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Maui County'Obscene' fuel costs lead to Molokai Princess fare hikeCommuters who rely on the 100-foot Molokai Princess to get them to and from work every day recently got a surprise from David Jung, president of Sea Link of Hawaii, which runs the Molokai Princess. |
WEDNESDAY, May 14: Hawai‘i needs to attract global investment dollars. So said John Rutledge, “who has advised two presidents on tax and economic policy,” at a recent economic conference, according to today’s Honolulu Advertiser. |
Rob ReportA look at how the Public Utility Commission keeps us in the darkIn a time when there is great emphasis on renewable energy to help our state loosen the shackles of its dependency on imported fuels, a newcomer might assume Hawai'i's "Sunshine Law" to be a mandate for solar panels. But Hawai'i's open meeting disclosure legislation, in effect since 1975, really isn't about renewable energy... or is it? |
LC WatchThe hearing room for the May 14, 2008 Maui County Liquor Commission meeting was unusually sparse. The agenda listed just two preliminary hearings, two public hearings and two “other licensing matters,” but it was even emptier than that. |
Who's the county's most powerful player?BIG OIL BOOST!: Despite Tesoro’s falling profits and steadily declining stock price, there’s hope for the oil company that runs the largest gasoline refinery in Hawai`i. |
HUMAN COCKFIGHTING!: Almost-anything-goes “ultimate fighting,” also known as “human cockfighting,” is a major “sport,” mostly in Southern and Western states, but only in Missouri are kids as young as six permitted on the mats, according to a March Associated Press story. |
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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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