Highway merge is dangerous

(The following letter was sent to Sen. Angus McKelvey.)

I am reaching out to you to address a dangerous traffic situation on West Maui. Two days ago, a cyclist was killed at the merge of Highway 3,000 and Highway 30 eastbound. The merging of these two thoroughfares creates a very dangerous situation and should be dealt with before any further accidents or deaths occur. Traffic eastbound on Highway 30 should be directed to traffic signals at Hokiokio or Launiupoko to control flow.

You are from West Maui. Go to this spot and observe for yourself what occurs on a daily basis. I reached out to the Maui DOT, but they say that changes have to come from above. So, that’s you! I hope this is taken seriously.

FREDERICK LaCOUNT, Lahaina

The Napili monster house and Maui County’s disregard for owners that pay taxes

To the mayor, Planning Commission and all others involved in this Greg Brown embarrassment: I am an owner at Napili Shores. I bought a condo in the last three years, and I bought it because I knew that nothing could be built taller than a coconut tree. This keeps the community feeling more like a small community and not a mega resort/hotel. We all pay higher prices for our properties for this sense of community.

This Greg Brown Development is a disgusting blemish on the Maui County Planning Department and the Mayor’s Office. The fact that this project was pushed through is an embarrassment to the Maui Office of Planning and the mayor. Shame on you all for your compliance and lack of representation for your existing constituents!

Now, he is allowed to clear public land for his personal use in front of his building for extra guest parking; this is unacceptable. Further, he is allowed to rent a three-story building when two stories is all that is allowed by county ordinance, Lastly, that he was allowed to have built a 24-unit building with only eight parking spaces is unacceptable. Why, the guests are going to overflow into our parking lot. If he rents out the 24 units with two guests per unit, that is 48 people — and parking for eight cars. Has the Fire Department signed off on that?

In my substantial real estate portfolio, I have a building where the Fire Department has pulled permits on the number of rentable units based solely on available parking.

Your lack of following building ordinances caused all the rest of us to be impacted by the size and parking of a building that should never have been allowed to this magnitude.

Shame on all of you for your compliance in this project, total lack of regard for your constituents and the impact this building will have on the larger community. We will feel the impact, and you will have the money.

MONICA DAVIS, Napili

Can a felon be elected president?

What kind of country are we becoming?

Ex “President” Trump is praising Lukaschenko and says, “If I become president again, the ‘conflict’ is over in a month.”

Trump is schizophrenic in my humble opinion. On one side, he is a right-extremist; on the other side, he supports the extreme left. He would hand Ukraine to Putin on a silver platter.

And that somebody who is convicted of a felony can be elected president? He would not be allowed to vote but to be elected… what kind of laws do we have?

I wonder when the Russian together with the Confederate flag are going to wave over the USA. The guy belongs in a psychiatric institution together with his supporters.

PLEASE GOD, save the USA!

JOHN BLAHUTA, Lahaina

Trump must be held accountable

No matter where we fall on the political spectrum, if we care about the rule of law and protecting our country’s national security, we should support the latest federal investigation and indictment of Donald Trump.

A group of everyday Americans, fulfilling their civic duty by serving on a grand jury, reviewed mountains of evidence — including testimony from dozens of witnesses, documents, and more. They decided there was enough evidence that Trump committed a crime to bring charges against him. Thirty-seven charges in fact.

Trump is charged with violating the Espionage Act, obstruction of justice, and conspiracy. According to the indictment, he knowingly took documents from the CIA, Pentagon, and National Security Agency that contained everything from U.S. nuclear secrets to potential military vulnerabilities and our response plans for a possible foreign attack against us.

Trump publicly and repeatedly confirmed that he intentionally took classified documents containing highly classified materials with grave national security implications. He touted them around to unauthorized people at his private residence, and then he tried to prevent law enforcement from getting back what he stole. These crimes are too serious to be ignored.

Fame, fortune and title don’t make someone above the law — that includes Trump.

When others have committed crimes of this nature, they were prosecuted. The same must happen here.

Our democracy depends on it.

KIMO KENYON, Kahului