September 2008

Cover Story

Features

The Money Train

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.

Green Acres

Green Acres

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

Lifelines

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...

Departments

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...

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

Dining with Dave: Here's the Beef

The new Umeke Market, located in Bishop Square, has the most interesting selection of burgers in all of downtown Honolulu: nine different selections.

Parting Shot: Going Up?

Javier Fombellida

Editor's Note: The Power of One

Letter from the editor.