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Upfront NewsTwenty-five states. Thirty-seven days. Halfway thereJuly 14, 2010 | 01:59 PMWe first told you about Sara Tekula and Joe Imhoff in April, a month before the husband-and-wife team left for the Mainland with a unique goal: to plant a native tree in all 50 states and shoot a documentary along the way. Last week, they returned from the initial leg of their Johnny Appleseed-esque odyssey—dubbed Plant a Wish—exhausted but undaunted. We caught up with Sara to find out what people |
Coconut WirelessJuly 14, 2010 | 01:47 PMby Jacob ShaferThe state Sheriff Division is "hampered by ineffective leadership" and "lacks guidance and direction" according to a report released last month by State Auditor Marion Higa, who isn't known for pulling punches. The Sheriff Division is part of the Department of Public Safety (DPS) and is tasked with "formulating and implementing state goals and objectives for law enforcement programs"; basically, they're the overarching |
Spin CycleJuly 14, 2010 | 02:45 PMby Jacob ShaferApril 2009: Illinois-based General Growth Properties, which owns and operates hundreds of shopping centers across the country including ten in Hawaii and two on Maui, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. |
By the NumbersJuly 14, 2010 | 02:39 PMby Jacob Shafer20 - Number of F-22 Raptor fighter planes that will be stationed in Hawaii; the first two were welcomed by Gov. Lingle last week during a ceremony at Hickam Air Force Base |
News of the WeirdJuly 14, 2010 | 02:28 PMby Chuck ShepherdWhy are you still alive?" is the question doctors ask Ozzy Osbourne, the hard-rock singer and reality-TV star, who says he is now clean and sober after a lifetime of almost unimaginably bad habits. In June, he started two new ventures: undergoing the three-month process of genetic mapping (to help doctors learn why, indeed) and becoming a |
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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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