The woes of growth
Bye-bye Hilo. Hello, “Hilolulu.”
Two or more traffic light cycles to get through Hilo intersections? Big Island population breaks 200,000? Developers avoid building affordable housing by making discount payments in exchange for rezoning benefits? Half of vacation rental homes are owned by nonresidents? “We buy houses” papers nailed to telephone poles? Big squeeze applied to the Hilo Farmers Market? Service industry workers already have been priced out of Kona housing. Where do they go live and commute from outside of Hilo? Shall we rename our town “Hilolulu”? The Big Island just cracked the top 10 list of Trip Advisor vacation destinations. How long will that last in a Hilolulu and Konafornia?
Meanwhile, we are still on an island importing 90 percent of our food, in a shooting gallery of East Pacific cyclones and Mauna Loa volcano is restively heaving.
William J. Mautz
Hilo
Listen to them
It was soul-warming and disturbing to witness this past weekend’s nationwide, nay, worldwide, demonstrations against our plague of gun violence in America.
Soul-warming to witness our children using the tactics of peaceful demonstrations of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. that my generation used to address the social ills and injustices that succeeded in bringing about the changes that have enabled the United States to become the country it is today.
Disturbing, in the reaction of nativism and reactionary response to the plea, by our children, for real solutions to the insanity/terrorism of guns in the hands of our children.
Disturbing, by the complete lack of reaction and response by the president to this call for action by millions of Americans and world citizens, and by the lackluster response by our elected representatives to the continuing tragedy and horror of school shootings.
What has happened to us? Have we become so inured and indifferent to the everyday violence of these tragedies that we can’t even hear the cries of our own children? Are we so jaded and preoccupied by the excesses of this president that we fail to recognize our declining social responsibilities?
The past year has seen our country slide into a miasma of social division and international confusion — all under the guise of “bringing America together again.” We don’t seem to be able to hear and answer our own children’s pleas for safety.
Shame on us.
Michael Grigsby
Keaau
Mr.Grigsby, Please tell us, in specific detail, what the legislative “real solutions” are. And point us to the locations, in the U.S. or elsewhere where these “real solutions” have resulted in actual decreases in total violence. And by “total violence” I mean “total violence”, not just the so-called “gun violence”. Using the “total violence” per capita standard, you won’t be able to use the U.K., Australia, european nations, or states with draconian “gun control” laws such as New Jersey and Maryland, etc. as examples, because they have high per capita rates of “violence” despite already having all the laws you likely wish for. Or maybe you’re in the “repeal the Second Amendment” camp or even the “confiscate all firearms” (except for government agents) camp?
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We need armed security in our schools.
Murderers couldn’t care less about gun control laws, just look at Chicago with some of the toughest gun control laws in the nation. They kill each other everyday like it’s nothing to them.
Gun Free Zones are hunting grounds for murderers and to them it’s like shooting fish in a battle.
You want to protect our school children; then protect them with the 2nd Amendment.
If you don’t want a 2nd Amendment, then go live in China and Russia where communism rules.
Just look at Nazi Germany and what happened to millions of innocent people when Hitler took away the rights of the German people to have firearms.
Or, go live in North Korea with that Tin Horn Dictator who kills his citizens like they are rats, including members of his own family who oppose him.
Hey, about Cuba, go live with the Communist Dictator who rules with an iron hand. Why do you think there are so many Cuban refugees from the old Castro regime in Florida, their descendants didn’t move back to Cuba.
In America, look what happened to the Native Indians when the government took away their firearms!
Take away a right of firearms from the common people has always been a disaster through history.
Even in Switzerland the people have the right to own firearms.
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Well we already got a “Dick Tator” in the Oval Office already so bring it on!
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I see the paid Russian Trump troll bots are up and out early today!
Vlad & Donnie must be paying s nice premium wage!!
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