But I think there's some hope there too, because our school district, District 81, and the other districts are very sensitive to bringing technology into the schools. You know, I'm proud to say we don't have a congestion problem to speak of in Spokane. We're a trade center and it would greatly help our freight mobility if we could have that access and allow Canada access to it through town on a highway that didn't slow the trucks down. The license tabs, right. And without that funding source the dollars went away.
Parking is also important.
And obviously energy is another key issue. Right, you have mills out here. The biggest threat we probably have is losing Kaiser's plant at Mead, which is currently shut down. I think the critical thing for me is that it's important, particularly for communities like Spokane, to have people who have a real stake in the community, and lots of those people are small business people. And what you want is people to have a successful business and be proud of their community and proud of what they're doing and to be able to give back, whether that's to the museum, to the symphony, to the social service agencies.