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Maui County

Here's the plan

What the heck is GPAC and why should you care?

Imagine a bird’s eye view of Maui: the more or less haphazard boundaries of the island’s population centers, the hotels and shopping center clusters that bleed inland, contrasted against the greens and browns of the island’s terrain.

Coconut Wireless

You might think a federal agency that claims to be "dedicated to the stewardship of living marine resources and the promotion of healthy ecosystems" would like, I dunno, try to stop the U.S. military from needlessly killing whales. You would be wrong.

Rob Report

Change in the wind

Will the shifts in Washington reverberate on Maui?

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” –John F. Kennedy The month of January gets its name from the Roman god Janus, who was associated with doorways and new beginnings.

LC Watch

Restrictive behavior

I was unable to attend the most recent Liquor Commission meeting, but I got an interesting report from attorney Lance Collins about an exchange that took place.

'Click' of the week

If you drive a car and have spent any time on Maui, chances are you know about Officer Taguma. Just in case: he's the cop who doles out tickets in Wailuku with a zealousness seldom seen outside totalitarian dictatorships.

News of the Weird

Genetic modification sounds like frighteningly complicated lab work, but amateurs are routinely doing it in garages and dining rooms across the country, according to a December Associated Press report.

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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