Lead story: Hawaii Canines for Independence is training dogs to respond to Japanese commands. Dogs will go to Shizuoka Children's Hospital in Japan. The Tyler Foundation is helping fund the training.
At a meeting of the Kihei Community Association, Senator Roz Baker said the state Legislature is likely to return for a special session to address the issue of school furloughs in early December.
Budget cuts so severe that they leave holes in the public safety net (schools, mental health services, agricultural inspectors) "result in an unhealthy community," according to Sen. Baker.
Yvonne Biegel, Gene Zarro and Marc Hodges advocated for local control of schools. Mary Cochran, of the School Board is opposed to local control. Not mentioned are Mary Cochran's hints that she may run for County Council in the West Maui District.
Predictably Marc Hodges of the Maui TEA Party said they should, "cut waste". What waste? Easy to say but these guys haven't come up with details of what they consider waste and how much they can cut. That is the problem with so-called Teabaggers - they criticize but they aren't willing to do the labor of examining the budgets and coming up with a workable plan. Not to say that we aren't spending too much on administration and too little on teaching, but just mindlessly repeating "cut waste" and "get the government out of our lives" is not helpful.
Looks like Hanzawa's plan to build a second building containing 3 stores on Kaupakalua Road in Haiku may be scrapped for a compromise plan to double the size of the existing store. The plan has split the community and apparently there were some fireworks with Attorney Isaac Hall siding with those opposed to the Land Use change.
KP2, the monk seal who played at Kaunakakai Harbor on Moloka‘i is being sent to California for cataract surgery. The friendly seal bit people and held them under water (apparently playfulness in the seal world) and was named Ho‘ailona (Hawaiian for a meaningful sign). His removal by NOAA upset people. It appears that Ho‘ailona will not be released back into the wild. Walter Ritte did the blessing to speed Ho‘ailona on his way.
They're trying to catch up on Kihei's trash pick up which got behind due to staff shortages and mechanical problems.
Today's editorial was a defensive reaction to a letter-writer's accusation that the Maui News "flip-flopped" on the General Plan and its affect on Tourism. Apparently the editor didn't really read Stan Franco's thoughtful letter on Tuesday or they wouldn't have ended the editorial with the implication that the new General Plan is tougher on tourism than the old.
But then again, its hard to be objective when your publisher is chair of the Chamber of Commerce whose position is that any restriction (like zoning and smart planning) on the ability of developers to come over here from the mainland and extract money from Maui regardless of its effect on our quality of life has to be fought.
But then again, its hard to be objective when your publisher is chair of the Chamber of Commerce whose position is that any restriction (like zoning and smart planning) on the ability of developers to come over here from the mainland and extract money from Maui regardless of its effect on our quality of life has to be fought.
Fred Losano objects to U.H funding to study obesity
It's a little hard to tell, but it appears that Walter Chihara wants more MIL football games to be played here on Maui.
Sky Schual thanks the people who stopped to help after a hit and run truck hit her car on Haiku Road.
News that didn't make the paper:
The film "Pidgin: The Voice of Hawai'i" will be broadcast this evening, Thursday, November 19th at 8:30 pm on PBS/HI and repeated later tonight at 11 pm. "Pidgin..." won the Audience Award for documentary at the Hawai'i International Film Festival
It will be preceded at 7:30 pm by "Insights" hosted by Dan Boylan and featuring a panel discussion about Pidgin with guests the former governor Ben Cayetano, Mari Matsuda (Professor of Law, William S. Richardson School of Law specializing in critical race theory, civil rights law-accent discrimination), Laiana Wong (Assistant Professor, Kawaihuelani Center for Hawaiian Language), and Kent Sakoda...this is a live program and the audience may call in with questions and comments.
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