This is the down side of the hot real estate issue we're experiencing. If the private sector could make a profit doing this [developing affordable housing], they'd already be doing it.

It was a good race. I came here with the intention to win - so I won.

Schools are just going to have to decide which field trips are important to us. If they think all field trips are important they will have to cut back in other areas.

It isn't the family Taurus going down the road, these are big vehicles that eat up a lot of gas.

We either increase the cost to the schools, or spend less time on the roads.

At the end of the process, we expect to have a very attractive value proposition.

I understand they had a problem yesterday, a student problem, ... I talked with Matthews and he said everything was under control.

We can all agree that giving people a place to live ... giving is the wrong word, [they're] paying rent - we're just the vehicle that's creating the availability that keeps our community viable.

He (Matthews) told me he had just gotten out about three sentences when the student pulled the gun.