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Maui CountyShining a light on solar tax creditsI happen to be a New York Giants fan; last year they won the Super Bowl, seemingly out of nowhere. Unfortunately, as a practicing tax CPA I spend more time watching Congress than the NFL and most of the sudden changes there turn out to be rather unpleasant. So it was another wonderful surprise when Congress included major improvements to Solar Photovoltaic Tax credits as part of their |
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3: Here's something pretty cool: Hawaii is on track to become the first state to install widespread electric car charging stations, according to an Associated Press report. The stations, which will be built by a California-based company called Better Place, are set to open in 2012 and will number between |
Rob ReportShould local emergency dollars be spent to bolster the economy?As we ushered in December, the month noted for holiday cheer, our newspapers reported that the National Bureau of Economic Research announced the U.S. economy has been in recession since this time last year. Apparently they used the same style of critical analysis as that of a driver who hears a "thud"¯ and looks in his rear view mirror to see what he ran over. Federal bailout requests creeping toward |
LC WatchLast week we got a note at mauitime.com from a reader wondering about the legality of minor decoys. It's an interesting question. As a society we go to great pains to protect children from the alleged evils of drinking. We've set what some call a draconian minimum age of 21 (certainly our friends in Europe find |
Getting an annoying tune stuck in your head is the equivalent of having a sore in your mouth that you can't stop poking with your tongue—frustrating, slightly painful and also, secretly, kind of |
ELECTORAL ODDITIES : Change Oregonians Believe In: The voters of Sodaville (pop. 290) elected Thomas Brady Harrington, 33, mayor in November, notwithstanding his criminal rap sheet showing robbery, eluding a police officer, felon in possession of a gun and |
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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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