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Upfront NewsMarch 31, 2011 | 11:15 AMHawaii has had a medical marijuana law on the books since 2000—but that's still all we have. While states like California and Colorado have set up successful (and lucrative) dispensaries, Hawaii patients are forced to  |
Coconut WirelessMarch 31, 2011 | 11:06 AMby Jacob ShaferHawaii has more prisoners than its jails can house. There are two possible solutions: have fewer prisoners, or ship some off island. Since the former would require a radical move like, oh, decriminalizing drugs, we're stuck with the |
By the NumbersMarch 31, 2011 | 11:12 AMby Jacob ShaferStatewide public and private property damage caused by the March 11 tsunami, according to civil defense estimates; Maui County suffered $3.3 million in damage |
Spin CycleMarch 31, 2011 | 10:52 AMby Jacob Shafer"America cannot use our military wherever repression occurs. And given the costs and risks of intervention, we must always measure our interests* against the need for action." |
News of the WeirdMarch 31, 2011 | 10:59 AMby Chuck ShepherdGen. Than Shwe of Myanmar, leader of Asia's most authoritarian regime, made a rare public appearance in February—dressed in a woman's sarong. Most likely, according to a report on AOL News, he was challenging the country's increasingly successful "panty protests" in which females opposed to the regime toss their |
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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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