NEWS AND VIEWS

JUST DUCKY TOURS SHUTTERS DOORS

PITTSBURGH (KDKA)– After 22 years, the Pittsburgh Just Ducky Tours has suspended all tours. The company stopped operating after 17 people died during a tour on Table Rock Lake in Branson, Missouri.

Michael Cohen, a co-founder of the business, told the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette, “Our insurance company would not renew us. We had a very clean loss-run history. It didn’t matter. The insurance companies got spooked.”

Reportedly, no one was interested in taking over the business, so Cohn, along with his fellow co-found Chris D’Addario, planned to sell the entire business– including eight of the boats.

HAWAII HMV BILL VETOED BY GOVERNOR

Legislation (H.B. 323) that would have allowed for the registration and titling of “former military vehicles” was vetoed by Governor David Ige. The bill defined former military vehicle as a vehicle 25 years or older that is a “Pinzgauer,” “Kaiser Jeep M715,” “Humvee,” or “DUKW.”