Rat Lung research funding not going to UHH

[randomq]

Kalakoa, I'm with you. What's the first step?

[Durian Fiend]

"The Health Department, which hadn’t requested the funding and doesn’t have a plan for using it"

I bet research dollars to UH Hilo will be forthcoming.

Some money spent on educating the public about risks and precautions could also be worthwhile. A good argument can be made for assigning that task to DOH rather than university researchers.

[leilanidude]

It's past time for Hawaii Island to secede from the State of Hawaii.
Consider: 70% of our budget is from property tax. Wouldn't take much to be self-funded.
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I maintain that a majority reason for the state's high cost of living is the ridiculous amount of county and state employees and their unheard of, in the private sector, benefit packages and pensions.

[kalakoa]

http://westhawaiitoday.com/news/local-ne...-get-worse

Kahele said his bill to provide funding for the University of Hawaii at Hilo’s rat lungworm disease research efforts also died Friday.

[Eric1600]

A host of bills has failed because they are all busy fighting each other.

Dr. Susan Jarvi, a researcher at the University of Hawai`i Hilo College of Pharmacy, has been leading efforts to understand rat lung. The Department of Health should get involved to stop the spread. Neither effort received funding because of a clash in personalities between different Senators.

Not only that but several bills I thought would have sailed through fell apart.

The legislature failed to fund rat lung research and prevention, voting-by-mail, and a number of energy bills. The Senate failed to confirm one of the most qualified commissioners in the history of the Public Utilities Commission. But the legislature is poised to pass a strange bill that would create guidance for the Public Utilities Commission.

All the gory details are laid out here: http://www.ililani.media/2017/04/faction...state.html

[kalakoa]

http://www.westhawaiitoday.com/news/loca...e-total-13

The sources of the new patients' exposure have not been determined, according to the department. Officials are not calling this year's outbreak an epidemic.

[Kenney]

Boy, that's a disgusting read. Health and Voting just aren't important here..