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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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Click It or ride in pickup bed
Sat, May 17, 2008 @ 4:10AM
I’ll get to my central points in a minute or few about a sorta roadway hypocrisy in Hawaii. And I probably won’t be very popular for it. But first… Twice in my life the seat belt has saved my life. I’m not here to preach. We all, including me, still forget to strap in in the first few blocks. But when I was 17, I exited off of 494 at Bass Lake Road in the Minneapolis suburb of Plymouth when I saw taillights in front of me. I started to slowed down more, thinking that this car in front of me was moving forward. It wasn’t. I was going about 45 mph when I realized that the car was going in reverse. It was too late. The car was being rope-towed by a Cherokee. They were both in reverse and in the middle of the exit ramp. I looked at my friend, Aaron, (How ya doing these days, bro?), who was in the passenger seat and wearing a belt. Eyes locked. Slow motion. And we probably were both probably really bummed that our ugly mug
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Closing your ears
Sat, May 17, 2008 @ 3:33AM
When I first started in the newsroom, I was disoriented by the constant chatter of our police scanner, and particularly disturbed to listen in on calls dealing with real, life-or-death emergencies. I still remember having to get up and walk away from my desk for a few minutes after listening to a 911 operator coordinate with rescuers while a man was dying of a drug overdose in his locked bathroom. Since then, I've learned to tune out the radio traffic as background noise and keep pounding out my story even while a four-alarm fire is going down. But not tonight. Maybe it's because I was covering the city desk on a quiet shift, keeping one ear open for news while I proof-read pages for type-os, but I heard it when the operator said she had a 12-year-old girl on the line, calling from the backseat of her car to ask for help because her mother was driving her home, drunk. And I heard it when reports came in of a couple engaged in an abusive fight in their car, dri
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