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.
-- SAMUEL CRANE, Washington