Across-the-Board Innovator.

The article features public official Ron Sims of King County, Washington. Among Sims' accomplishments as a public official were healthcare reform, campaigns against global warming and open space preservation. He credited his council for the county's achievements such as being a member of the Chicago Climate Exchange Inc. Sims noted that he was among the first in the nation to support electronic fingerprinting and able to save tens of millions of dollars from the county's $3.1 billion budget through the removal of mid-level management.