Le Journal

I currently use an app from my insurance provider, USAA, called “Safe Pilot.” It monitors my driving and, based on positive scoring, gives me discounts on premiums. More importantly, the app has helped me become more aware of my driving and improved it — saner, slower and more mindful.

I would like to believe that taking a written test about Hawaii’s driving laws to renew your license would get dangerous drivers off the road. But as a law-abiding driver for many years, just knowing the laws will not make people observe them. Speeders will continue to speed, and irresponsible drivers will not use directional signals and cut in and out of lanes.

This basketball season, Hawaii wing Quandre “Dre” Bullock has impressed by leaps and ‘bounds.

Question: While visiting my daughter in Brooklyn over the holidays I noticed that they have curbside recycling for kitchen scraps. They put food waste in the same bin as their green waste (which mainly comes from plants inside their apartment, although they do also have a tiny yard). We have curbside recycling at home in Hawaii Kai but our food waste goes in the gray bin with the regular household trash — it’s not composted with yard clippings in the green bin. The blue cart is for mixed recyclables, such as plastic, not food waste. Please ask the city about this. It seems Honolulu could do better.