WMSA CHAIRMAN TOM CANNON IS SICK OF ALL THE MEDDLING KIDS Just when you thought that giant heap of hurt the Wailuku Main Street Association (WMSA) leaped into couldn’t get any bigger (and that heap already includes a subpoena from the state Attorney General and a Dec. 5 court date), we’ve obtained a couple letters from October showing the county’s most controversial nonprofit … [Read more...] about Wailuku Main Street Association Threatens Lawsuit Against County of Maui While Hawaiian Commercial And Sugar Rakes In The Profits
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The Tsunami That Was Not And Wailuku Main Street Association Unilaterally Cancels Its Own Lease
ANOTHER DOOMSDAY FAKEOUT As I write these words, the East Coast is still recovering from Hurricane Sandy–one of the largest storms ever recorded in the North Atlantic. There was severe flooding in New York and Atlantic City. The storm’s total death toll in the Caribbean and U.S. is nearly 100, and it’s still affecting an estimated 50 million people. Kinda puts Saturday … [Read more...] about The Tsunami That Was Not And Wailuku Main Street Association Unilaterally Cancels Its Own Lease
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 … [Read more...] about Mismanagement Allegations May Doom The Wailuku Main Street Association And Change Our Small Towns But That Might Be A Good Thing
MauiTime Best of Maui 2012: Best County Blunder on Maui: Wailuku Main Street Association
BEST COUNTY BLUNDER Wailuku Main Street Association Talk about a no-brainer. Wailuku Main Street Association (WMSA) has been taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants from the County of Maui for years ($2.2 million since 2002, according to The Maui News). And if you’d like to know what the non-profit organization has been doing with that money, get in line … [Read more...] about MauiTime Best of Maui 2012: Best County Blunder on Maui: Wailuku Main Street Association