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Upfront NewsNovember 14, 2012 | 08:56 AMby Jen RussoWe may have had some victories in the same-sex marriage issue on Election Day, with legalization victories in Washington, Maryland and Maine, but the affair is still very much a hot button. On Nov. 30, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear about a half dozen challenges to same-sex marriage, including California's infamous Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage and has already been declared unconstitutional by that state's Supreme Court. |
Upfront News 2November 14, 2012 | 08:58 AMby Jen RussoThe second edition of TEDxMaui is just two months away. Ted Talks created an international spirit of exchanging information, or "ideas worth spreading," as their mission statement says. TEDx conferences are organized at the local level and are designed to stimulate dialogue in the community. TEDx Maui is still coordinating some of the speakers, but the date for the event is set: Jan. 13, 2013 at the Maui Arts and Cultural Center. Tickets are on sale now. |
Coconut WirelessNovember 14, 2012 | 07:10 AMby Anthony PignataroWMSA CHAIRMAN TOM CANNON IS SICK OF ALL THE MEDDLING KIDS
Just when you thought that giant heap of hurt the Wailuku Main Street Association (WMSA) leaped into couldn't get any bigger (and that heap already includes a subpoena from the state Attorney General and a Dec. 5 court date), we've obtained a couple letters from October showing the county's most controversial nonprofit has threatened to sue the County of Maui.
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News of the WeirdNovember 14, 2012 | 07:15 AMby Chuck ShepherdDISGRACED BUT NOT CONTRITE
Randy Adams, the former police chief of Bell, Calif., had resigned in disgrace after prosecutors charged eight other city officials with looting the municipal budget. Adams had been recruited by the alleged miscreants (at a sweetheart salary twice what he made as police chief of much larger Glendale), and his resignation left him with a generous state pension of $240,000 a year. Rather than quietly accept the payout, |
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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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