Traffic is only one of the side effects of growth.

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.

No action is without its side effects.

I chose fat and functional over slender and miserable.

And one of the things I've tried to do in my first months in office is to give more Georgians - reporters and members of the general public alike - a closer look at how their government works.

What I am proposing this year are not lofty concepts far removed form the daily struggle so of ordinary Georgians. They are proposals that directly effect the lives of the people we serve.