Ewa Beach developers should repair roads

With all the development in the Ewa Beach area, there has been an increased number of big rigs on Fort Weaver Road. In the last year, Fort Weaver Road continues to crack or break up.

I wonder if the developers of all the new townhouses and especially Ocean Pointe would be willing to repair the roads when they get done destroying them. Besides destroying the only major road out of Ewa Beach, the trucks are stirring up a lot of dirt and rocks.

Luke Meyers
Ewa Beach
Via the Internet

Quotables "We value the whole child; you cannot say to a child, 'Strap a part of yourself.' Every time we close the door on pidgin, we close the door on culture." Lois-Ann Yamanaka Former public school teacher and author who has written books in pidgin English Who believes banning pidgin English in Hawaii classrooms could damage a child's sense of identity "He must have got fired. I don't know. He never said anything this morning." Hiro Uyesugi Father of Byran K. Uyesugi, a Xerox maintenance employee Discussing his son's demeanor before he went to work yesterday morning at the Xerox Engineering Systems office on Nimitz Highway and allegedly shot to death seven co-workers

'Liberals' want control over life and death

It amazes me how you so-called liberals hate human life the way you do! You attack life from both ends of the life span. You support the murder of unborn children in the womb. And now you want legislation to justify the murder of patients suffering from terminal illnesses (Editorial, Oct. 29).

How dare you try to play God, when you are no more than creatures yourselves! It is God who gives life in the mother's womb. Who are you to want to kill it? It is God who takes life at the end of a grave illness. Who are you to jump in prematurely to end it? Many terminally ill patients suffer terribly, but they do experience the release of death (else their ailment would not be terminal). But, all in due time.

Rev. Lawrence Wheeler
Kaneohe
Via the Internet

Legislature must allow death with dignity

The Star-Bulletin's Oct. 29 "Assisted suicide" editorial, recommending that states be allowed to adopt physician-assisted suicide laws, was right on the money.

Having seen some older Wiigs pass away peacefully in their homes, while others wheezed to death in intensive care units with painful tubes in every orifice, I'm for the peaceful path.

Assisted suicide allows dying people to pass peacefully and simply, surrounded by family and friends. This path also avoids the financial destitution that often accompanies intensive care.

I vote for Hawaii's legislators showing the light of aloha by enabling us to pass away peacefully, surrounded by love and dignity.

Howard C. Wiig

Grandfather is proud of UH Wahine player

After reading Cindy Luis' Oct. 21 article in the Star-Bulletin on Margaret Vakasausau, I leaned back in my lounge chair and mused smugly, "So what else is new?"

I have known for a long time that my granddaughter had the right stuff to play volleyball to the max and that she would fit into the vaunted Wahine system at the University of Hawaii.

Hey, I wasn't even disappointed when she didn't go out to Iowa, even though I am an alumnus of the University of Iowa. It is cold there during volleyball season; Iowa volleyball is not that great.

My granddaughter is at the top of a lot of other things as well as sports. She played viola in the school orchestra, appeared in some plays, and took home the scholastic bacon in English, math and all those other awful subjects with which one has to cope in the early years.

I am sure that Margaret's coaches and her teachers appreciate the scholarship she brings to the classroom as well as her skills on the court. That's really what it's all about.

William A. Harper
San Diego
Via the Internet

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Different ideas about
death of daily paper

Public doesn't want an afternoon paper

It's abundantly clear that our community doesn't support the evening daily paper.

Because I don't subscribe to either daily (I read a copy at work or online), I've been hounded for many months by telemarketers to subscribe for almost free. It's sad that good ol' daily reading is a dying activity for too many people.

It's my fond desire that one or two of our local TV news broadcasts would also die. Too often their reporting is just awful, a genuine embarrassment.

Let the Star-Bulletin die peacefully, without expending resources to artificially prolong its weak vital signs. In its ashes, a phoenix will arise: the Honolulu Weekly, Midweek, and the buy-and-sell newspapers.

Alan T. Matsuda
Via the Internet

Paper should look into real reason for closing

The loss of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin means the loss of a very important check on local government -- something a one-party controlled state Legislature, such as ours, especially needs.

The owner of the Star-Bulletin said the reason for closing it was declining revenues, which sounds like the paper is still in the black. Yet your owner doesn't even place the Bulletin up for sale.

It seems that the real reasons are not being stated as to why the Bulletin is being closed down. Your investigative reporters (who are the best in the state) should get to the bottom of this.

Jack Law
Via the Internet

Treasure must be saved from extinction

What a sorry state of affairs! I have been a subscriber to this paper for almost seven years. Your staff seems to have a knack of hitting the nail directly on the head.

My 10-year-old special-needs son waits by the window every day for the paper to arrive so he can do his job and bring it in the house.

There must be a company in this state that would buy this true treasure of Hawaii.

Roger Yoder
Via the Internet

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Text of injunction halting shutdown
Text of refusal to lift injunction
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