September 2008

Cover Story

Features
	The Money Train Unemployment in the state was at more than 5 percent from 1994 to 1999, with construction one of the hardest hit industries. Jason Ubay
	Green Acres Bill Cowern’s 3,700-acre forestry project on Kauai. Jan Tenbruggencate
	Lifelines Eighty percent of our consumer goods are imported. Of that 80 percent, 98 percent comes through our harbors. In hard numbers, over a recent nine-month period, that equated to nearly 900,000 20-foot... Photographer, David Croxford

Features

The Money Train

Unemployment in the state was at more than 5 percent from 1994 to 1999, with construction one of the hardest hit industries.

Jason Ubay

Green Acres

Bill Cowern’s 3,700-acre forestry project on Kauai.

Jan Tenbruggencate

Eighty percent of our consumer goods are imported. Of that 80 percent, 98 percent comes through our harbors. In hard numbers, over a recent nine-month period, that equated to nearly 900,000 20-foot...

Photographer, David Croxford

Departments
	Spin Zone Who is better for business, Barack Obama or John McCain? Brian Schatz CHAIR, Hawaii Democratic Party and Jerry Coffee CHAIR, McCain Hawaii Campaign, say who.
	Talk Story Ronald Taketa, Financial Secretary, Hawaii Carpenter's Union Q & A Shara Enay
	Editor's Note The Power of One Letter from the editor. Kelli Abe Trifonovitch
	Innovation Breaking ground with printable sound Beep! That’s the sound you usually hear when you scan a barcode. But a new barcode being developed by Ken Berkun, founder of Kailua-based startup Labels That Talk Ltd., will be making much more... Casey Chin
	This Month's Parting Shot: Going Up? Javier Fombellida