Collins Alleged Anti-Semitic, Mysogynist. Sucks to be this Jewish Chick.

Students call for Lance Collins to be fired.
Ka Leo content called offensive
Political cartoons, Valentine's spread raise concern
Stanley Lee, 14, Mar, 2003
Ka Leo Senior Staff Writer

More than 50 students, faculty and community members attended a meeting last night to discuss whether Ka Leo O Hawai'i crossed the fine line between freedom of speech and discriminatory content when it published a cartoon depicting Hitler that has been called anti-Semitic and a two-page layout for Valentine's Day that was said to promote violence against women.

"How can this type of work be published in this day and age?" asked Debra Jean Zwicker, president of the Student Organization of Theatre and Dance and one of more than 20 attendees to speak. A packed, standing room only crowd convened at a Campus Center conference room to attend the monthly Board of Publications meeting. The BOP publishes Ka Leo O Hawai'i and hires its editor-in-chief.

Many thought the board should instate operating policies on Ka Leo's editorial staff or mandate ethical guidelines for its editors....

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Homesteaders Confront MIS

Water scarcity and increasing demands raise concerns.
The Molokai Dispatch, 27 May, 2008
By Brandon Roberts

Delinquent homesteader accounts remain a top priority for the Molokai Irrigation System (MIS). Board members said they are following the 2007 audit recommendation to take a more active role in obtaining overdue payments. However, homesteaders question the legality of being charged for water, and are asking the MIS board to put equal energy into all audit recommendations, not just homesteader accounts.

Homesteader Glenn Teves said the Department of Agriculture (DOA) has a fiduciary responsibility to the homesteaders with the system profits. He said if homesteaders were to get kicked off their lands, or be forced to quit farming, there is the “potential for the situation to get volatile.”

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Molokai - Future of a Hawaiian Island

The birth of a new vision for Molokai.

23 May, 2008, The Molokai Dispatch

Last Wednesday, an organized group of `opio (youth) presented a 30 page document that captures three decades of community planning on the Friendly Isle. The following is an overview listing topics discussed in the document. To view the entire document, go to www.themolokaidispatch.com/molokai.pdf

The people of Molokai have a clear vision for the island’s future based on the values of pono and aloha 'āina. Over the years numerous community plans have attempted to articulate this vision, and proposed projects aimed at creating a diversified and sustainable economy for Molokai. This document attempts to answer a question many have asked the Molokai community: "OK, so what do you want?"

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Lance D. Collins Double Crosses Kanaka Clients. County Council Considers Cash for Collins. Kanakas Left Out Cold.

Collins Sells Out Wailea 670 Clients. Will Drop Case for his Fee.

Honua‘ula group joins suit against the county
29 May, 2008, The Maui News
By CHRIS HAMILTON, Staff Writer

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Deputy Corporation Counsel Mary Blaine Johnston said the county asked for a 60-day continuance to prepare its case. Johnston said the county wants Collins and his clients to clarify and back up what they believe the facts are, calling his case completely deficient.

Collins said he has presented a settlement offer to County Council members...

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ML&P deal opens spigot for Kula lands

But agreement seen as threat to agriculture, unfair to family projects
May 27, 2008, The Maui News
By ILIMA LOOMIS, Staff Writer

WAILUKU — A well that is being drilled in Piiholo by Maui Land & Pineapple Co. in a controversial deal with the county is expected to be online with a total capacity of 1.5 million gallons per day by the end of 2010.

The county is expected to get 168,750 gallons or more out of the agreement signed by former Mayor Alan Arakawa in 2006. That’s more than the county’s gotten out of similar agreements in the past. But some are questioning why the agreement allows ML&P to draw some of its water allocation from the county’s Upper Kula system, bypassing Kula landowners who’ve been waiting for years on the Upcountry water meter waiting list.

“That is not fair,” said Doug MacCluer, a retired vice president of Maui Pineapple Co., who now serves on the county’s General Plan Advisory Committee and the Central Maui Soil and Water Conservation District. “There are a lot of people on that list — family subdivisions — for years and years. To jump ahead is just not fair.”

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Drought! Upcountry is still high and dry

The Maui News May 26, 2008

WAILUKU — A continuation of dry weather underscored the Board of Water Supply’s recommendation last week for a drought watch for Upcountry.

