By Laurel Murphy It was Friday, September 17, and I had just arrived from Baltimore at the Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport. I had an Earl Grey tea from Starbucks, a spot in the sunshine, and someone had left a copy of the day’s USA Today on the corner table. Happy me. It wasn’t long before [...]
Two Campaign Spending Commission rules for the Big Island’s pilot project in comprehensive public election financing appear to unfairly discriminate against young voters and those in rural areas. The pilot project provides for public financing of candidates for Hawai‘i County Council who qualify by getting $5 contributions from at least 200 registered voters in their [...]
By Phil Swatek Delbert and I get together every year when he visits Maui to inspect his various properties. His tailored gaberdine trousers, be-spoke cowboy shirts, and hand-tooled ostrich skin boots quietly advertise the considerable success that he’s enjoyed as a livestock broker in the great Southwest. He owns a large piece of land in [...]
By Phillip Swatek The following interview took place in the Moon safe house in deepest Pa‘ia. MM: Were you surprised by Neil’s margin of victory over Mufi? PS: Not really. Mufi looks like the guy who stole your lunch money in middle school. Is it the too fat lips, or the slightly hooded eyes? But [...]
By Laurel Murphy Having joined the ranks of the unemployed, I found myself recently at a meeting at the Workforce Development office on Wells St. with five other people. We were older, deemed “most likely” not to be able to find work in our professions, and had been selected for special counseling. Four were veterans. [...]
Dear People of Hawai‘i, Roger Christie is a ‘political prisoner’ of the U.S. government. The U.S. has more political prisoners than any other nation. Welcome, ‘Tea Party’, to the support of our mutual interest – The U.S. Constitution! Where have you been all this time? Getting drunk, and smoking cancer sticks, may be ‘legal’–but that [...]
By Ken Pinsky It’s easy – become a localist. I’d like to advance to extreme localist myself. Now, you might mean something different by localism than I do, but I know what I mean by it. Shopping locally – that’s it. I buy at local stores as much as I can, which is almost always [...]
By Kyle Ellison Nearly all Maui guidebooks will mention that on the island’s famous road to Hana you will drive exactly 52 miles, pass over 54 narrow bridges, and complete over 600 winding, hairpin turns. While this is appreciated info, what they fail to mention is that myriad other oddities also lurk along this ribbon [...]
By Paul Wood I don’t write restaurant reviews. In fact, I usually come home from restaurant dinners with a reconfirmed belief that I should stay home and make better food myself. Nevertheless, for need of a place to converse, four of us went to Max World Bistro and had a great food experience, not to [...]
By Ginger Johnson Summer is drawing to a close. This morning dawned with a gentle rain; a sweet reminder that summer has almost run her course and that in a few weeks thoughts and weather patterns will turn to fall and then on to our temperate winter. It will become harder to fling myself from [...]
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