• A plea to all dog owners • Law suits or clean house • Organic produce A plea to all dog owners Right now I’m speaking specifically to the dog owners who live in the Puakea and the Puako subdivisions.
• A plea to all dog owners • Law suits or clean house • Organic produce
A plea to all dog owners
Right now I’m speaking specifically to the dog owners who live in the Puakea and the Puako subdivisions.
Proud to be living in these areas? Wouldn’t it be nice if everyone picked up after their dog?
I walk my dog daily by the Puakea Golf Course, and lately I’ve been seeing a lot of dog feces.
Does it really require that much effort to pick up after your dog? What if every dog owner didn’t clean up after their dog?
Would you still be proud of the area you live in?
And yes, this applies to all who live in this beautiful island of Kaua‘i. Please keep it beautiful.
Thank You.
Tony Thiel
Lihu‘e
Law suits or clean house
Why is this administration being sued so often and unable to defend the tax payers? Tax payer settlements are gifts from all our mayors. They are the public’s reward for 40 some years of elections, and the mutual failure by every single elected and appointed official to comply with successive federal and state labor law and civil rights mandates.
Posted by the mayor on the county website: “Bill No. 2431, Draft 1 June 14, 2012 Page 2 of 5. Council Services appropriation of $30,000 for purchase real property tax software:
Section 10.04 of the Kaua’i County Charter vests in the finance department the responsibility for, among other things, maintaining a general accounting system for the county government. … The current real property tax software that is in use by the finance department is sufficient to fulfill the county’s responsibilities under the charter and tax code. … Information from this system is available, upon request, to all council members.
The council’s proposed purchase of additional real property tax software and recommended use encroaches upon the aforementioned duties and responsibilities of the executive branch.”
The mayor objects to rapid and efficient analysis of possible outcomes when studying property tax rates. The mayor prefers that all analysis requires administration personnel to program and de-program each query. The mayor doesn’t want inexpensive efficient modern software for the council, finance or accounting. Why?
Citizens deserve the court settlement expenses. We voted for them. Tired of legal settlements? We see the tip of the corruption ice berg. The corrupt county HR is the Titanic.
The auditor’s public reports reveal rampant corruption.
Hiring competent human resource, information technology and loss prevention contractors to design, implement and integrate modern systems will start to get us out of court.
Lonnie Sykos
Kapa‘a
Organic produce
Since the Stanford study on the nutritional value of organic food vs. conventional food was published on Sept. 6, there has been an avalanche of commentary. Unfortunately, the editorial commentary in the TGI is even more half-baked than the study itself.
The Stanford scientists analyzed only vitamins and minerals. There was no measure of the harmful effects of artificial colors, additives, preservatives, added growth hormones, antibiotics, pesticides, insecticides and herbicides that are found in conventional foods.
In fact, one author of the study, Dr. Crystal Smith-Spangler said, “It was beyond the scope of our article to review and be able to really answer” any questions having to do with: Environmental effects of non-organic farming; Health effects of agricultural chemicals leeching into groundwater; Risks of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in livestock.
Michael Pollan (http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2012/09/04/michael-pollan-organic-study/) commented, “The whole point of organic food is that it’s more environmentally sustainable. That’s the stronger and easier case to make.”
As a USDA Certified Organic farm, our family understands the difference in the cost for organic food. The cost structure in our national food supply offers taxpayer-funded resources called subsidies to the farmers using genetically engineered seeds and saturating crops in insecticides and weed killers, while charging organic farmers large fees to prove that our crops are safe.
According to the USDA National Organic Program, it is the added ingredients which differentiate organic foods from their conventional counterparts. Nowhere in the Stanford study are these things measured. There is no measure of the insecticidal toxins produced by a genetically engineered corn plant, no measure of the added growth hormones used in conventional dairy, no measure of the fact that 80 percent (http://www.forbes.com/sites/daniellegould/2012/06/26/survey-reveals-growing-consumer-demand-for-antibiotic-free-meat/) of the antibiotics used today are used on the chicken, pork, and beef that we eat.
If paying more for safer organic food makes me a sucker, well what does the Chattanooga Free Press call everyone else?
Louisa Wooton
Moloa‘a