The board made the recommendation to Mayor Charmaine Tavares as a “precautionary action,” said Water Director Jeff Eng.

“Our Upcountry customers have done a commendable job in conserving water and controlling discretionary water use,” he said. “However, long-term precipitation forecasts show that precipitation will be below normal at least through October 2008.”

Eng said he remains concerned with “the significant drop in stored raw water levels in the Upcountry reservoirs and the low levels in the Wailoa ditch.”

The 30-million-gallon Waikamoi Reservoir was empty last week, according to...

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Teachers offered free ag awareness tools

Teachers offered free ag awareness tools

The Maui News, 26 May, 2008

KAHULUI — Teachers in middle and high schools are invited to sign up for a two-day professional development workshop to help increase awareness about agriculture among students.

Sponsored by the Maui Economic Development Board’s Women in Technology Project, the June 12-13 classes are being presented to educators at no charge.

Featured topics include the latest advances in agriculture, 21st century agricultural careers in Hawaii and developed lessons on agriculture for students.

The first day of the workshop will run from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Maui Community College.

As the featured industry representative, Ania Wieczorek, a biotechnologist from the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources program, will answer questions and assist in classroom activities.

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‘Water belongs to everyone’ — farmers protest

East Maui streams center of debate
The Maui News, 25 May, 2008
By CHRIS HAMILTON, Staff Writer

Saturday morning near Twin Falls, waving signs and hands in search of community support for their efforts to get more water placed back into East Maui’s streams.

As many passing motorists honked their horns as didn’t.

The farmers, led by Lyn Scott and Troy McConnell of the grass-roots Honopou Stream Association, are readying for an upcoming staff report and then potential decision by the state Commission on Water Resource Management. Scott said the farmers want to keep this issue alive in the public’s eye.

The commission could force East Maui Irrigation Co., and its parent company, Alexander and Baldwin Inc., to release much of the nearly 234 million gallons of water the company collects each day in its 74-mile, 130-year-old system of ditches and tunnels.

“Does the ditch own the water?” asked protester James Sagawinit, 72, of Haiku. “Water belongs to everyone. Not a certain few. They didn’t make it. It comes from the heavens.”

As the farmers and fishermen argued that restoring the streams will bring back new life, EMI officials said...

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Before The Boy That Cried Rape, When He Knew It Untrue, Ran From Oahu to Maui, With a License to Sue

The Honolulu Star-Bulletin Archives,
November 16, 1999
By Susan Kreifels

(ed. note. Lance Kawika Collins, aka Lance David Collins, aka Lance D. Collins)

Lance Kawika Collins, vice chairman of the Student Caucus at UH-Manoa, accused Loren Gautz, a tenured associate professor in biosystems engineering, of the harassment.

Collins has filed a complaint with UH-Manoa Student Services. Alan Yang, dean of student services who will oversee the investigation of the complaint, has 45 days to give the report to Dean Smith, senior vice president at UH-Manoa, who will determine if action should be taken against Gautz.

Gautz said he was not filing any action with the faculty union but would not comment further.

The Manoa Faculty Congress was discussing changes in core curriculum and foreign language requirements when, according to Collins and student government leaders, Gautz yelled out "That's bull-----, that's a myth," when a language professor testified that studying a language was a way to understand a culture and its people.

Collins, who is part Hawaiian, said after the meeting that he told Gautz to "Go f------ back to college and get a f------ education because you missed it the first time," referring to Gautz's comments during the meeting about language requirements.

Collins said he walked away but Gautz and several other faculty members followed him, even after he yelled several times to "F--- off and leave me alone."

Then, Gautz unfastened his belt buckle and shouted "You want to f--- me? I'll f--- you. Let's f---," according to a statement read at a press conference yesterday.

Michelle Yu, a Honolulu Police Department spokeswoman, said a police officer on the scene determined there was no basis for a sexual harassment complaint.

Collins said he plans to file a civil rights complaint with the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission and the federal government.

"I don't feel safe," Collins said. "I don't want him (Gautz) or his friends around me."...

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East Maui stream issue coming to a boil

Taro growers renew protests over water diversions

By CHRIS HAMILTON, Staff Writer, The Maui News
24 May 2008

HUELO — East Maui taro farmers plan to be out along the Hana Highway this morning to protest what they call Alexander & Baldwin Co.’s unfair 130-year-old practice of diverting water from streams in order to sate its sugar cane fields.

