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Article: State's lack of foresight has us making lemonade
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- Honolulu Star - Bulletin
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- September 27, 2009
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When life hands you lemons, as the advice for perseverance goes, make lemonade.
CAPTION: If followed, the islands would be submerged in the citrusy sweet-tart drink, what with the overflow of acidic issues and predicaments of the day.
From spring and summer, discontent streams toward fall and winter as money, that which largely makes the world go round, washes through one difficulty or another. And each solution, it seems, generates more problems in tides of consequences, predictable or not.
Public school teachers, whose paychecks -- like nearly everyone else's in Hawaii -- fundamentally arrive when a tourist flies in, will go without them for 17 Fridays through the school year.
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