I agree with those who have said that we do not need another Aloha Stadium. The current Clarence T.C. Ching stadium is adequate for our football team and is ideally located on the University of Hawaii campus. We should demolish the Aloha Stadium and sell the land to the highest bidder, possibly for housing.
Use the revenue from the sale of land, the allocated $350 million, and the anticipated state surplus for what we truly need: medical facilities and programs.
We need to expand our John A. Burns School of Medicine, Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy, nursing and medical-laboratory schools on all islands. We need to hire more professors and instructors and boost the enrollment and provide free tuition to our medical students who qualify, in exchange for serving us in our hospitals and nursing care facilities upon graduation.
We need to invest in maintaining and restoring our hospitals statewide. We need to provide up-to-date laboratory equipment. We need to fund medical research in such diseases prevalent in Hawaii. like dengue, rat-lung-worm, leptospirosis, as well as drug addiction; We need to improve the medevac service between islands and help the county ambulance fleet. We need to provide free vaccine and clinics statewide for the on-going covid problem which does want to disappear.
Who better than Gov. Josh Green, a doctor, to spend the money correctly and wisely?
Wilbert Kubota
Nuuanu
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