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Lahaina, Hawaii (HI) Detailed Profile - travel and real estate info, jobs, hotels, hospitals, weather, schools, crime, ... Lahaina, Hawaii Back to Hawaii big cities , HI smaller cities , HI small cities , All Cities . Submit pictures of this city Current weather forecast for Lahaina, HI Population (year 2000): 9,118 Males: 4,738 (52.0%), Females: 4,380 (48.0%) Elevation: 20 feet County: Maui Land area: 5.8 square miles Zip codes: 96761 . Median resident age: 36.0 years Median household income: $52,984 (year 2000) Median house value: $259,400 (year 2000) Lahaina, HI residents, houses, and apartments details Races in Lahaina: Filipino (30.7%) White Non-Hispanic (24.7%) Two or more races (17.5%) Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander (9.8%) Japanese (8.7%) Hispanic (7.1%) Other race (2.2%) American Indian (1.9%) Other Asian (1.7%) Chinese (1.0%) Vietnamese (0.9%) (Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races) Ancestries: German (4.3%), English (4.2%), Irish (3.0%), United States (2.2%), French (2.0%), Portuguese (1.8%). New! Lahaina, Hawaii forum For population 25 years and over in Lahaina High school or higher: 78.8% Bachelor's degree or higher: 16.8% Graduate or professional degree: 2.9% Unemployed: 4.4% Mean travel time to work: 13.9 minutes For population 15 years and over in Lahaina CDP Never married: 36.5% Now married: 49.0% Separated: 1.0% Widowed: 5.3% Divorced: 8.2% 27.8% Foreign born (23.4% Asia, 2.9% Latin America). Nearest city with pop. 50,000+: Honolulu, HI (84.4 miles , pop. 371,657). Nearest city with pop. 1,000,000+: Los Angeles, CA (2785.3 miles , pop. 3,694,820). Nearest cities: Kaanapali, HI (3.4 miles ), Napili-Honokowai, HI (5.6 miles ), Kapalua, HI (7.8 miles ), Waikapu, HI (11.5 miles ), Wailuku, HI (11.9 miles ), Waihee-Waiehu, HI (11.9 miles ), Maalaea, HI (13.7 miles ), Kahului, HI (14.2 miles ). Latitude: 20.89 N, Longitude: 156.67 W Lahaina, Hawaii business data: stores, dealers, real estate agents, wholesalers, restaurants... Industries providing employment: Arts,entertainment,recreation,accommodation and food services (46.5%), Retail trade (13.6%). Daytime population change due to commuting: +2,006 (+22.0%) Workers who live and work in this city: 2,256 (49.5%) Average climate in Lahaina, Hawaii Based on data reported by over 4,000 weather stations Back to the top Hospitals/medical centers near Lahaina: MAUI MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER (about 12 miles; WAILUKU, HI) LANAI COMMUNITY HOSPITAL (about 19 miles; LANAI CITY, HI) KULA HOSPITAL (about 26 miles; KULA, HI) Political contributions by individuals in Lahaina, HI Airports certified for carrier operations nearest to Lahaina: KAPALUA (about 5 miles; LAHAINA, HI; ID: JHM) KAHULUI (about 18 miles; KAHULUI, HI; ID: OGG) LANAI (about 21 miles; LANAI CITY, HI; ID: LNY) Other public-use airports nearest to Lahaina: KALAUPAPA (about 30 miles; KALAUPAPA, HI; ID: LUP) MOLOKAI (about 34 miles; KAUNAKAKAI, HI; ID: MKK) HANA (about 48 miles; HANA, HI; ID: HNM) College/University in Lahaina: INSTITUTE OF BODY THERAPEUTICS (Location: BOX 11634; Private, for-profit) Colleges/universities with over 2000 students nearest to Lahaina: KAPIOLANI COMMUNITY COLLEGE (about 83 miles; HONOLULU, HI; Full-time enrollment: 4,131) UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA (about 85 miles; HONOLULU, HI; FT enrollment: 14,113) HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY (about 87 miles; HONOLULU, HI; FT enrollment: 6,186) HONOLULU COMMUNITY COLLEGE (about 88 miles; HONOLULU, HI; FT enrollment: 2,787) LEEWARD COMMUNITY COLLEGE (about 97 miles; PEARL CITY, HI; FT enrollment: 3,511) BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY-HAWAII CAMPUS (about 102 miles; LAIE, HI; FT enrollment: 2,273) UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO (about 136 miles; HILO, HI; FT enrollment: 2,434) Public high school in Lahaina: LAHAINALUNA HIGH SCHOOL (Students: 1,000; Location: 980 LAHAINALUNA ROAD; Grades: 09 - 12) Public primary/middle schools in Lahaina: KAMEHAMEHA III ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (Students: 684; Location: 611 FRONT STREET; Grades: PK - 05) NAHIENAENA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (Students: 662; Location: 816 NIHEU STREET; Grades: PK - 05) LAHAINA INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (Students: 625; Location: 871 LAHAINALUNA ROAD; Grades: 06 - 