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Lisa and I had a great 2006. Thank you everyone for your support and friendship! See you next year.

Traffic, road construction, gas taxes, highway safety- these are the first topics that come to peoples’ minds when they hear the word “transportation.” But what I learned from the Assembly Transportation Committee’s (one of four on which I’ve been placed) orientation in Las Vegas on Thursday was so much more. Photo and video after the jump.

CNN.com this morning has a preview of an article appearing this week in Time magazine: How to bring schools into 21st century. The thesis:
Right now we’re aiming too low. Competency in reading and math — the focus of so much No Child Left Behind testing — is the meager minimum. Scientific and technical skills are, […]

According to the Nevada Constitution, my term as an Assemblyman began the day after the election. While Lisa and I did manage to squeeze in a little vacation right after the end of the campaign, my off hours have been filled with work prepping for the 2007 legislative session: preparing bill drafts, touching base with other legislators to make sure important issues will be addressed, etc. Photo and links after the jump.