Consider coqui when hauling trash from Hilo to Puuanahulu

Consider coqui when hauling trash from Hilo to Puuanahulu

I’m extremely disturbed that our councilwoman, Margaret Wille, proposed Bill 100, which has been approved by the County Council and the Environmental Management Commission. This bill allows the garbage trucking plan of Hilo’s rubbish to the Puuanahulu landfill. They have not given any consideration to the coqui frogs that will be traveling with the trucked rubbish through Waimea.

We have a very strong support system in our small community and a wonderful task force that protects us from the invasion of the coqui. Please call Wille at 887-2069 and protest the action she is taking.

Judy Frazier

Waimea

Politicians fail to focus on real issues

Politics needs boogiemen. Propose an initiative to legalize anything: pot in Ohio, medical marijuana in Hawaii, driving faster than 55 on interstates, top freedom in New York, all drugs as in Portugal and Uruguay, teaching evolution in Tennessee, and the politicians predict chaos and carnage.

They are almost always wrong. Take away their boogiemen and we might notice their failure to focus on real issues.

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” — H. L. Mencken

Ken Obenski

Kaohe, South Kona