Maybe you’ve seen it on social media, on a car bumper, or stuck to some roadside guardrail, but wherever you saw it first, the words are everywhere this election season: huli. Huli means to turn or change, and who can blame citizens for wanting to flip course? Maui residents are facing monumental issues determining the […]
MauiTime Walk Story: 2018 Candidate for County Council (Lana‘i) Gabe Johnson
Watch MauiTime Walk Story with Maui County Council candidate for Lana‘i seat Gabe Johnson and MauiTime editor Axel Beers
MauiTime’s 2016 General Election Endorsements
Ideally, an election is more than simply filling in the square next to a party affiliation. It should be about more than simply articulating a person’s privileges or bigotries. It should achieve more than quantifying the effects of propaganda and misinformation. Democracy requires real, meaningful elections, and that means voters need to have information. Not […]
Here’s some feedback we got on our 2016 Hawaii Primary Election Endorsement Issue
It hasn’t even been a week since we laid down the first of our 2016 minefields (otherwise known as election endorsement issues), and we’ve taken about as much incoming fire as I expected. Whenever you pick a side in a political fight, you’re going to get heat–especially when your criteria for endorsing candidates doesn’t follow strict ideological lines. […]