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Time to vote, folks! Hard to believe that Saturday–THIS SATURDAY–is the Hawaii state Primary Election. Finally, after months of political ads clogging our radio and television airwaves, we get to find...
View ArticleWill The County of Maui Overreach As It Tries To Regulate Downhill Bike Tours?
West Maui Cycles in Lahaina is like a lot of bike shops. It’s relatively small, offers a nice selection of road and mountain bikes for sale and has a maintenance and repair shop. It also rents...
View ArticleThis Tuesday, July 15: Maui County Mayoral Race Candidates Forum
Thursday, July 10 was the deadline for Hawaii candidates running in the August Primary Election to get their first campaign finance disclosure forms over to the state Campaign Spending Commission....
View ArticleShare Water, Wastewater
A potluck picnic lunch in Spreckelsville sure sounds nice, huh? More than the makings for a swell Saturday, it’s the starts of the Sierra Club’s annual meeting. Add to the fellowship a noontime panel...
View ArticleKula Community Association to Host Election Forum
Election season is here, and that means information and misinformation are everywhere. Sorting the former from the latter is your job as a voter. Thankfully, you’ve got help. Like the Kula Community...
View ArticleUPDATED: Breaking Down The Maui County GMO Initiative Votes
[Ed. Note: After we published this post, Dick Mayer said he’d made an error by including blank votes in the Percent Yes calculations. We’ve updated the post to include his revised, and simplified,...
View ArticleUPDATED: Federal Judge Strikes Down Maui County GMO Moratorium
Civil Beat in Honolulu is reporting that federal Judge Susan Mollway has struck down Maui County’s controversial anti-GMO ballot measure, saying simply that because state and federal law preempts it,...
View Article20 questions answered about the new Maui County Manager proposal
There’s been a lot of talk recently about making some radical changes to the County of Maui’s system of government. Specifically–reducing the elected mayor’s powers (or eliminating the position...
View ArticleUsing newly declassified documents, we examine the legacy of Elmer Cravalho,...
Elmer Cravalho was a rare individual who made a mark on both Maui and Hawaii history. A man of considerable intelligence and energy, he wielded tremendous power on state and county stages for 25...
View ArticleThis is how Maui County voters compared to rest of Hawaii in 2016...
Yeah, yeah, I know the election’s over and Donald Trump won and we should all just stop crying into our kombucha and get over it so our new overlord and his white nationalist minions can have their...
View ArticleQuizunderstood: Which county in Hawaii was the least supportive of Donald Trump?
1. On Nov. 18, MauiTime posted a table online, compiled by Maui political analyst Dick Mayer using data from Politico, showing how each county in Hawaii voted in the 2016 Presidential Election....
View ArticleMaui community groups say they succeeded in reducing environmental, cultural...
For too long, the future of Mākena has been a giant unknown for Maui. The threat of development has loomed large, and the Maui Planning Commission’s vote in March to accept a “No Significant Impact”...
View ArticleCouncilmembers’ Day Off: Majority of voting members absent for Infrastructure...
White and Hokama missed 10 of the previous 13 IEM meetings. Guzman missed 5. The Infrastructure and Environmental Management Committee meeting on Monday, Sept. 17, began with a lecture. “I’ve had...
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