Life on Maui

Now’s the time to pick up that hobby you’ve been putting off.

With this “new normal” in our adjusted lifestyle, you may find yourself with a little extra time on your hands.…

5 years ago

Purveying art

Besides the tools, surfboards, guitars and fishing poles that we usually comment on, Kamaaina Loan is -- quietly -- the…

10 years ago

Image v. reality

Almost since the Kamaaina Loan blog began, we have been writing about how “Pawn Stars” and other reality programs have…

10 years ago

What’s a GG? Why should you care?

Last week, a young man came into Kamaaina Loan with a "diamond" in his hand, and another one in his…

11 years ago

How pawn shops get stuff

On the Kamaaina Loan webcast from First Friday in Wailuku, Jason Schwartz and I tried to explain how pawn shops…

11 years ago

Crazy for love, maybe?

I think this guy wanted to be caught: Police found that the suspect (in a burglary of a Black River…

11 years ago

Keeping busy

This morning I went to the breakfast meeting of the Rotary Club of Upcountry Maui, to see two high schoolers…

11 years ago

How would you use old Maui High?

The county has published a bid notice seeking ideas to "use and repurpose" the old Maui High campus in Hamakuapoko.…

11 years ago

Warning to the west side

Have you been following Eileen Chao's coverage in The Maui News of the plan to close Molokini II, the child/adolescent…

11 years ago

Old bugbears

It is amusing to watch Mauians, even newcomers, rushing to stock up on rice and toilet paper in anticipation of…

11 years ago