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Superferry Not Done Costing Taxpayers

by Jacob Shafer

March 25, 2010

$218,500

Value of a state contract awarded in February to Oahu-based Healy Tibbitts Builders Inc. to tow the Manaiakalani—aka the Supeferry barge—from Kahului Harbor to Honolulu

20

Number of Governors from U.S. states and territories, including Gov. Lingle, who signed a letter last week asking the Environmental Protection Agency not to tighten greenhouse-gas emission standards; to do so, the letter states, would have “real potential for economic harm”

<48 hours

Span of time during which Hawaii lost two of its most famed hula practitioners; kumu hula Rae Fonseca, 56, and “Auntie Dottie” Thompson, 88, died March 19 and 20 on Oahu and the Big Island, respectively

Sources: Hawaii.gov/gov, State Procurement Office, Honolulu Advertiser