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Upfront NewsAugust 11, 2010 | 04:09 PMOver the next month we'll examine the various state and county races, culminating in endorsements before the September 18 primary. This week, we look at the crowded contests for both Governor and Lieutenant Governor; for the first time in eight years, neither race features  |
Coconut WirelessAugust 11, 2010 | 04:03 PMby Jacob ShaferAfter climbing steadily since 2006, Hawaii's recycling rate fell slightly last fiscal year according to figures released by the Department of Health (DOH). In 2009, the return rate for the state's HI-5 program was 79 percent; in 2010, that number dropped to |
Spin CycleAugust 11, 2010 | 04:22 PMby Jacob ShaferThis week, Hawaiian Electric Industries (parent company of HECO and MECO) announced a second-quarter profit of $29.3 million. That's almost twice as much as |
By the NumbersAugust 11, 2010 | 04:17 PMby Jacob Shafer12 percent: Portion by which Maui condo sales decreased in July compared to |
News of the WeirdAugust 11, 2010 | 04:43 PMby Chuck ShepherdShirley Anderson, 71, is suing her son Ken, 46, in Vancouver, British Columbia, for parental support—even though she and his father abandoned him when he was 15. An archaic 1922 law in British Columbia obligates adult children to |
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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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