Anyone truly homeless and not a street person through drug and alcohol addiction should be given help.

We need better programs to help get people off drugs and prostitution.

If it's coming hard, perhaps we should have forced evacuations from the beachside.

I have never met the man.

There's no tried-and-true way of doing this, ... The reality is we may not find anybody until spring. That's not a good way to do it, but that's where we're at.

One of the city's biggest problems is the constant bickering over special events.

Taking into consideration that property values are increasing, I think the thing to do is to scale back to match the increase in values.

Whether you like it or not, progress is coming. I'd much rather have a 40-story-tall building in the middle of a piece of property with open spaces on either side for breezes and access to the beach than a five-story building built lot line to lot line like we have now where you never see the beach.