Last Hurrah

Tuesday 4-1-08 BY: BRANDON ROBERTS

After five years of dedicated community service, it is time for two Molokai planning commissioners to step down as their terms wrap up.

DeGray Vanderbilt and Lance “Kip” Dunbar participated March 27 in the last meeting as acting commissioners at the. The Molokai Planning Commission (MoPC) meeting, held at the Mitchell Pau`ole Center, was business as usual; however, it was spiced up with a lei presentation, and a closing mahalo from Vanderbilt.

“Molokai has a bright future,” MoPC chairmanVanderbilt said in his final address...

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Kaua‘i workers brace for future

April 1, 2008

by Amanda C. Gregg - THE GARDEN ISLAND

Several employees working on what turned out to be their last day on the job yesterday at Aloha Airlines — some of whom had served the company for nearly 30 years — were still absorbing the shock of Sunday’s news that the company was shutting down.

“I didn’t find out ‘til yesterday,” said one employee, who didn’t give her name. “I’ve only been here a month. It’s harder for my uncle, who’s been working baggage downstairs for 26 years.”


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New Beginnings on Molokai

Leaders discuss opportunities which may come from Ranch closure.

By Todd Yamashita

Molokai community leaders are joining efforts to find solutions for the island’s economy in the aftermath of Molokai Ranch’s closure.

“Yesterday was about the Ranch, today is about the people of Molokai,” said Councilman Danny Mateo.

A few days after Ranch CEO Peter Nicholas abruptly announced the company’s shutdown, soon-to-be former employees rallied in Kaunakakai, hurling signs blaming environmental activists for the loss of their jobs.

However, as the finger-pointing begins to subside, community leaders are stepping up efforts to re-shift the focus on where to go next.

“There’s something good about the Ranch getting out,” said ...

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Collins Sues Self. Flees to Micronesia.

1 April, 2008

Kahului: Coming off a long string of unsuccessful litigation against everyone from the State of Hawaii Attorney General, to a school of traditionally underserved kids, to his mom, Maui's favorite tele-litigator, Lance Collins, announced his new law suit.

Collins explained, "I owe it to myself to come up with a legal strategy that has even the slightest chance of actually winning." Collins, one of Maui's new breed of Lawyers whose practice transcends legal traditions like, the introduction of evidence, and, well, the law, schooled those present on the intricacies of his tactics, "By suing myself it seems I am assured of prevailing as either the plaintiff or the defendant."

Last reported fleeing to Micronesia on Akaku: Maui Community Television's private jet, Collins is allegedly and simultaneously both initiating and opposing extradition proceedings subsequent to being caught subpoenaing himself in public during oral testimony.

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