08) Private primary/middle school in Lahaina: SACRED HEARTS ELEM SCHOOL (Students: 228; Location: 239 DICKENSON STREET; Grades: KG - 8) Click to draw/clear city borders Notable locations in Lahaina: Makila (A) , Kahoma Shaft Pump (B) , Baldwin Home Museum (C) , Lahaina Civic and Recreation Center (D) , Lahaina Public Library (E) , Lahaina Whaling Museum (F) , Hale Aloha (G) , Hale Paahao (H) , Mala Mill Stack (I) , Malulu o Lele Cultural Center (J) , Pioneer Mill (K) , Masters Reading Room (L) . Display/hide their locations on the map Shopping Centers: Dickenson Square Shopping Center (1) , Old Lahaina Shopping Center (2) , Lahaina Cannery Shopping Center (3) , Lahaina Market Place Shopping Center (4) , Lahaina Square Shopping Center (5) , West Maui Shopping Center (6) . Display/hide their locations on the map Churches in Lahaina include: Community Seventh Day Adventist Church (A) , Wainee Church (B) , Wo Hing Temple (C) , Maria Lanakila Roman Catholic Church (D) , Lahaina Baptist Church (E) , Shingon Buddhist Temple (F) , Holy Innocents Episcopal Church (G) , Church of God (H) . Display/hide their locations on the map Cemeteries: Waiola Cemetery (1) , Hanakaoo Cemetery (2) , Episcopal Cemetery (3) , Seamens Cemetery (4) . Display/hide their locations on the map Reservoirs: Crater Reservoir (A) , Wahikuli Reservoir (B) . Display/hide their locations on the map Streams, rivers, and creeks: Kanaha Stream (A) . Display/hide its location on the map Parks in Lahaina include: Malu Ulu o Lele Park (1) , Kelawea Mauka III Park (2) , Wahiku Park (3) , Wahikuli State Wayside Park (4) , Paunau Terrace Park (5) , Lahaina Armory Park (6) , Lahaina Banyon Court (7) , Lahaina Historic District (8) , Waikuli Terrace Park (9) . Display/hide their locations on the map Lahaina compared to Hawaii state average: Median house value significantly above state average. Black race population percentage significantly below state average. Hispanic race population percentage above state average. Foreign-born population percentage significantly above state average. Number of rooms per house below state average. House age below state average. Number of college students below state average. Back to the top Strongest AM radio stations in Lahaina: KUAU (1570 AM; 50 kW; HAIKU, HI; Owner: FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD-KAHULUI, MAUI) KMVI (550 AM; 5 kW; WAILUKU, HI; Owner: PACIFIC RADIO GROUP,INC.) KAIM (870 AM; 50 kW; HONOLULU, HI; Owner: SALEM MEDIA OF HAWAII, INC.) KNUI (900 AM; 5 kW; KAHULUI, HI; Owner: PACIFIC RADIO GROUP, INC.) KAOI (1110 AM; 5 kW; KIHEI, HI; Owner: VISIONARY RELATED ENTERTAINMENT, INC) KORL (690 AM; 10 kW; HONOLULU, HI; Owner: NEW WAVE BROADCASTING, L.P.) KGU (760 AM; 10 kW; HONOLULU, HI; Owner: SALEM MEDIA OF HAWAII, INC.) KSSK (590 AM; 8 kW; HONOLULU, HI; Owner: CAPSTAR TX LIMITED PARTNERSHIP) KHVH (830 AM; 10 kW; HONOLULU, HI; Owner: CAPSTAR TX LIMITED PARTNERSHIP) KHNR (650 AM; 10 kW; HONOLULU, HI; Owner: SALEM MEDIA OF HAWAII, INC.) KLHT (1040 AM; 10 kW; HONOLULU, HI; Owner: CALVARY CHAPEL OF HONOLULU, INC.) KHCM (940 AM; 10 kW; WAIPAHU, HI; Owner: SALEM MEDIA OF HAWAII, INC.) KIPA (620 AM; 10 kW; NAALEHU, HI; Owner: BIG ISLAND RADIO) Strongest FM radio stations in Lahaina: KPOA (93.5 FM; LAHAINA, HI; Owner: PACIFIC RADIO GROUP, INC.) KKUA (90.7 FM; WAILUKU, HI; Owner: HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO, INC.) K220HA (91.9 FM; KIHEI, HI; Owner: CALVARY CHAPEL OF TWIN FALLS, INC.) K210CM (89.9 FM; KIHEI, HI; Owner: CALVARY CHAPEL OF TWIN FALLS, INC.) KONI (104.7 FM; LANAI CITY, HI; Owner: HOCHMAN HAWAII PUBLISHING, INC.) KLHI-FM (101.1 FM; LAHAINA, HI; Owner: PACIFIC RADIO GROUP, INC.) KNUI-FM (99.9 FM; KAHULUI, HI; Owner: PACIFIC RADIO GROUP, INC.) KJMD (98.3 FM; PUKALANI, HI; Owner: PACIFIC RADIO GROUP,INC.) KAOI-FM (95.1 FM; WAILUKU, HI; Owner: VISIONARY RELATED ENTERTAINMENT INC) KPMW (105.5 FM; HALIIMAILE, HI; Owner: REY-CEL BROADCASTING, INC.) KLHI-FM1 (101.1 FM; LAHAINA, HI; Owner: LAHAINA BROADCASTING CO., LTD) K244AG (96.7 FM; MAUI, HI; Owner: VISIONARY RELATED ENTERTAINMENT, INC) TV broadcast stations around Lahaina: K27DW (Channel 27; WAILUKU, HI; Owner: RAYCOM NATIONAL, INC.) KWHM (Channel 21; WAILUKU, HI; Owner: LESEA BROADCASTING CORPORATION) Back to the top City-data.com does not guarantee the accuracy or timeliness of any information on this site. Use at your own risk. 