The wait continues on Papahanaumokuakea’s fate

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is calling for a “handful” of changes, such as altering boundaries, at an undisclosed number of national monuments. But his draft assessment after a 120-day review of 27 sites, including Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, stops short of eliminating any, according to the few details released Thursday.

Some 1.3 million comments made during the review process found that over 99.2 percent of them supported protecting the monuments. Here’s hoping that Papahanaumokuakea and the Pacific Remote Islands Marine Monument will remain intact.

And don’t forget to bring in those recyclable bags

Whole Foods has lost a large measure of its exclusivity, and that’s yielded good results for customers: It can no longer charge top dollar.

Check it out: Starting today, the natural foods chain will begin cutting prices, spurred in part by the hefty blow delivered by Amazon, the online giant dealing in many of the same things. And there’s the double-whammy. Even brick-and-mortar grocers have been moving into organic produce. The benefits of competition are delicious.