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Coconut WirelessSeptember 22, 2010 | 06:02 PMby Jacob ShaferLast week, a Molokai veterans group filed suit against Maui County, Mayor Charmaine Tavares and several other officials, claiming that they have endured "years of senseless, relentless roadblocks" in their effort to build a |
Spin CycleSeptember 22, 2010 | 06:09 PMby Jacob ShaferThis week in back-handed compliments: "So, why didn't we win? Most would say that it was 'all about the money.' The winner Brian Schatz raised and spent nearly twice the amount we did. The other two major contenders likewise |
By the NumbersSeptember 22, 2010 | 06:07 PMby Jacob Shafer$91 million: Amount Connecticut-based Compass Diversified Holdings paid for an 84 percent stake in |
News of the WeirdSeptember 22, 2010 | 06:19 PMby Chuck Shepherd"Tom Tom," a 2-year-old Yorkshire terrier, was laid to rest at the Oakland Cemetery in Monticello, Arkansas, in March, even though he was in good health. His owner, Donald Ellis, had just passed away but had left explicit instructions that he wanted |
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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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