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Letter: Doesn’t know why women wear high heels

Letters to the Editor

I don’t know how women wear high heels. I must say it does look good and it is sexy. Actually, high heels’ origin started with men as early the 15th century. I don’t know how women can tolerate the stress it puts on their feet. If you ask any podiatrist, they will tell you high heels are not good for your feet. When women are young, wearing them is okay. But when they get old, their feet will have repercussions. Fashion is a multi-billion-dollar industry, and always had a influence on foot wear. Not many women except Billie Eilish have worn sneakers to the Grammys, ...

Letter: Concern about trash spread on Maui

Letters to the Editor

I am a student at Lahainaluna High School and I am writing to you today because of my concern about the trash on Maui. Trash can travel through wind gusts, landing in areas where it is isolated and won't be picked up. This free-floating trash, either in populated or isolated areas, if left alone and not picked up, can be fuel for fires. The 2023 Lahaina wildfires can be used as an example. PBS states in their website that the trash in Lahaina was a “tinder dry fuel for fires.” I urge you to please spread the word about trash on Maui. Whether small or big the trash someone ...

Jeff Robbins: Dead duck — Kash Patel files a Lulu of a lawsuit

Columns

For Americans who have watched FBI Director Kash Patel slosh beer with the U.S. Olympic hockey team, proclaim that the FBI had Charlie Kirk's murderer in custody only to have to say "Never mind," and stand glassy-eyed at press conferences looking somewhere between an unhappy participant in a ...

Letter: Qualities for president in the 21st century

Letters to the Editor

I’m reminded of a conversation between my brother and me, when we were small boys. I was the younger. I had just told him that my friend Joey had a wild mountain gorilla the size of a house. My brother wanted to know if I had seen it. I hadn’t. Where is it kept? he asked. He lives with Joey, I said. My brother was my brother asked incredulous. The gorilla lives with Joey and his family? Well, maybe he's not quite as big as a house, I said. But a wild gorilla? my brother asked. Probably not too wild, I said. You're sure it’s a gorilla? he asked. Well, it ...

Letter: Transparency needed between police and council

Letters to the Editor

Policing is Maui County Council’s largest proposed expense at $140M next year, a 10 percent increase. As the council deliberates on the 2027 budget, it’s so far missing how to address Maui Police Department’s repeated and ongoing unlawful collaborating with ICE and other tentacles of Trump’s advancing police state. Much of MPD’s contracting was behind the backs of our council, and thus unlawful under HRS 46-7 and per a recent Corporation Counsel opinion. When the public made formal requests to unveil these contracts, MPD then repeatedly violated state sunshine and ...

Dr. Jessica A. Johnson: Humbling ourselves as a Nation before God

Columns

President Donald Trump chose to recite 2 Chronicles 7:14 as part of America Reads the Bible, an event hosted by Christians Engaged that ran from April 18-25. This Scripture, which is among many of my favorites, says, "(I)f my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and ...