The original bids for construction costs started out at $8 million, then it went to $12 million. To stop the bleeding, we've signed a contract for $13.5 million. It's locked in now.

The disasters around the world have had an effect on (the availability) of materials. Everybody doing construction is seeing that.

I don't think we will ever be able to stop. It's finishing (construction on) one before starting another one, but always having them all on the table and continuing to work toward the ultimate completion of all of them.

There is no reason to believe at this juncture that this is anything other than a manifestation of a rare and obviously very serious illness that has found its way into the life of one individual.

This may be a pre-season game for us, but no matter the outcome, special needs kids all over the Quad Cities are the winners.

The people I've talked to say the situation in the coal camps is getting worse. Blasts are shaking their houses, and dust and mud covers the roads and everything. There is nothing preventative about the new laws they passed. It was just an after-the-fact thing. It does nothing to protect the people.

People are required to show a legal identity, their required to show a proof of age and citizenship, which may be shown through a variety of ways such as a voter registration card, or motor vehicle ID card rather than a drivers license if they do not have a drivers license.

Every so often, you have to build new buildings and move to communities that you aren't serving.