The protest, which organizers Troy McConnell and Lynn Scott promised will be peaceful, is their second in a month. It will begin at 9 a.m. at Twin Falls.

“Downstream residents and taro farmers who have practiced taro farming for generation after generation for hundreds, if not thousands of years, have been robbed and denied the lawfully deeded water, which allows their taro to grow,” according to the Honopou Stream Association.

The association is one of several grass-roots groups that have banded together for protests to coincide with the Native Hawaiian Legal Corp.’s petition before the state Commission on Water Resource Management calling on the commission to restore streamflows to 27 East Maui streams.

The farmers say that Alexander & Baldwin’s farming divisions — East Maui Irrigation Co. and Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Co. — are diverting too much water and failing to provide adequate flows for stream life and for downstream farmers. An A&B spokeswoman contacted by The Maui News on Friday did not respond...

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Dowling Co. Awards Maui County Citizens for Democracy In Action

Dowling Co. Awarded MCCFDIA, Maui County Citzens for Democracy In Action, $25 in recognition of their voter registration efforts. MCCFDIA registered more new voters in Maui County than ever before in Maui County resulting from the community efforts and support under the leadership of MCCFDIA Founder, Brian Murphy. MCCFDIA representatives conducted a massive "Vote Back America" campaign including major street presence throughout Maui County. MCCFDIA is also known for the excellent community governance oriented website as well as their mini-series of public service announcements, locally produced in the Maui Media Lab Foundation's, Paia, Maui, Community Television Studio. MCCFDIA's PSAs can be watched on Pulelehua, Hawaii Community Television as well as YouTube.

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Changing the Channel to Digital Television

May 20, 2008, The Haleakala Times, Sam Epstein

Television has lately been peppered with public service announcements alerting Americans that good old-fashioned broadcast TV, after a wonderful run of more than fifty years, is about to be switched off for good.

Newfangled High Definition digital television is being rolled out in its place. You might be asking yourself at this point, “How is this going to affect me? What if I don’t have cable TV, or a satellite or a fancy newfangled HD digital television? Am I gonna have to buy anything? What is this going to cost me? And why do they have to mess with my TV anyway?” All good questions....

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Tug of war over rights to East Maui stream water

CWRM stands for the Commission on Water Resource Management; Haloa is a name for taro.

Jan Welda, Haleakala Times

Driving to Hana is always an adventure. You leave Kahului, a relatively modern, bustling place in Maui’s central valley, complete with Costco and WalMart and Krispy Kreme doughnuts, and head due east on the two-lane, increasingly narrow and windy Hana Highway. Every mile leads you further away from over-developed civilization towards the peaceful community of Hana, a place that doesn’t even have a McDonalds....

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Undisclosed Risk: Why are Guoco Group Employees Intentionally Manipulating and Devaluing Investment Holdings?

Undisclosed Risk: Why are Guoco Group Employees Intentionally Manipulating and Devaluing Investment Holdings?

What is Guoco Group Up to? Guoco Group (Internationally traded on the Singapore Stock Exchange) employees are intentionally devaluing and in some cases destroying their investment holdings. Is this some obtuse corporate strategy intended to artifically deflate the value of Guoco Stock in preparation for a huge buy back by Guoco Itself? Or are these the concerted actions of a few corrupt employees trying to manipulate the stock price without getting caught by their supervisors...or Singaporean regulators? Does Quek Leng Chan, Executive Chairman know what is being done in his name?

Molokai Properties Limited (a subsidiary of Guoco Group) installed executive Peter Nicholas, in his role as Molokai Ranch Manager has been ordering the destruction of trees, dissassembling the water system, once proudly maintained by Molokai Ranch employees, allowing the golf course to fall into disuse, cancelled leases on local shops and the only theater, and other activities which have the obvious localized effect of driving down the property values of not just the west end vacation condos that Molokai Ranch convinced wealthy mainland "investors" to previously purchase, but all of Guoco Group's investment holdings throughout the Hawaiian Island of Molokai.

The first effect is being felt by west end condo owners that were sold the Molokai Ranch Dream, and have woken up to the nightmare of the declining property values of their home away from home, or just their smart investment. It is even worse for the west end condo owners that chose to actually live in their Molokai Ranch homes that now find themselves without a water system, living among a boarded up golf course, blockaded with cut-down palm-trees, with a thirty minute drive to the nearest town...

