...The visitor count, 591,503, was a record for October, and came despite slower Japanese arrivals. Both domestic and Canadian traffic posted strong increases.
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Cruise visitor traffic is up more than a third from last year, with 29,659 flying to Hawaii to board cruise ships and another 13,811 sailing to Hawaii on cruise ships.
Year-to-date visitor spending is up around the islands...
Campaigns for U.S. Congress begin for both parties - David Mann, writing in The Kentucky Standard Online, reports that Democrats have found a military combat veteran to take on incumbent Congressman Ron Lewis in the race for Kentucky's second Congressional District. The Democrats are pushing both Mike Weaver's combat experience and his conservatism.
Oshkosh Northwestern - The roads less disheveled - The city of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, put an emphasis on road repair in the late 1990s, and it's beginning to pay off, according to Alex Hummel of The Northwestern. This may not be worth mentioning, you think - except that when I was in grade school I was in a plane that made an emergency landing there, and then had one brake fail but not the other one. Very exciting, spinning around up on one wing is, especially when your mother panics and tosses you out of the plane while it's still up on the wing threatening to do cartwheels. My injuries were minor, silly really, but I fell in love with the firemen who came to our rescue. Ever since I've held a soft spot in my heart for Oshkosh. So, if it's had a reputation for bad roads, but city leaders are fixing that problem, I'm happy to tell people about it, for the sake of my childhood heroes. :-)
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