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Negotiations over teacher furloughs prove pointless
The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo
Parents and out-of-school students share their message during a protest against public school Furlough Fridays in front of Costco in Kahului on Friday. Twin lawsuits seeking to halt the teacher furloughs face a court hearing Monday, after negotiations failed. The hearing could be raucous, one of the lawyers said.
November 7, 2009
HONOLULU — Twin lawsuits filed by parents seeking to halt Hawaii’s teacher furloughs face a pivotal federal court hearing after settlement negotiations foundered this week.
One of the lawyers representing the parents, Eric Seitz, said Monday’s hearing could be raucous.
Attorney General Mark Bennett allowed school principals and teachers to discuss furlough-related issues with parents who are part of the lawsuits outside of the presence of attorneys, Seitz said.
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Legislators: Need plan to end crisis, furloughs
November 7, 2009
WAILUKU — Parents angry about school days lost to Furlough Fridays are pressuring state lawmakers to convene a special session to look for another way to close the state’s forecasted two-year budget shortfall of more than $900 million.
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Lahaina seeks to reclaim Halloween
November 7, 2009
LAHAINA — The LahainaTown Action Committee will once again seek permits to hold Halloween events in Lahaina — an event that attracted up to 20,000 revelers in past years.
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Man guilty of lesser charges in assault case
November 7, 2009
WAILUKU — A 45-year-old man was found guilty of lesser charges of restraining and assaulting his girlfriend as well as charges that he threatened and abused the woman in her Kahana apartment earlier this year.
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Pink Passion for the Cure
Wed, October 28, 2009 @ 10:49PM
Apparently, pink is the new black. With October being National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the country has been awash in a sea of pink lately. From ribbons and wristbands to golf balls and M&Ms, things have been looking a bit more rosy. A small group of Maui residents have recently jumped on the pink bandwagon to promote breast cancer awareness and raise money for the cause. Their efforts culminated in the Pink Passion for the Cure fundraiser held last Saturday in Makawao town. This inaugural event rallied area businesses to get involved, including Rodeo General Store providing the food and Makawao School of Therapeutic Massage giving massages for donations. There was live music by Erin Smith, Mojomana and Mike Carroll’s Community Service Band, along with a silent auction, prize drawings and a bake sale.
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Scary is scary
Wed, November 4, 2009 @ 9:29PM
It’s normally a quiet place, but once a year — on Halloween — the street where I live becomes ground zero. There are no street lights, and it’s steep to walk from the bottom of the hill, but it happens to be in one part of Kula that qualifies as an actual neighborhood. Every year, parents from elsewhere on the island truck their kids in. Some even monitor the little bands of spooks and goblins with walkie-talkies, going up and down the street in golf carts, like a military operation. Some of the neighbors get in the spirit big time.
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Big game tonight: Lunas, Bears tune-up
Fri, November 6, 2009 @ 6:09PM
WAILUKU --- The unofficial Maui Interscholastic League overall crown is on the line. State tournaments beckon in two weeks. One long streak is intact. Both teams could look at the state brackets with a reaction of, 'What?' Friday night's Lahainaluna-Baldwin high school football matchup is perhaps the largest league game that will be played on the Valley Isle this season, for several reasons. 'Definitely, when you get, I guess, the two best teams in the league together, there is a lot on the line,' Lahainaluna co-head coach Garret Tihada said. 'Me and A.J. (Roloos, Baldwin's coach), we have had this conversation before every time we face each other, we make each other better and this is a great time to make each other better --- right before the state tournament.' The Bears are the No.
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Broken Reed
Fri, November 6, 2009 @ 10:40PM
In an interview at Bloomberg, Citigroup founder John Reed apologizes for doing what people like me had told him for 60 years not to do. I cannot say I am inclined to forgive people who walk off cliffs that are marked with big signs: DANGER: CLIFF. Not if they take other people over with them, as Reed did. Why is this man not selling pencils out of a tin cup? Nut graf: "Lawmakers were wrong to repeal the Depression-era Glass- Steagall Act in 1999, Reed said. At the time, he supported overturn of the law, which required the separation of institutions that engaged in traditional customer banking services from those involved in capital markets." We New Dealers were right all along. Now he tells u.
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I feel guilty, but not really.
Wed, November 4, 2009 @ 8:38PM
I have been on vacation for almost a month. Went back to the Land of 10,000 Lakes and neglected my blog for even more than usual. So in case anyone actually cares, I plan on writing a "What I did on summer vacation" blog in the next day. Very exciting stuff. Crazy, like fishing and seeing a play. I know, I know, the excitement is palpab.
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When sources stop talking
Mon, October 26, 2009 @ 3:27AM
Several times over the years, I've been in the situation when a key source simply stopped talking to me. Phone calls go unreturned, e-mails unanswered. They may even turn their back on me when I approach them in public. This usually indicates some kind of unhappiness with either me in particular or the paper in general. The person may be upset that I'm pursuing a story that makes them uncomfortable. They may not like the way I reported something. Even if they don't have a problem with my stories themselves, they may be angry about a headline or an editorial (neither of which I write). Whatever the issue, they decide to simply cut off communication, sometimes without even making a final attempt to explain their problem and work out a solution. This can be particularly awkward when the source is the subject of your story.
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