County Reduces Housing Estimate
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I Have a Dream Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Moe‘uhane: Dream
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Kundu: Drum
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The smoke seen in the dream now rises.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.” (Kahil Gibran)
August 28, 1963: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr gives his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial to a crowd of 200,000 marchers, in Washington DC, peacefully demonstrating for civil rights. x
August 28, 2008: Barack Obama accepts the Democratic Party nomination for the 44th U.S. president in Denver, Colorado. He speaks to a crowd of 80,000 at Invesco Field where the Denver Broncos play. Obama is preceded by singers Sheryl Crow, Stevie Wonder and John Legend, then former VP, winner of the 2000 presidential popular vote & Nobel Peace Prize recipient Al Gore. Read more in the Denvert Post >
TODAY: New forecasts predicting slower population growth on Maui over the next 20 years have led the county Planning Department to reduce its recommendation for new housing units in the Maui Island Plan. More >
