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Wailuku Water asks to become a public utility
Donna Kiefer of California (left) checks out the action at the Maui Tropical Plantation pond with friend Carol Jones, also of California, on Saturday morning. The plantation is a customer of Wailuku Water Distribution Co., which is applying with the state to become a public utility.
The Maui News AMANDA / COWAN photo
May 11, 2008
By CHRIS HAMILTON, Staff Writer
WAILUKU — Wailuku Water Distribution Co. is seeking permission from the state to organize as a public utility in order to continue service, set new water rates and keep its contracts.
Essentially, being a utility would allow Wailuku Water to stay in the water business as it faces an ongoing dispute over water rights with farmers, environmentalists and Native Hawaiians.
The company, an affiliate of Wailuku Water Co. and rooted in the former Wailuku Sugar Co., owns a vast watershed in West Maui and controls a system of ditches t
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Customer may fund initiatives for HECO
May 11, 2008
WAILUKU — The average energy consumer could be required to help pay for Hawaiian Electric Co.’s alternative energy source initiatives, such as wind, solar and wave power.
Under a proposal before the state Public Utilities Commission, HECO
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Na Wai Eha withdrawals require water use permits
May 11, 2008
WAILUKU — Registration is open for one year for surface water use permits in Na Wai Eha — the area of West Maui drained by the Waihee, Waiehu, Waikapu and Iao streams.
The Commission on Water Resource Management designated the surface wat
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More bite, less bark
May 11, 2008
PUUNENE — The Maui Humane Society is taking a “zero tolerance” approach to leash law violations, in the wake of recent dog attacks and an increasing number of complaints about dogs running loose in neighborhoods and on beaches.
“Incidents
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Top Headline Poll
With the shutdown of Aloha Airlines and the fact that the Hawaii Superferry is adding more runs between Maui and Oahu, are you more likely to use the Superferry?
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No, I would never use the Superferry.
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That super feeling
Thu, May 8, 2008 @ 5:27PM
It’s Robert Downey Jr. who puts on the suit, but it’s Gwyneth Paltrow who makes “Iron Man” fly. As Pepper Potts, she is so dewy, so big-screen gorgeous, so smart, so clever … and yet vulnerable, she makes Downey’s job that much easier. All he really has to do, like everyone watching this surprisingly enjoyable first Really Big Hit of the Summer, is fall in love with her. Not that Downey isn’t up to the other challenges of his role, like saving the world and such. The superhero in “Iron Man,” apparently originally inspired by Howard Hughes, is a brilliant inventor-entrepreneur in a jet-propelled suit of armor. In the hands of a less gifted actor, it would just be a case of clothes make the man. But Downey makes him fascinating … and a whole lot of fun. While not an obvious first choice to play the latest action hero in the Marvel Comics cosmos, the actor’s well-publicized personal battles with his
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St. Anthony falls in D-II title game
Sat, May 10, 2008 @ 11:18PM
The St. Anthony Trojans lost 1-0 to Kauai in the Division II state final. The Red Raiders took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first when Trent Allianic singled with one out, moved to second when Rysan Sakamoto walked and scored on Schyler Arakaki’s single. Read all about all of it in Sunday’s Maui News.
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All the cute animals are dying!
Sun, May 11, 2008 @ 11:00AM
Here's another global warming crisis: starving koalas. Well, they're not actually starving. But they might starve if their food fills up with anti-nutrients, whatever those are. Does it strike you that global warming is highly selective? It's always the cute animals that are in danger, the polar bear, the koala, the Edith's checkerspot butterfly that are going to go extinct. Never the mosquito, sandfly, hagfish or aluminum siding salesman.
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"Maui Reviled"
Thu, May 8, 2008 @ 2:27AM
I had to happen eventually, I figure. I was at a recent public meeting when someone got up to testify and brought with him a little blue book. Just the sight of it immediately drew murmurs and then quite audible guffaws before this nice man, who has community ties and appears to have lived here for some time, began to actually quote from it -- in what was meant to be a good way. The gentleman was making an argument to keep Honoapiilani Highway close to the highway when it’s realigned mauka to avoid ocean erosion. The little blue book he held with highlighted passages, he said, praised the views of the ocean from the highway, calling such proximity to the water a rarity while driving in Hawaii. But it’s hard to imagine that most people in the room were really listening to him since they were pretty busy talking to each other about either his audacity or ignorance. The book was “Maui Revealed” or “Maui Reviled” as
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Goin' somewhere
Thu, May 8, 2008 @ 5:09PM
Mike Molina saw my story coming a mile away. "So, working on your annual travel story?" he asked when he picked up the line. Yup. Each year we get a copy of the mayor's and council members' travel records and do a roundup of where everyone went and what they spent. There's never been anything jaw-dropping in there -- no $10,000 "research" cruises, no outrageous hotel bills -- just the usual assortment of trips to lobby the Legislature and a smattering of Mainland conferences. So why do we keep doing it? Just to keep tabs, I guess. With nothing else to go on, it's those conferences people usually end up talking about. Some question whether they're an unnecessary waste of time and money, while others say they're a valuable way to keep in touch with how the wider world is addressing common problems of water, development and infrastructure. So I suppose that's the purpose of doing the story every year -- if people care enough to have an opinion ab
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