10-02-2016, 09:15 AM
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"It’s about opportunity
The University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization projects that Hawaii’s construction sector will peak and then start declining within about a year. This is one more reason we support the Thirty Meter Telescope. Its construction jobs will help our island’s economy during the telescope’s 10-year building phase and throughout the 50-year life of the project.
We also believe the broken UH teaching telescope, Hoku Kea, should not be decommissioned. A replacement, state-of-the-art telescope is here already, but talk has been about relocating it to the UH-Hilo campus. Wait — put a telescope almost at sea level in the rainiest city in the U.S., rather than at one of the best astronomy locations in the world? Why would we do that?
We need to support the TMT and Hoku Kea to help our economy and increase our students’ learning opportunities.
These goals are so much more positive than Palikapu Dedman digging up our ancestors’ bones and relocating them to an unpermitted ahu on Mauna Kea in an effort to block construction. I vigorously protest his doing that. Who gives him the right to speak for me?
I want opportunities for our keiki to become excited and knowledgeable about science. I want opportunities that help keep our economy on track. It’s what we all want. The Hoku Kea and TMT will provide these opportunities.
Richard Ha
Hilo "
"It’s about opportunity
The University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization projects that Hawaii’s construction sector will peak and then start declining within about a year. This is one more reason we support the Thirty Meter Telescope. Its construction jobs will help our island’s economy during the telescope’s 10-year building phase and throughout the 50-year life of the project.
We also believe the broken UH teaching telescope, Hoku Kea, should not be decommissioned. A replacement, state-of-the-art telescope is here already, but talk has been about relocating it to the UH-Hilo campus. Wait — put a telescope almost at sea level in the rainiest city in the U.S., rather than at one of the best astronomy locations in the world? Why would we do that?
We need to support the TMT and Hoku Kea to help our economy and increase our students’ learning opportunities.
These goals are so much more positive than Palikapu Dedman digging up our ancestors’ bones and relocating them to an unpermitted ahu on Mauna Kea in an effort to block construction. I vigorously protest his doing that. Who gives him the right to speak for me?
I want opportunities for our keiki to become excited and knowledgeable about science. I want opportunities that help keep our economy on track. It’s what we all want. The Hoku Kea and TMT will provide these opportunities.
Richard Ha
Hilo "