HOOSER: Cleaning the House, Senate — 6 proposals for systemic change
It’s time to pivot to policy.
Letters for Monday, August 29, 2022
• Please Repair Olohena Road • Mr. Parker the Pawn
HOOSER: Coco Palms Resort goes rent-seeking
It’s Groundhog Day, as the Coco Palms Resort development is yet again on the Kaua‘i Planning Commission agenda. It’s been 30 years and the parade of various owners and developers continue to tell us to trust them, everything is on track, and they will soon be restoring the property to its former glory.
VOICES: Alcohol addiction costs lives
This year a bill, SB 2096, to advance the lowering of the blood alcohol concentration level, failed to get a hearing in either chamber of the state Legislature. It was a missed opportunity that could cost lives.
Letters for Sunday, August 21, 2022
• God bless you, Kamala Harris • Domingo votes for self, wife? • Proud mother
VOICES: It is critical that young people vote
About 32% of all adults on Kauaʻi who could have voted did this past primary election. This means only 18,499 people voted for not only themselves, but for the entire population of Kauaʻi (73,298 total population; U.S. Census, 2020).
Obituaries for Friday, August 19, 2022
• Vincent Lopez Jr. • Brian Martin Andrade • Adam Huskey • Genevieve ‘Aunty Genny’ Carmelita Moura • Lee Everette Kapuakea Balino • Robert R. Valencia, Sr. • Amanda Michelle Skelton
Letter for Friday, August 19, 2022
• An open letter to Madam Vice President Kamala Harris
HOOSER: 29,553 votes left on the table — a primary review
The good ole boys are back. This was the immediate thought that came to me after the first print-out on Saturday night.
Open letter to Kamala Harris; notes from the heart
Welcome to Kauai. My hope is your stay here will be one that rejuvenates and inspires you. I can only imagine the work load and daily stress that accompanies your life as Vice President. Thank you for your service and the sacrifice you make on our behalf.
Letter for Monday, August 15, 2022
Senators must back cultivated-meat research
Careful when using the words ‘senior moment’
Too many people have used the words “SENIOR MOMENTS” too often, too loosely and too offensively. They say them not knowing how demeaning, degrading and very callousing it sounds.
Letters for Sunday, August 14, 2022
• Vote for those who will work for us • Trump’s ambitions above party, country • Less darkness, more light
Letters for Friday, August 12, 2022
• South Shore road fund could be better spent • What use is a UH Football program
VOICES: The Democrats are eating their own
The Yiddish word mensch has become widely used and mainstream in the English language and is defined as; “a person of integrity and honor.” The term is used as a high compliment, implying the rarity and value of that individual’s qualities.
Letters for Thursday, August 11, 2022
• Response to Aug. 7 letter of Joyce Ogmudson • Government 101; a lesson
VOICES: On the Supreme Court and public opinion
The Supreme Court’s recent rulings on abortions and guns shook the American body politic. As Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in his concurrence, the court’s decision to eliminate the constitutional right to an abortion was “a serious jolt to the legal system.”
Letters for Wednesday, August 10, 2022
• Disabled veteran benefits an issue of national security • Students dress code unnecessarily strict • Monitoring of pregnant women is wrong
HOOSER: Policy, politics, affordable housing and elections
Three days out from the close of our primary election and there’s no better time to examine the confluence of policy and politics - a text book example really, Kauai style.
VOICES: Voters feeling ‘disrespected and disenfranchised’
Watching the Kaua‘i Council discuss and vote on the affordable-housing resolution was painful.