It’s been a little more than a week since the state Emergency Management Agency zapped most Hawaii residents with a false ballistic missile alert. While it took about a day for everything to return to our normal state of bliss, I’ve lately become fixated on the large corporate-like boxes at the top of Lipoa Parkway in Kihei. It all started a few days after the alert, when … [Read more...] about We ask two nuclear weapons experts if Kihei would be a target in a possible nuclear war
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Maui Makers wants to help you, but first they need your help
[I]t has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things–some celebrated, but more often men and women obscure in their labor–who have carried us up the long rugged path towards prosperity and freedom. -President Barack Obama, 2009 Laura Ulibarri is trying to string a red ukulele while a six-legged robot the size of a Yorkshire terrier whirrs and walks about near her … [Read more...] about Maui Makers wants to help you, but first they need your help
President Obama goes to Hiroshima, Maui gets millions in defense funding
Today President Barack Obama made the first-ever presidential visit to Hiroshima, site of the first use of nuclear weapons in warfare. That Obama was the first president to ever visit the city–where a single American bomb killed about a hundred thousand people–betrays a great deal about how we still can't cope with the fact that the U.S. is the only nation in history to ever … [Read more...] about President Obama goes to Hiroshima, Maui gets millions in defense funding