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During an eight-day stretch, a small group of parents and children repeatedly occupied the office of Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle, trying to draw attention to the teacher furloughs that have closed public schools for 13 Fridays since last fall. The families did homework together, made posters for their cause and five times stayed overnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hawaii's Fight Over School Furloughs Heats Up | 4/15/2010 | See Source »

...protesters said they represented Hawaii's parents who have grown increasingly frustrated with the furloughs, which have given Hawaii the dubious distinction of having the U.S.'s shortest school year - 163 days. The furloughs are part of Lingle's solution to a projected budget deficit of nearly $1 billion. Liam Skilling says he and other protesters felt they needed to occupy the governor's office to make a stand because so many in the state were beginning to accept the furloughs as normal. "What we're fighting for now is so simply right," Skilling says. "We're fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hawaii's Fight Over School Furloughs Heats Up | 4/15/2010 | See Source »

...governor ignored questions from parents and warned that anyone who had already been cited twice would be arrested. Later that night, two people were taken into custody. The following day, two more were handcuffed and led away. (See the top 10 things you didn't know about Hawaii...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hawaii's Fight Over School Furloughs Heats Up | 4/15/2010 | See Source »

...position as RNC chair. Under Steele’s chairmanship, spending on frivolities like limousines, catering, and even flowers for extravagant events at pricy hotels has doubled, and, in a much-criticized move, the annual winter meeting of the RNC was relocated from Washington to a resort in Hawaii. “Bondage-gate” may be more colorful than these other misallocations of donor funds, but it is far from being the first or even the most wasteful example of recent RNC profligacy...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: You Reap What You Sow | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

...likely to encounter in Washington a bracing lack of sentimentality toward London. David Manning, a former British ambassador to the U.S., told the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee that President Obama "comes with a very different perspective. He is an American who grew up in Hawaii, whose foreign experience was of Indonesia and who had a Kenyan father. The sentimental reflexes, if you like, are not there." The committee concluded - and many observers of U.S.-U.K. relations agree - that Britain can only benefit from shedding those reflexes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Britain's Affair with the U.S. Is Over | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

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