It?s just like the local logging communities that opposed the hell out of wilderness and national parks when they were first proposed. The world did not end as they feared, and now they?re better off for it. The same thing will happen with coastal communities and marine reserves.

This has all been quite a whirlwind. This took a lot of us by surprise, but we need to defend this seat for the Democratic Party.

Given the time frame we are working with to make changes (to the handbooks) ... and the tremendous amount of time to do more research, I recommend we put off any change for the 2006-07 school year.

Counting sage grouse and preparing paper plans is nice, but the way to protect the sage grouse is to conserve and improve the habitat, and the primary way to do that is to remove livestock.

Our tariff system would look to benchmark the cost of services, so that cost differences would be apparent between boards and so that it could be used in cross-border flows of patients. This will encourage boards to deliver services more efficiently, freeing up more funds for front-line healthcare.

We have deployed Microsoft Office Live Communications Server to a key customer. Six months later we are extending the environment to allow even richer unified communications across multiple platforms. Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile will allow us to extend the value of Microsoft Office Communicator and Live Communications Server to our customers with Windows Mobile-based devices.

The result of meeting the goal of a sustainable grouse population might mean the end of grazing on public lands, but that's a result, not a goal.

In Scotland, 13 patients have died in each of the last two years and many more have had to be removed from the liver transplant waiting list because they have become too unwell while waiting for a donor organ.

Federal listing is the only way to get the BLM to conserve and restore the habitat.