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Speaking to The Conversation, Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen shared his reaction to Green's decision about short-term rental moratoriums and reflected on his State of the County address on March 15, in which he outlined a path forward for a "heartbroken" community.
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Imagine getting paid to play pickleball. A national call for elite pickleball players went out last Fall for the reality series, "Pickleball Paddle Battle." Sixteen contestants will paddle their way to the top prize — 2 professional sponsorships and 2 franchisee opportunities. One of the competitors is Keven Wong from Oʻahu.
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A woman who purchased a vacant lot in Hawaiʻi was surprised to find out a $500,000 house was built on the property by mistake. She’s now mired in legal wrangling over the mix-up.
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Can speaking Pidgin give you an advantage in learning the Hawaiian language? That is the subject of a study by a linguist at the University of British Columbia in Canada. As HPR's Kuʻuwehi Hiraishi reports, the linguist drew inspiration from Māori and Māori-accented English in Aotearoa.
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Gov. Josh Green says some 3,000 people displaced by Lahaina’s wildfires are still living in hotels more than seven months after the August blaze. But he told a news conference that between 25 and 30 of them are moving to longer-term housing each day.
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Senate Ways and Means Committee Chair Donovan Dela Cruz said they passed the budget, along with the One ʻOhana Trust Fund and a Maui disaster relief fund to show a full picture of the requests from the governor's administration.
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This week, The Conversation has been sharing stories about pickleball around the state — the good, the bad, and the noisy. The Conversation spoke with Ron Romano, the executive director of the U.S. Tennis Association's Hawaii Pacific chapter, about the tension between tennis and pickleball players.
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Instead of sharing various music and dances from around Polynesia, the resort’s focus is the paniolo, or the Hawaiian cowboy. The Conversation talked to Resort Manager Joey Woofter about "Paniolo, A Hawaiian Cowboy Lūʻau."
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The death of two cyclists in their own neighborhood is still reverberating among the West Oʻahu community. Eduardo Hernandez, the advocacy director for the Hawaii Bicycling League, spoke to The Conversation about the need for better biking infrastructure and mindful driving.
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The $105,000 grant came from the nonprofit ACE Scholarships.
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His proposed budget is $153 million more than last year’s operating budget, mostly due to wildfire-related departmental spending. The Maui County Council will now review and approve Bissen’s budget.
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Jet fuel plays an outsized role in Hawaiʻi's total carbon emissions. Sustainable aviation fuels could help. But as HPR Savannah Harriman-Pote reports, the state’s still taking a wait-and-see approach.