Thank you, again, Ms. Cataluna for telling it like it is.  Our community appears to no longer be able to address even the most finite and clear challenges to our cultural, natural and aesthetic heritages.  There is, I fear, a kind of collective exhaustion that has set in, not only in our political leadership but in the broader community.  If we can't protect the public's right to maintain its cultural treasures, sidewalks, parks and beaches but consistently reward "hardcore" behavior with "benign neglect" what hope do we have of creating a better  future for Hawaii's people? The inexorable decline of our public finances, the rapid spread of alien and feral species that endanger native plants and animals( as well as the human population), and the unwillingness to stand up against an insidious erosion of our ability to impose consequences on behaviors that are damaging to our community's well-being, do not bode well for our future.  "We have seen the enemy, and he is us" (Pogo).