• When will the leash laws be enforced? • Hands off Kaua‘i waterfalls • Bring back justice When will the leash laws be enforced? I spend my winters on Kaua‘i with my husband and medical alert service dog. Every day,
• When will the leash laws be enforced? •
Hands off Kaua‘i waterfalls • Bring back
justice
When will the leash laws be enforced?
I spend my winters on Kaua‘i with my husband and medical alert service dog. Every day, we walk the beach between Lydgate and the Kaua‘i Beach Resort. We are often approached by unleashed dogs, but they are usually friendly and controlled by their owners.
Not today. As we were walking, I heard a shout coming from the naupauka line. I turned around and realized that we were about to be attacked by a large, vicious black dog. My husband and I (we are both older) ended up rolling in the sand in an effort to contain the attacking dog and protect my service dog. By some miracle, the only one bitten was the owner who had come running to try to get his dog off of us.
The police and humane society tell me that there is really nothing they can do unless I know the name of the dog’s owner.
When are the leash laws going to be enforced? I have not seen any citations given for unleashed dogs in years. Do we have to have a valuable, loved animal or a person killed before anything is done?
Nancy Koczaja, Lihu‘e
Hands off Kaua‘i waterfalls
After reading this bewildering account of plans to dam the waterfalls of Kaua‘i, very little was explained to give the public an understanding of what is in the works (“FERC approves Wailua Hydro,” The Garden Island, March 31).
I’d like to hear something more explicit regarding these proposals. One point of confusion in the article was this statement: “KIUC’s newly appointed CEO, David Bissel, said regardless of what permit applications specify, the utility does not plan to build a dam.”
Now that is where is gets confusing because all the permit applications, whether or not they are preliminary, seem to be for the endgame of building dams; even though it is not the “utility” that eventually builds the dams.
A lot of misleading and bad faith wordage by KIUC leaving one at a loss to connect the dots to determine what is going on.
My take on what I read is that KIUC is in collusion with the corporations that want to build dams here; KIUC is securing permits that they will then pass off or sell to the dam builders when exploratory work has been completed and will proceed through the back door that KIUC, in bad faith and dishonesty, provided for them to throw the public off and keep their process moving forward.
Does a dam prospector spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to research dams they “do not plan to build” even though dam building is very profitable?
Elaine Dunbar, Lihu‘e
Bring back justice
Every time one reads the paper or turns on the news we hear of new taxes and new user fees for things that were once free. Businesses are closing their doors at record numbers, foreclosures are as normal as apple pie and our neighbors are going hungry.
We tolerate being groped at airports as TSA employees look at images of our private parts. Airlines are increasing fees regularly and now charging for perks that were once part of flying, like meals, blankets, pillows and checked baggage. There is even talk of a fee to use the restrooms while flying.
There is a new tax on airport parking, no more funding for keiki programs like Head Start, soda pop tax, Medicare cuts, user fees for parks that were once free, a new garbage collection tax, car rental tax increases, driver’s license fee increases, Vehicle registration increases and asking many county and state employees to take a pay-cut. These are only off the top of my head; there are many more.
Middle America everyday is facing financial-cuts, tax increases and price hikes on everything. How much longer can we as a country, state, city, county, island and neighbor endure before we totally collapse?
The news show “60 Minutes” ran a segment on many large U.S. corporations that do the majority of their business in the United States, but on paper show their corporate offices in Switzerland and other foreign countries with a much lower than the approximate 35 percent tax base imposed upon U.S. corporations headquartered in America.
America is losing trillions of tax dollars a year allowing businesses to work in the U.S. and hold a corporate office in another country.
Not only does America not get any tax money from these companies but other countries are getting rich of our inadequacies and stupidity.
If the tax base was lowered for corporate America and made illegal for these large corporations and their attorneys to avoid paying there fare share, we would not have to sacrifice the poor and middle-class as the sacrificial lambs for the loopholes of the ultra wealthy.
No longer should a large corporation be able to hold a P.O. Box in a foreign country and call that their country of origin.
It’s time that corporate billionaires stop stealing and our politicians do what’s pono (righteous) and bring justice back to the “land of the free and the home of the brave!”
James “Kimo” Rosen, Kapa‘a
