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Maui Planning Commission members will take up the draft South Maui Community Plan update on Tuesday, and it comes with a very hot potato — a policy statement to increase residential housing by phasing-out short-term vacation rentals.

After the height of remote work due to the pandemic in 2020, Hawai’i now has about 20% of its workforce still working remotely, at home or in a hybrid arrangement — and that may not change much in the future, according to Hawai’i economist Paul Brewbaker. 

Hawaiian Airlines generated the equivalent of $9.3 billion in economic benefit for the state of Hawai‘i and supported more than 60,000 jobs in 2018, according to an independent report conducted in recognition of the airline’s 90th year of service.

The Maui Nui Marine Resource Council is hosting a free lecture by economist Paul Brewbaker on Sept. 4.

The first Annual US-Hawaiʻi Real Estate Economic Summit will be held at the Andaz Maui at Wailea Resort on Tuesday, April 16, 2019.

The Maui Chamber of Commerce released a report today saying the Maui County Voter Initiative “would be crippling for the county and have a disastrous impact on the state’s agricultural sector.”

The Council on Revenues lowered its revenue forecast for 2012 fiscal year yesterday by 3 percentage points since its earlier estimate in September 2011.

In its March Forecast, the Council on Revenues lowered its projections for tax revenue growth, in fiscal year 2011, from 3.0 percent to 0.5 percent.

The Maui Chamber of Commerce will host several upcoming events on Maui featuring island dignitaries. 2009 ANNUAL GOVERNOR’S LUNCHEON The first will be held this Friday, January 30, 2009 at the King Kamehameha Golf Club in Waikapu.  There, Governor Lingle will deliver the keynote address at the Maui Chamber of Commerce’s annual meeting.  Lingle is […]