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Entries from September 21st, 2009

PBN blames flawed business plan for Hawaii Superferry’s demise

September 21st, 2009 · 2 Comments · Politics

Governor Linda Lingle was “off the mark and unrealistic” when she blamed the business community’s supposed lack of support for the demise of the Superferry, according to an editorial in the current print edition of Pacific Business News. Instead, PBN went back to fundamentals and questioned the whole Superferry business plan. Putting aside state officials’ [...]

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Who’s to blame for faulty convention center financial projections? Why not the authors?

September 21st, 2009 · 10 Comments · Media, Politics

Yesterday’s Honolulu Advertiser featured a front page story by Sean Hao that compared early economic projections of the Convention Center’s impact with its actual performance. The projections, which turned out to be wildly optimistic, were used to justify the high cost of building and operating the convention center. Most of the economic projects appear to [...]

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