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Number of full- and part-time employees at the Maui Prince Hotel; Prince Resorts Hawaii announced this week it will cease
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September 10, 2009 HYPER LOCAL
Gov. Lingle touched down on the Valley Isle this week to address the Maui Native Hawaiian Chamber of Commerce at the Grand Wailea. Her remarks were broad in scope if not vision, and contained a lot of defensive, revisionist rhetoric, typical of a lame duck with an eye on her legacy. Take, for example, this gem: "I think there are few episodes that have been as pathetic in the lack of political leadership as there were in that Superferry situation." She then went on to point the finger at everyone but herself and to hint at a vague, omnipresent "they" who were responsible for the vessel's demise, but I'm just going to let that first statement stand alone. And I'm going to agree with it completely… If you care where and how the County spends your money—and of course you should—you can weigh in at a series of 2010-11 budget meetings that Mayor Tavares called "vital" to the process in a recent release. Info can be found on the County Web site (co.maui.hi.us) or by calling the County Budget Office at 270-7855. Or, if you're too lazy and/or refuse to read anything other than Maui Time, here's a list of upcoming engagements: September 15, 5:45pm at the Paia Community Center; September 16, 5:30pm at the Velma McWayne Santos Community Center in Wailuku; September 18, 5pm at the Lanai Community Center; September 22, 5:45pm at the Lahaina Civic Center; September 23, 5:45pm at the Mayor Hannibal Tavares Community Center in Pukalani; September 28, 5pm at Helene Hall in Hana; and September 30, 5pm at the Mitchell Pauole Community Center on Molokai… As the toxic fallout from Dowling's Makena meltdown continues to spread, it looks like at least some of the Maui Prince's 380 employees may avoid the unemployment line after Texas-based Benchmark Hospitality Management got the go-ahead to take over the foundering hotel from Prince Resorts Hawaii effective September 17. Officials involved in the transition have said kinda-sorta reassuring things, none of which have amounted to a promise to save anybody's job. But some hope (if that's the word) is better than none…
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Whether you greet the news with excitement, disgust or some less volatile emotion in between, by all indications the Whole Foods in Kahului remains on track to open early next year. The same can't be said for two of the grocery giant's other planned Hawaii stores. One store on Oahu whose proposed size was cut in half last year (from two levels and 67,000 square feet to one level and 35,000 square feet, according to a Honolulu Advertiser report) is now in limbo because of issues with construction outfit General Growth Properties. Another Oahu store had to put on the brakes last year because burial sites were uncovered; the company now says that location is slated for a fall 2011 opening. A third Oahu store did open in September 2008 and has sold actual food to actual people. Store manager Larry Hoover told the Advertiser that year one has been an "exciting experience." Interesting choice of words… Sometimes it's too easy: The National Hurricane Center christened its 12th storm of the season this week. Unlike her namesake, it appears Tropical Storm Linda won't do any damage to Hawaii. Both, however, are blowing a lot of hot air. OK, I'll stop…
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At the risk of being branded a raving Marxist: Capitalism, for all its merits, is built on a shaky foundation—continuous growth and, by extension, continuous consumption. Because of this, we've been taught to equate acquiring stuff with happiness. It's not a nefarious plot per se; it's just the system sustaining itself. I bring this up because of the results of a recent Zogby International poll, which found that nearly a quarter of American adults say they've given away more than 10 percent of their possessions "because [they] were no longer needed." Add that to a mounting pile of evidence showing the economic crisis has led people to reevaluate their lifestyles and consuming habits. Of course, the cynical retort is that this newfound national asceticism is borne of necessity not choice, and that as soon as things pick back up (assuming they do) people will gleefully return to their gluttonous, two-SUVs-and-a-jet-ski ways. That's a distinct possibility. But while the cliché about the Chinese character for "crisis" being a combination of "danger" and "opportunity" may be bull, the point is well taken… At the risk of being branded a raving Marxist, part two: Whether you marked Labor Day with labor or leisure, it's worth remembering the holiday is about more than beer, beef and the beach (which, don't get me wrong, is plenty reason to celebrate). I could try to say it myself, but I think I'll hand this one off to Abraham Lincoln, a man Republicans, Democrats, Greens, Libertarians and Whigs (yes, they're back: modernwhig.org) can agree said a couple quotable things in his day: "Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." Maui Time Weekly, Jacob Shafer
Tags: Makena Beach & Golf Resort, Maui Politics
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