Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.

Public education is an investment in our future.

If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase.

Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.

Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.

As both a former governor and a Naval officer I can tell you energy security remains among biofuels' most important benefits.

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.