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Maui CountyOne reporter's struggle to get an interview with Dowling's darlingThe cover of the most recent issue of Pacific Edge Magazine (Vol. 2, Issue 3) features Dowling Company's Jennifer Stites. A Harvard graduate and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)-certified professional, Stites is Dowling's "Green Development Manager"? and a fresh new face in the world of environmentally friendly development. |
LC WatchWhere the LC is concerned, locals don't much talk about dancing anymore. That dust-up seems almost forgotten, shoved aside by the latest drama over the Lahaina nightclub Paradice Bluz, which grabbed three strikes for over-service and a liquor license revocation in just six months. |
Rob ReportWinds of change blow for Maui's energy futureHawai'i relies on imported fuels more than any other U.S. state, with about 90 percent of energy production coming from imported petroleum. This should serve as a poignant reminder for residents that Hawai'i is geographically vulnerable and needs to pursue locally abundant renewable resources like solar and wind power. |
The Maui 10MATSON FUEL SURCHARGE: Just like that, with no fanfare, celebration or grand publicity drive, A&B subsidiary Matson Navigation Co. will raise the fuel surcharge it slaps on all shipping to Hawai`i and Guam from 24 to 26 percent. |
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 24: So the Native Hawaiian Recognition Act passed the U.S. House of Representatives today. The Native Hawaiian Recognition Act passed the U.S. House of representatives today? Oh my God... |
ALPHA FEMALE?: Junior New York City hedge fund trader Andrew Tong charged in October that his boss forced him to take female hormones to dampen his aggressiveness, which the supervisor said was leading him to make bad trades, according to a CNBC report. |
"[George Ray] Hill and his writers had a mighty-hard coconut to crack. About as cinematic as the Honolulu telephone directory, [James] Michener's epic [Hawaii] was subdivided into four laboriously correlated novels that described Hawaii's four main ethnic groups (Polynesian, White, Chinese, Japanese)... |
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“I’m from Seattle. It’s great there—it’s really cool and the sky is always gray…”
-Guy at Fred’s Mexican Cantina in Kihei, June 10 |
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“A shell crashed ashore. In the dun-colored houses along Kahului’s waterfront, stevedores and their women heard the gun again, like a door slamming, and again the crash of the shell. The Jap fired ten rounds in all. Then the submarine disappeared in the night. Announcing this attack on an undefended, unimportant cane-&-pineapple port, the U.S. Navy reported: no casualties, negligible damage.”
-From “Dusk in Kahului,” Time Magazine, Dec. 28, 1941 |
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