MyM - Maybe it's time Hawaii, the Hawaiian community, stands up and protect our own.
While the goal is laudable, what are the details to actually achieve this? Be interested to hear a plan for any of the recently discussed topics.
Could the community "Kaho'olawe" newly opened federal waters? Maybe? Only at great expense and up against a legal regime that is winning half-billion dollar SLAPP suits against those that help indigenous folks protect their territories.
How does a poor community like Puna pay to train/recruit/retain medical professionals when many of community members can't pay the basic fees for service or medicine?
Edge advocated for more taxes on the rich - which makes sense and fits the long history of the government making large community investments and recouping the costs through high taxes on top earners (MAGA seems to have a hard-on for the 1950s - must be fans of the ~90% marginal / ~45% effective tax rate for top earners at the time?). Do Benioff and Oprah stick around when the State comes to shear their wealth?
Not trying to be a naysayer just trying to understand how a state and community that relies on the federal government for 20% of their direct budget (not to mention many hundreds of millions in indirect benefits from Military and other Federal services spending like USDA/USGS/DOE/etc) unwinds that dependency without massive suffering.
Looks like U.H. is going to be subjected to those trials and tribulations sooner than most of us.
UH loses $30M in federal funds; 36 research programs to be cut
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/202...to-be-cut/
"The University of Hawaii announced Thursday it has lost $30 million in federal funding for research, just as the school sees the number of revoked student visas “literally (change) by the hour,” according to a Thursday announcement made by UH President Wendy Hensel.
At a Board of Regents meeting at Kapiolani Community College on Thursday, Hensel announced that as of Tuesday the cuts had affected more than 40 employees and gutted 36 research programs related to “diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility, sustainability, renewable energy, climate change and minority health disparities.”
In addition to the $30 million already lost, she said the 10- campus system possibly could lose $26 million in federal funds this fiscal year with more recent research funding cuts from the federal Department of Energy." (more at link)
While the goal is laudable, what are the details to actually achieve this? Be interested to hear a plan for any of the recently discussed topics.
Could the community "Kaho'olawe" newly opened federal waters? Maybe? Only at great expense and up against a legal regime that is winning half-billion dollar SLAPP suits against those that help indigenous folks protect their territories.
How does a poor community like Puna pay to train/recruit/retain medical professionals when many of community members can't pay the basic fees for service or medicine?
Edge advocated for more taxes on the rich - which makes sense and fits the long history of the government making large community investments and recouping the costs through high taxes on top earners (MAGA seems to have a hard-on for the 1950s - must be fans of the ~90% marginal / ~45% effective tax rate for top earners at the time?). Do Benioff and Oprah stick around when the State comes to shear their wealth?
Not trying to be a naysayer just trying to understand how a state and community that relies on the federal government for 20% of their direct budget (not to mention many hundreds of millions in indirect benefits from Military and other Federal services spending like USDA/USGS/DOE/etc) unwinds that dependency without massive suffering.
Looks like U.H. is going to be subjected to those trials and tribulations sooner than most of us.
UH loses $30M in federal funds; 36 research programs to be cut
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/202...to-be-cut/
"The University of Hawaii announced Thursday it has lost $30 million in federal funding for research, just as the school sees the number of revoked student visas “literally (change) by the hour,” according to a Thursday announcement made by UH President Wendy Hensel.
At a Board of Regents meeting at Kapiolani Community College on Thursday, Hensel announced that as of Tuesday the cuts had affected more than 40 employees and gutted 36 research programs related to “diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility, sustainability, renewable energy, climate change and minority health disparities.”
In addition to the $30 million already lost, she said the 10- campus system possibly could lose $26 million in federal funds this fiscal year with more recent research funding cuts from the federal Department of Energy." (more at link)