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Upfront News

Despite Promising Survey Hawaii Meth Mess Lingers

An anti-drug group says young people are getting the message about ice, but state data suggest adult use is holding steady

June 16, 2010 | 04:21 PM
by Jacob Shafer
We've all seen the ads: A young man, his face pocked with sores, his eyes dark and vacant, rampages through a laundromat, demanding money from frightened women and children. A girl gets in the shower and sees herself curled inmore
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Coconut Wireless

Aiona Leaves HB444 Alone and Obama Talks Oil Spill

June 16, 2010 | 03:39 PM
by Jacob Shafer
Lt. Gov Duke Aiona's been busy signing and vetoing a number of bills while Gov. Lingle continues her oddly timed journey to the East. However, it doesn't appear HB444 will be among them. Aiona has made hismore
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Spin Cycle

Lingle Revises History While Calling Out Historical Revisionism

June 16, 2010 | 04:13 PM
by Jacob Shafer
"In his campaign for higher office, Mufi Hannemann is trying to rewrite history. His inaccurate comments regarding the Hawai'i Superferry situation are both misinformed and patently false. It seems as if..."more
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By the Numbers

UHERO Projections and Kihei Foreclosures

June 16, 2010 | 03:58 PM
by Jacob Shafer
4 percent: Portion by which visitor arrivals are projected to increase on Maui in 2011, according to a report releasedmore
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News of the Weird

British Beer Games and Coed Prisons

June 16, 2010 | 04:28 PM
by Chuck Shepherd
Walter "Butch" Rubincan, 46, was charged in February in Newark, Del., as being a serial thief with perhaps a 20-year habit, specializing in men's shoes. When not out taking things, Rubincan is amore
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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