Restroom access
Restroom access
Regarding Dave Broyle’s letter (Tribune-Herald, Your Views) about the availability of restrooms at gas stations: I have to agree with Mr. Broyle.
We give these businesses our business and would surely appreciate using their restroom facilities when nature calls.
Within the central Hilo commercial areas, there are a number of available restrooms, from “big box” stores to large and smaller strip malls, grocery stores, some mom-and-pop specialty shops, credit unions (not banks), all fast food eateries, restaurants, public parks, urgent care facilities, hospitals, etc.
Unfortunately, smaller isolated towns might not let you use their restrooms unless you make a purchase from their establishment. In the past, I have made purchases from smaller shops, and when asked to use their restroom, I was told they had “no public restrooms” available and directed me elsewhere.
Rick LaMontagne
Volcano
A dirty trade deal
Big corporations and the federal government are determined to pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership on a “fast track” so it can become law with no debate or changes made to it.
The trouble is that the TPP is a big and dirty deal that would be bad for the 99 percent. If the TPP gets passed by fast track, the corporations will send many American jobs overseas, raise the price of medicines and undermine Internet freedom and Internet privacy.
But the worst thing in the TPP deal is that it gives the corporations the right to sue our government — in their court (not ours), for any of our laws that might cause businesses to lose profits.
The TPP would make capital investment into a no-risk game. But our lawmakers would always have to worry if legislation would undo somebody’s bottom line. So, having laws — protecting our environment, assuring product safety, labor rights, etc. — would be dangerous to the public’s revenues.
The TPP is a bad trade deal that would allow the corporations to take away our right to govern ourselves right from under our noses. It is time to be informed and let the people know what is happening.
Stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Please join the peaceful demonstration against the TPP.
Jazmin Santiago
Kurtistown