END GAME FOR WMSA? And now friends, it seems that we’ve finally come to the closing act of that great Shakespearean tragedy known as the Wailuku Main Street Association (WMSA). At 8:30am on Wed., Sept. 4, Deputy Attorney General Hugh Jones and architect Tom Cannon–the last man standing from the old WMSA hierarchy–are scheduled to […]
Hawaii Attorney General Tells Wailuku Main Street Association To Dissolve Or Risk New Court Order
This week the situation at the embattled Wailuku Main Street Association, the once mighty community nonprofit that’s been under fire for all manner of alleged violations and impropriety, became very grim. On Tuesday, May 21, Deputy Attorney General Hugh Jones–whose office has been investigating allegations against WMSA since early 2012–emailed WMSA President Tom Cannon the […]
Sworn Testimony From Wailuku Main Street Association Exec Jocelyn Perreira Revealed While County Fines Ukulele Fest
‘I’M JUST THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’ For more than a quarter century, the nonprofit organization Wailuku Main Street Association has employed Jocelyn Perreira as its executive director. Her name and that of WMSA–which has long subsisted on a steady diet of County of Maui funds, to the tune of $243,000 a year or so–have been intertwined […]
Maui Sunseeker To Appear On Hotel Impossible While Wailuku Main Street Association Faces A Judge And Maui Bake Shop Owner Jose Krall Dies In Plane Crash
MAUI SUNSEEKER You guys ever watch Hotel Impossible on the Travel Channel? Well, you might want to tune in next week because the show’s hotel fixer Anthony Melchiorri will be helping Maui Sunseeker owner Chuck Spence spruce up his 26-room Kihei resort, which he’s owned since 2008 and which caters to adult LGBT clients. “The […]
Mismanagement Allegations May Doom The Wailuku Main Street Association And Change Our Small Towns But That Might Be A Good Thing
There’s a firestorm of controversy engulfing the Wailuku Main Street Association these days. The nonprofit organization may have lasted 26 years–over the last decade alone it’s consumed more than $2 million of county tax money–but there are now serious questions whether it will survive deputy Attorney General Hugh Jones’ allegations of mismanagement, malfeasance and even […]
Men In Black 3 New Movie Review
After extraterrestrial “Boris the Animal” escapes from an intergalactic prison, he heads back to earth to punish the MIB who put him there: Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones), who is still battling rogue alien scum with his ever-chatty partner Agent J (Will Smith). Boris (played by Flight of the Conchords Jemaine Clement) has a unique […]