"Larry Stone" is the County Assessor (property)/Assessor of Santa Clara County. He was first elected in 1975 to the City Council of the City of Sunnyvale. After serving for 16½ years, including two terms as Mayor, he was elected in 1994 to serve as County Assessor for the County of Santa Clara, California for a four-year term representing not only the Capitol of Silicon Valley, but also the seventeenth largest county in the United States, encompassing more than and 1.8 million people. The county includes the cities of Campbell, California/Campbell, Cupertino, California/Cupertino, Gilroy, California/Gilroy, Los Altos, California/Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, California/Los Altos Hills, Los Gatos, California/Los Gatos, Milpitas, California/Milpitas, Monte Sereno, California/Monte Sereno, Morgan Hill, California/Morgan Hill, Mountain View, California/Mountain View, Palo Alto, California/Palo Alto, San Jose, California/San Jose, Santa Clara, California/Santa Clara, Saratoga, California/Saratoga, and Sunnyvale, California/Sunnyvale. He has been reelected by large majorities in 1998, 2002, 2006, and 2010.

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Any for-profit entity of (Google's) magnitude using land owned by the people should not escape paying their fair share.

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Blind tasting is the only way to taste. If you are looking at the label, you might give the wine a break, or any defect could possibly be seen in a positive light.

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Historically, we know that when customers have access to additional cash, many homeowners choose to spend a portion of that money on projects that improve their largest asset -- their homes.

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They probably make less than a waiter.

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A ballot statement is supposed to be about your education and qualifications. It's not supposed to be a hit piece.

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Every day is an education. I'd grill the employees on a weekly or even daily basis, and after a while they would know what their weaknesses were and I'd help them learn what they needed to know.

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Lowe's is committed to recognizing and supporting efforts that help our neighbors and customers. No time is this support more important than following natural disasters. Since Lowe's launched its customer donation program in 2000, thanks to the generosity and cooperation of our customers and vendor partners, we have raised nearly $16 million for American Red Cross disaster relief efforts.

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They're a little malnourished. They seem to be in good health. They're kind of the forgotten casualty of the tragedy.

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