Bulletin closing archive Gas stations efficient at raising prices Gasoline prices on the Big Island, normally substantially higher than on Oahu, are rocketing ever higher on an almost daily basis. Since then, prices have risen in lockstep. I guess if they don' t have a meeting to coordinate this, it's not called price-fixing. Seems they don't need a meeting at all since, when one raises prices, the rest immediately follow suit. The real issue is about enrollment, access and getting kids in school.
Education is the most powerful tool to combat poverty.
You'll meet people you just couldn't get to any other way. I enjoyed Helen Altonn's March 9 articles on hip replacements. I just had a hip replacement myself, and am 49 years old. While my doctors at Kaiser discouraged the surgery, and wanted me to wait as long as I could since I was so young, the surgery was a great success. I do, however, take exception to the statement in one story that younger patients with uncemented hip replacements are unable to walk for 6-8 weeks.