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Coconut WirelessWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6; Question of the day: How did I get on the Ku Klux Klan’s mailing list? And, follow-up question of the day: Do those assholes still even exist? I ask because when I checked my e-mail this morning there was a message waiting for me titled “KKK Press Release. |
Rob ReportGrassroots groups wrestle the status quo and land use in fluxYear by year, Maui’s political leaders seem to christen a favorite cause celebre—be it traffic, smart growth, water, affordable housing, agricultural zoning or the latest buzzword, sustainability—then proceed to talk circles around the topic. |
LC WatchLast week, we got a letter from reader Marc Gaskins (see, if you write good letters you might get mentioned in LC Watch, so get typing) asking a pertinent question: Where do all the fines assessed by the Adjudication Board go? Every week we tell you about another business getting slapped with a $2,000 penalty. |
The Business EndIt was a tough week for CEOs (and maybe even more so for their PR people). First, there was the news that ML&P honcho David Cole was given $4. |
MONK BAND; Brother Cesare Bonizzi, 62, of a Capuchin Friars monastery near Milan, Italy, is the lead singer in a heavy-metal band that recently released its second album, Misteri (“Mysteries”), following a successful performance at Italy’s “Gods of Metal” festival (headlined by Iron Maiden and, ironically, Judas Priest). |
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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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