Not another anti-Trump rant
Thank you, WHT, for finally publishing Hoover Institute’s Victor Davis Hanson’s opinion on Dec. 12. As a scholar and historian, his article was an accurate, fair and documented piece. It was nice to not read another angry political opinion.
Yes, Trump is rude, crude and says stupid things but he is our elected president. As a proud American, I was raised patriotic, and that you support our president no matter if you voted for or liked him.
Donna ONeill
Kailua-Kona
No heed to hospital naysayers
I’ve been living here for 32 years and only driven by Kona Community Hospital occasionally — usually to pay a traffic ticket, or when my granddaughter was in the charter school next door years ago.
“What goes on in there?” my mind would say, recalling a lot of negative things said about it. Even though I seldom listen to grumblers, the grumbling lurked in the back of the mind.
Then I made a wrong turn and got hit by a moped while bicycling in the early morning four weeks ago and, for the first time in my life, I couldn’t get up off the pavement. A lovely woman called 911. The moped guy was unhurt and a big help too. The Fire Department and police were fast and super good. The ambulance guys, fantastic. Even so, I wondered about KCH as the siren whooped and blared. The road to a full recovery and look forward to getting back there now that I truly know “what goes on inside there.”
Never listen to grumblers.
You’ll be in very good hands if you need it.
Bill McCowatt
Kailua-Kona
Spending our way to poverty
So, Gov. David Ige indicates the state has spent (read, extracted from Hawaii’s taxpaying public) $15 million “trying to provide safe and secure access for Maunakea” as the blockade of the Maunakea Access Road enters its sixth month (WHT, Dec. 17). What kind of gobbledygook is that? The DLNR blockade of the mountain access road has closed any public access to the entire eastern half of the mountain.
Apparently, County Council Member Aaron Chung is the only elected official to question what the money is being spent for, other than operation of a vehicular speed trap. Kudos to Mr. Chung and shame on others hell-bent on bleeding the public treasury dry for no discernible purpose. This is not merely irresponsible government, it’s lunacy.
Richard Hoeflinger
Keaau