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Upfront NewsFebruary 08, 2012 | 12:43 PMby Jen RussoThe mop, dimmer switch, traffic light, ironing board and remote control are just a few of the things invented by African-Americans. Adesina Ogunelese, a noted historian of African and African-American history, knows all about them because she began teaching about black inventors in 2006 in an after-school program. A fixture in Maui libraries and schools since then, she will share knowledge like this with Maui's youth in a series of readings for Black History Month under the theme of "Divas, Dancers and a Millionaire" at the Makawao Public Library. |
Coconut WirelessFebruary 08, 2012 | 12:52 PMby Anthony PignataroWILL HB2652 KILL AKAKU?
And now for a subject near and dear to all of our hearts: public access cable. |
Upfront News 2February 08, 2012 | 12:47 PMby Jen RussoA panel of four historians involved in Lahaina Town restoration will discuss sites that need work at this month's Maui Native Hawaiian Chamber of Commerce meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 14 at 5:30pm at Maui Tropical Plantation. |
Plugs and SlugsFebruary 08, 2012 | 12:50 PMby Jen RussoWho knew Baldwin High School was so old? Lahainaluna celebrated their 75th anniversary with a town parade in 2006, so perhaps Baldwin will do the same. The festivities will be tentatively held in the fall of 2013. |
Upfront News 3February 08, 2012 | 12:49 PMby Jen RussoMaui women are invited to join the newly-formed local chapter of Women in Renewable Energy (WiRE) for a Q&A luncheon featuring Governor Neil Abercrombie on Feb. 9 at UH Maui College's Class Act Restaurant from 11:30am to 1pm.
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News of the WeirdFebruary 08, 2012 | 12:58 PMby Chuck ShepherdGOVERNMENT IN ACTION
A 2007 federal energy-independence law required companies that supply motor fuel in the U.S. to blend in a certain cellulose-based ingredient starting in 2011–even though (as the Environmental Protection Agency well knows) the ingredient doesn't exist. A New York Times reporter checked with the EPA in January and found that the companies will still have to pay the monetary penalties for noncompliance (and almost certainly the even-stiffer penalties for 2012, since the ingredient is still two or three years from development). "It belies logic," said a petrochemicals trade association executive. |
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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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