•Let’s make it happen •State should consider reaction before action •Thank you, small business owners •On Napolitano’s remarks •Doggone! Let’s make it happen The letter by David Penhallow (“Coco Palms in decay, Letters, April 25) echoes our sentiments exactly. As
•Let’s make it happen
•State should consider reaction before action
•Thank you, small business owners
•On Napolitano’s remarks
•Doggone!
Let’s make it happen
The letter by David Penhallow (“Coco Palms in decay, Letters, April 25) echoes our sentiments exactly.
As it exists now, it is both a waste and an embarrassment. We do not need any more condominiums. So come on Planning Commission, mayor and County Council, let’s make it happen!
Sharon and Jack Cloud, Kapa‘a
State should consider reaction before action
The Garden Island editorial on April 19 focusing on the county’s share of the transient accommodations tax revenue (TAT) being left intact speaks volumes.
Should the members of the Hawai‘i Legislature decide to strong-arm their political clout by diverting those funds into the state’s coffers at the expense of our county’s operational needs where those funds are now being applied, it will create havoc.
Should that happen, the knee-jerk reaction of getting rid of the whole kit and kaboodle of legislators who are inclined to vote in favor of passing those bills might well occur. By leaving us to fend for ourselves without our fair share of that revenue is an insult and injustice for the services and amenities that each county provides through that funding resource.
Fair is fair. If the TAT revenues remain solely in the state’s budget, I have a feeling that that action will invite repercussions that will drastically create upheavals in the next election.
I wonder if the proponents to this legislation may have considered that plausible outcome?
Jose Bulatao Jr., Kekaha
Thank you, small business owners
The Kaua‘i Public Land Trust would like to give a heartfelt mahalo to the following businesses for their generosity and support of the first annual “Buy Back Kaua‘i” campaign on Earth Day:
Dolphin Restaurant in Hanalei, KIUC, Deja Vu Surf Shop in Kapa‘a, Pono Market in Kapa‘a, Kaua‘i Nut Roasters in Hanalei, Rainbow Steam Cleaners, Kilauea Town Market, Trade Winds ‘Ohana at Spouting Horn, Kilauea Bakery/Pau Hana Pizza, Wyland Galleries in Kapa‘a.
Each establishment gave a portion of the days profits to support the work of the Kaua‘i Public Land Trust in preserving Kaua‘i’s “places of the heart.”
Our all volunteer board invites anyone interested in preserving and enhancing our rural lifestyle for ourselves and generations to come to visit our Web site at www.Kaua‘ipubliclandtrust.org. There you will find a summary of our accomplishments to date and some of our current projects. Or give us a call at 346-9419.
We invite suggestions and support from anyone who would like to get involved. As the above businesses have demonstrated, we can each, in our own unique way, make a positive contribution to the long term preservation of that precious place called home.
Jennifer Luck, Kilauea, Kaua’i Public Land Trust
On Napolitano’s remarks
Secretary of Homeland Security and leftist ideologue Janet Napolitano should be unceremoniously canned for her pathetic swearing of military veterans as potential terrorists.
Studies have shown that veterans are more law abiding and less likely to commit terrorist acts than the general population. Napolitano is dead set against profiling Muslims as possible terror suspects … but she claims returning combat heroes are likely to snap at the slightest provocation.
This attitude is consistent throughout the Obama administration and especially its upper management, that literally contains more tax cheats than vets.
John Bums, Princeville
Doggone!
Since this is an island-wide problem, I thought I would focus on it with a little levity.
POOP
My neighbor and I
We do not see eye to eye.
And what is the cause?
His canine pal’s wandering paws.
It has to go poop and it thinks
My yard is his bailiwick, so it stinks
it up with its poop.
Pile and piles of poop.
“How do you know it’s my dog?”
It could be some other neighbor’s dog.
Did you see him do it?
“No, but if I did I would shoo it.”
“Anyway, that’s not my dog’s poop,
That’s some other dog’s poop.”
“What the hell! How can you tell?” I yell.
“Because I feed him good stuff,
and this dog’s poop is not good stuff.”
“You mean food goes unchanged through his gut,
and becomes good poop on the way out his butt?”
“Hey man,
How can?”
This is a lot of doggerel, I admit it,
but I’m gonna submit it.
Doggone!
Geraldine Tam, Kapa‘a