The real question obviously though is, if you own Guoco stock, is this the time to buy more, hold it, sell short, or sell, Sell, SELL???

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Jay April Lied. Lanai Still Denied While Funds Misspent On Jay's New Ride

Akaku’s Production Van is the Newest Addition to our PEG access services

More “live” coverage of community events will soon be a possibility at Akaku: Maui Community Television (Akaku) with today’s arrival of the island’s only video production van equipped with microwave transmission capability.

“Any community event at a location within eyeshot of Akaku’s studio offices could be the perfect candidate for ‘live’ coverage on Akaku cable channels 52, 53 or 54,” says Jay April, President/ CEO of Akaku, whose Maui studio offices are located at 333 Dairy Road, Kahului....

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Maui Media Lab Measures Maui Community Hot Air

Maui Media Lab PALOLO Environmental VOG Monitoring Station

Maui Media Lab Foundation's Particulate and Atmospheric Light Obfuscation Level Observer, more easily pronounced as the PALOLO Sensor recently made its debut at Maui Media Lab Foundation's Environmental Monitoring Station at the Keawanui Fishpond on Molokai.

Maui Media Lab's PALOLO Sensor is used to measure atmospheric particulate levels by observing and recording light scattering and obfuscation caused by, well, atmospheric particulates, also known locally here in Hawaii as VOG...

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Public access TV providers could face bidding process as bill fails

Pacific Business News (Honolulu) - by Nanea Kalani Pacific Business News

The organizations that operate Hawaii's four public access television stations could be forced to bid to keep their jobs this year, ...

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The World According to Monsanto Expose' Disappears from the Internet!

by Barbara Peterson

The excellent French documentary titled “The World According to Monsanto – A documentary that Americans won’t ever see,” is evidently living up to its name. When I first became aware of this movie, I immediately watched it, then placed it on my websites. Today I checked the link, and found that the video is gone. In fact, when I typed the title “The World According to Monsanto” into the Google search engine, I couldn’t find the full video anywhere.

This is a call for action. If you find this video anywhere on the Internet, please let me know. If you haven’t seen it, you need to. If you have seen it, you know what a powerful video it is for exposing the corruption of Monsanto and the...

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Maui Community Concerned About Akaku Executives Public Access Corruption

Maui News Comments:

I thought that revenues paid by every cable subscriber were supposed to go to improving public access and NOT in expanding a for profit business venture. Sounds crooked to me.

Akaku should return it "non profit" profits to the cable subscribers. It ironic that Akaku which promotes anti business (Molokai) and pro environment activism is just another another business, in it for the profits. The recent controversy over who runs Akaku obviously was not about providing public access programming but all about money...

Concerned

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The Faces of Lawsuit Abuse

The Institute for Legal Reform has recently pegged Hawaii as having the forty-fifth most corrupt lawyers out of all fifty States. Good job guys! Only five to go...

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Collins Questions August's Judgement, Second Guesses Second Circuit

Maui Court Records show the Lance D. Collins, Maui Democratic Party's Media Chair, Parlimentarian, Counsel to the Board of Directors, Lobbyist, Lawyer for Akaku: Maui Community Television and holder of the Sacred Chalice of Beta Zed has filed a motion to overturn Judge Joel August's Dismissal of Akaku:Maui Community Television's CEO And President, Jay April's frivolous lawsuit against the Maui Media Lab Foundation, and twenty-one anonymous high school community television producers.

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Molokai’s visitors ‘picked up and left’

By Gary T. Kubota, The Maui News, 10 May 2008,

Businesses on the Friendly Isle are seeing fewer customers following the shutdown of Molokai Ranch operations in early April.

Business owners think they haven't hit bottom yet and expect more economic problems after the 120 ranch employees get their last paycheck on May 22.

Island Air passenger volume was down more than 3 percent and the ferry between Lahaina and Kaunakakai reported a drop of 25 percent in April...

