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PROBLEM: (Reuters) - Alabama voters elected conservative firebrand Roy Moore as the Republican nominee for a U.S. Senate seat on Tuesday  dealing a blow to President Donald Trump and other party leaders who had argued that rival Luther Strange was a better bet to advance their priorities in Washington.
An outspoken evangelical Christian who has twice lost his position as the state’s top judge   Moore  won election with a fierce anti-Washington message and a call to put religion at the center of public life.
With all 67 counties reporting   Moore  led Strange by 55 percent to 45 percent.
Despite campaigning for Strange  Trump congratulated  Moore  for his victory and urged him to defeat Democrat Doug Jones in the December election to fill a seat that was held by Jeff Sessions before he became U.S. Attorney General in February.
“Congratulations to  Roy Moore  on  his  Republican Primary win in Alabama. Luther Strange started way back & ran a good race.  Roy   WIN in Dec!” Trump wrote on Twitter.
 Republican candidate Roy Moore  makes  his  victory speech after defeating incumbent Luther Strange to  his  supporters at the RSA Activity center in Montgomery  Alabama  U.S. September 26  2017  during the runoff election for the Republican nomination for Alabama's U.S. Senate seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. REUTERS/Marvin Gentry
“You’re going to see in state after state people that follow the model of  Judge Roy Moore   that do not need to raise money from the elites ”  he  said at Moore’s victory party.
Strange  64  a former state attorney general  earned a reputation as a reliable Republican vote after  he  was appointed to the seat in February.
But  his  close ties to party leaders proved to be a liability with some voters  who questioned whether former Governor Robert Bentley appointed him to Sessions’s seat in an attempt to avoid prosecution for a sex scandal. Bentley pleaded guilty to misusing campaign funds and stepped down in April.
“It was sort of a ‘you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours '” said R.L. Barber  77  a  Moore  supporter from Birmingham.
 Moore’s  uncompromising style could bring a new level of turbulence to the Senate  where Republicans have struggled to reach consensus on tax and spending issues and have failed repeatedly to roll back Obamacare.
But  Moore  said  he  would back the president.
“Don’t let anybody in the press think that because  he  supported my opponent I do not support  him  and support  his  agenda ”  Moore  said.

SOLUTION: Roy Moore

PROBLEM: âThe option of simply widening the road is a lot more difficult than it would be in Fairfax and in some other areas. We are not even sure that it is possible â said  Martin Nohe   chairman of the NVTA and a Prince William County supervisor whose district includes the corridor.
âIf it is possible  it absolutely requires a huge amount of condemnation of commercial property  and it is crazy expensive â  Nohe  said. So the NVTA is studying various options to add capacity along a larger segment of the corridor.
âNo one will actually get to work faster if we donât first improve the interchange â  Nohe  said. From a morning commuterâs perspective   he  said  âimprovements in Prince William mean nothing if you donât first have improvements in Fairfax County. And the improvements to the road in Fairfax donât mean anything unless you have the improvements at the interchange. . . . The interchange is the center of gravity for the entire corridor.â
The NVTA has approved $30 million for the $69 million widening project south of the interstate  in Fairfax bordering Prince William   Nohe  said. The entire Route 28 corridor from Fauquier to Loudoun is looking at up to $1 billion in investments   he  said. A big chunk of that money would go toward fixing the Prince William section  which has been neglected long enough   Nohe  said.
âThe problem has been building for 20 years. For the last 10 years  everyone has complained every day â  Nohe  said. âWhatâs clear is that Route 28 is now our top priority in the county.â
A recent study commissioned by the NVTA has narrowed to four the options to lessen traffic congestion in the area from Bull Run on the Fairfax County line through Manassas  Manassas Park and Prince William. And this year  the authority is starting the federal environmental review process that could lead to improvements within the next decade. That study is expected to be completed in 18 months  with recommendations implemented by 2026   Nohe  said.

SOLUTION: Nohe

PROBLEM: âIt forced the office to take a policy position that it may or may not agree to â Michael Botticelli  the former director of the drug czarâs office  told HuffPost. â[It] hamstrings you into a policy position that might be the policy of the day but that might change.â
The statute also made answering questions about marijuana policy complicated. When  Botticelli  was a deputy within the office  Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) introduced legislation to remove the by-then-controversial language on marijuana. The bill went nowhere.  Botticelli  struggled even to answer questions on the subject.
Operating within these political and legal constraints   Botticelli  and others adopted more nuanced approaches to their work. The office pushed to obtain more federal funding for treatment. It supported states that sought to route those addicted to illegal substances like opioids away from the criminal justice system and into treatment.  Botticelli  supported the Justice Departmentâs efforts to shed the more onerous drug war era initiatives such as requiring mandatory minimum sentences for even low-level drug possession.
Later in that interview   Botticelli  was asked about legalizing marijuana  not just decriminalizing penalties for its use.  He  said  he  was against statesâ commercializing the drug. âIt becomes an addiction to  unfortunately  a tax revenue thatâs often based on bad public health policy â  he  said.  His  predecessor had had similar reservations about outright legalizing marijuana.
 The closest Botticelli  came to addressing the decriminalization issue directly occurred when District of Columbia residents voted to ease restrictions on marijuana use. âI might not agree about legalization  but I do agree with our own ability to spend our own money the way that we want to â  he  said.
Neither  Botticelli  nor  his  office would go much further than that during the eight years of the Obama presidency. Had they done so  they would have incurred blowback from both parties in Congress and alienated drug prevention advocates who oppose marijuana use. More importantly  the controversy would likely have distracted from the more critical opioid epidemic. That crisis ended up driving home the argument for a public health approach to drug addiction.

SOLUTION:
Michael Botticelli