There’s a Maui Tomorrow Benefit at Flatbread Company in Paia on Tuesday, June 19th. Maui Tomorrow Foundation is an environmental advocacy organization working for the enforcement of Hawaii’s environmental and land use laws. Bring your family and friends down to Paia to eat pizza and support the future of Maui Nui. Flatbread will donate a portion of all pizza sales to the … [Read more...] about Maui Tomorrow Benefit at Flatbread Company in Paia
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Liquor Control Director Glenn Mukai snows Maui News with nonexistent ‘policy’
In case you missed it, over the last two months the Maui County Liquor Commission has changed a lot of their rules for governing the sale of alcohol. According to two Maui News stories in the last couple of days, the LC is now allowing stores and hotels to sell booze 24 hours a day, removed the cap on the number of hostess bars in the county (it was 12) and are now allowing the … [Read more...] about Liquor Control Director Glenn Mukai snows Maui News with nonexistent ‘policy’
UPDATED: Does Maui News music writer Jon Woodhouse really want to be a political journalist?
[NOTE: On Feb. 6, Woodhouse–a JOURNALIST–suddenly realized that I had published all the correspondence printed below, and took offense to that. Scroll to the end for his newest letter to me.] For many years now, Jon Woodhouse has written the Maui Beat column for The Maui News. It's a music column that runs each week in the paper's Maui Scene insert. But as a hobby, he … [Read more...] about UPDATED: Does Maui News music writer Jon Woodhouse really want to be a political journalist?
Former Maui News Reporter Ron Youngblood dies at age 73
Former Maui News reporter Ron Youngblood died on Monday at the age of 73. Youngblood was something of a utility player at the News for 25 years–reporter, columnist, editorial writer, letters-to-the-editor editor, event reviewer and voice of the paper on Hawaii Public Radio. When Youngblood retired in 2009, the News reported that he "averaged writing about 320 editorials a year … [Read more...] about Former Maui News Reporter Ron Youngblood dies at age 73
Klingons sabotage MauiTime cover photo of Captain Kirk!
Ok, maybe not. Though we'd like to say that the headline on this week's cover about William Shatner (who's appearing on Wednesday, Dec. 30 at the Sheraton Maui Resort) is written in Klingon, the cover text should have been in English, as the photo of our original design at right indicates. As it turned out, all the pages of this week's issue–including the cover–looked fine … [Read more...] about Klingons sabotage MauiTime cover photo of Captain Kirk!