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Letter: Mango tree hardly gives fruit, just lots of rubbish

Letters to the Editor

At my mother’s house, there is a mango tree that hardly gives any fruit. But my neighbor's tree gives a lot of fruit. He is really nice and tells me to pick as much as I like. Some fruit drops to the ground. My mother tells me her mango tree only makes rubbish, but she doesn't want to cut it down; it was planted when the house was built over 50 years ago. Why do some mango trees only make rubbish with little fruit and others have abundant fruit? It is my mother’s house, and if she says don't cut it down, I won’t cut it down. It is a rubbish tree with very few fruit and if ...

Letter: Cameron Center supports true cost of service bills

Letters to the Editor

Hawaiʻi’s safety net is strongest when the community organizations that hold it together are supported and valued. Every day, community-based nonprofits feed families, care for kūpuna, support survivors, shelter youth, and assist people with complex needs. But this safety net is fraying and without action, it will break. At the J. Walter Cameron Center, we house and work alongside 26 nonprofit partners and collaborate with more than 120 additional organizations serving thousands of Maui residents. Costs continue to rise while funding has not kept pace. We also manage Nā ...

Letter: American Petroleum behind insurance crisis

Letters to the Editor

I moved to West Maui in 2021. While my home survived the 2023 wildfires, the aftermath has been difficult in another way: insurance fallout. Coverage was hard to find before the fires, but in the months after, my monthly housing costs increased by 130 percent, my insurer dropped me, and I was forced into a wildly expensive mainland policy after a dozen rejections. This is not a functioning market and it’s baffling that this practice is not only legal, but commonplace. Navigating this broken system is overwhelming, frustrating, and demoralizing, and we are all paying the ...

Clarence Page: Free speech isn't just for laughs

Columns

Following reports that Bill Maher will receive the prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt refused to believe it. "This is fake news," she told CNN. "Bill Maher will NOT be getting this award." Ah, guess again. On Thursday, the center ...

Veronique de Rugy: How will congress choose to handle the Iran bill?

Columns

Whatever you think of the war in Iran, there's a separate question — independent of the military merits — that Congress must answer: How will it be paid for? The Pentagon has requested $200 billion to fund the campaign. While circumstances could change the price tag, interest payments on ...

Letter: Only certain amount of errors can be tolerated

Letters to the Editor

In Kurdistan, there is a ruin called The Castle of Errors. It is said the castle was built by error, its location was chosen by error, the owner married by error, fell ill by error, had councilors by error, gambled by error, fell ill by error, and perished by error, and only a certain amount of errors can be tolerated. Prior to the rise of Trump, one might have thought no such person as the builder of the present ruin could have existed. But I have known lesser incompetents. People whose instincts were untimely; whose intelligence was below average; and whose intuition was ...