May 21, 2004

..."We have much in common"...

This was a part of a comment heard on a Talk Story radio broadcast prior to our Governor, Linda Lingle leaving for a trip to Israel. The Israeli government has been inviting governors from various states to come and discuss various issues, commerce, education ect, and I think to expose some leaders outside of Washington to Israel and perhaps some different facets of that country than they had experienced before. This is not a taxpayer financed junket so I was thrilled for her, and for the others who likely have never been to this part of the planet to see the grandure of this land. I know that Ms. Lingle has been there before but this has to be a different experience for her and we are proud of what has been accomplished for our state in the past few days. You can read her e-newsletter regarding the first part of the trip here

here are some more links to other information on the visit

GOVERNOR LINGLE AND DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS PROMOTE HAWAI`I-ISRAEL RELATIONS, COOPERATION

GOVERNOR LINGLE SIGNS AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT WITH ISRAELI GOVERNMENT

a side note, one of the sponsors for the trip was the new owners of the Puna Geothermal Plant down the road from us. The plant gathers and uses steam from the volcano to generate electricity... Cool... renewable energy at its best... Now if we could only get permission to dump all of our trash into the volcano. It would get rid of everything including junk cars but the Native Hawaiian would have a blessed cow that we were dumping trash into Pele's livingroom... oh well. Fire up another landfill...