by Kehau Cortez-Camero | May 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
Letter: Kakaako Makai’s future is for OHA to decide LEARN ABOUT HAKUONECONTACT HAKUONE by: Pohai Ryan Regarding Kanekoa Crabbe’s commentary on Kakaako Makai — or specifically, Hakuone by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) (“OHA should realize the site is not a pono...
by Kehau Cortez-Camero | May 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
Letter: Kakaako Makai limits not fair to Native Hawaiians LEARN ABOUT HAKUONECONTACT HAKUONE by: Glenn Kimura As a retired urban planner who has been following the debate over development proposals for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs’ Kakaako Makai lands, I feel things...
by Kehau Cortez-Camero | Apr 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
Letter: Saiki should work to get OHA funding LEARN ABOUT HAKUONECONTACT HAKUONE by: Sylvia Hussey House Speaker Scott Saiki has recently publicly acknowledged that remediation of a toxic landfill at Kakaako Makai and repairs to the wharf will likely cost more than...
by Kehau Cortez-Camero | Apr 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
On Politics: Kakaako Makai reopens drama between state, OHA LEARN ABOUT HAKUONECONTACT HAKUONE by: Richard Borreca Should we protect or develop the critically important Kakaako Makai area? Would you like open space, do you think Native Hawaiians should get money they...
by Kehau Cortez-Camero | Apr 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
Letter: Allow OHA to build on Kakaako Makai LEARN ABOUT HAKUONECONTACT HAKUONE by: Warren Higa At first I was opposed to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs trying to renege on its Kakaako Makai land deal, because a deal is a deal (“OHA rejects Kakaako Makai deal,”...
by Kehau Cortez-Camero | Apr 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
Editorial: Find fair deal for Kakaako Makai LEARN ABOUT HAKUONECONTACT HAKUONE The gulf separating the positions held by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and the state House over the development of OHA land at Kakaako Makai still appears impassable. There is hope,...
by Kehau Cortez-Camero | Apr 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
David Shapiro: OHA too quick to reject latest ceded-lands proposal LEARN ABOUT HAKUONECONTACT HAKUONE By: David Shapiro The Office of Hawaiian Affairs has made many costly misjudgments in decades of attempts to settle its ceded-lands dispute with the state, and...
by Kehau Cortez-Camero | Apr 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
Sylvia Hussey: OHA head guides office to Ho‘olua Lahui Aloha LEARN ABOUT HAKUONECONTACT HAKUONE by: Sylvia Hussey How will the Hakuone project be reshaped, given the Legislature’s latest resistance to high-rise development? Or is that change not certain at this point?...
by Kehau Cortez-Camero | Apr 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
Office of Hawaiian Affairs rejects $100M Kakaako Makai deal LEARN ABOUT HAKUONECONTACT HAKUONE by: Andrew Gomes The Office of Hawaiian Affairs has dismissed a buyout proposal from a legislative leader to make permanent an existing residential development ban on land...
by Kehau Cortez-Camero | Apr 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
House Speaker Saiki makes OHA offer to kapu housing in Kakaako Makai LEARN ABOUT HAKUONECONTACT HAKUONE The leader of the state House of Representatives wants to make a deal with the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to keep housing from ever being developed on land the...