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Coconut Wireless

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26: I was wondering when this was going to happen: The Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau has finally seized on the fact that the President-elect was born and (partly) raised in the Aloha State. After drawing criticism for dragging its feet, the Bureau set up a Web site (gohawaii.com/obama) that highlights some of Obama's favorite restaurants and recreational hotspots on Oahu. On the page you'll find

Rob Report

Malama Kaua'i

Harvesting ideas from the Garden Isle

Travel always provides the gift of a differing point of view. Five days on the island of Kauai over the Thanksgiving holiday offered ample perspective on opportunities for community sustainability and ways to support traditional approaches to modern issues. Apart from the big box stores and malls of Lihue, Kauai has, for the most part, retained its

LC Watch

Moral fixation

Part of what makes the LC so easy to ridicule is the undercurrent of holier-than-thou piety that runs through many of the department's decisions. Rather than tackling its job from a purely pragmatic standpoint, the LC seems determined to weigh things against its own obtuse ethical code. Let's grab an example from the

The Business End

A look at the week's economic winners and losers...

The biggest business news of the week, at least in the Aloha State, is Hawaiian Telecom filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The telecommunications giant, which employs 1,400 people and serves just under 300,000 customers, reported a

Click of the week

Blogs serve many purposes both frivolous and profound. One of the more noble roles they can play is as a watchdog of the watchdogs, monitoring media outlets and working to keep them honest.

News of the Weird

TECHNOLOGICAL TEDDIES: The Brazilian designer Lucia Lorio introduced women's lingerie in October containing a global positioning device to enable the wearer to be tracked by satellite. The creator said the password-protected lace bodice would make it easier for women kidnapped by thugs or terrorists to be

Overheard this week

“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

Maui TIME

“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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