EDITORIAL: Convention center needs on-time fix

EDITORIAL: Convention center needs on-time fix

The news isn’t getting better on Hawaii’s economy, and the prognosis is clear as mud, with continuing political turmoil within the U.S. and global tremors without. Continued patronage of Hawaii’s hotels and resorts by U.S. mainland tourists had been a saving grace for the industry, but economic uncertainty and markedly higher room rates are pushing those numbers down, too. Amid the troubling news and murky predictions comes the shutdown of the s…