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Letters: Hale Mahina asks support for proposed beach access

Letters to the Editor

Hale Mahina AOAO Board of Directors asks public support for its proposed resolution with Maui County to provide free public access to the beach at Hale Mahina in exchange for resolving the Notice of Violation. Public beach access has not been provided for over 50 years. In 2021, we opened a public pathway to the ocean on the north side of the property as a first-step solution. However, the pathway lacks a stairway that could provide safe beach access because of the steep elevation to the ocean. In 2023, the AOAO hired an engineering firm to design a stairway from the pathway to the ...

Letter: Hospital saves passenger from grounded flight

Letters to the Editor

This is a belated thank you to all the wonderful, caring, and skilled people we met at Maui Memorial. My husband had an emergency requiring hospitalization and treatment March 20-24. His dedicated nurses and doctors saved his life and we’ll be forever grateful. We call this divine intervention, because we were on a flight to Honolulu on our way to our mainland home when the Kona storms grounded all Honolulu air traffic and we were redirected to Maui. While on the ground there, he became seriously ill. Had we made our flight to the mainland, it’s doubtful that he would have ...

Mona Charen: Lie at heart of Trump's slush fund

Columns

The Orwellian 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' Trump has created — the legal equivalent of twirling the combination lock on Fort Knox and driving off with gold bars — purports to be righting a wrong. The bogus (and badly written) "settlement agreement," which is laughable as there was no true ...

Tim Graham: The overweening pomposity of the old guard at CBS news

Columns

Sharyn Alfonsi represents the overweening pomposity of the hard-left partisans that have ruled CBS News. She responded to Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss with "resistance" lingo when her contract was not renewed. "This was not a routine corporate transition; it was a deliberate choice to penalize ...

Erick Erickson: Noting, not urging

Columns

On Twitter, I noted that a lot of actual, practicing Christians, not people who call themselves Christians, will stop voting if both parties keep nominating moral cretins insisting that people of faith choose between the lesser of two evils. It is still a choice for evil. Christians are ...