Lee Cataluna’s recent column should be read by all residents, and certainly by all taxpayers on Oahu (“Anger grows over disparity in what we’re told and what we see,” Star- Advertiser, July 10).

It is factual, shocking and extremely accurate. The city is turning into one big trash heap, with homeless tents in our neighborhoods and parks, drug-dealing in our parks and streets and in Waikiki, the national shame of the Kealohas’ crimes, and the rail that a select few will ride at an exorbitant cost to each man, woman and child on our island, now and forever.

Let’s not mention the Neal S. Blaisdell Center upgrade or the state’s new stadium. If our tourists continue to see our lovely island rapidly deteriorate as we residents see it today, we all are in real big pilikia.

Bob Vieira

Pauoa Valley

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