Archive for 2010 September
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Haleakala Telescope Spocks Earth-Threatening Asteroid
Deadly asteroids aren’t just the stuff of sci-fi flicks and dinosaur extinction theories–they’re also a very real threat. In fact, UH scientists, using a specialized telescope on Haleakala, have spotted one that could be
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Will Elle Cochran’s Checkered Past Affect Her Future?
The recent revelation, first reported in The Maui News, that Elle Cochran was involved in an attempted robbery sixteen years ago raised a number of questions. Chief among them: what, if anything, will this
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Kula Kid #17: “To Everything There is a Season”
“The quality of mercy is not strained. It dropeth as gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed as it blesses both him that gives and him that receives.” –
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Eh Brah! Piiholo Plunderers
To the rip-offs of Pi‘iholo: Leave us all alone! What kind of freaks are you? Really now, first you break into my house, ransack it, take my things and break into my car. Then
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Survey Says: Atheists Know More About Religion Than Religious People!
This is the kind of thing atheists love, and religious people hate. Actually, there are a lot of things that fit that description, but this is definitely one of them: a new survey conducted
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That’s so Raven!
Actually, it’s so alt weekly! I applaud whoever decorated the MauiTime circ box at Casanova, Makawao with a scrawled-on image of Abercrombie and Mufi (ironically, it appears, with an image from the Maui Weekly).
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Kula Kid #16: “Nothing Rhymes with Orange”
*** Every payday we went to Walgreens. At the end of our shift Edward would say, “Oh, Anuhea, let’s go for a drive, shall we?” We could have gone anywhere — the sprawl is most
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Challenge Against Council Chair Mateo Moves to State Supreme Court
With the general election less than two months away, a challenge against Council Chair Danny Mateo that argues he’s ineligible to run for reelection because of term limits is moving to the state Supreme
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Veterans Group Sues Maui County, Mayor Tavares
Last week, a Molokai veterans group filed suit against Maui County, Mayor Charmaine Tavares and several other officials, claiming that they have endured “years of senseless, relentless roadblocks” in their effort to build a
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Eh Brah! Can’t Harley Wait?
This one is for the Hells Angels wannabe who almost killed me in a head-on collision: I know you’re bad-ass, with your handlebar mustache and your big motorcycle and everything, but do you really
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