Guest Column: Legislator Kathy Konst

A good deal of our attention has been happily distracted from March Mayhem to March Madness. Thank goodness for basketball. It temporarily shifts our focus away from the mayhem on local roads and bridges once the spring thaw is in full swing.

Winter's fury and the relentless beating our infrastructure has taken from ice, snow, sand, salt and heavy equipment are obvious to anyone who ventures out before the patching crews have been out in full force.