No respect
No respect
What the heck is going on?
I was just having coffee at Pele Kitchen in Pahoa, looking over the rubble piles of what used to be half of our little village. The emergency response was immediate and immense, and then — nothing.
We are talking almost a month now, and Luquin’s is still not allowed to clean up the mess, there is tons of rotting food from the unburned freezers that someone decided to smash up and mix in with the new unburned kitchen equipment, which was smashed up and mixed with the unburned bar, which was smashed up and mixed in with the actual burned buildings, which now languish in piles under the haze of a voggy morning.
I bet you that if half a block burned down in the middle of Hilo or Kona, that mess would be cleaned up right away.
Pahoa looses half of its parking, yet our community center is still under lock and key. Same with the bathrooms. I went to go use them last Saturday at about 6 p.m., and there was a wedding party setting up, and they wouldn’t let anyone use the public restrooms.
The town was asking for some police presence to get the public meth sellers and smokers out of town, so they came, giving tickets to business owners who dare park, somewhere or anywhere, and in celebration of Pahoa’s Second Saturday Art &Music Walk on Saturday they kicked out Pahoa Elvis, who has been playing music for years on the sidewalk in front of Boogie Woogie Pizza.
Pahoa lives matter.
Sara Steiner
Pahoa
Hoff’s cartoon
In the Feb. 12 Tribune-Herald, your cartoonist, Gary Hoff, made a snarky attack on Rep. Tulsi Gabbard for being “The first Democrat to visit (Donald) Trump at Trump Tower,”and because “she met with (President Bashar) Assad in Syria.”
If more prominent Democrats met with President Trump to discuss issues of the day, it might help them work with the administration to address our country’s many pressing concerns.
I am even more impressed that Rep. Gabbard met with President Assad. If more congressmen and women were to engage, intelligently, with the Syrian regime, it might help the United States develop policies to end the tragic civil war there, and might foster the delivery of humanitarian aid to those Syrians in great need of it.
In any event, I can see no downside, but only good, coming from Rep. Gabbard’s actions.
Since Mr. Hoff obviously feels otherwise, I would appreciate him, or you, explaining to your newspaper’s readers why he feels as he does.
David Hudson
Hilo