Not long after taking my seat in the Maui Arts and Cultural Center's Castle Theater a little while before the start of Rep. Tulsi Gabbard's April 20 Town Hall meeting, I noticed a couple guys standing against the far wall. They wore civilian clothes, but something about the way they were standing just screamed cop to me. Though there were still some seats available on the … [Read more...] about Was Rep. Tulsi Gabbard afraid of her constituents at her Maui Town Hall meeting?
Gregg Okamoto
Former Maui County Councilmember Mike Victorino in bad auto collision, hit two teens
So after a weekend of speculating about the veracity of a story that former Maui County Councilmember/future Maui Mayor candidate Mike Victorino had been in an auto collision that involved him hitting two kids–a story apparently first reported by Hawaii News Now, though there is no trace of such a story on their website–The Maui News finally reported on Monday, April 17 that … [Read more...] about Former Maui County Councilmember Mike Victorino in bad auto collision, hit two teens
The Dallas sniper, bomb-armed robots and the Maui Police Department
First off, the killings last night in Dallas at the conclusion of an otherwise peaceful Black Lives Matter rally was horrible and abhorrent and straight-up mass murder. Five police officers died, and five others (as well as two civilians) were wounded. It was barbaric and horrible. The sniper (and so far, there only seems to have been one) put Dallas law enforcement in an … [Read more...] about The Dallas sniper, bomb-armed robots and the Maui Police Department