Please give your name and location. Feel free to re-distribute this newsletter in full or in part, as long as it is not being done for profit and due credit is given. We can thank Senator Inouye, as usual, for this. But we can also wonder what will happen to UH when he is gone from the Washington scene. The State economy continues to slide and no one seem to have any new ideas on how to reverse it.
Tourism is down.
Your editor's recent UAL flights to Osaka and back were empty. The military wants to cut back in Hawaii too, but Inouye has managed to limit that so far. A Marine officer in Japan said that units stationed in Hawaii measurably decline in readiness because of the unavailability of training land. No doubt huge new markets are opening up in Asia. Ah well, there's always gambling and prostitution.