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RE: Big Island Organizations & Programs Losing Funding - randomq - 10-31-2025
Hospitals, doctor's offices, and grocery stores are anchor institutions in local economies, and provide jobs and knock-on spending to other small businesses. If the stated goals of Project 2025 are realized, we will have a lot less federal money coming into our island to those anchor institutions. As we are not a wealthy island with a lot of other industries, it translates to a lot of people's health and finances suffering.
Our government officials will perform studies and raise taxes, duh! :-)
leilanidude, I'm not firing you, I'm just significantly reshaping and scaling back my role in paying you by shifting the power and funding to other entities.
RE: Big Island Organizations & Programs Losing Funding - Durian Fiend - 10-31-2025
(10-29-2025, 04:58 PM)leilanidude Wrote: Project 2025 does not explicitly call for eliminating all government involvement in healthcare, education, and social safety nets. Instead, the blueprint advocates for conservative reforms that would significantly reshape or scale back the federal government's role in these areas. These proposed changes would largely shift power and funding from the federal level to state and private entities. ChaptGPT version
It does call for eliminating the federal department of education and the headstart program. The latter would be a big loss for Hawaii as lots of kids are enrolled through this in preschools.
But of course the authors of Project 2025 are "extremists", and members of "the far right" according to the president, so most of its recommendations won't be pursued-right?
RE: Big Island Organizations & Programs Losing Funding - HereOnThePrimalEdge - 11-01-2025
Fortunately it appears a judge has stepped in to prevent the illegal cutoff of SNAP funds in Puna, in Hawaii, and elsewhere. Our neighbors will be fed. It’s hard to imagine some supported not feeding the hungry, even harder to imagine there was support for illegal actions.
RE: Big Island Organizations & Programs Losing Funding - leilanidude - 11-02-2025
(11-01-2025, 03:28 AM)HereOnThePrimalEdge Wrote: Fortunately it appears a judge has stepped in to prevent the illegal cutoff of SNAP funds in Puna, in Hawaii, and elsewhere. Our neighbors will be fed. It’s hard to imagine some supported not feeding the hungry, even harder to imagine there was support for illegal actions.
If you are trying to seem like I (as OP) was in that league, you are wrong. I was merely pointing out the inefficient manner in which the state decided to do this distribution, in a manner of additional bureaucracy only a Hawaii Democrat would love.
Also, why did the state hoard $400 million in TANF funds over the last few years instead of distributing those funds where they belong?
The Hawaii Democrats kept money from the needy...
RE: Big Island Organizations & Programs Losing Funding - HereOnThePrimalEdge - 11-26-2025
Not content with making life more difficult for Hawaii coffee growers, now big gubmint will increase fees for foreign tourists visiting national parks. I’m at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park frequently, and a good percentage of visitors there are from outside the country. They stay at local Volcano B&B’s or Volcano House, buy art from the Art Center, eat at local restaurants, buy snacks at local general stores. Thanks for the one-two punch in the gut of our Big Island businesses.
The interior department announced today new “America-first” entrance fees for national parks, commemorative annual passes featuring Donald Trump and “resident-only patriotic fee-free days for 2026” including Trump’s birthday.
Starting next year, entrance fees for international visitors will more than triple.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/25/national-park-fee-non-residents
RE: Big Island Organizations & Programs Losing Funding - kalianna - 11-26-2025
The part I like is this:
"This year we’re making it easier and more affordable for every American to experience the beauty and freedom of our public lands. Starting in 2026, United States residents will be able to purchase an annual interagency pass for just $80,” he added. The current, annual interagency America the Beautiful pass is already $80."
RE: Big Island Organizations & Programs Losing Funding - 'elepaio - 11-26-2025
muito bom ^^^
RE: Big Island Organizations & Programs Losing Funding - HereOnThePrimalEdge - 04-14-2026
Good Horrible article from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. The article is excellent, but the subject matter is more budget cuts that affect every single person in Puna.
3/4’s of forest service research stations are being closed. Raise your hands. How many of you have an ohia tree in your yard? Every day, more madness.
The outlook in Hilo, Hawaii.
Although the tropical forests of Hawaii may not be the first thing to come to mind when one thinks about the Forest Service, the agency has been conducting research there since 1957—work that has only become more urgent in recent years, as the islands battle fires, floods, and invasive species.
The ohia tree, a flowering evergreen that makes up around 90 percent of Hawaii’s tree canopy, has been besieged by a fungal disease that causes rapid ohia death, threatening to wipe out vast swaths of native forest. Native plant species are rapidly being replaced by nonnatives like strawberry guava—a water hog that sucks up groundwater resources. In more arid regions of the islands, invasive grasses spread rapidly during the wet season and then dry out, creating more fuel for devastating wildfires like the one in Lahaina in 2023.
The Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry has been working on all these issues and more. Closing the station will have enormous ramifications for local communities who depend on that research to protect the islands’ watersheds, prevent wildfires, and conserve the native forests for wildlife and the tourism economy.
https://thebulletin.org/2026/04/its-just-madness-trump-administration-to-close-three-quarters-of-forest-service-research-stations/
RE: Big Island Organizations & Programs Losing Funding - HiloJulie - 04-15-2026
While this US Forestry Reserve massive closure and reorganization will be very disruptive to all of Hawaii and especially here on the Big Island, the sole impetus and main goal of this closure is to vastly increase US commercial timber production. The closures as it relates to Hawaii is us just being caught in the crossfire.
Not going to go into further detail or post any factual sources of factual information so as to keep the sacred sanctity of keeping all posts Puna/Hawaii specific, so if you care, research it yourself.
The real question as it relates to Hawaii, is who could possibly support this? And how will we ever recover from it?
RE: Big Island Organizations & Programs Losing Funding - TomK - 04-15-2026
(04-15-2026, 04:55 AM)HiloJulie Wrote: While this US Forestry Reserve massive closure and reorganization will be very disruptive to all of Hawaii and especially here on the Big Island, the sole impetus and main goal of this closure is to vastly increase US commercial timber production. The closures as it relates to Hawaii is us just being caught in the crossfire.
Not going to go into further detail or post any factual sources of factual information so as to keep the sacred sanctity of keeping all posts Puna/Hawaii specific, so if you care, research it yourself.
The real question as it relates to Hawaii, is who could possibly support this? And how will we ever recover from it?
"factual sources of factual information" is such an interesting comment, especially given the context.