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Maui County
Sister act
Barack Obama's sister discusses family, hope and inspiration
Maya Soetoro-Ng is a local Oahu girl, a schoolteacher and the mother of a four-year-old girl, Suhaila. Oh yeah, and her older brother is Barack Obama.

Coconut Wireless
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

The primary election is just three days away, but not every politico is sweating it. Among those candidates running unopposed—and enjoying the concurrent low blood pressure—is Councilman Mike Victorino who along with his son, pro ballplayer Shane, stars in our acclaimed ongoing series Victorino Watch 2008.

Rob Report
Fruits of his labor
Ono Organic's Chuck Boerner feeds Maui
Perched on the lush hillside of Kipahulu, the acres of orchards at Ono Organic Farms possess a Garden of Eden-like quality. Just beyond the tourist destination at the Oheo Gulch portion of Haleakala National Park, and hidden from the view of passers-by, tropical sunshine, rich volcanic soil and decades of dedication by the Boerner family have conspired to produce a huge bounty of tropical exotic fruits.

LC Watch
Today we open our LC mailbag and consider this submission from reader Chaz who asks: “Why focus just on the Liquor Commission? Are they especially corrupt, or are all the other departments bad too? Also, is this unique to Maui or are LCs bad all over?”

The Business End
A look at this week's economic winners and losers...
At what point do you stop being “hot”? We’re considering that question in light of a recent study conducted by Bizjournals.com that ranked the “100 hottest” job markets in the country using data from the U.

Overheard

News of the Weird

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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