I think what is a valid concern is an overburdened FDA, and whether the FDA becomes more of a bottleneck to getting new generic drugs approved and getting the prices of drugs down.

We didn't strike to give up more and get less, but that's what happened.

The city had commissioned the same group to do the study last year that compared us to the impact of one ballgame, but it was such a limited study and the results were inconclusive.

There's going to be advantages of scale and if you can't compete on that, you're going to get left out of some areas, ... You could see some of these smaller guys get muscled out of some of the markets and actually lose market share.

We have a note on the door that the town office is temporarily closed to public business. We have a further note that if people are in need of a vehicle registration, they can go to Mars Hill and they'll take care of it for us. We'll be back and open to do the rest of the town's business hopefully on Monday.

There's stuff behind this that I really can't get into, but it involves personnel. There's absolutely nothing I can see in regards to wrongdoing, though.

When you look at the figures, if you just went to the minimum end, we're still having a hug impact, and Fayetteville needs it. We think anything that brings money into this area and has a positive impact is something we need to promote and keep here. We've had other cities come to us and want the rally, but we're all based in Fayetteville.

But a careful study of his background and contacts reveal a number of clues to his extremism which the British intelligence apparently missed.