Comments for Voice of Kauai http://www.voiceofkauai.com You Decide Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:30:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 Comment on Poipu Sardine Can? by Rodney chew http://www.voiceofkauai.com/development-concerns-16.html#comment-303 Rodney chew Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:43:14 +0000 http://www.voiceofkauai.com/development-concerns-16.html#comment-303 Hello my name is Rodney and i'm a studnt at kamehameha schools on oahu. I'm doing research for the road problems on Kauai on my project. And i find it a major problem to the island, because more and more people are coming in to the island causing traffic and traveling problems across the island. But if you could please email me or send me information on how people can help then i would appreciate it.thank you Hello my name is Rodney and i’m a studnt at kamehameha schools on oahu. I’m doing research for the road problems on Kauai on my project. And i find it a major problem to the island, because more and more people are coming in to the island causing traffic and traveling problems across the island. But if you could please email me or send me information on how people can help then i would appreciate it.thank you

]]> Comment on Poipu Sardine Can? by bob http://www.voiceofkauai.com/development-concerns-16.html#comment-235 bob Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:30:18 +0000 http://www.voiceofkauai.com/development-concerns-16.html#comment-235 Please stop building on Kauai, and destroying this beautiful island. It's already overdeveloped as it is. Look what has happened to Oahu, and the Big Island! Kauai does not need any more Hotels or Condos. The Horror! Please stop building on Kauai, and destroying this beautiful island. It’s already overdeveloped as it is. Look what has happened to Oahu, and the Big Island! Kauai does not need any more Hotels or Condos.

The Horror!

]]> Comment on Comment On This Website by John Hoff http://www.voiceofkauai.com/comment-on-this-website-20.html#comment-179 John Hoff Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:20:09 +0000 http://www.voiceofkauai.com/comment-on-this-website-20.html#comment-179 Who’s to Blame? Ever get tired of the division that constantly eats away at our tiny island of Kaua’i? Ever wonder who’s really to blame? There’s always a lot of news print pointing the finger towards newcomers, developers, haoles, big boxes, etc, for all, if not most, of Kaua’i’s problems. I believe the one issue that displays the most unity on Kaua’i is the issue of keeping our island as rural as possible. I feel most of us would like to preserve a semblance of rural-ness that reflects our agricultural heritage along with a more serene, laid back, less crowed community laced with ALOHA in our daily lives be it at work, at play, on our roadways, in our schools or just next door to our neighbors. But, alas, this picture of 20 years ago does not seem possible, maybe because of all the changes that have taken place over the past two decades + by the above mentioned outside influences. What is the real cause for this community division? What force or forces have transformed; our farm lands into asphalt lands?; our beach fronts into battle fronts?; our schools into police protected indoctrination institutes?; our neighborhoods into drug hoods?; our country roads into congested substandard roadways?; our “mama and papa” stores into mega markets?; our pineapple and sugar fields into vacation / golfing / residential developments?; our small community dumps into a gigantic mountain of contaminated landfill waste?; and to top it all off, a governing body that stole “the People’s” property tax relief Ohana Kaua’i Charter Amendment “Victory vote” in the 2004 General Election, raiding votes from the electoral process and throwing them into the judicial process? Who really made all this possible? Who is really stealing our Rights, Freedoms and Liberties? It must have been those folks who were elected to office, hired to create rules and regulations and paid to enforce them, the laws, which allowed these devastating, divisional changes to take place. It must have been those “newcomers, developers, haoles, big box, etc” politicians elected to office to lead our community down the right path preserving what “the People” wanted. Opps! I must be wrong. I don’t know of any “newcomer, developers, haoles, big box, etc politicians” being elected to office to run our County, our State. Correct me if I am wrong but are not the overwhelmingly vast majority of our elected officials of local ancestry? Are they to blame? But no, they cannot be because who put them into office with their votes? It was a small minority of registered voters that vote in a block every election guaranteeing that certain local candidates get into office to be plied, wooed, and influenced to make laws that divide our Community, coupled with a very LARGE majority of registered voters that stayed home or went to the beach and did not vote. It’s not hard to figure out; if you don’t vote you’re voting for the incumbents. If you really want a united community working toward the betterment of the majority of “the People”, then live up to your responsibility of being a citizen of this State and vote in new elected officials that will protect that which is most dear to you, hopefully your family and kids, not a day off. Elect at least 4-5 new Council members next election and let’s take back our council, our government, our lives. John Hoff Lawai Who’s to Blame?
Ever get tired of the division that constantly eats away at our tiny island of Kaua’i? Ever wonder who’s really to blame? There’s always a lot of news print pointing the finger towards newcomers, developers, haoles, big boxes, etc, for all, if not most, of Kaua’i’s problems.
I believe the one issue that displays the most unity on Kaua’i is the issue of keeping our island as rural as possible. I feel most of us would like to preserve a semblance of rural-ness that reflects our agricultural heritage along with a more serene, laid back, less crowed community laced with ALOHA in our daily lives be it at work, at
play, on our roadways, in our schools or just next door to our neighbors. But, alas, this picture of 20 years ago does not seem possible, maybe because of all the changes that have taken place over the past two decades + by the above mentioned outside influences.
What is the real cause for this community division? What force or forces have transformed; our farm lands into asphalt lands?; our beach fronts into battle fronts?; our schools into police protected indoctrination institutes?; our neighborhoods into drug hoods?; our country roads into congested substandard roadways?; our “mama and papa” stores into mega markets?; our pineapple and sugar fields into vacation / golfing / residential developments?; our small community dumps into a gigantic mountain of contaminated landfill waste?; and to top it all off, a governing body that stole “the People’s” property tax relief Ohana Kaua’i Charter Amendment “Victory vote” in the 2004 General Election, raiding votes from the electoral process and throwing them into the judicial process? Who really made all this possible? Who is really stealing our Rights, Freedoms and Liberties?
It must have been those folks who were elected to office, hired to create rules and regulations and paid to enforce them, the laws, which allowed these devastating, divisional changes to take place. It must have been those “newcomers, developers, haoles, big box, etc” politicians elected to office to lead our community down the right path preserving what “the People” wanted.
Opps! I must be wrong. I don’t know of any “newcomer, developers, haoles,
big box, etc politicians” being elected to office to run our County, our State. Correct
me if I am wrong but are not the overwhelmingly vast majority of our elected officials
of local ancestry? Are they to blame? But no, they cannot be because who put them into
office with their votes? It was a small minority of registered voters that vote in a block every election guaranteeing that certain local candidates get into office to be plied, wooed, and influenced to make laws that divide our Community, coupled with a very LARGE majority of registered voters that stayed home or went to the beach and did not vote. It’s not hard to figure out; if you don’t vote you’re voting for the incumbents.
If you really want a united community working toward the betterment of the majority of “the People”, then live up to your responsibility of being a citizen of this State and vote in new elected officials that will protect that which is most dear to you,
hopefully your family and kids, not a day off. Elect at least 4-5 new Council members next election and let’s take back our council, our government, our lives.

