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2013 MauiTime Green Issue
Where environmental matters are concerned, Maui these days is a place of great contradictions. As a relatively tiny rock in the middle of the vast Pacific, the island has extremely limited landfill potential–a reality everyone here is well aware of–yet the County of Maui’s curbside recycling program remains an isolated experiment. So-called “zero emission” electric cars, … [Read more...] about 2013 MauiTime Green Issue
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
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