Eh Brah, why do you burn abandoned cars? When you do, you unleash an environmental disaster. All those fluids and plastics and kinds of rubber go into the air. One car that was burned on Hana Highway caused a drool of black slime to run down the gutter toward the nearest gulch–and the ocean. When you leave a car with the “orange sticker of death” alone, the county takes it away … [Read more...] about Eh Brah: Why are you burning abandoned cars on Maui?
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Readers React To A New Season Of Cane Burning Coverage
I am contacting you today in regards to your article in the current MauiTime about the cane burning (Coconut Wireless, Mar. 21, 2013). I personally never had a problem with the burning and never paid notice to it unless I have to clean up the ashes when they are on my car. I started having a problem with cane burning when I could not take the complaining anymore. I am tired … [Read more...] about Readers React To A New Season Of Cane Burning Coverage
County Of Maui Wins Transparency Award From Group That Hates Transparency While Sugar Cane Burning Starts Again
THE COUNTY OF MAUI IS MY SUNSHINE One of the great things about the County of Maui is that they don’t discriminate against anyone willing to give them an award. Regardless of the organization, its funding or the fact that it doesn’t really like government of any kind, if it’s willing to hand over an award that didn’t exist five years ago, the County of Maui is more than … [Read more...] about County Of Maui Wins Transparency Award From Group That Hates Transparency While Sugar Cane Burning Starts Again
Readers Sound Off On Maui Pride Cover And Cane Burning
MAUI PRIDE COVER I am a loyal reader of the Mauitime newspaper. However, the Oct. 4, 2012 cover photo was extremely offensive. How sad that MauiTime would parody the famous Iwo Jima Memorial honoring fallen Marines. Not even Mauitime can spin this cover photo to be anything but what it is, an attempt to put the LGBTQ on equal footing with the tens of thousands of brave … [Read more...] about Readers Sound Off On Maui Pride Cover And Cane Burning
Cane Burning Fight Gets Hotter While NOAA Discovers New Sublime Coral Habitat
MAUI’S FIGHT OVER SUGAR CANE BURNING GETS EVEN HOTTER So I’m glad to see that this weekend we all got together and straightened out that whole sugar cane burning thing. We’re all good, right? Right? Tell that to the woman who (allegedly) had to to endure rock throwing and yelling because she accidentally went to the wrong cane burning rally on Saturday. She had wanted to stand … [Read more...] about Cane Burning Fight Gets Hotter While NOAA Discovers New Sublime Coral Habitat