John Hoff
Lawai

]]> Comment on V.O.K. Reports by SAR http://www.voiceofkauai.com/vok-reports#comment-169 SAR Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:57:47 +0000 http://www.voiceofkauai.com/vok-reports#comment-169 I don't want the Superferry, but as you know Lingle and the Legislature is trying to pass a bill. The legislative branch of government does have the authority to revise a law or enact a new law in response to a court ruling, as long as the revised law or new law is not itself unconstitutional. For example, in United States v. Patryas, 303 U.S. 341 (1938), the United States Supreme Court recognized that Congress had amended a law concerning insurance policies "in order to overcome the effect of the above rulings of the courts," and applied the law as amended by Congress. I don’t want the Superferry, but as you know Lingle and the Legislature is trying to pass a bill.

The legislative branch of government does have the authority to revise a law or enact a new law in response to a court ruling, as long as the revised law or new law is not itself unconstitutional. For example, in United States v. Patryas, 303 U.S. 341 (1938), the United States Supreme Court recognized that Congress had amended a law concerning insurance policies “in order to overcome the effect of the above rulings of the courts,” and applied the law as amended by Congress.

]]> Comment on Superferry, or Superscary? by Kelly Crankshow http://www.voiceofkauai.com/hawaii-superferry-14.html#comment-164 Kelly Crankshow Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:44:42 +0000 http://www.voiceofkauai.com/hawaii-superferry-14.html#comment-164 Am trying to figure Bettie Tollett out when she talks about about a military state. For the love of poi and crumb cake! Am trying to figure Bettie Tollett out when she talks about about a military state. For the love of poi and crumb cake!

]]> Comment on Superferry, or Superscary? by Kelly Crankshow http://www.voiceofkauai.com/hawaii-superferry-14.html#comment-163 Kelly Crankshow Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:12:53 +0000 http://www.voiceofkauai.com/hawaii-superferry-14.html#comment-163 Michael Bowles' comments on Sept. 10th are exceptionally important and echo what we have been thinking. We were able to become Kauai residents in '05 and feel so fortunate. Can we just all try to increase the spirit of aloha? Would a monorail be of any practical value, assuming that the Miami project could be improved upon with small shuttle hook-ups to move people to their destinations. You look at the Syney, Australia projects, also, and you'll see that the traffic solutions with use of monorail and other adjunctive public transit have worked beautifully. Dress the monorails up with swaying palm trees and you would see a lovely way to decrease traffic congestion. One of the ways to transport yourself once you depart the monorail, by the way is the Chrysler electric vehicle resembling a golf cart, something which Palm Desert, Ca. (?) has recently adopted for street legal transportation. We first saw this cute little vehicle in wide-spread use in eywest, Fla. There is a dealer on Oahu who sells this. How about it Kauai and all y'all!? Aloha! Michael Bowles’ comments on Sept. 10th are exceptionally important and echo what we have been thinking. We were able to become Kauai residents in ‘05 and feel so fortunate. Can we just all try to increase the spirit of aloha? Would a monorail be of any practical value, assuming that the Miami project could be improved upon with small shuttle hook-ups to move people to their destinations. You look at the Syney, Australia projects, also, and you’ll see that the traffic solutions with use of monorail and other adjunctive public transit have worked beautifully. Dress the monorails up with swaying palm trees and you would see a lovely way to decrease traffic congestion. One of the ways to transport yourself once you depart the monorail, by the way is the Chrysler electric vehicle resembling a golf cart, something which Palm Desert, Ca. (?) has recently adopted for street legal transportation. We first saw this cute little vehicle in wide-spread use in eywest, Fla. There is a dealer on Oahu who sells this. How about it Kauai and all y’all!? Aloha!

