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Rise of the machines
As election technology blazes ahead, will voters get left behind?
Machines get a bad rap. In popular fiction—Terminator, The Matrix, 2001: A Space Odyssey—they’re always turning against us, rising up with cold precision to obliterate humanity. |
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WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 1
Happy October, everyone! Let’s celebrate another turn of the calendar by reaching into our always unpredictable e-mail grab bag and examining this entry: Folks at the University of Wisconsin saw fit to send me a release titled “Fighting a Different War. |
| | | | | Rob Report
Real homeland security
Five community voices speak out on growing more of what we eat
Michael Ableman, noted farmer, author, world traveler and lecturer, shared his thoughts on food with an afternoon audience at Maui Community College (MCC) last week, in a free event sponsored by the Sustainable Living Institute of Maui (SLIM). |
| | | | | LC Watch
“Hey, hey! What’s this I see? I thought this was a party. Let’s dance!”
- Ren McCormack, Footloose
Time to check in once again with Maui Dance Advocates and their ongoing battle to move rhythmically wherever they so choose, free from the capricious oversight of our friends in the LC. |
| | | | | The Business End
A look at the week's economic winners and losers...
The arrow’s pointing up but this one’s debatable. As everyone including the oft-mentioned man under the rock knows by now, the House followed the Senate’s lead and passed the bailout bill version 2. |
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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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