{"id":7493,"date":"2010-07-28T01:44:30","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T10:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=7493"},"modified":"2010-07-28T01:44:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T10:14:30","slug":"hawaii-superferry-failed-to-pay-the-state-monthly-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=7493","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii Superferry failed to pay the state monthly fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/ap\/financialnews\/D9H3E6P80.htm\">Associated Press reported<\/a> that the troubled Hawaii Superferry, a military prototype fast transport ship, had failed to pay the state its monthly fees nine months before the Hawaii Supreme Court ruling that overturned a state law retroactively exempting the Hawaii Superferry from state environmental review laws.\u00a0 AP reporter Mark Niesse reported:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Hawaii Superferry was sailing under a facade of success in the  summer of 2008 &#8212; boasting of record ridership &#8212; but it had already  begun to shortchange the state on its monthly fees, according to an  Associated Press review of Department of Transportation records.<\/p>\n<p>The article went further to report:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">During the first month the Superferry shorted the state, company  President Tom Fargo went so far as to proclaim &#8220;business is good,&#8221; with  July showing a 40 percent increase in passenger traffic on the vessel  compared to the previous month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reported that the troubled Hawaii Superferry, a military prototype fast transport ship, had failed to pay the state its monthly fees nine months before the Hawaii Supreme Court ruling that overturned a state law retroactively exempting the Hawaii Superferry from state environmental review laws.\u00a0 AP reporter Mark Niesse reported: The Hawaii Superferry &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=7493\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hawaii Superferry failed to pay the state monthly fees&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2409],"class_list":["post-7493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-movements-resistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7495,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7493\/revisions\/7495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}