by Grassroot Institute of Hawaii | Sep 8, 2020 | Housing, Land Use & Zoning, Testimony & Letters
The following testimony was submitted Sept. 8, 2020, to the Maui Planning Commission by Joe Kent, executive vice president of the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii. ____________ To: Maui Planning Commission / Lawrence Carnicelli, Chair / Christian Tackett, Vice chair...
by Melissa Newsham | Sep 8, 2020 | Multimedia
The Hawaii attorney has been a valuable adviser concerning property rights and emergency powers issues If you’ve been keeping up to date with the Grassroot Institute’s programs, chances are you know Grassroot Scholar Robert Thomas. Born on Oahu to a plantation worker...
by Grassroot Institute of Hawaii | Sep 8, 2020 | Civil Liberties
For half a year our freedoms have been suspended in the name of public health, and that isn’t healthy Thomas Paine was right when he talked about how “what we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.” So many of us in Hawaii were simply born into our state of relative...
by Melissa Newsham | Sep 8, 2020 | Accountability
One thing the state has been doing mostly well throughout this coronavirus crisis has been to report promptly Hawaii’s COVID-19 daily cases. Most people probably learn about those numbers through the news headlines or their social media feeds. They are valuable to...
