• Ask feds for more highway help • Walking to where, exactly? • Passover deserved more coverage • Dairy could be good for Kauai Ask feds for more highway help Rising gas prices, crowded highways and no money for new roads
• Ask feds for more highway help • Walking to where, exactly? • Passover deserved more coverage • Dairy could be good for Kauai
Ask feds for more highway help
Rising gas prices, crowded highways and no money for new roads or a new highway.
Let’s start with rising gas prices: Why aren’t people riding a bicycle, a moped, a motorcycle, or walking to work? Especially if the place of their employment is close to home or a town over.
Secondly, crowed highways: It’s time to go old school and start busing children to school (students who work or attend pre-college classes would be exempt). No POVs. The school bus company should lower their fees so that parents can afford to pay for their children to ride the bus.
Also, it’s time to get some drivers off the road and offer them more bus services.
Lastly, the federal government will fund us $1.2 billion to build a new highway or roads. Which leaves us $2.2 billion short. Instead of finding ways to save the roosters or killing the dairy, why not ask for more funds from the federal government to support building of roads or a new highway? You guys keep getting funds from the federal government to extend the walk/bike path.
Truth is, most people here won’t give up driving their vehicles no matter what the frustration (traffic stall for hours, rising gas prices, to many vehicles, etc.) they face on the highway or roads.
We can not put the blame on too many tourist and vehicles. We need them and their money. We need to use some of our alternatives (busing, walking, bicycling, mopeds or motorcycles) to solve our traffic problems.
Howard Tolbe
Eleele
Walking to where, exactly?
Reading the article about proposed use of the old Big Save — does anyone else find it ironic that the attempt to establish this “campus” area to be pedestrian and bike friendly, the one place people used to walk and bike to was the grocery store, Big Save? It is really disappointing that I can no longer walk to a grocery store in Lihue. Don’t any other Lihue residents feel this way?
Just had to share my feelings on this topic. All the talk of “pedestrian” friendly, but where are we walking to?
Suzie Holmes
Lihue
Passover deserved more coverage
I was surprised and disheartened that on April 13, the day before the beginning of Passover, your paper made absolutely no mention of the Jewish holiday.
In the Faith section, one third of the page was a column written by Craig Lindquist. In this Christian-based article, Jesus was mentioned several times and the Bible quoted once. In Mr. Lindquist’s own words, he wrote: “In speak to a group of Jews who sought to denigrate him for a perceived slight, Jesus taught them to ‘Judge not according to the appear, but judge righteous judgment.’”
How very disappointing that Mr. Lindquist chose those particular words, especially at this sensitive time of year, that casts Jews in a negative context which can fuel the anti-Semitism some Christians still harbor. Mr. Lindquist’s wording makes it seem as though there was a divide between Jesus and Jews. Actually, Jesus and the group of Jews were fellow Jews. I think it is important to remember that Jesus was a religious and observant Jew. The Last Supper with his Jewish followers was actually the Passover seder celebration.
Speaking of seders, the article on the back page by Ms. Capozzi in Monday’s paper about the Fosters, a Kapahi couple opening their home to friends for the seder, at least had some colorful and educational information about Passover’s meaning and importance to Jewish people. It was appreciated to find some mention in your paper of this major Jewish holiday.
However, I did object to the reporter’s misleading choice of the word “ordeal” for the length of a full, traditional, celebratory seder. For many families that time spent at the seder table is a joy that builds happy memories that last a lifetime.
To all my Kauai neighbors who celebrate religious holidays of any and all faiths, I wish you an abundance of aloha in spirit and in deeds and may there be peace on Earth.
Judy Xenofos
Lihue
Dairy could be good for Kauai
Malama Mahaulepu believes that a grass-fed dairy could be a good thing for our community if it meets its goal of being sustainable.
As currently planned by Hawaii Dairy Farms, the extremely large herd size, manure and urine load on flood-prone clay and untested assumptions as to forage suitability combine to imperil ground and ocean water as well as the valley lands. The proposed two-pond effluent management system wastes water and emits greenhouse gases. Many other questions remain unanswered.
However, the dairy does seem to be evolving. The public debate and people’s aloha for Mahaulepu is powerful.
Our hope is that Ulupono Initiative will go above and beyond what is required and work with the community to ensure that the dairy operation will be harmonious with Mahaulepu and Koloa-Poipu.
Malama Mahaulepu seeks and supports collaborative conversation among Ulupono Initiative, Hawaii Dairy Farms, Grove Farm Company, agricultural and environmental experts, and concerned residents and businesses.
Beryl Blaich, Greg Peters
Coordinators, Board of Directors
Malama Mahaulepu
