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Hawaii voters approve major constitutional amendments, and see new leadership emerge in local races, including the Big Island mayor. Hawaii election recap: Who won, lost key races in the Aloha ...
Asing has served fourteen consecutive two-year terms on the Kauai County Council, as of 2010, for a total of 28 years on the council. [3] He was re-elected for his fourteenth and most recent term in 2008. [3] Asing has served as the chairman of the Kauai County Council for eight years (four terms), during most of the period between 2002 and ...
Hawaii volunteers helped complete more than 10,500 state and federal tax returns, helping Tax-Aide participants save more than $3 million in refunds. A guide to what Hawaiʻi’s food banks need ...
A key to developing low-income rental housing is obtaining federal and state tax credits from the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corp., a state agency that allocates such credits that ...
In 2024, while it still voted majority Democratic, Kauai County cast the highest percentage of its vote for the Republican candidate out of any county in the state, a record that has generally been held by Honolulu County. This was the first time since 1960 that the county held this distinction.
In 1893, pro-American elements in Hawaii overthrew the monarchy and formed the Republic of Hawaii, which the U.S. annexed in 1898. [6] In 1921, in order to make amends for injustices associated with the overthrow and annexation, the US created the Hawaiian Homes Commissions Act which set aside 200,000 acres of land for the use of homelands for Native Hawaiians of 50% blood quantum or more.
The event, managed by the state Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Kokee Leaseholders Association, drew 130 Kauai residents to bid for the seven cabins.
From 2016 to 2020, he served in the Hawaii Senate from the 1st District. In 2024, he was elected as a trustee to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, with fellow board members electing him as chair. [1] Kahele is a member of the Democratic Party [2] [3] and the son of the late Hawaii Senate member Gil Kahele.