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StopMoskowitz :: The Coalition for Justice in Hawaiian Gardens and Jerusalem Support the Coalition with your Donation Donation Amount $25.00 $50.00 $100.00 $250.00 $500.00 $1000.00 thank you The Coalition for Justice in Hawaiian Gardens and Jerusalem P.O. 67903, Los Angeles CA 90067 310 553-1146 email -- How Moskowitz Profits from his Hawaiian Gardens Non-profits A Detailed Analysis of Irving Moskowitz's Non-profit Operations in Hawaiian Gardens nonprofit (non·prof·it) adj. 1. not conducted or maintained for the purpose of making a profit <a nonprofit organization> - noun 2. a nonprofit organization, institution, corporation or entity. These days, Dr. Irving Moskowitz is seldom seen in Hawaiian Gardens but his presence is everywhere. A banner bears his name in a picture of the Little League team that runs in the local paper. Senior citizens attending a city council meeting sport t-shirts with Moskowitz's name emblazoned across the back. Moskowitz may be hundreds of miles away at his home in Miami Beach but he is ubiquitous in the community as a businessman and benefactor who has pumped millions of dollars into the city. And there is no question Hawaiian Gardens is in need of help. The unemployment rate is high in this largely immigrant slice of LA County where half of all adults lack a high school diploma. And where close to one out of every four Hawaiian Garden residents lives below the poverty line. 1 But Irving Moskowitz's track record of less-than-charitable activity in Hawaiian Gardens belies his image as a philanthropist - a careful examination of his financial records and those of his non-profit foundation show that the majority of his contributions resulted in either financial gain or increased political influence for himself. Dr. Moskowitz, it seems, has engaged in non-profit profiteering in Hawaiian Gardens. Since posting this report on our website, more information has come to light that strongly suggests that Moskowitz's non-profit Tri-City Regional Medical Center is in violation of Internal Revenue Service rules qualifying health care providers for tax-exemption. (Click here to read more) Putting the 'profit' in Non-profit healthcare Tri-City Hospital sign greets motorists entering Hawaiian Gardens saying the "community" facility serves all health needs - as long as you're not poor or pregnant. Take Tri-City Regional Medical Center in Hawaiian Gardens. In 1996, when its balance sheets were beginning to look less-than stellar, 2 Moskowitz decided to spin off this privately owned hospital as a non-profit, while retaining ownership of the building and land. 3 Immediately after converting Tri-City Regional Medical Center into a non-profit, the Irving I. Moskowitz Foundation 4 donated $4.9 million in tax-free proceeds from its Hawaiian Gardens bingo to the hospital. 5 Moskowitz then began collecting the money back by charging the hospital $95,000 a month in rent, payable to his private landlord company. 6 Those payments now exceed $110,000 per month. 7 California state financing records show that in 2000 the foundation made an additional transfer of funds to Tri-City. 8 The hospital's fidelity to the concept of charitable trust 9 is tenuous at best. This could perhaps be forgiven if the hospital was meeting the health care needs of the local community. But despite its non-profit status, Tri-City is less than solicitous when it comes to the health of Hawaiian Gardens. When the hospital applied for non-profit status in 1997, it made a commitment to provide pre-natal care. 10 Recent patient discharge data published by the state of California shows that Tri-City has stopped delivering babies - none were born at the hospital in either 2000 or 2001. 11 It isn't for lack of demand for services. Last year residents of Hawaiian Gardens brought home 98 newborn babies. 12 While small in size (the city's population is a little under 15,000 13 ), Hawaiian Gardens is a young, largely immigrant community - recent census data indicates the average age of its resident is 26. More than half of the households have children under the age of 18. And as of 2000, a little more than 10 percent of the population was under the age of 5. The women of Hawaiian Gardens are having babies - they are just not having them delivered at the hospital in their own neighborhood. Tri-City's failure to fully address the health care needs of the poor may be a factor. Again, nearly one out of every four resident of Hawaiian Gardens lives below the poverty line and many are immigrants who do not qualify