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New Year New Tax Rules

Some tips for delaying payments and avoiding penalties

Everyone's tight for money, and that includes our beloved state. A publicized but still little-known change went into effect for businesses last July: all General Excise and Transient Accommodation Tax returns are now due on

Coconut Wireless

Concrete Reefs and Wooden Quotes

Two weeks ago, I mentioned Sarah Palin in this space and promptly learned she was headed to Maui for a West side vacay. The story got weirder when she cut

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Endangered Species

Nine things that may not survive the next decade

HONEY - Billions of honey bees have disappeared in the last few years and some are now sounding the death knell of honey as we know it, if current trends continue. The bee is being affected by changes in landscape, but also a disease known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). The causes of colony collapse disorder are not yet certain

LC Watch

Central Maui Pub Flap

Jordan Hart—son of Mayoral hopeful Chris Hart—thinks a new bar will help revitalize Wailuku. Some neighbors disagree

As recently as ten years ago, 55 percent of downtown Wailuku was designated as "in need of repair" or "beyond repair." Creating areas where people can work, live and recreate without getting into their cars is part of the plan to fix that.

Spin Cycle

Count the Cliches

in the quote below*

"Working together with a collective sense of responsibility, we will make the hard decisions and take the necessary path to

By the Numbers

Hawaii: State of Unquest

7,500 - Number of legal "noncitizens" the state attempted to transfer from the QUEST program to a less-comprehensive public health plan to save money; a Honolulu judge

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Maui Affordable Housing Update

Last week, the draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for developer Jesse Spencer's Ohana Kai Village affordable housing project in Maalaea was released. Spencer says it'll provide homes for low income residents while maintaining respect for open space; critics say it's just

Overheard

Room for Cream

"He, like, reads and stuff—I mean whole...

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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