Two former Maui News employees, Brian Perry and Chris Sugidono, have recently been hired to work within Mayor Mike Victorino’s Communications Office. Former Maui News City Editor Brian Perry now serves as Victorino’s communications director, and former staff writer Chris Sugidono as an assistant communications director alongside Arakawa Administration holdover Ryan … [Read more...] about ‘Terrible for the Pursuit of Truth in our Society’: Former Maui News employees switch teams
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Maui News takes 2 months to report MauiTime Publisher’s Supreme Court exoneration
It took two months, but The Maui News finally ran a story (without a byline, of course) on Feb. 13 on the Hawaii Supreme Court exonerating MauiTime Publisher Tommy Russo. As Civil Beat columnist Brett Oppegaard noted the day before, in a Feb. 12 story, Russo made headlines across Hawaii back in 2012 when two Maui Police Officers arrested him while he was photographing them on … [Read more...] about Maui News takes 2 months to report MauiTime Publisher’s Supreme Court exoneration
Maui News publishes wacky Las Vegas shooting letter, wackier note to readers
One of the best entertainment sources in The Maui News on a daily basis isn’t the comics, it’s the Letters to the Editor. In other newspapers, that space is usually filled with fairly earnest discourse. But in The Maui News, civic discussions are amply supplemented by missives on God, the apocalypse, Mauitopia and government cover-ups, thanks to the regular efforts of a … [Read more...] about Maui News publishes wacky Las Vegas shooting letter, wackier note to readers