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		<title>Fresher via the ferry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your greens could taste better as a result of a new offer from Hawaii Superferry that spotlights the role the ferry can play in interisland commerce.
In a move that reminds one of the literal meaning of kama&#8217;aina &#8212; &#8220;man of the land&#8221; &#8212; Superferry is making the ultimate kama&#8217;aina offer to local farmers: 30% of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When cynicism is naive</title>
		<link>http://kgmb9.com/howard/2008/08/28/when-cynicism-is-naive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Hawaii, though not uniquely here, we learn to be cynics instead of learning civics, leave the tough problems to others, then criticize how they did it.
Always in this criticism there is the confident belief that if things didn&#8217;t work out just ducky, it was not because the problems were intractible, not because of lack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Political conventions as Hollywood spectacles</title>
		<link>http://kgmb9.com/howard/2008/08/27/political-conventions-as-hollywood-spectacles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Dreyfuss, speaking to Keahi Tucker on &#8220;Sunrise&#8221; Wednesday morning from the Democratic National Convention in Denver, said it&#8217;s time to bring in Hollywood directors to manage such events.
Dreyfuss said presidential nominating conventions have gradually become celebrations of decisions that have already been made, so organizers might as well abandon the pretense, admit that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting the tourism slump: it&#8217;s all about California</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s easier to understand the tourism slump if you pay less attention to the percentage declines and more to the actual visitor numbers.
Canadian arrivals are up in double digit percentages, for example, but even now we get five or six visitors from Japan for every visitor from Canada.
Visitor traffic from all of Europe is half [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New jobs in the military economy</title>
		<link>http://kgmb9.com/howard/2008/08/26/new-jobs-in-the-military-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actus Lend Lease, which employs hundreds of people in Hawaii, has contracts to build or renovate hundreds of units of military housing, and then manage them. Contractors who want to support this effort have a chance to learn more about it this week.
Actus has hired 100 people in the past 18 months as it ramps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What trouble instead of a bubble?</title>
		<link>http://kgmb9.com/howard/2008/08/25/what-trouble-instead-of-a-bubble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For months I explained why Hawaii won&#8217;t have a housing bubble this time around, but what I didn&#8217;t know was what we would have instead. Now, I think I do know.
We will have a drawdown in housing prices caused by two factors, both related to the mortgage default crisis, and the result could be a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why we report gas prices where we do</title>
		<link>http://kgmb9.com/howard/2008/08/24/why-we-report-gas-prices-where-we-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pat McLain of Kona wondered why gasoline price reports always mention the same three places &#8212; Honolulu, Hilo and Wailuku &#8212; and hardly ever Kona, despite a big price difference between Hilo and Kona most of the time.
The most reliable data on gasoline prices comes from a research company in suburban Washington, D.C., that samples [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Check Rex sex pix? Or nix?</title>
		<link>http://kgmb9.com/howard/2008/08/24/check-rex-sex-pix-or-nix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that Rex Johnson has been reprimanded with a pay cut and a letter in his file, and has promised not to use his office computer for personal stuff any more, and is back on the job Monday, should we, can we, and do we feel like demanding to see specifically what the dang x-rated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HTA to cut smaller checks for Rex</title>
		<link>http://kgmb9.com/howard/2008/08/22/hta-to-cut-smaller-checks-for-rex/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hawaii Tourism Authority has decided to punish but keep CEO Rex Johnson, who apologized for keeping racy emails in his office computer.
The authority board decided to censure him rather than fire him and cut his salary from $240,000 to $200,000 a year.
Given that Nelson Befitel was not fired when, as state labor secretary, he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Superferry: over 125,000 sold</title>
		<link>http://kgmb9.com/howard/2008/08/19/superferry-over-125000-sold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hawaii Superferry boards its 125,000th passenger Tuesday. June traffic was well above May, July was way above June, and August, if not as busy, still reflects strong interest in the catamaranic connection between Oahu and Maui.
Adm. Tom Fargo, the new CEO, says revenues are up a lot, and despite higher fuel prices it looks like [...]]]></description>
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