Letters To The Editor

The Lahaina Strong group is planning a rally for dignified housing on Saturday, March 30, at 4 p.m. in Kāʻanapali. The event continues the call for government leaders to use their executive powers now to achieve dignified housing for fire survivors in West Maui.

Passed by the Legislature earlier this year, HB1382, now Act 54, allows nonprofits to donate wild game meat to “under-resourced” communities, including the homeless.

This version of Maui Nowʻs letters includes discussion about drainage for repeat flooding areas, lack of effort to find Mauiʻs missing persons, Villages of Lealiʻi development, discrimination by TSA at Kahuli Airport pre-check, Makawao fire, longtime visitors upset about recent lack of “Aloha Spirt,” radical idea to get rid of Axis deer and more.

The Institute testified the new ordinance is likely to do more harm than good toward the cause of encouraging more homebuilding

This version of Maui Nowʻs Letters to the Editor include discussion about Upcountry water woes, the crossing of PIʻilani Highway to the new Kīhei High School, over tourism and over development, Inflation Reduction Act, maintenance of the Kīhei Boat Ramp, the Maui County Comprehensive Housing Plan, motorcycle noise and more.

Whatʻs on the minds of Maui residents? This version of Maui Nowʻs letters includes topics about speed bumps, Kīhei High School roundabout, tourist parking fees at beaches, Jones Act, ivermectin, long TSA lines, reducing vacation rentals, Maui High graduation changes and feral fowl.

Whatʻs on the minds of Maui residents? This version of Maui Nowʻs letters includes topics about healthcare, closure of public road near Kanaha Beach Park, dirty restrooms at Kalama Park, increasing second-home property taxes, short-term rentals, a found canoe in the ocean, suspending the Jones Act and don’t boycott Smirnoff. It’s not a Russian company anymore.

Whatʻs on the minds of Maui residents? This version of Maui Nowʻs letters includes topics about “nonsense” drink tax research, underage drinking, loss of beach access, need to repair Kula bike lanes, church steeple repair campaign, Humane Society animals being shipped to other islands and promotion for Russian vodka during invasion of Ukraine.

Whatʻs on the minds of Maui residents? This version of Maui Nowʻs letters to the editor includes opposing views about the vaccine, pickleball noise, Kanaha Pond stench, Black Rock pollution, supporting ʻAina Kupuna tax relief for ancestral land inheritance, kudos to Kīhei Post Office Postmaster, stop forgetting lessons of our ancestors and much more.

Whatʻs on the minds of Maui residents? This version of Maui Nowʻs letters to the editor includes opposing views about the vaccine, COVID-19 government mandates, support for Dr. Lorrin Pang, disappointment with adminstration At Kekaulike High School and plea for people not to dehumanize homeless people.

Whatʻs on the minds of Maui residents and visitors? This version of Maui Nowʻs letters to the editor includes the continuing trash problem along Amala Place, the construction of a big house at Five Graves and the ongoing debate on vaccinations and tourism during the COVID-19 surge on Maui.

Whatʻs on the minds of Maui residents? This version of Maui Nowʻs letters to the editors include the debate on COVID-19 vaccinations — public safety versus personal freedom — and calls to help Henry the Pig.

Whatʻs on the minds of Maui residents and visitors? Maui Nowʻs letters to the editors this month include discussion about new road safety legislation, commercial luas at VFW, Makena Landing overrun by commercial tours, slow vaccine verification process at airport, climate emergency, roadside greenery “butchery” and watering tourist destinations in desert while water shortage in Upcountry.

Whatʻs on the minds of Maui residents and visitors? Maui Nowʻs letters to the editors this week discuss Tobacco Control Trust Fund, pedestrian crosswalk signage, wearing masks at outdoor recycling centers, visitation time at Hale Makua, requiring tours for Road to Hana visitors and stopping dive companies from hogging public beach parking.

Whatʻs on the minds of Maui residents and visitors? Maui Nowʻs letters to the editors this week discuss too many tourists, bad visitor experiences regarding COVID-19 protocal, need for US to help with global vaccination effort and congratulations to a teacher for teaching the “Spreading Happiness” program to his students.

Whatʻs on the minds of Maui residents and visitors? Maui Nowʻs letters to the editors discuss priority restaurants reservations for locals, eco fees for visitors, getting rid of COVID-19 test requirements for vaccinated travelers and being kind to the “Golden Goose.”

Whatʻs on the minds of Maui residents and visitors? Maui Nowʻs letters to the editors discuss a solar farm above Maui Meadows, vaccination efforts versus necessity of COVID-19 mass testing, mask mandate, religious exemptions, naked men at Poʻolenalena Beach, biting the tourist hand that feeds you and good old Maui skuldiggery.

Whatʻs on the minds of Maui residents and visitors? Maui Nowʻs letters to the editors discuss the Mayor’s plan for a second COVID-19 test for travelers, bullying and hostile work environment at County offices, Maui mozzarella to solve dam issue, treatment of tourists, debris and abandoned cars on County land that is supposed to be protected, poor treatment in nursing home, the need to “cool it with the Clorox” and more.

Whatʻs on Maui resident minds? Maui Nowʻs letters to the editors discuss rights of landlords, rights of tenants, need for new COVID-19 restrictions, need to eliminate costly COVID-19 test for interisland travel and praise by director of Hawaiʻi High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area for retiring Maui Police Department Police Chief Tivoli Faaumu.

What do Maui residents think about sending prisoners to mainland jails, derelict cars, tourists arriving with proof of vaccination but not a negative COVID-19 test, rats at the Maunaloa Post Office, the proposed statewide alcohol tax and more? Read on to find out.