While I found your recent cover story [“Visitor Quality Over Quantity,” March 2023] interesting, I resent the notion that wealthier tourists equal “quality”
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Letters to the Editor: Environmental Coverage & Affordable Housing
Environment and Sustainability: What Should Maui Times Cover? Maui Times’ first community brainstorming discussion garnered dozens of suggestions for important stories that our publication (and others) should research and report on in the coming year. The conversation kicked off with insights from Dick Mayer and Lucienne de Naie, two longtime environmental activists who have advocated to […]
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Letters to the Editor: Green Issue Props, “Mainland” vs. America
I usually just skim newspapers, but this issue has me crawling over just about every little thing, every little stroke of the pen on every page. It’s Maui artistry for sure.
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MauiTime readers write to us about sexual harassment
[The following letters were written in response to our Feb. 1, 2018 cover story “The Patriarchy is Bad for Men, too!”] What a farce. Consider a interview with a female librarian rather a stripper next time. And give your readers some substance. And stop piling on us men. -Tim Siver, via email * After completing […]
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MauiTime readers write to us about organic cannabis, nuclear war
CANNABIS CONTROVERSY Allow me to correct an untrue statement made by Steve Sakala, CEO of Mana Artisan Botanics (“Organic CBD,” Jan. 25, 2018). Sakala’s quote, “Most people don’t realize that the cannabis they get at a dispensary or off the black market is heavily laced with pesticides and fungicides, grown in-organically with chemical fertilizers. Then […]
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Reader Feedback: Brocialists defend Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s right to meet Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad
Not sure why you have chosen to continue attacks on Tulsi, seemingly when she does something that gets wide press (“What was Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Thinking When She Went To Syria,” Feb. 2, 2017). Perhaps [former Congressional candidate] Shay [Chan Hodges] is urging you on. Regarding your latest effort, on Syria, I notice you rely […]
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Reader Feedback: Enough with that Keith Regan photo already!
HATES KEITH REGAN PHOTO In the July 16, 2015 Coconut Wireless, I see that you printed the same big photo of Keith Regan as you did in the June 11, 2015 issue. The same photo with the bright green aloha shirt and treacly jack-o-lantern grin. In the June 11 issue, the caption read, “Would you […]
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Feedback: Readers Diss Us Over GMOs, Haoles
HATES US BECAUSE WE NEVER RUN LETTERS You have to be feebleminded or incredibly stupid not to realized that the Federal Court Judge assigned to the Maui case is the same Judge who just held the Kauai case violated the preemption laws. Once a higher political entity covers a subject matter, any further attempt by a […]
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Feedback: Readers Write MauiTime Wrongs
LOVED, HATED MANAO HANA HOU RADIO STORY As President of the Board of Directors of Mana’o Hana Hou Radio, I would like to take the opportunity to thank for your recent story about “the Rebirth” of the station (“Free Radio Redux,” June 26, 2014). After reading it I noted that no credit was given to […]
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Our Readers Sound Off On Climate Change
[Ed. note: the following letters are in response to our Aug. 15, 2013 cover story “UH Professor Richard Zeebe Says Climate Change Is More Severe Than We Thought”] Thank you for a good, mostly heartfelt article on climate change. You obviously know we must do something. But then, I don’t know why Maui Time Weekly […]