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please look at the facts
March 19, 2009 | 10:03 PM

Bob, thanks for commenting without resorting to the name-calling and obscenities that others have used. Please don't overlook the facts that indicate HSF was never even close to being profitable, even at reduced fares and waived fuel surcharges. Now they'll use the Supreme Court's decision as an excuse to leave, which many predicted was their intent all along. But they played the sympathy card well, and used the (part-time) employees as pawns. Don't forget the State Auditor Marianne Higa's report (though Lingle withheld documents as long as she could) condemning the actions of issuing an exemption from the EIS, and passing Act 2. Now all the Guv can say is, We were right all along," Anything worth doing is worth doing well, and haste makes waste. But HSF didn't heed those adages, and shunned public involvement with their planning process as much as possible. I'm glad MTW as an independent paper is getting some good factual info to the community, and also this account of how sick people get on the big boat. Bob, I appreciate the tone of your comments. But I think it's time the state stopped pouring taxpayers money into a big black hole in the ocean.

Dante Diaz