Honolulu Advertiser
28 March, 2008
Moloka'i has been down this road before.
A principal employer of its workforce issues pink slips. It happened in the early 1980s, when the Del Monte pineapple operations shut down.
This time, the economic anchor was Molokai Ranch. On Monday, the company shuttered its operations on the "Friendly Island," which has not been altogether friendly to its plans for development at La'au Point. Executives announced plans to lay off 120 employees, who are soon to be jobless in a stagnant economy.
The upheaval over the proposal for the upscale residential project has left the community divided and embittered. The Advertiser's Andrew Gomes took the pulse of the largely rural community and found many now lashing out...
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