NEW WEST MAUI LAND APPRAISALS IN! If Maui County Council Member Mike White’s mission was to gum up Mayor Alan Arakawa’s proposal to buy 186 acres of Launiupoko land, then he’s well on his way to success. If you’ll recall, back in November Arakawa announced that he’d struck a deal with Makila Land Co. (Peter Martin, Jim Riley and Glenn Tremble, according to state records) to … [Read more...] about New Appraisals For Arakawa Administration West Maui Land Deal Come In While Maui Police Officer Nelson Johnson Gets Busted Again And LC Defers Profanity Prosecution Of Lifes A Beach
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Joe Pontanilla Wants His Old Maui County Council Job Back While The LC Brings The Profanity Hammer Down On Lifes A Beach In Kihei
PONTANILLA WANTS OLD JOB BACK So apparently life in the mayor’s office isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. According to the Nov. 27 Maui News, former Maui County Council Member Joe Pontanilla wants his old job back. “I know the district very well,” he told the paper. “I can help Maui, Molokai and Lanai.” This is, for anyone who looks at arcane political statistics like “election … [Read more...] about Joe Pontanilla Wants His Old Maui County Council Job Back While The LC Brings The Profanity Hammer Down On Lifes A Beach In Kihei
Talking Story With New Maui County Auditor Lance Taguchi About His Plans And Why It Is Taking Him So Long To Get Started
One of the little observed results of the 2012 election on Maui was the decisive approval of a Charter Commission proposal calling for a County Auditor. While not the sexiest job around, a decisive majority of voters (54 percent to 29 percent) voted to bring Maui County into the 20th century and hire an independent auditor–a person whose sole job is to investigate county … [Read more...] about Talking Story With New Maui County Auditor Lance Taguchi About His Plans And Why It Is Taking Him So Long To Get Started
County of Maui To Rename Waihee Park After Richard Caldito
Richard “Pablo” Caldito, Sr., the first Filipino-American elected to public office in the United States, will be recognized Thursday, Oct. 17 at a dedication ceremony to rename the Waihe’e Ball Park in his honor. Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa and the county Department of Parks & Recreation are inviting the public to join them at a 3:30pm ceremony as they officially change the park’s … [Read more...] about County of Maui To Rename Waihee Park After Richard Caldito
Epic Campaign Fail and Chinese Chicken and Mayonnaise Enemas
HOME SWEET HOME “With its neatly cut lawns and luscious tropical vegetation,” wrote a BBC News reporter in July, Miracle Village, Fla., is an “idyllic rural community” of 200 residents–about half of whom are registered sex offenders, attracted to the settlement near Lake Okeechobee because laws and ordinances elsewhere in Florida harshly restrict where they can live (e.g., not … [Read more...] about Epic Campaign Fail and Chinese Chicken and Mayonnaise Enemas