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Drug trafficking and firearms violations continue to be a threat to the people living in Kuhio Park housing, as much as we’d like to think the renovations there have improved living conditions.
But fortunately law enforcement hasn’t thrown in the towel: Federal and local authorities last week indicted 37 people and arrested 22 in raids that reached California as well as island locations.
Hawaii has a deficient supply of low-income dwellings as it is. Ongoing vigilance is what’s needed to protect those that public housing can accommodate.
Common sense up in the air on in-flight phone calls
Anyone who has been annoyed by clueless loud talkers on cell phones on the ground, surely doesn’t see the sense behind allowing phone conversations in the air. In the inescapable confines of an airplane, thousands of miles in the air, on a five-hour flight to or from Hawaii, that would be aggravating indeed.
But the U.S. Department of Transportation is now broaching the possibility of allowing airlines to decide if Wi-Fi calls might be allowed aboard their flights. The flight attendants’ union is opposed. We understand.