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Members of the County of Hawaii Council have been reviewing the Short-Term Vacation Rental regulations and are currently working on draft legislation to amend the law. Some issues that have been proposed in the most recent draft include changing the name ofShort-Term Vacation Rental toTransient Ac...
Politicians in Hawaii werethreatening to sue Big Energy companies last Novemberfor damages from the effects of man-caused global warming.As seen in their press release last week, March 9th, they finally delivered on it. Poor timing for those City/County officials, since the Coronavirus news is ...
By Donald D. Johnson assisted by Phyllis Turnbull. (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press and City Council of the City and County of Honolulu, 1991. viii + 462 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8248-1344-8.)... N Franklin - 《Journal of American History》 ...
President-elect Donald Trump told reporters that he would consider pardoning embattled New York Mayor Eric Adams, said the country was “not going to lose” the polio vaccine and weighed in on the flurry of drone sightings over New Jersey during a freewheeling press conference Monday at his...
Hawaii's highest-ever rainfall came in late January of 1956 in Kilauea, Kauai. In April 2018, heavy rainfalls devastated the island of Kauai once again as dozens of homes were left in shambles in the island's towns, including Hanalei, Wainiha, Haena, and Anahola. Thefloods affected532 ho...
Staff members and department heads never correct City Manager Joe Lopez and will almost fall on their sword before even considering to correct the Mayor or Councilmembers. There is an exception to this rule and that’s if a member of the council dares to go against something the Mayor or ...
TheEqual Rights Amendmentwas originally written in 1921 bysuffragist Alice Pauland had been introduced to Congress every year since 1923, and finally passed this year. Hawaii became the first of 34 other states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex,...
Often times, it looks like plastic and holds like it but what it’s made out of can be composted and turned back into dirt,” said Councilmember of Matt Weyer, co-author of Bill 47. United States Waste & Recycling News
As a long-time member and founding Chair of the Redwood Valley Municipal Advisory Council (MAC), I wish to state my opposition to staff’s proposed dissolution of these Councils. First, I was quite surprised that no one, apparently, contacted any MAC members to discuss this proposal. That ...