• Police need cause for traffic stops • The change should have been $4.75 • ‘Earnest’ is excellent • Beware warnings of brown water Police need cause for traffic stops Unconstitutional and unwarranted traffic stops by the Kauai Police Department.
• Police need cause for traffic stops • The change should have been $4.75 • ‘Earnest’ is excellent • Beware warnings of brown water
Police need cause for traffic stops
Unconstitutional and unwarranted traffic stops by the Kauai Police Department.
Many don’t complain because they don’t know any better. I have see the unconstitutional traffic stops, aka DUI checkpoints, in Kapaa and also regularly on Oahu. The Fourth Amendment protects us against illegal search and seizure.
The police cannot stop you if they do not have probably cause and/or a warrant. The bureaucrats will say it’s to keep us safe but history has proven that when you trade your liberty for safety you get neither. Confront the police with this fact at your own risk but at minimum I feel we should all be letting it be known this practice is not acceptable.
Michael Newgent
Kapaa
The change should have been $4.75
Though I love my computer and iPhone as much as the next person, I am concerned that our youth are leaning too heavily on these devices. This is not front page news, but I fear it is at the expense of learning such remedial skills as addition and subtraction. I was presented with an acute example of this when I went to my local coffee shop to get a cappuccino. The price of my delicious addiction was $5.28, and I handed the girl behind the counter a $10 bill. I belatedly added three pennies, explaining that I wanted three quarters in change to get the paper. She froze like the proverbial deer in the headlights. I waited, hoping a few minutes of time would help her math skills sink in. The confusion increased and no movement ensued. Finally, not wanting to cause her further embarrassment, I took my pennies back, allowing her to give me the original amount of change, exactly as the computer told her to, with no thought involved. She probably graduated from high school, but I wonder now, how will this lovely young woman ever hope to get up in the world if she doesn’t have basic skills? I fear the schools are failing our children.
Deb Alper
Kapaa
‘Earnest’ is excellent
Go see “The Importance of Being Earnest” put on by high school students of the three public schools.
It’s funny and charming! The teens from KPAC do an amazing job bringing this show to life! I was shocked to hear there was almost no venue for this wonderful Oscar Wilde classic play. Children of the Land in Kapaa stepped up to supply (at a cost) what the school’s will not supply. It’s tragic and shameful that performance space that exists at Kauai High is not used for plays put on by students for school credits. KPAC is a credited class. Instead it is used for administration and staff meetings. Students should have access to facilities that exist on school grounds for the purpose of those facilities. It is what our taxes pay for and our children deserve. Please show your support for the arts in public education by going to see this wonderful KPAC play. I still would like to know why performance space is not supplied to students when it exists on a central campus for that sole purpose? In spite of all the obstacles, this is a great show! One weekend left to see it. Just go!
Lisa Pollak
Wailua
Beware warnings of brown water
Whenever I see the brown water flowing from Wailua River to the ocean I am reminded that the biggest environmental problem on Kauai is not GMO or big ag, it is septic runoff from cesspools and septic systems islandwide.
We have the dirtiest water in Hawaii not because of pesticides and GMO but because we fail to adequately treat our sewage.
Suburban sprawl and mini-estate McMansions send septic overflow into the rivers every time the rain saturates the ground. This issue will not attract the multinational environmental groups with lawyers offering pro-bono work to defend us from “big poop,” but it is a real threat to our environment and our health. Now that the economy is recovering and developers are looking at new projects, we need to support true smart growth policies that support redevelopment of current population centers with state-of-the-art sewage treatment.
Existing neighborhoods need to re-engineer human waste treatment and disposal. Development projects that further suburban sprawl with inadequate septic systems should be taken off the table. Watersheds must be protected even as the population of Kauai increases.
Kurt Rutter
Kapaa
