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Coconut Wireless

The Week in Review

WEDNESDAY, July 2: At first glance, the new law passed by Gov. Linda Lingle “protecting” journalists from legal action should they refuse to disclose their sources looked like a tough stand upholding journalistic sovereignty and integrity.

Rob Report

Something's Fishy

Will open ocean aquaculture feed Hawaii's people?

Federal officials recently extended a commercial fishing ban on seven species of Hawaii bottom fish, the Honolulu Advertiser reported on Monday. The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council previously capped the amount of the "deep seven" species in 2007 and again this year, to protect the depleted stocks from further overfishing.

LC Watch

Talkin' with Gomes

Remember when Commissioner James T. Viela resigned after five months on the LC Commission, on the same day MTW reported his 2005 DUI? His vacant seat may be filled by Jimmy Gomes, who previously served on the Commission from 2002-05.

The Maui 10

Who's the county's most powerful player?

TWO FOR ONE: Alexander and Baldwin rises to the lofty heights of number one on our list this week for two reasons. First, the glowing article about them in Monday’s Maui News and how the mega-corporation donated $25,000 to Maui’s Kaunoa Senior Services.

Overheard

Twit of the Week

News of the Weird

EASY STREET: After languishing for two years in the Irish legislature, the Nuclear Test Ban Bill of 2006 has recently been rethought and refurbished, according to a June report in the Irish Independent.

Troubletown

Overheard this week

“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

Maui TIME

“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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