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Census Returns and Rainfall Down

by Jacob Shafer

April 08, 2010

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