Good regulations
Regarding Gary Hoff’s editorial cartoon published Sept. 15: Just be glad, Gary, that if you live in a residential area you won’t have a short-term vacation rental pop up as your next-door neighbor, thanks to the new regulations.
For those of us who are already enjoying that experience, we just hope these regulations give us some recourse in controlling noisy vacationers next door who don’t care about the neighborhood.
At least now we will have a means to file complaints when necessary, unlike the ones we have voiced to the owner but seem to fall on deaf ears.
Thank you to our County Council and the Planning Department for creating and enacting these regulations.
Dan Whetstone
Honomu
Where’s
government?
With continued denial of public access to Maunakea via public roadway, it is concluded the terms “state” and “county government” are oxymorons.
Richard Hoeflinger
Keaau
The irony
Climate change activists were out in droves Friday surrounding the King Kamehameha statue in Hilo.
Many cars were parked there. The irony is dripping. They could have taken Hele-On, or Uber, or ride-share, or skateboard, or bike, or (heavens) walked.
How clever of the far-reaching climate activists to place a 16-year-old girl as the face of the movement. Question a little girl with braids, and you’re a hater who is somehow not as bright as a kid.
How many years has this Greta Thunberg been doing all this research, and why on Earth would anyone skip school for the cause? The irony is dripping. They want to educate us all on global warming, but the emphasis is to play cool kid and skip school.
Come on, folks — 16-year-olds, while many are very bright to genius-level, should not be the voice of reason or authority on complex topics.
I am one of those elders who knows life experience and true on-the-job experience are far more powerful and ethos-laden than not having those down.
Shameful to prop a child up in the world, only to essentially silence those who know kids don’t know jack about life at that age. Don’t skip school to educate yourselves.
Allen Russell
Hilo
