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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12: Yesterday was Veterans Day. My personal stance is generally anti-war, because I have found very few wars that weren't mostly or completely about a small group of rich and powerful people trying to make themselves more rich and powerful on the backs of those who are neither rich nor powerful. That doesn't mean I don't respect |
Rob ReportCongressman Neil Abercrombie a representative in the truest senseSitting and conversing with U.S. Representative Neil Abercrombie is more enlivening than a cup of good coffee. I was lucky enough to share both this past weekend, meeting Neil to talk story at a Hana Highway java joint. Abercrombie was just elected to his tenth two-year term in Washington D.C., after |
LC WatchA couple weeks ago, the Maui Police Department paid a visit to our offices. Given MTW's reputation for ticking people off in a, shall we say, freewheeling fashion, this probably isn't a huge surprise. Of course, since we're giving you this information in LC Watch, you can |
A look at the week's economic winners and losers...October was Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It's one thing to put up pink ribbons or offer a bit of good-sounding lip service, which many did, but the Hard Rock Cafe in Lahaina took the next step, raising over $12,000 for Maui cancer patients through a series of benefit events. Any time a |
The visitor downturn has been a bad thing for tourist-dependent Maui. But here's a silver lining: fewer douchebags. You know the type: young, overconfident (almost always Caucasian) males with meticulously trimmed facial hair, decked out in wannabe gangsta gear, slathered with |
FAKE CRYING:Dutch designer Eric Klarenbeek, 29, has developed jewelry consisting of tiny crystals or flowers that hang directly from the eye via micro-thin medical wire attached to either prescription or blank contact lenses and, in the light, give the appearance of tears streaming down the cheek. He expects |
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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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