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Universal access refers to the ability of all people to have equal opportunity and access to a service or product from which they can benefit, regardless of their social class, ethnicity, background or physical disabilities. It is a vision, and is some cases a legal term, that spans many fields, including education, disability, telecommunications, and healthcare. It is tied strongly to the concept of human rights.

In many developed countries an infrastructure exists to help implement the vision. Examples include access to education at the grade school, high school and sometimes college level; disability-related laws such as the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 in the United States; univeral access policies and funding that support for telecommunications infrastructure to underserved rural... Wikipedia

Monday, July 7, 2008

Ranch Won’t Budge on Water

Sunday 6-29-08 BY: JENNIFER SMITH
The Molokai Dispatch

Details of MPL’s utility pullout continue to trickle in.

By Dispatch Staff

Proposed rate increases for west and central Molokai residents, will not ensure continued water and sewer services from Molokai Properties Limited (MPL).

In an attempt to buy time until another service provider could be located, the Public Utility Commission (PUC) took the unprecedented move of suggesting that MPL hike its rates for utility users. However, MPL CEO Peter Nicholas said in a June 23 letter to the PUC, that the proposed 121% increase and 41% increase for two of its three utilities, “will not...

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Ranch Won’t Budge on Water

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