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•Dear president
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As a longtime professional newscaster and commentator, including in New York and Los Angeles, I can say Fox “News” is a misleading journalistic claim in its leading programs.
Fox “Views” would be honest and accurate.
Triaka-Don Smith, Lihu‘e
Futile Fridays
You know that feeling you get just before you throw up?
That’s the feeling I get when I hear Hawaiian politicians extol the importance of our keiki.
These same politicians had to come up with a shortfall of $468 million because of their ineptitude at balancing the state’s check book. Where were they going to find that kind of money? Answer, education.
We will simply cut back the number of days we have to pay those teachers — shut the schools down every Friday. The politicians can get away with this because education has little (or ineffective) advocacy. Education doesn’t have paid lobbyists who can direct a politician’s agenda to items such as boondoggles to foreign capitals to drum up tourism, or the unexplained disappearance of $400,000 to the scalawags that tried to force the Superferry on us.
The stories of financial mismanagement are endless. The point is our children’s future should not be restricted because of fiscal irresponsibility by our elected officials.
What does the future hold? A growing disparity between those families that can afford a private education and those that cannot. What happened to “no child left behind?”
In the case of Hawai‘i, I can count 171,000 public-school students who have been left behind. Hawai‘i is shamed with the lowest number of school days per year — 163.
We can do better.
I would like to know where the children of the politicians that enacted this short-sighted legislation go to school.
Patrick Stack, Lihu‘e
Condolences
Deepest sympathy to the Ramson family for the loss of a loved one.
May God comfort you at this time. Our prayers and thoughts are with you.
From the beginning of building that bridge on Kaumuali‘i Highway to the present, didn’t our state public safety officers know that there was a 40-foot drop under the bridge? Isn’t that the reason why that bridge is there? If so, why didn’t they put a guardrail at the east end of the bridge on the eastbound side?
In fact, on both the eastbound and westbound sides of the bridge there should be guardrails. With a guardrail there Preston’s life could have been spared.
Also at that early morning hour of the accident (the only house being there and the accident practically in the back yard of the lot), couldn’t the people hear the loud crash noises, the crackling of the branches?
Howard Tolbe, ‘Ele‘ele
Protect and serve
I am always saddened to hear about animal cruelty of any kind (“Kindness begins at home,” Letters, Oct. 28).
My question to the writer of the article, did you intervene when you saw the keiki beating the mother hen? Someone taught them that this was OK by either not stopping it or continuing to allow it to happen. It also could be a learned behavior from adults. And with the 60 dogs, I hope this was reported immediately.
If kindness begins at home, then it is up to each and every one of us to stop animal cruelty, especially when we are witness to it happening.
As caregivers of the ‘aina, it is our kuleana to protect defenseless animals and to guide and teach the younger generations.
Mohala Comstock, Kapa‘a
Dear president
I voted for you, I even named my dog after you. Can you please explain what’s going on?
I know you inherited two wars and the worst economy since the Great Depression.
We are proud of you in Hawai‘i; you grew up here and somehow I thought we had a special connection the White House.
Why can’t our education system survive? Stimulate our educational system.
I thought the stimulus money would help the economy. Wall street CEOs receiving millions in bonuses and our keiki in Hawai‘i the worst educated in the country get another 17 days off since Hawai‘i cannot afford to pay teachers.
On the Mainland you are pushing for longer school days and here in Hawai‘i we lost school days.
I do not understand what is going on, all I know is most of us have never seen any stimulus. The only thing that’s been stimulated is anxiety and distrust in politicians.
Please help us.
James “Kimo” Rosen, Kapa‘a
