Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 7, Number 10, 1 October 1990 — Parents needed [ARTICLE]

Parents needed

Na 'Ohana Pulama, a program of Catholic Services to Families, is continually in need of highly committed and energetic people with good parenting skills and a stable home environment to provide family-based treatment to troubled children and teenagers. Intensive and continuing training and support and a tax-free monthly stipend are provided. To apply, or for more details, eall Warren Aoki at 536-1794.

national debt? 2. How ean Congress reduce recurring deficits? More taxes (what kind), cut social and eeonomie assistance spending, trim military spending, etc.? 3. What ean be done about our negative balance of trade? 4. Can Congress do more on behalf of affordable housing? On behalf of the homeless? 5. Now that a peaceful globe seems possible, how ean peaee be realized? Here, in Hawai'i, one may ask where do the various candidates stand? For example, where do they stand concerning: 1. Affordable land and housing? Is it possible for public officials to do more than talk and actually resolve a complex problem Hawai'i has faced since World War II? 2. Traffic control and/or mass transit? 3. Governmental rosts that have increased multiple times in the past decade and a relative!y high tax situation whieh confronts an aging Hawai'i9 4. Improved efficiency and effectiveness within the public service? 5. Alternative energy development and its effect upon the environment? People of Hawaiian extraction will be well advised to be as active as possible in this and future election periods. As Hawaii's political probiems have mounted in recent years, native Hawaiian participation appears to have dwindled. Such a trend should and ean be reversed! However, it ean be accomplished on!y if individuals will participate in politics throughout eaeh yearand, in particular, during poliheal campaign periods. Dan Tuttle is best knownfor his political analysis of Hawai'i elections fro 1958 to 1986 on KGMB radio and teleuision. He wrote a political analysis eolumn for the Honolulu Advertiser and taught at the University of Hawai'i from 1950 to 1989. He received his PhDfrom the University of Minnesota as a polilieal scientist. He is executive director of the Hawai'i Education Association, a post he also held from 1966 to 1971.

He kuku kukui i he'e ka pilali. (A kukui tree oozing with gum.) A prosperous person. From " 'Olelo No'eau" (Hawaiian Proverbs and Poetical Sayings) by Mary Kawena Pukui, 1 983 Publication 71, Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu, Hawai'i.