VOICES: On the subject of the proposed bike path
Path not ecologically sound
VOICES: The miracle of cataract surgery
What do you call a deer with no eyes? No eye deer. It was just a simple visit to the optometrist for my two-year check for new glasses.
VOICES: $15 per hour minimum wages is what we need
Not again! No $15.00/hr. minimum wage? This is wrong! This is shameful! This is harmful, bad, and uncalled for!!! What a boo boo. Like Daffy Duck would say, “This is Despicable!” And why wouldn’t they want to pass this bill? Just why? The $15.00 min. wage is needed, it’s important, and it’s something that would help us get back on our feet, and really get the economy back.
VOICES: With restrictions, beautiful place becomes ‘combat zone’
I’m writing this to you to give you our story and just ask “why?”
VOICES: Price carbon pollution, pay people, save environment
Concerned about the climate crisis but wondering what can make a difference? Putting a price on carbon at its source is one important tool.
HOOSER: Union leaders push for roll-call vote
The price of poker just went up in the state House. The tension in that big square building on Beretania Street is palpable as 51 representatives are being put in a position of choosing which side they are on.
VOICES: Transgender deserve happiness, success
I hoped someone else would respond to Kathryn Jean Lopez’ (March 21, 2021) homily against treating trans humans equally with others. Perhaps a Christian, or someone more religious or spiritual than I. But, no.
GUEST: Pandemic forces soul-searching, adaptability
Kaua‘i is rejoining the Safe Travels program today. Rumors of sold-out rental cars and flights to Kaua‘i are creating a mixture of relief and anxiety.
EVSLIN: April crucial for putting pandemic behind us
There were good news items in the first few days of April and they were about immunizations.
VOICES: Police chief’s actions, racism, hate crimes have no place on Kaua‘i, in world
On March 16, 2021, eight people were killed in a mass shooting in Atlanta, six of whom were Asian women.
VOICES: Ban chlorpyrifos immediately
Kauai’s marine biologist Dr Carl Berg, has published a study in Plos One, 2018, finding much higher levels of Roundup in honey on western Kauai than eastern Kauai.
HOOSER: House tries ‘end-around’ on COVID rules
Today at 1:30 p.m., the state Legislature’s House Committee on Finance is holding a hearing on SB266.
VOICES: Chief deserves forgiveness; incidents are teaching moments
The Kaua‘i police chief is under fire for biased behavior and comments towards Japanese people and culture.
HOOSER: Hawai‘i-based defense radar a bad idea
Expanding the Pacific Missile Range Facility via a new, $1.9-billion radar project that the Pentagon doesn’t want, says isn’t needed and will be obsolete before it’s even completed, is a bad idea.
VOICES: Cancel culture, woke police, now Kauai’s Chief of Police
Cancel culture has now canceled six Dr. Seuss books because someone somewhere was offended. Mr. Potato head was canceled because of gender identity and a group of people was offended.
EDMONDS: Is ‘affordable housing’ a sick joke?
In this month’s column we are going to try to “de-mystify” the affordable-housing industry! This is not easy, for it is truly a mystery.
VOICES: House bill would handcuff state emergency management
Most of the debate on House Bill 1286, introduced by Speaker Scott Saiki, has focused on how the bill would force Kaua’i County to abandon a policy that has produced the lowest COVID incidence in the state.
VOICES: Here we go again with killing cats
Has everyone forgotten what we just went through a few years ago?
VOICES: Prepared to care for the community
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Kaua‘i has been extremely fortunate to have the lowest number of COVID-19 cases of any county in the state.
HOOSER: State House thumbs noses at working class
The House of Representatives in Hawai‘i is essentially telling that man under the bridge: “too bad, too sad. Get a second or third job, or do whatever, just suck it up and stop complaining.”