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
Innovation: Breaking ground with printable sound	Archive »
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
Spin Zone: Who is better for business, Barack Obama or John McCain?	Archive »
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	Archive »
Q & A Shara Enay
Dining with Dave: Here's the Beef	Archive »
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?	Archive »
Javier Fombellida
Editor's Note: The Power of One	Archive »
Letter from the editor. Kelli Abe Trifonovitch

September 2008

Cover Story

Features

The Money Train

Green Acres

Lifelines

Departments