The Maui News took a couple of nasty hits this month. First there was the loss of City Editor Brian Perry and reporter Chris Sugidono, who left the paper to work in Mayor Mike Victorino’s administration. Now, the paper has announced that its opinion pages will decrease due to “budgetary considerations.” Instead of publishing five days a week, the publisher’s column, editorial … [Read more...] about Bad News for Maui News
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Will the County of Maui’s plan to provide public WiFi help destroy human civilization?*
Chances are this sentence you’re reading right now is printed on a piece of paper. Maybe it’s a quirk of Maui, or just an accident of history, but even in our so-called “Digital Age,” most of MauiTime’s readers still pick up our print edition each week. Of course we publish online, and distribute our stories and other content through social media like Facebook, Instagram and … [Read more...] about Will the County of Maui’s plan to provide public WiFi help destroy human civilization?*
Tulsi Gabbard, the 2016 election and the only way to fight ‘fake news’
If you hold that faith comes from understanding, that reason is preferable to dogma and that facts are knowable, definable things that transcend faith and bias, then you already know that we live in perilous times. It’s fashionable now to talk of the prevalence of “fake news” caused great damage during the 2016 election, but propaganda and false narratives have been with us … [Read more...] about Tulsi Gabbard, the 2016 election and the only way to fight ‘fake news’
Toilet News and Weird Death and Animal Sacrifice
SOMETHING IN THE AIR Is the signature smell of Texas A&M University more “Italian lemon, bergamot and iced pineapple” (that open into “a body of vivid florals, raw nutmeg and cinnamon”) or more “bat feces” and “chilifest stink”? The two commentaries were contrasted in a November Wall Street Journal report on the introduction of Masik Collegiate Fragrances’ Texas A&M cologne … [Read more...] about Toilet News and Weird Death and Animal Sacrifice
New Appraisals For Arakawa Administration West Maui Land Deal Come In While Maui Police Officer Nelson Johnson Gets Busted Again And LC Defers Profanity Prosecution Of Lifes A Beach
NEW WEST MAUI LAND APPRAISALS IN! If Maui County Council Member Mike White’s mission was to gum up Mayor Alan Arakawa’s proposal to buy 186 acres of Launiupoko land, then he’s well on his way to success. If you’ll recall, back in November Arakawa announced that he’d struck a deal with Makila Land Co. (Peter Martin, Jim Riley and Glenn Tremble, according to state records) to … [Read more...] about New Appraisals For Arakawa Administration West Maui Land Deal Come In While Maui Police Officer Nelson Johnson Gets Busted Again And LC Defers Profanity Prosecution Of Lifes A Beach