This week, the state’s landscape crew has been clearing weeds and road debris throughout the Honolua Bay area. This makes cycling through the area and anywhere so much safer and much more pleasant. As a cyclist, we appreciate every single time the bicycling lane is cleaned and cleared by our government maintenance crew. Every. Single. Time. It helps us ride safely and makes it easier for vehicles to pass us. Kelli Lundgren Kā‘anapali
Our basic legal rights are being eroded as you are reading this. One of those rights is Habeas Corpus, the right to challenge the legality of detention or imprisonment. Habeas Corpus, which appeared in the Magna Carta in 1215, is fundamental to English Common Law. It is Latin, meaning “produce the body.” Legally, it means that everyone detained by the state has a right to a hearing before a judge, to determine the legality of that detainment. The Trump gang is ignoring that pesky concept when handling immigrants. In March, the U.S. government declared 238 migrants as dangerous ...
Mahalo Department of Public Works/Highway Division for the quality, beautiful work done in Wailuku on Mill Street. The crew directing traffic were calm, polite, friendly and patient as they guide vehicles away and around their fellow workers. They kept at it in the heat, finishing each section then reopening the road as they moved on to the next. The outcome is fantastic. Anna Barbeau Wailuku
President Trump, who calls himself a peacemaker and unifier, has announced he will seek a $1 trillion budget for the Pentagon, a record-setting number that would mark the highest level of U.S. defense spending since World War II. Flaunting his military might while referring to the plan, Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, “You are really going to like this,” and “We have never done this before.” Trump recently sent $4 billion in weapons to Israel to wage unprecedented aerial and ground attacks on innocent people in Gaza. This massive budget increase would reward ...
My wife and I opened our family business 44 years ago. Hawaiian Carpet One, Hawaiian Ceramic Tile is still operating in Kahului. Someday I hope to pass the business to the next generation of my family. I support House Bill 2653 because family-owned companies like ours are struggling to stay in business in Hawaii. Hawaii’s estate tax makes it even more difficult. Our state is one of the only ones that forces family members to pay up to 20 percent of the value of the business when the owner passes away. For a small business like mine, often the only way to do that is by selling or ...
Christianity teaches that Jesus “rose from the dead” in a physical body. That those who witnessed this were amazed, disbelieving and doubtful. I was taught that the events surrounding this event were more dramatic. Yet, more believable. That is, He did, indeed, rise from the dead, but not in His physical body, but in one of His subtle ones. He was visible, but of such a fine substance, it made Him appear ghostly, as an apparition or hallucination. So fine was this self-lit form, that Thomas was able to put his hand through it. And yet, scarier. An old Scripture tells of people ...