Golfer vs. nene
Golfer vs. nene
A golfer kills a nene because his wife is afraid of geese? And he doesn’t care how much it costs to buy his way out? Two foursomes get arrested because it’s more important to get in a round than pay attention to what else might be happening, instead of an all-important golf game?
Further details notwithstanding, it is a very poor showing, not only for these individual golfers who smack of entitlement attitudes, but what about the management of the golf courses? Aren’t they responsible for informing their guests about local conditions and activities?
Golf management needs to help their guests be good guests to the greater community, not just sell tee times.
Jan Dean
Honokaa
Indict them
How is it possible that the pCard issue can go on for a year while a tourist gets charged, tried, convicted and sentenced for killing a nene in less than a month?
The answer is corruption — county employees who won’t do their jobs (and say so right to the reporters), dodge phone calls from the public and generally hide under their desks and stonewall in general.
Why are they doing this? Maybe because they have pCards, too, that they don’t want scrutinized? Maybe they were all hired by the mayor?
These people should not be fired; they should be indicted by a grand jury, preferably a federal grand jury. Charged with what? The list is nearly endless: fraud, corruption by a public official, obstruction of justice, maybe even the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
There are multiple nonchargeable offenses, too: incompetence, lying, collusion and generally not doing their jobs and still collecting a paycheck.
Being this is the Big Island, I will make a prediction. Everybody will get off a lot easier then some dumb schmuck of a tourist who killed a bird.
William Wade
Kehena Beach
Slowest to pay
For years in Hawaii, when e-filing a tax return for which there was a refund, one could expect to wait about two weeks to receive that refund through direct deposit.
What has happened in the past two years.? Hawaii now ranks as the slowest state in the nation in getting refunds to taxpayers.
On the Hawaii tax website, taxpayers are told to wait 16 weeks before even checking to see when their refund will arrive.
I find this amazing. What’s more amazing is there has not been even a peep in the local media as to this deplorable state of incompetence.
Gary Marshall
Keaau