Community, storytelling and visual art came together at UH Maui College last month with thrilling results. We now proudly display three powerful new murals on buildings spread across our campus. They combine the voices of the artists who created them with the voices of our community, our Maui ...
James Gunn’s busy, hit-and-miss “Superman” is a lively summer ride, but it comes with lots of turbulence. David Corenswet makes a great Superman but is too briefly depicted as Clark Kent, “mild mannered reporter for the Daily Planet.” Kent’s office romance with ace reporter Lois ...
I saw the first “Jurassic Park” (1993) on opening day at the Kukui Mall Theater in Kihei with my mother, who was not ready for the experience. We sat in the front row and the film’s many jump scares caused my mother to squeeze my arm so much, I left the theater bruised. A year later, I ...
EDITOR'S NOTE: Physicians, providers, and administrative staff who practice at Maui Health hospitals and clinics answer questions from the public in HEALTHWISE MAUI, which appears on Thursdays. Maui Health operates Maui Memorial Medical Center, Maui Memorial Medical Center Outpatient Clinic, Kula Hospital & Clinic and Lana‘i Community Hospital and accepts all patients. To submit a question, go to the website at mauihealth.org/healthwise. Q: My doctor told me I am in pre-heart failure. Does that mean heart failure is inevitable? Dr. Jason Call, Interventional Cardiologist, Pacific ...
Federal budget reductions, especially in human services, has been well publicized. Maui Economic Opportunity, Maui County’s Community Action Agency fighting poverty in our communities, has not been spared. Recently, we announced the suspension of our long-running Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) due to uncertainty over federal funding. While our Head Start preschool program received notification of funding for the upcoming school year, we are awaiting word from federal agencies about funding for other programs for the next fiscal year, which begins Oct. ...
It has been part of Maui’s Countywide Policy Plan for years that local lawmakers “support opportunities for local merchants, farmers and small businesses to sell their goods and services directly to the public.” But in 2023, the Maui Planning Department called that ideal into question by banning local farmers from operating food trucks on their own lands in agricultural zoning districts without a special-use permit. Now there is a bill before the Maui County Council, Bill 76 (2025), introduced by Councilmember Gabe Johnson, that would right that wrong. Intended to restore the ...
