Not-so-free lunches
Not-so-free lunches
As to your front page article (Tribune-Herald, July 8), “More Students to receive free meals,” I would appreciate some journalistic integrity from the author, Ms. Kirsten Johnson.
The article repeatedly mentions free breakfasts, free lunches, free meals. None of these meals are free.
The meals are paid for by taxpayers — and most of the money buying these meals is from taxpayers paying to feed other people’s children.
I guess you have to be my age to remember the America where it was parents’ responsibility to feed their children, or to remember the saying, “There’s no free lunch.”
Truer words were never spoken.
Don Weeks
Pahoa
Too many deals?
In her letter in Sunday’s edition (Tribune-Herald, Your Views), Jeannie Scambos asked some good questions about our criminal justice system.
In Hawaii County, we sure do seem to make a lot of deals with criminals.
The end result is that these people end up behind bars, which is what we all want, but all the deal-making does leave the impression that our prosecutors are afraid to take “big” cases to trial.
A. Yamamoto
Hilo
Rifle range needed
Hi, my name is Adam. I’m 13 years old, and love to shoot.
Ever since I got my first BB-gun, and my dad introduced me to the sport, I’ve been in love.
But living on the Big Island, there’s no real rifle range that’s open to the public. And many private landowners are being bombarded with bullets from shooters without a real range, so I was wondering if you could help me fix this problem by spreading the word about this problem.
Adam Sako
Keaau