for state programs such as MediCal (although MediCal is available to cover prenatal care and deliveries for undocumented immigrants, making the hospital's failure to provide these services all the more shocking). Stomach stapling accounts for a large part of Tri-City Hospital's tiny patient census. When it turned non-profit the hospital made a commitment to provide free or reduced cost care to the indigent 14 - and yet in recent years Tri-City has provided zero dollars in charity care. 15 State health care data shows the other four non-profit hospitals of comparable size in LA County provided a combined total of two million dollars in charity care in 2001 (the most recent year that statistics are publicly available). 16 Tri-City's failure to pull its own weight when it comes to helping out poor patients has little to do with its bottom line - in 2001 the hospital's gross patient revenue exceeded $72 million and its net income was slightly more than two million dollars - despite the fact that its occupancy rate in 2001 was an abysmally low 19.6 percent. 17 The average occupancy rate for other hospitals of comparable size in the state of California that year was 52.16 percent. 18 How does the hospital manage to stay afloat with such low patient volume? The answer may be as close as the sign in front of Tri-City's main entrance announcing it is also the home of "The Center for the Surgical Treatment of Obesity." Tri-City, it seems, has gotten into the lucrative business of stomach stapling. The Center, run by the somewhat famous Dr. Mathias Fobi provides surgical stomach shrinking services to patients clinically termed morbidly obese, that is, those who are 75 to 100 pounds or more overweight. (In what is perhaps an unfortunate display of poor taste, his website's motto is "lighten up." 19 ) According to a CBS News Report profiling his practice, Fobi performs surgery on up to 600 patients a year. 20 While Fobi charges for the surgeries he performs, the hospital also bills patients for the use of its operating and recovery rooms and other medical services it provides. In 2002 patients who underwent the surgical procedure at Tri-City, on average, racked up $50,000 in hospital charges. 21 State health care data shows that at least 439 Tri-City patients underwent the stomach stapling procedure last year, that is, more than one out of every four patients that received some sort of surgical treatment at the hospital had their stomach stapled. 22 Total charges for those patients was $21,936,400 - representing close to a third of the hospital's gross charges for the year. Tri-City's 2001 income tax forms (the most recent that are publicly available) indicate that by far its highest paid independent contractor that year was FOCA Management Company, a private company registered to Dr. Mathias Fobi. 23 Tri-City paid Fobi's firm $2,293,044 - more than its next four highest paid contractors combined. 24 Dr. Fobi has made numerous national television and radio appearances touting his surgical techniques and his patients come from as far away as Alaska, 25 but the obesity center appears to be of little value to the community where it is based: last year not one Hawaiian Gardens resident made the short trek across this mile-wide city to receive the procedure. 26 One former City Council member recalls that when the hospital was first built, Hawaiian Gardens welcomed it as the solution to the community's unmet health care needs. But citing the high cost of treatment at Tri-City and the lack of charity care, he said few use the hospital now. State health care data backs that assertion up - despite its proximity only 13.7 percent of all Hawaiian Gardens residents who were hospitalized in Los Angeles County last year were admitted to Tri-City Regional Medical Center. 27 Hawaiian Garden residents admitted to the hospital represented an even smaller percentage of Tri-City's total patient census - just 5.4 percent. 28 Since posting this report on our website, more information has come to light that strongly suggests that Moskowitz's non-profit Tri-City Regional Medical Center is in violation of Internal Revenue Service rules qualifying health care providers for tax-exemption. (Click here to read more) Banking on Bingo Bucks Moskowitz earns more than $1.3 million dollars annually as landlord of what is ostensibly a non-profit hospital. But his money-making off non-profits doesn't end there. In 1988, the city of Hawaiian Gardens granted the Irving I. Moskowitz Foundation a license to operate a non-profit bingo within its city limits in exchange for a commitment to spend the majority of the funds generated by the bingo on the local community. The foundation, which had existed mainly to own a piece of land in Northern California and seldom got much cash, was suddenly taking in more than $30 million annually from bingo games. But the foundation's bottom line wasn't the only beneficiary. 