Source: Maui Time, Maui News, Best of Maui, Maui Activities

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Hawaii Scores Pirate Booty and WAC is All That

by Jacob Shafer

January 21, 2010

20 years

Length of the new franchise agreement between the state of Hawaii and Oceanic Time Warner; the cable giant and the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs finalized the deal last week

$85 million

“Direct and indirect spending” expected to be generated in Hawaii by Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, which will be filmed on Oahu and Kauai this summer

9

Number of University of Hawaii football players named to the Western Athletic Conference’s “all-decade” team, more than any other school

$60

Cost of checking two bags on an American Airlines flight after a fee hike took effect this week; American has tripled its baggage fees in the last five months

Sources: Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Hawaii.gov/gov, Western Athletic Conference, American Airlines, Pacific Business News