WMTA 2016 CANDIDATES NIGHT
The tradition for the West Maui Taxpayers Association (WMTA) Candidates Night is to invite all Federal, State and County candidates appearing on the West Maui ballot to give West Maui voters an...
View ArticleHere’s some feedback we got on our 2016 Hawaii Primary Election Endorsement...
It hasn’t even been a week since we laid down the first of our 2016 minefields (otherwise known as election endorsement issues), and we’ve taken about as much incoming fire as I expected. Whenever you...
View ArticleKnow your 2016 Maui County election candidate: Tulsi Gabbard
And in what will likely be the last of these Know Your Candidate posts we put up before the Aug. 13 Hawaii Primary Election, U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D–Hawaii, just squeaks in under the deadline with...
View ArticleOur take on the 2016 Hawaii Primary Election results for Maui County
Well, we have another Primary Election under our belts–another day in the state’s history when we let a sliver of the population narrow our choices for political leadership. As expected, turnout...
View ArticleKnow your 2016 Maui County election candidate: Danny Pekus
Ok, the Hawaii Primary Election is over! Time to start prepping for the General Election in November! And what better way than by getting to know a few of the candidates. Danny Pekus is one of them....
View ArticleKnow your Maui County 2016 election candidate: Vanessa Medeiros
Vanessa Medeiros is running for the Maui County Council seat representing Kahului, which is currently held by Don Guzman. She owns Positive Pathways, a finishing school for young women. During...
View ArticleQuizunderstood: Do you know how much beer Maui Brewing Co. will make this year?
1. According to the Hawaii Office of Elections, turnout in Maui County for the 2016 Primary Election was 29.6 percent. That’s pretty low, but one recent primary saw a mere 25.6 percent of Maui County...
View ArticleWest Maui Taxpayers Association 2016 Candidates Night at Lahaina Civic Center
The West Maui Taxpayers Association (WMTA) is presenting their 2016 Candidates Night on Thursday, Aug. 25. All candidates that will appear on the West Maui ballot have been invited to attend (though...
View ArticleThink about the late Hawaii Health Director Loretta Fuddy when lying Donald...
So this morning Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump scammed the media yet again, with a sham press conference that was actually a big PR stunt for one of his new hotels (outraged at being...
View ArticleDrew Toonz: No More Scary Clowns!
Illustration: Andrew Miller The post Drew Toonz: No More Scary Clowns! appeared first on Maui Time.
View ArticleRepublican 10th District Candidate Chayne Marten arrested on sex assault charges
The 10th District state House race (which spans from West Maui to North Kihei) got a whole lot more complicated with the Oct. 11 arrest of Republican Chayne Marten, who is once again challenging...
View ArticleMauiTime’s 2016 General Election Endorsements
Ideally, an election is more than simply filling in the square next to a party affiliation. It should be about more than simply articulating a person’s privileges or bigotries. It should achieve more...
View ArticleJournalist Kate Bradshaw breaks down the true meaning of a vote for Jill Stein
For the last few weeks I’ve been thinking about how best to approach the very thorny subject of Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein voters in Hawaii. Though there’s no real polling done out...
View ArticleUPDATED: Trump Wins, America Loses: How the 2016 Election looks from Maui
Though more people ended up voting for Democrat Hillary Clinton, it is Republican Donald Trump who will be the next President of the United States. For those of us who believe in civil rights, the...
View ArticleHere’s Drew Toonz’ plan for dealing with the 2016 Election
Illustration: Andrew Miller The post Here’s Drew Toonz’ plan for dealing with the 2016 Election appeared first on Maui Time.
View ArticleWe mapped the 2016 Maui County Council–South Maui election
There’s a very interesting article in this morning’s Maui News on the local fallout of the 2016 election. Maui’s politics are changing–been changing for a few years now–and that the Maui County...
View ArticleThis is how Maui County voters compared to rest of Hawaii in 2016...
Yeah, yeah, I know the election’s over and Donald Trump won and we should all just stop crying into our kombucha and get over it so our new overlord and his white nationalist minions can have their...
View ArticleQuizunderstood: Which county in Hawaii was the least supportive of Donald Trump?
1. On Nov. 18, MauiTime posted a table online, compiled by Maui political analyst Dick Mayer using data from Politico, showing how each county in Hawaii voted in the 2016 Presidential Election....
View ArticleTulsi Gabbard, the 2016 election and the only way to fight ‘fake news’
If you hold that faith comes from understanding, that reason is preferable to dogma and that facts are knowable, definable things that transcend faith and bias, then you already know that we live in...
View ArticleMauiTime 2016 Year In Review
Even without the election of Republican Donald Trump to be President of the United States, this was a monstrous year. We’ve had to deal with job losses, outrageous giveaways to big business and just a...
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