It's hard. It's a tough world. The cost crunches for a business are health care and those other extras that we work for.

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Companies try to be mean and tight from a staffing perspective.

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The income base of the state as a whole is growing fairly well.

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[Workers] are gravitating toward places of their choosing, ... Twenty years ago I'd say, 'I can't eat the scenery.' Today I can.

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If you come here in 15 years, ... the places you'll want to go will be the places that managed it right. Some will and some won't.

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It was one of his real joys. He was constantly working towards protecting them.

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