•Prince Kuhio in Hilo, from 8 a.m. until noon
• West Hawaii Civic Center, from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m.
•Kea’au High School, from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m.
The testings are drive-through, and everybody needs to wear a mask. There may be long lines, so be prepared.
County testing is funded by Federal CARES funds, which are no longer available at the end of the year. It’s not clear whether there will be funding to continue the amount of testing that’s been ongoing since the Federal government provided funding.
Photo is Hawaii County EMTs ready to help with COVID testing.
The Government Promised to Return Ancestral Hawaiian Land, Then Never Finished the Job ProPublica 12/19/2020
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This story was co-published with the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network.
Twenty-five years ago, the state of Hawaii and the U.S. government promised Native Hawaiians to correct a historic wrong.
Public agencies had occupied thousands of acres intended to return Native people to their ancestral lands, paying little or no compensation for decades as the sites were used for military bases, game preserves, schools and other purposes. In 1995, state and federal legislation pledged to provide reparations.
•Prince Kuhio in Hilo, from 8 a.m. until noon
• West Hawaii Civic Center, from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m.
•Kea’au High School, from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m.
The testings are drive-through, and everybody needs to wear a mask. There may be long lines, so be prepared.
County testing is funded by Federal CARES funds, which are no longer available at the end of the year. It’s not clear whether there will be funding to continue the amount of testing that’s been ongoing since the Federal government provided funding.
Photo is Hawaii County EMTs ready to help with COVID testing.
December 17, 2020
Legislators in the American state of Hawaii may soon reportedly be presented with the chance to legalize commercial gambling via a measure that could see a new integrated casino resort developed for the small Oahu city of Kapolei.
According to a Wednesday report from Pacific Business News, the western state’s Department of Hawaiian Home Lands recently announced that it intends to ask the nine-member Hawaiian Homes Commission to support its plan to bring a gambling-friendly property to Honolulu County. The source detailed that this latter body currently holds the desired development site in trust so as to make its approval necessary before any such proposition goes before state lawmakers.
How Lending Practices Restrict Hawaiian Homesteaders’ Borrowing Power - Honolulu Civil Beat
How Lending Practices Restrict Hawaiian Homesteaders’ Borrowing Power
Native Hawaiians cannot take out second mortgages or home equity lines of credit on their homesteads but not everyone understood that was part of the deal. Reading time: 13 minutes.
For the few Native Hawaiians who can secure a residential lot on Hawaiian Home Lands, the ground holds the potential to fulfill a century-old promise.
The advantages of homeownership, a maintainable property to pass down to children, the restoration of economic self-sufficiency among Native Hawaiians these were all commitments made by the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, passed by Congress in 1920.