When you’ve had a career in public policy as long and as varied as mine, certain issues rise above others in their significance.  Long before I was elected to serve on the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors, safe, effective, and environmentally responsible transportation was one of those issues.  Now, in 2017, we again have crucial policy decisions to make to ensure something as simple and basic, yet vitally central to our economy and quality of life, as fixing potholes.