Embattled Agribusiness Corporation Has Powerful Friends - Honolulu Civil Beat
Lawmakers plan to vote next week on a measure to dissolve the Agribusiness Development Corp. Reading time: 4 minutes.
With the future of a state agency in charge of transforming Hawaii’s old plantation lands into working farms in the balance, battle lines formed Friday between Gov. David Ige’s administration and big agricultural organizations on one side and lawmakers who say the agency has failed in its mission and should be dissolved on the other.
The hearing before the Hawaii House Agriculture Committee produced no result, as the committee voted to defer until Friday a bill that would dissolve the corporation.
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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According to audit data released yesterday, the state agency set up to help convert Hawaii’s agriculture lands from plantations producing mainly pineapple and sugar for export to more…
After 25 years, the Agribusiness Development Corp. hasn't helped Hawaii re-fashion former sugar and pineapple plantations into viable economic engines, audit says.