Candidate Q&A: Maui County Council Upcountry District — Jocelyn Cruz
“It’s not right that off-shore companies and institutions are controlling some of the water here and then taking those profits off the island.”
“It’s not right that off-shore companies and institutions are controlling some of the water here and then taking those profits off the island.”
Japanese laborers were unable to sway powerful plantation owners and hysterical English-language newspaper editors in 1909, but they set changes in motion that would dramatically shape modern Hawaii.
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