Wayne Nishiki: Cheeky? Sneaky?
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YESTERDAY: Cheeky, sneaky Wayne Nishiki charges bias by Ethics Chairman. Maui County Council member Wayne Nishiki, elected in November only because he violated financial disclosure requirements, filed an affidavit seeking to have Ethics Board chairman Alan Kaufman removed for bias! The Ethics Board meets again Wednesday to resume consideration of Nishiki’s successful efforts to hide his finances from Maui voters prior to the election. More >
January 9, 2005: Maui Memorial Hospital announces that it wants to open an emergency clinic in West Maui on land Alexander & Baldwin (A&B) is willing to donate.
The hospital’s seeming beneficence is belied by its actions. For example, one could assume that the hospital wants to improve health care options on Maui. However, the center, led by CEO Wesley Lo, vigorously, even viciously, works to derail a planned hospital in Kihei. Fearing that the center’s business would be hurt, Lo lobbies government officials who must approve a Certificate of Need for the new Kihei medical facility to be built. Lo is successful in making sure the new hospital is killed.
The Maui Memorial Emergency Extension in West Maui opens at the end of 2006, to much local complaint. The hours are erratic and the facility cannot provide a full range of services.
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY
- 1839: Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science
- 1908: Muir Woods National Monument is established in California
- 1912: U.S. marines invade Honduras
- 1915: Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated, SF
- 1968: Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on the Moon
- 1991: Microsoft announces spreadsheet program Excel 3.0
- 2005: Mahmoud Abbas was elected Palestinian Authority president by a landslide.
- 2006: “The Phantom of the Opera” became the longest-running show in Broadway history, surpassing “Cats,” which ran for 7,485 performances
- 2007: Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs announces the iPhone
BORN ON THIS DAY
- 1908: Simone de Beauvoir, author
- 1913: Richard Milhous Nixon, (R) 37th U.S. President
- 1914: Gypsy Rose Lee, burlesque entertainer/actress
- 1915: Fernando Lamas, actor
- 1925: Lee Van Cleef, actor
- 1928: Judith Krantz, NYC, author
- 1934: Bart Starr, NFL quarterback/coach
- 1935: Bob Denver, actor
- 1935: Dick Enberg, sportscaster
- 1941: Joan Baez, folk singer/human rights advocate
- 1944: Jimmy Page, rock guitarist
- 1951: Crystal Gayle, country singer
- 1951: Rosalyn Kind, singer
- 1954: Lance Hoppens, rock musician
- 1962: Phil Lewis, rock vocalist
- 1955: J.K. Simmons, actor
- 1963: Eric Erlandso, rock musician
- 1967: Carl Bell, rock musician
- 1967: Steve Harwell, rock singer
- 1967: Dave Matthews rock musician
- 1978: A.J. Mclean, singer
DIED ON THIS DAY
- 1987: Arthur Lake actor (Dagwood-Blondie), dies at 81
- 1992: William JF “Bill” Naughton Irish/British playwright (Alfie), dies at 81
- 1994: Silas Hogan blues singer/guitarist, dies at 82
- 1995: Peter Cook English comic/actor (Peter n’ Dud, Bedazzled), dies at 57
- 1995: Souphanouvong [Red Prince], President of Laos (1975-87), dies at 85
- 1997: Edward Osobka-Morawski prime minister of Poland (1945-47), dies
- 1997: Jesse [Marc Weidenfeld] White actor (Maytag repairman, Bedtime for Bonzo), dies at 77
- 1998: Kenichi Fukui Japanese Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1981) dies at 79
- 1998: Michael Tippett British composer (Royal College of Music), dies at 93
