• ’We are great employees kicked to the curb’ • ‘I am not GMO’ • Beyond guidelines ’We are great employees kicked to the curb’ I, like Myles Emura, am a whistleblower taken down from two fine positions, Wilcox hospital,
• ’We are great employees kicked to the curb’ • ‘I am not GMO’ • Beyond guidelines
’We are great employees kicked to the curb’
I, like Myles Emura, am a whistleblower taken down from two fine positions, Wilcox hospital, medical records and Kauai Bus, CDL driver, hired full-time GIN ad.
New hires worked part-time only, I worked there eight months. Holding high marks both places, director and supervisor that didn’t hold a degree nor had adequate experience were in charge. When I asserted discovery or questioned “why” activities within had no integrity, i was seen as a huge threat.
Trumped up charges, Union sitting on the same side of the table as the employer? A lot of milk money vanished from Wilcox paychecks for dues. How and why that happened is due to jealous woman, who let their status go to their heads, verbally abusive, behind closed doors, and underhandedness that played out at my termination hearings.
I see how it is, four decades worth. In Myles, case, he also paid the price. Myles can hold his head high as I do. I know, local style, that if they can they will and there’s not a damn thing we can do about it, except attorney fee intervention. I was ready for retirement, but in the case of Myles, even though he clearly has integrity, those above him manipulated the system and his resume will forever be tarnished, black-balled.
All is NOT well with this island’s makeup. I’m surprised Dr. Downs, a fair person, wasn’t present as he would guarantee change the tide, possibly mentor Myles back to work. We are great employees kicked to curb.
Debra Kekaualua
Kapaa
‘I am not GMO’
Hello, I just need to vent a bit. To those who want the Kekaha shooting range to move inland; another screw to the hunters because shooting into the rocky cliffs will cause ricochets and danger during hunting season in the area.
Besides, 1957, wonder how many of the “protesters” were around back then or the 1960s/70s. Why all the “howling” now if the safety/danger zone is increased? Get so much beach area away from the shooting range, and a vast ocean out there.
Change topic; GMO. I hope some protesters really narrow their definition of their outrage like Walter Ritte. I saw a sign, “I am not GMO.”
Really, then you must be a clone. I’m too old to care much about the produce I eat.
The protesters can support their “clean” grown produce and stay away from the imports as much as possible. Fight for more local farmers’ support and backing so GMO crops are priced/kept out of markets by choices made.
Finally, more roads equals more traffic/cars that have to merge someplace … gridlock.
Masaru Shirai
Lihue
Beyond guidelines
I appreciate that Tom LaVenture’s article titled, “DUI checkpoints: Effective or invasive?” has shed light on the debate. I was quoted somewhat out of context and wanted to provide the full statement I sent Tom:
“I understand the need and desire to stop drunk driving. I also understand the 4th Amendment protection against unreasonable searches. The Supreme Court gave strict limitations for DUI checkpoints.
“People have the right to refuse to answer questions or provide their license, but most people don’t know that, and those that do will rarely exercise those rights when confronted with a group of armed police at night.
“So DUI Checkpoints become ID checks, random searches and seizures, way beyond what the courts consider legal. My opinion is, as a law-abiding citizen, I should not be subject to the intimidation and implied force of illegal searches, just so 1 percent of those stopped can be given DUI citations. And I wonder how many drunk drivers are swerving around Kauai roads without being caught while so many police are in only one location.”
The article shows the KPD is operating these checkpoints beyond Supreme Court guidelines. So I am even more motivated to fight them. I will be writing to Chief Perry to request, as a citizen, that he and his team reevaluate the checkpoints to ensure they are not violating our civil rights. While drunk driving must be stopped, the price must not be our freedom as Americans.
Chuck Lasker
Kalaheo
