I went to the legislative talk story session held by Representatives Evans and Coffman last night.It was a overall very interesting meeting. The WHT reporter who covered it only touched the surface with her article.Both representatives were rightfully grilled and were asked the hard questions why the legislature again failed to address the laundry list of issues facing Kona.
However Hawaii County Councilman Kelly Greenwell did no one any favors with his questions and comments. He advocated civil disobedience to force the government to recognize the need for a new Kona hospital. On top of that, he stated that he is filing a lawsuit to block the construction of affordable housing surrounding Kealakehe High School because of the danger posed by the closed Kona landfill.
The other aspect of the meeting I found enlightening was when the discussion turned to the poor state of health care in Kona. The costs associated to improving Kona’s health care to the level of Oahu’s is out of sight. In a nutshell,it is likely that economics will likely prohibit significant improvements until the population of Hawaii County increases.
Hawaii County is facing yet another scandal. This time the real property tax division made an error that benefited relative of Deputy Corporation Counsel Gerald Takase. I found this reader comment to this article rather amusing :
” Yet another sneak attack by the Bento Bandits, where will it end Kenoi. Mushubi politics run deep in the anals of county goverment. No reprimands, no demotions, no furloughs, no layoffs, there’s nothing that Kenoi has done to stem the tide of corruption on his watch. Anything less than beheadings is unacceptable. FIRE THEM NOW !! “
I found this commentary questioning the US Air Force’s plans to build a new runway at Kona Int’l for C-17 training.If Bob Jones looked farther beyond his nose, he’d find that there is a lot of legitimate reasons for the USAF to do this project.
Lastly, I received this e-mail in regards to the future of the Discovery Harbour Golf Course.
“To: Members of the Discovery Harbour Concerned Citizens Group
We received confirmation this morning. The buyer is South Point Investment Group.I believe that Larry Dolan is the project coordinator. We will wait until the Board of Directors receives their proposals. At this point, we can only wait and see. The Board should consider forming a Golf Committee to work with the new owners.
I feel quite sure that the new owners will be contacting all property owners in the near future.
That is all I have to report at this time.
Thanks for your participation…”
May 29th, 2009 at 10:12 PM
Aaron, are you keeping track of the current scandals that have happened this year? I’m pretty sure we’re at 5 or something.