“I wouldn’t say it was fixed, but it wasn’t getting better.”
Surfing for a living is a wild gamble. Sometimes everything is golden and clicks and flows. Otherwise, golden bachelor, violent, ruthless, lame. The tide is coming out all the time. So I had a lot of sympathy for the various surfing schools on the Big Island that had their entire business models upended by a pesky new lottery two weeks ago.
For that timeOn Friday, 17 would-be surf school owners gathered at the Old Kona Airport Pavilion, waiting to find out whether they would receive one of just four permits being offered to the highly popular Kalahuu Bay. The Department of Land and Resources has decided to drop the ball on a hopper bingo format to select programs that will be allowed to teach vulnerable populations.
The ball was dropped, spun and selected.
Wesley Moore won three of the four spots.
Others who had been there for decades left without a rose.
It was like the apocalypse.
But a few hours ago, a state court intervened, providing a miraculous reprieve.
according to Big Island News Now:
At a hearing Thursday afternoon, Third Circuit Judge Robert D.S. Kim issued a temporary injunction, saying this was a public interest case because trust in state institutions must be based on transparency and fairness. I accepted the order.
“The substance is [the Department of Land and Natural Resources] We knew the system could be stolen,” Kim said. “I wouldn’t say it was fixed, but it wasn’t getting better.”
It was noted at the hearing that Moore owned eight of the 17 companies eligible for the lottery, but only one school. Moore, a longtime Kona resident, has operated Kona Town His Surf His Adventure for many years. However, all of the other LLCs were formed within the past few years.
Boom and Wesley Moore preparing legal forces?
probably. That’s the era we live in. Where slaps were exchanged for briefs.
Hi.
Anyway, David Lee Scales and I didn’t discuss the subject, but we did delve into the pure adult pleasure of dipping fries in mayonnaise instead of ketchup.
where do you stand on that?
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