Since 1997 I have struggled to find the right modfiers to express the Hwy 111 concept. None have come as close to the present one derived from this excerpt from President Barak Obama's 2009 inaugural address: ."...a nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous. The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on our ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart - not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good."   (emphasis added) If all politics is local, so too is economics.  Though obviously not intended to do so, the quote comes about as close as I could hope to capturing the concept of Hwy 111 as not only a physical road connecting the major cities of the Coachella Valley, but a metaphorical artery through which the  life blood of culture and commerce flow. A big part of that culture is the spirit of philanthropy.  It can be argued that the greatest philanthropy of all was the gift of freedom given by our nations founders who could have just as easily set up a new aristocracy as oppresive as the one  they had just thrown off.  More than 200 years later, the quote warns of the danger a plutocracy controlled by the rich  poses to a free enterprise democracy controlled by all the people.   I feel thanks are due the President and his speech writers.  Given the fact that numerous Presidents, Fortune 500 CEO's and their "Kingmakers" have made their homes here,  it may or may not be a coincidence that he took office during the 111th Congress. Lance Cory Frank