• Business as usual with the ‘Old Boy Network • Supreme Court also changed meaning of constitution • Keep writing, Mr. Mann, many share your opinions • More thoughts onMichael Mann’s letters • Superferry is here. Just enjoy the ride
• Business as usual with the ‘Old Boy Network
• Supreme Court also changed meaning of constitution
• Keep writing, Mr. Mann, many share your opinions
• More thoughts onMichael Mann’s letters
• Superferry is here. Just enjoy the ride
• Drug treatment facility needed by Kaua‘i children
Business as usual with the ‘Old Boy Network
So the ‘Old Boy Network’ won in the end. Our new police chief will be Darryl Perry who was originally considered for the position when he ran against K.C. Lum.
It sure seems a little fishy that trumped-up charges were used to remove Chief Lum and Michael Ching, then thousands of our dollars used to hire a Mainland consultant to find a new chief.
Out of a field of several hundred applicants nationwide we end up with the person that the Old Boy network wanted in the first go around.
The final piece of the puzzle fits in. Well, I guess it’s good for the bad guys, business as usual.
David Lindstrom
Hanalei
Supreme Court also changed meaning of constitution
Walter Lewis is right in his Aug. 25 opinion piece when he points out the state Supreme Court played fast and loose with the procedural rules to keep the Ohana Amendment case alive.
However, it did something even worse. The court changed the plain meaning of the state constitution when it arbitrarily ruled that, when the constitution says counties have the exclusive power to set property taxes, what it actually means to say is county councils have that power.
One suspects this random manhandling of the text was done in the service of helping the court reach its pre-determined outcome. Since the constitution didn’t support the justice’s decision, they changed the constitution. Even if one agrees as a matter of policy with the outcome of the case, one ought nevertheless be concerned with how the court arrived at it.
Charley Foster
Lihu‘e
Keep writing, Mr. Mann, many share your opinions
Please, dear writer to the Letters to the Editor, Mr. Michael Mann … I hope you are still reading the paper so that you can know that many many readers are always anxiously waiting for your comments…
I was thinking yesterday of writing to beg you to keep doing it — and saving our day (like: “great, thanks to his clarity, I do not need to write”) … I just saw that someone from the Mainland just did it!
Your opinions are shared by an incredible amount of readers that don’t have your eloquence but share your thoughts…
Even if it were just for us, your fans, please keep writing.
Lilian de Mello
Kapa‘a
More thoughts onMichael Mann’s letters
I’d like to commend Michael Mann for finally coming to the conclusion that he had a problem. You know, they say that’s the first step to recovery: Realizing you have a problem.
My intent was not to make him stop writing all together; although I got a few congrats from people for making it happen.
I just don’t think he needs to write in just to “slam” every letter he reads. Everyone is allowed to voice their opinion, whether you like it or not. I’m sure he wouldn’t like having every single letter he wrote “slammed.”
So just enjoy reading the letters and state your opinion if you disagree, but there’s no need to tell the other letter writers that they are wrong. Hey, it’s just their opinion and as my mom always said, “If you don’t have nothing nice or constructive to say, don’t say anything at all.
Happy trails on your road to recovery, Michael….
Francine M. Grace
Kalaheo
Superferry is here. Just enjoy the ride
The Superferry is already here, why can’t you just let go? It seems like every time some transplant from the Mainland gets paranoid about something they don’t like, they start saying something against the project and recruit people to believe and protest.
I’m sure that the Superferry has some high-tech electronics to detect whales and any large animal life ahead to give them enough warning to avoid hitting it. They are no different than these tour boats and cruiseliners. (yes, every now and then they accidentally run into whales, etc.) But that’s exactly what it is — an accident. No one has any control if the whale decides to change course at the last minute. (It’s like driving down the interstate highway at 65 miles per hour and a deer or some other type of animal cross in front you. What do you do? The sensible thing is to run it over rather than swerve to avoid it and cause a serious accident).
Our governor has approved another way for us to travel island to island. Yeah, it might cause a lot of negatives to the island’s traffic (yet it might not, who knows?) and all sorts of people will probably come to the island from another island. But, what’s makes anyone more perfect than the other.
Give our new means of transportation a chance and enjoy the ride.
Howard Tolbe
‘Ele‘ele
Drug treatment facility needed by Kaua‘i children
The OHA Kaua‘i representative opposing the drug treatment facility is a negative voice with no rationale for opposing the drug treatment facility that replaces the Humane Society facility on the way to Salt Pond.
We had hundreds of dogs pooping there for many years and with the new facility we will have a few Kaua‘i kids in dire need of help getting help currently unavailable. Ice and other drug additions have devastated our island and that should shame anyone opposing an initiative that will finally provide some help.
I have personally talked to Hawaiian friends who work the ponds and they said they had no idea what the problem was. God bless you, Mayor Baptiste, for trying to get help for our Kaua‘i children needing help and know that there are many sane people on Kaua‘i who know you are doing the right thing.
John Glover
Kalaheo
