• Drivers need to pay attention • Check the facts, first Drivers need to pay attention Twice today as crosswalk lights were flashing, vehicles went through the Lihue Post Office crosswalk. I always wait to make sure that vehicles are stopped or
• Drivers need to pay attention • Check the facts, first
Drivers need to pay attention
Twice today as crosswalk lights were flashing, vehicles went through the Lihue Post Office crosswalk.
I always wait to make sure that vehicles are stopped or at least slowing down and this looked to be happening and I began walking when three steps in I realized one driver wasn’t getting the message.
It’s either make a mad dash or throw my arms up wildly and cuss him out and that’s what I did. Maybe not the smartest thing, but he did stop. Lights are flashing, drivers are slowing or are stopped, pay attention, pay attention.
Mark Perry, Lihue
Check the facts, first
On Sunday, a writer (The Garden Island, letter to the editor) wrote that when Wisconsin became a Right to Work state people lost $200 per paycheck.
This is false! In fact, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics data clearly demonstrates that from March 2015 (when Wisconsin state right to work bill was signed into law) to November 2015 (the last month for which data is currently available) earnings by all employees increased by $13.
No one lost $200 per paycheck. Average weekly earnings for Indiana’s private-sector employees in March 2012, the month the Hoosier State’s Right to Work law took effect, were $732.48.
In July 2015, the most recent month for which data are available, the BLS estimates that the average earnings of Indiana private-sector employees were $789.58.
Believe the writer or the facts?
Harold Goldberg, Kalaheo
