Printed headline belongs in a bird cage
Wish you weren’t here? What a disgrace our state is front page of local paper with this as a headline. In a state where only 30 percent backed Trump, maybe that percent would like to not be insulted over our free choice.
This may be Obama’s backyard but what did he do for our state? All I heard was complaints when he visited about traffic backed-up for miles. I didn’t hear one good thing about his visit, instead complaining about road blocks seemed to be the big discussion.
Wow, is that how you treat all your loved ones when they visit? You are nothing but an inconvenience to us? I bet some Oahu people wanted to hold that sign up when they were stuck for hours in traffic, “Wish you weren’t here.”
I am ashamed of this headline. Americans should have pride but instead we do this! This paper has become good for cleaning windows!
Linda Tohara
Kailua-Kona
Disrespect too much to tolerate
Today’s headline, “Wish you weren’t here,” was the last straw. After having to suffer through eight years of your gushing every time Obama broke wind, it is more than I am willing to put up with to listen to you insulting our president daily.
Anyone with even the slightest awareness recognizes that your paper is not about news at all, but merely the propaganda arm of the liberal progressive movement. You might keep in mind that even in this liberal brainwashed state, a third of the people voted for Mr. Trump. I will be canceling my subscription immediately.
Michael Greer
Kona
Common sense says traffic death, college not connected
Blaming Palamanui for Queen Kaahumanu Highway traffic deaths is critical thinking devoid of logical connection: I agree with Aaron Stene’s recent My Turn remarks.
I also agree with him that there’s been a shift in public desire for the completion of Ane Keohokalole Highway from Hina Lani Street to Kaiminani Drive from another mauka-makai connector folks were clamoring for 10 years ago. That’s been apparent in the most recent community meetings regarding the Palamanui project.
Mark Van Pernis must’ve missed those meetings if his opinions in our newspaper are any indication of his awareness of what’s going on. This makes me wonder what kind of beef he might have with the West Hawaii County Planning Commission or maybe the Palamanui campus below Makalei, so desperately needed for so many years and now making higher education available for so many more students. Further commercial, park, and road improvements will be impossible until or unless the housing construction can be completed.
That’s simply common sense.
Ann Kern
Keauhou