Governor Green sought federal aid after Lowell in Friday's Honolulu copy. [1] This paper has been printing that ask as not a declaration. Friday's 73 percent restore does not convert the ask into a FEMA number. [2] An ask is not money. Print the ask. Do not print a declaration. No disaster-declaration PDF is in Friday copy.

Green's ask is still an ask. Friday recap that treats an ask as FEMA money is a feed, not a declaration.
No FEMA declaration number is in Friday's federal copy, so ask remains the aid word.
This edition will not invent a FEMA number to fill a quiet Friday.
Friday is not a FEMA number.
The FEMA ask remains an ask, not a numbered declaration.

-- SAMUEL CRANE, Washington