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Coconut Wireless

Time for an update on the wrangling over pay raises for elected officials on Oahu. You'll recall that state lawmakers received a 36 percent salary hike effective January 1, while back in July Gov. Lingle's pay was boosted by more than $10,000 a year.

Rob Report

Sign of the times

Looking for indications of a mid-course correction

Nearly a century ago, seven visionary women launched a campaign to ban billboards from the streets of Honolulu, and throughout Hawaii.

LC Watch

Feeling the sting

On May 31, 2008, two men entered Mama's Fish House in Kuau and walked toward the bar. The bartender recognized one of them as a cop who was also a regular.

'Click' of the Week

Much like the holiday itself, one of the symbols most often associated with Valentine's Day has little to do with its source inspiration. We're speaking of course about the heart, which gets dolled up every February and made into balloons and chocolate, placed in the arms of stuffed animals and slapped on the front of greeting cards.

News of the Weird

An Oregon district attorney's office set out two years ago to prosecute David Simmons for having sex the year before with his girlfriend, then 14, while he was 17.

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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