| Frustrated GOP Supporter Hedges His Bets
James Esshaki pilots his black Mercedes down the main strip of what's left of the high-end shopping district here, coming to one of the 11 buildings he owns. "Esshaki Properties for Lease" posters hang in the windows where mannequins modeling the latest fashions should be. For three months, it has been like this. No major stores, it seems, want to take a chance on Maple Avenue anymore.
"When you make a cold call to a national retailer and you mention you're in Michigan, they shut down," he said, turning the corner and eyeing a plot where he'd like to build, if the economy ever picks up.
As is the case for many businessmen in Michigan, a place that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney says is going through a "one-state recession," prospects are not good for Esshaki.
Aussies, Kiwis stranded on Danger Island
The Department of Port Administration in American Samoa said last week it was awaiting approval from the US Coast Guard for a local vessel, the MV Sili, to sail to Pukapuka in the Cook Islands. The port director, Matagi Ray McMoore, said the New Zealanders and many of the other 100 people stuck on the island had requested assistance to be ferried to Samoa so that they can catch flights home. But the MV Sili does not have a certificate to operate international voyages and the US Coast Guard would have to approve the special sailing. McMoore said he had been told by the office of Eni Faleomavaega, the US Democrat congressman for American Samoa, that picking up the stranded travellers from Pukapuka in the Cook Islands was not an emergency and a request to the Coast Guard was not warranted.
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