29 Moskowitz is the managing general partner (for practical purposes, the sole owner) of Cerritos General Hospital Company, the private firm that owns the land where his bingo is situated and the building in which the game is played. 30 It is not possible to tell from the foundation's IRS 990 forms (which non-profits file instead of income tax returns), exactly how much Moskowitz's foundation is paying him for use of the land, but even by conservative estimates, the total comes to several hundred thousand dollars a year. The Moskowitz Foundation's 2000 and 2001 990 forms show that in both years it paid total occupancy costs (defined by the IRS as rent and utilities) of over $900,000 for services and programs. The bingo is the foundation's only activity -- apart from writing checks. If even half its occupancy costs went to paying rent on the bingo hall as opposed to covering the costs of electricity, gas and water, it's safe to say Moskowitz is paying himself roughly $450,000 a year for the privilege of holding his own bingo games. On top of the bingo's rental payments, Moskowitz also drew more than half a million dollars in salary ($322,880 in 1999 and $184,503 in 2000, respectively) from the Moskowitz Foundation. 31 By contrast, the Moskowitz Foundation takes advantage of a state law requiring bingo workers to be volunteers for the non-profit operating the bingo. To run the bingo, Moskowitz uses mostly immigrant workers who have no ties to, or even knowledge of, the aims of his foundation, compensating them with nothing but the opportunity to get tips from bingo winners. 32 Workers say that their nightly shifts sometimes bring in as little as $20, even though the "volunteers" essentially function as full-time employees. 33 The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund is currently suing Moskowitz's bingo on behalf of 24 unpaid bingo workers. 34 continued on page two View all news reports 2003 the Coalition for Justice in Hawaiian Gardens and Jerusalem

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JobsHawaii.com new & need id? CAREER CORNER EMAIL PASSWORD forgot id? hot jobs Customer Service Rep - Homeworld Pearlridge Challenging opportunity for a full-time front office/retail support for HomeWorld in Aiea. Administrative Assistant Searching for a positive, team oriented individual to work as an Administrative Assistant at our Main office in Downtown, Honolulu. Nursing Supervisor - F/T (Pearl City Nursing Home) Knowledgable RN needed to direct daily floor operations. Aloha! Wednesday, January 25, 2006 Ask Bro Kini Discussion Forum Ask Bro Kini Bro Kini, aka Gene Moore, SPHR, is available to answer questions from Jobseekers who are looking for work in Hawaii. As a California transplant, he has been there and done that when it comes to securing a job from from across the Pacific in the place he now calls home. Click Here to See All Discussion Topics: International Jobseekers Click Here to See All Messages under this Topic: hi there...i was wondering how the fashion industrie in hawaii is...im a german fashion designer and would love to move to hawaii this summer...i allready have a green card but have to check up first if theres any chance for me to work in my sector cos i dont want to give it up!!....it would be realy nice if you could give me some information about it...best regardsjacqueline Ask Your Question Now > We have a very big fashion industry here, but it is mostly in Hawaiian Clothes, swim suits, high end Pacific ware, and some lingerie. The best bet is to do a search of Hawaiian clothing and see what comes up. The one thing I could suggest is to have you portfolio of work on a CD. I coached a client one time into making her on CD Fashion show with all the designs she had done. Got here in the front door and in the long run got her the job. Bro Kini Date Posted : 11/26/2004 Posted By: Bro Kini ID: 1212 Ask Your Question Now JobsHawaii.com | Honolulu, Hawaii 808.595.3737 voice info@jobshawaii.com

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