Letters to the editor for September 24
Some suggestions for fact-checking
Agtech, Aquatech offer huge opportunities for Hawaii
Most people in Hawaii understand we need to diversify our economy to include more than tourism income and military spending. We also understand the need to grow more of our own food, rather than depend on imports and, ideally, export high-value food products as well. Not incidentally, one factor contributing to the wildfires that ravaged Lahaina and damaged Kula and other places in our islands is that so much land now lies fallow, uncared for and unirrigated, covered in wild grasses that are fuel for wildfires. This needs to change.
Resources humans need are here on Earth; why travel to Mars?
We know more about the surface of Mars than the bottom of the ocean, or so I hear a couple of times a year. I don’t know if that’s true, but it sounds believable because we see more news about space. Space is a wonderment; we can see it from anywhere. The bottom of the ocean is covert, covered, we can’t see it, even though it is a lot closer. The heavens seem close, because we can see a lot of stars from almost anywhere. Most of us only see the edge of the ocean. Or the top. Where the water is very clear one might see the bottom 600 feet down. Most places you are lucky to see 6 feet down and the average depth is over 2 miles. There is twice as much of Earth’s surface under water than above.
Building code ignores the obvious – at great expense
“I want to go back to my little grass shack in Kealakekua Hawaii.” Do you dare go back to when a little grass shack was considered adequate housing? You might be fined if the shack does not fully comply with the international building code.
WHT Editorial: Recycling changes leave us all asking serious questions
The changes to the Hawaii County recycling program on Oct. 16 caught nearly everyone off guard and this newspaper isnt an exception.
Here’s to the next 50
Then came 51.
My Turn: Editorial pity party for poor wealthy developer
The editors recent sympathy for that poor Hilo/Honolulu developer in West Hawaii Todays editorial, Neighbors call for preservation curious, brought tears to my eyes. It was moving how you educated the public about how, [t]he legitimate work the developer has done to get this far has been sound. There is so much more to this story than you told.
Our View: Neighbors’ call for preservation curious
Anti-development efforts tend to be as common as two-sided nickels.
Our View: Kudos to those trying to find homeless solutions
A lot of hard work, empathy, planning and team work will be required in the coming years to help reduce the homeless problem, and the issues that surround it, but kudos to stakeholders for organizing to try and make it happen.
Our View: Military wrong to boot WHT
Where the military preaches caution, we see another example of a worrisome trend.
Our View: Seattle’s homeless crisis should be Kona’s warning
Kailua-Kona can learn a lot from Seattle.
WHT editorial: How did pursuit get this far?
A 37-year-old man was airlifted to an Oahu hospital in serious condition after suffering gunshot wounds on Wednesday, launching another police manhunt in an area that was already in the middle of one.
WHT editorial: Ex-officer’s appeal seems heartless
When Jody Buddemeyer was sentenced in November to one year of probation for striking and killing a cyclist in 2015, many in the community — including this editorial board — felt the ex-officer got off lightly.
WHT editorial: Make example out of trouble-making homeless
On Monday, a Kailua-Kona business owner took issue with West Hawaii Today’s Sunday enterprise story on the aggressive behavior by some of the homeless that has seemingly escalated over the last couple of years.
WHT editorial: Council can GET it right this time
HILO — It’s deja vu all over again.
Our View: Anti-vaccination message barely worth printing
Detailing information with the community about what’s going on around the island is this newspaper’s daily mission, but every once and while it can be a difficult decision as to whether sharing certain information actually serves any public good.
WHT editorial: Hospital’s timing seems suspicious
It seems petty, unprofessional and irresponsible.
WHT Editorial: Really, how hard can fixing jail blunders be?
It’s a bit difficult to appreciate the scope of the internal investigation going on right now inside the ranks of the state Department of Public Safety because it sounds like something that should be pretty straightforward.
WHT editorial: Judge’s first year shows trend for dropping bail
KAILUA-KONA — It’s been one year since Robert Kim was sworn in as the 3rd Circuit Court’s newest judge.
WHT editorial: Who we like Tuesday
Only a few decisions remain for West Hawaii voters come Tuesday.
