During the summer of 1969, the Cuyahoga River caught on fire. Again. Sparks from a passing train on a rail line near the river are believed to have ignited the highly flammable cocktail of toxic sludge that coated the surface of the river. It was the 13th time the river burst into flames. It ...
A recent count of homeless people found 862 people living on the streets or in shelters in Maui County on Jan. 22. That represented a 1 percent reduction in homelessness (down from 873 to 862) from the 2018 Homeless Point-in-Time Count. While such a decline is a small step in the right ...
Q: Is it true that smoking can cause a stroke? Mariah Mossman, registered nurse, Stroke Program manager, Maui Health System: Yes. Smoking not only causes heart disease and lung cancer but can also cause stroke. In fact, smoking is one of the top five causes of stroke. According to the ...
Land of the flowers, of flow’ry bowers, In her gay dress she appears; A sweet happy maid, may her dress never fade As she carries this day through the years. — “May Day is Lei Day in Hawaii” The rarely sung first verse of Ruth and Leonard “Red” Hawk’s enduring ...
Being an artist is one thing. Being an inspiration is something else. Juliet Green is both. The daughter of the late Liz-Janes Brown and Pat Green, Juliet has received the Jazz Education Achievement Award from DownBeat Magazine, the nation’s preeminent jazz publication. Proud stepfather ...
Maui County Council members say they spend more than 40 hours per week on the job, and some of them want higher salaries to account for that hard work. But, like Hawaii’s late small-business guru George Mason, founding publisher of Pacific Business News, used to say, it’s not how hard or ...
Q: I work in a very large resort on the bell staff. I have been seeing many Styrofoam coolers brought in by guests of the hotel. When I questioned the guest, they told me they bought them here on Maui at a local store. I thought we banned all Styrofoam containers in Maui? Are these Styrofoam ...
The Maui County Council’s Water and Infrastructure Committee must consider opportunities to provide water and ensure continued access to water for county residents. To that end, the committee, which I chair, recently considered two bills relating to water service for Upcountry residents. The ...
Leonard Oka remembers the moment it all began. The year was 1981, and the clock on his bedside table read 2 a.m. A restless Oka lay awake, thoughts tumbling through his head. His mind was occupied by a question: What would be the perfect gift for his young son? And then it hit him. “I ...
The recent Point-in-Time Count shows that there has been a slight decrease in the homeless population on Maui as stated in the well-written, April 10 Maui News article found at www.mauinews.com/news/local-news/2019/04/homelessness-down-slightly-in-maui-county. Is this true? Are the homeless ...
Q: Does Maui Memorial Medical Center have a cardiologist on call 24/7? A: Dr. Colin Lee, interventional cardiology, Pacific Permanente Group: A cardiologist is always available on-call at Maui Memorial Medical Center, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. In fact, we started an ...
“Playwriting is not done when you finish a draft of your play you’re happy with. Plays are meant to be produced — performed by actors for a live audience. Without performance, a play is like a custom-built car that’s never taken out of the garage.” —Angelo Parra, “Playwriting ...
Forget magic mushrooms. That concept — accompanied by images of ’60s-style woodland sylphs wandering through meadows seeing rainbows around every tree — is so last century, a vestige of a bygone millennium. It’s been replaced, subsumed really, by “Fantastic Fungi.” The magical ...
Mayor Michael Victorino answers some of the most-asked questions submitted to his office staff. Q: My question is because we are zoned agriculture in Launiupoko, is our noise ordinance (quiet hours) after 9 p.m. and before 9 a.m.? A: Mahalo for your question and from what the state ...
For as long as there have been people willing to travel vast distances over the sea, Hawaii has hosted adventurous folks. You could argue that the first to be taken up with Hawaii’s adventurous spirit were the pioneering Polynesians thousands of years ago. Statehood turned our industries ...
In an ancient parable, a group of blind men came across an elephant. One felt its giant leg. “It’s a tree,” he said. Another bumped into its side and said, “No, it’s a wall!” The elephant poked another sightless man with his tusk and said, “Ouch, it’s a spear!” Then, ...
Q: Have there been more cases of pneumonia than usual this flu season? I know so many people who were ill for many weeks with pneumonia both here and on the Mainland. My second question is about the pneumonia vaccine, which involves two shots a year apart. Is this shot only for older people or ...
A search for the origin of the Easter Bunny sent me tumbling down the rabbit hole, and I may not emerge before Sunday. The origin of the rabbit hole metaphor is much easier to trace. Since 1865, when Lewis Carroll first enchanted readers with his fanciful tale of young Alice entering ...
Maui’s art scene was alive and well last weekend with two art receptions in Kahului, according to Cynthia Conrad and Jerry Labb, who filled me in on all the details. The 17th annual Art of Trash opened Friday at the Maui Mall, continuing daily through May 4. Hosted by Malama Maui Nui, it ...
Mayor Michael Victorino answers some of the most-asked questions submitted to his office staff. Q: Why are the speed limits on Hana Highway past Paia mostly 30 or 35 mph? The speed limit for a highway shouldn’t be the same as Kaahumanu Avenue. That seems to be a ridiculously slow speed for a ...