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Molokai Ranch seeking to ‘dispose of’ its water utility

By Kate Gardiner
5/7/2008 8:52:11 PM

At Monday's meeting of the Molokai Action Team — appointed by Governor Linda Lingle to seek solutions to the island's long-term economic challenges — the group changed its focus.
Instead, team leader and the Hawaii Office of Planning director Abbey Mayer revealed details about the operations of Molokai Properties Limited, its subsidiaries and water on Molokai's West End.
Mayer said the Ranch approached the state of Hawaii Public Utilities Commission, which licensed the Ranch as a public utility for two water companies and a sewage company. He says the Ranch wants to "dispose of" all of its water and sewage utilities.
Molokai Ranch operates another unregulated water company and two unregulated sewage companies. Combined, these companies, subsidiaries of Molokai Properties Limited, operate the water systems for Kualapu'u, Kaluakoi and Maunaloa.
The only apparent entities that would be willing to take over the six companies are...

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E ola Molokai demonstrates at Ki‘owea

By Tom Patrick
5/6/2008 1:33:28 PM

Members of the budding organization E’ola Molokai and other concerned residents of Molokai rallied Monday near Kulana ‘Oiwi. Many of the roughly 60 community members carried placards that read such things as “Support Molokai/Save Our Jobs” and “No Job/No Life/No Molokai.”

“We’re just making our awareness to the rest of the community,” said E’ola Molokai representative Keoni Lindo. “That it’s time to step forward, time to come together and stand together to make a change in our community.”
The newly formed...

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CNN Reporter has close shave in Burma (BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE WOULD!)

Narrow Escapes For CNN Reporter In Myanmar
CNN Reporter In Myanmar Chased As He Tries To Chase Cyclone Story

May 10, Associated Press, New York:

(AP) A CNN reporter who left Myanmar Friday was chased by authorities as he reported on the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis but escaped primarily because of the incompetence of the people after him.

Dan Rivers hid under a blanket at one police checkpoint and casually covered up his name on a passport to avoid detection another time. He may ultimately have gotten out of the country due to a stewardess' impatience.

"I was amazed at the lengths they apparently went just to catch me," Rivers told The Associated Press by telephone from Thailand on Saturday.

Rivers' story illustrates the preoccupation of Myanmar's military government with things other than...

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Board Break Bylaws, Secretly Eliminated Elections

Molokai Enterprise Community attempting to cancel elections
By David Lichtenstein
5/9/2008 1:31:33 PM

In a closed meeting, the Molokai Enterprise Community board, Ke Aupuni Lōkahi, Inc., voted in favor of changing its bylaws in an effort to cancel public elections to replace four board vacancies.
The EC board is required by federal law to have 55 percent of its members elected to its seats. The board had discussed holding the election in January or February of 2008, when the terms of office for four board members expired — Joshua Pastrana, Shannon Crivello, Sybil Lopez and Russell Kallstrom.
Those hoping to represent Kalaupapa on the EC were Shannon Crivello and Mahie McPherson. For the east, candidates were Russell Kallstrom, Kanoe Davis and Josh Pastrana. West tract candidates were Steve Morgan and Jerry Manning.
In the April 17 closed board meeting, the organization's president and acting executive director, Stacy Helm-Crivello, recommended that the EC's bylaws be amended to eliminate the requirement of an annual election.
According to EC board member Bridget Mowat, Helm-Crivello said...

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Illegal Lobbiest Collins Cries:( Betrayed Legislators Cut Ties!

The State of Hawaii Legislature recently made a stand against corruption in politics and mismanagement of non-profit organizations operating in the State of Hawaii by not agreeing to be part of Maui County Democratic Party's Media Chair, Lance Collins' crusade to continue to stall the public procurement process of Public Access cable television in the State of Hawaii for no reason other to secure another exemption from public procurement, and continue to misappropriate precious Public Access dollars out of the State of Hawaii's public access organization for Maui County and hiring himself to file numerous, baseless lawsuits, without financial accountability, nor oversight, having exempted himself from the Sunshine Law, as Parlimentarian and Counsel to Akaku's Maui Community Television's Board of Directors, Illegal Lobbyist and well paid, lawyer for Akaku: Maui Community Television.

Big Giant Mahalos to all of our State Legislators and Senators for standing up for our Island Ohana, especially Representative Kyle Yamashita for representing the thousands of people that comprise your constituency with class, grace and dignity.

Lance D. Collins' Political, Karl Rove style, personal attacks in no way represent the thousand of Maui County Citizens and voters that will be coming to the polls this fall. They know that the politics of personal destruction certainly have no place in Maui Nui.

