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Pot Pow Wows and Peer News

March 23, 2010 | 04:45 PM
by Jacob Shafer
"We need to consider what drug prohibition has done to the vital profession of law enforcement. It has divided police officers from the communities we serve, alienated us from young people, sent our call-loads through the roof, placed huge financial strains onmore
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LC Watch

Council Rejects McOmber

March 23, 2010 | 04:52 PM
by Jacob Shafer
Last week, I told you about the County Council Committee of the Whole's vote to approve Ron McOmber to the LC Adjudication Board. In that column, I wrote that the tension was "palatable" even on the Akaku footage. Several readers pointed out my linguistic slip, but it proved to bemore
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Spin Cycle

LURF Fights For the Big Guys

March 23, 2010 | 05:10 PM
by Jacob Shafer
Line in the sand… "LURF generally supports the intent and purpose of [the bill] however we must respectfully oppose the provisions whichmore
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By the Numbers

Superferry Not Done Costing Taxpayers

March 23, 2010 | 05:05 PM
by Jacob Shafer
$218,500: Value of a state contract awarded in February to Oahu-based Healy Tibbitts Builders Inc. to tow the Manaiakalani—aka the Supeferry barge—from Kahului Harbor to more
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News of the Weird

Sucking Snails and Anthrax Madness

March 23, 2010 | 05:03 PM
by Chuck Shepherd
It's a simple recipe, said A-List New York City chef Daniel Angerer: a cheese derived from the breast milk of his wife, who is nursing the couple's 3-month-old daughter. As a chef, he said, "you look out formore
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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