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Upfront NewsDigging Up The Past: A sacred Hawaiian site remains buried under mud and bureaucracy—but one group is working tirelessly to uncover itJune 02, 2011 | 05:32 PMby Jen RussoShirley Kaha'i gets very upset when people say the preservation project at Moku'ula is taking too long. Sitting behind her desk in the modest Friends of Moku'ula offices at 505 Front Street, the executive director gestures to her bookshelf. "Look at all these binders, these reports and these volumes of papers. We are here every day moving the project forward." Kaha'i admits the process can be discouraging, but... |
Coconut WirelessJune 02, 2011 | 05:17 PMby Jacob ShaferInouye Gets PATRIOTic: When Osama bin Laden died in a fortified compound in suburban Pakistan, our decade-old war on terrorism didn't die with him. U.S. officials were quick to make that point—and it was punctuated last week when Congress voted to extend portions of the controversial USA PATRIOT Act, including open-ended wiretapping, court-ordered searches of business and library records and surveillance of suspects with no known ties to terrorist groups... |
By the NumbersJune 02, 2011 | 05:11 PMby Jacob Shafer50 Hawaii's rank among the 50 states in driving aptitude, according to a recent survey... |
News of the WeirdJune 02, 2011 | 05:25 PMby Chuck ShepherdHOME A MOAN Ellenbeth Wachs, 48, was arrested in Lakeland, Florida, in May on a complaint that she "simulated" a sex act in front of a minor. In a March incident, Wachs, after receiving medication for her multiple sclerosis, was awakened at... |
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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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