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Letter for Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Visitors want chances to give back As visitors for many years, we treasure the time we’re able to spend on your beautiful island. It’s probably…

Letter for Thursday, March 31, 2022

Commercial tour aircrafts don’t belong in our national parks Growing up in Hilo, Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park was our playground, from family hiking, picnicking, camping…

Letters for Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Living and giving on Kaua‘i Dr. Bulosan, your March 28 tribute to women and especially to your Grandma and Aunty, was so moving. I could…

Letters for Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Cats, cat-feeders are victims of county policy While war rages in Ukraine and millions flee to neighboring counties to stay alive, many refugees are taking…

Letters for Friday, March 25, 2022

Prosecutors have better things to do than hassle slaughterhouse I respond to the March 18, 2022, front-page article as to PETA’s (People for the Ethical…

Letter for Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Eastern European history and the war in Ukraine On Aug. 6, 1945, President Harry Truman described the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima: “…the sun(‘s) power…

HOOSER: Progressive property tax policy 101

County property-tax policy should support locally owned and operated businesses the same way it supports local homeowners who live in their homes or who rent…

Letters for Monday, March 21, 2022

Saving Wailua Beach: Let’s follow the science Wailua Beach’s major retreat has been disturbingly evident to all of us as we pass by. Restoring this…

Letters for Wednesday, March 9, 2022

Judgment at Nuremberg and the Ukraine war The news is full of demands for a Nuremberg-type trial of Russia’s Vladimir Putin for “war crimes and…

Letters for Friday, March 4, 2022

Will Putin use nuclear weapons in his war? There is a huge debate going on as to whether Russia’s Vladimir Putin will exercise the nuclear…