Maybe its time to go back home to California, Lance. As John Locke once said, Lance, "he who hath lost the election, is the loser."

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Evaporating Rights

Friday 5-2-08 The Molokai Dispatch, BY: BRANDON ROBERTS
The Kualapu`u reservoir, originally built to supply homesteaders agricultural needs, now supplies 84 percent of all water to 30 non-homestead accounts. State law mandates a two-thirds water allocation for current and future use by Hawaiians, yet the nearly 200 homestead accounts have...

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Final Home Rodeo for Molokai Farmers

Tuesday 4-29-08 BY: BRANDON ROBERTS

High School Rodeo Results

Senior Cheyanne Kaliihoomalu competed in her last Molokai High School Rodeo at Kaunakakai Arena April 26. Kaliihoomalu will attend...

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Resolution apologizes for leprosy restrictions

The Maui News

HONOLULU — Children, trauma care and Hansen’s disease patients exiled to Kalaupapa were on the minds of Maui’s three state senators at last week’s closure of the 2008 legislative session.

Senate Concurrent Resolution 208 recognizes and acknowledges the people of Kalaupapa and their families for the sacrifices of thousands of people exiled to the Molokai peninsula because they had Hansen’s disease, also known as leprosy. The resolution apologizes to them for harsh restrictions that caused them undue pain as the result of government policies surrounding leprosy.

According to the resolution, from 1866 to 1969, an estimated 8,000 citizens were forced to leave their families and be isolated on Molokai because of society’s fear of Hansen’s disease.

State Sen. Kalani English, whose district includes Molokai, East Maui, Upcountry and Lanai, said...

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Something All of Hawaii's Lawyers and Judges can be Ashamed About (at least in Public)

Institue for Legal Reform
Hawaii ranks forty-fifth among all fifty states in the fairness of its litigation environment.

Good job guys! Only five states to go, then Hawaii can truly be known for having the most crooked lawyers in the entire United States of America.

Congratulations! Be sure to share your award with your children. Do they know what you do during the day?

Maybe its time to leave the lawyers behind.

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Lance D. Collins Conflict of Interest Corrupts Community Television

Lance D. Collins, Akaku: Maui Community Television Board of Directors Counsel Recommends Akaku Sues the State.
Lance D. Collins, Lawyer for Akaku Maui Community Television, takes money from Akaku to Sue the State of Hawaii.
Lance D. Collins, Lawyer for Akaku Maui Community Television, sues 21 anonymous Community TV producers. Case Dismissed.
Lance D. Collins, Lobbyist for Akaku a 501(c)(3) non-profit, lobbies legislature for special interest Akaku legislation.
Lance D. Collins, Akaku: Maui Community Television Parlimentarian, runs disinformation propoganda on public access tv.
Lance D. Collins, Maui Democratic Party Media Chairman, has authority regarding political media coverage of legislators.
Lance D. Collins, Akaku: Maui Community Television Lawyer, strikes "Prohibited Transactions" from Akaku By-Laws.
Lance D. Collins, Akaku: Maui Community Television Lawyer, inserts "Akaku 'SHALL' advance legal fees" into Akaku By-Laws.

Lance D. Collins, Akaku: Maui Community Television's well paid Parlimentarian, Counsel to the Board of Directors, Lawyer, Lobbyist and Maui Democratic Party Media Chairman improperly pressures Democratic Party legislators/candidates in the upcoming election while threatening the community and legislators with denial of access to Maui County's community television channels.

Self-dealing transaction? Conflict of Interest? Illegal campaign spending of 501(c)(3) non-profit funds promoting legislation? Illegal use of public access channels for propoganda? Only the State of Hawaii Attorney General, Mark Bennett Knows.

Will removing these provisions against self dealing transactions from Akaku's by-laws "fix" the problem? Is the problem Akaku's By-laws or the systematic violation of Akaku's By-laws by Akaku: Maui Community Television's President and Chief Executive Officer, Jay April and Parlimentarian, Counsel and Lawyer Lance D. Collins? What about the legislator/candidates from Maui's Democratic Party that find themselves face to face with their own Political Party Media Chair over a vote for special interest litigation specifically written in his favor?

