By Hawaii State Senator Russell Kokubun
I have been deeply impressed with the sustainability essays by high school students that ran in last week’s Advertiser. With clear thinking (more…)
by Hawaii State Senator Gary L. Hooser
Thirty-two people who are employed by or who serve on boards of Wilcox Health signed their names to a full-page advertisement that ran recently in The Garden Island newspaper. The ad, headlined “An Open Letter to the Citizens of Kauai,” alleges that Senate Concurrent Resolution 170 (SCR170) “calls for the State to consider revoking Wilcox Health’s license to operate.” It further accuses the Legislature of “jeopardizing your access to care and opening the door for the State of Hawai‘i to take over your hospital and clinic.” Such assertions can only be described as patently misleading, excessively inflammatory and an irresponsible overreaction to the proposed resolution. I suspect most people who signed the ad did so at the request of Hawaii Pacific Health management and had not actually read the proposed resolution. (more…)
