui Fight Doesn’t Belong In The Supreme Court
We’re better off if some environmental battles were resolved with innovation and negotiation rather than in a courtroom. In 2012, Earthjustice sued...
Stand Aside and Let the Big Dog Slurp: ‘Corporate Water Theft’ bill sailing through the Hawai‘i Legislature
[MauiTime first broke the story of the sale of Alexander & Baldwin’s old sugarcane lands in November 2018. Our ongoing...
Co-chair and FACE of Mayor Victorino’s (Director) selection committee, Madge Schaefer showed up on Friday to testify and diminished the tearful closing comments of councilmember Keani Rawlins-Fernandez
Co-chair and FACE of Mayor Victorino’s (Director) selection committee, Madge Schaefer showed up on Friday to testify and diminished the...