A penny saved really is a penny earned

Replacing copper wiring that was stolen from along the H-1 freeway between the Makakilo and Kunia interchanges is estimated to cost about $815,000 and is growing by the day. Lights have been out at part of the H-1 and H-2 freeways because of the copper thieves.

And just last week, copper thieves made off with copper wire for lights under the airport viaduct, which could cost $200,000 to reinstall.

Copper futures rose Friday to a three-week high of nearly $4.10 a pound. Don’t bet pennies on copper prices in the far beyond.

Hawaii No. 1 — in ratio of widows

When a man and a woman get married, each gets an even chance of outlasting the other, but Hawaii has the most widows per capita than any other state, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis by the U.S. Census Bureau. The analysis found that people are waiting longer before marrying for the first time, as the percentage of women are waiting longer and many men are postponing marriage past their college-age years.

For reasons that are anybody’s guess, Delaware and Wyoming ranked at the top with more widowers (5.4 per 1,000 men), while Hawaii had the most widows at 10.3 per 1,000 women.

So single men looking for a soul mate, come to Hawaii; the odds are in your favor. Single women, hop that plane to Wyoming.