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The beta prototype stage of a website being created to help alleviate over-tourism in East Maui would require that commercial vehicles and nonresidents pay a parking fee and a park entrance fee for Waiâanapanapa State Park. After state fees are paid online, a QR code would be issued and checked onsite. East Maui Reservation Project meeting screenshots
In an effort to manage high traffic flow to Maui’s remote East Maui, a reservation system for commercial vehicles and individual tourists seeking to visit Wai’anapanapa State Park is anticipated to launch next month.
The site, mauiwayfinding.com, is in its beta prototype stage and being created in collaboration with Hawaii Tourism Association. It would require people to pay a parking fee and a park entrance fee. After state fees are paid online, a QR code would be issued and checked onsite.
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From state worker furloughs to program cuts, Maui County’s legislators said it’s too early to tell what will happen to the state budget as they wait to see what happens when President-elect Joe Biden takes office on the same day the Legislature opens.
Gov. David Ige released his fiscal 2021-23 budget in December, scaling back both the operating and capital improvements program budgets to make up for the $1.4 billion shortfall expected in each of the next two years. Ige had announced that state employee furloughs would begin with the new year, but after Congress passed a $900 billion relief measure, he pushed them back to at least July 1.
Feedback on coverage of Proud Boys Hawaii founder
Federal authorities arrested Nicholas Ochs, founder of Proud Boys Hawaii, for his involvement at the U.S. Capitol riot and insurrection last week in Washington, D.C. Earlier this week, The Conversation covered his appearance in court and replayed an excerpt from an interview by HPR s Noe Tanigawa three years ago. At the time, he was organizing a chapter of that right-wing extremist group the Southern Poverty Law Center calls a hate group. Here is some of the feedback we received, and HPR News Director Bill Dorman responds to the criticism.
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