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Talking Story With Maui Redevelopment Agency Members Katharine Popenuk and...
By Anthony Pignataro The Wailuku Redevelopment Area covers about 68 acres of Central Maui. Its approximate center is the Vineyard/Market Street intersection. Like many small towns in America, the...
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MauiTime Publisher Tommy Russo Sues County of Maui Over April 2011 Dog The...
On April 8, MauiTime Publisher Thomas Russo filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against the County of Maui, Maui Police Chief Gary Yabuta and Maui Police Officer Nelson Johnson over an April 12,...
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TONIGHT: Maui Police Hold Public Meeting At Wailuku Community Center
So who wants to talk to cops to their faces tonight about law enforcement in Wailuku? Show of hands? Seriously, this is your chance to ask about the most pertinent issues facing Wailuku today. Want to...
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Maui Police Officer Nelson Johnson Reportedly Arrested Again For Assault
Nelson Johnson’s booking photo According to a tiny, byline-less blurb buried on page 4 of today’s Maui News (it’s where newspapers hide all their legitimate scoops) sourced to the vaguely sounding...
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Someone Alert The Right Wing: Michelle Obama Apparently Hanging With Oprah In...
There are enough qualifications in this Maui News story on Michelle Obama’s reported presence on island to swallow, well, Air Force One, but it would seem that Upcountry residents are seeing massive...
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An Open Letter To Maui’s State Legislators Asking Them To Stop Exempting Bad...
Dear Senators Roz Baker, J. Kalani English and Gil Keith-Agaran and Representatives Mele Carroll, Kaniela Ing, Angus McKelvey, Joe Souki, Justin Woodson and Kyle Yamashita: Wow, Opening Day comes...
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UPDATED: New Details Emerge In Case Against Maui Police Officer Nelson Johnson
Nelson Johnson’s booking photo [NOTE: On Jan. 10, Jon Apo, Nelson Johnson’s attorney, finally responded to my inquiry. His brief response is now part of the text below.] Maui Police Officer Nelson...
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BREAKING: Maui Police Announce State Health Director Loretta Fuddy’s Death...
Apparently, Donald Trump was wrong all along. According to the Maui Police, state Health Director Loretta Fuddy died in a Dec. 11, 2013 plane crash off Molokai because of “cardiac arrhythmia” that...
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ACLU Hawaii Sues County Of Maui For Allegedly Prohibiting Religious...
The island of Maui is located approximately 5,000 miles from the original copy of the United States Constitution on display at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., but given the actions of the...
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UPDATED: Maui County Parks Director On Administrative Leave Pending Maui PD...
M aui County Parks & Recreation Director Glenn T. Correa is on administrative leave pending the outcome of a Maui Police investigation into county workers’ alleged golfing at Waiehu Municipal Golf...
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MAUIWatch Founder Neldon Mamuad Sues County of Maui Alleging 1st Amendment...
MAUIWatch founder Neldon Mamuad alleges that county officials have repeatedly violated his First Amendment rights, states a 34-page lawsuit Mamuad filed against the County of Maui on Mar. 3 in U.S....
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UPDATED: Hawaii Cops Work Really Hard For Your Money
So the County of Maui paid out $484,000 in overtime for Maui police officers last year, The Maui News reported on Mar. 20 (curiously, the story is not posted on their website). That’s nearly half a...
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The Color Run Organizers Refuse To Disclose How Much Money They Made From...
Man, people on Maui love talking about Maui’s recent Color Run. Sure, about 5,700 people (according to the Mar. 31 Maui News) enjoyed running in it while volunteers threw multi-colored corn starch on...
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UPDATED: Maui Roads Turn Deadly With 6 Fatalities In Last 11 days
[UPDATE: The item below on the April 15 hit-and-run fatality has been updated with additional details from the MPD] Normally we’re content to leave highway collisions and traffic updates to the myriad...
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‘A Good Cop': We read disgraced former Maui cop Allison Moore’s new memoir so...
You don’t find vice cops who become addicted to methamphetamine that they steal out of police evidence and then pretend to have cancer to mask their addictions in every department. So when a publicist...
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UPDATED: MAUIWatch Declares Victory In Lawsuit Against County, Celebrates By...
Whatever happened to this guy? [NOTE: The following post has been updated to include an official statement from the County of Maui on the settlement.] Oh beautiful irony, where have you been? I thought...
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Maui Police Chief Gary Yabuta Resigns To Head Hawaii Drug Office No One Ever...
After just five years as Maui County Police Chief, Gary Yabuta is moving to Oahu to take over as director of a federal anti-drug program. There is, of course, great irony in the fact that Yabuta’s...
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Will The County of Maui Overreach As It Tries To Regulate Downhill Bike Tours?
West Maui Cycles in Lahaina is like a lot of bike shops. It’s relatively small, offers a nice selection of road and mountain bikes for sale and has a maintenance and repair shop. It also rents...
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UPDATED AGAIN: Embattled Maui County Parks Dept. Director Glenn Correa Retires
[Editor’s note: I updated this post on June 18 with information from an official press release sent out by Mayor Alan Arakawa’s office, which wasn’t yet available when I first posted this on June 17.]...
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No One Cares About Maui Police Internal Discipline Reports, Right?
So last week, The Maui News published another of those regular but all-too infrequent summaries of Maui Police discipline against its own. On June 24, the paper reported that the department busted...
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