04-07-2019, 06:50 AM
"What's the difference."
Surely this is a rhetorical question, but I'll give the obvious answers.
Hanalei valley has more moneyed interests than Puna.
Kauai doesn't have Harry Kim for a mayor.
Kauai has more money than Puna.
Kauai, despite being in Hawaii, would seem to have a legislative delegation and county bureaucracy more proficient at extracting funds from both the feds and the state.
Places with more money paradoxically get more financial assistance than poor places that need it more.
Surely this is a rhetorical question, but I'll give the obvious answers.
Hanalei valley has more moneyed interests than Puna.
Kauai doesn't have Harry Kim for a mayor.
Kauai has more money than Puna.
Kauai, despite being in Hawaii, would seem to have a legislative delegation and county bureaucracy more proficient at extracting funds from both the feds and the state.
Places with more money paradoxically get more financial assistance than poor places that need it more.