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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
MauiTime Best of Maui 2012: Best Political Scandal on Maui: County of Maui Department of Liquor Control
BEST POLITICAL SCANDAL County of Maui Department of Liquor Control Commonly called by their initials, the LC enjoys a great deal of power and authority over the county’s service industry. No one sells booze without the LC’s say-so, and that doesn’t come easy. And not just booze, either: LC inspectors also regulate the noise that […]
MauiTime Best of Maui 2009: Best Political Scandal on Maui: Wayne Nishiki’s Dowling Loan
POLITICAL SCANDAL Wayne Nishiki’s Dowling loan OK, forgive us for a moment while we toot our own horn: the biggest political scandal of the year, as voted on by you, was broken in these pages. Now, for the uninitiated: Wayne Nishiki ran for the South Maui County Council seat as the independent candidate with no […]