Cost of the proposed
HPP park ‘outrageous’
I hope the good people of Hawaii Paradise Park get a great community park, and I hope they get it a lot sooner than the four more years anticipated.
That said … about 13,000 people — men, women and children — live in Hawaii Paradise Park.
Divide that number into $80 million, and the cost of the park comes to $6,000 per person or $24,000 for a family of four.
I don’t care where the money comes from — federal, state, local or donors — that is an outrageous sum to spend on a park.
Ask the people of Hawaii Paradise Park if they would rather have that long-delayed park or $6,000 per person, about $24,000 per family, in cash to help pay their bills.
Maybe I am not understanding this proposal properly, or maybe my math is bad. Please show me how this even remotely makes sense.
And, by the way, in my long life I have noted, without exception, that projects that take as long as the one proposed always come in way over budget, so my figures may be way too low.
Don Hurzeler
Kailua-Kona
Selection of RFK Jr.
will result in lives lost
In the Nov. 15 front-page story about Donald Trump’s selection of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be secretary of Health and Human Services, New York Times writer Sheryl Gay Stolberg referred to RFK Jr.’s “vaccine skepticism.” That’s a gross mischaracterization.
A skeptic is a person who questions and challenges everything, insisting on rigorous evidence and solid proof. Kennedy does the precise opposite, spouting claims that are not only unproven but that have been repeatedly and definitively disproved — suggesting, for example, that vaccines cause autism and that ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine are effective treatments for COVID-19.
That’s the precise opposite of skepticism. It’s quackery.
Hawaii’s senators must oppose this reckless nomination with every tool at their disposal. If he is confirmed, the cost will be paid in the lives of our keiki and kupuna.
Bruce Mirken
Hilo
Stop feeding the
feral animals, please
I want to tell these do-gooders not to feed feral roosters, chickens and cats.
Of coarse, these people are new here. Never been to Kauai.
Roosters make more chickens, and they don’t only crow in morning. You don’t need roasters to make eggs.
Same thinking about the mongoose. Now, no native birds. Think.
David Bertuleit
Kailua-Kona
