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Maui CountyOnly six lawmakers vote to bring HB444 to the floorLast week, the state Senate defeated by an 18-6 margin a motion to pull HB444—a hotly contested piece of legislation that would have legalized same-sex civil unions statewide—onto the floor for a full vote. |
After trekking with his rolling suitcase from the airport to the Queen Kaahumanu Center in Kahului, Brian Purtzer, former publisher of the Molokai Times, attempted to board a county bus for the final, uphill leg of his journey to Wailuku, but was told his bag was too big. |
Rob ReportMore Fish in the Sea aimed at preserving the ocean's abundanceLiving in Hawaii, we have a deep love, great aloha, for the ocean," says Hannah Bernard, marine biologist, educator and primary organizer of the More Fish in the Sea free event set for Saturday, April 4. |
"[There is] no constitutional right to engage in recreational dancing in a licensed liquor establishment." With those words, Judge Joseph Cardoza shot down Maui Dance Advocates' latest attempt to do away with the LC's dancing rules. |
In our quest for worthy clicks, we consider a lot of "this looks like a joke but it isn't" sites. This week’s entry, however, would be more accurately filed under: "no seriously, this has to be a joke, right?" |
A 1970s-style San Francisco commune is organized around the practice of "orgasmic meditation" but for women only, in daily sessions that start promptly at 7am. |
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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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