Yes, get it done already
Thank you, Mark Chesler, for voicing with aloha what all of us on the north end of town have been grousing about for years now.
With the traffic jammed up no matter what day or hour and (Mr. Chesler is correct) with few, if any, workers in sight until just recently — a little hustle would have gone a long way and an occasional, truthful status report would have been appreciated. Do they not realize the inconvenience and frustration of this ongoing fiasco? The reputation of the company associated with this project has certainly been diminished.
The topper is the “landscaping” of the median strip. Really—a’a? Another island in our state has grass and trees on the median and roadsides. What a concept! We are a beautiful island — let’s make it so in all areas.
Gail Anderson
Palisades
It’s time to become
patriotic Americans again
After watching the press conference Monday with Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, I can only say that I’m waiting.
I’m waiting to see if today is the day that Republicans start acting like American patriots and start calling out this completely un-American behavior today by our so-called leader. Do you, like Donald Trump, believe the word of former KGB officer Vladimir Putin over D.N.I. Dan Coats and 17 U.S. intelligence agencies that have unanimously concluded that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 election? Do you, like Donald Trump, believe that relations between our two countries had never been worse than today? (Think Cuban missile crisis). Do you, like Donald Trump, believe that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation is causing embarrassment to America? Do you, like Donald Trump, believe that Europe, Canada, the U.K. and other longtime U.S. allies are now our enemies while extolling the virtues of autocratic, tyrannical leaders of countries like Russia, North Korea and Philippines? Are any of you appalled or dismayed?
I could go on and on but now I’m waiting and watching this space. I’m waiting to see if any of you are finally ready to put partisanship aside and become patriotic Americans again. Maybe if I put it this way, what would Ronald Reagan do?
David Janeway
Kailua-Kona
Positive action needed to
serve, protect community
Kudos to Tom Hasslinger for the heartbreaking and compelling “The End of Tunnels” (West Hawaii Today, July 15). The story of Cheyanne Anderson is a tragedy for all of us to consider and an urgent call for positive action from those elected and hired to serve and protect our community. As Jeffrey Closs is quoted saying in the article: “What does that say about us as a people?”
Alan Silverman
Kailua-Kona
