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Upfront NewsNovember 28, 2012 | 08:24 AMby Oliver de SilvaMaui Community Correctional Center sent inmates to do landscaping work for a prison guard's private company, a new whistleblower retaliation complaint filed by former MCCC Correctional Officer Hendricks Haapu alleges. A 20-year vet of the prison, Haapu also alleges that he was "overworked, reassigned and verbally and physically harassed" when he complained about the labor to Sergeant Carl Duarte, his supervisor who also ran the landscaping company in question. Haapu filed his complaint against the State of Hawaii's Department of Public Safety and individual correctional officers at the Maui Community Correctional Center (MCCC). |
Upfront News 2November 28, 2012 | 08:33 AMby Jen RussoThere's no doubt that the Haleakala Crater (which we know is not technically a "crater" but whatever) is a majestic spot. But Mother Nature and Haleakala National Park can't do it all on their own. Keeping the crater pristine is a job for the community. That's why Haleakala National Park is recruiting middle school interns to work alongside their professional staff and assist with duties like native plant identification, invasive weed control, facilities maintenance, guided hikes and outdoor safety education for spring break 2013. |
Coconut WirelessNovember 28, 2012 | 08:26 AMby Anthony PignataroSPEAKER SOUKI RISES?
Maui Representative/American Chemistry Council lobbyist/Speaker Emeritus Joe Souki says he has the votes to regain control over the state House. The legislator who held the Speaker's title from 1993-1998 apparently cut deals with a bunch of Republicans to do it, but he's not been shy about telling the press that he's in. |
November 28, 2012 | 08:36 AMby Jen RussoJump into the giving spirit of the holidays at Whole Foods Market by participating in their Grab & Give program by purchasing and donate meals to families in need right at the register. Kahului Whole Foods Market has chosen the families at Ka Hale A Ke Ola Homeless Resource Center on Maui to be the program's local recipient. |
Upfront News 3November 28, 2012 | 08:34 AMby Jen RussoWhat's better than a beautiful day in Hana? How about a beautiful day spent cleaning Hana? |
News of the WeirdNovember 28, 2012 | 08:41 AMby Chuck ShepherdGOVERNMENT IN ACTION
Among the federally funded projects highlighted in the "2012 Waste Book" of U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn were a $325,000 grant to develop a "robosquirrel" (to help study the somehow-confusing interaction between squirrels and rattlesnakes) and a $700,000 grant by the National Science Foundation for a New York theater company to create a musical about climate change and biodiversity (which actually opened this year, in Kansas City |
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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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