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Previous: January 1, 2009

Wednesday 01.07.2009

• State made 2 Turtle Bay offers
• Castle Resorts will manage W Honolulu
• Hawaii marketing to Korea put on hold
• Tiger Woods skips Maui again
• Ike Pono quits textbook business
• USA Today plans $5 Obama paper
• ADP: U.S. job losses hit 693,000 in December
• $8.5 trillion bailout tally exceeds costs of all U.S. wars
• U.S. franchises may lose 10,000 locations
• Local Hawaiian Telcom investors named
• Report: Online job postings tumble
• Big Island parks director named
• US Airways to cut capacity in 2009
• Survey: Most think their jobs won't be cut
• Go! begins using Aloha Contract Services
• Molokai nurses OK new contract

Tuesday 01.06.2009

• ACBJ Chairman wins business journalism award
• S.F. Fed names chairman and deputy chairman
• Honolulu bids for 2011 APEC meeting
• Candidates vie for Hawaii’s top tourism job
• EPA: Honolulu must fix wastewater plants
• Hawaii stocks, Wall Street up on Fed report
• Pacific Magazine shuts down
• Mokulele pushes up Maui service to February
• HMSA Foundation awards over $633K
• Hawaii Employee Assistance Services changes name
• Honolulu jobless rate up to 4.4% in November
• Honolulu office market remains stable

Monday 01.05.2009

• Kokua Festival put on hold this year
• UH business school will go solar
• Oahu home prices stable in 2008
• Kauai home sales fall 30%
• Big Island home sales continue to fall
• Airline seats to Hawaii will decline
• Hawaii stocks mixed as Wall Street pulls back
• JAL: Passengers to Hawaii down 6.1% during New Year
• Lingle names 5 new UH regents
• Smith Travel: Hotel builders scale back plans
• Tourism spending down, price up

Sunday 01.04.2009

• Sue Wesselkamper, former Chaminade president, dies

Friday 01.02.2009

• Deadline nears for KB Toys gift cards
• Big Island housing director named
• Class-action lawsuit names Horizon Lines
• Lingle picks Trader for Honolulu court
• Hawaii stocks mixed as Wall Street soars
• Hawaii spots among top 20 destinations in 2009
• Survey: Downturn stress impacting health
• Internet holiday sales worst since 2001, ComScore says
• Most Americans say media making crisis worse
• Hawaii hotel occupancy down 12.6 percentage points
• Manufacturing falls to 28-year low
• Time Warner, Viacom reach New Year’s deal

Wednesday 12.31.2008

• Kauai resort will get new management
• Kirk Caldwell named Honolulu managing director
• Hawaii military spending slips
• Most Hawaii stocks lost big in 2008
• Aloha Pacific credit union merger OK'd
• New jobless claims drop, continuing unemployment rolls grow
• Hawaii gas prices down 5 cents this week
• Report: Largest TARP bailout companies still shaky

Tuesday 12.30.2008

• NFL: Hawaii will get more Pro Bowls
• Watts Constructors wins Navy contract
• City managing director joins Board of Water Supply
• Mimi Beams named Chamber of Commerce VP
• U.S. loan values drop 55%
• Hawaii coffee traces Obama’s roots
• Hawaii stocks, Wall Street up on GMAC news
• Coffee giant Starbucks stresses tea offerings
• Delta completes sale of 18.2M shares
• Consumer confidence at historic low
• Feds give GMAC $5B lifeline
• New play area, pool opens at Sheraton Waikiki
• Survey: More employers to hold off on hiring

Monday 12.29.2008

• Hawaii governor thinks Pro Bowl will return
• Nine new Hawaii laws take effect
• Hoku Solar reaches PV power agreement
• Electrical power restored to Oahu
• FAA: Hawaii travelers responsible for high amount of fireworks seizures
• Big Island bypass road to open today
• American Airlines’ Hawaii contract extended
• Windward Mall to expand food court
• Starwood to end Diamond Head hotel management
• Hawaii hotel occupancy, rates fall
• Maui, Oahu top spots to ring in New Year
• JAL to increase fares between Japan and Hawaii by 13%

Wednesday 12.24.2008

• UPW agrees to employee drug testing on Maui
• Honolulu drops on literacy list
• Hawaii gas prices slowly drop for holidays
• Wal-Mart settlements to hurt Q4 profits
• Personal spending falls 0.6% in November
• Survey: Tech companies freezing salaries, hiring in 2009
• Poll: 25% of small businesses fear they won't survive

Tuesday 12.23.2008

• Central Pacific reduces size of its board
• Starbucks may cut 401(k) matching contributions: Report
• Kauai's Blossoming Lotus to close
• Honolulu mayor names 2 cabinet members
• Hawaiian Telcom case moves to Honolulu
• Hawaii tops list of states to visit
• Hawaii will get ‘smart’ electric meters
• Hawaii homeowners may avoid foreclosures
• Report: Existing home sales plummet in November
• PBS Hawaii combines two shows
• U.S. economy shrinks by 0.5% in third quarter
• Lingle's budget plan to cut 14% in spending

Monday 12.22.2008

• California utility exec named HECO CEO
• Bank of Hawaii names vice chairman
• Wendy’s closes Oahu restaurant
• Ruby Tuesday plans Hawaii expansion
• Hawaii home value decline steepens
• S&P drops Hawaiian Telcom ratings
• Toyota expects operating loss for fiscal '09
• Bella Mommy and Me to close
• Sopogy to build solar power plant in Spain
• KB Toys liquidation moves into high gear
• U.S. sees rise in international travelers
• Hawaii added nearly 11K residents in past year
• Hawaii gov calls for salary freeze
• Bank of Hawaii says no to federal bailout
• Young Bros. wants 18% rate hike