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Upfront NewsMarch 23, 2011 | 01:53 PMby Ted RallOn March 20—inauspiciously, the eighth anniversary of the Iraq invasion—U.S. forces fired 110 cruise missiles at Libya. Each one cost $755,000 to build and another $2.8 million to |
Coconut WirelessMarch 23, 2011 | 01:24 PMby Jacob Shafer"This is not a budget of fluff and extravagance but one of necessity," Mayor Arakawa announced as he presented his plan for the 2012 fiscal year to the County Council last week. Arakawa said he got the  |
Spin CycleMarch 23, 2011 | 01:31 PMby Jacob ShaferOOn March 15, the state Senate's Public Safety, Government Operations and Military Affairs Committee voted in favor of a resolution that would declare February 6, 2011 Ronald Reagan Day in honor of the late |
By the NumbersMarch 23, 2011 | 01:28 PMby Jacob ShaferNumber of endangered adult Laysan and black-footed albatross that were killed when the March 10 tsunami struck a national wildlife refuge on the Midway atoll; another 110,000 chicks |
News of the WeirdMarch 23, 2011 | 01:35 PMby Chuck ShepherdTihomir Petrov, 43, a mathematics professor at California State University Northridge, was charged in January with misdemeanors for allegedly urinating twice on the  |
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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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