Oh look, more luxury condos are coming to Wailea. The 70-unit Keala O Wailea project, situated near the Wailea Gateway Center, should open near the end of 2017, the Dec. 10 Maui News tells us. Though the story appears above the fold on the paper’s front page, there’s nothing whatsoever new about it. The condos will retail for between $700,000 and $1.8 million (not surprising) … [Read more...] about As more luxury condos go up in Wailea, we look back on the original promises of ‘The City of Flowers’
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2013 MauiTime Year In Review
Let’s call 2013 the Year of Ends. Ex-National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden, who is now in exile in Russia after fleeing Hawaii with millions of secret documents, ended any feeling we had that the Obama Administration cared more about civil liberties than his predecessors. South African President Nelson Mandela’s death brought an end to a time when people … [Read more...] about 2013 MauiTime Year In Review
Maui Molasses Makes Mess Of Matson While FBI Files On Daniel Inouye Exemplify J Edgar Hoover Era Paranoia
YOU CAN’T SPELL ‘MOLASSES’ WITHOUT ‘ASSES’ The Associated Press reported on Saturday, Sept. 21 that 233,000 gallons of molasses–“equivalent to what would fill about seven rail cars”–spilled into Honolulu Harbor from a Matson Navigation Co. pipe earlier this month. So far, 26,000 fish have died as a result of that molasses, which, of course, came from Maui. By itself, the … [Read more...] about Maui Molasses Makes Mess Of Matson While FBI Files On Daniel Inouye Exemplify J Edgar Hoover Era Paranoia
Newly Released FBI Files On Late Senator Daniel Inouye Detail 1989 Investigation Into Unsubstantiated Payoff Charge Involving Matson Navigation Company
The late Democratic U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye had a long and fascinating career in national public service, spanning the birth of Hawaii’s statehood in 1959 to his death, at age 88, in late 2012. Given that, it’s only natural that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) would also have long and fascinating files on him. On Sept. 16, in response to Freedom of Information … [Read more...] about Newly Released FBI Files On Late Senator Daniel Inouye Detail 1989 Investigation Into Unsubstantiated Payoff Charge Involving Matson Navigation Company