It is also a time-consuming process. This is why we take time. When we're all done, our decision is what becomes public. Everything will come out one voice. But, it doesn't have to be drastic.
Hard times exist everywhere.
At the moment, we have very little extra money to subsidize Niihau. They employ two to three times more Niihau workers than necessary and pay minimum wage. Due to the economic downturn, the Robinsons recently have cut back workers' hours, but are trying to avoid laying off anyone. Niihauans themselves might be able to work in NASA solar-plane research that soared to a height record last Monday over Niihau. In the first category are Mary Thronas, Kauai County Council chair, and Clayton Hee, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the state Office of Hawaiian Affairs.