]]> Comment on Superferry, or Superscary? by Kelly Crankshow http://www.voiceofkauai.com/hawaii-superferry-14.html#comment-162 Kelly Crankshow Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:46:28 +0000 http://www.voiceofkauai.com/hawaii-superferry-14.html#comment-162 aloha and mahalo nui loa for giving the opportunity to somehow make the superfery controversy into a catalyst for the big shift to bio fuels. How would we feel if Hawaii could lead the way, set the example for the much-needed shift away from fossil-fuel-dependence. Let us work together in harmony, with much, much aloha to you, forever! aloha and mahalo nui loa for giving the opportunity to somehow make the superfery controversy into a catalyst for the big shift to bio fuels. How would we feel if Hawaii could lead the way, set the example for the much-needed shift away from fossil-fuel-dependence. Let us work together in harmony, with much, much aloha to you, forever!

]]> Comment on Superferry, or Superscary? by Kelly Crankshow http://www.voiceofkauai.com/hawaii-superferry-14.html#comment-161 Kelly Crankshow Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:55:27 +0000 http://www.voiceofkauai.com/hawaii-superferry-14.html#comment-161 It would be excellent if planes didn't use diesel fual. And what if the cruise ships and barges and other shipping vessels didn't use fosil fuels. What if, instead, we revive the sugar cane growing in the entire state, (produce solar, wind and other renewable power sources, stop using fossile fuel to generate electricity, etc., etc., etc.,)? Many people have learned that Brazil, ?, uses sugar cane to produce bio fuels for all? of their fuel? This fuel substitues for all or most(?) of their diesel engines. There is a kit that can be used to convert any engine to a biofuel engine What action is being taken to get on the right track. Could Superferry lead the way. What say you? Senior folks like us are the elders and find the superferry to be the only way to do a reduced-stress inter-island experience It would be excellent if planes didn’t use diesel fual. And what if the cruise ships and barges and other shipping vessels didn’t use fosil fuels. What if, instead, we revive the sugar cane growing in the entire state, (produce solar, wind and other renewable power sources, stop using fossile fuel to generate electricity, etc., etc., etc.,)? Many people have learned that Brazil, ?, uses sugar cane to produce bio fuels for all? of their fuel? This fuel substitues for all or most(?) of their diesel engines. There is a kit that can be used to convert any engine to a biofuel engine What action is being taken to get on the right track. Could Superferry lead the way. What say you? Senior folks like us are the elders and find the superferry to be the only way to do a reduced-stress inter-island experience

]]> Comment on Superferry, or Superscary? by Bettie Tollett http://www.voiceofkauai.com/hawaii-superferry-14.html#comment-160 Bettie Tollett Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:23:18 +0000 http://www.voiceofkauai.com/hawaii-superferry-14.html#comment-160 The superferry requires 6500 gallons of diesel fuel per trip! We are not smart business people if we allow our businesses to depend on foreign resources. Maybe Bush/Lehman/Lingle want to teach us a really good lesson here! Be sure to take good notes and listen to what is "being" in our lifetimes NOW. Who has that much fuel to get rid of?? It's something to ponder! The superferry requires 6500 gallons of diesel fuel per trip! We are not smart business people if we allow our businesses to depend on foreign resources. Maybe Bush/Lehman/Lingle want to teach us a really good lesson here! Be sure to take good notes and listen to what is “being” in our lifetimes NOW. Who has that much fuel to get rid of?? It’s something to ponder!

]]> Comment on Superferry, or Superscary? by Bettie Tollett http://www.voiceofkauai.com/hawaii-superferry-14.html#comment-159 Bettie Tollett Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:49:23 +0000 http://www.voiceofkauai.com/hawaii-superferry-14.html#comment-159 Kauai is the last "country" feeling left for all of us to enjoy! The superferry can not make enough in revenue to ever stay in service without military involvement. Hawaii has been conquered once again by the World leaders. Hawaii now exists as a military state and will soon be under marshal law, I'm sure. Have you tried to walk the beach at Polihale? Military personel guard it and threatens you with arrest! Welcome to the new Kauai! I'm sure the tourists will really love it now! Aloha spirit is real in love and in anger! It's alive and well in all who feel it! Kauai is the last “country” feeling left for all of us to enjoy! The superferry can not make enough in revenue to ever stay in service without military involvement. Hawaii has been conquered once again by the World leaders. Hawaii now exists as a military state and will soon be under marshal law, I’m sure. Have you tried to walk the beach at Polihale? Military personel guard it and threatens you with arrest! Welcome to the new Kauai! I’m sure the tourists will really love it now! Aloha spirit is real in love and in anger! It’s alive and well in all who feel it!

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