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Finally! A farmer! Who is Californian Ceil Howe III and what is he doing as an overseer of Mahi Pono?

By Deborah Caulfield Rybak January 15, 2019Mahi Pono, Politics

[MauiTime first broke the story of the sale of Alexander & Baldwin’s old sugarcane lands in November 2018. Our ongoing Changing Maui: Mahi Pono series investigates the new owners of…

Mahi Pono Purchase Agreement: Lots of legalese with a few tasty nuggets

By Deborah Caulfield Rybak January 9, 2019Mahi Pono, Politics

Here’s a link to the Alexander & Baldwin/Mahi Pono purchase and sales agreement, filed by A&B as part of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Form 8K filing. The 50-plus…

Two Activists and a Lt. Governor: Mahi Pono’s first hires seem long on charm and short on farm

By Deborah Caulfield Rybak January 6, 2019Mahi Pono, Politics

Mahi Pono, the island’s newest and largest landowner, has acquired some Maui employees. Former Hawai‘i Lt. Governor Shan Tsutsui and longtime island activist Sean Lester have signed on with the…

Who Are These Guys? Enthusiasm over the new owners of A&B’s agricultural lands runs high, though almost nothing is known about them

By Deborah Caulfield Rybak December 30, 2018Mahi Pono, Politics

To hear the hosannas from members of Maui’s progressive community, Christmas came early this year with Alexander & Baldwin’s sale of some 41,000 acres of former sugarcane lands to a…

Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa complains about County Council cutting $2.5 million Project Aloha–which still has no plan

By Deborah Caulfield Rybak May 4, 2018Politics

What is it with Mayor Alan Arakawa’s obsession about banishing Maui’s homeless to Old Maui High School, a 23-acre venue on the far side of traffic-clogged Paia with no sewer,…