Thank you Luke for a thoughtful piece, and you are right on about Mayor Kenoi. It seems like only a few years ago that we were at 5 or 6 million visitors per year....now we are reaching for 9 million. So, what have we got? Choke traffic for overheated commuters from Kapolei and Ewa, real estate and houses that most people cannot afford, greedy vacation rental people who seem not to want to pay their fair share of taxes, busted-up roads, an increasingly over-budget rail transit project, flooding that government seems unable to protect homes and families from, the largest homeless population in our history, and one of the largest in the country on a per capita basis, and more and more DOH postings of polluted waters, yet the mantra is "lets have more visitors". Sure, Kenoi is a paradox of emotions, but never forget where his heart is. We could all use a little more of the aloha that he has for our aina.