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Upfront NewsNovember 09, 2011 | 11:42 AMby Anthony PignataroThe Maui Invitational, the first big college basketball tournament of the season, runs though November at the Lahaina Civic Center. It's a tradition around here dating back to 1982 in which 12 college teams battle for basketball glory. It's also a product of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), a 106-year old organization that, in the words of the eminent civil rights historian Taylor Branch, is "unjust" and carries the "unmistakable whiff of the plantation." |
Upfront News 2November 09, 2011 | 11:48 AMby Jen RussoIf it weren't for the University of Hawaii Maui College Dental Assisting Program's Baby Dental Packet Project, many new parents might not know anything about dental care. Babies aren't born with teeth, but that doesn't mean you can't start with good dental habits from the get go. |
Coconut WirelessNovember 09, 2011 | 11:45 AMby Anthony PignataroAnd here's someone else you can vote for now, and then grumble over after he's been in office for a few months, and finally denounce when he comes up for reelection: Ladies and gentlemen of Maui, meet Don Guzman. He wants to sit in Maui County Councilmember Joe Pontanilla's seat representing Kahului when Pontanilla gets termed out next year. |
Upfront News 3November 09, 2011 | 11:51 AMby Jen RussoThe Hawaii State Department of Education is stepping into a new three-year induction program that gives new teachers an automatic mentorship with a veteran educator in an effort to battle the state's extreme attrition rate with new hires. The Hawaii Teacher Induction Program Standards are part of the state's Race to the Top Plan. |
News of the WeirdNovember 09, 2011 | 11:38 AMby Chuck ShepherdMohamed Bishr, an Egyptian man bearing a remarkable resemblance to the late Iraqi dictator, claimed in October that he had been briefly kidnapped after spurning an offer to portray Saddam in a porn video. Bishr's adult sons told the al-Ahram newspaper in Alexandria that their father had been offered the equivalent of $330,000. In 2002, according to the Washington Post, the CIA briefly contemplated using a Saddam impersonator in a porn video as a tool to publicly embarrass Saddam into relinquishing power prior to the U.S. |
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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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