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Upfront NewsSeptember 14, 2011 | 11:57 AMby Anthony PignataroToday he's managing attorney with the Honolulu law firm of Bays, Lung, Rose & Holma, but from 2002 to 2007 Ed Case was a U.S. Congressman, representing Hawaii's Second District. In 2006, Case gave up his very safe seat in the U.S. House to run against U.S. Senator Daniel Akaka. He never got close to the nomination, but now that Akaka is retiring, the ideologically moderate Case is once again a declared candidate in the 2012 race to be a U.S. Senator. |
Upfront News 2September 14, 2011 | 12:12 PMby Jen RussoEsme Infante Nii, founder of the MomsInHawaii.com network, is on Maui to host a meet-and-greet to foster more inter-island participation. The even takes place at the Dairy Road McDonald's in Kahului at 10:30am this Friday, Sept. 16. |
Coconut WirelessSeptember 14, 2011 | 12:01 PMby Anthony PignataroDidya watch the president's speech the other night? The one where he proposed $447 billion in tax breaks and job creation stimulus spending? Look, I don't know if any of that will work—the fact that the far larger stimulus program passed a couple years ago didn't really dent the nation's jobless numbers could be due to it's being based on bad economics or simply that it was actually too small to do any good. |
News of the WeirdSeptember 14, 2011 | 12:09 PMby Chuck ShepherdRichard Handl, 31, was arrested in southern Sweden in July after a raid on his home. He had been trying for months to set up a nuclear reactor in his kitchen, but became alarmed when a brew of americium, tritium and beryllium created a nuclear meltdown on his stove. Only then, he said, did it occur to him to ask the country's Radiation Authority if |
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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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