Star-Bulletin's closing is a personal loss

My personal ties to the Star-Bulletin go back almost two decades when I made the daily bike ride to deliver the newspaper to over a hundred subscribers on a couple of streets in Mililani.

Every day, while bundling my papers with rubber bands before heading out on my two-hour delivery routine, I would read the Bulletin from front to back, just curious about what was going on in the world.

These days, when I see the ink on my hands after reading the Bulletin, those paper-boy days always come to mind.

Keith Kamisugi
Via the Internet

Hearing the news about the Honolulu Star- Bulletin going out of business is a total shock. One of the things that you'd expect to be there, aiding the public with timely and solid information, will soon be gone.

I personally prefer your newspaper to your competition, not only because of your late edition but the level of professionalism that I see in your stories and other features.

It truly is a sad day for Hawaii to lose such a big part of Hawaii.

Glenn Otaguro
Via the Internet

Quotables "The workers are getting shafted again." Eusebio Lapenia ILWU president On hearing that 34 Hawaii Newspaper Agency delivery employees will lose their jobs with the closing of the Star-Bulletin "Partially as a result of (no new pools), we have a whole generation of young people who aren't able to swim. When you live in an island state, it's important that young people who grow up here are water people." Jeremy Harris Honolulu Mayor As construction begins at Makiki District Park on the city's first swimming pool in two decades

People should boycott anti-teacher movie

I have seen the trailer for "Teaching Mrs. Tingle" and am very concerned about what we are showing to our children.

With the troubles in our schools all over the country, why is the movie industry making a film in which students don't like a teacher, so they kidnap and torture her? Do we want our children to emulate these characters? Do we want more trouble on our campuses?

I have never been pro-censorship, but "Teaching Mrs. Tingle" needs to be removed from the theaters in our community. This is the only way to show the movie industry that we will not spend our money on films like this.

Michael Mastronardi
Mililani
Via the Internet

Hawaii prices are even higher than you think

I totally agree with claims of price gouging in Hawaii. My frequent business trips to the islands allow me to witness, first hand, your state's high prices.

I live in Orange County and, according to the Orange County Register newspaper, our prices are 30 percent higher than the rest of the mainland.

This means Hawaii prices are even more out of line with the rest of the nation.

David Cheek
Newport Beach, Calif.
Via the Internet

So much for gas company's promises

When ARCO entered the Hawaii market, it announced that its arrival represented the end of high gas prices in Hawaii.

As I drive through various sections of the island, however, I see a spread of gas prices ranging from lows of $1.35 a gallon in the gas war section of Nanakuli to $1.39 in most other areas, with an occasional high of $1.41.

The median price of regular gas in Hawaii right now is $1.39. Lo and behold, ARCO prices are right in the middle in all areas.

Nowhere do I see evidence of the ARCO bravado of low prices. As a matter of fact, the station at ARCO headquarters at Nuuanu and School displays a $1.41 price on the pump! Another illustration of mainland misinterpretation of Hawaii's economy and false predictions of wonderful solutions.

W.W. Robinson

Satellite city hall must improve its service

I would like to express my concern about the lack of customer service at the satellite city hall at Pearl Ridge Center.

On arriving there recently, I was greeted by a line of about 18-22 people, with only two administrators behind the desk. No one was standing in the line of the cashier.

So I walked up to the cashier and asked where I could get a dog sterilization certificate. She directed me to the imposing line.

After waiting in that line for 30-40 minutes, I finally reached the front. On asking for a dog sterilization certificate, the administrator walked back to the cashier's window, opened a drawer and produced the certificate I needed. She told me to fill it out and pay the cashier.

Total time wasted: 30 minutes.

Why didn't the cashier who I spoke to initially simply open the drawer and hand me the form? Better yet, why wasn't there a counter with all forms requiring payment only, with directions on how to fill them out?

One more thing: I asked if I could pay by credit/debit card, but was told only cash or checks were accepted. A sign should state this information.

Lance L. McRoberts

Hawaii keeps voting for a bunch of losers

Recently, Margery Bronster received glowing praise for her work as the former attorney general who was fired by the Legislature for daring to shine light on the Bishop Estate trustees.

These are the trustees who the IRS said the estate had to dump or lose its tax-exempt status, the trustees who Sen. Dan Akaka recommended for a raise because of the good job they were doing.

This is the senator who, along with another U.S. senator named Dan, voted to acquit a lying, scandal-ridden president because they all were Democrats and that's what Democrats do.

Interesting to put such things in perspective, isn't it? What's pathetic, though, is that the voters of this state continue to put these sorry people in political office. How bad does it have to get?

Ken Schoef
Mililani
Via the Internet

Pardon of terrorists is unforgivable

Deceiver Clinton adds another disgusting black mark for American history by granting clemency to Puerto Rican terrorists.

That blatantly pathetic act was followed by equally spineless endorsement by Reps. Neil Abercrombie and Patsy Mink, and Sen. Dan Akaka.

At least Sen. Dan Inouye had the guts to condemn clemency.

Martin Halsey Grubb
Pearl City

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