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Maui CountySummer Starr's campaign livens Upcountry State HouseEvery so often in the tedium of election year politicking, a candidate comes along who is capable of re-instilling in the voters a sense of hope in the political process. |
Coconut WirelessWEDNESDAY, JULY 30; Add Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska to the list of corrupt members of Congress (bringing the count to, I believe, though I should check my figures, all of them). |
Rob ReportEco activist Lance Holter takes on the worldIn order to track down ultra-busy environmental activist, Maui Democratic Party Chair, soccer dad, plumbing contractor, realtor, Akaku TV producer and man about town Lance Holter, I had to meet him at his home in Paia. |
LC WatchFirst, a disclaimer: It’s not often we find ourselves defending corporate retail behemoths and we take no pleasure in it—but then, attending Liquor Control meetings will do strange things to your sense of right and wrong. |
The Business EndIt’s not a surprise, but the numbers still manage to deliver a little shock value—tourism on Maui and across Hawaii is down. Way down. |
A SOBERING REMINDER; Edward Defreitas, 36, was arrested in Toms River, N.J., in June and accused of causing a three-vehicle collision that injured two men in a car and sent two others (paramedics riding in an ambulance) to the hospital. |
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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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