GET CRACKIN'

Still time (though not much) to do your taxes

Not to set off a panic among procrastinators, but federal tax day is just one week away. With April 15 looming large, it's time to open those tax-form envelopes, organize the receipts and files, and get busy. You can still help Honolulu avoid the fates of Houston, Chicago, New York, Austin and San Francisco — the top five tax-procrastinating U.S. cities last year, according to TurboTax. They had the highest volume of e-filed tax returns processed through TurboTax last April 14-17. And consider: Once your IRS computations are done, all that work should go a long way toward April 20, the state's tax-filing deadline.

ALLITERATE AWAY

Millions might master meatlessness

Getting in on the alliteration craze, San Francisco now has Meatless Mondays, thanks to a resolution approved by the Board of Supervisors that encourages city residents to start the work week with vegetables. Doesn't have the force of law, of course, and it doesn't quite roll off the tongue like Furlough Fridays — when Hawaii government employees and public schoolchildren can eat whatever they want, as long as it's not at the office or school.

INTRIGUE

Someone's going down, and we're not sure who it is

Hawaii's Democrats are polarized by the congressional campaigns of former U.S. Rep. Ed Case and state Senate President Colleen Hanabusa for the House seat vacated by Neil Abercrombie, running for governor. The latest: Politico reports that Jennifer Goto-Sabas, Sen. Daniel Inouye's Honolulu chief of staff, has gone to work on Hanabusa's campaign, a reflection of Case's attempt to unseat Sen. Daniel Akaka in 2006, an act of audacity that angered the state's Democratic establishment. Meanwhile, Chris Van Hollen, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, told Politico that the DCCC has not closed the door on endorsing Case to try to prevent Republican City Councilman Charles Djou from winning the three-way special election next month. The political plot thickens.