Archive for 2011 March
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Your Horoscope For the Week of March 31
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Pisces loathe being forced to make up their minds more quickly than they want to. However, sometimes that can take ages. When your decision affects another person (particularly in regards to
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Sen. Kalani English: Pot Dispensary Bill ‘Has A Really Good Chance of Passing’
Hawaii has had a medical marijuana law on the books since 2000—but that’s still all we have. While states like California and Colorado have set up successful (and lucrative) dispensaries, Hawaii patients are forced
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Honolulu Zoo Denied Re-Accreditation
Manuel Mollinedo can’t catch a break. In 1996, while he was director of the Los Angeles Zoo, a female Asian elephant trampled a zookeeper, and five years later a Komodo dragon bit the foot
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Reviving The Superferry…On Your Dime?
To say the Hawaii Superferry was flawed is like saying the Titanic had minor iceberg issues. The litany of problems—legal, environmental, cultural—that made the boat a colossal boondoggle and ultimately led the state Supreme Court
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Eh Brah! Happy Road Rage
Here’s to my partners in crime — we figured out how to survive the Paia crawl. We were tootling along in the left-hand lane because we knew the bypass gate was closed. They still wanted to
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Maui Flood-Map Appeal Deadline Approaches
Are you impacted by the changes FEMA made to the Maui County flood-insurance rate map (FIRM)? If you don’t know, now would be a good time to find out. The deadline to appeal is
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Very moving evening: [PICS] Candlelight Vigil for #Japanearthquake via @seanmhower
[PICS] Candlelight Vigil for #Japanearthquake tonight at UH campus Maui, very moving… Posted by Sean Hower on Mar 25, 2011 in Blog, Media, Portfolio | 1 comment
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Mayor Presents Draft 2012 Budget To Council
“This is not a budget of fluff and extravagance but one of necessity,” Mayor Arakawa announced as he presented his plan for the 2012 fiscal year to the County Council last week. Arakawa said
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Your Horoscope For the Week of March 24
Aries (March 21-April 19) Your connection with someone is your connection with them. You don’t need anyone else’s permission, opinion, or approval. Even though having those things is nice (and there can be consequences when
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Quizunderstood: Iodine and Patient Relations
1. According to Kaiser Permanente Hawaii, what doctor/patient activity increased more than 20 percent between 2009 and 2010? 2. Radioactive iodine (RI), one of the chemicals spewing out of Japan’s crippled nuclear reactors, han’t been
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