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The election is still more than a year away, but Hawaii's gubernatorial candidates are in full-on cash-acquisition mode. Campaign contribution and expenditure reports filed last week revealed robust totals for the three leading contenders |
By early July, Jonathan Baltesz and his wife and kids were desperate to find their 10-year-old Labrador mix, Simon, who had run away. They had one more plan, however. The family members urinated |
Out of character adj. An excuse used by public figures who've said something stupid or derogatory in a moment of candor that was, in all likelihood, completely in character. |
$7 million
Amount the U.S. Navy has spent repairing a section of reef on Oahu that was damaged by one of its vessels, the USS Port Royal, in February
Amount the Navy has spent repairing the USS Port Royal
48,400
Number of inter-island passengers carried by Mokulele Airlines in July, the highest total since the airline began service in November 2008
$2
Amount by which the daily parking rate will increase at Kahului Airport, effective Aug. |
Upfront NewsNew report reveals disturbing details about go! flight 1002There are a few things a commercial airline pilot simply cannot do. Falling asleep at the wheel is one of them. But that's exactly what happened on the morning of February 13, 2008, as go! flight 1002 made its way from Honolulu to Hilo. |
Upfront News 2Recounting the revolutionary life and legacy of the Philippines' first female presidentCorazon Aquino, the former President of the Republic of the Philippines who led a peaceful urban revolution that ousted U.S.-backed dictator Ferdinand Marcos, died on August 1 at Makati Medical Center in Manila. |
Rob ReportA trip to East Maui leads to introspectionClouds shrouded the Alenuihaha Channel between Hana and the Big Island as squalls blew across the choppy ocean waters. Looking down over steeply sloping pastures, we watched the advancing showers race toward the shoreline below, where surging waves from Tropical Storm Lana, far to the south, crashed audibly against the lava rocks, sending cascades of whitewater into coastal tide pools. |
LC WatchOf the two things the LC likes to bust venues for, one is easy to identify, the other is (potentially) difficult. The first, of course, is selling to someone under 21 years old. |
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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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