Though she ad-libbed next to nothing of that speech, she delivered an impassioned call to voters to turn the page on Donald Trump and his outlandish, outmoded thinking.

“But too many of these countries rely on outmoded strategies to become advanced economies. They depend just on investment for too long - or they switch prematurely to innovation.”

Everts said he hopes that whatever results emerge from the investigations, the agency doesn’t revert to an outmoded focus on imported water that he believes some “old guard” leaders of MWD still favor.

And the agency has sought funding from the Legislature for electronic health records, which would eliminate its outmoded reliance on paper files.

Supporters see road fees as a modern, technological solution to an increasingly outmoded gasoline tax, a 100-year-old levy originally set at 2 cents a gallon in 1923.