What we're doing is we're adding about three sentences to the state statue on scenic byways.

About the time that the mad cow was discovered here and Japan shut its borders, people began to take part in the Atkins diet.

Before, ranchers were taking more of their heifers to be slaughtered than they were keeping because the prices were so high that it was more beneficial to sell the animal. But, with the Japanese demand dropping off, ranchers have been able to keep those heifers for breeding, thus allowing them to rebuild their herds.

And I'll be there for it. This is something that's near and dear to me.