How to get them back and forth must be worked out, probably with the help of VIA.

The money's going up, the stakes are up, the professionalism's up. The days of doing stuff on a napkin are over.

Most of the jobs are entry-level: tellers, assemblers and retail sales.

The jobs being offered for evacuees are not taking anything away from our own residents.

Our biggest concern is to give them help and to give them a home. We'll be there as long as needed.

It's an example of how people are buying into the administration's line that there is a terrorist behind every bush and that we need to be fearful. Caution, not hysteria, should be the order of the day. Running everybody through a palm reading device seems to be more on the order of hysteria than caution.

Texas is a place where there are no limits on individual or political committee contributions and donations can and do exceed $100,000.

This is a situation none of us have faced before, ... How many people who will stay here is hard to tell at this point.

Many of the employers that have offered jobs for the evacuees also have other jobs publicly posted with us. It boils down to whether someone has the skills and meets the requirements of the employer. We are trying our best to serve the needs of everyone in the midst of a very difficult situation.