WORST POLITICAL SCANDAL FALSE BALLISTIC MISSILE On a Saturday morning in January, our cell phones went off with the warning: “BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.” It was one of those moments that everyone had a story about later. What happened next in the minds and hearts of our state’s residents varied wildly: panic, … [Read more...] about MauiTime Best of Maui 2018: Best Political Scandal on Maui: False Ballistic Missile
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MauiTime Best of Maui 2017: Best Political Scandal on Maui: LC Nepotism
BEST POLITICAL SCANDAL LC NEPOTISM This has been a scandal at the Maui County Department of Liquor Control for as long as I’ve lived on Maui, and it goes back much further than that. Back in 2003, when I first started reported on the LC, I was astonished to find that then-LC Director Frank Silva employed two of his sons in the department, though to be fair there … [Read more...] about MauiTime Best of Maui 2017: Best Political Scandal on Maui: LC Nepotism
MauiTime Best of Maui 2016: Best Political Scandal on Maui: Alan Arakawa
BEST POLITICAL SCANDAL Alan Arakawa Alan Arakawa is a highly intelligent and experienced mayor. He’s held a variety of jobs in the County of Maui, both administrative and legislative, over the last few decades. Though’s he only half responsible for the current mayoral-County Council war that grips our local government (Council Chairperson Mike White has exhibited his own … [Read more...] about MauiTime Best of Maui 2016: Best Political Scandal on Maui: Alan Arakawa
MauiTime Best of Maui 2015: Best Political Scandal on Maui GMOs
BEST POLITICAL SCANDAL ON MAUI GMOs You can look at this a number of ways. First, that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) themselves–which are grown on Maui by Monsanto, most famously–are themselves scandalous. Or that the act of getting an initiative that calls for a ban on GMO cultivation in Maui County placed on the 2014 general election ballot was the scandal. … [Read more...] about MauiTime Best of Maui 2015: Best Political Scandal on Maui GMOs
MauiTime Best of Maui 2014: Best Political Scandal on Maui: Maui Police Department
Best Political Scandal Maui Police Department That’s right, the whole department. And why not? It took them years to discover that junkie cop Allison Moore wasn’t dying of cancer but was actually smoking meth (which she stole out of police evidence lockers) when she should have been working. When MauiTime’s own publisher tried to film them during a huge traffic … [Read more...] about MauiTime Best of Maui 2014: Best Political Scandal on Maui: Maui Police Department