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County says company has no authority to charge for water
Victor Pelligrino (left) and Hokuao Pelligrino explain how they are only able to restore three of their 12 taro patches because Wailuku Water Distribution Co. restricts the flow of water into Waikapu Stream. They are standing near the diversion that directs water from a ditch bordering their property.
The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo
May 16, 2008
KAHULUI — Maui County will formally protest Wailuku Water Distribution Co.’s application with the state to become a public utility with the authority to charge private customers for water.
The company, formerly operating as Wailuku Agribusiness, has been charging for water delivery for years. But county Water Director Jeffrey Eng said on Wednesday that the county does not believe the 150-year-old company has any legal or “fundamental right to divert a public trust resource for private profit.”intervene in the application.
Office of Hawaiian Affairs attorney Jonathan Sh
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Kona winds bring pollution
May 16, 2008
Kona winds pushing a blanket of vog over the islands on Thursday also may have pushed an accumulation of turtle feces onto the shoreline at Maalaea Bay, state health officials said.
The Maui District Health Office issued a vog health advi
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Pros, cons told for Kahului fisheries management plan
May 16, 2008
KAHULUI — Oliver Cummings Sr. said the state will take away his “playground” with a proposed rule that requires fish catch reports for the Kahului Harbor Fisheries Management Area.
But Ed Lindsey, chairman of the Maui Nui Marine Resource
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Proposal likable but not yet endorsable
May 16, 2008
MAKENA — County planning staff said Thursday that it will be difficult to endorse A&B Properties’ proposed 600-unit residential project in north Kihei while the General Plan update is still under way.
The 94-acre site is proposed to be in
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No vroom for Speed Racer
Thu, May 15, 2008 @ 4:10PM
Going to “Speed Racer” makes you feel like one of those people who watches the Indianapolis 500 to see the crashes. It’s not as though you haven’t been warned. Beginning with its opening-day reviews, this Warner Bros. action-fantasy from the “Matrix”-making Wachowski brothers has been a $250 million gift to film-reviewing punsters and headline writers trying to outsnide the opposition. All the crash-and-burn, zero-to-20, flat tire, out of gas, speed kills, red flag metaphors had already been used up before I even set foot in the theater. Anyone who chooses to see this big-screen, big-budget version of the Japanese anime TV series had better wachowski, was the best I could come up with. Actually, you could see the problems coming when the trailers caused headaches and motion sickness. What were they thinking? Have we gone to the cartoon well once too often? What there is of a story has to do with Speed Racer’s older brother, Rex, who lost his life in a fiery crash that has l
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Unger added to Rimington list
Tue, May 13, 2008 @ 6:30PM
It was an unbelievable omission when Max Unger, the former Hawaii Preparatory Academy standout who is a rising senior at Oregon, was left off the 2008 Rimington Trophy watch list of 42 released last week. The award is given to the best center in the nation and Unger was first-team All-American (for Sports Illustrated) and first-team All-Pac-10 Conference last season. Anyway, the oversight has been corrected and the list is now 43 (including Unger). Click the link to check out a blog that explains it all pretty well.
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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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wacky and wonderful
Thu, May 15, 2008 @ 10:56PM
Something I often struggle with when covering public meetings is whether or not to include in my story the odd, off-the-wall or flat-out kooky comments people make. My colleague Chris says no -- it's too distracting for the reader. But sometimes it's pretty hard to resist. I was recently covering a hearing on an A&B project, when a testifier raised concerns based on sister-company HC&S's practice of burning coal at its sugar mill in Puunene. The pollution causes acid rain, she said, and that kills plants, and that reduces evapotranspiration, and that means less clouds, which means less rain, which depletes the aquifer. The A&B project will require water from that aquifer, she said, therefore: "It's unconscionable that A&B is burning this pollution, causing a drought and turning around and asking for water." Huh. I loved the logical acrobatics, but Chris pointed out how many inches of copy I would have to burn just to explain her theory. It was
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