Blogs List
On The Scene
 Lehia Apana |
Pink Passion for the CureWed, October 28, 2009 @ 10:49PM Apparently, pink is the new black. With October being National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the country has been awash in a sea of pink lately. From ribbons and wristbands to golf balls and M&Ms, things have been looking a bit more rosy. A small group of Maui residents have recently jumped on the pink bandwagon to promote breast cancer awareness and raise money for the cause. Their efforts culminated in the Pink Passion for the Cure fundraiser held last Saturday in Makawao town. This inaugural event rallied area businesses to get involved, including Rodeo General Store providing the food and Makawao School of Therapeutic Massage giving massages for donations. There was live music by Erin Smith, Mojomana and Mike Carroll’s Community Service Band, along with a silent auction, prize drawings and a bake sale.
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Making the Scene
 Rick Chatenever |
Scary is scaryWed, November 4, 2009 @ 9:29PM It’s normally a quiet place, but once a year — on Halloween — the street where I live becomes ground zero. There are no street lights, and it’s steep to walk from the bottom of the hill, but it happens to be in one part of Kula that qualifies as an actual neighborhood. Every year, parents from elsewhere on the island truck their kids in. Some even monitor the little bands of spooks and goblins with walkie-talkies, going up and down the street in golf carts, like a military operation. Some of the neighbors get in the spirit big time.
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The Bald-Headed Truth
 Robert Collias |
Big game tonight: Lunas, Bears tune-upFri, November 6, 2009 @ 6:09PM WAILUKU --- The unofficial Maui Interscholastic League overall crown is on the line. State tournaments beckon in two weeks. One long streak is intact. Both teams could look at the state brackets with a reaction of, 'What?' Friday night's Lahainaluna-Baldwin high school football matchup is perhaps the largest league game that will be played on the Valley Isle this season, for several reasons. 'Definitely, when you get, I guess, the two best teams in the league together, there is a lot on the line,' Lahainaluna co-head coach Garret Tihada said. 'Me and A.J. (Roloos, Baldwin's coach), we have had this conversation before every time we face each other, we make each other better and this is a great time to make each other better --- right before the state tournament.' The Bears are the No.
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Restating the Obvious
 Harry Eagar |
Broken ReedFri, November 6, 2009 @ 10:40PM In an interview at Bloomberg, Citigroup founder John Reed apologizes for doing what people like me had told him for 60 years not to do. I cannot say I am inclined to forgive people who walk off cliffs that are marked with big signs: DANGER: CLIFF. Not if they take other people over with them, as Reed did. Why is this man not selling pencils out of a tin cup? Nut graf: "Lawmakers were wrong to repeal the Depression-era Glass- Steagall Act in 1999, Reed said. At the time, he supported overturn of the law, which required the separation of institutions that engaged in traditional customer banking services from those involved in capital markets." We New Dealers were right all along. Now he tells u.
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F.O.P (Fresh Off da Plane)
 Chris Hamilton |
I feel guilty, but not really.Wed, November 4, 2009 @ 8:38PM I have been on vacation for almost a month. Went back to the Land of 10,000 Lakes and neglected my blog for even more than usual. So in case anyone actually cares, I plan on writing a "What I did on summer vacation" blog in the next day. Very exciting stuff. Crazy, like fishing and seeing a play. I know, I know, the excitement is palpab.
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Writer's Block
 Ilima Loomis |
When sources stop talkingMon, October 26, 2009 @ 3:27AM Several times over the years, I've been in the situation when a key source simply stopped talking to me. Phone calls go unreturned, e-mails unanswered. They may even turn their back on me when I approach them in public. This usually indicates some kind of unhappiness with either me in particular or the paper in general. The person may be upset that I'm pursuing a story that makes them uncomfortable. They may not like the way I reported something. Even if they don't have a problem with my stories themselves, they may be angry about a headline or an editorial (neither of which I write). Whatever the issue, they decide to simply cut off communication, sometimes without even making a final attempt to explain their problem and work out a solution. This can be particularly awkward when the source is the subject of your story.
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