My Turn: A major move to control our lives
Citizens of Hawaii and the U.S. should not have to prove that they have been vaccinated to participate in normal human interactions in a civil society. Vaccine passports must not be a requirement of citizens to be equal to every other citizen. Not having a vaccine passport should not demote one to becoming a second class citizen. This is the first step in dehumanization of sectors of our population.
Things to ponder before going to court
Letters to the Editor: April 12, 2021
Get us back on a path to normalcy
Letters to the Editor: April 11, 2021
Don’t bench our MVP
My Turn: Mediation could help landlords, tenants
My Turn: Lack of vaccine passports explained
There is one big problem with the argument that a COVID vaccination card should be accepted as an alternative to pre-flight testing for people flying into Hawaii. The problem is that they are too easy to fake.
Letters to the Editor: April 8, 2021
What politicians are doing for me
Making Waves: They’re doing it again
They’re doing it again.
My Turn: Planning ahead
It was very disappointing to read in the March 19 edition of the West Hawaii Today that the Leeward Planning Commission approved a five-bedroom Bed and Breakfast establishment on Alii Drive.
My Turn: A positive consequence of a conflict of interest
Good things happen unexpectedly! There is a positive consequence of Planning Director Zendo Kern’s conflict of interest. The conflict was caused because Kern was the owner’s representative for the Campbell/Clapp Trust before the Leeward Planning Commission and then he signed the Tentative Plat Approval for this owner days after being the mayor’s nominee for Planning Director. Having this conflict exposed, we are grateful that the Planning Department has now reopened the subdivision rezoning for the Campbell/Clapp Property.
Letters to the Editor: April 7, 2021
Making more on unemployment
Letters to the Editor: April 5, 2021
Maybe that’s just politics
Letters to the Editor: April 5, 2021
Rental discrimination
As I See It: Surveying is probably the most accurate of our technologies
We have controversies in Kona when a house seems to be too close to the property line. Once upon a time, I was a surveyor, everything from the location of a dog house to a big piece of land you may have heard of called it’s called Arizona. We helped make Google Earth possible.
Letters to the Editor: April 4, 2021
Valid and important points made
My Turn: The antithesis of aloha
I’m writing to express my dismay that Mayor Mitch Roth is urging Hawaii County Council members to remove Mark Van Pernis from the Leeward Planning Commission.
My Turn: Lack of Kailua-Kona tsunami evacuation plan a concern
I read the article on Sunday’s front page regarding a possible “megatsunami.” Kwok Fai Cheung, a professor of ocean resources and geoengineering at UH-Manoa, said “I’ve offered to help (Hawaii) County multiple times, even though his contract with the state had run out. So, Kailua-Kona, is not covered by the evacuation plan. This is concerning to say the least.
Letters to the Editor: March 31, 2021
Get the oink out of here
Letters to the Editor: March 30, 2021
Vaccine passport should eventually be policy
Letters to the Editor: March 28, 2021
Looking at wastewater through rose-colored lenses
