During the last regular session and the most recent special session, measures that I see as little more than Band-Aids were applied to three health programs in the state.

Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City.

Within minutes of the attack, your Department of Public Safety mobilized its Operations Center, headed by a national expert on weapons of mass destruction.

I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now.

Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state?