Maui's Democratic Party is not the party of Community Television, nor does Maui's Democratic Party own Maui Community Television. The real question is how Maui's Democratic Party is going to insulate itself from the political fallout of a corruption investigation involving millions of misappropriated dollars and unaccounted funds from a non-profit organization, created by the State of Hawaii exclusively to provide Public Access television to cable subscribers, illegal campaign spending, self dealing transactions, conflicts of interest, and well paying frivolous self-litigation resulting from Maui's Democratic Party's own Media Chair managing to publicly Spitzer himself, just months before what is recognized as one of the most significant elections Maui will have seen in a long time.

Send these clowns back to California. Now there is an idea for the Superferry.

Aole Pono.

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Attempted raid by the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs on Akaku: Maui Community Television

Akaku: Maui Community Television Officers Attempt to Deny Access to State of Hawaii, Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs Officials over State owned property, facilities and equipment.

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Jay April Appoints Himself to Akaku Executive Committee, Strips Board's Powers

Special Meeting of the Board of Directors of Akaku: Maui Community Television

After being removed from Akaku: Maui Community Television's Board of Director's as a consequence of numerous prima facia violations of Akaku: Maui Community Television's by-laws, unelected President and CEO of the State of Hawai'i's, PEG Access provider for Maui Community Television, Jay April Takes Swift Action, Appoints Himself to Akaku: Maui Community Television's Board of Director's Executive Committee, and gives himself powers to act on behalf of the Akaku: Maui Community Television's Board of Director's, orders Akaku Counsel Lance Collins to "fix" Maui County Public, Education, and Governmental Cable Access Television by-laws.

Agenda for Meeting on
May 2, 2008
5:30 p.m.
Location: AKAKU Studio
333 Dairy Road
Kahului, HI 96732
1.) Call to Order
2.) Approval of Agenda
3.) Approval of Minutes
i. November 30, 2007
ii. March 21, 2008
4.) Public Input #1
5.) By-Law Revisions
6.) Letter of Engagement for FY08 Audit
7.) Public Input #2
8.) Announcements
9.) Adjournment

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Maui News Confirms Akaku Misappropriated at Least $2.4 MILLION PUBLIC ACCESS FEES. April Blames Board!

Maui News Confirms Akaku Misappropriated at Least $2.4 MILLION, THREE YEARS WORTH OF PUBLIC ACCESS FEES. Akaku CEO and President Jay April Blames Board!

Sued for Breach of Contract, failure to deal fairly and interference, Jay April, President and CEO of the State owned, non-profit, Public Access television organization for Maui County, Akaku: Maui Community Television shirks responsibility, points finger at Akaku: Maui Community Television's Board of Director's Chairman John Bruce.
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Minit Stop suit charges Akaku unfair landlord

By HARRY EAGAR, Staff Writer, The Maui News

3 April, 2008
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Loa‘a’s civil suit filed in 2nd Circuit Court alleges that it spent more than $90,000 in reliance on Akaku’s cooperation.

Akaku Chief Executive Officer Jay April said Wednesday that the board of directors ultimately makes all business decisions for Akaku and its business subsidiary, Akaku Holdings.

Akaku operates public access cable television channels and is supported by cable user fees, averaging about $800,000 a year. Although it is a nonprofit organization, revenues from its operations allowed Akaku Holdings to purchase the 2-acre industrial zoned property for $2.4 million in 2005.
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Twenty One Anonymous Maui Community Television Producers Vindicated. Akaku President Jay April Revolting

Twenty One Anonymous Maui Community Television Producers Vindicated. Akaku President Jay April Revolting

Statement from the Twenty One Anonymous Maui Community Television Producers, sued by Akaku President Jay April for their own Copyrights:

"On April 15, 2008, Judge Joel August Dismissed Lance Collins' Frivolous lawsuit against twenty one anonymous Maui Community Television Producers. The dismissal of this lawsuit is an overwhelming vindication of Maui's independent community television producers and an indication that Judge August neither believe State owned Akaku: Maui Community Television President Jay April's misrepresentations, lies or other false claims including:
1) that Jay April and Jay April only, as President and Chief Executive Officer Of Akaku: Maui Community Television owns the copyrights to all Maui Community Television Programming, and the exclusive right to decide what gets shown when, and
2) that all "Free Speech" broadcast on Maui Community Television had to be registered with Akaku: Maui Community Television, and
3) that all Maui Community Television producers required a license from Akaku: Maui Community Television to show their own productions anywhere other than on the State owned PEG Access Channels 52, 53, 54, 55 and 56, and that he himself, Jay April, as President and CEO of Akaku: Maui Community Television has the sole exclusive right to arbitrarily deny access to Maui Community Television without cause.

