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Letters to the Editor

Letter: Bikes are stolen. Return them now.

Our Sur-Ron dirt bikes were stolen Saturday or Sunday between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. from a locked shed at our burn lot in Lahaina while we were sleeping right there in the trailer. I told 12 people to come by today to view them. If you have any information, please let me know at (808) ...

Letter: Congress must pass war powers resolution

President Donald Trump’s illegal acts of war against Venezuela are a clear violation of U.S. military, and international law. Every drone bombing of unknown boats, murders of unknown people on those boats, seizure of oil tankers, and now bombing of Caracas and kidnapping of a sovereign ...

Letter: ‘Subtle energies’ behind health emergency today?

In December 1994, I came across an interesting book in an old, dusty, secondhand bookstore. It looked unusual, felt unusual, and the writing was obviously from a very high consciousness. The author was either Chinese or Tibetan. Reading it, one realized that the author was able to capture ...

Letter: Widely used Roundup probably carcinogenic

As recently reported in the New York Times, problems with a 25-year-old landmark paper on the safety of Roundup’s active ingredient, glyphosate, have led to calls for the Environmental Protection Agency to reassess the widely used chemical. Bayer, which purchased Monsanto, the company that ...

Letter: Puunene Post Office closed permanently?

Puunene Post Office, da old one on Hansen Road, not da Kahului kine, get ballots on da ground inside. You can see um from da windows They wen close um las year afta A&B sold um fo fix um up and now all fix up, but neva open. Why? And now get ballots on da ground inside. Not right. ...

Letter: County aims at maximum property tax for fire loss?

In January 2025, I was sent a notice from Maui County Real Property Tax Division that my single-family home in an older Kihei subdivision was appraised at $1,350,000, an increase of $265,000 from the previous assessment. Their justification was two homes in the vicinity sold for higher. I ...