2010-04-08 News

By the Numbers

Census Returns and Rainfall Down



Image from state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism

April 07, 2010 | 01:35 PM

50-60 percent
Portion of Wailuku and Kahului residents who had mailed back their Census forms as of April 5

0-40 percent
Portion of East Maui residents who had done so

4
Number of Honolulu Advertiser employees who filed suit against parent company Gannett last week; the suit says workers weren't given adequate notice when Oahu Publications, which owns the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, announced plans to buy the Advertiser in March

0.8 inches
Rainfall recorded in February at the Haiku gage, the lowest total since 1992; every gage on Maui recorded below-average rainfall

Sources: Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism; National Weather Service; Pacific Business News

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