BEST COUNTY BLUNDER 24/7 LIQUOR SALES On the scale of blunders we’ve written about through the years, this is off the charts–not quite as bad as putting too few lifeboats on the Titanic, but certainly worse than the decision to add Cousin Oliver to The Brady Bunch. Seriously, everyone in the county has denounced the Liquor Commission’s secret rule change that … [Read more...] about MauiTime Best of Maui 2017: Best County Blunder on Maui: 24/7 Liquor Sales
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MauiTime Best of Maui 2016: Best County Blunder on Maui: Homeless at Kanaha
BEST COUNTY BLUNDER Homeless at Kanaha “In the long-run, providing supportive housing actually saves more money for the taxpayer – roughly 50 percent–when compared to the cost for the homeless to remain on the streets where they use our public services–our police, fire, emergency rooms and courtrooms–at a very high frequency,” Maui County Mayor Alan Arakawa said in his State … [Read more...] about MauiTime Best of Maui 2016: Best County Blunder on Maui: Homeless at Kanaha
MauiTime Best of Maui 2015: Best Maui County Blunder: Not Enforcing GMO Moratorium
BEST MAUI COUNTY BLUNDER Not Enforcing GMO Moratorium I kinda had a feeling this one would break this way. Judging by the reaction we got when we editorialized last year against the GMO moratorium, our readers largely wanted the thing to go through. But the charge that the county didn’t enforce it is bogus–a judge stopped the act in its tracks right after the election so … [Read more...] about MauiTime Best of Maui 2015: Best Maui County Blunder: Not Enforcing GMO Moratorium
MauiTime Best of Maui 2013: Best County Blunder on Maui: Maui County Department of Liquor Control
Best County Blunder Maui County Department of Liquor Control Even before former Liquor Control Investigator Justin Dobbs filed his lawsuit against the County of Maui in October 2012, alleging all manner of bad deeds going down at the LC (which is still pending), most people who’d spent more than a day on Maui knew that something just wasn’t right with the county agency … [Read more...] about MauiTime Best of Maui 2013: Best County Blunder on Maui: Maui County Department of Liquor Control
MauiTime Best of Maui 2012: Best County Blunder on Maui: Wailuku Main Street Association
BEST COUNTY BLUNDER Wailuku Main Street Association Talk about a no-brainer. Wailuku Main Street Association (WMSA) has been taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants from the County of Maui for years ($2.2 million since 2002, according to The Maui News). And if you’d like to know what the non-profit organization has been doing with that money, get in line … [Read more...] about MauiTime Best of Maui 2012: Best County Blunder on Maui: Wailuku Main Street Association