"The unwelcoming sights...are indicative of the need for better-run airports."

So then what is the excuse for the fact that there are no public restrooms in the entire city and most of the island? Signs all over that say "NO public restroom!"

The airport is just a preview of what people will face in the rest of Honolulu.  It's not that we need better run airports, it's that we apparently do not give much though about sanitation in general in Hawaii.  No wonder we have some of the highest rates of staph infections in the country.  Other news stories of people setting bathrooms on fire, breaking toilets, etc.  we have people here that apparently can not comprehend what restrooms are used for. I know!  MMA or WWF Cage Match !

I was at one building that actually has a bathroom and asked a staff person why they keep the bathrooms locked. Her response "If we don't the homeless will use them!" Oh, we don't want that to happen. They might clean themselves then who will we complain about ?