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Coconut Wireless

Good news for Hawaii's endangered monk seals: Congress has approved nearly $6 million to fund monitoring and conservation efforts. I can already see the steam emanating from John McCain's ears.

Rob Report

Wrath of El Gripe

Dealing with aches and distress inside and out

It began innocently enough with a dull headache, the sort one who has spent far too long in front of the computer or television might suffer.

LC Watch

Question and Dancer

Kate Bradshaw's feature about Maui Dance Advocates' First Amendment battle with the LC generated a lot of reader feedback. Here's a sampling...

Overheard

'Click' of the Week

South Park (which, despite its crude content and cruder animation, is somehow one of the longest running shows on television) used to be a lot funnier.

By the Numbers

4.7 percent Amount by which individual income tax collections in Hawaii have declined so far this year compared to 2008 32.2 percent Amount by which corporate income tax collections have declined

News of the Weird

"It was initially just an experiment," said the 26-year-old Sebastopol, Calif., midwife apprentice who last year talked her boyfriend into photographing her cervix for 33 straight days.

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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