Life on Maui

Your personal info and us

OK, this is a little bit inside baseball,  but in the age of digital promiscuity, everybody should be interested in…

13 years ago

If that’s a 4-foot-long catfish, we must be in Indiana

An Indiana pawn shop has started a reality TV show about itself for local cablevision. Early submissions were a large stuffed…

13 years ago

A more elevated view

Funny thing how climbing the county building from the eighth to the ninth floor changes the view so much. Mayor…

13 years ago

Pawn 101: We buy (almost) anything

So when a customer walked in with a box of old cannon balls and shells, Kamaaina Loan shelled out, so…

13 years ago

Why we should welcome water rate increase

Alan Arakawa has got religion when it  comes to water rates. When he was on the County Council, he, along…

13 years ago

Been there, done that

From the Gainesville Times.com, a story about a new ordinance that requires pawn shops to take a picture and fingerprint of…

13 years ago

Pawn 101: The most common bad news

According to examiner.com, the most common bad news answer that the Pawn Stars stars give to customers is:  "The customer's…

13 years ago

Tales from a Pawn Shop: Our coin maven visits

One event we at Kamaaina Loan look forward to each year is Dennis Ryan's winter visit to escape the snows…

13 years ago

Maui clout

Twenty-five years ago, Maui County was riding high in the state Legislature. Mamoru Yamasaki was chairman of the Ways and…

13 years ago

Torn limb from limb

If it seems like there have been a lot more power outages since Thanksgiving than in a normal early winter,…

13 years ago