There has to be a way to accommodate the cultural aspect of our lives while moving into a changing future. I wish someone could descend from the clouds and tell us how to do it.

I like the "old culture" but I still want my TV's, cars, CT scans and kidney dialysis machines.

(Isn't ICE a new invention? Can do without THAT!)

Like no parking along the road to Kanaha. That was put in place because a homeless people started accumulating trash and junk and turning the place into a health hazard.

So instead of doing something like having a no-parking tow-away one from 2am to 3am and enforcing it, they just banned all parking all the time - even when there is no legal beach parking free.

And now, because we have (most likely some of the same people) getting drunk and fighting (I'm assuming this is why...I don't know the situation) ALL of us can't drink.

Surely there is a way to deal with these bad apples without curtailing the activities of the vast majority of us who are good neighbors, take care of our parks and beaches and just have fun.

The Charlie Young Beach is a special case where there has been a war between vacation rental owners and beach-goers.

This is just one more move in that war. It seems to me that this isn't a situation of excessive drinking so much as very rich people who don't like regular folks playing on "their" beach.

YOU'RE RIGHT ON KC!

Thanks, but no thanks. The tide of exploitation and disrespect for the 'aina and Hawaiian culture may be becoming the majority on Maui...sadly...but I have no intention of joining it.

The fact that I supported Wayne Nishiki does not mean that I agree with EVERYTHING he does.

I know these are mainlanders because they sign their complaining letters to the council with their mainland addresses. They are the absentee TVR owners at Kamaole One.

As far as the separation of cultures on this island, let's not pretend it doesn't exist.

There are those (born on the mainland or born on Maui) who respect Hawaiian culture, who care for the island and who see themselves as caretakers of Maui.

Then there are those permeated in the Western culture of me, mine, acquire more money and possessions, use and abuse the land. Some may have been born here. Many more have recently come to Maui not for what Maui is but to exploit it.

Ms Karen likes to throw around the anti mainlander slogan.. I would like to hear her become a part of our community and stop separating it for her misguided agendas. By the way, it is your beloved council member forcing this issue through. Go talk to your buddies, or did I miss something were you in council chambers testifying? They are begging for people to show and speak.

As far as the pot goes,we have watched this for 30 years now and has it worked? I say legalize it, tax it, and move onto something important like meth. The justice system needs to stop putting these violent offenders back into or community. Now there's a crime.

i'm starting to think you just like to argue/disagree karen, i can remember a few months back you complaining about public safety, i forget the details but i believe it had something to do with a police coverup of a fight something like that, anyways how can you complain then and now when they want to ban alcohol from the beach? as we all know some people can not handle their booze and ruin it for others, that being said there are bars for drinking the beach is a family area and should be treated as such and before you go to your standard anwser i am 43 and have lived here all my life, so no haole bubble for me

First they illegally extended their property onto the beach by "planting native plants" and watering them...ON PUBLIC BEACH.

Then they spend hours and hours and hours bugging our county council members about the volleyball players who have been there for 20 years.

Now they want all alcohol banned on the beach.

CHILL OUT, you up tight people! The beach does not exist so you can make a buck renting to vacationers.

This is why we should not allow any more building on the shoreline. People begin to think they own the beach and want to get rid of everyone.

Our priorities are misplaced!

Yes MauiB, all teachers selling to their students as young as 12. Our classrooms become smoking conventions instead of learning centers. They sit, smoke and laugh at each other for no apparent reason. We all know the age limit won't stop anyone under 21 from smoking the devil's cigarettes. I think PrivateJok is one of those students.