Why do people need to make/drive their trucks, motorcycles and mopeds so loud and noisy (revving engines, noisy mufflers, loud music)? It is so inconsiderate to the neighborhood communities! Jason B. Kim Wailuku
As college students and college professors across the country protest against the genocidal actions committed by the Israel and supported by the United States, university administration and government officials have shown their true disdain for the American people by brutalizing, harassing and jailing these brave protestors. As Israel murders hundreds of Palestinians per day, the US state apparatus works hard to violently jail student and faculty protestors for the crime of supporting the oppressed Palestinian people. Democracy is dying as we speak, and the seeds of fascism are ...
There is a whole new wave of events that is happening on Maui that will increase the numbers of locals and long-time residents leaving this state. When the locals leave, there will be no work force. Nobody to serve the very rich that are replacing us. It’s been happening since COVID and it’s been steadily increasing. Now, since the fires, there is a whole new threat. It’s no longer just lack of housing, or the price of housing, it’s now the insurance companies. Insurance companies are either flat out canceling their contracts or raising their premiums beyond affordable or ...
It is too bad. If Kelly King had been elected mayor, more lives may well have been spared by the horrific fires. Why? More competent decision making by more qualified people at the helm in positions of authority, including and especially Mayor Richard Bissen. She would have drained the Maui County swamp of corrupt or inept county directors of the Departments of the Corporation Counsel, Planning, Public Works, and Emergency Management. The county would have also been run by a person who knows how to work with the council to manage a local government successfully, serving the ...
Our Canadian cousins are becoming the “canary in the coal mine” when it comes to personal liberty and free speech. This past month, the Canadian government passed Bill C-63, which, among other things, allows anyone to anonymously accuse you of a potential hate speech violation they are convinced may occur sometime in the future. Based solely on this anonymous claim, you can be arrested, fixed with an ankle monitoring bracelet, forced into house arrest and subject to weekly monitoring of bodily fluids. And here we thought that Minority Report was just a movie. Randolph S. Coon ...
I believe that the vast majority of U.S. congressmen who say the Biden election was stolen are lying. But what they sincerely do believe is that they cannot get re-elected unless they kiss the ring of a very skilled con man. Jim Killett Lahaina