• Dogs suffer on Kauai • Smart meter plan doesn’t seem fair • Please pave parking lot • Please research smart meters Dogs suffer on Kauai Hidden in many backyards on Kauai are dogs in kennels, on chains or in
• Dogs suffer on Kauai • Smart meter plan doesn’t seem fair • Please pave parking lot • Please research smart meters
Dogs suffer on Kauai
Hidden in many backyards on Kauai are dogs in kennels, on chains or in cages standing on wire. Often without water, scratching endlessly from skin infections and fleas, underfed or unfed, emaciated, never exercised, and often living in cruel isolation. This is the dark underside of animal cruelty on Kauai. This situation, which goes on year after year is shameful. Where is the heart of the people on Kauai for these dogs?
Molly Jones
Kealia
Smart meter plan doesn’t seem fair
The following is a letter I sent to KIUC Board Member Pat Gegen:
Aloha Pat,
We were unable to attend the last KIUC meeting. Since the cost of reading meters has always been part of the charge for electricity, why are the people with smart meters not getting a refund for overpayment? Further, on the 3,000 who opted out, why must the meter be read monthly? And finally, why would you be calling a special meeting for a vote on this when the annual meeting is only two or three months off?
This whole issue seems to be directed at making those who opted out as miserable as possible — it so doesn’t make sense. Please recall this is supposed to be our co-op, there should be no place for punitive actions for one group of members.
I would appreciate you sharing this email with the board, I didn’t have other email address.
Judie Hoeppner
Kapaa
Please pave parking lot
I am curious about why many county beach park parking lots, most specifically ones I frequent such as Kealia’s north end, honestly need a moon rover’s suspension to navigate, not just some years but every year, for the majority of the year?
Why is this?
I mean, I’m quite aware there are large tourism taxes levied here, and believe me, beach parking lots are incredibly seen and used by tourists and residents alike. Do we live in a Third World country here or what? Really, people — parks department director, county administration. Earn your salary.
What’s the true reason behind not paving the Kealia Beach parking lot and the others? Does it provide ongoing work for county workers to do pothole service duties, rather than fix the issue once, and it’s set for good? One paving versus continual pothole grading and visitor/resident un-aloha. Do the math.
At the same time, we have a clearly unneeded mile of four-lane highway between the airport and courthouse, and more happening near the mall … but holes as big as a car happen at Kealia, and I’m sure elsewhere.
Someone ain’t doing their job. Maybe take your $100,000 salary and pave Kealia’s parking lot with it instead.
Not everyone drives a monster truck, nor do the tourists who support much of this island’s economy. Dude, make a smarter choice for the betterment of us all. Enough of the Band-Aid and duct-tape mindset. It’s nearly wrecked this island’s health in so many ways.
John Tyler Cragg
Kapaa
Please research smart meters
In the Friday, Dec. 13 Garden Island, Limor Farber writes that he “has seen readings of the smart meters, which can be up to 450 times a cell phone.”
He’s talking about radiation output from the devices. He then jumps to analyzing the effects of cancer, insinuating a link between smart meters and cancer.
This tactic is similar to the anti-GMO crowd using the logic of a French study concluding a link between GMO corn eating rats and cancer. This study was recently retracted and the conclusions were not warranted by the data.
The emotional hook was planted: “GMOs cause cancer.” It appears that this is an example of successful perception management, which has little to do with facts.
Published research documents, by the Federal Communications Commission, indicate cell phones generate greater radiation, by a factor of 12,000, than smart meters.
I don’t know who’s exaggerating, but I suspect Mr. Farber’s observations might not be verified as readily as the cited FCC research. I think it behooves us all to do our own research before buying into someone else’s “Fear du Jour.”
Michael Curtis
Koloa
