With a booming voice, she was getting the message across on the menu sandwiches and homemade desserts at the nearby church while pounding the brick pavement in Arcola. There were so many aromas in the festival area with food booths cooking meats or mixing fruits or sweet deserts. Why does a festival dedicated to brooms sweep in so many people, even on a day for a mop? "I think people like coming to Arcola because of the centralized location. It makes for easy day trips, and you're still...

Molokai Ranch must end use of irrigation system By EDWIN TANJI, City Editor HOOLEHUA, Molokai Agreeing with Molokai Hawaiian homestead farmers who have protested futilely for more than 30 years, the state Department of Attorney General said last week that an environmental assessment is required for Molokai Ranch to continue to use the Molokai Irrigation System. Molokai Ranch must end use of irrigation system By EDWIN TANJI, City Editor HOOLEHUA, Molokai Agreeing with Molokai Hawaiian...

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John Kerry is poised to be the man to challenge President Bush, yet he voted to give the President a blank check to invade Iraq, voted for his ill-advised tax cuts, voted for the horribly misnamed "No Child Left Behind" education plan, voted for the Patriot Act and voted for NAFTA. Gore represented a continuation of the rightward shift of the Democratic Party as epitomized by Clinton, and Gore's hectoring and pedantic style turned off many people. Anyone can run for president in this...

Meeting them on this remote base between Baghdad and the Syrian border was none other than Bagwan Petraeus, the current Vivekananda of counter-insurgency doctrine and the latest in a long line of Generals who will be dragged into historical ignominy by this Commander-in-Chief. Meeting them on this remote base between Baghdad and the Syrian border was none other than Bagwan Petraeus, the current Vivekananda of counter-insurgency doctrine and the latest in a long line of Generals who will be...