Old Lahaina Town Utterly Destroyed - Recovery & Relief Efforts

[terracore]

Update on where HECO will get the money to pay for lawsuits etc from Maui wildfires.  
From you, the ratepayer.  If you read the article they’ll explain how raising your rates without going through the usual process will actually SAVE you money.  In the long run.

https://www.civilbeat.org/2024/01/hawaii...n%20August.

"Henry Curtis, executive director of Life of the Land, said securitizing ratepayer revenue as the bill envisions could be a good deal for ratepayers in the long run."

Well.... that's good enough for me!

I looked at his trainwreck website and am wondering what I'm missing?  Why would they even quote garbage like this?

[leilanidude]

Even then, we should discuss how little we are charging these large estates to sit on fallow land, how that land could solve the housing (and rebuilding) crisis in Maui, and how fair taxation on the land would either benefit the public, or encourage the landholders to sell it for more productive and less combustible uses.
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What do you think would happen if they started selling off that land because the property taxes went up? That would create even more development which would make even more people want to live there or visit, spoiling what little is left of the real Hawaii.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

That would create even more development which would make even more people want to live there or visit

If property owners of large weed covered fields get an ag tax rate, maybe they should be required to use the property for agriculture?

Do you think, given the choice, former residents of Lahaina would rather deal with more development versus having their homes and town burned to the ground? Not that there was a choice, but in this instance development was not the worst option.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

A 400 page report has been issued about last year’s Lahaina fire. It’s not meant to assign blame, but Mayor Bissen receives a fair amount of attention for not issuing emergency warnings, not contacting officials, and going AWOL as the fire intensified and spread:

A new report by Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez questions Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen's response to the deadly 2023 wildfires. 

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/maui-wildf...00-10abd1h

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/maui-count...00-10abd1h

['elepaio]

And why has Maui fallen out of the Mainstream Media News ??? They got 700 .. Wow .. meanwhile look, squirrel Ukraine.. X billions ..

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Mainstream Media News ??? They got 700

Maui is in the news, when there’s news like the story I posted. $5.5 billion will be spent on rebuilding.  That’s a lot of money for one small town of a few square miles, and not all of Lahaina burned. If someone died, family members will get $1.75 million. After the fire displaced survivors were housed in $400 a night hotel rooms for many months.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/20...-oil-costs

[HiloJulie]

Careful HOTPE. 

Your response may have just tipped towards “assault”

[randomq]

Socialize those losses. Don't blame our local oligarchs who couldn't be bothered to cut the grass on their own property. Let the taxpayers solve everything with their hard earned money. Why solve the housing crisis we can keep everyone in hotels indefinitely!

['elepaio]

Yep,
but but ..their getting 1.75 per (d)head...and get to shuffle around when they already HAD a home.

Two big thumbs up ( sarc emogi here )

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

shuffle around when they already HAD a home.

Since nothing they do is good enough to make up for their losses, your solution is to build a Time Machine?