Maui County’s Mayor’s Office. Nice, yah? This is the fancy remodel that former Mayor and current candidate Alan Arakawa is complaining about. He says Mayor Tavares shouldn’t have spent taxpayer money on a Wailea wannabe reception area. We at the Moon agree.
Dear Friends: A candidate for high office asked me recently: “What do your voters want?” I said I couldn’t speak for all, but overall we want to end Hawai‘i’s crippling control politics. The machine, old boys network, status quo, establishment, insiders. By whatever name, it describes today’s centralization of political power and control in the [...]
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 Ken Pinsky “Marijuana use that isn’t abuse” A decade ago the Hawai‘i State Legislature passed the Compassionate Use Law – the country’s first legislatively installed medical marijuana bill. Most other states with medical marijuana laws passed them by citizen initiative. Hawai‘i was different. Our legislature, bless their compassionate hearts at the time, saw the [...]
Hawaii has become the front line of the DEA’s war on marijuana culture Pa‘ia’s Patients Without Time, a MMJ cooperative, is about to go to trial By Tom Stevens On September 13, medical marijuana advocate Brian Murphy and five other Maui men are scheduled to appear in 2nd Circuit Court on charges of criminal conspiracy [...]
By Paul Wood Dear Mr. Jefferson: Or–knowing that, in addition to being the third president, the Declaration of Independence writer, the founder of University of Virginia, an architect, inventor, and wine connoisseur, you are also reported to have been a kick-ass fiddle player–might I address you as though I were your fellow musician? Dear Monticello [...]
BY Tom Stevens The silly season is upon us again. The roadsides are packed shoulder-to-shoulder with sign wavers throwing shakas at honking motorists. Campaign signs have sprouted like nut grass in a thousand yards, and major intersections are as colorfully paneled as Monopoly boards. If those aren’t proof positive, various political Pooh-Bahs are using the [...]
National Correspondent Phillip Swatek recently returned from assignment in Boulder, Colorado. The Moon conducted the following interview at Baldwin Beach. Interview: Moon: How’s Boulder these days? Phil: The weather was perfect. Clear, hot, dry, high nineties. Thunderheads and lightning some evenings. Good tequila. Prolonged and intelligent conversation. Moon: I meant socially, politically. Didn’t Boulder recently [...]
By Kristine Kubat The Reverend Nancy Harris is well positioned to speak for the embattled Roger Christie as he remains on lockdown in a federal facility on Oahu. Like Christie, she is the leader of a religious organization that promotes the use of marijuana as a sacrament, and, like Christie, she is fighting charges related [...]
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