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Haku Mo‘olelo

November 6, 2009

Hawaii set the standards for commercial pineapple, but that does not assure the islands’ standing in the world’s marketplace. As with any other industrial producer, Hawaii’s pineapple industry needed to be competitive. Both in pineapple and sugar, Hawaii’s agronomists developed farming techniques and hybrid strains that improved productivity to keep ahead of operations with lower farming costs in competing countries. But farming techniques and hybrid cultivars are transferrable; the better the Hawaii agricultural industry got in using technology to improve yields, the better the world got. What Hawaii could not transfer to regions competing with the isle-grown product were its agricultural wage scales and benefits. Advocates for global free trade routinely downplay if not ignore differences in employee costs and the reasons for them. Global-trade advocates declare that if a producer is more efficient, production should be shifted to that producer, wherever it may be.

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MAUI NEI

November 5, 2009

The Dancer idled along the dirt and gravel track on the Makawao side of the Oskie Rice Rodeo Arena.

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Shave Ice

November 4, 2009

“To me it just seemed like . . . Paia is the new Lahaina or something.

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Second Thoughts

November 3, 2009

Love to eat them mousies, Mousies what I love to eat, Bite they little heads off, Nibble on they tiny feet.

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Haku Mo‘olelo

October 30, 2009

In his assessment of the military situation in Afghanistan, Gen.

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MAUI NEI

October 29, 2009

On a cool green island with magical stones, ancients faced another world once a night each year.

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