Personal privacy in the Internet age is very important to Democrats and we'll be pushing legislation along those lines. In some other areas, the governor is proposing some net increases in the operating budget that are, for example, public health and child immunizations, those are things that capture enormous amounts of federal funds, are important to rural safety. The governor's proposal that he announced at the Alaska Federation of Natives for increasing Village Public Safety Officers and village magistrates the public safety concerns in Bush Alaska are enormous and they affect not just those residents but folks traveling through rural Alaska. John Torgerson is no longer the co-chair of Senate Finance, and he's the one who really had heartburn about the whole Southeast Transportation Plan. But Democrats would be inclined to favorably consider further institutionalizing high water quality standards and the ability of any communities to get to the bottom of any dumping that occurs offshore that affect our fisheries and our quality of life.
Some people speak of the rural-urban divide.
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