Your actions are revolting, and your flag wrapped violations of free speech do an injustice to the young men and women that willingly give their lives for the very freedoms you so causally seem to have no problems infringing on others. From your willingness to deny access to those in our community, to the inappropriate behavior you have subjected your female producers to, you in no way represent the quality of these young men and women that truly know what freedom is, and its cost.

Maui Community Television's Independent Producers hope the Akaku: Maui Community Television Board of Directors will hold Mr. April personally accountable for the thousands of dollars in legal fees resulting from his failed, facist and quite illegal crusade of lawsuits against the State, the Community and our own high school children for the sole purpose of trying to cover up his own wrong doing. Any attempt to misappropriate State Public Access Television Fees to pay for Mr. April's latest legal fiasco, would just be one more misappropriation of these Public Funds intended exclusively to provide Public, Educational and Governmental Access Television Services to Maui County's Citizens."

Dragons down Farmers

Hana sweeps Molokai to secure return trip to D-II state tournament
By ROBERT COLLIAS, Staff Writer
May 2, 2008, The Maui News
WAILUKU — The Hana High School boys volleyball team has won three straight Maui Interscholastic League titles.

Tonight, the Dragons will try to keep their hopes for four in a row alive when they play Seabury Hall in the league’s Division II tournament final at the Baldwin gym.

Hana earned the chance — and a state-tournament berth — with a 25-21, 25-23 win over Molokai in the semifinals of the league tournament on Thursday.

‘‘MIL title is the goal,’’ said Hana junior Holden Gorbea, a middle blocker and outside hitter. ‘‘We’ve won three in a row, so now we are going for a four-peat.’’

The Dragons won their first two titles of the streak when the state had only one level of play, and last season they won the D-II crown and advanced to the state final before losing to Maryknoll, now a Division I team.

To get their fourth straight crown, Hana (8-1) will have to...

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Pulelehua TV Now Hawaii's Most Watched Digital Community Television. More than 32,000 Viewers, April Alone!

Maui County, Hawaii: 1 May 2008

Pulelehua TV Now Hawaii's Most Watched Digital Community Television. More than 32,000 Viewers, April Alone!

April's independent viewer ratings for Pulelehua TV Digital Television are in! With almost ten percent monthly growth and totaling more than 32,000 viewers of Digital Hawaii Community Television Programs, with an average of more than 1000 viewers a day, Hawaii's Community Television viewers on Oahu, Maui, Molokai and Hawaii's other Islands and abroad have made Pulelehua TV Digital Television the most watched community television in Hawaii by an order of magnitude. With approximately ten times the viewership compared to the State of Hawai'i owned analog PEG Access Channels including Akaku: Maui Community Television...

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Earth is losing dirt at an alarming rate

Nutrient-rich topsoil is being eroded much faster than it can be replenished, experts say.
Tom Paulson / Seattle Post-Intelligencer
SEATTLE -- The planet is getting skinned.
While many worry about the potential consequences of atmospheric warming, a few experts are trying to call attention to another global crisis quietly taking place under our feet.
Call it the thin brown line. Dirt. On average, the planet is covered with little more than three feet of topsoil -- the shallow skin of nutrient-rich matter that sustains most of our food and also appears to play a critical role in supporting life on Earth.

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Every Saturday, teens control the airwaves

1 May 2008, by Pam Woolway - The Garden Island, Kauai Garden Isle News

On any given Saturday at radio station KKCR 91.9 FM, teenage disc jockeys spin a blend of music that defies category. From 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Kaua‘i’s community radio station boasts the only show of this kind on the island — a teenagers-only format where students between the ages of 14 and 17 have the freedom to express their musical views over the airwaves.

Ninth-grade Kula High School student Ian Clarke first volunteered at the station to fulfill 20 hours of required community service for school — that was over a year ago....

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Molokai Mana`o

4-29-08, The Molokai Dispatch

With the economic uncertainties facing Molokai, I went to the Kula Ki`e Ki`e Hawaiian Language Immersion School at Molokai High to ask the students to play Friendly Isle planners. This is their mana`o on what creative businesses and ideas they believe would best benefit Molokai.

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