‘Hurry up and wait’
Not having had my vehicle registration sent had me in a bit of a panic, mostly after the mess I experienced last year over the change from my rural route address to the actual street address.
I was afraid it was going to become a “Groundhog Day” experience every December.
Now that I am aware that the paperwork is coming from Oahu, and the Hilo motor vehicle department is understaffed and overworked and has no control over the situation, I apologize profusely.
While I didn’t go over the top (from my perspective), I did peer over the edge.
Like I tell the cats, “Terribly sorry, but I’m only human.”
It appears all one can do is hurry up and wait.
Dave Kisor
Pahoa
It’s a ‘toxic iceberg’
The 1,100 gallons of a highly toxic foam spill at Red Hill is criminal. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
The Navy should be taken to court for this and many other chronic environmentally disastrous violations.
Over the decades, Pearl Harbor’s toxicity has been increasing. The underwater USS Arizona is leaking 9 gallons of oil per day. Multiply that times 70 years to get the degree of contamination.
That harbor, before World War II, was used by Native Hawaiians for fish gathering. It was a pristine estuary, a biologically balanced nursery for aquatic plants and animals.
Red Hill and oil leakage into Pearl Harbor are the tip of the horrid U.S. military’s toxic iceberg that stretches across lands and seas of our world.
Gary Harrold
Hilo
Goodbye,
telescopes
Dear former Gov. David Ige, former Mayor Harry Kim and all subscribers of the Tribune-Herald: Maunakea is the newest mauna and will in time erupt, as Kilauea and Mauna Loa have done in the past and recently.
Eventually, Maunakea will erupt, and the telescopes, as well as the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope, will eventually be a thing of the past.
I have supported the kia‘i and the ‘a‘ole TMT folks. Eventually, all the telescopes including the proposed TMT will be destroyed.
When? Only time will tell.
Stanley Aoki
Hilo
