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Community appreciates visit by council committee
April 16, 2013 The budget hearings held within our communities throughout Maui Nei has been a blessing for al. more »»
Better words were needed to describe hula results
April 16, 2013 Recent front page headline stated: “Maui dancers seize top spots at Merrie Monarch” (The Maui News, April 6). more »»
Kihei Community Association has been around for more than 50 years
April 15, 2013 Do you know how long the Kihei Community Association has existed? Of course, age is relative, so we are brand new compared to this island’s age measured in eons, or even when compared to the kanaka... more »»
Funicello about much more than puppy love
April 15, 2013 Your April 9 editorial about the death of two famous, yet vastly different women — Maggie Thatcher and Annette Funicello — seriously downplayed the importance and symbolism of Annette to pre-Kennedy... more »»
Paddle life-sustaining Maui canoe with integrity
April 15, 2013 Elected and appointed public servants should increase Maui’s life qualities and develop robust, sustaining economic engines. more »»
Monopolization of global food supply terrifying
April 15, 2013 Many opinions have expressed concern about the possible health effects of GMO food, but few have soundly addressed the extremely serious real problem. more »»
Viewpoint: U.S., Hawaii must take N. Korean threat seriously
April 14, 2013 For more than 60 years, the South Korean people and their neighbors have lived many days in a state of war with a constant, real threat of a North Korean attack. more »»
Tax loophole would have died had Kennedy lived
April 14, 2013 It’s no wonder that our 35th president, John F. Kennedy, was killed on Elm Street in Dallas, Texas, on Nov. 22, 1963. According to a Dec. more »»
Why is Public Safety director still on the job?
April 14, 2013 Ironic that the nation, our state included, spent much of last week with their collective shorts all bunched up over a coach throwing a basketball and kicking a pampered athlete — who was milking a... more »»
Bicyclists need to learn to police themselves
April 14, 2013 A bicycle rider complaining of drivers again (Letters, April 8). Like I’ve said before, “Police yourselves before complaining about drivers not giving you your freedom of the road. more »»
Politicians could learn lessons from ‘Croods’
April 14, 2013 I just took my grandson to see “The Crood. more »»
Don’t think old, instead be young at heart
April 14, 2013 The Maui News has a thing about age. It is always amusing to read editorials in which the writer frequently refers to himself as “old,” an “old guy” or an “oldster. more »»
Gabbard fighting the good fight in Congress
April 14, 2013 The Maui News printed a letter April 9 castigating Rep. Tulsi Gabbard for voting in favor of the bill to fund the U.S. government for another six months. This seemed very odd to me. more »»
Roger Ebert and a gentler time will be missed
April 13, 2013 Regarding the passing of Roger Ebert: There was a time when life didn’t depend on politics. Whether it was the ‘60s, ‘70s or ‘80s, there was always thumbs up or thumbs down, on movies or lif. more »»
When will we learn truth about Bengazi tragedy?
April 13, 2013 President Obama, speaking about the Sandy Hook tragedy, proclaimed, “We need everybody to remember how we felt 100 days ago. more »»
Teachers should have the option to arm themselves
April 13, 2013 The quip above the April 7 Opinion page cartoon reads, “NRA wants to arm teachers. . .” Below the quip are pictures of an alphabet along with a firearm simulating the example of the alphabet, e.. more »»
Ignoring science not way to prove safety of GMOs
April 12, 2013 Let’s start with ignoring basic science: (Fact: Genes do not act in isolation; changing a part produces an effect within the whole). more »»
Opposing breast-feeding bill in Legislature shocking
April 12, 2013 Boo to the Maui Chamber of Commerce. I am shocked at its opposition to the “Relating to Breastfeeding in the Workplace” bill (“The Chamber View,” April 6). more »»
Stop the pollution from sugar cane ash and dust
April 12, 2013 I was on a whale-watching tour recently and a mother whale and her calf swam to our boat and hung alongside. Sugar cane ash started drifting toward us from a burn in Central Maui. more »»
Smoking ban on beaches should also apply to Maui
April 11, 2013 The mayor of Honolulu, Kirk Caldwell, is promising to sign a bill to ban smoking at Oahu’s beaches. more »» |
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