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Maui CountyMaui appears on the surface to be a safely diversified economy, but it's just a paper-thin veneerYes, we have car dealerships, retailers and professionals. True, there’s a plethora of medical services, light manufacturing and agriculture. And who can forget our seemingly incessant local battles over development, construction and real estate? However, despite the appearance of a broad industry base, the breadwinner in our community from which all other industries eventually profit is tourism. |
The latest unemployment figures are in and things aren’t looking good, unless your definition of “good” involves a lot of people not having jobs. |
Rob ReportRob flew on Mokulele Airlines' maiden voyage and all he got was this lousy T-shirtLike Bill Murray in the classic movie Groundhog Day, I found myself awakening day after day to the same tune. No, it wasn’t Sonny & Cher, but the catchy jingle for Northwest Orient Airlines: “Give wings to your heart/Your spirit soars/On Northwest Orient [insert Chinese gong sound] airlines. |
You may not know what a mondegreen is, but your brain has almost certainly produced one. For those scratching their heads: mondegreens are misheard snippets of poems or, more commonly these days, songs. |
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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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