This was an interesting one you might read about in the newspaper’s correction section.

The mayor’s office today issued a terse two-paragraph press release critical of a headline in this morning’s Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Here’s the full text of the release:

Mayor Peter Carlisle will not seek at this time an extension of the General Excise Tax surcharge to pay for the Honolulu Rail Transit Project. A headline in Wednesday’s Honolulu Star-Advertiser incorrectly implied that the mayor is considering that option.

The City and the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation are working collaboratively with the Federal Transit Administration to demonstrate additional safeguards in the project’s contingency plan in the event of unforeseen economic events.

The original headline of the story, and the one that everyone who got a print copy of the paper saw, was “Mayor could extend rail tax to ensure funding of project.” That’s pretty much the opposite of what Carlisle said at his press conference Tuesday.

The Web headline has since been changed to “Mayor to seek ‘contingency plan’ to ensure rail funding” (subscription required). The text of the story had it right all along, accurately noting that Carlisle said he does not plan to go to the Hawaii Legislature this year to ask for a extension of the general excise tax surcharge.

You can read more about the mayor’s Washington meeting with the Federal Transit Administration both on Civil Beat last week (“Honolulu Officials Unlikely To Try To Extend Rail Tax”) and in Inside Honolulu yesterday (“Carlisle: Rail Opponents Have No Ideas”).