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Coconut Wireless

Interesting wrinkle in the ongoing tussle between Gov. Lingle and Hawaii's labor unions: As reported in today's Maui News, the state's mayors are joining forces against

Rob Report

The Home Stretch

Eleventh-hour efforts are vital to island planning

Ask your average Maui resident how the land use and planning process works and you are likely to be greeted with a blank stare, or at best, a confused

LC Watch

Much has been made (by us and Maui Dance Advocates, mostly) about the LC's restrictive

Spin Cycle

Organization changes v. A blanket term used to indicate the firings, demotions and increased workloads of employees at a company that’s losing money.

By the Numbers

1,100 Number of state workers who could receive layoff notices in the coming months, according to

Overheard

I missed my plane, but I was able to go to

REVENGE, GERMAN STYLE Two formerly well-off retired couples in Speyer, Germany, whose nest egg was largely wiped out by investments in sub-prime Florida mortgages, vented their anger by kidnapping

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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