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Own a Maui Newspaper

Available – This Website and its Newspaper, Moon Over Haleakala is looking for new ownership. The monthly print version serves Maui’s North Shore, East Side and Upcountry. We will not be printing the April issue. Price, terms and conditions are open to arrangement with a new publisher. I can be contacted at mauimoonnews@gmail.com Aloha Moon [...]

I’ll have a McMansion on the beach in Paia, and uh, supersize that willya. And I’ll have a side order of public access for my driveway and gate, and a pepsi.

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Tapping in to community memory What do we remember? The ocean side of Hana Highway through Paia is a string of warning signs telling us that there is no shoreline access. Well there was, wasn’t there? Lots of Maui long-timers remember going through several places in Paia directly over to the beach, that are now [...]

The Mayor and the Moon An exclusive interview with Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa

Maui County Mayor Alan Arakawa during the Moon interview.

By Ken Pinsky On Monday morning, February 14 the Moon Over Haleakala team of Phil Swatek, Steven Oster and myself interviewed newly elected Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa in his office. The interview was recorded on video and can be viewed at mauimoonnews.com. Arakawa is now serving his second, but non-consecutive term as Maui’s Mayor. He [...]

Life In Paia

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By Ken Pinsky Well, I’ve been living in Paia since last summer now and I’m ready to report in. Things keep changing, and I’ll get to that, but I want you to know, Paia’s great. I’ve been on Maui a little over thirty years, and almost all of that time I lived out in the [...]

A Fish Tale

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By Phil Swatek My friend Richard was a courtly, dapper man with a wavy mane of grey hair and a pencil moustache not unlike those affected by 30s matinee idols. He was a denizen of downtown Honolulu long before it was fashionable and was a widely recognized character in that small world. As the unofficial [...]

The Organic Elite Surrenders to Monsanto: What Now?

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The Organic Elite Surrenders to Monsanto: What Now? * By Ronnie Cummins Organic Consumers Association, Jan 27, 2011 Straight to the Source “The policy set for GE alfalfa will most likely guide policies for other GE crops as well. True coexistence is a must.” – Whole Foods Market, Jan. 21, 2011 In the wake of [...]

Peering Through A Foggy Window: Obama’s Progress As Our President

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By Madeline Ziecker Before Election Day I found it easier to bury my head in the European earth as my family and friends picked up their dragging feet, closed their eyes tightly and made their wishes in private little cubicles with ballots. I was prepared to watch from a safe distance as America either went [...]

It’s time to sit up straight and eat our vegetables

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By Ken Pinsky It’s time for all of us conscious types to sit up straight and eat our vegetables – “our” as in we grew them ourselves. And that means the conscious and semi-conscious and green wannabes and the perpetually stoned, the homeless and the wealthy, old timers and newbies alike. All of us need [...]

And I Am Still Eager

(For Carol) And I Am Still Eager By Margo Berdeshevsky Take me a way to a where that I can A there that I will Somewhere that I do. Take my song to one who does, who wants me where I arrive. Heaven take my soul, Harmony take my heart, Use me fiber and cell, [...]

“Walk me out in the cold rain and snow”

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By Ken Pinsky Winter – Maui Style  Don’t you just love a good winter storm? The dramatic Kona storm in mid January dumped lots of rain, especially on the South side. Check out the exciting “street-surfing” video at the Daily Moon website, and the Baldwin Avenue River below left. Meanwhile, the new Maui County administration [...]

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