Articles tagged with: Neil Abercrombie
Maui County Council Candidate Don Guzman And APEC Violence And Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie’s Rain Dance
By Anthony Pignataro
DON GUZMAN ANNOUNCES!
And here’s someone else you can vote for now, and then grumble over after he’s been in office for a few months, and finally denounce when he comes up for reelection: …
Kula, Maui’s (Now!) Solar-Powered Surfing Goat Dairy
Governor Abercrombie: “All I said was, ‘Maui wants goat cheese.’”
by Anna Such
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Surfing Goat Dairy Farm celebrated the completion of their new 50- kilowatt solar power system last Friday (July 29) afternoon.
Governor Neil Abercrombie and Mayor …
Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie Hates, Then Loves, Industrial Fish Farms
One of the most visually arresting sequences in the 2005 Austrian documentary Our Daily Bread, a narration-less gathering of footage from factory farms, slaughterhouses and food processing centers, showed the completely mechanized gutting of fish. …
What It’s Like To Be Homeless On Maui
By Netra Halperin
When Janice (not her real name) worked in Washington D.C. as a federal grants program manager, it never occurred to her that she’d end up on the other side of social services. She …
By the Numbers: Abercrombie Applications Pour In & Australian Swimmer Thwarted By Jellyfish (Again)
2,430
Number of résumés received by Governor-elect Neil Abercrombie’s transition team as of November 15
2,158
Number of new unemployment claims filed statewide during the first week of November
2
Number of times Australian Penny Palfrey has attempted to swim …
Lingle to Hawaii Kids: Vote
The Kids Are All Left…
Last week, Gov. Lingle visited Oahu’s Aikahi Elementary and encouraged students to participate in the statewide Kids Voting Hawai‘i program.
It was an especially magnanimous move, considering that in 2008 Hawaii’s students …
Ed Case Endorses Abercrombie and Slams Hannemann
For a guy who is neither an elected official nor an active candidate, Ed Case sure has managed to stay in the headlines. This week, Case announced he’s endorsing Neil Abercrombie for Governor. That alone …
Mufi Hits Abercrombie With Veiled Racism
Dirty campaign tactics aren’t unique to Hawaii. Neither are racial tension and provincialism. What is unique is the sometimes charming, sometimes divisive, always muddled way we define “local.” And when that gets mixed up with …
Pelosi Praises Abercrombie or When Endorsements Go Bad
During the 2008 election, SNL did a bit involving George W. Bush publicly endorsing John McCain. As McCain (or rather, the dude who used to do the Clinton impression as McCain) twitched and edged toward …
Governor Lingle Sinks to a New Low With Civil Union Veto
It’ll provide cold comfort at best to the thousands of couples still mourning Gov. Linda Lingle’s eleventh-hour veto of civil union bill HB444, but it’s a fact nonetheless: eventually, gay people will be able to …
