Please slow down this holiday season
What a sad time our highways and roadway have become. This should serve as a wakeup call for our entire community. Unless more vigilance and personal responsibility is taken by everyone, you or your loved ones could be the next victims.
Laura Ruminski’s excellent article Nov. 26, “Two more roadway fatalities brings total to 7 in November,” cited two recent crashes with fatalities. “Police believe speed and inattention were factors in the crash” and another crash “Police believe that speed and alcohol are factors in the crash.”
We are the state of aloha, but in so many instances many drive with no regard or respect for fellow drivers, speeding, talking on your cellphones and passing recklessly into oncoming cars.
Many years long ago, there were bumper stickers that read “Slow down, this ain’t the mainland.”
The roadways belong to all of us. Please slow down, be responsible. Let’s show our community that we can observe the posted speed limits, pass only when it is safe, avoid distracted driving, with the goal of having a safe holiday season and beyond to remember!
Karen Klemme
Kailua-Kona
Time for political do-over
Our council is ready to set priorities for the state, priorities that are going to benefit the state coffers and not the residents who could use some help.
There is no mention of improving our schools. They could use comfortable classrooms, or money enough to pay teachers a livable income so they can concentrate on teaching, not how they are going to pay this month’s rent.
They could improve our hospitals so you when you cut your foot on a broken tile in the shower you don’t have to fly to Honolulu for things that could be done here. So you don’t die in an emergency due to the lack of medical tools.
What about affordable housing? This is a term used to get housing developments approved, promising an amount of affordable units, but it’s an oxymoron to those who need affordable homes. Once again is anybody listening out there?
We need public housing not down the road but now. There are 17,000 families waiting for public housing and that does not include the homeless. But we’re not going to see that from our politicians because public housing has no profit for developer’s therefor, no sugar for our political leaders.
I truly believe that the only way we will see a Hawaii that is livable for all is to take this political box we have now, empty it and start over.
Paul Santos
Ocean View
Humans destroy paradise for money
Your Sunday paper had such a depressing front page that I just hope it doesn’t set the stage for more depressing news to come at what is supposed to be the most joyous of seasons.
I thought DLNR had resolved the issue of aquarium fish collecting and now I see it back in the news again.
Our coral reefs are facing hard enough times with the warming ocean temperatures but now it has to withstand the effect of mankind raping its pristine grounds of the inhabitants that keep it healthy.
If we lose our coral and everything else that mankind has tampered with, humans probably deserve not to have these wonders which nature has provided for us. Why is it that humans only know how to destroy what is perfection just for the sake of money?
By the time DLNR wises up, it may be too late as it is in the case of global warming.
Please don’t speed up the destruction of our beaches.
Colleen Miyose-Wallis
Kailua-Kona