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Hawaii goes to war over telescopes
Posted by Maui Times: Anthony Pignataro on June 30th, 2015
Maui Times: Watching the battle over the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on Mauna Kea and now the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) on Haleakala has reached nearly comical proportions. Especially over on the Big Island, where native Hawaiian discontent over the big scope–they say it is an unwarranted desecration of the sacred Mauna Kea summit–has been building for years. Has Governor David Ige never seen civil disobedience before? Can he not recognize a rapidly mobilizing population...