Governor Green sought federal aid after Lowell in last week's Honolulu copy. [1] This paper has been printing that ask as not a declaration. Monday's 81 percent and the county update do not convert the ask into a FEMA number. [2] An ask is not money. A declaration is a document.

Print the ask. Do not print a declaration.

Green's ask is still an ask. FEMA money is a declaration this desk has not seen on Monday.
Print the ask. Do not print a declaration. Leave a FEMA number to the edition that owns a number.
No White House or FEMA declaration number is in Monday copy, so ask remains the federal-aid word.
Monday is not a FEMA number.
No disaster-declaration PDF is in the Monday stack.
Disaster declarations follow a script: governor's request, FEMA assessment, presidential signature. Green has completed step one. Steps two and three have no Monday paper. The 81 percent restore figure may strengthen the request, but percentages do not sign declarations.

Step two and three have no Monday paper; 81 percent restore is color, not a signature. Green finished the ask. FEMA has not numbered.

Honolulu still has a request. Governor Green's Lowell ask has not become a FEMA declaration, and Monday's 81 percent restore does not sign one. Assessment and presidential paper are the missing steps. Restore figures do not replace those documents.
Monday's 81 percent restore does not sign a declaration. Restore figures do not replace those documents. Assessment still sits unstamped.

Restore figures do not replace those documents. Assessment still sits unstamped. Monday's 81 percent does not sign FEMA paper.

-- SAMUEL CRANE, Washington