• Let’s light up Kauai • Parents, please listen to guest speaker • No to smart meters • Wanted: Free attorneys Let’s light up Kauai The beat goes on. Drums keep pounding to the rhythm and the beat goes on.
• Let’s light up Kauai • Parents, please listen to guest speaker • No to smart meters • Wanted: Free attorneys
Let’s light up Kauai
The beat goes on. Drums keep pounding to the rhythm and the beat goes on. The county big boys and the mob should enjoy their moment of glory. It might be only short lived on our/taxpayers’ expense.
Pesticides will always be used by everyone. No matter how much and what is being used.
This lawsuit by the big three could have been avoided because they (the companies) follow and obey the rules on pesticide use set by the federal government.
Maybe the big boys and the mob should have fought for lighting up Kauai.
There are many unsafe and dark areas that people use at night to walk, run and/or travel from point A to point B.
Howard Tolbe
Eleele
Parents, please listen to guest speaker
When my daughter was a baby, I became familiar with John Rosemond’s column in the Honolulu Advertiser. His child-rearing philosophy was simple and made so much sense to me.
As my daughter grew I began applying his theories and they worked beautifully. She was a special needs student with autistic traits which could’ve led to serious behavioral issues, but teachers and therapists through the years all complimented her pleasant, cooperative behavior and many referred to her as “delightful.”
She has grown into a very unique and happy young lady.
I have often recommended Mr. Rosemond’s column and theories to friends and relatives. One relative who had a “difficult” child scoffed, “Well, you’re lucky, your daughter is an easy child. Boys are different!” Really? “Easy?!” Well, that “difficult” little boy spent a couple of weeks with us — without his parents — and when I applied Rosemond’s theories, he was well-behaved (until he went back home).
This reinforced my faith in John Rosemond’s methods.
I was pleasantly surprised to read in Sunday’s issue of The Garden Island that Mr. Rosemond will be giving two free talks on raising teenagers and wish that every parent on Kauai could attend! (Kalaheo School, tonight, 6:30 p.m., Chiefess Kamakahelei, Thursday, 6 p.m.)
Please let all parents know about this valuable opportunity.
Although my daughter is now 25, I might attend just to personally thank Mr. Rosemond, but in case I can’t, I’m writing this letter as a testimonial. Thank you John Rosemond!
Colleen Toyama
Kapaa
No to smart meters
Everywhere you turn, there is still more propaganda from KIUC.
Has anyone ever beheld such an overwhelming onslaught of campaign spending on Kauai?
Why is KIUC spending so much member money on full-page newspaper print ads, full-page weekly ads, magazine ads, commercial radio ads, online “click-through” ads, direct mailing postcards, and even streaming audio advertisements on Pandora Radio, all to try and tilt this election — over a manini $10.27 meter fee?
It just doesn’t add up.
Or does it?
Recent estimates on KIUC management’s electioneering spending, including staff time, are beginning to add up.
What do they hope to gain? The chance to make an extra annual income of $340,000 a year for KIUC, year after year? As if our electric rates aren’t high enough already.
But from their perspective, they could easily spend twice that amount, and still have it make financial sense! If you look at the mega-money as an investment, the return on investment they are hoping to get back would be a whopping 680 percent.
On the first year alone! Wow! Forget the smart meters — follow the smart money.
When deciding how you will vote before Saturday, use people power to stop their financial mismanagement.
Jonathan Jay
Kalaheo
Wanted: Free attorneys
A classic case.
The mayor told us what to expect. Four council members, Hooser and his mob, stuck to their guns knowing that their corrupt political decision to veto the mayor would lead the taxpayers of this county to a multi-million dollar lawsuit. In their attempt to continue their lost cause of “it’s our way or the highway,” they decide, let’s spend whatever it takes running ads for “wanted free pro-bono attorneys.”
The council tells us that they had free legal support for a possible lawsuit, but according to Chris D’Angelo’s story front (TGI, Sunday, Jan. 19) the so-called freebie attorney’s are stepping back after reading the demands for the free services they are supposed to provide.
County spokesman Beth Tokioka says, “should the county not receive qualified responses for pro-bono counsel, it would revert to its previously solicited list of qualified firms and negotiate fees with the highest ranked firm out of a selection committee process.”
In other words, it simply means the smoke and mirrors again show all of us that nothing is going to be free.
In my opinion, the state should have stepped in and handled the whole scenario before any attempt was made by the council.
The council obviously overstepped its boundaries and now is trying to cover their okole’s so that stupid taxpayers will go ahead and vote for us again like they always do. I can’t wait for the next chance to vote them out!
Steve Martin
Kapaa
