By Paul Wood Our newspaper of record claims to have an open-forum policy when it comes to letters from readers. It prints them all, regardless of content. The truth is, some letters are just too much. A friend of ours who works janitorial at that publication has been pulling rejected letters out of trashcans, and [...]
By Kristine Kubat Add the word “Mufi” or “Duke” to the phrase “religious right,” dispatch Google in search of a match, and in a matter of seconds you’ll get directed to the Talk to Action website where you’ll find an article on how these men figure into a right-wing Christian agenda targeting Hawai‘i. Authored by [...]
By Tom Stevens I was walking through Wailuku on some recent errand when an oversized political campaign sign rode past in the back of a truck. A pair of propped-open sandwich boards displayed two big red hearts. The sign barely fit into the bed of the truck, which was driven by a burly man in [...]
By Kyle Ellison It’s not everyday you get to watch an 80 year old surfer get inducted into the Hall of Fame. Nor is it everyday where 65 year old men openly share waves with 7 year old children and outrigger canoes. On a day where laughter trumped anger and age was but a number, [...]
By Emily Bott Does Hana’s Jeannie Pechin attract coincidences? Why else did a Chilean graduate student from Arizona fly all the way to Maui to interview her? Anita Carrasco, PhD candidate at the University of Arizona, was studying the relationships between mining companies and indigenous communities in Chile, where the Anaconda Mining Company operated the [...]
ONE. A wind slams into a mountain. That’s how it all begins. It’s a wet wind because it has come from across the sea, mile after mile, always licking at the liquid surface as it travels. And the mountain is tall and dry. Whammo. Winds are very long creatures, probably the longest things on Earth. [...]
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