This session is going to be a wild ride, ... Louisiana has a very strong governorship. The political system here is not set up for us to go around the governor, so it's critical that she lead us out of this.

The largest objection we have to that legislation is that it was passed to committee by both houses without appropriate legislative oversight, ... You'd think that legislation that would strongly affect the agricultural industry would warrant better oversight.

We've seen a lot of shops and malls diversity and of into more gift and decorator products.

There were too many malls, too many shows and not enough stuff to go around, ... We feel like this year everything is kind of stabilizing again.

There are a couple of bills out there that would eliminate horse slaughtering in the United States, which would of course be disastrous for our company.