Patients Rights are key given the impact of HMOs. Job-development has been and remains my top local priority. Stress expansion of existing small businesses to create jobs. Strive to attract major companies to locate in the area with new jobs. Job skills must be upgraded first in order to create or attract good jobs.
Access is the key to jobs, so keep pressing for better highways and airports.
Develop recreation, clean streams and other quality of life improvements to draw business. Technology-based education in local schools. Internet access, fiber-optics and related technology for rural communities. Quality of life improvements, including parks, trails, stream improvements, preservation of green space. Medical breakthroughs to cure cancer, birth defects, diabetes and other diseases.