County Appointments

The Maui County Council Policy Committee will continue to discuss the nomination of DeGray Vanderbilt to the Molokai Planning Commission at a meeting at 10:30 a.m. Thursday in the…

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Charter Commission

Members of the County Charter Commission tasked with coming up to amendments to Maui’s county governing document for voters in the 2012 election are: Linda Kay Okamoto, Stephanie Stacy…

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Lehman Bros Buys Ritz Carleton

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (the lender) outbid two other qualified bidders for the …

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Henry Curtis on the Interisland Cable

Aloha, SB 367 would have enabled building an inter-island transmission line to connect Big Wind on Lana`i and Moloka`i to O`ahu. The bill…

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PUC Rejects First Wind’s Extension

The Public Utilities Commission has rejected a request by First Wind LLC for more time to submit a document outlining its plans for a proposed wind energy…

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HECO Seeking Biofuels for Plant

HONOLULU – Hawaii Electric Co. says it’s seeking suppliers for 42 million gallons of biofuels to run its Kahe Power Plant, the largest generating station in Hawaii. The utility said…

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Focus Maui Nui, Decisions Maui Applications

Applications are being accepted for a leadership program developed by Decisions Maui and Focus Maui Nui. The yearlong Ka Ipu Kukui Fellows program trains people identified as future leaders in…

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Pro & Con for Big Wind

From Henry Curtis: SB367 Big Wind (also known as HIREP, Inter-island Cable) PRO Windward Ahupua`a Alliance (May 3, 2011): “I support the interisland cable and am glad…

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DBEDT Posts Big Wind Comments

The state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT) has posted the comments for their draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) of the wind project. During…

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DeGray Vanderbilt to Moloka’i Planning Commission?

Mayor Arakawa has nominated Oliver “DeGray” Vanderbilt to fill the one empty seat on the Moloka’i Planning Commission.  Although DeGray has many supporters who have written in favor of…

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