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Mayor Tavares Wants to Grow Algae for Biofuel. Bad Idea.

In a statement calculated to deflect attention from the recent hubbub over County wastewater injection wells, Mayor Charmaine Tavares announced plans to use the water to grow algae, and to use the algae as a source of fuel.

Coconut Wireless

HYPER LOCAL First the carrot, now the stick: Back in May, you'll recall, the state offered delinquent taxpayers a one-month window to make good on their debts without penalty.

Rob Report

50 Years of Hawaii Statehood

A half century ago, I was just old enough to be aware of Hawaii's induction as a state. A 50th star was added to the flag for our daily pledge of allegiance at my elementary school in Madison, Wisconsin.

LC Watch

We were beginning to get worried. After opening the year with an impressive streak of 11 consecutive minor decoy cases, the Adjudication Board has been pretty quiet on the getting-kids-to-buy-booze front.

By the Numbers

725,000 Number of people who arrived in Hawaii in July, a 2.2 percent increase compared to last year 16 Consecutive months arrivals had decreased year-to-year, dating back to April 2008 19 Number of Maui County National Guard troops who returned from a tour in Kuwait this week 30,000 Minimum number of U.

Spin Cycle

Outreach v. An effort by politicians to "roll up their sleeves" and be seen (and photographed) doing some form of manual labor.

News of the Weird

Lonely Japanese men (and a few women) with rich imaginations have created a thriving subculture ("otaku") in which they have all-consuming relationships with figurines that are based on popular anime characters.

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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