Nice article, maybe Trump's idiocy will wake up some locals to pay attention to the disfunction here. 
Here's an idea that might cover both local and national disfunction:  If Trump starts cutting grants to states (check out his promise to cut EPA and its grants) what will that do to our already inefficient bureaucracy.  HI DOH already can't do anything significant without the federal EPA taking the lead.  We need a federal money and oversight  in many of our programs, what happens when that oversight and money goes away.