Shame on Walmart
I am really disappointed in Walmart, a big retail company, for price gouging! Really! Shame on you!
I went to Walmart (Friday, March 27) and found a 16-roll package of toilet paper (mind you, I am not one to hoard) and paid $17.
(On Thursday, April 2) a friend of mine went to buy toilet paper at Walmart and the price went up to $23!
There was no price in the area of the toilet paper display, so she asked the clerk, who was even ashamed to tell her it was $23!
Shame on you, Walmart, for such a heartless display of greed when people are out of work and already having to deal with this COVID-19 situation.
Bonnie Edra
Hilo
Voting questions
If you are registered to vote, you’ve probably gotten a signature card from the state Office of Elections.
As signatures tend to change over time, they want to make sure they have your latest signature to compare to the one on your mail-in ballot.
Considering the coronavirus emergency, it is quite fortuitous that Hawaii changed to a mostly vote-by-mail system this year. But this change poses a question that was not addressed on the Office of Elections’ website. If your ballot is rejected for an invalid signature, will you have another opportunity to vote?
A friend of mine likes to vote in person because he feels confident his vote will be counted. He does not feel the same about a mail-in system, and does not want to drive to Hilo to cast his vote.
As ballots are mailed out approximately three weeks prior to the primary (Aug. 8), if a voter expeditiously returns the mail-in ballot, the elections office should have time to follow-up on signature rejections. Will they?
Similarly, if a specific race is closer than twice the number of votes rejected, the winner should not be declared until those people rejected have had a chance to properly vote.
It would behoove the Office of Elections to do all it can to maintain the public’s trust — especially these days.
Fred Fogel
Volcano
Ignorance is dangerous
How ironic that those of us here on planet Earth who least believe in evolution and science are most likely to ignore medical advice (based on scientific research) and therefore end up proving the truth of natural selection and survival of the fittest when they sicken and die.
I do not know British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s stance on evolution, but he bragged about shaking hands with everyone, even virus patients in treatment, and now he is in critical care in a hospital.
It is never a good idea to ignore the facts of a threat, but when our leaders do, the least we as the people can do is to learn from their mistakes.
Carl Oguss
Volcano