OK, forgive us for a moment while we toot our own horn: the biggest political scandal of the year, as voted on by you, was broken in these pages. Now, for the uninitiated: Wayne Nishiki ran for the South Maui County Council seat as the independent candidate with no binding ties to the island’s big developers. He also accused his opponent, Don Couch, of being too developer-friendly. After the election, which Nishiki won narrowly, new information came to light: on a form filed well after the deadline, the Councilman revealed that he took a $100,000 personal loan from developer Everett Dowling while out of office. An ethics investigation was launched, but the results were never made public and Nishiki remains in office. It’ll be interesting to see, if Nishiki chooses to run for reelection, whether he’ll try to play the independent card again—and if the voters will buy it. JS
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News Coconut Wireless Oct 29 2009 So now we’ve married the War on Terror with the War on Drugs, and have picked as the central staging ground a country affectionately dubbed “the graveyard of empires” (just ask...
News Coconut Wireless Oct 15 2009 It’s wonderful to hear that Rep. Joe Souki can change hats so easily, working hard for the interests of his Central Maui constituents one minute and shilling for his big business cronies the next. To ...
News Hawaii and Maui Renewable Energy Rundown Are we making progress toward energy independence? There's good news and bad news Oct 08 2009 A few items of interest on the renewable energy (RE) front bubbled to the surface this week. Since the Energy Expo a month ago, I’ve been following a curious cover-up locally by...
News Maui Dep't of Liquor Control Minor Decoy Busts... ...what defines success? Oct 08 2009 Some of the most interesting moments at Liquor Control meetings happen on the margins, when board members and department officials aren’t directly addressing the cases at hand, but other...
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